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World Series dream over in Omaha Cinderella baseball season closes; Panciera retires after 18 years UConn falls to Texas, Fullerton Bay lock to be new head coach and intense military-type discipline By ANDY YOUNG What did occur was two straight By RICH DEPRETA losses. 11-5 to number one ranked which he strictly enforced with his OMAHA. Neb. — One could make a OMAHA. Neb.—UConn baseball Texas and 8-3 to Cal-State Fullerton. well-documented temper. case that the UConn baseball team"s coach Larry Panciera was a follower "Our goal was to get to Omaha." "I consider the last ten years the trip to the College World Series was of the old school of coaching right to explained Dennis Long, who was the toughest decade in coaching." a feat that required great skill alone. the end. losing pitcher in the Fullerton con- declared former UConn head One could also advance the notion The end came just before the test. "We would have liked to win basketball coach Dec Rowc. "There that it was simply a "Cinderella" Huskies' 8-3 loss to Cal-State Fuller- but just getting here means arc precious few people who arc still dream come true. ton which eliminated UConn from something." effectively coaching at the same job However, if history is your guide, the College World Scries, when "We are a better team than we they were ten years ago." the conclusion is clear that the Panciera announced his retirement. showed, if we weren't we wouldn't "It was ama/ing t^> me to see Huskies' success was predestined. The past decade has seen Viet- be in Omaha." declared UConn Larrv succeed in coaching the old The last three times UConn nam protests, scholarship and coach Larry Panciera. who decided style and maintaining discipline and travelled to Omaha were 1958. 1965 recruiting abuses, player revolts, to announce his retirement after 18 having a high quality winning and 1972; all seven year cycles. So bad attitudes, athletics becoming years program year after year with only a success in 1979 was a foregone con- big business rather than just sports How the Huskies got to Omaha limited few scholarships." Rowe ad- clusion. and ever-increasing academic was a real joy toPanciera.as UConn ded. However, history only assured a pressures. won four consecutive games while And succeed Panciera did. He trip to Omaha, not what would occur But still. Panciera c lung to his on the verge of elimination in the retired with a 297-160 mark in his 18 once UConn arrived. traditions of mandatory crewcuts m SEE PAGE 12 SLL PAGfc FREE FREE SUMMER CAMPUS VOL. LXXXIII NO. 2 CONNECTICUT DAILY CAMPUS JUNE 7, 1979 Coal conversion may brighten fuel forecast By JOANNE JOHNSON University chemical engineering researchers have made a discovery that may ' speed up our abilit\ to economically convert coal into liquid fuel." Dr. Robert W. Coughlin. team head and professor of chemical engineering, said Friday. Coughlin and his CO-workcrS have found that a small electrical charge of less than one volt will serve to catalyze a reaction between coal and water at normal atmospheric pressure and room temperature, creating virtually pure hydrogen gas. Other products of the process are carbon dioxide, car- bon monoxide and a small amount of oily liquids. Coal pollutants are caught in liquid water, eliminating problems with pollution at the time of disposal. Coughlin said the process breaks down water molecules to produce hydrogen which can be used in another process Fresh gerbils invade UConn. Incoming freshmen gel their first look al the campus as 'o transform coal into a petroleum-like oil ot fuel. orientation continues this month. PHOTO BY LISA MCLEMORE SEE PAGE 5 Orientation now underway Big Time Big Money classes, a discussion of residence hall living, By KEN KOEPPER an explanation of university services, and a The media calls it the The bulletin board in the main lobby of walking tour of campus. "Super Conference." Hale Hall dormitorv reads simplv. "Welcome Evening activities will include six "interest The UConn basketball Class of 1983." labs" on study skills, dormitory life, values team calls it awesome. Yes. that will be the year this year's en- clarification, campus activities, sexuality, and To find «ut more, see tering freshman class is graduated from a new addition for 1979. an interest lab on page T2. UConn. That date must seem far away for undecided majors. them now. as they begin their orientation to This new lab. according to Desnoyers. will UConn with a day and a half program on aid 20 percent of the students in their search campus. for an academic major at UConn. "We find Before the entire orientation program ends that many of the freshmen really don't know July 13. 