The New Ha·mpshire_ B11I~ Rate- I S l'p,t;1!.!c' 1';11d Vol. 75 No. 101 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 7 1984 I >11rh;1111. '\ 11 l'c·t 11{11 :: ~II M cEachern says Tax won't help tuition The 46-year old Por£smouth special education from towns By John Gold attorney said he wants to create and cities in New Hampshire. Although he is advocating a a state income tax to help In his 20 minute speech, three-percent income ~ax ~o support education in the·state. McEachern spoke of the alleviate poor education m "New Hampshire is last with similarities between Spirou's New Hampshire, Guberna­ aid to education and first with policies and those of governor torial candidate Paul property tax :support of Sununu. McEachern told UNH students education," McEachern said. "The candidate (Spirou) has he could not promise them any "It (the tax) cannot do the job." endorsed the style of relief from high tuition bills if The three-percent income management of our present elected. tax would be on a workers governor," McEachern said. McEachern, who is running adjusted gross income, with The lifelong Portsmouth ~gainst Chris Spirou for the deductions for family resident also accused Spirou of Democratic nomination for members, McEachern said. ,"crusading against property governor in September, spoke ·McEachern also said he to 30 UN H students and faculty would propose a bill to have the Wednesday in the MU B. State take over th~ cost of '-. '. I \CHREN, page 17 Parking garages proposed New Hampshire Gubernatorial Candidate Paul McEachern _By Julie Hanauer process," said Flanders, also System) Trustees Property spoke to approximately 4-0 students in the MUB The completion of three Director of Public Safety. Committee. Ultimately it Wednesday.(Dan Splaine photo) parking garages on campus, the "'Before even seriously would have to go through a inception of an intra-campus considering the recommenda­ whole series of .reviews and shuttle and the elimination of tion it would go through Dr. approvals." Building starts the use of personal cars for on­ Fisk to Dr. (Gordon) Haaland. · Although no estimate of the campus errands are among the Facilities Planning would parking structures' cost was recommendations of a report review and prepare a summary on fire· station on campus parking conditions report for the (University \,, 1~ .\GES, page 6 by the UN H Parking and Traffic Committee. By Margaret Consalvi The amount of workable The report, commissioned floor space in the new house Bus riders park Construction of a new fire by Interim Vice President for will be doubled and the men's station, scheduled for Financial Affairs Dr. Lennard quarters will be enlarged, completion December I, will Fisk, recommends . the Chamberlin said. start September 11 across from . construction of parking for half p~ice Funding for the firehouse Zais Hall. garages totaling 1,500 new was allocated at $290,000, but By Edmund Mander Assistant Director of Public We don't comply with our spaces in A, 0 and S and Clots. bids for the construction Parking permits are now Safety, Carol Bergstrom said own safety codes." said Jim However, that solution to contract came in at $341,000, available to some students at she hopes this will provide car­ Chamberlin, chairman of the the long-time parking crunch according to Chamberlin. The half the normal price of $7 .50 a owning commuters with an Fire Board Committee, lies at the end of a long University offered to "fill in the semester. · incentive to use the bus discussing the present station. planning and approval process gaps" by contributing the The cut-rate permits whenever possible. We have no second exit and which hasn't been started yet, services of University- service introduced on an experimental The half-priced permit deal only one stairway for the men according to David Flanders, basis for the coming year aTe is part of an effort to ease the to go down." STATION, page 17 chairman of the committee. available to people holding a acute shortage of parking space "The main reason for a new "It's a very, very len&thy $55 Kari-van pass. _ which continues to plague the firehouse is a need for space," UNH campus. - Chamberlin said. Presently, Bergstrom estimates that two of the fire stations largest while over 9,000 permits will be machines are stored in Zais issued to students and faculty Hall. ROTC now needs the this year, car owners will be storage space back, Chamber­ competing for a mere 2,000 lin said. parking space. Other proposals have also been implemented as a result of -INSIDE- a survey conducted recently by ' the UN H Parking and Traffic Committee. The committee Il}embership includes students a"nd faculty as well as administrative staff. Over the summer, 270 extra parking spaces were created. Most of these are the result of the "re-striping" of several parking lots in which the size of individual spaces was reduced. In spite of inadequate parking fa c i 1i ties, the administation is concerned that remedies involving the Notices .......