ffiie # 4? VOL LXIX, ISSUK 44 TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1971 IFar Protest Draws 200f000-plus to Capitol Demonstrations Second Largest In D.C. History by Matthew Moloshok Hundreds of thousands of anti-war * protestors rallied Saturday in front of the '?"|WflBl, Capitol Building in Washington, D.C, -;'ji. ^ demanding an immediate and complete »*:*. withdrawal from Vietnam. The crowd, estimated by the police at 175,000 and by the rally's organizers at 500,000, heard nearly fifty speakers and four entertainers. Demonstrators marched two miles from the Ellipse, between the White House and the Washington Monument, down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. While authorities had estimated the crowd at about 100,000 before the rally, the march turned out to be the second largest in the nation's history, surpassed only by the November 14 and 15, 1969 Mobilization in Washington, when, according to police, 320,000 marchers rallied at The Washington Monument. A rally was also held in San Francisco, (Klibaner Photo) Saturday attended by what police estimated March for Life: as 156,000 people. A splinter rally in Washington, led by the Vietnam Veterans march to Capitol grounds in an anti-war protest which drew over 200,000 marchers to Washington, D.C. Students for a Democratic Society and the Saturday. On Friday, Some veterans left their medals and combat awards on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court opposite the Progressive Labor Party attracted about Capitol building. 500 supporters who heard speakers tell them that they were being sold out by their elected representatives. Later in the day, about 1)00 demonstrators joined the S.D.S, as After Two Years it approached DuPont Circle where the News From South Vietnamese Embassy is ioca ted. Police blocked the road however, and the crowd dispersed. The Outside Salisch Offers Resignation The Worker's League held a rally of its International own at L'Enfant Square which attracted The Soviet Union launched a three - by Susannah Heschel several hundred demonstrators. About 25 man space ship last week and planned a Marc S. Salisch, dean of community life, should have "some experience in higher Hartford students were among the crowd rendezvous with an unmanned Soviet announced yesterday his resignation ef- education" and should "want to work with who heard militant trade unionists and research workshop already in orbit. If fective the end of July, in a letter to students." speakers from the Worker's League. the hook-up is successful, as expected, President Lockwood. In a TRIPOD in- Lockwood will act on Salisch's letter of After the rallies, most of the demon- the Soviet Union will'have established terview Sunday night Salisch refused to resignation and then report to the Board of. strators went home by bus, car, train, and man's first space station. specify his reasons for resigning, but said, Trustees. The Trustees do not participate in thumb. About 30,000 remained in the area of Dictator Francois "Papa Doc" "I think there are positions or places where approving the resignation. the Washington Monument for a rock concert Duvalier of Haiti died last week and left I can make a greater contribution." Salisch, who holds an M.A., was askecTto sponsored by the People's Coalition for the Caribbean country to his 19-year-old Sunday night President Lockwood said come to the College by Robert W. Fuller, Peace and Justice. son Jean-Claude, who was sworn in that Thomas A. Smith, vice-president of the former dean of the faculty. Fuller is now The co-sponsors of the major rally, the Thursday as President for life. The College, would be in charge of securing a president of Oberlin College in Oberlin, National Peace Action Coalition and the United States is keeping an eye open for replacement for Salisch. Ohio. People's Coalition, plan to stage a series of trouble in Haiti, only 48 miles from Cuba, Lockwood refused to confirm or deny that demonstrations in Washington throughout and has increased military surveillance Salisch had been asked to resign, stating the next two weeks, culminating in a in the area. that it is not "College Policy" to comment on nationwide moratorium on May 5. NATIONAL resignations. More Adults Over 700 Vietnam veterans held a Salisch, who came to the College two A survey made by the Washington Post week-long demonstration in front of the years ago, said he was attracted by "the revealed that this was the first anti-war Capitol building last week protesting the promise of innovation and change," which march for more than one-third of the war in Indochina. Many left their combat he said was contained in the new protestors. The survey also concluded that medals on the steps of the Capitol in curriculum. Salisch said the new 84% of the demonstrators were under thirty. protest Friday. The week of demon- curriculum "would hopefully be the first