(£0tmerttcut lailg (ftampua Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXXI NO. 20 STORRS, CONNECTICUT FRIDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1977 Group says extremists at UConn By MATT MANZELLA Russell said. and urged that any future victims should chairman of the National Committee CAR members have reported several start to report their cases to the security against racism. Four or five unidentified UConn incidents of harrassment of minority police on campus. "This is a problem for all of us and we students are threatening various minority students that have occured over the last At a rally attended by 250 students and will not make the same mistake as the students in an attempt to "create an month. They claim threatening letters faculty members held by CAR in front of Germans made before World War II." he atmosphere of terror," members of the have been sent to a number of Jewish the Student Union Wednesday, members said. Storrs chapter of the Committee Against students, and rocks- have been thrown challenged the students and other Tobias said the National Alliance should Racism (CAR), charged Thursday. through the windows of the Puerto Rican persons connected with the National not have the right to spread their According to George Russel, a student center. CAR members also claim their Alliance to "come out in the open", newspaper. "Attack." and other propa- here and the executive vice-president of windows have been shot out on several instead of spreading their ideas secretly. ganda which it considers "facist" on CAR in Storrs, the students are a occasions. "We're not out to give these bastards campus or anywhere else in the country. "serious threat", Kenneth G. Wilson, vice president of publicity, we're out to give them a fight." But. according to Wilson, the National "You can't interpret it in numbers, Nazi academic affairs at UConn said he had said Tobias Schwartz, professor of bio- Alliance has the constitutional right of Germany started with only a few," read no reports about any harrassments logical sciences at UConn and Co- freedom of the press 3T kir*H FSSO votes on club budgets propose a budget last year, has By MARY MESSINA Most of the organizations now requested $3,100 for to The student government's sought double the amount finally approved by the Finance Com- maintain their operation. The finance committee voted Thurs- UConn Alliance for Israel, a new day night to allocate $4,480 of mittee. "Dialogue." a student club to promote "Israel aware- the $8,616.67 left over after last counseling service, received ness" on campus requested >?* year's distribution of funds, $700 of their $5,550 request. While the Puerto Rican Student $1,086.20. Both clubs are still cutting the requests of some student clubs in half. Movement, which neglected to being considered The 25 member women's ice hockey team got approval for the largest amoung, $1,130 of their Daily Campus wins award requested amount of $1,290. For the second time in its rating group, which cited three Chris Williams, chairman of the 81-year history. The Daily specific areas of excellence for Federation of Student Service Campus has been awarded the newspaper issues of the Organization (FSSO) Finance highest national award Spring. 1977 semester. Committee, cited a growing in- granted by the Associated iLfmmitjmmlm terest in women's sports the Collegiate Press of the Nation- Cited was content and primary reason for this decision. al Scholastic Press Associa- coverage: appearance and All Finance Committee appro- tion, the newspaper was visual communication; and art. priations are subject to FSSO notified Thursday. photography and graphics by Central Committee approval. The newspaper received noti- the society's judge. About 20 organizations re- fication of its second "All The last time the newspaper *■ quested additional amounts from American Award" from the win the "All American" award FSSO and five newly formed Associated Collegiate Press was in 1972. clubs requested start-up money. • Staff Photo by Phil Knudsen .Schlitz can cruises on campus By MATT MANZELLA Yes, there really was an 11-foot Schlitz can. flip-top and all. [driving around campus Thursday, and according to its driver I Tom Myles, "Its still cheaper than Budwieser Clydesdale 'horses." The eleven and a half foot tall, six foot wide mobile beer can [has been part of the Schlitz Brewery Company's sales I promotion campaign since 1972. Myles and the can have been [almost everywhere east of the Rocky Mountains covering I parades, baseball games and other events, he said. Myles, a graduate from the University of Wisconsin, has been the keeper of the mobile can for a year and a half, carting it by trailer to the