In the Meat-Cutting Art Afford to Remain

Durham, N.H. Volume 68 Number 3 Friday September 16, 1977 Poulton warns of tu1t1on• • increase• By Kate McClare Savage, UNH director of admis In-state tuition will rise next sions, these students have been semester if the legislature does notifying the University they not grant the University System's would not attend since last Jan .$1 million budget increase, Sy uary. "The bulk had indicated stem Chancellor Bruce Poulton they would not attend by May 1, said yesterday. the date a deposit is due," said Savage. A lop University official said he did not think the increase Savage said there are basically would pass. three reasons why students with "We've :;lbout run out of ::il draw. "For :;l lot of theso kids, ternatives" to increasing tuition, UNH is their second choice. Some Poulton said, without speculating take a year off and their admis on the extent of the expected in-_ sion is deferred until next Sep crease. tember, and some take a year off to work so they c::tn ~fford to at Speaking before the House Ap tend school." propriations Committee, Poulton said the University needs a total Sixty seven per. cent of in-state of $266,000 to cover the cost of ed freshmen who were accepted are ucating new students. He said attending UNH, said Savage, an 1,000 new students are expected unusually high percentage. to attend New Hampshire's four "For every one (in-state stu • i state colleges in the next two dent) who applied and withdrew, years. An additional $689,000 is there were probably one or two t ~,,ii■~~ needed to cope with a nine per who never applied because of the ~7 _,,_,- cent rate of inflation in the cost of cost.'' Poulton added. goods and services, according to The legislature has proposed a Poulton. six per cent cutback in all state Last night was the annual freshman picnic on the lawn of Pres. Mills' home. The He said the increasingly high services•-including e_ducation. president took the opportunity to meet many members of the class of 1981. (Dennis The House-Senate Conference Giguere photo) cost of education in this state is "making the dream of a land Committee is scheduled to debate grant institution dimmer and the issue on Sept. 20. diRllller." "This is not a situation where A total of 829 in-state freshmen we might cut three per cent from have withdrawn from UNH so far where there's been an increase of ·Even cows crowd thi,s class six per cent," Poulton explained this semester, according to Poul ton. He estimated that half left to the committee. "We're really because they found they could not talking about cutting state sup in the meat-cutting art afford to remain. port of an institution where, at But, according to Eugene State Budget, page 18 By Mike Kelly the various edible parts of steers, 'l'hey slaughter them in a ciass Ed Roy, his fly-away hair pigs, sheep and fowl. called Abb~tt?ir Managem~nt. ~ sticking out at improbable angles, The meat which is cut and pac- An abbattmr 1s a slaughtering is expertly putting a razor edge kaged by the students of Intro- room. on his knife. As he runs it across ductory Meats is sold by Thomp- The abbattoir at Thompson Kari-van use doubles the oiled whetstone, the crowd son School at ten per cent above School is adjacent to the meat around pim watches closely wholesale prices to anyone inter- cutting room. It is big, spotlessly They, too, are holding knives. ested. The semester deadline for clean, well-lit by four uncurtained after fares lowered Ed Roy is teacher's assistant filing orders is today. Most ·of windows and painted battleship to John Dodds, professor of Intro the customers, according to grey. A steel door at one e1;1d_ of By Debby Gaul ductory Meats, a class offerred Dodds, are University employees the room leads to the rece1vmg The number of Kari-van riders by the Thompson School of Ap and Durham residents. dock where the hapless beast during the first three days of plied Sciences. The course Thompson School raises many waits. and r~fle~ts on the de class doubled over the same instructs the uninitiated in the of the animals that el'\.d up on pressm~ turn its hfe has.taken. period last year, according to fine mysteries of cleaning, the mammoth stainless steel Once m the slaughtermg room, Kari-van Supervisor Mike Niese. boning, cutting and packaging tables of Introductory Meats. the future sirloin steak or butter Niese said the Kari-van had fly pork chop is stunned uncon- 4,680 riders during the first three scious with a special gun, and days of class, while last year, then bled. The blood is washed 4,500 riders