Kelley Convicted Benton Plan Receives Support
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The Daily Campus Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896 VoL LXXXIXNo. 19 The University of Connecticut Wednesday, Oct 2, 1985 Kelley convicted Benton plan receives support By Paul Parker By Patricia DeMartino Daily Campus Staff Daily Campus Staff The proposed extension VERNON— Basketball star Earl Kelly was found guilty Tuesday plan to the Benton Museum of by a superior court judge and received a suspended three- month Art has received support from sentence with one year probation in connection with an incident Connecticut's Historic Pre- of bullying two male students in April. servation Office Kelley pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of disorderly "We believe that the cur- conduct He was originally charged with two counts of threaten- rent plans will enhance the ing and one count of unlawful restraint, both class A mis- historical and architectural demeanors, but plea -bargained to the class C misdemeanor. character of the existing No contest means the defendent can not refute the charges, structure," a preservation but does not admit the crime office spokesman said The aspects of disorderly conduct which Kelley was found Although construction of guilty of are annoying or inconveniencing a person and making the addition of the museum excessive noise will not begin until 1988, Because he pleaded no contest, Kelley's lawyer, Lubbie Har- renovation on the existing per, said the university can not use any information from the building will begin this spring criminal case as evidence in its internal disciplinary hearing according to Paul Rovetti, against Kelley. director of the museum. Judge Eugene Kelly accepted Kelley* s plea and approved the The first phase, which is plea-bargaining deal worked out by state's Attorney Donald also part of the university s Caldwell campaign to increase acces- 'Td say he's definitely learned a lesson—one that he'll livea sibility for handicap persons is with the rest of his life" Harper told the judge during the less than the installation of an elevator. ten minute proceedings in Rockville Superior Court The elevator will be built to Kelley appeared in court holding a white washcloth to an the outside of the building injured lower lip. Harper said Kelley received four stitches after The new structure will wrap an injury in practice around it Rovetti said. Kelley is now living in his Sprague Hall dorm room and is par- The Benton is also propos- ticipating in informal basketball team practices ing that a road be built to Kelley would not comment on the case and Harper would not replace the sidewalk between go into detail because of the school's pending case the business school and the The university's internal action against Kelley, charging him school of Education to pro- ART GAZING—The Benton Museum receives visitors with threatening and harassing a student and possession of vide access to the museum's who come both to critique and to enjoy the works (Maria weapons, has stalled in U.S. District Court new front entrance DeAngells photo). Harper is suing the university there because he co tends that The elevator is being fun- expense Rovetti hopes to get office ran the Second Century the school's disciplinary hearing process is unconstitutional ded by the university, but the District Judge J. Michael Blumenfeld issued a temporary res- a $450,000 grant from the campaign, it was extremely Benton is seeking outside National Endowment for the difficult to mount a fund training order, preventing the school from holding its hearing financial support for the rest scheduled for early last month Blumenfeld has extended the Humanities to defray costs raising campaign," Rovetti of the construction Some Original plans to expand said restraining order several times and is expected to rule per- money pledged from the manently on the constitutional question soon the museum began in 1970, Since it opened the Second Century Fund cam- three years later it opened museum's art collection has Kelley, 22, is a senior and has been the basketball team's lead- paign will cover part of the ing scorer for three years "Until the development of grown rapidly. Rovetti said1 Researchers find possible AIDS cure MINNEAPOLIS (AP)—An experimental new drug stops the AIDS virus from reproducing and attacking blood cells in the laboratory, and initial tests show it can be given safely to AIDS victims, researchers said Tuesday. "I think this is very promising This is one of the most potent drugs" against the AIDS virus, said Dr. Hiroaki Mitsuya of the National Cancer Institute "The advantage of this agent is that it is less toxic in vitro," or in the test tube, than other experimental AIDS medicines. The durg known chemically as azidot hym idine, has been code nemed compound S by its developer, the pharmaceutical firrr. Burroughs Wellcome The