I I VOL. 80, N0.38 ' FRIDAY, MAY (603)862- 0 Bulk Rate US Postage Paid 4, 1990 149 Durham, NH Permit #30 Bachelor of Fine Arts students Two drop from display their work search for new UNH President Three finalists remain By John Doherty available for comment. Two of the five finalists in The two withdrawals left the search for the new president many University community of UNH have withdrawn from members wondering if there was consideration. something about UNH that was Robert Carothers, current repelling the candidates. chancellor of the University Salary for the new president System of .Minnesota withdrew has not been disclosed. Former last Friday, and Ronald Beller, UNH President Gordon Haaland, current president ofEastTennesse who left last fall to assume the .State University, withdrew while presidency at Gettysburg College, ori campus Tuesday morning. was paid approximately $100,000 Carothers withdrew· before including benefits. The president visiting UNH. He said that when also lives at the President's House the Minnesota University System across from Hamilton-Smith. board of trustees heard he was Cm-others claimed there was among the finalists, they asked nothing unattractive about UNH. him not to go through with the "I think UNH has a great final interview process. future and I would have loved to ''They felt.that things in our have been part of it," said system would be disrupted if I Carothers. "I was very honored to left now," said Carothers. ''They be named a finalist." felt that there were projects Yakovakis, though underway here that I should admittedly surprised at the Pictured above from left t~ right are Christopher Shanelaris. Mary J., :Ver.~mee~ch, Liza Green, follow .through on. They've been withdrawals, is not worried. Kathryn Soave-Dunfey, Michael Heikkenen, Jennifer Benn, Stephan Pratt and Jeffrey Glover, Jr., the very good to me here, and I "I think all three of them ( the wouldn't ~eni01· Bachelor ~f Arts class. Their work is on display until June 10 at lhe University Art Galleries have felt right about rel!laining finalists) could be great m the Paul Creativ¢ Arts Ce~ter. ( Photo by Gary Simpson ). leaving now." presidents," he tald the Union Reasons for the sudden Leader Wednesday. departure of Dr. Belleron Tuesday Yakovakis also said he hopes were a bit more vague. to get Beller to reconsider his Lost Chairman of the Search decision to withdraw. evidence leads to Committee and UNH Trustee Dr. Dale Nitzchke, current James Yakovakis said he knew of . president of Marshall University no specific reason why Beller left. in West Virginia, is the next / .mistrial in, 1988 rape case "I wish I did," said candidate scheduled to visit UNH. , Yakovakis. "Hefeltitwasn'tright He will be on campus starting By Ishi Niyama Burdett for him at the present time. He Sunday. A mistrial . was declared article in the Union Leader, fraternity members have done indicated it had nothing to do The search committee consists yesterday in the case of UNH rep0rting on the victim's their best to be supportive in the with the institution, he just felt it of trustees, faculty and students. student Doug Bernard, 21, testimony, the victim, now a 21- case. "I think it's a disgusting wasn't right." The committee plans to accused of raping a woman in yea r-old UNH senior, was crime," he said. "[The victim] has Beller was to meet with a recommend three finalists to Claire December, 1988 at Phi Kappa watching television in the been in contactwith usatthehouse group of students Tuesday Van Ummerson, chancellor of the Theta Fraternity where he was a fraternity lounge with her date and we've all tried to be very afternoon, but announced his University System of New boarder, according to Strafford and several others. She left to go supportive." withdrawal. shortly after lunch. Hampshire, who will then County Court Clerk Don to the bathroom, where Bernard, Defense Attorney Mark Sisti He then left the UNH campus recommend one to the full board Goodnow. intoxicated, allegedly cornered was unavailable for comment. and returned to East Tennessee · of trustees. · According to Prosecuting her and raped her. State University. He was not Attorney Lincoln Soldati, In the article, the woman said Durham police were unable to herdate,Gary Alpert,aPhiK'appa locate a witness's statement, and Theta fraternity brother, searched Environmentalists a~arded $500 the def~nse asked the judge to the house for her but did not find declare a mistrial on the grounds her until after the assault. He then scholarships that a cross examination would "had a confrontation" with for recycling efforts be unsucc;essful. Bernard without being aware of Soldati said this statement what had actually occurred . · Award money