Vol. LXVIII, No. 9 TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD October 7,1969 Yeager Will Run; Mason Lockwood Refuses VP Hopeful To Close College Charles Yeager '72, a former President Lockwood refused to ence recording secretary of the student lose the College on Oct. 15 in 2) to avoid the implication that Senate, has announced that he will jpport of the Vietnam Morator- " other positions are unacceptable run for President of the student im. and deserve no hearing" body. Joining Yeager on his ticket Responding to an inquiry by the 3) to avoid "coercion of indi- are Stu Mason'71, vice-president- -.udent Senate Lockwood said the vidual views on an issue like ial candidate, and RichardSchaefer ollege should not take an offi- the Vietnam War." '71, candidate for treasurer. lal stand on the war for three • easons: In their official announcement of Richard Schaefer 71 (left), Charles Yeager 72 (middle), and Stu The text of the President's 1) to "protect its freedom from statement appears on page 5. Mason 71, candidates for the new Executive Council. (Whetzei photo) unacceptable outside interfer- The formal announcement of candidacy is printed on page 4. The Senate endorsed the mora- torium Sept. 17th and asked the Laird's Panel Recommends ROTC President if the College would candidacy, they listed three areas officially join the movement to end of concern: social and cultural, the war by closing down the 15th. academic, and political. "We seek Lockwood held that to close a vital, committed community," Continuation, Several Reforms down would leave the College vul- explained the statement. "We seek nerable to government interven- an end to polarization, frustration, tion. and impersonality among the stud- Calls For Faculty Supervision "Once an institution takes an ents. We seek to bring students official stance with respect to out of their rooms and together into A panel commissioned by De- ing: that special faculty commit- a commission. Laird endorsed national issues not directly af- authentic social, cultural, aca- fense Secretary Melvin R. Laird tees supervise enrichment of the every recommendation but the last. fecting its operation, I see no demic and political experiences," has recommended continuation of R.O.T.C. curriculum, hiring ofin- In its 61-page report, the commit- reason why the government cannot they concluded. the nation's R.O.T.C. programs structors, and amount of drill tee stated that opposition to R.O. justify the intrusion on matters Specific recommendations in- with several reforms. time; that colleges try to develop T.C. based on a fear of militar- which we would regard as solely cluded: student government funding The panel, which Laird created "a viable partnership" with the ism is "singularly inappropriate." our responsibility," the President \ of social activities at the dorm- during last spring's R.O.T.C. pro- corps; that the pay of junior and Abolition of the program, the panel reasoned. | itory level; a call for an Admin- tests, concluded that "R. o, T. C. on senior year cadets be raised; that explained, would decrease civil- Lockwood also claimed that pub- > istration explanation of the Col- our campuses strengthens tradi- the number of scholarships be ian influence. The report conclud- lic opposition to the war, would in lege's financial dilemma; and tional civilian participation in and increased; and that the govern- ed also that antiwar criticism is effect be "stifling" discussion of an improvement of the housing influence upon the military." ment pay $400 to participating "essentially irrelevant to the task the issue by implying that other situation. Recommended were the follow- schools for each cadet awarded of this committee, which is an positions were "unacceptable". evaluation of R.O.T.C. as a means The opportunity for the indivi- of securing officers for the armed dual to continue his academic pur- Committee Reviews A liernative services which, under almost any suits on the 15th must be left open foreign policy, is essential for to all, he stated, regardless of the national security." their position on the war. Grading Systems, Plans Survey In a Sunday editorial, the New- Speaking personally, I find our York TIMES criticized the report, present posture in Vietnam unten- A joint student-faculty commit- written by his (or her)professors. students need evaluation and need calling it "a wrong set of recom- able, just as I also believe the tee is currently examining possible Another possibility would require to evaluate themselves. Peter mendations based on a superficial present draft law to be a most un- , revisions of the gradingprocessat critiques of student work in all Crawford '72, another committee understanding of the issues." "To wise piece of legislation," he said. ~ the College. courses. member, agreed but emphasized give R.O.T.C. academic status," "But the College cannot presume Various alternatives to decrease Finally, the questionnaire sug- that he felt "student choice" in the editorial went on, "is to make to advise the world on issues of the importance of grades are un- gested " a program whereby a stu- a system to be essential. the college or university itself a this sort." • ;.'.-.-. der consideration by the commit- dent would not be graded during The committee hopes to pre- surrogate for the military." tee's five student and five faculty his freshman and sophomore sent its recommendation to the A report on R.O.T.C. at the members. years, but would receive letter faculty for approval by the end of College, prepared last May by Because graduate schools re- grades during his final two the semester. If approved, the the Trinity College Council, call- Election present the greatest obstacle to years," meeting graduate school proposal will be forwarded to ed, for termination of the program grading reform, the committee requirements. President Lockwood. upon completion of the present Procedures solicted reactions from forty The committee received re- The committee is meeting week- contract in June, 1970. The TCC graduate and business schools on sponses from twenty-six of the ly to discuss possible recommen- agreed that "ft is only when con- a four point questionnaire, distri- forty graduate schools queried. dations. Student and faculty parti- sidered in the context of the larg- -Professor of Psychology George cipation is welcome at all commit- er issue of a Selective Service Announced buted last spring. Senate elections will be held on The questionnaire proposed the W. Doten, the committee's chair- tee sessions. "Not many people System that interferes with and man, mentioned that" some schools have been vocal," said Doten, nor detracts from the educational pro- October 23 and 30. At-large sen- evaluation of student portfolios of were very adamant while some has the committee received any cesses that R.O.T.C. assumes.sig- ators and members of the newly work in major and non-major were sympathetic to change. He direct encouragement from the nificance." created executive committee will fields, containing selected samples be elected on the 23rd. Senators to be maintained by the student. commented that without sufficient administration. Open committee Despite tfie TCC recommenda- grades, some graduate schools meetings are held at 4:00 p.m. on tion, President Lockwood has de- representing dormitory consti- A second alternative called for would "rely more heavily on ob- Tuesdays in room 217 of the Life cided to renegotiate the College's tuencies will be elected on the the presentation, by the student, jective tests ... of dubious relia- Science Center. 30th. ':'.' ,•...-•• of a number of critiques, to be contract. bility" in measuring potential The freshman, sophomore, and graduate school success. junior classes will each elect three Doten continued that last May Students Denied Right at-large senators. Those wishing the committee reached a consen- to run for these positions must sus on the need for change in the secure ten signatures endorsing grading process but is now more To See College Records their candidacy by October 20. hesitant. Although he feels that "the present system is not the Assistant Dean and Registrar ials were rarely submitted and An executive committee of a best and would like to see it Gerald R. Marshall has refused whether they were admitted to the president, vice-president, and changed ... for what is best for to permit two students to inspect file was at his discretion. treasurer will also be elected all," Doten predicted that the fac- their college files. The students presented the fol- on October 23. Ten signatures ulty would not approve a major The students, Steven H. Keeney lowing request: "In accordance supporting the ticket must be ob- revision at this time. '71 and Jeffrey A. Morrow '71, with the Bill of Rights I hereby tained by October 20. Jeffrey C. Green '70, a mem- based their request on an article request inspection of my files at ber of the committee, believes of the Senate Bill of Rights pass- the earliest possible convenience." One or more senators will be "grades as they are presently ed last April which said that a elected from each dormitory con- utilized only instill fear and stifle student "shall have free access to In a reply Marshall stated that stituency. In addition, two sen- curiosity." Doten agrees that all College records which pertain the question of open files "...must ators will be elected to repre- grades can "stifle, particularly to him." await further consideration. It is sent those black students who do in the first two years" but recog- They said that they were shown also believed that the appropriate not vote as part of their dormi- nizes that the "fear of failure" their academic file but not their deliberative body in this instance tory constituency. is the Trinity College Council." is in many cases a strong moti- personal folios where disciplinary Students wishing to represent vation. actions and personal comments Marshall claimed that the exis- either dormitory or Black con- In an effort to obtain the senti- are recorded. tence of such a folder is in the "best interests" of the student. stituencies must obtain ten sig- ments of the Trinity community, Marshall said the personal folios natures from the constituency in the committee will shortly distri- contain "all correspondence with He stated that nothing unfavorable which might be contained in the which they will run by October Dr. Stephen Kemp Bailey, an bute a poll to students and faculty. the admissions department, forms 27. Students do not have to be The poll will ask for opinions on from the registrar's office, selec- files was ever revealed to people authority on government and outside the community and that members of the constituency which the four stated proposals, and tive service correspondence, and they wish to represent. education, will speak on "The provide room for suggestion of anything about a student worth- the folder was not available for Politics of Education" tonight at additional options. while keeping." inspection by anybody outside the All signatures should be turned 8:15 p.m. in McCook Auditorium. Both Doten and Green agree that He said that unsolicited mater- community. in to Charles Fenwick, Box 1002. October 7,1969 TRINITY TRIPOD Page 2
