-INSIDE~ The men's basketball Calendar__ page 5 The Battle of the Bands team beat Colgate 53-47 appeared before· a packed last night in Durham to Notices--page 6 MUB Pub audience Fri­ advance in the tourna­ Editodal page 12 day. See story page 15. ment to play Canisius. See F eatures.,_page l 5 story page 24. Sports--page 24 The New Hampshire N .H. Bulk Rate U.S. Postaae Paid Vol. 75 No. 37 TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1985 862-1490 Durham, · Durham N.H. Permit #30 Students take. on shuttle·plans By Andrea Holbrook worked out within the commit­ A bill for the formation of a tee format and sets the ground­ Student Transportation Asso­ work for student involvement," ciation (STA) ad hoc Committee he said. passed the Student Senate last Student Body President John Sunday night. Davis said the committee will The ad hoc committee will push for implementation of .. control the $91,500 raised by Miller's Parking and Transit the Student Activity Fee (SAF) plan. charge of $10 per full-time Miller proposed a "three­ undergraduate student. pronged plan: a shuttle system The funds will be spent with for transport about campus, the Student Senate's approval including more flexible parking, based on recommendations by and increased parking fee, and the committee. a more efficient and usable Kari­ The committee will make Van system." recommendations concerning The committee will study the the areas of the Kari-Van, creation of a campus shuttle campus parking, the campus system, concentrating on areas shuttle, and other parking and of funding, routes, times, and transportation issues. student input. The STA ad hoc J . Gregg Sanborn, dean of committee will recommend one Three members of the UNH Crew Club work-out on ergometers during last weekends student affairs, withdrew a of three oper.ating procedures fundraising Row-a-thon.(Dan Splaine photo) proposal he presented the Stu­ for the STA to use. They include: dent Senate last week. Sanborn's • A completely student proposal, a pared down version owned and operated shuttle of Facilities Planning Director system using other university Patrick Miller's, concentrated (for example, UMass) systems Student injured in roof fall primarilx on the shuttle system, as examples; which would be funded by a • Supplementing the shuttle By Kelly Anderson students are responsible for "This is a teachable moment," mandatory fee. service with COAST and Kari­ UNH sophomore James Cop­ their own well-being." she said. "I want students to Sanborn said, "My concern Van buses; pins remains in stable condition Staff in Engelhardt handled know that it can happen and was primarily with the best • a complete contracting of at Wentworth Douglas Hospital this problem "very well," she that it does happen." possible arrangement for great­ services from COAST and the after falling to the ground from said. The hospital spokesperson er student involvement without Kari-Van office. the roof of Engelhardt Hall at Bischoff said similar kinds said she does not know when getting into a standoff between The ST A ad hoc committee 1 :30 am Saturday. of things have happened at Coppins will be released. He is total student control and total will study the possibility of more Coppins suffered a broken UNH in the past, and that "it expected to return to UNH, administrative control. wrist and nose, a bruised left could have been a lot worse." Bischoff said. "I feel any roblems can be SHUTTLE, page 18 side, and other-"bumps and bruises," said a hospital s po­ kes person. "The accident was alcohol­ Polls Landen wants 'train' ride related," said CarorBischoff, director of Residential Life. By W. Glenn Stevens · The students involved had open Academic vice presidential been confronted earlier Frid_ay candidate Robert Landen ex­ night by Engelhardt Hall Direc­ pressed an open-minded ap­ tor Kurt Reslow, said Bischoff. proach to university adminis­ After returning to his room, today tration while speaking to Coppins climbed out his third students and faculty members floor window and onto the roof By Christina Felix yesterday in the Forum Room of the dormitory. At this point An election will be held today of Dimond Library. students notified Reslow about and tomorrow, March 5 and 6, Landen, dean of the College what was going on, she said. to elect a student to the Uni- · of Liberal Arts at the University "They showed they were good versity System of New Hamp­ of Tennessee said "This place friends by coming to get me," shire (USNH) Board of Trus­ (UNH) has an agenda and I'm Reslow said. tees. interested in what you all have Reslow said he is planning Candidates running in the to say." a floor meeting with Hood election are Chris Guimont, a The last of the five candidates House Alcohol and