r inside Today: Literary Magazine Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXVIII NO. 58 STORRS, CONNECTICUT THURSDAY. DECEMBER 5, 1974 5 CENTS OFF CAMPUS Group offers programming for commuters By TIKRI MANGINJ Assistant News Editor There arc more than 4,400 commuting students at the University, and the Commuters' Union works for them all. Since its creation three years ago 'I'* representative body has been sponsoring programs such is .i ride board and day care information to support and service its membership, "Flic Commuters' Union is the only place on campus that 1 no to when I don't know where to go," one commuter said Wednesday. "And it's where I no lo find out what's going on around campus," he said. The Commuter's Union functions as a ).nt of UConn's student government, In1 Federation of Students and Service Organizations (FSSO), and as an interest ELIZABETHAN University Chamber Singers dressed in Tudor rostume entertain more than 200 guests at the first of five group working outside the University, evening Elizabethan Christmas Dinner Concerts in the Student Union Ballroom Wednesday night. (Photo by Randy Philippi) according to Greg Alvarcs, president of the Union. Hie biggest problem lor the Union's five person executive council is communicating with its constituency to keep the programs going, Alvarcs said. Parolee linked to state murders "It's difficult lor us to get the addresses of the off-campus residents," BY KEN LUCAS Wine, a 35-ycar-old nurse, and Dawn, Bates' murder. he saiil. if only (o distribute the flyers Staff Reporter her 16-year-old daughter. The two were Knowles also was arrested Nov. 1 7 printed twice a month. Presently the A Florida parolee, who has been found dead in their home after being in Georgia after a massive manhunt by livers have been deposited in p.irking charged with five murders in the South strangled on Oct. 15 or 16. Georgia and Florida police in the lots and at bus stops. and Midwest, is being held by Georgia "I can say that the evidence in this kidnapping and murder of a Florida The efforts of the union go far police as a suspect in the October case is directly linked to the murder state highway patrolman and a beyond the printing of the newspaper, murders of two persons in victims in Marlborough," Osbornc said. Delaware businessman. Both victims however, and one of its major interests Marlborough. "But I can't say what that evidence were found soon after Knowles' arrest, is rectifying ten.mi e omplaints. Two Connecticut state police is." Osbornc would not say whether handcuffed to a tree and shot in the Tenant complaint forms are available detectives were sent to Milledgevillc, the evidence included pictures, head. m the Union's office located in the Ga. Friday after it was reported police signatures, or names of the victims. Knowles will be charged in that Student Union, Alvarcs said. "We trv lo there had discovered evidence "directly "Felling you any more would double murder. Continued on Page "• linked" to the Marlboroueh slayings jeopardize the case," he said. belonging to Paul Knowles, 28. Connecticut state police refused to Charles Osbornc, Milledgevillc comment Wednesday. assistant police chief, told the Daily Credit card slips stolen from Campus Wednesday evidence has been William Bates of Lima, Ohio, were used identified as having belonged to Karen by Knowles in Mystic at a service station and a Ramada Inn on Oct. 15, Friday will be the last regular the last day the Wines were seen alive. Daily Campus publication of the Bates' decomposed body was found ■^m semester. A special Sports and Storrs last week in a wooded area in Ohio. supplement will be published Dec. Knowles' fingerprints were found on 12. The newspaper will resume Bates' abandoned car in Florida Nov. normal publication Jan. 21, 1975. 14. Knowles has been charged with Attorney favors proposals to clarify file access law By KAYTESTKINERT -Colleges would be free to seno News Editor grades to parents if the student was University Alty. John G. Hill said classified as a dependent; and Wednesday the five amendments to be -The definitions of "records" and proposed next week by U.S. Senators "hearings" in the legislation would be James L. Buckley, R- N.Y., and sharpened. Clairbomc Pell, DR.I., to controversial sections of a new "right to know" law The family Educational Rights and are "all welcomed additions" that settle Privacy Act was proposed by Buckley principle ambiguities in the original and adopted as an amendment to the legislation. Flemcntarv and Secondary Education The proposed changes issued in a Act of 1974. joint statement by the Senators Tuesday The Buckley amendment lias little guarantee, among other things, the impact on the University of Connecticut confidentiality of existing letters of because students have complete access recommendation. to files in the Placement