Director of Dining Halls Announces Cost of Losses •MECTICUT Losss to Date $3052.28 Shakers, 167 11.90 VOLUME XXXV Storrs, Connecticut, Tuesday, March 8, 1949 Z 88 No. 39 Include Milk Bottles Total $981.79 Silverware, Shakers Grill* Teaspoons, 340 $ 68.50 The total cost of milk bottles, sil- Knives, 102 33.68 Whitehouse, Garvey go on Record verware and salt and pepper shakers Forks, 276 68.31 borrowed by students and not re- Dessert Spoons, 40 7.50 turned to the dining halls and Grille Salt and Pepper Shakers, 110 7.65 between July 1, 1948, and March 1, n Interview Concerning Platforms 1949, was $3,052.28, Mr. Frank S. Total $185.74 By PHIL ISAACS Wetherell, director of dining halls, South Campus In an attempt to further its attempts to keep the student body up to dale on the coming senate elections, announced today. Soup Spoons, 408 $ 76.50 The square milk bottles, he said, the CAMPUS presents tcday the results of interviews with presidential candidates. Bob Garvey and Fred While- Teaspoons, 348 71.05 house. were received with a flourish by Knives. 642 213.84 students, since 80 disappeared from Both men were approached separately, but the questions in each case were the same: why are you run- Forks, 396 98.01 ning, and how do you stand on (1) the new constitution; (2) the discrimination referendum: (3) student senate- the Grille between the hours of 7 Shakers. 550 10.60 and 10 p. m. the first night they administration relations; (4) the alumni situation: and (5) the problem and prospects of school spirit and student interest at the university? were in use. A comparatively large Total $470.00 number were lost the first few days, BOB GARVEY— some of the tedious details that sur- but many have now been returned Whitney FRED WHITEHOUSE— Bob Garvey thought that he was with the result that losses are now Teaspoons 954 $196.37 round the job is desirable, he Fred Whitehouse said he was run- the best candidate for the position buck to normal — between 500 and Tablespoons, 258 56.36 thought. "There is a big need to ning for president of the Senate be- and that he was qualified and able clear up the internal mussle in the 600 bottles a week. Knives. 402 163.82 cause he felt that he had the ex- Forks, 480 105.60 to do a good job. "My past experi- senate," he said, stream-lining the perience and ability to handle the Over the period of one year Mr. ence on the senate (two years, vari- committees and dividing responsibil- Wetherell estimates that the three (Continued On Page 8) job. He pointed out that, as senate ous committees) will be very valua- ities and powers. president, he would have a good dining halls and grille combined ble in this respect," he said. would lose a minimum of $5,000. Mr. "We have the right idea for the opportunity to attempt to get many The administrative function of the new constitution," he said, "it just Wetherell said that breakage cannot Hare System of PR important things done. senate president is very important, isn't written down." With enough He said that he was very inter- be considered a large part of this Bob said. He must dole out the loss because the dining halls break To Be Used for Senate interested and competent people ested in accomplishing such pro- various jobs, see that they are be- working on the constitution, and ex- jects as making student government or lose in garbage not more than Elections This Year ing done properly, and remedy any one per cent of these items. China ploring all possible sources of infor- effective on this campus; improv- ■ instances of failure. Besides over- mation and aid (including coopera- and glassware have not been includ- ing student - faculty - administration The Eelections Committee of the seeing the coordination of student tion with the administration and ed in the estimate because a far relations; furthering investigation of Student Senate has announced that ; affairs, he said that the students faculty). a worth-while result the food situation; seeking definite greater percentage are broken and the modified version of the Hare must be "protected from the front many more are collected at the end could be expected. information on the athletic policy; System of Proportional Represen- i office" in attempts to work things Bob said that he was for the anti- continuing work with the police de- of the second semester. tation used in previous elections out with the administration. discrimination referendum and felt partment (part of the prescribed This information is being made will be used again this year in the Problems resulting from "over- that it would and should be passed. public through the efforts of the duties of the suggested new judicial : Student Senate Elections. expansion" of the university ought He thinks that fraternities should committee for the senate); and es- Dining Hall Advisory committee, Under this system, the election to be cleaned up, he felt, citing spe- have an opportunity to clear up dis- tablishing a much needed executive v/hich was proposed by the Student of a Senator is dependent upon his cific examples like the dining hall criminatory clauses on their own .committee for the senate. Senate last year and has been func- obtaining a certain number of situation and the counselling set-up. hook, citing the precedent set at The new constitution is a compro- tioning since January, 1949. The votes, and this number is known To accomplish this he suggests pep- Amherst as an example. State-wide mise, he said, between two schools committee hopes that students, when ' as the determiner. The determiner, ping up the now-lagging dining hall action and interest in the problem of thought — those who want to see they realize the losses will make , as defined in the old constitution committee, and investigating means led Bob to guess that the whole dormitorv representation on the some effort to return these items so of the Student Senate is: for making sure that students "have problem may soon be taken out of senate and those who don't Due to that the students in turn may bene- (Total number of votes cast) a counsellor there when they need the senate's hands. the expanding nature of the school fit from reduced overhead costs. ( ) + l In answer to our question as to one." right now, compromise is under- Losses are as follows: (No. of offices to be filled 1) On the subject of the new const- whether he felt that fraternities standable, Fred said. "The impor- When a candidate has received itution, Bob said that he thought the would actually do something on Main Dining Hall tant thing is to set up a broad , the determiner, he is declared i whole problem was a "minor one." their own, without external pres- Teaspoons, 451 $ 9185 structure," he added, "stress the leg- elected, and any votes in excess of ;Hc felt that the wrong people were sure, he said that some probably Forks, 1,751 433.62 the determiner are reapportioned islative part of it and give the exec- Knives, 1,225 403.92 ■ put on the committee, men with too wouldn't, but after an opportunity among the remaining candidates, many other activities and not utive branch a controlling and lead- Soup Spoons, 217 40.50 had been given them, pressure ing function. Students will be ben- with second choice votes counting enough experience. "Work on a should be exerted. After the reso- efited by being allowed to govern as first place votes. new constitution should involve a lution is passed, he said, the senate I themselves." Fred sees in the pro- Atomic Bomb More For example, in an election in lot of research—as it is, this new | should hold a meeting including fra- which 2000 votes were cast, and one is no better nor any worse ternities, sororities and the adminis- , posed councils an opportunity to Horrible Than Germ there were four offices to be fill- i than the present constitution. tration—tackling the problem first insure implementation of the con- ed, the formula would be applied The important thing that the new | hand, and asking that things be stitution and a chance to have a I in this way: constitution should stress is a divi- senate with power and backing. Warfare, Wedberg done. "The constitution is almost ready ( 2000 ) sion of the work load so that activ- "Either disband the present stu- "The horror of bacteriological ( ) +1 or 401 ity in the senate could be spread now," he said, "as ready as it ever dent-faculty-administration commit- will be." However, he felt that dis- warfare is second in the minds of ( 4 + 1 ) out. Along this line, the idea of tee," he declared, or get operating cussion and suggestions would al- people only to that of the atomic ;thus. in this election, the deter- appointing an executive assistant effectively. There should be a di- ways be valuable; and that student bomb," so said Dr. Stanley E. Wed- miner would be 401, and any can- for the president to relieve him of (Continued on Page Two) berg of the Department of Bac- didate who received 401 votes opinion improves the senate. But teriology at UConn, as he address- would be declared elected, and any the important thing is to put the ed his audience on that subject at I votes over 401 which he received x, constitution to the students and get the Home Economics Building last ! would be reapportioned among the Co-ed Colonel," Henderson it going.