Connecticut Summer Campus Published by the Connecticut Daily Campus Thursday, June 10, 1962 (Evan Roklen photo). The Thing that ate Connecticut xepoge2 Page 2 - rCommentory Connecticut The imminent Summer Campus destruction of New England Published by the Connecticut DmUy Campus heading toward their loved ones. Editor in Chief Jeff Denny THE JULY AIR GASPS On the large scale, which takes into con- Business Manager Euan Roklen motionless, intermittantly as the sideration the entire ecosphere, the Office Manager Lois McLean hour of the day sends the staring problems of controlling the ravages of the Production Staff Denise Koch eye of the sun to its apogee-it burns shim- caterpillars are baffling state pest control Sue Lewis mering, pitiless, unchoosing in its malice. and environmental officials. You cannot Diane Speigel Peopling the forest, the trees turn their just geesh the entire state. There would be Sue Klrwin leaves upward in the faint breeze as if they public uproar in the state capitol over were cupped hands begging for water. geeshed relatives and friends, and the in- But suddenly, as if blinked into another surance companies would probably appeal land, you enter a vast area of the woods to the federal government for financial Non-residents get it where those same breezes disturb no assistance to cover their losses. No, you leaves, bend no grasses, shake no shrubs. cannot geesh the entire state. There is no foliage to reflect the omniscient You can kill them in groups, if the one- where it hurts sunlight; it seems as if a war has just ended on-one encounter leaves you cold. Accor- and nature is being asked to set an example: ding to the Connecticut Department of En- A few weeks ago, the UConn Board of Trustees to rebuild the world as it once was. But vironmental Protection, spraying with bac- approved a proposal mandated by the Connec- the trees are bare, and your mind, its logic terial insecticides is the most common, ticut Senate to increase its non-resident tuition by rearranging bits of information, tries to pull easy, and most harmless (to the environ- from memory something to explain the win- ment, you, and me) way of stopping the lit- almost two million dollars. Amid much grum- ter trees in the summer season. Whole pat- tle beasties. B.T., which is the most widely bling among Board members and an open plea ches of woods are decimated, leafless, used insecticide against the gypsy moth from the father of a Rhode Island resident almost as if systematically. caterpillar, is administered by spraying and student, the proposal was approved. But then you remember: the gypsy moth affects only defoliating insects-and there is caterpillars are back for another season of no "human toxicity." To raise the mandated sum, the University creep and feast. must increase the out of state tuition by $800, THERE ARE SEVERAL COMMER- bringing the total tuition up to $1550 per THE FIRST REACTION ONE HAS cial products available to the semester. Compare this to the resident tuition of upon realizing that the little homeowner fearing for his or her $295, and take into consideration that a non- buggars are everywhere (hold still • trees. The most popular, according to there's one on your neck), is "why hasn't Agway in Wilhmantic, is a product called resident must also pay an additional $650 for not someone done something about them?" Sevin spray which, unlike B.T., kills the residing in Connecticut, and you see that it would The problems the gypsy moth caterpillars caterpillars on contact. B.T.'s effectiveness be rather discouraging to attend this state's are causing—mostly the unsightly relies on the caterpillars' eating of leaves largest public educational institution. defoliage -are so obvious that the solution, that are sprayed. Agway says that it may The UConn administration had little choice but too, should be obvious. It is, on the small be too late in the season-trie caterpillars scale: geesh the critters. Step on them, are too big-for B.T. to be effective, so to raise the non-resident tuition, and it realized scrape your shoes. Even those who feel Sevin may be the only solution. that a certain amount of students would change that all creatures great and small have Along with the pesticides, there are their minds about attending UConn for the 1982- souls, and that we humans, being the most devices available on the market which 83 school year. However, the time frame involved advanced critters of them all, should show physically stop the caterpillar's activity. restraint, even those people recognize the "Bag-A-Bug," "Repel-M," and "Band is unfortunate for those students who may have gypsy moth caterpillars as being on the already decided to stay, even though the increase same hit list as would be a wild boar see