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By Steve Toomajian ing and laughing. Black Student Union members “What do you know about Africa?” disrupted the first two class ses­ Summerskill’s dilem ma “ Africa?” sions this semester of a black history course being taught by a “Yeah, what do you know about Africa?” white professor. The class they disrupted was “Not a great deal. I’d like to know more.” History 198, “ Black People in “What’d he say? Man, what the U. S.,” taught by Jerald does that mean?” constant crises Combs, associate professor of his­ “I don’t know much about tory. African history...” The class was arranged through “Well, how can you say you’re the history department. It is not qualified to teach black history part of the BSU’s Black Studies if you don’t know anything about curriculum. Africa?” Everyone Not Accredited “I didn’t say I was qualified.” Criticized, A similar class, placirg more “What? You’re not qualified?” emphasis on Africa, had been “I didn’t say that either.” listed in the BSU’s Black Studies Laughter. condemned in the act brochure at the start of the “This cat’s really too much.” semester. Taught by Roland Snell- “I’m no expert in the field of By John Davidson Everyone will get into the act ings, the class met on schedule history. I admit I have limitations of choosing a successor to John but had still not been accredited. Condemned by the far left in the field of black history. I Summerskill whose resignation A BSU member perusing a class and criticized by the conservative know enough to competently becomes effective September 1. schedule during advising week right, President John Summer­ take part in a seminar...” skill has taken the only way out Mansel Keene, assistant chan­ accidentally ran across the listing More Qualfied cellor for faculty and staff affairs, for History 198 - the accredited of a difficult, if not impossible “ If you really want to know said the Chancellor’s office in course. situation. more about Africa, like you say Los Angeles will work closely He notified BSU leaders who He has resigned. you do, I don’t see why this man with faculty, administration and spent the first few days before It was perhaps the only alter­ here (Roland Snellings) can’t student groups in the search for registration in meetings with native left for Summerskill. Har­ teach the course for you. He’s a new president. Combs and Ray Kelch, chair­ angued by campus radicals, used written prefaces and introduc­ The bulk of the campus res­ man of the history department. as a sacriaficial lamb by vote­ tions to some of the books on pond >ility will fall on a special conscious Sacramento politicians, Sponsor Wanted your reading list and you say facul > committee. Faculty mem­ incapacitated by the Board of The BSU members, seeking you’re more qualified to teach bers m u' ueid^ to choose from Trustees, and extended by the accreditation for Snellings’ class, the course?” among themselves five professors Reagan administration’s budget tried to convince Combs to relin­ “I didn’t say that.” for the committee. quish teaching duties in History And so it went, until Combs hacking - Summerskill evidently “This faculty committee will 198. Thev wanted Combs to dismissed the class half an hour had no effective solution but to work with the Chancellor’s office “sponsor,1' nellings as instructor early. Some of the white stu­ call it quits. in suggesting and screening candi­ of the course. Under this arrange­ dents followed through on their Summerskill came to this cam­ dates for the position,” Keene ment, Combs would have been promises to seek a sponsoring pus 18 months ago expecting to said. find a “dynamic, innovative” stu­ John Clark, chairman of SF dent body. He underestimated State’s drama department, served ftehiring confusion — “ clerical mix-up the situation. With a battery of microphones zeroing in on on the committee which origi­ Only a few months after he him, President John Summerskill znnounces nally selected Summerskill. took office Summerskill became his decision to break away from SF State. “This committee does not One of the sponsors of Roland dean of the School of Behav­ entangled in the most pronounc­ make the final selection of the nellings’ “ Ancient African His- ioral and Social Sciences. One ed and militant student unrest ernor Reagan, Lt. GovernorFinch, Summerskill’s resignation did president,” Clark said. “It travels )ry” class was not rehired for letter stated Fitzgerald would not in the campus’ history -- involved Superintendent of Public Instruc­ nothing to solve the difficult throughout the country, inter­ »,xt semester. be rehired. The other letter in­ so deeply that he complained tion Max Rafferty and Jesse Un- conditions which caused him to viewing those we feel to be ade­ Richard Fitzgerald, instructor structed Fitzgerald to disregard earlier this year that he “was ruh, Speaker of the Assembly, resign. These problems will be quate selections, and thbn present history, said he suspects the the letter of rehirement. spending all of his time on stu­ the trustees passed resolutions his legacy to his successor. our nominations to thd Chan­ d\torv department declined to Pentony said the mixup was dent problems.” severely restricting options and Unless these conditions are cellor.” J' e ain him because he sponsored a clerical error. Summerskill tried his best to discretionary powers with respect alleviated, the whole cycle will Keene said the faculty commit­ n el lings’ course. Fitzgerald’s Ray Kelch, chairman of the to student suspensions and the tee is expected to present three j-year appointment will end history department, agreed. solve student unrest over the occur again. Vietnam war, campus racism, and calling of police on campus. Reactions to Summerskill’s re­ to five candidates to the Chan­ the close of this semester. “Two days before Fitzgerald The trustees assigned a special cellor’s office. The day Fitzgerald was ac- was made sponsor of the course a myriad of other problem^. Sum­ signation have predictably varied. merskill maintained that any pro­ task force to examine his ste­ Reagan, the target of Summer- :pted as sponsor, he also re- I had already composed and re­ wardship. Their verdict: a clean Chancellor Glenn Dumke will blem could be solved through skill’s most biting criticism in this select two of the candidates and jived a letter saying he was re- layed to Dean Pentony’s office bill of health. ired. the letter not renewing Fitz­ “dialogue and compromise.” resignation statement has replied submit their names to the Board But the students wanted ac­ STudent unrest was on the that “any educator unable to The next day he received two gerald’s appointment,” Kelch increase but Summerskill’s power of Trustees, which makes the tion, not liberal rhetoric. Sum­ work within his budget has the itters from DeVere Pentony, said. to deal with it had been severely final selection. merskill compromised but soon lessened. right to leave.” .if ^ ^ ^^^^i^rVVVVVVVWVlflAriAruVVlAr discovered he could not exceed Rafferty, one of Summerskill’s In case a new president has nov Underlying all of the other been chosen by September the rigid limits of the Chancellors problems, Summerskill had to foremost critics said, “I don’t listed as instructor, but Snellings professor for Snellings. A few of office and the trustees. know of anything we have done committee will appoint an acting vvould have taught the class. Combs’ 20 students have switched face an acute financial pinch president. State politicians of varying de­ caused by the economical pol­ that prompted him to leave.” Combs refused. to Snellings’ course which now grees of importance took advan­ Chancellor Glenn Dumke said Clark said the chief obstacles icies of the Reagan administra­ in selecting a new president are BSU members then confronted has about 50 students. tage of the unhealthy political he “regrets the departure” of Celch. They tried to convince Kelch was asked later why he tion. relatively low salary - up to climate and seized upon campus