Wat Satlg (EammtH "Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896 -■- Vbi LXXXVIIINo. 93 The University of Connecticut Friday, March 22, 1985 High levels UCEPI board of bacteria changes strategy By Paul Thiel in meat Asst Managing Editor Frustrated by the "cumbersome" process of By Chuck Lindberg getting state executive branch approval for the Staff Writer proposed CONNTECH research park the pro- Meat containing high levels ject's administrators have changed their of a harmless bacteria was strategy and are now seeking legislative shipped to UConn and used approval from the General Assembly, according by the Department of Student to Harry Hartley, university vice president for Commissaries, the com- finance and administration misary warehouse manager A bill has been proposed by state senator said Kevin Johnston (D-29th) that would allow the State health inspectors project's parent corporation to bypass pro- found high levels of cholo- cedures normally associated with such devel- form bacteria in samples of opments. The bill is currently being considered raw meat taken from the by the joint committee on Finance Revenue and Mansfield Training School DID DOGS UFE COME IN?— Sheryl Broohman and companion Jigger Bonding and will be discussed in a public hear- and at the state's central pro- look over their mail in Towers mailroom last night (Andy Shaffer photo). ing in the next two weeks cessing plant in Middletowa Meat from the same shipment Hartley had predicted last was sent to UConn month that the next step of Choloform is a bacteria Reagan renews summit offer administrative approval which grows in animal intes- would soon be forthcoming from Eli Friedman, state com- tines and is considered harm- WASHINGTON (AP)—President Reagan, less. However, choloform is On major issues raised by reporters, missioner of administrative declaring "if s high time" for a superpower sum- Reagan: services. Friedman, however, sometimes the indication of mit, renewed an offer Thursday night to meet contamination by other sub- —Offered to have U.S. diplomats meet with a was unable to grant approval with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and said, joint Palestinian and Jordanian delegation to as quickly as was hoped and stances. It is often associated "I think there is a good chance" the invitation with incorrectly processed promote peace in the Middle East, so long as the recommended the park seek will be accepted Palestine Liberation Organization is excluded approval from the legislature digestive waste in bodies of "It's our turn to be the host," Reagan said at a water. But he ruled out direct American involvement in instead, Hartley said televised news conference adding he wasn't peace talks. "We are not getting into direct "I think if we present the bill Proper handling and surprised that Gorbachev hasn't yet replied to thorough cooking should negotiations," he said, but instead, "just going to as an economic bill, which it is, an offer first extended last week "The man has do whatever we can to help." rather than a benefit bill for eliminate the bacteria only been in office for a few days and I have "Some of the contaminated, —Rejected a call from Democratic House UConn, it has a good shot to some idea of what is confronting him now." Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., to renew the get passed this session," said meat was shipped here" The president also said he stands prepared to Steve Grange warehouse federal program of supplemental unemploy- Jonathon Pelto (D-54th), the discuss his unpopular budget with Senate ment benefits due to lapse on March 31. area's representative to the manager, said "The meat has Republicans pressing for changes. But'he resis- been inspected by a UConn —Described the police shootings of black House "It (the bill) has bi- ted two options that many GOP lawmakers demonstrators in South Africa as "tragic," but partisan support and a lot of department and the level of favor—cancelling next year's Social Security bacteria on it was found to be said the racial troubles in that nation result in clout behind it And everyone cost of living increase and trimming the defense part from those who want 'violence in the (legislators) from northeas- much lower than those found build-up—and said raising taxes would only at the training school." streets" tern Connecticut is sponsor- "take the heat off the backs of those who don't Reagan seemed relaxed during his 30-minute ing it" want to cut spending" question-and-answer sessioa If the bill is passed this ses- sion, which ends June 9, con- struction will start by late summer or early fall, Pelto predicted "The main concern [for the approving committee] is that the university is not at Finan- cial risk," Hartley said "And I don't think we are The uni- versity advanced money to get it started, but that will all be returned once we get approval. Most of the funding is private" CONNTECH s developer, the Sunrise Development Company of Cleveland, Ohio, has invested about $500,000 in plans and designs thus far, according to Hartley. Hartley said there were "too many steps" involved in the executive approval pro- cedure "It was too cumber- some Commissioner Freed- man even thought we might WHO SAYS UCONN IS A COUNTRY CLUB?