By JOHN HILL III
A proposal to charge private food vendors up to $500 per semester to operate on the UConn campus will be put before the Board of Trustees finance committee Friday, and one food vendor says he is seeking legal means to stop the proposal.
The plan affects the 10 food trailers operating on the campus. The fee would be charged on a graduated scale, Harry Hartley, vice president for finance and administration, said Tuesday.
“There is a $500 fee for a full semester
and a monthly fee for the seasonal W9
operators," Hartley said. “The idea has
~ been around for a few years now."
Fred Massicotte. a member of the ten-person co-operative that runs the Bread and Justice food trailer usually located near Hawley Armory, labeled the $500 semester fee “too outrageous." They're trying» to drive the small busi- nessman out," he said.
Massicotte said the “Bread and Jus- tice” cooperative has retained an attorn- ey to challenge the University's right to charge the $500 fee.
General counsel John G. Hill Jr.. UConn’s attorney, said if “Bread and
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Fees eyed for private vendors
Justice" did challenge the University's action in court. “that is their privilege."
"We will have to see them in court and get the matter resolved that way." he added.
Massicotte said “Bread and Justice" has initiated a petition campaign oppos- ing the proposed fee. He said the drive has netted approximately 500 signatures.
He said the $500 fee may force him to leave the UConn campus.
“When we were in Willimantic we paid about $12 to operate there. I don't know if we can afford to pay it." he said. concerning the UConn fee. “lt's not too
clear if they have the right to do this."
Hartley said the fee was being ‘pro- posed because the trailer vendors “have been using our parking facilities. caused us security and police costs. it is also a good way to generate extra revenues for the student affairs office."
President Ferguson said Monday the fee problem is “a complex issue. we have state land and public property. and the responsibility to make vendors available to provide services for the community. But we also need guidelines to evaluate the increasing number of requests by businessmen to operate on campus."
' T tafh/Steve cGtf Going Up Work continues on the new University library on Hawley Armory
field, with the building taldng shape and getting higher and higher each day. The library is scheduled to open in 1978.
Conn PIRG Fee request
gains Trustees’ approval
By DAVID TILLES
The Connecticut Public Interest Research Group (ConnPlRG) has won its year-long petitioning and letterwriting battle to allow them to use the University's fee bill to solicit operating funds.
The UConn Board of Trustees. which approved the new fee at its July meeting, has yet to set the amount of the fee.
Edmund Mierzwinski, the chairman of the ConnPlRG Board of Directors said Tuesday he will be meeting with the trustees to finalize the plan and determine how much ConnPlRGwill request from each student. Mierzwinski said he would seek a two dollar per semester fee.
He said the money will not pay directly for ConnPlRG at UConn. The money will be, combined instead with funds from the two other Connecticut PlRGs at Trin- ity College in Hartford and the University of Hartford. and will be supervised by a state board of directors.
Joining statewide group
The board consists of popular- ly-elected representatives from each contributing college. the
amount of each college's strength being proportional to its financial contributions. he said.
As UConn students do not pay a ConnPlRG fee now, there is only one unelected representative on the board.
Mierzwinski said if the expect- ed 60 to 70 per cent of UConn students pay the fee. UConn
would control a majority of the seats on the board.
PlRG would hire a full-time UConnPlRG director and part- time professional consultants to supervise student-conducted pro- jects. he said. He added that PIRG would also offer its state- wide resources to other UConn student agencies.
History to use film stars as teachers
Although they are not mention- ed in the faculty directory, Kirk Douglas. Tony Curtis and Audie Murphy will be teaching UConn students history in a rather uneonventionalcourse being offer- ed this semester.
lt's called “The Movies as History."—History 298-05—and is being presented for seven weeks by Associate Professor of History Marvin R. Cox on Thurs- days from 2 to5 p.m. in Room l99 of the Physical Sciene Building.
Co-op promises refunds despite loss
By ELLEN GRAY .
Students graduating or leaving UConn will be refunded their original UConn Co-op $35 book- store deposit this year despite a first-year deficit of $56,000, a member of the Board of Directors of the UConn Co-op said Tuesday night.
