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(Eomtectimt Satlrj Camjroa Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXX No. 63 STORRS, CONNECTICUT Friday, January 28, 1977 Colleges offer plan to abolish CHE By ANDREW M. NIBLEY mission for Higher Education in HARTFORD (UPI) — The exe- 1%5. cutive director of Connecticut's Filer plan At the time, proponents of the 18 four state colleges offered a plan member commission complained Thursday to abolish the Commis- each level of higher education sion for Higher Education, but draws fire was stubbornly promoting its own keep separate boards for all four STAMFORD (UPI) — Stale interests and the welfare of levels of Connecticut higher ed- Treasurer Henry Parker Thurs- students and taxpayers was being ucation. day criticized both a controver- ignored. The proposal, offered by James sial report recommending stale The commission was intended to Frost, the executive director of government reorganization and smooth over the differences bet- the Boards of Trustees for the one of the men who prepared it. ween the board of trustees for State Colleges, apparently has Parker, speaking to the Slam- each level and to coordinate an the support of the UConn Trus- ford Lions Club, said Kenneth overall state policy for higher tees and the state colleges, but Olson had erred when he said education. not the state's community or the state's revenue bonding However, the legislature gave technical colleges governing policies "pose a threat to the the commission relatively few boards. state's financial condition." powers and the factional fighting The beauty of winter captured in this scene often overshadows The proposal is one of many Olson, according to published has continued over the years. the season's fury, which was evidenced in cancellation of which has surfaced in the growing reports, criticized the lack of Last year, the legislature de- Thursday's scheduled hockey game. (Staff Photo by Buzz Kanterj controversy over who should for- centra' control over bonding in feated a proposal which would mulate higher education policy. Connecticut. Parker said. have replaced the commission Under Frost's proposal, the Olson was a senior consultant with a more powerful board UConn's frigid ice Commission for Higher Education to the committee headed by comprised of independent mem- and its staff would be abolished Aetna Life & Casultv President bers outside the education field. and replaced by a new commis- John Filer which recommended The UConn proposal, the so- meant for Huskies only sion. massive consolidation of the called "Tasker Plan", named The new 13-member body that sprawling state bureaucracy. after UConn Trustee Chariman would be created would consist of Parker, the state's highest Gordon Tasker. would create a By RICH DEPRETA trustees from the state's four elected black official, said he single governing Board of Higher Campus Sports Staff levels of higher education—the objected to the committee's education composed of three Earlier this week. Trinity College ice hockey Head Coach John University of Connecticut, state recommendation that the Con- members of the boards of trustees Dunham compared playing hockey at the open air UConn ice rink colleges, community colleges and necticut Housing Finance Auth- lor the state colleges, three from on a bitter cold evening to the Miami Dolphins playing at vocational colleges. ority be placed under a propos- the UConn Board of Trustees and Bloomington, Minnesota* in December. The plan differs from the rec- ed Department of Economic three from the board for the Dunham apparently relished the idea of playing at UConn so ommendation of the committee on Development and Agriculture. technical and vocational colleges. much that Thursday's scheduled game between the Trinity and the Structure of State Govern- There would be an executive UConn hockey teams was postponed because of the possibility of ment which wants a single agency administrator policy. officer to oversee the actions of players suffering frostbite from forecasted intense cold and to oversee all higher education. Gov. Ella T. Grasso has endors- the board, and the four consti- gusting winds. The committee also would like to ed that plan. tuent trustee boards. Tasker The official decision to reschedule the contest on February 8 was see a commissioner of higher Bitter in fighting between rep- could not be reached for comment made by UConn's men's ice hockey Head Coach John Chapman education and a board of inde- resentatives of these four levels by the Daily Campus Thursday and Dunham . pendent members appointed to led to the creation of the Com- night. Katter recalls 'sweathog'who made it to college By JIM SCHKMBARl Storrs, he studied under Katter, who the Kotter Campus Features Staff star says, "educated me to be a professional." A few years ago a UConn dramatic arts professor It was when Palillo was here that