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MacKimmie to Retire From Education Post Richard K. Morris, professor of Morris is an authority on the history of education, has been appointed chairman of education and in 1961 delivered the Henry the Department of Education effective July. Barnard Sesquicentennial Address for the Morris will succeed Professor Alexander Connecticut State Board of Education. He is A. Mackimmie, Jr., who has held the post the author of numerous articles which have since coming to Trinity in 1962. Mackimmie, appeared in educational journals. He also is whose career in education spans 43 years, an accomplished sailor and for many years will retire in June. explored the U.S. East coast in his own Mackimmie has been ill this past sailboat. In 1967 he delivered the Fenian semester, and will teach no courses this Centennial Address at University College, term. An associate professor will be named Galway, Ireland. by the department as replacement for the He is an authority on the development of fall term, while Education course the submarine and is the author of a book, enrollments continue to increase. John P. Holland - Inventor of the Modern Morris said in an interview Sunday that Submarine. with the Faculty size frozen, course size Morris has completed post-doctoral limits in the department would become studies at a number of institutions, including more widespread. He said he was unsure a summer as a Fulbright Scholar par- whether the Dean's office would add another ticipating in an Indian Civilization Seminar Faculty member to the department after the at Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, RICHARD K. MORRIS review of course enrollments now being in 1961. Twice he has served as a visiting ALEXANDER A. MacKIMMIE conducted. (Cont. on P. 5) flie ttitg fripb VOL. LXIX, ISSUE 26 TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD February 2,1971 Faculty Pay Hike 5% Student Opinion Asked The College will continue to increase Nye said he would like to see students take Faculty salaries despite the economic a role in the evaluation of the Faculty. A difficulties it is experiencing. In making the program using standardized forms could be: announcement, Edwin P. Nye, Dean of the used to glean student opinion, he explained. Faculty, admitted that the raises will be at a Such a plan is already in effect at Carnegie- slower rate of increase than last year. Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Penn- Nye said the College has not changed its sylvania. intention to get Faculty salaries into the Salaries are now awarded on the basis of upper rankings on the American Association merit, Nye explained. The dean uses the of University Professors nine-point scale. recommendations of department chairmen Nye said that professors and instructors in reaching his decisions. stand at 3 on the scale of a, associate According to the Dean, the College will professors at 4 and assistant professors at 5. increase the total allocations for salaries by The higher the number on the scale, the about five percent. This increase is two per lower the pay. cent less than the seven per cent increase given last year, Nye explained. Raises will be announced in: mid- February, Nye said. As a result of the Fellows Hear present situation, with assistant professors at the lowest AAUP ranking, there is a definite effort to respond with larger per- Residential centage increases at the assistant professor,, level. The smallest raises would be at the Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine speaks at a news conference preceediiig a rally at full professor level, he said. the University of Hartford, Sunday night. The rally was sponsored to help pay off a debt Nye said many colleges are putting a left by Joseph Duffey's campaign for the U, S. Senate last year. .Life Plans "freeze" on salaries. Others not filing any A $2 million plan for renovating all vacancies that occur in their faculties. He existing dormitories and a program of cited a Yale University policy of not Faculty, administration, and student replacing any faculty members who leave. resident advising has been submitted by the According to Nye, colleges will not ex- f Office of Community Life to the Board of perience great turnovers in faculties Muskie Speaks at UHar Fellows. because* "no one is hiring." The Board will hold hearings on the Nye said the scale of the AAUP is in- proposals at its meeting in March. creasing at a rate of approximately 7-1/2 per A memorandum from Marc S. Salisch, cent a year. He claims .that this is an For Duffy Election Debt dean of community life, proposes carpeting unrealistic rate of increase. He said schools all dormitory rooms and halls, repainting cannot keep up with such a