donnecticut latlg (ftampuB Serving Storrs Since 1896 Vol.LXXXVNo.93 University Of Connecticut Wednesday, March 3,1982 Students, BHE, Trustees to focus on student issues By Joseph T. Whiting News Editor A group of Student leaders from all seven UConn eompuses along with student representatives from the Board of trustees and the Board of Higher Education' have formed a group which will focus on the issues that affect Students as a whole in the state, according to Steve Donen. student-elected member of the Board of Trustees. The group will meet Thursday in Hartford to discuss such issues as the possibility of changing the structure and power base of higher education administration in the state. The Blue Ribbon Commission on Higher Education proposed in their report to dissolve the BHE and replace it with a statewide Board of Governors to oversee the allocation of funds to the various UConn campuses. This Board, if created will transfer the majority of allocating prerogative to a group of people who have minimal contact with anv of the seven UConn campuses. The memorial Stadium bleachers have been empty since football season ended and will •"Decisions made at that level would be very out of touch be used again only when football season resumes in the fall (Bob Pirrie photo). with the students and the various campuses.*' Donen said. The group of student leaders has invited the Commissioner of Higher Education for- the state. UConn President O'Neill to announce bid DiBiaggio. and the Chairman of the Blue Ribbon Commission to meet with them and discuss this and other issues at a public meeting in the Legislative Senate Chambers. Thursday for governor's seat morning at 9:30. HARI FORD (AP) - Gov. William A. O'Neill expects to team up with O'Neill in November, Another issue concerning the new group is the chance that reportedly will announce on Thursday his Tuesday would say only that O'Neill's the creation of a statewide Board of Governors would candidacy for a full, four-year term. announcement would come "before the end of eliminate all student representation in policy making Three people close to the Democratic the week." procedures. governor said Tuesday he would make a I he 51-year-old governor suffered a heart formal declaration of his candidacy Thursday attack in November and subsequent heart This Board, if created will transfer morning at the governor's mansion. surgery threw off his expected announcement O'Neill, who became Governor Dec. 31. 19>;0 plans. the allocating. ..to a group who have little on the resignation of Ella T. Grasso. said at Before the heart attack, the governor had Saturday night's Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey ev- hinted he would run in 1982. contact with the seven UConn campuses' ent - an annual party fund-raiser - that he O'Neill was admitted to the hospital Nov. 20 'We're not going to give up our representation without a would officially announce his plans "very after what his doctors said was a mild heart lough right." Donen said. Students have been represented in shortly." attack. On Dec. 3. he underwent double the BOT since 1975 and on the BHE since 1977. O'Neill's news secretary, Larrye deBear, on coronary bypass surgery to correct blockages Tuesday refused to say when the announce- in vessels leading to his heart. The proposal by the Blue Ribbon Commission to place ment would be made. Since his release from the hospital Dec. 17, t mi ion rates on a scale indexed to inflation is also under attack "It'll be very shortly, in the immortal words O'Neill had said the completion of a follow-up by this group. Financial aid would also be placed on this of the governor." was all deBear would say. stress test would play a major role in his indexed scale. Donen said, however, that student fees are Lt. Gov. Joseph J. Fauliso. who has said he plans. what is most important to the universities' budget, not tun ion. He also said that any cutback in financial aid would be disastrous. "They were short in being able to meet student Students for Peace unable needs even before the Reagan cutbacks," he said. The meeting in Hartford will be televised on CPTV at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday. to obtain project funding Byu, MaureenMunr i E.K OlsonOlsiui were unsuccessful. She cites "ThevThey don't likelik our Staff Writer her request for a bus to tran- political association." Pian- sport UConn students from tedosi said, "so they don't The UConn Students for UConn to Washington D.C. want to sponsor us marching Peace organization is facing on March 27 to protest U.S. here and there—part of our budgeting problems connec- aid to El Salvador, and the purpose is awareness." ted with their Spring projects training of Salvadoran troops as of their meeting