AFROTC Girds for Battle

FACULTY LOSS STILL RISING IN STATE COLLEGES gy James Loveland signed, retired, died, or have not college is budgeted for 879 fa­ aries averaging $19,300 a year. o f 6.5 per cent, the increase is losing an equal number o f faculty. The California State College been rehired. culty. Stanford was fourth with $17,200. offset by more rapid inflation, Problem System is losing more faculty Officials also point out that As of April 15, 74 faculty had Chancellor Glenn Dumke said the review said. Educators said the problem of each year. more faculty are in the system, resigned. There are 54 scheduled a full professor in the University But salaries are not the reasons faculty resignations is compound­ All available information indi­ thus the rate of turnover is cor­ for leaves. o f California system now earns why department chairmens John ed when a professor with a Ph.D cates this is also true at SF State. respondingly higher. Resignations and leaves be­ $14,800 to $21,800 annually while Clark and Rudolph Weingartner is replaced by soneone with an In January the Chancellor’s The reasons for leaving officials come effective Sept. 1. in the state college he earns are leaving. Clark is going to MA. office released a four year study said, in order o f importance are: The last day to resign is Sept. 1. $13,992 to $17,016. Sonoma State and Weingartner Recruiting in the state colleges showing the system wide turnover ♦Better salaries Guess A UC associate professor earns to Vassar. is difficult because most other of faculty. ♦Promotional opportunities “ As an educated guess we will $11,800 to $13,500 while the same Weingartner is chairman o f the institutions offer more to the Resignations ♦Research support lose 85 faculty this year,” Feder position in the state colleges pays philosophy department. instructor. The 1966-67 resignations were ♦Lighter teaching loads said. $10,980 to $13,332. Both admit that along with James Haehn, professor o f so­ 0.7 per cent, a rise from 8.8 per The Chancellor’s statistics were This is 15 more than last year, A UC assistant professor earns their new positions comes an in­ ciology at Chico State, has char­ ent in 1963-64. further qualified by Danial Feder, or about 10 per cent o f the total $9,300 to $11,000 while his state crease in salary. ged that “ there has been a marked The total number o f faculty dean o f academic planning at SF faculty. college counterpart makes $8,676 Authority deterioration in the average qual­ n the system during the 1966-67 State. Records are unavailable to com­ to $10,548. Both men said the system ity o f the new faculty in the cademic year was 9,911. Unsure pare SF State’s resignations to the The teaching loads at other fails to place enough authority state colleges in the last two Officials predict the turnover Feder said he was unsure what statewide survey. universities are usually half of and autonomy on the individual years.” ill be even higher this year. the Chancellor’s statistics were The state colleges offer com­ what they are at SF State. At college. Haehn uses the word deter­ But such statistics should be based upon because it was not paratively poorer salaries said the Harvard the load is six, at Stan­ “ This college can’t cope with ioration to mean the number o f ualified otherwise they may be until last year that SF State con­ annual economic review o f the ford it is nine. the demands because it can’t non-Ph.D’s in the system. isleading. tributed information to the study. American Association of Univer­ President John Summerskill make the decisions for itself. This is supported by a Chan­ Defined Feder has the headache of sity Professors. earns $28,000. There is always someone looking cellor’s report that says in the The term resignation as de- trying to replace the faculty that Pay It should be noted that al­ over its shoulder,” Weingartner academic year o f 1962-63 the ined by the Chancellor’s office have resigned. Each year unfilled The review said Harvard’s full though faculty salaries have in­ said. number o f Ph.D’s in the system efers to persons who have re­ faculty positions increase The time faculty ranked first in sal­ creased at an average annual rate Feder said all departments are (Continued on Page 7)

First Year, No. 6 Thursday, the Ninth Day o f May, MCMLXVUI Twelve Pages AFROTC girds for battle

SF State’s AFROTC program The new contract was signed the academic tradition. Branch differs with Bass’ and is battling for survival on campus. by former SF State President “ The Air Force personnel are Solomon’s views on the validity Students for a Democratic So­ Paul Dodd, on December 14,1964. loyal to the impartiality o f in­ o f the AFROTC curriculm. ciety (SDS), Russell Bass, AS Therefore, the AFROTC con­ quiry or truth. It doesn’t exit,” “ In the Aerospace Studies Pro­ President, and John Webb, Speak­ tract is still valid, Branch said he said. gram, we are here to explore the er of the Legislature are trying to and the SDS and Webb have no “ To qualify as a legitimate educational concepts o f human convince President John Summer­ legal grounds to force Summer­ course of study, college curri­ relations in automation and ma­ skill to terminate the college con­ skill to cancel it. cula must conform to generally nagement,” Branch said. tract with the AFROTC. However, in view o f the re­ acceptable academic standards as “ We are not here to teach SDS and Webb said the cur­ solution passed in the recent AS defined and established within the young men how to drop bombs or rent contract is invalid because election requesting Summerskill college administrative-faculty hier­ make napalm. We equip and pre­ there are only 29 students en­ “ not to renew the college con­ archy, according to a critical pare young men mentally for rolled in the program, ancT the tract with the AFROTC for the study o f the AFROTC, by Eric the long hauls ahead o f them in contract requires at least “ 100 coming year,” the SDS plans to Soloman, Vice-Chairman of Aca­ the military and in life. Charles Stone physically fit male students.” see it enforced. demic Affairs. “ Issues that are discussed and Dean of AdmissionsDean However, this stipulation (Para­ One of Bass’ campaign plat­ “In view of all questions af explored, range from the left to graph 4a of the AFROTC-SF forms was abolishment o f the Free Speech and Academic Free­ right, on any and every subject,” State contract) was part o f an AFROTC. dom that surroung the AFROTC he said. old contract made in 1951 by J. “ I don’t see how any officer issue,” Solomon said, “ this is a A letter has been sent to Sum­ Work begins on unified Paul Leonard, then president of o f the college or a faculty mem­ crucial point. The validity of merskill, by the SDS supported the college. ber in a position o f responsibility AFROTC as an academic disci­ by Bass, demanding that he can­ The present two-year program, can ignore this incredible abuse pline is the issue. cel the contract within a matter program of minority aid according to Col. Robert Branch, of the college’s resources,” Bass The AFROTC program is di­ of weeks, according to John Le­ head of the Aerospace Studies said. rectly responsible not to the vin, SDS member. RuBy SteveQtouo ToomajianTnnmaiian rtf'o f Tnictooc Trustees, only nn 1» 272 special : ~ 1 Program, contains an amendment “The AFROTC does not re­ Academic Senate, not to the The AFROTC would have to SF State’s administration has admission spaces are available abolishing paragraph 4a, placing present the standards o f the col­ president o f the college, but only be o ff the campus within 90 days pledged itself to the creation at SF State. ‘no limitations on the number of lege,” he said, “ nor does it main­ to the Secretary o f the Air Force,” after the cancellation o f the con- students enrolled.” o f the college’s first compre­ “The Council of Academic tain or exercise them. It is not in he said. ( Continued on Page 6) hensive, unified assistance pro­ Deans will ask the Chancellor gram for minority students. for an additional 128 slots to The resolution, passed Tues­ bring the total to 400,” Don Immigrants flock to already crowded Faculty day by the Council o f Acade­ Garrity, vice president o f aca­ mic Deans, is one o f the key demic affairs, said. steps in preparing for next se­ About 300 prospective fresh­ dem ands mester’s record enrollment of men have applied, but there Mission District-housing a problem minority students. are only 80 freshmen openings. Almost 400 students who With 192 openings for trans­ do not meet normal require­ This is the first of a three part series o f immigration into this low- home in the Mission District for vetoed fers, only 96 prospective trans­ ments o f admission have applied exploring the social ills of the Mission rent area, the language problem several reason: fer students have applied. for enrollment at SF State. District. This dealing with education is hampering education, employ­ ♦Many o f them have relatives By Bruce Campbell This imbalance could be rec­ Not Enough will be followed by articles on em­ ment and community improve­ and friends already living in this After the last State College tified by a Chancellor’s okay ployment and housing. ment. area Board o f Trustees meeting at But even with the expanded o f the SF State deans’ request Extending from Market to Ar­ ♦Others are attracted because Chico, several volatile faculty de­ quota system, approved April for extra freshmen spaces. By Paula Moran my Streets on the north and they know that Spanish is spoken mands appear to have fizzled 25 by the State College Board ( Continued on Page 6) Overcoming the language bar­ south, and Potrero to Dolores ♦Rents are lower than any­ from a lack o f support. Streets on the east and west, the rier is one o f the biggest pro­ where else in San Francisco. Chief among these demands area has long been clouded with blems facing residents o f the Mis­ Influx was the issue o f reducing the sion District. immigrants. This summer’s influx will add Drama Chairman teaching load from 12 units to Caused by a continuous flow Largest Minority to the need for more extensive nine. The largest minority is the Spa­ English language and training pro­ nish-speaking - immigrants from grams for adults and youth. This demand was summarily leaves for Sonoma Latin America. According to 1964 EOC sta­ rejected by the trustees because I 9 0 0 ^ _ They comprise 20 per cent o f tistics, 22 per cent o f the area’s “ any large-scale unilateral action By John Davidson the area’s population o f 138,000. population has less than a grade materially reducing the current John Clark is leaving his duties Clark is taking the job at So­ m issio n The area includes smaller popu­ school education. 12 unit load may expose the col­ as Drama department chairman at noma State because he sees op­ lations o f American Indians, Ne­ Over one-third have not finish­ lege to budget reduction and SF State for the position o f Dean portunities there where he can groes, Filipinos, Samoans and ed high school. raise the problems o f appropriate of Instruction at Sonoma State be more useful than here. Orientals. A 1966 survey by the San compensation. College. Growth Among the Spanish-speaking Francisco Board o f Education Killed He will begin work at Sonoma there are 20 different national He explained that Sonoma shows the city-wide high school Sept. 1. groups with varying cultural cus­ drop-out is 8.7 per cent. But several faculty representa­ (founded in 1960) is “ just start­ For Clark, who has served here ing to get underway. There growth toms. Since the area contains more tives believe the issue was killed Limits children under 18 than any other because o f a lack of support from for 18 years and three years as is just starting now and they are Effective July 1 there will be a area in the city, the problem o f Chancellor Glenn S. Dumke. chairman, SF State will be a in a good position to avoid the limitation o f persons entering inadequate education is acute. The reduction, supported and tough act to follow. mistakes made by older institu­ this country from the Western “ The minority group students presented to the trustees by the Exciting tions. Hemisphere. who stay in school do it by sheer American Federation of Teachers “ This is the most exciting stu­ “ All o f the major problems at There had been no limitation tenacity,” Mrs. Bordman said. (AFT) and the Association of dent body in the country,” Clark SF State in the last 10 years have before. “ It has nothing to do with the California State College Profes­ said. “ We are on the front lines been complicated, if not origin­ “ The people considering im­ educational system.” - something can happen in Wash­ ated, by pressures o f tremendous migration will make a special sors (ACSCP), was considered to 2400 Students a crucial step in attaining the ington and it will be felt on this growth. I don’t think Sonoma is effort to come to the U.S. early There are 2400 students at right o f collective bargaining for campus the next day.” under these pressures yet, so there in the summer.” a department o f Mission High School. Over half immigration official said. the faculty. Sonoma State, with only 1900 will be some breathing space,*’ o f these students are Spanish­ Joan Bordman, an Economic students and 425 faculty occupy­ he said. speaking. Peter Radcliffe, head o f AFT Mission Street - one way Opportunity Council program co­ “ Most o f them do speak Eng- local 1352 at SF State, said that ing a land area roughly twice the Clark hopes to make use of •n, which way out? ordinator, said most o f these Dumke was a major obstacle for size o f SF State, will have to seem his experience here as a faculty ( Continued on Page 7) immiarantc will be makina their ( Continued nn Pnve ?) ______" Page 2 PHOENIX Thursday, May 9, 1968 s m Phoenix Editorial James Loveland

On garbage.... What happened to Eric Starvo Galt?

