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Volume67 Number25 Tuesday, December14, 1976 __ ; / <_ .. ~~ · _·· ~urham, N.H. , ~,"'ij 'l. ' - • • I ~ . ' . Five year ~UidelirieS _'.-1 . .. - ·.~I Calenda~ iadOpted By Robert McCormack .and two in the first semester, if The University Senate adopted possible1, guidelines for the academic cal­ --that the summer term be endar for the years 1978-1979 ·extended to a minimum of 14 'through 1982-1983 in its regular weeks of classes so that four meeting yesterday. weeks of classes may be completed The calendar guidelines, which --that the summer term begin were drawn up by the University shortly after spring commence­ Senate's Calendar Committee ment and end before Labor Day, passed by a wide margin. They --that flexible scheduling of call for the following: summer courses be continued, so --that there be a minimum of 14 that courses may be completed in weeks of classes. per semester, as few as four weeks or as long as with an equal number of classes ·the full summer term, and scheduled on Mondays, Tuesday, --that more emphasis he given Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fri­ to fully utilizing facilities during days, the summer. --that the first semester begin The Senate also discussed rule after Labor Day and end before changes for handling ineidcnces of Christmas, cileatmg. The proposed changes - that no classes be scheduled would provide that no action such 1 on Saturday, ·as suspension or dismissal of a --that there be a Thanksgiving ~ , tudent could be taken before the weekend of at least two days ~tudent has been advised of the ·The University Senate attends to business in a third Door WSBE dassroom. Yesterday's busi-· (Thursday and Friday) charges against · him and not ness included enactment of a new calendar for 1978-1983. <Ed Acker photo) --a long weekend break be before the student has been given scheduled in October, if possible, an opportunity to reply to the --five exam days be scheduled charges. per semester, · Another proposed change --that the second semester would allow a student to appeal Over $1,000 stolen from should start in mid-January and the decision of a dean only on the end about the third week in May, basis of procedural irregularities. --that two reading days be MUB student organizations scheduled in the second semester SENA TE, page 13 By Gary Langer of The New Hampshire, said MUl:S ..facility Scheduler Over $1,000 in cash and equip­ that -a ca~sette tape recorder, a Shirley Passman said there are ment has been stolen from stu­ camera lens, a police radio scan­ "floating keys" from student or­ dent organization offices in the ner, and cash have been stolen ganization members who have MUB in the past two semesters. from the offices of The New graduated from UNH. Passman Ian Wilson, president of MUSO Hampshire. Of these items, val­ also said that two master keys reported that $70 was stolen from ued around $500, only the scanner were stolen two years ago. "The a desk drawer in MUSO's inner has been recovered by police. solution is to re-key the entire office three weeks ago. Wilson Lois Adams, publicity director building,'' she -said, "but there said both the inner and outer of SCOPE, reported thefts of a is no money to do that. It costs office doors and the windows had stereo amplifier and turntable $10 for each lock." been locked when the theft took last semester and a clock and Passman said the MUB was place, but there wore nQ signs of · sign this sGmes:ter. last re-keyed · five years ago. forced entry. ''Everybody has keys in this "Security is not good for this WUNH Music Director Bruce building," said Adams. She said building at all,'' she said. _ Pingree said "around $500 in rec­ that retiring MUB executive ''This fall has been worse than ords and other items" have been board members and custodians last semester (in terms of thefts), stolen from the WUNH offices. don't turn their keys in when they based on my reports," said Dir­ . Steven Morrison, editor-in-chief leave the University. ector of Auxiliary Affairs Mont­ gomery Childs. He said he will meet with The New Hampshire representa-. · tives to determine what security · Murder case measures can be taken. "That's a large organization, with a lot of people streaming in and out," said Childs. a mistrial He said he would like to insti­ Atter 15 hours \J~ ueliberation, fhe jury m the murder trial ol tute a sign-out system for equip­ Joseph Katz, 22, was unable to reach a verdict. ment that is taken out of the Strafford Superior Court Judge Wayne Mullavey called a newspaper's offices- by staff mistrial Friday morning after the jury of ten men and two women members. told him they were deadlocked. Childs said he is "not aware" Prosecuting Attorney Gregory Smith said, "They were obstruc­ of any theft problems being ex­ ted .on three charges: first degree murder, second degree