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Spring Blizzard Buries UNH Campus, Town ~ :318 G Hulk Rat~· l '.S. Postage Paid Vol. 72 No. 44 _ FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1982 862-1490 Durham. '.\.H. Permit 1130 Spring blizzard buries UNH campus, town · By Barbara Norris Over a 48 period beginning service predicts another 5 to 8 state offices and commercial In addition to the regular Spring had sprung. The robins Tuesday morning, 21 inches of inches of snow will fall today. businesses. Classes at UNH were grounds crew,_ Peter Hollister, were back, snow tires were placed snow covered the seacoast area, Tuesday's blizzard all · but cancelled after 12.00 p.m. Tuesday assistant vice president for in storage, and winter coats were accompanied by 46 mph winds, paralyzed the New England area, afternoon and all day Wednesday. Facilities Services, call for student replaced with I igh t-we igh t according to Pease Air Force causing numerous minor According to the National volunteers to help shovel the sweaters. Then it struck. weather service. The weather accidents, closing public schools. Weather Service, the storm was the University out. Twenty students worst spring blizzard since record assisted the crews and worked at keeping began in 1850. minimum wage for "as long as they "It's been such a nightmare," wanted." said Henry H. Dozier, assistant Hollister said some students director of Facilities Services. were still working on paths at 5 "One that I don't want to live a.m. Thursday when he arrived on through again." campus. According to Dozier, grounds "The student volunteers made maintenance crews were on the job opening the school possible," said at 6 a.m. Tuesday and have been­ Dozier. "They did a dynamite job." ~orking a staggered 12 hour shift · Hollister said the decision to since. close school early on Tuesday was· "Some of my men have been made in order to clear the campus working 24 hours straight," said of cars and to e.nsure the safety of Dozier. "They've done an people traveling home. outstanding job. The University is "We weren't sure they'd make it up and running when surrounding SNOW page, 18 _ towns are still down." Birds find storm a challenge to. survival By David P. Foster · the snow melts away," Borror said. For many area residents, this Many wildlife species, especially weeks's blizzard was a time to stay those that spend the winter in the indoors, watch the TV weather area, will probably not be hurt by reports, and wonder where spring this week's severe weather. Birds had gone. and mammals alike know the For some wildlife species in . places where they can get out of the Durham. the. waiting was less weather: in tree cavities, under comfort-able. rocks, within dense thickets of Robins, traditional harbingers brush. of warmer days. found ·themselves Some species may actually out in the cold this week, their benefit in some ways, accordin·g to f usual diet of earthworms hidden Borror.• A record-breaking blizzard quickly set the calendar back early this week, when an estimat~ 21 inches of beneath a blanket of snow. "If I were a sharp-shinned hawk snow fell in two days. ( Henri Barber photo) High winds have also hindered right now. I'd sit 'in a tree in my the birds' efforts to feed on juniper backyard and try to nail one of the 53 7 students vote and sumac berried, or what UNH many birds gathered to eat the ornithology professor Arthur cracked corn I put out," Borror • Borror calls their "emergency said. Johnson, Wright Will election : food." The animals with the most to "This weather is pretty rugged, lose are the migratory birds, which By David P. Foster only candidates whose names chairperson of the election and I'm sure there will be some have flown north expecting "It feels good to win, but it's appeared on the ballot, received committee Derek Hulitzky. birds that don't make it," Borror warmer spring weather and more kind of anti-climactic." Student 435 votes in Tuesday's and A total of 537 studcnts·voted, a said. abundant food. according to Body President-elect Karen Wednesday's election. number that disappointed but did "But 1 don't think that the birds, wildlife ecology professor Donald Johnson said aboucher victory at "Both Spencer and I were not altogether surprise election on the whole, are hurting as much Miller. the polls this week. dissappointed that we were the officials. as people think they are," he said. The more special-ized the bird's Johnson and her running mate only candidates, but there was "Two-thirds of the polling "Nobody has brought in a dead feeding habits, the more trouble it T. Spencer (Spenny) Wright. the nothing we could do about it. We robin to me yet. But that might be campaigned as hard as we would · ELECTIONS page, 18 because they won't find them until BIRDS page, 6 have if there had been other -INSIDE- candidates," Johnson said. Actually, there were other candidates, although their names did not appear on the ballet. Peter Albright and Erica Denne visited polling places on Tuesday and Wednesday, trying to persuade students to vote for them. Albright, a junior English major, said th¥t his and Denne's last-minute campaign was not a joke. "We found out there was only one person running. It seemed ridiculous that the senate was holding an election with only one candidate running," Albright said. Student A rt Show, see page 13. "We were hoping that we'd prevent them from getting the 50 percent needed, and that there To Our Readers: would be a run-off," he said. Because of Easter weekend, The Albright . and Denne received 42 New Hampshirewill not votes. publish Tuesday. Kathleen Jarvinen, who quit the race for student body president Calendar ...................... page 4 last week after a one-day Classified ..................... page 17 campaign. received 12 votes. Comics ........................ page 16 Other write-in votes went to a Editorial ...................... page 10 variety of UNH students and non­ Features ........... pages 13,14,15 students, including Donald Duck Forum .......................... page 9 and Mickey Mouse. Notices ......................... page 6 "Once you have a blank space on Sports .. _................. pages 19,20 the ballot for write-ins. you're Student Body President-elect Karen Johnson and Vice Presid_ent-elect T. Spencer Wright. (Tim Skeer inviting that type of thing." said photo) PAGE TWO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1982 NEWS IN BRIEF Quality of Med-school questioned By · Peter Schlesinger 1,800. education in these schools is not HITERIATIOIIAL A Caribbean medical school, the In addition, "Studies in the basic comparable to that available in American University of the sciences are always two years; one U.S. medical schools because of Caribbean (AUC), is attempting to and a half years is just not "completely inadequate clinical England declares war zone enroll UN H and other American enough," Strout added. educational facilities." students under what appears to be The AAMC says that "these "These medical schools have a false pretenses to its program foreign medical schools catering to hard time maintaining a good students do not assume LONDON--England warned' yesterday that it will attack any based in Montserrat, an island in American quality medical education because real responsibility f.or the clinical Argentine ship, merchant or otherwise, found entering the 200 mile the British West Indies they are located so far from full­ education and training of their zone around the Falkland Islands. Among other things, the time staffed researching and war enrollees." Alexander Haig arrived in London yesterday in an attempt to program has been charged with clinical facilities," says Peterson, A graduate of the AUC discuss the crisis between the two U.S. allies with British officials in not being properly licensed, with the director of medical school program, Dr. Robert Miller, who an attempt to find a solution. not having important clincial evaluation for the American now at the University of Meanwhile, the British nuclear submarine Superb arrived off the facilities and with ·'playing doctor" is Medical Association. ·•The AM A Connecticut, completed a year of Falklands and several more submarines are believed to be on the In a letter addressed to The New is very concerned about the quality clerkship in Pennsylvania. way, according to military offic_ials. Hampshire, AUC claims that of clinical education." "UN H has been a vital source of •Twenty to thirty percent of According to the Science article, candidates who have applied for AUC students find their own AUC, besides lacking their own admission to AUC." clerkships, because they don't trust clinical facilities, also lacked Soviet troops reported near Iran However, there are no UNH the institution to do so for them," cadavers ' (dead bodies) for students attending or applying to Miller said. dissection. AUC, according to Dr. Richard G. "It's relatively easy to find a "We weren't permitted to have BEi RUT -- Soviet trooos are fighting Afghan guerrillas in · Strout of the UNH Pre-Medical clerkship," he said. "There are a lot .cadavers," says Miller, the AUC Afghanistan near the Iranian border but have not entered the Advisory Committee. of American hospitals looking for graduate. "We did get brains, country of Iran, a spokesman for Iran's military chiefs said "We don't recommend the money and extra help. I'm ·sure though. I don't know if there are yesterday. \ foreign route," Strout said. that those clerkships are not any cadavers on the island." However, other sources, incluoing ABC News and highly ranked The letter says that in view of supervised as well as those at "Cadavers are essentially Pakistani sources said that Wednesday that Soviet forces had their high esteem for UNH, they hospitals having an affiliation with necessary in the instruction of AUC." destroyed two Iranian border posts about ·475 miles south-ca.st of are making available a medical Gross Anatomy." said a Teheran, killing a number of Afghan refugees and s.trafing the curriculum that uniformly When asked where AUC had spokesman for the AAMC.
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