,, TRINITY COLlEGETlBRAJfy^ I RECEIVED THE TRINITY CT ..-. TUESDAY OCTOBER 31, 1972 TRINITY COLLEGE TRIPOD HARTFORD, CONN. Inter cultural Director To Step Down By Matthew Moloshok H. McKim Steele, director of the in- facing intercultural studies is the limited tercultural studies program, will step down areas of, faculty expertise currently at the end of the 1972-73 academic year. available at the College.. In a TRIPOD interview Thursday, the The director said such shortages were associate professor of history said he felt he particularly critical in languages. He should give up his chair in order to insure pointed out that students who wish to study that the program would not become too Chinese are sent out to Central Connecticut closely associated with, him. State College and those who want to study Edwin P. Nye, dean of the faculty, said Japanese to Wesley an. At Trinity, Steele that the College has not begun a full-scale noted, these students do not have laboratory search for Steele's successor yet. He said no tapes or sufficient tutors to practice what action would be taken until the Joint they learn at these other institutions. Educational Policy Committee determined Steele suggested the College could im- how to allocate faculty for next year. That plement a "critical languages program" decision will probably be reached in mid- such as the one used by the New York State November, Nye said. Universities. This involves keeping a Steelt, an associate professor of history, program of tapes available for student self- said he was "fairly satisfied" with the instruction with a native-speaking tutor to program's success so far, but added, "given offer assistance and guidance. the limited resources we have to work Steele also said Trinity's entrance into the with." . Greater Hartford Consortium of colleges He said, however, that its continued may offer some increase in language of- success depended on its becoming a more ferings and augment courses in other areas institutional concern. of Intercultural studies. "This program has reached the point Nye also emphasized the potential of the where it must be institutionalized." he Greater Hartford Consortium Of Higher stated. "Its fortunes have risen and fallen Education to improve offerings in critical with me. I will not be a candidate for the languages. "There may not be enough in- directorship at the end of this year." terest at any one campus to support a Steele added, however, that he would faculty member in Chinese but together the continue to teach in the one-year old interest at all the Colleges could probably program "because I believe in it." He ex- support one," he said. plained, "It offers students something no In terms of hiring additional faculty, Nye other program does." noted that the College has set a limit of 130 Steele described the program as a highly faculty positions which must be divided individualized exploration of a given among all the departments. He said culture. He said that students presently teachers in other departments would also enrolled in the program take courses have to be replaced and any allocations of relating to Japanese, Russian, Chinese, faculty would be within that 130 member Southeast Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern,. limit. •••-. :.; ' •-. ., •-•• ;•,••'".. , . : African, Latin American and American According to the Deaii of the Faculty,5 the Cultures. In addition, the program offers Intercultural Studies Program has no full-: two specialized areas of Black Studies: the time faculty and he said the College is un-, Caribbean and the United States. sure whether a new director should devote Steele said new or expanded offerings his full-time to the program or would split it within the Intercultural Studies Program with another department. Stepping Down would depend in a large measure on the Steele said the program's success for the H. McKim Steele, director of Intercultural Studies, will leave his post at the end of the program's ability to attract new faculty. He time being depends on its ability to get academic year. The associate professor of history said that a new director would have to added, however, "We use all the ingenuity we students to other colleges, such as Wesley an be sought in order to "institutionalize" the department, which he said was closely can muster to meet student requests." and CCSG, and overseas. identified with his person. He added, however, he would continue to teach within the According to Steele, the biggest problem department. (Continued on P. 5) ' Baird Attacks Catholic Church Tripod By Bonnie Bernstein female bishop or pope in that church. Aren't he upholds a women's* right to control her The TRIPOD will appear next week on women just as good and moral as men?" own body, and gives secondary importance Monday, November 6. All an- Bill Baird announced that he will take the