constituted a steady down platter sized drains by fire five day weelc. hoses. Niese said the increase in ri A complicated and powerful sy ders may be a result of the 30 stem of chains, hooks, pulleys per cent decrease in Kari-van and conveyer rods carry the late ticket prices. The shortage of animal through the . various parking spaces may be another stages of boning and cutting into factor, he said. wholesale pieces. Eventually, Last year, Kari-van semester these pieces are carried to the passes cost $30. Now they cost walk-in freezer, where they hang $20. A ten trip ticket, which cost from giant hooks to await the $3 last year, has been reduced to next lab section of Introductory $2 while a round-trip ticket now Meats. costs 40 cents, 20 cents lower than According to Dodds, the meat last year's price. cut in Introductory Meats, The Kari-van makes stops in whether raised by the school or Durham, Dover, Newmarket and Robert Provencher bought wholesale from a com Portsmouth. hopes the number of riders will mercial slaughterhouse, is Over 615 semester passes have increase to 9,000 per week. government inspected, Grade A been sold to date, according to Based on the increase in riders, Choice. The products turned out Niese, who added that 311 was Niese said the price decrease has by the class.are, he says, of ex the most sold in previous semes been "damn successful." cellent quality. ters. He said he anticipates a Despite increased operating The abbattoir and the cutting minimum of 7,500 rides per week costs and lower ticket prices, room are also regular inspected. _this semester, _accommodating an Niese said the Kari-van has been ''Our facilities and our scaies are estimated 700-800 students. With Meatcutters, page 28 · the colder weather, Niese said he Kari-Vans, page 25 INSIDE TM Art Soccer The arts feature re · Transcendental Med views of the current ·The UNH soccer team itation advocates are University Art Gal started their season on back in town, and . leries exhibit, Star a winning note last they're showing off Wars and Soap. Wednesday defeating their ideas. For a look Pages 21-24. 'BU, 1-0 behind the at the TM package, ,heriocs of fullback seepage 4. George Hayner. For details and pictures, turn to page 32. PAGE TWO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 19-77 .,___News Briefs-----. Slain while visiting UNH professor Evacuation Missing woman found murdered Fumes from a smoldering pillow scorched by a high inten sity lamp caused the evacuation of Smith Hall at 1:30 a.m. The body of Jaclynne E. Sen- bush's studying Russian in a lan 1he scene_ and listed the prelimi Wednesday. , der, 22, of Spokane, Wash., was guage program last year at the nary cause of death as head in UNH-Durham fire fighters said the pillow had been smoldering - found at 11:30 Wednesday UniversityofLeningrad. juries caused by a blunt instru for about an hour in room 206. Juniors Janice Brubacker morning off Rte. 155 in Lee. Earlier this week, it was re- ment. and Rebecca Andrew are the residents of the room. No injuries . , The State Attorney General's ported that Sender left Rosen However, Assistant Attorney were reported. office yesterday identified the bush's home on Sept, 4 to view General James Kruse said an Security guard Gerald Beaudoin detected the fumes and body and said Sender was the vie- the - historical sights in Ports autopsy performed by Dr. Neff sounded the alarm which cleared the -btiilaing. Beaudoin said tim of a homicide. mouth. She had taken a small Wednesday night could not pin the students would have been overcome by the fumes if they Sender was reported missing knapsack containing a Bible with point the exact cause of death. had gone undetected much longer. Sept. 4, after she left the Ports- her on the tour, leaving behind He said laboratory tests were mouth home of UNH professor · $500 in travelers' checks and most taken to find the exact cause. Dr. Michael Rosenbush. The of her clothes. Kruse said the giri had been Fire codes young woman was reportedly The Attorney General's office dead between two and ten days visiting with the professor before said the body was found by some before the body was discovered. The UNH-Durham Fire Department has ordered a strict en leaving on a trip to New York one who was collecting refuse a Lee and state police declined to forcement of fire codes in dormitory lounges this year, a move City, where she hoped to find a , long the road. Strafford Coun elaborate on the case, but it was that will affect dorm functions , according to Lt.

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