1973, News items regarding WCSC, Board of Trustees, Dyer

Title: 1973, News items regarding WCSC, Board of Trustees, Dyer
Description: 42 mins
Creator: Dyer, James E.
Date: 1973
Identifier: ms52_23_1973news_b
Subject: Danbury (Conn.)--History; Jim Dyer
Transcription: 00;00;02;26 - 00;00;10;20
Speaker 1
The following is Cable ten Danbury News a June 29th, 1973 5:30 p.m. by the Media.

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Speaker 2
There's one more question quickly. What do you think ought to be done now and what do you think you're going to do to make sure that if this happens again, you're going to be notified? Well, I am going to.

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Speaker 2
Take steps to write to the proper channels and make sure that this doesn't happen again.

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Speaker 2
Thank you very much to you, Joseph, for television. The Danbury Fire Department Cable ten News learned from a Penn Central District spokesman and Philadelphia this afternoon that a railroad hazardous materials expert was at the scene shortly after the derailment. He said it was company policy not to notify local officials of such incidents unless railroad personnel considered the situation an emergency.

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Speaker 2
The cause of the accident still is under investigation. There were no injuries reported. Cable channel news learned this afternoon that Danbury Democrat James Dyer has lost his bid for reappointment to the Connecticut State College Board of Trustees. A spokesman for the governor, Thomas Mescal, said Dyer, whose term on the board ends tomorrow, has been replaced by Peter Barry of Waterbury, who was student Senate president at Central Connecticut State College in New Britain.

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Speaker 2
Barry will fill a six year term on the board. Dyer served three and one half years on the board, two of those while he was a student at Western Connecticut State College here in Danbury. Dyer, who has on several occasions differed sharply with Governor Mexico's higher education policies. Was unaware of the succession until notified this afternoon by Cable ten news.

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Speaker 2
Here is his reaction.

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Speaker 3
The governor's decision not to in my service in the state of Connecticut is a very disappointing one. I believe that my record of accomplishment as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State Colleges has been one that merited very considered, very serious consideration on the part of the governor. I had only requested of the governor that I did differences of opinion, not objective evaluation of performance.

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Speaker 3
I am, of course, glad to see the students has been named to the Board of Trustees to fill one of the four of eight approved that existed due to. Barry has worked with me at a number of occasions, but as chairman of the Student Advisory Board to the Board of Trustees supported the drive for my reappointment. I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation and gratitude to a very great number of supporters and friends.

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Speaker 3
I very much appreciate the significant effort that was made on my behalf by many people, although the outcome was not what we had hoped for. We can, I believe, take this opportunity to project their commitment to the maintenance of quality education for Connecticut, as well as the establishment of their respective state government.

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Speaker 2
Appointments to the other three vacancies on the Board of Trustees include attorney Patricia Jean of West Redding for the late trustee Francis Hogan of Torrington, a park Shaw of Hartford, and for James McNally of that city, and Seymour Smith of Essex for Frank Cammarano of New Haven.

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Speaker 1
The following is broadcast over WXXI. July 1st, 1973.

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Speaker 4
FCI.

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Speaker 4
Danbury, a farm from Western Connecticut State College.

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Speaker 5
This is the 7:00 weekend report. And I'm your anchor man, Stan Mingo with Peter Foss with News and Sports and yours truly with the weather. With the latest on the world national scene, here's Peter Foss.

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Speaker 6
Thank you, Stan. The Israeli cabinet discussed today the murder in Washington of Israel's air attache, but refused to say whether it believed Arab terrorists shot its air force commander, Colonel Joseph Allen. Allen was gunned down early today outside a suburban Washington home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, by police reports they have no suspects in the case. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan reported on the incident to the cabinet at its weekly session.

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Speaker 6
But a Cabinet spokesman declined to elaborate. There was widespread speculation in Israel that alarm's killing wasn't revenge for the death in Paris on Thursday of an alleged Arab guerrilla operative. The guerilla was blown up by a car bomb. Unknown assailants. Guerrillas have accused Israeli agents of the assassination and Israelis in the street are voicing belief alarms. Assassination was the work of Palestinian commandos.

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Speaker 6
Former White House aide Charles Colson disputed today former presidential counsel John Dean's testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee. At issue is Dean's statement that he gave President Nixon a full report of all the facts on the Watergate case last March 21st. In a television interview today, Colson said he does not believe Dean laid out all the facts. In March of 19 March 21st, as he said he did.

