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The Daily Campus Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896 Vol.XCI No. 49 The University of Connecticut Monday, November 16,1987 Room and board fees up $200 for next year By John Carella The proposal also stated that Daily Campus Staff the Extended Deadline Option The average UConn student Fee was approved in 1981 to living on campus will pay an provide the Financial Aid extra $200 next fall as part of a Office more processing time room and board fee increase without punishing the student. unanimously voted on by the It is no longer necessary Board of Trustees Friday. "because of improvements that All dormitory residents will have been made to systems in pay an extra $100 in their the Financial Aid Office," room fees next year, with those stated the proposal from who live in large dormitories Thomas R. Popplewell, acting paying an another extra $80 for vice president for Finance. their board fee, and those who The trustees will act on the live in small dormitories proposal at their next meeting paying an another extra $90. January 8. The fee increases, per year, Along with the housing fee were originally proposed at increases, the board also September's meeting and were increased the general university voted on without discussion at fee from $80 to $810 a year. Friday's meeting. The trustees also redefined the The Trustees also tabled a 520 athletic center surcharge motion that would wipe out that was scheduled to end this the Extended Deadline Option year. That $20 surcharge will Fee which allows a student to now be part of the general extend payment of fees and unversity fee and will be used wmmm tuition by a month. The tabled exclusively for intramural Steve Rammel beats a Harvard opponent in round two of the national motion would also add a $50 athletic equipment and facility championship tournament yesterday. UConn lost in overtime, 1-0 (Chris Nelson late fee for all undergraduate maintenance, said Popplewell. photo). students whose fees and tuition The surcharge was originally were not paid by the due date. adopted in November, 1984 to The proposal stated that the raise $900,000 over three years reason for this was because this to help pay for the Conn Kennedy nomination splits summer it was "very difficult Dome. The original surcharge to determine how many was supported by a student students were paid in full and referendum. anti-abortion community eligible for a dormitory room Fiscal Manager of Student WASHINGTON (AP)— Kennedy because he favors that legalized abourtion. until just before the start of Activities Milton J. Wrobleski Anthony M. Kennedy's judicial rcstraint-interpriting But another anti-abortion class." See page 4 Supreme Court nomination has law, not making it. The group, the American Life split the anti-abortion organization said only a League, said it opposes communiiy, even though he judicial activist would favor a Kennedy because he didn't has never ruled on an abortion decision such a Roc vs. Wade, criticize the Roc decision when case during 12 years on the the 1973 Supreme Court ruling he had the chance to. bench. On anti-abortion Mwhelsms: organization offered positive, but guarded praise for the nomination, a second strongly Wright wrong to step criticized it, and two other groups took no position. into Contra peace plan The abortion question is Wright's involvement crucial to these groups and to WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican Leader immediately came under fire pro-choice organizations from Reagan administration because the court is considered Robert H. Michel yesterday sharply criticized House officials, with White House split 4-4 on the issue. The spokesman Marlin Fitzwater next nominee could tip the Speaker Jim Wrigh*. for his involvement in the saying Reagan "is concerned" balance for years to come. about the speaker's activities Pro-choice groups and other negotiations between Nicaragua and the U.S.-backed Contra and, "We don't know what he's women's organizations have rebels, charging that the up to." taken no position yet on Democrat is "absolutely Michel, an Illinois Kennedy. wrong" to step into the peace Republican, yesterday The Sacramento, Calif., process. continued the attack on jurist, who is on the 9th U.S. The House speaker, D- Wright's involvement in the Circuit Court of Appeals, has Texas, who has been deeply process. not spoken out on any issue involved in the process since "I think it's absolutely since his nomination was he and Presidcn Reagan put wrong," Michel said on NBC- announced last Wednesday by forth their own peace plan in TV's "Meet the Press." President Reagan. None of the August, participated in a "I think there's every reason organizations researching his meeting Friday in which for us to be