Student Elections Postponed; Voting Machines Found at Fault
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(Efltmecticut Satlg (Eampua Serving Storrs Since 1896 mL VOL. LXXXI NO. 405 STORRS, CONNECTICUT (203) 429-9384 TUESDAY. APRIL II, 1978 Student elections postponed; voting machines found at fault By LYN M. MUNLEY The faulty programming involved tended to Wednesday to create two agreed to help out at the elections The student election scheduled to only Federation of Student Services full days of voting. again on Wednesday. Donovan said. begin Monday were postponed until Organization (FSSO) Central Commit- "The six or seven students who Joe Wrinn, chairman of the today because of faulty programming tee elections, Groggin said. Elections voted in the Commuter's Union will Commuters Union, said he urges the fo the voting machines, the ichairman proceeded as planned in the graduate need to recast their votes," Donovan hundreds of commuters who wanted of the elections committee said dormitories because Co-op Board and said. to vote and were turned away to Monday. Trustee members are the only candi- The programming of the machines return Tuesday or Wednesday to cast "The machines were programmed dates graduate students will vote for, was done by George Markland. who their ballots. incorrectly for the election. We and the machines are fine for these is the town of Mansfield's election "We had a very good commuter openned one machine in the Student elections, he said. programmer, Donovan said. Repro- turnout and we'd like to see them Union and found out it was wrong," Terry Donovan, chairman of the- gramming of the machines was done come in again. Many commuters Election Committee Chairman Brian Student Trustee Election Committee Monday night by Markland. have class on Monday. Wednesday Goggin said Monday. (STEC), said elections will be ex- The Inter-Fraternity Council has See "Student" pace 4 Ferguson invited to visit Taiwan UConn President Glenn W. fairs Committee and is cur- Ferguson Monday said he rently a member of the •will accept an invitation be- associations Legal Affairs stowed by the minister of Committee. He has also education of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to vist erved as U.S. ambassador China's schools and econo- to Kenya and Peace Corps Director in Thailand, and mic establishments. director of the Peace Corps in Ferguson is one of 14 Washington. executive heads of the Na- tional Association of State University and Land Grant United Press International Colleges (NASULGC) who. with their wives, have been BRIEFLY... Striking Boston school bus drivers picket outside Hudson Bus Line offices in Medford, Mass. invited to visit Taiwan from Monday in the first day of a strike which left 25,000 students without transportation to school. April 22-29, according to The drivers say they are concerned about money, job security and safety. Ralph K. Huitt. executive director of NASULGC. ROME (UPI) — Red A spokesman at the Chi- Brigades terrorists Mon- nese embassy in Washington day released a rambling, said the visitors will meet Tuition credit still alive petulant letter purportedly with the minister of educa- from kidnapped former tion in Taiwan and will visit Premier Aldo Moro in which universities and colleges to WASHINGTON (UPI) — Tax credits for debate centered on whether tax credits should he pleaded again that the confer with the administra- school tuition survived an initial test in the be limited to colleges or should go to government exchange him tors, faculty members, and House Ways and Means Committee Monday elementary and secondary schools as well. for jailed Red Brigade students. despite strong last-minute opposition from the There also is a question as to whether credits members. administration and private education organi- for church school students would be constitu- The visit will be paid for by zations. tional. the Chinese government to The committee, holding its first drafting Under consideration is a proposal by Rep. lay the foundation for co- session on the tuition credit plan, voted 24-13 Charles Vanik which would allow a tax credit operatvie activities between American and Chinese col- The Weather: Cloudy with a against a motion to kill the proposal. of 50 per cent of tuition charges up to a chance of showers. Highs leges, including student and Republicans on the committee are solidly maximum credit of $100 for elementary and inth* 60s. Thunderstorms behind tax credits, but Democrats are divided. secondary tuition and up to $250 for college faculty exchange programs, the spokesman indicated. possible tonight. In a hearing room crammed with pressure tuition. It would be phased in over three years groups — some wearing buttons saying with the initial 1978 credits limited to $50 and Ferguson has served on the "STop Tuition Tax Credits" — committee $100. NASULGC International Af- Gray, assistants