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TRINITY COLLEGE • HARTFORD • CONNECTICUT Vol. LXXXIV, Issue 23, May 12, 1987 THE ITY RIPOD Ellen Ash Peters to Speak to Class of 1987 Six Honorary Degrees to be Awarded by Sean Dougherty Newsweek. He holds honorary de- nation by Agent Orange. News Editor grees from the Unversity of Ham- Nathaniel Pryor Reed, environ- burg, Catholic University of mentalist and former Assistant Ellen Ash Peters, the Chief Jus- America, and Union College. Secretary of the Interior, will be tice of the Connecticut Supreme Also on Sunday, Mather will be receiving a Doctor of Laws. Reed Court since 1984, will be the open for lunch at 11:00 a.m.. is a graduate of Trinity College. speaker at Trinity's one-hundred Seniors should assemble on the Reed, the father of Alita D. Reed, and sixty-first graduation exer- quad at 1:10 p.m. to prepare for Trinity '89, presently serves as a cises on May 24, Commencement exercises. member of the Board of the Na- tional Audubon Society and the Peters, a graduate of the Yale The procession and exercises will begin at 1:50 p.m.. Natural Resources Defense Coun- Law School, will also be accepting cil and as advisor to twelve state an honorary degree in Law from All seniors and other students involved in Commencement Exer- or national conservation organiza- Trinity. tions. He also serves as a member Peters holds honorary degrees cises should be cleared out of their rooms by 12:00 p.m. Monday of the South Florida Water Man- from Yale, TJHart, Swarthmore, morning. agement District. Georgetown, New York Univer- sity Law, Colgate, and St. Joseph Honorary Degrees will also be During the 1970's, Reed served College. She has taught at the Yale given to four other people. as Assistant Secretary of the In- Law School while also serving as John Fellows Akers, the Chair- terior for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks for Presidents Nixon and Ford. He an Associate Justice to the Con- man, President and Chief Execu- tive Officer of IBM will be resigned national office in 1977 to necticut Supreme Court until 1984. •receiving a Doctorate of Laws. Ak- concentrate his efforts on the con- The Commencement Ceremony ers. is the father of Scott F. Akers, servationist movement in Florida. Ellen Ash Peters, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, will will take place on the Quad at 2:00 Trinity class of '89. He is a Yale be speaking at Commencement on the 24th. p.m. In the event of rain, it will be graduate and a director on the held in Ferris Athletic Center. In board of the New York Times that case tickets, which were sent Company, cochairman of the Busi- Winer Investigates Fireworks Incident to seniors in their Commencement ness Roundtable, a member of the near the stage, but apparently this close to speakers," she warned. "If packets in late April, will be Board of Trustees, The Metropoli- by David Copland was a separate event from the they had caught fire people could needed to attend. Each senior was tan Museum of Art, California In- JVews Editor rockets launched at the band. Wi- have been killed. The whole thing given four tickets. stitute of Technology, the ner said the firecrackers involved was scary." All Degree Candidtates are ex- Instituted for Advanced.Study, the The search for the culprit in last one Trinity student and an out of TCAC spent a great deal of time pected to be present at the cere- Advisory Board of the Yale School week's bottle rocket incident dur- town guest of his. The student will and money to secure the Smither- mony. Any requests for of the, Organization and Manage- ing the Spring Weekend concert is be disciplined for illegally lighting eens and Cafferty for last weekend pvemptjons had to be submitted in ment, and the Board of Governors still in progress. JohnCafferty and fireworks. Any action will be de- and Romanoff is upset at the loss writing to the Dean of Faculty by of the United Way. the Beaver Brown Band left the cided by today, according to Wi- to Trinity due to Caiferty's short- Mayl. Steven Harper, professor of stage early after fireworks were ner. ened performance. Gafferty is re- The College will be granting English, Brown University, will be fired at them from the student au- However, Romanoff had under- ported to have said he would never aproximately 465 Bachelor's De- receiving a Doctor of Letters. He dience. stood that both Assistant Dean for play at Trinity again. grees and 30 Masters Degrees. is an accomplished poet, educator Cafferty said "Trinity is a bunch Student Activities JoAnn Pulver According to Romanoff the Barbara Ricketts of the Regis- and recipient of numerous