effort to tread ADS has been stymied by the difficulty of attacking viruses in general and the virus that causes this lethal disease in particular. The new drug works by short- circuiting the chemical process that the virus uses to make copies of itself inside human white blood cells Reports on experiments with the drug by Mitsuya and others were presented at a meeting of the American Society for Micorbiology. Currently there is no effective treatment for acquired immune ONE FOR EVERY STYLE— Students look over posters outside the Student Union malL deficiency syndrome and victims often die of so-called oppor- The sale Is sponsored by the UConn Veterans club and will run all week (Maria tunistic infections attacks by germs that healthy people easily DeAngells photo). ward oft -\X" Inside Today: Weather Forecast: • UConn offers a variety of religious choices See page 4. Chance of showers today with tem- peratures in the 60s Cool and clearing •Take our 60s Rock Trivia Quiz. See page 10. tonight with temperatures in the 40s > *. The Daily Campus, Wednesday, October 2, 1985 Page 2 ALMANAC STATE NATION WORLD Utilities may face Helicopter shot at Israelis bomb Tunisia state investigation West German border HARTFORD (AP)—Two state legislators want more WASHINGTON(AP)—AU.S Army helicopter flying HAMAM PLAGE, Tunisia (AP)—Six Israeli than a routine review of utility companies' response a routine surveillance mission along the West Ger- planes bombed the headquarters of the Palestine to widespread power outages. But whether their con- man border was attacked without provocation over Liberation Organization today in a raid that killed up cerns are more than a hurricane in a teapot was ques- the weekend by a Chechoslovakian jet fighter, the to 60 people and destroyed the complex, the PLO tioned Tuesday by Northeast Utilities. Pentagon disclosed Tuesday. said Rep. Julia Belaga, R-Westport, said record num- The jet described as a high-performance L-29 Ahmed Abderrahaman, a PLO spokesman, said bers of power outages from Hurricane Gloria were fighter, fired two to four rockets at the helicopter but about 60 people, including "many" Tunisians, were "absolutely inevitable" However, she said the uti- failed to hit it and then flew back across the border to killed in the raid on Haman Plage, a beachside suburb lities have dealt inadequately with the emergency Czechoslovakia, said Pentagon spokesman Robert B about 12 miles south of Tunis. and should be required to file disaster response plans ims. The American helicopter was carrying two crew- A medical source in Tunis, asking not to be iden- with the Department of Public Utility Control. men, neither of whom was injured tified put the death toll at about 70 with 100 Rep Miles Rappaport, D-West Hartford said The United States filed a strong protest over the others injured power outages have " gone on too long" after Friday1 s incident on Monday, Sims said He declined to answer In Tel Aviv, Lt Gen Moshe Levy, the Israeli chief of storm but stated he was "not questioning the post- questions about whether the Czech government had staff, said as many as 50 people were killed in the raid storm efforts." responded to the protest or offered an explanation 1,500 miles from Israeli soiL Israel radio reported the However, he said electric utilities may have failed for the attack dead included a bodyguard of PLO Chairman to prepare for storms of Gloria's magnitude and he The State Department also refused to discuss Yasser Arafat saw a need for preventive maintenance to keep the protest Arafat was uninjured Dressed in military fatigues power lines out of harm's way—such as removing The incident occurred Saturday at 1 p.m. local and very distressed Arafat and his aide Salah Knalaf, trees that could fall onto power lines. time, or 7 am EDT, north of the German city of known as Abu lyad, inspected the damage and talked Together, their proposals would have the DPUC do Freyung near the village of Finsterau, in airspace with the wounded more than a routine assessment of the utilities' about one mile inside West Germany. The raid was the farthest Israeli air operation since emergency responses. And they said they may press "The attack which took place inside Federal July 4, 1976, when commandos flew to Entebbe, for legislation if the regulatory agency fails to man- Republic of Germany airspace in clear weather, was Uganda, 2,200 miles away, to rescue hijack host- date new procedures for dealing with serious storms observed an confirmed by two separtate groups of ages. both before and after the fact German civilians," Sims added Israeli warplanes have conducted 13 raids this Mrs. Belaga, a GOP gubernatorial hopeful, and He said the helicopter was an Army AH-1S Cobra year, including one in Lebabon a day after the killing Rappaport both agreed with officials of the DPUC and gun ship, assigned to the 2nd Armored Calvary Regi- of the three Israelis in Cyprus.