rate. Nye Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine the administration was using the prisoner of every room on a five year cycle, replacing predicted the increase would have to be spoke to a fund-raising rally at the war issue for political purposes. According plumbing along the bong Walk, scaled down. University of Hartford Sunday night. The to Duffey, "The President wants to use the redecorating all lounges on campus and Two sources for the raise increases .are rally was held to pay off debts incurred by issue of the prisoners of war as an excuse for adding lounge-type furniture in all dor- the $200 annual increase in tuition levied on Joseph Duffey in his unsuccessful campaign avoiding serious negotiations in Paris, mitory room. students and fund drives, Nye said. He also for the U.S. Senate last year. resuming the bombing of North Vietnam The first priorities will be Jarvis, Nor- said that the College's budget would show In his speech to about 1500 Duff ey sup- and our massive military commitments in tham, and Vernon Heights. cutbacks in departmental budgets, funds for porters Muskie criticized the recent in- Cambodia." • ... In a separate statement, a subcommittee travels, and funds to pay student assistants. crease in United States military . in- "In no war in history were prisoners of of the Board of Fellows wrote "the problems According to the Dean, the costs of general volvement in Cambodia. war free until there was either a victory or a created by lack of funds have been com- administration have been held to a slight "It is right to withdraw our combat forces political settlement," Duffey said.' "Viet- pounded over the years to the present increase. He said the physical education from Vietnam as we are doing," he said, namization cannot bring victory and it is situation which presents an almost in- department would receive lower increases "but it is wrong to increase the level of our blocking the path to a political settlement," surmountable morass of complex, in- this year than last. • military activities in Cambodia and over the he said. , terelated, sociological and financial (Cont. on P. 5) • .; . skies of north Vietnam ,as we are also Duffey, defeated in a three-way contest inadequacies that could indeed lead to the doing." •••-.••-• for the Senate last year, has a campaign demise of Trinity College as a residential, At a press conference before the rally, deficit of over $100,000. Muskie, who cam- private institution." • Muskie termed the expanded use of air paigned for Duffey in October, spoke at the The committee reported that the power over Cambodia and Laos "a change $15 a person rally and at a later $500 a plate residency inadequacies are "seriously Buffy Here in our policy." "Escalating military in- dinner on Duffey's behalf. : hurting the quality and quantity of new volvement will only lead to deeper in- Muskie is considered the leading con- student applicants." . volvement in general," he said, tender for the 1972 Democratic Presidential Also foremost in the minds of the Fellows Buffy Sainte-Marie will appear in Muskie said he was looking into alter-, nomination, even though he has not an- is the "open dorm" policy. They find the concert in the Ferris Gymnasium on natives to the McGovern-Hatfield amend- nounced his candidacy. policy conducive to drug use and "free and Friday, Feb. 5, at 8:00. Tickets are $3.50 ment defeated by Congress last fall which open sex," thus affecting the quality ol and are on sale in Mather Hall. The would have-set a date for withdrawal from Asked at his press conference who he admissions. conceit is being sponsored by the Mather Vietnam. would appoint as Secretary of State were They did not specify exactly whether the Hall Board of Governors. ' 'I am looking at several proposals to set a he elected, Muskie teplied "I haven't picked "liberalism" is favorably or adversely date for withdrawal," he said. the top of my ticket yet - I'll have to wait on affecting the quality of admissions. Duffey, speaking to the rally charged that the Secretary'of State." • (Cont. on P. 5) Page 2 TRINITY TRIPOD February 2,1971 Hartford Stage "Gun Play- Far Better Than Its Title by Tom Rcgnier A Gun Play by Yale M. Udoff is a much flowers and music were nice. Most of the better play than the flashy title would characters try to ignore the existence of suggest. The setting is a small club in a violence and death. large American city-a place with dim lights One of the more conspicuous characters is and a bright red carpet where the beautiful Wallace, a nice looking young man who is people go to get away from it all. But the even more studiously uninvolved than beautiful people are only superficially everyone else. He has with him a long case beautiful. Their talk is only meaningless which obviously contains a gun.