Grasso Proposes Higher Gaming Tax HARTFORD (UPI) — Gov
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(taracttotf Sat ig (Eamjnta Serving Storrs Since 1896 £1 VOL. LXXXI NO. 4T STORRS, CONNECTICUT FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 11. 1977 Board to vote on law school move, activity fee hikes By STUART M. SPIEGEL The UConn Board of Trustees will vote today to move the University's law school and to increase the activity fees at four of the five branches, the Board's chairman said Thursday. Gordon W. Tasker predicted .the Trustees will approve a plan to move the UConn law school to the Hartford Seminary at their meeting here today. He said the transfer to the larger seminary would solve accreditation problems arising from the fact that the present law school facilities serve 650 students instead of the 350 students it was built for 13 years ago. The seminary's trustees offered to sell the site to UConn for $2.1 million earlier this week. Tasker said if the trustees approved, the Seminary location, classes will start in the fall of 1979. Tasker said except for the branch activities fees, there will be no student fee increases this year but warned there is a "possibility with inflation as it is there may be increases next year. Today's meeting will be in the Merlin D. Bishop Center at 2 p.m. and will also involve consideration of a tuition waiver for Staff Photo by Steve McGuff graduate assistants. William Finch will be installed as a student A student pays for a purchase at the UConn Co-op, Thursday, adding a little more money to the Board of Trustees by Chairman Tasker. predicted $60,000 or more profits the bookstore may make this year, according to the bookstore's manager. Pass- fail option returns to agriculture college The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources has John Brand, associate dean of the college said the QPR of 1.9 will be required, and a 2.1 QPR for reinstituted the pass-fail option and a major in changes were made when the college's administration upper-division work. pathobiology as part of several academic changes found UConn's requirements to be "less structured and Students entering or re-admitted to the college after approved in the first half of the fall semester. rigorous" than other schools. "The changes. Brand spring 1978 will have to take either English 109 or 146 in said, are an attempt to correct that." addition to English 105. Students must also earn at least The pass-fail option in the college had been ended at 45 of their last 75 credits in courses numbered 200 or the end of last summer, but was brought back last month The new major, Pathobiology, is designed for students higher. for the upcoming Spring semester. However, there are interested in graduate work or working in a para- new restrictions on which courses may be. put on veterinary medicine field. Freshmen will be admitted to Group 1 distribution requirements for college of pass-fail. the new major in September of 1977-78 school year, and agriculture students have also been tightened. Students approved students may switch to the new major. Under the new rules, pass-fail cannot be used in must now take 18 credits in math, chemistry, biology, English requirements, group distribution requirements, Several changes have been made in the academic physics, and geology as opposed to the previous nine most major course requirements, or any other course requirements for degrees in the college. Previously, a 2.0 credits required. Students must also complete at least 36 declared by the college to be inappropriate for pass-fail Quality Point Ratio (QPR) was required for graduation. credits from two or more major departments in the grading. After the Spring semester of 1978. however, an overall college, rather than the previous 30. INSIDE TODAY The Weather: Showers, ending Beck sees budget increase later in the day and turning colder, highs in the 40's. By BRIAN M. ULLMAN She said this year's estimated $60.1 million UConn may be in line for a slight increase in state surplus will be used with $31 million left over from funds next year because of an estimated S60.1 last year's state budget to pay for an anticipated SI 10 million budget deficit in fiscal 1978-79. THE WOMEN'S FIELD HOCKEY TEAM defeated St Lawrence million surplus in this year's budget the cochair- College 4-0 and Brockport College 3-0. advancing to the woman of the legislature's Finance Committee Beck said her major budget priorities are "state semi-finals of the national collegiate field hockev championships said Thursday. higher education and state institutions." She said Story page 12. K ' State Sen. Audrey Beck (D-Mansfield), said the she hoped the state would pay for new staff for the surplus