indicted for Weatherman case WASHINGTON (UPI) — Former Kearney, the FBI supervisor in New chief Edward S. Miller were charged certain illegal activities in the FBI's FBI chief Patrick Gray of Stonington, York who until Monday had been the in U.S. District Court with 32 overt pursuit of the Weatherman fugi- Connecticut and two of his senior only person accused in the bureau's acts of conspiring to violate civil tives," government lawyers said in assistants were indicted Monday for fight against the radical group. rights in their surveillance of sus- New York, where U.S. District Judge ordering agents to conduct break-ins, Kearney, he said, was only carrying pected assocaites of the Weatherman Kevin Duffy dismissed charges a- tap telephones and read private mail out orders. radicals, Bell said. gainst Kearney. in their hunt for Weatherman radi- But■ Bell also said less serious Justice Department officials said cals in the early 1970s. disciplinary action will be taken the maximum penatly is 10 years in Bell said among those facing Attorney General Griffin Bell said against 70 people, including FBI prison and a $10,000 fine. disciplinary action is J. Wallace only the "higher-ups" of the bureau agents and Justice Department offi- "There has been uncovered ... LaPrade. now director of the New should face charges for such illegal cials. documentary proof that officails at York City FBI office, "for his conduct activities. Bell said for that reason he Gray, assocaite FBI director Mark the highest levels of the FBI were in these matters and during the was dropping charges against John Felt, and former FBI intelligence aware of. and did in fact authorize. course of the investigation." Connecticut Daily Campus, Tuesday. April 11, 1978 (Einmirttrut Saiiy (Sampna Serving Storrs Since 1896 Out of the frying pan MARK A DUPUIS'EdiW-ln-Chtel CRAIGK S»E«Y/Bu«ir»ea«Menaoer JOHN HILL HI/Managing Editor and into the big house VIVIAN | MABTIN/Associate Editor Elaine, Luther said, had repented By JIM FITZGERALD of having called the cops on him for assualting her. She wanted to kiss Stop the steamroller and make up. Luther beat hell out of his sweetheart, Elaine, and she went ,TCan't we forget the whole running to the cops. Soon, Luther thing?" Luther asked. The resident student government budget was going to run a deficit for was facing an assault charge in voted last week to draft a resolution the year, yet there was no fee court. Because his cash flow was calling for a $5 per semester increase proposal, no alternative to somewhat impaired, Luther ended IF IT FIT! increase in the room fee at UConn. It the appropriation of the lounges. up with Delahanty, a court-appoint- is an unusual action for a student The student government is being ed lawyer, representing him. government to take, but they — and forced into the unpleasant position DELAHANTY PATIENTLY ex- students in some 16 dormitories of doing the administration's fee- plained that the cops had gone to a across campus — are in an unusual lobbying dirty work. The administra- Luther's story was told to me by lot of trouble to bring Luther to situation. tion knows full well there will have Delahanty, except Delahanty isn't court, and it wasn't that simple to THE OFFICE OF Residential Life to be some kind of fee increase his real name. He insists that his get them out of the picture. But has said it will convert 31 lounges in either this year or next year — the real name must remain secret Delahanty had an idea. 16 dormitories into three and four lounge conversion plan is at best a because: "The State Bar Grievance person rooms next fall to eliminate a stop-gap measure. Board looks dimly upon lawyers Delanhanty related Elaine's deficit in that department's budget. STUDENTS IN University-run generating professional publicity for change of heart to the detective in But it is being done unilaterally, dormitories pay for all the services themselves and I'm already in charge of the case. "Elaine is on without consulting the students in those halls, their fees subsidize enough trouble." ADC," Delahanty said. "If Luther involved. Since last January, when the entire housing operation. But marries her, she'll be off ADC and the plan was made public, its main while they pay for the operations AS YOU may have noted from Luther instead of the taxpayers will feature has been its arrogance and they have little or no say in how the things I've written previously, the support the kids." total disregard for the persons who halls are run. The University has most affectionate feeling I can are going to lose lounge space handed them a fait accompli, triples usually generate for a lawyer is The detective liked the idea and beacuse of it. The administration or quadruples in their lounges and a apathy. But Delahanty has caught agreed to adjourn the case for a has put the student government and probable fee increase in November.