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• Rents keep rising ID Durham area By Kate .McClare ester per student to $525 for q two­ ney continued. "We have a long "There was a problem in getting Durham area landlords say bedroom ground floor apartment. waiting list of people trying to get the money. You need to spread rising costs of maintaining apart­ Apartments on the top floor were in." the cost over twelve months." ments have led to increasing $525 and are now $550. This in­ Landlord Matthew Cutter said He said, "I've been criticized a rents. Fuel, taxes, insurance and cludes utilities and furnishings, apartmen.t. owners are in a com­ lot, but I just bought these places repairs are rising, and they say Davis said. petitive situation with the Univer­ and they cost a lot. No place in they must raise their rents to "We start out the year with cer­ sity. '°'You take the University town is zoned properly for apart­ meet these costs. tain material costs--oil, Public rent and realize they don't pay ments. Outside the commercial Off-campus Housing Qffice re­ Service (utilities), taxes· and taxes and can build any structure zone it's really restricted. You ceptionist Rebecca Clark said maintenance go up. Things last they want." can't build, but there's ample last week that tents have gone up just so long before we have to re­ Cutter owns the. Chestnut Hill land available." an average of twenty dollars a place them," said Walter apartments in Durham. When he Cutter estimated a landlord month. "Rents are what we've Cheney rental manager Betty bought them last year they were would have to charge over $800 been hearing the most about," Varney. Cheney's apartments on rented on a semester basis at $380 per student a semester to recover she said. Woodman Road were $185 for two a semester per person, based on the expenses of an apartment "It doesn't take much to figure bedrooms and are now $195. four people in a two bedroom •complex that cost $98,000 to build. it out," said White Enterprises Rents for other Woodman Road apartment. He has since changed This would be for a three bed­ manager John Davis. White En­ apartments went from $195 to his rental system to a monthly room apartment with six tenants, It's costing more to do this terprises owns Strafford House $205. basis, charging $370 a month. he said. these days." and Strafford Manor in Durham. "I know that rents in Durham "Previously, rent was paid in Rent there went from $500 a sem- have gone up considerably," Var- advance," he said of the change. Rent, page 8 Volume 68 Number 11 Friday October 14, 1977 Durham, N.H. Church documentary Mub Pub in trouble, okayed despite furor loses $3,500 in sales By Jayne Sears luctant followers and harass­ By Nancy Rtgaiio Amid controversy over the ment of those wishing to leave the screening of. "Weekend," . the church. The directors and managers of NBC documentary on the Unifi­ In addition to the NBC film, stu­ the financially troubled MUB cation Church, Student Body dent government's program will Pub may decide to discontinue President Jim O'Neill decided include ex-Unification Church full operation. yesterday to include the film in member Paul Engel, who will "We have to consider the im­ student go_vernment's rebuttal to speak on his experiences with the plications of keeping the Pub the movie "The Reverend Moon church and its followers and an­ open seven nights a week," said in America," which will be shown swer questions for the second half Director of the Memorial Union next Tuesday night in the Mem­ of the program. and Student Activities Gregg orial Union Building. The NBC documentary, Sanborn. O'Neill had cancelled the "Weekend," was made two years Sanborn added that the MUB screening of the NBC doc_umen­ ago and includes a small segment Pub will completely clos·e "only tary earlier this week because he filmed at UNH concerning the in the event students feel there is felt it was "too sensational." Collegiate Association - for the no need for it." Student government's two-part Research of Principles (CARP), Jim O'Neill The MUB Pub lost about $3500 program to rrrovide a counter once an affiliate of the Unifica­ in the first five weeks of school, perspective fo -the controversial film because even though it is not according to manager Rich ·tion Church. objective, it presents an account Kane. film being shown by the Unifica­ O'Neill said the decision to of people with the church." tion Church earlier the same show the NBC documentary was The deficit results from beer evening. The Unification Church O'Neill said yesterday. "It's not sales not