the Kotter told one of his aspiring students he'd never be a character evolved, says Katter. leading man because he just wasn't the type. "All of the eccentric qualities of Horshack are A year and a half ago, the student who now has Ron's" says Katter. And the laugh, "that's his. landed a role on a television series and is on the too. He's a character, a little character type. He brink of starring in his own show. Professor Nate plays comedy superbly." Katter told Ron *Palillo— Arnold Horshack of Katter said .Palillo. who stars as one of the "Welcome Back Kotter"—that he would have to "Kotter" show's "Sweathogs." loves to perform "learn to make the most of his type. That's what the more dignified roles of Shakespeare. In 1970. he did when he was here." Palillo and another student traveled to numerous Related Story, Page 6 New England high schools performing scenes from When Palillo, a 1972 UConn graduate, was at I Continued on page 4] Women's center allures man By BARBARA ADLER director of the UConn Women's would "go along with my plans Campus News Staff Center. The job currently is held for my personal career When he tried to help out at the by Catherine Brown, who is development." Hartford YWCA'S "Every- leaving the post. He said he applied for the job woman's Center," recently, In his present job, Bellm recruits because the UConn Women's Bruce Bellm couldn't get his foot state employes, is organizing a Center is "consistent with my in the door. Literally. He hopes career planning progra, counsels philosophy of women, and my to be more successful at UConn's job applicants, and is the philosophy of men, and my values Women's Center. chairman of the Employe concerning what men should be Bellm, who works in the Affirm- Advisory committee in the state's doing." Earlier days ative Actiion Program in the State Personnel Department. Bellm He said he is worried that Ron Palillo, who portrays Arnold Horshack on television's of Connecticut's 'Personnel says he feels he has the adminis- because he is a man his presence "Welcome Back Kotter," portrays Choryphaus of men in Department, is one of 50 appli- trative experience necessary to do "might de detrimental to the Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" in a 1970 UConn performance. [Photo cants seeking the position of the job, and feels the position iContinued on page 4] courtesy of Professor Nate Katter, Department of Dramatic Arts] ["focus Course help We can only guess why the University Senate voted against releasing the results of the "official" UConn student evaluation of the faculty last semester. If one of the reasons happened to be a hesitancy to publicize unfavorable results, some faculty members must be a mite uncomfortable with the initiation of a student government course and faculty evaluation. If the project is completed, the Federation of Students and Service Organizations (FSSO) will merit the appreciation and thanks of the students. An evaluation booklet is a very handy reference come registration time; in past years undergraduates had only hearsay or a few personal recommendations to guide them in course selection. Course evaluations may even save the administra- tion some money in the long run. If students refer to the guide, they may have realistic expectations about material covered and course woikload. This may reduce the lines at the ROTC hangar during add-drop Lee Harvey Oswald Cathy DeMeo time. FSSO may run into a snag if they stay with their decision to distribute most of the course evaluation A look-alike accomplice? sheets to freshmen, however. This would severely By DICK RUSSELL Now Ellsworth confirms that when I entered," Ellsworth re- limit the scope of the evaluations, as many freshmen Pacific News Service witnesses who believed they saw membered. "All I could see was are enrolled in only introduction courses. A large The existence of an "identical Oswald target-practicing at a headlines that I'd just turned chunk of courses open to upperclassmen could twin" for Lee Harvey Oswald- Dallas rifle range—some of the loose the man who killed the possibly receive either a very sketchy evaluation, or living in Dallas and arrested and more incriminating sightings- President. none at all. Freshmen would also tend to critique released on a federal gun charge were actually seeing his "twin." "When Oswald spoke. I realized "I do remember two instances they were two different people. their college courses using their high school courses shortly before the assassination of John F. Kennedy—has been con- where Oswald was supposed to But they had identical build, as a comparison, which is not a realistic criterion. firmed by a former agent for the have been at someone's house in weight, coloring, facial features and hair. They could have passed The student government should reconsider its Treasury Department's Alcohol.

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