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ADELPHI -- Deciding it is better to risk the wrath of employees than that of Gov. William Donald Schaefer, the governing board of the state university system ordered yesterday that more than 5,000 employees work up to 4 1/2 more hours a week for no extra pay.In the largest demonstration before the University of Marylan Board of Regents in years, more than 300 employees, most of them women, took annual leave from jobs on at least five campuses to stage a...

ADELPHI -- The University of Maryland Board of Regents today mandated a 40-hour work week for about 5,262 classified employees of the UM system.The vote drew protests from more than 300 workers who picketed the board throughout a committee meeting and heckled and hissed at the regents.One regent, Constance Unseld, voted against the 40-hour work week resolution. She received a two-minute standing ovation from the workers.Vice Chairman Roger Blount, who voted for the resolution, refused to comment.

Move to AdelphiEditor: It has been six months or more since the University of Maryland Board of Regents' office was quietly moved from Baltimore to Adelphi. To date, no public action nor notice has been made regarding the move. To many it was a strange and unfortunate move. The regents' office has always been located in Baltimore, where the University of Maryland was founded back in 1907.The details regarding just how and why the move was made are extremely sketchy. The reason offered for the move, by people who should know, was that there was an excess of employees on the UMAB campus.

ADELPHI -- With eight games left in match play last night, Dundalk's Debbie Kuhn was putting on a surprising show in the $45,000 Lady Fair Lanes Open.Kuhn, an amateur bowler who is competing in only her fourth tournament on the Ladies Pro Bowlers Tour, was in 12th place and holding out hope that she could make the top five for tonight's nationally televised finals.Kuhn needed to make up 384 pins on Sandra Jo Sheiry of Coldwater, Mich., who was in fifth place.Kuhn was averaging 194.9 pins for 34 games and had 270 bonus pins for a total score of 6,896.

ADELPHI -- A seemingly endless 1 1/2 -year slump is apparently over for Aleta Sill.Sill continued to waltz through the competition last night in the $45,000 Lady Fair Lanes Open and will be top-seeded tonight in the nationally televised finals.Sill, of Dearborn, Mich., needs only to win one game in the five-person stepladder finals to win the championship."I've been bowling much better lately after being in a slump for one and a half years," said Sill. "The slump started when I began letting lane conditions bother me. Also, my wrist and elbow had been hurting a lot because of tendinitis."

ADELPHI -- Left-hander Aletha Sill continued on a steady path last night that gave her first place after eight games of match play in the $45,000 Lady Fair Lanes Open.Sill averaged 217.1 pins for eight games and had a 7-1 record in match play.She sets the pace with a total pinfall of 5,979 for 26 games."These lanes are conducive to left-handers," said Sill, a 10-year LPBT veteran. "That gives me confidence. I don't go out there tentative."When asked why Fair Lanes University was good to lefties, Sill admitted it was probably more a mental thing than anything else.

ADELPHI -- When Del Ballard Jr. threw his infamous 10th-frame gutter ball on national television that cost him a Professional Bowlers Association tournament championship at Kings Point Fair Lanes in Randallstown on March 2, he rolled his way into the hearts of pro and amateur bowlers everywhere."

ADELPHI -- In the decade since the University of Maryland Foundation Inc. opened shop here, it has amassed millions of dollars from investments, fees and donors who gave with the sole proviso that their money be spent in the best interests of the university.By the end of that period, the foundation had helped campuses raise tens of millions of dollars, about 95 percent of which officials say is restricted to academic projects.But it also had created $12.5 million in new debt for the University of Maryland.