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Husky defense prepares for undefeated Bulldogs See back page Wat Sattg (Eammta "Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896" Vol. LXXXVIIINo. 25 The University of Connecticut Friday, October 12, 1984 Two hundred protest: Union pickets for wage increase By Dave Clark sity's job classification study. This study, com- Staff Writer pleted by the university during the first two About 200 members of the University of Con- years of the union's 3-year contract classifies necticut Professional Employees Association employees and creates a salary schedule The picketed outside Gulley Hall yesterday, protest- study was mandated by Article 34 of the ing the university's failure to grant the union a union contract wage increase "There was a verbal agreement after the con- tract was ratified between a President DiBiaggio The group marched from the Commons and former union President Sandy Van Elder building to Gulley Hall at noon They circled the that a wage re-opener would be discussed after building several times, chanting, "2-4-6-8, why two years," Lewis said That would be July 1, does Joan procrastinate?" referring to Joan 1984. Tying the wage increase to the job Geeter, assistant vice president for academic classification study is a whole new interpre- affairs. tation" Yesterday's protest was designed to be an "Article 34 was put into the contract to pro- informational picket Helen Lewis, president of tect the union," said Geeter. She explained that die union explained that this meant they were the job classification study rated all of the not conducting a work stoppage and did not approximately 670 jobs within the union on the want to stop anyone from crossing the picket basis of several criteria; including degree of line and entering Gulley Hall. After marching complexity, and the market value for those around the building the protesters moved to a positions grassy area between Gulley Hall and Koons Hall, across Mansfield Road and the Budds Building. "It makes no sense to have a wage increase without a job classification system in place," The union was protesting the university's said Geeter "we have found in conducting the Jorgenson Auditorium stage hands prepare a set for A refusal to grant them a salary increase, which Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine (Bart Richard- study that some employees are not being paid son photo). they say was due on July 1,1984. The the same amount as others whose jobs are union claims that the university will not agree to equally demanding For instance, many em- an increase until the union accepts the univer- ployees in the library are underpaid Dorm damages decline Seepage3 By Tim Brennan Staff Writer V.P. candidates clash in debate With damages to dorms and residence halls declining over the 3ast three years, an an ti- vandalism campaign seems to be having an impact here according to Paul Brown, director of Resi- Deficits, abortion, family finances argued dential Operations. In the 1982-1983 school year the office of Residential PHILADELPHIA (AP)—Geral- Operations Annual Report stated that $299,014.43 of chargable dine Ferraro said Thursday damages were incurred in all the residence halls on campus The night the Soviet Union would North Campus complex had the highest rate of dollar damage n't get away with any attempt with $46,102.62 and a total charge of $32.4 was levied against to push her around because each student living there. she is a woman, declaring "1 Last year, the total amount of chargable damages of all the will be a leader." George Bush, dorms on campus was $246,231.96. According to Brown, this responding in a debate of is encouraging. campaign understudies, said "It is a drop of $51,782.47," Brown said. "We're starting to see the Democrats offer Only some awareness in the dorms here The damages rate has "weakness, despair, dis- steadily declined over the last three years When you con- respect" sciously attack the problem, you begin to see a reduction in For 90 nationally televised the charges." minutes, Vice President Bush George Bush Geraldlne Ferraro This year, the dollar damage for the fall semester has reached extolled President Reagan record budget deficits, and raro's ability to handle to $177,693. This breaks down to a total cost of $7.27 per stu- and aimed his sharpest lines cited lack of an arms control Russians came in a question dent past Ms. Ferraro at Walter F. treaty with the Soviet Union as from panelist Robert Boyd of For the last two years, the Office of Residential Operations has Mondale. He taunted the for- Reagan's biggest failure. Knight Ridder. He asked her been trying to ingrain environmental awareness and pride into mer vice president saying While she attacked Reagan whether she could convince students inhabiting the residence halls Under the direction of "whine on, harvest