Avi~~v-eJ ?nr; t I If • : / v✓ :;-t ~{j12,'t TheNew Hampshire Vol. 78 No. 28 Bulloc Rate, U S Postaae Pa,r: TUESDAY, JANUARY·--~------------------~~~--~------ 26, 1988 (603)862-1490 Durham. N.H. Durham "I H Perm,, 1130 Debate brings top ,Democrats to UNH .................. ____SEE INSIDE---------- Campus UNH • march rece.1ves $500,000 honors grant King· By Bech Severance The University of New Hampshire has been awarded a $500,000 Challenge Grant by By Tim Thornton the National Endowment for Nearly 100 candle-bearing the Humanities. participants braved cold winds The funds will be used to and heavy snow as they rallied .establish an endowment for the through campus in memory of Center for the Humanities as Martin Luther King Jr. in the well as support research grants Second Annual · Candlelight and scholarly conferences for March last night. faculty. · The event, sponsored by the . UNH is one of only six University's 'Diversity Commit­ · universities nationwide to re­ tee, began in front of Thompson A candlelight march, to honor Martin Luther King,Jr., began at T-Hall just as the snow ceive Challenge Grants. A total Hall shortly after 6 p.m. Uni­ of 29 educational and cultural began to fall last night. (Peter Tamposi photo) versity President Gordon Haa­ institutions in 17 states were land gave introducrory and Jerry Street to the Durham Commi:u{~ over after the rally, as graduate nor to honor King;s birthday, named grant recipients. D' Amico, a representative of ity. ~hurch . student Dick Grover stole the an issue chat was raised but As a first-time grantee, UNH Democratic presidential can­ Once inside the church, the show by spontaneously jumping never officially addressed by is given a three year period in didate Michael Dukakis, fol­ marchers welcomed the much up on stage with a guitar to lead · University officials last night. which we · must match each lowed. Senator Elaine Krasker needed warmth. But speeches the crowd through spirited In a separate interview, Pres- dollar from NEH with three of Portsmouth urged the crowd by UNH English professor Les versions of several civil rights ident Haaland explained that dollarss in donations from non­ to pull for legalization of Martin · Fisher and affirmative action, protest songs. UNH must follow the rules set federal donors. This means a Luther King's birthday as a state officer Stephanie Thomas did "I wondered whether I should by the state, and chat "the · potential $2 million endowment holiday and to "light candles not let chem forger chat the cold or not," said Grover after the ..,... · academic calendar is set for a for the humanities center. so the light shines all the way hand of prejudice still g-rips rally, "but then I figured, 'What different purpose." But he · , R.:-::hard Hersh, UNH vice­ to Concord." pares of the country. the heck?' " · would not elaborate on what president for academic affairs, The procession then moved The enthusiasum brought ?- Many in a_ttendance quesci- KING age 'J GRANT, page 9 across campus and down Main forth by the speakers carrie·d . oned the University's decision 'p I • _PAGE TWO . , THE NEW HAMPSHIRE TUESD~'i,,JANUARY 26, 1988 Democratic debate attracts a media invasion By Ted McKey cast of the debate in the Granite Last Sunday afternoon, sev­ State Room. Meanwhile, the eral hundred people, represent­ voices of John Chancellor or one ing nearly that many news of the candidates boomed over­ teams, descended upon UNH head in sync with the monitors. to cover the 1988 Democratic Sitting at the eight tables Presidential Candidates Debate. were over two hundred Tµeir presence turned what members of the press repres­ would otherwise be a snoozy enting every media, degree of January afternoon into one filled motivation, and age group. with the importance of placing Some were transcribing some T.V. cameras, stringing wires, of the more salient points of the and making certain the portable debate, some were just listening word processors were working. and watching, while still others For the most part, all the were furiously typing away at media activity was in the Straf­ their _portable word processors, ford Room of the MUB, where the light from the screens several tables had been arranged giowing in their faces. to form eight long rows across As all the seats at the tables the length of the room. One was had been taken, many reporters set up for telephone commun­ were willing tQ sit on the floor ication with two rows of tele­ or on a lidded garbage can in phones running the length of order to be near a monitor. the table. Soundboxes were set (Because two of the reporters up at both ends of all the tables sitting on the floor were to enable the members of the members