Co-Op, Add-Drop , Running Smoothly As Semester Starts House Chairman
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411 Jon, 25-2S no. 60- 43 Connecticut Hailg Camnua Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXX NO.60 STORRS CONNECTICUT TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1977 Co-op, add-drop , running smoothly as semester starts By JOHN J. KWOLEK spring mainly because more stu- Of The Campus Staff dents are signing up for alternate Although traditionally cold win- courses, which are being used to ter weather and blustery winds replace courses which cannot be welcomed UConn students upon included in a student's schedule. their return to campus, they were He said about 3,700 students not greeted by the traditional long have been processed at the lines outside the UConn Co-op at Hangar, including 1,800 last Hawley Armory or the add-drop Thursday and 1,100 Friday. He facilities at the ROTC Hangar, the said the figures were almost directors of those operations said identical to those listed for last Monday. spring. Registrar Thomas J. Burke said the add-drop program was "go- On the average, students are ing very nicely." He said the only spending about 30 minutes estimated 1,800 students who purchasing books at the UConn were processed there Monday did Co-op, Co-op General Manager face long lines once inside the Raymond Verrey said Monday. Hangar but that there were only a He said about 4,000 students Wheeling back minimal number of students used the bookstore, now in its One UConn student took to his wheels Monday as others slid and sloshed their way into the new standing in the cold." second year of operation, but semester. [Staff Photo by Buzz Kanterl "There are waits in the respec- there were almost no lines wait- tive lines, but we are virtually ing to get in. free of major catastrophes," he said. Lines at the fee windows at the He said the number of courses Bursar's office in the Budds Building were shorter than usual. House chairman backs for which students preregistered Bursar Edward S. Michniewski said Monday, although some Band's bid students had complained of long waits there. for inaugural "The lines were relatively short education reorganization and were kept moving," he said. hits sour note The average student took about two minutes to process. By JO ANN N1LAND Program Review Committee, respectively. Verrey said the Co-op will be Of The Campus Staff UConn's University Senate, and Glassman said other ideas for By BARBARA ADLER open from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. at The House chairman of the the Committee on the Structure of higher'education reorganization Of The Campus Staff Hawley Armory through Thurs- General Assembly's education State Government, the so-called will be heard at a mid-February On Dec. 20 at 4 p.m., the UConn day. It will be closed all day committee Monday agreed with Filer Committee. Glassman said. public hearing to be held in Marching Band had a place in Friday, then reopen at its normal current legislative moves to re- In its final report submitted to Hartford. Ideas from the public President Carter's inaugural pa- site in the Commons Building organize Connecticut's Public Gov. Ella T. Grasso Dec. 20. the hearing will be incorporated into rade. By noon a day later, they Saturday. higher education system, al- Filer Committee recommended a written restructuring recom- didn't, and according to Allan Students will be able to add and though he said he is unsure which the complete abolition of all mendation to be proposed jointly Gillespie, the band's director, no drop courses at the ROTC Hangar proposal he will back. existing coordinating and govern- by the Educatin and Government one seems to know exactly why. through next week. After that State Rep. Abraham Glassman, ing boards for higher education. and Administrative Policy (GAP) Each state was invited to send a time add-drop processing will be D-South Windsor, said he be- State public higher education Committees he said. representative group to the pa- done in the Budds Building. lieves restructuring is necessary. would be "administered by a "The GAP is a legislative rade, said Gillespie. The UConn "I am for restructuring. Al- commissioner reporting to a committee which will handle all Band received its invitation dur- though there are three or four Board of persons... who would be restructuring, not just that for ing the first week of December, Today proposals before us, 1 do believe appointed by the Governor and education. Any restructuring will but delayed their decision to go to something should be done, al- confirmed by the General As- be coordinated by this committee, Washington because of the se- Yale University apparently is though I haven't decided exactly sembly." the report states. and the education committee is mester break and the fact that the backing our of a verbal agree- what yet." Also under this system, three