•*•• ± Vol. LXVINo.,1 TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD OCTOBER 24, 19H7 Amherst Faces Strike Objecting to Parietah The Amherst student to the recent threat. There was Council has threatened a no additional administration or "school-wide student protest" if student reaction to the event. any undergraduate is expelled or The * Council , last spring suspended for violation of parietal requested suspension of parietals, hours, The action is the result but the plea met with aflat admin- ol an administration statement istration denial. Present hours threatening expulsion as punish- stand at 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. ment for parietal infractions. weekdays, and to 12:30 a.m. Sunday. Saturday, however, in the Saturday hours were increased last first case of parietal violation week by one hour until 1:30 a.m. since the issuance of the state- in accordance with the 2:00 a.m. ment, the student involved was put hours at Smith and Mt. Holyoke. on disciplinary probation for one (Arnherst's hours are year--the standard penalty prior MORE lenient than those at the College, which are from 12:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, to 11:30 p.m. Fridayand Poor Turnout Sunday, and to 1:00 a.m.Saturday.) Condemning the regula- Cripples AD tions as "cruelly imposed from PENTAGON LIGHTS silhouette National Guardsmen cordoning off entrance against student dem- the outside," the Council refused onstrators in second and violent protest Saturday evening in Washington. to enforce them, stating that en- _-___ ^^ __„_____ _ (Ai.-,i-K-iato1 Press Photo) Problem Talk forcement would be up to the The disappointing attendance at college itself. The administration Alpha Delta Phi's discussion of interpreted this as a call for more social, expansion, and financing stringent enforcement, which took Washington Sees Two-Part problems Thursday turned the the form of the expulsion/suspen- meeting into an AD bull session. sion threat. The only non-AD participants were Dean of Students William N. Bobbins Winslow, Jr., assistant Swartzbaugh reacted to the call Protest: Peaceful, Violent director of development, and the for student protest by issuing a TRIPOD reporter. warning stating that protest would by A. Rand Gordon House President Richard Meloy be met with "mass dismissals." '68 blamed the poor attendance on The mobilization to "confront the Warmakers" in Washington brought together tinder a.united (Violation of hours at the banner representatives of every anti-war faction, coming from California and Cambridge, both the lack of personalized in- College brings the student before vitations. Meloy hoped indepen- Medusa. The College has been passive and violent. Negro and white, socialist and capitalist, hippie and student. dents would be present to make traditionally strict regarding The attendance, action and treatment: of what had been billed as the nation's largest anti- fraternity members aware of the parietal violations, and most cases war demonstration seem to indicate that it surely was the most significant protest held to date. independents' desires. have resulted in suspension or dis- Not only did it strike t\ responsive chord around the world as manifested by echo demonstrations, Criticism of the present social missals,) but the Saturday rally sponsored by the National Mobilization Committee.to.End the War in Viet- ' structure dominated the talk. The The Amherst police, just as nam vibrated with overtones of futurity, as national party politicians' reactions have shown. groulTgenerally agreed that some Medusa, will not search rooms. More significant than the reasons for the gathering are the political repercussions it has caused attempt should be made, perhaps in The girl discovered Saturday at to resound within the established party structure. Further, the forms of protest are evolving; the form of a social survey and Amherst was found as a result Washington witnessed both a peaceful and a violent demonstration on October 21. .evaluation, to determine exactly of her failure to return to her what the dissatisfied independents school at 2:00 a.m. Her school Seemingly in league with no one, the reports of most public news media were radically di- want. James Broers '70 felt that notified the Amherst police of her vergent from the reports of eye witnesses. (Continued on Page 6) destination. The College was represented at the mobilization by approximately 20 members of the academ- ic community. One undergraduate was jailed during the closing hours of the demonstration, and another at one point found himself in the midst of a tear gas attack. Student Cars Towed The rally as it occurred existed in two ideologically separate entities; the planned, peace- - ful gathering and march from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and the later, violent stormings of the Pentagon building. The latter assaults took Following Complaints place well after the planned rally had concluded. The conflicting accounts of the numbers and ethno-ideologieal