Connecticut Daily Campus Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXIX, NO. 56 STORRS. CONNECTICUT FRIDAY, DECEMBER I I, 1964 Senate Attendance Record Subject Of Two Proposals Administrators Offer Views On Jeff Belmont University Stand On Residences An effort to, "give the Senate In a straw vote, the Senate the color and excitement that it agreed with Walters that the MALCOLM BARLOW hap lost" was defeated Wednes- branches should have control of The University position on un- school?" of the history of the Univer- day afternoon by the Student Sen- themselves, and that class lead- dergraduate off-campus living One of the most urgent reasons sity on this issue. There was ate. ers who matriculate to Storrs was explained recently in a num- at the moment for not allowing a time when students weren't al- in their Junior year shoud find ber of interviews with key admi- undergrads to find off-campus lowed to live on campus, he said. The bill was proposed by Sen- places of influence in the already nistrative officials. University housing was pointed out by Dr. Later they were allowed to if existing organization. opposition to the change centered Sumner Cohen, Director of Hou- they could find room. ator Fred Wallace in an effort around three major concerns, (1) to boost sagging attendance re- sing. Dr. Cohen stressed the fact In 1925 the legislature provided cords at senate meetings. Up for discussion was vice- crowded off-campus living condi- that UConn Is in a very rural housing for 500 students only. chairman Jon Barbieri's montion tions, (2) economic considera- area. "There are few private All the students had to live In on dismissal of senators who fail tions, and (3) fulfillment of the homes, much less apartments. them until 1927, when commuters The bill would allow the main to make meetings. "total education experience". In the area in which students were again accepted. body of the senate to debate on The results of a recent student can live." he said. In the late 30* s he continued, any and all issues that might The bill argued that those referendum favored off-campus Dr. Max Putzel of the Universi- It became apparent that 500 beds be brought up before the body. senators who did not show enough living for undergraduates twenty- ty Graduate School said that there on campus was not enough. How- one and over by 2388 to 216. was not enough housing reserved ever, the legislature could not pay Interest to come to meetings President Babbidge remarked Under the present system, all would not have the desire toper- for graduates this last fall and for new dorms and so It set up that he would "like to know the that many new grads have had to the practice that the University is bills must first pass through form their duties adequately, and reasons - the educational rea- Steering Committee which then should be liable for dismissal by live In the fraternities,"...which using today. The studertj pay sons - that the students." is most undesirable." rent In order to build and main- channels it to the proper depart- the Senate in a Three-fourths "My principle concern Is an ed- ments. minimum vote. Dr. Cohen pointed out that a tain dormitories. ucational one", he said. "This group of three or four single men This meant, he concluded, the is the only basis on which this can compete better financially for purchase of the self-liquidating The problem of class councils Due to a possible conflict with Issue should be decided. What housing than can a married stu- bonds. and the branches was also dis- their constitution the senate living arrangements contributed dent with a wife and possibly Dean of Students Arwood S. cussed at the special afternoon tabled the bill. to the main purpose of this children. Off-campus housing in Northby said that "We are a meeting. Cambridge Is sky high for this residential college." As such we reason, he added. have what he called "living with Senator Howie Walters, Chair- On the economic issue Dr. Cohen learning" in order to have a man of the Branchfer Committee, said that if the University could "fuller college life." suggested due to the differences not guarantee that there would "There is a trend In U. S. Uni- of location, goals, and purposes, be rent coming from the students versities both public and pri- classes at the branches could then the bonds for the dorms vate towards being residential better function if they were, would not be bought. To secure colleges. Even Universities lo- autonomous from the class coun- these bonds the students must cated in urban areas such as cils of the other branches, and live on campus, he said. Boston U. and the U. of Minne- of Storrs. These are self liquidating bonds sota, are