Gkmnwtimt Satlg Campus Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXVII NO. 98 STORKS, CONNECTICUT- MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1974 5 CENTS OFF CAMPUS Trustees postpone bookstore action The Board of Trustees voted Friday to consider the future of the University's contract with the Follett Corp. to run the UConn bookstore at a meeting before the end of the academic year, possibly at a special meeting (See story on page 2). The Board also apparently voted to delay approval of tenure for a leading UConn fem- inist, Claire M. Berg, associate professor of biology, in their executive session fSee page 2J."" Other Board action included appointment of a 12-member committee tc find a succes- sor for Provost Edward V. Gant (See page 3). Degrees for transfer engineering stud- ents were also made easier with the estab- lishment of a bache lor of mechanical tech- nology by the Boari at Friday's meeting (See page 3). Lowell Weicker due here tonight U.S. Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., R-Conn., will speak at 8:15 p.m. tonight in Jorgensen Auditorium. He will be making his first ap- pearance at the University since attaining national prominence as an outspoken member of the Senate Watergate Committee. The u3 year old Republican has been the junior senator from Connecticut since 1968. Before going to the Senate he served as fourth district congressman from 1963-67. Weicker has also been a state representative and the first selectman from his home town of Greenwich. The program is being sponsored -by the Board of Governors as part of their Politi- cal lecture series. Admission will be free. Jimmy Foster is forced to alter his route to the hoop by the Pad- To our readers: men's Ed Searcy. Foster's acrobatics helped the Huskies upset St. John's 82-70 in first round N.I.T. action. (Photo by Marc Cotnoir) Bear with us Please excuse the unusual appearance of today's Daily Campus. It is due to a Huskies win NIT opener breakdown of our normal composing equip- ment, an IBM magnetic tape selectric By ART HORWITZ composer. The IBM Repair Department NEW YORK — Jimmy Foster was abetted. Jimmy Foster was teased. to send a repairman saying no on* was Jimmy Foster was taunted. "available." But Sunday afternoon in the opening round of the National Invi- University publications, which uses the tational Tournament (NIT) at New York's Jtedi son Square Garden, Mel same equipment to produce the University Utley probably wished that he kept ids big mouth shut. Chronicle, would not provide the Daily Utley, the flashy 6-foot-l* St. John's guard, coaxed Foster into Campus with assistance. We expect, however scoring 27 points as the Huskies shocked the Redmen, 82-70 before to resume publication tomorrow with the 18,157 disbelieving spectators. clean and crisp news columns our reader* "Utley was talking to me and challenging me the whole time," see every day. Foster said before a contingent of the media after the contest. We regret that some scheduled clas- ,n "He said 'come on, come on, take me. sified advertisements and activities ware And that's just vhat the UConn captain did. oaritted froai today's issue. They will Foster was a phenomenal 11-of 16 from the floor, 5-for-5 from appear in Tuesday's issue unless our bus- the charity stripe, and burned the eyes out of Utley with twisting, iness office is oontaoted be twee* 10 a .a. spinning layups and three crucial three-point plays. and h p.*. and directed otherwise. Continued on page 8 Trustees set deadline for Follett action JJ By DEAN PEDFFF.N Th« University Board of Trust? es voted Friday to meet before the end of 1 h* -jcuderic vear, rossibly in a special ression, to trv t^ resnlve con- flict* involving the operation of the To11ott-run bookstore* The Trustees also requested that ,!f\jrffl °re9ident G1«»nn '.:. PerffMS«n establish a committee to ma'<e recommendations *ha* WAS THAT WHO I THINK IT WAST?' tb» trustees could set or nt a future me^t-inr. Thp -^rd mee*:nr was attended bv ab<*ut 7? demon- strators who racked the °utnam Tenure delayed for feminist f'pfectorv meetinp room, Larry T,opoz, act ins? chair- By MARK FRANKLIN of the biological sciences group, and man of the Kederation of The decision to give tenure to Joseph F. Speyer, head of the genetics Studenta and Service OrzanJ- department. r Associate Biology Professor Claire M. i-.tion ' SS0) and srokesmar Berg, a leading University feminist, was Purves confirmed that he had rec- for thp .Tour, recommended to apparently delayed by Provost Edward V. ommended Berg for tenure but would not the Board that a committee of Gant and Kenneth G. Wilson, vice pres- comment on the upper administration's students, faculty and University ident, for academic affairs. action