Drug Educator junior chemical engineering to visit the campus, Landen said Kathleen Gildea-Dinzeo to "dis­ major, Ken Bartlett, a junior "UNH is like a moving freight cuss why people think it hap­ ·business major, Chris Heisen­ train and I'm just jumpin' on." pened, whether they think it's berg, a sophomore enrolled in Landen said he feels that right that it happened, and how the College of Liberal Arts, and integration between colleges they think they can prevent it Jeff Bennett, a sophomore pol­ is a very important aspect of in the future." Residential Life itical science major. university life. officials have no specific plans The polls will be open from He said "The main thing to regarding the incident, said 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. inside the do is build bridges between the Bischoff. MUB, Stoke Hall, Kingsbury different colleges. You build "We have an ongoing policy, Hall, the Whittemore School very slowly by cooperation." and the staff is doing well of Business and Economics A native New Englander, addressing problems as they (WSBE) and Dimond Library. Landen said "I am one of the occur," she said. The upper level of Huddles- few people who was ac_tually Robert Landen, t e last of five candidates for the position of "Residential Life can only do Vice President for Academic Affairs spoke -in the Forum Room so much," she said. "After that POLLS, page 10 V.PRESIDENT, page 9 of the library esterda .(Charles Smith r. hoto) PAGE TWO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1985 Flicker effect research could let ·computers see By David Olson lower the brightness of 250,000 separate objects. Retsearchers at UN1-I's Vision dots on a television screen Smith also said "the differ­ Laboratory have developed tech­ through 255 levels. The images ence between a kiddie biock and niques for making blurry pic­ app~ar to pulsate as they appear just about everything else is very tures appear clear by utiliz1ng more clearly. large." a visual phenomena called the "Attempts to program com­ At ihis point in time, deter­ flicker effect. puters for sight have unders­ mining groups of objects such The methods developed at the cored the great complexity of as the kiddie blocks, is the extent Vision Laboratory will help perception," said Smith. of a computers ability to see. interpret satellite photography, Smith said only the most Smith hopes the development and help improve night vision sophisticated computers can of the flicker effect will allow technology, said Robert Smith, now interpret simple scenes and computers, linked with televi­ Vision Laboratory director. be able to infer that a group of sion cameras, to see as a human The researchers are also in­ equally sized kiddie blocks, is being would see. vestigating how motion is per­ not one object but a pile of ceived and ways computers might be programmed to see as humans do. Hunger Week continues Smith, an experimental psy­ chologist who has been at UNH for 10 years, said the techniques Jolley says Durham residents hungry involve "flickering an image" - showing ditterent versions of fly Ken fish towns, with nearly 23 percent beans in the soup, was US report shows Mississippi with a single picture in rapid succes­ "Is it harder for us to imagine of its residents living below the government surplus. the highest percentage of people sion. starvation (in 20 million Amer­ New Hampshire poverty level Clint Hughes, one of the living below the poverty level­ "By repeatedly and rapidly icans)? Is it too much coverage of $7,356, as stated by a 1979 volunteers, said the fresh beans nearly 24 percent. changing the image, somehow of starving children in Africa US Bureau of Census report. came from his garden. "I spent qvo years abroad. this enables people to sort out with their bloated bellies and This figure does not include "We serve these meals three When I came back to the US and the images from all the snow," flies crawling around their students on or off-campus, times a week at the Rochester looked at what I saw in our said Smith. noses? Is it too much of the hosp.itals, prisons, or other Methodist Church," he said, supermarkets, I was stunned by Smith established the Vision Protestant ethic ('people should social institutions. "and I always fix enough for 75 the variety of foods we have," Laboratory in 1982. The project be able to pull themselves up Durham, however, is also people or so ... People give us Jolley said; using for example is being funded by a four year by their own bootstraps')? I ranked first in the state with containers to fill up afterward; salad dressings: there are 88 Air Force grant, which expires don't know. It seems easier to the highest median income level we never have anything left different types.