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Speaker 6
Colson said that the president knew at that point in time that he was not being told the truth and that he was being given confusing information. Dean had testified that on March 21st he told the president all he knew about the Watergate break in and about Dean's involvement, as well as that of other administration and campaign officials. Another five days of testimony at the Senate Watergate hearings, rather, after five days of testimony at the Senate Watergate hearings.

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Speaker 6
Former White House counsel John Dean third had one more comment today. He told an interviewer from Time magazine, really, to tell the truth is the easiest thing in the world. He also said this discovery, with the help of his wife and prayer, sustained him through the long stretches of testimony and questioning. A public health official warns that immunization against polio is dropping to a dangerous level.

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Speaker 6
Dr. John Witte says the situation could permit new epidemics in the United States. Dr. Witt is chief of the immunization branch of the National Center for Disease Control. Hundreds gathered at a little church in Newport, Tennessee, to test their faith with fire, poison and serpents. One of the first was the Reverend Richard Williams of Columbus, Ohio. He put his sock clad foot into a box of circling, hissing, diamondback rattlesnakes and shouted, I do that in the name of Jesus.

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Speaker 6
The Reverend Mr. Williams was not fit. And here with more on the world national scene is Stan Mingo.

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Speaker 7
President Nixon had directed the Secret Service to increase the protection for the diplomatic community in Washington. The order follows the assassination today of the Israeli air attaché, your attaché, Colonel Yusef Allen, outside his suburban home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Nixon also made available a presidential plane to return the body of Colonel Allen and his family in Israel. In Tel Aviv, a military spokesman, aides, aides said, rather, they thought Arab terrorists may have been responsible for the assassination.

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Speaker 7
Both the State Department and the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. have declined to speculate on this point. An official Baghdad broadcast announced the Iraqi defense minister has been assassinated by plotters led by the nation's security chief. The radio said General Amin Sahab, the defense minister, was gunned down by what was described as a click of traders and the interior minister of Iraq was wounded in the shooting.

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Speaker 7
The security director, Nazim Zaka, and his aides have been arrested. There is no clear statement yet on the motive of the plot. President Nixon has signed the bill which calls for a halt to U.S. bombing in Cambodia by August 15th. In a statement at San Clemente, Nixon warned he would seek congressional approval if further military actions are necessary in pursuit of peace.

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Speaker 7
After the deadline, Nixon said he believes a Cambodian settlement may be can be better obtained as long as the US maintains flexibility in its policies and essential air support is not withdrawn while delicate negotiations are in progress. The President signed a $3,000,000,400 million supplemental appropriation bill for fiscal 73. Also a continuing joint resolution to provide funding for government operations.

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Speaker 7
Both measures include amendments aimed at ending US combat in Indo-China. The Agriculture Department reports China has made huge purchases of US soybeans and government steak and says Peking reportedly purchased about 1,800,000 bushels of soybeans valued at 12 to $16 million. The first shipment of 17,000 tons was made in late April, with a balance to be shipped over the next 3 to 4 months because of the rise in exports.

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Speaker 7
The Nixon administration has embargoed further shipments until an allocation system can be worked out for the current crop season, which ends about September 1st. The Census Bureau reports the number of Americans living in the state of poverty dropped by more than 1 million last year. At the same time, the bureau says the median family income climbed over $11,000 for the first time.

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Speaker 7
But the report did not take into account the inflationary surge of 1973 when rising prices ate into income gains. Median family income means that half the families earn more than and half of families earn less than a certain figure. It is not an average. Finally, in world or national news. In Libya. Liberian tanker has exploded in Elliot Bay off Seattle, injuring two crewmen and spilling oil into Puget Sound.

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Speaker 7
Authorities say five men are battling the blaze aboard the tanker Cygnus. The Sky News time is now 7 minutes after 7:00. We'll take a look at the Connecticut News. But first, this message. Excessive drinking before.

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Speaker 7
Driving is a prime cause of highway accidents.

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Speaker 7
Unfortunately, many voters.

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Speaker 7
Underestimate or ignore the seriousness of this hazard. Did you know that it takes about an hour for the effects of an ordinary drink to wear off? If you must drink, do use marijuana, especially if you're going to drive to the dark web for the National Safety Council.

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Speaker 7
With the latest in Connecticut News, here's a bit of us.

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Speaker 6
James Dyer says Governor Mescal replaced him without an objective evaluation of his performance on the board of trustees or state colleges. Mescal appointed Peter J. Berry of Waterbury, a senior at Central Connecticut State College, to take one of the four places on the board left open this year. Dyer, whose term expires today, was appointed in 1970 while a student at western Connecticut State College here in Danbury.

