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H.E.L.P. Organized; Presents Five Points 'I' k , WW* firmito Vol.LXVIt,No.47 TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD April 29, 1969 Senate Approves Amended a |mm*. WT If* •* ft » (c 4fc*v* Document on Student Rights After more than two hours of shall be represented on all com- ignited by article fifteen, "Each LI GVJ A discussion at its Sunday meeting, mittees, legislative bodies, and student shall have full freedom to the Senate passed an amended ver- judicial bodies which make de- determine his course of. study at sion of the Bill of Rights and tabled cisions affecting their lives," ar- the College." Certain senators ar- a motion calling for a student ref- ticle six was considered "redun- gued that this would cheapen the erendum on the document. dant." value of a major, while others Toward the close of the ses- "If someone walks into a room maintained that requirements must sion three students (James Graves uninvited and sees someone raping be destroyed and over-restrictive '71, Jeffrey Green '69, and Steven majors liberalized. Most considered the article too Keeney '71) were elected tempor- Amended Bill of Rights, Reprinted ary members of the Committee on •weak, because it did not guarantee Curriculum. This committee, on Page 5. the student eligibility for a degree, HtlX which includes seven faculty, but only the freedom to determine meets Thursday to probe the ROTC a girl, he can't report it" was his course of study. It was amended question. one confused senator's interpre- to read, "Each student shall have A polnt-by-point examination of tation of article seven: "A stu- full freedom to pursue his own Two of the many posters placed about the campus by H.E.L.P., a the Bill of Rights by the Senate dent shall be secure in his room; course of study, with guarantee of newly organized group primarily opposed to "spiraling expansion" and no one may enter without either eligibility for a degree." resulted in a number of changes his permission or a search war- "administrative shortsightedness and duplicity." from the proposed document, which According to the Senate's am- rant for his particular room."Ag- endment of article seventeen, a ulty," as a result of the manner in appeared in the TRIPOD last Fri- Signs which aslc "Isn't it time we day. The amended version is print- ain Weiner clarified the issue, student is responsible for notify- stop following Fuller?," and which which he has dealt with them. ed on page 5 of this issue. commenting "your room is now ing his parents of his social or implore Dr. Theodore Loekwood to Along with its public letter, the your house, the same as anyone academic progress. The article in "Give Fuller the brush" were group has sent a private note to Article three, which states "No else." student shall be placed in double its original form referred only to posted in the Quadrangle of the Col-j the President enumerating inci- The most vociferous debate was (Continued on page 3) lege during the past week by a con- dents in which members of the jeopardy by the College," was the community were abused bythead- first to demand discussion. Sena- servative student group that eallsj tor Larry Weiner '71 explained itself H.E.L.P., an abbreviation for ministration. The group has asked that double jeopardy "is trial in "Help Eliminate Lockwood's Poli-I Dr, Lockwood to reply publically the same court, for the same Freshmen, Fraternities cies." to the questions. crime, for a second time." The group,whosefounders, insist The fifth point of the letter is The Senate struck article six, it is not a political party, is com- concerned with the problem of which states that students shall Attack Senate Proposal posed primarily of several mem- communications at the College. not be under the jurisdiction of any bers of the Chapel Committee and H.E.L.P. claims that the adminis- body on which they are not rep- After a stormy meeting Thurs- ed that if the proposal passes ne Acolytes. It also includes one tration makes little effort to ap- resented. In light of point five, day in which opposition was ex- •would resign and "expect" the en- member of the Editorial Board praise students of impending deci- that "The students of the College pressed by freshmen, indepen- tire Senate body to do likewise so of the TRIPOD. However, the sions, dents, and fraternity men alike, that a new election could be called. nature of H.E.L.P. is such that it the proposal to make the Senate He stressed the fact that it would . has no formal structure. "responsible for all phases of stu- be "starting with a whole new- According to Robert W. Duncan, Professor Engler Discusses dent governance" has undergone structure," and that a new elec- Jr. '70, the main purpose of limited alterations in