The Daily Campus Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896 Vol. XCII No. 114 The University of Connecticut Wednesday, April 19, 1989 Mulvihill accused CD technology puts reference of shifting blame material at your fingertips to subordinates HARTFORD (AP) — The executive director of the University of Connecticut Health Center must take the blame for the nil!!!!! mishandling of state funds despite an audit showing no impropri- eties, a state auditor said. State Auditor Henry J. Becker Jr. on Monday criticized the cen- ter's executive director, Dr. James E. Mulvihill, saying he was trying to shift responsibility to subordinates for the steering of thousands of dollars of state money into a private foundation. "He didn't want to take responsibility for anything," Becker said. "I don't know why the taxpayers of Connecticut would want to pay $180,000 a year for someone like that." That is Mulvihill's annual salary at the health center in Farmington. Becker said he felt the center was a "poorly run institution." On Friday, UConn President John T. Casteen III recommended that the university's board of trustees return financial control of the center to Mulvihill. Casteen said an audit of the 84 private University of Connecticut Foundation accounts under Mulvihill's control from July 1, 1983, to OcL 31,1988, found no evidence of wrongdoing. The $24,740 independent audit, commissioned by the health center and conducted by Peat Marwick Main & Co. of Hartford, found no evidence of misconduct or dishonest or improper conduct by Mulvihill in his oversight of the 84 accounts, Casteen said. Mulvihill had asked for the audit and for financial authority to be transferred to Casteen in October while it was being conducted. Casteen said Monday .hereviewed the original charges made in October by the state attorney general's office that Mulvihill had al- lowed state money for research to be diverted to the University of Connecticut Foundation Inc., a private fund-raising organization. In the statement, Mulvihill says he oversaw on a day-to-day ba- sis only 84 of the 350 UConn Foundation accounts earmarked for the health center, and added that in many cases he was denied access The Business Periodical Ondisc system is a computerized index of nearly 300 by foundation officials to the accounts not under his control. business and management periodicals (Sara Cousins photo). Mulvihill added that in 198S he led an effort to establish better By Scott Brede The library has also acquired Students who use this system policies for depositing money in the foundation. Daily Campus Staff a computerized system that al- are asked to complete a The accusations against him are totally without merit, Mulvihill The Homer Babbidgc Li- lows its user to call up actual questionnaire on the system to wrote. brary, in an effort to make in- texts on screen. The Business help library officials come to a In the statement, Mulvihill admitted that he and several others formation more accessible to Periodical Ondisc system com- decision to buy it under these made a mistake in depositing a $28,800 state grant into the private students, has bought 18 com- bines ABI-inform, a computer- conditions. foundation, in 1986. puters that make finding ized index to business and Of the 18 CD-ROM com- State investigators said in October that Mulvihill, as supervisor sources for projects like term management periodicals, and puters, there arc four Infotrack of the microbiology division of the health center, should take re- papers almost as easy as press- the full texts of nearly 300 of computers and a Newsbank sponsibility for long standing practices by researchers that were ing a button. these periodicals. computer that contain general "improper, illegal, widespread and continuous." The Compact Disc-Read The system, which is here information. The others store Mulvihill said he knew little of the operations of Richard C. Only Memory computers, for demonstration purposes, indexes that are separated by Tilton, director of the microbiology division, and Raymond C. called CD-ROM, are located will cost the library $14,000 a subjects, such as psychology Ryan, the division's associate director, who were disciplined for on the first floor of the library year should library officials de- and sociology. their diversion of research and consulting fees to the private and are available for use any- cide to buy it. It will also cost To find an index on the topic foundation. time the library is open. students 10 cents to use it. See page 5| Pratt wins $1.4 billion contract EAST HARTFORD (AP) — lion and $700 million, GE for Pratt, including engines and The record airplane order an- said. spares, as follows: nounced Tuesday by GPA Rolls-Royce of England, the —SI billion to SI.2 billion Group Ltd. of Shannon, Ire- world's third major engine for PW4000 engines, Prati's land, should also prove a boon manufacturer, received orders newest and biggest, to power to jet-engine makers, with worth an estimated $550 mil- the 40 twin-engine wide-body Pratt & Whitney aircraft lion to $600 million. 