Broxton, Kelley lead Huskies over BC, 74-68 See back page Wat Hatty (EammiB "Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896" VoL LXXXVIIINo. 81 The university of Connecticut Tuesday, February 26, 1985 USG petitions to protest aid cut By Peter Corjulo Staff Writer The Undergraduate Student, Govern- ment's battle to prevent federal budget cuts in student loan programs began last night with a petition and letter writing drive in the lobby of the Homer Babbidge library. The drive, sponsored by USG's External Affairs committee, is designed to press the state legislature into publically opposing the federal cuts, and if unsuccessful, to adopt provisions for making up the loss through state funding The short term goal of USG's campaign is to move a jointly sponsored resolution out of the Government Administration and Elec- tions (GAE) committee and onto the floor of the state legislature for adoption, according to Art Strassle, External Affairs committee USG volunteers sign students to a petition against Federal student aid cutbacks in the chairman It is hoped that pressure on local library last night (Maria DeAngelis photo). lawmakers will eventually pass upward to the federal leveL In an External Affairs committee Rienks. The resolution calls for "con- state senators Cornelius O'Leary, meeting Monday, members fina- She said they will present "as gressional action to preserve the D-Hartford, Amelia Mustone, D- lized plans to present the petitions many petitions as we can, and say student loan program and continue Manchester, and representatives during a press conference at the 'we are concerned'". t ake higher education accessible to Irving Stolberg, D-New Haven, and state capitol on March 5th. accord- Rienks hopes to have 10,000 to all Americans." It was sponsored by Robert Frankel, D-Stratford. ing to committee member Jennifer 20,000 signatures by thea Firing of bisexual is upheld BOG approves budget contract after learning she equal treatment WASHINGTON (AP)—The had informed colleagues that The high court last October for spring concert Sup erne Court, despite a call she was bisexual and had a agreed to decide in a case By Susan Child cert by the Board of Gover- by .wo justices to explore fully female lover. from Oklahoma whether the legal rights of homosex- Campus Correspondent nors Monday. Although the Ms. Rowland sued, charg- states may empower public concert selection committee uals nationwide, Monday ing that the school board had school boards to fire teachers has not yet determined who turned down the appeal of an violated her constitutional A| $20,750 budget was un- who advocate encourage or animously approved for this will be featured, BOG is al- Ohio high school guidance rights of free speech and promote homosexuality. counselor fired because she is year's Spring Weekend con- ready planning for the event, bisexual. which will be held outdoors from noon to 6 p.m on April The court let stand a ruling 28. The concert committee that Marjorie Rowland's firing hopes to be able to announce from a Dayton area high the selection after spring school did not violate any break constitutional rights. Justice William J. Brennan, The BOG program council in a dissenting opinion joined will provide $11,000 for the by Justice Thurgood Mar- concert, USG $6,000, and the shall, said the court should Miller's Concert Series $3,759. have used Ms. Rowlands case BOG agreed to allow more to decide for the first time money for Spring Weekend this whether any public employ- year in the hopes of concen- ee's firing lawfully may be trating a few large events in- "based solely on his or her stead of several smaller ones. expressed sexual prefer- "The stress is on quality, not ence" quantity," said BOG president, Ms. Rowland began work- Doug Bernstein ing as, a vocational guidance Concert Committee Chair- counselor at Stebbins High man Marshall Senk said, "We School near Dayton in 1974. are trying to put a lot of em- The local school board voted Dave Marino and Steve Sickle take advantage of Monday's unusually warm February weather to sneak In a game of basketball between classes (Maria DeAngelis photo). phasis on the programs we are not to renew her one-year going to do." Inside Today: Weather Forecast: Very cloudy today, with a slight • Van Morrison's fifteenth solo album is previewed on chance for a shower tonight High in page 10. the 40s Cloudy tonight lows near 30. • UConn has its own yoga club. See page 7 for details Mostly sunny Wednesday. Page 2 The Dally Campusjuesday. February 26, 1985 Morning Comment News Digest By Andy Rooney All I want is a space O'Neill optimistic about freeze WASHINGTON (AP)—Con- "If you find yourselves in necticut Gov. William O'Neill said serious financial trouble, you try somewhere Monday he is optimistic Congress not to go deeper into trouble," People are living in less space than they used to, according to some will consider a spending freeze O'Neill said in an interview. experts who have been studying housing Many people who used to being backed by the nation's "I would hope they would take <*wn houses can't afford them and now rent apartments instead Air bag issue governors, even though Presi- a serious look at it," he said Apartments have become so expensive in many cities that people dent Reagan isn't excited about The freeze he said, would keep who at one time lived in three rooms now live in two. Those who used it the nation out of deeper trouble to live in two live in one The people who lived in one have had to discussed Following a meeting between without creating some of the pro- leave town the nation's governors and blems Reagan's proposed deep In New York City, the average rent for an apartment with two bed- HARTFORD (AP)—Connecti- Reagan, O'Neill said he saw no cuts in domestic spending could rooms and one and a half bathrooms is $2,555 a month. You'd have to cut motorists should be required movement from the White House lead to. make at least $80,000 a year to be able to afford that to wear seat belts and their cars on budget issues. But he said the Reagan's budget which would In San Francisco, Boston and Chicago, an apartment like that should be equipped with air bags, spending freeze plan, expected to cost Connecticut it cities and would cost about $ 1,000 a month If you go to Houston, you could still a Yale professor told state law- be adopted.Tuesday by the Nat- towns and its citizens $300 million get it for under $500. The rule of thumb used to be that a person could makers Monday. ional Governors' Association at according to a state-prepared afford to pay one quarter of his or her income for housing That's Leon Robertson said that if its winter meeting, may appeal analysis, is similar to Reagan's edged up to one third in some places and almost a half in others Connecticut had cars with air to Congress. programs in 1981, ONeill said Many cities are short of small apartments because there are more bags and a mandatory seat belt single people than there once were. Young people are waiting until law, about 158 lives could be later to get married and all the divorced couples need two places saved each year. Business tax challenge rejected instead of one "They're not incompatible, and HARTFORD (AP)—The state Sen George L Gunther, R-Strat- We've been spoiled with space in America We forget how good we I think if s wrong to say it's a seat Supreme Court on Monday u- ford and 41 others. have it A whole house with a room for each person in it, is a rich per- belt or air bag issue, " said nanimously rejected a challenge They claimed that the levy was son's pleasure in most countries In the United States, we think of it as Robertson, a professor in Yale's of the controversial unincor- actually an income tax on small- normal When a television program shows the average American, he School of Public Health. porated business tax, concluding business operators—as well as or she usually lives in a house with a lawn, a two-car garage a big Robertson spoke before mem- that it was not discriminatory. doctors, lawyers and other pro- kitchen and a broad staircase that goes up to three or four bedrooms bers of the legislature's Trans- The tax, passed by the General fessionals—and was therefore No wonder the rest of the world sees us as rich Americans. portation Committee, which is Assembly in 1981 and repealed discriminatory because the state If future generations have to adjust to living in less space because considering a bill that would the following year after a storm of does not have a personal income there are more people competing for it, I suspect they'll adapt require drivers and their pas- protest from small-business tax. without much trouble We all adjust quickly to the space we have to sengers to wear seat belts. owners, had been challenged by live ia The kid who goes to college or joins the Army and has to share space after having had a room of his own all his young life usually makes out with less. Across the "Be it ever so humble there's no place like home" is no joke It's a 3 arrested in agent's abduction true truism.