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(Emmwtmrt lattg (EampuH S/a&i.&fll Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXI. NO. 65 THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT. STORRS MONDAY. FEBRUARY 13. 1967 Free DDrm Rooms Available Senator McGovern To Speak On To Summer Student Workers This summer, any student who )f money toward college ex- Is working no less than 35 hours jenses. per week on any University pay- In order to make the arran- "Vietnam Reconsidered" Tonight roll and Is not taking summer gements, he said that It would be Senator George McGovern spite the fact that he too Is a Dem- the North Vietnamese and Vlet- course work will be entitled to necessary to have an approximate D.-S.D.), who will speak here ocrat, also differs with the Pres- cong to the conference table. a free room on campus between number of those qualified under it 8 tonight on "Vietnam Recon- ident on the conduct of the war in Within the Senate, McGovern the dates of June 19 and Sept. 1, the plan. All Interested students sidered" In the HSJTheatre, has Viet Nam, claiming that Johnson has been an outstanding spokes- according to Peter Jodaltls, Di- are requested to contact the Stu- charged President Johnson with has not done his utmost to create man for trie liberal wing of the rector of Student Aid. Jodaltls dent Aid Office by April 1. The ordering a retreat in the world a permanent cease fire and bring Democratic Party, recently lead- also announced that an optional office Is located in Room 319 war on hunger. Sen. McGovern, ing an unsuccessful fight to re- five-day meal plan will be of- Commons. Food for Peace director undei duce the number of votes needed fered at $13.50 per week. Summer Jobs were available President Kennedy, and a mem- to shut off a filibuster and call Under the plan, a major In 1966 in most areas at the Un- ber of the U.S. Senate Commit- for a vote on a measure. The fil- change In University policy, there verslty, including the Business tee on Agriculture and Forest- ibuster has been used most ef- would be one dorm for men and Office, Payroll, Political Sci- ry, has attacked the Johnson Ad- fectively by Southern Senators to one for women. Regular dorm- ence, Economics, Geology, En- ministration for "trying to wage prevent clvU rights measures' itory regulations will be In effect gineering, Education, Pharmacy, a world war on hunger with glow- from coming to a vote; Senator with the exception of the usual School of Business, English, For- ing rhetoric and bold battle McGovern has been a vigorous curfews for women. eign Languages, all offices of cries." Action In the struggle a- advocate of civU rights legis- According to Jodaltls, the new Student Personnel, Dining Halls, galnst hunger has floundered, he lation. system is beneficial In that it Malntalnence, and the Student Un- has claimed, with much talk and Elected to the U.S. House of will allow more students to work ion. Positions are available on little concrete result. Representatives in 1956 and re- on campus and at the same time the regular student payroll, var- Sen. McGovern, a persistent elected In 1958, he served as a make it financially attractive to ious University payrolls, through critic of the Administration de- member of the House Committee stay here. Under the old system, grants to the various depart- on Education and Labor and the payment of room fees and no op- ments, and the College Work- Committee on Agriculture. In tion on the meal plan made It dif- Study Program. All those In- $100,000 Allocated 1958 and 1S59 he was a U.S.del- ficult to save a significant amount terested are urged to obtain the agate to the NATO Parliamen- necessary forms and file them By Education Office tarians conference. early. Date of application will Common Man be Important in determining who For leaching Survey will be assigned, especially In The U.S. Office of Education Senator McGovern To Be Theme the case of work-study Jobs. has Just allocated $101,000 to support an Intensive survey of Atkyns Named college teaching at the under- Two New Fellowships Of New Series graduate level now being con- "The Coroman Man in Devel- Acting Head ducted by a UConn professor. oping Countries" is the theme Recipient of the grant Is the Awarded to UConn Profs of a discussion series to be pre- Of New Dept. National Council of Teachers of sented by Students for Inter- English, which originally invit- Two UConn educators have and the other for support up to nation al Understanding this Dr. Glenn C. Atkyns, as- ed Professor Thomas W. WUcox been named to share in Fellow- eight months. The third program month. sociate