ftmtnerttro! Battg (Eattqnw A D VER TISING SUPPLEMENT SPRING IN STORRS VOL. LXXIX NO. l'_M) STORRS. CONNECTICUT HlliMsinV M'KII JH. |'I7»I Tuition hike approval seen package will be.' from the Senate.' However. deBear increased to provide for University By JO ANN NILAND Hanna said he hopes the amount of said he expects she will sign the bill. personnel services - 150 positions at a Staff Reporter cost of $1.87 million. revenue collected will equal UConn's A legislative proposal to increase He said the overriding reason for Equipment needs, including repla current financial need. "Total estima- the University's tuition by $190 per her signing the tuition hike into law is cement and repair of used damaged, ted revenues should approxiamate year has been forwarded to Governor that 'the General Assembly has added some money to the UConn budget over and missing equipment in such places total expenditures.' he said. Grasso for her expected signature. Drafted by the appropriations sub- what the Governor advised.' DeBear as science labs, claim $1.15 million. The bill, if signed by the Governor, committee on education and the Joint said because the Governor feels this These expenses were added to would also increase tuition for non- Committee on Education, the tuition additional money in the UConn budget Grasso's initial budget. 'In order to residents by $380 per year. support this, the tuition increase was bill passed from the Joint Committee Larrye deBear, Grasso's press sec- balances the tuition increases, 'she instituted,' Hanna said. on Appropriations to the full House on retary, said the Governor has not decided to sign.' Hanna said the legislature is 'con- April I. The House passed the bill signed the bill into law due to the Edward Hanna, assistant vice pres- cerned over the need of students for 118-18 while about 150 students 'usual delay of a week or two before ident for finance and administration at financial aid,' as many will be unable protested outside the Capitol and sent any bill reaches the Governor's office UConn, said the tuition is being to meet increased tutition next fall. it to the Senate Aril 14. Consequently, a $1 million provision Approxiamately 150 students for additional financial aid was added marched on the Capitol as the House to the appropriations package. fnished voting on the tuition bill. Hanna said the Administration ex- Shortly after the House approved the pects to receive $3,025 million plus the increase, three student demonstrators $1 million financial aid provision. 'A were arrested for interfering with the little over $4 million is what the total Conliniit-fl on I'ajje 4 Local fire alarms increasing; seen as part of national trend By DAVID E. DeCAPRIO According to Burton Booker, assis- Staff Reporter tant director of public safety, and Flashing lights, screaming sirens, UConn's fire chief, the fire had to be and red enameled vehicles, they are phoned in because 'funding was not all emergency symbols of public available for a direct alarm system to safety. the fire house." from the Chemistry Less than four weeks ago. UConn Building. fire crews were summoned to a fire on "Prior to the fire there was an the second floor of the Chemistry internal alarm system." mainly consis- Building, along with fire companies ting of "pull boxes, heat detectors in from Willimantic, Eagleville. and some labs, and some built-in carbon Mansfiels. dioxide alarm systems." Booker said. The call for help was phoned in by a Since the fire, the Chemistry Build- graduate student at about 3:45 a.m.. ing has been connected to a central who was alerted by an internal alarm alarm system tied into the fire house. system in the building and saw smoke John G. Rohrbach. assistant vice pouring from a research laboratory. president for finance and administra- 'No one knows how long the alarm tion said the cost of renovating the rang,' said John Fletcher, assistant alarm system in the Chemistry Build- chemistry department head and direc- ing was not that expensive. Although tor of laboratories. exact statistics were not avilablc he Though equipment valued at sev- estimated the cost to be between $200 eral thousand dollars was damaged, and $400. no one was injured and no lives were The money is thought to have come lost. However, the questions, 'why from fuel savings this past winter, however, spokesmen for the Physical Ptioto by Buzz Kantet did the alarm have to be phoned in?" Plant could not verify this. UConn's mascot Jonathan VII looks eager to enter the boose with his guardian, Mrs. and 'how safe is UConn with respect to Continued on H.»B« > Patty Tanaka. Jonathan's profile appears on page 