Summerskill had 46 new facul­ “an inspirational leader who has lim that Combs, being white, refused the original BSU request problems to further their public firm and constructive views about $6,000 less per year than at m any vas not qualified to teach black for Snellings to teach History 177. ty positions to fill, but his efforts other colleges - and “the political esteem. were handicapped by a lack of the relationship of the campus •istory and that Snellings should “The rules say a department’s turmoil. Summerskill’s head was on the funds. How could he entice facul­ to society at large.” teach the course. experimental course must be block almost continuously as pol­ ty members to SF State when On campus the reactions rang­ There has been a great deal Kelch disagreed. taught by a regular faculty mem­ iticians publicly criticized his pol­ salaries were under those paid by ed from support of Summerskill of speculation about what type Under a 177 listing, a depart­ ber. Snellings, regardless of his icies on Open Process, anti-war junior colleses, the workload hea­ to indifference. of person Summerskill’s successor ment is allowed to insert in its qualifications, is not a member demonstrations, student suspen­ vier, and the budget for travel Ben Stewart, chairman of the will be. The consensus opinion curriculum an experimental class of this department,” Kelch said. sions, and failing to call police to and research inadequate? Black Students Union, said “we is that it will take an extremely to be taught or sponsored by a “To the best of my know­ campus. able administrator to be effective ledge there was no one in my expected it.” regular faculty member of that He complained bitterly in his Also, every item in his budget in the face of government budget department. department willing to teach the resignation statement that “col­ has to be accounted for, line by James Thatcher, a trustee said, hacking, political pressures, and course.” No Interference leges are now vulnerable to pol­ line, item by item; he had no he understands Summerskill felt continuous student unrest. Snellings’ course eventually “I couldn’t have okayed a itics at every turn.” flexibility in spending. “boxed in, no longer effective, was accredited. Sponsored by course on such short notice even Political interference reached Besides this Summerskill had due to many factors.” Some SF State faculty and Richard Fitzgerald, instructor of if a man from my department h^d its peak in the emergency trustees to contend with exploding enroll­ “It’s a very sad day for the Sacramento politicians believe a history, and Diane Lewis, asso­ requested it.” meeting three days following the ment, critical needs for additional college,” said Eric Solomon, out­ firm disciplinarian is needed to ciate professor of anthropology, In reply to Kelch’s statement’s, massive Dec. 6 protest which buildings and materials, and de­ spoken member of the Academic set the campus back on its feet. the class can be taken either for Stewart said “he’s lying.” closed the campus. Led by Gov- mands for innovative programs. Senate. But the majority contend it will history or anthropology credit. take something more. Snellings is teaching the class “It will take a fiscal magician without any interference from who can make something out of his two sponsors. very little,” Vice President of But before the accreditation Introducing Phoenix, new paper on campus Academic Affairs Donald Garrity took place, there were two stormy said. “He will have to be a saint sessions in Combs’ History 198 who can deal with all forces in class. By Carol Corville “We’re aiming fora more inter­ all the time to fit the ideological ly well. If I thought there was any society and an educational leader pretive version of the news - m old.” real possibility of their censoring Twenty students, two of them With this first issue of Phoenix, who can deal with all demands.” black, gathered around a rec­ something to put the daily news­ The new paper will be divided anything we might put out I a new bird takes flight on cam­ James Thatcher, a trustee, said tangular setup of tables, at the paper in perspective,” Maatz said. into four sections: National-In­ wouldn’t be sitting at this desk.” pus. a man is needed who “enjoys the ead of which sat Combs. “To a degree, we hope to be a ternational , Campus - City, Arts With a staff of 35 strong be­ The bird will circle over the confidence of the faculty and the Visitors brighter, more concerned Christ­ and Sports. hind him, an AP wire machine heads of bemused students, drop­ ian Science Monitor published on Because the paper is intended and an editorial board of old pros, college, the community and the But there were visitors this day. ping pellets of most clarifying a weekly basis.” as a learning experience, the facul­ Maatz’s vision doesn’t look nearly public, and who can lead the col­ Fifteen of them. There was Jim­ perception. lege academically.” ty will critique all copy on struc­ so cloudlike. my Garrett, BSU off-campus co­ Riding rein on the eager bird The paper will be experimental ture and form before printing. News editor is John Keane, ordinator, Benny Stewart, BSU will be hard-nosed managing edi­ with no hang-ups about trying “It’ll take a great man,” Eric The faculty, however, will not former sports editor of the fall chairman - and friends. tor Larry Maatz. new formats or new approaches Solomon, associate professor of Combs handed out the syllabus to writing, he said. intrude on content. Journalism Gater; chief copy editor is Mary English, said. “In these difficult The new weekly was hatched professor B. H. Liebes said. Shepper, who held the same posi­ and the chatter started. It didn’t by the Journalism Department as The paper will not be confined times it is going- to take one of stop until the class was dismissed. a permanent and continuing lab­ to campus issues, but will deal “Functionally speaking, the ed­ tion with the fall Gater: Maatz the masterly administrators who “How are you qualified to oratory venture in experimental with state, local and national itors will be deciding,” Maatz was associate editor of last semes­ can provide leadership to the teach black history? A white journalism. news in equal coverage. said.. The department is the pub­ ter’s Gater. faculty, respond to the needs of man cannot possibly teach black “We’ll use visitors reprints, al­ lisher just as the BOP is the pub­ Jim Loveland, managing editor the students, and manuever history.” Maatz, his glinting blue eyes so,” Maatz said, “such as the De­ lisher of the AS papers. of the fall Gater and Editor-in- through the political jungle.” “I’ve taught a black history frequently hidden behind dark troit Free Press’s investigative re­ “There is no more possibility Chief of the Summer Gater be­ Marshall Windmiller, Chairman course twice before. I’ve done glasses, and a fringe of faint porting on the Detroit riots.” of control in either case, with the fore that, is back as an informal of International Relations, said extensive reading...” blond hair creeping over his fore­ As far as editorial position exception that we enjoy the ad­ TA for the course; and Ralph the job will require a “combi­ “ He!s done the reading! Say, head like Ilya Kuriakin’s, has goes, Maatz said, “It may vary vantage that our publisher knows Henn, former editor a. d pub­ nation of Jesus Christ and Nap­ brothers, you hear that?” long had visions of undertaking considerably from issue to issue. a little bit about publishing.” lisher of Franciscan Magazine the oleon. iCombs sighs and smiles coolly. just such a venture of his own, I dislike an ideological interpreta­ “ I’ve been around this depart­ college alumni publication is back “It’s going to be hard Me seated students look on in- though he probably won’t admit tion of things, because it means ment for two years now, and I with Phoenix as business mana­ place a man so aware %tly. The BSU people are smil- it. you have to re-interpret reality know the journalism faculty fair­ ger. ested,” Windmiller ad - ......