—Steve Stranleri watches as Rich An to us practices his stroke In front have to get approval parcel by of campus Thursday (Andy Shaffer photo). parcel." \^ Inside Today: Weather Forecast: • The five tenets of Tae-kwon-do have helped senior Mike Reilly stay in controL See page 5. Partly sunny today, highs around 50. Chance of rain or snow late in the day. • There's no joy like Baroque joy. The Baroque ensemble s Fair Saturday, highs between 45-50. musical offering at |orgensen is reviewed on page 7. a Page 2 The Daily Campus, Friday. March 22. 1985 Morning Comment News Digest Andy Rooney New Haven hosts Bach bash A patriotic American NEW HAVEN (AP)-From de- Co. in Hartford where a portrait of partment store windows to Bach was flanked by flowers and News editors and" reporters understand why people are tired of venerable chapels, the sound of classical music was piped onto news they consider to be bad news and they're sympathetic But .1 <>h.'inn Sebastian Bach's music the street when someone suggests news people are unpatriotic for presenting was heard in Connecticut Thurs- The featured event was a five- it, they re hurt and angry. You probably knew news people get angry Woman's cries day. hour broadcast of "Morning Pro but you may be surprised to hear they sometimes feel hurt. Among the ways the 300th Musica" by Robert J. Lurtsema "The real threat to freedom" Sen Jesse Helms said last week in a draw help anniversary of the great com- from New Haven, which included vicious attack on news people, "the real threat to freedom of speech poser's birth was marked in Con- a two-hour section with Yale necticut were organist Charles Krigbaum in the and the real threat to our constitutional system is on our TV screens STAMFORD (AP)—When two every evening and on the front pages of our newspapers every —A marathon concert by a Battell ChapeL men in a truck waiting for a traffic series of organists at Yale's day." signal heard a woman's cries for Krigbaum was a principal in the Sen Helms said that if the men and women in the news business Dwight C hapel; help, they ran the red light, cor- —A lecture, giant cake and resurrection of 33 chorale pre- "do not hate America first, they certainly have a smug contempt for nered and caught a man who was ludes by Bach that had been lost American ideals and principles." concert at Quinnipiac College in subsequently charged with rob- Hamden; and for more than a century and were I don't know why patriotism brings out the vicious character in so bing the woman, police said unknown by scholars. many people. In that respect, it's like religion. Religion and patriotism, —A display window at G Fox & two of the things almost everyone accepts as being good have Morgan Williams, 24, of Stam- accounted for 90 percent of the ill will in small towns and most of the ford and Brian Bogdanski, 23. of Cherrier outlook for Coke people who ever died in a war. Port Chester, N. Y., said they were New York Inc Cherry Coke will I'm frankly suspicious of people who talk a lot about how patriotic WEST HAR1TORD (AP)—Effie waiting at a light Wednesday Paindiris set a soft drink down on make its national debut in Con- they are as though the rest of us were not We all love our country. It's when they heard the woman's the crowded counter of the Con- necticut and western Massachu- a natural feeling we have for our home, our friends, our families, our screams and saw a man running cord Luncheonette and said she setts next Thursday. familiar places, our language and our way of doing things. down the street wasn't convinced We Americans are lucky, too. We've got the best place in the world She obligingly added "just a At a news conference in Hart- to live. It isn't as if loving it was hard Loving America is easy. The hard Williams said he drove through squirt" of cherry syrup to a glass part is working to keep it worthy of our affection. ford on Thursday, company pre- the light and stopped within of Coca-Cola while eyeing a can of sident Edward F.