(103 HZ-Ilk* (Euraitttiott latlg Campus Serving Storrs Since 1896 ML MONDXT. APRIL 17. 1978 VOL. LXXXI NO. 240 STORRS, CONNECTICUT (203) 429-9384 Trustees pass fee hike... planned to convert the studies into impose a mandatory year-long By MATT MANZELLA Student Trustee Mark Collins, who rooms as part of a plan of "deferred housing contract, and cut back on For the first time in four years, the cited a unanimous vote of the maintenance" and cost reductions to many maintenance services to eli- UConn Board of Trustees, breaking a Inter-Area Residents Council (1ARC) last Wednesday to request a fee "wash out" an expected $889,400 minate the 78-79 deficit. policy of considering fee increases Several Board members, including only in November, Friday approved a increase. I ARC voted the request to deficit in its budget for the coming academic year. Housing chose the Board Chairman Gordon W. Tasker. student-supported $20 per year re- stave off losing several dormitory deferred maintenance policy last fall questioned the possibility of correct- sident student fee increase effective studies for conversion to residential instead of imposing a resident stu- ing the expected deficit only with the next fall for the Division of Housing, rooms for the next academic year; the dent fee of approximately $57 for the department's proposed plans since during a regular meeting held in the loss of many maintenance services, full 78-79 academic year. Yet. it there was no contingency plan in- Merlin D. Bishop Center here. including painting and furniture re- wasn't until mid-February, when cluded to cushion any unexpected The Board's decision was the result pair;, and the adoption of a manda- Housing administrators finally re- fiscal problems. of an unprecidented general resident tory full year housing contract by the vealed the plan to convert dormitory student body request, brought to the Office of Residential Life. See "Trustees" page 4 studies into multi-occupancy rooms. Board's attention at the meeting by The Division of Housing had ... express shock over building conditions lowever. said deferred maintenance By MATT MANZELLA shocked" at the conditions of the said these and other buildings' was "a very serious opposition." "Bleak poverty" was the way one buildings and he asked the Board to conditions were a result of a policy of while considering Canzonetti's sug- UConn Board of Trustee member schedule regular tours of the campus •'deferred maintenance." forced gestion as a possible future guide- upon the University because of a lack described the conditions of the Allied in order to give Board members a line. of state support. Health and Nursing buildings during better view of the need to improve "I'd rather see us do away with Ferguson said, "Everytime we turn Friday's Board meeting after a tour the University's physical condition. some buildings if we can't maintain of these facilities earlier in the we are underfinanced, undersupport- afternoon. "We have to make a committment ed. undernurtured. Deferred main- them since I don't forsee this Dr. Andrew J. Canzonetti, a to fight for upgrading in these tenance has been the way we have University getting a higher percent- age from the legislature." Tasker member of the Board's Health Af- areas," Canzonetti said. been balancing the budget." fairs Committee, said he and other UConn President Glenn W. Fergu- Board Chairman Gordon Tasker, said. committee members were "utterly son, while agreeing with Canzonetti Legislators pass reduced budget By JIM McGANN A $65,371,800 budget tor the University of Connecticut won legislative approval Friday and is expected to be approved by the Governor this week. The approved budget is slightly over $1 million less than what the Board of Education had recommended and about $100,000 less than the Governor's recommended budget. "It's never enough, but all things considered, it's the best they've done in many years" said the Senate Chairman of the Appropriations Committee referring to UConn's budget for the fiscal '78-'79 year. State Sen. Robert Houley. D-Somers. said the University "did a very good job" documenting their case. "If you look at the past six or seven years, they've got to be pretty happy." he added. State Sen. Audrey Beck. D-Mansfield. outlined the major Staff Photo by Phil Knudsen points in the UConn budget. The University got the 13 graduate assistant positions which it had requested (out of Six pledges of a local fraternity are shown here walking past the University's ^«*«>ture 86 total requested new positions), yet at the same time it complex with their purple robes and gold and purple lanterns, Just one example of the types lost funds for new equipment. of Initiation