THE TRINITY TUESDAY OCTOBER 30, 1973 TRINITY COLLEGE HARTFORD, CONN. TRIPOD VOL. LXXH, ISSUE 8 Students Mobilize for Impeachment Individuals, student groups, the Student According to Gary Morgans, '75, the Schumer urged that anyone interested in Congressman, the chairman of the House Executive Committee (SEC), as well as Students for the Preservation of the U.S. circulating petitions should contact him at Judiciary Committee, and ranking minority college campuses outside of Trinity have, Constitution (SPUSC), which formed last Box 768 or in Wheaton 112. leaders. The school has also organized a mobilized in an effort to impeach President Monday, are seeking formal recognition as Jim Gillespie, '76, chairman of the TCB, letter-writing campaign to the "students1 Nixon during the past week. a funded student activity. Morgans said he again stressed that TCB was willing to work home Congressmen, and the Yale Law will present SPUSC's constitution to the "We, the SEC, the representative body of with any group for the impeachment of School is working on a bill asking for Nixon's Student Activities Committee (SAC) late President Nixon. impeachment. the students, call for the immediate this afternoon. If the SAC approves the resignation of President Nixon, and if he Representatives of each group, the TCB, Today the Columbia Law School is sen- constitution, he said, SPUSC may request SPUSC, the SEC, and the group, organized ding 170 students to Washington D.C. to fails to do so, we call for his immediate and receive campus funding. impeachment," declared the SEC at last by George Minter will meet to coordinate lobby Congressmen for Nixon's im- Thursday's meeting. SPUSC, the Trinity Coalition of Blacks their efforts tonight at 9:00 p.m. peachment, according to the national (TCB), and a group, organized by George All groups urge students to contact their clearing house. They also have ap- After much debate and discussion about Minter, '76, are presently having representatives either by phone or by letter pointments with three-fourths of the House the SEC's role in the impeachment issue, the organization meetings to determine their to express their thoughts concernng the Judiciary Committee. Committee finally passed five resolutions. goals and methods for reaching these goals. impeachment of Nixon and other related Other law schools, which are also going The SEC resolved that it will attempt to Bob Schumer, '74, said he is organizing issues. with Columbia, are New York University, ascertain Senators Weicker and Ribicoff's students who wish to leaflet and collect Representative William Cotter and St. John's University, Brooklyn University, and other area Congressmen's position on signatures in downtown 'Hartford or in Senator Abraham Ribicoff can be reached Tulane, Setori Hall, University of Albany, impeachment through invitations to shopping centers. He said he is using a at 244-2383 or 244-3545. Ort students may University of Pennsylvania, Duke, Boston speaking engagements, or by any other national petition circulated by the Con- write Representative William Cotter, 330 University, University of Virginia, and means necessary." necticut Citizens for the Impeachment of Cannon Office Building, Washington D.C., University of Pittsburg. Another resolution stated that the SEC Nixon (ConnCIN). 20515; Senator Lowell Weicker, 5313 New Princeton is also planning to bus students "exert any necessary pressure on our legal Senate Office Building, Washington D.C., to Washington D.C. on Thursday, November The petition, he said, supports the 20510; or the House Judiciary Committee representatives, e.g. organizing student sit- resolution already introduced in the House, 8, said Craig MacCallum, intercollegiate ins at their offices, in an attempt to per- chairman, Representative Peter Rodino, liaison coordinator for Princeton. As yet, he which states "Resolved, that Richard M. 2462 Rayburn Office Building, Washington suade them to take affirmative action Nixon, President of the United States, be said, the plans have not been finalized. leading to President Nixon's im- D.C. Among the schools conducting telegraph, impeached of high crimes and Other Campus'es React peachment." misdemeanors." The Connecticut Citizens letter-writing, and petitioning are Harvard, At tonight's open meeting, the SEC will Action Group has organized ConnCIN. Yale has established a national clearing Smith, Stanford, UCLA, University of consider financing a letter-writing cam- house, which will disseminate information Minnesota, Hampshire, University of Petitioning is easy as well as enjoyable, about the impeach Nixon movement on paign and creating liaisons with other according to Schumer. "I'm directing my Hartford, and Princeton. Schools, such as campus and off-campus groups, according campuses throughout the nation. The Duke, Iowa, Iowa State University, Berkley, to Tony Piccirillo, '75, vice-chairperson of frustration to action," he said. The people clearing house has an office and phones. Smith, University of Michigan, Colorado "out there" are anxious to do