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~ t .:... '· ,\, •i. ~. ./'" ' .Vol. n No)17J' TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17. 1987 Bulk Rate,U S fllostaoe Pa111 862-1490 Durham, NH. Durham NH Perm,, lf30 . Budget battle' begins USNH see.ks $111 million. By Bryan Alexander submitted,.-, said Van Ummer s1ty systems as it.is," ·she said. The University sysi:em faces son, "with everyone knowing The program enhancement . ·a long uphill battle in receiving anl and understanding they section lists funds needed to adequate fonds frorri the state woul9-n't get ·it." improve th~ image of the Uni this budget year reported Claire . Thjs year the University versity system, said Van Um Van U mmerson, Chancellor of system cut the budget down merson. She said this "includes the University system of New themselves, said Van U mmer-. all the new initiatives at UNH." Hampshire, in her speech to the son, asking for "certain needs." Van U mmerson stressed the student senate Suqday night. She said the plan will backfire need for money towards more U mmerson said the entire if the legislature continues to falculty, especially for general University system .is taking a hack away at the totals despite·· education courses. She said "calculated'' risk in asking for the realistic figures. · President Haaland is "very. $111 mil-lion from the state· Van Ummerson divided the sensitive" to this ..issue and he legislature for the 1988 and 1989 budget up into two parts, the is tntent on bringing do_wn' the school years. base operating section and the student/faculty ratio. She said in past years the . program enhancement section. More improvements to the University Systems Board has ' The base operating section system's centers of excellence, submitted highly inflated -is the section devoted to.running are the aquisition of equipment, budgets knowing that -the legis the current University system said Van U mmerson. She said lature would whittle it down to according to Van U mmerson. additional resources in the ' a significantly lower amount. "We fried to put in all that's library and lab equipmen~ for "In past years a wi_sh list was r:~quired .to operat~ the ~ niver- the scienc~s were also budgeted. The system had a couple of I , setbf1cks in the legislature which· have put doubts in the minds of supporters of the budget's· success . The first 'setback c:ame Tues Claire Van Ummerson; Chancellor of the University System day _nigh~ when the legislature of New Hampshire. (Bryan Alexander photo) . · SENATE, page 5 F:i\le_..finalists. to lecture By M~rla Gt Smith the position. to ·see_how they do in a lecture Five. final candidates have . "The search began in October situation," Andrew said. been chosen from 215 appli and gained national exposure," Each finalist will discuss their cants for a director of the Center said Andrew. Advertisements scholarship, views on the hu for the Humanities a't UNH. ' for the search appeared in such manities in general and vision - These candidates will lecture •publications as the Chronicle for the University's humanities at UNH Feb. f7 throu·gh March of Higher Education, arid the program. 3. The New York Times. Andrew said it was not easy · Final candidates are Charles This nationwide search at narrowing the 215 applicants Senate leaders at Sµnday night's meetjng. (Br.yan Alex~nder . Karelis, Williams College and tracted applicants from 40 to five. However; the search , U.S. Department of Education; states, according to photo). Andrew. committee was looking for Lou is Roberts, Syracuse Uni Ea_ch candidate will present strength in three main areas in versity; Robert Fuller, Bradley a public lecture at UNH. The each applicant: excellent scho U nivetsity; Carol Hurd Green, lectures are at 4 p.m. in Room larship, strength in -the human Boston College; and Andrew 112 of Murkland Hall and are ities area, and administrative Group Protests McClean, University of open to faculty, staff and stu experience. Wisconsin-Parkside. dents. "These lectures will .allow the According to David Andrew, The candidates are asked to - wider University community chairperson of the arts depart lecture since the director's po a good chance to see the finalists SDSU calendars ment and the search committee, sition is a faculty position, UNH ·nas receiv·ed for its UNH advertised nationwide for involvin teachin . "We wa t Humanities Program," Andrew ' said. By Cindy Mathieson "Greeks First 1987 Women of During SDSU (San Diego State Univer the 1986-87 school In front of Steve Bigler and -year the Humanities Program Darin Mingo's sity)" swimsuit c'alendars being MUB vending received two grants' from the table was a sold were the objects of heated photo of a tanned Higher Education debate. Association woman, whose arms covered · fh Washington D.C. B·oth grants "They're