the VOL. LXX, LSSUK 7 TK1N1TY COLLEGE, HARTFORD TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, I!)71 21 Candidates Compete »*. * In Committee Elections I)V I'illlliil I'ilVCV Only three of eight races will be contested Wright. Students may vote for up to seven of in the elections tomorrow for the Trinity these candidates. College Council and student-faculty com- John Kirshon, Richard Klibaner, and Jay mittees. The contested races are for the Mandt are the nominees for the two open TCC, the Academic Affairs Committee, and positions on the Academic Affairs Com- the College Affairs Committee. mittee. Nominees for the Trinity College Council The five nominees for the three open are Thomas Ashford, Steve Barkan, Bruce positions on the College Affairs Committee Cholst, Mark Feathers, Daniel Freelan- are James Adams, Ronald Kaplan, Peter der, Ronald Kaplan, Gary Kinsella, William Robinson, Susan Stix, and Gregory Zee. F. Lingard, Steven Seligman, Susan Stix, The races for the Curriculum Committee Changez Sultan, Amy Tenney, and William and the Student Activities Committee are uncontested. John Mattus was the only student to file a petition for the Budget Committee, which automatically gives him News From a seat on the committee, according to Tim Wallach '72, one of the students running the election. The Outside Wallach and Mike Lederberg '73, the only INTKHNATIONAL two students presently on the TCC, are President Nixon held meetings with the organizing the election. leaders of both the Soviet Union and Japan Other student members of the Budget during the week. Monday, the President met Committee will be appointed by the Student Japanese Kmporer Hirohilo in Anchorage, Activities Committee, Wallach added. Alaska. While the two men did not discuss Vacancies on the Financial Affairs and anything of substance, the meeting was a Lecture Committees will be filled by the historic one in that it was the first time that chairmen of those committees, according to a Japanese Emporer had left Japan in over Wallach. 2600 years. Charles Griswold and Lewis Mancini filed Nixon met with Soviet Foreign Minister petitions for the Curriculum Committee; Andre Gromyko at the While Mouse Wed- Since there are only two vacancies on this nesday and discussed the issue of strategic board, both students will automatically take arms limitations. At the conclusion of the the positions. The three candidates for the I- '\ meeting, the President said that although Student Activities Committee. Alfred there had been "some steady progress" at Brunetti, Dennis Lalli, and Jay Mandt, will the limitation talks, he hoped for more also take their seats automatically since movement when the talks resumed. there are three vacant positions on this U.S. Treasury Secretary John Connally board. I'lioto) told the International Monetary Fund's No students submitted petitions for the Former Seyms St. Inmate annual meeting in Washington Thursday Financial Affairs or Lecture Committees. Suede Sanders, former inmate of the Seyms Strwt Jail, deplores the overcrowded that the U.S. would remove the import According to Lederberg, the student conditions of the jail. Sunders complained of nils and vermin, lack of bathroom facilities, surcharge if other leading nations would vacancies on these committees willbe filled and inadequate physical recreation and medical care. -f- allow their currencies to float freely upward by the committee chairmen, who may either against the dollar and if some nations would devise their own methods of selection or ask take ".specific" measures to reduce barriers the newly-elected TCC for assistance. against U.S. exports. All undergraduates may vote in the Faculty Response Positive NATIONAL election, which will be held from 9:00 a.m. to In contrast to the close divisions of the last 4:00 p.m. tomorrow in the main lobby of two years, the Senate voted 64 to 21 to Mather Hall. continue deployment of the Safeguard an- To Tutorial College Program tiballislic missile on Wednesday. )>,v Kltf Governor Thomas Meskill announced c I'oganv Tuesday that he had learned from meetings Tripod In Tripod interviews this week, faculty exciting alternatives to traditional modes of with House Ways and Means Chairman, members responded favorably to the education. There will be a meeting of all Tripod Tutorial College Program proposed by the The outline of necessary adjustments to Wilbur Mills that Connecticut will fare very staff Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. in the poorly under a revenue-sharing plan now Summer Planning Committee. the new program by students and teachers Tripod office. Elections of new staff and The Tutorial College would provide an is given in the Academic Committee's being prepared in Congress because Con- promotions will be held. necticut does not have an income tax. alternative to the traditional academic Report, compiled over the summer. It states program in which a student takes four or that the Tutorial College is expected to five