something, Accordgirrg.toBob Bushman, a campus State University, andHanipshire, have held the SEC. The meeting will take place at 6:00 and I am actually being a "resource" for coordinator at Yale, Yale has already sent a rallies with numbers attending the rallies p.m. in the Alumni Lounge, he added. them, added Schumer. petition with, 3500 names to their ranging from 250 to 10,000. Trin's Nixon Faithful Continue Their Support By Lois Kimmelman As last year's presidential election ap- Nye said he sees Watergate as "symp- confidence in the CIA", but now he thinks about him as I feel about Teddy Kennedy' at proached, thirty-six Trinity professors and tomatic of a larger problem," and that it they are "a bunch of bungling, inept idiots." Chippaquidick", he said. students signed their names to a petition should lead to a broader investigation of how Davis spoke in favor of President Nixon, However, Nye said that now the problems which urged the re-election of President elections are supported and conducted. saying the President has the right to special of the Nixon administration have been laid Nixon. Nye pointed out that the affair is causing treatment. "You can't run a government on out, Americans should concentrate on the In the October 24th, 1972 edition of the many Congressmen and other officials to the assumption that the President is no "rather significant remedies" that need to Trinity TRIPOD, the group published a full keep quiet, because they themselves have different from other citizens." be made, which do not necessarily include page advertisement under President engaged in activities similar to the "I would still support Nixon now, given impeachment, he added. Nixon's picture which stated "The following Watergate offenders. Nye admitted feeling the options," said Blakeslee. The other Davis said he feels the Watergate in- members of the Trinity community submit "a little sorry for Agnew" because he was professors said they could not say who they vestigation will have "done more damage in that Richard Nixon should be elected to a only one of many of the corrupt politicians in would vote for now that circumstances are the Jong run than what it will gain." Saying second term as President of the United Maryland. different from last year. the the country "cannot just be run by States." They followed this statement with a Neaverson emphasized the impeachment Nye said he currently feels "ambivalent" lawyers," he suggested that the policy of list of their names and titles. questions should lead Americans to question about the President. "I feel the same way "salvation by litigation" be ended. How do they feel today? the whole constitutional structure of the Four of the professors who signed the country, arid to ask "whether it is adaptable petition a year ago said they still believed in to the twentieth century." him to a certain extent. They said, however, As it is now, Neaverson said, Americans TCB Raises Funds for they were "disappointed" and "amazed" at "can only make the president accountable the outcomes of the Watergate affair. by direct confrontation," i.e. impeachment. "I am naturally disappointed about what He said, however, that "we're stuck with Sahelian Disaster Zone has happened in Washington," said Edwin (the present system)", so change must Nye, dean of faculty. However, he said there occur within this structure. By Lindsay Mann is "so far very little evidence" for im- • Blakeslee, Neaverson, and Nye all called As of last Friday, the Trinity Coalition of the group in their campaign to raise funds, peaching President Nixon. President Nixon a "shrewd" and "clever" Blacks (TCB) had raised 190 dollars to help he added, Eugene W. Davis, professor of history, politician. Nye gave the example of the provide food for those peoples in the African The TCB will have tables in the Mather said he felt (here "certainly are no grounds tapes to show the President's clever countries, which border the Sahara Desert, Hall lobby tonight and tomorrow night to for "impeachment." He said he does not strategy, "I've been saying all along he'd according to Jim Gillespie, '76, chairman of continue to raise funds, Gillespie said. The think Nixon ordered the Watergate release the tapes," Nye claimed. Nixon was the TCB. group he said, also plans to run a raffle for buggings. just using the tapes as a "red herring" since The six countries, Mauritania, Senegal, the campaign. Tickets for the raffle will go Although Rex Neaverson, professor of he knew they contained nothing worthwhile, Mali, Niger, Upper Volta, and Chad, of- on sale next week, he added. political science, claimed he was "amazed" said Nye. ficially declared themselves a disaster area The funds which are raised by the raffle to hear of, the Watergate affair, he em- Neaverson explained he had voted for last March, according to a news release of and the contributions will be sent directly to phasized that he still applies the rule "A President Nixon because he had "common the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Tanzania, Gillespie explained.