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c.X Cmutttitnsf Satlg (Uamjms Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXVIII NO. 115 STORRS, CONNECTICUT MONDAY. APRIL 14. 1975 5 CENTS OFF CAMPUS Marshall Tucker Band cancels performance By SUSAN OKl'LA the Jorgcnscn auditorium, had also Assistant News Editor cancelled a I'Conn concert hecause the The Marshall Tucker Hand has group is not '"together artistically." cancelled its appearance here scheduled according to Rcvis Cox. BOG concert for April 27. chairman. No replacement will he sought for Marshall Tucker's agent. Jeffrey the band,according to Robert Woodard, Siroty. told I SSO Friday the group Federation of Students and Service would be playing ten day! in a row in Organization! (FSSO) chairman. New Kngland if they played at I'Conn, Woodard said I SSO, which was Woodard said. co-sponsoring Marshall Tin kcr \s itli the Siroty said the group needed a rest Hoard of Governor! (HOC), will plan from performing so they were instead lor a concert with a "big name cancelling, according to Woodard. group" for early September. "There was also a question ol the HOC is sponsoring a concert on group's not wanting to play in a parking April 2(> hut is uncertain of the groups lot." Woodard said. who will he playing, according to The concert was scheduled to he Robert Smith. BOG president. held in the parking lot next to the Earlier this month three other University ice skating rink. groups, Argent. Hydra. and Woodard said he was "astounded" Grinden witch, cancelled appearances hy the cancellation as he had received a for April 26 and 27 in a HOOT SSO letter of agreement and a contract lor concert. I SSO to sign from the group on Kul us. scheduled to play April 19 in Thursday • Beer may not flow under fear of suit By JOHN SHFRMAN sponsors an activity where beer is sold Despite permission to serve free or given away is responsible for the beer, area councils sponsoring weekend M lions of all people who drink at that events this month may not run their event. II a person who drinks at an beer taps at all. .ii tivity injures a person or the property According to council members, the of another person, the sponsor of that high risk involved in giving beer away event is responsible and can be sued lor and the possibility of lacing lawsuits up to 150,000. were the reasons the councils decided An area sponsoring an event with against serving beer. beer has two choices: to select a Two out of the live dormitory permittee or not. II there is a permittee, quadrangles have already decided not to a person responsible for all liquor have beer at their events. Orders for 45 served, the area may buy insuranc e to kegs of beer originally planned for this cover the event, ft not, the area council weekend have been cancelled by the assumes all financial responsibility if a South Campus and Northwest suit is brought against the council. FUN N' GAMES - Persons of all ages, shapes and sizes prove you're never too quadrangles. "It's loo much rcsponsibilitv for any old to enjoy a little fun at the Campus Community Carnival outdoor fair Sunday According to the Dram Shop Act, a student to take on," David Elmo, afternoon. (Photo by Randy Philippi, Chief Photographer) Connecticut liquor law. a parly that resident assistant of Crandall C Hall, said. Three other campus areas will still sponsor beer at their weekends, however, despite precedent set by the South and Northwest quadrangles. Nielsen resigns Trustee post Harry I aticoni, head of North Campus Council, lay! there will be- between 25-30 kegs of beer at Jungle By MARK A. DUPUIS the University of Texas this semester, Ferguson alone. weekend. I aticoni also holds the permit News Editor told the Daily Campus Sunday he had McCarthy and Krimerman will be for the event. Carl W. Nielsen, a member of the learned of his promotion. informed of the decision today, Fa tic on i admitted he is afraid Hoard of Trustees, has apparently Several trustees who arc lawyers Ferguson said. of the liability involved. resigned following a controversy over have a different concept on what the WIll'S Sunday cpiotcd a person Mike Dvorin. co-chairman ol the promotion of a law school professor. law school should deal with, Bard said. present at the meeting .is laying, Alumni quadrangle'! WEBB council, said Nielsen, a Hartford attorney, was He said several of the "lawyer trustees" "Ferguson became President on there will be 15 kegs of beer at Alumni elected by the alumni to serve on the disagree with certain deans and faculty Friday." The broadcast said I erguson Quad this weekend. "We agree that Board. His term would have expired in members about what "a law school is all "stood up to the Hoard" and won on there