" 1^77 Apr. 18-26 (tonnttttmt Satlg Campus Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXX NO. 110 STORRS, CONNECTICUT MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1977 Tension grows as seventh student attacked By LYNDA CRAWFORD policeman, said Sunday he was "glad the taken these precautionary methods one Campus News Staff incident was reported." adding. "We Anyone with any information concern- step further. "Each house has agreed to A young woman was attacked in increased the patrols after than inci- ing the attacker, is urged to contact the lock its back doors after dinner and its McMahon Hall at about 10:30 p.m. dent." Rape Crisis Center at 423-9595, and ask front doors between 10 and II at night," Friday night. Luckily, her reflexes were "The use of the campus student escort for Cynthia Roy or Sue Menzel or call resident assistant Tim Chung said. sharp enough for her to kick the attacker service has increased since the article on UConn police at 486-4800. All calls will be Not all women arc adhering to these in his groin and she escaped without rape was printed in the newspaper," kept confidential. being raped. McKelvey said, referring to an article in precautionary methods, howevlcr. Some The campus police were then notified. the Daily Campus last week. frequently refer to as the "buddy women still resist being "forced into In this situation, the young woman did Along with the increase in police patrols system." hiding because of mere males." One not have to leave her dormitory and walk and the use of the escort service, "1 usually ask two girsl to walk with mc woman said that if she "walked the main, along a dark deserted road to be women's awareness of the danger on to the library, instead of one. then they lighted roads." she would be safe. molested. She was attacked inside the campus, especially in South Campus, has can protect each other on the way home." "The more women there arc the dormitory. grown. Women who used to walk alone at one woman said. streets, the less chance there is of anyone Lt. Robert McKelvey. a campus night are now operating under what thev Crawford Hall, in South Campus, has being raped." she added. *f - Hiring freeze set '♦« in anticipation of state budget cuts By ELLEN GRAY they will be able to continue, but 1 Campus News Staff don't know." he said. A hiring freeze has been Wilson said he had been basing imposed on the University in his hiring plans on the figures in anticipation of expected cuts in Gov. F.lla T. Grasso's budget tor UConn's budget by the state UConn. but when it was learned legislature. UConn President that the budget for the UConn Glenn W. Ferguson told the Health Center in Farmington will Board of Trustees Friday. probably be cut below its current "We are deeply concerned level by the legislature. "I felt I about the nature of the proposed had to pull in our horns for a cuts." Ferguson said, echoing time." statements he made at a Hartford "There are no areas of any press conference last week. It substance that the University can may be necessary to maintain the fall back on in terms of reduc- frec/e "indefinitely." he warned. tion." Trustees' Chairman Gor- Kenneth G. Wilson, vice presi- don Tasker told the board Friday. dent for academic affairs, who The board passed a resolution ordered the freee/e. Sunday said expressing "its full confidence in the freeze applied to all profes- the President of the University of sional positions within the Uni- Connecticut" and endorsing "his versity. efforts to present to the people of "I hope it will be brief." he the State of Connecticut full said. disclosure of the financial plight Wilson indicated the freeze lacing the University and to Children at the University's Child Laboratory in the Human Development Center gather around Sue could affect the searches being caution all concerned of the Gibbs, a Coventy doll maker. Gobbs will be among exhibitors at an arts and crafts fair May 7, which will conducted to fill ten departmental emminent danger confronting the benefit the child labs. The children are, left to right, Eric Garringer of Lebanon, Kara Neubeck of West head vacancies. "We have ten University, unless immediate fi- Willington, Matthew Zegarelli of Tolland, and Rana Kardestuncer of Storrs. searches going forward. I hope nancial relief is forthcoming." South African stock holdings spur protest... By ELLEN GRAY dor to Kenya would affect his staged a picket protest prior to go!" they shouted. Once inside Friday said the matter of the Campus News Staff opinion. Ferguson said, "of the meeting, carrying signs and the meeting, the shouting sub- stocks had been discussed at a The adjournment of a meeting course it would. 