Monday,September 13, 1976 Connecticut Daily Campus Pa
Acting head named for troubled center
‘ A former New York City school teacher. now doing graduate work in ~ fl anthropology at the University. has been named part-time acting " director of the campus Puerto Rican Center.
In a statement released late last week. H. Fred Simons. assistant vice president for academic affairs and UConn's coordinator of minority programs. said Maria Rivera, a native of Puerto Rico educated in New York. will be center director until a search for a permanent director is completed.
Rivera will replace Candido LeBrun. the second Puerto Rican Center director to resign in less than a year. At the time of his e. rsignation several weeks ago. LeBrun echoed complaints voiced last Q year that minority programs. especially those for Spanish-speaking ' students. were being shortchanged by the University.
The director who preceded LeBrun last year. also resigned. saying the University was not allocating sufficient funds for minority V programs. A group of Puerto Rican students marched on President
Ferguson’s Oak Hill Road home last year to deliver a list of demands
calling for increased funds for programs for Spanish-speaking
students. more academic offerings and more rigorous recruitment of
Spanish-speaking students to attend UConn.
The demands still are being considered. Simons was reported as saying last week.
Simons said last week in his statement that a search for a
permanent director has begun under UConn's affirmative action plan guidelines.
Riveria is a graduate of the City University of New York and taught in New York public schools for l0 years. She also taught language arts in Spanish and English at the Roberto Clemente Center. a high school equivalency program for minority students. in New York.
Council to consider Dog Lane road Work
transferring ownership of land
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Staff Photo/Buzz Kanter
Good Night, Knight
Two members of the Canton of Fennesbourg, a group of medieval traditlonalists, stage their annual Joust and combat under the rules that governed such matches in the Middle Ages. The modem-day action was staged on the Student Union Mall over the weekend.
Voter signup drive slated
By CHARLES A. MOORE the Connecticut League of W0-
A statewide voter registration men Voters will be on campus On dFlV€ Will be C°ml“8 t0 UCOM‘ Oct. 4 and S. The visit is part of earl)’ next month in 3“ attempt t° an overall campaign of the Feder- register 5t“d°"t5 ft” the °°mt“8 ation of Student and Service November elections. Organizations (F SSO) called “Op- The "Vote Mobiltisponsored by cration Vote". said FSSO chair-
on campus.
The Vote Mobile has voting machines to instruct new voters
on the use of the machines. There will be instructors on hand
to explain how to file an absentee Bids for the construction of
Today’s Weather
Today will be sunny and mild, with the highs between 75 and 80. Fair tonight and Tuesday, with lows tonight in the mid-50’s and highs Tues- day in the mid-80’s. The probability of precipitation is near zero today and tonight. Winds will be southwesterly, 10 to 15 m.p.h. today and tonight.
man William Finch.
He said Operation Vote was designed to coordinate the voter registration efforts of FSSO. the League of Women Voters. and the Mansfield Democratic and Re- publican town committees.
Finch was optimistic about the Vote Mobile's effectiveness. "1 saw what it could do and thought it would work well at UConn." he said. He said he expects at least 300 persons to register at the Vote Mobile in the tow days it will be
ballot. The UConn Young Demo-
crats will be assisting at the Vote Mobile.
Under a new state law. in-state
students may register here to vote in their home towns and do not have to go home to register. Anv out-of-state student who wishes to vote in Connecticut may do so if
he registers as a Mansfield voter.
Anyone wishing to vote in the
November election must be regis- tered by Oct. 12.
two sidewalks and a second traffic lane on Dog Dane at its intersection with Route 195 in Storrs were received by the Town of Mansfield Friday. more than two years after a group of handicapped students from UConn appeared before the Mansfield Town Council asking for improvements. In the summer of
1974. UConn agreed to cooperate with the Town of Mansfield in
on which some of the improve- inents are to be made. Most of the land concerned is locat- cd next to the University Publications building.
“Though the project has been approved by the Town Council and the town has
appropriated money for the project. the plan still hinges on UConn traiisfcrring the neces-
sary land to the town." said Donald R. Aubrey. Matis- l'ield's Director of Public
improving the intersection by
Works.
Trustees delay action on fee
for vendors
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The ycntlor's spokesman claim- ctl they have rctaincd counsel to iiivcstigatc whether the Univer- sity has the legal right to IC\'_\' the charge.
The proposed schctlulc would
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A $l5(l per month charge would be applied to all seasonal vendors sticli as ice crcani vendors.
A Sltl per semester non-rcfu ud- ahlc fee will be charged to all
Students interested in registering for 0 proposed theatre production in Modern
Hebrew this semester should contact Dr.
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sidcnt for finance and admini- stration. said the fees were being proposed because the l0 vending trailers operating on campus "have been using our parking facilities and caused us security and police costs.
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