Committee to Propose Tntercultural Studies'
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VOL. LXIX, ISSUE NO. 42 TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD Tuesday, April 20, 1971 Committee to Propose Tntercultural Studies' by Susami;ah Heschel The Joint Educational Polich Committee Black Studies program by September, 1971, will present a proposal for an "Intercultural and recommended that Black students play Studies" program at the Faculty meeting a significant role in the preparation of the this afternoon. budget and selection of the Faculty for the The proposed will include in- program. terdisciplinary programs such as Non- The TCC refused to endorse the specific Western Studies, Black Studies and Latin proposals, of Gaston and White that called American Studies. The "initial emphasis" for a Black Studies director and additional of a program will be to establish "an Faculty for the program, and for a series of adequate set of courses dealing with the "core" Black Studies courses. The Council history and culture of Blacks, especially in felt that such specific aspects should be Africa and the Americas," according to the worked out by the Curriculum Committee. report of the faculty-trustee committee. Barthwell said in an interview Sunday, The proposal will be presented to the "We hope that part of their (the Faculty's) Faculty for discussion at the'meeting this discussion will be addressed to us. Other- afternoon. The Faculty will vote on the wise, we will deal with them at their level." proposal at its meeting in May. Barthwell said that no members of TCB had The committee, which consists of 5 been invited by the Educational Policy faculty, (i trustees, President Lockwood, and committee to work on the report. He said, Dean Nye, did not consult with students in "We will look over the recommendation and preparing the report. Members of the comment at a later date." Trinity Coalition of Blacks (TCB) will at- Robert C. Stewart, professor of tend the Faculty meeting this afternoon to mathematics and chairman of the com- participate in the discussion, according to mittee, said, "We have not met with TCB" David Barthwell, '74 co-chairman of TCB. because TCB "communicated to the TCC" The TCB presented a list of seven and not to the Educational Policy com- demands to the TCC last month. One of the mittee. demands was that "the suggested Black The emphasis of the program, the report Studies Program submitted by John Gaston continues, "is primarily upon comparative and Marvin White last spring be im- studies and only secondarily upon separate plemented by September, 1971. TCB studies of discrete areas." Earth Rally demands the right to direct funding for the Under the Committee's proposal the In- Thousands rallied in Colt Park Saturday to ciieer on "Earth Action Week" to the tune of program and hiring of teachers." tercultural Studies program "would seek to folk singer,Pete Seeger. The young people gathered in the park after a three-pronged The TCC, in its consideration of the TCB arrange for its majors and other students march beginning in Wcthersfield, West Hartford, and Newington. demands, endorsed the implementation of a courses of study which encompass present See story Page !). or proposed programs with such titles as. Non-Western Studies, Black Studies, Latin American Studies, and the like." Course News From offerings at any given time "will depend on the supporting courses available from other 4elony Panel to Hear departments' offerings" and on the The Outside "competence of the Director of the program INTERNATIONAL and others "more closely involved." All students in the program will par- Another Readmission Plea Sino-American relations began to thaw An administration-faculty panel will mission under Lockwood's recently issued last week after Peking invited a U.S. ping- ticipate in junior and senior seminars "to integrate and guarantee the coherence of recommend Tuesday whether a student policy statement on students charged with pong team to visit their country. Almost suspended last month after his arrest on or convicted of violating the drug laws. immediately after the team's arrival in the the material covered in the supporting courses." drug charges should be readmitted to the Lockwood met with members of the Communist country, President Nixon an- College. Charges against the student have Trinity College Council and the adjudicative nounced a relaxation of a 20-year-old trade The director of the program must be professor in one of the following depart- been dropped by the Connecticut Attorney system Thursday and Friday to discuss his embargo with Red China and other moves to General's office. new policy. The meetings were closed to improve relations. Soon after, Peking ments: the arts, economics, English, history, modern languages, philosophy, President Theodore Lockwood will make TRIPOD reporters and to the public. granted a U.S. reporter a month-long visa the final decision on the student's read- In a TRIPOD interview Sunday night, the with the promise of