on his proposal. Wilson, Lougee emrlryea he set ut to stud*/ Berg said their move reversed de- and Speyer refused to comment on the alternatives to the ':>cokstTre. cisions for immediate tenure made by matter. Lopex charged the bookstore lower level administrators including Berg said Speyer and Purves had is ".part of a svstematic cattern Robert W. Lougee, dean of the college "strongly" recommended her for tenure to savo money"' which has made of liberal arts and sciences. over the objections of the promotion *• education an extensive commod- Berg, a member of the genetics and tenure committees of the genetics ity" at UConn. c department, said Sunday she was in- and the biological sciences group. eferrinr to several formed that Gant tnd Wilson had rec- surveys that. ha/° ' een conducted The committees had not recommended her ommended that her tenure case be de- for tenure, Berg said. r<n the bookstoref Lores said ferred. Berg said she learned the "We don't nped anynor* search." She said the dean's advisory coun- Board of Trustees had decided to cil upheld Speyer and Purves' proposals He claimed there is enouph postpone the decision Friday and documentation that proves and Lougee had given her a "strongly asked for an administration recom- positive" recommendation. follett's has --ot met thp needs mendation at "an early meetine." of the comrur.ity. Berg said she did not know why Berg is a member of the newly Trustee Pcbert F. Tavlcr, her application was delayed. She said, herd -f the subcommjttee that formed Affirmative Action Committee, "I am totally perplexed by the admin- recommended the -rllett con- the University Senate and was part of istration's failure to act on the strong- tract, said there was -rich the group that drafted the state's ly positive recommendation for tenure Master Plan for Higher Education. dissatisfaction with the book- made by my section head, group head and Berg%is also a member of the Women's store operationi "some real dean." Council and the Organization of and some emotion?1„" Taylor Classified and Professional Women. Berg's case is the University's w said e is not convinced the Berg, a specialist in bacter- third controversial personnel case involving a feminist in two years. trustees have enough infor- ial genetics, said she is on the ed- mation about the bookstore Marcia Lieberman, assistant profes- itorial board of the Journal of sor of English, was denied tenure last to form a resolution. Bacteriology and has also written year in a case where she charged the Taylor said there is no articles in the Journal of Molecular evidence that rroves that prices English Department with "irregular Biology and the Journal of Genetics, procedures" in evaluating her case, are ^itfher at Fbllett*8 as com- she said. pared to other university book- and former Assistant Provost Gail A. stores. Howpver he sail, "All Their action overturns recom- Shea was dismissed last summer. Both alternatives should be explored mendations made by Robert W. Lougee, are now suing UConn in cases charging dean of the college of liberal arts the administration with political and in-depthc" Trustee Carl Nielsen, who and sciences, William K. Purves, head motives. recommended that the trustees, hold a special meeting on the bookstore rrior to the end of the academic year, said he does HEW withholds UConn funds not recall any UConn issue that has caused "as much unrest, About $2?U,000 is being withheld third plan UConn has submitted. It surveys and opinions." from the University by three federal includes a preamble with a "statement Tn other matters, the agenciee at the request of the U.S. to commitment" on hiring women and trustees voted to send the pro- Department of Health, Education and minorities, statistical data,, and posal to reorparize the 'Jniv- Welfare (HEW) pending HEW approval timetables for meeting hiring quotas. versity Senate Trustee Admin- of UConn's Affirmative Action Plan UConn President Glenn W. Ferguscn istration Faculty .Student (AAP), according to Robert N. said Friday the administration in- (TAFS) committee for further Randolph, director of the Boston corporated a few of the suggestions st:dyt ^h* senate proposal HEW's higher education division. made by the newly formed Affirmative -*ill-w» for student represen- Randolph's announcement Friday Action Committee members last week. tation on the Senate* coincided with the delivery of the He conceded, however, "The changes The trustees approved document to the Boston HEV office were minimal*" the transfer of an 3lcohol and by Bertram Wilson, equal employment Second Class Postage paid at Storrs, Ct. 06268. drup dependency training center opportunity officer, Pjb|<shed daily except Saturday and Sunday from Sept. 10 through Dec.