meeting expenditures, made after "extensive ques­ gospel, but it might make people he said. has been the target of many ac­ tioning. · think." cusations, including reports of "After talking to a number of The Pub's only source of in­ brainwashing, kidnapping of re- Documentary, page 16 come is beer sales, Kane said. people, we decided to show the Sanborn said there are two reasons for the MUB Pub's lack Rich Kane By Gary Langer . of beer-drinking patronage this year. position to program entertam­ The United States will not fully normalize relations w1~ Cuba ment again, he would have as long as Cuban troops remain in Angola, Wayne E. Smith, c~­ One se('ms to be th<> effel'! of worked harder to get Rick Bean ordinator of Cuban Affairs for the U.S. State Department said disc jockey Hick Hean's absence . back into the MUB Pub on Wed­ last night. from the Pub's entertainment, al­ nesday and Sunday nights. In a speech at the New England Center sp_onsor~d by the ~ew though Sanborn said, "I am not Bean worked for the Pub since Hampshire Council on World Affairs; ~~mth_ said _the ~mt_ed totally convinced of that being a factor." it opened two years ago. States embargo against Cuba could be partially lifted with The profits from the nights he Cuban troops remaining in Angola. Second is a noticeable decrease worked supported the MUB Pub Smith "There is a point beyond which we cannot go i~ normahzm~ of alcohol consumption on cam­ for the rest of the week, ac­ relations with Cuba, without Cuban troops leavmg Angola, pus, according to Sanborn. cording to Kane. Smith said. , . "There is a decrease in activity The Pub Entertainment Com­ doubts Smith then said, "I think I've said something I shouldn t have in the downtown pubs too," he mittee asked Bean to work on said. "The MUB Pub's situation Wednesday nights and tem­ sa~~ith said, "I expect it (the t~ade embr~rgo) will be lifted be- may be a consequence of that de­ crease.'' porarily on Sunday nights this US~Cuba fore we have normal relations with Cuba. ~ year. Bean refused, because he • Following his speech before an audience~~ 200, Smith said, "_If Kane said it's the duty of the wants last year's terms--per­ not a withdrawal a substantial drawdown of Cuban troops m MUB Pub's Board of Directors manent Wednesday and Sunday ties Angola would be~ prerequisite for normalized relations. He said and the Pub's Entertainment night engagements. Kane said. that could take place "within five y~ars." . Committee to "get things to­ Kane said he would also The U.S. recently established a diplomatic office m the Swiss gether and try to improve the situation." strengthen the relations bet\veen embassy in Havana. the MUB Pub and other student Fifteen to eighteen thousand Cub~n troops a~e now m _Angola Kane booked the MUB Pub activities such as SCOPE and in support of the Marxist MPLA regime, accordmg to Smith. entertainment from the Pub's MUSO. Smith said, "The real reason" for Cuban intervention in opening through last spring, when the duty was put in the Tuesday night, the MUB Pub Angola is, "to win influence in the Third Wo~l~." . was full because ·it was showin~ . Smith said Cuban compensation for $2 bilhon m nabonahzed hands of the new entertainment American property "is dire~tly tied to lifting the embargo. committee. Cuba, page7 •Kane said that if he was in the MUB Pub, page 4 .---INSIDE-~-----------------~~--~--, Oldies Theater Burnham Many older stu­ A Funny Thing Hap­ Who is Bill Burn­ dents are returning to pened on the Way to ham? The senior tail­ colleges across the the Forum dominates back who has brought country, seeking de­ the arts this issue. himself and th~ UNH grees or just taking For a review of the football team into the classes in their spare show and a behind the limelight with his time. For a look at . scenes look, turn to ability to run with a some of UNH's older pages 13 and 14. football, is featured· students, see the on "The Bill Burn­ story on page three. ha1n Page" (page 18). PAGE TWO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE FRIDAY OCTOBER 14, 1977 News Briefs UNH student lobbying campaign labeled partially successful Governors By Judi Paradis Ten of the 12 Republican governors in the US met in Bretton Beth Fischer, head of Students Woods Sunday. for the University, said yesterday The governors met to discuss plans to win as many as 15 she was "very pleased" with stu­ governor's chairs in 1978, when 36 states will elect new governors. dent response to a campus wide Since 1970 the number of Republican governors has dropped .

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