awards of racists" according to TCAC and Winer have known since last agent used by TCAC feels this trar's office has announced that for artistic accomplishment in president Hilary Romanoff. Ro- Sunday who was responsible for year's incident may hamper future Senior Grades will be available writing. manoff, who talked, to Cafferty the bottle rockets. attempts at hiring bands for at Mather Campus Center the Charlayne Hunter-Gault, a Na- shortly'after the concert, said he Winer said, he plans to call in a Spring Weekend. "We put in our afternoon of May 20. Seniors tional Correspondent for the claimed bottle rockets were fired few students who he thinks may bids and then bands can turn us must have their IDs with them to MacNeil/Lefirer News Hour, will at the saxophonist because he was have seen the incident first hand. down for several reasons," ex- pick up their grades. be receiving a Doctor of Humane black. "It's a difficult situation," he said. plained Romanoff. "The college On Saturday, May 23, from 4:00 Letters. Hunter-Gault has written David Winer, Dean of Students, "Some students were right behind market is very competitive and we to 5:30 a reception for members of and reported for The New Yorker, said that no suspect has been ques- the band onstage and didn't see had a difficult time this year, It the class of 1987 and their parents WRC-TV, Washington D.C., and tioned yet for launching the bottle any of it happen at all." will probably be even harder now." will be held on Mather Terrace. The New York Times, Her work rockets. Although anonymous Romanoff expressed concern Winer has not recieved any offi- The Baccalaureate, a short inter- covering the urban black commu- phone calls have named a specific over the danger of the situation. cial complaint from Cafferty con- faith service will be held at 10:30 nity was honored by the National individual, Winer said he is not yet "Some of the rockets landed very cerning the incident. ~~ a.m. on Sunday May 24. All Can- Urban Coalition and Lincoln Uni- convinced that the student named didates are expected to attend. The versity. is responsible. Baccalaureate Sermon will be Hunter-Gault has also received "It doesn't really help when Leftist Writer Contracted given by Jaroslav Pelikan, a pro- Emmy awards for. "Outstanding somebody calls up, says they know fessor of history at Yale Univer- Coverage of a Single Breaking who did it, and then hangs up on by Christine Herzig City in 1936. In the 60's she-moved sity and an honorary degree News Story," which she won for us," said Winer. "I need someone Assistant News Editor to Mexico and married her first candidate. His writings on religion her coverage of the Grenada inva- to come in and talk to me face to husband there. Because she was include, The Christian Tradition: sion, and "Outstanding Back- face who saw it happen first hand/' having difficulty getting a job, she A History of the Development of ground/Analysis of a Single One student did come in early Margaret Randall, whose legal applied for citizenship in Mexico. Doctrine which won several Current Story", for her coverage last week and confessed having woes have been coined a 'classic Soon afterwards, in 1962, she awards as well and was praised by of a Vietnam veteran's contami- lighted firecrackers in the crowd civil liberties case' by some of to- founded "The Plumed Horn," a bi- day's more influential writers will lingual literary magazine of which soon be coming to Trinity, accord- she was editor. "The attention this ing to Dr. Charles B. Schultz, Di- received, served to pull the Latin Students Stop Smith Burglary rector of Educational Studies and American and North American blue jeans, and white sneakers." Professor of Psychology,. writers together," said Schultz, by Sean Dougherty Athletic Center where he jumped a fence into the backyard of a The burglar got away with a wal- Randall, the author of some fifty "and it ran until 1969." News Editor Crescent street residence. "He let belonging to Hereford's room- "books of poetry, essays, photogra- Approximately eight years later, went into the basement, and we mate, Jeffrey Jacobson, phy, anthologies, and oral histo- she moved to Cuba. In Cuba she Students thwarted an attempted weren't about to follow him down Director of Security, Biagio ries, many of which have been became interested in photography robbery in Smith last Thursday. there," said Hereford. As Here- Rucci, commented that "This was translated into French, German, and the oral histories of the people At 3:30 p.m. a 25-year-old his- ford and two other students waited a crime of opportunity. The sus- Italian and Bulgarian, from their there.