1 spent three petitions demanding that sided, as about a do/cn mem- meeting of the finance commit- of the UConn Board of Trustees years there." UConn divest itself of s..>cks in bers of the RSB stood silently at tee earlier in the day. but no erupted into a one-sided shout- "You were at the board such companies as IBM and. the back of the room for the conclusion was reached. ing match Friday afternoon, as meeting. You heard what com- Polaroid, which alledgcdly op- onc-and-one-half hour meeting, "The board is following the about a dozen members of a mittee it was referred to." erate in South Africa. holding signs. advice of CBT (Connecticut student group protesting Uni- Tasker said. "Apartheid systems, we say Trustee Mark Collins, a Bank and Trust), which handles versity ownership of stocks ot About 20 RSB members no! UConn stocks have got to student member of the board. our investment funds," he said. companies operating in South Africa confronted the board, shouting. "We demand you take a stand!" Moving quickly toward UConn ...as Rhodesian race war looms President Glenn W. Ferguson and Trustees Chairman Gordon LAGOS. Nigeria (DPI)— bn- Angolan news agency Angop four other black nations sur- Front, a black Rhodesian na- Tasker. members of the Revolu- tish Foreign Secretary David said. rounding Rhodesia. tionalist group to end its armed tionary Student Brigade ac- Owen, winding up an African "'As long as the illegal Angop reported Owen said the struggle." cused the two of being "pro- tour in search of a Rhodesian government of Mr. Smith con- "frontline" presidents them- On his arrival in Lagos, the apartheid" because of the settlement, said Sunday many tinues in power in Salisbury, selves made it very clear they Briton told reporters he hoped a board's referral of the question black leaders do not believe the many people will think it is will continue to support the U.S.-backed proposal to hold a constitutional conference would of the stocks to its finance issue can be resolved without a impossible to attain black ma- armed struggle, but they don't be a "basis for a peaceful committee, rather than making race war. jority mil...without turning to consider this incompatible with transfer of power to the African an on-the-spot decision. Before coming to Lagos. Owen arms." Angop quoted Owen as an attempt to reach a peaceful "The board at this point does stopped briefly in Angola and saying. solution of the problem." majority in Zimbabwe (Rhode- not know the nature and extent said many leaders believe if Owen met in Lauanda with "At the moment Mr. Smith sia)." of the holdings." Ferguson told Prime Minister Ian Smith's President Agostinho Neto and agrees to cease control of the But he said he had warned Rhodesian leaders in talks ear- the students. Responding to one white regime continues in pow- Foreign Minister Paulo Jorge, government." Angop quoted student's question about er there will be no settlement who were hosting a meeting Owen as saying, "only at the lier in the week that he wanted a whether his tenure as ambassa- "without turning to arms," the Monday of the presidents of the moment will 1 ask the Patriotic- genuinely workable agreement. • ■•- - (Bmtttutinit latlg (EampUH A vote for lunacy... Serving Storrs Since 1896 an American tradition Mark A. Dupuis Editor-in-Chief {Editor's Note: Due to his indict him in a recent child organized crime contacts and John Hill III Craig Spery trouncing at the polls lust week, abuse-pornography scandal. attorney fees. Though I may have Managing Editor Business Manager campus correspondent Tony So. to the winners, no congratu- lost UConn, I could have won the Cronin. also recently trounced by lations. governorship in New Jersey, the Daily Campus Editoriul Who would congratulate a twice. Board, has written a bitter, bunch of political hacks who ran And my campaign staff would lihelous. inaccruate yet lively, unopposed or were elected by a have done an incredible job, if Discard the bottle bill concession speech. The editors margin of five votes (15 to 10). only they showed up. I had to take take no responsibility for the phone calls, make the phone Take a drive sometime out along Rt. 6 as it winds its way If I sound bitter lam. My whole article, und. if needed will use the life.' I dreamed of becdming a calls, pdiir the coffee,' drink the towards Providence or along Rt. 52 not too far from the Plainfield legal defense of "journalistic 'coffee and even do dictation.' dog track. Beautiful area, isn't rural Eastern Connecticut? student government chairperson incompetence' on Cronin s part, or whatever. Ask my parents. Even the Dilv Campus, that rag, It's amazing what beauty can hide.