entry for more repor- political science, religion, of sociology. He will teach "at least one course each term" in mission. Last week, Lockwood said that he student said that he had spoken to Dean of ters. expected to approved the recommendations Community Life Marc S. Salisch asking for The Pakistan army is winning the 3-week that department. He will also teach "at least one seminar each term for Intercultural of administration and administration- readmission to the College. The student said old war against East Pakistani rebels. faculty drug felony panels. that he would give Salisch a written request Meanwhile, Indian and Pakistan troops Studies majors." (Continued on P. 7) The student is the third to seek read- for readmission Monday. faced each other across the East Pakistan Lockwood, interviewed Sunday night, said boarder last week as tensions between the that he had not been told that the student two countries increased. was1 seeking readmission. Lockwood said NATIONAL Monetary Strain that he assumed that Salisch or College Vice The Federal Bureau of Investigation may President Thomas A. Smith had arranged soon be under investigation itself. On April 6 the hearing. House majority leader Hale Boggs of The members of the panel will be chosen Louisiana charged that FBI Director J. Budget Indicates Future by Smith and Salisch, according to Lock- Edgar Hoover use tactics like those of Hitler wood. Lockwood said that he would like the and Stalin and that the FBI is tapping membership of the panels which recom- congressmen's phones and keeping the mend suspension and readmission of lawmakers under surveillance. Last week Aid Cuts, Tuition Hikes students to remain as constant as possible. Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine said he by Matthew Moloshok The panel might be composed of different has been watched and presented proof that The new budget which was announced director of financial aid. The College's administrators or faculty then those who the FBI kept close surveillance on the Earth by President Theodore Lockwood la£t policy is to base its award solely on the recommended the readmission of two Day activities a year ago. President Nixon week will not have a great impact on the basis of need. Unless the student's need students last week if some of that panel's defended Hoover before newsmen Friday school immediately, but does point to changes, the award remains the same members are unavailable, Lockwood said. saying the 70 year old FBI chief was some long-term changes at the College. each year. Under Lockwood's new policy, panel of "nonpartisan and nonpolitical." Financial aid to students, the price of a Maintaining the level of financial aid administrators recommends to ' the LOCAL meal ticket, and the size of the faculty for those already admitted and in- President whether a student charged with Hartford changed mayors last week and will all be affected by the budgetary creasing tuitions have forced down the violation of state or federal drug laws should the city's manager quit. Former Republican contraints. number of students being admitted for be suspended. Any student convicted of Mavor Ann Uecello left Hartford to accept a As was announced earlier this year by next year with financial aid. "It has violating the drug laws is automatically post with the Department of Transportation the President, the budget counts on an already influenced us tremendously," "separated from the College." A panel of in Washington as Director of Passenger and McKune said. He observed that in the administrators and faculty recommends Consumer Affairs. Hartford's new mayor is present sophomore class nearly 30% of whether a student should be readmitted to Democrat George Athanson. In a surprise News Analysis the students are on financial aid. He the College. announcement, city manager Ehsha estimates that only 18-20% of the in- Freedman handed his resignation to the City increase in tuition of two-hundred dollars coming freshmen will receive aid. Council The city presently has a council- each year "for the foreseeable future," As tuition increases, of course, manager government, but there is growing in order to raise revenues. This means financial aid will be more and more Republican support to strengthen the position of mayor. that in five years the cost of tuition will strained. Either minority students who \n estimated 5,000 anti-pollutionists be increased by a thousand dollars. need aid to come to the College will have Kevin Phillips, author of "The nuirched to Hartford's Colt Park Saturday The strain is already apparent in to excluded, or else the College will have to raise money for the Connecticut Earth Emerging Republican Majority", Financial aid students will be given an to discriminate .against non-minority will give a talk in Life Sciences Action Group. The CEAG plans to establish appropriate increase in aid to meet the students in order to mee the needs of an ecology action agency in the state which increased costs if their need remains the economically deprived students.