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(Eomtprttrirt laUtj ttampttB Cfi Serving Starrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXI NO. 106 %Urt*. Cajwrtlnrt MONDAY, APR4L 22, 1968 Three-Day Black Power Forum Scheduled Here This Weekend CURE Joins Trustee's Council by Gary woods ■■<- Black Power, with all Its im- ple," to "Teaching in the Ghet- plications andproblems will be which would be for whites and proposal because it felt that it to." After an hour and forty-five blacks "In interaction" was the would be more effective as a explored extensively April 26- Other speakers will include minutes of discussion which ln- 28 here at UConn during an un- only idea that prevailed at the pressure group on the council. Roy Innis, natonal chairman of vesticated formation, doubted discussion's end. The change was met with strong usual forum coordinated by the the Congress of Racial Equality steering committee (executive UConn Organization of Afro-Am- The Speakers Committee Is opposition. "You're going to get (CORE), Dr. Gloria Joseph, as- board) validity, and some plan- to sponsor people knowledgeable sucked into Babbidge's bag" a erican Students. sociate dean of students at Cor- ned programs, CURF's second A number of the nation's in race relations to talk in the voice from the floor yelled, fol- nell University and Julian Bond, meeting began to do what" it had neighboring Storrs communi- lowed by, "It's a sellout". Irving outstanding civil rights leaders, a Georgia state representative. planned-- to form ronrrcteroni- educators, legislators and the ties. Gershenlierg, an economics pro- Proposals growing out of the mittees to deal iii Freshman Or- The Curriculum Committee fessor, explained that joining the Kenyan ambassador to the U.N. closed Saturday seminars will ientation, Minority Support, Fd- are scheduled to participate in intends to Influence schools commission would benefit CURE be aired at a public discussion ucation '68, and Speakers and throughout the state to educate since it would allow a dlc'|- Vne the "Black Experience" forum. session Sunday morning, April Curriculum. Glenford Mitchell, coauthor of students in race problems and to the University committee in 28. Freshman Orientation com- to combat "right-wing litera- order for CURE to influence "The Angry Black South," and In announcing its forum, the mittee, as it was proposed at director of the Department .of ture." its decisions, lie said that if the sponsors declared, "The Organ- the lieginning of the meeting, is The meeting started with committee does not appropriate Youth and College Activities" of ization of Afro-American Stu- to bring white and Mark fresh- the National Baha'i Center, •will Sandy Taylor's announcement enough money to fill two posi- dents sincerely believes that it men together and interest them that two members of CURE would tions in the history department open the conference April 26 at is imperative for all students, in Civil Rights with the end re- 7 p.m. in the Student Union Build- join the Trustee's commission (to teach Negro history) the faculty and indeed, all segments sult of hotter rare relations and on rare relations. Originally, the CURE members would resign. ing. His topic will be "Malcolm of the University to begin sub- understanding at UConn. X - The Man." steering committee had decided About 130 people attended stantially to contribute to the im- During the discussion period, not to join with the Trustee's the CURE meeting. Dr. Nathan Wright, chairman provement of communications a member of the UOmn faculty of the 1967 National Conference between the black and white com- proposed that freshmen orien- Trustees Upset on Black Power, is the keynoter munities, and together creatively tation was not enough to educate by CHE's Plan for the April 27 session in Von develop solutions to the prob- "underprivileged (meaning der Mehden Recital Hall. Dr. lems of disadvantaged America." blacks) students'' whostart clas- To Make Budget Appropriations Wright, an education and urban- More than 400 students from ses without proper educational The UConn Hoard of Trus- IHMS. AS one member said, "The ization consultant, is also execu- colleges and universities from background, lie proposed that tive director of the Department tees feels that the Commission Intention of the commission was Boston to Washington, D.C., have these students study a year with- on Higher Education (CHE) in of Urban Work of the Episcopal to give budget recommendations been invited to the forum. out credit so that by the second Connecticut l s "encroaching on to the Governor." Diocese of Newark and the au- The OAAS also has scheduled year they are properly prepared thor of "One Bread, One Body." institutional jurisdiction" in re- Trustee Alphoiiso Donahue a number of social events during for classes, lie thought that the questing that all