Educator Accepts Vice Presidency
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(Eotmrrttnti !a% Clampus Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXI NO. 62 STORRS, CONNECTICUT FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1974 5 CENTS OFF CAMPUS Educator accepts vice presidency By BOB VACON Ferguson said Thursday night he A New York educator accepted the was delighted the University was able position of UConn vice president for to engage a person with Dellaan's financial affairs, it was announced exceptional background to fill the post. Thursday night. Robert F. Taylor, chairman f>f tfic The appointment of Richard J. Board of Trusteed finance committee, DeHaan, dean of administration at said Thursday night he thought Queen's College, N.Y., filling a position DeHaan had "a wealth of experience vacant since last July, was announced and background in educational finance. by University President Glenn W. H-e's not only a technically Ferguson and Gordon W. Tasker, knowledgeable man, but he's chairman of the board of Trustees. imaginative and innovative in Shortly after announcing his addition." Taylor said. decision to accept the post, Dchaan While at Queen's College, which is said, "I was very honored at the offer, part of the City University of New and jnore honored at taking it. It's York, DeHaan administered a staff of (Storrs) a beautiful place, and the almost 1.000 in a job he described as University seems like a great school." being comparable to the post he has DeHaan was one of about 250 been appointed to. candidates screened by a University As vice president for financial search committee. His appointment was affairs, DeHaan is responsible to the approved by the Board of Trustees last president and provost of the Friday. He will assume his $37,500 a University. He will be responsible for year position in about 60 days. business management of the entire DeHaan told the Daily Campus he University, including the Storrs was anticipating his new position "with campus, tne five branches, the great relish." professional schools, and the health DeHaan replaces John Evans who retired from his position July 1, 1973, center. because of ill health. Continued on page 4. Israel, Egypt agree on troop separation By United Press International noon (6a.m. F.DT) Friday by the Israeli Israel and Egypt, in a triumph lor and Egyptian chiefs of staff at the the personal diplomacy of Secretary of United Nations Checkpoint at State Henry A. Kissinger, announced Kilometer 101 on . the Cairo-Suez 4 an agreement Thursday on the Highway. Maj. Gen. Ensio Siilasvuo of separation of their forces along the Finland, commander of the U.N. Suez Canal. Emergency Force, will witness the President Nixon called it "the first signing. significant step toward a permanent "I am completely satisfied with the peace in the Mideast." Israeli Deputy agreement wc arc to sign tomorrow," Premier Yigal Allon went on television Allon said. "We shall continue to strive to express "complete satisfaction" with for negotiations toward an overall the agreement and said Kissinger "was settlement to achieve peace." indispensable" in achieving the accord. Allon said the agreement mediated by Kissinger in three round-trip shuttle The agreement was announced simultaneously in Jerusalem, flights back and forth between Israel Ice-laden branches bow from their weight to reveal a chilly scene in front of Washington and Cairo. In Moscow, the and Egypt since Friday was better than Swan Lake. The recent ice storms lent a deceptive beauty to much of the Soviet news agency Toss reported it an anything the two sides could have countryside, as glittering brances bent and snapped under the extra weight, hour later without comment. worked out in direct negotiations. (photo by Alan Decker) The agreement will be signed at "I would say thai the role played by Dr. Kissinger had no equal," Allon said. "He was indispensable." Although details were not disclosed, diplomatic sources in Israel and Egypt reported that it called for Feminists differ with Ferguson an Israeli pullback of about 20 miles from the Canal to the strategic Mitla By MARK FRANKLIN Thursday that, "after this proposal was Belanger said she realized the and Giddi Passes in the Sinai Peninsula. Two leading University feminists discussed in detail by the Women's appointment of a vice president for Both passes guard the road to Israel. denied allegations by UConn President Council, these recommendations were women might be delayed for monetary Mitla Pass is 19 miles from the canal Glenn W. Ferguson that they had rejected." reasons. "All the women understand and Giddi 31 miles. rejected his proposals for three U.S. sources said the agreement Ferguson said in the kiUC, "I that money is a problem," in hiring, administrative posts for women's stipulated a reduction of Egyptian received your (the feminists') she said. forces on the Sinai bank to eight affairs. counter-proposal which requests the Ferguson said Wednesday night that Joan J. Hall, associate professor of battalions or 24,000 men and 40 tanks. appointment of a vice president for he delayed his response to the Greater English and chairman of the Women's An Israeli source indicated Egypt women," an ombudsperson, and the Women's Council November statement Council, and Cathy Belanger; a staff will have to remove its surface-to-air three originally proposed positions. bera-ise he hadn't consulted with the member of the Women's Center, said missiles on the Sinai Bank as part of Board of Trustees. He said the earliest Thursday the Greater Women's Belanger said a feminist statement the agreement. time a new vice presidency post could Council, UConn's central feminist to Ferguson in November repeated, "Israel would not have gone along organization, has never rejected "the insistence of the proposal that a be made part of the University's with the agreement with the SAMS budget would be in the 1975-76 school Ferguson's proposals for the positions. women's representative be appointed to there," the source said. year. Ferguson's proposal offered the a high level policy post." Thus, both Israel and Egypt made creation of a Deputy Equal Belanger said the statement Ferguson and the Greater Women's significant concessions. The Israel Council are scheduled to meet Monday Employment Opportunity (EEO) requested that the three women withdrawal from the west side of the officer for women, a coordinator for administrators report directly to at 8p.m. in the Monteith Building Rm. canal would free the trapped Egyptian 143. the Women's Center, and a part-time Ferguson until the vice presidency 3rd Army. director of the Women's Studies position could be filled. Hall said the Belanger said she hopes "something "After four years...this is the first Program. proposal for the ombudsman was can be worked out at Monday's significant step toward a permanent Ferguson said in a letter to Hall dropped. meeting." peace in the Mideast," Nixon said. public are quite different from assemblies in high school where the "captive" audience has no choice but to listen to the amateur attempts of the school group. OPINION The University music department, however, presents fine concerts by its an initial step toward a non-profit, student groups which can be just as A better buy student-run bookstore. enjoyable as the major concerts for which The Federation-sponsored book exchange one must pay. now taking place in the Student Union is Take note It is a status symbol to "be seen" at apparently a success. Alter a year and a half Albert N. Jorgcnscn Auditorium draws such cultural events as the major concert of high prices and hassles at the privately capacity crowds for its major concert scries series, particularly when one appears to have owned Follcttc bookstore, students arc which features such stars as the Philadelphia the "good taste" to view a wo rid-renowned enjoying a cheap and potentially profitable Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony, and performer. But one could be so much more alternative. deservedly so. But where is everyone on the a "devotee" of the arts by patronizing the Students whose used books arc sold at Sunday afternoons when University music budding talent the University's student the exchange will receive up to half the department organizations perform? groups offer. books' original cost. Meanwhile, students can There arc three major groups which Sunday, UConn's symphonic winds buy books there at costs Follettc's cannot include the symphonic winds, the choral ensemble will open this semester's series of match. society and the symphony orchestra. student concert programs at 3 p.m. It is one This show of student enterprise could be The performances, which are free to the of many performances not to be passed up. T • t»_t* LETTERS Insurmg your life away Losing lhe paper chase BY{ DOUGLAS V. 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