The New Hampshire, Vol. 65, No. 38
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Boiling the sap in Orford on a spring afternoon By Todd Driscoll dreary Saturday so four friends and I took We knew we had the right place. Cars We walked into the next room and up the governor’s invitation. lined the highway on either side of the There it was on the front page of Satur there he was, the governor, scurrying Orford is situated on the banks of the narrow highway. A brown sign with red day’s newspaper: “Gov. Thomson Invites around with a thermometer in one hand Connecticut River about 10 miles north letters swung back and forth in the wind Folks for Sap Boil.” and a pewter pitcher in the other, check of Lebanon. Thom son’s home is about across from Thomson’s red brick house. The story in Lebanon’s Valley News ing guages on big tin mechanized tank five miles inland on a frost heave of a “Mt. Cube Sugar House. Welcome,” the said that “New Hampshire’s most widely highway called Route 2—A. where the sap is boiled, or pouring im known maple syrup maker, Republican sign read. “Boiling today!” pure samples into a five foot tall tin We drove past run-down shanties and we got out of the car and walked to the Gov. Meldrim Thomson”, “was inviting house trailers. Old men wearing red hunt strainer. anybody “who wants to watch maple barnboard cabin which was belching He looked at us for an instant, gave a ing caps and green rubber boots either white steam from an alumirium chimney. syrup boiling” to visit his Mt. Cube farm waved or shook their fists at us, depend quick smile, and went back to his work. in Orford.” Peter Thomson, the governor’s son, ing qn how much they had to drink the It was strange seeing Thomson without Thomson and his wife, Gail, would be opened the door, smiled at us, and' his pressed gray suits and neatly combed night before, I suppose. walked out as we walked in. at their sugar house all day, boiling down We arrived at the governor’s Mr. Cube gray hair. Saturday he was wearing a red- sap collected from their own maple trees. The cabin was hot and steamy. A little and-black-checked wool hunting jacket home a little carsicksafter a half hour of blond-haired boy was tooling around in a I had nothing better to do on a cold, driving around trying to find it. toy tractor. SAP, page 13 the new h Volume 65 Number 38 Durham, N.H. UNH will not increase number of non-residents University makes commitment to in-state students By Mike D’Antonio There will be no increase in the number of out-of-state students admitted to the University next year. Director of Admis sions Eugene Savage said Tuesday next year’s freshman class will include about 700 non-residents. Savage said the University will not in crease the number of non-resident trans fer? or freshmen, to offset rising educa tion costs. A bout 400 out of state tttms- fers will be accepted as .in previous years, he added. Out-of-state students will pay the full cost of their education including $2,600 for tuition, $400 more than last year. Savage said all new and transfer, non resident students, will be notified of the Director of Admissions Eugene Sa increase by special letter to be mailed vage soon. Because non-residents receive no state Therefore, next year’s freshman class subsidy for their education, Savagh said, of approximately 2,500 will include the it had been suggested that increasing out- same number of non-residents as last of-state enrollment could lower the share year’s and the year before,” he said. of the cost the state must pay. As Savage explained it, UNH invites “We must remember we are a state uni more out-of-staters than there are versity and we want to provide oppor spaces. “Because a predictable number tunities to all New Hampshire students will turn us dow n,” he said, “ we can be : who meet our requirements,” said Savage. safe inviting about 1400-people for 700 : ■ ■/' : ' If the number of non-residents was spaces.” raised, some in-state students would be “We over admit, figuring only four out denied admission. Savage explained that of ten people will accept,” he said. “How- the University’s objective was just the op It wasn’t a very nice day yesterday for people like this hitchhiker6'asl posite. ADM ISSIO NS, page 3 tried to make his way out of Durham yesterday afternoon on Ma Street. According to the weather station at Pease Air Force Base in Pori mouth, an inch and a half of rain fell in the Durham area yesterday Hi it been snow, we would be under 15 inches worth. The Pease weathe INSIDE ' System gets man predicts some snow for tomorrow