Public Interest Group Spreads Onto Campus
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(tanrrttrut Satlg ampita Serving Storrs Since 1896 fWCLj VOL. LXX NO. 45 STORRS. CONNECTICUT Thtrrsdwy, November 10, 1972 senate chooses candidates at open faculty convention by Paulette Thibodeau representation from the Categories of An open faculty convention was held untenured faculty, previous non-Senate Thursday to put new blood into the members of the Senate, and faculty University Senate. The convention chose other than the College of Arts and a slate of candidates to vie for 19 open Sciences. Senate seats in next month's faculty The report of the Commission on election. University Governance, appointed by The University Senate is responsible Homer D. Babbidge said "the Senate is for governing of academic policy at top heavy with senior professors and UConn. It is presently under fire for badly needs a stronger representation of being "too resistant to change, too junior faculty." The report suggested complacent, too cautious, and too that junior faculty mmebers on the deferential to authority" according to Senate could make that body "more five University Senators, Anita Fritz, interesting, imaginative, and creative." It ,'oel K upper man, Jerome Shaffer, Frank also suggested that the senate be more Vasington, and Elliot Wolk. "sensitive to the interests and These five Senators were responsible perspectives of students." for calling together the convention. Fritz said she hoped those who They comprise the steering committee accepted the senatorial nomination charged with trimming the 62 names would hold the four principles which place in nomination Thursday afternoon inspired the calling of the convention: a to 24. These 24 names will make up the more receptive Senate to educational convention endorsed slate of candidates experimentation and innovation; a to compete with slates from other parts senate more sensitive to the views of of the University. students, untenured faculty and other Shaffer said the purpose of the open "underprivileged" groups within the convention was to try to get together University; a Senate which is more people who want to invigorate the aggressive in its leadership; and a Senate Senate. He said the convention should which will speak more effectively for make the Senate more of a leader for faculty views. The part-time coordinator for the Connecticut Citizen's Action Group, Tom progressive ideas. The steering committee will solicit Gleason, spoke to UConn students about Ralph Nader's Public Research Interest The senators on the steering positions statements on university issues Group at an organizational meeting Thursday night in the Student Union. committee said they believed it was from the nominees. (Photo by Randy Philippi) necessary to elect a younger faculty. Of Political Science Professor Curt Beck the 62 names placed in nomination, 21 recommended that the Steering were without tenure. Committee then publicize information The Steering Committee was about the candidates to make them instructed by the senate to maximize better known. public interest group spreads onto campus by Karen Beck $150,000 or $200,000 and a staff of Consumer advocate Ralph Nader professional lawyers, scientists and started the Public Interest Research researchers, people will start listening to Group (PIRG) about three years ago in you. Either you have power or you Oregon, because he said he thought it don't have it. If Meskill ups state college was an instructive way to get students fees. PIRG will be there with a full-time involved in consumerism. Now PIRG has lobbyist. You won't know six months branches in 13 states and by next fall later after every thing has happened the PIRG hopes to be established in 3_5 behind the scenes." states. "It is spreading like wildfire," according to Tom Gleason, parttime coordinator for Connecticut Citizen's Petition Drive to Start Action Group. He and Bart Russell, PIRG In order to implement the two dollar co-ordinator at UConn and Mai contribution, a petition drive will be Cummings, president of Environmental started after Thanksgiving, Gleason Concern at UConn spoke at PIRG's first said. If over 50% of the students at organizational meeting Thursday. UConn sign up, it will be presented to the Board of Trustees for approval. The PIRG is for Students two dollars will be added to the Student Activities Fee. The PIRG is run by students, is for According to Gleason, students not students, and financed by students, wishing to contribute would receive according to Gleason. Their activities refunds. include year-round research and Gleason said students often ask who lobbying. Some of the projects the will control PIRG. "They arc suspicious Oregon PIRG was involved with of the "Administration'. But the only included mismanagement in non-profit way the administration could grasp housing, faulty re-forestation, rent control is if students do nothing." He