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THE DAILY CAMPUS closes up shop for The Weather: Sunny, highs in the 50's. THE VIENNA CHOIR BOYS the 1977 Fall semester with today's issue. performed at Jorgensen Audi- There will be a Fall Sports Supplement. torium Monday night, with a • Sports in Storrs" Dec. 8. The regular • IT* masterful and magnificent per- TMAV edition will resume publication Jan. 24, v\ formance of a wide variety of 1977. Have a good vacation. 7-\ choral music. Story page 6. (ftmtttcctiott Saflg (Eampus Serving Storrs Since 1896 si VOL. LXXXINO^&T STORRS, CONNECTICUT FRIDAY. DECEMBERS 1977 UConn student charged with murder By MICHAEL T. CALVERT Nov. 21, allegedly the same burglary in which Holcomb had been in touch with any University officials before JAY SPIEGEL was killed. However, Castonguay and Testa were not Testa's arrest. If they had. Roche said, it would have A University of Connecticut student was arrested in charged with Holcomb's murder until Thursday, when been as "part of the investigation." Bristol Thursday night and charged with felony murder both were picked up after an investigation by the State However, sources close to Testa at UConn maintain he in Connecticut with the Nov. 21 shooting death of a Major Crimes Squad and the Plainville police. had been called to the office of John L. Toner. UConn Plainville policeman. Rabideau said Testa and Castonguay were being held director of athletics. Wednesday morning and was told Rocco Testa, 20, a fifth semester accounting major, was for processing at Plainville police headquarters and said by Toner to withdraw from the University. Testa moved also a starting member of the UConn varsity football they would probably be brought for arraignment to out of his dormitory Wednesday afternoon. squad and was sought in the death of Robert Holcomb, Hartford Superior Court this morning. Castonguay was Toner would not confirm or deny whether he told Testa who was shot while responding to a burglary call. being held without bond, and Testa was held on a to leave the University, saying Thursday he had Arrested with Testa, and charged with capital murder, $500,000 bond. "nothing to say at all" about the case. was Gary Castonguay, 33, also of Bristol. Plainville Police Chief Francis Roche said "it was safe Testa played defensive back positions on the varsity According to Sergeant Al Rabideau of Plainville police, to assume" Testa was a suspect in the Holcomb murder football squad. He played baseball and football in high Castonguay had been arrested on a burglary charge on prior to his arrest, but would not say whether the police Cont. on page S Sadat delays conference By United Press International tive reconsider their refusal to attend. Syria and Jordan tempered their criticism of Ghali indicated the delay was prompted by a Anwar Sadat Thursday and the Egyptian president suggestion dropped by President Carter Wednes- delayed the opening of his peace talks with Israel day at his news conference in Washington. in Cairo to give his onetime Arab allies time to reconsider their initial ejection. Ghali said Egypt believed "there is still a Syrian President Hafez Assad joined a group of chance" that Syria and the Palestine Liberation other hardline Arab leaders for a Libyan-sponsored Orgainzation might drop plans to boycott the Cairo "anti-Sadat" summit in Tripoli but moderated his conference and send a delegation. criticism in an airport talk with UPI correspondent However. Assad, asked in Tripoli if there was Robin Stafford and was careful to avoid any any chance of a Syrian delegation goint to the Cairo personal condemnation of Sadat. conference, replied, "naturally, the answer is In Amman, Jordan, King Hussein told a news negative." conference he thought Sadat should not have Assad was greeted with full military honors in surprosed his Arab allies by springing his trip to Tripoli by Libyan strongman Col. Moammar Jerusalem on them but said he would not take Khadafy. Sadat's neighbor and biggest foe within sides in the current rift in the Arab world over the the Arab world, at the former giant U.S. Wheelus visit. air base. Egypt's acting foreign minister Butros Ghali The Tripoli conference was called by Khadafi to United Press International announced the start of the Cairo conference would unify Arab opposition to Sadat for this trip to Secretary General Kurt Waldheim addresses the Security be delayed until mid-December, likely Dec. 14. in Jerusalem to address the Israeli parliament and Council Wednesday after It overwhelmingly approved a what diplomats saw as a concession to let the call for direct face-to-face talks in Cairo prior to a six-month extension of the mandate for U.N. peacekeeping forces hardline Arab opponents of Sadat's peace initia- Geneva Middle East peace conference. stationed between