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(Etmnwiinrt HatUj Campus Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXIX NO. 4 STORRS, CONNECTICUT THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. 1975 5 CENTS OFF CAMPUS Senate Group proposes to change by-laws By SUE OKULA Assistant News Editor A University Senate report releasec this week calls for changes in the by-laws governing disciplinary procedures lor faculty members. Disciplinary proceedings lasting 11 months, directed against two UConn professors who participated in the April, 1973 sit-in at the Wilbur L. Cross University Library, prompted the Senate's action, according to Associate Professor of Speech Jack Lamb, chairman of the Senate Faculty Standards Committee. Lamb said Wednesday several persons, whom he declined to identify, had urged his committee to review procedures after Florence G. "Kiki" McCarthy, assistant professor of sociology, and Leonard J. Krimmcrman, associate professor of philosophy, weie censured and denied two pay increments in April. 1974, for their action. The committee's major reform FLIPPED OUT - Beginning lessons in judo were offered to students Wednesday night by the UConn Judo Club. The judo recommendation deals with eliminating lessons will continue Wednesdays at 7:30 in the Field House. (Photo by Michael Harris-warren) the by-law which now requires a Faculty member subjected to disciplinary hearings to be found guilty of a dismissable offense, before a lesser penalty can be imposed, he said. Court upholds Calley decision The UConn president would be given responsibility for the final decision, with the Board of Trustees serving as an NEW ORLEANS (UP1) - A federal "A large number of defenseless old about it. We will appeal." appeal body, according to additional appeals court reinstated the conviction men, women and children were Gordon said Calley was working in reform proposals. of former Army Lt. William L. Calley systematically shot and killed by Calley Columbus, Ga., but declined to identify The present By-Laws specify the Wednesday, saying his platoon's assault and other American soldiers in what his employer. Board of Trustees as the final decision on the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai must be regarded as one of the most The federal district judge who makers. was "one of the most tragic chapters in tragic chapters in the history of this overturned Calley's court-martial Another major reform, establishing time limits for various steps in the the history of this nation's armed nation's armed forces," the majority conviction last Sept. 25 did so on procedure, was requested by th< forces." opinion said. grounds of massive pre-trial publicity. Calley has been free since last year "This court is convinced that Continued on Page 3 when his 1971 Army court-martial Lieutenant Calley received a fair trial conviction for killing 22 civilians at My from the military court-martial. We Lai was overturned by a federal district reverse the district court's order and Public safety division judge because of massive pretrial reinstate the judgment of the publicity. court-martial." The Vietnamese civilians were slain in The five dissenting judges said they an assault by Calley's platoon March 16, voted in Calley's favor because they felt cuts student patrols 1968. Despite the latest ruling, it is his constitutional rights had been virtually certain he will remain free since violated by Congress' refusal to release the Army granted Calley a parole last its investigative report on the My Lai By JON SANDBERG spokesman said. Nov. 19. Calley's attorney said they incident to his defense attorney. Managing Editor The spokesman said there were no would appeal the decision anyway. But the majority held, "The The University's Student Patrol, lay-offs, but there was a decrease- in the The military refused to abandon its testimony in question was never which watches over parking lots and number of students hired to fill appeal to the 5th Circuit Court of available to the prosecution, which not other high theft areas has been reduced openings. Appeals because it felt the civilian court only did not benefit from the by 19 members, a UConn spokesman exceeded its power in overturning the information but was not responsible for said Wednesday. "It is hard to determine if thefts will military court martial. The circuit court its nonproduction." The patrol, a part of the Division of increase because of the cuts," the reinstated the conviction in an 8—5 J. Houston Gordon, Calley's Public Safety, was cut from last year's spokeman said, "but the police are decision following nearly seven months Covington, Tenn., attorney said, "We'll 49 members to 30 this year because of confident there will be no problems." of deliberation. see what the Supreme Court has to say UConn's budget problems the The students patrol areas on campus where student and faculty property might be left unguarded for long periods of time, the spokesman