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Committee Upholds Viet Nam Referendum Kingsbury Ruling, Results, page 7 PAGE 10 Wat firitutg VOL. LXIV No. 23 TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD JANUARY 23, 1SX>8 Senate Votes Popular SDS to Sponsor Presidential Election Sympo on Vietnam In its meeting Sunday night, the "constantly underplaying its im- The College chapter of the Stu- lege support. According to SDS Senate voted to enact a major portance". Opposition was voicec dents for a Democratic Society spokesmen, while administrative change in its constitution deciding by Senator Larry Whipple '69 announced last week its sponsor- officials accoladed last year's to select its President by a pop- who found it difficult to condoni ship of a "Spring Symposium on the symposium and the faculty voted ular election by the entire student the Senate support of "such ai Vietnam War." The '68 Sympo is a commitment for a continuation body. At the same meeting it con- incredibly biased program." slated for April 23-4 and boasts of the precedent, the financial sidered parietal violations and a In its last action, the Senati Noam Chomsky, Nick Egleson, and allotment for the symposium oper- planned SDS symposium on the Gar Alperovltz among its featured ation was conspicuously absent in war. defeated a move which called upoi the Medusa and Dein of Student; guests. the college budget. With the Col- While turning over ths election to reconsider its decision to sew Sympo '68 will follow the format lege reneging on its commitment, of its President to the student body a parietal violation before the 3-: of its 1967 predecessor but will explains Sympo-Co-chairman Stu- in the interest of "greater com- Faculty-Medusa Committee. Steven H. Keency operate without the benefit of Col- art W. Mason '71, "SDS is sim- rnmication of purposes of the Sen- ply stepping into the gap left by ate to its constituents," the or- administrative officials and pro- ganization retained the require- 9 ducing this year's Sympo for a ment that all candidates be mem- Presidents Council Replaces IFC; fraction of last year's cost, which bers of the Senate. was around $7,000." The Senate also voted to provide the SDS with $300 for support of Rushing Regulations Still Observed At its Sunday meeting the Sen- its Spring Symposium on the Viet- ate voted $300 for Sympo '08. nam War, to be held April 23 and a gentleman's agreement among position of former President San- Mason attributed the projected low 24 at the College. The IFC crisis, which involved a violent struggle over Hell Week, the houses to observe the rushing- ford Rosenberg "68, when he re- cost of the confab to many speak- In a related action, it was voted the threatened withdrawal of Theta rules contained in the IFC Con- signed last month. ers' willingness to waiye an hon- to recommend that classes be can- Xi, and the retirement of two pres- stitution. The most pressing problem fac- orarium as a symbol of their com- celled April 23 and 24, in order idents in one week, climaxed in Gregory Coward '68, represen- ing the Council, according to Delta mitment to the SDS movement. that the two days be fully devoted the organization's disbandment tative for St. Anthony Hall on the Phi president Harry " Peet '68, Newly-elected SDS President to the discussion of the war. shortly before the Christmas re- Council, felt the disbandment came is drafting a constitution to es- Steven H. Keeney '71 emphasized James Kaplan '68 claimed that the cess. Standing in its place at pre- as a result of the fraternities1 tablish a new organizational struc- that the '68 Sympo makes no pre- College his "taken a cavalier at- sent is an informal and unstruc- realization that the IFC was an ture and to determine how much tense of being a non-partisan pre- titude towards the war" and is tured Council of Presidents, and "ineffectual body." This was the autonomy, or "state's rights," a sentation of the war picture. Yet fraternity deserves. the view froth the left, SDS feels, Coward was concerned with the is a valid one and should be heard difficulty the Council would have without the censorship or inter- Viet Nam Referendum Indicates in tackling these, its biggest prob- polation of the Establishment and lems, first. With the Hell Week the mass media that serves it. issue still unresolved, there will "The national media is so dom- 'Dramatic Shift in Student Sentiment' undoubtedly be disputes over, both inated by jingoist propaganda," the issue itself and over the size notes Keeney, "that the anti-war "The results of the New En- between the results at the College part of Trinity students. Blind dissenters, now barely short of a. gland Universities Referendum on and the general results of the patriotism was pot