2.160 incoming freshmen will have what they will be majoring in." Desnoyers UConn or USMC Boot Camp? See how freshman participated in orientation activities. From said. orientation has changed over the years on page 2. 480 to 500 students will have been in a The freshmen orientation program also in- special one-day program for transfer students cludes a tour of the new University Library, The monster movie is still a fine art as the new film And about 1.800 parents will have gone and at least a half hour with a faculty advisor to plan fall schedules. The groups are "Alien"' demonstrates. See the review on page 7. through a half-day orientation programm to familiarize them with the goings on of the categorized by the particular college of the Storrs campus, according to Orientation university to which the freshmen were accep- A campus boo/e ban isn't planned. See the story on Coordinator Bob Desnoyers. ted. The incoming freshmen will be organized The program for transfer students is page 5. into groups of approximately 20 students "much more directed toward registration." during their stay, and will partake in a num- Desnoyers said. The transfers will visit ber of activities, including registration for Storrs on June 14 and 15 and July 5 and r>. SEE PAGE 5 PAGE 21 SUfrVMER CAMPOS. THURSDAY, JCJME 7, 1979 "Wearing a beanie can be fun 99 Freshman Week edition of By KEN KOEPPER convention, disease and all. "Where's your beanie?'' The disease was freshman the 1946 Connecticut Cam- growls a UConn upper- tradition. The first-year pus (the paper wasn't f classman holding a scrub students were required (by daily until 1955). each brush and a soap bucket. upperclassmen. of course) newcomer to campus was "I didn't buy one yet." to go through a number of required to wear a 4 inch by replies a helpless freshman, activities and conform to 6 inch name tag around his a member of the Class of certain codes. neck with his name, hometown, high school, 1963. And the vast majority of The upperclassman gives freshmen, either fearing nickname, and college ad- the youngster a piercing refection or desiring to "fit dress printed on it. grin, points to the steps of in." complied with their up- In addition to the the Student Union, and perclassmen' regulations. prescribed attire. the commands. "GET SCRUB- Freshman beanies, university held many ac- tivities during Freshman BING!" bearing the freshman's year Freshman orientation of graduation and "UC" in Week. Since many of the fresh- sessions used to be filled blue, were a tradition here man classes were small (in with scenes like this. Orien- until the present decade. the hundreds), a number of tation was not always a day First-year students were activities held in Hawley and a half affair during the told to purchase these caps Armory could accomodate summer. Prior to 1972. fir- and wear them at all times the entire class. President st-vear men and women to identify themselves as Albert N. Jorgensen was came to campus one week freshmen. noted for his orientation before classes began, and Beanies were not the only speeches in the 40s and 50s. received a mass orientation dress requirements for. aking to a Legionnaire's freshmen. According to the The traditional ending to Freshman Week was the President's Reception, a gala event held in the Ar- mory on Saturdav. But the informal aspects of orientation were perhaps the most interesting. In 1950. three upperclassmen A UConn freshman proves to a few onlookers that her formed the "Black Trium- shorts are six inches above the knee, even though her virate." to maintain skirt may not be. fresman tradition at the campus. a sense of identity. The university. The three enfor- Attendance was man- negative aspect was the en- cers were seen constantly on datory for the first-year couragement of a 'class-type campus during Freshman students. Women were thing.' Week, dressed in long black required to wear skirts six When Desnoyers came to robes, insuring that the inches above the knee, and UConn in 1972. Freshman traditions were maintained. men were forced to wear Week ended, and the The Triumvirate was sup- pajamas during the march. current orientation system ported by the "Blue Like many of the other was invoked. The old Legionnaires." who grew in traditions, the Pied Piper program "affirmed what number from 50 in 1954 to did not return to Storrs in everyone had been led to 100 in 1959. The 1959 Con- the 60s. The President's believe about UConn—that necticut Campus reported Reception could not be held it was too large and imper- Legionnaires punished during that decade, either. sonal. Here, there's a lot of disobeying freshmen by Both had to be removed initiative involved in having them scrub the floor from Freshman Week reaching out.

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