-INSIDE­ The Wildcat football Calendar_page S its Yankee This weekend promises team opens Notices page 6 Conference schedule to­ outstanding entertain­ morrow night at Boston Editorial-page 14 ment at UNH (see pre­ University.(See story F eatures__:__page 17 view page 17). page 28). Sports page 28 The New Hampshire Bulk Rate U.S. Postaqe Paid - -. ~ NH Permit 1130 Vol. 76 No . ~ FRIDAY,.SEPTEMBER 20, 1985 862-!490 Durham. N.H. Durham --==-~~- ~~~~~~~~~~~__:~- ~~----------__:___~~~~~_:__~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I Add/drop form earns approval By Scott Card scanned by computers here on The rush to add and drop campus. Names of students classes has been made simpler adding classes appear on rosters because of the introduction of three days to a week after the a new computerized add/drop class is added. It takes the same form. The old add/ drop cards amount of time for a person's have been traded for the more name to disappear from the favorable form. roster when dropping a class. According to Registrar Ste­ Previously, add/ drop cards phanie Thomas, executive di­ had to be sept to Amesbury, rector of Administrative Ser­ Massachusetts where they were vices, the switch was made sorted and read by machine. The because the form allows stu­ names of students adding a dents to add or drop courses course often would not appear much faster and is easier to on the roster. Names of those handle than the cards. The. new forms are optically ADD, page 12 Physicians explain risks of AIDS virus UNH student Pete Camello enjoying the last of the summer weather between classes. (Nancy By Cynthya Cumings labeled high risk groups by the Bragdon photo) What is you're risk of getting Center for Disease Control in AIDS? "If you'r not sexually Atlanta, Georgia. "There is no UNH Health Services can involved with someone who has mystery anymore about how the assist students who are con­ the AIDS virus, and you're not disease is transmitted," said Dr. cerned . that they have been New medical plan shooting up drugs and sharing Haseltine of the Dana-Farber exposed to the AIDS virus. Dr. needles with someone who has Cancer Institute, "We know it Patterson said for a fee a sample the AIDS virus," said Dr. Sil­ is transmitted by needle and by of blood can be taken at Hood verman of Massachusets Gener­ sexual contact." House and sent to the Depart­ meets opposition al Hospital, "your chances of A common fear of AIDS is ment of Health for testing. E. Dodge getting AIDS are slimmer than casual contagion. To date there 75 % of AIDS victims are .By Leonard ployees' medical plans. your chances of getting struck are no cases of AIDS linked to homosexual or bisexual men, A sharp rise in medical claims In fiscal 1985 medical claims from by lightning." causes other than sexual trans­ 20% are intraveneous di:ug this year has led to unpopular climbed .$700,000 Homosexual and bisexual mission, injection of an infected proposals for drastic changes $3,600,000 in 1984. This is an men, intraveneous drug users needle, or being born with AIDS AIDS, page 19 in the University System em- increase of 20 percent, equival- · and hemophiliacs have been from an infected parent. ent to three times the rise of ~..,-.,.......... _. .... .,.. the cost of living. Medical care payments have doubled since 1980, from $2,000,000 to today's $4.3 million. Accordi,ng to a report filed by Kaspar Marking, Chancellor of the University System, the University System will have to set aside an additional $1.2 million, or an additional $400 per employ~e to cover increased medical claims. Since medical claims are ris­ ing so fast, the U riiversity system will be forced to budget more money for medical and fringe benefit plans. Registrar Stephanie Thomas, executive director for Administrative Services at UNH, said, "Stu­ dents should be aware of these medical increases, since nearly 50 percent of the University's resources come from students tuition." "If medical claims increase the way they are now, in the end, students will end up paying," said Thomas. Currently, University System employees have a deductible of EXPENSIVE, page 22 PAGE TWO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1985 Jarry Stearns still giving after all these years By Charlene Cloney She said she is also concerned So many people to call and that the uproar over A.I.D.S. arrangements to make. Nurses (Acquired Immune Defficiency must be contacted, qecoration Syndrome) may scare away and refreshment committees potential donors. "The regular formed, past volunteers located, donors are still giving. Its the and parking problems solved. new people that are scared," .. I love what I'm doing, but Stearns explained, "each needle I feel like my head is spinning," is sterilized and packaged for said Jarry Stearns, Chapter use by only one donor. After it Chairperson of the Red Cross is used it is put in a metal in Durham. She is preparing for container and brought back to another blood drive at UNH, our labs to be destroyed by our which will run September 23- lab technicians". 27, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the "The way AIDS is presented MUB. The fall theme celebrates to the public, its almost.like a A the 35th birthday for the Dur­ witch hunt. Now they've decided ham Red Cross. it started in Africa with the monkeys," she said, "I have done this so long that I'm a Ii ttle emotional." Stearns; a widow, joined the Red Cross in 1943 as a recrea­ · HJ love what I'm tion director for the army. She said she joined during World doing, but I feel War II because she wanted to do something to help. Her like m_v head is spin- · duties included visiting the ntng.. " prison and psychiatric wards Jarry Stearns (right) and Dottie Young are busily recruiting blood donors at UNH again of a hospital. "I loved going in this year. (Nancy Bragdon photo) · there because tne kids really needed someone to talk to," she said. She met her husband in 1951, and moved to Durham. Program provides experience At this time she participated "There's 34 years in there," in Durham's first blood drive _ said Stearns pointing to a closet . held in UNH's New Hampshire By Debbie St. Louis ments in the University such students individually to cry and filled with decorations and Hall. In 1952 she became Chap­ "Lights, camera, action!" The as Liberal Arts that didn't have match their goals and interests momentos from past blood ter Chairperson in Ourham. microphones come on, the ca­ their own practical experience with a particular job that will drives. A half made paper cake Since then 82,919 pints of blood meras whirr i'nto life and the or _internship programs said allow them to develop skills in sits in the corner. "She's going have been donated through . world of the TV station opens Program Director Robert the area. McCaffery said he to sit on the cake," said Stearns blood drives in Durham. up to a UNH student. As a McCaffery. From there it grew, added that they also have an picking up a papier-mache doll. "Throughout the decades, the production assistant for the incorporating more depart­ extensive program to recruit "She's 35 years old." kids always look different, but Canton Cable Station, Scott ments into the program and companies and urge them to "Do you mind if I smoke? I they all care, the ones t~at.I see," Harris, a senior Communica­ providing practical and valuable hire UNH students. Some of don't really need to but its says Stearns, "the ones that can't tions major, participated in a experience in a variety of fields, these companis include: GTE helping me considerably. I go come tell me they're sorry." field experience he said was both he said. " DCE's goal," said Sylvania, IBM, WBZ-TV, through a panic getting Stearns leans torward tn her enjoyable and a valuable learn­ McCaffery, "is to provide a WERZ Radio, and Xerox Cor­ volunteers," said Stearns as she chair, taking a long drag from ing experience. supervised, structured work­ poration. made her way towards the living her cigarette. She explains that · - The summer Field Expe­ place for students to develop The summer Field Expe­ room. She sat in a blue velvet · the stacks of papers on the t.v. rience program, run by the the skills they need." McCaffery rience Program was very suc­ chair, put her feet on a stool and stand are lists of people to call Division of Continuing Educa­ added that the program serves cessful this summer, McCaffery lit a cigarette. · and things yet to do. "It almost tion (DCE) began in 1978. It forty four major departments said. One third of the applicants Getting volunteers isn't all falls together," she said, "I don't was established as a coordinat­ in four undergraduate colleges. that Stearns is worried about. knowhow." ing· service for certain depart- The DCE office works with . DCE, page 24 NEWS_IN BRIEF Seabro·ok UNH third in arrests Newmarket out of cans to · heat up again Out of 180 colleges attending the annual spring The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled The w<;>rd from the Lakes Region Disposal break lunacy in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, UNH Wednesday that full scale construction on the company IS that Newmarket has reached the limit came in third place for number of arrests made troubled-Seabrook power plant may continue on the number of trash containers supplied by the between March 3 and Easter Sunday 1985, according through December 31st.