- ............. page 6 extensive expansion of parking Ca.Jendar .................. page 5 areas could adversely affect the Editorial ................. page 12 aesthetic qualities of _UN H's :Features ................. page 15 campus. Sports ................... ~.page 24 "We have to strike a balance" UNH President Gordon Haaland welcomes Andy Williams and Wendy Hanna'u, two of 1393 Bergstrom said. Freshmen at the annual welcoming cook - out on the lawn of the President's House Wednesday. Owners parking their UN H Football season While the Charlie Jennison Quartet Plus One, was smoking at the cookout, the grill at the upper vehicles in unauthorized begins tomorrow when the ·. classmen 's cookout outside Stillings Dining Hall was smoking a little too much and caused a fire locations, o~_!_ailing !~· display Wildcats battle UMASS on alarm there to be set off. However the Freshmen were able to start off the college career smoothly our own turf and over at Stillings, despite the alarm everything was well done.(Dan Splaine photo) . , .~\IITS, pagr 9 -, --. 1 - • I -~ •.... \ .. i,, • .J - \. - ) . PAGE TWO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE SEPTEMBER, 7 1984 A few primary truths about a complex world By Chris Fauske initial selection of candidates by party he1rarchy, but in New Primaries allow the members the electorate of the correctness Paul McEachern and Chris for public offiGe, u.nless they Hampshire candidates appeal of a party to engage in frank of its doctrine. Spi.rou are running for change their registration. directly to the voters. discussion of aims and Thus, the small number of governor on the Democratic The name of the Democratic The primary system in New objectives. It is a debate voters participating in the ticket. To get on the ballot in candidate for governor (the Hampshire represents grass highlighted by quarrels over primaries is not a warning that November one of them will Republican one already being roots politics at its best. Here, long term platform statements representative democracy is require approximately 28,000 known) will, therefore, be the candidates for office go first such as the introduction of a headed towards representing votes from a New Hampshire decided by about seven percent to their own party's voters and broad based income tax to the the minority at the expense of state population of one million of New Hampshire's eligible pyt forward their position on state. the majority, but, an important in this Tuesday's primary. voters, and about 5.7 of its total the important issues of the day. Once that debate is resolved, first step in the general election This 28,000 will constitute population. These figures . The voters of that party then the decisions are thrown to the process. It is at this later level slightly over half of the 57,000 suggest that representative decide whose policies they Vike public for evaluation. If the that the danger looms, for if the Democrats and independents democracy might be imperiled the best, whose policies they party is soundly beaten in the majority do not bother to vote, expected to cast their vote in by the small number of people joined. general election, it uses the next for whatever reason, they run the Democratic Primary on who get their say. The person gaining the most primary season to adjust its the risk of being mis- or un- September 11. While the primary system support in this family' affair, as policy so there is sufficient represented. Then again, this is In terms of who can vote, has several flaws, this is not one· Walter Mondale called it, then common ground between the a republic not a democracy. New Hampshire takes a more of them, · at least not in New goes on to represent the famil~; party platform and the public's More on that later. broall-mimltll approach Ihan Ilan1p:,hiu:;, when: Lile ~iLe uf in the: gcnc1al dct.:.liuu. He uc~it c. AL iL~ mos1 cynical, the many states, allowing the state and its political becomes the head of the family debate dissolves into a plan to independents to vote in one of structure aliow almost not by right of birth, but give the people what the party the two primaries. Only in a few any~od}:' a fair crack at because he has the support of thinks they want- anything to Chris Fauske is the Editor-in­ states is cross voting allowed. nomination. In neighboring the majority of the family. get elected. At its most C h ief of the Commuter In most states, independents states the M cEachern-S pirou The primary system refreshing, it is a high-minded Advocate, a semi-monthly are deprived of a say in the race might have been decided democratizes the party.