stunts practiced by local fraternities and sororities during pledge season. Beck cited equipment and personnel as the major areas for budget cuts. Governor Grasso requested $2,500,000 for equipment for UConn but the Appropriations Committee approved $54,023,000. Women's team may file suit Beck said the Health Center budget was "hardly cut": from $24.112.000 to $24,073,700. Connecticut just can't provide the staff, the By MIKE SOLOMON facilities or the funding. Each of them is A group of UConn women soccer players are coming on strong for money, but there is not a The Weather: Partly sunny today, high temperatures in the considering filing a complaint with the U.S. lot we can do," he added. Department of Health. Education and Welfare Toner, Friday gave his recommendation for 50's. cooler tonight, low temperatures in the 30's. Partly because of Title—IX violations if the UConn the three sports to UConn President Glenn sunny again Tuesday. Woman's Soccer club doesn't receive varsity W. Ferguson. Ferguson has the power to status. override Toner's proposal. Vivian Martin gets in her last licks, in the final •Last The soccer club, along with Woman's Felice Duffy, the UConn student who Word" on page 2. Lacrosse and next fall's Ice Hockey clubs are • organized the Women's Soccer club last fall, filing for varsity status with the Athletic said she will take her cause to Ferguson. Vice-President tor Finance and Administration Harry J. Department, but Athletic Director John "First, the Title—IX coordinator Thomasina Hartley is this year's Daily Campus Man of the Year, also Toner, said the clubs will not receive that Cleamons will make her recommendations to on page 2. status next year. • ' Ferguson. Then I'll go and talk to him. If he The "Title—IX" laws require that there be votes to keep soccer as a club, we have a few separate teams for men and women if one things we can do. We can either go to HEW or The UConn baseball team dropped two games this team can't accommodate the interests of both we can wait a few years as a club and reapply weekend to Providence College, and Northeastern Univer- sexes. for varsity status. In any event, we'll do sity bringing their overall record to 9-4. See oaee 12. "We just can't create varsity status for See "Women's" page 4 them." Toner said. "The University of (Cmutr rttrirt fiailg (EampKH Serving Storrs Since 1896 Stagnant water JOHN HILL III/ Editor-in-Chief VIKKI SUSMAN / Business Manager CHARLES A. MOORE/ Managing Editor MATTHEW T. MANZELLA/ Sanior Editor runs shallow By VIVIAN B. MARTIN Another stop. The Humanities build- ing. Why is it. Martin thought, as she Shuttle buses always seem to run looked at the building and particular- when they see Martin coming. And ly the third-floor windows, that Man of the year... so, as she's been doing for three and English professors — the group that a half years, she starts to wait for the considers itself expert with the next one headed her way, only to" dash across the street when the bus going in the opposite direction ap- pears. She usually doesn't know language — rarely produce work of Harry literary merit? Notable works. Martin where she's going; she just likes to thought more about professors, that get there in a hurry. THIS DAY, THOUGH, she decided funny group of people who get paid to to go a little slower, in order to make recite the thoughts of learned men — Hartley notes for that final column, the final a task that is suitable for the incrimination, her final say. This educated but not worthy of the truly intelligent. chore is one that has been in the back of her mind for many weeks. The last Martin still needs an idea. The day In Harry Hartley's job. it's always Last Word, suggested a close friend, before, she sat and read through all easy to administer facts and figures; should be nostalgic and sweet. The the letters her past columns had a University with a budget totalling last Last Word,, an editor remarked, generated; the complaints, the irate more than $100 million, more than will have a jab in there for everyone. readers doing exactly what they 24.000 full- and part-time students, The last Last Word, she told herself, accused her of doing. She stung and thousands of faculty and staff must be the sum of them all. harder. They got sorer. members, there are an awful lot of Next to the ROTC Hangar during But then too, there were the other numbers that have to be administer- beerfests and Add-Drop, and pos- letters that came addressed to her ed. sibly in line before the atmosphere at personally, and the genuinely friend- the Wilbur Cross Library and the ly people who Martin met around Harry Hartley administers all those Computer Center during finals, the campus.