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Speaker 6
US Representative William Collier Carter has called on Secretary of Agriculture but to implement the emergency feed grain program in anticipation of a soybean shortage this fall. Carter says immediate action by Butz is necessary to assure that the food grain program can be utilized to get soybean products to farmers and ranchers during the fall. Carter says the program is needed to assure farmers and ranchers.

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Speaker 7
That the supply of feed.

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Speaker 1
The following is recorded from Cable ten. Danbury Television, July 19, 1973 5:30 p.m..

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Speaker 8
Russian cosmonaut found on the way home looking for support tonight, according to fact. But one party you may not like is out of touch with the program. The government. Hi, this is Jack Sterling for Dan Burbank. And trust, you know, there's a lot of talk around town about free checking and a lot of confusion. Some banks say they have free checking, but check the fine print to qualify, you have to maintain a minimum balance or open a savings account or even take out a credit card.

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Speaker 8
But at Danbury Bank, in trust. When we say free.

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Speaker 8
We mean it. All you do is.

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Speaker 8
Stop in at 342 Main Street. Now, would you like to open a.

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Speaker 8
Free checking account? And they will do the rent.

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Speaker 8
It's just as simple as that.

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Speaker 8
With prices going up and up every day, it's nice to know there's still a store like Tony's variety. Tony's is holding the line on prices with eight track and cassette tapes still for only $2.75 each. That's right, Tony. Variety has eight track and cassette tapes. Rock, jazz, oldies, classical, easy listening and much more. All for only $2.75. And Tony's variety has the lowest prices around for a low noise blank.

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Speaker 8
Eight cartridges. 40 minute cartridges are only $0.89, and 80 minute cartridges are an incredible dollar, 19 each. So save some money. Come on into Tony's variety at one on nine Federal Road in Danbury, cutting variety open nightly until nine Saturday, July five. Tony's means saving and now magazine with the news. Good evening. A number of malfunctioning septic systems in the Athens Cove area of Candlewood Lake have apparently caused the water pollution in that region.

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Speaker 8
This word came late today from Danbury Public Health Director Dr. Thomas Draper, who said corrective measures were being taken to solve the problem. Dr. Draper told cable news the preliminary tests reveal a lessening of pollution in the area. Whether or not the area will be open soon for bathing hinges on a final test results, which will not be available until tomorrow.

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Speaker 8
The test results have been delayed another 24 hours as a result. Test results for the rest of light candle. What you said it look good testing of all shorefront septic systems will continue as planned this summer and indefinitely for all buildings along the entire shoreline, both in Danbury and in other towns. Yesterday, a temporary injunction was issued halting work on an asphalt plant in Commerce Park by the New Haven Trapped Rock Company.

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Speaker 8
Today, cable news reporter Chris Silva talked with one of the plaintiffs in the case, attorney Edward Gallagher. Gallagher, a trustee of the Frances D'Addario Company, explains why the injunction was sought.

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Speaker 8
Attorney Gallagher While in an industrial area, is there a need to stop the heavy industry? Kind of confusing to everyone because the area where the whole issue is about is an industrial area, is it not?

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Speaker 9
Yeah, it's in a heavy industrial zone. However, in any industrial zone is what we call permitted uses. But before you were able to to use the permitted use, there are certain requirements which you must go through. One of which is obtaining the proper building permits. Another is submitting the proper site plan to the Planning Commission.

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Speaker 8
And you until you feel that all these documents haven't been done properly.

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Speaker 9
Well, there's evidence from yesterday's hearing and the decision by Judge Satan, who ruled that they did not obtain the proper building permit. And, of course, no site plan was filed for this particular use, which was the asphalt plant.

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Speaker 8
And yet there are conflicting reports that documents were filed and now documents have them going. It sounds like a little mini Watergate.

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Speaker 9
Yes, I've heard that. And actually, the the document that was stolen or disappeared, I don't have any idea what happened to it. Was there site planning for a stone terminal? Not for an actual plan. No site planning has ever been filed for the actual plant.

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Speaker 9
What actually did the injunction halt.

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Speaker 9
And halted the construction of the asphalt plant? Actually, there was an exhibit in the case showing delineating upon the the exhibit, which was a map showing where they may continue construction and they can construct anything having anything to do with the actual in in any part of the property. They may continue to construct the stone terminal, which was in their original site plan.

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Speaker 8
Why would they be allowed to continue doing that?

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Speaker 9
Well, because actually the injunctive relief, which we saw was to halt the asphalt plant. The question was not directly involved as to the merits of the stone terminal.

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Speaker 8
So in order for them to continue, they would have to file all the documents from how the town approved them. Is that right?

