Budget dominates trustee debate By KEVIN HUTSON The candidates talked on a variety alleviated by calling on private he said. "It can be reversed. What The proposed S4.1 million cut in the of issues, but the budget cuts industry and philanthropists to play a we need is a weekend activities UConn budget was the topic of major dominated the debate. Cafero called role. committee. We have the makings of a concern for four out of five student the budget problem the most serious "We have to solicit funds to great university." trustee candidates participating in facing the University today. "It will provide scholorships for students," a closed-circuit debate at Jorgensen affect the quality of education at the Rush said. "I'd also like to see co-op All the candidates recognized the Auditorium Thursday. University," Cafero said about the programs implemented with need of the branches,and all opposed Participating in the debate were cut. "To correct it we have to go to students, whereby they could go the the possible closing of the Torrington John Luppino (sixth semester the capital and fight. We have to school for a year and work ,with branch. "Students whocan't afford to economics major), Jeffrey Nicholas show, that the cuts affect the entire companies for a year." come here and want to stay home and (fourth semester political science state as a whole," he said. Rush also sees a need for more work to support themselves or their major), Victor Rush (second semester "We have to promote interest in recruitment of minority students. "In families need the branch," Cafero philosophy major) and Don Cafero the University," Luppino said. "The order for the University to survive in said. "The education is just as good as we get here." (sixth semester economics major). state of Connecticut has to be the 20th century, different ethnic John Berry, a fourth semester convinced that higher education minorities will have to come together Each candidate said they would like economics major at the Hartford should be the biggest priority." as one," Rush said. to visit the branches regularly and do branch, was unable to attend. The Rush outlined two issues which he Nicholas felt there is a need for a whatever they could to support them. candidates are seeking the position felt were important for the future of weekend community at UConn. that is being vacated by trustee the University. One was the financial "Every Friday you can walk out to Rt. The candidates also supported the Richard Catanese. situation, which he felt could be 195 and watch UConn drive away," building of a new field house. Connecticut Satltj (Eampita Serving Storrs Since 1896 Vol. LXXXIVNo. 105 University of Connecticut Friday, March 27,1981 Solidarity holds warning strike; Columbia awaits Soviet maneuvers to continue final fueling test WARSAW, Poland. (UPI)-Millions of Poles would resume at midday Friday after the four- CAPE CANAVERAL., Fla. (UPI) - Americas new space protesting the police beating of union hour "warning strike" ends. shuttle Columbia undergoes a final fueling test Friday in a members walked off the job Friday in a giant In Washington, the State Department bid to clear the way for its maiden flight, perhaps as early nationwide strike despite an ominous confirmed diplomatic reports that Soviet-led as April 9. extension of Soviet-led Warsaw Pact military Warsaw Pact maneuvers due to end The Kennedy Space Center's latest assessment of work maneuvers in and around the Eastern Wednesday had been indefinitely extended. remaining advanced by a day the tentative target date for European nation. In what may have been intended as a the launch, but officials emphasized a defim te date would "Nobody works.*' the Solidarity union said warning to the Solidarity leadership, the East not be set until a top-level meeting is held next Tuesday. in Gdansk, announcing the start of the four- l German press carried extensive coverage of The54 /2 - hour, 36 - orbit maiden mission is more than hour walkout at 8 a.m., 2 a.m., EST, which Warsaw Pact amphibious assault landing 2'/J years behind schedule but project leaders are confident brought the city of Warsaw to a standstill and exercises along Poland's Baltic Coast, where the shuttle's troubles have been licked and that the eventually could idle one-third of the nation, the independent union movement was reusable space machine is about ready to fly. or 12 million people. spawned last August. - "Factories are stopped, stores are closed Astronauts John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen, were at White Sands, N.M. to practice landing the winged and people are displaying nation and In Moscow, the official Soviet news agency Solidarity banners." a Solidarity source said. Tass said the situation in Poland was rocket plane at a secondary