leases, pricing, fish kills and oil spills. said PIRG is totally run by students and The PIRG is also concerned with only pursues those projects the court action. A board of students from student-run Board of Directors decides the PIRG hire professionals to do court upon. work for them at salaries of $5-7,000 per year. "The professionals could work for announcement $15,000 on Wall Street but they are banging on our doors," Gleason said. Friday, Nov. 10, is the last day students can drop courses without Students Work for Credits penalty. According to the Univeristy Catalog, students can drop one course According to Gleason students will be without penalty until the end of the able to do independent study work on ninth week of the semester. Students After months of rehearsal, the University of Connecticut Symphony Orchestra various PIRG projects for college credit. wishing to drop a course should pick up will present a concert, Sunday, Nov. 12 at 3 p.m. in Jorgenson Auditorium. The PIRG hopes to have a Connecticut the necessary materials at the windows concert, with conductor Jerome Laszloffy and associate conductor Christopher yearly budget of about $150,000 made on the first floor of the Budds Building, Grzesik, is open to the public and free of charge. The program will include up of two dollar student contributions obtain their advisor's signature, and Schumann's Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Stravinsky's Suite No. 2 and Strauss' added to the Student Activities Fee. return the materials no later than 4:30 "Till F.ulenspiegels Merry Pranks". (Photo by Noel Voroba) Gleason said, "With a budget of p.m. on Friday. Thursday, November 10, 1972 daily campus policy (bttttntttxttxt flatlg (tkxmpu* printing critical letters Editor-in-Chief Lincoln Mil/stein by Lincoln Millstein disagree with her opinion that semester to current discussions The Daily Campus maintains a election coverage was tenuous, involving the lettuce boycott Managing Editor Business Manager set of guidelines for letters to we welcome her kind of interest and religious beliefs. the editor. These are in the newspaper and the type of • - Letters are also edited for Alan K. Reisner Donald E. Waggaman implemented not to restrict inspiration behind her written space and grammar. opinion but to protect our own expression. • - We do not edit letters to integrity in the publishing The following are some basic distort their meaning. business. letters policies: Editors are not infallible. We Many students at the • - We edit letters for taste. are students who make our share University of Connecticut are Unlike the publications of past of errors. We are not always under the misconception that years, obscenities now seldom cognizant of every activity and critical letters directed at the appear in an issue of the Daily opinion on campus. Letters Connecticut Daily Campus stand Campus. therefore lend resonance to our little chance of publication. On 9 - Letters which malign, editorial judgement. the contrary, criticism regarding defame or libel any individuals This is not a self-sustaining those in favor say 'nay^ our coverage, or non-coverage, are also withheld due to obvious newspaper. Rather, this is a goes' far in shaping our legal considerations. newspaper supported by student perspective of news on and off • - The Letters-To-the Editor help and student money. The President Nixon has received a clear mandate of campus. In fact, an unwritten Column is a public column and more participation through support from the American people with his popular policy of the Daily Campus is treated as such by the Daily letters, the more the discourages editors from Campus. We prefer letters that Connecticut Daily Campus vote total of 60.8%. It is apparent the American people publishing favorable letters. refer to topics first raised by the responds to the voices of this did not want Sen. George McGovern to be their Published in today's letters Daily Campus, but that is not community. column is a letter written by always a consideration for President. Not so obvious however are the types of Patricia Wallen of McMahon publication. For instance, we Mr. Millstein is the Editor in programs the Nixon Administration will initiate during Hall. While the editors may have given ample space this Chief of the Daily Campus. the next four years. Nixon's campaign promises to the public were LETTERS TO THE EDITOR mostly of what he intends not to do ■- no dismantling of the defense establishment; no amnesty; no tax us. It also would not have but to improve later schooi gay gathering entailed a lot of extra work for performance. And he asserts that increases and no forced busing. The question remains you, as most of this information such improvement is very real. what positive action will the President take in the next To the Editor: could have been obtained from But the fact that the groups Gay Women's Gathering is a the League of Women Voters.