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Speaker 9
Well, the way the injunction was was worded by Judge Seaton was that they have to comply with all state and local regulations concerning this type of activity. And further upon three days notice, they must apply to the court to have that injunction dissolved.

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Speaker 8
As an attorney, how do you feel the injunction was done fairly?

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Speaker 9
Oh, yes, I think the proper steps were taken.

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Speaker 8
Thank you very much, Attorney Gallagher.

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Speaker 8
The injunction backs the city's planning commission, which had sought to stop work on the project pending receipt and approval of revised site plans for the area. The company is expected to withdraw its objections to a cease and desist order issued earlier by the city's building inspector. The Zoning Board of Appeals has scheduled a public hearing on the case for next Thursday.

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Speaker 8
There is a $500 a day fine for failing to obey the court injunction. Liberty Street will become a one way street again on Monday, according to the police department. The one month experiment has given the police evidence that there is no relief to downtown traffic, according to Police Chief James Talent. And that's the top of the news. We'll be back with more on this run.

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Speaker 8
You say you like to enjoy the outdoors, but you're not really inclined toward sports. Well, why not learn to horseback ride? That's right. Riding classes are forming now at Spruce Ridge Farm during one of Connecticut's finest summer riding instruction programs. Spruce Ridge Farms has qualified riding instructors, complete indoor and outdoor riding facilities, and, most importantly, healthy, energetic mounts.

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Speaker 8
Spruce Ridge Farms is open every day from 9 a.m.. Call them at 4382117 or 4384949. Those numbers, again, for those who might be interested. 4382117 or 43849494. Spruce Ridge Farm. Call him soon. Learn to ride and enjoy the outdoors. That Spruce Ridge Farm average by road in Ridgefield.

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Speaker 8
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Speaker 8
Come in, do division, plumbing and heating and see the custom hall kiddy vanity Soon Division, Plumbing and Heating is located at 50 Division Street in Danbury between plumbing and heating. Let them show you why it pays to do it yourself. And now back with more news. The City Planning Commission will investigate whether a road legally exists anymore before making any move on.

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Speaker 8
An application by Francis D'Addario for an asphalt plant at the Danbury, Brookfield Bethel Town Lines. Debate has arisen over the existence of Old Sherman Turnpike, which hasn't been used in decades. It doesn't even exist on any current city maps, and if it has been legally abandoned, the area won't have a ready access to the site. The commission last night denied the application of James and Alice Bridgman for a nursery school on the first floor of their Irving Place home during the meeting.

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Speaker 8
But they approved additional parking for the Church of Christ structure, now being built on clapboard Ridge Road and also approved the proposed six condominiums on Cohan's Street side by Edward Nahum Fieldstone estate excluding Fieldstone Acres and eight lot subdivision off Dana Road. Also it was approved. A final report on opinions of students and faculty in the Connecticut State Colleges was made public today, and I had a chance to talk with the Danbury man who authored it as the final chapter in his own controversial career.

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Speaker 8
As a now former member of the State College Board of Trustees. Talking with James Dyer, former member of the Board of Trustees for the state colleges. Mr. Dyer, you just issued this rather voluminous study on the open forum meetings with the State College Tours, which you conducted in February and March. What is the main conclusion that you come up with after all of these tours?

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Speaker 8
Well, there are several main conclusions. I suppose you can say that the overall consensus opinion that was gathered is that the board of trustees is not divisible enough or accessible enough to the campuses. There's a what I term a communications blockage. I don't believe that the board of trustees is aware of everything that's going on on the campuses.

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Speaker 8
I don't believe that we've done enough homework that the board of Trustees members are doing enough independent research of what is happening at the colleges. We've relied too much on the college presidents, I believe, to filter information to us. Not that the college presidents have done an outstanding job because certainly they haven't. And people like Dr. Ruth Haas are very dedicated individuals.

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Speaker 8
But I believe that firsthand experience and investigative analysis should take place at the board level more than it has done. The faculty and students at the colleges don't believe that they can approach the board. The respect for the board of trustees is very low, and this disturbed me. They've said that the board of trustees doesn't care about them.

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Speaker 8
The faculty and students, and this isn't the case at all. The board has taken very, very definite positions in its history in favor of faculty and students. But we haven't communicated that. We've done that. And I would hope, as some of the proposals I made would, that this was change. I said that we should have greater public relations.

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Speaker 8
We rely on one press release a month to go out to tell the public our case for the colleges. And that certainly isn't adequate. We rely on too much advisory knowledge. We rely on advisory boards who, for the most part I found when I went to the campuses, weren't even known to exist. I asked that all four campuses, if anyone knew about the student advisory board, that only one of the campuses that a small handful of students indicate that they did, and that student advisory boards main responsibility was to relate student opinion to us from the campuses.

