The Daily Campus Serving the Starrs Community Since 1896 Ma\ 22, IW) The University of Connecticut Graduation issue Graduation ceremonies for the University of Connecticut's 106th Commencement held Sunday in Jorgensen Auditorium (Kyle Dalpe photo). Class of 89 'charged' with finding creative solutions By Shawn Cochran justices still being carried out class of 89. He also placed the tion, will allow us to achieve mayor and was elected state Daily Campus Staff in the world today. responsibilities with those still our common human dreams." treasure in 1986. "In too many places, and in at UConn, its continuing stu- There were more than 4,500 Borges received his bache- "Today, I want to express the too many ways, racial, ethnic dents and administration. degrees awarded to the class of lor's degree in political science hope, as you leave your college and sex differences are dividing "If there is anyplace where 1989, including the schools of from Trinity College in 1974. days behind you, that you will us again/This is not only a liberal, humanitarian values Law, Medicine, and Dental In 1981 he was elected to the never cease to be eager, that crime, it is a human tragedy, should flourish, where brother- Medicine. Hartford City Council, and in you will keep your youthful and it is the ultimate foolish- hood and sisterhood should be UConn confers degrees three 1987 he was awarded the Israel enthusiasm to the end of your ness." nourished, where the spirit of times a year: Aug. 31, Dec. 31, Peace Medal and was Trinity days, and that you will never Borges related that the racial tolerance and intellectual free- and the traditional commence- College's 1987 person of the lose the capacity - which problems faced by UConn arc dom should have room to ment ceremonies in May. Last year. young people have in abun- not unique. In his address, he breathe and grow, and where August UConn awarded 668 There will be commencement dance -- to dream of the world mentioned problems faced by complete respect for difference undergraduate degrees. 973 exercises held at the UConn as the kind of place it ought to many colleges across the na- should stand as a profound and degrees were conferred in Health Center in Farmington be." tion. shining example, it should be December. on May 25 where degrees from Connecticut's State Treasurer He charged this year's gradu- the university campus." Estimates from the registrars the schools of Medicine and Francisco L. Borges delivered ating class with the task of Borges left the class of 1989 office show that the class of Dental Medicine will be the traditional "charge" to the dedicating themselves to search with one last thought before 1989 will have received 2,970 awarded. undergraduates at the University for creative solutions. Borges they entered the real world. "Let bachelors degrees: 1.070 mas- Guest speaker for the schools of Connecticut's 106th said that this search can begin us not forget what can bind us ters; 185 Ph.D degrees and 215 of Medicine and Dental Commencement Exercises only after dedicating your heart together in brotherhood, no juris doctors degrees. Medicine will be James F. Sunday. to the ends of brotherhood and matter where we live or who Borges was born on Cape Childress. a professor of medi- Borges was extremely critical sisterhood among all peoples. we arc. It is nothing less than Verde Island, and was raised in cal education at the University of his generation as well as Borges did not leave the re- tolerance, kindness, and love, New Haven. Borges graduated of Virginia. He will address the generations before him for fail- sponsibility of correcting to- which, with their companion from UConn School of Law in ceremonies that begin at 5:30 ing to correct the social in- day's problems solely to the virtues of hope and determina- 1978. He was a Hartford deputy p.m. at the Health Center. : ~—""— UConn's updated AIDS policy NEWS FEATURES The university has made UConn's mctermaids reaffirms stance on harassment it a requirement that all no longer have to be concerned about being velop an AIDS policy. We had degree-seeking students By Shawn Cochran the university's regional confused with Gen. Daily Campus Staff campuses. Any violations of a very strict set of guidelines set be immunized against the AIDS policy will be handled by the BOG HE that wc had to measles and rubella to MacArthur. After 16 years In response to a requirement under the existing disciplinary adhere to." Kurland said the attend classes. they have new uniforms by the Board of Governors for codes, including possible UConn was one of the first 5^-page 5 See page 9 Higher Education for Connecti- expulsion. schools in the state to have an cut colleges and universities to The purpose of the policy is AIDS policy. The original pol- develop AIDS policies, the to assure that the rights of in- icy was written in 1985. ARTS SPORTS dividuals who have tested HIV Kurland, who was the head of University of Connecticut has If "How I Got Into College" The men's soccer team updated its existing policy to positive will be safeguarded, the seven-member committee in any way resembles your wdl host Dynamo Kiev, encompass the growing needs of while acknowledging that the that rewrote the policy, said that people testing positively for university, as a community, one of the major differences admissions experience, pack an amateur first division Human Immunodeficiency shares the legal, ethical and with this policy is that it your bags and go home. soccer team from the Virus. moral concerns of an infected specifically keys in on the This movie is a complete Soviet Union on Aug. 27 The UConn AIDS policy individual. rights of individuals who might waste of time and money. in preseason exhibition. reaffirms that discrimination and Michael Kurland, director of be HIV positive. The old See page 13 See page 14 harassment will not be tolerated Health Services said that the policy had more to do with on the Storrs campus or any of "each state school had to de- See page 9 page I The Summer Campus, Monday, May 22, 1989 News, UConn acts to save lakes and ducks from bacteria By Shawn Cochran lake. These plants because of Lake to aerate the water. Swan Daily Campus Staff the lack of oxygen in the lake lake is the smaller of UConn's University officials have be- became toxic to the ducks. At two lakes and is located near gun aerating Mirror and Swan the same time the fish in the North Eagleville Road. lakes to protect the University lake were dying because of a The pumps will be used of Connecticut's duck lack of oxygen. from June through September, population from a bacteria that The Canada geese eating the said Spinelli. Once the water has been responsible for the grass on the outside of the lake cools mere is no need for the death of over 100 ducks over were unaffected. Spinelli said pumps until the next summer. the past two summers he was on vacation during the According to Spinelli, sev- Workmen from the office of worst period. He authorized a eral months ago the university facilities installed a pump in fire hose to be run into the lake ordered a turbine pump from the deepest portion of Mirror for almost two weeks to aerate Ottobine, an Ohio based com- Lake that according to William the lake. pany that sells environmental Spinelli, acting assistant vice- Louis van der Heide, head of systems to aerate bodies of president for facilities, serves UConn's Pathobiology de- water. Ottobine was suppose two purposes: one is aesthetic, partment said that his depart- to deliver the $10,000 pump the other serves to aerate the ment was contacted about by May 15. On May 17 the lake. possible cases of botulism in office of facilities found that The installation of the pump ducks. Botulism is a disease the pump was still in Ohio. was delayed until the students caused by a toxin that attacks Spinelli said that it took less left, said Spinelli. "We didn't the nervous system causing than a day for the university to want to see a pond full of soap paralysis and death, said van der modify a three-horsepower suds, so we timed it for com- Heide. Dr. Alex Berudez carried process pump to aerate the mencement." out autopsies on a number of lake. Spinelli said that the Over the past two summers ducks and found that botulism pump was being used in the UConn has had a serious prob- was the cause of death. sewage treatment plant. With lem with the blue-green algae Spinelli said the death of the the students gone for the levels in the two lakes. Two ducks was a result of a number summer the load on the system years ago over 75 ducks died of problems. The temperature was reduced allowing facilities Shooting water into the air, the aeration system is in from poisoning that occurred operation in Mirror Lake (Kyle Dalpe photo). for the past two summers was to use this pump. Spinelli said from eating the grass on the well above average, while the that the process pump would bottom of the lake. Last year rain fall was below normal. be replaced before the students Correction that number fell to under 20 This lack of rain was responsi- return in the fall. In our May 4,1989 edition we incorrectly stated that a Mathcw Spinelli said.