ff /I•• I••• r ;' ·~:,. I('•/ ' ' 'I' f I . •t 1 f i. " / • , 1 1 r , r • , . " Vol. 77 No. 21 TUESDAY, Bulk Rate,U S Post?.ae Pa1r1 NOVEMBER 18, 1986 862-1490 Durhai;n, NH.· Durham N H Perm!! 1130 Sanbcirn takes student criticism By Bryan Alexander give input. Although Student Dean of Students J. Gregg Body President Jay Ablondi and Sanborn addressed the student Student Body Vice-President senate Sunday responding to Barbara Cerreta were in con­ criticism over administrative stant contact with Sanborn, they decisions his office has made were not consulted. this semester. - "We were kind of just handed Sanborn-suggested the large the policy," said Cerreta in the amount of newpaper coverage November 4 issue of the New by the New Hampshire had Hampshire. blown the issues out .of propor­ Sanborn said he "was prob­ tion. ably hasty" in delivering the "I feel like I've been beaten policy and said he would have over with a stick lately," he said. consulted these leaders if he Sanborn reviewed each of the could do it again. controversial decisions he had The statements did not pro­ made this year, and said how hibit the judicial boards from he would have acted if he had making their own decisions, said the .opportunity to make them Sanborn. He said the boards had over again. the same perogatives they have •The drug and alcohol policy always had. - Sanborn revised the alcohol "My hope is that they (the and drug policies over the judicial boards) take the state­ summer and printed them in ments to heart and follow them The New Hampshire once in the spirit I intended them," school began. The policies "en­ he said. couraged" the judicial boards Sanborn said sanctions alone to deliver harsher penalties to will not solve the drug problem.­ violators. He said education is just as important as disciplinary ac- Students were outraged over __ . __ - . Tim Reiter· puttt"ng 1·n so me s tu d y ttme· as t he semester draws to a close. the new policies because no -1 . -- - SENATE, page 7 student leaders were asked to , I Workers say drugs on .. site By Peter Hanson so many y·ears, ·this, procedure According to former Sea- - became a pattern," he said. brook Station employees, drug Chuck Minutelli worked in and alcohol use has been ram­ the UE&E time office on second pant throughout the construc­ shift from Septembe: 1981 to tion site. In spite of these April 1984. His job consisted reports, Seabrook Station of­ of making sure the work force ficialS persist in denying the properly punched in at the time widespre~d use of drugs and clock. alcohol. "A conservative estimate "There were isolated instan­ would be that 50 percent of the ces of drug and alcohol use, but work force used alcohol and nothing to suggest widespread drugs," said Minutelli. "My job use that would affect the safety was to watch people coming and of the plant," said John Kyte, leaving work. Some people spokesman for New Hampshire would come in sober and leave Yankee, builders of the plant. drunk," he said. A United Engineers and Con­ Minutelli claims that in the tractors (UE&E) inspector, who two and a· half years he worked chooses not to be identified, at Seabrnok at least 200 workers worked at the plant from 1977- were fired for drug and alcohol 1983 said, "At least ~O percent related reasons. of the work force used drugs and "After a payday, at least one alcohol." third of the work force on secod According to this person, shift would leave the site during drug and a'lcohol use was not lunch break to drink their just limited to the laborers, but lunches," said Minutelli. was also popular among the SEABROOK, welders, pipefitters, and quality page 20 -~ Smith Hall, the site of the International Food Luncheon. (Stu Evans photo) assurance inspectors. "Most people were there for the money and did not care What is it like to be about the work," he said. a freshman When the former UE&E at inspector was asked about the UNH? See pages 8 safety of the plant, he said, "Seabrook should not be li­ and 9 for answers. Aids edu,cation planned censed to operate." "I was pressured into putting my signature on inspections for By Elizabeth Cote counselor at UNH, said that A.I.D.S is a disease which work done by Perini (the con­ The University of New there are 20 reported cases of impairs the body's natural im­ Calendar_._page 5 struction company for the job Hampshire Health Education A.I.D.S in New Hampshire. mune system. According to the site) that was not done right Notices_- _page 6 Center plans a major education­ "That's where Boston was Health Education Center, the