BOG Rejects Constituency Plan
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Connecticut la% (Uamjjufi Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. I.XXX NO. 84 STORRS, CONNECTICUT TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1977 BOG rejects constituency plan By VIVIAN B. MARTIN Organizations (FSSO) constitu- n't have a vote, but would be would allow a more cohesive "Look how many problems Campus News Staff tional review committee since the there more as a "public rela- student government. groups have now getting enough A series of arguments and plan's inception. BOG President tions" person. "Many students view us as just people there," one member said. explanations Monday night cul- Jeffrey Naus said the proposal, "I'd like us to have as little to do another administrative arm." minated with the Student Union which would allow six BOG with FSSO as possible." said Quattro said. FSSO Chairman William A. Finch said Monday he had "no Board of Governor's (BOG) vot- members on the constituent as- Naus. who is also a member of Many of the board members idea that BOG wasn't in favor of ing not to accept in its entirety a sembly, "could only hinder the FSSO Central Committee. contended they did not care for student government-recommend- board." "I've held off voting on most of the idea of having an assembly the proposal. They've worked with us all along." ed 59-member legislative body The vote was 7-3-2 in favor of an all the issues at those meetings. make decisions for BOG affairs. which would in effect tighten amended motion on acceptance of We've got our own policy to worry Several also voiced the opinion "I've just assumed they would control over the BOG. the plan. According to the amend- about." that it would be very difficult to all agree. Most people in student Despite the fact that BOG ment, the BOG would prefer one Mark Quattro, executive vice get 59 members to work together, government arc open-minded members have worked with the ex-officio member on the Central president of the board, argued in as well as getting a quorum for enough to see the importance of Federation of Student and Service Committee. The member would- favor of the assembly, saying it every meeting. this." he said. FSSO critique gets different reactions By JOHN HILL III low rating from by 13 students out Campus News Staff of a total of 50 whom he taught in The results of the student Mathematics 133 courses last fall. government's teacher evaluations "I don't feel it is accurate," made public Monday, were greet- Litoff said. "I would hope in the ed by student curiousity and mild future they would be sure to get faculty interest. representative class opinion." The course evaluation, which The evaluations contain com- contains the student opinions of ments about the teachers' per- over 250 courses and instructors, formances. One teacher was ac- was released Monday by the cused of not knowing how to Federation of Students and Ser- teach, another was called "a poor vice Organization (FSSO) in the teacher" and another was label- student government's newsletter, led a "very poor teacher." Others the FSSSO Forum. were called "caustic." "boring," Ideas of its own The survey is the result of a and "arrogant." critique form distributed by the UConn General Counsel John Members of (he Student Union Board of Governors [BOG] consider a plan for the reorganization of the FSSO Courses and Curricula McKenna said any potential libel student government Monday night. (Staff Photo by Steve McGuff]. Committee earlier this semester. suits resulting from the com- FSSO distributed 6,000 copies of ments in the FSSO survey would the critique and received 1,300 be difficult to win. responses. "It would be a very hard chore "It doesns't sound like a very to bring a libel action," McKenna Branch closings draw fire representative sample," said Os- said, "presumably the students car Litoff, associate professor of who are taking part in the survey mathematics. Litoff received a (Continued on page 3) By ELLEN GRAY endangered species." Glenn Kil- Stein, an assistant professor of Campus News Staff ner. director of the Torrington mathematics at the Waterbury Charging that the "so-called branch, said, as he testified branch, said. branch problem is not a branch before a University Senate hear- The Torrington branch is the problem, but a University prob- ing on the- recently released only access to a four-year institu- lem." representatives of three of Brand Report. tion serving the Litchfield County the five UConn branch campuses The Brand Report, named for its area, Susan LeFebra. the presi- Monday launched a full-scale author. UConn's Coordinator for dent of the Associated Student attack on a proposal which calls Academic Planning, Ronald S. Government (ASG) and a student