Page 2 PHOENIX Thursday. February 29, 196 ^ V j Slinging Phoenix words Editorial with LBJ By Brian Lawson The presidency of the Uni LOOKING FORWARD ted States is one of the world’ most prestigious offices. Alon; with it goes awesome power, an< j The Impossible great respect and devotion from : ( loyal populace. One honor, however, ha: One might postulate the effects were the Sacramento crowd to long escaped the grasp of ou extend its methods of administering California’s institutions of presidents, but at long last i higher learning to other state operations. seems as though the award fo, lr “The Most Self-Effacing Mesianic Highways would be designed by public relations officers, their Statement of the Year” will bt j, routes chosen on the basis of popularity contests, built by workers selected for their political reliability and administered by the won by our president. exigencies of the moment. Lyndon B. Johnson has sewi up the award for 1968 with this The transportation needs of the state would be, at best, secondary ~ if they were considered at all. retort to a newsman’s question- Hospitals would be administered on the basis of polls. Diagnosis “How can you ask me, the leader would be by press conference and post-operative care would be given of the Western world, a chicken over to some troglodyte politician with incipent delusions of shit question like that?” adequacy. Before marveling at the cou­ That the patient might die would be irrelevant-the operation rage of the man for firing off his would be considered a success. big guns so early in the year Such is the case with higher education in Califomia-and most particularly at SF State. Ana such are the conditions under which LO! THE POOR TOURIST (the domestic hustings are yet John Summerskill’s successor will be forced to operate. to come, and Charles de Gaulle He will be expected to act as chief executive officer of one of the hasn’t really hit his stride yet) largest campuses in our state college system-and yet he will lack the the political sagacity of the move simple authority to replace a typewriter if it breaks down. LBJ’s travel tax may not go far should be examined. He will be expected to administer one of the most turbulent Baby Kisser colleges in the nation -and yet he will be bound by policy allowing By Jim Loveland red pencil. are many ways of dealing with it. All through his career in the him all the flexibility of a steel girder. President Johnson’s proposal The basic idea behind the Every idea has its own course, Senate, Johnson was a hard work­ Ronald Reagan, M«*x Rafferty and the State College Board of plan is to help redress the pre­ and, as Victor Hugo said, “there ing, back corridor manipulator Trustees have structured a situation within which the task of find­ to curtail the travel of Americans is nothing stronger than an idea ing a successor to John Summerskill has been rendered essentially abroad by making it financially sent imbalance of trade, a vital of his colleagues. His reputation impossible. unattractive is certain to under­ administration concern. Johnson whose time has come.” as an arm twister and persuasive No educator in his right mind would want the job. go drastic changes before it passes wants to tax all American tourists This tax is only part of that speaker was confined largely to Congress. except Congressmen and persons vast program to trim $3 billion the club-like atmosphere of the It is easier to stay out than get out. The plan is now bottled up with relatives abroad, who leave balance of payment deficit the upper house. After he rode to -Mark Twain in the powerful House Ways and the Western Hemisphere. the President outlined on New victory with Jack Kennedy, John­ Means Committee awaiting the Reduce Travel Year’s Day. son slipped quietly into his role The tax will try to reduce The Ways and Means Com­ as personal envoy, baby kisser,) the 3 million travelers and the mittee is now thinking in terms and obsequious middle man. And $2 billion they spend overseas of building a package. When tax for three years the world mar SF State loses a priceless friend each year. packages are built, no particular veled at the tall lanky man whc The proposed tax is simple: part sticks out too much. spoke with sincere convictior * Tax all spending over $7 The tourist tax will be con­ and spent a lot of time travelin; a day. Daily spending of $7 to cealed in the package and should from here to there. By Carol CorviUe Western civilization.” His collect­ with the help of his wife, Serena, $15 would be taxed at 15 percent, easily pass Congress. With all the sincerity an ion included more than 12,000 He loved books - ancient continued to undertake its direc­ and daily spending above $15 at The President expected this humility he could muster tf books, both rare and modem. manuscripts, original music scores, tion, adding new volumes period­ 30 percent. when he made his original state­ new president begged the natio written antiquities of every size He lectured and sponsored ically. * Impose a 5 percent tax on ment Jan. 1. He resisted questions to work with him to help th and shape. many educational and cultural Mr. deBellis also gave exhib­ all airline tickets to foreign lands, about the travel tax because he poor, misguided, and misaligne But today Frank V. deBellis events, particularly in the Italian its and concerts and provided including those in the Western said this was something for Con­ peoples of the world. He humbl Is no longer down in his collect- arts. for several scholarships in Italian Mr. deBellis became familiar Hemisphere and a 5 percent tax gress to be consulted with and for assumed his duties, and wit] on room off of the Garden Room studies. in the Bay Area as a broadcaster on steamship travel outside the them to help decide what to do. great sorrow and a heavy hear of the library, greeting scholars But the presentations are and visitors in his native Italian of “Music of the Italian Masters”, hemisphere. Thus, the package deal can used his 1964 mandate to cu a program started in 1948, which not important; the Collections as often as English and waving * Reduce from $100 to $10 in no way be considered a slap in back on poverty’s war to helf continued for 12 years. and the man behind them are. lhem with a flourish of his weath­ the amount of duty-free goods an the administration’s face. In fact fight Vietnam’s war. The awards and the atten­ ered hand back to the stack “His death is a tremendous American could bring back from the Treasury Department is more Political experts began to tion deBellis’ collections drew rooms, where many of the price­ loss. He was benefactor o f