Strike Continued from Page 1. said only a negotiating committee was formed, which produced no con crete results. Because this strike was so close to the end of the term, Hinson said universtiy officials were more willing to have a bargaining session. A 24- hour bargaining session between the university and the student group pro duced, among other results, a $l,OOO base stipend increase and a subsidy and space for day care. Hinson said overall the strike has produced positive results. “We still have grievances, but I feel that the administration is more in clined to listen to us and include us more than they did before,” Hinson said. “The strike was also a success Cubans — Continued from Page 1 to the Army base at Fort Polk, La., Williams said. The rest will remain at Oakdale, where they will reside in four unda maged dormitories, until they can be processed and transferred to any of more than 40 other federal lockups across the nation, Williams said. At Sacred Heart Church, where families of the hostages had been keeping vigil, relatives began screaming and crying as they watched a closed-circuit television picture of the captives being re leased. When the bus carrying the hostages to the hospital passed by the church, many of the relatives ran out of the church, jumped ditches on the side of the road and started following it. Ron Thompson of Mobile, Ala., began screaming the name of his twin brother Donald, when he caught sight of him getting off the bus. “Oh, God! Thank you!,” he yelled four times before breaking down crying. Inmates initially had said, by post ing banners, that they wanted to see Roman in person. Inmates had asked that Roman be allowed to participate in negotiations, but federal authori ties rejected the proposal. Roman’s taped message was shown to inmates on closed-circuit television sets set up around the perimeter of the 40-acre detention center, said Mark Sheehan of the Justice Depart ment. “The past will end and the future will begin,” Roman told the inmates. “Sign the document. You can be sure that what you will have done is good.' ’ Negotiations continued yesterday with Cubans prisoners in Atlanta. Authorities reported some hopeful signs but said there was little movement. Federal authorities said they might ask Roman to make a similar appeal to the Atlanta inmates. *L ' Jt., in that it changed the nature of the dialogue on campus.” Robert Lichter, vice provost for Research and Graduate Studies at Stony Brook, said he was not sure if the strike had improved communica tion between students and the admin istration. But he said, “It’s vitally important on any issue that avenues of commu nication remain open so strikes are not necessary. I think we have moved substantially in that direction.” “The willingness must exist on both sides to discuss any issues, so people do not go off in mistaken directions,” he said. "In my experience, that has been the case. Students have been willing to communicate (griev ances)." Grads Continued from Page 1. But all graduate assistants at the University of Florida have union fees deducted from their salaries and the contract negotiated by the union also applies to non-union members. The union negotiates for student interests each year with the Board of Regents in Florida. The Board of Regents is a 10-person committee appointed by the governor of the state to oversee the state’s public universi ty system, Capece said. Only two of the nine state universi- Haiti Continued from Page 1. Asked if the junta's decree amounted to a coup, he responded, “The coup was this morning,” referring to the violence at the polling places. In Washington, the State Depart ment said America was immediately cutting off all non-humanitarian aid to Haiti and would remove all of its military assistance personnel from the countrv. The electoral council canceled the elections less than three hours after the polls opened at 6 a.m. The free elections would have been the first in Haiti, which shares Hispa niola Island with the Dominican Re public, in more than 30 years. From Saturday night into yester day morning Port-au-Prince, the cap ital city of 1 million, resembled a war zone. Bodies lay scattered about the downtown area. Explosions rocked neighborhoods. Gunmen sprayed slums and shantytowns with bullets. But the gunmen began disappearing after the election was canceled and by midmorning the streets were de serted. “The election is canceled through out the country." a spokesman for the ©oo©o©oo©ooo©oo©ooooooooooooo©ooo©©ooo § the Candy Shop, etc. I g 362 East College Avenue 8 c> SWEETHEART ROSES : ' 6 8 uLMs now in stock © O (Sweet to eat too) © § Dinosaur Eggs are back 8 o©©©©©©©QQ©©Q©QQ©Q©©Q©QQOQ©©qq©qqq©qq© ') 1 4** Lichter said the base minimum stipend has been raised this semester at Stony Brook, and will be further increased in Spring Semester 1988. Hinson said graduate assistants at Stony Brook are now concentrating on forming a union for graduate stu dents. Graduate students at Syracuse Uni versity went on strike in Spring 1977 over wages and class size, said Jo seph Janes, a doctoral student in Syracuse’s School of Information Studies. He said the strike resulted in grad uate assistants being promised a min imum stipend level. Presently at Syracuse, no graduate assistant re ceives a base stipend below $4,790. ties in Florida have unions for grad uate students, Capece said. Joann Campbell, coordinator in the Office of Human Resources for the board, said negotiations between the Board of Regents and Graduate As sistants United usually begin in Jan uary. “Certain articles mutually agreed upon, such as salaries and tuition fee waivers, are negotiated each year," she said. “But the whole contract is open for negotiation only every two or three years.” electoral council president Ernst Mir ville, said at 8:50 a.m. The State Department said it had no information of any injuries to U.S. citizens, including 12 members of the delegation sent to Haiti as election observers. Robert White, former U.S. ambas sador to El Salvador who was in Haiti as an election observer for the Inter national Center for Development Pol icy, said he and other members of the group were shot at twice by gunmen firing from speeding cars. He report ed no injuries. In an from Gonaives. monitored in San Juan on Puerto Rico Channel 24-TV. Paul Latortue, a Sen ate candidate, said he did not “dis card the possibility of U.S. intervention in the Haiti crisis if the situation continues." The army never publicly supported the election, never provided security for candidates or election officials and reneged on a promise to provide two helicopters Saturday to deliver ballots. In Les Cayes and Gonaives, Haiti’s third and fourth largest cities, voting ended when gunmen and soldiers shot at voters. Polls never opened in Cap *b- Books Continued from Page 1. The Rare Books Room- is a division of the Special Collections Department of the library, Mann said. A major resource is the Allison-Shelley collec tion. which has more than 10,000 items related to the literarv and cultural relations of the United States and England with the German-speak ing nations of Europe. Collections of nineteenth century American literature. Australian and Utopian literature, eighteenth cen tury English literature, science fic tion and occult literature are also housed in the room. Major authors represented in clude: John O’Hara, Arnold Bennett, Theodore Roethke. Kenneth Burke, Joseph Heller, Vance Packard, Con rad Richter, John Updike, George Bernard Shaw, Edgar Lee Masters, John Giraudoux and Francoise Sa gan. But Mann said not all books in the Rare Books Room are related to literary subjects. A major collection on Pennsylvania history which includes county histo ries, maps and atlases is housed in the room. Other large collections include: art and architectural histo ry, bibles in different languages, the history of American interior design, history of gardening, printing and binding, and mushrooms. The Rare Books Room is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Haitien, Haiti's second-largest city Ballots, held up earlier by assailants, never arrived there. In the capital, gunmen shot up the electoral council headquarters and three radio stations. Another station. Radio Soleil, was knocked off the air when its transmitter was damaged by an explosion. Haitians in the capital tried to vote anyway. At one polling place, the Ecole National Argentine Bellegrade. assailants with guns and machetes shot and hacked to death at least 15 people, according to witnesses, radio reports and foreign reporters. At least two foreign reporters and their Haitian driver were wounded in the violence. A Dominican reporter was shot and killed. Diplomatic sources who declined to be identified said that also among the wounded were a Swiss election ob server, a French photographer and a British reporter. Their identities were not immediately known. Free-lance photographer Steven Wilson. 35. of Wadsworth. Ohio, said gunmen ran him off the road, forced him to kneel with a gun at his head and then freed him after taking his camera, wallet and passport. 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