Witnessing a 29-year-old woman when the fetus is first considered a living nouncements, columns, and articles are Roman Catholic Church to court for hemorrhage to death after attempting to being. "A fertilized acorn is an oak tree?" due Saturday, November 4, at 2 p.m. in retaining the tax exemption status while abort her fetus, moved Baird to begin his Baird displayed familiar contraceptive the TRIPOD office, Seabury 34. lobbying in the legislatures. pro-abortion crusade ten years ago. He said devices and described their limited use. Baird explained that the church was retaining its tax exempt status in violation of a federal law, which states that lobbyists must forfeit their tax exempt status. The Sierra Club which lobbied for clean air was denied its tax exempt status. Yet, said Baird, the Roman Catholic Church has not lost its exemption, for actively lobbying against the existing abortion law. Baird's announcement came in a speech to Trinity students on abortion, con- traception, and church intervention Thursday, night in the Washington Room. His appearance was an 150th Anniversary event, sponsered by TWO and the Mather Hall Board of Governors. ,«f Baird gave up a career in birth control pharmaceutical manufacturing to fight for women's rights for , abortion and birth control. He founded the Parents' Aid Society, a non-profit birth control, abortion, and narcotic center in New York City. He also established the nation's first abortion 'referral clinic there in 1964. .•-, Baird was appointed advisor to the New York Subcommittee on Health and Mental Health, and was an advisor on' birth control to New Jersey legislators. He directs a birth control and abortion center in Hempsted, Long Island. I'hoto bv Kick Woodward Bi!l Baird, birth control advocate, clarifies some of Aside from condemning the church for the points he made during a lecture Thursday night. He taking illegal advantage of its tax status, BiU Baird said that the Roman Catholic Church should li>se its JI k Baird said it is '.'the most chauvinistic and tax-exempt-status for its lobbying-against, abortion- .-ilk sexist church.in history. I'll settle for one reform. ,-• : Page & THE TRIPOD, OCTOBER 31, 1972 McGovern Attacks Economy Conversion By Ken Post George McGovern told 15,000 people at rating on his votes in the Senate Constitution Plaza Monday that come received a 14% rating. ' November 7 he will have won "the most "Any working man who votes for Nixon is impressive and unexpected victory in the cutting his own throat," McGovern ob history of the country." served, "and will deserve what he gets" The South Dakota Senator addressed the Regarding his decision to cut the defense noon time rally on his plans for the post-war budget, McGovern promised that he "would economy. not close any defense installations or con- The Democratic presidential nominee tracts until we have worked out alternative criticized the Nixon administration for blueprint for jobs." failing to make plans for conversion to a McGovern said that he was for amnesty peace-time economy. for all those who refused to fight in the With the prospects for peace apparently Vietnam war once the war has stopped, He mproving, McGovern stated, "There's not commented that President Nixon said in i single person on the White House staff who March that he would be "very liberal with >s working on conversion." regard to amnesty" and now he says that he The Democratic candidate claimed that in will "never" grant amnesty. Mcfrovern 'he.four years of the Nixon administration accused Nixon of "demagoguery". i .8 million Americans have lost their jobs in McGovern said that there was not a t'efense related industries, in Connecticut fundamental difference between his peace and across the country. plan and Nixon's and that he would not This is particularly crucial here, stated quibble over the exact nature of the set- icGovern, since "Connecticut...more than tlement." I only wish he had done it'four .•ny other state depends on the defense years ago" said McGovern. i udget for jobs." Mrs. Eleanor McGovern, who has done "There is no reason under the sun why the the most extensive campaigning ever for a •orkers at United Aircraft, can not change presidential candidate's wife, responded to i -om defense related activities to building questions about child care centers and i-ublic transit equipment for this city" he frequently elaborated on her husband's aid. " statements. Calling Nixon "Mr. Veto", McGovern said She said that she was for the establish- iat by vetoing measures for health, ment of child development centers and her ducation, jobs for veterans and the han- husband added that it was-"regrettable" icapped, Nixon was vetoing "the health that Nixon considered money votes for child care of the American people." care to be inflationary and to veto a bill "Your answer to him should be to "Veto designed for such care.