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LXVIII, NO. 59 STORRS, CONNECTICUT TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1964 Branches, Student Senate Forzano Makes Debut Plan To Unite In Council The formation of a University plans consisted of a Consolidated Coordinating Council, consisting of Student Government, or one stu- Before State's Writers the Presidents of the student govern- dent government located at Storrs ments of the university branches and with branch representation; Feder- By LEIGH MONTVILLE With these words Rick Forzano, lege player and introduced himself ihe main campus, was tentatively ated, class co-ordinated or area co- "When I was a kid I didn't want the new UConn football coach to Connecticut sports writers assem- agreed upon Saturday at a confer- ordinated, with separate govern- to be a fireman, I wanted to be a named Saturday, shrugged off the bled at a press conference in the ence called by the Branch Study ments at the branches and Storrs, football coach." fact that he had never been a col- Statler Hilton yesterday afternoon Committee of the Storrs Student and separate government for the in Hartford. Senate. whole university. Field Questions The new Husky coach proved The new council, which authori- A dual system of government was ties say may prove to be one of the also considered which consists of himself an ab elmaster of the press most powerful student groups of the the present student government with conference as he fielded questions University, was agreed upon as the the addition of branch representa- and threw back answers on evtry- branch-campus student relations in tives at Storrs. The fifth system dis- thing from Roger Staubauch and first step in solving the problem of cussed was the Independent system, JoJe Bellino to UConn football phi- an effort to coordinate the student where the present government or- osophy. body of the University as whole. ganizations would remain, with the Forzano first said that he felt addition of various coordinating The UCC was agreed upon after honored to be the UConn choice three hours of negotiating, in which committees. and that the two things that im- five other plans were considered. The President Homer D. Babbidge, pressed him about the campus and present at the meeting, emphasized brought him to Storrs. The decid- the importance of deciding what the ing factor he said, were the fac- relationship should be between the ilities themselves and the people Dean May branches and the main campus. of the university, notably President He said that "The problem of the Homer Babbidge and Athletic Di- relationship of the whole and its rector J. O. Christian. Announces parts is one that has been of con- He classified himself as a "gam- cern to thinkers for a long time. bler type coach." and said that he . . . The decision you reach on how would like to bring an offense sim- Retirement the branches will be tied in with the ilar to that employed by his for- University as a whole is one which mer boss Wajne Hardin. "But not Dr. Elizabetr Eckhardt May. will have a great effect on the ad- dean of the University of Connecti- vancement on the University stu- like the one in the Texas game." cut's School of Home Economics dent society." he quickly added. for the past 11 years, today an- President Victor Schachter, repre- Suit To Personnel nounced that she plans to retire senting the Storrs student govern- However he said that he will from the UConn in September. ment at the meeting, described the HE MAY LOOK SMALL, but Forzane left) told newsmen yesterday suit his offense to the personnel that he had big ideas. "We're going to hit." was the promise he made. The UConn dean, who is one of new council as "one which could he has. If he has a quarterback have tremendous power and im- Charlie Durpo. Navy tackle (center), came to the news conference also. that throws a "side arm slider" he the nation's authorities on work Athletic Director J. O. Christian is on the right. (Campus Photo—Carlson) simplification for handicapped portance in the future. said the Huskies would revert to mothers, said she expects to con- The UCC is only the base for a Woody Hayes type, three yards tinue as a consultant in education a University Student Government at a time, offense. for women and rehabilitation for which will unquestionably be the When asked concerning the deli- hamemakers after she leaves the most important student organization Anglo-Irish Novelist cate field of recruiting Forzano said University. She will live at Brad- in the not too distant future." that he aims primarily at the Con- dock Heights. Md. According to committee chair- necticut football player. But once Since coming to Ihe UConn in man. Jack Carlson, the next step in Speaks In HUB Thursday again going o Woody Hayes for an 1952 from Hood College, Fred- the formation of the council will be example, he cited the Ohio State the discussion of the proposal at Elizabeth Bowen, many times discussion and coffee are also mentor's policy of trying for the erick, Md., Dean May has helped published Anglo-Irish novelist and planned at 3:00 p.m. in the U. N. introduce a number of innovations the various representative student Ohio student first, but of course short story writer, will be presented Room. in home economics programs. She councils. The committee plans to (Continued to Page 8, Col. 3) meet again on February 15, to or- in lecture on January 9, 1964, at A native of Ireland. Miss Bowen and her staff developed a pioneer received her education in curriculum which offers UConn ganize the mechanics of the coun- 8:00 p.m. in the Student Union Ball- cil. room by the Board of Governors. A where she has spent the por- students an opportunity to combine tion of her life. She began her lit- Faculty Awards general education with professional erary career as a short story writer, training in one of five home