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Speaker 8
Why did you wait until after your dismissal, for lack of a better word, from the Board of Trustees before issuing this report? Was it just a lack of time or the voluminous amount of material which you had to compile?

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Speaker 10
Well, it's being issued to the public now. It was written before my my term on the board expired. It was sent to the governor's office last month.

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Speaker 8
And did you receive any reaction from the government?

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Speaker 10
I have received no reaction. I didn't even receive a note from the governor telling me I wasn't a member of the board anymore. I had to rely on Cable ten to inform me of that.

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Speaker 8
What what about the the reaction from other people to this report that have seen it so far? Have you had any chance, for example, to talk to other board members?

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Speaker 10
No, I haven't discussed it with them. I think that they're going to take some time with it. As you said, it's it's a pretty thick document. It covers a lot. I've tried to include as much as we possibly could that was gathered and some 10 hours of tapes, not to mention individual meetings with people in dormitories, at faculty offices.

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Speaker 10
So there is a lot of information. I don't know what reactions will be to it. I, in the report invited people to react. I said, If you think what is stated here is wrong, then I am delighted and I invite you to go out and prove it wrong and show the faculty and students of the state college communities that you actually do care about them.

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Speaker 10
So I hope that if someone wants to react to it, they're going to demonstrate very dramatically that they have a reaction to it.

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Speaker 8
All right. Thank you very much. Mr..

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Speaker 8
Well, thank you, Mark.

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Speaker 8
Zehner as a great guest. Garrick, a native of Detroit, has been named to replace Charles Benson as the associate warden.

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Speaker 1
The following is recorded from DRC July 22nd, 1973.

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Speaker 11
DRC here with this news, 143 hostages aboard a hijacked Japanese airliner are now beginning their third day, cooped up in the hijacked jet parked at an airport on the Persian Gulf, where the temperature has been a sweltering 110 degrees. Four or five Palestinians hijacked the plane Friday and there's no end to the drama in sight. The hijackers have turned down a request to allow the women and children aboard the plane to leave.

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Speaker 11
They say they were awaiting further word from their supporters on where to go next. The plane is refueled and ready for takeoff to another destination, but right now, nobody knows what's going to happen next. A serious constitutional crisis is looming this weekend. The Senate Watergate Committee will meet in a special session at nine tomorrow morning to receive President Nixon's reply on whether or not he'll release those Watergate trips.

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Speaker 11
All indications are that he will not. And all indications are that the Senate committee will unanimously voted subpoena the tapes, setting off what could be a lengthy, historic confrontation over the power of the president versus the power of Congress. The first student representative on the State College Board of Trustees says the state's austerity program has been taken to such an extent that students and personnel at the various state colleges are in physical danger.

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Speaker 11
James Dyer of Danbury has released the results of a personal study he made on the state college's diet. Told Eyewitness News they had.

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Speaker 11
One dormitory without a working fire alarm. When I visited it, it was corrected two weeks after that visit. I went to one dormitory in Willimantic and we had backed up shower drains, water backing up rusty shower doors, no screens on the bathroom windows down at Southern Connecticut State College. They only had three security men on at any given time.

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Speaker 11
For more than 13,000 students, when the campus is in full operation, both full time and part time students with more than 5000 cars going in and out of that campus during the day. There was a great fear on the part of the students regarding many of these problems, and they criticized the lack of availability of adequate health services and health facilities and that there weren't enough trained people on.

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Speaker 11
And another campus there was an emergency vehicle, or at least it was called an emergency vehicle, and it was nothing but an old converted state station wagon.

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Speaker 11
Former State College Board of Trustees member James Dyer. Some 30 boats, one carrying State Senator George Gunther, sailed out into Long Island Sound this weekend in protest of commercial Manhattan fishing along Connecticut's shoreline. Senator got there to help your witness. Good afternoon. It's 82 degrees in the capital city and I'm Joe Connolly WB R.S. here witness deals a 28 foot cabin cruiser has exploded in Bradford Harbor and two people have been taken to the Yale-New Haven Hospital.

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Speaker 11
But their conditions are not known yet. Details are sketchy, but branford fire department dispatcher John Maturo told Eyewitness News.

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Speaker 11
I know it's a 20 foot fault and I know the first call I got was the motor for the boat itself exploded while in the water, as I know they're told, at two Bruce and Johnson's marina. And I think the Coast Guard is doing that operation right now.