California’s politicians and many o f the spokesmen for our aca­ James Earl Ray, the accused ♦The FBI had in its Washington instructed by the FBI not to talk demic establishment have long spoken o f our system o f higher edu­ The following day the FBI assassin o f Martin Luther King, to them. cation in glowing terms. finally discovered that Galt was laboratories the murder weapon A check with the Mississippi But for those who most directly participate in that system - the has successfully made fools of really Ray, who had escaped from and other physical evidence. professors and students o f the state’s colleges and universities - the the country’s law enforcement the Missouri State Prison a year ♦Officials knew the suspect Alabama and Georgia highway glow is dying, if not dead. agencies for 35 days. before. fled the murder scene in a white patrols showed that none had For we have come to recognize the realities behind the rhetoric; Later reports by US Attorney Mustang with out-of-state license received an alert from the Ten­ the hard realities which indicate the true value the state places upon But more particularly he has General Ramsey Clark said there plates. nessee highway patrol or the FBI the educational product and the means by which it is achieved. demonstrated the ineffectiveness was no conspiracy - thus the But for one reason or another, for the Mustang the night of the We have come to accept - with an almost cynical resignation - that of the FBI, since the FBI has basis for the FBI investigation is the FBI refused the share its murder. California has, does and most probably will continue to subscribe to evidence with local authorities taken complete control o f the invalid. No Roadblocks the garbage can theory o f education. To California’s educational manhunt. The FBI had based its com­ and decided to capture Ray it­ An alert for the car had been hierarchy, Max Rafferty et al, the student is nothing more than a plaint on nothing more substantial self. issued only in Tennessee. Thus receptacle into which are shoveled the necessary prerequisites to pro­ April 18, two weeks after King than a statement by a witness Time'to Disappear no roadblocks were errected in duce a subservient citizen. was killed, the FBI charged that that he had heard Galt say he Consequently, by choosing to ,the three states.. The professor handles the shovel. And is paid and treated accord­ Eric Starvo Galt “ ...and an in­ do this, the FBI gave Ray ample A Tennessee state highway pa­ ingly. and “ a brother” planned to kill dividual whom he alleged to be time to disappear. As for the student, he is expected to behave like a proper recep­ King. trol spokesman said Ray’s escape his brother entered into a con­ tacle and move dutifully o ff to take his place in society after the Baffled FBI On April 8, Memphis police route through Memphis streets spiracy...to injure, oppress, threat­ necessary level has been reached. This type o f haphazardness director Frank Holloman issued filled with police, may have taken en or intimidate Martin Luther him down Lamar or Poplar Streets Even SF State, one o f the few bastions o f innovative and creative has plagued the investigation from a statement saying he had not King Jr...” and quite probably onto High­ education in California is feeling the effects as our faculty becomes the beginning. Ray has baffled yet received the report from the Not a Federal Crime way 78 or 72. tried o f weilding a shovel instead o f their minds. the FBI at every turn. FBI in regard to evidence it was The FBI used the conspiracy Either highway would have On top of this, he is expected to shovel more garbage for less As usual, soon after the mur­ examining. money than his counterparts in the other 49 collection areas. statue as the legal basis for its der, Clark promised an early taken Ray out of Tennessee with­ We lose more and more faculty members each year as they move investigation since King’s murder arrest. Clark’s optimism was seem­ Local authorities have also com­ in an hour, across the uppermost on to States where their worth is measured on a more appropriate is a state, not a federal, crime. ingly supported by two facts: plained that witnesses have been portion o f Mississippi, through scale. Alabama and into morthern Geor-1 The students, for the most part, continue to wait patiently in line gia. to be topped o ff and sealed with the immortal mortarboard. The Memphis police have also Garbage strikes have proven rather successful in some o f our SEE AMERICA FIRST .. never explained a mysterious 80 larger cities o f late. m.p.h. cahse between a blue Pon­ Possibly one is in order here. tiac and a white Mustang minutes after the murder. Denies Charge Brian Lawson A witness identified the police­ man driving the blue car, but the policeman has denied any know­ ledge of the chase. Snails and their tales If Ray did nothing more than listen to his car radio, he would have known his pursuers had not Gather around and Uncle will worry about the 10 percent. extended the chase across the tell you another story. Soon a new cry was heard in state borders. This time I’ll tell you a fable. the land. Counterclockwise A fable is a thinly disguised power. Ray’s escape was predictable. story about animals that has ab­ It soon became obvious the The FBI had been looking for solutely nothing to do with any colony would be faced with a him since April 23, 1967, when animal except the thinking kind. war on two fronts if something he escaped from prison. He had United Snails wasn’t done. The established been sentenced to 20 years in Long ago, long before man was shell leaders of the colony put 1960 for armed robbery. thought of, the world was ruled their heads together and came up Plans by insects. And the greatest of with a solution. About four months after his the animal colonies was the They elected to follow the prison escape Ray began to es­ example of the clear thinking United Snails. tablish his new identity as Galt. mayor of Chicago. They gave the Great was the power of the THIS SUMMER. He began to cover his tracks, so United Snails, for they held sway local slug forces unlimited power that after the assassination he over the global garden patch with to D.D.T. any snail caught in the could disappear. the ultimate insecticide. act of anything. A convicted murderer who was But, also, great was the inter­ Spray nal troubles of the colony. Of course a problem arose: the John Keane in prison with Ray said recently For over 10 percent of the slug for forces had a nasty habit he heard Ray say he would try United Snails was composed of a of spraying any snail they saw to collect a $1 million bounty different twist. That’s right, twist. who belonged to the 10 percent. for killing King. You see, these snail’s shells Some snails of a moderate bent Stamp out living hypocrisies The money had been offered, twisted in a counterclockwise even suggested this was illegal, he said, by a KKK businessmen’s direction. And obviously this was but the snails in power, and the ings of the great thinkers treated association.” slugs with the spray guns, said Donald Kreps should be the in his favor. the mark of Cain. in their classes and to actively This was apparently Ray’s goal. this was the only way to handle new president of SF State. For when faced with the pro­ Relegated promote these teachings in their Authorities, however, discount the situation. As principal of Marin County’s blem o f cutting the bodget at free time. this theory. Because they were different And, of course, the trouble Redwood High School, Mr. Kreps SF State, Kreps could fire the Thus any teachers of Plat o who the 10 percent were relegated to really started then. is presently tackling the weighty entire PE faculty, not to mention Ray’s killing of King was re­ fail to organize their neighbor­ second class insectship. Fire Spread business o f dropping 212 pound the Philosophy and History fa­ latively simple. Although there They lived in poor weed- Elizabeth Blodgett, a physical culties. hoods into societies roughly ana­ Then it happened. Somewhere, was dozens o f police in the area patches in the miadle of the education teacher, from the fa­ Among those PE instructors logous with that described in the in one of the weed patches, a fire o f King’s motel, none were on most succulent lettuce patches culty. to be dismissed because they are “ Myth Of The Case” will be was started in protest. And it rooftops or in buildings over­ in the world, and they couldn’t The principal’s qualification for living contradiction o f their sub­ sacked. move into any of the upper class spread. A brisk wind fanned the looking King’s room. the hot seat here is that he will ject will be: any basketball coach Any professor whose subject rose plots. flames across the colony. Ray took a room in a flop­ insure the elimination o f hypo­ who cannot sink eight o f 10 matter deals with Marx and En­ Year by year the situation be­ Soon snails of both twists saw house across from the motel and crites from our community. A jump shots from the free throw gles will be expected to dress in came more intolerable. The 10 the danger. And they tried to challenge no less than that taken line; any football coach who the clothes o f a laborer and in- shot King shortly after 6 p.m. percent began to demand equal awaken the vast middle class and up by John The Baptist along misses more than one o f four flitrate and overthrow the bour­ The Mustang was parked iri- opportunities in all the lettuce help put out the fire. the Jordan. field goal attempts from the 40- geois on weekends. front o f the flophouse. As Ray patches of the country. But it was too late, the fire yard line; any swimming coach And woe to the Philosopher entered the car he dropped his Some rather liberal thinkers consumed everything in its path. Because of her excess baggage, were raising tneir voices in be­ who cannot hold his breath under­ whose survey course deals with rifle and bag. Now there’s a moral here. Kreps has labelled the physical half of all snails. Unfortunately water for three minutes; and all the conflicting teachings of Plato Every fable has one, so this might fitness instructor “ a living hypo­ the colony was fighting the good dance teachers who appear in the and Milton, for if he is to evade He drove 400 miles to Atlanta as well: there isn’t a shell thick crisy o f the subject she teaches.” fight witn a colony or red ants faculty dining room out o f leo­ hypocrisy, he will have to turn to without interfernece. It took him enough to withstand the fire next “ Miss Blodgett,” Kreps said, across the big lilly pond, and no tards. schizophrenia. about six hours. The car was one in power had the time to time. “ cannot bounce on the trampo­ line.” Instructors in Philosophy will In which state he will, o f found abandoned seven days af­ be expected to believe the teach­ course, be bounced immediately. ter the murder. PHOENIX Recently the SF State com­ mittee whicn will select a new He has since disappeared. 1600 Holloway Avenue president invited each student to * San Francisco, California 94132 submit the name o f the ideal ad­ Letters to the Editor Silence (415) 469-2083 ministrator for consideration. Understandably, the FBI has Editor: If this body be truly bent on Congressman Maillard, remained silent. It is sensitive Phoenix is a weekly laboratory newspaper published during As a paper of depth and scope creating a Free Market Place of I am sorry to see that you were about the investigation because the regular school year by the Department of Journalism, San the Phoenix has far surpassed Ideas in this matter, only the not interested enough in the bill it had stopped keeping a pro­ Francisco State College. The editorial content does not neces­ my expectations. It has also been name of Kreps can emerge as the to extend the life o f the National tective eye on King soon after he sarily reflect the policies or opinions of the Department of a source of historical data as well true and right president. Foundation on the Arts and Hu­ Journalism or the college administration. as an abundant source of hope had voiced opposition to the For not even Jesus Christ could manities (H.R. 11308) to vote for the future o f campus papers. Vietnam War. find a kind word in His heart for The Phoenix has refused to reveal either on Roll Call No. 38 (when The FBI has only released two the hypocrite. “ Casks o f dead Managing Editor: Larry Maatz the path o f racial abrasiveness by severely-pared bill passed). statements dealing with the case. men’s bones,” was His exact News Editor: John Keane giving fair coverage to all events I should think that with a The releases have given no indi­ reaction. Chief Copy Editor: Mary Shepper as they are. The college can take major educational institution in cation why more widespread lo­ great joy from the work that the Sports Editor: Vernon Smith Hearing your district, and with higher edu­ cal police efforts have not been Photo Editor: Lou de la Torre Overlooking the obvious hurd­ Phoenix writers have done and cation under attack from Gov­ encouraged in a case that ori- are still doing. I therefore say, if Business Manager: Ralph Henn les o f Miss Blodgett’s alleged ernor Reagan, you would go out mairly concerns a state offense— thyroid condition and the cham­ these writers of the Phoenix are of your way to help where help murder the future writers o f our daily Section editors this edition: National-International Walter pionship records her teams have can be given. newspapers around the nation Couick: Campus-City, John Davidson; Arts and Sciences, Steve mounted. Kreps will set a monu­ Joseph E. Illick and perhaps the world. Toomajian. mental precedent when the Board Dept, of History o f Education decides the matter Rev. Anthony Burrus cc: Phoenix Page 3 Thursday, May 9, 1968 PHOENIX TRAFFIC PROBLEMS RUN

By Walter Couick Increasing traffic problems problems will have to be faced would have to be sold on the idea may lead to restrictive driving soon. Despite new efforts by gov­ first. and a revolution in present modes ernment and industry, these offi­ People in cars would not stand of travel. cials say urban traffic congestion for one lane remaining open, The days of the automobile in will get even worse in the next while traffic is heavy, unless the city could be over, with new few years. many buses are using it from the and improved methods of trans­ The government has been beginning. portation replacing conventional pouring money into transit sys­ The potential for traffic relief travel by car. tems to improve and modernize is great. Buses traveling at 35 to With the continuing increase them. 40 miles per hour could carry of population and the tendency Government officials are re­ 25,000 to 30,000 people an hour to travel, traffic congestion is versing their previous trend of in one lane, compared to 3,000 becoming a major problem in promoting highway programs by people in cars in the same lane. large cities. giving federal aid which caused To develop new systems and Harsh Restrictions people to rely heavily on auto­ revitalize old ones, HUD has Federal officials believe that mobiles. spent a third of a billion dollars harsh restrictions may have to be The present aim is to develop in the last three years. placed on where people can and revive public transportation Failed drive. in the form of buses and trains— Sections of central cities will to give the public a greater alter­ So far, the federal effort has have to be placed off limits to native to the car. failed to halt the decline in urban motor vehicles before traffic con­ Changes bus passengers, from 19 billion in gestion threatens to choke the life Boyd, whose agency is the first 1945 to less than 7 billion in 1966, Passing through the tunnel at Treasure Island, a smog palor engulfs the Bay Bridge from already sick cities. to be given over-all responsibility even though the urban popula­ caused by the thousands of commuters each day. Solution? Federal regulation for auto­ Alan S. Boyd, secretary of for the transportation needs of tion has been soaring. m obiles. Transportation, said “ there isn’t the country, suggested a number HUD officials say it’s going to enough money in the United of changes the cities might make take a lot more money. Its re­ States to build a street and high­ to relieve the congestion. search has not found a single way system that allows every­ Each city or urban area could: solution but a number of proj­ • A gasoline and electric pow­ tery powered vehicles would transit systems. body to go everywhere they want • Regulate parking rates so ects show promise! ered minicar, developed by Gen­ travel on regular streets or on rail The computer controlled, mini­ to at any time of the day in and they go up rather than down for • Rail systems have been under­ eral Motors and the University of guideways to and from down­ train has rubber wheels and runs around the big urban areas.” each additional hour. sold. The 14 or 15 major US cities Pennsylvania, could help. town. on an elevated concrete guide­ ‘Politically Dangerous’ This would increase the rev­ comprise 30 percent of the popu­ way. lation of the country. It is half the length of an The cars, equipped with steel Robert C. Weaver, secretary enue for additional public trans­ • Systems such as conveyor Some of these cities have no average car and seats three peo­ flange wheels in addition to rub­ of the Department of Housing portation, while at the same belts, minitrains and minibuses, rail systems where they would ple with a top speed of 60 miles ber tires, could draw electric and Urban Development (HUD), time, discourage people from monorails, overhead sidewalks obviously relieve the traffic con­ per hour. power from the guideways and said “ it is politically dangerous” taking their cars to the city and and moving sidewalks could be gestion. travel at speeds of 40 miles per to question the freedom of every keeping them for any length of It could cut down parking the answers for heavily populated hour. American to drive anywhere he time. San Francisco and Oakland are space by three to four times and downtown areas. • Westinghouse’s Skybus proj­ wants. • Set aside one lane on free­ trying to remedy their prob­ give off only one-tenth the air Whatever the answer, HUD ect near Pittsburgh may prove “ The car owner has already ways for exclusive use of buses. lems by spending $900 million pollution. officials say it’s going to take a lot useful for medium-density cities decided that answer,” he said. Not one city has tried this, dollars on the Bay Area Rapid • A dual-mode automobile more money, local and federal, which cannot support costly rail Many officials believe the Boyd said. “The commuters Transit system. could be feasible. The small, bat­ to reverse the present trend. Reduction of teaching load fizzles; Dumke blamed for lack of support

(Continued from Page 1) pledge,” Fisher said. Though I gaining - it’s unavoidable,” he The AFT poll was bolstered by Dumke: “ Let us look at this pro­ L. A. Times interview? Don’t faculty representatives during the haven’t had time to study the said. a recent study for the State Col­ blem realistically: I agree that you get his handouts?” meeting. results o f the trustees meeting,” Also before the trustees meet­ lege Academic Senate which the teaching load is one o f our Dumke: “ O f cpurse, I have not “ The trustees were unhappy he added, “ I understand that ing, Dumke circulated a letter found that the 12 unit teaching major problems, and I have esta­ yet presented a Firm program on that Dumke didn’t have any con­ quite a few people are unhappy among the faculty indicating he load is “ a critical source o f re­ blished a task force on this . . . this to the Trustees. cruiting problems,” besides being These are merely concepts o f crete plans . . . they seemed very with Dumke. supported the nine unit teaching But a confrontation on this issue has such dire consequences far mine. I am, o f course, aware o f put-off by his ‘gradualism,’ ” ^iiiiimiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiimmmmiiimmmmiMiimiimiiimmiliimmiiiiiimiiiiiiliiiiiiiimiiiiiig Archaic our students that I urge all faculty the fiscal problems o f this State, Radcliffe said. “ The trustees “ It just goes back to the old to contemplate them carefully. and therefore think it impossible won’t do anything until Dumke problem that the financing o f Once we reduce enrollment, to adopt more than a gradual acts.” the college system is archaic and 1 financing of college 1 we will then have a reduction o f approach on this . . . I simply can­ Meeting the trustees along with a few other our system-wide budget imposed not go along with an across-the- The AFT and ACSCP held a officials won’t admit it,” he said. on us. board reduction to nine units. I favor, instead, subjectively I have nyself taught a 12-unit meeting yesterday to work to­ Before the trustees meeting, system archaic applied remunerative programs, load for many years, and found wards a faculty pledge asking Radcliffe was optimistic concern­ rather than these across-the-board it acceptable - though, of course, college professors “ not to accept ing the AFT-ACSCP drive for re­ himimiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiHiiiiiimiiiimimiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiimiiimiiimimmiiiiiiiiiiii i reductions. not ideal.” a teaching load in excess o f nine ducing the teaching load which load - but a dradual one. a major obstacle to effective I again say, let us be realistic units (eight units on quarter cal­ Sperling: “ With a 12-unit load you would create a climate for col­ “ I consider it an impractical teaching. about the price that the faculty are presently taking any scholarly endar campuses) as o f the spring lective bargaining in the same goal at present to achieve a nine It is estimited that a shift adn students would both have to achievement out o f the hide and semester 1969.” motion. from the 12 unit load to the nine pay.” unit teaching load across the blood o f the faculty, and I say The first step o f meeting was unit for the 9,000 state college Sperling: “ Chancellor Dumke, it “ Collective bargaining is an board,” he said. you ought to stop this.” to determine whether the ACSCP abstraction to the trustees,” Rad­ Dumke’s letter came on the professors would cost over $30 is your counsel o f ‘realism’ that Thatcher: “ I don’t want to get and AFT can work together be­ cliffe said. “ It is something they heels o f an AFT poll to deter­ million for the first year. has brought us to the sad condi­ any information on the Chan­ fore they ask for a signing o f the distrust. This year we are pre­ mine faculty priorities, a poll John Sperling, President o f the tions o f today.” cellor’s actions from the news­ which found that professors are College Council, AFT, presented Trustee Thatcher: “ I want to pledge. senting them with concrete de­ paper only. This teaching load almost unanimously in favor of the faculty position for reduced know about this Dumke plan on But many faculty members mands and figures. problem is a serious one. reducint the teaching load to teaching loads to the trustees, a the teaching load, about this belong to both AFT and ACSCP, 'Unavoidable' nine units. presentation which was limited Dumke task force. I have not including ACSCP chairman New­ “ I think that the trustees will Precedence by the trustees to 10 minutes. been informed on this.” man Fisher. have to accept them, and in the This demand took precedence The following excerpt is part Sperling: “ Didn’t you read about “ I’m sure there will be a lot of process, acceptance o f these de­ over complaints concerning salary o f the interchange between Sperl­ the Chancellor’s ‘gradualist’ posi­ people who’ll refuse to sign the mands will entail collective bar­ disparities. ing, Dumke and the trustees: tion on the teaching load in his Kennedy-McCarthy battle goes into full swing as primary nears

