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Gfomwrttrut iatlu (Eamjma Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXIX NO. 1 STORRS, CONNECTICUT MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 197 5 5 CENTS OFF CAMPUS Guardsmen in Boston while trouble brews BOSTON (UPI) - Six hundred Their use depends on the number of National Guard military policemen police who call in sick Monday. A total moved into Boston Sunday when the of 258 reported in sick Sunday, more city's precise planning for a safe opening than double the 120 who called in ill of schools Monday began to crumble Saturday. The Boston Police under a police contract dispute. Patrolmen's Association are protesting the shuffling of schedules required to Related Stories on Page 14 place the planned 1,550 police on the While Mayor Kevin H. White, ticlcss street. in a blue blazer at his office, announced Later BPPA President Chester J. the surprise mobilization of the Guard, Broderick, after accusing White and some 3,000 anti-busing demonstrators cliGrazia of "union busting," appealed staged an afternoon-long protest to all members to "be on the line" demonstration outside City Hall. Monday morning. "We have two sacred words — 'resist' "We won't permit Mayor White to and 'never,'" called Virginia Sheehy. turn this city into another Kent State. chairperson of ROAR, Restore Our We will not stand back and have our Alienated Rights. The crowd called parents and children placed in direct back: "Boston's on the warpath! confrontation with military troops," Boston's on the warpath!" said Broderick. Police Commissioner Robert di Grazia said he did not believe the use of 'Therefore I implore every member National Guard troops "will hamper us Continued on Page 14 at all" if the soldiers are needed to replace policemen who call in sick. The Guardsmen, carrying riot batons Master keys aid and flak vests but no firearms, moved in convoy Sunday afternoon from Camp Curtis Guild in nearby Wakefield to the dormitory thejts Fargo Building in the center of Boston. White said a decision on whether to By DON MOSLEY deploy the troops would be made early Associate Editor The distribution of master keys which After a ten-year wait, the new University library is still being delayed — this time Monday when city officials "can determine what our own resources will provide unlimited access to residence by a carpenter strike. (Photo by Michael Harris-Warren) be." halls has caused an increase in thefts of dormitory furnishings over the summer months. The keys, each which will open every room in all residence halls of a Library name evokes criticism designated quadrangle, arc controlled by the Division of Public Safety. Because of the large amount of restoration and with supporting UConn's new library? By TERR1 MANGIN1 David Ivry, acting director of construction work which took place on Ivry said. News Editor academic planning and chairman of the campus this summer, keys have been Although a carpenter strike has library-naming committee said Sunday Ivry indicated that an obvious given out to outside contractors and slowed work on the University's new the sudden selection has "disturbed choice would have been former UConn other persons doing work in library, anyone who calls it an old hole many of us on the committee." president Homer D. Babbidge, Jr., who dormitories. in the ground is wrong. Last spring, the State Bond was a major promoter of the new library The problem is just now being It b the Nathan Hale University Commission approved funds for the new in the 1960's. discovered as kitchen workers and library. library. It was in planning stages since There was some doubt earlier this resident assistants begin taking The Board of Trustees last month 1968, when the state legislature year on the fate of the library which is inventory of their furnishings. It will be voted to name the new library after the appropriated money for the building. designed to scat 3,000 students. Gov. at least a month, administrators say, Revolutionary War hero in a surprise "I think they acted too quickly and Grasso questioned in January' the state's before the losses can be totaled. move. they should have followed procedure," ability to withstand the major Kent Banning, coordinator of the Siate Senator Audrey S. Beck, Ivry said. appropriation of $19 million. Associated Student Commissaries (ASC) (D-Mansfield, 29th), called the move The chairman said if the Trustees had A 12-week carpenter's strike has said Friday a preliminary inventory of consulted the committee on the name "ridiculous and totally unexpected." further delayed work on the building. kitchen equipment in independent selection "we would have told them She said the naming of the new library, According to the acting director of the dining halls has determined more than there is already a dormitory named after which is expected to be completed