said. Die spokesman said more students Senate votes to uphold Ford veto may be hired later in the semester after public lafet) reviews its budget. This year's force will not equal last year's. the spokesman said. WASHINGTON (UPI) Apparently increases for several weeks because any atmosphere has increased substantially "lt is > matter of how much can be swayed by prospects of a rapid energy new compromise might reinstate since the August congressional recess," spent within the budgetary constraints." policy compromise, the Senate voted controls retroactively. No matter what, Zarb said. "1 believe the vote tod.n the spokesman said. He said that solidly Wednesday to sustain President he said, market conditions should keep reflected that." alth< -ugh the number has been decreased Ford's veto of a six-month oil price gasoline prices down for about live lledgin against the possibility the by 19 students, those working this year control extension. months. compromise cffo;t will fail. Fort! also will work additional hours to try and The vote was 61 to 39, six votes shy If no compromise is reached, fuel sent Con gress a package of legislative off-set the cuts. of the two-thirds needed to override the prices arc expected to rise by at least 3 proposals to head off the worse impact But the extra hours worked will not veto, despite Democratic claims that cents a gallon. Zarb said this would cost of immediate decontrol. equal the hours of surveillance by the failure to extend controls would make the nation an estimated $5 billion the force last year, he said. America's working people pay the pi ice first year, b i| the administration wants Ford called for: Other reductions made by the Public — soon - in higher energy costs. a windfall pro its tax on oil companies -Removal of the $2 per barrel Safety Division include a decrease in petroleum import fee, thrown out of Ford hailed the Senate action as a and measures to refund to consumers mileage allowed for police cruisers per "first step toward curbing never-ending virtually all of the increase. court by the l"S' Court of Appeals but day, keeping a closer eye on supplies fuel price increases and our growing Administration officials would lik : to appealed Wednesday to the Sup- and equipment bought and the amount dependence on foreign oil producers." reach a fast compromise with Congress Passage of a windfall tax on oil of maintenance on care and a cutback in He also pledged he would try, one on new legislation rcitnposing controls companies. Creation of a rebate overtime for the full-time police officer, way or another, to eliminate the worst for 45 days, followed by another bill system to give farmers six cents a gallon the spokesman said. economic impacts of decontrol. removing controls sjrad ally over ,i from the windfall tax and other Also, there are four vacancies for Federal Energy Administrator Frank period of S9 months. consumers roughly half that amount. full-time police positions and two Zarb said he does not expect any price "In my view ih comp'.omiae This would offset higher energy costs. positions have been frozen by I'Conn. (EmutPrttntt flailu (Eampua uim^^ Steven D. Huh William Sherman Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Jon L. Sandberg Donald M. Moslem Managing Editor Associate Editor Babbidge memory will endure The new Nathan Hale library will be a symbol at the University X for many years. It will represent an era recently passed in which VI WYE GOOD r€W5 AND BAD NEWS WW UConn went through a period of rapid physical and intellectual ACtoSSTCWN — THE GOOD growth. It will symbolize the birth of student radicalism and violence at UConn during the late sixties. More than anything else it will represent former President Homer Babbidge, the man largely responsible for UConn's growth and the control of campus radicals during the violent period. LETTERS Certainly it will not symbolize Nathan Hale. Hale, whose bravery and patriotism go unchallenged, died 105 Teachers not at fault in strikes years before the University was founded. Although he was born and lived in Coventry, he knew the site where UConn is now To the Editor: situated only as another part of the colonial wilderness. Daily Campus obscures the real cause of It seems that the author of the current crisis in education. It is not Babbidge, whose courage and loyalty to UConn are hard to Wednesday's Daily Campus editorial teachers who have instigated severe surpass, did more for UConn in the past decade than any other wants school teachers to be more than cutbacks in social services. And it is not person. just "public servants." The Daily the demands of wage workers for a Campus editorial board would like to living wage and decent working He was responsible for helping to change UConn's reputation see teachers become slaves of the conditions that have brought this nation from a second-rate agricultural school to one of the finest state educational system.

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