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Move over Eddie Murphy: Student TV show airs today By Robin Prior located on the ground floor New York and Los Angeles . Campus Correspondent • lobby of the Student Union. clubs, to off-campus talent Move over Second City Although the IBDS will have shows and mime. Television and Saturday Night its premiere at UConn, it is Seemann is a self-described Live It's UConn's own com- being produced as pro- "non-typical drama major," edy show called "The It's fessionally as possible with as he has not acted in any Been Done Show" (IBDS). the intention of showing it to UConn productions. Instead One immediately knows that the outside world in the near he chose to try as many this show is pure comedy future. angles as possible in theater when the show's director, The man who originated to gain as much experience Brian Seemann, says that the idea for the show and as possible. none of the material that the hopes to use it in his own pro- Although Seemann origin- group will perform has been fessional future is senior ated the idea of th<." IBDS and done before...get it? dramatics major, Brian he will be directing the pro- Starting today on BOG Seemann. Seemann brings gram, it is by no means a one- Video. IBDS will be broad- many talenfsto this produc- man show, he is qijick to point Always witty and innovative, Brian Seemann is now cast as a continuing comedy tion He has done everything out. None of the other stu- director of a comedy show to air today on BOG video series. BOG Video may be irom dinner theater produc- dents involved wi;h the show (George Edwards photo). seen on the television sets tions, to stand-up comedy in Seepa|e7 (Brntttttfiait iatljj (ttampaa Serving Storrs Since 1896 Vol. LXXXVII No. 87 The University of Connecticut Thursday. March !, 1984 Soviets axe Bartender testifies U.N. proposal to replace in Big Dan trial multinationals FALL RIVER, Mass (AP)—A bartender testified Wednesday UNITED NATIONS (AP)— that a woman "threw her arms around" a customer at the bar The Soviet Union vetoed a before the man and his friends stripped and raped her on a pool French proposal Wednesday table while other men watched and cheered. to replace the Western mul- The testimony of Carlos Machado and a nurse who later tinational force in the Beirut treated the woman contradicted some testimony from the vic- area with U.N. peacekeeping tim, who said she had one quick drink at the bar without talking to troops. her attackers. The vote in the 15-nation Machado said the woman had at least three drinks, talked with Security Council was 13-2. the men at the bar, and "threw her arms around" one of the The Soviet Union was joined in defendants before the attack. opposition by the Ukraine, a The nurse said the woman had a blood alcohol level of .198. Soviet republic with separate Drivers are considered drunk in Massachusetts with a. 1 reading. U.N. membership. But Assistant District Attorney Raymond Veary said after court Ambassador Oleg A. Troy- Wednesday that the two figures may not be comparable because anovsky. the chief Soviet dele- the victim's blood alcohol level may have been obtained by a dif- gate, had said before the ferent testing method. meeting that he would kill "I would suggest that it is a different number than the figure the resolution. relative to the roadways." he said, but refused to elaborate. "We're going to vote against, Machado. a Portuguese immigrant who spoke through an Defense attorney Judy Lindahl stands behind her for reasons that are pretty interpreter, testified he was tending bar the night of March 6. client Victor Raposo during a morning of cross examina- 1983, for his brother, who owned Bii< Dan's tavern, a bar in tion of the alleged rape victim in the Big Dan's rape trial. See page 6 New Bedford. Machado said that among the regulars at the bar that night were Daniel Silvia, Joseph Vieira, who was referred to as "Joe Mansfield to renovate E.O. Smith from Connecticut," Virgilio Medeiros. and Jose Medeiros. who was called "Blondie" by his friends. Also in the bar were Victor Raposo and John Cordeiro. iden- despite 500 petitioning residents tified by Machado as regular customers. By Kevin Librett town residents, which pro- porter of the petition, said that Ail six are charged with aggravated rape. Silvia and Vieira are Staff Writer poses the conversion of being tried in an afternoon session. The rest are being tried in a the proposal is more finan- Despite opposition from Mansfield Middle School into cially sound than the board's separate morning trial, to avoid the possibility that co-defen- more than 500 Mansfield res- a junior-senior high school as plan. He said that the renova- dants might