for the closing of the UConn Brand, is the first draft of a at the Torrington branch said. branches at Torrington and Gro- five-year plan for UConn's aca- LeFebre cited a 10 per cent ton. demic growth and development. increase in enrollment at Torring- "For the past 13 years, the "Fighting battles every year ton last year as evidence that the Torrington branch has been an does not help faculty and student branch is needed. morale, and it does not encourage students to attend the Torrington Amin postpones branch." Kilner said. Hoop fanatics Taking issue with a statement in airport meeting the Brand Report which said students "perceive a difference happy but tired between a Storrs education and a with Americans branch education," Kilner quoted waiting for tickets Kenneth G. Wilson, vice presi- By RICH DePRETA WASHINGTON (UPI)— dent for academic affairs, as saying there was "no distinguish- Campus Sports Staff Uganda has postponed the They came from physics, phil- scheduled Wednesday meet- able difference" between stu- dents who attended a branch and osophy, agriculture, dramatic ing at Entebbe airport be- arts. West Campus. North Cam- tween President Idi Amin and students who attended Storrs for four years. pus. Towers, Hilltop and all some 240 Americans living in points in between. The mob the East African nation, the Kilner also challenged Brand's statement that 70 per cent of the began filing in the Fieldhouse at State Department said Mon- 9:30 a.m.. bringing their books, day. students admitted to the branches would prefer admission at Storrs. their newspapers, their beer, The department quoted an He cited a survey of the freshman their backgammon games and official Ugandan broadcast as class at Torrington conducted their decks of cards. saying a new date would be during the past two years, which The line began at the ticket announced later. The meeting, found 80 per cent of the students office window, wound around the originally scheduled for Mon- choosing the branch over the Fieldhouse entrance, past Coach day, has been moved to Wed- Storrs campus for their undergra- Joe Morrone's office door, down nesday ostensibly to give A- duate years. the narrow corridor of offices, mericans working in the dis- "It is clear that if the University spilling through the next lobby, tant bush time to get to the made a good-faith effort to pro- up the pool balcony stairs and into airport. mote the branch campuses, their the boxing area over Guyer Gym. enrollment would grow." Alan [Continued on page 8] The springs of winter focus An international cat and mouse game of Ugandan internal affairs. But the holding of Uganda's President Idi Amin and Presi- missionaries, are being held hostage. Americans in Uganda is not an internal affair, dent Jimmy Carter are playing a cat and President Amin has shown how he deals mouse game with a peculiar twist. They both with people who displease or disagree with and the United States should not tolerate it. An ultimatum, which should have been claim to be the mouse while accusing each him, as evidenced in his recent purge of other of being the cat. What President Amin Ugandan Christian Langi and Achole tribes- given to Amin last Friday, should be delivered now. The United States should not stand for may fail to realize, though, is that not only do men in his military forces, and his detention Amin's games, and should back up an cats have claws, but mice also have very sharp and execution threat last year of Denis Hill, a ultimatum with economic pressure and, if teeth. Amin should have learned this last July British writer who had criticized Amin. at Entebbe Airport. Human rights are not at the top of Amin's necessary, military means. This unpredictable president of an eastern priorities. The United States has retained the image of the "paper tiger" long enough. American African nation has barred about 240 Ameri- President Amin has committed an interna- citizens have been held hostage in a foreign cans from leaving his country until they meet tional crime. He has told President Carter the country since Friday and that's four days too at Entebbe Airport so he can "thank all United States should investigate their own long. It just may take the Marines to Americans for the excellent work they have house before criticizing Uganda for human been doing in Uganda." These people, mostly rights violations, and that we should stay out alleviate this situation. Kissinger, Nixon; books, bucks and babble wholly inappropriate." up artist, and a generous travel place to discuss matters of nation- By MARY McGRORY revelation of confidential informa- "Suit yourself. Henry. I just tion." allowance." al security. Besides. I have no WASHINGTON — "Good even- recollection of it." thought that we were supposed to ing my fellow Americans.