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'Inside Today The Commission On Higher The student government votes The long-awaited report on the The Hartford Times goes out U.S.Sen Lowell Weicker, Education recommends that the today on whether to sent its possible health hazards of of business after 159 years, R.-Conn.. campaigns at UConn. legislature cut about $300,000 chairman to a convention in dormitory roof tarring is not leaving about 450 persons with- Stories and picture page 6. from UConn's 1977-78 budget. Kansas City, Mo. at a cost of satisfactory and another report out jobs. Story page 5. Story page 4. ■ $330 Story page 4. is ordered. Story page 5. tihmttttttntt lathj (Eamtma Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXX NO. 33 STORRS. CONNECTICUT THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1976 Officials back $39 board increase By VIVIAN B. MARTIN • said Wednesday the the fee hike was set ed in arriving at the increase proposal. possible to cut another part of the A $39 per semester increase for and recommended by a committee organ- Adams has called the $39 figure "a bare budget." he said. "If we really wanted to students eating in University-run dining ized to review the fees. The recommend- bones minimum." take risks, we could deplete the reserve halls has been initially endorsed by the ed fee is tentative, and may be increased "The people involved with the fee fund, but that's not too expedient." he administration, UConn officials said or decreased. Wiggins said. review have worked out the budget and said. Wednesday. Students in dining halls currently pay all the explanations for increases." 'I know students are going to gripe, but Leonard Hodgson, director of food $335 a semester. The board fee in the Wiggins said. Students will be able to 1 hope that they will be able to services, said rising food and labor costs UConn-run dining halls was increased discuss the fees and the budget at an understand what we arc up against. Food and the maintenance of the dining hall $30 per semester last year. open forum next week, she said. and labor costs are rising all of the time, reserve fund forced the administration to Wiggins said the recommendation was William Finch, chairman of the Federa- and that's something we have no control recommend the fee hike. made at the request of Frederick G. tion of Students and Service Organiza- over." Finch said. "Because'the University dining halls Adams, vice president for student affairs tions (FSSO). said Wednesday he under- Finch said he was pleased that students are all self-supporting, we had to and services. stands the reason for the recommended are having some input into the recom- especially pay attention to the reserve "We compiled the report after a fee hike, but is unhappy with it when mendations. fund," he said. The reserve fund is set committee with persons representing considering "keeping the price down," to "Everybody is making an honest affotl aside to offset any deficits incurred by the food and housing, the controller's office . attend UConn. to keep the prices down. That's the dining halls, he said. administration and the students research- "This university, being a state univer- reason for all the intensive research and Hodgson said projected food prices had ed budgets, both past and projected and sity is supposed to be low-cost, but with compiling of statistics. But when you get to be considered in light of rising food then arrived at the $39 figure," she said. rising costs all around, there's just no down to the bottom of it all. there's the costs. Wiggins said she is planning a "meet- way out," he said. question of money to pay debts and bills, Carol A. Wiggins, assistant vice pres- ing with the head of the resident student Finch said there are ways to cut costs, and then you inevitably have an increase. ident for student affairs and services, government to review the figures involv- but none are guaranteed. "It may be There's virtually no way out." he said. UConn nips Brown,3-2, in overtime thriller By MARIA ROMASH After a scoreless first half, the Bruins The University of Connecticut soccer scored two second half goals. Brown's team Wednesday gave Head Coach Joe Bob Schweitzer put the Bruins on the Morrone the best birthday present he scoreboard six minutes into the half. He could have asked for: a spectacular, 3-2, picked up his own rebounded shot and come from behind victory over Brown kicked it into the left corner of the net. University. Brown's final tally came from foreward About 7,000 rainsoaked spectators Fred Periera. Periera. who holds every helped Morrone and the undefeated Brown scoring record 'with 44 career Huskies celebrate after the team tied the goals, sent a bullet into the Huskies net game with two goals in -the last four after picking up a pass from Peter Van minutes of regulation play and then went Beek with 4:38 remaining in regulation on to score the winning goal late in the play. second overtime. A few hundred spectators headed for Morrone watched his team score the home after Brown's second goal thinking tieing and winning goals from behind the there was no way the Huskies could catch base line after he was ejected from the up. game for arguing with an official. "They were the new fans that don't "How can you beat that comeback?," know Connecticut soccer," Morrone said. Morrone said. "It was an important win "We'll make believers of everyone." for us." Continued on Page 20 Weicker refutes charge of high absenteeism By JOHN HILL III salary. It seems to me that the issue here U.S. Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., isn't whether people are getting paid, it is R-Conn., refuted recent charges of high whether or not they are doing their job." absenteeism made by his Democratic "She's trying to be both referee and opponent Gloria Schaffer and said "the contestant in this match." Weicker said. official record of the Senate will back me The first-term Republican Senator also up." stressed the need for a consistent "I don't know where she is getting her national energy policy, combining devel- figures," Weicker said in an interview opment of domestic oil sources and with the Daily Campus. "I had an domestic conservation measures. attendance record of 95 percent last year, "It is the third aniversary of the Arab the 14th highest in the Senate." oil boycott," Weicker said. "In that time Weicker also hit Schaffer on holding we have become three times more the office of Secretary of the State and dependent on foreign oil." running for office at the same time. "Price controls aren't the way to do "I asked her what her attendance it." Weicker said. "We have to have a record as Secretary of State was," system of mandatory conservation. So far Everyone isn H happy Weicker said. "She said they didn't keep it has just been a case of dump on the Brown goalie Paul Oberraeyer sits in the Brown goal after UConn has scored. The records. She did say she wasn't taking her Continued on Page 6 Huskies defeated Brown 3-2 Wednesday In Storrs. (Staff Photo by Buzz Kanter] ,■ rfoCUS - Soccer home? While the winless football team plays in front of half-empty stands in spacious Memorial Stadium, the nationally-ranked soccer team plays on a poorly- drained, inadequately situated field which affords little in the way of comfort for fans who attend the matches. At face value, a comparison of the two teams' playing environments reveals little in the way of fairness and equality on the part of the Division of Athletics. However, this is not the entire story. The real dilema facing the athletic administration, especially Athletics Director John L. Toner, is whether or not the University can afford two stadia . Because of tight financial constraints imposed by the state, that would be almost impossible to accomplish in the near future. Realizing the restrictions placed upon them, athletic administrators are taking the right step- and possibly the only step- towards providing adequate facilities for both sports by planning for the utilization of Memorial Stadium for both the football and soccer programs. According to Toner, coaches and officials involved in the football and soccer programs recently have been Speakeasy. carefully measuring the stadium's ground floor to find the best method for enlarging the field to accomodatc soccer. Student unity ideals not realistic By excavating and converting the stadium field to a width somewhere between the minimum (65 yards) To the Editor: not interested in Judy Collins or a tion and does not give a valid and the maximum (75 yards) needed, the Athletic We do say that Ms. With is too great many other BOG sponsored answer to Trustee Wiggins' in- idealistic if she expects 'a bit activities. quiries about its methods allocat- Department will be saving many thousands of dollars more effective idealism will help It is not that we deem it ing.funds. necessary for installing adequate seating and lavatory bring unity and equality to fuller inappropriate for an alumna, Wirth grants that the number of facilities at the present soccer field. realization at UConn. Judy Collins, to entertain UConn minority students are small re- New stands at the soccer field would cost $40 a seat So Kathryn Wirth wants to know students at Homecoming week- lated to the rest of the student and the cost of building a fence around the field would 'what is the problem?' Minority end, but since we cannot relate to population.