of the ABC news press to record some or all of network, I was led to believe that the debate. in such situations, there is no Along the walls of the room hierarchy in the media.) Local and national press packed the Strafford room to watch the the candidate's debate o~ fifteen monitors had been O~e unifying agent among television, just like most of us did. (Ted McKey photo) placed all showing the same COVERAGE, page 3 view; Channel ll's live broad- • ( NEWS IN- BRIEF . I UFO sucks Siege of polygamists con­ Crowd incites cop killing;· An Australian family told police a "huge bright tinues may f~ce murder charges glowfr1g ob.jeer" chased their car down a remote · iawmen withheld wa.ter,and tu,rn,ed up the vplume · fyf u~der charges may be filed ~gain$t members desert qjgh~ay and sucked ,it into' the air, and o~ a ,,c:rowd ih Da!las that yelled "Shoot him, ·shoot aut~orities said yesterday they are taking the report by blasting a barricaded farmhouse with noise yesterday in the ninth day of a psychological war him to a vagrant JUSt before.he killed a police officer · senously. ' to wear down the nerves of a holed-up polygamous police said yesterday. The supposed close encounter took place last Officer John Chase, 25, died on a downtown street week on the remote Eyre highway near Mundrabilla, family. ,. The standoff between state and federal authorities Saturday morning when a homeless man with at a small village 750 miles east of Perth, in the vast least a dozen prior arrests wrestled the patrolman's desert of Southern Australia. and the sus peers in the Jan. 16 bombing of a Mormon chapel intensified over the weekend when officials gun away from him and shot him three times in Police Sgt. James Fennell of Ceduna, 3 70 miles the face. · moved a public-address speaker system near the away, said authorities took the report seriously 34, was sho_t encircled house and turned it on., creating a high­ The suspect, Carl Dudley Williams, because the vehicle was covered with black ash and and died pitched, bell ringing-type noise. moments later by two off-duty officers the roof was damaged. Three other people reported at Parkland Memorial Hospital. ,~ an unidentified flying object. Shortly afterward, shots were fired from the farmhouse, from which more than 70 gunshots Chase pleaded with the man not to shoot as a · '. 'The sightings took place hundreds of kilometers crowd watched, witnesses cold police. · apart and they had no reason tO conspire," he said . have been fired during the past week. No one was hit, and police did not return the fire. "We have a female witness that observed the Fennell said four people - Fay Knowles, 48, and sho<:Hing and observed people sta.().ding nearby her sons - Sean, 21, Patrick, 24, and Wayne, 18 - A pipeline to the house has been turned off for a few days. The families still have a spring and yellrng '_Shoot him, shoot him,' and. they are as told authori~ies they were in the car when it suddenly responsible as the individual that shot Officer was sucked into the air and then plopped back onto can melt snow with their wood-burning stove. However, the withholding of the water prompted Chase," a police investigator, Don Ortega, said · the highway, blowing out a rear tire. · yesterday. "I inspected the car when it arrived in Ceduna ,; the second message from the family since the standoff began. The family flashed Morse code ~rtega said officers were considering whether Fennell said. '-The car was covered in a thick coati~g to file charges against the taunting witnesses. of black ash and there was ash inside the car. There signals from the farm Sunday saying "Cops shut off water." Earlier, they had signalled "Cops not "(Either) Capital murder or murder. Yeah was slight damage to the roof of the car." definitely," he said. ' .. "The f_amily were very distraught," he added. telling truth." State and federal officers, saying they are "relying · _Ortega said police were trying- co find all of the Something happened out there. They said their the shoot.ings. on psychological advisors," are hoping to wear down witnesses co voices became slurred and abnormally slow." "People see bits and pieces of what occurred Fennell said there were four reports of UFO Vickie Singer and her son-in-law, Adriam Swapp·, who have been charged in a bombing that demolished and if there is a potential witness to_ _any type of sightings that night. offense, we need to find them," he said. "Apart from the family's report, a truck driver the Mormon chapel in Marion and with subsequently assaulting federal agents outside the farm. · ~~tega said he had no idea how many people urged reported being f?llowed by a UFO on the highway, W 1lliams to pull the trigger.