i < » Wat COKK Vol. LXVI No. 3 JTR1NITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD SEPTEMBER 26, 2967 Fire Safety Code Compels Renovation of Quad Dorms "The installation of the corri- summoned the architectural aid which the Jarvis, Northam and dor was absolutely mandatory." of Jeter and Cook. A letter from Cook dormitories fall, require that stated Construction Director El- city officials which arrived in early thare be two points of egress wood P. Harrison regarding the June gave the College until the from each bedroom into two self- costly and startling summer re- opening of school in September to contained stairwells. The fire novation which has come to be comply with city fire regulations. codes are highly technical, Har- known as the Rape of Jarvis. The fire regulations, under (Continued on Page 6) The interior alteration of Jar- vis, Northam and Cook dorms to meet the specifications of the Hart- ford fire codes necessitated crash construction which severely cut Community Academics the living area in the Jarvis rooms, the College's largest single unit dormitory. Additionally, the in- Organized by Students stallation of an encased stairwell in Cook eliminated two single bed- Co-operative education has been bers. rooms. defined by its practitioners at "free The traditional student-teacher The major renovation, for which universities" across the country in relationship is reversed within the College had to borrow a re- terms of curricular freedom, de- the co-operative system. Classes ported $320,000, caught the admin- mocratic structure, non-authori- are chaired by students rafter istrators completely by surprise tarian technique of teaching, and than teachers, and students are last May. According to Harrison, intense concern with the individual encouraged to enter into discus- Fire Marshall Ralph Marone and participant. Small classes, the sions to a far greater extent than Glenn Mayo, director of the De- absence of coercive grades, pro- is customary in high school or partment of Licenses and Inspec- gramming by the entire group and college. tion, arrived on campus unan- emphasis on student discussion Student Interest determines the nounced last spring to inspect the characterize these schools. learning pace and those unwilling College's dormitories. Director ELRIC ENDERSBY and fellow workers restore Seabury 16 to A "free university" is presently to "keep up" are encouraged to sit of Campus Security Alfred A. Gar- being planned by the Hartford out to prevent demoralization and its original state as shown in surviving photo of the former chem- ofolo, who intercepted them, was Educational Co-operative. lagging in the rest of the class. istry lab in the 1870's. (Monaccio PhotQ) greeted by a demand to see Presi- The Educational Co-operative Classes are intended to be work- dent Albert C. Jacobs. Because hopes to reach people throughout shops rather than lectures. "The the President was not in his of- the Hartford area. Leonard Mozai intent of this form of education," fices, the two city officials were '69 has assumed responsibility for explained Ehrenberg, "is to foeus Students Restore Oldest ushered in to see Dean of the Col- organizing courses for the as much attention on the individual lege Robert M. Vogel. Harrison students and faculty of the Col- student as is compatible with group reported that Mayo did not even lege. Peter Ehrenberg '69 is learning." To facilitate learning, fLeeture Room in College take off his hat but marched in developing a program for high class sizes plan to be held to to see Vogel and informed him school students. James Kaplan under ten people. "Fifteen students unable to obtain Both Heath and pean of the Col- that he could force evacuation of '68: is initiating a series of off- ••'"•: The Hartford Educational • Co- j financial assistance from the Col- lege Harold Dorwart emphasized the Jarvis dormitory within sev- campus courses, and coordinating operative is designed to supple- lege, have begun a restoration of that the College had too tight a eral days. If the Colleg-e did noi the entire program. These three ment the education offered to area the oldest long-walk classroom budget to.support any restoration co-operate in meeting the build- programs are to provide the skel- students by traditional schools. at their own expense. The project, this year. He went on to say that ing code specifications regarding eton structure of the Educational "We want people to learn because conceived and directed by Good- the future of Operation Restoration fire regulations, the duo told the Co-operative, they want to learn;; to learn not win Fellows' President Elric J. would be dependent upon the qual- Dean that they could bring the The Co-operative permits stu- because It fulfills a requirement Endersby '68, is called Operation ity of work done by Endersby and Sheriff to the campus