In Search of the Big Name Band Student Government Elections
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nos 107- u f In search of the big name band Editors note: graduate student body here, at least Ever wonder why there are a few By CHRIS MITCHELL AND CARL GLENDENING one date each month at the Albert headline-quality popular music acts Jorgensen Auditorium for student- playing at UConn? This series will band to perform in Jorgensen. Their able. BOG has to cancel their open planned activities. Occasionally, probe some of the reasons behind one date for that hall in the current date at Jorgensen. there are months when no open date this, and provide some insight into According to Steve Garson. presi- is available. Garson said. the problems faced by both the major month is looming closer; they have tried to sign half a dozen bands, but dent of BOG, Jorgensen Auditorium However. Garson added that he student activities organization here officials plan their events, including feels Jorgensen's director. Jack G. and the University offices who work have been frustrated by the bands' managers insistence on various con- plays, dance and classical music Cohan, is doing a good job. Jorgen- with them. tractual stipulations the BOG cannot recitals, at least one year in advance. sen's Fine Arts program is viewed as The Student Union Board of meet, or the bands aren't touring at These plans are designed to give one of the four finest at the Univer- Governors (BOG) are searching for a the time BOG has Jorgensen avail- BOG, which represents the under- See "Band" page 8 (Entmetttat Satlg (Eamjrojs Serving Storrs Since 1896 101 VOL. LXXXINO.-m STORRS, CONNECTICUT (203) 429-9384 MONDAY. APRIL 10. 1978 Student government elections begin today IFC supervision to be monitored By MATT MANZELLA date preferences known before a Despite reports last year that some small group of IFC members during a of its members were campaigning party held Saturday night. Goggins is within restricted voting areas, Inter- currently chairman of FSSO*s Elec- Fraternity Council (IFC) members tions Committee. will be supervising all student voting sites except one today and Tuesday In response to what Goggins said while the University's student Saturday night. Donovan said. "I government has taken a few steps to imagine it's legal, but ethically, he avoid any such campaigning this ought not to have said what he did." year, the Federation of students and Neither Goggins or IFC president Service Organizations (FSSO) vice Fred Page could be reached for chairman, Terry Donovan said Sun- comment Sunday. day. Donovan said graduate students The Inter-Fraternity Council, com- will supervise commuter student posed of all fraternity and sorority voting in the Student Union for members at the University, has Commuter's Union candidates. This representatives or pledge members is being done. Donovan said, to avoid currently serving in almost every any IFC campaigning where a majo- Staff Photo by John Gebhardt student organization on campus. rity of the eight or nine IFC student At a recent student meet the candidates forum several candidates Reportedly, a current pledge mem- candidates are running for positions, made their pitches for the elections to be held today and Tuesday. ber, Brian Goggins, made his candi- as in the Commuter's Union. Increased turnout Student opinions sought expected for elections on weekend meal plans In the face of a close student trustee ing candidates would be the main By ROB OBIE plan is totally inadequate." he said. election race, this year's student reason for the 50 per cent student A poll to determine if there is "UConn is one of the few schools in government elections turnout today voter turnout which he predicted last sufficient student interest in support the Northeast that doesn't have a and Tuesday may well exceed the Thursday. of an expanded weekend meal plan weekend meal plan." Lagasse said. average student election turnout of will be included in today's and "*Io one stays on the weekend previous years. Other members of the student Tuesday's student election ballots, because there is nothing for them to The voter turnout was approximate- government, including FSSO Chair- the sponsor of the proposal said eat. and at last count there were only ly 18 per cent of the student body last man Steve Donen, have made pre- Sunday. 