By Lee Heidhues With the California presiden­ the treatment forthcoming if her to win in California, at the con­ month ago with several desks has the Kennedy campaign turnout, tial primary drawing near the father is elected Miss McCarthy vention and in November.” been boosted by a large volunteer has been greeted with a large campaigns of Eugene McCarthy replied “ I would fade out and go At McCarthy headquarters in group and after a long delay an student turnout and is now in the and Robert Kennedy are moving back to school.” the Fox Plaza, with KMPX in the influx of campaign materials. “organizing and planning stage.” into high gear. Gerald Hill, president of the background, volunteer coordina­ With the voting one month California Democratic Council, tor Karen Schoen called her work No Supplies The students for Kennedy have away, the candidates and their and state co-chairman for Mc­ for McCarthy an “enlightening Bill Thomas, press coordinator, been divided into three North backers are combing the state. Carthy said the campaign is go­ experience.” said “ like any army we made a State sections and groups begun Senator McCarthy appeared in ing “ exceptionally well” and 800 Volunteers big advance at first but over ran in each section. California earlier in April and called it a “ peoples’ movement.” The young, blonde Miss Shoen our supply lines.” Miss Talisman, who came out New Yorker Kennedy swung Hill, who was one of the first said about 75 people come , into Thomas, who has had much from Washington, D.C., for the through here two weeks ago. democratic leaders to come out work each day and there have experience in Democrat party campaign, said the students im­ McCarthy’s daughter, 18 year against President Johnson said been approximately 800 volun­ politics called the initial response mediate goal is the June pri­ old Mary, a Radcliffe “ dropout” “ though the polls show us to be teers since the headquarters to Kennedy “overwhelming” but mary with precinct work during visited San Francisco recently. behind we’ll be up there by elec­ opened in early April. “ none of the materials were there the summer months. The soft spoken young woman tion day.” and we had to wait until the sup­ Miss Shoen is assisted by a Students are currently working called student involvement “ the In speaking of McCarthy’s ply organization caught up.” team of researchers, precinct on fund raisers and position pa­ most important thing in this campaign Hill, a former SF State Thomas called LBJ’s with­ workers and a McCarthy Speakers pers for the senator. campaign.” student, said he is pleased that drawal a case of “ the enemy Miss Talisman said the cam­ bureau. The volunteer head said giving in” and said “ I think we Vote at 18 the Senator is taking on the CIA, paign has been slow to surface the FBI, the draft and the whole many talented people have quit can move forward now.” Miss McCarthy, who spent last because of the material shortage military establishment. jobs to volunteer with us” and summer working in Georgia doing cited the atmosphere as one of With campaign materials lin­ which is a problem with starting ing his officfe Thomas said “ Ken­ a late campaign. voter registration, believes 18 Hill said, McCarthy looks “ real optimism and hard work.” nedy is a better man. That’s why year olds should be allowed to like more of a winner than Ken­ At Kennedy headquarters, At Democrat headquarters, I’m working for him.” vote because “ often they are bet­ nedy and the young people are spaciously located in a former formerly for LBJ, a lone secre­ ter informed than their adult resentful of RFK.” surplus store, the atmosphere is Big Turnout tary manned the office and The Senator's campaign­ counterparts.” Exuding optimism, Hill said, one of quiet efficiency. Amy Talisman, Northern Cali­ seemed to be waiting for some­ ing daughter Asked how she would react to “ I think he (McCarthy) is going The office which ODened a fornia student coordinator, for thing to happen. Page 4 PHOENIX Thursday, May 9, /9<5§ NO MASS MEDIA ACTION ON RIOT REPORT

By Doris Worsham The Bay Area mass media re­ * “Ultimately most important, ‘Nothing New’ necessary as recommended by the station opened the phones to gard the recent riot commission we believe that the media have Gale Cook, city editor o f the the report.” the listeners in San Francisco and report a significant document but thus far failed to report adequate­ Examiner, said the report “ only The Chronicle editorial said the East Bay. Listeners reactions have taken little action as a re­ ly on the causes and consequences confirmed and brought into focus the failure of domestic programs to the report varied. sult o f its recommendations. o f civil disorders and the under­ what we’ve been reporting for in our cities can be attributed to KSFO’s news director, Chet In a 65 page report o f the lying problems o f race relations. years. It isn’t the first we’ve heard the Vietnam War. Castleman, a member o f the commission’s findings, President Chastised Press about it.” “ The ghastly truth is that it Northern California TV News Johnson’s question “ What effect “ It is a very significant report (congress) is hung up on the Viet­ Directors Association, said the The report, compiled by 11 do the mass media have on the on the main problems o f our nam War and believes that it can members o f the association form­ men appointed by the President riots?” was never quite answered. time,” Cook said. “ That is the finance and support only one ed guidelines for reporting riots last July chastised the press for Instead, the Kerner report increasing racial tension in urban war at a time - the hot battles in lack o f communication with Ne­ and racial problems. named after its chairman, Illinois America. the jungles o f Vietnam and not groes in the ghetto. Guidelines Governor Otto Kerner, offered “ Within the limitations o f our the desperate, but compassionate “ The news media have not The guidelines include not la­ three conclusions about the mass reporters, I will have the Exa­ battle o f the ghettoes of our ci­ Charles Coane communicated to the majority beling a disorder a riot until actual media: miner do its best to fill the role ties,” the editorial said. KPIX o f their audience - which is violence breaks out and not re­ * “ Despite incidents o f sensa­ - that is to bring the situation to ‘We’ll Continue’ white - a sense o f the degrada­ porting false rumors or distortion three and a half hour program tionalism, inaccuracies, and dis­ readers in news stories,” he said. Carol Fisher, in charge o f the tion, misery and hopelessness, o f o f facts. “ One Nation Indivisible” on May tortions newspapers, radio and Doubted Response Chronicle Letters to the Editors living in the ghetto. These guidelines are followed 20 from 7:30- 11:00. television on the whole, made column, said “ we’ve always cov­ “ By failing to portray the Ne­ by 30 radio and television stations a real effort to give a balanced, The Chronicle praised the re­ ered racial issues in the cities and Charles Coane, KPIX public gro as a matter o f fact routine, throughout Northern California. factual account o f the 1967 dis­ port in a recent editorial but we will continue to do so.” relations manager, said this pro­ and in the context o f the total orders.” doubted whether the reports de­ The Oakland Tribune recently gram was a direct result of the society, the news media have, we * “ Despite the effort, the por­ claration against “ white racism” published a series o f articles on Kerner report. believe, contributed to the black- would get serious response. trayal o f the violence that oc­ the Black Students Union and the “ We’re not going to have lead­ curred last summer failed to re­ white schism. “ Congressmen” the report said, black youths of Bay Area schools. ers talk about solutions. But the flect accurately its scale and char­ “ The white press,” the report “ in considerable numbers turned John Jordan, editor o f the San people, the laymen are going to acter. The over-all effect was, continued, “ is at best mistrusted deaf ears to the report, protesting Francisco Progress, said he hadn’t be interviewed in the first two we believe, an exaggeration o f and at worst held in contempt by that the nation cannot afford to read the report. hours. The last hour and one both mood and event.” many Black Americans.” make the kinds o f expenditures “ However, we have covered half will be devoted to the racial stories on project Head Start, crisis in local cities,” Coane said. Upward Bound, the EOC and “ One Nation Indivisible” was OEC, and the Tutorial Program based on “ Prelude to a Riot” by at SF State,” Jordan said. Paul Jacobs, a San Francisco wri­ Editorial ter whose book was written dur­ Tom Berkeley, publisher of ing the Hunter’s Point riot in The Post, a newspaper published 1966. for Negroes and Latin-Americans Ben Williams, KPIX eyewit­ in Berkeley, wrote an editorial ness news reporter, and Pat Col­ after the report was released. lins, hostess o f KPIX’s “ Hotline,” “ It’s saying what Malcolm X interviewed Jacobs, April 2, on said when he was alive - that this “ Eyewitness Exclusive - The Con­ country is racist,” Berkeley said. Mel Kampmann tinuing American Revolution.” Berkeley said his newspaper KRON In the half hour live program, began writing a special series of Miss Collins, Williams and Jacobs articles dealing with racial pro­ offered a critical analysis of racial blems long before the report was problems. Bert Bell, program director o f released. KRON has attempted to por Bay Area radio stations have KSOL, concurred with the opini­ tray the black man in the ghetto responded somewhat more favor­ ons o f many others who praised as the report recommended. “ The the report. He said the station has ably to the Kerner report. Family on Fell Street” televised Mel Knox, news director of special panel discussions when­ March 18, depicted a black family ever disturbances occur. KDIA, said no direct action was living in poverty on Fell Street in Bell hosts a talk show “ Face taken by the station to cover the San Francisco. to Face with the Issues,” on racial issues. Mel Kampmann, news director Sunday from 5 to 6 p. m. He said Racial Problems o f KRON-TV, said “ we cover many vital issues are discussed Knox said KDIA’s half hour self-help projects, through docu­ Sunday shows usually contained “ when the public is willing to mentaries and news departments. discussions about racial and social discuss them,” The reports basically didn’t spur problems. Local television stations have our station. This picture of a Washington D.C. street shows what damage a riot can do. The question is, did mass media “ The Owen Spann Show” on apparently taken more construc­ “ The Kerner report wasn’t any­ help cause this. KGO Radio, interviewed San tive steps toward adherring to thing new to the media, maybe it Francisco Supervisor Terry Fran­ the recommendations o f the Ker­ surprised the layman, but not the cois after the report was released. ner report. mass media. We live with it from Francois praised the report and KPIX will televise a special day to day,” he said. Vol. 11 No* | Safran DEC. 19 67 Ecumenical House bridges campus, community

JL the magazine of record TT i« pjp as student action programs help local residents s a f f r o n May 1967 Vol.l No. ■ -_ CROCUS SATIVUS The Ecumenical House, SF tical and creative articles to mag­ the Mission Rebels, a self-help bring about. State’s campus ministry, acts as azines throughout the United organization in San Francisco. Song of Solomon 4 : 13. 14 The campus ministers have a bridge between the campus States,” he said. Steven Abrans, a 20-year old, had various problems with mov­ Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates with pleasant fruits; camphire and the community. Schiffman, the son of a Pro­ conscientious objector, is an em­ ing into the small brown and with spikenard. It conveys the relevance of the testant minister, said his project ployment coordinator for the white house just a few blocks Spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees offrankincense, Judea-Christian faith to the stu­ will inform the white commun­ Mission Rebels under the Ecu­ myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices. —mmm*. away from SF State across 19th dents and faculty of San Fran­ ity of “ what’s going on in the menical House conscientious Avenue. u v ar cisco’s educational institutions. black community.” objector program. Before they moved into what The campus ministry is not “ W e have 300 or more places Abrams, who attended an Ex­ was to become Ecumenical only a center for religious ’‘orien­ to sell our articles and I am going perimental College acting class House, they were confronted with tation,” but it is also a center of to solicit as many stories as I can, last semester, is active in the a suit by a neighborhood group relevant community action. no matter what the content is, Mission Rebels program but little of Parkmerced and Ingleside me Campus Ecumenical House has created political or creative,” he said. else at Ecumenical House. residents. several programs whereby col­ Active High Opinion lege students can constructively Schiffman has been an active However, Abrams has a high Suit relate to the community. The member of Ecumenical House opinion of the campus ministers. The Rev. Jones said the suit conscientious objectors program, since he graduated in January. “They are doing an excellent against the campus ministry was formed primarily because of He plans to teach after he job and they are taking on many on the grounds that they were growing opposition to the Viet­ completes his two years service responsibilities as coordinators of “ undesirable” residents and pro­ nam war, allows students and with the campus ministry. the program. They’re handling it ceeded to block an issuance of a non-students to work with differ­ The Rev. Alfred Dale, a repre­ very efficiently,” he said. building permit. e d community programs. sentative of the Methodist After two years of planning, 22 Interaction The suit against Ecumenical Church, has been a campus min­ students were assigned, by their ister with Ecumenical House foi House ended after six months of The LSD Rescue Service, now local draft boards, to Ecumenical court proceedings. defunct, delved into the com­ seven years. House under a special conscien­ Ecumenical House is a cam­ munity of the “ trappers.” The “ Our philosophy is to relate tious objectors program. pus ministry involved in a diver­ Mission Rebels and Shire School the dynamics of the Protestant Schiffman and Abrams are sity of community services. Ex­ programs reveal a valid attempt, principle and its relation to the two of many who will serve by the campus ministry, to de­ spiritual values of the real prob­ tensive counseling in the areas of their two years in substitution for sex education, marriage, divorce, velop effective interaction be­ lems of people,” he said. duty in the Armed Forces. tween the community and stu­ Ecumenical House is a reli­ abortion and current draft laws Robert Taxin, another con­ dents. gious phenomenon of liberal atti­ are offered by the campus min­ scientious objector, working with isters. This interaction will undoubt­ tudes which is reflected in their this program at the Ecumenical edly resolve many current social past and present activities. House, is an aide at Shire School Ecumenical House is spon­ problems that affect education Involved in San Francisco. sored by the Baptist, Episcopal and employment in San Fran­ The campus ministers and their Taxin teaches mathematics Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyter­ cisco. staff of 30, are involved in com­ and science at the school which ian, Disciples of Christ and the Glenn Schiffman, a 25 year munity projects concentrated in is experimental in teaching, class United Church of Christ.’ old SF State graduate, is working San Francisco neighborhoods. attendance and class perform­ “ We are a catalyst here to as­ with the Black Student’s Union Many of the projects entail ance. sist students and the c o m m u n i t y (BSU). working with nursery schools in Even though Taxin is involved in discovering how to cope with Agency the Mission and Hunter’s Point in a program sponsored by Ecu­ their present state. This is a “ I’m trying to start an agency areas; teaching adult education menical House, he is not familiar religious phenomenon. This >s to help college students sell poli­ in Marin City; and working with with the social changes it tries to our business,” the Rev. Dale saio fhursday, May 9, 1968 PHOENIX Page 5 FIGHT TO SAVE A NEIGHBORHOOD

