LIBRARY BECEIVSD Wat inttito rEB 14 1972 -,^-->•->_ _. „ VOLUME LXX, ISSUE 23 Trinity College, Hartford Tuesday, February 15, 1972 \ I - In This Issue: Exclusive Interview with Betty Friedan page 4 Review of Women's Week Activities page 5 Dr. Bankwitz Discusses His Research page 2 President Lockwood On Nepal page 10 Andrew Wolf,'73, On Israel page 11 SteveBarkan, 73,OnMcGovern pagel2 Tuesday, February 15, Page 2 TRINITY TRIPOP McGovern Aide Cites '72 Campaign Issues Students supporters of Senator George were to secede from the Union, it would be McGovern travelled from campuses the world's third greatest nuclear power." throughout Connecticut to hear the The importance of confidence as an issue Senator's Political Director and Robert in the campaign was pointed out by polls Kennedy's former Press Secretary, Frank conducted by the University of Michigan Mankiewicz, last Monday evening at Yale These polls showed that while 70% of the University. American people trusted and had con- The title of Mankiewicz' speech was You fidence in government in 1964, by 1971 the Can't Fight the Bosses in the Morning and figure has slipped to below 30%. be a Power Broker in the Afternoon". Discussing the present status of In addressing over 150 students, McGovern's campaign, Mankiewicz stated Mankiewic2 stated that the keys to the forth- that "the New Hampshire campaign is coming campaign were "change and con- going very well" and indicated an eventual fidence". confrontation between McGovern and Mankiewicz reacted to the opinion of Senator Edmund Muskie. many that the most important consideration Mankiewicz riddled the campaigns of of the 1972 election was not to elect anyone in Senator Henry Jackson and Congressman particular but instead just to defeat Wilbur Mills saying that Jackson's cam- President Nixon. He said "the American paign has been "confined to Republican people don't want a change of labels, they newspaper columns" while Mills' campaign want a change of direction." exists "only in the Congress itself". Two examples for which a new direction The speech which was attended by five was cited were the tax system and federal members of Trinity's Young Democrats was spending. Mankiewicz pointed out inequities sponsored by the Yale Political Union's in the tax structure which allowed the Liberal Party and Students for McGovern. average $200,000 plus a year man to pay taxes at a rate of 27%, the same rate as is paid by a $15,000 a year earner. On thte "issue of federal spending, Mankiewicz mentioned that Senator McGovern feels too much is spent on Seminary Faculty national defense and too little on schools. Philip C. Bankwitz, professor of history, is writing a book on the development of the Mankiewicz pointed out that the present Alsatian Autonomists: the history of their decline and fall. Bankwitz says he hopes the priorities for federal spending have manuscript will be ready in 1973, and will be used in history courses at Trinity and established a situation where "if Senator Cancels Classes Jsra i elsewhere. McGovem's homestate of South Dakota The faculty of the Hartford Seminary, in a special meeting Thursday, voted to observe a moratorium on classes initiated by Faculty Research students at the seminary. All classes will be cancelled February 12- 18, "leaving to individual faculty members to arrange with their classes and individual students for covering the academic work of Bankwitz Studies Alsatian Autonomists the semester." byErikLarsen The Student Association of the Seminary voted a week ago Monday to observe a two week moratorium on classes in response to Philip *C. if'. Bankwitz, professor of cause of both World Wars in the twentieth highly restricted Archives of the Ministries history, is gathering information for a book century...Alsace was the Northern Ireland of National Defence of the Interior and of an announced cutback in programs at the on the Alsatian Autonomists. In a Tripod of Europe." Justice, while he was in France in 1970-71 on school which shifted the major focus of the interview Thursday, Bankwitz disclosed Alsatian Autonomists were home .rulers ,a reserach fellowship from the American school from undergraduate modern plans for his latest publication to be entitled, who controlled the politics of Alsace, now a Council!of Learned Societies'. Because the theological study and training to a program > "The History of the Alsatian Autonomists, part of Eastern France, between 1919-1939. records of three, trials could not be found for of continuing education for ordained 1919-1945." However, Bankwitz plans to begin his book him during his stay in France, Bankwitz Christian, clergy. •:•. "The purpose of this book," Bankwitz with the pre-World War I status of Alsace, to reports that he will return to Alsace this According to a report in the Hartford said, "is to show the development of the trace the