Refinery reaction p.3 Bridle jr.3 Waif p.5 the new VOLUME 64 NUMBER 21 CEMBER 7, 1973 Official puts refinery pollution at 68 tons a day by R on Carlson The chairman of the Durham “In 1969 even the State High­ Conservation Commission told a way Commission said they packed audience in the St. would co-operate with the re­ Thomas More Youth Center port” when they were planning a Tuesday night that the Olympic belt around the town said oil refinery proposed for Dur­ Strout. ham Point will produce 68 tons -270 Foot Stack- of solid pollutants per day. Gail Ulrich, a Chemical En­ Richard Strauss said that ac­ gineer, said at the meeting that cording to Olympic’s estimate, the. plans for the refinery call for one tenth of one percent of the one 270 foot smoke stack. This refinery’s 400,000 barrel-a-day is about the same size as the through put will be discharged as stack at the Public Service Com­ pollutants. pany of N.H. plant in Ports­ The pollutants would be piped mouth. out under Great Bay to the area Ulrich said that the plans call around the Isle of Shoals ac­ for 45 storage tanks “40 feet cording To the Oil Company’s high and with a diameter about plan for the refinery. the size of a football field.” Strout said a report issued by “In addition, the refinery the Planning Services Group of would have two large columns Cambridge Massachusetts in and a number of smaller 1969 stated Durham Point has columns. It will be the largest built from scratch in the U.S. more potential as a “wilderness” and it will be capable of pro­ than it would have “developed.” Town Selectman Alden Winn, UNH Economist James Horrigan and ducing four percent of the total The report by the planning State Representative Dudley W. Dudley at SOS meeting. U.S. oil production,” he said. service said that the area around Photo by Matteson Dame Road should be used as a The area proposed by the oil “regional wilderness or park.” company is equivalent to an area 4 square miles large. Strout said, “1000 acres of land now optioned by the Oil “In my opinion there may be Company is earmarked for con­ a good place in New Hampshire Gays take first strike servation purposes by the re­ for an oil refinery,” said Ulrich, port.” “but this refinery is pre­ posterous.” He stressed that this report ► was issued by “an unbiased out- 11 lose initial court case of-state organization.” It’s one down and two to go Trustee’s order and the Court’s its own petition in at the Straf­ for the Gay Students Organiza­ decision might provoke the ford County Superior Court, tion. Trustees to disband the GSO. asking for a “declaratory judge­ Small voter turnout A federal court judge has ref­ The GSO met last night to de­ ment” on the issue of the GSO. used to put a temporary cide what they would do if any­ This petition asks the court to The number of students voting the other in the Registrar’s restraint on the Board of Trust­ thing, after the play. One pass an opinion on the Trustees’ in the first two days of the Stu­ Office in Thompson Hall, which ees which has forbidden the Gay p o ssib ility is to relabel the right to limit the activities of the dent Body Presidential elections closes at 4:00. Students Organization from planned reception as som ething GSO. is low, according to the current holding any “social functions.” other than a “social function’” This petition, which will most president, Paul Tosi. Vice Provost of Student Af­ American Civil Liberties likely not be heard until fairs Richard Stevens does have Union attorney Richard Kohn January, also asks whether the When the Student Govern­ the authority to permit the GGO rejjie&tjnlixig tilt; Gays, Is writing Board of Trustees has the right ment Office closed last night at Vets get to hold activities other than another petition, this one for an to revoke the Gays charter - to 10:00, they had counted 2500 “social functions” which are injunction to be heard in the disband the organization. ballots with better than one-half “dances or parties” by Federal District Court. And the Wayne April said he thought of the residential districts still to January definition of the University ad­ UNH administration has its own that the Trustees had “finked be included. ministration. The Board of petition in the Strafford County out” on the Gays by bringing Trustees has forbidden Stevens “Considering what has been Superior Court asking for a de­ this suit. to allow the GSO to hold “social done, it could be a lot better,” “ bennies” claratory7 judgement. But the Board of Trustees functions.” Tosi