By Howard Finberq Situated next to SF State are studies. the scores from the city’s schools served over 200 children. the Ingleside, Merced Heights The fight for a community showed the district children did Communication: To help with and Ocean View Districts. center is just one of several bat­ poorly. the little problems of the resi­ On the surface a person would tles in which OMI is involved. to the federal government this dents, OMI established a hot line never suspect this area of 40,000 Aiding in these skirmishes are month in hopes of receiving a $2 phone number. residents is undergoing serious an increasing number of SF State million grant. The number 584-7460, is open changes. students. five days a week from 9 a.m. to Since World War II the area Rolin Haggard, OMI co-ordina- To prevent further scholastic 9 p.m. and is run by Bev Wood has become racially unbalanced, tor, is a senior here. Beverly declines OMI started the Com­ and Mike Hancock. as more middle class Caucasians W ood and Mike Hancock, SF munity Education Planning Proj­ But as Miss W ood explained, move to the suburbs while the State students are also part of the ect (CEPP). This group’s purpose the line has not been successful middle class Negroes move into 300 member organization. is to present a self-help program yet, because of the newspaper the community. strike earlier this year. They had But what makes this area dif­ received no publicity, ferent is the fight the residents licity. are giving to prevent racial strife The problem leading the list from affecting their community. is stolen or junked cars on the The means for carrying on streets. this battle is the Ocean View- Next is the lack of street and Merced Heights - Ingleside Stab­ stop signs in the district. ilization and Improvement Proj­ OMI’s future plans are for a ect (OMI). day care center for children with Clearing House working mothers, a neighborhood Originally OMI was a clearing beautification plan, improving house for information about library facilities and providing other groups in the area, some­ Genny beams her “hello, sweetie," smile to better police protection. thing like a district press agent. every student who passes her cash register. Haggard said several things However as the exodus con­ make OMI successful. tinued, OMI’s leaders took a more Balanced active role in community prob­ First, the group is racially bal­ lems. anced. It is neither a white or OMI has become an agency ‘Genny’ the commons lady black organizaton. that is willing to take on all When OMI was founded it was problems concerning its residents’ never conceived as an organiza­ needs. tion that would take over from One such battle concerns a a popular woman other groups in the area. Rather house on a 14 acre plot of land it draws upon other groups, such atop Ramsell Street, overlooking By Art Beeghly as Elks and Lions, for its own 19th Avenue. Eugenia Mikulewicz may be the job. Rollin Haggard membership,'’ Haggard said. The property, named Kite Hill, the most popular woman on Sam pler OMI Co ordinator OMI has the support of a large was formerly owned by the campus. and SF State student group of civic organizations. Such She usually samples “ mainlv Brooks family until the San Fran­ When buying morning coffee pies and cakes, fresh every mor­ groups as the San Francisco Bal­ cisco Park and Recreation De­ or an afternoon snack in the ning. That’s why I gain so much let, Museum of Art, and Opera partment purchased the land International Room, there she weight.” OMI is helping residents in lend their aid and advice, he said. with help from the federal gov­ OMI has also established its stands, a pair of glasses attached Many graduates o f SF State several areas, including educa­ OMI’s funding agency is the ernment. own tutorial program for ele­ to a silver chain around her neck, return to greet her four or five tion, job opportunities, and com­ mentary children. Volunteer tu­ San Francisco Foundation, which often wearing a corsage on her The Recreation department years later. munication. tors come from the city’s high is the financial arm of the San green smock. Her hazel eyes, , wanted to turn the area into a “ I never have any trouble Education: One of OMI’s ma­ schools, City College of San Francisco Council of Churches. often highlighted by eyeshadow, park with the house serving as a with the kids, we get along fine. jor tasks is preventing a decline Francisco and SF State. When asked if OMI is the most greet every customer. I try to greet everyone. If I say community center. of the quality of education in The tutors are brought to­ successful community project in Give A w a y hello to a person with a big tray OMI has charged the park de­ the area. gether with their students either the country, Haggard flashed a The giveaway is her accent, of food, I should do the same to partment with stalling, but the Parents and teachers became in a tutoring center or a private big smile and said “ well, I don’t Russian in origin, as she displays those who just buy coffee,” department said it is still making concerned a few years ago when home. Last year the program know of any others as successful.” her courtesy. Gennv said. “Good morning honey. . . “ I left when I wasn’t even 10 cents dear . . . thank you five years old. My father had to sweetie.” get permission to leave Russia. Clark quits Drama Dept for Sonoma The Commons workers call My mother was very sick and her Genny. No one attempts needed a change o f climate. We (Continued from Page I) tion on many issues and they o f their lives,” he said. “ This campus is university size, her last name. were supposed to return in two member. Part of his job at Sono­ have been effective in effecting “ I think what’s going to result trying to work on funds sufficient Genny has clerked in the years, but never did.” ma will be to help the faculty and high level changes,” Clark said. from this mood o f student in­ for an institution half its size. Commons for nine years. The square pin o f rhinestones students with curriculum plan­ Worried volvement is further participation President Summerskill was only She has to remember the nestled in her hair is deceiving. ning. by students in the governing o f able to take care o f part o f the prices of 60 or 70 items, maybe Actually it’s the end of a head- “ I’m worried about the poten­ Clark is optimistic about the problems he faced while the oth­ more. She works six hours daily. scratching plastic rod, about the tial for violence in the student colleges. It’s our job to make energy and involvement o f today’s What does she think o f Com­ size o f a darning needle. movement now - it only com­ that an orderly process,” Clark ers kept building up,” Clark said. college students. mons food? “ I don’t want to mess my pounds problems and makes them said. “ Students are a tremendously Clark, who served on the fac­ Clark said that a large part o f ‘Believe it or not, I enjoy the hair after a permanent. If I have more difficult to solve,” he added. food. It’s good quality.” Free important factor in society to­ ulty committee that selected John the college’s problems come from an itch, I move the head- scratch- “ One thing is clear; college breakfast and lunch go with er.” day. They have been taking lead­ Summerskill as president o f SF the negative image in the commu­ students are no longer separating ership and focusing public atten­ State, thinks that this college nity. their college years from the rest needs another man like Summer­ skill as his replacement. When something happens on But, he * said, the new man campus irate taxpayers pressure Bunzel working for Bobby Kennedy should have more support. government officials into action.

By Lee Heidhues only about Vietnam but how to President’s March 31 speech but chances for unity while LBJ is John Bunzel, chairman of the measure and deal with the major takes him at his word and doesn’t still in the White House. He said political science department and political currents in the world believe “ he will seek or accept Johnson would be happy if the a member of the Kennedy dele­ today.” the Democratic nomination.” historians look upon him as a gation from California, hopes to Reflecting on the LBJ style president who “ forged peace and Support Nominee be going to the Democratic Con­ Bunzel said “ he will choose to consensus out of a mis-guided vention in Chicago this August. Bunzel said he would support play the George Washington war.” A former instructor at Michi­ either Eugene McCarthy or the role and try to be father of our Bunzel said LBJ was hurt by gan State and Stanford Uni ver­ Vice-President but hopes “it country which for him will mean the Kennedy image. He said peo­ ity. Bunzel became chairman would be a new or at least dif­ to seek to unify the country and ple found it difficult to associate last fall. ferent Humphrey than the one Democratic party.” with a “ Texas accent, cowboy who has had to speak for the Describing himself as a Demo­ Bunzel said Johnson’s with­ hat and the manners and style of crat who felt “ a new policy was Johnson foreign policy.” drawal has been a “unifying ges­ the common man from the south­ needed,” he decided that through Bunzel said Kennedy is the ture on his part at the very least. west.” organization and power Robert front running candidate but that If he should succeed in moving Bunzel said that Johnson’s Kennedy had the best chance to he must broaden his base of sup­ this country to the negotiating reputation as a manipulator over­ Wln the Democratic nomination. port which rests primarily with table he would then be able to shadowed his Vietnam policy but Best Chance minorities, youth and the poor. bow out of political life as a putting the three together LBJ Bunzel supported Adlai Stev­ Bunzel, who received his Ph.D leader who moved his country had “ the worst press and public enson in both of his bids for the from UC regards former college towards peace and unity.” opinion a man in the White presidency. In 1960 he supported professor McCarthy as a “ Man of House could ask for.” John Kennedy whom he thought integrity, wit and charm;” but Bunzel is skeptical about the provided the best chance of doesn’t believe “college profes­ defeating Nixon.” sors make effective political “ Bunzel concedes he leaders.” doesn t have the same feeling Big Debt ° ?Varn[lt^ f°r Robert Kennedy Due to McCarthy’s victories Controller / Assistant to President he did for John” he believes in New Hampshire and Wiscon­ e New York senator offers the sin, Bunzel said the “ Kennedy Opportunity for energetic accounting or finance major, but with Rest °Pportunity to defeat the people owe a big debt to Senator vision for growth in investment analysis, marketing, warehousing, Republican candidate. McCarthy.” land purchase, office construction, EDP as well as budgeting, cost Despite his political knowl- He said if either McCarthy or control and .bookkeeping for multi-branch electronics company. e ge and experience Bunzel Kennedy emerge as the Demo­ Salary open. ^ouldn t go out on a limb and cratic nominee each camp will Phone or write: re ict who will be the Demo­ need support from the other M a y 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 17 cratic nominee. when it comes time to face the Gene Straube Bunzel said, “ I’m prepared to Republican challenger. S T R A U B E A S SO C IA T E S, Inc. 8:30 p.m. npport the nominee of the Demo­ Having expected to battle 483 Willow Road cratic party and hope he will re- President Johnson at the conven­ Menlo Park, California 94025 Little Theatre e^t a different point of view not tion Bunzel was surprised by the (415) 323-2476 Page 6 PHOENIX Thursday, May 9, 1968

By Walter Couick BAAPCD tried to control air McHugh said only 15 percent violators” who have thwarted the The Bay Area Pollution Con­ pollution of 3,800 square miles o f violations are called in by pri­ orders of the district. trol District has its problems just in six counties. These counties vate citizens. Routine inspections The bill will, if passed, allow like any other governmental a- are San Francisco, Marin, Ala­ discover the major portion of vio­ the district to get a court order POLLUTION gency. meda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, lators. that will have an immediate ef­ But its problems sail in and and Santa Clara. Most of these are from small fect. out before they can be solved. operations owned by a single It has a staff of 84 including * Ships coming into the bay proprietor. Stop Immediately with equipment that pollutes the 11 laboratory technicians and 28 This would stop the industrial He said the larger corporations air is BAAPCD’s biggest problem. roving patrol supervisors. Its bud­ plant from continuing to pollute have cooperated and tried to cut Unconcerned get is $1.2 billion. The money the air while fighting the district PROBLEMS down air pollution. Ted McHugh, BAAPCD’s public comes from property^ taxes in the in courts, he said. “ Out o f 8,000 industrial firms relations man, said “ many ship six counties. “ The air pollution regulations owners are unconcerned about in the Bay Area,” McHugh said, McHugh said, “ o f all violations have decreased air pollution by the air pollution problem here. “ only a few give us trouble.” issued, about 65 percent are for 4.100 tops per day, but there is “ We issue a violation and they smoke emmissions from factories. 3 Years still 3,400 tons per day going into ignore it. Then they sail out the SAIL In 99 percent o f the cases where the air,” McHugh said. Golden Gate and in six months If a firm decides to fight a a violation has been issued, there When McHugh was asked about they are back with the same cease-and-desist order through the is no trouble at all.” air pollution from cars in the violations,” he said. courts, it can continue to operate When a violations is issued Bay Area and if BART would Assemblyman Leo J. Ryan, for three years after they receive there is a choice of complying cut down this pollutions he said: D-S. SF, has proposed a bill to the order. with it or going before a board “Although air pollution by IN AND OUT the legislature that would enable Assemblyman John T. Knox, for a hearing. D-Richmond, is going to intro­ cars is controlled by the state, it BAAPCD to fine ships $500 a is hoped that BART will reduce Violators can appeal their case duce a bill to the legislature to do day that fail to correct viola- emmisions by 2.5 percent.” to the Supreme Court something about “ the blatant

Minorities aid Bay Area’s next major earthquake-not if, but when program work begins By John Leighty is broken into a series o f under­ Hundreds o f earthquakes a ground crystal blocks. (Continued from Page 1) month rumble through the Bay These blocks - transparent Area. quartz - are separated by faults Charles Stone, dean of ad­ Most o f these quakes are too - great fractures that form lines missions, will act as adviser minor to be detected without o f weakness in the rock at the to the special selection com­ instruments but they indicate earth’s surface. mittee which determines whe­ continuous movement along the As pressure builds beneath the ther or not each applicant will San Andreas Fault. surface, these blocks elevate, tilt, be admitted. “ There’s no way to predict fold, and depress along the fault. This selection committee will when there’s going to be a major The crystal blocks can shift be the first to have voting stu­ earthquake,” said Raymond Pe- several feet a year without caus­ dent members. strong, assistant professor o f geo-' ing a quake. Sometimes a fault “ The students on this com­ logy at SF State. becomes tightly compressed and mittee will be from a variety “ However quakes every 50 stress builds. of ethnic groups,” Stone says, years have been noticed in some When the stress gives it is like “ and they will be people fami­ studies. This implies that we are the uncoiling o f a strong spring. liar with the background of the overdo for a quake in the San The rocks sliding past one another applicants.” Francisco area,” he said. create an earthquake. Between now and September, Great Possibility students, faculty members and “ Areas with a long history o f Richter Scale administrators will have to share earthquakes have the greatest pos­ Earthquakes are measured in in the planning of a college-wide sibility of future activity,” Pe- terms of magnitude and intensity. program. strong said. The magnitude, measured on the This year’s efforts at tutor­ Methods exist that show hope Richter scale, provides the index ing and providing financial as­ o f predicting earthquake occur- o f potential energy. sistance generally failed. Each ance, according to David Stuart, While an earthquake can have sponsoring organization was ex­ geophysicist at the US Geologi­ only one magnitude, it can have pected to work independently cal Survey Center for earthquake several intensities. Intensity is and almost all the sponsors research. greatest near the quakes center. lacked the resources to do the The center, located in Menlo The 1906 San Francisco quake job. Park, is experimenting with two The black line designates the San Andreas fault as it cuts through the Daly City area had a magnitude o f 8.3 on the Now groups like the Black methods: south of Mussel Rock. Highway No. I can be seen along the coast curving down to Pacifica. Richter scale. It is the only major Students Union, Third World * Posts are planted along a quake to be reported in the Bay Liberation Front, College Com­ fault line. If movement occurs, Area. mitment Program and the Edu­ the posts will move together or in constructive ways,” Stuart said. three ways: building over 20 stories faces O n ly 5.3 cation Department will be bol­ further apart. Measurements then Better and safer use of land * Structures directly on the this danger. stered by the abilities of nine show if strain leading to a quake could be one result. Parks and fault line might be sheared or Earthquake prevention soon is In 1957, the Daly City quake faculty members and the ad­ is accumulating. recreation facilities could be put pulled apart by land movement. unlikely. Lubricating a fault with measured 5.3 magnitude. ministration-acquired money * Measurement o f the earth’s in the danger areas while urban * Landslides cause extensive water might release the strain On the Richter scale, an in­ from the state or from private magnetic field at certain loca­ communities and factories plan­ damage since many houses are before it builds up. However it crease of one whole number indi­ foundations. tions. Research shows that mag­ ned in the safer areas. built on slopes. wouldn’t be effective if strong cates an energy release about 60 netic fields jump before earth­ “ As population increases the * Shaking causes damage at pressures already existed. times greater than that o f the next If all these elements of the quakes occur. .and now vacant will have to be long distances from the quake’s Quakes and Oranges lower number. college plan together on the “ Predicting earthquakes is o f used,” Stuart said. “ Why not center. Earthquakes are about as com­ The 1906 earthquake was basis o f mutual respect hun­ little practical value, but the in- make it as safe as possible?” Shaking can also cause tall mon in California as orange 50,000 times greater in magni­ dreds o f “ disadvantaged” youth formaticr '•d could be used Earthquake damage occurs in buildings to sway. Generally, any groves. It is the only state that tude than the one in Daly City. will reap the benefits.

