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(Efltttwrttnit Satlg Okmqrofl CO CO (Efltttwrttnit Satlg Okmqrofl o Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXI NO. 118 WEDNESDAY, MAY 9. 1968 On-Campus Peace Corps Test University to Aid Student Involvement To be Administered May 9 In Community Activities; Grants $7,000 solely because he couldn't learn Thursday, May 9, will be the a foreign language. Peace Corps The University Council on that any students wishing to be to all faculty members and to stu- only opportunity this semester experience has demonstrated that Hunan Rights and Opportunities referred to an agency and be con- dent organizations asking for for students to take the special even those who do poorly on the recently created by President sidered for financial assistance, their suggestions in way* in on-campus Peace Corps place- MLAT. usually are able to learn Babbidge, has decided to grant must communicate with him as which the University can contri- ment test. It will be administered a new language, given good In- $7000 to encourage student in- quickly as possible, at the office bute to the advancemento'human in Room 101, Koons Hall at 3:30 volvement In community activi- of the Council in the Admissions rights. struction, strong motivation and Building, next to the Community p.m. Anyone taking the test should time. ties this summer. Their plan is The letter says In part: "We have submitted a Peace Corps The MLAT consists of three to make grants to a numt.er of H ouse. Parrish stressed the fact are all too conscious of the lim- Questionnaire or be prepared to parts, which require a total of 30 students to enable them to help that knowledge of student interest its of our own creativeness. We do so at the test. minutes. The score will depend to organizations already working in is urgently required if the pro- ask those among you who have The test used is the Modern some extent on the applicant's problem areas of race and pov- gram is to be worked out for the suggestions to submit them lo the Language Aptitude Test (MLAT). knowledge of English vocabulary. erty in Connecticut. coming summer. Council for evaluation. We are The MLAT is not a pass-fail type But the test also measures sound- Because there is only a short It was also announced that the now at a stage of our operation of test, but rather a non-com- symbol association ability, sen- time before the end of classes, Executive Committee of the In which many things must be done petitive guide used to predict the sitivity to gram-nar structure and the Council has decided to direct Council is engaged in intensive at once, and our ability to re- success of the applicant in learn- the rote memory aspect of learn- its efforts to finding students who study of the Board of Trustees spond thoughtfully to your ideas ing a foreign language in a com- ing a foreign language. want to participate in comnun'ty Community Involvement Pro- may be limited. As soon as pos- paratively short time. The Peace For example, "Paired As- action programs. An attempt will gram. Under this Program, 25 sible, however, serious attention Corps has no specific language sociates" consists of 24 Kurdish be made to find agencies which members of the faculty may be will be given to all suggestions." requirements, but it uses the words, each followed oy five En- want to receive applications from given leaves of absence to work The members of the execu- MLAT simply to help place a glish words. The applicant is giv- such students. on problems of human rights and tive committee are: David Irvy, Volunteer. en four minutes to stud/ and Lawrence L. Parrlsh, Chair- opportunities in Connecticut Thornell T. Jones, Lawrence L. The degree to which the score memorize the Kurdish words and man of the Council, announced communities. Parrish, William E. Trueheart, on the MLAT may be attributed their English equivalents and try The Council plans to send, Stephen W. Welch and William A. to acquired learning or native some samples. He is then asked Wili March within the next few days, a letter Wilson. capacity, or both, is not known. to select the English equivalent Occasionally, an applicant makes for the 24 Kurdish words without Calls For a satisfactory score and yetdoivs New Area Families Needed ; referring back to the Kurdish- /ery poorly In the laiigauge por- English vocabulary list in the Student Help tion of Peace Corps training. In booklet. This Is not a memory To Host Foreign Students such cases, it is the Peace Corps test. The word list shows the gen- The Poor People's March policy to transfer the person to eral relationship of English to planned for Willimantic on Sat- The Host Family Program This can be done In various, a program with less