Okmwrttritt iatUj damjroa Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXI NO. 9 STORRS. CONNECTICUT Thursday, September 20, 1973 PIRG seeking alternate means for funding aid By MARK FRANKLIN The Connecticut Pulbic Interest Research Group (Conn PIRG) and the Board of Trustees have been unable to agree on a method for funding the Conn PIRG organization. Bart Russell, a member of the Conn PIRG board of directors, said his organization was trying to determine another funding method. The Board of Turstees rejected the Trustee Administration Faculty Student (TAFS) Committee proposal over the summer when they learned the TAFS proposal was unacceptable to Conn PIRG. Had the TAFS proposal been adopted, a card would have been sent to students with their fee bill. If students wished to support Conn PIRG, they could have sent the necessary two dollars with the card. Russell termed the TAFS proposal "unacceptable." The original Conn PIRG fee proposed a mandatory two dollar per semester fee which could have been Guitarist Leo Kottke tunes up his instrument during last night's free concert at Jorgensen auditorium. See story (Photo by Alan Decker). page 6. refunded at a student's request. Russell accused John J. Manning Jr., associate dean for student affairs, of influencing the TAFS proposal. Manning said Wednesday evening that he had "serious reservations" about the original Conn PIRG proposal. He said Pressuring of Agnew denied he had "expressed opinion" on Conn PIRG to the TAFS Committee. WASHINGTON (UPI) - A Warren said, "we feel it is Referring specifically to a Russell said there was spokesman for President Nixon denied inappropriate for the White House to Washington Post story Tuesday quoting "backstabbing" in the meetings which Wednesday that anyone at the White comment or accept questions - the a senior Republican as being "99'/s per drafted the TAFS proposal, ftg said House is trying to pressure Vice answers to which would pass judgment cent certain" Agnew would resign, the there were no student members of the President Spiro T. Agnew into resigning on the situation - while it is still being source said: TAFS committee present at the but repeatedly declined to express considered by the attorney general." "It just isn't true. He's talked to a meeting which drafted the proposal. presidential confidence in Agnew. White House sources said privately number of senators and congressmen Willima C. Orr, associate provost, The denial by assistant Press the President does not feel a about what he ought to do, and the who was present at the TAFS meeting, Secretary Gerald L. Warren came after restatement of support for Agnew unanimous feeling is to fight, and said Thursday he "can't remember any a source close to the vice president would be appropriate since the that's what he intends to do. There's meetings when no students told UPI that the White House was attorney general has over-all control of never been any question in my mind of were behind reports of an impending the investigation. his resolve to fight this thing." present. resignation, and said Agnew intended Attorney General Elliot L. "to fight this thing." Richardson has said he will have the Warren told reporters: "There is no final say on whether a federal grand disposition on the part of the White jury in Baltimore will be given House or people in the White House to information from an investigation of force the vice president to resign." And Agnew in connection with alleged he denied that any presidential aides ^ J. kickbacks while he was Baltimore were behind news reports that Agnew county executive and later governor of was planning to quit. the state. But under repeated questioning, Richardson also will decide whether Warren declined to say that Nixon still an indictment will be sought against supports Agnew, referring reporters to Agnew. the President's statement at his last The source close to Agnew, who news conference that he admired the declined to have his name used, said of vice president's work since taking reports the vice president plans to step office. down that there were "indications that "Because the matter of the vice it's coming from people over at the president is under investigation," White House." Neither side will give an inch in tug-of-war for Nixon tapes WASHINGTON (UPI) - The White in the negotiations and a final White House and Special Prosecutor House brief filed with the court in the Archibald Cox, working up to a case reiterated Nixon's hard-line stand court-imposed deadline, were reported against surrendering the tapes to Cox Wednesday still far apart on attempts intact. to compromise out of court their 'To tear down the office of the dispute over President Nixon's American presidency is too high a price Watergate tapes. to pay even for Watergate," the White Spokesmen for both the White House brief said. House and for Cox confirmed that the The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals two sides had met — in accordance for the District of Columbia, which last with a suggestion from a federal week suggested that Cox and Nixon try appeals court — and tried to reach a compromise on Cox's suit to obtain to negotiate a settlement and thus nine of Nixon's tape-recorded avoid a constitutional confrontation in The Sri Chinmoy Meditation Group was one of the 53 organizations and conversations on the scandal. court, asked for a report by Thursday clubs represented at Wednesday night's Activities Fair in the ROTC hangar. But a White House source said on whether the discussions had been Sarah McElhone-Bentz (left) of the meditation group is seen describing its purpose to an interested student. (Photo by Ronald Mayer). there had been "very little movement" "fruitful." • • . Thursday, September 20, 1973 T^t T^ * «1 TTT c&muuKttntf SaUjj (Eamtiua 1 he r residency: ill Editor's Note: This is the In each case a sharp eye government now seem a mixed Editor-in-Chief last of a three-part series wfll see that loyalty to our blessing and occasionally downright dangerous. Alan K. Reisner dealing with the office of the political system and even to the Presidency of the United States nation is being equated with If one takes them seriously, there is the question of Managing Editor Business Manager By W. WAYNE SHANNON loyalty to the government's I will mention one other policies of the day. In this answers. If they are to be John Pallatto Jeffrey J. Sherman problem that I am afraid direction lies real trouble for a found, we must rise above such inheres in the very nature of republic. relatively unimportant questions the American Presidency - the An attack on the President as whether Haldeman, Dean etc. confusion that results from one as politician seems to be an go to jail. man's being both Chief of State attack on the nation itself. How We need a major effort at (symbol of the nation, its much more sensible it seems by reassessing how we came to myths and purposes) and the contrast to symbolize the aggrandize the Presidency so head of a government. nation in a figurehead (perhaps much in the first place. The The pick Unless I am very wrong this an emasculated monarch or a answer seems obvious. is the sort of problem that senior - citizen statesman who It has been our way of The tennis world's battle of the sexes culminates crops up when people are heard is beyond ambition) and adapting our fractured policy to to say "Let us support the recognize the head of the modern circumstances. If the tonight when Bobby Riggs laces Billy Jean King in a President; he is the only one we government as what he is - a costs are as high as they now high finance match inside Houston's Astrodome. politician making policies and have." seem, we must face how we can The most publicized match in tennis history has Or when Richard Nixon seeking support. announced in a speech that he As Henry Fairlie has often alternatively produce the kind grown to circus proportions. What began as one was deeply shocked that our said, he can never figure out of leadership and coherence woman's revenge of a Mother's Day match in which opinion leaders did not that we have through the which "hat" the President is Riggs crushed Margaret Court, is now an extravaganza. unanimously back his mining "textbook Presidency." There of the North Vietnamese ports. wearing when he speaks. He the going really gets rough and The winner tonight will receive $100,000. Or when people now say, should not feel bad. There are anyone with a good idea is a Riggs and King will split another $200,000. "End the Watergate hearings; many natives who have the valuable person indeed, Courtside tickets are sold out at $100 each. ABC has we have had enough of this same problem. Dr. Shannon is an associate besmirchment of our These, are but a few of the professor of political science at paid $750,000 lor television rights. Howard Cosell is institutions." problems that make Presidential the University. scheduled to do the play, by play. The stakes arc extremely high. Neither Riggs nor King has ever played lor as much before. Tension is Letters To The Editor said to be high for both participants, and not because of the money. QVi/^I/l/ nffnirV throwing Christmas parties for There are over 13,000 kjULIUl UJjUlrD kids Mansfield Training undergr; Riggs, a 55 year old male chauvinist, in thought me at -graduates at this To the Editor: School, or raising money for University.