a big factor," of the majority required to amend the Council's constitution. majority among those under 30, Vietnam," claimed Jeffrey Lucas, referendum, in which-22,000 stu- he added. "The referendum shows are discredited, misinterpreted former TRIPOD editor, "indicate dents from 23 participating New that the middle class is becoming Theta Xi refuses to become a or ignored. Through the medium a dramatic shift in the political England colleges voted. In gen- expressive in opposition . to the member of the Council until all of a symposium (a meeting of the sentiments of Trinity students." eral, there was a difference of.ten war, lending legitimacy to the Hell. Weeks are eliminated. But minds) we hope to present first- The referendum, held November 29 percentage points between the Col- movement," said Lucas. " Oppo- the house has permitted its pres- hand the intelligent, articulate, and and 30 at the College, was an lege's and the general results - nents to the war," he continued, ident, John Vail '68, to sit in on active voices of dissent, not with attempt "to elicit and articulate students at the College taking the "shouldn't be branded as 'long- the conferences. the idea that they are the only feeling and thinking about the war more conservative stand. haired people' or hippies." Because St. Antlionv Hall, with viewpoint, but with the feeling in detailed, sophisticated and auth- Lucas expressed much satisfac- Lucas was disappointed by the Theta Xi absent, is the only bro- that they have a right to be heard oritative form," said Kim Mar- tion with the results of the N.E. turnout of students, since only therhood on the Council without apart from the cynical interpre- shall, a Harvard student and co- U.R.V. "The referendum," he about half participated. However, a Hell Week, Coward was " very tation of the mass media." ordinator of the project. claimed, "shows a high degree of he felt this 50% was representa- pessimistic" in his outlook for (Continued on Page 9) . "The present student body," Lu- education concerning the war on the tive of the student body. Hell Week abolition. cas noted, "shows a much more liberal outlook than its counter- parts of previous years." As evi- dence of the change, he pointed Barber, Campo, Neaverson, Nichols Gain Promotions out that in the November refer- endum, 389 students (55% of those President Albert C. Jacobs an- guage, Renaissance and Modern and Epiphany by Pope Paul VI. voting) thought "our commitment nounced the promotion of four as- Italian Literature. He is director Neaverson joined the faculty in is not in the interests of the South sociate professors of the College of the Cesare Barbieri Center of 1955, He holds three degrees from Vietnamese and must therefore to the status of full professors at Italian Studies and editor of the Harvard University, where he be reconsidered." In contrast, an a faculty dinner on January 15. CESARE BARBIERI COURIER; earned his B.A. magna cum laude. anti-war petition two years ago The honor, effective on Septem- and under his editorship, the He has been an associate profes- collected only thirty signatures. ber 1, was conferred upon Dr. COURIER is now highly regarded sor since September, 1962. Lucas, who was responsible for Michael R. Campo of the Depart- here and abroad as a leading His field of interest is teach- bringing the referendum to the ment of Modern Languages, Dr. journal devoted to Italian litera- ing political theory and compara- College, attributed the shift in feel- Rex C. Neaverson of the Depart- ture and culture. His textbook on tive government. Collaborating ings to "the large American com- ment of Government, Dr. Clarence Pirandello, Moravia, and contem- with Dr. Gastmann of the govern- mitment in Vietnam" and changes H. Barber of the music depart- porary Italian poetry will appear ment department, Neaverson is in draft policies. ment, and Mr. George E. Nichols next spring. writing a college text for intro- According to the N.E.U.R.V. III of the drama department. Campo is the area chairman ductory courses in political sci- results, 482 students (70%) at the An associate professor since of the Committee for the Rescue ence. .According to the govern- College felt that a Communist re- September 1959, Campo came to of Italian Art and the New En- ment department, Neaverson has gime in South Vietnam would be Trinity in 1952. He was graduated gland coordinator of the National shown great skill in enlarging the better for the country than the from Trinity in 1948 and received Committee for the Promotion of graduate curriculum and in making war it is currently engaged in. his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in Italian in Higher Education of the it operate effectively. Also, 463 students (65%) would ac- 1954.