The Daily Campus Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896 VoL LXXXIXNo. 49 The University of Connecticut Nov. 1985 Rubin vs. Hoffman: a verbal brawl By David Sakowski In a press conference before ideals," Hoffman said "This debate is more about "For every yuppie driving Daily Campus Staff the debate Hoffman and Rubin Rubin, defined the term lifestyles and growing old than around in a new Porsche, there Abbie Hoffman and Jerry gave their definitions of the 'yuppie' as "an upwardly about political views," Hoff- are ten unemployed women Rubin's'Yippie-Yuppie' debate terms 'yippie* and 'yuppie'. mobile professional who is man said "Jerry is into with children licking the glue turned into a verbal abuse Hoffman defined yippie as "a concerned with self improve decades, everything must be off food stamps," Hoffman match between Hoffman, person who knows his destiny ment in his life body and new. We had yuppies in the said Rubin, and the audience Wed is not engraved in stone a per- conscience" 1950s driving around in their "Jerry calls yuppies nesday night at Jorgensen son who will work with others "Yippie" Rubin said "is a Packards. Their view is if you entrepeneurs. Entrepeneur Auditorium to change their destinies." word Abbie and I created in the dress right and don't rock the means to come in and take'. The topic of the debate was Hoffman said that "yuppies 60s. Yippies were Rambos of boat everything will be fine What we need is announced as the ideologies of are a myth created by the the left, attacking all forms of Everything is happy, new and entredonneurs— people who the terms 'yippie' and 'yuppie'. media to push overconsump- authority." exotic to Jerry, but not come in and give" Hoffman What ensued was a shouting tion of things we don't need The debate focused on the reality." said match Yuppies have to political opposing views of assimilation and agitation Rubin expressed the view that yuppies are working their way into the positions of power in major fc corporations. "You can protest all you want but if s the people with the capital that have the power to decide what this country i does," Rubin said "Are 30 peo- ple screaming with Abbie 'we , will free the poor', going to solve our problems? Politics is VNS* ^&N% the only field yuppies have not broken We must go after the White House That is where the power is." Hoffman rebutted "I am using the strategies 1 learned in _—^J the 1960s to get things done in Jerry Rubin the 1980s." Abbie Hoffman Some in, some out Eddy Hall residents meet Eddy By Peter Bryer don't go with retirement Eddy, who graduated from on Nutmeg staff Daily Campus Staff incomes," she said about the UConn in 1928, spoke of life on A bit of UConn history famed picture approximately the small rural campus 60 By Kim Nauer spoke Wednesday night when 24 inches by 18 inches. She years ago. He said he was here Daily Campus Staff Willard C Eddy addressed went on to describe Mr. Eddy when the school was called When Andy Schaffer was told that he would be the photo about 60 students in the dorm as "one of the strongest and the Connecticut Agricultural editor of this year's Nutmeg yearbook, he thought he had the job. named after him. sweetest men" she had ever School, focusing on farming. But he didn't But now he does. He appeared in the lounge met He was a chemistry major. Schaffer was one of four people who were interviewed and of Eddy Hall for the unveiling Eddy, 79, joked that when "There were only five offered yearbook editorship positions last spring of a portrait of him which was he spoke to some old UConn buildings" he said He said Last year's Nutmeg editor-in-chief, Chris Richardson, adver- friends about the portrait those were Holcolmb Hall, the tised for and tenatively hired people for the positions of editor- in- donated to the dorm by his wife Edna "they said that I'm going to armory (now called Hawley chief, managing editor, layout editor and photo editor. She was to Mrs Eddy said that it could find it in the bathroom" Eddy Armory), Storrs Hall, Coons report to the Undergraduate Student Government Public hardly be called a portrait said that he was proud of both Hall, and Benton HalL (now Relations committee which oversees the hiring and "Ifs only a painting Portraits the dorm and the portrait called the Benton Museum). management "When I first entered I was This year when the newly hired editors got back to school they told that I should bring $ 11 for found out that they did not have the jobs, nor were they ever my first two week's room and considered board and $15 for books," Schaffer reapplied for his job and got it but until last Tuesday, Eddy said He said a complete the yearbook had none of the other