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Pin-up gets pkked-up By JO ANN NIL AND Campus News Staff What Betty Grable's million dollar legs did for U.S. servicemen during World War II. Farrah Fawcett-Majors' wide-open smile and tank suit are doing for wide-eyed college students all over the country - and UConn is no exception. Raymond Verrey, general manager of the UConn Co-op. said Wednesday that 72 Farrah posters sold out in three days before the semester break. "We reordered 144 more," he said. "They've only been out for the last three days and half of those are gone already." The 20 x 28 inch color wall poster, which pictures Fawcett-Majors in a modest one-piece bathing suit, has generated for its publisher. Pro Arts Inc., more than $4 million in over-the-counter sales in a three and one half month period, and is reportedly already the best-selling poster of all time. [Continued on page 5] (tanerttntt Sailtj (Eampim Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXX NO. 62 STORRS, CONNECTICUT THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1977 FSSO to begin own evaluation of faculty, courses By JOHN HILL III and Curricula Committee, the Campus News Staff group which is overseeing the project. The forms will then be In the wake of the University turned in to the resident assist- Senate's refusal to release the ants in dormitories, and collected results of its student evaluations from them by FSSO. of faculty, the student govern- ment has secured permission to Meeting with FSSO Wednesday, begin distribution and collection the Division of Housing gave final of its own course evaluation forms approval to allow the critiques to and to begin compiling a report be turned in to the resident next month, a student govern- assistants. ment member said Wednesday. Minor said about 6.000 copies of The Federation of Students and the five-page critique have been Service Organizations (FSSO) will printed for distribution among begin distribution early next week about 12.000 undergraduate of a Five-page course critique at students at Storrs. various dormitories on campus, It's that time again said Craig Minor, a second sem- The critique contains five forms Two' UConn students go through the bi-annual ritual of buying textbooks at the Hawley Armory location es,er liberal arts maJor and for each student to rate different of the UConn Co-op. [Staff Photo by M.J. Markiw] chairman of the FSSO Courses courses. The course can be rated on the basis of lecture content and organization, enthusiasm and in- terest of the teacher, the quality of the reading materials, the Grasso renews vow to veto tax relationship between the teacher and students in the class, the "intellectual stimulation" and By PETER A. BROWN levies. Grasso said she had not the money to remedy the situa- being able to respond, but her enjoyment received from the HARTFORD (UPI)— Gov. yet read the report. tion. aides emphasized that was not course and its "overall quality." Ella T. Grasso said Wednesday Even lawmakers favoring an meant as a way of hedging on her Estimates are the state might be Minor said five pages were put she will not change her deter- income tax admit it lacks support, opposition to the income tax. forced to raise more than $400 in the critique because most mination to veto an income tax "I think that it all depends on but House Finance Committee million in new revenues annually. students take only five courses a even if Connecticut's system of the manner the directive is given Chairman Rep. Gardner Wright, Some pro-income tax lawmakers semester. Courses offered in the funding education is declared us as to the parameters of time D-Bristol, said an adverse court claim there is no other realistic Fall 1976 semester will be consid- unconstitutional. decision could force a crisis in source of funds other than an involved in the implementation." ered. ."I don't expect it will," she said which the levy might be adopted. income tax outside of further she said. when asked if a ruling by the If the high court finds the reliance on the already overbur- Grasso said municipal officials Because there are only 6.000 Connecticut Supreme Court present system unconstitutional, dened property tax. who requested a state aid pack- available copies of the critique it would change her feelings about as a lower court has done, it is Grasso said the state would age she said totaled $330 million will be impossible to allow all the controversial levy. expected the legislature will be have to view the court decision in in new funds would not get students at UConn to fill out the Grasso also repeated her senti- given a timetable in which to raise the case and any timetable before anvwhere such an increase. forms. Minor said the FSSO ments at a budget hearing earlier Courses and Curricula Committee this week that pleas by municipal has randomly selected various officials for a massive increase in dormitories where the forms will aid could not possibly be met by be distributed. He said FSSO had limited state resources. Handicapped get special van concentrated on dormitories with The high court this spring is high percentages of freshmen, however. expected to issue a decision in the By DAVID E. DeCAPRIO The $10,000 van was .nade possible through the "Horton vs. Meskill" case, which Campus News Staff efforts of Total Concern, a campus group of Minor said FSSO concentrated challenges the state's local pro- No longer will blind students have to worry about handicapped and physically able students and the on freshman dormitories because perty tax-based system of funding getting lost on icy University sidewalks, or University Alumni Association. they felt first and second semest- education. disabled students in wheel chairs have to worry Working under the guidance'of Leigh Phillips, a er students would return a great- If the court rules against the about falling over street curbs, or running into paraplegic and coordinator of Special Student er percentage than other stud- present system, the legislature is parked or moving vehicles. Nor will they have to Services, members of Total Concern organized ents. " expected to have to raise millions worry about missing classes that are scheduled bake sales and appealed to the community after of dollars in new funds to pay for back to back, enduring the winter cold, or being "attempts to obtain funds from the University and education equalization. Today left in a dormitory on the weekends because of a other state agencies failed. A report by Boston's Federal lack of transportation. "After some modest success, the students Who is Delano Kiphuth? Reserve Bank on Connecticut last Because five years after its conception, a dream approached the Alumni Association who enabled Yale University may know, but week pointed to the need for an has become reality for disabled students in the their dream to come true, with a $10,000 gift to it surely isn't telling UConn income tax to allow cuts in the form of a brand new blue and white van which cover the basic cost of the van." anything. See story, Page 16. exorbitant property and sales arrived on campus last Thursday. (Continued on page 61 ' .• 4 * -focus- H0O TO HO A P*MC. sir OP Deja-vu BASICS. Once again, it's budget time for the University and the state of Connecticut, and once again the faculty, administration and students equate happiness with money here. This particular equation is a little hard to refute; adequate financing is necessary for UConn to function properly. Faculty would like more money to expand their departments, to update their equipment and R^6OTTrJf0 AMPrwocu) facilities, and certainly to add more class sections and ro 106. IM AU-RIGHT. reduce course enrollment. A class with ten or twenty W AMP.rM) students registered is a rare occurence here today. i*M W tBSTQf The administration sees soaring costs and a tight c£ me o\v. budget; where they would like to develop more programs, they are forced to economize and cancel or reduce projects. The students write bigger checks and draw larger loans to be educated here; the number of students from low income families is drastically reduced here from what it was a decade ago. Tuesday night's state budget hearing in Willimantic where some UConn representatives argued for a larger budget next year in front of Gov. Ella Grasso is Watch your words, sugar only a preview of the budget headaches to come. And we can be sure that neither Gov. Grasso nor the use, particularly by officeholders ship" and compassion comes out General Assembly will provide the painkiller - more ByMARYMCGRORY Memo to President Carter who are about to retire untimely, in HEW reports as "significant money. We can be sure the succinct reasoning Re: Washington D.C. speech is "I wish to spend more time interface." presented by UConn professor of English William patterns. with my family." This means, "I Billy would not be so out of place Rosen, ghosts of arguments past, fell on impassive Almost every day brings us couldn't hang in there any long- in Washington. Don't be taken in outlandejs some fresh informa- er." by the guff about a "world ears. UConn will, with little doubt, have a state No one in public life talks the capital." It is a southern town. If budget next year uncomfortably close to this year's tion about your homeland and folkways. Books, articles, televi- way your brother does, alas. you don't believe me, wait until one.

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