so most foreign lands. than happy for Congress to question the “new” image of the were not the man, they were less volumes were stored. many organizations,” said Ken­ Criticism of Johnson’s tax- rework the tax proposal. At one man. Was this the “real” John­ Patron of the arts and col­ neth Brough, Head Librarian of a mere reflection of the great­ and-travel plan was immediate point, in desperation, the Trea­ son, the fast driving, dirty-joke j lector extraordinaire for the past the college library. “He was a ness of the love of this man for Many confused this tax plan with sury Department was going to telling man of the Texas soil that 27 years of rare books, manu­ very great man, a very cultivated the things that he drew to him - his 10 percent surcharge tax: had lain dormant so many years? scripts and art objects, Frank and scholarly person. ” put forward five different pro­ his books, his music, and the rare, others said it would hurt student Or was this the opening salvo in deBellis died last Tuesday, Feb. posals and let the Ways and In 1960, deBellis presented carefully shelved manuscripts. a titanic battle with Charles de- 13 at the age of 69, after suffer­ travel, a poor argument; and still Means Committee choose which­ a collection of 356 authentic While living, deBellis pre­ ing a coronary attack. others believed the tax would ever one it likes. Gaulle, America’s answer to the Etruscan and Greco-Roman ache- ferred to step behind his collec­ strain, almost to the breaking force de frappe? Ot was it a He was an extraordinary ological items to SF State. tion, and draw the attention to it, point, already shaky relations smokescreen for new commit­ man. In 1962, he gave a collection rather than to himself - for to with most of Europe. ment, new taxes, or new domes­ Mr. deBellis came to this of rare books to Southern Meth­ him the books and the seldom- Only one European leader Hello there: tic programs? Whatever secret country from Italy at the age of odist University in Dallas, Texas. found manuscripts were the im­ British Prime Minister Harold Wil­ the new image held, it promised 11 with his parents and settled portant things, and he was a part And in 1963, he presented, son, has supported the plan. Al­ to be a humorous counterpoint in Boston. In 1923, deBellis moved of them. again to SF State, the Frank V. though he readily admits “there A to the real problems of the world. to the Bay Area, where he began Such is the mark of a great a successful career as a contractor deBellis Collection of more than is a possibility it can hurt us.” The now famous “chicken and dedicated scholar. and realtor. Political considerations aside shit” statement hit the press in 20.000 records - many of them Last year, Frank V. deBellis In 1941 he retired and for the and from a purely practiced point early January, It soon became original cylinders - 7,000 compo­ was presented with the Gold Cul­ statement 27 years following that - up of view, the bookkeeping invol­ obvious Johnson was finally ma­ sitions of music, including hand­ tural Medal by the President of until Tuesday of last week - written manuscripts, and the ved would be staggering. All this king his long awaited move for he devoted his time, his energy the Republic of Italy. to save $350 million a year. It the title “Messiah Emeritus MC- 12.000 volumes of manuscripts With all good will we and his scholarly love to the In 1965 he received the Gold and books. would probably cost the book­ plan to bring Phoenix before MLXVIII”. Apparently Johnson the main task of collecting price­ Seal from the University of Bari, feels the title rightly belongs to keeping agency $100 million to the public every Thursday. less books and music. The Collection is perm anent­ the district in Italy where he was keep tabs on the travelers. Phoenix will contain news, an American. It has been held His first love was the vast ly housed off the Garden Room bom. And 10 years before that, Compromise Possible information, features, art, too long by Charles de Gaulle area of “Italian contributions to in the Library, where deBellis, both the City of San Francisco But there are solid reasons reviews, opinions and adver­ and various leaders of emerging and the State of California sent to believe that a compromise tisements. African nations. Only Mao Tse commendations to this man. More importantly, as Tung has managed to break the Phoenix The California State Colleges solution will be found. The key 1600 Holloway Avenue we see the matter, Phoenix tradition and win the award for awarded him the Honorary Doc­ men on the Ways and Means San Francisco, California 94132 will be a public medium for a major world power in the last Committee, Democratic Chairman (415) 469-2083 torate in Human Letters in 1965. those interested in studying decade. And so the metamorpha- Wilbur Mills and Republican John Mr. deBellis drew scholars and practicing journalism. sis of the man has been a madness Byrns, both favor action to stem to him like moths. His Collec­ We hope that Phoenix with meaning, a determined drive Phoenix is a weekly laboratory newspaper published during the outflow of gold and dollars, will not be merely another tion was his light. to bring new honor and glory the regular school year by the Department of Journalism, San but not necessarily the admini­ communication medium. We Francisco State College. The editorial content does not neces­ For this he will be remem­ to America. stration’s plan. aim at better communica­ sarily reflect the policies or opinions of the Department of bered. tion, not more communi­ It is, of course, not a closed Journalism or the college administration, although the jour­ Both men privately question Mr. deBellis is survived by cation. The college and those race. No move has yet been made nalism faculty does assume ultimate responsibility. whether the balance of payments his wife Serena; a daughter, Mrs. interested in the college need by a leader from the communist can be helped by keeping a few Teresa Corridan of San Anselmo; such a publication. block. Still to be heard from are tourists home. Managing Editor: Larry Maatz two sons, Vincent, of Orinda, Interested readers have Leonid Brezhnev, Mao Tse Tung, This suggests that the plan News Editor: John Keane and Anthony, of Dansville; and the happy ability to increase Charles de Gaulle, Harold Wilson Chief Copy Editor: Mary Shepper is not as politically unpopular as and reinforce the vitality of two sisters, Mrs. William Frantz or 1967’s winner Gamal Nasser. Sports Editor: Vernon Smith many believe. If Mills and Byrns a newspaper. We ask your of Millbrae, and Mrs. Samuel These front runners