* (Honmttxtvd Sat Ig fflampua Vol. LXXXVI No. 31 The University of Connecticut Wednesday October 20, 1982 State's refuse recycling plant required to cease operations WINDHAM. Conn.(AP)-- The only other effort in the yes, it can work,"he said. The state's claim to having at state to turn garbage into a The Windham plant is de- least one refuse recycling useable fuel occured in Bri- signed so that its steam can operation vaporized Tuesday dgeport, where a $63 million only be used by the Kendall when Windham's garbage-to- plant serving nine Fairfield manufacturing plant. Con- steam plant learned it will County communities shut verting the steam to elec- soon lose its only customer. down for a variety of reasons tricity for use in the surrou- The Kendall Co. said it will in November 1980. nding area would cost a sub- close its manufacturing plant Charles Atkins, an expert stantial amount of money and by mid-1983, eliminating 157 on refuse plants with the state put the plant out of service for local jobs. The plant used Department of Environmental months. Atkins said. steam by the adjacent garb- Protection, said Kendall's "The towns understood age-burning facility to make decision will have a state- that there was a certain am- woven fibers for disposable wide impact. ount of risk associated with diapers. "Because of the problems going with a market of that The garbage-to-steam that Bridgeport has encoun- type," Atkins said. "No matter plant began operations one tered with the technology, we how you look at the pro- year ago and processes up to were looking at the Windham blem, there's a risk. It's just a 650 tons a week from 10 par- plant as some encourage- matter of how you want to ticipating towns ment for more towns'saying assign it, who wants to take the risk. "The state and the towns ConnPoll director: were under the impression Old Sol says: that Kendall was going to be The sundial in the court near tne School of Education around for a while," Atkins casts its shadow to point the time of day (Jack Wilson poll disparity valid said. photo). By Daniel Davison Assistant Arts Editor Crime rate drops five percent, G. Donald Ferree, director of the UConn-based Connecticut Poll, gave possible explanations to a statistics class why The Hartford Courant and The New York Times released conflicting first decline in four years poll results about the race for U.S. Senate last week-the Times poll had Toby Moffett ahead by 5 percentage points, and the WASHINGTON (AP)--The number of crimes country is a whole lot different. They ain't going Courant had Lowell Weicker leading by 16 points. reported in the first half of the year has declined to tolerate it." said Kaplan, former director of In a half-hour talk prefacing a scheduled lecture, Ferree said "it 5 percent, the first drop in four years, the FBI the National Institute of Justice. He contended said Tuesday. simply strained credulity that the two polls simply differed by would be criminals have been deterred by the Attorney General William French Smith said chance," and the chances of the Times and the Courant being off change in attitude. the report was encouraging, but cautioned by five points and 16 points respectively "is roughly one in Others cited the economy, increased enroll- 60,000." against predicting any trend from the ment in the armed forces and the "aging" of the decrease. Ferree showed that there were at least four factors that could American population as possible reasons for Instead, Smith pointed out that the FBI crime account for the wide discrepancy in the polling results: fewer crimes. index had reached an all-time high in 1980 and "The sampling methods could be different," Ferree said. "Both Some experts also said the FBI index is a remained at that level through last year. surveys used random-digit dialing of some form. But our survey measurement of police activity and that some "While this apparent reversal is encouraging, made calls to different areas of the state in proportion to the peo- cases may not be classified now as crimes by the ple that live there." the fact that the all-time high was reached and police called to investigate. maintained for a two-year period should be of FBI Director William H. Webster noted that in On the other hand, Ferree said.'The Times procedure was to major concern to the nation," he said. the first half of 1978 there was a 2 percent drop take a list of all the exchanges in the state and make the same Crime experts offered numerous possible in the number of reported crimes, compared to number of calls to each one," Ferree said. The Times' sampling explanations for the downturn. But they also the first six months of 1977. method might have given some areas of the state more warned there are nearly as many theories as That was