Volume 66 Number 47 'pyjL Tuesday, April 27, 1976 Durham, N.H. DRAC says dorm upkeep too costly By Richard Mori “Next year we will look at the Students living in dormitories overcharge and see if the room are being overcharged on their rates can be reduced,” he added. room rates because the Physical DRAC‘s recommendations in­ Plant and Operational Main­ clude: tenance Department (PPOM) is --eliminating the square overcharging the Office of Re­ footage formula for determining sidential Life, according to a charges from PPOM to residence study conducted by the Dining hall buildings. and Residence Advisory “The square foot method Committee (DRAC). assumes that work is done in DRAC said that residence proportion to the square footage students were being overcharged of the building, whereas this because of inefficient labor in may not be true,” the report PPOM, overcharging of admini­ stated. strative costs by PPOM, and the -T he 20 percent increase in unfair costs of grounds main­ administrative expenses, which tenance and repairs as reflected DRAC called “exhorbitant” be in residence hall room rates. reduced. DRAC Chairman Bob Millen “Part of the PPOM charge to said he “could not speculate on residential life consists of an ad­ how much the overcharge ministrative fee,” said the re­ amounted to.” port. Because the Office of Re­ “The report is provocative;'’ sidential Life pays a University said Millen., “But DRAC is not idministrative overhead charge going to rush ahead and say that of three percent on its entire this should be changed budget (which includes the immediately. There has to be PPOM administrative charge), negotiations with people like students are paying an admini­ Alan Prince (Vice Provost for strative charge twice. Budget and Administration). It -That the landscaping of re­ was a major step to get the ad­ sidence grounds does not solely The spring brought out leaves on trees, umbrellas and father and son fishing teams this weekend. (Ed ministration to agree that there benefit resident students, but Acker photos) was an overcharge. Now we have the campus of the whole,” said to find out what is the right Millen. method for charging students.” --Elimination of the ineffi­ School job possible Millen said he did not expect ciency of Maintenance Request DRAC’s report to effect next (MR) work. DRAC found a “de- year’s room rates because the finite problem with worker Board of Trustees already passed efficiency ...as evidenced by the Norton may leave that budget at their April 17 meeting. PPOM,page 22 By Ed McGrath tee for the position of assistant Assistant football and hockey principal. coach Robert Norton will be “I’ve been thinking about this leaving UNH for Merrimack Val­ for over a year” said Norton, Senators petition ley High School pending the ap­ “From a professional stand­ proval of the Merrimack School point, I’m looking at the next Board May 10. five, ten, fifteen years.” 1 If approved, Norton will leave “Coaching is a young guy’s $55 mandatory fee UNH at the end of May to work game,” continued Norton, “the at the high school in Penacook, long range opportunities in aca­ New Hampshire sometime dur­ demic administration will be a By Richard Mori University of New Hampshire, ing the summer. better vehicle for the future. Petitions opposing the institu­ Durham, oppose the institution Norton was one of four final­ Robert Norton tion of a $55 mandatory health of a $55 mandatory health fee ists selected by a search commit­ NORTON, page 15 fee beginning next year are being for the academic year circulated by student senators 1976-1977.” this week. The proposed $55 fee would “This $55 fee is an increase in include the addition of two 160 spend a night in line financial burden on the student physicians, three nurses, -one which we can do without,” said liscensed practitioner, one According to Dwight Antilla, Over 300 people picked their Student Body President David ward/clinic, and increased alloca­ By Marion Gordon MUB night manager, 1® people rooms within a half hour. Gard­ Farnham. tions of equipment, supplies, “It’s like buying hockey were lined up in sleeping hags in ner remarked that there had March 16 the Health Services staff development, and increased tickets or signing up for regis­ the corridors by 5:30 a.m., most been more order than in pre­ Advisory Committee had recom­ salary adjustment. tration. You-have to get your having arrived during Sunday vious years. mended to Vice Provost for Stu­ Stevens told the student cau­ body in line early,” said Assis­ evening and the early hours of Congreve Hall filled up im­ dent Affairs Richard Stevens cus on April 19, that they tant Director of Residential Life the morning. mediately. Head Resident Larry that the fee be institued. “should not oppose the pro­ Richard Gardner. Those who arrived before 6‘ 00 Hurwitz