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Unionization -will affect students Because faculty collective bents for both the American to its current position of fifth bargaining will affect every Association of University Pro among six. Only the University of one in the University com fessors (AAUP) and the Nation Maine's salaries are lower. munity if adopted, The New al Education Association (NEA) New Hampshire pays less than Hampshire is closely ex · all say increased salaries and one-third of the University amining the issue. This arti benefits for faculty are ~ major System's budget. The bulk of the cle is the first of many that issue. funding, over 40 per cent, comes will appear in the coming · According to Economics Pro directly from student tuition. weeks. fessor Sam Rosen, a former local Students may be hit for a bar By Steven Morrison chapter president of the AAUP, gained salary increase. The unionization of the UNH faculty see that the top_ t~ee "I think that's speculative," faculty will affect students. How salary sch~ls in New England says Rosen, a professor in much is unclear. But in the areas (the University of Massachu Whittemore School of Business of finance and governance, stu setts, the University of Connecti and Economics. "Out-of-state dents will certainly be influenced cut and the University of Rhode tuition is always a variable be by collective bargaining between Island) all have collective bar cause of legislative mandate, and faculty and administration. gaining. Rosen writes in an in-state tuition went up last year There are two organizations AAUP bulletin that in ten years, without collective bargaining. competing for the right to repre UNli has moved from being first . fhe whole way of financing this sent the UNH faculty. A vote will ·ror average compensation among occur within a month. Propo- New England state universities BARGAINING, page 7 Weather · Tuesday-Sunny 40s Tuesday night-clear 20s the ·· new hampshire Wednesday-clear 40s Volume 67 Number 38 Tuesday, March 8, 1977 Durham, N.H. Mills anticipates • 1 tu1t1on• • ·increase • By Tim Donovan receive no furthur increase in University President Eugene state aid. 1 Mills said tuition for in-state and Mills declined comment on out-of-state students may in where the cut-backs would take crease by as much as $400 place. He said the University is coupled with severe cut-backs if now at the point where any more the state cuts the University Sy cut-backs would severly effect stem's request of $61 million for the quality of erlucation at UNH. the next biennium budget. "It is already affecting the Uni "These are relative figures and versity, '' he said. they depend on state support and Mills cited several areas where the money we have asked for," cut-backs have affected the qual he said. ''The difference would ity of education at the University: have to be made up by increasing --The University's "buying in-state and out-of-st~te tuition power" has decreased to the ~ plus severe cut-backs." point where it is having a "de Presently, the tuition rate for moralizing effect" on the faculty in-state students is $1,000 per and staff. year. Out-of-state students pay --Shortages of supplies have af $2,990 per year. fected most academic depart The University System is pre ments . .:,ently working on a $45.9 million --Cut-backs are affecting cul- . allocation from the state. Gov. tural life at UNH. Meldrim Thomson insists that Mills expressed concern over this spending level must be main tained and that the system will rTUITION, page 14 Nuke petition issue Messing around in the mud can be a lot of fun, but plopping down in it can be uncomfortable. Benji Simpson rec~ntly found that out as he is aided by Jennifer Tunny (left) and Samantha Simpson. (Peter Fait photo) will go to court By Richard Mori port of his bid to sue the governor. Louis A. Gallop, chairman of The New Hampshire State Jacobson-- UNH should he private the Crusade for Gubernatorial Liquor Commission said Friday Responsibility (CGR), said yes that groups opposed to the con By Gary Langer Jacobson said last Sunday that from the arrangement he pro terday that his group plans to struction of the Seabrook nuclear State Senate President Alf the state pays "25 to 30 per cent" poses," said Mills. take Gov. Meldrim Thomson, Jr. plant may place anti-nuke peti Jacobson (R-New London) pro of the University's budget, while "He hasn't documented that to court Friday o:ver his ·role in tions in aff 70 state-owned liquor the average state support of a the disburseirient of petitions stores, but anti-nuke groups are posed making UNH a priyate in one there," said Jacobson, in favoring the construction of the stitution during a SJ>.eeeh before state school is 52 per cent. reference to