working for and with it."Glass- band had not played together ment to play UConn in varsity Reorganization proposals have chancellors would report to the man said. since the close of the football football at Storrs next season. been submitted to the legislature commissioners from UConn. the The education committee will season,son, he said. They finally Story, page 12. by the Commission torfor Higher four state colleges and the com- submit its completed proposaproposal to [Continued on Page 3] Education (CHE), the Legislative munity and technical colleges [Continued on page 3[ Carter says he'll halt nuclear weapons tests ■mm 1 f* f ' I Inauguration-*- . • draws1 'ther . T people'» * Moves/I fl . to± _ curb /_ arms __— „ traffickingi..»ii, ., Ui» f~c By SUSAN OKI LA Over 150,000 persons crowded in and By WESLEY G. PIPPERT ments. Special to The Campus around the U.S. Capitol grounds for the WASHINGTON (UPI)— President Car- He said he will have the final say before WASHINGTON — "It shore is cold." brief swearing-in -ceremony and more ter says he will make an aggressive effort any U.S. arms sale proposal is submitted to Congress: that Vice President Walter "Yep." stood on the sidewalks of Pennsylvania to ban all nuclear weapons tests "instant- "Gran'pa said we shoulda' wore paper Avenue an hour later to view the ly and completely." and already is Mondale. on his global tour, is asking sacks on our feet to keep 'em warm. I Inaugural parade from behind an arm-to- moving to curb global arms trafficking by other countries for multilateral coopera- wouldn't never do it, though. Shore arm police line. While the crowds the United States and other nations. tion in cutting arms traffic, and that would look funny, wearin' brown socks on cheered the new President's speech. In his first interview since taking office Secretary of State Cyrus Vance will make your feet to Jimmy's inauguration." Jimmy Carter drew the most surprise and Thursday. Carter said Soviet officials a similar pitch to the Mideast nations "Yep." the most support with his unexpected have sent him "an encouraging mes- when he visits there within a month. The Northerners were a little more mile and a half walk down the parade sage" on the subject of a flat nuclear test "I don't think a moratorium would be acclimated to Washington's cold and route. ban, and that he will work "quickly and the right expression," Carter said in winds than the Southerners who spoke "Hey he's walking! Jimmy's walk- aggressively" toward that end. response to a question, "because that is those words last Thursday, but none of ing!" The call travelled quickly through As for arms sales. Carter said there was an abrupt and total termination of all the people who came to Washington to the crowds along the route. Besides the unanimity at the first meeting of his ownership. I don't contemplate that." see and celebrate President Jimmy two limousines with tense Secret Service National Security Council on "the neces- As for the nuclear arms race, he said. "I Carter's inauguration seemed to let the men suspiciously scanning the parade sity for reducing arms sales or having would like to proceed quickly and weather deter them. [Continued on page 4] very tight restraints on future commit- [Continued on page 3) /ocus Cutting tape iw^^rwKKWIIIIS.MAao... Startling as the idea may seem, America is not yet TwSm totally submerged in red tape. Laying a hospital cornerstone may require six hours, dedicating a bridge may necessitate speeches by eight dignitaries, but we can still inaugurate a president with a minimum of ceremonial pomp - which 150,000 shivering people much appreciated. m Who would expect, in this day and age, that one speech would suffice for one of the nation's most ^wwtfgagSS *' *mm>:> important political events? We only swear in our chief executives every four years - every politician from a mayor up would give their eyeteeth for a chance to say MM a few words welcoming the President to his new home. Somehow, Jimmy Carter's inauguration recaptured from the remote origins of the ceremony a certain grandeur, a dignity both solemn and cheerful. Perhaps this could set a trend - eliminate the pomposity in politics, cut that red tape - reduce every public speech by 70 per cent, then toss out two out of every three remaining sentence fragments. Lord,take away the snow Jimmy Carter will be a popular President - with This morning, if weather predic- everyone but his secret service guardians. They're tions hold up, there will be about destined for some nervewracking years. They 27 feet of snow on the ground, appeared tense and irritable during the parade - Glenn Ferguson will be holed-up Excuse Me understandably, since the President didn't bother to in his hill-top manor overlooking campus, and the renowed gray- inform them that he would be walking all the way, and haired professor who never they had no chance to completely secure the route.