courses per semester. It would offer comprise about one-fourth of the College students the opportunity to conduct in-depth population during the first year of its study under individual faculty members operation, (prospectively '72-'73>. The over the course of one semester. Robert B. student-teacher ratio in the program will Oxnam, assistant professor of history, approximate the ratio inside the regular stated that the program would provide the College. Courses taught in the regular depth of study that students now have to College by professors involved in the sacrifice for the usual breadth of five varied Tutorial College will not be available to courses. students during that time. There will, The report proposes that faculty and however, be a regular cycling of professors students would enter the tutorial college on between the colleges to compensate for such a volunteer basis and participate for one shortages. : semester in "either large seminars, in- John Gettier, acting chairman of the dividual tutorials, directed research, or a Religion Department, states that the combination of these," proposal might be difficult to implement. He sa id that in working out the mechanics of the The idea for the Tutorial College was Tutorial College, the College should be inspired by the Skiing and Being Program, careful not to short-change those students according to Oxnam, which, he said, who choose not to participate in it. He said "clearly demonstrated the viability of a less the college should not reduce the courses structured academic atmosphere." He available to them on any given semester. supported the proposal's intention to Hyland said that the necessary "create a structure which further en- mechanical adjustments should not prevent courages closer intellectual interaction over the implementation of a "valuable" extended periods." educational possibility. Oxnam sees in this proposal a way of He did recognize, however, the need for an r drawing the role of the teacher and student effective advisory system to help students closer together. The program, he says, adjust and orient themselves to the new encourages the student to view his studies program. from the standpoint of the teacher, as if he Oxnam said that students would learn of were going to present his thinking to a possibilities in (he Tutorial College through (Nalvig Photo) critical colleague. He feels this critical the publication by each participating faculty interaction between teacher and student has member of his specific field of Buyers' Action Center been hampered by the traditional structure specialization, field of research or proposed Tom F,r,•*„„. assudaU director of the Buyers' Action Center posts a lis of^p opostd of academic work. topic of study. Richard Lee, chairman of the proRroms for the ,,,w consumer group. According to Ferngna. the BAt will =Jj to f r0 Drew Hyland, associate professor of philosophy department, suggested that "»W mm*** *«ir,r«l bs consumm through the orga"•»*«>» ° ™^> * ^ philosophy." and creator of the Skiing and students might be able to supplement of- lifter than thrmiKh libation. Ferrigno. and Ihe Center sdiiw«,l*d Ketne will Being Program, said that he also sees in the ferings by petitioning faculty and other »««ik about consumerism ami i-ommuntty organizing tonight on VVH1C-KM at - .JO. Ste Tutorial College proposal possibilities for students. story page u, . TUKSDAY, (MTOIJKK 5, l()7i TKINITV TKIPOI) I'agr a Adventure Film Bugged By Sad Lack of Humor by Kmily llolconilu* The Anderson Tapes is James Bond, with nursing home, it was a theatrical film, in a message trying to reach the surface. SOUK; which most of the weight of (he message ex-cons, led by Sean Connery, plan a rob- rested with the actors and what they said. bery, and each one of them is being bugged And it worked as a film that spoke directly by the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI, to the audience, without pretentious of any the narcs, or a jealous boyfriend. The op- kind. pressiveness of invasion permeates the The scheme of the film was simple, almost movie, but fails to lend the intended irony. loo everyday if considered in the abstract, Instead it is, with the exception of I he first However, expressed through the words of scene, merely the heavy-handed touch of writer Robert Anderson, the film gives the movie camera lenses peeking from elevator audience not an escape, but an experience. walls, or u magnetic tape recorder clinging Gene llaekmnn, a widower son, has always to the underside of a Mafioso's car. tried, but always failed, lo lie elose to his father, and he wants I his closeness desperately. When his mother dies, he faces The other regrettable aspect of Ibis film is the dilemma of either going lo California to its attempt at humor. Where some funny marry the woman be loves, or slaying with lines protruded (the old lady's delight at his father and sublimating himself for the being robbed), they acted as relievers, not rest of his life.