Computerized libraries in city of future

Today science has the capa­ The electronics industry is person to arrange face to face All transportation systems, bility to reduce food shortage, developing the following prod­ interviews for jobs, hundreds or public utilities and communica­ »control over-population, the ucts straight out of the science even thousands of miles from tions facilities will be under­ weather, pollution, and to some fiction world. where they live. ground. extent hereditary traits. • Computer shopping. House­ • Mobile phones will permit Scientific advances are far wives will be able to purchase distant control over any appliance The city will be for people. No ahead of bureaucratic accept­ items and have a computer in the in your home. traffic noise, pollution, garbage, ance. store pay the bill. The computer • Computerized libraries auto­ housing congestion or urban sprawl will plague the residents. Overtones of “ Brave New contacts the bank and automati­ matically would print reference Pre-engineered for a maximum World?” Perhaps, but scientific cally funds are withdrawn and material upon request. population of 250,000, the city control of social change isn’t all deposited to her store account. • A tiny pill would radio- will be limited in size to four bad. • Lights automatically going on transmit data to the family and ott as you enter or leave a doctor. square miles. Imagine the significance and room. • An automatic electronic Althelstan Spilhaus, head of the fun of some of the products • Wall to wall TV that would highway system. Cars would be the national steering committee that should be available in the respond to voice commands. automatically checked for mech­ for the project, sees Experimental 70’s. • Picture phones enabling a anical deficiencies. Pre-set desti­ City as a proto-type of what is to nations would enable the driver come. to relax on a long trip over the “ The overgrown urban com­ major highways. plex must be dismantled and AFROTC fight These ideas and many more must be dispersed if we are to (Continued from Page 1) Last November, in the war may be incorporated into a futur­ cure the ills of the megalopolis, tract. convocations election both the istic city being planned for the Spilhaus said. If Summerskill doesn’t take student body and the faculty plains of Minnesota. Eliminating zoning would be action on the AS resolution the voted,” he said. Construction starts in 1970. one positive aspect. Zoning, Spil­ SDS will take action in the form “ The main problem is that The experimental city would haus says, is a sign of failure of SAN FRANCIS CO o f a “ peaceful sit-in.” They are the administration is more in­ be totally new, a somewhat dif­ the city. STATE COLLEGE now in the process o f discussing terested in pleasing the Board ferent approach than the new In Experimental City, people SCHOOL OF CREATIVE ARTS other means of action to show o f Trustees than the students,” cities act” proposed by Vice could lie next to industry and their discontent. Forman said. President Hubert Humphrey. offices saving time and solving Bass has also tried to contact “ Summerskill can act - but Humphrey’s program would be commuter problems. MAY 7,9,11,14,16,18 Summerskill, but says he has been he won’t stand up for his princi­ to modernize existing cities. Technology is the key to Ex­ unseccessful. ples. At least he hasn’t in the The Minnesota project, perimental City. Out ot the 2500 students vot­ past. So now the resolution will costing $200 million, is from the On a wider scale, science is For Reservations- ing in the election, 64 per cent be a good test to see just where ground up. And in another sense the key to constructive social Call (Noon - 4): 5X5 - 7174 voted to remove the AFROTC. he stands,” he said. from the ground down. change. Thursday, May 9, 1968 PHOENIX Page 7 BUT THE BEAT STILL GOES ON Mission District faces

died through me,” he said. By Leonard Sellers many serious problems “ The staff has put together a There is supposed to be some­ public schools. real sound. It means something. (Continued from Page 1) thing special in the sound of PACIFIC IROADCAITING CO Project Head Start is an at­ The format is both a financial lish but many o f their parents do KMPX radio. tempt to bring pre-schoolers from and audience success. But there not,” Mrs. Bordman said. “ Its There was, once. r N ? STEREO RADIO poverty areas up to the educa­ were differences of opinion ...” almost impossible for teachers to Now the sound of KMPX is o o o tional level o f children entering communicate with parents about like a small voice, crying for air, school from non-poverty areas. Station manager Ron Hunt is problems these students are fac­ sl0wly being stifled. an energetic, competent man. “ But it won’t do much good KMPX-FM; unusual, under­ ing - not that they try. He’s also the man-in-the-middle. for an impoverished child to go ground; folk-rock, electronic “ It is possible for students to A go-between for the owner and through Head Start to a school roCk, blues; call it whatever you graduate from Mission High with­ the strikers, he also has the re­ system unsympathetic to his spe­ like, but also call it dying. out being able to speak English O O O sponsibility for keeping KMPX because disipline is considered cific needs,” Mrs. Bordman said. together and on the air. “ Many o f the counselors feel March 18, 8 p.m. A small chill more important than achieve­ “ I have a business to run,” ment,” she said. there’s something sub-standard wind blows off the bay, crosses Hunt said. “ And I don’t want to about the Indian or Mexican the Embarcadero, and skitters up “ As long as the student be­ get into name calling. That does- child.” Green Street. haves himself and accepts the fact not solve anything.” that its going to be a white, anglo- “ All we can do is prepare the The wind rustles litter in the O © O child so that he doesn’t spend gutter and scatters the faint saxon world he’ll get his dip­ Management and strikers held the first three years in school try­ static sound coming from an FM loma,” she said. several meetings to negotiate. ing to learn the English language,” radio. Denies Charge There was no dialogue. Each she said. “They’re back on the air! Oh Mission High principal Harry side came up with stipulations. Arriba Juntas, a non-profit com­ damn it, they’re back on the air.” Krytzer denied this, “ I don’t see Neither side would give an inch. Music sounds from KMPX, how it could be possible for a stu­ munity development organization Negotiations never got off the silenced for 17 hours by a staff dent to graduate without know­ has several youth programs for ground. walk-out. But the staff is still ledge o f the English language. both vocational and language in­ The strikers have rounded up struction. outside. We’ve had a bi-lingual program a good amount of former adver­ On the second floor of 50 in effect here for a year.” Horizons Unlimited is an Ar­ tising support. KMPX is losing Green St., inside the KMPX stu­ Until 1966 only English was riba Juntas program that offers money. The station, in an at­ dio, the station owner, the station permitted as the teaching lan­ counselors and tutoring for stu­ STATION MANAGER: 'I've got a business to tempt to survive, has started hir­ manager and one disc jockey guage in the San Francisco Uni­ dents contemplating high school run." ing disc jockeys and salesmen on frantically try to broadcast. fied School District. drop-out. S T R IK E R : "What we want is to take over." a permanent basis. April 29 Something goes wrong, and on The Short Bill, passed in 1966 There are 100 Mission High management officially fired the by the state legislature, made it School students in this program. the radio downstairs the music a disc jockey for 12 years, and over artistic freedom,” Donahue screeches, speeds up, then stops. striking staff. possible to teach bi-lingual class­ Another English Language pro­ involved in FM radio for the said. “ Management started to im­ People laugh. One girl, who es. gram is offered by Oberros, the last eight years. pose more and more restrictions The strikers, even while Rafael Cons teaches in both construction workers union in had been an engineer the day be­ x He bought KMPX in 1962. His on programming.” picketing, are looking for a new English and Spanish at Mission Mission District. fore, hollers, “ If they break my willingness to talk has decreased “ They reneged on an unwritten station to take in the staff, offer­ High. Its classes are open ot non­ station, if they . . in direct proportion to the length agreement we’ve had since ing promises of putting KMPX She stops, angry, confused and Special Class union members. of the strike. KMPX changed to the new for­ out of business. There are 20 students in his “ The people here want to be cold. “ They left out something in mat. The agreement was simply No one talks about a settle­ special class now, Krytzer said. given a say in the fate o f their their demands,” Crosby said. that the staff would be allowed ment. © © O “ These are students who are own neighborhood,” said Com­ “ They should include ‘Lee Cros­ to pick their own music, do their limited in English because they’ve munity worker Ben Martinez. Lee Crosby, owner of Crosby- by, owner, will be allowed to own thing. People, personalities and a only been in this country a few Martinez, 24 year old SF State Pacific Broadcasting Corp., par­ clean the restrooms’.” “ Most of the kids on the staff product; KMPX. A good sound, a months,” Krytzer said. senior in sociology, has been ent company of KMPX and LA O 0 O are from the Haight-Ashbury. good feeling. The people, the Cons also teaches three sessions working with Arriba Juntas for sister station KPPC, sat in a stu­ “ Man we want to give him a They’re a different kind of peo­ personalities, mix and jar and of English at night for adults in several years. dio office. free ride,” one of the strikers said. ple. So management doesn’t un­ grow teeth. the community. “ Education is a slow process,” His shirt was wilted, his hair “ W e want to take over the sta­ derstand them, can’t communi­ The feeling between manage­ The EOC deals with a variety he said. “ All elements o f the com­ messed and he moved in short tion.” cate with them. So it’s afraid of ment and the strikers has gone o f programs such as Headstart, munity must be able to meet nervous bursts. O © O them,” he said. from a groping attempt at com­ Neighborhood Youth Corps, Work and communicate together before “They gave me no advance no­ Tom Donahue, former pro-( Donahue went to work for munication to unhidden hate. Study and many Federal agencies changes can be made.” tice,” Crosby said. “ Not even one KMPX in March of 1967. He was A staff without a station. A gram director, is one of the to supplement education in the day. W e’ve had our differences. strikers, although he had quit a program director of both KMPX station without a staff. Sometimes I was right, some­ week before the strike began. and KPPC. Most of the staff at The sound of KMPX is now a times not. But I’ve always been He is a big imposing man who KMPX was brought in by Dona­ part-time, sometime thing. A willing to talk.” wears both a beard and a quiet hue. voice that was steadily growing Crosby is a 1952 graduate of manner like a turtle-neck “ There was an understanding in boldness and strength is now TEN YEARS AGO THIS MOTION PICTURE SF State. His degree was in Busi­ sweater. with management that any per­ reduced to a small cry, gasping COULD NOT POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN MADE! ness Administration. He had been ' >r air. “ You might say it’s a fight sonnel problems would be han- EVEN A YEAR AGO "THE FOX” COULD NOT HAVE BEEN M A D E NOT QUITE THIS WAY! Ellen didn’t know who she was or what she was... ______with .Jill she was one thing... with R»ul another... Discussion NOTORIOUS FRANKNESS...describes a lesbian relationship Anhour a day keepswaraway frustrated by a foxy young man...some very explicit material, including a graphic love scene between the on behavior women and a bit of auto - erotic nudity. It has —Yogi meditates to keep peace considerable merit all the same. The performances are exceptionally good. Eicn«ib«um - Examiner By Marcus Clarkson Perhaps quite a few are at­ May 9 -1 1 ! T H E F O X 'I S S T R O N G , adult drama of unusual merit.” s<*g*r - Argonaut Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, “ You have come to the right ■THE F O X " IS S T R IC T L Y A D U L T S U B J E C T M A T TE R ..candor is tracted by the guru’s promise definitely the o rd erof the day. . . the result is a touching, moving film. ” Rotxmon India’s tiny, bearded mystic has place,” he replied. / Sun Reporter a gimmick. that meditation prevents heart Last January thousands paid On May 9, 10, and 11, the It’scalled transcendental med­ attacks - a danger, he said, con­ to hear him preach in Madison Faculty Program Center and the itation - his own short-cut-to- fronting the “ aspiring individual Square Garden. Tickets ranged San Francisco Institute of Animal the-contemplative-life designed o f the affluent world.” from $10 to $3. Behavior will present a sym­ for the impatient Western World. R ich About finances he said “ I am posium on behavior. It is a technique, however, The greatest number o f his a monk, I have no pockets, I Called “ Both Sides of the Rail­ with no basis in Hindu scripture. followers come from affluent deal in wisdom, not in money.” ings,” the symposium will deal Unlike orthodox Hindu med­ Western countries including: The guru is presently con­ with the field of psychobiolocrv. itations, the Maharishi’s method Australia, New Zealand, Swit­ ducting a paid lecture tour o f Psychobiology is a synthesis of requires little self-discipline. zerland, Sweden, West Germany, the major US colleges. interdisciplinary research in psy­ There is no peculiar modes o f Great Britain, and the United Son of a . .. chology, biology, ethnology, breathing, no joint-popping pos­ States. He was born 56 years ago, physiology, endocrinology, bio­ tures, no protracted fasting and “ The world’s wealthiest gu­ the son o f a government official. chemistry, psychiatry, and zoo- no absolution from guilt. ru,” as the New York Post call­ He graduated from Allahabad logy. The three-day symposium will A n H o u r ed him, has established over 50 University, India, with a degree begin with two films—“ Namu, An hour of meditation a day academies for his followers, the in physics. After graduation he the Killer Whale,” and “ Un­ the guru said, “ gives a man peace Transcendental Meditation Soc­ disappeared to study meditation armed in Africa.” within himself and greater effi­ iety. in the Kashmir Mountains. Subjects to be discussed in­ ciency in the fields o f thought He owes his success to the After an apprenticeship of clude the: and action.” Beatles. They made him a pub­ 13 years, he left his mountain • Care of captive animals. It only one percent o f the lic figure. retreat to teach meditation. • Broad role of the zoo in the world’s population meditates, The Beatles went backstage Little else is known o f his community. •t will be enough to dispel the after one o f his lectures and told background. • Lovebird behavior. clouds of war for thousands o f him “ even from an early age we “ Monks,” he said “ are not • Behavioral effects of gonadal years,” he said. have been seeking a high spirit­ expected to speak about them­ hormones. There is a catch, o f course. ual experience. We tried drugs selves, the message is important, • Aggression in animals and An optional, but expected fee but that didn’t work.” not the person.” man. ls asked of his disciples. • Social expression of aggres­ Although the cost usually sion and territoriality. amounts to one week’s salary, •t is a small price for inner peace. • Concept of the naked ape. College faculty crisis Participants in the symposium And thousands pay it. include Frank Beach, Professor of Who are his disciples that ( Continued from Page 1) Psychology at UC Berkeley; Rob­ make such sacrifices? ing expaerience, he said. SANDY DENNIS- KEIR DllLEA was 45 per cent. Feder said it was unfair for ert Bowman and Dietland Mul- ANNE IIEYW(X)D,' AS El J£N MARCH Everybody's Guru In 1967-68 the percentage had Haehn to charge quality o f the ler-Schwarze, professor and assist­ dropped to 34.2. Heads of state, artists, house- faculty has declined. ant professor of biology at SF IN D H. LAWRENCE’S THE 1Ves> students, millionaires and No figures are available show­ “ Haehn is only using the Ph.D State; and William Conway, di­ !?any ° f lesser means. . . read ing the number o f Ph.D’s at SF as a criteria for the level o f pre­ rector of the New York Zoolo­ ® guru s promotion literature. State. paration,” Feder said. “ If we gical Park. lhis group includes the Beat- Haehn said there is a relation­ by LOWS JOHN CAWINO * y ) HOWARD KOCH Prod uct a, RAYMONO STROSS Cator by couldn’t find quality people to D»«ctMbyMARKRV0CLl frgm CtAROM PICTUKO 7-S’ Rolling Stones, Efrem ship between the quality o f fa­ The symposium will begin teach, we would rather cancel EXCLUSIVE S. F. lI? Jr. and Mia Farrow. culty hired in the later months May 9 at 8 p.m. at the Sheraton the class.” ENGAGEMENT ut most o f his followers as opposed to those hired earlier. Palace Hotel. The cost is $3 for Box Office opens 1 5 Faculty hired earlier tended minute* before thowlime e ordinary persons seeking the first night and $20 for the Wed, Set, Sun 12, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 Peace of mind. to have Ph.D’s and previous teach­ following two days. Mon, Tuei, Thur», Frl 6, 8, 10 Page 8 PHOENIX Thursday, May 9, 19fig BREAKING INTO A NEW DIMENSION Exotic flourish of color