Tuesday at Fort Bennington, GA and "It is a matter of priority of student funds." McCaulley night. Fort Bragg. NC. Rick Mc- Francesca Piantedosi. a Caulley. chairman of the said. new member of Students for USG Finance Committee of- "The last time USG fun- Peace said that their efforts fered her little hope of ob- ded a protest was during the to obtain funding in the past taining funding for the bus. Vietnam war." he said. "It very well could come down to a question of a Spring Con- President's Roundtable cert or a bus to Washington for SFT. I think that ninety nine percent of the students to meet on Thursday would rather have the con- cert than a bus to The President's Roun- may have. Washington." dtable, a forum for This Roundtable is an ef- discussion between students, fort on the part of the ad- Piantedosi commented community members and ministration to improve earlier that USG had funded University administration, communication between Gay Awareness Week, and will be held tomorrow in students and administration. didn't appear to feel that room 310 Commons Building Students will have the op- that constituted a stand on at 3:30 p.m. portunity to air any com- homosexuality, another con- UConn President John A. plaints or have questions an- troversial issue on campus, Variable cloudiness with lows in the middle teens. Sunny DiBiaggio and the five swered about the way in and she therefore questioned today. High in the low 30s. Clear tonight. Low 10 to 15. University vice-presidents which the university why the march to Wind becoming northerly today and light and variable will be prepared to answer operates or how policy is Washington should be tonight (Bob Pirrie photo).' any questions that students decided. treated differently. Paa«2 Connecticut Daily Campus, Wednesday, March 3,1962 A view of the military buildup fromtrenches B> JOHN DINGES in addition, about 50.000 people are organized in During January, the Sandinista army deployed Pacific News Service militia units which meet and train for 45-day 2.000 troops in the Miskito area and evacuated SANTA MARIA. Nicaragua— A feu miles north periods during which their employers are required many Coco river villages, relocating several of this village, high in the verdant'mountains that to continue their paychecks, said army spokesman thousand Indians in new settlements away from the form the border with Honduras. 2rt armed young Robert Sanchez. "But we could have 200.000 border. Several thousand other villagers are men live in a small camp honeycombed with soldiers if we needed them." he added. "Anyone believed to have fled into Honduras to swell trenches. Some still arc teenagers, though they who fought Somoza is willing to fight again to Miskito camps there from which the raids were have been under arms tor as long as four years. defend the revolution." launched. Once they were guerrillas fighting in the From early on. military aid to the new army was The Reagan administration cited the evacuation Sandinista National Liberation Front; now they are provided by Cuba and the Easterm European in charging the Sandinista government with human members of the Sandinista popular army--having countries. Washington declined to shift to the rights violations. The Nicarguan government successfully overthrown the dictatorship of Anas- Sandinistas the huge military aid that once flowed subsequently allowed two American observers, tasio Sonio/a in 1979. to Somoza. But in January the French government, Roger Williams and Andrea Young, who were In Washington, the Reagan administration has declaring that the one-sided aid might tilt the traveling in the region with former U.S. Attorney porirayed troops such as these as part of a Sandinistas toward the Soviet Union, announced General Ramsey Clark, into the new Indian threatening military buildup by Nicaragua to plans tt) sell about $15 million in defensive military settlements. They later reported the Indians were spread anti-U.S. revolution throughout Central equipment to Nicaragua. not being mistreated. America by force of arms. The need for a strong military defense here was Sandinista supporters view the National Guard Bui for these 28 soldiers at the Mata Dc Plata underscored during a tour of the border instal- incursion, and a recent plot to blow up a cement camp, and thousands of others manning equally lations and by other recent events. Sandinista Capt. plant and an oil refinery, as the outgrowth of U.S. remote ouiposts guarding the 550-mile long Laurano Mairana. leader of two battalions of border statements hinting at military action against Honduran border, the battle they began years ago troops totaling about 1.500 men. said there have Nicaragua and the training of opposition com- goes on--and the enemy remains unchanged.