Library hit by worsening budget problems By Jackie Fitzpatrick $100,000 in federal sup- Staff Writer port." The UConr. library is "The library is now presently faced with a major operating on an aquisitions dilemma, according to John budget of $762,550." the McDonald. director of memo continued, "while university libraries. other medium-sized univer- rm In a recent memo to the sities have much higher book faculty, he said, "after budgets." He cited Florida several years of no-growth State University's book budgets and purchasing budget of $2 million and the power weakened by inflation State University of New York averaging 14 percent, the at Stonybrook's $1.4 million university looked forward to book budget. a respectable increase in its David Games. library 1981-1982 acquisitions acquisitions director, also budget. However, the library fears the impact of the cuts. lost its expected increase. "The budget had already Almost immediately thereaf- been cut to the bone, the ter it suffered an additional unexpected cuts were the five percent reduction ir. the last straw," he said. budget as a result of the McDonald's directive con- governor's recession an- tinues: "The library The UConn library, which opened in 1978, is faced with major budget cuts and will lose nouncement. The library acquistions program has $100,000 in federal aid, according to John McDonald, director of university libraries Iphoto also learned it wpuld lose courtesy of Bill Caffreyl. SEE PAGE 3 Gtonttectfcut lailg (EampUB Serving Storrs Since 1896 Vol.LXXXVNo.71 University of Connecticut Monday, February 1,1982 Violence breaks out in Poland WARSAW. Poland (AP) — and 205 people were put in crackdown on the city, with force was used to put down other deaths in martial law Police (ought Street battles detention and were to face private telephone service cut violent demonstrations that protest. with youths in Gdansk over summary trials. The vio- off and civilians forbidden to erupted there shortly after ihe weekend in (he first lence occurred Saturday but be on the streets after H p.m. the imposition of martial law The rioting did not appear major outbreak of violent was not reported until Sun- or before 5 a.m. Dec. 13. On Dec. lb. state to be connected with sweep- protest to martial law since day. Telephone communica- The broadcast, monitored in security forccsopcncd lire on ing food price increases to go troops opened fire on striking tions with Gdansk are not European capitals, blamed into effect Monday, the big- miners shortly alter the mili- possible, and Western re- the incident on trouble- Pope John Paul II gest hikes in Poland's post- tary crackdown began. porters are not allowed to makers "taking advantage" war history. The Interior Ministry said travel outside Warsaw. of recent relaxations of some defends Solidarity. eight police and six civilians Radio Warsaw reported an martial law restrictions- a The Interior Ministry said in were injured in the rioting. immediate government move authorities had said See story, p. 12. a communique carried by was possible because of PAP that the disturbance growing calm across Poland. demonstrating miners in began outside the giant V.l. Friction over recession It was the worst clash southern Poland, killing Lenin shipyards and appear- reported in Gdansk, head- seven by government ac- ed to spread or be accompan- quarters of the independent counts. The military govern- ied by other incidents in the is downplayed by aides labor union Solidarity, since ment has acknowledged two city's center. WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan, denying the Federal Reserve Board is being used as a scapegoat, said Sunday the administration "will take the blame or the credit*' for what happens to the economy. Meanwhile. White House budget director David A. Stockman said the president will send Congress next week a l°83 spending plan containing "a major sw/eeping program to reduce the size of the deficit." including cuts in social benefit programs. Stockman also endorsed the Federal Reserve's tight-credit policies for bringing down inflation. "Despite some rece«t administration discomfort" over the way the nation's central bank has followed it policies, he said, "No one in the Poll shows that most Americans believe Reaganomics have helped the rich and hurt the poor. See story, p. 13. administration believes the course is wrong." In separate television interviews. Regan and Stockman sought to play down the amount of friction that appears to be developing between the White House and the powerful, independent Fed over how to end a worsening recession and return the nation to prosperity. "We are not trying to make the Fed a scapegoat ..." Regan said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "First of all, we'll take the blame or the credit for what's going to happen to this economy, I think it will be credit." Jigsaw puzzle "What we are asking them is to please be consistent in their A Daily Campus photographer captured a geometric pattern of the Field House stands at monetary policy so that our program will have a chance to the men's track meet Sunday [Evan Rokien photo]. work," Regan said. Page 2 Connecticut Daily Campus, Monday, February 1,1982 ter 300 years, can't anybody One pot may be empty and come up with a better idea? another may have trapped Even in 1979, most of our 37 two or more lobsters who million-pound lobster catch have finished off the bait and Lobster traps ^was fished with these an- begun to dine on each other. tiquated instruments. With (How can they do that all the technological advan- without drawn melted but- cements since then why ter?) hasn't someone thought of a But their only alternative If it wasn't for that Dutchman more efficient way to catch a to cannabalism is starvation, lobster? which has also been known After all, lobster pots to happen. Lobster pots 300 years ago, lobster would be aren't very selective-they frequently get cut off from take in just about anything. the main trawl lines, per- By the time a lobsterman manently trapping any lob- gracing fewer plates these days hauls his trap in after about sters left inside. This "ghost two days, it weighs a fishing" phenomena promp- waterlogged 50 pounds and ted several studies about contains a bit of everything trap design by the federal By Judy Benson posedly netted a 30-pound would get back out. The Dut-< from the ocean bot- government. News Editor granddaddy lobster off the chman's trap simply made tom—seaweed, clams, "dead The researchers con- About 300 years ago, a Maine coast. But he was just use of the lobster's own fish, crabs, and maybe even cluded that traps should be Dutchman set out to lucky. Most of the time this stupidity. Once his dinner a lobster or two. A few of built with vents just large find a better way to method didn't work out so was over and the lobster these undersea squatters enough to allow the small catch lobsters. The methods well, because the lobsters realized he was a prisoner may be saleable, like some of lobsters to escape. The then being used tended to beneath those oaken laths, the crabs, and some of the government wanted to make mutilate the poor creatures he couldn't figure out how to others can be used as bait. A sure the little ones at least so they rarely made it to the crawl through the funnel. lucky lobsterman may even get a chance to grow up and boiling pots alive. European Or maybe some of them find a sea bass flopping become one-pounders, and colonial American lob- don't even try to leave. around inside. But most of which takes about five years. stermen were spearing Spotlight They're by nature reclusive this stuff gets thrown back Even if a trap isn't lost, the them, hooking them off the crustaceans, and maybe the including lobsters above or adolescent lobsters inside sides of their boats, even traps seem like a change-of- below the legal market size could be harmed by what nabbing them with 12 foot tended to eat and run before pace hiding place-something and females carrying eggs. the government calls wooden tongs—all rather the fishermen had a chance different from the usual rock Any they've probably all got- "aggressive encounters." crude and ungentle to check their nets. None of crevice or sand hole. ten a free meal out of it. That means the little guys methods. After all, who wan- these devices could be used Now for its day, the lob- The lobsterman- never get swallowed by the big ts to eat a lobster with a hook in other than shallow water, ster pot was a pretty knows what, if anything, guys. And why should the hole running through it? and all were quite inef- ingenious invention. But af- he'll find inside his traps. SEE PAGE 3 Lobsters are homely enough ficient. as it is. The Dutchman solved all Some Germans tried the problems of 18th Century scooping them from the lobstering with a device ocean bottom with baited based on the mousetrap nets, and at least the lob- principle. It was kind of a sters caught this way made it small semicylindrical to market without having modification of the eelpot, their exoskeletons crushed. about three feet long, two This method was also tried in feet wide and 18 inches high, the United States for a while, looking something like a and one fisherman sup- wicker basket with two en- trances made of funnel- shaped nets on both sides.