econ- and has been very successful in this Voting Begins omics fields. Petition Seeks To Block field. While at Hood College, Dean She shows a certain cosmopolitan- February 10th May served as academic dean and ism in choosing the setting for her NSA Appropriation works. She is fond of portraying Voting for this year's distinguish- sensitive young people, especially ed faculty awards will be held By SUE CRONIN Charles Sullivan, speaking for girls who are bruised by their en- February 10th through February A petition opposing the manner the petition, said that a campus- vironment and by their less tender 15th. The Student Senate faculty wide election would be best. How- associates. Awards Committee has announced of selection of the Student Gov- eveY. an alternative would be to In all of Elizabeth Bowen's writ- that students can deposit their votes ernment's National Student Associ- elect senators and the president of at the library or the Student Union. the Student Government on plat- ing, time, memory, and place are ation representative and requesting drawn through relationships in Ballots will also be available from that no more funds be appropriated forms of national and international class council representatives. interest to students. which the past and the present are for the NSA until a democratic seen through changing lenses and There will be two $150 awards Vic Schachter. president of the election is held, has been started the acts of childhood assume the and ten honorary certificates given. ASG, is opposed to a campus- ambiguitie of later years. Her theme All 12 winners will be honored at by Charles Sullivan, a member of wide election for the representa- is invariably the upper middle class a banquet and presented framed the ISO party and the Young Con- tive at this time. He feels that since which she knows best. notices of their selection. the NSA is still new. it has not yet servatives. One hundred seven stu- Miss Bowen spent her war years Sophomores Too dents, most of them from North a solid enough base for such an in London, working for the Ministry Campus, have signed the petition. election. He feels that at this time For the first time sophomore* of Information and the Air-Raid De- will be allowed to participate in The petition is as follows: the ASG president is better quali- partment. The war provided the fied the select the representative. the voting as well as juniors and "We, the undersigned, stand op- background for her short stories. seniors. posed lo any appropriation of stu- Schachter said that maybe in a "Ivy Gripped the Steps" and "The few years a campus-wide election Heat of the Day". The\ both con- In order to vote, a student will dent funds by the Student Senate answer several questions on a form. for NSA until such time as this would be possible, but that the idea cern reactions of the civilian under of having the Student Government siege and bombing. These questions will include why University's representatives to the the student thinks he eacher is annual convention are elected dem- president and the Student Senators Dean May As Phyllis Bently has remarked. outstanding. ocratically by the entire student elected on platforms of greater scope would be more feasible. He "Her short stories and novels are body." limited in range. . . . but in regard Basis Of Selection dean of the faculty. Before join- feels that student government is ing the Hood faculty, she held The National Student Associ- to human emotion they are both The awards will be given on the naturally headed in a direction of basis of the most votes received but state and county appointments on ation is a group of representatives greater concern in national and in- deep and wide; there is a poignancy, the Home Economics Extension and intensity in her presentation of a committee member noted that the from student governments through- ternational problems staff of West Virginia University. out the country which concerns experience." endorsement was almost as impor- Dean May also has taught at the itself with student issues of a na- The annual membership fee in Klizabeth Bowen's principal works tant as the number of votes re- Universities of Minnesota and Mi- tional and international scope. Al NSA is $175. The money required include: Encounters (short story ceived. chigan, and during World War II present the representative from to send the representative or rep- collection). Ann Lee's Other Stories. Top winners last year were Dr. served as director of the National UConn is sleeted by the president resentatives to the annual conven- Joining Charles and Other Stories. Allan Broadhurst of the Speech Citizens Committee of the White of the Associated Student Govern- Friends and Relations. To the Department and Dr. Charles Mc- House Conference on Children in a ment and ratified by the Student tion must be appropriated in_ addi- North. The Car Jumps, and The Laughlin of the English Depart- Democracy. Senate. tion to this. House in Pants. ment. TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1964 PAGB TWO CONNECTICUT DAILY CAMPUS Connecticut LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Enough All this talk about groups leads 20 Years Ago me to believe that this conven- "Despite all of Roosevelt's prom- To the Editor: tion, as all other USA Conven- Hasn't the student body read ises, despite his executive orders enough nonsense about the politi- tions, is going to be closed and 8802 and 19346 and the FEPC, the Daily Campus fixed. cal meanderings of the unholy Negro still remains a second-class triumvirate Calder, Hirschhorn, Sheehan vs. Rudolph is not the citizen. Twachtman? issue, but rather power politics "Nothing proves this better than TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1964 Politicians have long masked and all its cancerous elements, the War Manpower Commission's recent study on the status of Ne- their