Wat My (Eammta Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896 BS VoL LXXXVIIINo. 19 The University of Connecticut Thursday, Oct. 4, 1984 Engineering plans done; construction begins soon By Brian Dion university could raise the Managing Editor other $1 million from private After a three-month delay, donations. United Techno- designs for a $5-million addi- logies Corporation announ- tion to the Engineering II ced last year it would provide building have been com- the funding. This prompted pleted, paving the way for President John DiBiaggio to construction to begin soon, name the addition after the according to Peter McFadden, Connecticut based firm this dean of the School of Engi- summer. He hailed the dona- neering. tion as "the proof of con- "We're hoping for ground- fidence the private sector has breaking by the end of calen- in UConn" dar year 1984," McFadden United Technologies will said The target date for com- equip the building and prom- pletion of the project is Jan- ised more financial assistance uary, 1986. from its workers who are The designs were com- UConn graduates. pleted last week by the ar- The 4-story addition will chitect firm of Moore and include 42 offices, 22 labora- Salsbury of Avon McFadden tories and two large lecture An artist's conception of the addition to the engineering building. Plans were said "design difficulties" were halls. One of the many spe- finalized on its interior construction. responsible for the delay in cialized labs planned is a construction, which was to hazardous waste treatment begin last summer. research room. Other fea- FBI charges own agent with spying Before construction can tures will include a solar re- begin the state Department of search station on the roof and Public Works and the univer- a robotics lab. LOS ANGELES (AP)—The FBI arrested one of penalty upon conviction would be life in sity must approve the specific The addition will be con- its own agents on espionage charges Wednes- prison. design, a task which McFad- nected to the Engineering II day, accusing the California-based counterspy No bail was allowed because "flight is a real den says should take about building by a three-story of selling secrets to a female Soviet agent.who strong risk," Assistant U.S. Attorney Ray six weeks. Once approved skywalk if the design is OK. government sources say may have been his Edwards said A court document says there was the project will go out to bid According to McFadden, lover, and to her estranged husband a plan for Miller to go to Vienna, Austria or War- McFadden said money is al- the details and facilities in- Special Agent Richard W. Miller, 47, a 20-year saw, Poland. ready appropriated for the cluded in the plans were con- FBI veteran said to have been in financial trouble No plea was entered Miller winked at his wife, project, but the design ap- ceived by the engineering was the first FBI agent ever charged with Paula, in court, and she waved The couple proval is a final check on the faculty with the help of a espionage and the case marked the first known exchanged sign language messages. interior detail of the proposed private engineering firm foreign infiltration of the FBI. Svetlana Ogorodnikova, 34, of Los Angeles, an 40,000-square-foot building. Long range plans to moder- Miller, a counterspy based in Los Angeles, alleged KGB major, and husband Nikolay The 1983 state legislature nize the existing engineering was arrested at his home and appeared before Ogorodnikov. also known as Nikolay Wolfson, approved the $4 million fund- facilities includes an already U.S. Magistrate Roger McKee in San Diego. He 51, were also arrested and charged Wednesday ing with the promise that the See page 4 was ordered back to court Thursday to face a in Los Angeles. The FBI said they were born in charge of conspiracy to gather defense informa- the Soviet Union and emigrated to the United tion to aid a foreign government. Maximum States in 1973. Broken washers leave Students at Brown hold referendum students high and dry By Robert Wyatt there were obliged to haul on cyanide suicide for n\ klUM war their laundry to machines in Campus Correspondent PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP)—Brown University agree it's only a matter of time before people die If UConn students were to neighboring dorms. in a nuclear war." "It's incredible," one resi- students will vote next week on whether they make a list of the benefits of want the campus health center to stock cyanide Ferguson, 21, said that even if students turn small-dormitory living, one dent said "Instead of one down the nonbinding referendum, it will force washer for 60 people, we have pills so students can commit suicide inevent of a topic would be conspicuously nuclear war rather than die from fallout. some of them to think about how nuclear war absent: doing laundry. to go to another dorm - so it's would affect them Each resident of a small Like one washer for 120 About 