because Perini would receive al campaign to battle the five years ago. Now there are afflicted person is suseptable Editorial_page 12 in­ bonus money for comleting creasing threat of Aquired almost 600 active cases," she to infections, which become jobs, Im­ such as concrete pours, within Features_page 1 5 mune Deficiency Syndrome said. "We (UNH Health Edu­ fatal in the patient's weakened certain deadlines," he said. (A.I.D.S.) in New Hampshire. cation Center) want to get into condition. "Most of the time these jobs Sports-page 24 Elizabeth MacDonald, com­ preventative education, so that Th~ disease is transmitted were not done by the book, but m u n .i t y h e a l t h e d u c a t o r - · doesn't happen here." AIDS, page 18 close enough to get byLand after PAGE TWO · THE NEW HAMPSHIRE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1986 Oxfam America devotes fast day to world hunger against students and founded in 1970, is one of seven effort is made by individuals By Thom~s Aciukewicz USNH students to work difficulty, all these grim facts, the Reverend teachers are invited to partake international Oxfam groups_ living in the richest nations on_ Oxfam America has designat­ David Grainger, Oxfam Amer­ in Fast for a World Harvest and that educate the world's major earth to decrease the poverty ed this-Thursday as Fast for a ica's campus contact, tried to donate what they can to Oxfam's economic powers about hunger of the Third World. World Harvest. On this day, set up a program with Dining work. in.the Third World. Each Oxfam A/lo/ us who eat in America communities and groups all over Services that would allow stu­ · At Smith Hall on Thursday group is a privately owned and are partly responsible for the the country will hold a one. day dents to fast and donate the from 12:3iJ-2:00 p.m. everyone non-sectarian organization that statistics of the worlds' hunger fast to "focus national attention meal plan money can give each other support in provides grants to support the pr.ob/em (just three of many on the causes of hunger in the corresponding to Oxfam America. fasting and view two films about work of groups in Third W odd startling facts about hunger developing 'world, raise funds The program is used on many _ the world's poor: "Roots of communities that establish pro-. outlined above give us some _ for innovative and practical sense of this). _ development projects and give Fast for a World Harvest new meaning to the Thanksgiv­ brings to our shores a sampling ing holiday." of the gnawing pain that over Oxf~m America shows us that five hundred million hungry no one in today's world should people - twice the population starve to death; therefore, Thurs­ · of our country - feel each day. day we are asked to reflect on We are lucky: we can pas sify a the fact that the world produces · rumbling stomach with a quick enough food for everyone in it; walk to a vending machine. The •In the past 11 years the total world's malnourished can't. world's harvest has increased Thurs-day's Fast for a W arid about five percent faster than Harvest, although separate population. Enough grain is from any church organization, · produced to supply 3,000 calo- is somewhat like a fast for . ries daily for every mah, woman spiritual growth, because our and child on the planet. One fas ting will show us the feeling two-thous.andth of the world's of an empty stomach that the grain harvest could nourish all starving people we see on TV those who die of hunger and ' or in magazines actually suffer. related causes. For those who say fas ting is •More than half the grain unhealthy, I point out that 'most exported by the US goes to feed humans can sustain small fas ts. animals, not people. Although prolonged fasting can •The United States, with obviously lead to damage, Ox- orily six percent of the world's - Jam America is not asking us population, consumes more to hurt ourselves, only to feel than 25 percent of its resources. the emptiness that the hungry The United States imports more constantly experience. For than $1 billion worth of agri­ ·some, skipping one meal will cultural products y~arly from Oxfam America has dedicated Thursday as Fast for a World do this; for others, a day-long Central America alone. Mean­ Harvest. (File photo) fast is necessary. (One should while, World Health Organi­ water is campuses across the country. Rebellion: Land and Hunger in, grams aimed at helping the poor know that drinking zation studies report that two be­ However, according to Ingeborg Central America;" and "Under­ become self-sufficient.