Mills' statement. not satisfied with that offer. the senate last Thursday. "We talk about it being a state I'd say the opposite. Students will Seabrook nuclear plant. John Ratoff one of the three He said he will introduce leg university when we don't support have freedom of choice to attend ( See re lated story on page 2) State liqour commis~ioners. said islation to enact his proposal it that way," he said. any school in the state,'' this decision was reached be- "within 30 days," but added that UNH Pr~sident Eugene Mills Jacobson said. Thomson had ordered petitions cause of the "controversy caused · the "earliest possible" time for opposed Jacobson's plan, saying Jacobson said the state should favoring the Seabrook plant to be by the pro-nuclear petitions." the University to become a pri that the tuition now paid by state give the .University "something placed in liquor stores for a three According to the State Liquor vate institution "is in the Fall residents is "significantly less like a~ year lease·· on me 1ima month period. The stores col- Commission, the anti-nuclear pe of 1978 or later.''. - than it would be at a private encompassed by the school. ·He lected 100,000 signatures which titions must be delivered to store Jacobson said that · the state institution. said there would be "no enroll Thomson planned to present to managers by March 11 and must should pay a tuition subsidy to "Unless the state would be ment limit," but added that President Jimmy Carter. - be picked up before the close of in-state students attending any willing to be quite generous with ''there could be some considera Gallop said he has presently business on Friday, ~arch 25. university in New Hampshire. He the tuition subsidies proposed by tion for in-state students in return received about $600 in donations No one representmg the pet1- said the amount of this subsidy to Senator Jacobson, New Hamp for the lease.'' "rom over 50 individuals in sup- PETITION, page 6 each student "would be based on shire . students attending UNH need.'' would not be likely to benefit JACOBSON, pages r~--------------..~ --------------INSIDE-----~ 'Official state insect?· Music Playoffs Tbe good luck of the ladybug may just land on the state of New Hampshire now that the New Hampshire House has The ECAC Division approved and sent to the Senate a bill making the ladybug the That strange caco One Playoffs begin to phony of sound you ; night with the Wild official state insect. hear on the 3rd floor~;; cats high scoring The House acted after debating the issue for half an hour. of Paul Arts isn't an•·;"l Miller - Cox - Lumley Supporter of the bill. E,ep. Ednapearl Parr CR-Hampton) said, avant-garde jaZ2 "·-..4. i · line ready for the "Just make it the ladybug and get it over with." matchup with Brown. Opponents of the bill called it "asinine." !»~nd.1t 1s on Find~age 10ou.t ms1de. ~hat, ~-a!ff>...... ·..··.•·.t .. ··' £.,, ..._ Read both stories on Parr said the lacfybug would be helpful in cleaning· up gardens page 16. and protecting farmer's fields. PAGE TWO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE TUESDAY MARCH 8, 1977 - News Briefs -Says he is 'scared to death' Crusader challenl{es Thomson Student protest By Rfohard Mori I Louis Gallop believes that if you try hard enough, justice will About 300 Colby-Sawyer College students cut classes and met result. with the college president and faculty members last week Galiop, 51, is a self-employed to protest the lack of student input in policy and decision small businessman from making procedures. Francestown and chairman of The demonstration focused on two issues at the college- the Crusade for Gubernatorial_ greater student oarticipation in the selection of a new presi Responsibility (CGR). dent, and freedom in deciding when visitors1 are allowed in The CG R plans to take Gov. dormitories. Meldrim Thomson to court over Adrienne Ellinger, a sophomore at Colby-Sawyer, said students his part in gathering _of 100,00U have been "frustrated" over the past two years when "social signatures in favor of the activities were restricted by visitation rules." Seabrook nuclear power plant. No guests are permitted in dormitories after midnight Thomson ordered the pro Sunday through Thursday, and overnight visitors on weekends nuclear plant petitions to be require written permission. placed in all state-owned liquor stores for a three month pericd. The petitions and their distribu tion were paid for through public Marijuana tax money. - President Carter said he supports "a state-by-state policy Gallop said he has collected of removing or reducing criminal penalties for possession about $600 from over 50 contribu ot mariJuana · · in a letter puousnea m me Boswn 0101Je 1ast tor~ ~incp hp fll;:lrPci ads in the Wednesday.