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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 1968-1969 Student Newspapers 2-25-1969 ConnCensus Vol. 53 No. 3 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1968_1969 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "ConnCensus Vol. 53 No. 3" (1969). 1968-1969. 25. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1968_1969/25 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1968-1969 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. CENSUS CONNECTICUT COLLEGE Vol. 26, No.3 Tu6day, F.b re ary 25, 1969 Three New Deans Appointed STUDE T· TRUSTEE CTTE.MEETS; Following Administrative Shifts DOW PETITIO STUDIED President Charles E. Shain an- he recently was awarded a and ,\ a.:. sent by the Xatlcnal nounced last Thursday the names $68,000 'IH grant to support her Science Foundation as United of the new deans who will assume four-year study of pigment cell States Scientist to the 7th Inter- office on July 1. Their appoint- growth. national Cancer Congr in Lon- ments were approved earlier that A graduate of Talladega Col- don in 1958 and to the 8th day by the Board of Trustees at lege, Alabama with 1.S. and Congress in \Ioscow four years its regular meeting on the campus. Ph.D. degrees from ew York later. Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb, pro- Specializes in Irish Lit. fessor of biology and head of the ~Iiss Johnson, the new asso- cell biology laboratory at Sarah ciate dean-designate, has been Lawrence College, will he the new academic advisor to Freshmen Dean of the College and professor since 1958. of zoology. She will succeed Dean As associate professor of Eng. Gertrude E. Noyes who retires at lish she teaches expository writ- the end of the present academic ing, a seminar on the creative year. imagination, and has developed a Dr. Alice E. Johnson, now new course in Afro-American r- Dean of Freshmen, will assume literature which she is teaching at new responsibilities next year as the College for the first time this Associate Dean of the College. In semester. this capacity she will be academic ST DE TS AND TRUSTEES meet to discuss matters relating Miss Johnson is expecially in- to the college. -photo by kane advisor to sophomores and jun- terested in irish literature and two iors, retaining her faculty rank of years ago spent a semester in The first meeting of the Stu- hattan Bank. Katie stressed that associate professor of English. Dublin doing research for her dent-Trustee Committee convened the petition was supported by McKeon to Teach Full Time coming literary biography of last Wednesday night after a joint over one-third of the student Dr. M. Gertrude McKeon, the Matthew Carey, the Irish- dinner at Lyman-Allen museum. body. present Dean of Sophomores, is American printer and publisher Following introductions and Dow Chemical Discussed relinquishing this administrative during the early years of the stude~lt recommend,ations of A discussion ensued concerning post in order to devote full time Republic. tI.1Ose Issues they c~nsldered cru- the need to establish a policy on to teaching as an associate profes- Miss Joan C. King Miss Johnson is a past-presi- cial, the g~oup was Inf~rl1led that college securities. sor of chemistry. University, Dr. Cobb has been dent of the Connecticut Associa- ~he comml~lee would In no ~.,.~y tressing their position as one Miss Joan C. King, now acting assistant professor in research tion of Womens' Deans and Coun- JIltc.rfere With faculty or adminis- of responsiblity to the College, the dean of East House at Radcliffe surgery at New York University selors and had taught at the Uni- trauve channels and powers. Trustees iterated the need to COn- ~ollege, has been named Dean of Post-Graduate Medical School and versity of Tennessee, Boston Student Petition Submitted sider Dow in the context of col- an instructor in anatomy at the University and \Vellcsley College At this point Katie cc 70 lege finances. They stre ed the University of Illinois College of before her 1958 appointment presented the petition circulated inability to separate Dow [rom Medicine. here. early last week requesting that the the I ng list of life-destroying Mrs. Cobb is a fellow of the Miss Joan C. King, the new trustees withdraw our holdings in industries. New York Academy of Sciences (Continued 10 Page 4, Col. 3) Dow Chemical and Chase Man- Moral ResponsibJity tressed Students emphasized the re- sponsibility of thc College to take .1 moral stand concerning the pro- duction of napalm. New Community Affairs Office Agreeing that the issue entailed further investigation