parties on the abortion record has found any Nicaraguan President Daniel outside. ...For us, as previous comment on the Orega proposed a plan for legislators, to gel directly subject. reaching a cease-fire in three involved in what is the WHERE'D EVERYONE GO? Only one car remains The anti-abortion National on the muddy grad field after all the other cars left Right To Life Committee weeks with the Nicaraguan perogativc of the president and rebels. See page A yesterday's soccer game (Jen Hehl photo). reacted positively toward V" Inside Today: Weather Forecast: •Army ROTC training group travels to Stones Ranch Sunny today this wee-'tend See page 3. High 50-55. •Women's soccer team loses to UMass, 3-1; falls out of NCAA tournament See back page. >V ... a N. t .... ALMANAC „ . STATE NATION WORLD Flasher becomes ward Deficit reduction talks Ortega visits Mexico of ex-defense attorney NORWALK (AP>— Four months ago, Tibor J. enter deadline week to discuss peace plan WASHINGTON (AP) — Deficit reduction talks MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua's President Lipoczky was arrested after he exposed himself before between the White House and Congress are into their a woman,at the South Norwalk railroad station. Daniel Ortega made a surprise stop here on his way deadline week with participants confident of success home from the United States and said he would brief Now die woman, former criminal defense attorney — because they can't permit a failure. Patricia Buck Wolf, has agreed to become his legal President Miguel de la Madrid on a new Nicaraguan guardian out of fear that Lipoczky's alcoholism and The talks nearly collapsed on Thursday, scaring proposal for a truce in the Contra war. deteriorating health would kill him. not only the people in the room but those outside. "Now is a good time to exchange views with She plans to try to place him in a veteran's "Not only didn't we like the taste of it, but clearly President Miguel de la Madrid, so he knows directly hospital or convalescent home as soon as she pays the signal from our fellow members (was) they the steps my country is taking to comply" with a the $75 bond that will complete the guardianship wanted something significant done,*' Sen. Pete V. Central American peace plan, he told reporters when proceeding. Domenici, R-N.M., a negotiator and senior he arrived at Mexico City airport Saturday. The legal action was apparently the only avenue Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, said Nicaraguan and Mexican officials declined to say left to those who have watched and tried to help the this weekend. what Ortega was doing on Sunday. 62-year-old homeless man, who has become a fixture On Friday, the talks restarted. Taped on the wall Nicaraguan Embassy spokesman Silvio Ordonez on the streets of South Norwalk during the past three was a full-page newspaper ad from business and civic said Ortega, who was accompanied by first lady years. leaders calling for "Decisive Action: A Bipartisan Rosario Murillo and their six children, went out for Buck Wolf first encountered Lipoczky when she Budget Plan." the day "to see the city." He declined to say where was named Norwalk's Fair Housing Officer last After less than two hours, the House, Senate and they went other than probably to Chapultepec Park, a summer. Lipoczky would often push his way past White House staffs were sent scurrying for a weekend vast city park. her storefront office on South Main Street. On more of numbers-crunching. The bargainers will need the Ms. Murillo and the children flew in Saturday than one occasion, he passed out in the gutter outside details this week to flesh out a plan to reduce the from Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, to join him her window. deficit by $75 billion or more over the next two here. years. In July, Buck Wolf was returning to her New The arrival of the Ortegas came as a complete Haven apartment when she saw Lipoczky standing in The goal of the talks, begun three weeks ago after surprise to Mexican officials. the South Norwalk train station, exposing himself. the Wall Street collapse, is to reduce the fiscal 1988 "We know nothing about his aclivites. He arrived She called the police. deficit by at least $23 billion to an estimated $144 unexpectedly,*' Mario Enciso, the Foreign Ministry "Even when I swore out the complaint I knew he billion, as required by the Gramm-Rudman law. That spokesman on duty, said Sunday. "We didn't know he was not really culpable for his actions," Buck Wolf would avert automatic spending cuts under the budget- was going to come." said in an interview with The Advocate of Stamford. balancing law, which without agreement would take A presidential press office official, who spoke on effect Friday.

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