Dining Halls Not Affected by Meat Boycott
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UV: Dining halls not affected by meat boycott by George Forcier Charles Sawyer, also reported “students ate those who do not regularly eat meat,” she Newsky’s manager Jerry Fournier, said Early results indicate the national meat more than the usual share of scallops said. overall sales are near normal. Customers are boycott has not affected the University Monday...but not an overwhelming The Memorial Union cafeteria' was not substituting protein-rich foods like tuna and Dining Services’ menus but has laid its icy am ount.” effected by the boycott. According to Union cheese for meat he said. grip on Durham’s grocers meat sales. Later in the week reports seemed to food services supervisor Bernice Cilley, the At the University’s three dining halls this confirm that University residents eating at boycott’s second day was just “a regular Many Consumers who depend on local week few residents participated in the meat the dining halls were not participating in the Monday”. Ms. Cilley reported sales as usual grocers have apparently joined the boycott boycott. boycott. later in the week. bandwagon. The possible reuslts of the Clarence Garnett, Huddleston manager, Wednesday all three dining halls managers D ow ntow n boycott are less certain. reported no change in the amount of meat reported normal consumption of the meat A week long boycott of meat “may have consumption Monday. entres. Durham Shop-n-Save, the town’s largest some effect at the retail level, but certainly He said he had heard from only two Comments from residents seemed to grocer, experienced a fifty percent drop in not at the wholesale level,” said Economics students. He received a note which read, indicate the they saw no reason or practical meat sales last Monday according to store Professor Richard Mills. “What about the meat boycott?” result in their abstaining from eating meat manager James Bowden. “It is primarily.» symbolic thing,” he said. “One girl asked if there was meat in the for the week. “The meat has already been “Sales are definitely down and virtually In fact if retail prices drop during the spaghetti sauce, but that was all I heard,” paid for” said senior history major Wynne none of the higher priced items such as boycott “it will only help those who don’t said Garnett. The sauce contained no meat, Walston, a Sawyer Hall resident. T-bone, porterhouse, and rib roast are participate,” he said. only mushrooms. “Boycotting meat in the dining halls won’t selling,” he said. “The amount of meat consumed at dinner do any good.” Though Shop-n-Save ordered less meat in Dwayne Wrightsman, also an Economic was about the same as usual, but I will admit Similar attitudes prevaled among some anticipation of the boycott Bowden said “I Professor, said that if boycotting consumers that consumption of the scallops was higher residents of other dorms such as Christiansen don’t think we cut back enough.” return to previous levels of meat than usual,” he said. and Hubbard. One shopper commented Tuesday that he consumption after this week they will Garnett offered no opinion as to whether One Randall Hall resident suggested that “Had never seen so much meat on the meat the boycott may have caused an increased even if the boycott had any effect on meat counters before”. achieve “no lasting effect”. “If experimentation with meat substitutes demand for the shellfish. prices, abstainance in the dining hall was “People seem to be buying the suggested affects a change of taste, then prospects of a Priscilla Caudill, the manager for Stillings mere “tokenism.” meat substitutes,” said Bowden. He reported partial, permanent reduction of demand” Dining Hall, said students there also ate The Dining Service is not participation in increased sale of fresh vegetables, spaghetti, more scallops than normal. The increase the boycott. Jane Griswold, Dining Service and dairy products. may arise, he said. cannot be attributed to the boycott because Director, said the menus for this week were Newsky’s Ideal Food Store reported a “scallops are a popular item anyway” she planned “long before the plans for the thirty percent drop in meat sales. A permanent reduction of demand would said. boycott crystalized. She noted that though According to meat manager Merle probably reduce prices slightly. By Wednesday Ms. Caudill had received some students would wish to participate in Mclnnis, he is using “roughly half” the usual Wrightsman concluded that the boycott is: two notes concerning the boycott. the boycott, others would not. quantity of meat. “We’re cutting off the “probably more political and symbolic than The Philbrook Dining Hall manager, “We usually offer a meatless entre for block as much as possible,” he said. econom ic.” photo by Fernald Housing survsy indicates shortage by Phil Caroom April A, 1*73 ¥•1. A3 No. 37 “How do you put 5000 people into 4000 committed itself to find housing for almost spaces?” 