More Than A Western STUDENTTRYOUTS Elmer Johnson Drops In by Steve Bauer Try-outs for three by Chris Kapilla When Elsenhower died, my par- same in spirit. They need one an- Directing class one-act plays, other. The good old American will be held in the Green On Saturday night Van Cliburn, old spiritual, 1 Ain't Got No Home ents were a bit awed. I heard in This 01' World Anymore', the about his death with the same myth of men together against the Room of the Austin Arts had delicately assaulted the Stein- way Concert Grand while playing other an early Little Richard song. saddened detachment with which wilderness, twisted slightly. Jaun- Center, between 3-6 p.m. I read about auto fatalities. He ty, reckless, impudent, and like- Rachmaninoff's 'Concerto No. 3 Perhaps I could recall the others was not a part of my life. World able. And Cassidy and the Kid are today. In D Minor for Piano and Orches- If I had heard them, but trouble War II was an atrocity which was "good" people in the current use The plays to be cast are tra, Opus 30' with the St. Louis developed in the sound system and over before I was born; Eisen- of the term. They are not essen- Jean-Claude van Italie's I'M Symphony. Now It was Monday, most of the encore was lost in the commotion. It didn't really mat- hower was a hero then, but not tially violent; their line of work REALLY HERE, Harold and Richard Manuel of the Band to me. During at least the first doesn't Involve hurting people. At was quietly dispensing some of ter; we were yelling and applaud- half of his. first administration a. crucial part of the film when it Pinter's THE DUMB ' the Music From Big Pink on the ing and stomping not so much be- I was. watching Crusader Habbit is kill or*be killed, Cassidy con- WAITER and Lanford same piano on the same stage. cause Dylan was singing, but just and Ding Dong School with Miss fides in Sundance that he has never Wilson's HOME FREE! The The Band was easily one of the because he was. Because of every- thing he had done In the past -- Francis. And I remember it vague- shot' a man before. And we be- directors are Van Alford, Ted most underrated groups to play ly as an unexciting time when a lieve him, Newman and Redford there he was, the neurotic's neur- Kroll and Chris Lees. at the Mississippi River Festival • lot of golf was played. The heroes pursue their parts with a wild this past summer. They didn't otic, actually smiling at us; and of today (our heroes) are quite a abandon, a joy, and a love, yes, There are parts for both flatten you out on the ground with because he had decided to make bit different from Eisenhower. The a love which makes the movie a men and women, and the simplistic brutalities of the his first appearance since the mythology of heroes, after all, has sort of celebration. Katherine everyone is encouraged to Iron Butterfly, nor did they over- Woody Guthrle memorial concert nothing to do with times or epochs Ross, although given little oppor- with us in Edwardsville, Illinois, come. Stage managers and whelm you with the bestial yet and everything to do with actions tunity to . act here, is lovely. beautiful energy of Janis Joplin. of all places. and values, when we create heroes Whether riding on a bicycle, roil- production staff will also be They just played ... and in the end, It was' especially strange forme today, they tend to be outlaws or ing over In bed, or robbing banks, chosen. you had to like it. to find myself semi-hysterically outcasts or eccentrics, people with she has the grace and beauty of a applauding Dylan and the Band; dancer. She recognizes in Butch This article is not really about an outrageous sense for upheaval the Band (or even the draft), but three and a half years ago I had or disturbance and action out of the and Sundance a hopeless lust, for booed the same combination. For, excitement and romance and suc- about their traveling companion, ordinary. People who live some- who called himself Elmer Johnson. though I had been one of his staunch times just on the edge of plaus- cumbs to their charisma as easily followers at the beginning of his as we do. i THIS FRIDAY When the band came back for their ibility. Why the shaky lesson in encore, it was noticed that they now career, I turned against him when history? I speak of the birth of More than anything else, "Butch I felt he had turned against me heroes. numbered six instead of five, and Cassidy" is a fun flick. I haven't Friday at'4:30, the second there was a mad rush for the stage by going electric. But now The seen one of those in a very long i directing class one-act play from the slopes of the ampttheater. Band was no longer that group of time. The screenplay by William will be performed in anonymous musicians; now I no The sound of a motion picture The cause of it all was a little Goldman (of " Boys and Girls To- Goodwin Theatre. The play is guy who looked for all the world longer considered the electric projector;-. home movies maybe. gether" fame) is literate and wit- PIRANDELLO'S THE MAN like a truck driver from Mobile, guitar to be mankind's vilest In- The screen is black. And then at ty, and Goldman knew when to vention, and Dylan was no longer an angle in the left hand corner WITH THE FLOWERS IN in his tan work shirt and wine stop using words and let the pic- sunglasses; Bob Dylan, singing such things as 'Leopard- of the screen, an old movie. The tures take over. Words are for HIS MOUTH, with Dan Zitin, print is brown and muted, silent. In all, the six did five more Skin Pill-box Hat'. Three vast Im- other forms of art; the cinema Christian Horn, and Robin provements, The times had chang- A Bunch of guys are holding up a is essentially visual. The people songs, none of them Dylan com- train. On the right side of' the Reif. positions as far as I could tell. ed. We were all so much older involved in "Butch Cassidy" un- then... screen,: the credits of anew movie, derstood that. So there are lots of I can only remember two: one, an a very, fine one. Maybe bordering times when words aren't neces- on greatness. "Butch Cassidy and sary. The director, George Roy the Sundance Kid." Paul Newman, Hill, has an impeccable sense of Robert Redford, Katherine Ross. motion and color, of when to use 'Easy Rider': Unhappy Ending Not a cast of thousands. The three stills and when to keep the action of them. But two of them are her- moving, of when to use music and oes, or are. shown as such. Peo- when to rely on words. And when To a Motor cycle-Drug Trilogy ple with an outrageous sense for the words are relied on, they upheaval and disturbance and ac- are inevitably the right ones and by Ted Kroll mon and Garfunkel?) plus dear, the off-handed use of drugs, the tion out of the ordinary. People they are delivered amusingly and dear Peter Fonda all mixed to- travelling on motorcycles (though with w.hom we can Identify. I speak wryly. The rest of the time the With all the rave blurbs coming gether with the mandatory essence none in THE TRIP), the use of a of the birth of heroes. camera does the talking. Newman, from the New York Times, News- of general social alienation. But rock soundtrack (there Is some of Redford, and Ross all have mar- Week, Cosmopolitan, etc., etc. a happily the film uses these pop the same music In EASY RIDER velous faces. They are beautiful review in the TRIPOD is certain- elements to suggest a mode of that is In THE TRIP) as well as people to watch. And the shots of ly not going to change anyone's thinking and living, much like the using the same actors, most Im- "Butch Cassidy" Is a western, a the country as Butch and Sundance mind about going to see EASY horse and six-shooter of a West- portantly Fonda and Hopper. Their wild raunchy affectionate one, but maraude around are magnificent. RIDER - which saves me the ern, without them becoming mere- form, too, follows the same leis- neither a spoof, nor an Indictment Everything seen through a lens trouble of having to convince you ly modern fetishes. Perhaps by urely, episodic plot exposition by of violence. No comparison with vaguely. Warm and textured and to see it. EASY RIDER at the looking at previous Fonda bike- following; the latest adventure of "The Wild Bunch," "CatBelou," brilliant; just on the edge of myth Paris Cinema has become the dope operas a new point of view Peter Fonda. Aside from these or any of the others which have and maybe on the edge of great- "youth" picture of the year, join- toward the success of EASY RID- external similarities there exists come before. It outdoes them in ness. ing that select (I didn't say dis- ER can be found. a thematic progression from pic- content, in plot, but most signi- The photography switches from tinguished) group of "pop" films By conjuring up a bit of film ture to picture which leads right ficantly in intelligence. Because action to still to motion to slow like BONNIE AND CLYDE and history, EASY RIDER can be seen up to the senseless, violent mur- its form is that of a western, motion and back again so subtly THE GRADUATE that have made as the third part of a Peter Fonda der of the two motorcyclists in but Its cdntent is not. Butch and that the transition Is hardly no- a lot of money because they some- motorcycle-drug trilogy. First EASY RIDER. Sundance are outlaws; they rob ticed. And none of it is done to how managed to hit on the current, was THE WILD ANGELS (1966) Of course, this progression is banks and trains. They do It be- be cute. No hot shot photographer fadish feelings of the young In the and a year later THE TRIP, both cause that is bow they have chosen easily established since Fonda, is showing off his wares, All is US. This year it's big motorcycles, well-directed by the wizard of the although he appears as different to live,: because It pits their in- simply and directly aimed at an dope, more glossy technicolor- grade-Z picture, Roger Corman. telligence, skill, and finesse a- beautiful photography, heavy rock persons, always just acts himself; end, the end being the film itself. These three films contain much of Peter Fonda as Peter Fonda Is the >'gainst those of the, people from And nothing Is sacrificed for that n'roll (what ever happened to Si- the same obvious material such as whom they steal. When they run main character. However, what Is aim. Color is used beautifully as unusual about this so-called tril- , into a man of equal Intelligence are simulations of daguerreotypes. who sends a tracking party of un- All blends smoothly and effortless- ogy Is how the films can reflect paralleled skill after them, they ly together. some ot the basic changes In run. The days of the West are Fonda's off-screen personality. " Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Beep, Beep From the up-tight cunning of a sad- drawing to a close. In the words Kid" is finally a young movie, Its of: one sheriff they, are nothing but istic gangleader in the WILD AN- subject matter may not appeal to GELS we see Fonda transformed "two bit outlaws," and their time us as blatantly as does that of by James Petersen is running out. So they leave the " Easy Rider" or "Alice's Restaur- Resolved: The rightful hero of a Into a passive, thoughtful, though good old USA and go to Bolivia. indivisible innocent-scapegoa>. Inarticulate motorcycle-hippie ant," but the. themes of the film Roadrunner cartoon is: A) the ori- configuration, the backbone of tra- They are pursued by that ambi- and its values make it very much ginal speed freak; B) his polar who Is destroyed by a person very guous and omniscient posse. The ditional comedy. The Roadrunner much in outlook like the Hell's a movie of our time without em- opponent, the Coyote. triumphs over an endless series seriousness of the film (and I bedding it in the phenomena of the Angel figure that Fonda played . think that seriousness is its final of obstacles produced by the Coy- three years ago. late Sixties. It was made in affec- In hopes of settling the debate ote, the proud descendant of such intention) deals with the bank- tion and fun. And It is a very once or twice and for a dollar, In a way these are the same ruptcy of their dream and with villains as Malvolio, Volpone, Shy- : funny movie, but not in any sense the Cabaret Voltaire has assem- lock, and most noticeably, Falstaff, changes that the kids of the USA their ability to transcend that bank- a parody. To view it as such bled on one uninterrupted reel the have gone through the past few ruptcy and the inexorable Jaws of For Someone To Remain Innocent, cheapens its appeal and Its simple First Annual Roadrunner Film Someone Has To Take A Bag. years. From the fou!-mouthe
