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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 1968-1969 Student Newspapers 4-29-1969 ConnCensus Vol. 53 No. 7B Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1968_1969 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "ConnCensus Vol. 53 No. 7B" (1969). 1968-1969. 2. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1968_1969/2 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1968-1969 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. 1- J--1.- C -OJ P c; CONNCENSUS CONNECTICUT COLLEGE Vol. 16, No.7 NEW LONDON, CONNECfICUT Tuesday, April29,1969 Company Refuses to Print Shain Appoints 12-Man Ctte. Black Women's Anthology To Tackle Issue of Parietals President Charles E. Shain indi- tire manuscript had been read and At the request of President Kennedy, chairman of the soci- philosophy. cated Thursday night that he is approved by Robley Evans, as- Charles E. Shain, a Study Com- ology department, and of the Administrative members are: considering discontinuing the Col- sistant professor of English. mittee on Visitation Rules for Committee, the first was a proce- Miss Alice Johnson, dean of fresh- lege's patronage of the New Lon- Donna explained, "The words Connecticut College met for the dural meeting which resulted in men; Miss Gertrude Noyes, dean don Printing Company, following were used in the poems and short first time on Thurs., April 24. scheduling two meetings a week. of the college; and Dr. Edward the company's refusal to print the stories to created specific impres- The Committee is composed of Mrs. Kennedy remarked that Allen, college psycltiatrist. anthology for the Black Woman- sions. We used very real words to five students, four faculty mem- the Committee urges and invites Issue is Divisive hood Conference on the grounds portray very real situations. bers and three administrative offi- all members of the college com- According to President Shain, that it contained "dirty lan- "Hanes didn't even call back cers of the Coliege. munity who wish to transmit their the question of unlimited parietals guage." personally to say that he had been In a letter to each of the ideas on the subject either to is a most divisive issue. "Apparently, the printer took unable to reach Evans, but refused appointees to the Committee, write a letter addressed to the Amalgo Plan Abandoned it upon himself to censor, and if to print the anthology nonethe- President Shain indicated that the chairman, or to indicate their will- At a meeting of College Coun- he did this, then the College will less. He had his secretary relay the purpose of the Committee will be ingness to appear before the Com- cil on Thurs., March 27, it was mittee. see that he has no more of our message. "to deliberate on the proposed (Continued to Page 5, Col. 1) business," President Shain stated. "By waiting two weeks beyond plan for unlimited room visitation Student members of the Com- The anthology was to have the contracted date to notify us requested by a slightly flawed mittee are: Beth Brereton '69, contained reflections of Black of his decision, he made it impos- recent student referendum." Mandy Williams '71, Jane Terry Vasquez women on the Connecticut Col- sible for the anthology to be The letter also stated that the '71, Lee Marks '70, and Betsy lege campus. printed before the Black Woman- Committee is expected to arrive at Frawley '72. Afro-American Society spokes- hood Conference. a written recommendation on this Faculty members arc Mrs. Ken- Teaches-In man, Donna Radcliffe '72, ex- "It seemed as though he was matter to the whole Coliege by nedy, Rev. J. Barrie Shepherd, by Cindy Haines plained that Afro-Am first con- trying to prevent us from being May 21. John MacKinnon, assistant pro- tacted Mr. Harold O. Hanes of the able to print the anthology else- Encourages Varied Opinions fessor of psychology, and Eugene The boycott against grapes has New London Printing Company in where. According to Mrs. Ruby Jo TeHennepe, assistant pr,?fessor of grown from a small local protest the middle of Marcil. The an- "1 object to his censorship of to a national movement. On cam- thology was to be ready by April our anthology, to his pretending pus and in the New London area, 15. to be too busy to speak to me, Davies Speaks at Chapel On students, faculty and community Donna submitted the com- and to his general attitude. leaders have formed committees pleted manuscript to Hanes on "I was thoroughly disgusted to petition those business and in- March 21 as agreed, but was told with the man as an individual, and "The Biafran Tragedy" stitutional establishments that by Hanes that the galleys would as manager of a company", Donna sell California grapes. " not be ready until March 28, the concluded. In an effort to publicize what day spring vacation began. When contacted by Conn the grape boycott is about, a On March 28, Hanes delayed Census and asked why he would - "teach-in" will be held tonight the process further by saying that not print the anthology, Hanes Tues., Apr. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the galleys would not be ready said to his secretary, "It was the Thames 114. Its primary focus until April 3. whole thing ... It was just dirty, will be to relate the facts of this When Donna called on the dirty, dirty." issue. third, Hanes stalled further, claim- Mr. Michael Burlingame, in- ing that he needed more time Conn to Sponsor structor of history and a sup- because he had made commit- porter of this movement, feels ments to others before he con- Meeting on OIC that the "teach-in" will create tracted with the Afro-Am Society. "more sympathy in the college "He should have told us this The Connecticut College Of- and surrounding community for when we first contacted him," fice of Community Affairs will the cause of the grape boycott." Donna asserted. sponsor, on campus, a series of Featured at the "teach-in" will The next day, Hanes called to seminars and an open meeting in be Miqueli Vasquez, a Mexican- notify Donna that he would not an attempt to determine the in- American migrant worker, who print the anthology. terest of the local community in was one of the original strikers "I don't like the language, the the creation of an Opportunities ... \ with Cesar Chavez at Delano, dirty words," said Hanes. Hanes Industrialization Center in New Teach-in on Biafra: Diane Davies, left, freelance photographer and California. disregarded the fact that the en- London on Fri., May 2. Prominent labor leaders from writer. OlC is a community organized the New London area will also and operated job-training pro- The campaign to arouse active taking pictures and reporting for speak on behalf of the boycott. In Memoriam: gram, providing "pre-vocational sympathy for the people of Biafra the New York Times, and Oer Two movies, "Strike at De- technical training, motivation continued last Thursday evening Stern, a German magazine. lano" and "The Harvest of and referral services to the under- on the Connecticut College cam- Miss Davies spoke of the loss of Shame" will be shown. Discus- privileged, unemployed, under- pus. skin pigmention, the protruding sion will follow. employed and untrained." "This is going to be a terrifying skeletons and the skin ulcers of Those who are active in this In addition, OlC conducts a film", proclaimed the narrator of the animated, tooth pick-like campaign are now trying to reach "Feeder" program offering basic "The Biafran Tragedy". Tltis starving people. Yet there is an grocery store owners so that they educational training to precede statement followed 60 seconds of "air of determination", she com- will cancel or refuse to accept job-training. viewing Biafran children, crying mented, and strangely enough a grape orders. and squirming from the pains of OIC is a free-enterprise pro- "sense of humor" Women faculty members and gram, endorsed by President hunger. faculty wives, Mrs. Philip Gold- Though the event was well Nixon, separate from the Anti- Thursday's presentation in the berg, Mrs. David Smalley, and Poverty program although the Chapel Library was brought to publicized, the attendance was Mrs. Elinor Despalatovic, assist- poor. One wonders about the lack two sometimes work together. Conn by Diana Davies, a free- ant professor of history, have Seventy-five OlC's already la n ce jour na list-photographer. of concern for the loss of one formed a housewives' committee Biafran life every IS seconds .. exist in the United States, in- Miss Davies spent a week in Biafra They hope that through a united cluding one in New Haven, in effort with other mothers and The results of the 1969-1970 class elections are as follows: addition to four overseas. wives they can exert pressure on The May 2 program will President of Class of '70: Kathy Doar the local grocers to stop buying President of Class of '71 : Gayle Cunningham grapes. They will urge people to Mrs. Anne Corbett DeVille '69, consist of four workshops, President of Class of '72: Nancy Kyle patronize only those stores that of Patricia Court, Gales Ferry, primarily for the manager of do not stock grapes. Connecticut, died Wednesday, local industries and members of Honor Court: Conn students will be needed April 23 of a kidney ailment. the political structure. Linda Manno and Vickie Green '70 to help mail literature to the area Nancy was the wife of Lieu- They will discuss, respectively, Pat Adams and Pandora Jacoubs '71 as well as canvass in New Lon- tenant Thomas DeVille.
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