positions filled year cost about $400 although "1 think that USG has been lackadaisical about the whole a student could get by on thing" Schaffer said He said that he would give the position up, $300. but feels he is too committed this late in the year. "I remember the fun Holly McBee thought she had been hired by Richardson last stories," Eddy who has been year to be editor- in- chief. She was told by Joe An t on ios, the chair- an alumni association mem- man of the Public Relations committee and publisher of the year- ber for more than 50 years, book, that last year* s editor had no authority to hire her, she said said He described the football Schaffer had told her that someone else had been hired instead hop—a large party at the end she said of the season Eddy lettered in " 1. at that point said my job's gone but what about the other football his four years at two people [who supposedly were hired]?" McBee said She con- UConn "We also had frat dan- tacted university Ombudsman Charles Oliver who told her to ces and a junior and senior talk to Milton Wrobleski, the student organizations accountant prom They were more for- about her complaint mal," he said "Then it was really strange," McBee said A half an hour after There was little drinking he the meeting with Wrobleski, McBee was offered the job of layout Willard C Eddy unveiled hl» portrait Wednesday night said "Of course, that was dur- editor by Antonios. she said "I told him that I would get back to Seepage4 him" McBee said , See page 5 (Mark CaaweU photo). Inside Today: Weather Forecast: Sunny in the morning with increas- ing cloudiness towards evening Tem- Catch a passing comet See page 9. peratures will be in the high 40s during Refine your concert etiquette See page 1 the day, sinking to the high 30s at night ' The Daily Campus, Thursday, November 14, 1985 Page 2 A LM A NAC STATE NATION WORLD Police chief arrested Loan services to Vets Peres intends to fire appears to be slipping Cabinet minister Sharon NAUGATUCK (AP)—Naugatuck Police Chief JERUSALEM (AP)—Prime Minister Shimon Peres Dennis Clisham, under fire recently from WASHINGTON (AP)—Two senators, one of them a said Wednesday he intended to fire right-wing Naugatuck* s mayor, was arrested Thursday and decorated Navy combat veteran, testified Wednesday Cabinet minister Ariel Sharon, who has attacked his charged with one count of breach of peace and one the Small Business Administration appears to be slip- peace moves with Jordan Sharon's dismissal could count of harassment, Waterbury State's Attorney ping in its service to Vietnam veterans bring down the fragile coalition government John A Connelly said Sen John F. Kerry, D- Mass.. who won a Silver Star in Political factions were trying to work out a com- Clisham surrendered to an inspector from the Vietnam said a survey conducted by his staff showed promise to preserve the coalition between the prime Waterbury state's attorney's office shortly after 6 that some SBA regional offices were unfamiliar with the minister's Labor party and the conservative Likud p.m at the state police baracks in Bethany, Connelly special programs the agency offers veterans trying to bloc, to which Sharon belongs said He was released on a written promise to appear start their own businesses. After a Cabinet meeting that lasted nearly three in Waterbury Superior Court Nov. 20. Sen John D. Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va, said he shared hours, Sharon said he did not get a dismissal letter The charges, both misdemeanors, stem from from Peres, and ministers were divided on whether incidents on Nov. 1 and Nov. 4, Connelly said Kerry s concern " I am very deeply concerned SBA may be backsliding in its commitment to veterans,,, the crisis threatening the government had been Naugatuck Police Lt William Long charged in a averted sworn statement that Clisham tried to pull the patch Rockefeller told the Senate Small Business Committee during a hearing on SBA veterans' programs that he and "I think there is hope of removing tensions that off his shirt and shoved him during an argument in the existed in the government," Sharon told reporters in police station parking lot on Nov. 1, the Waterbury Kerry had requested be held "It appears to me that momentum has stopped" a news conference broadcast live on Israel's state Republican reported television after the Cabinet meeting Officer Rober Taggett claimed in another report Since 1980, the SBA's regulations have required Sharon said "We are facing serious problems that Clisham telephoned the police department a veterans to be given "special consideration" such as about growing terror, the economy...a minister must number of times to harass Long on Nov.