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Vol. LXVIII, No. 32 TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD February 10,1970 Afro Course Gets Stone to Announce White Members Later This Week by Glenn Gustafson Chuck Stone's decision to ac- The associate professorship in John O. Killens, the John T, "We really can't allow that to cept or reject a three-year as- the History Department is Dorrance Visiting Professor, has happen," Sleeper said. "If he sociate professorship offered him the second position the College decided to teach only one section (Barthwell) does that then someone by the College will be made by has offered Stone since Decem- of his course "The Dynamics of is going to exclude him. I don't the end of the week, the Black ber. Afro-American Culture" composed see how you can run an educational author-Journalist said in an in- The first position was a one- of 25 black and five white students. institution on that basis," he added. terview Thursday afternoon. semester extension of his visiting At the first meeting of the course Sleeper held that the five white Stone explained that he had professorship. Stone was a Dor- the 15 white students enrolled were students would not be barred from "other obligations" to consider rance Professor last semester. prevented from entering. the next class. "I suspect that before making a decision. The one-semester appointment In a meeting with the white stu- with Mr. Killens there will be none He said that he has talked with was rejected as "tokenistic" by dents enrolled last Thursday Kil- of that," he said. President Lockwood this week and Stone. lens said he would teach a second In a telephone interview Barth- that he hopes his decision will section but later decided against it well said that he had no comment. be announced by Friday. On Jan. 19 the administration since it would prevent him from John Killens confirmed that a second offer, writing, according to a letter from this time as a college professor, Dean Freeman C. Sleeper Monday. had been vetoed by the faculty- "Now that he (Killens) has met administration-trustee committee all of the students who signed up Badillo Urges Political Initiative on appointments. '1'or the course, he has made a choice Students and many faculty be- of those students, black and white, gan pressuring to reopenthe Stone who have the background and quali- In Talk To Puerto Eican Leaders case. The religion department re- fications to participate in the vealed that it would be willing to course at the level at which he by Steven Pearlstein have Stone in the department if wants to teach it," the letter said. "There will be violent riots in the committee needed depart- For the students not selected the future because our people will mental initiation of the appoint- for Killens' class Sleeper dis- find themselves in terrible shape," ment. closed that he will provide a study said Herman Badillo Sunday night It was after a week of all- of Afro-American culture "at a in a speech to Hartford Puerto College meetings and ultimatums more introductory level." Rican leaders. that the faculty passed a resolu- "The nature of this course will The 1970Lecturer-in-Residence tion supporting Stone for an partly depend on which topics the said the riots will occur because appointment and George B. people themselves want to dis- "our urban centers have been aban- Cooper, chairman of the history cuss," Sleeper said in an interview doned by the government." department, put in a formal ' Monday. "They might want more Badillo told his audience at the recommendation for his appoint- ^historical background or something Barnard Brown,,, School that the ment. along the lines of sociology, liter- plight of the migrant Puerto Rican ature, or music," he continued. is different from the situation which faced past generations of immi- Badillo At a previous meeting with both grants. WEDNESDAY the black and white students He said the basis for this differ- enrolled in the course Jack C. ence was the unavailability of un- 4:00 P.M.-Coffee hour open Barthwell '72 contended that only skilled jobs. to all students in black students were qualified to Badillo urged that Puerto Rican Wean Lounge enter .Killens' course. He main- parents keep their children in. tained that the Thursday evening school. "If we educate ourselves... 8:30 P.M.-Second Lecture in class would remain all black. the possibilities for Puerto Ricans The Washington will exist." Room on "The Badillo insisted that Puerto Rican leadership in Hartford unify Prospects ForSep- Open Student itself. "Interested and dynamic arate and Unequal Puerto Ricans, especially ; our Societies." youth, must enter politics,"he said. Files Claimed He said unequivocally that "it nooiiio in Hertford THURSDAY is not necessary for a Puerto 8:30 P.M.