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SUMMER CAMPUS Vol. LXXXV No. 4 PUBLISHED BY THE CONNECTICUT DAILY CAMPUS Thursday, July 9, 1981 Minorities encouraged to attend universities Project Accept, a special project to encourage minority and disadvantaged students to enter college, is meeting its goals, according to the Fourth Annual Project Accept Conference meeting held recently at UConn. A joint UConn-state Department of Education project. Project Accept is succeeding at indentifying qualified students, providing them quality programs and improving their self-image. "But what we need to do more is to start earlier," said H. Fred Simons, assistant vice president for Student Affairs and Services and director of Project Accept. Geared mainly to high school students, Project Accept occasionally identifies students in the seventh grade who can benefit from it, Simons said, noting the West Haven school system is already doing this as a matter of routine. Informally, Simons said, some teachers and administrators have such a sharp eye out that they spot potential college students as early as kindergarten. Dr. Hayrettln Kardestuncer (right), with his wife, Ainu (left), and their children Rana, "But on the whole, a student can't decide in 12th grade that Tarik (center) and Erik (standing) in their Chinese style clothing. he wants to be a doctor now, talent or not," he said. "He has to know early on what his options are and he has to prepare." In an effort to develop working arrangements with local school systems which enroll a high percentage of minority and UConn civil engineering professor disadvantaged students, to assist local school systems to identify such students and to increase the number of minority and disadvantaged studentseligible for enrollment at UConn honored for second time in China Dr. Hayrettin Kardestuncer, a UConn civil or other institutions of higher education. Project Accept be recognized." DiBiaggio said. engineering professor, has been doubly already boasts both programs and methods. Kardestuncer is in China with his wife, honored—by the Peoples Republic of China, In Bloomfield, for example, programs administered with A in poo. and children, Rana. Tarik and Erik. ast December, Kardestuncer became the This summer he served as co-chairman of the "effective human relations" have produced positive results, first non-Chinese scholar to be designated an according to Benjamin Dixon, assistant superintendent for first U.S.-China "International Symposium on Honorary Professor at Beijing Polytechnic Finite Element Methods." Later, he and his administrative' and special services. • University. And now, Kardestuncer, who has "More than in-service teacher training, workshops and family plan Jo visit Mongolia and Europe, been teaching at Hafei Polytechnical Univer- where he will lecture. student interaction groups, effective human relations sity, has received his second honorary depends on quality programs and the money and staff to professorship—this one from Hafei. Born in Gemlik, Turkey, Kardestuncer spent support them," Dixon said. "It's a proven fact we need to "Like the first," Kardestuncer said, "this several months at Beijing lecturing on finite work on academic and non-academic situations at the end of one also has no precedent in Chinese element methods. He also has been lectur- the bus line. history—the first becuse it was the first time ing at Hafei. Early screening and placement, a comprehensive curriculum such an honor was given to a professor of Kardestuncer, a former computer methods in reading and math, rap sessions including faculty and non-Chinese origin and this one because it is engineer at the Lummus Co. of New York, extensive student input in evaluating and determining the first time that an individual of any origin joined the UConn engineering faculty in 1964. student governance, plus a reduced student/teacher ratio has ^cen doubly honored." He has been in China for the past year have reaped positive results in Bloomfield, Dixon said. UConn President John A. DiBiaggio lecturing, earring out research and looking Bloomfield's minority drop-out rate has decreased, the extended his congratulations to Kardestuncer. into possibilities of scientific cooperation SEE PAGE 3 "It is reassuring that your efforts continue to between the U.S. and China. Inside... Alumni Trustee elected Story, p. 3 Gospel Choir has message to share Story, p. 4 Film series continues Story, p. 6 Workshop for Fresh gerbils invade campus young writers Despite soaring temperatures and high humidity, be. Here he hustles the gerbils across a no-parking planned orientation leader Peter Lazaroff [in center with whistle] zone as meter maids were spotted in the distance manages to bold his own among a flock of freshmen-to- [Evan Roklen photo]. Story, p. 9 Page 2 SUMMER CAMPUS Thursday, July 9,1981 1 New witch hunts will face strong opposition By STUART GARBER for Policy Studies, the progressive berg, who were executed by the the evening's end. women's witch hunt: a searching out on Washington-based