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(tattrrttrut iatUj (ttampua Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXIXNO. 114 STORRS. CONNECTICUT Friday, May 5, 1972 everythingW ^^ is free at 'garden'^^ See story on page 8. jft ft M M v.c. establish government in captured quang tri Calling it "a moment of golden opportunity which never before existed," the Viet Cong proclaimed a government of its own Thursday in the captured provincial capital of Quang Tri, but embattled Hue, 32 miles away. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu expressed confidence in the durability of his northern front. The Viet Cong urged its agents and followers throughout the country to stage uprisings against the Saigon government. See story on page 3. THIS IS A STICKY SITUATION: If you are one of those people who love to slide down banisters, dont go near the Student Union this week. According to maintenance man Teddy Ser wanski, the banisters and stairway posts in the Student Union are being painted dark brown this week and next. About half a dozen signs have been put up in the Student Union but many students are taking them them because of their "artistic value," according to Ser wanski. (Photo by Noel Voroba) ** the annual international fair to take place this Sunday The sixth annual "International Fair" will be presented Sunday May 7, in the field house. Booths are to be set up selling jewelry from India, foods from China, South America, France and Greece, and costumes from various parts of the world. The proceeds will go to International House, a central meeting place for American and foreign students. The Fair starts at 1 p jn. Sunday. See story on page 8. Israeli cultural week to be I held the week of may 7-12 The second annual Israeli Cultural Week will run May 7-12. Sponsored by the Shalom Group, it will feature a movie, Israeli coffeehouse, and speakers on Arab-Israeli TODAY'S FEATURE: Nathan Knoebler, Fine Arts professor, is a relations and Israeli youth. The week begins with a booth printmaker, sculptor, author and housebuilder who, if he finds a book and folk dancing at the International Fair, and ends doesn't cover a subject he needs to teach, writes another himself. See story Friday, May 12 at a creative service written and performed on page 6. (Photo by Voroba) by students at Hillel. A library exhibit will feature kibbutz life. See story on page 8. Friday, May 5, 1972 Chmtt irttrut laily (EamjWH relevance of education Editor-in-Chief by Edward Krzyzek up the doors closed to him. But. and ourselves. with the increasing number of Lincoln Mil/stein Everything is rectified in a Paradoxically, I wonder about "educated" people and a textbook manner. We assume the oft heralded benefits of a Managing Editor Business Manager stagnant and closed market for that everything can be solved college education. Paradoxical their "talents", we have a through education — racism, Alan K. Reisner Donald E. Waggaman because I 've just spent four years situation where the proverbial poverty, and all other of my life working to attain "sheepskin" no longer opens all contemporary ills are a result of something I thought beneficial. the "doors." lack of education, or not having Ever since childhood it has The confusing part of all this the tremendous "awareness" it been hammered into our heads is that colleges still orient the gives. that education is a necessary student towards acquiring a We laugh at the "Archie prerequisite to future happiness financially rewarding job. The Bunkers" and George Wallaces — the more formalized students are never clearly told not understanding why they education we receive the happier how a college education is exist. "They're just uneducated we will be. And it's very difficult supposed to help acquire a well rednecks, people who just aren't indeed to refute spending 12 paying job. Instead, they have as smart as us." years in grade and high schools high expectations that are College professors are looked and forr more in college for quickly destroyed in their eighth at in awe. We are easily registration frolics nothing. semester, if not sooner. impressed by their long lists of Parents and older people see There is a gap between what a degrees, awards, and published education as the key to unlock college education means and books. But all they can offer is a The new system of course coding, which should doors that they never could. what it can actually give you. We scholarly interpretation of topics Hence a parent in a middle or spend a great deal of our early that cannot be related by any eliminate the incomplete scheduling of courses necessary lower level job sees education, life actively involved in stretch of the imagination to the for a student's advancement, may also eliminate the idea particularly college, as the means education and tend to develop a real world. of pursuing a "liberal arts " education. for his son or daughter to open very simplistic view of the world The world is not run by textbooks, classrooms, and PhD. The blame for incomplete schedules next semester dissertations, and trying to deal cannot be placed on the computer or the registrar. It will with problems at this level is finally be placed on the teachers and administrators who futile. have been responsible for the greater part of the problem will actually be any better than Students look at professors, courses, and the general all along. the present set-up; moreover, appalled reader once instituted, it will be academic environment as The computer registration program needed the changes virtually irreversible. Even another extension of American society. We fail to look at it in a that have occured between the disaster this spring and To the Editor, UConn's director of Housing & Services, Sumner Cohen, has special context, as totally alien registration for last fall. Ronald Dickerson's resignation I am appalled at the content and separate from the "outside and tone of the May 4 editorial expressed serious doubts about was submitted with the hope that the apathy felt towards the desirability of instituting world." For instance, poverty condemning the food service and racism are American facts of registration problems would stop. The higher levels workers' efforts to solicit private catering. responded by supporting the implementation of the new Sincerely yours, life; not, as some may believe, student support to retain the subjects to be intellectually program. present food service system and John H. Del Vecchio Batterson C discussed over martinis. Liberal Those students who can get most of their courses listed save the jobs of hundreds of Arts is not referred to as the employees who would probably as "M" or "R" stand a fair chance of getting complete "bullshit major" for nothing. be fired if a new private catering silent vigil Unless, of course, you want to schedules. Course requests that have to be listed as "E", or system were utilized. be an insurance salesman in electives, will be unfilled for the most part, because of the The editorial seems to dismiss To the Editor, Hartford. the fate of these workers as teachers' new found ability to determine how many of the Mother Nature caught us off American education has left something the university guard Wednesday night with an us a little empty. Technically over-requests for a course should be "squeezed" in. Those community should not be unexpected rain flood and we speaking, we are educated. We students who are just interested in taking a course for concerned with, overlooking the were unable to hold our Silent can understand an historical background will be denied. fact that these workers, too, are Candlelight Procession and Vigil. trend, an important theory of part of that "university The new system will eliminate problems that The purpose of the Vigil was to thermodynamics, or a particular community." peacefully protest the Vietnam theorum in mathematics. upper-classmen have in getting courses they really need, It is only fitting that the food War. We feel the best way to But we have placed too much but other courses they really would like to try will not be workers should seek, and get, attain peace is by working for it emphasis on academics. We have open to them. the support of the students. in a peaceful manner. With this only understood as far as facts, According to the Campus, of in mind we formed the "P.T.A. figures and theories. Anything One wonders what will happen to the liberal arts course, we students are just too (Peace Through Awareness).' behond that is unimportant education where a student could conceivably receive a busy to be bothered with such We wish to thank all those because we are trained to deal broad perspective on other fields of interest. The new trivia, but I think most students who planned to attend the Vigil with hard data, and trust hard are very willing to take out a few data. registration system has eliminated the long lines and the and hope they show a continued minutes to review the situation interest by attending the newly Education is important. But chaos which takes place semiannually. But are we and consider supporting the scheduled Procession and Vigil, not as important as we have compromising education in the process? employees. Most certainly, the next Wednesday, May 10, at 8 made it out to be. By petition is not "coercion" but an p.m. Further details will be concentrating all our energies in accepted method of determining announced. Your support can the pursuit of one goal we have public support - no one is forced make this work.

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