Faculty member Morton Ten- zer said he agreed with state- ments made by Co-op manager Raymond Verrey attributing the loss to first year costs. He said he would like to study the reasons for the deficit “more closely, how- ever" in order to determine whether or not all of the deficit could be accounted for by what he termed normal first-year losses.
Tenzer said the best way to
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of dollars for a budget. We went over budget. I don't know if they'll pay the rest. or we will. but I hope they will,” the mustachioed painter said. Because UConn was unable to allot the funds at once, the project was labeled as student labor and intended as a summer job for the artists, he
said.
Placed on the floor next to Cremims was a scaled-down model of the room in which we sat.
its walls mirroring those around us. “We used the grid method to transfer the
designs from the model to the walls," he said. This method requires drawing equal numbers of
recover the Co-op’s losses would be to increase advertising to “encourage more people to buy more stuff at the Co-op."
President Ferguson Tuesday praised the operation of the bookstore, calling it “an out- standing job.” He said the deficit had been anticipated by the Co-op’s board of directors and such ‘a loss is normal in any business’ first year.
Ferguson said. “It's remark- ably well-organized. It's going well."
Co-op manager Raymond Ver- rey said Tuesday he hopes to regain the losses \this year, but he has “no way of knowing” whether it will be possible.
surface to be painted. Lines intersecting each grid on the model are placed in their correspond- ing squares on the walls.
Although a projector is usually used in this process. the image was not large enough. The graphics were transferred by hand, he said.
The walls were not specially prepared for the paintings. The paint cost was absorbed into the sum allotted to the artists by UConn: “The colors were all supposed to cover in one coat. but it didn't work out that way," he said.
"it was great fun. but just one of those things. I've learned a lot, but it was a better lesson in life
"I don't have a crystal ball," Verrey said. “We hope to. if we
meet our goal. we'll be in the black."
Declines Comment
Verrey refused to comment on plans he may discuss with the board at its Sept. 22 meeting.
Student Co-op board members agreed with Verrey's explanation of the deficit.
"l assume that in the first year you are going to have a tremen- dous loss." commented Susan Hart, a fifth semester anthropol- ogy major. Hart added, however. “We all have many questions which we will try to get answered at our meeting on the 22nd."
A meeting of the newly-elected
board will be held Sept. 22 in Room 310 Commons. The meet- ing is open to all Co-op members. Members are students who have paid the $35 membership fee and faculty and staff who have paid the non-student membership fee.
Verry said students may return books to the Co-op for a full refund during the first two weeks of classes and for a 70 per cent refund during the third and fourth weeks with a drop card for the course where the book is used.
Students without a drop card will receive a 70 per cent refund during the first two weeks of classes and 60 per cent during the following two weeks for books With 5I’“"““"’5- purchased and returned. Verrey said.
The films (‘ox has selected for the course are not necessarily there for their historical accuracy. he said.
"The level of accuracy of the movies is a fairly minor aspect. what the course will examine is how they interpret histor_\'. how they convey the myth of history." the historian said.
Cox said he thought up the idea for the course by remembering his own life and how he first became interested in history.
“I think my whole interest in history was sparked when I saw Gone With the Wind when l was young." he said. ‘‘I can still rcmemberr the discussions my family had about the film. it made a great impression on me."
“Gone Will: the Wind is very bad in some aspects. but it conveyed the feeling the South had about the Civil War and the self-justification it went through.’ he said. “I tried to get it. but it is four hours long and very expen- sive."
Each class will feature a move and an analysis of the film by Robert Smith. formerly of the UConn dramatic arts depart- ment. The discussion of the theatrical aspects of the film will be followed by an historical analysis by Cox and other histor- ians. he said.
The class will start Thursday There are six
other lilms planned. including: Iwm The Terrible .
Cremins At Work
squares on the walls of both the model .:."lt’i the v ‘ ' ‘ " Staff Photo/Buzz Kant"
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than in art."