2000 freshmen for next year. That was the problem the Residence Although the Residence Office estimates Office found itself facing last week when that up to 600 students currently requesting they added up the figures from their “intent rooms may drop out or drop their requests 13 UNH students arrested in drug raids to participate in room-draw” survey. by Phil C aroom before September, that still leaves about Director of Residences David Bianco met “They came at six o’clock in the morning Col. Paul Doyan told the press that As of Thursday afternoon Kidder reported legal penalties for using drugs. Other 300 more students than campus facilities with members of his office, a group of ind knocked on the door. My roommate Monday’s arrests “marked the culmination that ten of the 11 students charged with recommendations were for a similar drug can now handle. student representatives, and the Provost’s >pened it and there were two policemen of a three month drug-selling investigation.” felonies who are now temporarily suspended education program to be offered to This year’s approximately 3000 staff this week to discuss alternatives for taring me in the face.” A state investigator said that the had requested the Appeal Board’s review. secondary and elementary schools in the upper class students planning to return to handling the several hundred students whose The state Dolicemen informed Stephen investigation is continuing but added that he The Dean of Students office had not been state, and the need for the University the dormitories compares with only about requests of campus housing may be Colenda of Gibbs that they had a warrant was “not at liberty” to say if there will be able to contact the eleventh student and community to review its “educational 2000 from 1969 to 1971 and with about impossible to grant. or his arrest on the charge of “selling more arrests. extended the 24 hour deadline for him to efforts...to help students assume 2400 in 1972. Residents selected for possible rantrolled drugs.” Kolenda toldTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE, “It request an appeal. responsibility for their own lives.” In Last year in 1972 the high number exclusion from campus housing next year Kolenda’s roommate Donald Mentes was common knowledge that there was a Unless the Board reverses the suspensions connection with this last recommendation resulted in 150 students being placed are approximately 90 students from the elated that the police proceeded to search narc floating around campus. He was going none of the students will be permitted to the report said that preparations are off-campus by the Residence Office. Durham and Dover areas, 30 students who he room . around picking up hitchhikers, asking them attend any classes until after their cases have underway to find--and educate if are in their ninth and tenth semesters at This scene, with minor variations, took where he could get, some grass, and that’s been heard on April 20. necessary-a member of the Student Affairs UNH, and 150 students who filed late in the Bianco related that the Residence Office )lace numerous times Monday morning at how he caught onto people.” “All 14 of the students still may have to staff to be in charge of UNH “programs and “intent to participate” survey. Bianco and only realized the significance of this number JNH and in 12 other New Hampshire Vice-Provost Richard Stevens confirmed appear before the Student Judiciary Board services in the area of drugs and alcohol.” the Provost’s staff decided on these groups. in August. “I went around to every motel lommunities from Portsmouth to after the civil trials for being in possible Speaking to student leaders at one of the report, saying he had been told that Bianco added that “in the vicinity of 200” and every large house in the area that was vlanchester. violation of the University’s drug policy” Tuesday’s special meetings, President Bonner there were two state police under-cover students who lived off campus this year and possibly available.” Thirteen UNH students were among 29 ' K idder addea. said, “On a comparative scale there is no agents operating on the UNH campus. But, transfer students who requested on campus The University ended up putting about >ersons arrested in Monday morning’s state Stevens added, although both Durham police If the Student Judiciary Board found the major drug problem on this campus.” This sfaidontc guilty of violations, they oould bo housing are already possibly excluded. 100 students in the Portsmouth Sheraton jolice coordinated drus raids. Since then a and campuo a cc u i-iiy were called upon to was a fact aku mentioned In the Stevens A new busing system for commuters, 30 Inn and about 25 each in the Sawyer 'ourteenth student has turned himself in and participate in the arrests Monday, as a suspended for up to a year or dismissed from report.