The New Hampshire, Vol. 78, No. 36 (Feb. 23, 1988)
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• ' f 1 ' I The New Hampshire . H Bulk Rate,US Postaoe P~rr1 ,Vol. 78 No. 36 TUESDAY, F,EBRUARY 23, 1988 (603)862-1490 Durham.N. · Durham I\J H Perm,! s,30 T rllstees change bylaws Vote allows Haaland more power By Chris Pollet president." had gotten aw'ay from the pol The Board of Trustees passed DiBiasio said the change icies_" Holt said the re was a a change in the bylaws on ' wuuld bring closer scrutiny to definite need to clarify roles .February 18th darifying the role . personnel, facility, and financial within the University system . of the -Board and the power of policies at UNH. Ruth Morrell, Chairperson both the chancellor and Uni Governor John Sununu, ·each of the Student Affairs Subcom versity system presidents. president of the University m itte of the board, said the "What the change did was to system, various alumni, and bylaws were written many years clarify the role of the chancellor representatives from all over ago and were quite·wordy. She and the role of the president_ as the state make up the · 24 said the clarification was essen a leader and a manager," said member board which meets tial because the board's. role was . Claire Van Ummerson, Chan three times a year. The Board inconsistent with its original cellor of the University system. has four committees: Executive, intent. Van Ummerson said the change Academic Affairs, Alumni Af Morrell said the job of the, brought more power to the fairs," and Financial Affairs. Each b?ard was "not to settle petty president for everyday policies committee meets on the average differences but to deal with · and let the board deal with more of once a month. more important policies such key issues of policy ... Robert Holt, Student Trustee as housing." . Dan DiBiasio, executive as- · from Plymouth State College,' Van U mmerson said this was sisra~1t to President Haaland, outlined the goals of the board the first step for the University ~ summed up a statement from at their fall retreat and said there system. She said the next step the board on the purpose of the was a belief "the board tended was for revision of policies on 1 change ''.to revise policies to to get into the everyday activ the campus level and fina•lly a delegate oversight and system ities of i:he schools (UNH, PSC, · procedural-change on the cam President Gordon Haaland informed the Student Senate Sunday leadership to the 'chancellor and and Keene State Coilege) and _puys level. night of the changes made in by-laws that the Board of Trustees institutional leadership to the passed. (file photo) · , UNH takes AIDS policy By Pamela DeKoning ·· with the HlV. virus in the state. in a locked 'file, AIDS patients la response to the .national She said the number of AIDS / are treated no differently than epidemic proportions of ,the ca-ses doubles every y'ear and anyone else." AIDS virus, the University has there is no reason to believe that Under the procedure, persons adopted a procedure for dealing Durham is immune to the virus. with AIDS aren't required to with employees. and students Bealth Services was unable, report their condition. The who might have AIDS. to confirm or deny AIDS cases procedure encourages them to, According to Director · of on campus because of confiden . and makes confidentiality exa~t, Human Services Nancy Deane, tiality. according to Deane. the procedure is an interim · The procedure is broken up According to the procedure, . measure until an -official prop into three areas: persons with -persons with AIDS are encour osal is drawn up by a state AIDS, reporting AIDS, a·nd aged to report to Health Ser committee which is currently intervention of heahh services vices in order that Health working on a proposal for the in protecting the needs and Services may provide approp entire state University system_ rights of AIDS victims. · riate assistance and counsel. According to Peggy ~iesch The procedure stresses con The procedure outlines two nick, head of AIDS education, fidentiality for AIDS victims, •methods of notifying the Health there are 59 full-blown cases according to Kieschnick. Services Center, according to of AIDS in New Hampshire_ She said, "Any information Kieschnick. An AIDS victim kept on AIDS cases is complete She said there are an estimated AIDS, page 7 . 