Columbia Daily SpectatorVOLCV—No. 155 NEW YORK, N.Y., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1981 Copyright 1981

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Koch, re-elected, wins Heights by a landslideBy DANNY LY

and TODD BRESSIMayor Koch won Morningside

Heights by a landslide margin inthe mayoral election yesterday, buthis share was 24 points lessthan the 77 percent he woncitywide.

Voters on the largelyDemocratic Heights apparentlyfailed to cross party lines to sup-port Unity Party candidate FrankBarbaro, who got 38 percent of thevote. Mary Codd, the liberal partycandidate, John Esposito, the Con-servative Party Candidate, andJerome Dominguez, the Right toLife party candidate, split the re-maining nine percent.

Barbaro, who had the endorse-ment of the Broadway Democrats,the local club, received 60 percent

of the Heights vote when he ranagainst the Mayor for theDemocratic nomination inSeptember.

In other races, Andrew Stein wonre-election as Manhattan BoroughPresident, Carol Bellamy wonanother term as City CouncilPresident and Harrison Goldin wasre-elected city comptroller.

"Winning is always better thanlosing, and winning big is betterstill, Koch, who had the nomina-tion of both the Republican andDemocratic parties, told about 800supporters at the Sheraton Hotelon 53d Street.

Curtis Arluck, Democraticdistrict leader, said Koch was ableto reverse his primary showing onthe Heights because he took thesmall but significant Republican

vote here and because the publicmay not have taken Barbaro'sthird-party candidacy seriously.

"There is a tremendous dif-fererence between a minor partylike the Liberal Party and a non-party like the Unity Party," hesaid.

Arluck said the turnout for Kochwas strongest among the area's"professionals," with the greatestsupport coming from the Broad-

way to Riverside Driveneighborhood populated by Colum-bia professors.

Barbaro's campaign aides lastnight said their city-wide supportcame largely from the unions andminorities. The election nightreception itself was held at theheadquarters ofDistrict 1199of theNational Union of Hospital andHealth Care Employees on West

HEY, I'VE GOT A MANDATE: Mayor Koch, with endorsements from both major parties, was re-elected in alandslide yesterday, though his margin of victory was smaller in Morningside Heights than it was citywide.

Dept. chairman is selectedto be new engineering dean

By ROB POLNERThe chairman of the department

of applied physics and nuclearengineering has been named deanof the School of Engineering andApplied Sciences.

The selection of the chairman,Robert Gross, was the culminationof a survey of nearly 200 can-didates thatbegan over a year agowhen Peter Likins, the formerdean, was named to the new post ofprovost for the professional

The appointment was approvedMonday by the board of Trusteesat its regular monthly meeting.Gross, a professor here for 21years who heads the PlasmaPhysics Laboratory, will take theposition in January.

Gross said he would continue toteach classes and conductresearch as dean. "I consider thisjust taking on some additional ad-ministrative responsibilities," hesaid last night.

He added he would now begin an"intense self-education process tolearn more about what the deancan and should do."

Gross was selected by a10-member search committeechaired by Acting Dean RalphSchwarz, whowill resume his posi-tion as vice dean of the engineeringschool next semester.

Gross, 54, founded the PlasmaPhysics Laboratory, a researchcenter devoted to the developmentof fusion energy, when he came toColumbia in 1960. He is the Percyand Vida Hudson Professor of Ap-plied Physics.

He is the 12th dean of theengineering school, which has 1,750students.

Robert Gross. . . the 12th engineering dean

Sovern says coed talksfocused on joint panel

Talks will set male/female ratioBy STUART KARLE

Columbia and Barnardnegotiators are trying to agree onwhat the level of coeducation in theclassrooms should be and how thejoint enforcement committeewould make sure that level isreached, President Sovern saidlast week.

In an interview Friday, Sovernsaid these were the two majorobstacles to an overall accord.

"The gap is in what the commit-tee is to enforce, that is, what theform is to be to enforce" thedesired level of coeducation, hesaid.

The enforcement committee,which would be composed equallyof Barnard and Columbiarepresentatives and would be

chaired by Dean of the School ofLaw Albert Rosenthal as the odd-numbered member, would be ableto order curricular changes thatwould be binding on Barnard andoptional for Columbia, Sovernsaid. Its job, he said, would be toremove "artificial barriers" thatprevent the university fromreaching the targeted level ofcoeducation.

Barnard Dean of FacultyCharles Olton said last night thatBarnard was waiting for Columbiato present what it believes wouldbe an ideal level of coeducationand a formula for measuring thatlevel.

"It's a major issue and they'retrying to figure out the formula,some way of measuring it (thelevel of coeducation)," Olton said.

Throughout the negotiations,Sovern has said Columbia wants toachieve a level of coeducation inthe classrooms equal to the medianof the Ivy League.

Olton, who two weeks ago saidBarnard would not agree to the en-forcement committee unless itsrecommendations were mutuallybinding, would not comment onSovern's statement that Barnardbad agreed to allow its rulings to

Goldin garners 77 percent of voteBy VIOLANDA BOTET

and La VERNE McDOWELLHarrison Goldin told cheering

supporters last night that his over-whelming election to a secondterm as city comptroller showedthat the voters never believed hewas corrupt.

Goldin garnered 77 percent of thevote, defeating Richard Bernstein,the Republican candidate. Berns-tein won 16 percent of the vote andWilliam Powderly, the Conser-vative and Right to Life nominee,received seven percent.

"When you win that decisively,

that's really special," Goldin saidto his wife, three sons, campaignworkers and supporters at a vic-tory celebration at the HalloranHouse on Lexington Avenue at 48thStreet.

The victory "showed the votersdid not believe Jay Goldin hasabused the office," said StevenMatthews, the comptroller's secre-tary.

Goldin was investigated by thecity this summer for his handlingof bus shelter contracts. He wascleared of charges of mishandlingthe contracts but criticized for giv-

ing the appearance of acting im-properly. His opponent in theDemocratic primary, JohnDearie,and Bernstein raised the issuerepeatedly during the campaign.

Bernstein acknowledged hisdefeat a few minutes after 10 p.m.at the Roosevelt Hotel on MadisonAvenue at 45th Street. He said hissupport crossed party lines, eventhough only 15 percent of the city'svoters are registered Republicans.

"In five months, more than 25percent of the voters have come tosee the need for a Republican in

ON THE STREETS OF N.Y.: A car Saturday afternoon jumped the sidewalk along Broadway, knocked outsupports to the scaffolding and almost hit two men in the telephone booths nearby. Story page four.

See BARBARO, 4

See GOLDIN, 2

See SOVERN, 5