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Speaker 11
Branford, Fire Department spokesman John Batgerel on the explosion of a 28 foot cabin cruiser in Bradford Harbor this afternoon. State Senator George Gunther was one of a group of people who sailed out of the Long Island Sound this weekend to protest the fishing close to the shore by commercial fishermen going after menhaden fish which are used in the manufacturing of dog food.

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Speaker 11
Senator got there tells you witness news there have been at least two incidents within the last week of the menhaden fisherman sending dead fish and parts of fish and wash out to Long Island sound.

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Speaker 3
Beaches on Haden fisherman are commercial fishing boats there seven other most of which are licensed out of New Jersey who come up here and catch these menhaden or bunker fish. Now these bunker fish are used for their oil and are a meal to go into to get food and that type of thing. Now we are prohibited from fishing in Connecticut waters.

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Speaker 11
All we want them to do is to stay two miles offshore, which eliminates the intrusion into the sports fishing and recreational fishing, which is a major industry in the state of Connecticut.

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Speaker 11
State Senator George got there. The state colleges around Connecticut are in bad shape, according to the first student member of the State College Board of Trustees, James Dyer of Banbury has released the results of a survey he made at all the state colleges. And he says medical treatment is poor pay far from the ceiling at some buildings, others are without screens, and shower stalls are back up in some dormitories and dining places.

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Speaker 11
The blame for the situation on government schools austerity program.

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Speaker 11
To inspect the dormitories, health facilities. I spoke with security officers. They found that the overall picture points to the governor's office and that our austerity program in the state has really gone to the point now where where we've gone beyond austerity, to the point where we're endangering the safety of people in dormitories. There just isn't any extra money to correct some of the situations that existed some of years before the governor came to office, but that doesn't justify their continuance.

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Speaker 11
James Dyer, who is state board chair, ran out last month when he was not reappointed by the governor. President Nixon is expected to trigger a showdown with the Senate's Watergate committee tomorrow by refusing to give in tapes of White House conversations it makes. It has been spending the weekend at Camp David working on a reply to the committee's request.

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Speaker 11
Meanwhile, the Senate hearings on Watergate resumed tomorrow.

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Speaker 1
The following is recorded from WXXI FM, Danbury, July 22nd, 1973.

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Speaker 12
You see I Danbury A FM from Western Connecticut State College.

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Speaker 12
Good evening. It's Sunday, July 22nd, 1973. This is the 7:00 weekend report. I'm your anchorman, Peter Foss, with B.J. reporting, and Joel Rabinowitz with Sports. Secret bugging devices used in the White House reportedly can be found in almost every federal government agency. A weekly newspaper for government workers. The Federal Times says some 52 federal agencies spent $137,000 in the fiscal year ended June 30th on electronic listening devices.

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Speaker 12
The newspaper ads in a report prepared for publication in Thursday's edition that the agencies include the Federal Aviation Administration. It was the FAA's chief, Alexander Butterfield, who unexpected revealed the existence of the White House bugging set up to the Senate Watergate Committee investigators last week. The newspaper says most government agencies employ bugging devices despite federal regulations prohibiting their use.

00;30;35;20 - 00;30;58;21
Speaker 12
It said that among the gadgets used are tape recorders wired to telephone circuits and push-to-talk telephones, which allow listening without being heard. The Senate Watergate Committee expects to receive tomorrow morning a letter from President Nixon rejecting its request for all relevant documents and tapes relating to Watergate. The panel has scheduled an executive session to consider the matter unless the president's letter offers some compromise.

00;30;58;22 - 00;31;26;11
Speaker 12
The committee is expected to issue a subpoena for the requested materials and leave the next move up to Nixon. The committee resumes its televised hearings tomorrow morning with former White House aide Gordon Strachan continuing his testimony. He probably will be followed by former presidential domestic adviser John Erlichman, followed by former White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman. A tale of torture has been recounted by four Roman Catholics who say they spent a total of one year in South Vietnamese prisons.

00;31;26;20 - 00;31;51;06
Speaker 12
The members of the young Christian workers say they were jailed for six months and then found innocent of alleged anti-government acts. However, then they spent more than six months more behind bars for unexplained reasons. They say their torture included beating in a variety of ways, including the forced hitting of a wall with their own fists. Two of the young Vietnamese who spoke for the quartet also said burning cigarets were placed against their skin and that they would be slapped on both ears simultaneously.

00;31;51;12 - 00;32;13;02
Speaker 12
This can damage a person's eardrums. They also say they were hit with furniture. South Vietnamese officials refused to say why the four were held after they had been found innocent. The Saigon regime denies using torture. Here with more world national news is b.j. Thank you, peter. President nixon's doctors report, the chief executive is showing no signs of fatigue, although he has maintained a fairly busy, busy weekend schedule at Camp David.

