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Kennedy's Death Seen in Retrospect " GhmttKttntt iatlg Campus Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXI NO. 50 STORRS.CONN. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1973 5 CENTS OFF CAMPUS Administration Salary rates five months late for faculty here with action plan moved upward The University's revised Affirmative By LOL' GOLDEN Action Plan (AAP) to eliminate The Board of Trustees has discrimination against minorities and recommended a change in the salary women on campus is five months scale for the University's professional overdue to the U.S. Department of staff which includes a $3,420 raise in Heal th, Education and Welfare (HEW), the maximum yearly salary- for full according to John Bynoe, Boston's professors and S600 a-year stipend hike HEW civil rights director. for graduate assistants. In April, the original AAP was The Board's recommendations, found to be inadequate by HEW. The voted on Friday in executive session, Agency said the plan was missing goals must be approved by the Commission and timetables for the hiring of women on Higher Education before taking effect and minorities. HEW also said the AAP in September 1974. needed policy statements showing that However, these changes will not the University hiring practices are in affect the salaries of professional staff compliance with federal members now employed by the nondiscrimination regulations. University, but will broaden the range of Bynoe said this year's salaries possible in any job category. administration has a different attitude According to Trustee Robert F. towards producing a better plan than Taylor, the salary schedule was adjusted last year's administration. He said so the University could remain University President Glenn W. Ferguson "competitive in attracting new faculty has convinced him the revised plan will and staff. contain the necessary information. "We tried to emulate and duplicate The University-'s Equal the salary schedules of the best of the Employment Officer, Bertram Wilson* public and private institutions," Taylor was not available Thursday for said. "We think we should have the best, comment on the AAP. and we are going to compete for the A University offical said the plan best." should be completed and published by Taylor said the University now ranks the end of the month. The University "close to the 90th perccntile" in faculty is sending in portions of the plan to salaries across the country. HEW at the present time. David Repass, president of the local The AAP was written in response chapter of the American Association of to a two-month HEW investigation in University Professors (AAUP). labeled the spring of 1972, during which HEW Taylor's claim "an illusion," and cited probed alleged discrimination of AAUP figures which show that UConn women and minorities on campus. falls below the 60th perccntile in faculty- The original deadline for the salaries. revised plan was May 1 and was "All that they have done is, to extended to June 1. A further request change the salary structure," Repass from Acting President Edward V. Cant With Thanksgiving rapidly approaching, Chef Thomas Scott carcfu lly portions said. "No one on the current faculty has to extend the deadline to Oct. 1 was turkey for a special feast at Hamilton House Thursday night. (Photo by Alan received a penny more." denied. Decker). ( i>ni nun (I on page 4 Kennedy's death seen in retrospect By MARK FRANKLIN football game against Holy Cross the because they felt it would be too It was a mild, sunny Indian day after the assassination was "mundane" at such a serious time. summer day in New England ten years cancelled on order of Homer D. Despite the sense of loss and horror ago in late November. Babbidge Jr ., former university experienced by millions including It was a day that was to be cruelly president. Stave, he concurs with many historians branded into the memories of hundreds Students now attending UConn that Kennedy's administration was a of millions of persons across the nat ion were in elementary school at the time time of hope that went unfulfilled. and th e entire world through the of Kennedy's death. Stave said Kennedy, "raised the electronic shock of television and radio Debby DeRose, a fifth semester expectations of American society so broadcasts. agriculture student, recalls she was in much, that once he was succeeded b\ John F. Kennedy, America's young the fifth grade at St. Thomas parochial Joh nson and Nixon the crisis of] and dynamic President, had been shot. school in Fairfield. She said she was America was great" when these goals He was in "critical" condition. He was leaving school when the safety patrol were not fulfilled. "The ultimate effect dead. guards told the children Kennedy had on American society was disillusion." The Co nnecticut Daily Campus, in been shot. he said. a special edition on Saturday, Nov. 23, *4 T or, He said, "Kennedy could have led 1963, reported, "They wanted the She remembers the guards were not believed by the students. "Everybody the country in any direction he latest news so they came to the Daily wished." Stave said he believes that Campus and WHUS offices where the was yelling what a hateful thing it was to say," she said. Kennedy's popularity was based on teletype machines were recording "more style that substance." history. DeRose recalls going to a Girl "Th e quiet of a Friday afternoon Scout meeting and then going to Stave describes Kennedy as a "Cold was broken as stranger met stranger, church with the other scou ts to light warrior" in foreign affairs. He said he shook his head and whispered, "How candles and pray. When she found out was MM in office long cnoug h to have President Kennedy could it have happen ed?" or, "I just from her mother the President was an effect on domestic policy. can't b elieve it. Following the announcement of the dead, DeRose said she cried. Louis Gerson, head of the political "As the people came, a loudspeaker President's death, the Daily Campus Bruce Stave, associate professor of science department, said he spent the was placed in the Student Union reported, "It took a while until the history, said he was a graduate assist ant day of the assassination "glued to the lobby. The news spread and the meaning of the words were felt. Then at the University of Pittsburgh and was television" following the initial students were joi ned in the information they wept. eating a bacon and tomato sandwich in announce ment. c enters by Pr esident Babbidge. "The noisy snackbar of every a dormitory lunchroom when the Gerson said, "The great tragedy of "The shock grew and so did the Friday gave way to a quiet corner, a announcement of the shooting was Kennedy him self was he died in office cro wd. They grew more ho peful and at deserted staircase." carri ed over a piped-in radio. He said when he was not able to fulfill his the same time more fearful. Although students were getting he went with some ten friends to a bar promises." "Rumor said he was dying. ready for the Thanksgiving holiday the where the nearest television was Ken ncdy can not be judged on the Everyone too k another look at the following week, parties and social located. basis of the results of his Associated Press or United Press events were cancelled at th c request of When Stave was i nformed of the a >Iniimsii.ition because he was killed International wire services and waited Donald McCullough, student activities President's death, he and his wife "at the t ime he learned about these and prayed." coordinator. UConn's scheduled decided not to go food shopping problems," Gerson said. Friday, November 16, 1973 (Eimttertirut lathi (Eamntta Editor-in-Chief Alan K. Reisner Managing Editor Business Manager John Pallatto. Jeffrey J. Sherman OH, MOTHER—DONT MAKI Ml OO THROUGH THAT AGAIN!' Letters to the Editor the education of students at The arrogance of intellect «*-was really disappointing to To the Editor: had received on the paper, or find a so-called intellectual who I recently received an even by what he thought I had refused to rationally discuss the unsatisfactory grade on a paper done. situation with me. Perhaps the J.F.K. I wro te for one of my courses. I was very much insulted by University should make a greater The instructor remarked that his arrogant manner and effort to employ teachers more "Bui why, some say, the moon? . And they may the paper was a "cooperative question why I was treated in responsive to the needs of their well ask, why elimb the highest mountain? Why effort" with another student. this way. Such professors, even students. thirty-five years ago, fly the Atlantic? . This other student and I went though they may be experts in Maria Monaco to his office to discuss our their fields, seem to add little to Woodhaven Apartments We choose to go to the moon in this decade, and grades and question why he do the oilier things, not because they are easy but thought we had cooperated on Giving WHUS power a boost because they are hard; because that goal will serve to writing the papers. In his words, we were To the Editor: especially in its drive to become organize and measure the best of our energies and "unsophisticated, unintelligent There are a number of stereo. I for one wish to thank skills . and inexperienced students" and student organizations on campus all those who have made WHUS therefore had no right to Many years ago the great British explorer George that provide a number of possible.
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