ex GIfltttwrttntt lath} GJamfma Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXVIII NO. 39 STORRS, CONNECTICUT THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1974 5 CENTS OFF CAMPUS Steele denounces tuition fee increases By DON MOSLEY Staff reporter STRATFORD-The Republican This is another in a series of articles gubernatorial candidate said Wednesday on the gubernatorial raei. The series will he is against increases in tuitions at the eontinue through election day. state university and colleges. U.S. Rep. Robert H. Steele, R-2nd, newspapers announced endorsements of said in an interview with the Daily the 35-year old Republican candidate. Campus, "We don't need tuition raises The newspapers, all from Fairfield in Connecticut." County, included the weekly Westport "I'm for fully updating and Fairprcss, which is considered liberal in implementing the State Master Plan for its political philosophy. Higher Education," Steele said. Wednesday's endorsements bring to The Master Plan, developed for the 11 the number of Connecticut state by the commission for Higher newspapers who have told their readers Education, is a guide for growth at the to vote for Steele. state's colleges and universities for the Newspapers which have endorsed next five years. Steele, include the New London Day, Steele said higher education "stands the Hartford Times, and the New Haven very high on my list of priorities for Register. state spending." The gubernatorial hopeful said he has proposed that the state make more efficient use of its existing facilities for Nixon condition higher education. Steel also has said more emphasis should be placed on career preparation becomes stable, and improvement of vocational and technical education at the state's two-year colleges. remains critical He campaigned Wednesday in LONG BEACH, Calif. (UPI) factories and shopping tenters in Former President Richard M. Nixon was Groton, Stratford, and New Haven. described by his doctors Wednesday as Republican U.S. Senate candidate State Rep. James Brannen, R-Colchester The Steel campaign gained needed g Wednesday night in HRM 143. Story on Page 8. improved but still in critical condition, (48th), spcakin momentum as four Southern Connecticut suffering pain, restlessness and nausea. Ronald Ziegler, former White House press secretary, said Nixon almost died Tuesday afternoon but was pulled out of shock by fast action by his doctors. Agency cites 25 safety violations The 61-year-old chief executive has a strong will to live and the strength and courage to pull through, Ziegler said. The Atomic Energy Commission precautions to minimize the amount of failed to correct this deficiency since the Nixon was under watch around the (AEC) has publicly cited the University exposure they receive. January notification. clock at Eong Beach Memorial Hospital for 25 violations of safely regulations According to the report, UConn has O'Reilly's letter said Federal law with emergency resuscitation equipment concerning handling of radioactive not been informing the workers of the requires UConn to respond to the AEC at his bedside. within 20 days with an explanation to materials. hazards and precautions. A midmorning medical bulletin said The violations were discovered by an include "(1) steps which have been or In the January letter to the University will be taken by you to correct the Nixon appeared to be in more stable AEC inspector late in 1973, and a the commission noted that the condition Wednesday after a sudden follow-up inspection in September violations, and the results received; (2) University has been releasing an excess steps which will be taken to avoid deterioration of his circulatory system disclosed that the violations had not yet amount of radioactivity into the air. and internal bleeding following the been corrected. further violations; and (3) the date when The AEC requires that reasonable full compliance will be achieved." operation on his groin to prevent Violations include use of radioactive movement of blood clots. materials without license, failure to efforts be made to maintain releases of Kenneth G. Wilson, vice president for inspect shipments of radioactive radioactive materials in effluents such as academic affairs, said UConn will file its Mrs. Pal Nixon and daughters Julie materials for possible leakage and failure air and water to unrestricted areas as reply on time, but he would not say Eisenhower and Tricia Cox were at Eong to safely open packages of those low as possible. whether the cited violations would be Beach Memorial Hospital Wednesday. materials. The report said the University has corrected by then. Continued on Page 4 The violations were cited in a letter sent to President Ferguson by the director of the AEC Northeastern regional office, James E. O'Reilly. Stuart F. Wilson, Graduate School Holiday 'spirits' endure time coordinator of research services, said Wednesday