Inside Today: Forecast: 'Verdict" predictable, Sunny and mild today, highs 35-40. Fair tonight with lows 20-25. Becoming cloudy and cooler Wed- but Newman sparkles nesday , highs in the mid 30s. Chance of rain or snow page seven developing late Thursday or early Friday. (ttmmeritatf !at Ig (Eamjmfl Serving Storrs Since 1896 Vol. LXXXVI No. 68 The University of Connecticut Tuesday, February 1, 1983 ORL won't back down: Last semester for IDC By Joseph Whiting Staff Writer The IDC has not been functioning and correctly for the last eight to ten Kathy Brady semesters.Fried said. It has been an Copy Editor ongoing problem--not just a problem for the people living in the IDC now. As far as ORL is concerned, the IDC Carol Wiggins, vice president of stu- experiment is over. And according to dent affairs, offered further justifica- Jane Fried, one of the founders of the tion for the dismantling. "It was an Intentional Democratic Community, administrative decision." the dormnever developed the momen- Wiggins said. The IDC was created tum which should have carried it administratively without student through changing social requisites. i nput-and so it was closed adminis- More than half the members of the tratively. If it had been working accord- IDC turned out for a protest rally Mon- ing to Dr. Crookston's plan there day in front of Hall Dorm, but Fried would have been no reason why we contends that the dorm has not lived would want to end the IDC." up to spiritual and community goals The late Burns Crookston. UConn established in 1974. professor of education, is considered Many members of the IDC feel that the principle founder of the IDC experi- Fried's contentions are vague or non- ment . His successes here have been existent, and that the move by ORL is paralleled at other universities across really politically motivated. In addition, the nation. the Undergraduate Student Govern- IDC members Craig Smith. Robert ment has said the entire dismantling Richter. Peter Costas and Tim Hagen process is unfair and violates the intended to work out some way to save students "bill or rights .which calls for UConn's IDC at Monday's meeting. The the university to "solicit student opi- ORL. however, intended for the meet- nion in decisions which directly ef- ing to be strictly a discussion of alter- fect them." natives for Rogers A and B for next fall. Mark Caplan, public relations chair- ORL Stood firm on their mid-January man of USG, said at a meeting Monday decision to close the IDC.. that the decision was "unilaterally Fried reiterated her commitment to handed down" and that there was "not the concept of an IDC: "I could sell the too much participation." Steve IDC to the American Legion." Basche, president of USG, said that At 1:30 p.m.. Fried. Seide and several merely because the IDC was not living members of the IDC met to discuss up to high community goals. ORL their differences and to negotiate a About 85 Independent Democratic Community sympathizers picket should not give up. "You don't take compromise. The meeting was closed in front of Hall Dorm Monday Morning. Their efforts to convince office away the vote because of low turnout," to the press, University Ombudsman of Residential Life officials to maintain IDC's independent status he said. Charles Oliver,and the public. Accord- failed. The residence hall will return to university control in the fall Fried responded, "The right to vote ing to Fried and IDC members, the is guaranteed in the Constitution. The (Charles Hisey photos). meeting increased tension and accom- right to live in the IDC is not." See page 4 Page2 Connecticut Daily Campus, Tuesday, February 1, 1983 Opinion Connecticut Sailrj (Uainpua Savmq Sons Since 1896 Tuesday, February 1, 1983 Editof in chief Jeff Denny Managing Editor Mark Almond Business Manager Evan Roklen Assl Business Manager Ilene Feldman Office Manager ., Lois McLean Senior Wnter Dave Krechevsky News Judy Benson,Bob Brennan. Steve Geissler, Bill Hanrahan Sports Tom Restelli, Dana Gauruder Arts Steve Hewins, Carlo Van Kampen, Dan Davison Features Jackie Fitzpatrlck. Barbara Zambelli Wire Stephanie Rutty, Jean Cronm, Sue Wailonis Copy Shelley Wolt, Cathy Brady Photography Jock Wilson, Charles Hisey, George Edwards Advertising Manoger Diane Speigle Ad Production Manager , Ann Urban Asst Ad Production Rosemary Homes Night Production Sue Dowden Classified Manager Chen O'Neil Circulation Manager Rhoda Shaponik Ad Reps Aaron Spicker, Rob Sorcher, Diane Nome Receptionists Lisa Durazo, Theresa Johnson, Sharon Landry, Jackie Bonser Production Statt Lynn Bodetka, Dennis Donovan, Cathy Fisher Lisa Gagnon, Robert Grower, Lawrence Herter, David Kendnck Cathy McKinny. Julie O'Connell, Tatiana Pino, Margaret Sonntag