professor In the UConn of the Department of English to ships awarded by the National provides one year of support for A panel of UConn students School of Education, has been ap- Initiate the study a couple of years Foundation on the Arts and Hu- senior scholars. from Taiwan will discuss the to- pointed acting head of the new ago. manities. Dr. Davis, whose award was pic as it applies to their country Department of Higher Technical Professor WUcox Is winding Winners of the awards are made under the Younger Scholars at International House Tuesday at and Adult Education. up the first phase of his survey Dr. Jack M. Davis, associate Fellowship, Intends to go to En- 8 pm. Questions and refresh- The appointment, announced which Includes some 55 in-depth professor of English, and Dr. gland In August to spend a year ments will follow the discussion. by Dr. Homer D. Babbidge Jr., Interviews with teachers and ad- Richard O. Curry, associate In study and research. He Intends Other countries to be repre- UConn president, takes effect mlnstrators In representative professor of history. to write a book on the poetry of Sept. 16. sented in the discussions are: colleges and universities across The Foundation's National William Wordsworth. The UConn South America- Feb. 16; Indla- The new department was one this nation and Canada. Endowment for the Humanities professor is a specialist In 19th Feb. 20; and Africa- Feb. 22. All of six formed last spring within The English professor, who awarded fellowships totaling $1,- Century English literature. discussions will be held at 8 pm. the School of Education. One of came here in 1962 from Benning- 900,000 to 287 scholars repre- Dr. Curry, recipient of aSum- at International House. the purposes of the department ton (Vt.) College, has indicated senting 190 educational Institu- mer Fellowship, Intends to spend This Is the second annual stu- will be to help prepare teachers that It Is still too early to draw tions in 44 states and the Dis- the summer doing research for ■ dent discussion series. Last year for the new community colleges any meaningful conclusions trict of Columbia. a study o n the origins of the E- the topic was the religions of the blossoming In various sections from his unrefined data. The Endowment established vangellcal reform movements In world. of the State. Right now he is about to ex- three programs of Fellowships antebellum America. The histor- Dr. Atkyns, who Joined the pand his quest for basic inform- In the belief that national pro- ian said his studies would take I/C Reading Center faculty In 1959, served as act- ation on the nation's 1,320 col- gress 1 n the humanities depends him to Cambridge, Mass. and ing dean of the School In 1964 lege English departments via a upon Increasing the pool of ef- Washington, D.C. He Is the author and 1965. He also served as as- complex questionnaire. This 30- fective and dedicated humanist of the book "Abolitionist: Re- Offers New Program sistant dean of the School from page query, designed with the teachers and scholars. Two of formers or Fanatics," an anthol- 1963-66. help of a UConn social scien- the programs are directed to- ogy of Important interpretations A native of Washington, D.C., In Listening Skiffs tist, Is being distributed to a ward younger scholars—one pro-p by modern historians of aboli- Dr. Atkyns is a specialist In sample 300 departments selected vldlng support for summer study tionism. UConn's Reading Improve- teacher education. He received as most representative of the ment Center will offer a listen- his bachelor's degree cum laude nation as a whole. ing skills program as a new ser- from Harvard University In 1948. To encourage response, Dr. Both ISO and USA Office of Education vice for students during the He also holds a master's degree WUcox will give his respondents spring semester. from the Harvard Graduate $25 honoraria—an almost un- To Hominate New This four hour program on ef- School and a Ph.D. from UConn. precedented action In such re- Gins UConn funds fective listening Is built around At the University he also ser- search projects. a series of tape recordings. It ved as supervisor of pre-servlce His respondents will be ask- Senators Thursday For New Fellowships teacher education. Is designed to develop the stu- ed questions ranging from how Both the EO and the US A par ty UConn has been alocated funds dent's ability to listen to a speak- Before Joining the faculty, Dr. they hire staff, to the kinds of conventions will be held concur- Atkyns was chairman of the Social from the U.8. Office of Educa- er and restate the speaker's main students and courses they have.