Protestors Demand Women's Rights Demand Made Kissinger Holds for Tenure of Session with Faculty Member Japan's Tanaka TOKYO (UPI) - Henry A
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Oftmnrrtirirt SatUj (Eamjma Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXX NO. 86 STORRS, CONNECTICUT Tuesday, February 20, 1973 Protestors demand women's rights Demand made Kissinger holds for tenure of session with faculty member Japan's Tanaka TOKYO (UPI) - Henry A. Kissinger, by Mark Franklin on arrival from Shanghai Monday, About 50 demonstrators broke up a discussed Indochina, U.S.-Japanese meeting in the President's office of relations and China in a two hour Gulley Hall Monday afternoon, and meeting with Prime Minister Kakcui issued an ultimatum demanding Tanaka. women's rights at the University of Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira, Connecticut. who joined the talks, described the Some of their demands include meeting as "frank and useful." He said "reinstatement of Assistant Professor of the two discussed "matters of mutual English Marcia Lieberman with concern between the United States and promotion and tenure", and an Japan." "officially recognized advisory "Prime Minister Tanaka listened to committee" be allowed for Assistant Kissinger's explantion on postwar Provost Gail Shea. Vietnam reconstruction with interest," Sharon Kcster, the spokeswoman for Ohira said. Japanese and American the group, said "there may be drastic future relations with China were also consequences if these demands are not discussed, he said. Ohira said Japan met" within the 24 hour ultimatum gained "a precious suggestion." on its period. She would not comment on the Vietnam policy from the meeting, but nature of the "drastic consequences". did not elaborate. The 24 hour period expires at 2 p.m. Ending his Asian tour in Japan, today. Kissinger's plane arrived in Tokyo in the The demonstrators' ultimatum rain at 1:45 a.m. EST. Me was driven stipulated that Acting President Edward directly to the prime minister's office, V. Gant reply to the women's demands accompanied by U.S. Ambassador through the Connecticut Daily Campus. Robert Ingersoll. Lincoln Millstein, editor-in-chief of the He attended a dinner party given in Campus said he had no knowledge of his honor by Ohira Monday night. the newspaper being used as mediator Kissinger is scheduled to fly to the between Gant and the women, and that United States Tuesday to report to "the Campus is not a party to their President Nixon on his current tour of actions." Hanoi and Peking. He held more than 20 Gant said at a press conference hours of talks with Chinese leaders following the departure of the Sharon Kester spokeswoman for the demonstrators read the list of eight including Communist Party Chairman demonstrators that he "would much grievances to Acting President Edward V. Gant. Among the grievances listed were Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou En-lai. prefer to respond to people directly on the "reinstatement" of Assistant Professor of English Marcia Lieberman, the Chairman Mao asked Kissinger to extend all matters" rather than use a third "establishment of a women's studies program," and a "University funded his "best regards', to President Nixon, party. community controlled, free day care center." officials said. As the demonstrators were leaving Gant's office following Kester's When Lieberman left the meeting she statement, the Acting President told was applauded by the picketers outside them "Those who threaten trouble Gulley Hall. She smiled and said she make a very bad mistake." "was taken by surprise." Latest PO W group Following the confrontation in Gant's The demonstrators' other demands office, about 25 demonstrators included "a woman's council program; a including around five to ten men university funded, community picketed in front of Gulley Hall until controlled, free day-care center, and the University Senate meeting at 4 p.m. larger and better facilities for the starts reorientation Kester read the same demands she Women's Center." read to Gant at the senate meeting in They also said they wanted CLARK AIR BASE Philiphines (UPI) 15-year old daughter had a baby in the United Nations room of the Student reinstatement of Assistant Provost Gail - Nineteen released prisoners of war December. He said he planned to take a Union. Following' her statement, the Shea's advisory council which was went through a whirlwind of medical vacation with his children soon after he approximately 20 demonstrators in the dissolved in January. They also asked and dental tests Monday, sustaining returns. U.N. room left the meeting. for a "revision of the University's themselves on giant bowls of ice cream The POWs. who were interviewed by- The first demand of the response to the U.S. Department of and ogling miniskirts of the nurses, in newsmen under the condition that