could be con­ Business Manager: Ralph Henn are favoring some kind of inhibi­ continued interest and we ceivably pressed by certain dark Hale of Menlo Park. He had tion on travel it suggests there welcome your ideasand horse candidates, but no one Section editors this edition: National-International, Walter eight grandchildren. may be some political mileage in criticism. should be able to overtake Lyn­ Couick; Campus-City, John Davidson; Arts and Sciences, Steve Entombment was held at -The Journalism Faculty * ^ajian. the Italian cemetary at Colma, it. don Johnson’s “chicken shit” Calif. As with any problem there utterance. Page 3 PHOENIX Thursday, February 29, 196X Governor Ronald Reagan has Daniel Feder, Dean of Acade­ grant only a 7.5 percent hike. Colleges like SF State and proposed a record $5.7 billion mic Planning, said he is “ begin­ This fact has hurt recruiting. Sacramento State, they believe, budget for the upcoming year- ning to hear that a number of Reagan has all but quashed could eventually be expanded to but for California’s higher educa­ faculty are planning to submit over $18 million in new programs accomodate 25,000 to 30,000 tion it appears that austerity is resignations.’’ designed to improve teaching con­ students. just around the corner. “The budget cuts aren’t aus­ ditions. But “projected enrollments” Reagan will present his case for terity,’’ he said, “they’re starva­ Ironically, the Governor has is ambiguous. Feder said SF State economy education to a largely tion.” approved 1,122 new faculty posi­ is presently operating close to unsympathetic State College Glenn Smith, vice president of tions for the state colleges next optimum enrollment with even­ Board of Trustees at Cal State administrative and business affairs year. Officials are skeptical wheth­ tual plans for a maximum 20,000 Fullerton today. believes a sharp increase in stu­ er qualified personnel will be students. BUDGET CUTS Unlike the University Regents, dent fees is inevitable. available to fill these jobs. Up, Up and... the trustees can only make recom­ “I think students will suffer a Part-Time Faculty mendations - they have no legis­ definite increase in fees,” he said. SF State alone had to hire a “In building and construc­ lative powers. And Reagan’s bud­ “A likely option is that a lot of record number of part- and non- tion,” he said, “we haven’t any­ get chopping still has to confront people won’t get to go to state Ph.D faculty last year for this place to go except up.” In view a defiant State Legislature. colleges.” year’s instruction. of other cuts, Feder was doubtful MAY MEAN Reagan’s Threats Who Will Pay On the enrollment question, about maintaining quality. The focal point of the gat­ Few realize education is an Reagan’s “economy task force” If increased fees are thought hering storm is the student. Rea­ industry and the student is the has heaped new pressures upon inevitable by the trustees, there gan is trying to reduce the burden consumer. The only valid rela­ an already over-burdened situa­ is speculation that they might upon the taxpayer by having the tionship between them is mone­ tion. They recommend expansion make token concessions to Rea­ student pay higher fees and tui­ tary. Someone must pay the bill. of existing state colleges as a gan’s demands. tion. His threats of budget cuts The college, of course, suffers cheap alternative to building new But for the meantime, things STARVATION are designed to force the trustees from the same ills. colleges. are the way they are. Last semes­ into a choice of reducing enroll­ Salary increases have been sub- The task force is composed of ter, Devere Pentony, dean of ment in order to maintain quality par to competitive scales with businessmen and professional ad­ behavioral sciences, spoke for or to give-in to the Governor’s other state colleges throughout visors who believe $100 million many sentiments when he said demands. the nation. The trustees requested could be saved in the next seven that “the exodus from the Cali­ At SF State there is pessi­ a 16.8 percent increase for next or eight years if plans for new fornia State Colleges is going to mism concerning the budget cuts. year, and Reagan is willing to colleges are scrapped. equal the exodus from Egypt.” Prof calls for funds, Rehearing planned on Gater attack

gets instant criticism President John Summerskill skill came under fire from mili­ I am lifting your suspension from students. President Summerskill tant student groups for placing and the four students he suspend­ San Francisco State College effec­ is trying to be as fair as possible ed last semester for alleged in­ the black students in “double tive this date until such time as it by letting the students attend hearing by the college. volvement in the Nov. 6 attack is possible for the Board of Ap­ Associate professor of philo­ jeopardy” . class until they have a new board sophy, James Syfers, believes SF “To cause the arrest and on the Gater staff have faced At the time of the hearing^ peals and Review to receive the a dilemma caused by a little- hearing,” Miss Kimball says. State administrators have “com­ trial of these 11 students, with however, Summerskill offered to publicized administration rule. additional information on your pletely confused the events which the attendant anxieties, consider­ reopen the case if the students or case and to make any further Questionable occurred at the Dec. 6, Admini­ able costs, and possible conse­ The rule, which is included their lawyers could provide “new recommendations to me which “This semester is the only stration Building demonstration” quences to their lives seems so in the “general body of college information” in the case. they judge appropriate.” semester in question now, and it and has started a “Fund for the wholly disproportionate I am led law”, provides that a school hear­ The students’ lawyers re­ New Information would be useless to hold a new ■leven” to ensure a fair trial for to the conclusion that they are ing must be held within 30 days cently took advantage of Sum- of charges being made in cases There is speculation that the board hearing if the students tfrose students charged with mis­ being made the scapegoats for merskill’s offer by promising to demeanors at the protest. all the troubles surrounding, and involving student suspensions. “new information” may be the were not allowed to register in present some “new information”, Syfers began his fund drive in the wake of, Dec. 6.” actual testimony of the accused the first place. That would be a Following the attack in the but only on the condition that Jan. 24, by circulating an appeal Whitaker said that he could students. mockery of justice,” she said. Gater office, for which nine mem­ Summerskill wait until the courts letter to all faculty in the School “hardly agree with Syfers, that bers of the Black Students Union This would seem to be a Militant student groups such are finished with the case before of Humanities. The letter drew a the matter either could or should were arraigned, President Sum­ change of position by Summer­ as MAPS have charged Summer­ jfebuttal from Urban Whitaker, be handled by ‘usual disciplinary they give it to him. merskill was obligated to convene skill. Originally, Summerskill sus­ skill with submitting to outside year-round operation coordinator hearings.’ Trial Postponed a hearing of the college Board of pended the nine accused students political pressures in suspending the Department of Interna- “ Any time we decide to The case has been postponed before their hearing by the board. the students before they had the onal Relations, and this touched treat lightly this kind of violent Appeals and Review, according three times and is now scheduled Now, he is allowing the remain­ first board hearing. Administra­ f a whole series of literary pot- anarchism, we are inviting the to presidential assistant Tish Kim­ for Feb. 29 before Judge Leo ing two students to attend class ots between the two. termination of rational academic ball. tion officials deny the charge. Friedman. until further decision by the In his original letter Syfers procedures for the resolution of At the time of the hearing, MAPS also charges that the Summerskill has responded tlined his own reasons for our problems.” however, the accused students board. o u tn b. administratibri altitude' that the to this offer by “conditionally” arting the fund drive, stating Asked for Case were charged in San Francisco SummerskilFs assistant, Tish college campus ls: Somehow iso­ reinstating two students, Ben Ste­ at “it was wrong to single out a He closed his letter by charg­ Municipal Court with two counts Kimball, sees no change of posi­ lated from the outside commun­ few students from among the ing Syfers to make “a convincing of felonius assault and one count wart and Winston Hearring, and tion by President Summerskill. ity has placed the black students many who actively participated case in favor of allowing groups of conspiracy to commit assault providing for a new board hearing “We are in a different set in “double jeopardy”. They main­ in the protest. of students to ‘rule or wreck.’ for the Nov. 6 attack. after the court trial is concluded. of circumstances now than at the tain that it is wrong for a stu­ “It will not do to say that The suspensions of the other first board hearing,” Miss Kimball “Otherwise,” he said, “I will Couldn’t Testify dent to have to be tried twice the 11 were ‘leaders,’ as distinct not only decline to support your two students, George Murray and says. “President Summerskill is by two different agencies for the from the ‘led,’ and the law recog­ Their lawyers refused to let ‘Fund for the Eleven’ but will Jack Alexis, terminated with the responsible for the safety of this same charge. nizes no such distinction.” them testify at the Board hearing urge our colleagues not to sup­ end of last semester. campus. He had to take immedi­ Miss Kimball deniesthe Can’t Condone port it.” for fear of prejudicing their case In letters to Stewart, chair­ ate action then as a measure of charge of “double jeopardy”. She “If and when a law is vio­ The letter drew an answer­ in court. man of the BSU, and Hearring, protection.” says that the “courts are clear ing open note from Syfers, dated “The members of the board lated, everyone who violates that Summerskill said: “What we want, after all, is law is liable; otherwise it ceases to Feb. 1, in which he labeled were not aware of the fact that that the college campus is entitled “In order to be fair to you the best justice possible for these be law and becomes something Whitaker’s “rule or wreck” notion the students were not going to to handle its own affairs”. else. “absurd.” testify before they had their “No educational institution “Whitaker misses the whole court trial,” contends Hiram can condone this use of law, let point of my efforts,” said Syfers. Smith, one of the team lawyers alone practice it; at the very least The sole purpose of my fund defending the students. such an institution can no longer drive is to solicit money so that “But since these students purport to teach the philosophy the people charged can benefit were under suspension we felt of law.” from adequate legal counsel, it would be best to go ahead Whitaker responded with an which they, themselves cannot with the hearing and try to exo­ open memorandum to Syfers ex­ afford.” nerate them,” Smith added. pressing surprise that he was Little Support Because of the 30-day rule “more interested in freeing the 11 To date Syfers has met with than in apprehending any others a less than enthusiastic reception Summerskill could not postpone who were guilty. to his fund drive, and checks the board hearing until the court “Do you know,” he asked received from the Humanities trial was completed. And because Syfers, “that others in fact did Department total just $72. of the pending court trial the stu­ violate the law? Do you know “Most of those that I’ve dents could not testify in their whether or not sufficient evi­ talked to don’t want to have own defense at the hearing. dence is available against them if anything to do with supporting Four Suspensions they did?” the arrested students in any way,” As a result of this dilemma Against Arrest he said. four of the students were sus­ Syfers, however, feels that “To put it another way, no the Dec. 6 events warrant nothing one will touch the fund with a pended without their side of the more than the usual disciplinary 10 foot pole.” story being heard and Summer­

Proposed GE program emphasizes electives