Office and The basic aim of the legislation is to Office of Student Affairs. give students the chance to see what information will influence possible The main problem in the original bill. admission to graduate school or future Hill said, was the question of making job opportunities. letters written as confidential, available Other amendments stipulate: to students. The amendment would -Students would lie allowed to waive retain the confidential status of these their right to sec certain letters. dot uments; However, the amendment would -Students would not lie allowed to allow students to see letters of PRINT SALE - Students browse through a selection of more than 1,000 fine art sec their parents' confidential Imam ial recommendation written alter the prints on sale at the Student Union mezzanine. The sale, sponsored by the Black statements; legislation went into effeel Nov. 19. Voices of Freedom, ends Friday. (Photo l>\ Susan Perry) OPINION POFTRY PUBLIC Poor Wilbur? Poor Wilbur Mills has enough problems already. Ever since his backseat The Cobalt Blue Tower encounter with strip-tease friend Fanny Foxe and her headline-making plunge into a Washington, D.C. reflecting pool, the veteran chairman of The Cobalt Blue Tower stands deserted in the the House Ways and Means Committee has been the subject of cruel and Field cutting jokes from both friend, foe and fellow Congressman. Now he is in It matches the sky a hospital; apparently his health has cracked. It matches itself Those newly-elected Democratic Congressmen arc starting to flex their There is nothing else for it to match muscles and want to change the long-standing policies of Mills' committee Once and sap him of his strength. Billions of years ago Poor Wilbur Mills? It was created by a group of Einsteins Mills should not be pitied for his long-due descent from power. He has impervious to everything served as chairman of the most important and influential committee in the it would last forever House for 17 years. He never had to worry about reelection until his fling One of them with Ms. Foxe because he, like many committee chairmen in the House, An Einstein among Einsteins arc from "sale" districts. gave it a soul as a practical joke While most constituents would cringe with embarrassment if their Now they're gone Congressman were exposed for "undesirable" social activities, Mills' folks and It spends it's days surveying in Arkansas were willing to look the other way and sent him back for yet a vast panorama of nothing another term on Capitol Hill. It was his 18th consecutive term and gives The Cobalt Blue Tower him 36 years of seniority in the House. impervious to everything Seniority is the secret to landing the big committee chairman except loneliness positions. Few Congressmen in "contested" districts ever make it to the big chairmanships. They have to worry about reelection, the image of their Rich Evans party and find a way to keep as much of their constituency happy as is possible. The House has few veterans from urban areas. Contrarily, Mills has run unopposed for years. Mills' Ways and Means Committee is the starting point for all revenue legislation, such as tax bills, tariffs, Social Security and Medicare. If Mills doesn't want a bill to get out of committee, it usually won't. He has been able to block Presidential program proposals and instill his own. The Your guardian angel lifts his sleepy head Democrats on the committee also possess the power to assign fellow His silent reverie disturbed Democrats to committees. Mills has taken initiative here, too, makin;.; Deep in the vastness of your mind personal choices and making — or breaking — a Representative's career. Ominous rumblings are heard Now in firmed in Bcthcsda Naval Hospital for "exhaustion," Mills will have plenty of time to think about his own political future rather than the Magic wand in hand, future of others as he did for 17 years. Fellow Democrats have since He rises to the occasion vowed to add 12 additional seats to his panel and have taken away its As he flits to the rescue power to assign Democratic Representatives to committees. With his power stripped, his health failing, and his ego shattered, Mills he's heard to say; might best serve the House by going back to Arkansas. Though it may be the end of one career, he did start another — the Tidal Basin Bombshell. The Damn Fool's in Love Again. Mark Alcssi FORUM Living off the school To the Kditor: suggestion and chip in towards A most ironic contradiction that part of the budget which exists in the current University benefits them. housing situation. It is that the I suggest that rents for same UConn administrators University-owned houses be who arc responsible for the increased so they more nearly increases in lees, room and equal those in the private sector board, and limits on rental of the Storrs community.