[Ed. Note: This statement is tainment, that will be open to the a climate of Impersonality, we the official announcement, of greater Hartford Community as, shall commit ourselves to con- well. Se shall seek a re-opening tinued and increased Faculty- raitB Iftnob the candidacies Charles of the Old Cave as to accommo- student interaction. Yeager '72, Stuart Mason '71, date a rathskeller or some similar Political: We shall end manipula- and Richard Schaefer'71. for place of business. However, our tion of the Student Body by the Ad- President, Vice-President and primary goal is two-fold: (l) to ministration. Primary to this endeavor Is rigid protection by the Treasurer of the Executive provide social opportunities for EDITORIAL SECTION the entire community EVERY Executive Council of the Student Council.) weekend, and (2) to socially organ- Bill of Rights legislated by the We announce our candidacy for ize the campus on the dormitory Senate last Spring, by whatever the offices of President, Vice- level, in addition to existing social means necessary. We shall seek October 7, 1969 President, and Treasurer, of the structures. from the Administration an explan- Trinity College Student Govern- Culturally, our administration ation of the financial crisis the Col- ment. We do so on the premise shall follow the same general phil- lege finds Itself in. I.e., an explan- that the sole Justification of Stu- osophy: that the initiative of stu- ation of financial priorities, dent Government is to regulate and dents should not be thwarted for expenditures, Investments, and improve all facets of the resi- lack of resources or leadership. long range financial planning. A Moratorium on Logic dential life of the Student Body. We That students wishing to bring a (Where is our money going, and see those facets as three: social cultural opportunity to campus for what purpose?) We shall seek an and cultural, academic, and polit- should have access to the resourc- improvement in the Housing situa- President Lockwood's statement on the Vietnam Moratorium defies ical. The following action shall be es and assets of the Student Gov- tion on campus. In short, we shall all logic. The three reasons given for refusing to close the College in taken regarding each facet: ernment. Our Administration shall actively participate in all decisions regarding students . . . recognition of the October 15 •inon'rvjum are so blatantly Social and Cultural: We operate commit itself, to the assistance of As each situation makes its de- unacceptable that they insult the intelligence of the College from the assumption that there is those desiring to present cultural a tremendous social and cultural opportunities, whether an engaging mands upon the Student Govern- community. . void on campus. Under our admin- speaker, a series of underground ment, we shall seek appropriate The President suggests that if the College takes an official stance on istration, Student Government films, or whatever. legislation and authorization from national issues "not directly affecting its operation," the government shall become a resource and ser- Academic: We shall work for the the Senate for whatever action we would be justified tampering with the institutions's internal affairs. He vice organization for the social and day when FACULTY and STU- find appropriate. In addition, to cultural life of the student body. We ENTS shall govern the College. these goals, we intend, of course, is apparently unaware that the.present draft laws, dictated by this shall seek legislation by "the Sen- This ticket shall seek not only a to execute all other legislation and country's involvement in the war, in Vietnam do profoundly affect the ate empowering, the Executive working relationship with the duties of the Senate. operation of this community. Two of the recommendations by the Council to fund social functions Faculty but also an alliance of In conclusion, we seek a vital, Trinity College Council in its ROTCreport (both of them ignored so far at the dormitjory level, as we hold sorts. We shall commit ourselves committed community. We seek an by the President) point to the impact of the war on the campus. They that fulfilling.and enriching social to the raising of Faculty salaries, end to polarization, frustration, contact in residential life can best and to an end to coercion of the call.for a study of the effects of the. Selective Service System on the and impersonality among the stu- be realized on the dormitory level. Faculty by the Administration. Op- dents. We seek to bring students campus and the establishment of a "Draft Information Center." We shall seek to fund a coffee erating from the assumption that a out of their rooms and together Into The President says the College must "defend its autonomous house in Mather Hall, with enter- viable community cannot operate in authentic social, cultural, academ- position." What sort of autonomous position does the College have if it ic, and political experiences. cannot close its doors and join the movement for peace without fear of government retaliation. Is the College to defend its freedom of discussion by failing to act? If the President can "see no reason why the government cannot THE GITY SCHOOLS justify intrusion on matters which we would regard as solely our by Bill Searle responsibility," perhaps he needs to rethink the role of an independent City schools. Like in Hartford. She wants experimentation with including courses in black iiistory college. . Most of us know, or think we know, new ways of teaching and new and awareness for black students. how bad they are. Some of us are This is not,the first time Lockwood's concept of the government's school styles; for. example, indi- Finally she was against tlie trans- even trying to offset the effects of vidualized teaching and the "every- fer of a Weaver teacher, Mrs. rights to interfere have been called into question. , the system — like talking, or help- where school" proposed by a com- Mary Gllbertson, who backed Man- As Dean of Union College in January, 1968, Lockwood refused to ing reachers, or teaching in the munity group in the North End. She selle and stated publicly that take a stand against Selective Service Director General Lewis Hershey's seminar program or tutoring. supports various proposals by racism did exist at Weaver, policy of revoking the 2-S draft status of student draft protestors. He Well, why the hell don't we wake community groups for intensive If that anin't good enough for a up and hit the system at the top? work with pre-school children start, man, I suggest that (t) you declared at this time, "It is'not-yet clear to us, as an institution, that I mean, the Board of Education (both of these were submitted by the Government does not have the power to take this action." Trinity's don't really care, and (2) you go gives out the money, man. They SAND for those initiated into Hart- join the Puritans. Anyway— she's acting president Dr..Harold L. Dorwart acted firmly in this;instance, have the power to really shake up ford). got an uphill battle on her liands telling the military recruiters that they would not be allowed on . the system and right now they She opposed the expulsion of and she needs all the help she can aren't about to do it. campus unless they promised not to turn in the names of students who Marc Manselle, the black editor get — from right now till election protested their activities. ••••'.• So let's try for some people of an underground newspaper that day. who will use the power that they charged institutional racism at The President's second reason is as absurd as the first. Just how the T.C.A.C. is setting up a South have. At least one candidate, Mrs. Weaver (then denied by teachers End headquarters in its office, We closing of the school In recognition, of the.moratorium peace movement Sandra Klebanoff, needs all the and administrators and later need people to develop new cam- /iniplies that»"other positions are unacceptable and deserve no hearing help she can get. Does she want proven by three professors from change? Read -- paign ideas, address envelopes, i oh^this ,carnpus'r is, not explained. It defies explanation. Does the the University of Hartford.) She canvass in this area, make pos- She is in favor of as much com- wanted to accept the findings of President mean .that a free institution can not democratically arrive at a ters, distribute literature etc. munity involvement as possible; the study on racism at Weaver, in We're open 10-12 dally, and most decision of policy without infringing upon the rights of the individual? for example, next year each school fact, she was a co-chairman of the will submit its own budget. The afternoons. Or you can contact Bill Lockwood's third explanation is based on the belief that the official committee that investigated it. She Searle, Box 831, 249-201(3; Nancy action of closing down on the 15th would "contribute to the coercion budgets are to be drawn up with favors massive programs to com- the help ofthecommunityit serves. Tripp, Box SO, 347-1335; or Jerry ; of individual views on an issue like the Vietnam-War." On the contrary, bat racism in the city schools, Rucci, Box 838, official recognition of the cause of peace would certainly stimulate individual concern and discussion. The President has by his failure to permit the community to make its own decision of college policy, restricted a significant element of the college from confronting.the Statement of Ownership Dolci's Visit issue. By keeping business as usual, a large segment? of the.community Date of Filing: September 25, 1969 ' :,.willbe deterred from their moral duty: taking the issue of peace to the Title of publication: THE TRINITY TRIPOD larger community. ' . ...'•• Frequency of issue: Twice weekly on Tuesday and Friday during the academic Scheduled :-. The fact, that the President has once again promulgated official year except vacations. .•college policy, disregarding the voice of the College seriously calls into t^t^^ TW C dl Basemen,, On Thursday question just what .kind of community he had in mind in his Danllo Dolcl, famed as a social Convocation address last September.: The President is NOT the College; reformer and author, will visit - he can not continue to act as the collective moral consciousness of its Names and address of publisher, editor, and managing editor' the College Thursday. member. His.judgment has been clearly shown to be insensitive and wT^e l^^ rntinitV C0"ege' HaXtf0rd' Conn'i Editor-Kenneth P Called the "Gandhi of Sicily " •••'i unresponsive to the will of the Community. Wmkler Trim y College, Hartford, Conn.; Managing Editor-John F Dolcl has since 1992 worked to Bahrenburg, Trinity College, Hartford Conn " bring the twentieth century to Si- Owner: The Trustees of Trinity College, Hartford Conn cily's poor. An Informal talk with Dolci Is scheduled at 4 p m In Mather Hall, and a 5 p.m. recep- tion at the Theta Xi fraternity lias The Trinity Tripod ispublished twice each week except during also been planned. nO PrOfit Status of thb He has faced Mafia pressure and vacations by the students of Trinity College. Printing facilities are " and *eexempt at the West Hartford News, Mam Road, West Hartford nQt 12 bureaucratic apathy {„ Ws fi|,|U months against poverty, in i960 he was ar- • Connecticut. :./•::'; :: : ,. ...• / ..J»"*, Extent and nature of circulation: (The following figures for A. through G are the rested under Mafia pressure on ent sub cri t ,fW : ! Pti°**:We included in activities fee; others SZh?» H "«-aSf m'mbei °f COpieS eadl issue duri»e Preceding p charges of criminal libel for re- W.50 .per year. Second class postage paid at Hartford months and "Single issue nearest to filing date ") vealing documents of the Anti- .Connecticut under the act of March 3,1879 ™'ijura, A. Total no. copies printed: 2600 Mafia Commission at a press con- i Omt d Uthe te ference. He was a nominee for the " % W \! f ' «»' of Mather Hall at Trinity 1969 Nobel Peace Prize, Tripod[telephones are 246-1829 and 327^953 ^L paid circulation: 2400. Documentaries by iMcl on his D. Free distribution by mail carrier or other means: 0 t. Total distribution: 2400. ZfK Include WP08T fMOM PALERMO and THE MAN WHO G.ToS 26e6oeft'°Ver'UnacCounted- sP°ile(3 ^ter printing: 200. PLAYS ALONE. His efforts have been chronicled: by j«rr« Man- . I certify that the statements made by me above axe correct and complete gione, aa EogUslt professor at the Richard Thomson Jr. Business Manaper October 7, 1969 TRINITY TRIPOD Page Moratorium Statement 'GET IT TOGETHER ON THE (Ed. Note: This is President and the freedom necessary for Lockwood's response to the open discussion of these truly di- STREETS ON OCTOBER 15' Senate's request for a statement visive problems; andit must defend by Tom Paine and Billy the Kid on the October 15 Moratorium.) its autonomous position so that neither freedom will be abridged. The men who rule our country budget, and we'll be paying the cost ist. Are you surprised that he also In replying as I have I do not wish have put troops and Green Berets of Viet Nam for years to come even happened to have been corporation Having approved student partici- in dozens of foreign countries -- counsel for United in the '30's as pation in the October 15th Mora- to imply that individual students