800 to 8,000 people infocted ly confidential. Records are kept One name f Or trustee ballot By Bryan Al_exander election were found to be illeg This would enable more stu Dennis O'Connell, who won iti1)1ate because of a technicality. ?ents ro learn about this very the bogus election for student The senate blundered this fall important student position, These students participated in h ypnotist Guy Anthony's sho"'i trustee on the University Board when it neglected to notice a according to O'Connell. Monday night. See what these people did next by turning td of Trustees, was the only ap stipulation which states that the Student Activity Fee Chair-· page 5. (Peter Tamposi photo) plicant for the rescheduled senate has to petition to hold person for the Student Senate, election, accordin'g to Steve the trnstee election before Patrick Sweeney, said he had Roderick, the election coordi March_ They did not petition, no plans on entering the elec nator. and the re::sults were declared tion. Sweeney's write-in cam Roderick said eight applica null and void. paign forced the election into INSIDE tions were taken from the O'Connell said he was happy a run-off vote in the fall. But ·. Student Senate office, but O'Con . that he does not have to devote he dropped out of the **** race nell's was the only one to come time and :energy into a campaign before the tun-off election took in time for the. 4 p,m. deadline for a election he has already place. The Red .Cross exceeded its yesterday. won. He said the last election Sweeney said he did he is Although O'Connell will be was a drain on him physically, planning to concentratf on quota with ·the help of _UNH the only person -on the ballot, emotionally, and scholastically. other endeavors than the trustee the election will still be staged. One ne.gative aspect he point position, and wished O'Connell students. See·pa ge 6. It will take place on March 7. ed out about the lack of contJs luck. Roderick said he believed tion, is the need for attention "I hope Dennis does a good nobody wanted to challenge on the trustee position. He said job an_d ·repre~ents the students I bin HYP~NO-TIZED!!!! See page O'Connell since he had already a campaign would have brought with a strong voice," said Swee won an electioll'for the spot this the trustee position to the ney. 'Tm confident in his abil 5. fal I. But the results of this forefront once again. ity." PAGE TWO THE NEW HAMPSt,IRE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1988 The cold truth behind dangerous snoWball fights By John P. Robert of my eyes. I felt all over my face suggested h_is theo~ies for stu Every time there is ~now a .sort of deep stinging." dents' destructive impulses. faffing on the .UNH campus, it Luckily, hall resident and "In a snowball fight, students. is safe to assume that there are Emergency Medical Technician . are letting loose pent-up frus snowball fights somewhere. Elizabeth Stewart was on hand trations and emotions," he said. This is a good way of having to administer first aid. Joe Cronin, a judicial advisor, some clean fun but sometimes Residential,Director of En agreed and added, "The damage these. activities can get carried glehardt Hall Margaret Russ costs c_an accumulate over time away. said about the incident, "By which the students end up Since December there has some miracle of God, he didn't paying in the long run." been over $2,100 damage ,done get I glass l in his eyes." Obviously not everyone who to windows, screens, and doors Resident of a first floor room is out there having fun in the of campus resident halls by in Fairchild, Christine Hennes snow is breaking windows. Only snowballs. Four people have sey, also had glass sprayed in a small minority. resort to van been cut by flying glass from her face after students pelted dalism to get their.kicks. snowballs breaking through her window for five rr;iinutes. Sophom_ore John Keyfeyan windows; This blatant vandal "We were trapped in our commented, "Snowball · fights ism is .a serious problem that room because the door is right are a fun thing. It's only on~ or must be recognized by all stu in back of the window, and the ,. two bad apples out of the whole dents living on and off campus, glass was flying right at our exit group, that are out to break according to Het So we coulqn't get help," she windows." · zel/Huddleston Resident Di said. Knight has a similar view. rector Andrew Knight. Deborah Bean of McLaughlin "The actions of a few -indi Knight asserted, "We know Hall was in a friend's room' viduals have had far-reaching that other members · of the when she was hit by flying glass implications on the comfort and community, other than campus . from a wind ow broken by a security 'of their fellow stu:. residents, were involved so that snowball. She said that it caused dents," he said. · makes· it a serious issue all a cut under her eye.