the last time the FBI's Uniform Crime significance than they deserved by population. experts when it comes to crime statistics. Report showed a decrease for a comparable six- "The weighting procedures could make a difference," Ferree Professor Gerald Kaplan of George month period. said. "The Times weighted their results to account for what they Washington University said "you can't prove felt were the ideal characteristics of the population, and the Con- anything" by the figures. He said his own pet The latest figures listed a 3 percent decrease nPoll did not." theory is that a shift in national attitude-away for violent crime and a 6 percent decline for the But Ferree said this probably was not a major reason for the from permissiveness-may account for the more numerous property crimes. discrepancy in the polling results. change. Murder was down 8 percent, robbery 7 per- see page 4 "The mood of this administration and this cent and forcible rape 6 percent. The end of martial law in Poland doesn't mean the return of freedom By Erica Joseph enables Hie state to know where the individual's Staff Writer money is coming from."' Kolandiewicz said, "and also stamps (Hit dissidents. This is also a direct The Jaruzelski regime will lift martial law in interference into the individual's private life.'" Poland to pacify the Western World, but the The second bill is concerned with the Polish Parliament has drawn up policies that will "demoralization of youth."' and would give have the same result as martial law. Dr. (leorge police the righl to interrogate minors The Kolandiewicz of the University of Essex in definition of crime is extended in this case."' England said during a colloquium last week. Kolandiewicz said "to such things as behaving Kolandiewicz. an authority on East European badly in public for example The parents are sociology, said Poland's Prime Minister. then held accountable for the behavior."' This Wojciech Jaruzelski. is building a "legislative serves as an interference in the family and dis- cage" through four bills, which will "manage turbs the social code, he said. superficial symbols of freedom and normalcy" "Anti-alcohol legislation" is the aim of the Dr. George Kolandiewicz described how Polish mar- just as martial law has done. third bill, and it expands the scope of standing tial law will be replaced by legislation which will hav e The first bill has a "legislative dimension." legislation to give the state greater control over which gives the state the right U> compel people alcohol use the same effect on the Polish people (Jack Wilson seepage 4 I photo). to work where the state wants them to. This Page 2 Editorial (Eonncctttut laUtj (EampuH Sewing Storrs Sine* 1896 Wednesday. October 20.1982 Editor in Chief Jeft Denny Managing Editor John Berry Business Manager Evan Roklen Senior Writer Dave Krechevsky Office Manager .. Lois McLean News Joseph Tate Whiting.Mark Almond.AI Powell.Thomos Clark Sports Boo D Apriie.Tom Restelli.Dana Gouruder Arts Carlo Van KampenSteve HewinsDan Dovison Features Jockie Fitzpatrick. Carol Carangelo Wire Stephanie Rutty.Jean Cronin.Sue Wailionis Photo Manoger Jock Wilson Copy Lisa Stenza.Boh Brennan Advertising Diane Spiegel Ad Production Ann Urban Night Production Sue Dowden Classified Chen O'Neii Production Cindy Overchuk. Dennis Donovan. Cathy Fisher Lynn BodetvttRosemary Names Laura uiiasz Ken Davidson ■f mt<, "MAT Howard Urban. Jamie Speer.Kathleen McKinney.Julie O'Connell Tom McKeifh. Lisa Greisen. Diane Floherty. Chris Holtzman Chris Smith Inner city tutors THE NOT-SO-GOOD SAMARITAN bridge learning gap [Nearly 2(M) UConn students weren't studyini: Gender gap may shake the polls last night. By Ellen Goodman discern and alleviate the 'real and recognizable But those students were learning an awful lot. for trouble' of this world. For men, the moral they were spending the evening in Storrs with the BOSTON-Talk about your odd couples. imperative appears rather as an injunction to inner city kids from Ned Colls Hartford Revitaliza- Reagan pollster Richard Wirthlin and Harvard respect the rights of others and thus to protect tion Corps. professor Carol Gilligan? from interference the rights to life and Accordini» to Coll. Hartford's inner city elemen- In the normal course of politics, you wouldn't self-fulfillment." find her book on moral development tucked This translates into politics in intriguing ways. tary school kids seldom get out of their immediate between his computer print-out sheets on For five decades liberals have supported pol- neighborhood He said that this is not good for their voters. Nor would you expect to hear him quot- icies of caretaking, and a notion that we should learning process, because their horizons are so ing her ideas in the middle of statistics.