is a risk involved-, but we arc not 1977. about." two important issues: the Hard going to stic k our heads in the sand and The Board, meeting Friday in Bard said he was surprised at promotion, and the McCarthy-Krimer- stop serving beer. Dvorin says there is Hartford, voted to promote Associate Nielsen's resignation, but would not man decision. no permittee at the event. Prof, of Law Robert L. Bard to full comment further on it. He said he is professor. The vote came during the "pretty sure" that Nielsen is cine of the Board*s executive session which was "lawyer trustees" with differing East Haven schools close down closed to the public: and press. opinions. Nielsen is a graduate of the Gordon W. Tasker, Board chairman, UConn law school.. said he did not know if Nielsen's Also discussed in the executive after board refuses to fund resignation was official. Tasker said he session was the possible dismissal of two LAST HAVEN (I'PI) Nearly The issue may be resolved Tuesday, does not accept resignations and refused professors arrested last year during a 5,700 students and 300 teachers will be when town and school officials arc due to comment further on details of the sit-in at the Wilbur Cross Library. locked out of school Monday by the in New Haven Superior Court to explain session. Kozloski said President Ferguson local school board that c hums it has run why the- school board was denied Gov. Grasso officially receives and will make the final decision as to what out of money. S333,000 it said it needed to operate for acts on all resignations from the Board. action will be taken, if any, against It would be Lie first time in the the remainder of the year. Larry DeBear, Grasso's press secretary, Florence F. (Kiki) McCarthy, assistant recent history of the state that a The school board voted to close the said the governor had not received professor of sociology, and Leonard I. municipal school system declares itself schools after the town's Board of Nielsen's resignation. Krimerman, associate professor of broke and shuts down. Finance turned down the $333,000 Trustee Walter B. Kozloski said philosophy. The teacher's union has urged its appropriation. Hoard members said they Sunday that Nielsen left the meeting, Prior to the executive session, members to show up for work Monday, feared they could be held personally and he added he docs not know what Ferguson said a decision would be but school officials announced Saturday accountable for the school's debts. Nielsen "is planning." He said Nielsen reached during the meeting; however, he the doors on the town's 12 schools Meanwhile, the chairman of the left following the vote on Bard. did not say he would make it. Kozloski would be closed for fear of state Board of Education said Last Bard, who is a visiting professor at said the decision would be made by demonstrations by irate parents. Haven could lose its state subsidies. Page 4 Connecticut Daily Campus Friday. April 11. 1975 Dancers explore old themes tlSCiS audience. However, the final stalking EXOTIC FISH By LYNETTE MOYE and Staff Reporter The Slaves, a poignant of the hunt scene in The Slaves Accompanied by his description of the journey lacked enough tension to grip COMPLETE LINE OF AQUARIUM SUPPLIES nine-member troupe, George through slavery, opened the the audience. Faison performed dances about program. Four dancers Faison's solo in The Slaves Ooen 7 Days slavery and love in front of an portrayed graceful hunters showed a free young warrior Willimantic Plaza enthusiastic crowd of 1,000 searching for a gazelle, danced trying to escape from his chains ft*e 32 persons at Jorgcnsen auditorium. by Christina Kimball. Kimball's with excitement and intensity. It The Afro-American long extensions and suspended was an unusual but good ensemble performed their dances turns, embody Faison's signature experience to sec a to .i spontaneous clapping and of elevated and released choreographer participating in THE CARNIVAL vocal encouragement from the movement to perfection. one of his own works. Faison's presence gave the piece all of its original meaning and NIGHTCLUB cohesiveness. itorirs aiFfter darlk Suite Otis, a ballet inspired for CCC. featuring by the music of the late Otis Redding was a sharp and Compiled by Diane Kelltey humorous statement about love. The familiar songs and popular Movies • dance steps in the choreography Film Society VDM Hie Film Society presents the made this ballet the best much-acclaimed Kinx <>l Hearts at 8 p.m. and 10. $ 1.50 general, received dance of the night. free to members. Friday night. The audience asked for an Student Union Kallroom The WEKU Council presents Dustin encore after Try a Little SPICE Hoffman in Straw Dogs Friday al 7 p.m.