generated by recycling pro'gram was originally given to a police Alpert expressed anger officer who is no longer with the towards the Durham Police in By Joe Caron Durham Police, and that Officer regards to the case. "They don't Mother Earth has recently the campus computer clusters. college. · Patil McGann, . have a clue to what is going on," rewarded two of her faithful . Berger credits his award largely Robert Blanchard, associate who investigated the case, is not he said. · stewards for their extraordinary to the essay on his application, dean for Life Sciences and responsible. for losing the Greek Advisor Mike Sciola recycling efforts. William Berger, but he suspects his tangible Agriculture, and Brian Graves, a statement. said an investigation was done a first year environmental · recycling activities "had primary organizer of campus Durham Police Captain after the incident and there was conservation major, and Kathleen something to do with it." · recycling, reviewed the essays Michael Golding refused to no responsibility found on the , Adams, a junior wildlife Students who applied for the and chose the recipients. comment on the case. part of the fraternity. "In fact," he management major, each earned scholarship had to demonstrate "We were looking for A pre-trial conference is said, "they cooperated very well $500 scholarships from Students financial need, a GP A of 2. 7 and someone best qualified to use the scheduled for July 6th, and a jury throughout the trial." for University Recycling. write an essay revealing how he money, someone to best serve the selection will take place on July Bernard is no longer a "It was great that I got it," . or she would fashion a healthy community's environmental 23rd so that a new trial can be boa:r:der at the fraternity. Berger said, "Every little bit helps. Earth. , One winner had to be benefit," said Graves. held that week, said Goodnow. Tim Kenney, vice president My parents were psyched, too." from Life ·Sci~nces and Berger developed a program Agriculture (LSA), but the other SCHOLARSHIP, According to a May 2nd of Phi Kappa Theta, also said the 1 forrecyclingthe scrap paper from winner could be from another PAGE7 PAGE 2 · THE NEW HAMPSHIRE FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1990 S011p kitchen's simple, super food surprises• :· By Melissa Inglis Around the side of the building there is a doorstep, More helpers arrive, and I learn quickly what to do. I'm nervous. where two women sit. One.is my age. She wears a Rhode My tasks kind of get my mind off the kids and the adults I mean, this is a new experience and all. I am supposed · Island sweatshirt and madras print shorts, her blond hair who are wandering into the front room where the tables to do something I always wanted to do, so nervousness is ip a ponytail. She says, "Hi." are. normal. ) The other woman is oJq.er, heavyset a-nd wears glasses. There are all ~orts of people. The funny thing is, they But should I really be this .uncomfortable? She does not smile and looks mean._ look a lot like some ·of my reiatives. I could actually Should I act a certain way, or just act natural? But The younger woman's name is Robin, .and she·is a picture some of my cousins here. how can I act natural around t~ese people? junior at UNH too. We talk about school and the soup _ There are many, many-children., How shoulsf I dress? I probably shouldn~t dress up, kitchen. She helps there every Thursday, help prepare the There are no old men with baggy, dirty clothes who I kr:10wthat, but_I don'.t want to dress down either. But will food. look like war veterans. , I fit in bett~r tha~ way? . • She tells me, "We don't let the people into the kitchen ! help serve the, food, which consists of English . All these thoughts running through my brain for where the food is made, because they steal stuff." Muffin pizzas, salads, corn, and desert . days and days. Who steals stuff? "The kids?" I ask. Helping is not as difficult-as I thought. While I serve - Now, walking from the Dover bus stop on this sunny "Nd, the adults too," Robin says. food my brain slips into its automatic waitress-mode and . - Thursday afternoon when I could and would rather I am no longer serving:homeless and poor people,; b~ playing .frisbee qack at school, the thoughts but customers who deserve politeness and courtesy. inJensify. , .. These people are my ,eustomers, . and I am their .. My. father work:5 in Dover, but I didn't know servant. thei;e.wasas~µplqtchenintheKnightsofColumbus The children I had been so scared to · Hall, only a,fe}'V. bl~ks away from his.office. acknowledge are cute and funny and rambunctious. ·· Today, I was headed for that soup kitchen I am reminded of all the children I ever babysat.