in Wilbur L. Cross University Library, the $400 worth of utensils and other 1977, was "uncalled for." Nathan Hale." kitchen equipment is missing. Ivry said he felt although the trustees McGinn Construction Company, general The chairman of the University contractor for the library, has been ASC is makine * detailed list of losses committee charged with selecting names have a legal right to name the building, to be used »r. possible legal action their deicsion was premature. unable to continue work because of a of buildings here said the committee had Continued on Page 6 Continued on Page 7 not been consulted on the move. "What did Nathan Hale have to do Students to serve on Board of Trustees Walter Marcus, a UConn law student, been accepted by a committee which trustee should be selected, instead of By MARK DUPUIS choosing them separately, committee News Editor was appointed to the Board in 1969 by includes several trustees, but still faces For the first time in the University's former Democratic Gov. John N. modifications by the Board. members said. However, State Sen. Audrey S. Beck, 94-year history, two students will be Dempsey, and served until 1972. Marcus The Trustees, Administration, D-Mansfield (29th), one of the authors elected as voting members of the board was an undergraduate student Faculty and Students (TAFS) of the original bill, said Saturday there responsible for major decisions affecting government president here. committee recommended last week that . arc no legal boundaries as to how the UConn students. For the first year, one trustee will be the student proposals be adopted with The General Assembly voted earlier elected for a one-year term and the some modifications, according to the trustees arc selected. Beck said the board can determine this year to seat two students as other for a two-year term. In following Committee chairwoman. members of the Board of Trustees, the years, the trustees will both serve Trustee Norma Jorgenscn, TAFS how its student members will be chosen, 14-member body responsible for two-year terms. committee head, said she will present and added that the ballot would allow establishing fees, hiring administrators, The Board Friday will discuss final the TAFS committee recommendations for selection of one graduate and and coordinating all programs here. selection methods for the new trustees, to the Trustees. She was unable to undergraduate trustee. Under the law, enacted by the and is expected to finalize the predict what action the board would The legislature debated only whether legislature and signed by Gov. Grasso, procedures. 25 student government take. the trustees should be given full voting the present hoard will determine leaders from Storrs, its branches and The student proposals call for rights, Beck said, and resolved to give election procedures for choosing the professional schools, met during the election of one undergraduate and one the trustees equal standing with the two student trustees. summer to draw up proposed graduate trustee Oct. 27 and 28, and other members. The two trustees will not be the first procedures for selection of the two detail election procedures. Other trustees are appointed by the students to have served on the Board, trustees. Several questions have been raised by Governor, or elected by the UConn but they will be the first elected by Board Chairman Gordon W. Taskcr trustees and some UConn officials alumni, with two commissioners and the students under state statutes. said Saturday that the procedures have whetl er an undergraduate and graduate Continued on Page 6 (Enntwrttntl Eatlij GtampiiB Steven D..H11II William Sherman Editor-in-Chief Business Manage/ Jon L. Sand berg Donald M. Mosley Managing Editor Associate Editor Good news For the first time in many years UConn students were greeted with more good news than bad upon returning to the campus last week. A year ago more than 1,000 dormitory residents were welcomed by two roommates instead of one. About 400 rooms had three students because of an unexpected DON MOSLEY/BLASPHEME ovcrenrollment. Seemingly endless lines, barren shelves, and the inflated prices of the Follett Corporation Bookstore had also jarred students upon their return the last few years. Dem oF This year, though, things seem to have changed for the better. Triple rooms are only a miserable memory. The student-run Co-op bookstore is being run with bookstore blues more efficiency and understanding than Follett's, although prices have not changed and the lines are "Are you a member of the feet looked expensive as hell. "Okay," I said in despair. co-op ? " And those plastic co-op bags — "Just add up these books." sometimes discouraging. The sparkling eyes and how many times more costly The saleswoman widened her There's more good news. The state legislature this Ultrabritc smile shined at me than paper bags could they be? grin.