the "violations are rapidly By TERRI MANGINI being corrected." Assistant News Editor Wilson said compliance with the Halloween means pumpkins and regulations will be as complete as "we candy bars, dozens of little witches and can humanly achieve." hobos parading the streets and a Charlie He called the report fair and said, "1 Brown television special. think it is a .good report. We are But Halloween never used to be like certainly taking it very seriously. We this. have a real job to do." The Halloween celebrated today with He said most of the violations have costume parties and "trick or treat" had been corrected, and he said he believed its origins among the Druids, the priest the radiation safety situation has class that occupied Ireland long before changed since the last inspection. the Christian era. According to Wilson, there is no For the Druids, Halloween, which did danger to persons working in the areas not have a name at the time, was the eve where violations were found. Those before the new year and the festival of areas include laboratories in the Saman. Biological Sciences, Biobehavioral The Druids believed Saman, the lord Science and Pharmacy Buildings. of death, called a gathering of all the wicked souls of those who had died the The report also cited deficiencies in past year. the area of instruction for workers. Like most rumors, the idea caught AEC requires that workers be and stuck. instructed in the health protection Although the Druids were outlawed problems they are facing by being by the Romans during their rule over exposed to radioactive materials, and in Continued on Page 8 her extremely qualified to sit in the General money appropriated for loans and Assembly in times of economic peril. She is scholarships. Mrs. Beck said she was opposed OPINION an economist who knows how to deal to tuition, although presently it would not be intelligently and courageously with state "fiscally possible" to abolish it. taxes, including the possible necessity of a But it is not Mrs. Berry's support of higher Independent stands education that is her downfall. Of the 120 state income tax. # Her career at UConn has intimately times Mrs. Berry spoke on the floor of the acquainted her with the problems of higher Senate, 72 were with regard to In 1972, the Daily Campus endorsed education. In Hartford, she could be trusted health-oriented legislation. Because of the Audrey Beck, a Democrat, for re-election to as a strong advocate for the needs of UConn, amount of time "spent on this concern, she her 54th General Assembly seat. In 1974, the the state colleges and community colleges. admittedly had little time to acquaint herself Daily Campus endorses Audrey Beck in her Her opponent, Susan Taylor, claims she is a with issues in other areas. As a result, she quest to wrest the 29th Senatorial District "liberal Republican" and brands Miss depended on Republican party leadership to seat away from Republican incumbent Louise Goodwin as an "arch-conservative," an advise her on the issues as well as the party Berry. unusual charge without basis in fact. She said position. Her voting record shows that she has Mrs. Beck has proven over the years to be she would support UConn, something it an outspoken and progressive representative in rarely voted in opposition to party leadership. Audrey Beck has proven during her three would be difficult for a legislator from her service to the Mansfield area. She is Mansfield not to do, but she has not shown a guided by a liberal, service-oriented terms in the General Assembly to be attuned to all the issues. Unlike Mrs. Berry, she great familiarity with UConn's problems. conception of government responsibility. Mansfield voters have no choice but to Her active role in defending the needs of doesn't go to the party bosses and ask them what to vote for because of a lack of elect Dorothy Goodwin, the only qualified state employees was instrumental in keeping candidate in this race, to the General the food service at UConn under state control knowledge of many issues. Assembly. when the Kthcrington Report, issued in 1971, The 29th District - and UConn - need a claimed that contracting the service to a state senator who can take intelligent and private firm would cut expenses for the state. independent stands for her constituency on Right mood A member of the Women's Political all issues. Audrey Beck would be that kind of Before we masquerade tonight in our Caucus, Mrs. Beck also has long been an senator. gloomy, eerie Halloween apparel and seek a advocate of women's rights. She sponsored vast array of goodies, wouldn't it be nice if we the bill establishing the state Commission of could help others? Besides the usual the Status of Women and spoke at length in Qualified candidate collections for UNICEF, a stop at the the General Assembly on the need for an When it comes to filling the 54th Assembly bloodmobile, located in St.