8. public safety?' come to mind. Legislators see end of regents bill greater than student representation on By JOHN HILL III Robert M. Walsh. D-Coventry (53rd). even have a study on the proposal." the current system of separate boards News Editor said he was "not in favor of a two-tier Goodwin said, "the vote in the House of trustees for state colleges, technical The State Senate^ has "definitely system." is anybody's guess." colleges, community colleges and killed" a bill that* would put all "The amendment is ridiculous, the The regents bill, in the form in state-run higher education under one regents bill was passed by people who which it passed the House, would UConn. central board and will replace it with a felt strongly about reforming public place all the state's higher educational The system of individual boards of plan which calls for a system of one higher education and this is a com- institutions under the control of a trustees has a total of about 80 board for the state's four-year colleges promise that in no way corrects the single board of regents. The bill's members, seven of which are students and one board for the two-year present sad and sorry situation." primary backers. Walsh and State Under Walsh's regents plan, there institutions, a key legislator said Walsh said. Rep. Howard M. Klcbanoff. D-Hart- would be four student members on a board of 27. Tuesdav. If the two-board plan is passed by ford (8th). say the bill would provide "We have definitely killed the the Senate, the bill would go back to better coordination of programs in the The two-board system would have one board of trustees for the two year regents bill." said State Sen. Audrey the House for consideration before it state-run college system. S. Beck. D-Mansfield (29th). The new could go to the Governor's desk for The regents board would a.oid institutions (technical and community plan that will be introduced in the final approval. duplication of capital expenditures colleges) and a board for UConn and Senate this week would establish a State Rep. Dorothy C. Goodwin. and make it easier for students to the four-year state colleges board of trustees for all of the four D-Mansfield (54th). said she did not transfer credit from one state college The two-year board would have year colleges and a board of trustees know what the vote on the two-board or UConn to another, the bill's jurisdiction over the technical colleges to govern two-year state-run schools. ■ystem would be in the House. supporters say. and the community colleges. The "'The Senate is full of an urge to do Walsh also said student represent The regents bill's sponsor when it Continued on l'anc S was originally raised. State Rep. something. It is possible we may not at ion on the board of regents would be Page 2 Daily Campus Advertising Supplement Wednesday. April 28, 1976 IARC rejects telephone proposal phone to be in every dormitory Mary Ellen Holdar. a SNETCO tem. installation charge. Students who By JOHN GLORIA room on campus. SNETCO of- official, said Tuesday SNETCO Holdar said the Centrex instal- stay in the same residence while Assistant News Editor ficial Robert Dahill later cannot force any students to lation charge is lower because it is subscribing to the Centrex system A proposal to accept a central explained that although some accept the Centrex system. Hol- only a station charge whereas the would not benefit, IARC mem- telephone system which would Centrex systems require all stu- dar said SNETCO's tariff on the current charge includes the $10 bers said. have saved students $19 every dents to have a phone in their Centrex system does not stipulate station charge and a $19 line IARC wanted to be certain time they had a phone installed room, UConn's system would not. a minimal subscription level. charge. She said there would not there would be no manditory was rejected by the Inter-Area SNETCO sent the Centrex pro- IARC also rejected the Centrex be a line charge for the installing subscription level so students Residents Council (IARC) last posal to John G. Rohrbach, system because there would be of a Centrex phone because the who benefit from the current Wednesday. assistant vice president for fi- additional charges for operators lines already exist. system wouldn't have to be The Centrex phone system had nance and administration, last to man consoles. University cler- The monthly rate for Centrex burdened with the Centrex sys- been under study by an IARC October 16. The proposal was ical work, and a listing in the would have been $5.75 as com- tem, Vance said. committee who recommended turned over to IARC last Decem- telephone directory.