if we stop right now. should not act or take stands on supposedly to fight "communism." In addition to.militarism, the big well as a major stockholder? The torium, the Trinity College Student From Puerto Rico, the Guantanamo proof: for the Dulles connection, Senate has inquired whether the this issue. Speaking personally, I corporations have their fingers in find our present posture in Viet- Base in Cuba, Guatemala, and Bo- pies all over the world. Like in known at the time; for the CIA College, by closing that day, will livia to Thailand, Formosa, Oki- Guatemala where the United Fruit role, an admission on national TV join officially in this movement to nam untenable, just as I also believe the present draft law to be nowa, Viet Nam and Korea, Co. sits on 90% of the decent land in 1963 by Senator Thruston Mor- end the Vietnam war. Three con- to Europe, they've put over 1.5 and makes relatively large profits ton (Rep., Ky.). Callitimperialism siderations prompt my conclusion a most unwise piece of legislation. But the College cannot presume to million men in uniform in 119 vising the low cost labor of Guate- if you want to be historical but in that the College should remain countries. We have eight treaties malans who cannot find land to farm any case we've got an empire the open. advise the world on issues of this sort. We as individuals have both to help defend 48 nations. Figures and must work for LA UNITED to sun never sets on. First, the College must protect the freedom and the responsibility are from the retired Marine Com- survive. In 1954 the CIA conven- And the natives ARE restless. its freedom from unacceptable out- of deciding what course of action is mandant, General DavidShoup, who iently engineered the overthrow of Guerrilla wars burn in Viet Nam, side interference. Once an insti- right — and of admitting what is also charged that "America has be- the first Guatemalan government Thailand, Laos and Bolivia, to tution takes an official stance with wrong. I hope that none of us ever come a militaristic andaggressive that U.S. Corporations didn't con- name a few places. The Chinese respect to national issues not di- forgets the significance of that nation." trol. The reason? Secretary of have offered foreign intervention rectly affecting its operation, I see privilege. The cost of this military monster State Dulles said it was because and the Vietnamese are about to get no reason why the government can- consumes about 70% of our national the government was pro-commun- rid of indirect U. S. control, but at not justify intrusion on matters a terrible price. The Viet Cong which we would regard as solely have already wonand they'll some- our responsibility. day force even Nixon to recognize Second, were the College to op- that. The people of Viet Nam have pose the war in Vietnam and so LETTERS to the editor made Pentagon and RAND Corp. state publicly, then it would imply experts eat their words again and that other positions are unaccep- 'offended and put me to sleep after two or three Of the rest I can only say that I again. So will we. minutes. Kroll's article claimed am ashamed to be part of an insti- table and deserve no hearing on The American ruling circles will this campus. I do not believe we ashamed * that the film was "filled with the tution which condoned attendance Intense but simple joys of fishing." at that film. The photography was, most likely get us into further have the right to make that impli- wars, while the young and espe- cation: because we are an educa- To the Editor: If you call walking a few hundred I must admit, very good. I am only Ted Kroll's article on the Flick- yards to the neighborhood reser- deeply bothered to think that some cially the poor pay with their lives. tional institution, we cannot afford voir in your clean white turtle- fool went to such pains to photo- Everyone but the rich will pick up to stifle, even indirectly, dis- er Film presentations In the Sept. the tab. If you believe the people cussion of this issue. 30 edition was a gross misrepre- neck 'simple fishing* I sympathize graph material of that sort. sentation of the quality of the films. with you. It was closer to a Marl- Kroll's article claimed that • of this country benefit economi- Third, a college should not by its boro commercial. cally from all this very much, re- I read the article prior to the SCORPIO RISING was "perhaps member that as of 1963, 1.6% of official actions contribute to the 7:30 p.m. showing and was con- "Report from Millbrook" con- the best film to emerge from.the coercion of individual views on an vinced that I would be entertained. NAC." If it is, I shudder to think our population owned 82% of the issue like the Vietnam war. If we tained some interesting dialogue. corporate stock while 85% of the Upon actually seeing the films I Occasionally there were some of the others. people owned no stock at all. Nix- close down on October 15th, we was offended to think that I had I wonder if Ted Kroll actually would deny those who may not brief but good shots.'' In between on's tax "reform" proposals are paid one dollar to see very un- there was a good deal of wasted went to one of the showings. like a band-aid on a cancer, if that. share in this criticism —andsome professional films, some of which film. The photography was repeti- UNSIGNED who do — the opportunity to pursue And as to equal opportunity through were in very poor taste. tive and was done an injustice by a free enterprise like we're always their academic objectives on that the tiresome monologue, an inap- day. The alternatives must remain I am really very much embar- told about, remember that the rassed to realize that I am associ- propriate sound track. 'creating ghettos' chances of getting into college are open to all students. ated with a college and its news- In short, Trinity must consist- "Where Did Our Love Go?" kin- for a black, poor white or Latin paper which promoted these films. dled a bit of hope in me. The first To the Editor: (less than 1 in 500) and for the ently defend both the freedom of I have had experience in the field minutes I tired of seeing light- As the talk of a Black Dorm In- legal action on any national issue white working class (maybe 1 in 10 of filming and am assured that struck film and incongruous song creases, so does my apprehension like at Bulkeley High). In some every film I saw produced from my after song. that this is an extremely detri- suburbs the chances are 9 in 10. high school was of a quality very "Oh Dem Watermelons" came as mental action for Trinity. The Students have a few privileges Easy Rider much greater than that which I a relief. I felt there was finally greater number of Blacks on cam- compared to those who don't get (Continued from page 2) witnessed Tuesday night. someone with something to point pus should make our campus richer into College, but our whole life fourth of the film is taken up Of the first five films, the weak- out successfully. It was well done and more representative, but we style is under attack, through the with long tracking shots of the ness was purely technical. All but the repetition of "watermelon" need not imitate the outisde com- draft, through drug laws and country side which take on a bit- were two to three times longer became bothersome. It could have munity by creating ghettos, even through the bullshit jobs we're be- ter meaning as the film progress- than they needed to be. The sound- been much more effective if the by choice. Sofar most of the actions ing trained'for. Do you want to sit es and we begin to feel the ugli- track transitions were akward and soundtrack had been a lively and for Black scholarships, including in some office, shuffling papers, rarely coincided with the visual. entertaining song. the demonstrations two years ago, ness of the people that inhabit have been Black and White to- and eithr take or give orders all the land. As George Hanson, a In places, blank film appeared for The film made on this campus your life or would, you like to teach • several seconds. I assume this was was a joyous relief to the offense gether. I fear and detest a move- drunken lawyer picked up by the ment towards factionalism and what you're told to in an over- two cyclists comments near the to fill the time before the next por- I received from the finale, "Scor- crowded high school where the kids tion of the soundtrack continued. PIO RISING." I can only say that segregation. Why not an all- end of the film, "This used to be Catholic Dorm, or a Jewish one? are there because they have to be? a helluva good country." The photography of these first I congratulate the person who con- Better Dylan's words about what ceived the film on a total waste of Certainly these groups also feel five films left much to be desired. the need for identification, but not this cociety defines as success: There was no effort made in the time. He did succeed, however, in "I've got nothin', Ma, toliveupto." r Kenneth Clark deeply offending me and, I would at the expense of the greater col- editing to cut out the worst of the lege community's interests. By , Let's stop nodding like sheep or Psychologist Kenneth 13. Clark bad parts. It was common to see hope, many others. I was prepared only grumbling for a few years for a good film of motorcycle rid- separating themselves from the will look at "The Contemporary light-struck film. It was uncommon Whites on campus, our Black when our national "leaders" tell us Dilemma of the American Negro" to find a momentary scene in which ing. 1 am still waiting for that part. the only alternative to their Of the entire film there could not classmates will achieve what Wai- in a lecture at Mount Holyoke the camera was not swaying. lace and KKK could not. bureaucratic svstem is chaos. College, tonight at 8:00 p.m. EEL CREEK? (CREED) man- have been more than five minutes Admission is free. aged some decent photography but of actually riding motorcycles. Jay Schinfeld'70 (Continued on page 7) SO? 19 MV F \ SIR. SOMBZ?
vox MOBOPV IS TOOK [T MO woxo OF $ tf U)l P5A00 TROOPS. October 7,1969 Page 6 TRINITY TRIPOD Racial Tension Major Protest to Include Downtown Rally
Students at the University of Issue, Says Adinolfi Most of the actions being plan- other protesters at the Old State House rally. Hartford will leaflet on their cam- ned to protest the Vietnam war on pus. Black students at the Univer- by Chris Siegrist October 15th will be conducted by Trinity students will leaflet on asserted. groups functioning independently campus, at area Insurance com- sity will distribute leaflets In ghet- The major issue of the mayoral to areas and at Weaver High School. campaign is racial tension, said Adinolfi also claimed that Hart- of the national Vietnam Morator- panies and outside of high schools attorney Joseph Adinolfi, Demo- ford's problems are being inten- ium movement. during the two days preceding Though area high school students cratic candidate for mayor of Hart- sified because the Nixon admin- Hartford area groups plan leaf- the Wednesday protest, and on the are not expected to boycott class- ford, at the College Friday. istration has cut Hartford's federal letting campaigns, door-to-door morning of the protest. Students es, teachers at several schools "Respect for one another's in- aid by 25% under the Concentrated canvassing, one or more march- from Manchester Community Col- have stated that they will use their dividual rights has got to come Employment Act. The CEP, he es which will end with a rally in lege are expected to distribute class periods for discussions of about," he declared. "People have elaborated, is- established to help downtown Hartford. leaflets at the United Aircraft the war. become so incensed that it is dif- the hard-core unemployed and has The principal march will begin Corporation. ficult to see how they can live given eight hundred men jobs in at the University of Hartford and, together anymore," Adinolfi ex- Hartford. The 25% reduction in this march to the Old State House via plained. The welfare program, he allotment will mean a loss of Albany Avenue and Main Street, argued is one of the major causes $500,000 to Hartford. if the City agrees to issue a par- The Tripod is of this distrust between the black The Democratic candidate also ade permit for this route. The and white communities. Adtnolfi discussed rent control, an issue march is