accompanied by high winds no SAT ncrease sible as high as 55.miles per hour. ’ Next year’s Student Activity $ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 Tax will be $18.90 per student, an increase of $2.20. For details see House is expected to kill story page 3. for energy Graduation speaker By Mike Minigan faculty trustee legislation Milton Friedman, a conservative The New Hampshire House of Repre economist, will be the commence sentatives has approved a bill supplying a By Paul Briand can see.” ment speaker May 25. See story $100,000 supplemental energy budget to page 7. But the committee apparently wa the three University campuses. The House Education Committee yes more concerned with how the bill wouh Tommy review This vote came last week after the State terday morning voted 13 to 2 in favor of increase the size of the board from 25 t< Senate had approved a $200,000 budget an amended that would put a faculty 28 members. At 25 members, the UNI -The movie Tom m y assaults the earlier in March. member on the UNH Board of Trustees. board of trustees is already the largest ii senses with music from the likes of According to Allan Prince, vice provost The unamended bill, HB 637, was pro the country. Eric Clapton and Elton John, and for budget and administration, the two posed by Rep. James Horrigan (D-Dur- So Rep. Leo Lessard (D-Dover) pro acting from Ann-Margret and Jack bills now are referred to a legislative con ham), an associate professor at the UNH posed an amendment that would trim th< Nicholson. See review page 14. ference committee for final compromise Whittemore School. The original bill request to one faculty member, rotating and approval. called for the addition of three faculty on a two year basis between Keene Baseball opener Final action on this supplemental bud members from UNH, Plymouth State Plymouth, and UNH. The UNH baseball team opens its get is not expected immediately as the College, and Keene State College. This amendment has the same intent as season tomorrow with the Corsair House members have not yet been ap Horrigan told the education committee Lessard’s student trusteee bill that last Invitational Tournament in South pointed to the committee. Senators C.R. Monday “there is virtually no communi Dartmouth, Mass. For a preview see Trowbridge (R-Dublin), Clesson Blaisdell cation between faculty and trustees that I TRUSTEE, page 5 page 20. ENERGY, page 7 PAGE TWO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE FRIDAY APRIL 4, 1975 Swans return There are three ways to tell the be ginning of spring-remember it starts on March 21, feel the warm weather, or go down to Mill Pond to see if the swans have returned. This year the weather may have failed us, but the swans, Agatha (bottom) and Hamilton (top) re turned to their Mill Pond home on the first day of spring. According to Durham’s keeper of the swans, UNH Zoology Professor Lorus Milne, the swans spent the winter in Portsmouth, made their way to the estuary below Newmarket Road on Feb. 25, then took up residence on the pond the first day the ice cracked-. Milne doesn’t know whether Agatha is pregnant this year, but he said the two swans have been “a little on the protective side” and have rebuilt the nest in the middle of the pond. Wayne King Photo Outing Club director moves to save Franconia Notch Bv David Reed looking platform. dream for a rally to Tuveson. suit to stop the highway. stopped progress, because feder Cole, the New Hampshire Out Since then Cole has invested “People here aren’t half as de al laws were broken. Doug Cole calls himself “a ing Club’s red-bearded program “almost a grand” of his own dicated as I expected,” says “They had skipped the pre professional con artist.” His big director and a 20-year-old money in conference ground Cole, a New York State resident. building surveys of a controver gest con to date is convincing sophomore Rec and Parks major, work. He has also persuaded the “We have to do two months sial section (the Notch) and built Club Sports director Art says “I’m not the type to step Outing Club to lend its name if work in two weeks, but I can’t two sections on either side of it Tuveson to focus UNH’s second right out and shoot my mouth not its money to the venture. let it fall apart.” which is illegal. That increased annual Outdoor Recreation Con off. I’m not a card carrying envi The name was enough to get Cole has waited too long for the political pressure to pave the ference on saving Franconia ronmentalist trying to shove my financial backing from the UNH this chance to let it fall apart.