80 people using the Ryan Refectory year, Terry Donovan, vice chairman dictions of voter turnout ranging from "It's about time UConn joined the program." of the Federation of Students and 20 to 30 per cent, Donen's being seven-day schools," Jeff Lagasse. The larger cafeterias in Buckley. Service Organizations (FSSO), said nearer the higher end of the scale. research director for the Inter-Area Ryan Refectory, and North Campus Sunday. But the closely contested For information on where to vote on Residents Council (IARC). said Sun- would be used in the program. trustee race between the three lead- campus, see page two. day. "The present weekend meal BRIEFLY Daily Campus picks executive staff The Weather: John G. Hill III, a sixth semester History- and Vikki Susman as business manager. Sunny with increasing! Moore, a Trumbull resident, served this year cloudiness in the afternoon major and a native of Storrs, Friday was elected editor-in-chief of the Connecticut as associate news editor. He is a fourth with a chance of rain tonight. semester Honors History major. Temperatures will be in the Daily Campus for the 1978-79 publishing year. Hill, who is currently the managing editor of Susman. a West Hartford resident, served fifties and the winds will be as assistant business manager this year. She variable around 10 mph. the Daily Campus, ran unopposed for the position and was approved by the news- is a sixth semester business major. paper's editorial advisory board Friday. Members of the 1977-78 editorial board The UConn Husky baseball Hill said he would work toward expanding present were: Murray Farber of the New team lost its second straight newspaper coverage to include the Mansfield Haven Register; John Breen. Daily Campus game of the season to the area and to continue the practice of open faculty advisor; Robert Bailyn. executive Boston College Eagles 5-1 editorial board meetings. editor of the Danbury News Times; Mark A. Saturday. Details page 16. Also elected Friday after running unopposed Dupuis. current editor-in-chief; John Hill III. were Charles A. Moore as managing editor current managing editor; and Craig K. Spery, JOHN G. HILL Bl current business manager. ■~->\ •' imttxaxt Satlg (Hampitj The Kansas wind Serving Storrs Since 1896 JOHN HILL III / EdIlor-ln-Chief VIKKI SUSMAN / Business Manager sweeping politics CHARLES A. MOORE / Managing Editor By GEORGE F. WILL Dole does not want to be thought of Washington as a verbal gunfighter, but some- A few hours after Gerald Ford times he even dresses (one day chose Robert Dole of Kansas for his recently he was in black shoes and running mate, a journalist of incan- socks, midnight blue suit, solid-color descent liberalism accosted me in a midnight blue tied, and white shirt) Kansas City hotel lobby. She an- like Wilson, the gunfighter in the nounced that Ford had chosen not movie "Shane." And when he speaks VOTE only a Republican, which she thought forcefully his voice takes on an edge, was impudent enough, but a Republ- almost a raspishness, that extin- ican "Doberman pinscher." guishes all traces of his most consis- Today Dole is running for President tent trait, humor. Polling places for today's and and it is worth understanding why he TO SAY that Dole is better than he The Hanks A lounge for students sometimes contrives to appear does, I Tuesday's student-trustee and stu- in the Northwest Quadrangle (Frats) is not always as docile as a cocker dent government elections are: spaniel. know, call to mind Mark Twain's The Towers Student Union near remark that Wagner's music is better Buckley North recreation room for the snack bar for students living in He game to the Senate in January, students in Buckley and Shippee 1969. That month a Democratic than it sounds. But one of Dole's the Towers Quadrangle problems is that his quickness of wit halls. President was replaced by the first French B lounge for students Whitney Hall lobby for students determinedly partisan Republican and his enjoyment of combat some- living in South Campus Quadrangle living in East Campus residences President in a generation, and a times make him seem less serious number of Democratic senators sud- The Eddy Hall lounge for students The student Union 10 a.m.-6 p.m. denly discovered that they could not living in Alumni Quadrangle for all undergraduate commuting longer support the Vietnam war. The lower level of the Putnam students GEORGE F. Will Refectory near the switchboard for THE MOST exhausting and divisive students living in Hale and Ells- Branford Hall 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., in struggles of the next few years were worth Halls the graduate residences for all about anti-war measures with names than he is. His strength is his liking In the McMahon meeting room graduate students. like "McGovern-Hatfield" and for his work, the brokering and the near the switchboard for the stu- "Cooper-Church." These debates campaigning. dents in McMahon and West Cam- All undergraduate residence polls (and others, involving anti-ballistic pus Quadrangle will be open from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. missiles, the SST, and the Supreme On foreign and domestic politics he In McConaughy Hall for students Students are required to present Cort nominations of Judges Haynes- is a tangy conservative, but his in the North Campus residences their student ID before voting.