A proposal for a new General Academic Senate, the committee the courses by choice and mutual Education Program featuring a concluded that a new program interest rather than merely ful­ strong emphasis on electives and should include inter-area, area filling a requirement,” Sheedy interdisciplinary programs will go and block enrollment programs. said. to the Academic Senate in March The inter-area programs would The general studies courses in for approval. be organized around central the program, according to the The proposed program, devel­ themes, issues or methodologies. committee, should not be re­ oped by the Ad Hoc Committee The courses would be designed stricted and may range from the on General Education, will cater and taught by faculty from two very specific to the very general. to the student’s individual needs or more areas. The courses should stress active and interests and would be an The area programs would be participation on the part of the undergraduate elective rather organized as “clusters,” two or students by emphasizing problem than a lower division require­ three related courses taken at the solving, individual assignments, ment program. SAN FRANCISCO same time such as in the social group discussion and field experi­ Dean of Academic Planning sciences or humanities. ence whenever possible. John Sheedy, chairman of the The block enrollment would To encourage students to take ad hoc committee, criticized the involve enrolling the same stu­ courses outside the area of their present General Education Pro­ dents in two or three otherwise greatest competence, the commit­ MIYAKO HOTEL gram calling it impersonal and discreet courses. tee recommended that students WESTERN INTERNATIONAL HOTELS inadequate in fulfilling student Courses by Choice be allowed to elect either pass/fail needs. “With this program students or letter grades for any or all of Japanese Cultural <4 Trade Center Post 4 Laguna Sts., San Francisco In its interim report to the and faculty will be involved with the general studies courses. Page 4 PHOENIX Thursday, February 29, l9bH Visitors Vaszko with a New ruling by the Selective Service a prize mission “The History of Bastardy” will may change fate of 3000 students be discussed by Peter Laslett, winner March 12 at 12:30 p. m. in the Main Auditorium. James Vaszko, senior Journ­ alism major and former editor Laslett, the College Lecture Recent changes in draft defer­ munity. They are not going to be dent body,” Donald Castleberry, Series second guest speaker, is ment laws will strike approxi­ qualified to make these choices. of the Gater, was awarded a dean of graduate students said. $500 student scholarship by the a Fellow of Cambridge University mately 3,000 SF State graduate “I foresee an increase in women, “The entire draft system places William Randolph Hearst Found­ and a professor of politics and the students. veterans, older men and the med­ too much emphasis on the social- ation for his editorial appearing history of social structure. ically exempt as graduate candi­ The Selective Service System economic factors and too little in the Oct. 23 issue. dates. No longer will we see an He has worked with a group has chosen to place individual with the individual. Instead of In his winning editorial, “ Peace abundance of students under 25.” for some time on a scholarly deferments for critical occupa­ trying to work out a new system Lost,” Vaszko commented on the study of bastardy throughout tions and essential activities under they are just changing within demonstration Oct. 20 in Oak­ history, exploring the subject of the control of local draft boards. Castleberry said that education land: the framework that is basically will be one of the major fields to Western society. inadequate. “ Billed as a protest against war Previously, the SSS published suffer from the deferment law in general, and the Vietnam War change. There is already a short­ Editor, Historian a list of deferments for critical Part of the change in defer­ in particular, more than a little age of qualified teachers, men occupations and essential activi­ ment laws was to suspend defer­ violence bubbled over. Not all of Lastlett, who is most promi­ and women, and the crisis will ties. All individuals falling into ments for graduate studies in all it was perpetrated by the Oak­ nent as a historian, is editor of these categories were automati­ get greater. land Police Department. “Philosophy, Politics and Soci­ fields except certain medical spe­ cally exempt. cialities. Marble Throwing ety.” His most famous work is Many departments here will “The History of John Locke.” feel the strain when they try to “We do not mean to say that Now the local boards will de­ Students who are not in their the majority of the demonstrators cide on each individual case. This second or later year of graduate recruit qualified graduate stu­ Curtis D. Mac Dougall, pro­ dents and assistants. were violent. Such was not the fessor of journalism at North­ will put the students at the mercy study after this semester will case. But it is the vocal minority western University, is scheduled of their draft boards. have to go into the ministry, which is always identified with medicine, dentistry, veterinary “A lot of people who planned to speak here March 19. His topic Gary Tobin, an unclassified to enter graduate studies will protest movements. We fear the will be “The Press and American medicine, osteopathy or opto­ Peace Movement has not been graduate student studying his­ metry to get a draft deferment. go on to something else - they Foreign Policy.” tory, said, “it’s unfair - I don’t won’t take the chance of get­ spared that fate. think the draft board represent­ “ There will be a change in the ting called in the middle of their “Rock, bottle and marble MacDougall’s textbook, “Inter­ throwing and commandeering and atives know the times of the com­ composition of the graduate stu­ studies,” Tobin said. pretative Reporting,” now in its destruction of parked cars by fifth edition, is used by journ­ demonstrators took place on alism students throughout the every corner over a 14-square country. block area. Protestors actually tried to p1’!! drivers out of moving Population Expert vehicles in attempts to block On March 28, ecologist S. P. R. downtown intersections. Charter will speak on “Religious “It reminds us of the U. S. Faith and Technology.” Promi­ Carter Vincent, will discuss “The argument that the Vietnam war is nent in the field of cybernation US, China and Viet Nam” on being waged for peace. That argu­ and population studies, Charter April 30. ment is hooted down by the Viet is consultant to the Rhode Is­ Asian Affairs protestors as a contradiction in land Institute of Research Design. terms. Vincent, a former Secretary KBHK: a new TV station lights up “We would hope that there His chief book, “Man on of State for Asian Affairs, is now is no double standard involved Earth,” is a preliminary evalua­ at Harvard University as director in the minds of those committed tion of the ecology of man. He of East Asian studies. He is cur­ KBHK enters the ultra-high “Why pay a huge sum for a to peace. Idealism was never is also editor of “Man on Earth” rently visiting all of South East frequency television field with worthless scrap of paper, the built on double standards. Nor subscription. Asia and will speak here