VOLUME 261 WINDS DAY NUMBER 37 Today: Partly sunny, gusty, 50 cents highs in the mid 30s Tomorrow: Increasing cloudiness with highs in mid 40s * High tide: 6:09 a.m., 6:51 p.m. abcde Full report: Page B8 SEAWednesday, OF February 6, JOY 2002 1,250,000 pour into Hub, hail Patriots By Brian MacQuarrie and Michael Rosenwald GLOBE STAFF After keeping the champagne on ice for 16 long years, New Eng- land sports fans uncorked their passions on the frigid streets of downtown Boston yesterday in a red-white-and-blue explosion of championship joy.The good old city has never seen anything like it. ‘‘This is huge! This is what this team deserves! This is why you root — for this,’’ said Marc Rug- giero, 29, of South Boston. From Copley Square to Gov- ernment Center, a crowd that po- lice estimated at 1.25 million — twice the population of Boston — cheered the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots.The full- throated carnival exuded the warmth of a bear hug despite the chill in the air. ‘‘I love you guys! This is your trophy,’’ Patriots safety Lawyer Milloy shouted to the sea of fans that overflowed and overwhelmed City Hall Plaza.‘‘We’re number one!’’ Everyone caught the fever.Sil- ver-haired owner Robert Kraft toasted the team’s first champion- ship by dancing to hip-hop, Patri- ots cornerback Ty Law reenacted his electrifying interception re- turn for a Super Bowl touchdown, and tight end Jermaine Wiggins of East Boston snatched a Patriots flag from a willing fan and climbed a pole to wave it from on high. Only 10 minor arrests were re- ported on a bitterly cold day when the football faithful began arriving at the wind-swept plaza well be- fore dawn.Since the Boston Celt- ics won their last basketball title in 1986, Boston fans have not had a professional sports championship to celebrate. The psychic effects of that drought were evident everywhere yesterday.From the roof of the old PARADE, Page D8 llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Reaching the region Patriots owner Robert Kraft an- nounces that the team will hold festivities in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. D1. Playing hooky A classroom day though it may be, students in Patriots colors and school jackets are everywhere in the crowd, writes Dan Shaugh- GLOBE STAFF PHOTO/SUZANNE KREITER nessy. D1. An aerial view of the overflow crowd at City Hall Plaza saluting the Super Bowl champion Patriots. The turnout dwarfed many of the city’s largest gatherings. Parade coverage, D1, D6-8. llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Breakthroughs in effort Annual tuition and fees UMass plans another hike Inside Today at UMass-Amherst to map body’s proteins $7,000 in fees to offset state cuts Features Classified Comics D12-13 Classified D14-17 By Michael Kranish Latest proposal: $6,000 By Patrick Healy Crossword D12 F8-16 year.While genes signal which dis- December hike: $5,727 budget plans offered to the Globe, GLOBE STAFF GLOBE STAFF Deaths B5-7 Autos F8 eases a person may contract, ab- the December fee hike would be- Editorials A16 Help Wanted D15 WASHINGTON — A series of normal proteins actually cause $5,000 The University of Massachu- come a permanent student charge Horoscope D12 Professional D15 scientific breakthroughs in recent diseases and could possibly be setts today plans to increase stu- under a new tuition-and-fees plan Lottery B2 Real Estate D14 weeks has kick-started the biggest treated with drugs.Some scien- dent fees by at least 10 percent for that President William M.Bulger Movies F6-7 Apartments D14 biological project ever: a complete tists predict the project will be $4,000 the 2002-03 academic year, one of will present to the trustees today TV/Radio A14-15 Comm’l/Ind’l D14 inventory of the hundreds of thou- costlier and take longer than the dozens of dramatic proposals to in Dartmouth.In total, the annual © Globe Newspaper Co. Market Basket D17 Yachts/Boats D2 sands of proteins in the human genome mapping has because the $3,000 make up for $28.5 million in cost to students in tuition and fees body. proteins are more complex and emergency state budget cuts since may top $6,000 at UMass-Am- For breaking news, updated Globe The ambitious goal of the fed- more numerous than human December, UMass officials said herst, compared to about $5,200 stories, and more, visit: erally financed project is to find genes. $2,000 yesterday. just two months ago. new drugs designed to repair ab- In the last several weeks, scien- In addition, UMass-Amherst is The jump in costs will affect Boston.com normal proteins that cause many tists involved in a $200 million pi- considering dropping the foreign- nearly 58,000 students in the of mankind’s worst diseases, in- lot project have disclosed a series $1,000 language requirement for thou- UMass system, and the impact cluding cystic fibrosis, sickle cell of breakthroughs that have speed- sands of students and eliminating may only grow: State higher edu- 063 4 1 anemia, and Huntington’s. ed up the research.A similar entire academic departments. cation officials said yesterday The research effort, known as round of technological break- ’80’85 ’90’95 ’00’02 The roughly $300 fee increase there is a chance that Acting Gov- ‘‘The Proteome Project,’’ is a direct throughs accelerated the sequenc- would come on top of another ernor Jane Swift or legislators will SOURCE: UMass-Amherst, Chronicle of offshoot of the 12-year, $3 billion ing of the human genome. Higher Education $350 to $500 increase that the ask for a separate tuition increase mapping of the human genome, President Bush’s chief science GLOBE STAFF GRAPHIC UMass board of trustees approved to help plug state revenue holes in 0 947725 4 which is to be completed next PROTEIN, Page A14 in December.According to UMass UMASS, Page A9 GL A1 01:57 FOURTH.