The Post added, however, said that the strations climaxed with a massive rally step in bringing students into a broader role march was more representative of adult Saturday in Washington with estimates of decision-making in all contexts" of the America than the demonstrations of of between 200,000 and half a million at- College. November, 1969 and May, 1970. tending. Salisch said he has been "seriously By 1:30p.m., the Capitol grounds were too The Supreme Court faced the school considering" his decision to resign since crowded to accommodate any more bussing issue and ruled unanimously last "about December." He refused to comment demonstrators. The organizers of the march week that Southern cities must overcome on his position for next year, which he said kept insisting that Pennsylvania Avenue school segregation by inter-neighborhood was already secured. was impassable for blocks with demon- bussing and othermethods, if necessary. Lockwood said that he and Salisch had strators who could not get any closer to the The decision will not apply to Northern agreed, when Salisch first arrived, to meet a Capitol. People also came down the less school segregation, which arises from year and a half later to discuss Salisch's crowded Mall between the Washington neighborhood patterns, the Court said. position at the College. Lockwood said they Monument and the Capitol. The White House Conference on Youth met "around December." He refused to At 2:15 p.m., many demonstrators were last week in remote Estes Park, Colorado comment on the contents of the meeting. still arriving on trains and buses which had was said to be overloaded with President Lockwood said that students "obviously" been delayed by.traffic. It was announced Nixon's "silent majority" teenagers, but will be involved in choosing a replacement that delays of up to one hour were recorded the youths arrived at some surprising for Salisch. Lockwood said "we'll want their coming through the Baltimore Harbor recommendations. The 900 youth (students') advice and various reactions" to Tunnel Saturday morning. delegates in the 1400-member conference the candidates interviewed. Many people, however, turned back took a clearly liberal stand on issues such Lockwood said he knew of "three or four" because of the delays. Others who could not as welfare, ecology, population control possible candidates already, including "a get close enough to the Capitol to hear the and the Vietnam war. number of people from inside the College." speakers also left. LOCAL He refused to release names. Among the speakers were representatives The State legislature's Education Lockwood said he did not believ/'it would of the peace movement, labor unions, and Committee has killed a plan by Governor be "difficult" to hire a new desfn by Sep- So Long Marc: civil rights organizations, as well as Meskill to raise the tuition at state tember. "I'm fairly optimistic^' he said. members of the Congress. Presiden Lockwood said the qualifications The rally also drew letters of support from colleges. 'Hie over $60 million tuition hike Marc S. Salisch, Dean of Community would have helped lower the state's for Salisch's replacement would be "per- 10 senators and more than 29 congressmen. sonal qualities" such as patience, concern, Life, announced his resignation Many speakers who were slated to be on the budget deficit. and sensitivity." He said the candidate yesterday. (Continued on P. 5) Page 2 TRINITY TRIPOD TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1971 Hi Note Puccini's 'Mme Butterfly' Stirring by Joel Kemelhor The Connecticut Opera Association It roused the Hartford audience to a minor which continued to trickle in during the brought its season to a close Wednesday frenzy. opening scene of each act. The ovation for night at the Bushnell with a stirring per- The other principal roles, those of> the the love duet may have been deserved, but it formance of Madame Butterfly. With the American consul Sharpless and Butterfly's negated the lovely quiet music that con- principals singing well and the contributions maid Suzuki, were undertaken by Seymour tinues when the singing has stopped. The of orchestra and chorus better than usual for Schwartzman and Rito de Carlo, respec- applause for Butterfly's "Un Bel Di" also this company, all that kept this Piccini tively. Mr. Schwartzman was perfect, his thundered in prematurely. When Miss Pilou opera from succeeding totally was some voice resonant, his acting strong but began this aria a wave of self- tasteless scenery. unobtrusive. Miss de Carlo emoted well congratulatory recognition swept the The story is about a young Japanese bride enough, but her unremarkable mezzo voice audience. It would have been more who chooses suicide over dishonor after tended to be drowned out when others were remarkable if the melody were not being loved and left by an American naval singing with her.