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TRINITY REPORTER VOLUME 4 NUMBER 6

TRINITY COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT

Feature Story of This Month:

Women in Ferris. • • page 3

(Hartford Times Photograph)

Nancy Moore, a junior, develops ann muscles on universal gym

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Available in C urriculun1 Sixty-six percent of the last graduating class at Trinity took advantage of one or more of the College's curricular options, according to a recent report from the Office of Educational Services. The options, which enhance the regular course offerings at the College, include: Independent Study, Trinity College Rome Campus, Open Semester, 12-College Exchange, academic leave of absence (to study full time at other institutions) and the cross-registration program with other institutions in Greater Hartford, as well as Wesleyan and Central Connecticut State College. On the 384 students who were graduated in May 1973, there were 255 who took one or more of these options. A breakdown of these shows that 41 attended the Rome Campus, 37 took

open semesters, 156 took Independent Study, 46 earned course credit in local cross-registration programs, and 152 earned course credit away from Trinity, in summer school , on 12-College Exchange, or on academic leave of absence. Of the 374 freshmen who entered Trinity in September 1969, the report shows , only 288 , or 77 percent, graduated in the traditional four-year time period. The graduating class of 384 men and women also included 61 transfers and 35 people who entered . Trinity prior to September 1969. For the Class of 1972, participation in the curricular options was about 50 percent. The options were introduced with the curriculum revision of 1969, and have been subsequently expanded.

In this capacity he will serve as an ambassador of the College, representing the president at various meetings across the country. In announcing the appointment, President Lockwood said "Dr. Cooper's long and distinguished service to Trinity particularly fits him for this assignment." Well-known professionally and as a public figure, Dr. Cooper has been on Trinity's faculty since 1941. His specialty is British history in the 18th century, and he has been managing editor of the Journal of British Studies since its founding in 1961. He stepped down in February as chairman of the College's

history department after nearly a decade in that office. He served on the Hartford Board of Education from 1959-1965, including a term as board president. He was chairman of the Governor's Bi-Partisan Committee on Redistricting the State Senate in 1959-61, and from 1962-65 he was on the National Cancer Advisory Council of the U.S. Public Health Service. He was an associate Trustee of St. Joseph College, is a trustee of the Cesare Barbieri Center of Italian Studies at Trinity, and served on the Hartford Charter Review Commission in 1961. In addition, he is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Yale Edition of the Horace Walpole Correspondence, and, since 1971, has been doing research for a biography of Queen Charlotte, wife of King George Ill, who reigned at the time of the American Revolution.

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APRIL, 1974

College Costs Go Up, Budget at $9.9 Million The College has raised its annual tuition by $17 5, bringing tuition from $2,850 to $3,025. The increase, effective in September, is due in part to substantial increases in the price of heating oil, according to the College's budget figures. For the first time in recent years, Trinity is also · increasing room rent and board fees, which are optional, by a total of $130. Room rent, last raised in 1971, increases from $700 to $750. Board, last raised in 1970, increases from $600 to $680. The General Fee, at $125, is unchanged. This means that a full-time resident student would pay $4,580 for tuition, room and board. Students have the options of fmding their own apartments off campus, and of making their own eating arrangements. Also unchanged are the required $67 student activities fee, which goes into a student controlled budget, and the $20 cat:!lJ>US parking fee, required of students who maintain a car on campus. The increases in tuition, ;-1oom and board were announced by President Lockwood, who said the College's budget next year would be $9.9 million, up from $9.1 million for the current academic year. The higher budget is balanced, Dr. Lockwood said, not only by the increases in tuition, room, and board, but also by a continuing yield of 5 per cent on Trinity's endowment, by increased donations from alumni, parents, and friends, and by certain short-term investments. Fuel prices, which rose 156 per cent over last year's prices, account for a large share of the tuition increase, Dr. Lockwood said. Even though the use of fuel oil has been cut down, the College estimates it will have to pay $115,000 more for its main heating oil next year, equivalent to about $72 for each of

Cooper Named Secretary of the College Dr . George B. Cooper, Northam Professor of History and chairman of the department from 1964 until this year, has been appointed Secretary of the College by President Lockwood.

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Trinity's 1,600 students. The increase in room rent resulted from increased costs of maintenance and security, Dr. Lockwood said, while the board fee was increased because of the generally rising costs of food. Financial aid budgets and the instruction budget will each be increased 10 per cent, he said and more funds will be allocated to the Library to meet the Continued on Page 3

Trinity Saves 1, 000 Gallons Of Oil Daily Fuel consumption at Trinity was reduced 18.5 per cent during February, a saving of more than 1,000 gallons a day. Use of Number 6 low sulphur oil, which feeds the College's main boiler plant, was 129,268 gallons in February compared with 158,562 gallons in February 1973. The difference of 29,294 gallons amounts to a saving of slightly more than 1,000 gallons for each day of the month. Even greater percentages of saving were found in comparing delivery figures for two other types of fuel oil which the College uses to heat some buildings not connected to the main boiler system. For Number 2, horne heating oil, the saving was 23.4 per cent, down from 8,159.1 gallons in February 1973 to 6,249.5 gallons this February, a reduction of 1,909 .6 gallons . For Number 4 oil, which heats some dormitories and apartment buildings, the saving was 41 per cent, down from 29,033.5 gallons in February 1973 to 17,071 gallons this year, a reduction of 11 ,932.5 gallons. The comparison is significant because it represents the first full month of continuous operation of the College, without any vacation periods. In addition, the numbers of degree days the coldness factor which affects fuel consumption - were almost equal in February 1973 and February 1974. February 197 4, with 1,056 degree days, was only 4 degree days colder than February 1973, with 1,052 degree days. Since late November, College offices, dormitories, and classrooms have been heated at 68 degrees, and the Ferris Athletic Center kept at 55 degrees. During vacation periods, which included the Winter vacation from Dec. 22 through Jan. 11, temperatures in most buildings were lowered to 55 degrees. Use of electricity has been cut, and a special committee on the energy situation has been meeting to review the situation. In adjusting to the fuel crisis, the College decided to maintain the academic calendar of classes, examinations, and Continued on Page 2


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