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d Qhmttfrttrut iatlg dampus Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXV1II NO. yu STORRS, CONNECTICUT FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 28. 1975 5 CENTS OFF CAMPUS Grasso request boosts funds .007% By MARK DUPUIS requested $61.7 million for next attempt to regain some of the ed UConn receive $100,000 for is being compiled, Assistant News Editor year, but Gov. Grasso recommen- money Grasso cut. this area. Hanna said Me anticipates no A $3,430 increase in the Uni- ded that UConn receive $51.75 President Icrguson told the Grasso's recommendation of staff layoffs and that money will versity's 1975-76 operating bud- million. Board of Trustees several weeks $71,000 for student loan pro- be saved by not filling vacant po- get will create the worst financial UConn's original 1974-75 bud- ago he will continue to seek the grams will be sufficient to meet sitions. He said several support situation in 19 years, according get was $51.72 million. Grasso entire $61-million request, but federal matching requirements, positions, such as secretaries, now to UConn's chief fiscal officer. recently cut it by $1 million. that he expects it will be cut. Hanna said. The loan matching remain unfilled. C. Edward Hanna, assistant Hanna said increasing enrol- Student work-study funds requirements are based on a dif- The major "shortfall" will vice president for finance and ad- lments each year and a 12 per face a loss of $200,000 from fed- ferent scale than work-study, lie come in the area of personal ser- ministration, said Thursday night cent inflation rate add to the eral sources in addition to Grasso said. vices, according to Hanna, and the increase was "practically no- strain. UConn cannot stop more cut of $125,000 in state funds. Because of the increased cost will amount to S350.000. thing" and only a .007 per cent students from coming here be- 11 anus said the federal government of living, and more students ap- Hanna said he plans to present increase over this year's budget. cause of committments to com- has estimated that nearly $700, plying for financial aid, Hanna a special plea to the legislature to As a result, a loss of up to munity colleges, he said. 000 would be available for work- said an actual decrease will re- make up an anticipated shortfall $200,000 in federal funds for stu- UConn must allow community study programs, but the state sult. of more than $600,000 in utility dent work-study is possible. college students to transfer here would have to match it with If additional funds arc not re- costs. Earlier this year, almost a An analysis of the budget, com- after completing their work or it $176,000. ceived from the legislature, it million dollars was transferred pleted last week by Hanna's of- would pose "political problems If the federal funds arc made "would appear" UConn will have from personal services to offset fice, contrasted the increase to and pressures," he said. available, Hanna said UConn will to cut so me programs, Hanna increased utility costs. the 19 per cent increase UConn Hanna said the administration seek an additional $76,000 from said. He said it is too-early to He said this is especially true had requested. will go to the General Assembly the legislature to meet maw Mini; know exactly what cuts would be for graduate fellowships and The UConn administration had Appropriations Committee in an requirements. Grasso recommend- necessary. A list of possibilities UConn scholarships. Makeshift social events relieve daily tensions can go all night. A party might impossible to go out with men By GAIL BERGMILLER involve inviting couples in for living in her dormitory. With the minor crises of cocktails before a dance or "Guys don't ask you out for a day-to-day life in the having an open door with a date," she said. "You'll see him high-pressure atmosphere of the «erco blasting to entice anyone at a par,y or a beerfest, or he University, combined with the in with a bottle of beer or a little might call and ask if you are inevitable urges of more than dope. going to these places, but he 10.000 voting men and women Despite the familiar presence won't ask you to the movies, in the same place, students arc of pungent marijuana smoke, dinner or anything that involves constantly seeking to relieve one resident of Terry B money." their tensions and have a good estimated that only a little more The purpose of this social • jmCi than a third of the students activity is to find affection, Parties seem to be the most smokc regularly, although most whether it will lead to a lasting popular way of getting together residents had tried marijuana relationship, a night in bed or with friends and meeting new Drinking, however, is almost estahlishing a friendship. friends. They win out over universal. Couples who are involved spectator and participant sports. Much of a party s with each other generally don't bar-hopping, dances and movies attractiveness lies with the ease rcany jate at all. Many couples mi n as UConn's favorite form of ' a™' women have in meeting SpC„d more time together on weekend socializing. The reason each other, leading to dating or weekends doing nothing really for their popularity is that a K°ing out, and sometimes going spt.c jfj,. party can be such a versatile directly to bed. One seventh semester event, and is one of the most Students sometimes go out in psychology major said tliat Mis informal ways of finding new mixed groups, others stick to girlfriend moves in Friday n friends. g°' g with one person, while still afternoon, and they spend the It can be anything from a others "play the field." weekend studying, sleeping late, half-dozen friends collected in a Kon Maldonado. a seventh and partying with the people on dorm room "getting high" to 50 semester business major, said it his floor. persons squeezed into a cramped gets too complicated if he goes A fourth semester pharmacy floor lounge, trying to keep their out with more than one person major said she and her boyfriend beer intact while dancing their at a time. "I prefer to date spend their weekends watching way into oblivion. steadily if I'm going to date," he- television, going shopping, Parties can start with Happy said. watching sports or possibly Hour at 3 p.m., and with the One senior woman in attending an occasional party. Students line up for a bee r at a dorm party. Parties remain Un- help of drugs and alcohol, they McMahon said she has found it Continued on Page 4 dominant feature of UConn social life.'(Photo by Randy Philippi) House cuts tax, kills oil allowance WASHINGTON (UPI) The House sweetened in the Senate by several with the so-called negative income tax. allowance for all oil and natural gas Thursday approved a $21.3 billion billion dollars, primarily in breaks for This year's taxes, and the payroll except for natural gas produced under recession-fighting tax cut plan that middle-income taxpayers. deductions that pay them, would be long-term, fixed-price contracts. An included rebates of $100 to $200 for A substitute Republican bill more in lowered primarily by changes in the effort to exempt all natural gas now almost everyone who paid 1974 taxes, line with White House proposals for a standard deduction tables. under federal price regulation that is, Aas and lowered withholding from one-time only tax rebate was defeated In voting to end the 22 per cent oil sold across state lines, was rejected. paychecks this year. just before the final vole on the $21.3 depiction allowance, the House rejected Also rejected was an amendment to And by a solid margin of 248 to 163 trillion plan. IV contentions the move would hurt U.S. continue the depletion allowance for the House voted to kill the the $17.3 bifiuHi GOP substitute- oil development and serve to tic up the Alaskan North Slope oil. half-ccntury-old $2.5 billion oil would have concentrated all of its tax cuts in the Senate. The depletion issue dominated debate depletion allowance, the industry's individual tax relief in rebates of up to The House first voted down an effort on the tax reduction bill, which oldest and biggest tax break. $430 per taxpayer. to continue the tax break for smaller oil encountered virtually no opposition. The bill, which also included $5.1 Basically the rebates to individuals of producers, then voted to kill the $2.5 The bill would grant rebates of up to billion in tax cuts and incentives for last year's taxes wojuld amount to 10 per billion allowance entirely. $200 per tax return on last year's taxes business, now goes to the Senate where cent of the tax paid up to a maximum Then the lawmakers voted to kill the and reduce 1975 taxes by a similar a bitter fight was expected on the of $200 rebate. The minimum would be S2.5 billion allowance entirely. amount for many tax payers, which depletion issue. SI 00 regardless of the tax paid - the The repeal, authored by Rep. William would lower payroll withholding rates The tax cut itself was expected to be federal government's first experiment I Green, D-Pa.. would end the depletion later this year. OPINION" times daily in what little is left of Lon Nol's Communism mean nothing to Ah Srey's Cambodia.