By Geoff Link saturates abstract fantasy There are so many competent Lee Graham that runs 17 and a musicians in rock music today, half minutes, one side of the al­ By Bruce Campbell that it’s no longer news when an­ bum. Elvira Madigan, a 19th Cen­ Elvira Madigan showers the other interesting group comes “ The Love Cycle” shows the tury Swedish love story, is adver­ viewer in a flood of color, think­ along with some original material. group’s versatility and indicates tised as one of the most beautiful ing that the viewer will be might­ Rarely, though, do even the best perhaps one direction that pop films in history. ily impressed: but Walt Disney of the new bands break on through music will have to take if it is to And indeed, the photography did better when it comes to a to that other side where they dis­ continue to grow. is an exotic flourish of celluloid viable equation between photog­ cover new forms and techniques, The title song itself is a sort of and natural color which causes raphy and plot. where artistry and creative imagi­ counterpart to the Fugs, particu­ the senses to reel through a pan­ No real rapport is ever estab­ nation couple to become a new larly their 11-minute “ Virgin For­ orama of the Swedish hinterlands. lished with the viewer, and every dimension in pop music. est.” Perhaps this is the correct con­ potential for human interest or But the Crome Syrcus have text for Elvira Madigan: A color­ plot development is quickly made this breakthrough. They Opera ful exercise in creative photog­ chopped off as the two lovers have created what has been de­ Graham attended SF State for raphy. Everything else degen­ romp off to the next forest when­ scribed as “symphonic rock,” a one semester in 1964 before going erates into a carnival of non- ever anything interesting threat­ label they’re not sure fits, but it to the University of Washington sequiturs as the film mistakes ens to happen. seems appropriate, at least for to study opera, and his knowledge being dull with being subtle. Particularly irritating is the now. of opera is quite apparent on “ The Non Story insertion of half-hearted, apolo­ Wide Acclaim Love Cycle,” both in technique and intent. The story, or non-story, is a getic realism into this fantasy. An They scored the New York City They would probably not have kind of abstract fantasy. The obvious fact is made that Elvira Center Joffrey Ballet’s “ Opus 65” reached so far for a new sound or characters are abstractions im­ and her lover are running out of and “ Astarte,” which received stretched their talents to the de­ posed on a plot which is pure money. But they continue to eat wide acclaim last fall. gree they have had they not scored fantasy. remaarkably well, and Elvira’s In doing so, they became one “ Opus 65” and “ Astarte.” It involves a Swedish army attire is usually lily white. of the few rock bands (Mothers of By staying strictly with rock ‘‘we officer who runs away with a Hooked on Mushrooms Invention and Electric Prunes are would have been underplaying famous tightrope dancer named others) to move into so-called “ se­ our abilities,” Shreffler says. Elvira Madigan. Three-quarters of the way rious” music. “ W e’re just beginning,” Powell The irony is that the whole through, however, the director But they have not renounced says. “ We haven’t really used all contrivance is purportedly a lyri­ apparently decided to make ties with pop by any means. Some the things we can do.” cal statement upon a true story. things really tough. And so he of their shorter songs are easy to Versatile At the start, one suspects that has Elvira, with well-brushed listen to and have a good beat. the film might be another anti­ Crome Syrcus Just instrumentally, the group golden hair, crawling up a green Easy Combination The creators of "symphonic rock' is extremely versatile. No mem­ war statement when Elvira ob­ hill on her hands and knees and The Syrcus combine the sophis­ ber plays less than two instruments serves that war is not soldiers on eating mushrooms. parade but the smell of burning tication and excellent musician­ the material, with the entire band positions. and some play three and four. On ship of the concert pieces with a adding ideas and interpretations. Eventually, they got the offer stage they keep switching places flesh. The realism of it all becomes Absurd Assumption happy, hip kind of rock. New to Area to adapt “ Opus 65,” a ballet cho­ and adding new instruments. too much for Elvira as she vomits The Syrcus includes: Dick Pow­ The Syrcus is from Seattle and, reographed by Anna Sokolow and A partial list of the instruments But this promising start where up her meal. But the absurdity of ell, harmonica, keyboards and except for two nights recently at scored by Teo Macero. they can handle: trumpet, trom­ two opposites of character di­ it all is quickly outdone by the vocal; Lee Graham, vocal, the Straight Theater and a week at Then came “ Astarte” and New bone, organ, piano, harmonica, vorce themselves from the real climax to the film. bass and flute; Ted Shref- the Lion’s Share in Sausalito, have York, plus a contract with ABC/ flute, drums, guitar, bass, clarinet, world is quickly eclipsed by the The climax consists of the two guitar and Jim Plano, drums. not performed in the Bay Area Command, a presitigous label saxophone and they have plans absurd assumption that star- laconic lovers committing suicide Plano replaced Rod Pilloud since last July’s Berkeley Folk that had never signed a rock group for an oboe. crossed lovers can come to an in the forest as the only means about two months ago when Pil­ Festival. before. Though “The Love Cycle” is existential reckoning with them­ to preserve their particular qual­ loud decided to return to school. “ That was a turning point for First Album quite structured, they improvise selves and society by cavorting ity of refugee love. This fact is re-inforced as the N o Leader us,” Shreffler says. Last January they released an on other songs and all the weird through the countryside. film ends with a still-life photo­ The Syrcus doesn’t really have From then on, they started go­ LP, “ The Love Cycle,” the name electronic sounds are created on This absurdity is further com­ graph of Elvira trying to catch a ringmaster, though Shreffler and ing through changes—from doing taken from the title of a song by stage, without the use of pre­ pounded by a lack of character the elusive butterfly of love just Graham seem to initiate much of Top 40 material to their own com­ Ted Shreffler and sung mainly by recorded tapes. development which is based on another assumption that human as she is gunned down by her interest can be sacrificed to the lover. cute, willy-nilly meanderings and Pretentious Bang 'Gynf too long, but sensitively performed frolics of the camera in the for­ This is a superb climax within ests and on the grassy meadows. itself. But it is preceded by such a Must a film have a plot? Cer­ By Carol Corville whimper that the concluding right to depend upon others he tainly not. Modem cinema has bang is totally pretentious. The Creative Arts performance son, yet she cannot control him. and most organic: it fit and becomes neither troll, nor man. worked well. established this. But modern Pia Degermark and Thommy of Ibsen’s “ Peer Gynt” two week­ Peer’s last scene with his dying As he learns in the end, when cinema has also established the Berggren play the lovers with ends ago was a remarkable one- mother was pure lyric, for which All in all, even despite its Death comes to cast him, the fact that a weak plot must be enduring enthusiasm and felicity, and well - carried off, despite both performers are to be com­ length, the play was well-con­ imperfect button, back into the bolstered and overshadowed by but their efforts are negated by the major handicap o f a long, mended. ceived and implemented by all button moulder, there is a right other qualities in the film. the overall effect of the film. intricate and drawn-out script. To Heaven concerned. way and a wrong way to be your­ Ibsen’s drama, directed by Tom Peer, perched on the end of self. Tyrrell, spans 50 years o f one Aase’s sickbed, loops a rope over Wrong Way man’s life and is reminiscent, in a chair and pretends to take her its succession of adventures, to Peer chose the wrong way, and on a last, beautiful “ winged horse Overstated symbolism makes became like the onion he peeled the “ Odyssey.” ride” over the fjord: it is a ride to Unfortunately, it is almost as in the last scene: many-layered, heaven, from which Aase never but with no heart. long. awakens. But whereas Ulysses was a hero, John O’Connell as Peer, did a The cast of characters is long. Lawrence s themes too obvious Peer Gynt is the great anti-hero, fine job. From a foolish, half­ Two groups o f these most mem­ neither too evil, nor too good, funny rascal of a youth who orable are the 20 or so trolls By Bruce Campbell but simply a man whom we fol­ tells fairytales, rides “ winged and the Inmates o f the Asylum “ The Fox,” the film adapta­ tical aura which slowly envelops levels o f dramatic and symbolic low through a foolish youth to a horses” and seduces women, he at Cairo. tion o f D.H. Lawrence’s chilling Jill and March. action are interlocked by a mys­ desecrated old age. yields rather subtly to the grow- Laura Malamut, the troll prin­ novella of mysticism, homosex­ Gradually, through a triumph tical union o f folksy sentiment And it was somewhere in inghypocriticalself-ingratiousness cess, for dance and appearance uality and the triumph o f the ot will, Raul seduces March in an and the sublimal will. between that boredom broke o f older age. alone was breathtaking; she male will, is a Freudian fantasy old wood shed. This scene is But as an artistic triumph, the through. His control of the deterioration glowed from head to foot in iced in the pastoral reality o f the justaposed against Jill stumbling film is questionalbe since many Trolls o f character as Peer ages was yellowish green skin and veils, Canadian wilds. frantically through the frozen o f its symbolisms are painfully Peer lives according to the superb. like some eerie sprite, with long, It is the winter o f discontent forest in search of March and her evident. The viewer is not left to credo o f the trolls he meets Lisa Varni as Peer’s mother dipped fingers, tall, diaphonous for two women living alone in a own womanhood himself in deciding what the fox horns and tail. farmhouse who have assumed an while a youth: he lives for him­ Aase was wonderful. A tough, Will vs. Reason represents; no, March must read Sets emplicit male-female relationship. self, and himself alone. old scraggly woman who has In this slightly overstated film, a passage out o f an encyclopedia The set, by Don Harris, of March (Anne Heywood) ful­ And this is his downfall. raised her son on his fairytales, Lawrence’s perennial theme o f about the fox and his history so ragged burlap slanted platforms, fills the male role and Jill (Sandy In doing so, he gives up man’s she is half as much a rascal as her the superiority of will over rea­ everyone will be clued in. spot-lighted green, then yellow, Dennis) plays the female role. The Fox son flourishes with unprecedented dripping from above like a tall fashion. S.F. O P E R A HOUSE, 8:30 P.M., Saturday, May 25th cavern, and sloped at the sides THe first thing extablished in the film showing at Cinema 21 Jill, who is always pleading for like a cave, was most versatile, people “ to think things over” has Midtown Productions Presents is their hatred o f the fox which makes frequent forays on the strong lesbian tendencies which chicken coop. later implicate March. The fox, symbolic o f the male And what does Paul do to lure * * * The NANCY will, is something Jill and March the fox? He chops o ff the head o f subconsciously realize as a threat a hen so that the fox will be PHOENIX to their relationship. drawn into his trap by the smell But March intuitively feels the o f blood. WILSON ’ fox to be a primeval recognition o f her womanhood, a mystical Lowest Newspaper When the fox is finally killed SHOW portent meant to bring her cha­ (clearing the way to March’s advertisement racter to a new dimension. seduction), and its hide hammer­ Stare rates on campus ed to the barn door, its head takes This feeling is expanded when on a haunting eminence not un­ she encounters the fox in the like the pig’s head in “ Lord of with DONN TRENNER Conducting Display and classified forest. March and fox stare at the Flies.” Full Orchestrations each other in a preternatural Smile interchange of will and desire. also an added attraction Best circulation In fact the last scene concludes THE THREE SOUNDS This event is a precursor to with the fox head grinning hide­ * * * further development o f the en­ ously from the barn door. counter as the fox comes to the “ The Fox” also parallels Berg­ Prices: $6.00, 5.00, 4.00, 3.00; Tickets Available Now. Rate Cards available farm as Raul (Keir Dullea), creat- man’s “ Personna” with its lesbian Sherman & Clay Box Office, Kearny & Sutter, San Francisco int a ste episodes and its development of Humanities 207 Sherman & Clay, Broadway & 21st, Oakland ing a strange love triangle o f role two women as opposing aspects and other Ticket Agencies 469-2083 playing and savage desire. o f one personality. Paul’s extroverted personality The film excels ;n • vealing Anne Heywood For Information: Call 397-0717 is clouded by an unsettling mys­ its theme to the • wer as several Co-star of "The Fox' Thursday. May 9,1968 PHOENIX Pa*e 9 THE THINGS THINGMAKERS MAKE

Self-taught hands mesh psychedelic images.

"Thingmaker" Warren Garrick does his thing.

6If the soul is creative, the artist Tools to produce that which one feels. will get better everytime he works’

A simple d o ll. . . or is it?

This rickety house could symbolize the In a little studio on the comer two are partners more in the The rest of Garrick’s work is In this way, he sells enough artist's bohemian character. of 18th Street and Dolores, near sense of friendship than of the far from the gruesomeness of his sculpture to buy food and art Mission Park, works a man who business world. They refer to war babies. materials. calls himself “The Thingmaker.” themselves as gypsies and like to Great warm, curving sculp­ Lean and Flowing His thing is color, astral pieces move from place to place before tures of metal and psychedelic Garrick is a lean, easily-built that glow and orbit. they become too established. color bloom on his walls. One is man. After talking with him, all His thing is napalmed babies, “ W ho wants to live in one a luminous pinwheel of char- one remembers is that he is a tortuous statues that writhe in place all your life?” Kermit treuses, yellows and burgundies relaxed, loose-limbed figure; blood-spattered poses, melted asked. that tumbles like a flowered sun. there are no hard, sharp-edged and warped. Garrick’s art is self-taught. His Another, a great tree-like, mannerisms about him. Relaxed Bohemian thoughts on “ academia” are not Ent-shaped piece seems to gloat He flows. His art flows. Most of all, his thing is sculp­ complimentary. in free form from the wall like Garrick also works in the nat­ ture, and at this Warren Garrick, “ None of the academias can some green and yellow spirit of ural, organic brass and weath­ a pastel-clothed, relaxed bohe­ teach a person how to be an ar­ spring. ered metals. The Hobbits, he said, mian, is very good. tist. An artist is a very real thing, Tree M en have influenced his use of natural Garrick, in his late thirties, based on originality and produc­ Ents, Hobbit fans will remem­ textures and dark colors in the has been in his studio for about tion of a person’s inner soul. ber, are tall, green, very wise metal. ten months working on his art Soul is Creative tree men. Hobbits are small, furry-toed and “ digging the area.” “ If the soul is creative, the These color pieces glow under creatures who prefer a cup of Before this, he had six galler­ artist will get better everytime the black lights Garrick turns on tea to schnapps. They are found ies along the West Coast in asso­ in a volume of their namesake by ciation with another sculptor, 'WimimiimiiiiiiiimiiiiimiiiimiiiMiiiimiiMiiiiimiimiiimimimiiiimiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimimmiiimiiig J.R.R. Tolkien, and also in a exhibiting international art work trilogy called “The Lord of the as well as their own. Rings.” What made him quit, to ar­ Text by Carol Corville Fairy-Like rive in the city with $10 left in his pockets? Photos by Lou de la Torre One of these natural sculptures ‘Astral Drive’ is a brass and metal castle. It is a An “ astral drive” told him to great gothic, fairy-like fortress of get out, and so he chose the Mis­ tall brass wire crosses rising in an sion district “ to see if I could apparently infinite myriad of tow­ reach the young people, to see if he works,” Garrick said. at night. ering scepters within brass-gated I could survive in a notoriously Garrick’s studio is filled with The room, seen from beyond walls. tough district.” his work, hanging from the walls, the windows, seems to assume di­ “ It is a small child’s view of Soon after he arrived with his on low shelves and in the win­ mensions unseen in the daylight. heaven,” Garrick said. “Formid­ partner Frank Kermit, he man­ dows. “ My color pieces are from the able. It is a statement against aged to find a studio, which dou­ A few weeks back, his sculp­ astral world. They are things the Church, not for it.” bles as a place to live. tures of the napalmed babies from other dimensions I have This particular sculpture, Gar­ For rent he trades sculpture writhed in twisted agony in the seen and felt,” Garrick said. rick said, is not “ finished.” with his landlady, who lives in windows, before the averted Straight People Finished sculptures sell far too Millbrae, and whom he describes eyes of reluctant passers-by. For these colored materials, quickly, and if he is at all parti­ as “ a very staunch patron who Generally, Garrick disdains Garrick said he has some 800 cularly fond of looking at some­ has helped my cause.” museums. But for the display of clients, “ of these, some very thing, the only way he can keep Kermit is a fine artist whose his napalmed babies, museums straight people.” it around his shop is by “ not work, a series of pen and ink will be a prime target “ because Although Garrick’s studio is quite finishing it.” Garrick s art reflects his inner soul: this sculp­ skeches, reminds one of Aubrey I think these should be exposed ture - a napalm baby. not yet officially open to the pub­ The unfinished portions on this Beardsley’s work. to that strata of society that lic, he has a knock-and-the-door- piece are actually only a few Actually, it is obvious that the supports museums.” will-open policv. dangling wires in the back. Page 10. PHOENIX Thursday, May 9, /9J