Israel and Syria. Sick or sick-out, a secretary will be hired By MARK A. DUPUIS "The high-priced help like me are here answering the of the promotion. phone," said David Hankins, associate head of the William Moynihan. English department head, said the The head of the University's English department called English Department. Thursday afternoon, explaining the secretaries didn't present a list of grievances, "thev just it a "job action." His department's two secretaries two secretaries have been doing the work of three since didn't show up for work." maintained they were really sick and one, sniffling while the third secretary was promoted and transferred to However, he said there had been a great number of speaking, even said she's going to see a doctor Monday. another office. "unofficial complaints" by the secretaries recently about Either way, job action or sickness, the failure of the The secretaries handle paperwork for about 45 full-time their increased workload department's two secretaries. Donna Bojus and Deborah faculty and 31 graduate teaching assistants. Hankins "It's not a strike, let's just call it a job action." said Milkes, to show up for work Thursday quickly prompted said. Moynihan. who added the secretaries felt "over- UConn and state officials to announce that funds have He said the secretaries had been working overtime worked."' Bojus and Milkes. contacted Thursday been approved to hire another secretary for the since the third secretary left, but refused to work afternoon, said they were genuinely sick and not on anv department and to promise a look into Bojus' claim that overtime any more after Bojus was promoted to head type of job action. she was promoted to a higher job classification and then secretary, but denied back pay from the day she took on denied increased back pay for that higher job. the extra work to the dav the state was officially notified Student wounded in shooting By MATT MANZELLA student residing in Sprague Hall, was residents. A 22-year old Waterbury man is resting charged with second degree reckless in stable condition in Windham Com- endangerment and will be released on a and other noises were heard before the munity Memorial Hospital after being $1,000 surety bond, pending a court shooting by one of the three students who shot by a UConn student in Sprague Hall hearing on Dec. 20 »n Common Pleas found the victim. He also said Jones had Thursday afternoon, according to UConn Court 19 . claimed he was cleaning the gun when it police, who were calling the shooting an accidentally went off. lodging a bullet accident until further investigations could Police said Gordon Strachan, a part in Strachan's left lower abdomen. be made. time student at UConn, was shot at around 12:33 p.m. by Terrei Jones, a Many of the Sprague residents were "There is no reason to believe it was resident of Bridgeport, while Strachan reluctant to give any information concern- Staff Photo by Joseph Niedermeyer anything other than accidental at this was with Jones in his room on the second ing the case, claiming they had been A I Conn student suffered a gunshot time." said Chief Joseph Ciccalone of the floor in Sprague Hall. Strachan then left notified by head resident Ronald Martel UConn Police Deaprtment. wound, apparently accidentally, in Spra- the room and was later found lying in the and the UConn police to keep quiet about gue Hall Thursday afternoon and was Terrei L. Jones of Bridgeport, a UConn , second floor stair well by three dormitory the shooting. found on this stairwell. Compliments and criticisms of Fall, 1977 The Fall, 1977 semester comes to a close in a few short weeks, not as one of the The Fall, 1977 semester had its low points, also. Here is what we consider to be some University's best in its %-year history, but certainly not one of its worst. Things that of the top low spots of the first half of this academic year... we consider made this a good semester include... — THE APPEARANCE of the National Alliance on campus. Although we must — ACTION BY Harry J. Hartley and other top-level administrators which made this defent the alliances right to speak their beliefs, we still find those facist and racist the first year m several that UCOnn did not raise its student fees. The only fee hikes beliefs sick and distorted. The reports of violence against minority groups on campus this year were those sought by students at the branches, which were needed increases. are perhaps the saddest and most disappointing news this semester. — THE VOTE by the University's Board of Trustees to move ahead plans for — THE HANDLING of the case of R. Lorring Taylor, the assistant professor of acquisition of the Hartford Seminary Foundation buildings in Hartford to become the English who was a favorite of his students but not his tenure review committee.