immediate- dents to choose their own subject or earns a grade or secures a Restoration and has as its final his crew in Seabury. ly and close Jarvis before school's matter without restrictions. Stres- job but because it makes a better f goal complete restoration of all The Goodwin. Fellows. President end. sed Kaplan, "We hope the Co-op- person,"emphasized Mozzl. "I ; the Seabury classrooms by 1978. revealed that the group hopes to With the ultimatum from the city erative will act as a clearing see the self-educated man as one r As a first step in the refurbish- finance the rest of the project officials, the College was quick house for independent efforts at who has learned to think and to j ing of Seabury 16, in use at the by the sale of souvenir bricks to realize the gravity of the situa- education outside of the conven- discover for himself. Ideally", f College since 1878, the group gave rescued from , the Jarvis walls tion. Administrators called a spe- tional educational institutions of he continued, "the Co-operative f the windows, walls, and paneling cial meeting of the Trustees and Hartford." : system will greatly Increase the [ a thorough cleaning, and refinished frequency of this exciting exper- j the floors. The Co-operative structure is to be highly decentralized. The ience which comes so seldom In j The cabinets and bookshelves Strikes Force Construction Trinity Seminar Program for High our conventional system." I in the -room are being redone in School Student's, the, Trinity Free The organizers of the Educa- |. their original finishes. The or- School for students and faculty at tional Co-operative hope to in- iginal lecture-table, which had be- Delay in Campus Projects the College, and the Adult Educ- fluence the established education- lt c°me swaybacked during years of In what was described by Assoc- Dutch Elm disease, which has ation Program will all operate al institutions of Hartford in sev- f neglect, has been resupported and autonomously within the frame- eral ways; they see the possibil- r refinished. late Director of College Relations claimed more than half the trees work of the Educational Co-op- ity of new classroom techniques I Endersby plans to obtain vinyl Barton L. Wilson as a "bloody yearson th.e quaHed ialsn oth edisclose past dsevera thalt erative. Individual courses for serving' as models for pro- I covering for the shelves and the mess," a six week Teamster's the building ~of fire corridors In these three programs are designed gressive education and for more : table which he says would add Union strike coupled with a two Jarvis and Cook dormitories re- to be largely self-regulating;' the challenging: courses providing in- i color to the room and improve week strike of the Operational quired positioning refuse chutes separate programs have been com- dications of curricular inadequa- its acoustics. Engineers Union crippled con- and trucks on the quad during bined to ease the job of publicizing cies in the standard school. The The cost of the project thus struction progress on the new high- most of the summer. the program and recruiting mem- groups plan to focus on academic far has been a little over 80 dol- rise and Life Science buildings freedom and thus to point out the lars, Endersby reports. He em- this summer. unrecognized authoritarian fea- phasized the College's neglect of The completion of the Life mt-l '•:•';•••/:' tures of Hartford schools. A the buildings, pointing to the ten Sciences Center, which previous- major goal of the group is to I d°Hars worth of ammonia his group ly was to have been dedicated in encourage students, teachers and used to make the room clean November, has now been delayed administrators to initiate reforms . enough to work upon. until early spring. According to in antiquated systems. ' wi??Splte sPecial requests pro- Wilson the high-rise will be fin- All Co-operative seminars and hibiting smoking issued by faculty ished nearly according to schedule. workshops are put together by members using the rooms, many Presently under construction are student organizers. Some of Pj the newly finished surfaces the high-rise, the science center, these organizers are to function already have been marred by ci- and the new Buildings and Grounds as teachers for their courses, ; garette burns. The students work- others intend to bring in outside r Operation office-warehouse located at the experts. The Trinity Seminar VfV° Restoration find south end of the campus. All these "Udent abuse more discouraging Program for High School Stu- nan the College's seeming inabil- buildings are being financed dents has been filled for this «yto help them financially. through the Capital Campaign, semester but additional course Oean of Students Roy Heath said which encompasses the Ford Chal- organizers are needed for the : l" regard to College financing of lenge Grant.