1973March

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TRINITY REPORTER VOLUME 3 NUMBER 6

TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT

MARCH, 1973

Students 'Come of Age,' New Policies Approved One of the hidden effects of Connecticut's new age of majority, which since last October has given full adult status to people in the state 18 years or older, is that colleges like Trinity have had to alter basic aspects of their relationships with students and with parents. Chief areas affected were those .... -18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-"' concerning whether parents should "'~ ~ ~ continue to receive bills from the College, o/ ~ and whether they should also receive grade reports, notices of academic status, ~ and notices of disciplinary status. o/ ~ Considering the implications of the new age of majority as well as involvement which parents still have in the education of their children, the Trustees of Trinity College recently approved some recommended policies ~ ....o/ ~ affecting relations with students and "'~ ~ ~ parents. These recommendations had o/ ~ ~ originated in the Trinity College Council, !~.... ~ .... ~ an elected body representing faculty, .... ~ ~ ~ undergraduates, administrators, alumni, ....~ ~ ~ graduate students, parents, and staff. ! . ~ They were approved by the TCC in o/ ~ Mid-January and sent to President .... ~ "' ~ Lockwood, who forwarded them to the .... "'~ "'-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18Trustees for action. The basic policy approved by the trustees provides that "as a matter of principle, in keeping with College policy, students (will) normally be dealt with directly in matters pertaining to College bills, grades, academic credit, (and) academic and disciplin~y status," but also provides that the obllege will, "at the request of the student, provide bills and information on academic progress and The marriage of medicine and academic and disciplinary status to engineering is a union that developed out parents and guardians." of the technological boom of recent years, a boom which expressed itself most When an admitted student prepares to visibly in the space program, the enroll at Trinity, he will be asked to harnessing of the atom, and computer indicate whether he is not to be the sole recipient of bills and reports on academic science. As technology advanced and its and disciplinary status. In the event that parents or guardians are to receive the applications began to spread into bills and reports, the student must different environments, the engineer indicate to whom any or all of the found himself a partner in the work of following items should be sent: professionals from other fields. 1. Bills owed to the College. In addition to the import of 2. Grade reports. technology, the social concerns of 3. Notices of academit; probation. engineering professionals and students 4. Notices of faculty actions other began a movement towards bringing these than probation affecting student status. individuals into the health care system. 5. Notices of disciplinary actions, During the last five years, engineering more serious than "admonition," students at Trinity have had a rare affecting student status. opportunity to participate and contribute In a summary of the report of the in various research projects at medical Trinity College Council, Vice President institutions near the College. Since 1969 Thomas A. Smith said the TCC felt these more than a dozen students have changes in policy agreed with Trinity's participated in a number of such projects belief that responsibility for one's own under the guidance of Dr. Joseph D. Bronzino, Associate Professor of affairs enhances education, and agreed with the implications of the law. Engineering at Trinity and director of the In addition, Smith said, the Council biomedical engineering program at the RPI Graduate Center in Hartford. In recognized that parents and guardians have been very much involved in the addition to Dr. Bronzino, other Trinity faculty and researchers at the various education of their children at Trinity, institutions-the Institute of Living, the even as the institution in recent years has Hartford Hospital, the Newington tended to treat students as adults. Children's Hospital, and the UConn "The Council further recognized," Medical School-have directed specific Smith said, "that the forms of familial projects. interest and involvement in the education of offspring are varied and depend upon One current project which has received each family's own values, customs, and local publicity is the development of an

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'ENGINEERING LOVES MEDICINE'

President Lockwood chats with Jon Reynolds '59

POW Returns to Trin On Friday, March 16, Air Force Major Jon A. Reynolds '59 saw the Trinity Campus for the first time in nine years. It was a quiet, but real homecoming for Reynolds, who had been held for the last seven years as a prisoner in North Vietnam. A pilot, Reynolds was shot down near Hanoi in November of 1965. He was among the first group ofPOWs released in early February. He didn't want any fanfare on his return to Hartford, he said, but just intended "to slip in and out of town." He had called a few fraternity brothers from Alpha Chi Rho, and they held a semi-private reunion over beers at Phil's on Zion Street, where he was also interviewed by a Tripod reporter, (a coed). He said he intended to tour the campus on Saturday, when things would

be quiet, but did take the opportunity to meet President Lockwood, who had sent a telegraph to him on word of his release. He told the President he had last been on campus in 1964, some two years before he was captured. Then they talked about the many changes that had taken place at Trinity in the interval. Reynolds said the prisoners had virtually no knowledge of what was going on in the United States while they were captive. Even knowledge of the moon shots was kept from them, he said. He told President Lockwood he intends to stay in the Air Force. He now has credit for 13 years service, and will go back on active duty soon. Among the fraternity brothers who met with Reynolds that afternoon were Brian Nelson, Jack Adams, Bob Brian, Ray Loven, and Joe Krawski, all members of the Class of 1959.

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