INSIDE TODAY GORDIE HOWEhas been Things may be mellow at It seems the NEW YORK Former Little Feat band playing hockey seemingly Mirror Lake but across the COSMOS acquire an inter- leader Lowell George is dead forever. So what better street the Bishop Center is a national star every other at 34. Carl Glcndening person to analyze the recent bustling convention business day. However, there are reviews both George's recent NHL-WHA merger? See rolling in big money for the Americans making contri- West Hartford concert and page 14. UConn coffers. See page 6. butions. See page 15. the influence of his music. See page 6. FREE FREE SUMMER CAMPUS VOL. LXXXIII NO. 4 CONNECTICUT DAILY CAMPUS JULY 12,1979 BHE pondersUConn reorganization BHE spokesmen said the Other proposals include the professor and chairman of the requirements, while ECSC BHE seeks to enable both combination of all state advisory board, said the stresses instruction, he said. community, technical, merging proposal "has in- Asked how UConn faculty BY JOANNE JOHNSON UConn and ECSC students to partake in areas of vocational and -two-year teresting possibilities but is reacting to the proposal. specialization at both colleges under one board of problems too." He cited dif- Wolk said he thinks most The merging of the Uni- schools, but that any action trustees. ferences between UConn's staff members are not aware versity of Connecticut and would not take place for a No dates for putting the and ECSC tenure and of the details of the Eastern Connecticut State few years. proposals into effect have promotion standards as an sug gestion. ECSC staff is College was among the pro- The proposal is part of been drawn up, but a plan example of areas that probably "nervous" he said, posals breought up at the the board's plan to must be presented to the might cause conflict. in anticipation of "being Board of Higher Education reorganize the state's General Assembly by Sept. UConn places more emphasis swallowed up by a larger in- seminar last month. system of higher education. 1. on research and publication stitution." scc pagc four Elliot Wolk. University than teaching as tenure GulleyHall The home of the UConn administration may have to reorganize if a proposed merger between UConn and Eastern Connecticut State takes place. -■ —, TT- I I PAGE 2 SUMMER CAMPUS, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1979 OUT 'N ABOUT Summer Campus photos by Scott Graebe and Carl Glendening SUMMER CAMPUS, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1979 PAGE 3 UConn receives gift SUMMER CAMPUS of $50,000 from florists MARY MESSINA EDITOR By JOANNE JOHNSON KEN KOEPPER EDITOR MARK BECKER BUSINESS MANAGER Thanks to a gift from one of the state's commercial greenhouse companies, UConn will now be able to establish a graduate assistantship in floriculture research. According to Dr. Jay Koths, professor of floriculture, 31 STAFF greenhouses covering four and a half acres (or 181.000 square feet) were donated by A.N.Pierson, Inc. florists and DAN HATCH STEVE STRAIGHT nurserymen of Cromwell. The houses have been sold to an RICH DePRETA LOIS McLEAN operator moving out of state . The slightly less than $50,000 JOANNE JOHNSON DOREEN GRAY from the sale will be put into a trust of the University of GREGG RCISSO HOLLY HUSSEY Connecticut Foundation to be used for the assistantship, he ANDY YOUNG RONNA GLIDDON NANCY TCJTKO MEG TUTKO said. A great deal of material from the hcjses will also be used to upgrade facilities on campus, he said. CHARLES MOORE Koths said Pierson chose UConn because he considers it one of the best four or five agricultural schools in the country. ' Construction problems stall Fine Arts Center opening ■ ■ . The installment of "skylights'" in the Fine Arts Center now under construction may delay the opening of the building until Jan. 1, 1980. Harold Lewis of the Physical Plant said Tuesday. The translucent panels that form the skylights have not yet arrived. Lewis said, and may delay the opening of the : ifiisi■'•'■.■ i I building past the target date of November 1979. "They're progressing on schedule right now." Lewis noted, adding that interior plumbing and the walls within the building are still under construction. He said plans are being continued to install solar panels on the south side of the complex to provide an energy source to heat water in the building. "This is the only building on campus where solar panels have been installed outside of a purely experimental basis." Lewis said. Barring any labor strikes, Lewis expects the building, which he said is "designed functionally with high ceilings for artistic purposes" to open by the first of the year, but added strikes "are always a possibility." 