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The Daily Campus Serving the Stores Community Since 1896 Vol. XCIII No. 86 The University of Connecticut Tuesday, February 27,1990 Student Union blackout Budget prompts public forum leaves clubs in the dark Pelto calls today's forum an effort to collect 'ammunition' By Terence Stearns By Jason Kauppi need to be persuaded to support Education's recommended 13.7 Campus Correspondent Daily Campus Staff increased spending. The mem- percent increase. A blackout in the Student Union continued to be a scheduling The ink has yet to dry on bers, however, need to under- UConn is looking at SI38 nuisance to the University of Connecticut's clubs and organizations Gov. William A. O'Neill's stand the impact of cuts in or- million from the governor's Monday. 1991 budget, but the General der to fight for additional sup- budget as opposed to last year's Joan Rogers, associate director for operations, who helps coor- Assembly's appropriations port, Pelto said. $134 million. dinate student activities and Union functions, said that 33 club subcommittee on higher edu- Campus organizations have meetings and func Lions had to be cancelled or rescheduled as a result cation hopes to smudge it by worked quickly to guarantee of a power outage in the Student Union that occurred on Saturday persuading the legislature to speakers will be at the forum, night. increase spending for the state's which was conceived and plan- Rogers said all the clubs were given the option of relocating to colleges and universities. ned last week. However, none classroom buildings. She said that most of the clubs took advan- However, smearing the num- of the groups were able to give tage of the opportunity. bers in the governor's budget definite names. The Afro-American Cultural Center was also hit hard by the and replacing them with more The Undergraduate Student blackout. favorable amounts cannot be Government has lined up four On Saturday, the Mr. and Miss Black UConn Pageant was done without resistance. To students to talk on the effects interrupted during the intermission. Kent Butler, interim director of help combat the budget's sup- of the state's fiscal crisis on the center, said that the pageant will probably continue on Saturday porters, the subcommittee will UConn, said Stephen Saloom, at 3 p.m. in von dcr Mchdcn depending on whether all the original hold a public forum today at 3 one of three General Assembly judges can attend. p.m. in von der Mchdcn Hall lobbyists for USG. "Hopefully all the judges will be able to come back, but if they to collect "ammunition," as Ed Marth, director of the can't, in the interest of fairness, the pageant may have to be Jonathan Pelto, D-Mansfield American Association of Uni- rescheduled." called it. versity Professors, said the The Black History Month banquet which was to have been held Pelto said the subcommit- union will also send a member in the Student Union ballroom on Sunday was also postponed until tee, which he chairs, needs to Jonathan Pelto to speak. today at 5:30 p.m. hear from disgruntled students, Acting Vice President for Butler said he was able to stop the banquet's speaker, Tony faculty and staff on how the O'Neill's budget gives the external affairs Willie 1 lagan Brown, the producer and host of the syndicated program "Tony budget, tuition increases, and University of Connecticut a said UConn administrators will Brown's Journal," from, flying to Connecticut cuts in services will affect the 2.6 percent increase in general also be present but said he Butler said one of the blackout's major effects on the functions university. funds over last year's budget, wanted to avoid having them is that it will bring down attendance numbers. He said that because Pelto said the subcommittee despite the board of trustees re- dominate the forum. the pageant was halfway over, the 250 to 300 people who members arc already advocates quested 17.3 percent increase The administration has had See page 4 for higher education and do not and the Department of Higher See page 4 Opposition party upsets Sandinista's 10-year rule Bush hails election Ortega surrenders upset in Nicaragua power to opposition WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — dent Bush hailed Violcta Chamor- President Daniel Ortega said Mon- ro's upset election in Nicaragua as a day his Sandinistas will honor the "clear mandate for peace and demo- voters' wishes and surrender power cracy" Monday, and his spokesman to a 6-month-old opposition alli- said Bush wanted to lift U.S. trade ance that won an upset victory after sanctions that have hobbled the a decade of one-party rule. country's economy. "We leave victorious because the Bush said the vote to oust leftist Sandinistas have sacrificed, spilled President Daniel Ortega "moves us blood and sweat, not to cling to one step closer to the day when government posts, but to bring every nation in this hemisphere is a Nicaragua something denied since democracy." He called for a peaceful 1821." when it declared indepen- transfer of power from the Sandi- dence from Spain, he said in a nista government that has ruled lor dramatic dawn speech. 