said, "I'd almost ratner Stevens said ne would maKe a posed $05 ree unless tney could Gardner was referring to a.m., hoping to be early, were see it go to a lottery. There’s decision on the $55 fee before provide an alternative.” Monday’s long lines for next asked to sign in please on a list simply a physical problem of students left campus this spring. The Advisory Committee sem ester’s room draw. that was already over 150 names lack of prime space, meaning “I think that undergraduate found that the Hood House faci­ Scheduled for 10:00 a.m. to long. They were then given a singles. Physical endurance students as a whole oppose the lities were “grossly inadequate” 3:00 p.m., the procedure applied number on a little yellow slip of shouldn’t be the only deter­ $55 fee,” said Farnham. “The and that new measures would only to people- wishing to change paper. mining factor.” administration should get this have to be undertaken, including residence halls. Changes within Just before 10:00, Gardner be­ According to Hurwitz, the message. I want students to be the proposed $55 fee. halls were completed earlier this gan admitting students by num­ available spaces for women filled heard,” Farnham said that he and week. ber into the Strafford Room. The petition states “we, being ROOM DRAW, page 7 undergraduate students at the HEALTH FEE, page 22 INSIDE Davis Safari The freshman, sopho­ more and junior classes UNH International stu­ Two former UNH hock­ went on strike and re­ dents turned the Granite ey players are making fused to attend classes State Room into a dark their marks in the World in 1912 until their de­ corner of Africa com­ Hockey Association. mands were finally met. plete with drums, war For the story, see page Find out why it was shields, and “funghi 24. done in a blast from the ripiani”. Join the festivi­ past on page 3. ties in page 19. PA G E TW O THE NEW HAMPSHIRE TUESDAY APRIL 27, 1976 Fund raising service will support skiers By Jerry D’Amico job of pre-identifying pros­ The recently reinstated UNH pects,” added Leberman. “We Ski Team will be receiving finan­ are not sure about exactly how cial assistance from the efforts we will go about raising as we of the UNH Development Pro­ have just been assigned the pro­ gram, according to UNH Presi­ ject for the ski team,” he said. dent Eugene Mills. “We will probably meet with The program, which has been interested individuals and incorrectly referred to as the manufacturers of ski equipment, UNH Fund Raising Service, is re­ particularly those who might sponsible for “raising funds for have individuals in the company every activity having need,” with particular interests in the according to Program Director UNH Ski Team,” he said. Robert W. Leberman. “This will be a big project,” he “We solitict funds from every added, “it will not be done over­ source except the government,” night and will take time and Four of the five horticultural therapy students preparing a plant. They are (1. to r.) Debra Meyer, said T,phprman. “W p idpntifjr and o f f o r t .” Betsy Ogden, Cecil Maxtieid and Carol Savage. (John Hanlon photo) contact the sources and solicit Leberman is optimistic about for funds.” the chances for raising the Leberman said the exact pro­ money needed. UNHplants help mental patients cedure for fund raising varies Leberman was named program with the program or activity director on February 1 this By Matt Vita Horticultural therapy is a new b ackg ro und and listened. We being funded. “We usually look year and is in the process of re­ Every Thursday morning at technique for dealing with have gotten him to respond, and at a number of different corpor­ organizing his office. He works seven-thirty, a group of five mental patients developed at now he waters everyone’s plants. ations and organizations as well closely with UNH Fund Director botany and plant sciences stu­ Kansas State University, accord­ The hospital staff is am azed.” as parents and alumni,” he said. George Bamford, the other dents move their horticultural ing to Maxfield. Each week, the class designs a Success of the efforts varies member of his staff, in his office therapy class to the New Hamp­ “This has psychologically been different project for the patients with the program. “We may in Schofield House. shire State Mental Hospital in proven that mental patients re­ to work with. Some of the pro­ send out 40,000 requests and get The program has recently been Concord. spond to plants,” said Maxfield. jects have been decorating pots, a reply rate of one half of one directing its efforts toward They work with the patients “We haven’t been trained making plant hangers, a kitchen percent, usually a reply of raising funds for the new UNH using their knowledge of plants therapeutically — we think vegetable garden, a terrarium put one-two percent is considered Alumni Center.