1 NEW YORK'S P LONGEST RUNNING YOU'RE NEVER ALONE MUSICAL WITH A GOOD BOOK f&ntasticks by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt July 18 through August 4 Special Sunday Performance August 29 Curtain: 8:15pm Matinee: 2:15pm, July 28 Other Brother nutmeg nSunnier Book Shop playhouse Post Office Block, Storrs € niOPII. 42?)-2912 I OK Kl SI KVAIIONS > PAGE 4 SUMMER CAMPUS, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1979 Mirror Lake conquered! lieberman asks BY KEN KOEPPER lake last Saturday night. spect. "Think of all the faculty's help Believe it or not, someone Their purpose was to gather diseased we could have got- went swimming in Mirror subject material jfor a play ten from the water." 'he Lake and lived to talk about Huckins is writing entitled described the texture of the it. "Shea Shady Inn", which he bottom of the lake s "duck with energy problems Jack Shea, a fifth semester is composing for a film class muck." Hospital administration in the fall. The play will "As you keep on walking, major from West Haven, and describe the antics of a group you sink in the muck." Shea By JOANNE JOHNSON Mike Huckins, a seventh of college student who dis- noted. "The water isn't that semester fine arts major and cover an island to hold deep, but you have to start State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Lieberman University scholar, cruised parties on. swimming before you sink in (D.-Stamford) visited the UConn campus Monday "to through the water to the "We were lucky. I the muck." discuss energy matters and (how) capabilities of the faculty island in the middle of the guess." Shea said in retro- He said he hand Huckins might help the senator and his colleagues come to grips wore "lots of clothing and with energy problems facing us today," according to Peter kept our heads as far above McFadden, dean of the School of Engineering. the water as possible." She said "the water could have The senator talked with researchers while touring coal gone over our heads in the conversion workings in the Chemistry Building and the middle." but they were too solar energy evaluation center on the roof of Engineering conscious of the mucky water II, McFadden said. He said Lieberman also visited the to determine if that was true. domestic solar hot water project located adjacent to I-86's In a move akin to American eastbound lane between exits 100 and 101, adding he moon missions, the pair left a seemed pleased with the projects he toured. banner on the island facing The meeting was the third in a series of efforts to utilize campus which read "Jack the university's facilities to help deal with energy problems and Huckers. (below)" and McFadden said in the next step, Lieberman will submit a list of problem areas we can help him with. "The university is a valuable information source and should be useful to decision makers in the state in dealing l | with the large amount of energy problems confronting them today," McFadden said. C rV rm% 'T ^fr *1p lap ^t 'A"A'iJ From Page One Doris Griscom. vice president of the ECSC chap- ter of the American TRY OUR OH CAMPUS Association of University Professors, said she does not believe the proposals have been based on sufficient study of how well the two schools would merge. She said ECSC and UConn "couldn't mesh any better than apples and FOR YOUR LIFE oranges...because the two schools have totally different functins. objectives and criteria for curriculum and faculty activities." AFTER COLLEGE ECSC provides alibveral arts base in a personal at- mosphere to help the student entering college without definite ideas about a career choice, but that concept would be destroyed by the merging "because the whole plan assumes the student does know what he wants," Griscom said. Griscom said she feels most ECSC faculty feels as she does and,that Vishe has spoken with 30 to 40 staff members both- individually and in small group meetings. She criticizedc the lack of public discussion on the proposals, saying the ECSC AAUP had "absolutely no inkling of the implications for the campus until the end of June and so did not know AUG 13-24 how seriously to regard it." State AAUP coordinator An- tonia Moran relayed the in- formation, she said. "WE respect the Univer- sity and '/jits function but ACADEMIC COURSES ADVENTURE TRAINING regard it as distinct from our - Military History own and so do not wish to - Cliff Rappelling duplicate it," Griscom said. - Role of the Army - Physical Training "It is with a sense of loss - Map Reading - Rifle Marksmanship that we contemplate the loss of Eastern as a small - Tactics - Orienteering college," she said. NO Cost - No Obligation UConn president JOhn DiBiaggio said the merging Earn Two Years of Army ROTC Credit In Two Weeks! proposal did not take staff questions into consideration and so would not be prepared GALL: ARMY ROTC 486-4538 (collect) to coment until they were in- cluded and brought up, or Stop by the ROTC Hanger probably at the July 24 BHE meeting ARMY ROTC.