imposing on other ·bare breasts, staring up from ·exceeded $2-50,000. the floor. ' people's choices," said Bigler, 'Tm proud to be at UNH. It's This and other pictures of referring to protesters blocking ._ w('.)men had beeri spattered with his sales display . HUMANITIES, page 7 fake blood. Across the length Carol Rensalaer said, "It of her semi-clad body, bl~k constantly brainwashes wom prison. bars had been drawn in en." These type of consumer Inside · by protesters, and the message: products are an imposition to women by putting women in a "Break the Chains." . ' Gary Hart, Last Friday protesters stood position where men can gawk one of the griml'y between the sales table at them, said Rensalaer. I many presidential hope and a semi-circle_ofphotographs When asked, neither Bigler ., fuls to begin canv·assing nor 'Mingo found the swimsuit of women in bathing suits. Each 1 picture had a feminist message calendars offensive . the Granite State, spoke on it: "This body is Hers not "The problem is with socie, at a Dover restaurant ty," said Mingo. He sl)ggested Yours, These Posters Promote yesterday'. See Violence Against Women, and the demonstrators·' actions story 1 in 3 Womyn-are Raped." should take the form of talking page 3. Police intervened twice as to swimsuit manufacturers and Sigma Nu +oak the tempers simmered and threa to producers of the calendars. tened to boil over. Popular opinion among dem snow sculpture awa_rd It was not business as usual onstrators seemed to be, if they~ again this year at UNH's for these Entrepreneurial Man could stop people from buying · age me·n t 7 32 students. Wh-a t ,tpe calendars, ·it_',\-'.Ould be a.s.tep Winter Carnival. See pho- .,.' .' .. started as a cl.ass project,. accel,-· Jarry tearns, ,or.gamzer O ' t' , OU can · tos_and sto_ry, pa:ge :· 1'6:' .SDSU, page 6 · ,. give blood in the MUB all this week. erated into a _protest. · The .- (Stu Evans pho~o) ' .... ,' ; PAGE TWO .THE NEW HAMPSHIRE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17. 1987 Underwood ,has unique aura By Joanne Bourbeau 12.4 m_illion students attending sity of Illinois in 1970 because Underwood H9use is in the college in the U.S. are over 25 she did not feel directed. way. _ years old. It is projected that "Knowing the Cenfer is here A short beeping signal goes by 1990, over half of the college gives me a certain sense of off and the slight reverberation students in this country will be security," says Stewart. from the explosion travels in the non-traditional age range. This woman who speaks of across the floor slo\\;ly. Outside, Unique is the only word to _ security in school is no stranger men string barbed wire across describe the atmosphere at to the word. Stewart left a job the back side of the house, Underwood House. The Non-· as the manager of a successful blocking a path that once led · T~aditional Student Center ad agen~y in Chicago and re to Main Street. boasts .a living room with a turned to school. They are not being . held fireplace, a kitchen, and study "Where I was in the ·work priso[!ers, but the occupants of space. environment, I felt I needed ~ · the Non-Traditional Student Six students begin, a Friday college education," she says. Center at Underwood Hou·se afternoon ritual and dig into . The reasons for returning to fee-l a little uneasy about the pizza from the Tin Palace, . school vary, as do the things that proximity. of the construction placing their 75¢ donation into · make each non-traditional stu crew that is building the new a tin cup. They ·each find a dent "non-traditional." How- Sunlight streaming in a window at Underwood student health center in their . comfortable spot on the tweed ever, each student shares similar frc>m House. backyard-- with plans to dem furniture or on the floor, facing fe.elings of isolation and inse (Stu Evan_s photo) · olish their own building at the each other and a small brick curity.about being in a different tional. , to. the campus one hour ·and, 15 end of the spring semester. fireplace. · age group than the majority. "It goes beyond 'Hi! What.'s minutes every da'y. She ·admits Their first floor office was They seem comfortable here, Support is one way the Non- your major?' " he says. that the Center was one of the torn down in December to make like they would feel in their own Traditional Student Center supp- Non-traditional students deciding factors in her enr,ol room for the construction equip living room. lies its important services. have experienced the world lmem. ment. ' The country-styl_e kitchen is Stewart says she enjoys the outside of school, and ·have been Hodge spends her two-hour The non-traditional students decorated in blue and' white younger stude·nts at UNH, but through similar experieq_ces, break betW<:;en-classes ev€ry day consider Underwood House a curtains.