Student Tuition Injunction Denied See Story on Page 6

(Etmnrrtmrt iatlg dampus Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXIX NO. 50 STORRS, CONNECTICUT Wednesday, December 8,1971 student tuition injunction denied See story on page 6 student union arrest cases stem from earlier differences The arrests of two Storrs residents in the Student Union Saturday night resulted from a "combination of many things," according to Assistant Student Union Director A.J. Panaia The case goes back about three months, Panaia said. Michael Lewis, 17, and Mrs. Gayle Karas, 21, both non-students, were arrested about 9 p.m. Saturday in the union's snack bar and charged with criminal trespassing in the first degree. They were released on a $150 non-surety bond pending arraignment. See story on page 9. e. pakistan needs national determination, siddig says The people of East Pakistan should have the right of national self-determination, Mustafizur Rahman Siddiqi, the unofficial ambassador of the Bangla Desh told about 200 persons Tuesday night in Social Sciences 143. Siddiqi compared the South Asian democracies, Ceylon and India to the military dictatorship of Pakistan. Pakistanis have not been allowed "their form of government since 1947," he said. Siddiqi accused West Pakistan's Yahya Khan of applying military pressure following last December's elections. Kahn "reconsidered" the election results for four months, he said. See story on page 7. The Story mi mers, a children's i m pro visa tional theater group will present its Christmas program this weekend. The curtain rises Saturday morning at 9:30 and 11 and again Sunday for three shows at 11, 12:30 and 2 in the Studio Theater in the Fine Arts Center. (University photo) Vi /" state tuition issue opera review alternative ed. State Senate Appropriations The November 24 production of The Alternative Education Club Committee ' Chairman Robert D. Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" in met TuesHay night in the United Houley reaffirmed Tuesday his Hartford reflected upon some of the Nations r* m of the Student Union opposition to tuition and announced reasons why the opera has never and mad' plans to increase courses, his support of a repeal bill. The been popular in the United States. In field work, and student • initiated Vernon Democrat would back House his review of this opera Douglas M. courses and to bring abour reforms Education Committee Chairman Fox discusses two sides of opera's in grading. The club also plans to Howard Klebanoff's bill and also popularity, why it is not generally publish a newspaper informing vote to override the expected veto liked by Americans and how one students of university rules and the by Governor Meskill. See Story on should feel when attending a opportunities in alternative education Page 6. presentation of the opera. See open to them. See Story on Page 6. Review on Page 8. v Uu ^M<Mft4U>'a^ -*»i*?"U'' I yt'ii-,';—i^ '-'■cfifi^'l-&>.A*-f .i&^riiiur^ (Emuwrttnit flattg (Eampufi voter registration a start town. This is somewhat higher choose their dorms for voting Serving Storrs Since 1896 by Judith Gold than the 30% statewide figure, residences because commuting but it follows the traditional students spend more time in An on-campui drive to registration pattern that those their apartments. promote voter registration has with a higher education will be All students who have not Wednesday, December 8,1971 recently been completed at the more motivated to register. registered will be sent a letter University of Connecticut. Of those who have not yet either during Christmas. break Co-sponsored by the A.S.G. done so, only about 2% have or immediately afterwards as a Let's Vote 18 Committee and voiced a desire to register in reminder to register. Student Vote. It was conducted Mansfield. The committee feels The UConn drive has been by students in their this may be due largely to the the first in a series to be dormitories. fact, that since this is a state conducted at the state's largest The purpose of the drive was to determine how many university students had registered to vote. For those who had not, it was a reminder stoned that they now have the right to vote and that they may register cither through their parent's It sort of slapped us in the face while reading home address or through their yesterday's paper. A closely-cropped picture of that school address in Mansfield (Storrs). The canvass was craggy faced 64-year-old man, his bushy hair trimmed usually accomplished through neatly at the sides of his head and his sideburns chopped house meetings where students above the ear, caught our attention. were asked if they had Wearing a gray baggy suit and an out of style tie, registered and if not, where they would prefer to do so. I.F. Stone looks like a "square." But he ain't. Coordinators were supplied For 19 years this man has independently published with question and answer sheets one of the most provocative news journals in the so that they were prepared to country. What slapped us in the face was that "I.F. explain the 18-20 year old vote Stone's Bi-Weekly" will publish it's last issue later this and its possible effects. With over 150,000 eligible month. young voters in this state alone, It's difficult to over emphasize the influence this the committee predicts new man has on young journalists today. There's a certain voters will have considerable dynamic quality within him, a progressive spirit, an impact on upcoming elections. old-time honesty and an energetic dedication to truth In 1968 Senator Ribicoff and justice. won re-election by Stone was the first prominent American journalist to approximately 100,000 votes condemn United States intervention in Vietnam. On and that the new voting bloc could mean a victory for a school, most students live close schools . These will all be 'October 28, 1963, before the assassinations of Presidents representative on the local, enough to home to remain coordinated through the Kennedy and Diem, he published an enlarged "Weekly" state or national level. With interested and involved in their Student Vote and Let's Vote issue entitled "Lost Chances for Peace in Indochina." He both political parties wooing own towns. If the demand is 18. The groups hope to realize an 80% registration figure by warned of the expanding U.S. war role in Vietnam. the 18 year old vote it is clear high enough, the Mansfield that our power will make a registrars will be asked to come the end of the school year. Stone talked about our urban crisis and racism long difference in the '72 elections. on campus after Christmas Let's Vote 18 is a before liberal politicians felt comfortable doing TO. He Although the election isn't until vacation to register those who non-partisan committee in vigorously condemned a growing military-industrial November, the presidential wish to vote in the town. Connecticut, which has been complex before Eisenhower's famous farewell address. In nominating process begins in The second stage of the working to register 18-20 year February with local town registration drive will be an olds since this spring. The the early 1950's, he brazenly attacked the late Senator effort aimed at those living off Student Vote is a non-partisan Joseph R. McCarthy, while most newspapermen were committee elections. Young people must not only register campus in the Mansfield area. foundation which has been sitting on their fannies. to vote, but join a political Students will be asked to working on voter registration Stone has received considerable attention recently for party as well, to take full corrdinate a specific apartment on college campuses throughout his condemnation of the Mayday arrests last spring in advantage of their new voice. complex and will try to reach the country. Washington, his explorations into the operations of the both students and non-students Response from the UConn living there. The committee Pentagon, his analytical reports on Nixon's economic drive has thus far indicated that feels it is likely that more of Miss Gold is a fifth semester programs, and his stinging reviews of the President's 50% of the students had the off campus young people history major and state Supreme Court appointees (see "op. edit" Dec. 7). previously registered, and that will choose their school area coordinator of the Student His most publicized "Weekly" edition was two years most had done so in their home address than campus residents Vote. ago when he discovered and published much of a secret FBI report on Kent State. The report placed primary LETTERS TO THE EDITOR responsibility for the deaths of the four students on the Ohio National Guard. can improve the terribly You have heard the Running the risk of sounding like an obituary, I.F. imperfect "democracy" that strategies for fighting the please listen now exists. We college students Stone has been, and still is an inspiration to young tuition, and the threats of the are the most educated group of University bureaucracy. Now is journalists who don't want to be gobbled up by the big To the Editor: people in the world! We are the time to search your soul city news machines. He's paved a way. He's successfully Dear Friends: just beginning* to force change and decide. developed an alternative. As I am a senior at the by realizing our power and If you are really content "It's the kind of thing everybody wants to do when university, I have seen for many using it.

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