767s, including options, and apparently the largest benefi- Sclwyn Bcrson, president of for smaller JT8D-200 engines, ciary. Pratt's Government Engine which arc the exclusive power- GPA announced at news Business, called the contracts a plants on the MD-80. conferences in Paris and New "good piece of the order" and —$225 million to S250 York that it had ordered 308 said the orders will stabilize million for V2500 engines, aircraft worth a total $16.8 thge company's East Hartford produced by International Aero billion from all three principal workforce for many years since Engines, the joint venture led airframc manufacturers. The the engines will be delivered partly by Pratt and headquar- largest previous airplane order over six years. tered in East Hartford, for the was placed by Delta Airlines GPA said the largest share of 30 Airbus A320 narrow-body last September for $10.5 bil- the airplane order, worth $9.4 twinjcls. These planes and en- lion. billion, will go to Boeing Co. gines will go to Braniff airlines As part of the order, Pratt for 92 Boeing 737s, 50 Boeing in an order that was previously Bill Wright and Theresa Osos take orders for and an international joint ven- 757s and 40 Boeing 767s. announced. Jostens class rings yesterday outside the Student ture it partly leads received From Airbus Industrie, GPA is —About $200 million for Union (Audrey Anderson photo). contracts for jet engines worth ordering 30 A320s plus 24 PW100 engines, a turboprop between $1.4 billion and $1.6 A330s and A340s for a total of made by Pratt's Canadian sub- Today in The Daily Campus billion, company officials said. $4.3 billion. sidiary, for commuter planes. The soliball team swept a doublchcadcr against the University In contrast, a joint venture The company said it had also Tuesday's order intensifies an of I lartford yesterday, with junior Sue Rybczyk pitching the comprised of Snccma of France placed orders for 64 McDonnell unprecedented buying boom second perfect game in the team's history as the Huskies won the and General Electric Co., Douglas MD-80 and eight MD- that began slowly in 1985. Prati's chief rival, received or- swelled last year and shows no second game 7-0. See back page 11 planes worth $3.1 billion. ders worth between $500 mil- Bcrson described the breakdown signs of abating. ' ',. y. AROUND THE WORLD Victims of ritual slayings mostly drug traffickers MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — Most of the 15 bod- ies found at a nearby cooperative farm Thursday, were ies exhumed in a rural area over the past week were those those of drug smugglers. of drug traffickers and not random sacrifices of an occult- "I have information about only four people who were influenced drug ring, a Mexican police official said yester- sacrificed," Benitez said, adding that "the great majority day. were drug traffickers." Juan Benitez Ayala, commander of the Federal Judicial Of the 15 victims, "some were tortured, some were only Police in this border city, also said the investigation has shot, and there were the young people who were sacri- shifted to Mexico City, where officials believe several ficed." murders are linked to the drug ring's fugitive "godfather," University of Texas student Mark Kilroy, 21, of Santa 26-year-old Adolfo dc Jesus Constanzo. Fe, Texas, abducted from a Matamoros street, was one of Benitez refused to comment on statements he made to the four sacrificial victims, Benitez said. reporters Monday, when he speculated that Sara Aldrete He said at least eight and possibly more of the victims Villarrcal, 24, the cult's reported "godmother," may have were either associates or rivals of the Constanzo group. been killed by Constanzo because she knew too much Officials have searched at least three residences in Mex- about the organization. ico City linked to the group, Benitez said. 'There are a lot U.S. officials said they thought she was still alive, even of murders in the Colonia Roma (area of Mexico City) though Mexican officials reported finding some of her connected to Constanzo," he said. personal effects in an apartment containing an apparent Benitez said a woman arrested Sunday in Mexico City, occult altar. Maria Teresa Quintana, 20, was "totally involved" in the "It just might be a put-on," said Cameron County occult practices of some members of the group, who Sheriff Alex Perez in Brownsville, Texas. "If they did find sought magical protection for their smuggling. a purse or found a passport, that may have been just a Her brother, Martin Quintana, is one of three men for trick by Sara and Constanzo to (make it appear) she is whom new federal drug-related warrants were issued Mon- dead ..