moon" and praised Mondale, Ms. Americans and "a potentiali Chip Yensan, the Facilities Development co-ordinator, the office adding the Democratic pre- Ferraro—the first woman enemy" that she would be has taken decisive steps to decrease dorm damages. sidential nominee has a one named to a major party tic- able to protect the national These steps include an anti-vandalism publicity campaign idea candidacy—raise taxes ket—sought to portray her- security, and whether she (featuring a poster campaign around campus showing a vampire for everybody. Bush said self as duty prepared to take thought the Soviets would be with the caption "Vandalism bites: don't let it drain your wallet"), Reagan had delivered "opti- on the reponsibilities of the tempted to take advantage of theinstallatkxiof vandal proof furniture, and a toughened alcohol mism" and his economic pro- vice presidency, and the pre- her "simply because you're a policy, although it is feared the new in-transit clause for alcoholic gram "brought America back" sidency if that should be woman" beverages will cause a sharp increase in alcohol related van- But Ms. Ferraro said Rea- necessary. "Are you saying I would dalism, Brown said Seepage 3 gan tax cuts "darned near The question of Ms Fer- have to have fought in a war to destroyed this country" with love peace?" she retorted *\S Inside Today: Weather Forecast: •Campus officials can no longer wink at Sunny today, High in the mid 70s underage drinking. See page 4. Clear tonight low in the 40s Sunny Saturday and Sunday, highs in the • Place kicker switch made for Huskies See back 60s page- > w Page 2 The Dally Campus, Friday, October 11.1984 News Roundup State AIDS victim can't go to class NEW HAVEN (AP)—Public school officials were sticking with their plan to bar a 5-year-old aids victim from kindergartenas they prepared for the boy's release from a hospital. Health officials say the disease—Acquired Immune Deficiency Syn- drome—cannot be transmitted to other students, but they have been unable to provide any guarantees. As a result. New Haven School Superintendent John Dow Jr. says the boy won't be admitted to a regular classroom and has been offered private tutoring "The community is very sensitive on this," Dow said Wednesday. "The bottom line is, 'Would you want your child to be in a classroom Rep. Silvio Conte, R-Mass, toying on a pair of gag eyeglasses in Washington Thursday with a child with AIDS' Everyone I asked said, 'Absolutely not'" to emphasize the amount of reading he's been subjected to due to die differences bet- The boy was expected to be released from Yale-New Haven Hospital ween the House and Senate versions on the budget resolution (UPI photo). Thursday, but hospital officials refused to say if he had been dis- charged. The problem of AIDS among school-age children is becoming a pro- blem in several other states. The U.S. Department of Health and World Human Services plans to name a committee next month to draft guidelines educating children with AIDS. Woman astronaut spacewalks Prime minister survives Wast CAPE CANAVERAL, Ha (AP)—Astronaut Kathy BRIGHTON, England (AP)—A large explosion was reported early Friday at the Grand Hotel, where Prime Expensive drink served Sullivan became America's first woman spacewalker Minister Margaret Thatcher has been staying during today, declaring "this is realty great" as she floated the Conservative Party Conference in this seaside MIDDLETOWN, CT (AP)—A Superior Court jury has awarded $200,- outside the shuttle Challenger with a male collleague 000 to a Deep River man who sued a Chester bartender, a bar owner and resort Mrs. Thatcher was said to be unhurt, but many to test tools for refueling spent satellites. other injuries were reported a woman who was served alcohol before driving her car head-on into Ms. Sullivan and astronaut David Leestma moved the plaintiffs car. The British Broadcasting Corp. said Mrs. Thatcher gingerly into the opei. cargo bay, bundled in $2.1 was in the hotel when the explosion occurred at Judge Walter Budney said Wednesday the case may be the first in million space suits that protected them from radia- Connecticut in which a plaintiff has successfully charged " reckless, will- about 3 am, but escaped injury and was escorted tion, micrometeorites and the extremes of heat and ful and wanton" misconduct against a bar. away by police. It said the lobby of the hotel was crow- cold outside the orbiting ship. Edward Turner, 24, suffered injuries to his face, heart and chest when ded at the time. Leestma 35-year-old Navy lieutenant commander, Britain's domestic news agency, Press Association, his car was struck head-on by a car driven by Alicia Saxton, 23, of was the first to leave Challenger's airlock, slipping out said there were reports that a bomb went off in the Wethersfield at 11:42 am EDT and quickly clamping a 50-foot After the accident.