scheduled fo begin at ap- pleaded for understanding, espec- which he believes is related, to proximately 11:30 a.m. now accepting ially in the white community, say- the welfare program. Charging Other marches are being con- ing, "The (white) community must that the present Hartford Fair Rent sidered if, permits are available, contributions understand that when they are talk- Commission falls short of expec- including one which would begin ing about welfare, they aren't talk- tation, Adinolfi called for a at the Trinity campus after a ser- ing about all blacks." The mayoral strengthened and revitalized vice in the chapel and join the To candidate is confident that he can agency. reunite Hartford, however, be- In another area concerning hous- Integral Yoga cause of his personal identification ing, Adinolfi, a former corpora- Lite with the poor. "Cockroaches and tion counsel for Hartford, express- The second class in Integral rats are no strangers to me," he ed support for firm enforcement Yoga will be held on Wednesday, of the housing code. The code must Interested students can meet at be followed, he declared, "with 3:45 at the McCook Auditorium equal vigor and equal reasonable- Lobby. The price is one dollar. THIS ness" for all citizens. , WEEK TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7 TRINITY POLITICAL SERIES 1:00 p.m. - George B. Kinsella, Candidate for Mayor of Hart- ford - Wean Lounge 1:30 p.m. - Town-Gown Forum, "Sex and Drugs", Dr. George Higgins, speaker - Goodwin The- atre 4:00 p.m. - Var, & Fr. Cross Country - Home 4:00 p.m. - Crown Investment League - Alumni Lounge 4:00 p.m. - Concert Choir Re- : hearsal - Gar many Hall 4:15 p.m. - Community Seminar Series, "Athletics and Angst: Why Existentialists Should Play Basketball" - Rm. 320, A.A.C. 6:30 p.m. - Revitalization Corps- S. 49 7:30 p.m. - Instrumental Rehear- sal - A.A.C. 8; 15 p.m, - Mead Lecture in Gov- ernment - Prof. Stephen Bailey, Syracuse Univ., Speaker, "The Politics of Education" - McCook Aud. 10:30 p.m. - Compline -. Chapel WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8 UsOO a.m.- 5:00 p.m. and 7:00- - ' 10:00 p.m. - Exhibit and sale K;,;'•• of "graphics from the Ferdinand Roten Galleries - A.A.C. Noon,- Football Highlights - Sen- •>. ateRm. ' • Noon • -, The Eucharist - Chapel 3:30 p.m. _ V. Soccer - Union - Home . ' 4:00 p.m. - Concert Choir Re- hearsal - Garmany Hall THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9 4:00 p.m. - Concert Choir Re- hearsal - Garmany Hall 4:30 p.m. - Band Rehearsal - A.A.C. . . . ' • Don't get hungup on this hang-up. 6:45 and 7:00 p.m. - Illinois Schol- arship Reception and Dinner - Who needs it? We mean the fear of making a sis • operations research • reliability/main- Faculty Club and Hamlin Hall Wrong career decision. The concern of becoming tainability engineering • airborne electronics * 10:30 p.m. - The Eucharist -Cha- . another anonymous entity in a faceless environ- computer technology • manufacturing engi- pel ment. Forget it. It won't happen with us. If FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 neering • information systems • marketing * 3:00 p.m. _F, Football - Union - you want to be you, Sikorsky Aircraft is where you should be. accounting ... and more. ' "•• Home . ;. - ••'". :8:3b p.m. - F, Soccer - Spring- And your career advancement can be materially You see, we welcome fresh, inquiring minds with field:- Home ; •.:"••'•.. assisted through our corporation-financed Grad- the desire to probe and, above all, participate. 4:30 p.m. - Directing Class One uate Study Program—available at many outstand- Act Production, "The Man With At Sikorsky, you won't see your ideas swept into ing schools within our area. a Flower in His Mouth" -.Good-' a corner... or swap your identity for a paycheck. win Theatre \ 7:00 & 7:30 p.m. .- Trinity Club So, if you're a highly motivated young engineer Consult your College Placement Officeior campus of Hartford - Faculty Club and with a strong sense of identity, consider these interview dates—or—for further information, write to Mr. Leo J. Shaivoy, Professional and Tech- Hamlin Hall . facts. You'll be your own man ... helping us to 1 nical Employment, : 7:15.p.m/ - HUlelSabbath Service- spark further advances in VTOL aircraft tech- " • Senate Rm, nology. You'll contribute to writing the book on 8:00 p.m. and 10:00p.m. - ROAD Heavy-Lift Skycranes—Tilt Rotor Transports— RUNNER FESTIVAL, ' $1. 00 - High-Speed ABC Commercial Transports—and Krieble Aud. • .-, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 .;• the exciting shapes of tomorrow. ; 12:00 : noon ' - Dedication C.ere- : monies at the George M, Fer- And as an innovator, you'll find ample creative ••.':'. ris Athletic Center opportunities in; aerodynamics • human factors 1:30 p.m. -: V. Football - R.pj. engineering • automatic controls • structures
: • ;•'•••••••,-• Home ^ ' - : • - . • engineering » weight prediction • systems analy- ,?:-2:00 p.m: - V.'Soccer - Tufts' - ••;• V': '-Away.; ..••, • •;• • • .. '., • •. . : 7:00; p.m;; -: CFP Free Concert, •. (Continued oh page 7) October 7,1969 TRINITY TRIPOD Page 7 Ivy Bills Seniors; Draft Counseling Center Faces Bankruptcy Awaits Lockwood Action by Michael O'Melia If a substantial number of sen- isotto said. A draft counseling service with cost of under $100 for office space, ber to join the New England Com- iors do not order yearbooks at The problem arose when the a trained counselor can be on reading materials, and a tele- mittee for Non-Violent Action.on a $5 a copy, there is a "possibil- Senate cut $3000 from the Ivy campus as soon as President Lock- phone. farm in Voluntown, Conn. ity that it may not come out at budget, the editor explained. The wood gives his approval. Hess, a draft counselor at the Hess, whose mother founded the all," Alan L. Marchisotto '71, 1970 yearbook will have to be " very The Trinity College Council has Valley Peace Center in Amherst first peace organization at Wheat- Ivy editor, said Thursday. basic," he noted. All pictures will been waiting since last May for last semester, said his counseling on College, began his study of the Marchisotto stated in an inter- be in black and white and, accord- the president's reply to its draft would concern methods of avoid- draft as a student at a Quaker view that at least $1000 will also ing to Marchisotto, "the only way counseling recommendation, TCC ing the draft both legal.and illegal.. high school. have to be raised from under- to be original is by getting top Chairman Dr. Frank Child said. His draft manuals would include According to Hess, he first graduate purchases. Prior to 1969, flight photographs." Richard Hess '72, now coun- the SELECTIVE SERVICE LAW claimed conscientious • objector all yearbooks were free for under- The 1970 Ivy will differ from seling potential draftees for the REPORTER, which relates all as- status but due to his strong feel- graduates. last year's in that there will be Capital Area Action Movement, pects of the draft including recent ings against the draft he has now This is the first time in the more text to introduce the photo- will serve as counselor if Lock- court decisions concerning draft become a total resister. 97-year history of the Ivy that graphs. Besides the senior sec- wood approves the recommenda- questions, and the CONSCIEN- He said that he expects to go seniors will have to pay. tion, there will be group pictures tion. TIOUS OBJECTOR'S HANDBOOK. to jail someday for his resis- The Ivy will also try to double as well as photographic essays Hess said that Deans Winslow Hess said that his job at the Val- tance. its advertising revenue and "try in order to appease those who and Sallsch have been "vague to ley Peace Center was passing out Hess said he would demonstrate to go into national advertising like criticized the 1969 Ivy because the point of obscurity" in answer leaflets presenting alternatives to on the Quad and begin to fast, a the Tripod does." If that doesn't many seniors were left out. to his questions about the center. the draft at the Induction Center method which he termed "very ef- bring in enough, it may attempt The Ivy will solicit photograph- According to Hess, the center in Springfield, Mass. fective", if the ROTC contract, to form a patron system, March- ers for its '7Q edition soon. could be established at an initial Hess left the college last Octo- presently being re-negotiated, is renewed. Together (Continued from page 5) There's a difference between The Burgundy Street existing and living. Didn't you see THE GRADUATE? • Viet Nam has gone a long way toward exposing the rottenness of life and work in polluted, militar- Singers were just istic, racist, authoritarian Amer- ica to millions of young whites, mostly students and street people. The poor and the blacks have known this for years and they've been 10 unknowns from Kansas. moving to change this country too. Ending the war will be our first Victory, IF WE GET IT TO- GETHER. Join us on the streets of Hartford on October 15 in a legal demonstration to begin the Fall offensive against the war and ghetto Then they entered conditions, and the futures and the present the ruling class is planning for all of us. Get it on,. Talk to your friends, your enemies, people you've never met, your parents. Pass this flier the Intercollegiate around. Write another one your- self. And just one more thing. If you .think Nixon' will end the war or militarism without strong pres- sure, remember his drop-in-the- Music Festival. •bucket troop withdrawals aimed at appeasing an increasingly dis- satisfied public — a sham per- fectly consistent with his past re- cord as a militarist and trickster, The Burgundy Street Singers performed as regulars this Nixon wanted the U.S. to bomb North Viet Nam when he was Vice summer on CBS-TV's Jimmie Rodgers Show and are now under President at a cabinet meeting in 1954 as the French were pulling out, but Ike wouldn't go along. Of contract to Budweiser. From Kansas State University course Tricky Dick has kept this and a lot of other things as quiet as he can. But we're bringing it all students...to professional entertainers in one year! home, to him, starting NOW. WE WILL WIN. enter now! REGIONAL COMPETITIONS: THE VIET CONG HAVE WON Sign up now for the 1970 NO MORE GI'S TO PROTECT Villanova, Pennsylvania; Intercollegiate Music THE SAIGON GANGSTERS Tampa, Florida; EdwardsviUe, Festival... it could be Illinois; Austin, Texas; the start of a new career Reno, Nevada; Northridge, in show business for you! THIS WEEK California. Competition is open to (Continued from page 6) For entry forms and complete vocalists, vocal groups JERRY JEFF WALKER - Mem- information on how to submit orial Field House and instrumental groups tapes and photos, write: I.M.F., 8:00 p.m. - Film Series, "Les ... in two musical Liaisons Dangereuses" - Krie- Box 1275, Leesburg, Florida 32748. ble Aud. categories: Folk and Pop. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12 10:30 a-.m. - The Eucharist - Cha- pel 11:00 a.m. -. The Apostolate Mass - Alumni Lounge Sponsored by 11:30 a.m. - Hillei Society Brunch - Hamlin Hall 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.,..- PETE SEEG- GER CONCERT, Senate Schol- arship Benefit - Ferris Center Budweiser 5:00 p.m. - Vespers - Crypt Cha- pel MONDAY-FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13- KING OF BEERS. 17 Student Dining Hall: Breakfast - 8:00-9:15 a.m. Luncheon - 11:30 a.m. - l;0Q p.m. ' Dinner - 5:15 - 6:30 p.m. October 7,1969 Page 8. TRINITY TRIPOD Gridders Stunned 26-20 By Last Minute TD Datkmen Triumph 4-1 Over MIT In Opener j