rigid for- Kurdish words, and the test de- urday, May 11, needs student for Foreign Students Is well es- very simple ways like picking eign language requirements. No termines how well the applicant help. Donna Stratton, WCAP tablished at UConn. But every the student jp at the airport or person has been turned away grasps relationships. worker and chairman of the year about 50 foreign students helping him with his chopping March, announced today that gradjate from this University, during the first, most difficult Colfax Case Pending; No Report plans are progressing well, but while new students from all over weeks, inviting him 'or an oc- that the groups Involved are in the world are expected to arrive casional meal, especially over From Stafford Barracks dire need of people to help or- late in August or in September. the holidays, or for a sightsee- The arrest of J.David Colfax, "peacenik" and 'draft - ganize the March. New host families have to be ing trip. assistant professor of sociology dodger." "We hope to mobilize the found. Anyone in this area who is Before the end of the school at Storrs was still pending late Beal's report stated that no people of Willimantic into mean- interested In meeting foreign stu- year an orientation meeting will Tuesday when the Connecticut one was at the Colfax residence ingful action to remedy some of dents can become part of the pro- be held, during which "old" host Daily Campus went to press. when' he arrived. He decided to the problems !n the mini-ghettos gram, not just families that are families will talk about their Trooper Levi Cornell on duty park in the driveway and watch here," stated Stratton. She list- connected with the University. experiences and answer ques- at the Stafford Barracks last the area. ed major Willimantic problems All the foreign students live on tions that anyone Interested might night, told the CDC he had read After heated words between as shortage of housing, lack of campus so that host families do have. Any area residents who recreational areas and low pay- not have to provide room and wish to be Invited for this ori- that a warrant had been Issued the two men, Beal drove away and board. against Colfax earlier, but there Colfax threw a small stone at his ing jobs. entation meeting or have ques- was no report of an arrest and cruiser. He later stated that he The March has drawn support The only prerequisites lor be- tions about the Host Family Pro- no orders for one at the Stafford threw it to bring the Trooper back from surrounding church groups, coming a host family are readi- gram for Forlegn Students are Barracks. because he was worried about CURE, AFT, ESEA, WACAP and ness for contacts with young for- urged to call Mrs. Frank Vas- "I read about it in the Willt- protection for his family. other schools in the area, which eigners and the good will to make Ington, 429-5421, orMrs.Ludwlg mantlc Chronicle before I came No arrest was made that night, all plan to help according to them feel more at home in their UMig, 429-3005. to work," Trooper Cornell said, largely due to the Intervention of Stratton. new and strange surround.ngs "but I haven't heard anything University President Homer D. "We need UConn students to since." Babbidge, who arrived on the participate and affirm the Uni- According lo state author- scene after being called by Colfax. versity's involvement with the Concert Series Announced ities, the warrant wu issued .'or Colfax's induction into the poor poeple in Willimantic," Stratton stated. Students who wish A rare opportunity to com- pearance here. breach of the peace and resisting Army, set for last Monday, was pare the styles of major Euro- arrest. The charges stemmed postponed Saturday by the Circuit to march should rally at the The Hartford Symphony Or- Natchaug School, Rt. 195, Willi- pean and American orchestras chestra, under the leadership of irom an argument last Thursday Court in Pittsburgh, Pa., where will be offered at Jorgensen next between Colfax and Trooper Mi- his draft board had recently mantic, at 1 p.m. Saturday. Arthur Winograd, will perform year when back-to-back perfor- November 12. The orchestra chael Beal of the Stafford Bar- changed his status from 3-A to mances will be given by two out- racks. 1-A. be accompanied by violin vir- standing symphonic ensembles. tuoso Isaac Stern. Colfax stated that he called The change was made after The 14th annual UConn Con- state police after receiving a Baritone Robert Merrill of Colfax turned in his draft card cert Series season will open Oct- the Metropolitan Opera Company phone call threatening to burn last October to protest the war ober 16 with a performance by down his home.
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