said. The decision , handed down Chairman Philip Dunlap said, What “social functions” are UNH’s 900-plus veterans will Monday by Federal Judge Hugh “Well I’m not sure that I know “ One reason for the light exactly is a confusing issue; the get their benefits from the Vet­ Bownes in Concord, leaves the what “finked out” means, but if vote,” he added, “is Kelley Board of Trustees said only that eran’s Administration for the Organization unsure whether or it means that we’ve changed our Simpson dropping from the race. the GSO may not hold social month of January even if they not they will hold a proposed re­ original position, well, we A lot of people may have not functions, but left the definition are not on campus. ception after the play ‘Coming haven’t.” voted because of this.” According to Steven Smith, of the term up the the Univer­ “I know of no member of the Out’ which they will sponsor who heads the veteran’s office sity administrators. Tosi feels that 50 percent tonight. Board of Trustees,” said Dunlap, on campus, Bob Turner from The petition which was denied “who has demonstrated unusual turnout would be a good repre­ Bownes denied the GSO’s Congressman James Cleveland’s by Bownes asked only for a sentation. He projects a final petition because, he said, the animosity or shown a desire to office in Concord, N.H., called temporary order on the Trustees count of just over 35 percent. constitutional rights of GSO remove any students or organ­ him Wednesday night to “con­ members would not be “irrep- for the single event planned for ization from the campus.” after tonight’s play. No figures on how the voting firm that the V.A. in Washington airably damaged’ by not being Asked whether he felt that But the GSO, through their was going were released because had decided to pay veterans in able to hold the social function Governor Thomson or Allen lawyer Richard Kohn of the the balloting will be continued January.” scheduled for Friday. Bridle had demonstrated such an American Civil Liberties Union, through today. This will apply to “all insti­ Louis Kelly, treasurer of the attitude, Dunlap said, “Well I is now writing another petition tutes of higher learning.” GSO said, “we might get mili­ suppose that they have shown a which will ask for an injunction Two polling places will be Further information can be tant.” desire to have the organization on the Trustees’ order. This in­ open this afternoon, one on the obtained from the Office of But later Wednesday after­ junction would be permanent. removed, ” but that he knew of top floor of the Memorial Veteran’s Affairs in Brook noon, April felt that to defy the Meanwhile, the University has no other trustee who felt tha£ waY- Union, which closes at 3:00 and House, phone 862-2031. roundaboutMUSO DANCE: Back by popular de­ U llhSTUDENT ENSEMBLE CONCERT: W IND ENSEM BLE CO NCERT: Sere- m a n d , “ Fox," Strafford Room, The program will feature Percussion Unless otherwise stated, events listed nade, op. 44 by Dvorak, TUESDAY AT ONE: Gary Lindberg, MUB, 8-12 p.m. Admission $1.00. Ensemble Woodwind Quintet, and visiting Assistant Professor at Rhode in this calendar are free of charge. To “ Hammersmith” by Holst, Walton’s Baroque Trio. The Bartok “Sonata list' events in Roundabout, take no­ “ Facade” and “Concertante” by Island College, will speak on BASKETBALL: St. Anselm’s Field for Two Pianos and Percussion” will tices to the Administrative Office of Norman Dello Joio. Stanley “ Melville, Poe, and the Confidence House Gym, JV 6 p.m. Varsity 8 be performed. Bratton Recital Hall, the Memorial Union by Friday noon Hettinger, conductor; David Seiler, Man,” Hamilton Smith 130, 1 p.m. p.m. Season ticket or Genera! Adm is­ PCAC, 8 p.m. for the Tuesday issue and by Wed­ soloist for Etler’s “Clarinet Concer­ sion $1.50. RED CROSS BLOOD BANK: “Won­ nesday noon for the Friday issue. to .” Granite St. R m „ MUB, 7 p.m. SCOPE PRESENTS’ “ Beach Beys derland of Christmas Nostalgia, Concert,” Field House, 8 p.m. Stu­ SPEECH & DRAMA STUDENT “ G ranite State Room, MUB, 10 SPEECH & DRAMA STUDENT dents $4.00; Non-Students and all Friday, Dec. 7 -------------- ----------------- PROJECT: “ Hello in There,” musical a,m.-3 p.m. Admission- 1 pint of PROJECT: “ Hello in There,” musical tickets at the door $6.00. Smoking comedy project performed by blood. Extra staffing to sure proces­ comedy project performed by and Alcohol prohibited! UNIVERSITY THEATER: “The Mi­ Barbi-Jo Harden and Dan Rounds, sing is as fast as possible. Hennessy Theater, PCAC, 11 p.m.