Commentary, next page question was pending all year. A student overheard in the Student Union last semester was wondering what she was going to 082-J*vk*>(a«yA£us do. She didn't know whether or not her tuition would go up, as she was a non-resident, and she already registered to attend UConn in the fall because she would have been too late to register in her home state. "Where am I sup- posed to get that extra money?" she wondered rhetorically. Once again, it wouldn't be fair to blame the UConn administration for the tuition increase, for they can only appropriate the monies the state legislature allocates-UConn is basically being run in Hartford, not in Storrs. But the ad- ministration must make allowances for students whose plans for the next year have been abruptly affected by the tuition increase. It must not leave them floundering. The Summer Campus is published twice monthly by the Connecticut Daily Campus. Letters may be ad- dressed to the Editor. Box U-189 [15KEN Ur€THIS5INC61HATN0Ba PRK SP6RM BfWOfW,,, Summer shorts By Jeff Denny- moved to California. Of course the California's possibilities are en- accused criminals probably would dless. California could send South Yes,(^omia, have rather been sent to Bermuda Dakota, say, bad air -smog- for • South Dakota does have a sense of humor or St. Croix, but California is nice the South Dakota skies are John almost all year 'round. Denver clean. Perhaps California cV^/ alifornia has been rather Nothing but scorn for its California officials aren't happy could litter the South Dakota lan- generous to the rest of the United "lifestyles," its fruitflies, its fruit- with this arrangement. One can dscape with thousands of pilot TV States in the last twenty years, of- cakes (was Jerry ever really taken imagine their uneasiness at having scripts that never made it to the fering such curiosities as hot seriously?); the entire state has in a wave of criminals infesting their screen. Or condominiums - tubs, Charles Manson, Sirhan fact been written off because it state, singing "California Here I millions of them dotting the moun- Sirhan, Surfin' USA, Johnny Car- would take only one good 'quake Come," and bringing along their tains and prairies, upping real son Jerry Brown (for whom we had to remove it from the Rand lawyers who wreak their own estate values. little appreciation) and, let us not MacNally. special kind of havoc. Special Or, as a final blow, California forget, President Ronald Reagan, Enter South Dakota. Its gover- "criminal colonies," and outlaw could commission a sculptor to add star of one of the longest running nor, William Janklow, admits that communes are sure to spring up- another face to Mount Rushmore: nationally broadcast situation in the last five years, nearly a they may even form their own the visage of the man it sent to the comedies. hundred South Dakota outlaws political coalition. White House in 1980. What, in turn, has the rest of were allowed to avoid prosecution Retaliation may be the only That would surely be a criminal America offered California? for their individual crimes if they move in this situation, and act. Commentary Connecticut Summer Campus, Thursday, June 10, 1982 Frosh orientation scheduledfor 2,500 The Thing that ate Connecticut Orientation for incoming freshmen at UConn will be held between June 7 and July 9. Nearly 2,500 incoming freshmen and transfer students are expected on the Storrs from preceding page campus this summer for orientation. According to Robert G. Desnoyers, director of the student Kill" are just a few of the products that defoliation. Hemlock may be fatal to activities office in the division of student affairs and work on the physical barrier tack. They are philosophers, but for a gyspy moth cater- services,. 12 separate groups of 160 freshmen will each simply thin plastic bands coated with a sticky pillar, it tops off a good meal. Food for spend a day and a half on campus. insecticide that are designed to be wrapped thought. Transfer students will attend a one-day program of around the trunk of affected trees. The Unfortunately, Dr. Lewis' opinion is not orientation and registration June 17, 18 and July 8, 9. caterpillars get to and from their dinner by shared by all. UConn Entomologist Dr. Orientation is conducted by 10 student group leaders,in taking the trunk to the leafy branches, and Milton Savos feels that the gypsy moth groups of 10 to 20 students. Training for the group leaders their trips can be thwarted by the sticky population will increase this year, although was held during the spring semester. plastic strips. the recent heavy rains have "done nothing If humans could eat the gypsy moth good for them." He feels that Connecticut, caterpillars, or would want to eat the gypsy in the summer of 1982.