: Coles leads Huskies in victory over the Friars Seebackpage tEbe SatUt Clammta "Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896" \ The University of Connecticut Vol. LXXXVIIINo. 71 3 Tuesday, February 12, 1985 Major repairs urged By Colin Poitras conserve this investment" year. News Editor Clawson said that a program In a survey of 104 academic WATERBURY—Corroded funded a $3 million each year buildings and 55 dormitories, pipes, outdated electrical sys- for the next eight years would the office of Facilities Manage- tems, antique heating units allow all the repairs to be ment listed the buildings on and leaking roofs are just completed by 1993. campus which called for the some of the major problems If the additional funds were most immediate repairs. The with the buildings at Storrs not granted for such a pro- GS. Torrey Life Sciences that will cost the university gram, Clawson projected building topped the list with about $16 million tQjepair. needed facility repairs to estimate repair costs amount- In a report to the Board of exceed $32 million in ten ing to $1,515,000. The Phar- Trustees at a meeting here years. This year the university macy, Psychology and Friday, Bob Clawson, UConn's was given $1.3 million for Chemistry buildings were also director of facilities, said that major repairs and the Board among the top ten buildings buildings and equipment will of Trustees has already with over $800,000 in needy receive thousands of dollars approved a $3 million capital repairs. in avoidable water damage renovation program for next See page 3 each year unless necessary funding is granted for re- pairs. The largest areas for Daily Campus seeks individual improvement are plumbing systems for re- search laboratories at a cost student fee increase of over $3 million and aca- By Paul Thiel cording to John Breen, the demic and public buildings AssL Managing Editor paper's advisor and a jour- which need about $1.5 million In the interest of moder- nalism professor here. "The in renovations nization, the Daily Campus Daily Campus is the only daily Over 40 percent of the Finance Board decided Friday paper in New England that James Mapes has a hypnotized student at his fingertips buildings here need major to ask the university for a $3 uses only manual typewriters while 2,500 others watch him do his magic The show on repairs and because they per semester student fee in- and uses a lead pencil and Saturday was the largest crowd the hypnotist ever per- were built over 30 years ago, crease to make the semi- paper ledgers to handles busi- formed in front of. In addition, The Student Union Board of Clawson said that many of the annual charge to students $4. ness operations," he said. Governors sponsored a one ton sundae, hay rides, and the structures have exceeded This is the first such increase "We're the last newspaper 24- hour Union in tradition with the annual Winter their ■expected life since the Campus became in the state to modernize" Weekend festivities (Andy Schaffer photo). "University facilities have financially independent of the said John Paradis, editor-in- reached a critical phase in student government in 1972. chief of the Campus. "It's too their useful lives," Clawson The additional money is much of a strain on our staff. said in his report" It is impera- needed to "move the paper See page 3 A bachelors degree, tive that steps be taken to into the 20th century." ac- what's its real value? WASHINGTON (AP)-CoUege curriculum has been so Date rapes rarely reported watered down that "almost anything goes" and the bachelor's degree has lost its intrinsic value a panel of prominent educators said Sunday. By Lin Moores There were five rapes reported on campus "The curriculum has given way to a marketplace philosophy: it Copy Editor for the fiscal year July 1,1983 to June30,1984, is a supermarket where students are shoppers and professors To most people, rape evokes an image of a and two last semester, Carberry said. are merchants of learning. Fads and fashions...enter where wis- woman being attacked by a stranger, either This is according to the FBI definition of dom and experience should prevail," the Association of outsidepr in the foyer of a building But there rape from the FBI Uniform Crime Reports, a American Colleges said is another kind of rape, probably much more listing of all crimes committed in the United The educators blamed professors who place a higher pre- widespread Often, the woman doesn't even States each year. Their definition includes mium on research and their own advancement than on identify the incident as a rape "assaults or attempts to commit rape by teaching. This is called date or aquaintance rape On force or threat of force" "Teaching comes first" they declared in the report titled campus, this often means that a woman At UConn, there is a 24-hour sexual assault "Integrity in the College Curriculum." voluntarily goes to a man's room, where he clinic at the infirmary. Clinic records are con- "This message must be forcefully delivered by academic forces her to have sex, said Officer Alice Car- fidential, and the victim need not tell anyone leaders responsible for undergraduate education to the berry of the UConn police department She is not even the police unless she wants to press research universities that have awarded the PhD. degree to the officer who handles rape complaints on charges. Records are kept for a year in case generation after generation of potential professors pro- campus the victim changes her mind The clinic does fessionally unprepared to teach," it said Only one out of ten rapes are ever reported treat people who do not talk to the police "As for what passes as a college curriculum, almost anything to anyone Gail Mellow, assistant director of "Rape is still a stigma Man, women don't goes," the AAC report said "We have reached a point at which we the Women's Center said. This is an FBI statis- want to go through the (legal) procedure" are more confident about the length of a college education than tic, Mellow said, but it probably still underes- the director of the rape awareness education its content and purpose" timates the number of rapes which take program on campus said See page 4 The report capped a three-year study by an 18- member task place here force chaired by Mark H. Curtis, the association president •^^ Inside Today: Weather Forecast: •Women's track wins In meet this weekend giving them their 8th victory In a row see story on backpage Mostly sunny today highs In the 40s • Is there a correlation between grades and looks? One Becoming Increasingly cloudy tonight university study says yes see story on page 6. with lows in the 20s ••••. P^ge2 The Daily Campus, Monday, February 11,1985 Morning Comment News Digest Andy Rooney The issue - abortion Equality despite apartheid NEW HAVEN (AP)—Fourteen the very fact that the companies the decision - Please? of Connecticut's 26 companies are in South Africa lends support doing business in South Africa to apartheid If a writer puts his mind to it it's possible for him to make almost have signed a statement that Some point to the fact that everyone mad I may do that today. they'll provide minimum stan- they've signed the Sullivan Code As a person who often agrees with the card-carrying, pinko, Com- DEP eases on dards of corporate conduct to- a set of principles developed by mie, liberal, left-wing members of the Eastern establishment, I'm sur- ward that country's apartheid Rev. Leon H Sullivan, a black prised to find myself against abortion You won't find me out on the toxic storage system of racial segregation clergyman from Philadelphia street with a placard or throwing a bomb at a clinic but I don't The principles include integra- approve of abortion Others have not signed what is NORTH HAVEN (AP)—Only known as the Sullivan Code of tion of races in all eating res- All the people in favor of giving women the right to choose an abor- one Connecticut company— Employment Practices, but say t room and work facilities; equal tioin believe most of the thing I do. Generally speaking I like the peo- Upjohn Chemical of North Haven they uphold equal standards in and fair employment practices ple in favor of abortion better than I like the ones against it, but T m on —has been permitted to be the workplace for all employees; and improve the side of the people against it It's even my impression that the pro- exempt from the state's ban on ment of the quality of employees' choice people are more intelligent better educated and have higher In either case foes and some hazardous wastes in landfills a stockholders have recently lives outside of work in housing incomes than the anti-abortion people. Sometimes there's nothing spokesman for the state Depart- stepped up their criticism of transportation schooling and more embarrassing than to look around and see who agrees with ment of Environmental Protec- these businesses, asserting that health facilities. you tion said I wish a lot of the babies brought into the world by parents who Upjohn has been permitted to Budget debate begins today didn't want them had never been conceived but I cannot bring myself dump lead-contaminated, metal to believe that abortion is right under ordinary circumstances I'd hydroxide sludge onto its 90,000- HARTFORD (AP)-Gov.