think tank that U.S. government for allegedly rights, gay rights, the rights of charges of subversion, disloyalty, publishes the weekly newspaper, leaking information about atomic disabled persons, of union work- or the like, but ulteriorly for "In These Times." Even more weapons to the Soviets. ers, abortion and artistic ex- harassing proponents of an in- ludicrous, the group has made The New York gathering ran pression and Third World coun- compatible political philosophy. ' statements linking the broad- from 4 to 10 p.m. and filled a tries where America is struggling Webster's New Collegiate Dic- based anti-nuclear, pro- major city block at Astor Place. to preserve its financial invest- tionary disarmament group, Mobilization The area was blocked off from traf- ments were all shown to be inter- New York — America's last of- For Survival, with the KGB, the fic all day for the event (police connected. ficial witch hunt took place in the Soviet equivalent of the CIA. barricades and all). The program "We must join all our struggles 1950s, with Senator Joseph Mc- Meanwhile, the House of was endorsed by more than 100 together," insisted Braden. "In so Carthy and the House Representatives is currently area organizations, more than 20 doing, it will be the people who are UnAmerican Activities Commit- deliberating (at the time of this of which were represented by in- fighting for peace and freedom tee. Ostensibly established to in- writing) the establishment of a formation tables that lined the that will set the pace for the vestigate communist infiltration in committee similar to Denton's sidewalks of the block, giving the eighties, and not those who work America, the committee not only committee in the Senate, which event the spirit of a neighborhood for repression." ruined the careers of numerous would be called the House Internal street fair. A number of people in the left individuals — most notably in the Security Committee — essentially The evening's programs began have become more positive in the entertainment industry — but also a reinstitution of the House promptly at 7 p.m. with a dramatic past five months. These optimists created an atmosphere of fear and UnAmerican Activities Commit- reading of selected transcripts feel that Reagan has already restraint among those who might tee. from the McCarthy hearings read begun to alienate so many people have otherwise been working Over in the Executive Branch of by a group of actors and actresses that he is creating what they call actively for political change. the government. Attorney General that included Richard Dreyfus and "an organizer's dream." Today, in the 1980s, a new wave William French Smith recently Susan Sarandon. Like the It would be naive, though, to of government suppression of proposed a rewriting of the speeches and performances of expect that the road ahead is going dissenting political opinions is on- Freedom of Information Act, a bill many of the program's other par- to be an easy one for radical ce again threatening to take hold. that makes information about ticipants, the group's performance thinkers. The actions by the feder- In April, the United States Senate the actions of federal agencies ac- helped give the audience a al government described above established the new Subcommittee cessible to the public. His changes historical perspective on the pose a serious threat to the voices on Security and Terrorism, which in the bill would increase the current situation. of political change. The rather is headed by Alabama Republican amount of information that would Following this group were unenlightened nature of much of Jeremiah Denton. be considered classified for singers, including Holly Near, the general public, which has The following well-publicized reasons of national security, thus poets and more "conventional" made these government actions story reveals enough of Denton's among other things, expanding political activists, who informed possible in the first place, will not character to make most of us a lit- the power of the FBI and CIA. the audience the federal gover- be easy to change either. It is up to tle wary. A black man was recently On Friday, June 19th. nearly nment is now working to limit civil those of us who see how our so- lynched in Denton's home county 1000 concerned citizens gathered liberties, and warmly — but firmly called leaders serve to perpetuate in Alabama. Soon after, the together in New York City to —urged us to do something about rather than eliminate many of the senator was reported to have demonstrate their resistance to the it. problems that face our society — commented on his concern at new wave of government sup- The most inspiring thing about and which, in face, threaten our hearing a group of "terrorists" pression of basic civil liberties. the day's proceedings was the very survival — to do a!) we can to were operating in his own back The gathering was part of what spirit of cooperation among the speak out, and to struggle, yard.

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