The New Hampshire, Vol. 65, No. 29

Apprehensive faculty await first System By Martha Burdick the chancellor until he or she was known trustees split Bonner’s murkily designed thelfbM tl d the and tested. job into the UNH presidency and the s ta t^ t The first University System Chancellor Not that the chancellor position is en system Chancellor. cription in may greet a Durham faculty which The tirely new. The System had a real but in Some might imagine the chancellor’s the fcl^fe V it becomes _ 'W the New Hampshire found apprehensive, neg formal chancellor in former UNH Presi job as Bonner practiced it diplomatic chanaSjjdft fiuSinto t =7rv'^cheme, ative or, at best, resigned to the arrival dent Thomas Bonner. When Bonner first representative to the legislature and state trustee^najjHnan and ancellor and powers of the new System head. arrived in Durham in 1971, he was at large, unofficial System policy designer Phillip D ' The University’s 25-person board of charged by the trustees to carry on with and most visible administrator in Univer The first o stem man will trustees will hopefully have a final nomi development of the then eight-year old sity affairs. “have the opportunity to impress his per nee, or nominees to consider as Chancel System, a job he filled with such fervor Whether the new chancellor will follow sonality on the job and set precedents,” lor at their April meeting. he was often times more chancellor than Bonner’s pattern is impossible to predict as UNH associate professor of political But the faculty doesn’t seem ready for UNH president. now. The official job description is pur science Joseph Ford said. it. The 12 UNH faculty members ques But with Bonner’s sudden departure in posefully vague to allow the new chancel Trustees and administrators close to tioned by The New Hampshire last week May 1974 to become president of Union lor room to grow into and mold the posi CHANCELLOR, page 4 didn’t know what to think or expect of College in Schenectedy, New York, the tion as he or she becomes familiar with the new hampshire Volume 65 Number 29 Tuesday, February 18, 1975 Durham, N.H. Student senators block proposed pass-fail change voted against the proposal to limit pass- By Craig Staples fail, and practically all faculty senators A motion which would have limited voted in favor of the motion. Four facul student use of pass-fail in University aca ty senators abstained.. demic requirements was defeated in the The Senate voted after debating for ap University Senate yesterday afternoon by proximately 45 minutes. The issue had one vote. been the subject of discussion in faculty The Senate voted 43-24 in favor of the and student circles since September. motion, one vote short of the two-thirds The Senate Educational Policy Com majority needed for passage mittee spent three months drafting the Had the proposal passed, students proposal. would have been able to take only one of History professor Hans Heilbronner ex the four science and math (group I) re pressed anger at student senators saying, quirements and only one of the four arts, “I hope you people are satisfied.” He humanities and social science (group II) termed the Senate action “a legislative requirements pass-fail. The new policy tyranny,” saying that the students’ inois also would have prohibited students from tence on a two-thirds vote was “an abso taking English 401 pass-fail. lutely unfair way of voting.” The Senate vote reflected definite bloc “Don’t you see? The faculty will now voting on the part of both faculty and students. All but two student senators PASS/FAIL, page 7 Recession INSIDE ‘Yosemite Sam’ was created by Alpha Xi Delta. See pages 10 and 11 for other Winter Carter at meeting Carnival photos. reaches area Frank Carter III appeared unex pectedly before Sunday night’s Student Caucus meeting. For this Casino deals Dusinessmen and other caucus news see page 3. By Michael D’Antonio and Michael Fish gambler his The ailing economy has hit students Board of Trustees hard and Durham businessmen harder. The University Board of Trus “People now refer to our store as Shop tees held its monthly meeting in just reward and Steal,” said Shop N Save grocery Durham Saturday. For details see manager David Demers. page 5. According to Brooks Discounts’ Paul By Tom Osenton Adams, “Mom and Dad are not sending the students as much money as before.” I mosied into the Memorial Union Entertainment All eight merchants interviewed last week about 8:30 Friday night and made my agreed they have the usual number of cus In Arts and Entertainment (page way through the crowd in search of the tomers, but they’re spending less. 13), a