-Third Lecture in Rican voting majority to exist for Herman Badillo spoke to members of the Hartford Puerto Rican Not Feasible a Puerto Rican to run for a public the Washington community at Barnard Brown School Sunday night. Seated are Jose position." Room entitled, The Senate's push to open up Cruz, president of the Spanish Action Coalition, Ronald J. Quirk, confidential student files is in- Badillo suggested that the key "A Proposal for a instructor in modern languages, W. Miller Brown, chairman of the feasible according to some mem- to political success is "to be a New Political bit daring . and to begin to form lecture committee, and Robert W. Fuller, dean of the faculty. bers of the Trinity College Council Coalition." who claim that secret files cannot positive programs. Political par- (Markovltz Photo) be prevented by legislation. ties cannot frighten us," he "From time immemorial, secret insisted. ROTC May Go .files have always been kept and Badillo indicated he would co- will continue to be kept. We cannot operate with the Hartford Puerto legislate them away," Donald B. Rican community on any project. Engley, librarian said at the TCC He suggested that the leaders make meeting Wednesday. proposals for middle and lower Military Cutbacks Decrease Need J. Bard McNulty, professor of income condominiums to the Hart- •finglish, said that, if the central ford Housing Authority. by Jay Mandt files were declared open to stu- Badillo, commenting on the call for removal of the detachment Young Lords, a group of young The College ROTC detachment recommendations of the curricu- dents, as requested by the Senate, might be removed as a result of lum committee concerning changes altogether at this time. all confidential information would New York City Puerto Ricans in- volved in community work, said military manpower cutbacks, in the courses of the Department Lockwood stated that any plan to be quickly, transferred to other Major Richard Brubaker. profes- of Aerospace Studies. remove ROTC ought to be organized files. "The Young Lords are not militant. They serve the community not sor of aerospace studies said in In a report presented to the cur- over several years so that students Thomas A. Smith, director of themselves." an interview Thursday. Brubaker riculum committee on Wednesday, now in the program could complete external . affairs, introduced a, said the heed for new officers Major Brubaker outlined a program their studies. In answer to a ques- counter motion to the Senate's re- Badillo stated that if the gov- tion, Lockwood confirmed that the ernment provided the proper so- was diminishing, and that as a to make ROTC courses "more quest that students be able to see result, small ROTC detachments, valid." contract between the College and all information in their files. Smith cial services, there would be no the Air Force allowed termination need for a group such as thesuch as the one at the College Among the recommendations was proposed that a College Ombuds- might be removed. He emphasized one that would allow any student of the contract by either side at man be empowered to examine the Young Lords. He did not specify any time. which level of government he had that no such decision has been made at the College to elect a course files and remove "improperly held" as yet by the Air Force, in Aerospace Studies. The recent draft lottery has ^information. in mind. In response to student pressure Brubaker reported that the Air caused increased interest in the N. Robbins Winslow, associate Before Badillo spoke, the Trin- for the removal of the AFROTC Force had turned down a proposal ROTC according to Major Bru- dean for educational services pro- ity College Choir performed in during the spring of 1969, the Col- that, would have allowed certain baker. At the University of Con- Posed that nothing go into a stu- Spanish. lege promised that a new contract other courses at the' College to necticut alone, there have been was twice as many applications as there dent's file' unless he either saw Badillo, a Puerto Rican,Bronx would be negotiated. substitute for some of the required it first or approved its insertion. Borough President of the In an interview Thursday how- four courses in Aerospace Studies, are places available, At the Col- Marc S. Salisch, associate dean in New York City from 1968-1969 ever, President Lockwood reported President Lockwood refused to lege however, there has been no for community life, proposed that and ran for mayor of the City in that no negotiations were as yet indicate the bargaining position the change, in interest, largely because College would adopt in negotiations, the Air Force has ordered Bru- separate files be kept for confi- the Democratic Primary in 1969'until. under way. He explained that the ; dential information and for infor- He will be on the campus —L" administration was waiting for the but did indicate that he would not baker "not to push here." jnation open to the student.