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LX1 The University of Maine at Orono student newspaper since 1875 Tuesday, April 23, 1985 Funding sponsor disapproves of UMaine methods by Peg Warner Staff Writer The co-sponsor of a proposed bill to provide additional funding for the University of Maine system said Mon- day he approves of the proposal but not of the method that has been used to ob- tain the money. Rep. Stephen Bost, D-Orono, said although he thinks the extra funding — S16 million over two years — is necessary, "I'm not convinced the method by which the chancellor presented the package was in the best in- terests" of the university. standings be UMaine officials have requested a total of $28.8 million in additional fun- ding for the 1986 and 1987 fiscal years. If approved, that figure would be add- Jeremiah Newman. perhaps a future woodsman himself. takes rtising appeals a close look at Joel Tripp ed to the base figure for the current it Orono who's getting in a little practice during the ‘Soodsmen's meet held at UM() last budget for a total of weekend. III inscou photio $161.2 million. The additional request is divided into two parts. Part I, which comprises $12.8 million for the two-year period, is ear- marked for salaries, wages and increases Drinking, driving, teens and radio: in inflation. re likely to read Part II would be used for what UMO if they were President Arthur Johnson called "new results of study coming out soon and inakroved" programs, such as cor- rections to safety problems on campus by Sue Swift In the first phase of the evaluation, of Broadcasters launched a major, state- and the purchase of updated computer Staff Writer she said, wide vor of a raise in a random, confidential campaign using its member radio and laboratory equipment for research, telephone survey fee as opposed was given to teen-agers and television stations. Sangor said. in addition to money for Fogler Libraci, An Orono-based research firm will in each area to measure Ilion to twice a pre-experiment She said the researchers hoped this the Performing Arts Center, graduate soon release the results of a study they knowledge, attitudes and behavior regar- would not create a problem because both financial aid and the athletic have conducted for the past four months ding alcohol and drug use in relation to areas would receive about the same department. on the effects of anti-drunken driving operating a motor vehicle. amount of influence from MAB's Gov. Joseph Brennan has endorsed radio announcements on Maine "Under 850 teenagers participated in campaign. Part I of the package, but has not sup- teen-agers. the survey, and for the most part, they A post-experimental telephone survey, ported Part II. L'Maine officials, in- Northeast Research conducted a were cooperative and very honest; we which ended on March 30. collected data cluding Chancellor Patrick McCarthy "Teen Operating-Under-the-Influence asked them no threatening questions and similar to that of the earlier interview. and Johnson, testified in favor of Part Media Evaluation Project forihe office because the telephone call was complete- Some of the questions asked by the 11 before the Appropriations and Finan- of alcoholism and drug abuse preven- ly anonymous, they were more ihclined staff at Northeast Research dealt with cial Affairs Committee of the Legislature tion, a division of the Maine Human to tell the truth," Sabgor said. the teen-ager's history, attitudes and cur- in budget hearings on April 9. Since Services Department." said David The only information about the iiar- rent status of alcohol and drug use and then, Bost said, Sen. Michael Pearson of Kovenick, one of the project's ticipant retained from each telephone that of their peers, Sangor said. Penobscot. chairman of the Appropria- t do you spend coordinators. questionnaire was his/her age, gender Other questions, she said, included the tions Committee, has asked the and at merchants Radio stations in chosen sites were current scholastic status, she said. teen-ager's knowledge of Maine's chancellor's office to submit Part II in An asked to either broadcast the anti- eight-week experimental period drunken-driving laws, behavior of self bill form so it would have its own drunken driving announcements, followed these surveys, during which an and peers regarding vehicle operation hearing. prepared by the staff at Northeast intense campaign of teen-oriented, anti- when using alcohol and/or other drugs, Bost, who co-sponsored the addi- drunken Research, or "black out" those type of driving public service an- demographic attributes and radio listen- tional funding bill with Sen. Larry announcements that they might normal- nouncements were broadcast over the ing behavior. Brown of Lubec, chairdian of the Educa- ly broadcast experimental-area radio stations. The experimental area was located tion Committee, said the presentation at you think are during prime teen-listening in hours. Few or'none of them were broadcast the west-central section of Maine and in- before the Appropriations Committee he bad points of on control-area stations. cluded towns served by five high schools: was "almost off-the-cuff' and was "not One purpose of the study was to pro- "Actual situations were recounted to Upper Kennebec Valley in Binghham, as organized as I thought it could have duce an experimental proto-type for us by local high students from Orono Forest Hills in Jackman. Carrabec been." designing and producing mass-media in and Old Town, which we made into 19 North Anson, Rangeley High He said because the proposed resources, aimed at reducing drunken School bill was public service announcements with the and Mount Abram submitted driving by Maine's teen-age in Strong. after the deadline, it must first population. help of local production studios, The control Kovenick said. " area was in eastern be submitted to the Legislative Council, Sangor said. Washington County and comprised four which has not yet heard it. Bost said the "Through rigorous, scientific testing, "AC asked them what messages would high schools: Woodland in Baileyville, lateness of the bill may hurt its chances we hope to determine the impact that be most meaningful to them as Calais High School. Shead in Eastport for passage because available money is 'radio public service announcements have teenagers, because we've found in the and Lubec High School. running short this late in the session. on a teen-age target population," said past most anti-drunken driving an- These areas were chosen because of Johnson called the $16 million in Part klary Jo Sangor, of Northeast Research. nouncements are aimed at adults." she their geographical remoteness from more 11 an attempt to make up part of $50 She said that radio was chosen over said. heavily populated areas and the limita- million in what he called "underfun- television "because radio is more Students who were questioned, tions of broadcast signals. ding" by the Legislature over the last 10 believable to teen-agers since they iden- Sangor said, "didn't want to listen to Northeast Research, a privately fund- years. This underfunding, .tag said, has tify with the music and disc jockeys." statistics. They found more meaning in ed firm, declined to disclose the cost of resulted from the universityN requesting The program, which began on Jan. 4, their relating to death as the ultimate or the project. "However a lot of people — more than the Legislature would ap- had two geographically-defined ex- losing a friend by drunken driving." artists and producers — donated a great prove. In 1974, he said, the university perimental and control areas and three Some difficulty developed during the deal of time to the research," Sangor system represented 13 percent of the state project phases, Sangor said. project because the Maine Association said. budget. • 27 Speeding car chased by police overturns in ditch bs Doug Ireland ta,-ted by radio and were able to track can tell. i: looks like the ,ar went seven -- Chic-Zoe, the ca's owner, Ual• actually Staff %titer down the speedin2 sehicle on College • feet sideways before it started to flip." iti the vehicle when it crashed, he was Avenue after it had also sped along "The minute we got there we thought. _issued a court summons for eluding a Schoodic and Sete: roads. someone was hurt," Lint said. "No police officer and for lailure to stop at A UMO student's car which wa• Lim said the 'chicle, which is Owned one was in the car, but then we heard a stop sign, keynolds.said. The incident traveling at "an excessive speed" as it was tw Randall Cincome of Tau Epsilon Phi something crashing through the is still under insestigation. Forme being pursued by unisersity police flip- fraternity. was traseling "in excess of -0 bushe. "- Lin! said he and Kennedy When questioned on-Monday concer- ped over into a ditch of College Avenue mph" when it crashed. "Because of the Then gas: up Inc chase.