The Bates Bobcats sent home a However Bates bounced back Powered by two goals by Cap- * stunned Trinity Varsity football with some razzle-dazzle style ball. tain Alan Glbliy, tint Trinity soccer | squad last Saturday, After 15 min- Senior Quarterback Steve Boyko team got Its sen-son offtoanauspl- •; utes of play the Bantams had a passed to end Greg Brzeski, who clous beginning Saturday, beating : 21-0 lead, and from all appear- lateralled to end Carl Fitzgerald M.I.T. 4-1 at Cambridge. : ances, an easy victory. However for a 62 yard score. This ended Senior Puto Wiles and Marty . Bates didn'Hhink so, and to prove the scoring until the fourth quar- Williams also tallied for the Ban- it mounted a tremendous scoring ter when two crucial Trinity tams. Coach Hoy Oath's team drive at the close of the game, fumbles inside their own 35 yard meets Union in the home opener tallying three times in the last line gave the game to Bates. Bates tomorrow at 3:30. .eight minutes of play for the26-20 was on the Bantam 13 as time M.I.T. jumped off to a 1-0 lead victory, the last one coming on a was running out. Boyko dropped in the first period. "We played broken play after time had run back to pass but could find no one very sluggishly In the first half," open. He was hit once but spun OUt. . '.-•/• , commented Gibby, away and sprinted into the end zone for the score and the game. Wiles tied the gams; In the se- The Trinity offense dominated cond quarter, taking a pass from the early part of the game, gain- Saturday the Bantams will open Glbuy and scoring from about 12 ing 45 yards in 7 plays in the first their home season against Rensse- yards out. touchdown drive. Dave Kiarsis put laer Polytechnic Institute. They THE SUMMIT CONFERENCE Coach Don Miller discusses game "We came alive In the third the first score on the board with are an excellent passing team with quarter and looked sharp," the a 5 yard run. Shortly thereafter three good receivers and two good strategy with Quarterback Jay Bernardoni Captain remarked. Williams put Rick Harvey broke loose for 59 quarterbacks. Thus far this sea- Trinity into the lead for good yards, and a shaken-up Webster son they have beat Colby but lost their other two games. by scoring from Ifi yards out In Jones re-entered the game to score Ham and Yeggs the third quarter. the second Bantam touchdown. A Meanwhile, Trinity Coach Don Gibby helped put the game on 45 yard pass to Kiarsis sparked Miller will be spending the week by The Syndicate ice by tallying twice In the final the third scoring drive which went changing personnel to solve weak- After two weeks of predicting Kern, will tear their defense apart, stanza. He scored on a breakaway, 66 yards in 9 plays and was nesses. He feels the team is near aided by a pass from Williams and capped with a 4 yard pass to Jim perfection, but isn't yet happy with it's all tied up! Even though he Ohio State 42 Michigan State 28, Tully. all his personnel or the results. padded his schedule, Philadelphia Our Seer in Roebuck, North on a cross from a pass by Ron Slim again went seven for ten Dakota, now 2-0, called again late Megna, while the Syndicate called eight last night. He had a vision that Although he was naturally correctly. Now we have evened Sooner or later all cows must pleased with the outcome of the Frosh Booters Beat MIT It up at 14 wins apiece, a poor meet their bulls. We interpret game, Gibby was somewhat dis- .700 average. This week's picks this hazy apparition as an upset appointed In the team's play. "We should give us a substantial lead victory for the Sooners over the looked good In stages, but at other As Tijan Sallah Scores 3 as the computer seems to be pro- Longhorns. Oklahoma 17 Texas 14. times we weren't very Impres- grammed at 7 for 10. It's too bad but the Badgers sive." by Joel Strogoff When asked about the Dart- from the Dairy State have just not The Trinity defense, thought to •"•', Having twice found themselves three goals to win the game. Second mouth-Penn. game our Indian put things together yet. This Sat- be the team's weak spot before the faced with two-goal deficits, the half goals were scored by Sallah, water boy, Run-in-Water said: urday they will lose their nine- season started, performed well, Freshman soccer team battled his third of the game, Scott Fitz- Ugh, how cumba sot witaho craca teenth straight to the Hawkeyes Junior Dick Wood drew the start- back to defeat the MIT Freshman patrick, and Jim Whltall. sala di toko sala ingoto macumba of Iowa. Don't dismay all you ing nod In the cage and did a fine 5-3 in their opening game last Trinity's outstanding player kemosabi. Dartmouth 17 U. of Wisconsin fans for next week your job. Saturday. The team displayed a Penn. 10. team takes on Northwestern in was, of course, Tijan Sallah. Sal- what could be the Badger's first sound offense throughout and in the lah, who scored the team's first Ohio State, your number one argued "Any old Bulldog could have second half a strong defense that pick and ours, having scored 103 win in three years. Iowa 32 Wis- three goals, personally kept the consin 24. beaten you Rebels. Indeed they effectively shut out the MIT Frosh. Bantams in the game during the points in their first two games. might! Georgia 35 Mississippi 21, At the outset the team simply first half. Coach Shults also prais- cannot be stopped. Duffy Daugh- Our mosstrooper from the No one feels worst) about In- could not get off the ground and ed the play of halfbacks Scott erty's Spartans will give a good Bayou was in the stands for diana's last two losses than we after seven minutes had elapsed Fitzpatrick and Don Burt and the try but Buckeye quarterback, Rex L.S.U.'s latest victory over Bay- do, except maybe 8tu Dent, In- found themselves behind 2-0. Ti- team's four S's on defense: Dave lor. He noted that as the Tigers diana '72, stu says, "Gee, that's jan Sallah scored the Bantam's Schirmer, Jon Stevens, Bruce had only nine points scored against too bad." We're rooting for you first goal at the start of the se-, Schafer, and George Spencer. Harriers Lose them through three games even a cond period, but MIT came right Stu. Indiana 28 Minnesota 24. Hurricane couldn't blow over their A big lntrastate battle shapes back: with a goal of its own for Shults was happy with the team's defense. L.S.U. 24 Miami (Fla.) 6. another two-goal advantage, 3-1, performance as a whole. He stated, Openning Meet up In Kansas when State's Wild- Mike Phipps hurled five touch- cats take on their rivals the Uni- Before the half was over, Sallah "I definitely feel that we were a downs while passing for 429 yards scored again to cut the deficit to much better team. We got off to The Trinity football team was in squeaking by Stanford last Sat- versity of Kansas. Uoth teams 3-2. . •• a poor start, but I was very pleas- not the only squad that journeyed urday. The Boilermakers are look- are two and one but the jayhawks In an effort to keep MIT from ed with the way the team came up to Bates last Saturday, the ing to R.oses. Purdue 28 Michigan have slipped. Kansas Staiu21 Kan- scoring any more goals. Coach back." The team must now prepare cross-country team went there 21. sas 17. and also lost -- only worse. The Jimmy Jones will really put his Robie Shults started . the second for this Friday's encounter with It turns out our man on the half with a 3-3-4 formation in- Springfield which could very well hapless harriers of Coach John arm to the test as lie calls the be their toughest game ofthevear. Carroll were embarrassed as the border with the cement overshoes signals against .Stanford. It's stead of the 4-3-3 used in the first first eight men to cross the finish floated down the Mississippi River two periods. The strategy paid off ! 2 3 4 doubtful that (lie Indians can re- .as MIT was held.scoreless'while line were all Bobcats. John Dur- which seemed to have some sober- cover from their loss lo Purdue Trinity 0 2 2 15 lind was the high finisher for the ing effects. He got talking to an Trinity .was able to come up with . MIT 2 : 1 0 0,3 In time to prepare for the Tro- Bantams. old timer about the Civil War and jans. U.S.C. '12 .Stanford 37.
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, by Albert Donsky Last week the ; Syndicate went: 21-7.: sit Boola Boola) this year will WANTED /eight for eleven but even more In another important intra-state FOR ASSAULT, ARMED RO68ERYAN0 ; remarkable than the fact that they win. Yale runners will Bull their game, the Wildcats of Kansas State way for extra yardage and the Yale COMMITTING A LEWD AND IMMORAL DANCC picked eleven games which actual- Should defeat the Jayhawkers. Even ly existed. Despite the dire threats defense will dog the Brown Quart- WITH A CHOCOLATE PUDDING though the Wildcats lost last week er-back. Eli's com'min' Yale 19-2. : on my life, I went seven for ten they gave Penn State a real scare. arid we are both tied at 14 for Kansas State 36-25, In a far less interesting contest, :2o.>..; .;•,•...•>••.:••,.. -•.,'.: •••••• .>.•••••; It seems that every football fan Dartmouth and Penn will play the The number one team in the in the country was either in the game that will decide the Ivy - country, Ohio State, will lead a Army or Irish or both. As such League Championship. All local very: Spartan existence and as a the Army Notre Dame game, play- prejudice aside, I see an upset result: of this they will up-end • ed this year at Yankee Stadium, as Bemie Zbrzeznj will lead the Michigan. Ohio State 31-18. always generates a lot of excite- Quakers over the Indians. Penn : Texas will be long on horn as ment. However this year the two 12- 11, both they and their band will roll teams aren't even in the same over Oklahoma in the sun at Dallas,: league. An easy win for Ara And in the final big game of . ThiS; game will be over sooner Pat O'Brien and the Gtpper. Notre the country, the Green, Gold, and than Oklahoma thinks Texas Dame 47-3. Silver Indians will go to Charles- ' 27-21, : : ; / ; ' •. The Vanderbilt Commodores are town, S.C. to storm the Citidel. '• Stanford hopes, that their journey usually good sailors however the William and Mary have a good : to smoggy L.A.. will help them to tide will prove to much for them team but how good can they be • PALOMAR PICTURES WTCWATibN lubricate ..the Trojans. This con- Bear Bryant's Alabama team is with only two people on the team ception will be. destroyed bvusr rated number one by the Saturday • : : Citidel 18-William 10 Mary 3' - USC'45-28. V ; , :. . •. : Evening.Post, 'Barna 47-12 In a special bonus pick the com- ... Purdue is on a win streak and WKCTHE MONEY AND RUM" : Two interesting games are on puter and I, see the Amazin' Mets this .will be the over-riding factor tap in the Ivy League this week- when they take on the University endi in th* first Yale and Brown winning the first second and forth ' •of Michigan Wolverines, who are battle for important bowl bids as games of the World Series when WOODYAUEH-JWIETMIRBOLIII recovering from a loss. Purdue the fantastic Yale team (Sic Tran- h6f.fce Baltimore, Report on the lasa t three games next week march from U. of Hartford ^ II cum rally af Old State House
, % J* -A The student moratorium call
Ending the war in Vietnam is the most important task facing the American nation. Over the last few years, millions of Americans have campaigned, protested, and demonstrated against the war. Few now defend the war, yet it continues. Death and destruction are unahaled; bombs and fire continue to devastate South Vietnam. Billions of dollars are spent on war while the urgent domestic problems of this country remain unattended. Moreover, the war has had a corrupting influence on every aspect of American life, and much of the national discontent can be traced to its influence. The discredited policies of the past which have brought about Ibis American tragedy have not been changed. We follow the .same military advice which has created a futile and bloody conflict while we cling to the same policies which have caused the Paris negotiations to falter. The token displacement of 25,000 troops over a three month period simply is not the substantial change in policy thai is so desperately needed.
Thus it is necessary for all those who desire peace to become active again and help bring pressure to bear on the present Administration. We call for a periodic moratorium on "business as usual" in order that students, faculty members and concerned citizens can devote time and energy to the important work of taking the issue of peace in Vietnam to the larger community. If the war continues, this fall and there is no firm commitment to American withdrawal or a negotiated settlement on October 15, participating members of the academic community will spend the entire day organizing against the war and working in the community to gel others lo join us in an enlarged and lengthened moratorium in November. This process will continue until there is American withdrawal or a negoilaled settlement. We call upon all members of the university community to support the moratorium, and we commit ourselves to organize this effort on our campus and in the larger community. We ask others lo join us.
