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Scientists uncover 'new' life form By AI. ROSSITER JR. there may be a third line of descent from what is believed plants and deep in the hot springs of Yellowstone. I PI Science Editor to be a common ancestor of all living things on the Scientists believe all forms of life evolved from some WASHINGTON (UPI) — In research with far-reaching planet. If substantiated by other scientists, the work common ancestor starting perhaps 4 billion years ago. evolutionary implications, scientists Wednesday pro- would take researchers a significant step back in tracing Until now. it had been assumed there were two general posed that an uncommon oxygen-hating microorganism the beginning of life. life forms with distinct lines of descent: may represent a "new" form of life with a line of The Illinois scientists' conclusions, published in the — One giving rise to bacteria or cells called descent older than any other creatures on Earth. October issue of the Proceedings of the National procaryoids which have a very simple form of Although these tiny organisms have been known for Adademy of Sciences, are expected to generate organization with no membrane around their nucleus. several decades, they had not been studied in detail and controversy among biologists and Woese said he were believed to be a form of bacteria that thrive on anticipates this. — The other leading to higher organisms such as carbon dioxide and hydrogen and produce methane as Woese said the organisms, known as methanogens. plants and animals with cells called eucaryoids which do their waste product. resemble bacteria in their size and general growth not have nuclear membranes. A group of scientists headed by Dr. Carl Woese of the characteristics, but not in their genetic history. University of Illinois found instead that these organisms Methanogens are found in places where there is no Dr. Cyril Ponnamperuma. a University of Maryland are as much unlike bacteria as are higher organisms in oxygen such as the rumen — first stomach — of cows, specialist on chemical evolution said. "I'm delighted. the genealogical sense. deep in stagnant marshes, in the muds of sea bottoms The idea fits in very beautifully with the idea that life This apparently is the first serious suggestion that including San Francisco Bay. in sewage treatment began in non-oxygenic conditions." Gfrmmctiatf latlrj Campus Serving Storrs Since 1896 » VOL. LXXX1 NO. *f STORRS, CONNECTICUT THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 3. 1977 TODAY--. The Weather Student government hires Partly cloudy, highs 60to 65. Closing Dow-Jones Industrial Average first full-time staff researcher 800.85, off 6.06 ByJIMMcGANN check cashing and legal services. dents and Driscoll's research will woman of FSSO's Information The Central Committee of the Driscoll will be going to UMass help FSSO better represent the Committee; Larry Cafero. IN A MAJOR CONCESSION to Federation of Students and Ser- soon to speak with the directors students." Chairman of I.A.R.C. and Terry the United States, Soviet Presi- vice Organizations (FSSO) Wed- of student services there and The FSSO search committee Donovan, vice chairman of the dent Leonid Brezhnev Wednes- nesday announced the appoint- research ideas and details con- received more than 200 applica- Central Committee. day proposed an end to all ment of a full-time professional cerning the cost feasibility and tions for the job. The position nuclear testing and major bans to aid the student government in facilities needed for these ser- was created last year by the Driscoll received a B.A. in on nuclear arms. Story page 5. research and in providing ser- vices, Donen said. Central Committee after FSSO History from UConn in 1970. He vices for UConn students. "Creating this position is the received a fee increase from the was employed by the Connecti- Allan T. Driscoll. a 1977 most important thing FSSO has Board of Trustees. cut State Department of Correc- HATEM HUSSEINE. an Arab graduate of the UConn School of ever done," Donen said. "It will The search committee included tions as a research analyst from League director, told a campus Law, West Hartford, has been provide direct benefits for stu- Donen, Kim Sadler, the chair- 1970 to 1973. group Wednesday that the chosen for the $ll,500-a-year dangers of war in the Middle position after a three-month East include nuclear war, search. Researcher Very excited' about job economic ruin and destruction According to FSSO Chairman of the people and land in the Steve Donen, the newly-created By JIM McGANN area. Story page 4. position of co-ordinator of re- Allan T. Driscoll. the newly appointed coordina- search and development will aid tor of research and development for the Federation the student government with of Student and Service Organizations (FSSO), is COLUMNIST JIM Fitzgerald research in