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Speaker 12
Nixon conferred for 2 hours and 40 minutes today with White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig and with News Secretary Ronald Ziegler. Both men flew to Camp David for the conference. The president is scheduled to return to the White House tomorrow morning. On Tuesday, he will meet with the Shah of Iran, who will arrive in the nation's capital on a state visit.

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Speaker 12
New census figures indicate gains in black education. A Census Bureau report today showed that black enrollment in the nation's colleges has doubled in the last five years. But the report adds that despite such gains, blacks still trailed whites in income and employment levels. The report deals with the social and economic status of the black population. In 1972. The report indicates that during the 1970s, the rate of improvement in blacks position in the United States had slowed down from what was termed the substantial social and economic gains of the 1960s.

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Speaker 12
And the report says there's evidence that a number.

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Speaker 12
Of the black poor.

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Speaker 12
Have increased in the last year, while the number of white poor has decreased. The chairman of the Presidential Council of Economic Advisors predicts Phase four will bring about price, stability and high employment while also permitting necessary price increases. Chairman Herbert Stances Phase four was designed to slow down the rate of price increases while permitting those price responses and price increases necessary to production of most critical things, particularly food.

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Speaker 12
The US Postal Service was notified today that all four unions involved have ratified a new two year contract with the service. The unions represent about 617,000 of the 700,000 postal employees. Postal wages, which now average about $10,000 a year, are raised to about $1,000 annually by the new contract. To say that 50 year old railroad Mickey has returned from the dead would be the truth.

00;33;51;08 - 00;34;16;18
Speaker 12
The wiry former member of the Japanese Imperial Navy appeared at a news conference in Davao City, Philippines, and said that he wanted to stay in the Philippines and apply for Filipino citizenship. The World War Two Japanese sailor was listed in Japan's war records as killed in action in June 1945 in the southern Philippines. But he told newsmen that his detachment ashore had been had been surrounded and outnumbered by American troops and that he had escaped and had gone to hiding with the blind tribe.

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Speaker 12
He said they had married a member of the tribe and they now.

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Speaker 12
Have 14 children. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark has accused the Nixon administration of turning over what the Justice Department to it the Justice Department terms as a band of outlaws. Clark contended in a TV interview in New York that the real tragedy of the Nixon administration and the Department of Justice is that he, Nixon, politicized it. And Clark said, quote, The Nixon administration brought in a band of outlaws.

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Speaker 12
Peter, thank you, B.J. We'll be back with Connecticut news, sports and weather after this message.

00;34;51;21 - 00;35;07;09
Speaker 12
What time were you born and do you think Rock has had it? How do you like your coffee? Do you like to sleep late? Did you like live in the city? We spent a couple of years in Europe. How many children do you want? How many children do you want before you can decide how many children you want?

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Speaker 12
There are a lot of questions that have to be answered. Get to know the two of you before you become the three of you for the facts, right? Planned Parenthood Box 898 Radio City Station, New York 119.

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Speaker 12
On the Connecticut scene, a former member of the board of trustees of state colleges says Governor Mexico's austerity policies have caused most of the problems that face the poor state schools. James Dyer of Danbury says extreme budgetary restrictions have caused severe fire safety problems, health standard violations, inadequate libraries and a general morale crisis. The 26 year old Dyer became the first student on the board, one appointed by former Governor John Dempsey in 1971.

00;35;46;20 - 00;36;02;21
Speaker 12
When his term expired last month, Mescal replaced him. Dyer's comments come from a 49 page report, which he said was prepared at his own expense and was based on the tours he made of the four colleges. Earlier in the year, he also said a lack of funds could result in the loss of accreditation of some of the institutions.

00;36;02;27 - 00;36;20;25
Speaker 12
Dyer said mescal isn't to blame for all the school's problems. But for the most part, it seems his austerity policies have reached the point where short term savings will result in long term inefficiency. One problem cited in the report was a dormitory at Eastern Connecticut State College, described by Dyer as most definitely the worst dormitory I've ever been in.

00;36;21;03 - 00;36;41;09
Speaker 12
He said paint was peeling off walls and shower drains were clogged. At Central Connecticut State College, Dyer said he found that the only emergency vehicle was a converted station wagon that lacked proper life saving equipment. He said a dormitory dormitory at that campus had been without a fire alarm system for a year. Dyer said he received complaints at all the schools about inadequate libraries.