^ This special Moratorium Issue is Vol. LKV1I1 No. 10 of the Trinity Tnpod, October 10, 1969. The Tripod is published twice a hveekhv the students of Trinity College. Second class postage paid a Hartford Connecticut under the act of March 3, 1879 "anjora, The cover for this issue was designed by James L Petenen. kill and be killed. The assumption behind slum and the apple and the serpent. I would like, ownership is that tenants will pay. The assumption however, to call to your attention several aspects of The Power behind the exploitation of grape pickers is that the story. While we may think that man goes wrong they will continue to work at sub-standard wages. In and gets himself in trouble by doing something in the every one of these areas and in hundreds of others, quite beneath his dignity, this is not the case of the citizens of all colors and speaking different Genesis analysis of the problem. Adam got himself Word languages and suffering different humiliations are in trouble, not by seeking to lower himself, but learning to act out that extraordinarily powerful rather he got into trouble by trying to exceed word: "No!" himself, by trying to go beyond his place in God's by Stephen Minot This is what October 15th is all about. And this is order of things; to improve his lot, as we might say, why it will be repeated in still louder terms on was Adam's desire. Von Rad, the Biblical We started using a lot of ugly words in the NOVEMBER 15th. And again in December. And as theologian, has quite vividly called this a "fall 1960s-defoliation, escalation, intercontinental long as it takes. upwards". Adam got into trouble not by lowering ballistic missile, anti-ballistic missile, pacification, no, No, NO, NO!!!! himself, but by trying to move up beyond his own napalm, backlash. Some decade! But there is one There will be differing slogans, differing speeches, position, and this, if we would call it a fall, as it is word of a different type which meany Americans differing styles. What we share is not a common surely seen in the Biblical commentary, is not a fall have learned to pronounce for the first time. It may logic but a common emotion: a sense of outrage at- downward, but as Von Rad put it, a fall upward. even grow to be the slogan of the 70s. That word is what is being done with our lives. We will take no The cost of this fall upward is nevertheless a "NO!" more. We have learned to say "NO!" and we are brutalization of man; having tried to exceed himself, "Yes, but...." going to be saying it very loud. he now falls down below even his minimal goodness. "NO!" was first discovered by a small group of Goethe, in the first part of the prologue in Heaven . black students in the South. They used it when they to his play "Faust", has Satan describe man by were asked to leave a lunch counter. Their parents saying "And thence uses his powers increased to be at that time were still saying "Yes, but...." In a year, far beastlier than any beast". So the succeeding many of these parents learned how to say the new stories in these initial chapters of Genesis are an word. illustration of this problem that man has be seeking "NO!" was also used against the bus companies I" to exceed himself. He falls, and in falling upward of Montgomery. It was not easy. Thousands of : ; becomes worse than a beast. people had to walk miles or form carpools. It wasn't "*^*"; :-.y \;;;:^ Up and down a weekend demonstration. It was a long, hard pull. Man gets in trouble when he seeks to exceed It made life a bit harder for men and women who himself, and in falling upward becomes lower than already knew what a hard life was really like. But i any beast. The cost of this desire to improve one's "NO!" had power the rest of us could hardly lot, as it were, is not just brutalization, however, it imagine. is also deception, self-deception. In the Biblical At that time we had what we called "advisors" stories this is innocently portrayed by the hiding of Adam and Eve from the Lord God, and by their working in Vietnam. The Pentagon knew they seeking to cover themselves from their own eyes. weren't advisors. The Vietnamese knew they weren't This is deception, for this was neither an answer to advisors. Even TIME knew they weren't advisors. So the question, nor is it an answer to the problem at who were we kidding? Oursleves. We were still hand. Deception, the deceiving of self and the saying "Yes, but...." deceiving of others, with brutalization is the cost It wasn't until President Johnson declared the that man pays when he tries to exceed himself as war to be real and holy that a few people stared •;'•.:••,/,•.->•.•, •'•:•:- man. saying "NO!" ;s ^*vj;>;^ •;•.;•: '-^»»»r*' This problem that man has is not simply an 'No' in uniform individualistic thing; it is a corporate matter. That is There were different ways of expressing it. A ^"•••;1;^"i/v • ,," • •. - ' ."•'/. '."' '•• to say, it infects all of us, and it also infects us not number of students started opposing all wars and 1[•/;•*!•) ..••'••'. ; ' simply as individuals on a universal scale but affects lvi"K*l^ applying for alternate service. Others moved to our corporate life. This is to say that when we do Canada. Still others went underground. In 1965, things together as a family, as a group, as a church, Master Sergeant Donald Duncan completed ten as a society, or as a nation, our corporate activity years in the service, including' six years in the has this same tendency to get into trouble by Special Forces and 18 months in combat, with the n seeking to exceed itself to exalt itself. This is words, "1 quit." And he made.it quite clear just why dramaticlly portrayed in Genesis by the building of he was quitting. "The whole thing was a lie," he the proud tower which would not reach to heaven wrote. "We weren't preserving freedom in South and so failed in She attempt. Men joined together lo Vietnam. There was no freedom to preserve." exalt mankind, to reach heaven, and failed. Mat) A lot of soldiers read Master Sergeant Duncan's JS corporately in his social and national life tries report, and some of them started thinking. A m to exalt himself, or his society, or his nation, and in growing number chose to say "No!" while in doing so pays the cost of brutalization and uniform. deception. Meanwhile, back on the home front, groups of National hubris poor people began wondering if the word which had In this light let us return now lo our question as opened the cafeterias and the busses of Alabama to to what is wrong with us, and in particular, let us bluck people might have an impact on landlords look at ourselves, that is to say, ourselves as this who were making 16 and 17'/ on property which nation of the USA, in our dealings with other was not fit for human use. The term "rent strike" nations. What is wrong with us, the people of the was heard in affluent-America for the first time USA, in our relationships with our fellow nations of since the 1930s. The rent strike is a poor man's way "We Must. the" world.?. What is wrong with our foreign policy? of saying "NO!" And let us be quite clear that this is a corporate The terror of protest Insist upon wrong that we are talking about, one in which we all It's not an easy way to say it. It requires courage Peace share. and patience and faith. And it doesn't always work. When we think about what this country has done Some have faced harassment, others eviction. For an in the years since the end of the second World War. unemployed man in a slum apartment to resist the by Rev. Alan C. Tull we can certainly say that we tried. After the wars system is as terrifying an act as it was for the 27 were over, as a nation we did all that we could think members of the Presidio stockade to stage a sit-down The following sermon was given by College of and could do to help the rest of the world gel demonstration. Few middle-class Americns have Chaplain Alan C. Tull on June 26, 1966 at St. back on its feet through massive foreign aid to the known such terror. Both acts have helped to set an Mark's Cathedral in Salt Lake City, Utah. nations destroyed by the war. Through cooperation example for the rest of us. Thanks to them, many in international agencies we did all thai any nation groups who were formerly silent have now begun to During the Seriate-hearings this past week on the could do, and we are not being proud, 1 think, when say "NO!" Grape pickers, college students, women, Foreign Aid appropriations, one of the opponents we say to a certain extent we succeeded.Certainly migrant workers, teachers. The word is pronounced of Foreign Aid complained. He said that, in the the nations of the Marshall Plan are now back on in different ways, but the impact is collective. years the U.S. had been giving massive foreign aid to their own feet. Indeed, some of these nations have- Cynical disregard other nations, 126 times nations receiving out of recovered, thanks to our help we hope, to such an For those black kids in that all-white cafeteria, our largess have said unkind things against the U;S. extent that now they act quite independently of us the one simple dignity of eating where one wants to He raised this point as a way of saying that and of our desires, and we find it somewhat painful must have seemed like everything that day. But of something was wrong with other nations and with now to accept these nations whom we helped when course they were working on only one small corner our Foregin Aid. We might just as well ask what is they stand against our expressed desires and plans. of the problem. And in exactly the same way, wrong with the world? I want us to ask this white, middle-class protestors aginst the war today morning, what is wrong with us? America, America often feel that the killing in Vietnam is everything. As Christians, for a diagnosis of what is wrong Underneath" this work of ours in the years since They forget that the same cynical disregard for with us, we inevitably turn our thoughts to those the end of the war, underneath all of our attempts human beings which has allowed the slaughter in first stories in Genesis about old Adam and Eve. to help the other nations of the world, there is Vietnam to continue has also allowed mine owners There we find.a way of understanding our own something else. I would suggest behind all of this to go on killing workers, automobile manufacturers personal problems. There, also, we find a way of activity of ours in helping other nations there was, to go on killing drivers, and slum owners to go on understanding our problems as a nation. maybe slight at the beginning, but growing stronger destroying the lives of their tenants. Adam and Eve The assumption which lies behind all war plans is You remember well the story of Adam and Eve Continued that citizens will submit to military service and will and stronger in the fifties, a growing feeling that what Good guys, bad guys , universal way of life for mankind. And in this we really had to offer the nations of the world was a With this brutalization as with Adam and his desire, motivated probably by desire to help other total way of life, the American way of life we called seeking of self-exaltation, we are also encountering people, we have justified our interfering in the it in the fifties, and this, way of life or ours was the deception in our lives. As a nation we deceive domestic affairs of other nations. Seeking to exalt answer to the world's problem. So we suggested that ourselves by assigning high importance, and ourselves, we have brutalized ourselves in our ready nations should not simply accept our aid, but along over-riding universal importance, to a sort of a acceptance of bombing and torture as the cost of with it they should accept our ideais, our values, our dualistic view of mankind. In terms of what we call achieving the objectives of our foreign policy. And form of government, our form of economy, all that a world-wide struggle between communism and along with this, we arc deceivers both of the other we call the American way of life. democracy we undervalue other realities which are nations, we hope, and of ourselves. We have made Before the nations of the world, we have equally important. We deceive ourselves by thinking one single either/or of such importance that we are portrayed the American way of life as a universal that all a nation need be is pro-United States in able to overlook all other circumstances and values, salvation for the ills of mankind. Across the faces of order to merit our support among nations of the in South Africa, South America and in Viet Nam. the people of Africa and Europe and Asia, we have world. The good guys and the bad guys are A way out? held up Americanism as the world's answer to its determined by whether or not they are for or There arc some things that we must do as problems. This is surely nothing less than against United Slates policy. This I suggest is Christians in our present situation. The first of these blasphemy, claiming the way of man, of one nation, deception because it enables us to overlook realities is that we must live up to our own previous national as universal salvation. which are surely, in terms of human values, equally, pride. We must accept the fact that this nation is Thus in our attempt to aid other nations we have if not more important. For example: We are guilty of trying to exalt itself and the American way been increasingly guilty of a subtle, and yet supporting dictators around the world simply of life. We must, therefore, find a new national glowingly overt form of national self-exaltation. because they are willing to accept United States humility which will be a corrective to this pride America knows what is right, what is good, not only which is consuming our nation. Secondly, we must for itself but for other people. So we have moved * insist upon peace. Certainly this is the word and from a desire to aid other nations through foreign •••-. i'.' *' ideal and the vision that Christians have to offer the aid to using foreign aid to gain the acceptance by world today. Thirdly: in this humility and in our other nations of our goals. And we have moved / ^? x. i\j insistence upon peace we must join with other men from this to subtle forms of interfering, in their f r : throughout the world who are asking for peace. In national life into overt forms of.insuring that their ^P "' ^•••'./.