representing stu- "very excited" to have the chance to "have a large admits "we never learn." Page dents in its work with the UConn impace on an organization and to be able to look 3. administration, the State Board back and say I did this for it." of Higher Education, the Gener- al Assembly and the governor. Driscoll said Wednesday night he will be THE UNIVERSITY has won a Donen said Driscoll will also be researching suggestions for student services that delay in its battle with the looking into the possibility of will originate from FSSO's Central Committee. student government on re- starting student services at "The Central Committee will try things. I will do leasing the memos of the UConn that have been instituted research and the committee will make further Program Review Committee. at the University of Massachu- suggestions as we go along," Driscoll said. Story page 4. setts (UMass) at Amherst. Those Driscoll was an unsuccessful candidate for the services include a credit union, student position on the UConn Board of Trustees a various retail cooperatives, year ago. Allan T. Driscoll Proposal made to alter bus routes By LYN M. MUNLEY A proposal to cut the Alumni Quadrangle and McMahon Hall stops from shuttle bus routes, introduced by William Massett, director of traffic service here would convert Whitney Road, which runs between the Arjona and Monteith building to a two-way street and would reroute buses to run in front of the new library. The change, proposed at the Oct. 26 Traffic and Parking Advisory Committee and discussed Wednesday night at an Inter-Area Residents Council (IARC) area council presidents' meeting, states the primary concerns of the shuttle bus service are the commuters, and the centralization of the route to include the library area would be in the commuters' interest. The Alumni and McMahon stops are the least used, according to Massett. Ann Huckenback, chairwoman of the Advisory Committee, said Wednesday, "We are only proposing this change. As an advisory committee we turn the proposal over to President Ferguson, who must make the decision." The proposal was presented at the second advisory committee meeting along with a proposal for a $15 hike — to $25 — in the residents' parking fee. The hike would be used for replacement purchase and repair of the shuttle buses. The proposal states that United Press International since residents have all-day and weekend parking and commuters U.S. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Mlnn.. waves Monday as he walks through the doorway of the use their parking privileges only part-time, residents should have a Hubert H. Humphrey Building after ceremonies where the building was dedicated to him. The building higher parking fee. A subcommittee of the Commission on Traffic Is the new headquarters of the federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the and Parking is dealing with the second proposal. government's largest agency. I « (ttotmfrttrut lailg (EampUB Serving Storrs Since 1896 Mark A. Dupuis. Editor-in-Chief: John Hill III. Managing Editor Craig K. Spery. Business Manager; Vivian Martin. Associate Editor Vol. LXXX1 No. 37 Thursday. November 3. 1977 Hoping optimism proves warranted There was a lot of optimism at Tuesday's meeting here of the state Board of Higher Education. 'rWTXi^w^ToijoTHis.eENa^LHr^TSOKwaav? w&ymmtim!' UCONN PRESIDENT Glenn W. Ferguson was smiling. Harry J. Hartley, vice president for. finance and administration, almost was cracking a grin. The board's chairman and most of its members were smiling and telling jokes abor.t the first consolidated higher LETTERS TO THE EDITOR education budget ever to come fiom a Connecticut agency charged specifically with the job of coming up with that single budget. THE REAL TEST and the real smiles, however, are a few months away. Conetta scores cartoon The real test of whether the board did the job it was created to do To the Editor: Oct. 22 was an outrage? Presumably not, seeing by the legislature and governor last spring, and whether everyone at I'd like to reply to the reactionary scratchings that you consider the student activists to be the UConn. the state colleges, the community colleges, the technical Walt Losee tried to pawn off as an editorial cartoon "troublemakers." And what about the four who colleges, the Board of Higher Education itself and the State Board in Wednesday's Daily Campus. You depict the were slaughtered in 1970? Were they beating a for Academic Awards, can smile, will come in February. struggle for justice at Kent State as a dead horse. dead horse too? You depict the Revolutionary Student Brigade You try to slander and undermine this struggle, (RSB). and by implication all students who are and all the activities of the RSB by promoting THAT'S WHEN the legislature and governor will get the higher concerned about the Kent State issue, as mindless anti-communism.