order to fur- tion would be desirable to insure H.E.L.P. is to initiate a discussion "Power and Social Change' ther insure the rights of individual equitable representation. Terming: of the actions and goals of the group choice. The revised reso- the present system of at large lution, which attempts to "provide election by class "ambiguous", he Loekwood Administration. The Professor of Political Science clear and limited), worldwide group is most concerned with the imbalance of resources and popu- for a defining of our communal noted that a committee had been Robert Engler of Queens and Sara purpose and a unifying of student appointed to consider possible re- commitment to the expansion of the Lawrence Colleges in New York, lation, and race, as the major College. motifs of a society on a "colli- action", will be presented to the form. In a letter sent to Dr. Loekwood spoke to a college audience Friday sion course." Senate for discussion at its next Many of the senators present yesterday, the group presented five morning in McCook Auditorium on meeting. agreed, however, withPeter Craw- the topic, "Power and Social Developing his remarks, Engler points for consideration by the ad- suggested that American society is Much of the opposition voiced ford '72 who asserted "I have no sympathy for those who didn't vote ministration and the rest of the Addressing himself in particular characterized by obtuse responses at the informal meeting Thurs- to defeats and problems at home day questioned the legitimacy of in the senate election" and saw no community. to the status of the acdemic institu- need for a new election. The first point deals with ex- tions and especially the social and abroad. Despite such occur- the senate as a truly represen- rences, Engler stated, America tative body. President of the Sen- Many questioned the division of pansion which the group believes sciences, Dr. Engler prefaced his the three major governing bodies to be damaging the most important remarks with one of the slogans of traditionally responds "with the ate David W. Steuber '70 declar- feeling that we are right, and that of the College (Freshman Execu- characteristic of the College: its the 1968 student revolt in France tive Council, the Council of Fra- intimate atmosphere. Alan Mar- - "all power to the imagination." all that is needed is more of what- ; Presidenfs Note ternity Presidents, and the Inde- . chisotto '71 stated that the group Against this ideal, Engler com- ever we are doing." He considers this attitude important in analyz- pendents') as representatives of feels that the trend of the College pared the common status of Ameri- the interests of their constituen- is toward "spiraling expansion." can education in the social ing certain of our Vietnam war Opposes State's policies. cies. Many of the fraternities' rep- He pointed out that the increase in sciences which he stated resentatives expressed the belief enrollment will necessitate an in- seem often to engage in "trained Vietnam further serves as a Intervention Bill that the Council of Fraternity pre- crease in the size of the facilities innocence," to the detriment of case study in the Cold War, which In a letter to the Joint Commit- sidents did not and could not rep- of the College. all concerned. The basic failures Dr. Engler recognized as a pri- resent the interests of the fra- according to Engler come as a re- mary facet of American concern tee on Education of the Connecticut In the second point, H.E.L.P. General Assembly dated April 14, ternities. Senator Michael F.Jim- questions the appropriateness of sult of non-responsiveness to the over the past two decades. Our enez ' 70 asserted that one of the issues recognised by "those on the concern with the issues of the cold Dr. Theodore Lockwood declared the scholarship program of the his opposition to legislation which basic assets of the proposal was College. Citing a statement made frontiers of sensitivity." The um- war "has obscured for us the nature that it would put pressure on the fersity ias presupposed that there of a world-wide trend of social would provide the State with means by Director of Admissions W. of taking action against some of three bodies to be responsive to Howie Muir Marchisotto noted 1S still "me for thought and plan- revolution," and centered us on the their constituencies. ning but according to Engler, his single issue of a "demonic those who participate in disrup- the the policy of giving scholar- Others agreed that this division ships to black studenttdt s first would «J»^-^ti i increasingl^ y callecaled communism." This single-minded tions on the college and university create a " financial polarization at supposition's^ ^ ,, - outlook has, according to Dr.

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