She sees more than those with sight By Jackie Fitzpatrick her fingertips. Life/ Style Editor It took two years ot practice in a production She puts on her earphones, turns down dial room with John Murphy, station manager at five, turns up dial six, and pulls down a mic- WHUS. for Bochain to learn the ropes of an- rophone, speaking into it. "You're listening to nouncing. WHUS, 91.7 on your FM dial. Good morning, But the time and effort spent were worth it I'm Dena Bochain, and this is Morning for her. She says she is now where she wanted Classics." Then she turns off the mike, she to be all her life, on the air, that strange, won- flips the needle onto the record then turns up derful, weird world of radio, as she calls it. the volume. Timing smooth, as usual, it's She is on the air each Tuesday morning another Tuesday morning program for from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. And she also does a fea- Dena Bochain. ture program called 'Believe It or Not" for the Like all radio announcers, Bochain had to Connecticut Radio Information Service of work hard to get over mike fright, to make the Wethersfield, a radio service for the vision- timing right. And she's had to work much impaired and handicapped which is carried harder. on a closed-circuit via different carrier sta- Bochain, 35, is blind, suffers from Cerebral tions throughout the state. And her Palsy, and has little sensory awareness in See page 8 Inside Today: Forecast: Cosmos 4, Fog and drizzle ending this morning, remaining mostly cloudy through the day. Highs 45-50. Partly cloudy Huskies 0 tonight, lows 35-40. Mostly cloudy and warm Tuesday, highs 50-55. page sixteen Mud Index: 7 1/2. Glurp, gluck. (Emuwrtintf latlg (Kmnpita Serving Storrs Since 1896 Vol. DOOM No. 105 The University of Connecticut Former arms negotiator: Soviets spreading panic in West WASHINGTON (AP)--The "They could deploy weapons myko's criticisms of Reagan's Soviet Union is trying to spread in Cuba," he continued. "Or latest proposal, saying that the "political panic" among the they could walk out of the arms Soviet Union is seeking only Western allies with threats of • control negotiations." nuclear parity with the West. countermeasures if the United Also interviewed on the pro- "We don't believe...that you States deploys nuclear missiles gram was Georgi A. Arbatov, can have a lasting peace based in Europe, a former U.S. arms director of the Soviet Union's on arms of terror and we are control negotiator said Institute of the U.SA. and just now at the crossroads Sunday. Canada. where we must make the cru- "The Soviet Union is trying to Arbatov reiterated Gro- cial choice," he said. whipsaw the United States and its allies by generating political panic on both sides of the Atlan - WHUS: tic ocean," Eugene V. Rostow said on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley." He indicated, however, that USG maintains hold he feels the Soviet threats are By Brian Dion negotiating tactics that could Staff Writer change with the approach of Discarding a compromise reached between the Undergrad- December and the planned uate Student Government and WHUS after two weeks of ne- deployment of the first of 572 gotiations, the assembly voted Thursday night that the radio medium-range US. missiles in station may gain financial independence of the USG only if its Europe. finance board is made up entirely of USG members. "I've said over and over again WHUS receives $2 per student from the USG. Staff members are I don't expect any move on the hoping to gain financial independence from USG Soviets' part until five minutes before 12, until we're just about USG supported this move since January but rejected the ready to deploy," he said. WHUS proposal to have a finance board of USG members, WHUS Rostow, who was fired by staff and radio professionals. President Reagan in January as A finance board is required by the university if WHUS is head of the Arms Control and separated from USG. The finance board would develop the Afternoon sunlight streams through the Student Union Disarmament Agency, made budget, allocate money to departments and establish guidelines lobby (George Edwards photo). the remarks one day after for paid employees of WHUS. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Suzan Bibisi, WHUS operations manager, said "it upsets me to Gromyko termed Reagan's see thenxact in bad faith by adding their own clause te our com- latest missile-reduction pro- promise," She said the staff was pleased with the compromise on We apologize.. posal unacceptable. the finance board's makeup reached last weekend. "I'm disappointed but not Tom Farrish expressed many USG members' views by saying surprised with what Gromyko "fiscal authority should stay with the student assembly." The Daily Campus staff apologizes for the complications said yesterday," Rostow said. Most USG members agreed that they are dissatisfied with that prevented publication of Friday's edition. A burglary in He said the undisclosed WHUS' programming and that there is no student interest in tli Willimantic at The Chronicle, which prints the newspaper, Soviet countermeasure could alternative type FM station. Jason Westcott, USG representative. resulted in the loss of proof sheets needed for production. include deployment of "many See page three for details. more weapons." See page 3 Poge2 Opinion (Hiirmccti cut Sattfl (Eampua Letters S*vmg Store Smc* 1896 to ? Monday, April 4, 1983 As far as I'm concerned, Scott's bill creates an environment more democratic than the one in Editor Editor in cfiiel *■ 0*** place now. If SB 626 is approved by the Assem- Managing Editor Mark Almond bly political activity will go on not by taxing all Business Monoger Evan Roklen the students regardless of their viewpoints, but Oflice Monoger f Lois McLean by collecting money from students who sin- Advertising Monoger " Diane Spiegel Senior Writer ... Dave Kjechevsky Ignore KKK, PLP, INCAR cerely desire to fund these activities. News Aimee Hortnett. Jim Cohill Bob Brennon. Steve Gerssler. Bill Hanrahon David R. Lindquist Sports Tom Resteili. Dona Gouruder, Kim Hormon To the editor: Editor's note: Regardless of the mode of Arts Steve Hewins, Corta Von Kampen Dan Davison Features Jockie Fitzpafrick, Borbora Zombelli On April 30, the Ku Klux Klan will hold a check-off, anybody who does not wish to pay S3 Wire Stephanie Rutty Jean Cronin. Sue Wailionis march in Meriden which they are billing, in part, per semester to help fund UConnPIRG is not Copy Kathy Brody. Shelley Wolf as a "march against communism." Since the required to. SB 626 is, but should not be, based justoguy Jo^P" Whiting KKK is a racist organization, I hope that no prin- on the notion that students disregard the nega- Photography Jock Wilson, Charles Hisey, George EoWords cipled anti-communists will be fooled into join- Asst Business Manager "ene Feldman tive check-off and are forced, out of ignorance, Asst Ad Monoger Liz Groaa ing their march. By the same token, however, 1 to help fund UConnPIRG Ad Productior Manager Rosemary Homes hope that no principled anti-racists will be Again, we stress, that though SB 626 is aimed Asst Ad Production Cathy Fisher fooled into joining the opposition march organ- at the method by which UConnPIRG obtains Night Productior Monoge' S* Dowden ized by INCAR and the Progressive Labor Party, Ciassitiec Manager Chen O'Neil funding, if SB 626 passes, the Daily Campus Circulation Monoge1 Rhoda Shaponik which are militantly (and often violently) pro- won't be allowed to editorialize and political Ad Reps Aoron Spicker Rob Sorcher, Diane Nome communist. What the KKK, the PLP, and INCAR guest speakers cannot be invited to campus Receptionists Liso Durozo Theresa Johnson Shoion Londry. Jockie Bonser all have in common, besides their hypocritical courtesy of student fees. The bill, if passed, Production Staff Lynn Bodetko. Dennis Donovan Lisa Gognon. Robert Grower invocation of various ideals as a form of ideo- Lawrence Herter Diane Twigg Cathy McKinney Julie O'Connell, Tahona Pina, could be applied to any and all forms of polit- Margaret Sonntog Mirella Pollitrone, Jamie Speer Howard Urban. Laura UHasz. Sue Kirwm. logical smokescreen, is an abiding hatred of ical advocacy. Editorializing is political Leslie Baker Roxonne Ryan Amonda Spieimon Brian Dion Jennifer Restieaux Putnam. democracy and a commitment to violence. They advocacy; guest speakers will advocate certain Jim Peron Chris Smith, Jane Tumicki. Beth Bovan apply the logic and tactics of terrorists and Renee Rosott. Gordie Lustila positions on controversial issues (we hope). vigilantes to problems of social change. Worst We did not admit'that student money is , of all, they usurp, and thereby undermine, valid allotted for advocacy, we assert that it is and legitimate causes that already have broad because democracy thrives on advocacy. No Daily Campus? popular support. INCAR and the PLP corrupt and discredit the struggle against communism. The best course of action for people who are I t was not a good Friday for the student sincerely opposed to both racism and com- newspaper. munism would be to stay away from Meriden on Nicaraguan victory The Daily Campus was not available to its 10,000 April 30 and urge the legal authorities to meet readers Friday because it wasn't published. It wasn't with legitimate and impartial force the unlawful U.S. -sponsored violence that we have come to expect from the To the editor: published because the production proofs, from which KKK, PLP. and INCAR alike.