10 years. Ortega spoke hours after it was In a message aimed both at the —UPI photos clear the electoral tide was against Sandinistas and the U.S.-supported MANAGUA: President-elect Violeta Chamorro flashes a victory sign at her him and Violcta Barrios de Chamor- army of Contra rebels who tried to campaign headquarters Monday after claiming victory in the country's elections. ro, publisher of the opposition overthrow the government, Bush newspaper La Prcnsa, would be the said, "Given the clear mandate for MANAGUA: Former Sandinista President Daniel Ortega holds his arms up and next president of this balUe-scarrcd peace and democracy, there is no sings a revolution song after conceding he lost the presidential election. nation, which has in the past decade reason at all for further military become one of the poorest in the activity from any quarter." Western Hemisphere. Later Monday, the president "People wanted a change," she phoned Mrs. Chamorro to congra- said as she headed for a victory cele- tulate her on her victory. "The bration at her campaign head- president said the election reinforces quarters. the Nicaraguan people's commit- With 82 percent of the precincts ment to the peace process and counted, Mrs. Chamorro had towards building a free and open 633,357 votes, or 55.2 percent, to society," said White House spokes- 468,040, or 40.8 percent for Orte- man Marlin Fitzwatcr. ga, with the other 4 percent going Bush told Mrs. Chamorro the to minor candidates, the Supreme election was "a great day for the Electoral Council said. The coali- Nicaraguan people," Fitzwatcr said. tion also won a majority in the The spokesman said Bush also National Assembly. discussed the situation with a num- Mrs. Chamorro is to take office ber of allied leaders. April 25 and the transition could be There were immediate calls in difficult, given the bad blood be- Congress for aid for Mrs. Chamor- tween winners and losers. On leav- ro's government, which is to be in- ing office, Ortega is to become a augurated April 25. member of the National Assembly. "We must provide her new "It's going to be a bit harder than See page 6 See page 6 PAGE TWO Cloudy but warmer Forecast Today: cloudy, light snow likely in the afternoon. Not as cold. High 30 to 35. Chance of snow is 70 percent Tonight: light snow continuing. Lows in the teens. Wednesday: partly cloudy, colder with a chance of flurries. High near 25. Around the U.S. H L Hartford 20 -4 Lottery Newport 11 ■ 10 Daily: 9-7-4 Portland 18 1 Play 4: 9-2-1-8 Burlington 13 -2 Husky Talk —Hillary Jackson/The Daily Campus Who would you say is the basketball team's most valuable player? Greg Miller Mechanical Engineering "I'd have to say Tale George because I think he's a good leader for the team." —UPI WASHINGTON: Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis is interviewed on his way to lunch Monday. Dukakis was attending the Governor's Association meeting. Jennifer Jankovich Dukakis visits White House Biology "Chris Smith because he has for a reception with Bush the most points per game." WASHINGTON (AP) — The successful elections "What's the record? There Gov. Michael S. Dukakis vis- Monday in Nicaragua, he said, was no progress toward gen- ited his would-be home for an are an example of the uinely open, free, internation- East Room reception with bankruptcy of the Reagan-Bush ally supervised elections until President Bush Monday and af- policy of military aid to the the contra effort effectively was terward said he knows he's Nicaraguan contra rebels. A missing a "great time" to be diplomatic approach opened the killed," Dukakis said, 'What president. door to free elections, he said. does that tell you?" Sporting a cast on his left Tomorrow's question: How do you feel about the United States's hand over two fingers he broke that some Perrier bottles were continued involvement with the space program? Saturday in fall, Dukakis re- Evian launches contaminated with traces of a flected on how events have toxic chemical, benzene. smiled on the presidency of his ad campaign political nemescs, President NEW YORK (AP) — The Bush. importers of Evian bottled wa- Silk is stronger "It's a great time to be presi- ter are launching a new adver- than steel Today inside the DC dent," Dukakis said in an tising campaign this week even as the importer of a rival bot- BOSTON (AP) — Until re- Index interview at a Washington ho- cently, the Army has kept quiet News tel where he is attending the tled water, Pcrrier, announced about a scientist's success in Classified 17 Relatives of the western National Governors' Associa- its drink may be back in circu- Comics 15 lation within two months.