real intent behind clouds of that affect student government words. It Is time for the sun to groes in industry, a study which burst through and clear the ob- on this campus. the Office of War Information has vious political trickery and deceit Karen Mularky tried to bury. these "boys" are playing at. Alpha Delta Pi "This study reveals that employ- A Promise Kept ment of Negroes in war industry rose from 5.8 percent in July 1942 Sate Scene: to 7.3 percent in July 1943. This tiny increase of 1.5 percent comes For years the Student Senate has been promising its con- in the face of the most severe labor stituents the passage of an Associated Student Government Con- shortage in the history of this coun- stitution. And for years the editorial column of the Daily Campus The Ed May Record try. has said, "Yes, we'll believe it when we see it." This fall the Stu- By MARK 1! E AI. V He argued against a provision "The commission further finds Anyone looking for a model in a Reciprocal Trade Act bill to that in the South, Negroes are con- dent Senate did pass an ASG constitution. It was approved in a success story can look to the early stablish a quota on certain goods centrated in those establishments referendum vote by the students of the University. It was also ap- life of Edwin H. May Jr., the the would receive and occupations where heavy un- proved by the Board of Trustees at its December meeting. Young Republican's speaker for by import, feeling that this would skilled work is performed. this evening. May graduated his force the U.S. into an unnecessary "Nor are conditions much better We have seen and we believe. We commend the Student Sen- high school's class president, and playing of friendly nations against outside the South . . .The op- ate for the tremendous job they have done since the spring election. after a stint in the armed services each other for their goods, and portunity for varied employment For once, a promise has been kept. Through the efforts of Bill went on to Wesleyan University thus become an instrument of for- with a chance for advancement where he captained the basket- eign policy. Hait, as chairman of the Constitutions Committee, and the blood remains limited, the report states. ball team and won the Olin After May was defeated for a Negroes, as a whole, have been and sweat of many other individual senators, an ASG constitution Scholar Prize, the college's high- second term in the Ribicoff land- employed 'in a few concentrated will go into effect with the spring senate elections. est award for academic achieve- slide in 1958, he took over as industries as unskilled workers in ment. Chairman of the Republican State large numbers with little or no In its statement of approval, the Board of Trustees on Decem- Out of school, May began a dy- Central Committee when the then chance to upgrade themselves!'" ber 17, 1963, singled out a few areas of concern regarding the namic drive that in a few short chairman Baldwin resigned under "If Negroes remain concentrated Constitution. There were questions as to the ASG's connection with years in business brought him the fire. in a few industries as unskilled Vice-Presidency of the United the Student Union Board of Governors, the branches, the Women's Connecticut Republicans suf- workers . . .then they will be the States Junior Chamber of Com- fered a notable decline during Ed first ones squeezed out of industry Student Government Association, and the Division of Student merce, a position which put him May's leadership. His critics at- when the war factories begin to in the political spotlight. Charac- Personnel. (Continued to Page 3 Col 1) slow down." — Dec. 18, 1943. teristic success followed and May The Board stated, "In view of the very real progress which has won a seat in the United States been made, the Board of Trustees hereby approves the general House of Representatives in 1956. outlines of the proposed constitution, with the understanding that In his freshman year in Con- gress he introduced an amend- the appropriate student leaders will continue to work with the ment to a proposed federal aid to Trustees' committee with a view to perfecting and completing the education bill. The bill as writ- document within one year." ten would have given the federal education commissioner charge of As stated yesterday, this work has already begun in the area allotting funds to school districts of branch representation. A Coordinating Council has been estab- and thus an undesirable measure lished and has begun to work with the branches. The Student of control over education. May's proposal centered authority for Union Board of Governors is in the process of applying to the the disposition of funds in the Associated Student Government for membership under its own hands of the states, and suggested terms. that each state withhold a pre- scribed portion of federal income As to the other areas mentioned, the Student Senate at present revenues to be used on education- seems to have incorporated the machinery for contact with Wo- al facilities in its own territory. men's Student Government within its constitution. Additional talks Sending foodstuffs to Commu- must be initiated so that the Student Senate understands the ques- nist countries is beneficial, thought Ed May in Congress. Aid tions held by members of the Board of Trustees. to Poland was essential to elim- There is some question concerning the relationship of Asso- inate that nation's adversity which to May was the lifeblood ciated Student Government and the Division of Student Personnel. of its Communism; remove hun- The new ASG constitution provides for the establishment of a ger and economic weakness and president's council. This council is to be composed of the presi- the deathblow would be dealt to dents and heads of the various organizations. It will meet fre- Marxism. Plans for a Greek-sponsored, EoEW+Vie ~6.