will be used to balance next year's budget UConn library so it will be fully operational when it THE UCONN CO-OP may record a profit of more than $60,000. and to encourage "modest financial growth" at opens next year. the bookstore's general manager said Thursday. Story page 3. UConn. Beck cautioned that while there may be an estimated six per cent rise in state spending in the Beck said while she did not expect the legislature WEEKENDER, the Daily Campus' weekly pull-out section of next fiscal year, "this does not automatically to increase state spending for local schools she places and things to do in Storrs and the state this weekend. guarantee growth of six per cent for each state said she hoped to see equalized funding of school Pages 5-8. agency." construction in the state. Grasso proposes higher gaming tax HARTFORD (UPI) — Gov. Ella Grasso proposed Gaming Commission Chairman Beatrice Kowalski said Gaming Commissioner Lester Snyder suggested that in increasing taxes on legalized gambling, drawing the if the profits are too high it would seem proper to addition to examining previous suggestions the state support from two key lawmakers and the head of the redistribute the extra money, with more going to the takeover legalized gaming facilities, the panel also Gaming Commission Thursday. state. should look into the possibility of regulating gambling in Grasso's action was motivated by word that the owners But State Sen. Louis Cutillo (D-Waterbury). the other the same manner as utilties. Bridgeport Jai Alai took $6.1 million from their cochairman of the General Law Committee, said he Under that approach a state authority would be set up investment in the first year of operation. didn't think changing the tax formula would be a good to guarantee a specific profit for gaming operators in Grasso said she did not know how much she wanted the idea because the legislature modified it last spring. order to guard against excess profits. taxes raised. Later in the day. Gaming Commissioners went before That would be similar to the Public Utilities Control State Rep. George Ritter (D-Hartford), cochairman of the General Law Committee for a hearing into the whole Authority which must approve all rate hikes by power the legislature's General Law Committee, said he question of legalized gambling. firms. favored Grasso's plan and said he thought there was There appeared to be disagreement among committee Snyder said his suggestions were aimed not only at sufficent legislative support to pass it. members at the hearing about whether the frontons increasing state revenue, but guaranteeing the state had Senate President Pro Tern Joseph Fauliso (D-Hartford). should in effect be penalized for making too much money control over the running of gaming operation. also said he like the idea. by paying higher taxes to the state. v. ■ I \V< (*« NM ■ ..,-.' We liked this week... — THE REQUEST from the State Department of Administration Services for UConn Board of Trustees support for plans to go ahead with the purchase of the Hartford Seminary Foundation buildings for the new home of the University's crowded law school. Hopefully, the board will comply today and the sale will go forth. — THE TURNOUT of 72 students to vote in University Senate elections and the open, all-students-welcome election process. Now. if only more of the same interest would be displayed in the more important office of the student government and the post of trustee... — WORD THAT the Freedom of Information Commission will seek changes in Connecticut's right-to-know law to open political caucuses to the public in most cases. Let the sunshine in. FlfST WE AGREE TO SHWS HIWS-l&J WE WSW A&XJT W' — THE FOOTBALL TEAM'S first victory of the season. 23-21 over Boston University. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR We didn't like this week... — THE LOSS by the soccer team to Yale University and the end to the Huskies' tournament hopes. Maybe next year will be "our year." Is Vivian B. Martin — UCONN'S RANKING as the tenth most expensive state or land-grant institution in terms of tuition and fees. 'a journalistic joke'? — THE WEATHER. precisely the grammar — at once Mark A. Dupuii To the Editor: pompous and totally pitiable — charac- Edltor-ln Chlaf teristic of the Martin column! There is Those who can read The Daily Campus (Ennnerttnrt John HIM III CralgK Spary no Martin: she is a figment of Dupuis's Managing Editor Bualnaai Manager without moving their lips have long imagination! suspected that the paper's ego-trip As the first to see the joke, do I win a Vivian B. Martin glorification of Vivian B. Martin was Anoclala Editor cigar? Hathj (Campus actually a journalistic joke (shaggy dog, Second-class c-vafle paid at Storrs.