of all college holdings, as well as the establish- Headed By Margaret Kahler ment of policy on such i ues, the by Pat Strong petition was pa sed to the Board of Trustees for further considera- Mrs. Margaret Kahler of Gro- delinquency and mental iIIJ;ess. tive program would involve sociol- tion. ton has been named by the Col- Still in Planning Stage ogy majors working in New Lon- The trustees agreed to presen t lege as the director of the newly- Many aspects of the Office of don, possibly doing original and explain the college budget created Office of Community Community Affairs are still in the research. and allocations of funds at the Affairs. planning stages, but more inform- She had high praise for the next joint meeting. They also Mrs. Kahler is presently serving ation will be forthcoming in the Conn students already working in agreed to elaborate on their role as the Director of Community next few weeks. volunteer capacities in New Lon- in the college community. don. Dr. Jewel P. Cobb Services for the Winthrop Project New programs involving Conn Objectives Determined in New London. students wilJ probably be added Mrs. Kahler added that some Freshmen to succeed Miss John- After much discussion, it was She expects to be in her new to supplement the programs Conn students frequently stop by son. decided that the main objective of office by the end of March or the already in existence. her office to ask if they can help Conducts Cancer Research the committee will be to study beginning of April. Conn students are presently in any way. Mrs. Cobb is a research biolo- the long-range goals of Connecti- The Office of Community involved in such programs as Confidence Expressed gist and teacher who has been cut College and its role as an Affairs, which resulted from a Operation Headstart and tutoring She expressed confidence that studying and writing about cancer American educational institution. recommendation by the Summer elementary school children on there are many ways in which the viruses for nearly twenty years. Planning Committee, will function Monday nights. College and the I ew London Reports of her findings on as a liaison between the 1 ew Mrs. Kahler said that a pro,pee- (Continued to P,ige 4, Col. 2) tissue cultures, chemotherapy, London commun.ity and the Col- Additional and neoplastic diseases have ap- lege community. peared in professional publica- Housing tions. Advisory Board to be Formed An advisory board, consisting The National Cancer Institute of faculty, students and members awarded her a two-year post- Voted For of the New London community, doctoral fellowship for work at Harlem Hospital Cancer Research will be formed as a policy-making Faculty arm of the Office of Community Foundation. by Carol nn Hunter Affairs. She subsequently received two The Trustees voted to accept a Th e first program to be research grants from the National proposal calling for the construe- initiated by the new office will be Cancer Institute and two from the tion of 14 new Iaculty housing a series of conferences. U. S. Puhlic Health Service for units at their meeting in Decem- The first grou p of conferences various aspects of cancer research. ber. will center around problems of On a special research fellow- This request \\a::. necessitated the environment: pollution, pre- ship from the National Institutes as a result of tile current expan- servation of open spaces and re- of Health Mrs. Cobb spent seven sion program of the U.. Coo.:5t months during 1967 doing ie- gional planning. Guard eadem). The second group of confer- search at the International Labor- MRS. MARGARET KAHLER i, the newly appointed Director "en home~ belonging to the atory of Genetics and Biophysics ences will concern human pr9P- of Community Affairs. -photo by kim (Continued to Page 4, Col. 5) at Naples, Italy. lems: unemployment, juvenile Tuesday, February 25,1969 ConnCensus Page Two Member lntercollegiate ConnCensus I ,~ TOPIC Press Established 1916 -" STATEMENT BY Published by the students of Connecticut College every .Tues~ay through- out the college year from September to June. except during mid-years and OF vacations. d Co . SHAIN Second class entry authoriz.ed at ew Lon on, nnechcut. Mr. Ackerman and I reconsidered the counter- CANDOR RII~RES£NTI!C '"'OR NATIONAL. ....OVERTISING BY A National Educational Advertising Services ,) offer that the College made to meet the rival offerfor A DIVlSION OF Mr. Ackerman's services. We found room to negotIate Fire Drills lItEAOER'S DIGEST SALES l!lt SElItVICES. INC. 3150 L •• lngton Ave .• New York, N. 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