Minor Storm Causes Slippery Travel
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(Eatm?rttntt Sathj dampus Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXIX NO. 60 STORRS. CONNECTICUT WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1976 K urn i This parking lol served as a harbor for cars while the campus maintainence crews worked to clear the roads following yesterdays minor snowstorm. Minor storm causes slippery travel By MARK A. DUPUIS campus roads throughout the afternoon >anding sidewalks throughout the day. accidents not to slippery sidewalks, but News Editor as motorists moved away from the said M. Frank Laudieri. physical plant students and staff taking shortcuts across Students slipped and slid around University at a crawl. director. unsanded grass areas. campus Tuesday as a minor snowstorm Campus police and fire officials report- Laudieri said sanding began early Federation of Students and Service dumped several inches of white cover ed several persons had sustained minor Tuesday morning with plowing com- Organizations Chairman Robert C. onto already covered ley walks and roads injuries from sipping and falling while pleted by mid-afternoon. Laudieri said Woodard labeled the icy conditions as with several inches of white powder. walking on the ice. A spokesmman for the most of the sanding would be completed "atrocious." attributing the icy walks to By early evening. Physical Plant and University Fire Department (UCFD) said by early Tuesday evening and students budget cutbacks at the Physical Plant. state highway department crews had at least two persons had been transported would be greeted by safer walkways as "It's my feeling that public safety is moved onto campus to plow and sand to the Infirmary by ambulance for they walked towards classes today. more imortant than other aspects at roads and walks in an attempt to reduce treatment from falls. Laudieri said the slippery conditions UConn." Woodard said. "PerhaPs thc> slippery conditions. Although only a few Maintenance workers from the Phys- resulted mainly from icing under the shouldn't cut the grass every other day in inches fell, traffic was snarled on major ical! Plant worked on plowing and snow over. He attributed manv of the the spring and use the money for snow removal. Although he said most of the walks should be safe by today. Laudieri warned students and staff to exercise care in IARC, Jungle draw criticism walking. Tuesday's snow may be followed by additional snow tonight according to a - spokesman for the National Weather By JOHN HILL III disappointed ' by the use of the student allocate funds away, saying. "Right now Service in Windsor Locks. The spokes- Staff Reporter money. Tuesday said he planned to it is our (lARC's) major, if not only man said Tuesday's snow was caused by The purchase of more than 1.200 propose that the power to distribute function.'* a weak frontal system which passed McDonald's gift certificates with student student funds to the various area councils The Jungle Social Council received through the area leaving accumulations fee money by the North Campus (Jungle) be taken from IARC and put under the approximately 85 cents per student for all of up to two inches of snow. Today's Social Council, with the consent of the jurisdiction of .the Central Committee of students in the North Campus Residences forecast calls for a chance of light snow the Federation of Students and Service from IARC last semester, with the Inter-Area Residents Council (IARC). has developing tonight, the spokesman said. drawn strong criticism of both groups Organizations (FSSO). understanding that all unspent money from student government chairman Rob- IARC Chairman Leonard LaSalandra would be returned to FSSO at the end of ert C. Woodard. said he hoped the Central Committee the semester. The total money allocated Wodard. who said he was "very would not vote to take IARC's power to was more than SI. 100. Local officials find Near the end of last semester the Jungle Council had approximately $650 Ford's proposals dollars in unspent funds from IARC. Committee considers Adams Rather than let the money go back to not good enpough IARC. the North Campus Social Council voted to purchase a 50 cent McDonald's By TONY CRONIN for Health Center position gift certificate to distribute to each Assistant News Editor student in the North Campus residences, President Ford's words Monday night according to Richard Rossi, the North that the State of the Union is "better but the joint position of vice president for Vice President for Student Affairs and Campus Area Co-Ordinator. still not good enough." also apply to local health affairs and executive director of Services Frederick G. Adams is being Jungle Social Council President Sophie reaction voiced Tuesday to the Presi- the Health Center. The post was vacated considered by a University searcn com- Bitcl said her group had originally dent's proposed federal budget for next last year when John W. Patterson left to mittee to fill a vacancy in the top position intended to donate the remaining money year. return to teaching and research as a at the UConn Health Center in Farming- to the Mansfield Training School, but While acknowledging Ford's proposed member of the Health Center faculty. ton, it was learned. state laws prohibit the donation of state tax cut and increased federal housing aid Patterson had served in the position from President Ferguson has confirmed that funds to charitable organizations. for the poor. State Sen. Audrey S. Beck Adams is one of the final contenders for 1970 until his resignation. D-Mansfield (2Qth). said the speech was Dean of the School of Medicine Robert Woodard criticized the use of the "disappointing and lacking in initiative." U. Massey was appointed shortly after student money, obtained through student Beck said Ford's approach to the Patterson left the post to serve as acting fee bills, as "not in principle with the economic troubles of this country were vice president. purpose of student money. The money too narrow and "middle of the road" to Kenneth G. Wilson, vice president for was intended for programs such as frats achieve an improved economy in fiscal academic affairs and chairman of the weekends." year 1977. search committee charged with selecting IARC Chairman LaSalandra defended Responding to the criticism. State the new vice president. Saturday declined the IARC approval of the expenditure b\ Rcpbulican Party Chairman Frederick to disclose ,nc names of an>' °' ,nc pointing out that area councils in the past Biebel said Ford "laid out the budget remaining contenders. Wilson limited have distributed coffee and doughnuts before the people and told them there had comment to saying that the search during exxams and given out -cfrcsh- to be economy in the federal budget." committee is now interviewing its final ments at social functions. "I had M Local economists also criticized the choices and should be able to present a guidelines to follow . it could be seen as a proposed S394.2 billion budget submitted recommendation to the Board of Trustees refreshment cost." by Ford to the Congress Monday night. within a month to six weeks. In the future, however, there will be Peter S. Barth. economics department Ferguson said the search committee chairman, echoed Beck's feelings saying has reported to him that several women guidelines as to proper and improper .•\penses for which student fee money the speech was "main line Republican- were among the initial list of candidates may or may not be used. Woodard said. ism" and consistent with Ford's previous and several UConn employes. He said he speeches on economic policy does not know if any women are still "We are in the process of setting up Continued on Page 3 Frederick G. Adams Continued on Page 4 guidelines." he said. Our View Branch system too valuable to change Just as it appeared the threat of the state of the Commission for Higher Education. college education. Almost all of the branch closing or consolidating the University's five Donald McGannon. have said that the branch students plan on coming to Storrs for their branches was over, a new and more potent structure needs changing. We disagree and junior and senior years. Consequently the programs at the branches are geared towards one emerged late last week. strongly oppose any action to close or providing students with a solid foundation on A bill introduced to the legislature's consolidate any of the branches. which they can base their studies when they education committee to consolidate the The bill to consolidate the branches is based get to Storrs. branches with the state's community college on a fundamental misconception of the branch system has destroyed the relief and confi- s\ stems' purpose. The critics of the branches Preserving the current branch structure is dence felt by the University community after claim that since the state's 11 community also vital for another reason. Since the the UConn Board of Trustees passed a colleges and five UConn branches are two branches arc so decentralized they provide an resolution at its January meeting support- year institutions there is a needless duplica- opportunity for a University education for ing the current branch structure. tion of programs. They say that the merger of people all over the state. Students who live in The Trustees' resolution was a welcome the two systems would save money and give lower Fairfield county, in upper Litchfield show of internal support for the branches as it more students an opportunity to get a two year county or in the Southeastern tip of the state, quashed rumors that the Board was for education. who cannot afford to live on campus, are still considering closing one or more of the What critics fail to realize is that the able to attend the Univcrstv.