00;36;41;15 - 00;37;01;04
Speaker 12
He said many new library buildings had rows and rows of empty shelves because the money isn't available to buy books. He said this could cause future accreditation problems, as libraries do figure into accreditation. Chairman of the State Board of Trustees, Mrs. Bernice Nigel Leck of Daniel Sense that she hadn't read her copy of Dyer's report and wouldn't comment on it until she had done so.

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Speaker 12
Other officials couldn't be reached for comment. And it's 8 minutes after 7:00 here in WXXI with more Connecticut News. Here's B.J.. Thank you, Peter. According to The Washington Post, you don't need a Gallup poll to find out.

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Speaker 12
Who the White House.

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Speaker 1
Following was recorded from I Annie Brookfield, 8 p.m., July 22nd, 1973.

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Speaker 13
The Board of Trustees of the State Colleges.

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Speaker 13
Here in Connecticut says that austerity.

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Speaker 13
Policies of the.

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Speaker 13
School administration are jeopardizing the.

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Speaker 13
Fourth eight colleges.

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Speaker 13
James Dyer says that extreme budgetary restrictions have caused.

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Speaker 13
Building and health standard violations.

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Speaker 13
And inadequate libraries.

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Speaker 13
And have created a general morale crisis at the school. US Representative.

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Speaker 13
Robert, Human Secretary.

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Speaker 13
Local of the Board of Trustees for the State College System. 26 year old James Dyer says governor schools, austerity program has caused most of the college's problems. Dyer says poor housing, lack of fire safety, inadequate security, health violations, inadequate libraries and a general morale crisis are all the fault of budgetary restrictions. Sometime next fall, two floors of the Jones home in Hancock.

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Speaker 1
The preceding was from WTI Channel three Hartford Television 11:00 News seven 2273.

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Speaker 2
Weber, Connecticut State College. What she thought of the report.

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Speaker 4
Now that you've had time to read James Dyer lengthy report, how do you react to it?

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Speaker 2
Which he took himself very seriously, took the job very seriously, and he did go around to all the campuses. And I think that the materials that he came up with in some instances reflected only the opinions of the individuals that were present. And I know that insofar as morale is concerned, what he found out is absolutely true. The faculty are very unhappy because of the lack of salary increases and also the feeling of insecurity, which is basic to all the problems.

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Speaker 2
I feel that he was sincere in doing this and to the extent that it can be helpful, I think would we to that to the advantage of the campuses. I feel he did exactly what he started out to do. That is to get the opinions as you heard them there. I do not in every instances and every instance reflect the opinion of the majority, but as long as they exist and people are unhappy about it, it's important that we look into it very carefully.

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Speaker 2
And I think that needs to be commended for being that interest to this tremendous amount of time, money of his own. I'm sure in order to do it.

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Speaker 4
He did cite shortages in library libraries with empty bookshelves. How is that in at what point are they do you have enough books?

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Speaker 2
Did you ever hear any educators say they have enough books? The answer is we can always use more books. Our equipment, money for which books are purchased is never enough to buy all that we would like. I think the picture that I saw in the report showing empty shelves at Southern doesn't mean anything really. It would be a sad library that didn't have empty shelving on which to put new additions to the library, and that libraries are practically a new library.

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Speaker 2
So that he'd find and I think he should find empty shelves on every and every library. But on the other hand, we none of us are spending the kind of money that we would like to spend for books for the student and the faculty both feel the need.

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Speaker 4
One of the things he did say was that very few trustees went around to the colleges. They sat there and made decisions without having seen the actual campus. Do you feel the trustees should visit the colleges more?

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Speaker 2
Well, Jim was an unusual case. He had the time to give to it. Most of them are men and women who are very, very busy. They just simply can't get around the campus. They come to the campus at least once a year. They have a student advisory council and a faculty advisory council, and they depend on those sources, as well as the presidents, to bring the local problems to their attention.

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Speaker 2
Yes, I think it's always good to have the board go around as much as they can, but I would never feel that it was proper to criticize them, because when you get a man that's saying Vice President Obey, when you get a man who is principal of a school, a woman who is the head of a college, and a man who is the head of a school and other people in the business which is full time.

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Speaker 2
Now, Jim had the advantage in that he had more free time to give to this.

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Speaker 4
Yes, I guess we wish there were more hours in the day.

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Speaker 2
No question. I certainly do.

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Speaker 4
Thank you very much, Dr. Haas. This is Chris Cillizza for Area Digest with Dr. Ruth Haas, president of Western Connecticut State College here in Danbury.

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Speaker 2
Cable news has learned that.

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Speaker 1
The preceding was recorded from Cable ten TV July 26th, 5:30 p.m. Going.

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Speaker 5
On a cable.

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