lated our environment, the more we have been required to manipulate it. The more we have used synthetic pesticides, the less we have been able to do without them. The more we have de­ fPorld Population: forested land, the more flood control dams we have had to build. The more farmland we have subdivided, the more pressure we have created to increase the yield on the land remaining under cultivation and to farm marginal land. This trend has been enhanced by an unhappy historical factor The Earth has come largely under the A Battle Lost? control of a culture which traditionally sees man’s proper role as dominating nature, rather than living in harmony with it. It is a culture Reprinted from Stanford Today, Winter tions. You would have been treated to the his­ which equates “growth” and “progress” and con­ 1968, Series I No. 22, with the permission o f tory of the unsuccessful attempts of the Inter­ siders both as self-evidently desirable. It is a culture which all too often considers “undevel­ the publishers, Stanford University. Copy­ national Whaling Commission to control the oped” land to be “wasted” land. Unquestionably right 1968 by the Board o f Trustees o f the hunting of whales, as a sample of the kind of people’s attitudes toward their physical environ­ Leland Stanford Junior University. international cooperation we can anticipate. I would have explained why the idea that our food ment need changing if we are to make the grade supply can be dramatically increased by harvest­ — attitudes which unfortunately are among the ing the sea is a gigantic hoax. Then I would have most basic in Western culture. And, unfortu­ told you about some of the unhappy physical and nately, the state of our physical environment is social barriers in the way of attempting to pro­ just part of the problem. by PAUL R. EHRLICH duce much more food on the land. Perhaps more important than recent changes All of this, however, now seems to me to be in our physical environment are those in our beside the point. There is not going to be any psychic environment. Unhappily, we cannot be massive tooling up to meet the food crisis. There sure of these latter changes— although riots, the is not going to be any sudden increase in inter­ hippie movement, and increased drug usage are hardly cheery signs. We can’t even be sure of national cooperation. Even if there were a mirac­ h e f a c t s of human population growth are how much of an individual’s reaction to these ulous change in human attitudes and behavior in simple. The people of the Earth make up environmental changes will be hereditarily con­ this area, it is already too late to prevent a drastic Ta closed population, one to which there is ditioned, and how much it will be a function of rise in the death rate through starvation. In a no immigration and from which there is no emi­ his culture. gration. It can be readily shown that the Earth’s massively documented book, William and Paul human population will remain essentially closed Paddock predict that the time of famines will be Man clearly has gone a long way toward adapt­ — that no substantial movement of people to upon us full-scale in 1975. The U.S. Department ing to urban environments and despoiled land­ other planets is likely and that no substantial of Agriculture estimates that America can con­ scapes. We badly need to understand the effects movement to other solar systems is possible. tinue to feed the developing countries until 1984. of this adjustment, especially in terms of group Now, a closed population will grow if the birth­ Which estimate is more correct will depend in behavior, and to be able to predict the effects of rate exceeds the death rate, and will shrink in part on the validity of the assumptions on which further changes in man’s perceptual environ­ size if the death rate is greater than the birthrate. they are based, and in part on such things as the ment. It is important to note that our perceptual Over the past half-century or so a massive in­ weather. My guess is that the Paddocks are more systems have evolved primarily to react to stim­ crease in man’s understanding and utilization of likely correct, but in the long inn it makes no uli representing a sudden change in our environ­ death control has resulted in a rapid rise in the difference. Millions of people are going to starve ment— a lion’s charge, a flaring fire, a child’s cry. rate of growth of the human population. So, we to death, and soon. There is nothing that can be Long-term changes often are not noticed. We have a closed, growing population. And, intrigu­ done to prevent it. They will die because of short­ tend not to perceive a friend’s aging, or the slow­ ing as the prospect may be to certain irrespon­ sighted governmental attitudes. They will die be­ ing of our reflexes. If the transition from the Los sible politicians, economists, and religious lead­ iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ers, we will not achieve an infinite population size. Sooner or later the growth of the human population must stop. On the “later” side it has been possible to com­ It is already too late to avoid famines that will kill Paul R. Ehrlich pute when physical limitations, notably the prob­ 'is the battle lost' lem of dissipating the heat produced by human millions, possibly by 1975. But drastic steps, metabolic processes, will put an end to growth taken now, will protect food resources in the solar system. W e are forever barred from I think that 150 million people— rather than exporting a significant part of our population to and the quality of environment for future generations. our present population of 200 million— would be the stars, so the theoretical maximum for the an optimum number to live comfortably in the solar system coincides closely with the extreme United States. Such a number is clearly enough possible numerical peak for Homo sapiens, esti­ IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII to maintain our highly technological society. It mated by some to be one billion billion people. is also a small enough number that, when prop­ This peak would be reached, at the current Angeles of 1927 to that of 1967 had occurred cause some religious organizations have blocked erly distributed and accommodated, it should be growth rate, in far under 1,500 years. Indeed, if overnight Angelenos surely would have rebelled. attempts over the years to get governmental and possible for individuals to find as much solitude we are confined in large part to the planet Earth But a gradual 40-year transition has permitted United Nations action under way to control and breathing space as they desire. With a pop­ ( and there is every reason to believe we will b e ), human birthrates. They will die because scien­ southern Californians actually to convince them­ ulation stabilized at such a level we could con­ the end will be reached in less than 1,000 years. tists have managed to persuade many influential selves that the Los Angeles basin of 1967 is a centrate on improving the quality of human life For those interested in such long-range thinking people that a technological rabbit can always be suitable habitat for Homo sapiens. at home and abroad. And, what a pleasure it there is one more cheery datum— the rate of in­ pulled out of the hat to save mankind at the last It is clear that man’s present physical and psy­ would be to work toward an attainable goal in­ crease of the population is itself accelerating! moment. They will die because many people, chic environment is far from optimum, and that stead of fighting the miserable rearguard action On the “sooner” side we must face considera­ like myself, who recognized the essential role of permitting today’s trends to continue is likely to to which runaway population condemns us. bly less certainty. A fantastic world effort over overpopulation in the increasing woes of Homo lead to further rapid deterioration. We also know After all, what do we gain from packing more the next decade at changing the attitude of sapiens, could not bring themselves to leave the that we will have a dramatic increase in the and more people into the United States? Those people toward family size and developing, pro­ comforts of their daily routine to do something death rate in the near future, an increase we can encouraging population growth in the hope of moting, and distributing birth control technol­ about it. Their blood will be distributed over do nothing about. What then should be our keeping our economy expanding must realize the ogy might conceivably arrest population growth many hands. course of action? consequences of such advocacy. Some men would at two to three times its present level— if nothing doubtless accumulate considerable wealth, and untoward intervenes. On the other hand, it is u t t h e n , what good can a partitioning of t h i n k o u r f i r s t m o v e must be to convince would be able to retreat from riot-torn cities to quite within our power to reduce the population guilt do? Perhaps some people will recog­ all those we can that the planet Earth must the increasingly smoggy countryside in order to size to zero tomorrow, should we opt for thermo­ B nize their culpability and mend their ways be viewed as a space ship of limited carrying live. If thermonuclear war does not solve their nuclear war. But, later or sooner, one thing is — too late. What’s done is done, to coin a phrase. capacity. It must be made crystal clear that pop­ children’s problems permanently, what kind of certain. The human population will stop grow­ We must look to the survivors, if there are to be ulation growth must stop, and we must arrive at a world will those children inherit? Will their ing. This halt must come through either a de­ any. W e must assume that the “time of famines” a consensus as to what the ideal size of the human heritage include social disorder and unemploy­ crease in the birthrate, or an increase in the will not lead to thermonuclear Armageddon, and crew of the Earth should be. When we have de­ ment on an unprecedented scale? Will they have death rate, or both. A corollary of this is that that man will get another chance, no matter how termined the size of the crew, then we can at­ to wear smog masks as a matter of routine? Will anyone or any organization opposing reduction ill-deserved. What I’d like to consider now is tempt to design an environment in which that they enjoy mock steaks made from processed in the birthrate is automatically an agent for what we can do today that would improve the crew will be maintained in some sort of optimum grass or seaweed? Will they have to be satisfied eventually increasing the death rate. probability of man’s making the most of a second state. The sociopolitical problems raised by such with camping under plastic trees planted in con­ chance, should he be lucky enough to get one. an approach are, of course, colossal. People with­ crete? Will they accept regimentation and gov­ ince we need have only an academic in­ Of course, the most important thing that we in cultures have different ideas on how close they ernmental control at a level previously unheard terest in theoretical limits on the size of the must do is to educate people and change many want to live to their neighbors, and cross-cultural of?^Will they fight willingly in small wars and human population, I am going to examine of their attitudes. We must, for example, alert differences in feelings about crowding are ob- prepare diligently for the big one? Above all, theS very real crisis we face this instant. It is people to the possible environmental conse­ vipus. The only way I can think of for achieving will they be able to retain their sanity in a world shockingly apparent that in the battle to feed quences of attempting continually to increase a consensus is for people to start voicing opinions. gone mad? humanity our side has been routed. In 1966 the food production. They must be made aware of So here goes. population of the world increased by some 70 subtle biological properties of our environment (Continued on Page 11) million people, and there was no compensatory which, if ignored, may lead to very unsubtle increase in food production. Indeed, in areas future calamities. For instance, one of the basic such as Africa and Latin America there has ac­ facts of population biology is that the simpler an tually been a decrease in food production over ecological system (or ecosystem) is, the more the past two years. According to the United unstable it is. A complex forest, consisting of a Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, ad­ great variety of plants and animals, will persist vances in food production made in developing year in and year out with no interference from nations between 1955 and 1965 have been wiped man. The system contains many elements, and out by agricultural disasters in 1965 and 1966. changes in different ones often cancel one an­ All this means that last year, on the average, each other out. Suppose one kind of predator eating person on earth had 2 percent less to eat. The small rodents, say foxes, suffers a population de­ reduction is, of course, not uniformly distributed. cline. There may be a compensatory increase in Starvation already is a fact in many countries. the population of another predator, perhaps wild­ Only 10 countries, including the United States, cats. Such compensation may not be possible in grew more food than they consumed— all other a simpler system. Similarly, no plant-eating ani­ populous countries, including Russia, China, and mal feeds on all kinds of plants, and the chance India, imported more than they exported. of a population explosion of a herbivore com­ Agricultural experts state that a tripling of the pletely defoliating a mixed woodland is virtu­ food supply of the world will be necessary in ally nil. the next 30 years or so, if the 6 or 7 billion people Man, however, is a simplifier of complex eco­ who may be alive in the year 2000 are to be systems, and a creator of simple ecosystems. For adequately fed. Theoretically such an increase instance, he persists in creating systems which might be possible, but it is becoming increas­ consist almost entirely of uniform stands of a ingly clear that it is totally impossible in prac­ single grass— wheat fields and corn fields are fa­ tice. A few months ago I would have told you miliar examples. Any farmer can testify to the that if we had ideal conditions of research, de­ instability of these ecosystems. Without human velopment, and international cooperation we protection such an ecosystem rapidly disappears. Biology students do field work in the Stanford University's Jasper might triple our food production by then— if we Plans for increasing food production invari­ Ridge Biological Experimental Area, a 735-acre outdoor laboratory. started immediately. I would then have exam­ ably involve large-scale efforts at environmental The laboratory is a low foothill which contains 84 of the 162 plant ined the possibility of meeting such assump­ modification. And the more we have manipu­ families that grow in California. Page 11 Thursday, May 9, 1968 PHOENIX

Free falling SKY DIVING— A WAY TO FLY

By Art Beeghly “ One thousand, two thousand, watch and an altimeter to tell him three thousand,” the students when to open the chute. count. They have fallen 500 feet Hawley makes “ relative work in five seconds. jumps” with three to 10 other “ Pull!” jumpers. They jump at the same Out rushes a nylon cloud into time, manuever toward each oth­ the blue sky. er, grasp arms and fall as one unit The students feel a sudden called a “ star.” jerk on their shoulders. Their parachutes open and they grace­ Hawley encourages getting into fully drop to the ground at 10 good physical condition. Strength­ miles an hour. ening the legs is especially im­ Don Hawley, a 27-year-old grad portant. student here instructs at the Sky Break a Leg Diving School and Club in Calis- “ The stronger your muscles, toga, 10 miles northeast o f Santa the less chance o f breaking a bone Rosa. or straining an ankle when land­ Free Fall ing. The muscles absorb the Although Hawley said he is shock,” Hawley said. always learning to improve his Hawley learned parachuting in jumps, he is an accomplished the Army. free fall artist. Wirey in built, about 5 feet Grabbing hands in free fall, a "star" formation is formed over Calistoga. Falling over By streamlining his body, he eight, with brown wavy hair and 100 m. p. h., the group has manuevered over the landing area. A few seconds later at can go up to 180 m. p. h. in free intense eyes, he looks indestruc­ 3, 300 feet, the group will break apart and have one thousand feet to get into the cor­ fall. This speed is reached by tible. rect body position. "Earth, here we come." plunging earthward headfirst, “ I’ve never been injured in Photo by Ken Roberts with feet together and arms skydiving,” Hawley said. pressed to the sides. He has made 302 jumps. With the flip o f a hand, he Facilities Only common sense rules,” Hawley chutes may land in a roadway and smooth field with no obstructions parachute and always wear one. glides in a more horizontal direc­ for 300 yards in all directions. * Know the correct body posi­ The Skydiving Club and School said. be struck by cars. tion. has 55 members. Most o f the “ Some skydivers have jumped Calistoga “ is one o f the best Rules o f the Sky tion when pulling the ripcord. Going at this velocity, he can jumpers are not enrolled in the through clouds and couldn’t see landing areas in the US,” Hawley Hawley listed “ some very sim­ “ You should be falling with travel at “ a one - one ratio - one School but already are skilled in where they were landing. They said. ple things people should know legs forward and spread, tipped mile down and one mile across.” the sport and use only the Club’s drowned in a lake,” he said. The surrounding mountains before their first jump.” several feet below your waist,” 13,000 Feet Down facilities. Land on a Highway shield the landing area from high * Know the quality o f the he said. His longest free fall was 13,000 The few fatalities in skydiving People who don’t know how winds. The weather is usually equipment. END feet. In such falls, he uses a stop are due to “ stupidly breaking to control the direction o f their clear. The drop area is a large, * Know how to use the reserve / ' World popul lost ( Continued from Page 10) intelligent portion of our population is out-repro­ could be permitted enough antidote to produce an attempt to sterilize them en masse. Let’s suppose that we decide to limit the pop­ ducing the more intelligent. Even if a reproduc­ two offspring. Then each couple who wished If we can solve the population problem at ulation of the United States and of the world. tive disparity did exist, the worst consequence could be given a chance in a lottery for enough home then we will be in a position to make an How could such limitation be accomplished? over a period of a few generations only would be antidote for a third child— the odds carefully all-out effort to halt the growth of the world’s Some biologists feel that compulsory family reg­ a slight lowering of average intelligence— a slight computed to produce the desired constancy of population. Perhaps we can shorten the timfe of ulation will be necessary to retard population and reversible lowering. Quantity is the first population size. At the moment, the chances of famines and lay the groundwork for avoiding a growth. It is a dismal prospect—except when problem. If we can lick that one perhaps we will winning would’have to be adjusted to about two second round of population-food crises. Our pro­ viewed as an alternative to Armageddon. I would buy the time for scientists in fields such as bio­ out of five, assuming that all couples wanted to gram should be tough-minded. We should re­ like to suggest four less drastic steps which might chemical genetics to solve some of the problems play the game. member that seemingly charitable gestures such do the job in the United States. I suggest them of quality. If we don’t solve the quantity prob­ An attempt to institute such a system is in­ as our grain exports to India have actually in the full knowledge that they are socially un­ lem, the quality problem will no longer bother us. teresting to contemplate, especially when one harmed rather than helped Indians in the long palatable and politically unrealistic. considers the attitude of the general public to­ run. I think that we should. The first step would be to establish a Federal A l l o f t h e s e s t e p s might produce the de- ward such a relatively simple thing as fluorida­ Population Commission with a large budget for sired result of a reversal of today’s popu- tion. I would not like to be the first elected offi­ 1. Ar.rcnnce that we will no longer ship food propaganda which supports reproductive respon­ lation growth trend. If they should fail, cial seriously to suggest that a sterility agent be to countries where dispassionate analysis indi­ sibility. This Commission would be charged with however, we would then be faced with some added to our reservoirs. Perhaps it might seem cates that the food-population unbalance is form of compulsory birth regulation. We might, that we can start such a program by treating the making clear the connection between rising pop­ hopeless. ulation and lowering quality of life. It would also for instance, institute a system which would make wheat we ship to India, or fish meal we ship to be charged with the evaluation of environmental 2. Announce that we will no longer give aid to any country with an increasing population until tinkering by other governmental agencies—with that country convinces us that it is doing every­ protecting us from projects such as the FAA’s thing within its power to limit its population. supersonic transports or from the results of the Army Engineers’ well-known “beaver complex” 3. Make available to all interested countries (which some predict will only be satiated when massive aid in the technology of birth control. every gutter in the country has a dam thrown 4. Make available to all interested countries across it). Commission members should be dis­ ^massive aid for increasing yield on land already tinguished citizens, as free as possible from po­ under cultivation. The most important export in litical or bureaucratic meddling. this area should be trained technicians, not ferti­ The second step would be to change our tax lizer. We need to establish centers in the country where technicians can be trained not only in laws so that they discourage rather than encour­ agronomy, but also in ecology and sociology. age reproduction. Those who impose the burden Many of the barriers to increased yields are so­ °f children on society should, whenever they are ciological, and all increase should be made in a aole, be made to pay for the privilege. Our in­ manner which minimizes environmental deterio­ come tax system should eliminate all deductions ration. *°r children and replace them with a graduated 5. Accept the fact that if we can use our power scale of increases. Luxury taxes should be placed to further military goals, then it can be used for on diapers, baby bottles, and baby foods. It must the good of mankind as well. Extreme political be made clear to our population that it is socially and economic pressure should be brought on any ^responsible to have large families. Creation of country impeding a solution to the world’s most such a climate of opinion has played a large role pressing problem. A good place to start would be ln Japan s successful dealing with her population closing our diplomatic channels to the Vatican Problem. until that organization brings its policies into line Third, we should pass federal laws which make with the desires of the majority of American instruction in birth control methods mandatory Catholics. Much of the world will be horrified "fall public schools. Federal legislation should at our stand, but as a nation we’re clearly willing a so forbid state laws which limit the right of any to go against world opinion on other issues—why ^oinan to have an abortion which is approved not on the most important issue? oy her physician. fourth, we should change the pattern of fed­ eral support of biomedical research so that the Majority of it goes into the broad areas of popu- positive action necessary before reproduction is South America. Or can we? As you doubtless Well, perhaps if we get on the ball and set a a ion regulation, environmental sciences, behav­ possible. This might be the addition of a tempo­ realize, the solution does not lie in that direction. good example the United States can lead the ioral sciences, and related areas, rather than into rary sterilant to staple food, or to the water sup­ For one thing, saying that the population explo­ way in focusing the world’s attention on the ortsighted programs on death control. It is ab- ply. An antidote would have to be taken to per­ sion is a problem of underdeveloped countries cause of its major sickness rather than upon the ofV /0 PreoccuPied with the medical quality mit reproduction. Even with the antidote freely is like telling a fellow passenger “your end of the symptoms. Perhaps we can shift our efforts from «e until and unless the problem of the quan- available, the result of such a program would be boat is sinking.” For another, it is naive to think the long-term pain-depressing activities to the a* y is solved. In this context we must do a drastic reduction in birthrates. If this reduc­ that Indians or Brazilians are any more anxious excising of the cancer. The operation will re­ for^ nonsense about how important it is tion were not sufficient, the government could to be fed fertility-destroying chemicals with quire many brutal and callous decisions. The tQr, Srnart people to have large families in order dole out the antidote in the proper quantities. their daily bread than are Americans. Other pain will be intense, but the disease is so far ad­ o eep Homo sapiens from being selected for If we wished to stabilize the American popula­ people already are suspicious of our motives. vanced that only with radical surgery does the UP ity* It is far from established that the less tion at its present level, each married couple Consider what their attitude would be toward patient have any chance of survival. Page 12 PHOENIX Thursday, May 9, 1968 WHO ? US? DISCRIMINATE ?