700 undergraduates at the Ivy League school signed a petition asking that the question Ferguson, a New York City native and a dorm must share a single people." sophomore majoring in education and science, washer and dryer with about The machines are owned be included on the ballot for the OcL10-l 1 stu- dent council election said he has received extremely diverse reac- 60 people Even though some by Mac-Gray Inc. of East tions to the proposal students prefer to bring their Hartford a company which The proposal is the brainchild of students "I've been laughed at, and I've also been given laundry home to Mom, those has leased washers and dry- Jason Salzman and Chris Ferguson, who said a lot of support" he said " I've had people ask me who stay subject the dorm ers to the university'' for many they got the idea from 'On the Beach," a novel by Neville Shute that was made into a popular if I'd take the pills myself, and the answer is machines to heavy use This years," according to Mac- yes." involves both long waiting Gray operations manager movie. It tells of a group of people surviving in Ferguson and Salzman, a junior from Denver, lines and the opportunity for Rick Sullivan Australia after the rest of the world perished in a needed 540 signatures to get the question on the more frequent mechanical A toll-free maintenance nuclear war. Doctors dispense a poison pill so ballot-10 percent of the 5,407 undergraduates. malfunctions. number is listed on every people don't have to die from the Ferguson said some of the people who signed One South Campus dorm, machine Sullivan said "the approaching fallout said they would not vote for the proposal But Crawford C, was plagued re- number of maintenance calls "This I feel will allow pople to choose how "they agreee that there are educational benefits cently with a number of have been slightly higher than soon they're going to die in a nuclear war," and motivational benefits" in taking a vote on washer breakdowns Students See page 4 Ferguson said Wednesday. "Most authorities the idea, he said Inside Today: N/"Weather Forecast: • Floating art in Mystic See page 6. Partly sunny with the high about 60 • Reif spells grief for Rams See back page degrees Fair tonight with lows in the • New columnist debuts with Slumberground 30s Notes See page 9. Page 2 lf& bally Campus. October 4. 19d4 News Roundup State Road blamed for acci dent FAIRFIELD (AP)—A Federal Highway Administration official said Wednesday that a concrete median divider on the Connecticut Turnpike might have slowed a tractor trailer that jumped into the opposite lanes, striking two cars and killing four people The fiery 8 a.m. accident Tuesday occurred when the tractor trailer smashed over a metal divider into the southbound lanes. Three other cars also were involved in the crash, which occurred near the Fairfield- Bridgeport border. State police continued their investigation Wednesday, trying to deter- mine what caused the truck to go out of control Speaking from his office in Washington, D.C.. Clark Bennett, director of highway safety for the FHA, said a concrete divider, known as the ' New Jersey barrier," has proven more effective than metal barriers .n preventing cross-lane accidents. Vietnamese refugees wave a former South Vietnamese flag whOe demonstrating in front of the foreignn*fcoy>«8teiday(10/3)inrokja Iheyare protesting the meeting between Japanese foreign niiasterSHntaro Abe and Vietnamese foreign minister Nguyen Co Thack(UPI Photo). Tandem law approved World HARTFORD(AP)-Rep. William Ratchford, l> Conn lauded full Senate approval of a bill that would allow states to request the authority to keep tandem trailers off certain segments of the interstate highwav Airline delays drop Canada visits China system. "We are making progress,".Ratchford said Tuesday in Washington in a WASHINGTON (AP)—The number of airline delays statement released in Hartford. "Clearly Congress is recognizing that dropped in September because of better weather and the PEKING (AP)—"Get out of my way!'' Quebec Premier states should have some say over the routes taken by tandem trucks." end of vacation season but the figure remained much ReneLevesquej()kedtoap»x)tograrxierWedM^dayaslie Ratchford said he introduced similar legislation in the House because higher than a year ago, officials said Wednesday. slid down a railing on the Great Wall of China Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole told him that even if the The Federal Aviation Administration said there was an The Freeh Canadian separatist leader arrived Tuesday Department of Transportation agreed with states that certain routes average of 1.051 flight delays a day nationwide during for his first visit to China, a trade and friendship mission to were too dangerous for certain trucks, the states did not have the September, compared to 1,431 a day during August That repay Chinese Premier 2iac Zyang's visit to Canada last authority to keep them off.