orientation of the participants At least four cars belong- curred after the College had re- ing to college students have been quested that police patrol Summit were filed during the 10:.'JO to I p.m. assembly around the reflecting pool which runs between towed away by the police this week, more frequently in response to the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, where a podium had been raised. Police reported Alfred A. Garofolo, di- recent thefts from parked cars. estimates set the crowd at 50,000 to of),000. However, Stephen Minot, assistant professor of rector of Campus security. The These included hubcaps, batteries, English, concurred with other College attendees in estimating the gathering "at well over 100,000 cars were parked in the No Par- a stereo tape recorder, the top people lining both sides of the pool." king zones flanking College Ter- of a convertible, and in two cases In direct contradiction to many local radio accounts, which categorized most of the partici- race at Summit Street. the car itself. Both cars were pants-as black nationalists and hippies, Minot observed that the rally was attended largely by recovered the next day, minus college students with less participation by hippies and adults than last spring's mobilization The police action occurred tires. in New York. , after continous complaints by The New York ilines' account of the assemblage discredited Hartford residents that the parked the reports that the body'was controlled by communist and black cars obscured their vision when putUTG CutDQck Likely turning onto Summit Street from > ' nationalist elements. In fact, the Times indicated that only a College Terrace. The police have — dozen Negroes participated in the Pentagon procession while been ticketing cars illegally parked most of their 153 comrades repaired to South-west Washington, in that section for about two weeks, the predominantly Negro district, for a rally of their own. said Garofolo, and "at least two" TRIPOD ADDS TO STAFF While gathered at the memorial, several speeches were ad- of the towed-away cars had been dressed to the assemblage. The opening remarks delivered by tagged previously. David Del linger, the sponsoring committee chairman who was Students whose cars have been The Editorial Board of the TRI- rnlze, the TKIPOD has cancelled arrested later in the day, pointed to the evolving form which towed away, first must go to the POD has expanded its staff with plans for its annual dinner and anti-war protest was taking. Referring to the immediate gather- Hartford police to discover its the election of new members to has trimmed to a minimum its ing, he stated that "this is a beginning of a new stage in the location, said Garofolo. They then its news and editing board. complimentary subscription list. must . pay a parking fine of $5 Additionally at the Board meet- .Only Trustees (as the TRIPOD'S American peace movement in which the cutting edge becomes and towing costs of $10. ing its subscription and circul- publishers), advertisers, and se- active resistance." Assistant Dean of Students Leo ation policy to non-students was lected New England colleges now Del linger spoke as chairman of the loose confederation of nard Tomat emphasized that stu restated and clarified. receive free subscriptions. Sub- some 150 groups which have allied themselves in their mutual dents park on Summit at their own Although the quality of this scribers for the I9G7-G8 newspaper. distaste for the war in Vietnam. The mobilization committee, risk. Technically it is illegal year's freshman writers "is per- will receive issues through next while united in distaste, did not attempt to agree on any meth- for cars to be parked anywhere on haps the highest in the past four _ September as now orders were not ods or approaches to the ending of the war. The avoidance of the blacktop, as is customary on years," according to Chairman 'filled until early October. specifics reflects the wide divergence of political ideologies Summit Street opposite Mather Jeffrey E. Lucas '68, "with the Elected to the Editorial Board election of the new Editorial Board as a Contributing Editor was represented on the committee. Hall and Jarvis. Ticketing opera- The speeches delivered following the committee's initial state- tions were in force on Wednesday in early December the TRIPOD Michael P. Seitchik '68, still afternoon, and Garofolo expressed will probably be forced to dis- LOOKING FOR MOTHERBALL as ment of protest and cooperation took on the tone of personal confidence that the tagging was a continue its twice weekly publi- a regular columnist. Promoted animosity directed toward President Johnson and thereby gave Prelude to further car removal.The cation schedule. Both financial to the staff after only brief proof the protest significant future political significance, especially of their versatility as apprentice Coiiege is trying to have 'these restrictions and a limited number considering the opinion there represented by the young and fu- areas labeled as tow-away zones.