specific places he visits, in order to earn some [money for graduate shcool. "This is what you do when you get a history degree." he mused. Photo by Phil Knudsen UConn students are cramming into the Wilbur Cross Library to cram for their mid-term exams this week and seats were beginning to get scarce Thursday. Senate votes to limit Carter's tax options WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate imported oil something of an ace in the which Congress created and can change. gas was killed as part of a complex Either the crude oil tax — approved by Finance Committee voted Thursday to hole. Democratic strategy to get the adminis- the House and killed in the Senate tration's energy tax plan through the eliminate President Carter's power to If Congress does not approve Carter's Finance Committee — or higher fees on Senate. impose fees on imported oil.a step he has proposal for higher taxes on domestic oil imports would result in higher prices Under the strategy, nothing would be threatened to take if Congress fails to crude oil. Schlesinger said, the White for oil products in America. left in the Senate bill except various tax hike taxes on domestic oil. House might slap a $5 a barrel fee on credits and perhaps suggestions on how Sen. Robert Dole, (K-Kan.l, proposed imported oil. It is estimated gasoline prices would increase 5 to 7 cents a gallon if either to spend the revenue from any House- the limitation on Carter's options and the "The President is prepared. I think if proposal is enacted. Both arc designed to passed taxes that survive. committee approved it on a 10-6 vote, the necessity arises, to impose those discourage use of oil through higher Although the settle-it-in-confercnce despite opposition from panel chairman fees," he said. "We are not in a position prices. idea was muddied by various other Russell Long. (I) la.) where we are dependent on Senate Thursday's vote came during a con- proposals. Long said he was convinced it Energy Secretary James Schlesinger action." fused committee session where Carter's was the only way to get an energy tax indicated on Sunday the administration But Carter's authority to impose oil fees plan through Congress this year. considers its power to impose fees on comes from the Trade Adjustment Act. proposed tax on industrial use of oil and (timmtttxaxt BaUg (Eamjroii Serving Storrs Since 1896 P^erS IOr Taill Mark A. Dupuit Editor-in-Chief Creig K. Spery John Hill III Business Manager Managing Editor Vivian B. Martin in a game of arid chance Associate Editor Vol. LXXXI No. 20 Friday, October 7, 1977 contaminated with disease-producing bacteria or By JOHN SIMS polluted with industrial wastes. That doesn't leave much. All American Water. When the rains fail and you are left eyeing a Civilizations have grown beside it. The great cloudless horizon broken only by the stunted rivers — the Nile, the Tiber, the Rhine, the remains of your dried-out crop or the cattle you'll 3 associated Thames — have been the breeding grounds for have to slaughter for lack of feed, then it looks like empires. a lot less. collegiate Rivers have spawned cities, centers of com- Californians have found that out in two years of merce, and carried industry's products deep into the worst drought to hit the state this century. press the American hinterland long before a single rail They are not alone. Some 30 million Americans was laid. are suffering because the rains have failed. An a in recognition of merit Man. whose" body is more than 90 per cent water, estimated 22 hundred counties in 36 states, Puerto awards can survive a month or more without food. But Rico and the Virgin Islands have been declared without water, a dry choking death waits three or eligible for federal disaster relief. COMECTirUT DAILY CAMPUS four days away. Wells have gone dry in several states and water Water. rationing is enforced in large areas of California. the honor rating of We have exploited it. wasted it, polluted it, The drought in America has hit areas from grown to rely on it abundance. Now we look Minnesota to Texas, from the Carolinas to Oregon. All American around the world and see that there is not enough In the meantime, losses to agriculture in a in.the National Critical Service of the Associated of it in the places we want it. half-dozen states are running into the billions of Collegiate Press at the University of Minnesota, It's been a long time since so many prayed for dollars. School of Journalism rain. Fires in forests turned to tinder by rainless Fear of the Oklahoma dust bowls of 45 years ago, months have destroyed millions of trees that will SECOND SEMESTER 1976-77 of stripped land inhabited only by sand devils and take decades to^replace.