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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 1975-1976 Student Newspapers 10-2-1975 Pundit No. 62 No. 4 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1975_1976 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "Pundit No. 62 No. 4" (1975). 1975-1976. 26. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1975_1976/26 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1975-1976 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. ---- -'-----~ -------------- -- ----------- President Ames says 'no' to Request for extra exam days b,y Michael J. Ganley and after consulting as wideiy as and declared, "I think the I could, I have come' to the con- students should demand these President Ames has denied the elusion that we should not alter days. It is ridiculous with an $11 request by both the Student the calendar this year. The million budget to say no because Assembly and College Council to primary reason for this is a you don't have $10,000 when it extend this semester's review budgetary one. To increase the means our education, our future, and exam period by three days. number of days in which the our performance on our tests ... Although the Student Assembly college is open by three this We are willing to sacrifice gave its' unanimous approval to semester, and three next something to get to stay here and the resolution calliDg for the semester, would add, according do well in our courses and learn; calendar revision on Sept. 10, as to our best estimates, somewhere that's what we are here for." did the College Council, the very between $10,000and $15,000to our Allen, insisting that the issue is next day, President Ames said e:q>enditures. At this point I see not closed, called for students that the addition of three days to no way that a transfer of these and faculty to unite in a decisive the 'semester was just not funds could be brought about majority to press for the calendar possible. without seriously affecting extension, In a letter dated Sept. 24 to Rick another area of college Another member d. the College Allen, president of the Student operations.' , Council, Chaplain David Robb, Government Association, Despite such budgetary voiced a similar position and President Ames stated, "After limitations as cited by President termed the resoiution calling of or giving the matler much thought Ames, Allen remained adamant coottaued 00 page eight . lIIIIIIIIIIIIII ...... iiiiiiiiIii~~~- 11- Security budget cut; South Campus patrol out by Linda Batter same as it was in 1973-1974.He The Security budget has been said, "We fell that if we could slashed by an undetermined get student co-operation in keeping doors locked, we ought to Volume 62, 2 OCTOBER 1975, amount, causing one and a half Lollpge guards worth of manpower to be be able to run a secure college cut. Chief O'Grady is waiting for with the 1973-1974staffing level." a final budget from President Chief O'Grady said that last Student Assembly endorses referendum Ames and E. Leroy Knight, year he had worked hard to college treasurer so that he can improve the quality 01 the figure how mucb money he bas to Security Force and now he will Supporting Electric Boat, strikers work with. have to work with less manpower and less money. To help tighten by RooeEllen Sanfilippo Although the Student Govern- interchangeability, will lead to As a 'result of the emected cut, things "ii, t'le guard whobas been Association did even more hazardous conditions Chier O'Grady had had to Last Wednesday, student ment approve the worlting nights in the library will members of the college Strike resolution, they did not consent to when laborers are told to perform discontinue the Security guard Jobs in trade they are not foot patrol of South _Campus. he shifted to Crozier-WiIIlams to Support Committee, which was an amendment that would have a evict WIauthorized people 'there $150 trained in. The MTC also feels When asked about the possibility established to aid the rank and granted to the MTC's rank and keep sctivitJes under control. of and file newspaper. ThIs that this article could lead to of reinstituting the South Campus file members the Metal Trades When asked what the impact of newspaper, which has no funds of massive layoffs culminating in a patrol, Chief O'Grady said, "I Council in their strike against the manpower cut of one and 8 Electric Boat, appeared before its own and which is produced by reduction in 'workers from 10,000 can get the man if I can get the to 6,800. budget." half Security guards will be on the Student Government labor donated from the rank and the effectiveness of campus Association with a resolution. file, is the workers' only form of The resolution reads as followed: President Ames said that a one We, the Student Government man cut in the Security Force security, Chief O'Grady said, The committee's resolution, communication at the present "It's bound to cut oown on it." which was introduced to the time. Communication, the cootinued 00 page nine puts the manpower level the association by Ann Rumage, the workers claim, is vital in any house president of Freeman, is ~oft to coordinate a strike and an endorsement of the strike to encourage picketing. English Professor Jane Smyser dies against the division of General The resolution is another Dynamics. The resolution's product of the, Strike Support Prof. Jane Worthington Mrs. Smyser gained in- W.J.B. Owen of McMaster jurisdiction to support issues Committee which has been Smyser of.5 North Ridge Road, ternational literary recognition University. This was the first beyond those of the Connecticut sponsoring informal discussion New London, a member d. the as a Wordsworth scholar. In 1974 scholarly edition of the English College community. sessions between students, Connecticut College faculty since Clarendon Press of Oxford poet's collected prose to be It was widely agreed that the faculty, members of the MTC. 1942and chairman d. the English University published a three- published in this century. The student government did have the These meetings have been part of department from 19611-71,died volume edition, The Prose Works Times of London called it right to involve itself in such the committee's attempt to in- yesterday morning at Uncas-on- d. William Wordsworth, which "magnificently edited." matters, as Conn.is a member of crease the college community's Thames. Sbe was 61. she edited in collaboration with Yale University Press in 1946 the New Loudon area and its awareness of the unsafe working published Prof.. Smyser's Word9- surrounding communities. It was conditions at Electric Boat, and worth's Reading of Roman pointed out that in the post the of the proposals by management Prose, Her articles for scholarly associations has supported such to eliminate craft distinctions journals include The Epigraphs organizations as: the United through Article 40. to the Poetry of T.S. Eliot; Farm Workers and the National It is feared that Artiele 40, Coleridge's Use of Wordsworth's Student Congress against racism. which is known as the article for Juvenilia; and Wordsworth's Dream of Poetry and Science. In 1952Mrs. Smyser was one of. Recycling plan supported 25women in the U.S. to b¢ named a Fellow of. the Fund for the by Rose Elleo Sanfilippo College Environmental Models Advancement of Education. Her Five years ago, Connecticut Committee has worked. research was also supported by College established a committee Last Wednesday, members of. grants from the Ford Foundation for the purpose of making the Survival, a student en- and the American Council of. college an "environmental vironmental group, which also Learned Societies. model." This committee was works with this goal as a priority, She was a graduate of Wells created as a response to a 1971 appeared before the Student College wbere she was elected to study by a Governor's Committee Government Association. Phi Beta Kappa and in MaY,I974, to develop an environmental Keeping this goal in mind, they was awarded a medal of policy for the state of Con- brought with them a resolution distinction by the Wells College necticut. urging the college to adopt a new Alumnae Association at its One section of this study read, recycling program. Centennial Commencement. Her "Every school ... should be an A spokesman for Survival, A.M. and Ph.D. degrees were environmental model, with its Harry Lowenberg, stated that, conferred by Yale University. site, buildings, heating, disposal, "Survival has run a recycling She is survived by ber husband, transportation, and consumption program .on campus because a Hamilton M. Smyser, professor exemplifying optimal en- recycling program is essential to emeritus d. English and former virorunental practices." It is to an enviromnental model" He department chairman at Con- this end that the Connecticut -,continued on page nine necticut College. Education must come first o ~ Sacrificing the quality of our education to stay within / the new budget Is asking too much of the Conn.students. President Ames has.turned down a Student Assembly- College Council request for three more exam days on each of the two semesters this school year, explaining that there are no financial provisions for It In the budget. PernapS the Student Assembly and College Council should hilVe exercised more forethought and argued for changes last year when the calendar was set.