state colleges suggested that the "Increasing- Burudi Nabrewa, the ambas- the two-day conference, includ- Freshmen committee should en- sador to the U.N. from Kenya, and universities submit upcom- ly difficult financial situation in ing an appearance of "Voices, compass this also. ing budgets to them. the state" prompted CHE's la- will speak at four hours of spe- Inc." and a display of "Black Minority Support committee cial seminars on topics ranging Discussion of CHE's latest test proposal. Art." had a simila r life at the meet- proposal came during last Wed- from "Business and Black Peo- Members agreed that the ing. It proposes to "provide nesday's Trustees meeting held commission will have something room and board for minority here in Gllll'ey Hall. The mam to say about the total allocation Difference between E.O. Smith, group students who find the cost objection raised by board mem- of state funds for education. of education prohibitive. lie rs is that the request Upsets One suggestion to be refer- Other Schools Topic Wednesday Julie Alii, past president of tin- fiscal independence of the red back to Hie commission by OAAS, refering to this idea as The differences between U- nel will attempt to explain Hoard ol Trustees once UConn's Trustee William Saunders, who ' "every house will have its own budget was passed. Conn's E.O. Smith School and what differences exist, if any, first brought the proposal to the Negro", said fraternities and The commission in the past Hoard's attention, is that the re- other public secondary schools between the E.O. Smith School sororities which do not pledge has served an advisory function quest to distribute funds not in- will be explained to the public and a conventional secondary Negroes now will not aid in tins vet now it is trying to get direct volve Construction of facilities. this week, April 24, durine a school. He also said the panel program." appropriations from the state to To date CHE's Proposals to panel discussion here at the would explore whatever exper- "Secondly", she said, "You Student Union. meet the budgets. UConn Include limning the num- imental characteristics the expect Negroes to educate whites Sponsor of the 8 p.m. pro- school might have, its rela- Attorney Carl Nellson, a ber of branches to five which has about Negroes, through white board member, suggested that previously been done by UConn gram, which focuses on a dis- tionship to the University and charity. We want to help but not tinctive adjunct of the UConn it:' i oinmission's proposal be trustees. Several of the twelve the School of Education, and its at the expense ol our dignity." School of Education establish- referred to the .State Attorney trustees agreed that the physical success in serving townspeo- The Education '68Committee, ed 10 years ago, is the Uni- ple noi members of the Uni- General to check on its legis- development of the branches as n existed after discussion, lative appropriateness. This was should be left to the commission. versity's local chapter of the versity community. was amorphous. A summer camp American Association of Un- Panelists will he Dr. Wil- IgrOC : upon In all board ineiu- versity Professors. liam H. Roe, dean of education Dr. Rufus Blanshard, pre- and chairman of the EOS Ad- Stallman, Tucker Win Third Annual sident of the AAUP chapter, visory Council: Dr. Grace A. encourages parents, taxpayers, Crawford, key language tea- and teachers to attend the ses- cher .it KOS; Herbert Segar, Alumni Awards for Faculty Excellence sion and pose questions to the president of the Mansfield Dr. Robert w. Stallman, poet, panel, whose principal topic Stallman first received national That James Built." Board of Education and Coun- critic, and scholar, and Dr. Ed- nition during the Ki40's as will be this school which ser- cil member; and Dr. Curt F. Dr. Tucker, in a shorter per- win W. Tucker, teacher of bus- one of the leading authorities ol iod, has also demonstrated ves Mansfield and Ashford Beck, professor of political sci- iness law, received the UConn voungsters. what has liecome labeled "new breadth as a scholar and teach- ence at the University. Alumni Association's third an- criticism." Dr. Stall man's de- Dr. Blanshard said the pa- er. 11.1 has been a recipient of the? nual awards for faculty excell- finitive biography of stepl Distinguished Faculty Award of ence on April 6. Crane -- America's groat but the Student Senate twice in the 'Vietnam Confrontation^ Planned The $1,000 rash prizes and short-lived novelist -- is sched- past three years. citations were given during the uled to appear on the bookstalls His inteiest in students and On UConn Campus Tuesday spring meeting of the Univer- this spring. his willingness to councel them sity's Alumni Council in the Half a decade in preparation, is unsurpassed in the School of The Association of Religious Jorgensen Theater.