Jamie Speer. Howard Urban, Laura Uliasz Roxanne Ryan 3nan Dion. Kafy Walsh, Sue Dowden IDC will continue He's got away with words by Garry Wills legislators to raise or lower taxes on their own, 1 here will no longer be an Intentional Democratic Ronald Reagan has said his administration is with an automatic tax to go into effect in 1986." Community on this campus. not in disarray. Then, to prove it ,he delivered an Ronald Reagan is very good at legislating for It's not wholly IDC's fault. It's not wholly ORL's fault .Part eloquent, incoherent .beautiful,intemaly incon- future Congresses, as when he called for an of the blame goes to a fading light. sistent State of the Union address. obligatory balanced budget to be observed after When Burns Crookston developed the IDC with Jane Reagan came before us as the celebrator of he has gone out of office. change and the promoter of bipartisanship. But Campaign promises are what a candidate tells Fried in 1974, they had ideals. A purely democratic com- he could not change his old campaign rhetoric us he will do if heeyer gains poer. Ronald Reagan munity began, one that was maintained and administrated of. precisely, partisanship. He seems compelled and, yes, cleaned by and for students who did so freely. to go out of his way to blame the nation's Crookston was the central core of IDC. The motivating economic troubles on Democratic predeces- force. Surrounding him was a group of students who sors .Even if that argument were sounder than it believed in his concept. Their committment and enthu- looks, he should not have used it while asking siasm were contagious. Democrats to rise above political ranor. Old When Crookston left the university, it seems he took the habits are hard to break. fervor with him. ORL, because they didn't have the wherewithal to replace him as the dorm's advisor, left the community to carry its torch without the burning core. According to Fried, it hasn't been the same since. *»& The dorm seemed to flounder about. Cleaning wasn't has neatly turned the campaign promise on its done. Meetings weren't held. Students came and students head. Having gained power, he tells us what he went, some starting communities outside the university will make other people do in future adminis- and others simply leaving. trations. This allows Reagan to cling to his fictive Then, from where IDC was conceived came the war- consistency: "I don't raise taxes. Or, when I do .1 nings to members. ORL expected that an experiment make others take the blame, trying to deny them begun with student and administration commitment the freedom to say they do not raise taxes." Or, should continue with only student committment. But conversely, he tries to take credit for what again, students come and go. someone else will do in the future: "I balance the Frustrated, and without consulting the students who budget. I just do it by making some unnamed successor of mine do it." Some leader. President thought they still were committed to the IDC, ORL announ - Roosevelt said that we did not need to fear any- ced its end. Poof, gone. The flame, flickering, is snuffed. thing but fear itself as a way of giving us the There was a campaign to make IDC work; it was anything In talking about the "damage that was a long energy to do something. Reagan says the same but well-planned. Crookston wasn't replaced because of a time in the making," Reagan insisted on "the thing to avoid doing what has to be done. lack of money ORL tried repeatedly to "save" the IDC, but problems we inherited." More shamefully, he And then he reverted to his oldest rhetorical a lack of ideological cohesiveness caused the very real accused his predecessors of neglecting national ploy, the personalization of "gummint" as some- problems. defense, and saidthat only his efforts had made body different from and opposed to "us." We are Members insist that the ideology still exists. The de- it possible tnat "the American uniform is once told that some Americans are suffering, so monstration by IDC members outside Hall Dorm yesterday more worn with pride." This was a low blow, government must suffer - it must "tighten its is evidence. implying that the Democrats made the Amer- own belt," as "we" are doing. The spending cuts That ideology can still flourish even if Rogers A and B ican uniform something to be worn only in dis- Reagan proposes are "far less than many honor. Reagan's instinct for the petty is too have university-assigned maids and meal plans. The care American families have had to do in these dif- indurated for him to give it up, even when he ficult imes."This ignores the fact that some are and community spirit can still thrive even if the dorm has tells us that we must all give it up.