By Vernon Smith Although the SF State Athle­ A prepared statement issued Not much was resolved at policies o f “ treating all athletes tic Department would have us at the end o f a meeting Wed­ Wednesday’s meeting, which was fairly.” What he overlooks, is that think the recent charges of nesday between thedepartment’s attended by Dr. Jerry Wyness, since black athletes have never racism and exploitation are un­ coaches and the athletes said athletic director, Vic Rowen, been treated equally on this founded, they are not. in pjut that “ the black athletes head football coach, and Paul campus in the first place the The grievances o f black at­ were organized, directed, and Rundell and Frank Verducci, inequities will continue if the hletes on this campus are real, supported by off-campus lead­ basketball coaches. ership.” What did result was a general svstem continues. and have been for a number of The existing system of “ quasi­ years. For as long ago as 1959, “ This is evident by the pre­ feeling smong the athletes pre­ sent that the department will equality,” whether designed to black players have been sub­ sence o f Harry Edwards, black or not, will continue to allow jected to the worst housing, the militant leader on the SF State forever refuse to look squarely at the problems. Instead it states the black athlete to be ex­ poorest jobs, and a coaching college the week before the Phoenix Sports Editor Vern Smith presenting the de­ over and over how equally they ploited. staff that could no more relate accusations appeared,” the state­ mands of the black athletes. have treated all o f its flayers. It is up to the department to to them than say the Man in the ment continued. do more than its part to bring moon. Black athletes scoff at such Wyness, who did much o f are equal. the real equality it has deluded If the department does not, rhe department has been Even after the conditions nonsense, and say the depart­ the group’s talking, has indi­ itself into believing it has. the consequences have been given two weeks to act on the have been aired, the athletic de­ ment is attempting to evade the cated he will make no special It can no longer act on the plainly outlined by the black demands o f summer jobs for partment refused to believe that real issues. efforts or concession concern­ assumption that all o f its at­ athletes: a total boycott is black athletes, a black housing its black athletes are angry Harry Edwards was never on ing the black athletes demands, hletes are equal no more than planned with the added threat coordinator, and a black gra­ enough to have decided to do campus at any meeting held by that the department will con­ this society can act on the as­ duate assistant for next year’s something about it themselves. o f discourging other black at- the athletes. tinue to practice its present sumption that all of its peoples football team. .. in...... iiniiniiiiVii...iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiViiiiiniiiiiiinnimnHrnm/HitH^HWfiifftmnfmmmimiiiHimiMiiiiimiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimmmiiiiiiiminmiiiiiii 1111 tG enroli Gators’ mission WANTED ■■ ONE SUPER HERO impossible It’s been reported that the SF next basketball season the kind team was playing, though, as the State athletic department is wor­ o f athlete the people are more “ Superman” myth spread across ried that a student vote might than willing to pay to see. the country, By Glenn Schwarz (22-8) and sixth in the triple abolish the mandatory $10 Asso­ My hopes for pulling o ff such John Barber was the Los An­ jump (44-11^2). Bowens also led The members o f SF State’s ciated Students membership fee. a flight of fancy are founded in geles State center in 1953. Just o ff the 440-yard relay squad track team who traveled to Reno From the $400,000 annually the past, the hey-day o f such im­ to outdo Bevo the L. A. State which picked up two points for last weekend returned home in collected from these fees, $48,900 mortals as Clarence (Bevo) Fran­ coach scheduled a game with the a fifth-place finish. The time time to watch their favorite is allotted to finance the inter­ cis and John Barber. Chapman College Jayvees and was 43.4. Curt Williams, Lou television series, “ Mission Im­ These sports folk heroes had ordered his club to feed Barber. Moore and Reggie Walker com­ collegiate athletic program. With­ possible.” Barber poured in 188 points in his pleted the baton-passing team. out this money it would be diffi­ their days o f glory in the national All season long their task f The Gators’ mile relay quart­ cult to support a marble team let headlines before most o f us were team’s 206-82 win over their paralleled that o f the Impossible et o f Williams, Walker, Steve alone equip a football or basket­ really old enough to care, so I hapless opponents. Mission Force, a race against Nolan and Don Walker finished ball squad. This farcical game made the the clock and a foe who’s trying better fill you in with a little public aware that the “ miracle to defeat your efforts while you sixth in the time o f 3:26. Nolan But, my advice to the depart­ background information. took a sixth in the mile in 4:35. in the Midwest,” as writers were ■must overcome impossible odds. ment is not to worry; if any fi­ Team captain Roger Mialocq calling it, could be reproduced The comparisons end there. Un­ nancial problems do arise I have couldn’t come close to his top like the IMF, which always the ingenious solution at hand to Glenn Schwarz almost anywhere under set-up performance in the javelin. His comes out on top in the end, combat them. circumstances. toss of 165 feet was more than the Gators didn’t. Personally, I couldn't stand In 1953 the basketball world It's been 15 years since some­ 20 feet short o f his best this Last Saturday was no excep­ the sight o f Gator football coach year. Discus man Ray Cordoba was abuzz over the feats of body like “ Bevo” was sprung on tion as the Gators ended their also was plagued by the wind, Vic Rowen biding his time with “ Bevo” Francis o f Rio Grande the quick-to-forget public. It is ‘ conference season in the Far but still managed to take a coed touch football games all (Ohio) College. People were call­ now time for a new “ super-hero” Western Conference champion­ seventh, one place out of the day or basketball coach Paul ing him “ Superman” when the 6 to be created and there’s no bet­ ships in “ The Biggest Little scoring. Rundell getting his kicks con­ foot 9 freshman hit 116 points ter place than on our own lethar­ City in the World.” If the Coach Bob Johnson dismiss­ ducting free throw shooting con­ against Ashland College and was gic sports-minded campus. Nevada bookmakers took any ed the whole meet as “ one to tests on lonely afternoons around averaging 50 points per game. bets on this meet. The host forget.” the gym. Rio Grande, with about half We could accomplish that feat University o f Nevada was the When Johnson talks o f “ the In order to keep the intercol­ the number o f students o f the by scheduling teams from Heald future,” though, he isn’t talking overwhelming favorite. legiate program in operation we average SF high school, averaged College, Mills College and other The Wolfpack, who do as of this season. When new Gator could create something that the more than 100 points per game local powerhouses. Maybe we much wheeling and dealing in coach Bob Lualhati arrives from sensation-loving sports public and went on to an unbeaten sea­ could even disguise a pickup luring outstanding tracksters to Westmoor High next year he son. The catch was that they the Reno campus as the casinos will be greeted by every Gator would really eat up. With all the team from one of the local bars do in taking people’s money, who placed in this year’s con­ publicity the college now receives played 27 o f their 39 games and write them o ff as Bloody made the meet a complete farce ference meet and hopefully some it wouldn’t take long to have the against vocational schools, junior (William &) Mary College. All by rolling up 206 points. CS top-notch freshmen and junior Bay Area sports populace storm­ colleges and service teams. They we’d have to do is fill the(gym Hayward finished a distant se­ college transfers. ing to the campus with the all- picked on such toughies as Pike- for all the home games (at the cond with 114 points. Then maybe it will be Mis­ important green stuff. ville, Cincinnati Bible Seminary increased price o f $2 a head) and 6 Points For SF sion Possible. My proposed hoax would be and Sue Bennett (honest). the annual budget could be met. The Gators garnered only six the creation o f a “ super-hero” The fans didn’t care who their See, no sweat fellas. points. The Gators were not on Gators open here M ILE R -G ato r trackman Steve the bottom, though; Sonoma The Gators will open their 1968 Nolan exhibits running style he State didn’t make a point. football season Sept. 21 at Cox used to capture sixth place in Oh those sexy sports cars? Freshman A1 Bowens was the Stadium against the Santa Clara FWC championship meet. top point-getter for the Gators. Broncos, the only team to defeat (or: 'Our Copy Editor Goes to the Races') He placed sixth in the long jump the Gators last season. By Mary Shepper high as my knee with just e- feeling that his car was just fly­ nough room for the driver to ing. And I wanted to fly with it. “ Grand Prix,” the movie a- squeeze in, lying in a semi-su­ But this sensation is not the Baseball ends- a welcome relief bout hero drivers and their fast- pine position. He snuggles into result o f taking chances or floor­ paced life on the European the car and actually wears it a- ing the gas pedal. The driver Varsity baseball action is Grand Prix circuit, gave the im­ FWC championship to SF more than disturbed. Scouts round him. who does rarely wins. The track all but over for this year and pression that all race car drivers State. for the pros don’t come to There were larger cars, beau­ is an intellectual challenge. It most observers agree this is are blood and guts—death defy­ Against Humboldt State, watch losing teams. tiful ones; although they seem must be memorized: every turn, a welcome relief. ing hedonists who live hard, the Gator’s left home their Pitching like tanks in comparison. Jim every flaw in the road, every Although victories at this “ awesome” power getting play hard and die hard. The In looking ahead to next Hall’s Chaparral was out quali­ braking point. point mean little to a team only five hits in the double year there is hope that there cars are just incidental to the fying for the Can Am race to that never fulfilled its pro­ loss. Together with an early may be a reversal o f form. life style. be held the next day. Hall There were a lot o f women mise, they did sweep a doub­ double defeat at the hands down in the pits too—most ot The pitching staff will be At Laguna Seca last Satur­ looks like a college student le-header from Chico State o f Sacramento State doom particularly strong with Bill day I discovered that the cars working his way through school. them shining and polishing the 2-0 and 6-4. The Gators racing machines (which was was all but guaranteed. The Clark returning. He pitched are positively erotic and the But they say he’s really a weal­ have six conference wins. long ball hitting o f Neal a pair o f superb one hitters drivers are kind o f like the in­ thy Texas oil man who designs kind of silly since they got all McNiven, Bob Dowd and Bill his own racing cars. dirty out on the track anyway). In February the Gators this year. nocuous little men who live Brody simply wasn’t there. T. J. Delbex will also be The sensation o f speed can’t But I did see a woman driver were billed as the team that down the block in the sub­ A General Slump back. In his last two perfor­ really be described on an intel­ there. had everything.” In May urbs—just a bunch of nice guys Later conference losses mances he pitched a no­ lectual plane. Standing 10 feet I wonder if they’d be inter­ they are the same team but out for a Sunday drive. But fast. meant little as the chances hitter against league-leading away when it passed, I got the ested in another one . ..? minus the victories to claim for first place honors after Nevada and held Sonoma It’s difficult to explain what a successful year. the first few weeks was vir­ State to a single safety. makes a car sexy. The cars, par­ The Gators started fast ticularly the single seater for­ tually impossible. Curt Hagaboom, only a mula cars, just don’t look like - too fast perhaps. Early Outfielder Barry Carli said freshman, pitched a no-hit­ automobiles. They’re full o f in­ wins over USF, Santa Clara it seemed like everyone went ter against the Stanford triguing bumps and curves and and other local non-confer- into a slump at once. frosh. And if Ron Gilliam they make such interesting ence schools promised a Far Another outfielder, Bill gets over his arm troubles, sounds: loud carnivorous, hun­ Western Conference Cham­ Brody echoed his words. he will make a strong addi­ gry roars (maybe there really is pionship. “ We know we have a good tion to arik excellent pitching a tiger in the tank?). team, but nothing at all is staff. Jon Milledge, who drove a ‘The Best Ever’ going right.” He suggested This is the last season o f Coach Bob Rodrigo called that the team hit its’ peak baseball at SF State for Formula B Brabham, looks like1 the pre-season Gators the too early. many. Coach Rodrigo is the friendly neighborhood den­ best team ever fielded at SF Coach Rodrigo was miffed taking an assistant football tist: glasses, a crew cut, small State. Some pro scouts sec­ too at the poor showing. coaching job at Cal State at frame, quiet and unassuming onded that by drafting sever­ “ If someone would have told Hayward. He along with sen­ manner. al o f his players. me that we would have this iors Dowd, McNiven, Carli, But his car . . . like a grass­ In short, it was a confi­ kind o f year, I would have Brody, Don Edwards and hopper with a long thin low dent, capable, group o f base­ told them they were crazy,” others will long remember body and four huge tires al­ ball players that seemed he said. this team and what it didn’t most disjointed from the car headed to bring another The senior players are do. itself. The car was about as Jim Hall's Chaparral: can a Batmobile be erotic...?