incriminate each other before the same jury. idents, the town Board of an alternative to the board's tion of Smith School could Marchado said that on the evening of March 6. a women he had Education plans to go ahead plan, has been declared illegal never seen before came into the bar. He said he served her three possibly exceed $7 million with a program to renovate by a Board of Education attor- because of high interest rates drinks and noticed that she talked with a woman at the back of E.O. Smith High School at an ney The Town Coucil Mon- the bar. Later, he said, he saw her with the men in the bar. "They on bonds. The petition calls estimated cost in excess of day deferred the petition to a for a $3 million town budget were talking to her," Machado said.'She thrfew her arms around $5 million. town attorney for reevaluatkm. allocation to adapt the middle Victor Raposo." See page 6 A petition circulated among John Shea, the main sup- school for use by high school Suzanne Davis at Von der students. crams his 1 2.000 volume Shea is concerned that collection in his rundown Mehden Inside: page I 1 Weather Ashford. whose Board of wool mill Education several months • Organization forms on page 8 • Is crowd control enough ago supported a program to campus to prevent cruelty of a problem to use video- regionalize a school district, to university lab animals • "Women in the Arts" tapes as an intimidating may no longer support the page 4 starts today. The series will tool against obscenity-yelling Partly cloudy with a 30 Board's plan. The Ashford highlight the talen of artistic fans? This question gets percent chance of flurries. board is currently faced with • A self-proclaimed book area women and begins a analyzed in Sports several possible resignatkms fanatic opens shop and jazz trio concert featuring Highs in the 20s. Continued back page cloudiness tonight and very and is already tentative on * cold with highs in the mid- regionalization. Take heed! March 13th is the last day to register to vote in Connecticut's primary. teens. Seepages Page 2 Connecticut Daily Campus Serving Storrs since 1896 Editorial Vol. LXXXVII No. 87 Thursday. March 1, 1984 Publishing isn't child's play Editor in Chief Rosemary Hames Managing Editor Susanne Dowden Business Manager Ilene Feldman Assistant Managing Editor John Paradis This step is to see that handy only to help Office Manager Lois McLean he current con- their purpose is accom- inform him on issues that Advertising Manager U2 Gracia News Steve Geissler. Brian Dion. Erica Joseph troversy over the Under- plished; in that light, it are cloudy or outside his Assignments |ohn Yearwood. Thomas Barone graduate Student Govern- would be difficult to area of expertise. It is dis- Sports Bob D'Aprile. Dana Gauruder. Kim Harmon Arts Emilia Dubicki. Neil (ones. Carrie Bramen ment's policy on funding criticize the pre- concerting to think that Features Doug Clement. Dianne Gubin non-USG club publica- approval. No one ex- every question could be Wire Andrea Williams. Laura Lovely. LeeAnne Maronna over a newsletter pub- Copy Liz Hayes. Aimee Hartnett. Greg Bar den tions and the possible pects them to be critical Photography Manager Charles Hisey formation of a Publica- of the organization they lisher's head. Photography George Edwards. Larry Clay Brownstein tions Board raises some Libel lawyers are no- Aaron Spicker represent, and they Editorial Production Manager Lynne Kerrigan pointed ethical questions. seldom are. They do not toriously conservative Asst. Business Manager Dale Martin have the free press' about what they con- Ad Production Manager Usa Gagnon The idea of censorship Asst. Ad Production Manager Jamie Speer in any form makes the obligation to aggressive sider printable. Commit- Special Projects Coordinator Christopher McMullen hair stand up on the back investigative reporting tees often result in con- Circulation Manager Kathy O'Hara Classified Ad Manager Linda Coupe of the neck of every free or to objectivity. servatism-in-triplicate as Ad Representatives Greg Murtagh. Diana Nome. Rob Grower press editor and repor- There is strong obliga- well. While a club new- Jonathan Fishman Receptionists |amie Harper. Jackie Bonser. )anet Peluso ter. The First Amend- tion to professionalism sletter cannot be judged Barbara Coppola. Brigid Decsi ment right to speak our evident in all good public on the same basis as a Office Manager s Assistant Kat Drayton relations publications. newspaper, it should be Production... Anne Clifford. |ulieShain. Debbie Young Lois Mann, Mirell.'. minds openly and with- Pollifrone. Linda Hinckley. Donna Linnon, Lynn Bodetka. Kim McKnigh., out fear of reprisals is an They should, and usually able to speak its mind.