building dormitories In he explained. This means that great numbers." he said. the student's rent makes the pay- Dr. Cohen said that the reason Senator Lee Grief proposed an ments on them. In order to have for the development of fraterni- alternate plan in which separate proper and adequate housing and ties was that the residences are class councils would be unified keep the rents within each stu- a valuable part of education. under one president. dent's grasp all available space He cited a pamphlet issued by must be filled. the Division of Housing in which Although it was conceeded that Provost Waugh recounted some the following statement appears, Grief's plan might better assimi- cont. on page 4 late the branchfers into the Uni- versity once they got to Storrs; many senators argued that run- Hungarian String Quartet ning a class originating from four i?m such varied points as Storrs, To Perform Here Monday Hartford, Waterbury, and Stam- IN THE final stages of construction, the new Uni- ford would be difficult if not versity Skating Rink will be opened to students and The Hungarian Quartet, made later became known as the West- impossible. the general public January 4. (Photo by Firth) up of four virtuosi of the strings, minster Quartet. Following the will make their debut at the Von outbreak of World War II, it was der Mehden Recital Hall on Dec. disbanded and Mr. Kuttner per- Rescheduled Classes 10 at 8:15 PM. formed with several string en- Trecker Named Member Of sembles which toured widely In Classes cancelled as a result of Feted on five continents, this the U.S., Europe and South Am- Wednesday's bomb scare will be veteran ensemble was founded erica. held Saturday. Those scheduled National Advisory Board in Budapest almost three decades at 1:00 p.m. will be held at ago. By 1938, the Quartet had Mr. Magyar, who plays a 9:00 a.m., 3:00 p.m. classes will Storrs, Conn., Dec. — Harleigh Committee to Federal Social Garbrlelll cello built In 1751, performed in every major city of was a professor of cello and meet at 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 B. Trecker, dean of the Uni- Welfare Agencies," a new nat- Western Europe. Over the past p.m. classes will meet at 11:00 versity of Connecticut School of ional consultative body. chamber music before Joining 29 years it has given thousands the Hungarian Quartet. A gradu- a.m. All classes will meet in Social Work, has been named a The UConn educator and au- of Individual concerts. their regular classrooms. member of the "Deans'Advisory thority on social work ad- ate of the Royal Hungarian Con- ministration is one of a dozen servatory of Music, he also was deans from American schools of Although only one member of a student of Kodaly. His per- social work who have been in- the Quartet, Denes Koromzay, formance of Kodaly's "Solo Sona- World News Briefs vited to serve on the Committee is a charter member of the en- ta" was praised by the composer by the Board of Directors of the semble, each of the musicians as the best interpretation of this Nationwide Strike In France Council on Social Work Educa- traces his musical origins to the work. tion. The Council is the nat- land of the Magyars. FRANCE (AP)—France is brac- involved In the walkout are ask- ional accreditation agincy for Mr. Koromzay, the Quartet's ing itself for what could be the ing for more money to keep U.S. Schools of social work. Other members of the Quartet viola player, won an honor dip- biggest work stoppage In ten government wages on a level with The Committee was set up to are: Zoltan Szekely, first violin; loma In the International Con- years — a 24-hour, nationwide those in private industry. The provide counsel and asvice to Michael Kuttner, second violin; eourse for Violin in Vienna at the walkout by as many as seven strike began in suburban Paris officials of the Department of and Gabriel Magyar, cello. age of 18. A onetime assistant million employees In the public where trainmen walked off the Health, Education and Welfare, concertmaster with the Budapest jobs just at the beginning of the Concert Orchestra, he gave many service industries. The unions the Veterans Administration and Mr. Szekely, a one time stu- evening rush hour. other social-welfare agencies. recitals In radio broadcasts from dent of the renowned Zoltan Ko- Budapest, Vienna and Berlin. daly, began his solo career at A Double-Barrel led Space Shot Class Days Changed the age of 18, giving recitals In During the war he played first all the capitols of Europe—play- viola with the Concertgebouw Or- The United States fired a launch- 3-A" military rocket was Students are reminded that on ing solo under the batons of such chestra of Amsterdam.