landing strip tucked between the San Andreas and Sacramento mountains. Buses and trolleys stopped in their tracks at "extremely tense" and it accused "anti- the start of the strike, but many people used socialist" political dissidents of using the This base, called Northrup Strip, will be used for the their private cars, causing traffice jams as the union movement to wage "a provocative shuttle's return if the main landing strip, a clay runway on a strike went into effect. Across the nation, red- campaign" against the state. normally dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base in and-white Polish flags hung on idled factories, "The strike was proclaimed and it will take California's Mojave Desert, does not dry in time from demands growing out of the police beating of place," Walesa said. "We don't want to recent rains. union officials in Bydoszcz last week. strike, because a strike is against ourselves. Friday's launch pad exercise is the last big test before the Walesa said make-or-break talks with But there is no other way to fulfill our start of the final countdown.Technicians will pump liquid Deputy Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski demands." hydrogen and liquid oxygen into the Columbia's 154-foot tall outside tank simultaneously, as they will on launch day. Police question suspect in Atlanta child murders POUGHKEEPSIE. NY. a Ryder outlet in New York suspects in the slayings "at (UPI)—The FBI Thursday City. A flyer promoting a this point." Brown said he questioned a "weird and New York City march in knew little about the arrest scary" black ex-convict honor of the slain Atlanta and treated it "like another charged with abducting a children was found in it lead." black boy from a schoolyard Edmonds was arrested Edmonds. who was in connection with the Sunday going from house to confined for 10 months in slayings of 20 black children house in East Fishkill, 1976-77 in a psychiatric in Atlanta. looking for his girlfriend. hospital, according to Georgia . officials, "The value of all these sources, was kept under a however, discounted a facts told us we better get in "one-on-one" watch in the connection between the touch with the Atlanta task county jail suspects, a New York City force and see if they were "The value of all these resident, and the killings, interested." said Police facts told us we better get in which began 20 months ago Chief Andrew Criscolo of touch with the Atlanta task and.occured within 25 miles East Fishkill. "They were force and see if they were of Atlanta. interested in the facts." interested." said Police The ex-convict. Frankie FBI Director William Chief Andrew Criscolo of Albert Edmonds. 32, was Webster. said "there Atlanta. held in county jail on charges are running lines of he grabbed a 9-year-old coincidence" with the Atlanta. Public Safety Benjamin Hooks, Executive Director, NAACP, (right), and black boy from a playground baffling Atlanta case. Commissioner Lee P. Brown, Dr. Joseph Lowry, President, SC IX, said to a coalition of in Beacon and locked him in Atlanta Public Safety however, said.authorities did national black leaders meeting in Atlanta Tuesday that there a rented truck with Georgia Commissioner Lee P. Brown, not consider Edmonds a is no evidence of a racist plot in the killing of 20 black Atlanta license plates. however, said authorities did suspect in the slayings "at children (UPI photo). The truck was rented from not consider Edmonds a this point." Page 2 The Connecticut Daily Campus, Friday, March 27,1981 OPINION Goodbye New Frontier, hello Brave New World It's just a little unnerving when Leonid Brezhnev starts talking about loosening restrictions on Soviet scientific research, while Ronald Reagan is trying to allocate research dollars to those science he has deemed "worthwhile." His proposed changes in the National Science Foundation's 1981 and 1982 budgets would increase funding for projects in areas like biology and engineering but would reduce funding by 25 percent for the behavioral and neural sciences, and by more than 33 percent for the social and economic sciences. That Reagan has made these proposals before naming a science advisor is appalling. These cuts seem based on a blind pragmatism that has written of the behavioral and social sciences as low-priority theorizing, lacking the concrete applications of the natural sciences. It appears Reagan has forgotten that many of his own economic On-campus housing no bargain theorieshad their roots in such basic social science research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While the lack of space and privacy are square foot of living space in an apartment is But the implications for university research in general is considered inherent flaws of dormitory life, so low it is startling.