• ,-, ••.' national humility and in an earnest desire for peace, govern men i would accept our own policies. And we M we can join with other men and nations in "building have clone this around the globe, in Africa, in South if! America and in Asia. We have so exalted ourselves & i! ' the earth." jb* •• A poem that we have turned our attempts to aid other u it nations into a way of coercing their acceptance of ^ Hf w f This sermon has no conclusion; there can be no our own goals. r conclusions now on foreign policy. I have suggested it Be?* '•' •• 1 v:v In this national fall, this self-exaltation, this that when we ask the question what is wrong with seeking of a universal acceptance of American | the world, we must first ask the question, what is values, goals, form of government, and economy, wrong wilh us. And in looking al ourselves in the with Adam we have been guilty of brutalization and Iff light of the Biblical analysis of what is wrong with deception. These, brutalization and deception, are mankind, we find that as a nation we arc guilty, for more and more, 1 would suggest, becoming the best of motives, of self-exaltation, and with this, characteristics of our national life as we continue on as with Adam, we as a nation are incurring the cost this path of global self-exaltation. fa of brutalizalion and deception in our national life Several months ago one of the students at the 1 and in our life among the nations of the world. 1 college where I work sat down and confided in me have urged thai as Christians, we must insist upon P peace, but that we must do so in humility, seeking his own fears of what was happening to himself. He explained that when the bombings had first begun '#3 i not to exalt ourselves among the nations of the in North Viet Nam, the bombings by this country of PWmT r world, but ralhcr within this fellowship, in humility, thai people and land, he along with everyone else v \; seeking to serve mankind in its goal towards peace. 1 t % In doing this we shall find other men as our found liiis a shocking and a horrible thing. This is i _ j not to say that lie felt it might not be necessary for brothers. When we humble ourselves we find others :•»•' • \* .* military and political purposes. The point he made /^' seeking the same goal for the world, a goal of peace. is lhat when the bombings began he was distressed I would like to read to you a poem written for at the cost we had to pay and that the other nation 4 i^ peace by a young Buddist monk, Nhat Hanh, whom had also to pay as the cost of this war, But then he 5 , 1 I met several weeks ago in Hartford. He is well admitted that as the bombings continued he began 1 known in Viet Nam, for he has written eight books. more and more easily to accept them, so thai he His last book of poetry sold 4,000 volumes in the 1 1 suddenly realized on that morning that he could y S^ three clays between the time it was published and look at the day's paper with its lists of the number I the time it was suppressed by the military junaia in of bombing raids and the death couni of the Viet Saigon. His poem is called "Condmenation": Cong with no alarm, wilh no reaction at all. He M . "Listen to ill is: could glance at ilieni down at ttic bottom of the MHV.TV* Yesterday six Viclcong came through my village. Firs! page and ihen move on, with another thought. HI Because of this my village was bombed ID more interesting things, like baseball scores and ri/a completely destroyed. such like. As he thought about this he was disturbed w that he was growing so insensitive.and he saw this if 1 Hvery soul was killed. m When I come back to ihe village now, the clay in terms of bnitulizalion. thui as an individual he »«&> ilil TSSi 1 g|ft!?a after. was losing his own sensitivity to what was •J w happening in the world and was becoming There is nothing to see but clouds of dust and insensitive to the high cost that the world is paying the river, still flowing. for warfare. if The pagoda has neither roof nor altar. Death and morning coffee Only the foundations of houses arc left. £kU The bamboo thickets are binned away. This. 1 would suggest, although perceived by a sensitive student, is really what is happening to all foreign policy. Such, for example, is our continued "Here in the presence of ihe undisturbed of us. although we may not perceive it. We accept support of South Africa where a minority of its stars; unthinkingly with our morning coffee the bombings people deprives the majority of the people of almost In ihe invisible presence of all the people and all of the rest that goes on with warfare. We every human right. This is one of the worst still alive on earth, have become insensitive to the cost, and, I would dictatorships and tyrannies in human history, and Let me raise my voice to denounce this filthy suggest, in (his we are becoming brutes. . •• yet we continue to support this nation because it is war, : The same thing is true of the way this nation is willing to support our cold war policy. The case is This murder of brothers by brothers! able to rationalize the torture of the Viet Cong ', the same in. South America, for any dictator who I have a question: Who pushed us into this prisoners, by the forces of South Viet Nam. A •;; gives support to the United States receives support killing of one another? national news magazine put it this way: American/'. from us. We are willing to disregard what he is doing Whoever is listening, be my witness! forces had taken certain Viet Cong prisoners and to his people, indeed, whether or not he has their 1 cannot accept this war. had turned ilium over to representatives of the support, we will help keep him in power, as a 1 never could, I never shall. government of South Viet Nam who proceeded to matter of fact, if he will support our international 1 have to say this a thousand times before • extract information out of them by means of objectives. And we know this is true also in Viet 1 am killed. various cruel tortures. American information Nam. In the years following the signing of the sources explained that while we were accomplices in Geneva Treaty, this nation supported the Diem "I feel I am like that bird which dies for the sake ifiis, having turned the prisoners over to the Saigon regime in Saigon, because the Diem government of its mate. govern merit, nevertheless such is the way they do accepted our foreign policy objectives. Now we Dripping blood from its broken beak, and know from the prospective of later history, the business over there, and we really shouldn't be crying out: tyrannical nature of that government and the concerned. What does it mean for us not to be Beware! Turn around to face your real enemies- mistakes we made which have affected the people of s&pncenied at our being accomplices in the torture of Ambition, violence, hatred, greed. Viet Nam by our support of Diem, We deceived oilier human beings? I am suggesting that it means Men cannot be our enemies—even men called ourselves. our own brutalization, and this brutalization, this "Vietcong" easy acceptance of the destruction of human beings, As u nation we sought to do good, we tried to aid If we kill men, what brothers will we have the destruction of human persons through torture, other nations, but within this trying to do good we left? is one of the prices we are paying for our own desire began subtly and then more overtly to exalt With whom shall we live then?" to exalt this nation above the nations of the world. ourselves and to make the American way of life a Opinions
Three weeks ago Trinity's student Senate endorsed the October 15 Moratorium, and asked President Lockwood if he would close the College on that day. The President refused, concluding that "Trinity must consistently defend both the freedom of legal action on any national issue and the freedom necessary for open discussion of these truly divisive problems." The President sent the following statement to the Tripod, in response to an October 7 editorial criticizing him for his "failure to permit the community to make its own decision."
I fully share your moral indignation at the continuation of the Vietnam war, as expressed in your editorial of .October 7, and I have signed a statement of opposition to the war with other college presidents as individuals particularly distressed by the consequences of this war for young people here and in Vietnam. 1 join you in calling for critical reflection on this issue. The question addressed to this office was: would the College close on October ISlhY Without at all presuming to act as Us "collective moral consciousness", my conclusion was that the. College should remain open. You did not accept the reasons for this position. Let me try again. The main activity of a Moratorium college is educational. The political activities of its individual members - students, faculty, staff - do not concern the. institution. Even when the majority believe that their cause is just, I fail to see. why the College, as opposed to the Student Senate or the Faculty as a body passing a resolution in support of the nation-wide movement, must or should take an details institutional stance on such an issue. This forbearance is not, as you suggest1, a failure to defend our freedom of discussion; rather it is a means of assuring every single member that he is free to discuss and free to act as HIS conscience dictates. /, as president, do not have the right to compel participation upon those who may not agree, with your view or my conclusions about, the war. And it is surely questionable to imply that keeping the College open prevents people from expressing their properly profound concern about the war: A staff member is free to participate as he believes wise, without penalty or prejudice. Students and faculty are obviously free "to take the issue of peace, to the larger community," and I hope that their actions will be beneficial to their cause. That is quite different from asking that the College dedicate, itself to a particular political position and implying, by that kind of fiat, thai there is but one voice in the community. If, as I have suggested on another occasion the college is to be the "arena in which wisdom and moral sensitivity impart to human intelligence a sense of direction." then surely we must avoid becoming a partisan political agency: we must remain what The New V ork Times described in Us editorial of October 7 on this same issue, "a sanctuary for the free exchange of ideas."
The Tripod wrote in reply: Let us try again. Closing the. College, on October 15 would not. bean "institutional stance/' Closing would simply free those members of the community who want to work for peace front the obligations of "business as usual." The College would be recognizing that Us members musl be released from everyday obligations so they can pursue their moral duly. This is an issue only the community can decide. But the community musl realize that as long as students, faculty, administration and staff are expected "on the job "on Moratorium Day, they are not "free to participate." The obstacles posed by "business as usual" will become a reality for students and faculty next month, when classes are scheduled during the two-day Moratorium. Surely students and faculty are not "free" when they are expected,in class. If the majority of the community agrees. Trinity should close for the October 15 Moratorium as well as all subsequent Moratoriums. The doors of Williams Memorial and the Library do not have to be locked: the community need only recognize thai some of its members, disgusted by the outrage of the War. feel compelled to work for peace, uninhibited by "business as usual."
On Wednesday, Hie Trinity College Council defeated 7-1 a motion calling for a closing of the College on Moratorium day. But the Council endorsed the Moratorium "in principle, as a means of expressing individual concern about the war in Vietnam." Also approved was a motion asking thai the flag be lowered to half-mast on October 15, "in memory of those who have died in the war and those who have suffered .because: of the war." Moratorium Activities On October 15, Moratorium observers will assemble at the University of Hartford at 1 I a.m. A march to the Old State House, via Albany Avenue and Main Street, will begin at 12 noon. The State House rail)' will include a series of speakers, among them Steven II. Kecney '71, a former president'of Trinity's now defunct S.D.S. [ • ' •- " ' : Leafletting begins today and will continue until Moratorium day. Chapel Activities
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