no demonstrators was "the reinstatement Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) preparation for their homecoming questions about conditions in POW of Marcia Lieberman, assistant professor investigation utilizing the direct input Tuesday. camps .be discussed and later were of English, with tenure and promotion." from women at all levels of the observed while eating in the cafeteria The men are scheduled to fly to the Kester's statement charged that university." here, seemed in good health and high United States aboard a C141 by 2 a.m. Lieberman "was denied tenure, Friday, Kester's statement also asked that no spirits. Tuesday and to arrive at Travis AFB, Feb. 16, for political reasons." disciplinary reprisals be taken against They appeared to bridge the time gap Calif, about 7 p.m. EST Tuesday. Robert W. Lougee, dean of the the demonstrators. quickly and enthusiastically. With only 19 POWs at "Operation college of liberal arts and sciences, said Gant said no disciplinary action was Air Force Capt. Joseph E. Milligan, Homecoming" headquarters, each man no final decision had been made by the planned against those who disrupted a 31, of Annandalc, N.J. promptly bought was assigned his own doctor and University regarding Lieberman's tenure. meeting between him, Wilson, and some up-to-date clothes-a pair of purple completed the preliminary round of Lieberman said the english Associate Dean for Student Affairs, crushed velvet flared pants with a black tests in only 48 hours, a day earlier than department and Lougee had John J. Manning Jr. stripe. recommended that she be denied tenure. Regarding the advisory council for originally scheduled. "I used to dress conservatively," he The Board of Trustees makes the final Shea, Gant said, "Members of a central North Vietnam released 20 POWs on said. Milligan was shot down over North decision regarding tenure. The two vice administration simply do not have Sunday as a gesture of goodwill. One of Vietnam on May 27.1967. presidents for academic affairs, John W. advisory committees." the released prisoners, Navy Lt. James Another POW. Navy Cmdr. James G. Patterson and Kenneth G. Wilson are Shea said she had not been informed W. Bailey, flew home Monday to be at Pirie, 37, of Birmingham, Ala. said, scheduled to review Lieberman's tenure about the demonstration until after it the bedside of his critically ill father, "Last night was my first time with a before the trustees vote on Gant's final had taken place. She said the demands James C. Bailey of Carthage, Miss. knife and fork in six years. I didn't have recommendation concerning Lieberman "sound very straightforward and "I feel that I have spent six years in any trouble." at their March meeting. reasonable." hell and that I have been resurrected and Information was the most popular Lieberman said she had no prior Kester said the demonstrators plan to I'm going to start a new life." Air Force dish with the latest returned POWs, as it knowledge of the demonstration. She picket Gulley Hall this morning. She Maj. Jay R.Jensen, 42, of Sandy. Utah was with the first group of 142 who said she was attending a meeting of the said the nature of further action said in an interview. arrived here last week. Women's Council and the Commission "depends on our forces." For Jensen, the adjustment to normal "They were gobbling up ice cream on the Status of Women in the Gulley The feminist demonstrators are life after six years in a North and gritting their teeth," one Hall Boardroom when the planning to meet at Gulley Hall, at 2 Vietnamese prison camp may be more information officer said. demonstrators marched into Gant's p.m. this afternoon to hear Gant's difficult than for some. His wife Favorite Flavors: vanilla, chocolate office. announcement. divorced him three years ago and his and strawberry. ................ Tuesday, February 20, 1973 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR UConn you dig Women's Lib on 5. I'm tiled of slow dancing (Einmrrtirut Satin (Hamsun everything except sexual with girls who insist on leading Turn me on liberation. You speak with Editor-in-Chief me, at a frantic pace, around in contempt of men looking for a circles. A man and a woman Lincoln Millstein To the Editor: "liberated" woman, which must should enjoy being cIo#e to each I would like to make a be as low as one can get, i.e. a other the way God intended. Managing Editor Business Manager comment or two about the letter whore. You are guilty of 6. Do you know a girl who Alan K. Reisner entitled "Cattle Shows" in the imposing the double standard on dances like "a human boa Donald E. Waggaman Feb. 15 Daily Campus. yourself and not I. constrictor with roving hands"? 1. I agree that there are some 4. I agree that there are men Could you turn me on to her? men on campus who are who dance too close and you Ed Dascanio uncouth, and should make every can't dig it.