murder, perie~ced by other student or­ and manslaughter." He said the jury was "unable to reach a gani~ations this semester. unanimous decision" on which charge Katz was guilty of. Wilson said he reported the $70 Katz was accused of slaying Portsmouth City Cab driver theft to the police and told Childs Welsford Hovey on April 1 of this year in Durham. Katz pleaded about it at a BOB meeting two self-defense to the charge of first-degree murder. _weeks ago. Katz testified that Hovey made repeated sexual advances. Childs said yesterday that the There was a. struggle and Katz accidentally shot Hovey, accor­ theft was ''not reported.'' ding to Katz. He then robbed the cab. Childs said he is not aware of The prosecution argued that it was premeditated. They said it the cause of the thefts. stemmed from an incident a ~ear earlier in which City Cab ''We certainly know how dif­ refused to drive Katz's wife home from the hospital after a kidney ficult it is to control keys in the operation. MUB," said Don Harley, assis­ The case will be retried sometime in late February, said Smith, tant director of student activit­ who is the state's Assistant Attorney General. ies for business operations. "In Even woolen hat, mittens, scarf and down parka ~ould not H.epresentingKatz is Att. Alfred Catalfo of Dover THEFTS, page 4 tame yesterday's frigid wind, which dipped the chill factor below-30 degrees. Rider Train Comeback UNH senior Dave Well, it took years and The UNH hockey Rider volunteers his years, but we've finally team made an amazing time coaching a bantam got a story about doing a come ~ack Saturday hockey team. He used to train. For those of you night to defeat Cornell 4- play on ·the UNH var­ who don't know what 3. See the story on page sity, but says he prefers this means, see page 11. 16. coaching now. Read about him on page 3 PAGE TWO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE TUESDAY DECEMBER 14, 1976 -News Briefs____... Senate alternatives are Discrimination proposed by Dishman By Marion Gordon "'"'"' Political Science Professor Robert Dishman has proposed The United States Supreme Court has upheld a lower court . that a new Academic Senate be ruling against New Hampshire that will require the state to tell created to deal with academic the Equal Opportunity Commission CEOC) how many white, matters and that the Student blacks, Hispanics, Orientals and American Indians work for the · Caucus be changed to a Student state. Senate to deal with non­ In a report filed with the EOC in 1973, New Hampshire listed all . academic issues. its state employees as "Americans." The Federal government . Dishman said the current then sued the state to comply with regulations. University Senate would remain Attorneys for New Hampshire said it was infair to require em­ intact, but would serve as a ployers to keep ethnic and racial records of employees. forum for students to question or They said New Hampshire is one of only a few states challenge academic policy. traditionally without any form of racial discrimination. Dishman .proposes that the Academic Senate be made up of between 40 and 50 .faculty mem­ Newspaper bers, 10 administrators and 10 students, at least two of whom would be graduate students. A six-member student hearing board at Adelphi University in The current University Senate Garden City, Long Isiand ruled that the campus newspaper was consists of 30 faculty members 30 • under no ·legal obligation to print material the student gover­ undergraduate students, five nment considered important. graduate students, five The conflict arose several months ago when the university · Professional/Administrative/ newspaper, The Adelphian, refused to, publish "on demand" two Technical staff members and 10 proposed amendments to the constitution of the newly created administrqtors. Student Political Association. Dishman's proposal, which was The student government introduced as evidence 13 New York made at last Monday's Faculty state laws that they said aJlowed local. governments to Caucd~, follows UNH President "designate" newspapers for the publication of legal notices and Eugene Mills' recommendation announcements. Editors of the newspaper argued that First that the Senate be changed to Robert Dishman casting senate vote. <·Ed Acker photo) Amendment rights had1 been violated and that their stand allow faculty a broader ra1e m student participalfon m the University Senate. represented a defense of the principle of freedom of the press. deriding academic oolicv. .. academic issues would decline if Dishman said he does not think Dishman said lie thought the Dishman 's plan were adopted. students should have an equal Senate was "ineffective with Shepard said he thinks the role in deciding academic mat­ Drug abuse dealing with academic policy" faculty will eventually get power ters.

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