development of the Autonomist summer to consult them, and also to do work Courant Saturday the Hartford Seminary Alsatian Autonomists; their tortured history movement. at the Federal Archives at Koblenz, Ger- Board of Trustees has been "flooded in and tragic end, and to put into relief the The territory was annexed by Germany in many. recent months to relocate the school" and peculiar characteristics of Alsace which 1871, and it achieved a great deal of self-rule Bankwitz says he plans to start writing that they had "studied the possibility of still mark it off from France as a well in the German Empire through the Con- this fall, and he expects to have the moving the institution outside the Hartford defined region," "stitution of 1911. However, with the Treaty of manusacript ready sometime in 1973, when area". "I'm amazed," he added, "that more Versailles in 1919, Alsace was reintegrated it will be published by Princeton University In a Courant story Sunday Seminary attention has not been given to the Alsatian into France, which allowed no regional Press. When it is finished, he added, he President James N. Gettemy claimed that region and its problems..,it was a leading autonomy. During this period, a great deal expects that it will be used with modern the seminary had no plans to leave the of friction developed between France and history courses here and elsewhere.. Hartford area. Alsace over questions of language, religious practices and economics, adding to the agitations for home-rule. This led to a closer relationship between FGermany and Alsace, which ultimately led to a series of Mead Lecturer Discusses trials for high treason against the French government, which were interupted by the TRIPOD defeat of France by the Nazis in 1940, In desperation, some of the Alsatian Sex Biases In Legal Codes This is the last issue of the Autonomists collaborated with the Nazis TRIPOD for two weeks. The who occupied their native land; others Ruth Bader Ginsberg, professor of law at Professor Ginsberg graduated first in her TRIPOD will resume formed a large resistance movement. When Columbia University delivered the Mead class from Columbia Law School in 1959 and publication after Open Week, on Alsace was liberated by the Allies in 1945, lecture in Political Science to a standing taught at Rutgers University from 1963 until February 29. the collaborating autonomists were rounded room only crowd in Wean Lounge Thursday. this year. up and brought before the French courts, at The topic of the lecture was "Sex and about the same time as the Nurembourg Unequal Protection: Men and Women as trials were being held, and many of them Victims". Ginsberg stressed the develop- were sentenced to death or life im- ment of the women's movement from Susan Young prisonment. • _•, B. Anthony and the struggle for the fran- In his research, Bankwtiz consulted the chise to Betty F.riedan and the National Organization of Women. Socialists Ginsberg, the first woman to be appointed a professor of law at Columbia, stressed the Meet Faculty To Reconsider prejudiced nature of many recent court V., decisions. She said they clearly reflect the At a meeting of the Trinity Young conception that a women's place is in the Socialists, Thursday night, Alan Green,'% home arid her primary role is domestic. of the Workers' League addressed the Case Of Two Students Ginsberg pointed out that in some states eighteen people present with a " polities women; are excluded from jury duty. She report" in which he described the events of said "if a women is tobe regarded as a fully Attica, Baton Rouge, and Ulster as The, future of two seniors who were the committee's recommendation. required to withdraw from the college at a competent human being she must share manifestations of the conflict between the Rex Neaverson, chairman of the Con- responsibility aswell as privilege." She said classes. faculty meeting two weeks ago will be, ference Committee and Faculty secretary that "women are often educated about a decided this afternoon during a regularly said that if the cases are reopened the The Young Socialists are a Trotskyist scheduled faculty meeting. world full of meaning, but they can only group, not Stalinists; their interest thus lies Academic Affairs Committee and one of the conjure up pictures of a world they can The faculty conference committee met students professors are prepared to make in a purer Marxism than that of present-day last. Monday and Tuesday and Voted to recommendations to the faculty. never penetrate." Russia, or of labor beaurocracies. The emphasis is on revolution, not reform. recommend to the faculty at today's Originally the Academic Affairs Com- Ginsberg emphasized, that conditions in meeting that they reconsider the required mittee voted to waive required withdrawal The discussion at the meeting centered on withdrawal of the two students.