look at last week’s Maynard Casino. The line for the pub stretched Keg room owner Nicholas Karabelas has Ferguson appearances and a review up the stairs-but drink could wait. Per lowered his prices to “help the kids out” of the TV special Queen of the haps later. Stardust Ballroom. The doors of the Casino were held open RECESSION, page 15 oy prospective gamblers that were work ing up enough nerve to go to work. I couldn’t wait. My hands were sweating. I needed chips. Frank A. Carter III I threw my money down on the table and the lady pushed the purple and yel Would be his ‘own man’ as trustee low chips toward me. I specifically asked for 10’s and 25’s. There would be no mis pointment last week typified by hesitan By Patty Blute take about it—I would bet heavy or not at cy has given way to a decided confidence all. I scooped up the chips and headed for Frank Carter III, Governor Meldrim and definite plans. “I don’t understand a table. Thomson’s appointed student trustee, why” is his answer to people who label The blackjack tables were all filled and wants “to be judged” by his “perfor his appointment a “political favor.” many of them had waiting lines for seats. mance” not by his political affiliations. Carter’s qualifications include his bona I watched for a moment as one man Political affiliations for Carter are like fide residence of New Hampshire, which threw a fistful of 25’s on the table. The next door neighbors for most people. had been contested earlier, his junior high dealer was cool and experienced and was Carter doesn’t seem visably moved by “ highest honors,” his completing the instrumental in introducing a game simi the commotion his appointment has Philips Exeter Academy in three and a lar to blackjack to the gambler. caused. He’s comfortable in a three- gen half years, and his current status of honor He snapped the cards off the deck and eration-old political family surrounded by student at UNH. placed them down with machine-like pre Joan Levine photo numerous autographed photographs, a He is a three year ROTC scholarship re cision. In between deals, he played with Tom Osenton, with the hood and long presidential pen, citations and yellowed cipient and a member of the Tenth New his handlebar mustache. string of ‘chips’, prepares to go for newspaper clippings of yesterday’s politi Hampshire Volunteers.iHe was awarded the CASINO, page 5 broke at Friday’s Night of Sin in the cal achievements for the Carter family. Memorial Union Building. Carter’s “surprised” reaction to his ap CARTER, page 3 PAGE TWO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE TUESDAY FEBRUARY 18, 1975 WUNH increases staff and programming By John LaBranche Radio station WUNH is experi encing something of a renais sance according to the station’s new general manager, Scott Hartley. The station was faced last sem ester with a shortage of announ cers, and with what Hartley termed “an inability of the management to work together.” “It used to be the station’s policy not to try new ap proaches to programming. Now, if it sounds good w e’ll give it a try and see if it works,” said Hartley. Last sem ester’s announcer shortage has reversed itself and Rick Tracewski photo Hartley is confident the station WUNH program director Leon will not be plagued with the Boole. “dead air” problem it faced then. At various times during the Thursday and Sunday the sta fall semester the station was tion remains on the air. 24 hours. George Forcier photo forced off the air by personnel Hartley hopes to keep the sta This cosmic ray telescope arrived at UNH yesterday from Cornell University, who gave UNH the tele shortages for as much as two tion on the air 24 hours a day, 7 scope for the cost of transportation. The instrument - originally flown on a balloon to look for gamma hours at a time during the nor days a week, with the new crop rays - will be mounted on the roof of Demerrit Hall for use by the Physics Department in locating mal broadcast day. of announcers. cosmic ray sources. Until it can be mounted, the telescope will be stored under a taupe at the Service According to Hartley the sta Increased broadcasting time Department building. Original cost of the telescope is estimated by physics professor William Webber will mean higher operating ex at $100,000. tion now has 35 announcers working and 20 prospective an penses. The cost of electricity nouncers taking Saturday train alone will soar in the face of a ing workshops run by the sta 24-hour transmitting schedule. tion’s chief announcer, Diane This means a larger portion of Students admit to $100 theft Sawyer.

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