immedi­ the determination of a Kaiser VHF license? We’re spending our have moral victories ever been ately on his return. Jeep, but with just as many hills money instead on equipment and won by them.” Author of “America’s Future Admission to all the lectures to climb. programming. All our local pro­ Matching Grant in the Pacific,” the Hon. John is free. Kaiser Broadcasting’s channel grams are in color,” he said. Competition judges were Roger 44 was the first UHF TV station Promotion Director Davis is Tatarian, vice president and edi­ in San Francisco. Channels 14-83 a 1958 graduate from SF State’s tor, United Press International; encompass the UHF spectrum. Radio-Television-Film Depart­ Hubbard Keavy, executive editor, ment. : NOW AT MUSIC BOX KBHK is confident it has tap­ Laguna Beach News-Post; George ped a new, growing market. Davis places KBHK’s immed­ Beebe, senior managing editor, “Growth has to be in UHF,” iate goal at equalling the audi1 Miami Herald. OUR Bill Davis, promotion director ence of the Bay Area’s other Sponsored by the Hearst and SF State grad, said. The very- independent station, KTVU, Foundation, which does not par­ f J J / y V ENTIRE No More VHF channel 2. KTVU rates its ave­ ticipate in the judging, awards high-frequency band (VHF), from / f t m c c CATALOG The FCC grants licenses free rage “high-rated show such as a and scholarship totalling $50,000 channels 2-13 is full, held mainly travel or special show” at about are given each year under its by the three networks. to new UHF stations, at the rate of one or two new stations 150,000 families, with close to Journalism Award Program. UHF television was authorized a week, Davis said. Entrepreneurs four persons a family. For Giants A matching grant of $500 was BOX 1 by the Federal Communications buying a VHF station must pay a baseball, the figure is “pheno­ given to the Journalism Depart­ im^i IBB Commission (FCC) in April, 1952. tremendous price for a license menal - about 300,000 families.” ment. I ------More power is needed for UHF from the person or company i Phase Out 1 RECORDS! broadcasting because the frequen­ selling it. There are no open cy of the broadcast signal is VHF channels for the FCC to The bulk of 44’s broadcasting NOW ON SALE! more intense than VHF signals. donate. may exemplify the “programming Poetry editor wasteland” damned by Newton Minow, former FCC chairman. “My Friend Flicka,” “ Mr. Ed,” here Monday, “The Honeymooners” and “Do- INCLUDING 49REG. 4.79 bie Gillis” are presently shown. The Poetry Center will host THESE GREAT Add 1.00 For These “ will be phased out as Marvin Bell, poetry editor for •eg. 5.79 soon as possible,” Davis promises. “The North American Review,” NEW RELEASES. . . Don Sherwood and Carter B. in the Gallery Lounge at 1 p.m. JUDY COLLINS Smith, happy-go-lucky morning Monday, March 4. disc jockies, will begin the “ Sher- "WIIDEFLOWERS" wood-Smith Report,” on March Bell, who has published four Judy is enchanting, sing­ 18. The 10 p. m. show will em­ books and is working on a fifth, has written seven anthologies and ing: Michael From phasize local news and commen­ tary. Other members of the news has contributed to various per­ Mountains, Since You iodicals. Asked, Albatross, Sky department are mainly former newspapermen from the eastern Fell, and 6 more. U. S. who are “informed and Tell was educated at Alfred alive.” University, Syracuse University, THE BUTTERFIELD the University of Chicago, and the BLUES BAND No Rating Yet University of Iowa where he is Random poll ratings have not presently the assistant professor “THE RESURRECTION been interpreted yet, Davis said. of the Writers Workshop. OF PIGBOY CRABSHAW" Meanwhile, he gauges the audi­ Other guests to appear in the Their latest and another ence by ticket requests for the poetry reading series include: best! Includes: One More Joe Dolan Show (there is a back­ James Tate (March 6), Phillip Heartache, Run Out Of log of order for 2-3 weeks), Whalen (March 11), Jonathan Grif­ Time, Double Trouble, phone calls about programming, fin (March 13), Daniel Langton Pity The Fool, and other and entries into a daily win-a- (March 20), James Liddy (March bicycle drawing. greats! 25), Mitton Kessler (March 27), The Dolan Show is the only Open Student Reading (April 3), LOVE program open to the public. James Wright (April 17), Diane "FOREVER CHANGES” di Prima (April 24), Jack Marshall Kaiser’s is not the only UHF and Kathleen Fraser (April 29), Viva la LOVE, singing: television channel in Northern Pegasus Reading (May 1), and Alone Again, Andmore- California, nor was it the first.' Discovery Reading (May 15.) again, The Red Tele­ KGSC, channel 36, of San Jose, phone, Bummer in the was the UHF pioneer here. But Summer, You Set The KBHK was the first “in a major TOPSY-TURVY status,” Davis said. The other Scene, and 6 more. UHF station does not broadcast The modern art of today is daily. He expects that Metro­ often very confusing. Pity the media, a national TV and radio poor man who was responsible itLlRANClSCi corporation, will soon purchase MUSIC BOX KGSC. for hanging “Le bateau” by Henri Emile Beniot Matisse upside down The FCC governs programming 840 MARKET STREET 170 G RAN T AVENUE p u ^ ‘7 1 7 4 / • in the Museum of Modem Art, (Near Powell) (Near Post St.) only in a limited extent, Davis New York In the 47-day per­ explained. The type of shows 591 MARKET STREET 55 ELUS STREET fesefyations 6:50 iod “ La Bateau” was capsized (at Second) (Between Powell & Market) outlined in the station’s license 116,000people had passed through /&**' request must be upheld. the gallery. Page 5 PHOENIX Thuraclay, February 29, 19 bH Handy surges up Bill Evans EASY TO TAKE with an old friend concludes Tjader lures capacity

By Steve Toomajian jazz series crowd to Bear/s lair A musician’s career often pro­ The ensemble at that time was Pianist Bill Evans will close out section is not spurring him into gresses in stages to which he will working its way out of the usual the University of California jazz By Steve Toomajian something new. never again return. problems faced by a new goup. cabaret series with a concert tom­ His technique and timing do Artistic growth implies forward orrow m Vibraphonist Milt Jackson, like movement instead of regression. Individual styles had not been any innovative artist, has his imi­ not suffer. His harmonic and orrow night in the Bear’s Lair. rhythmic imagination do. But saxophonist John Handy, refined and compressed into a Evans will play two sets, start­ tators. Cal Tjader is one of the ! graduate of SF State and profes­ tight, collective approach, and best. Tjader’s concerts no longer ing at 9 and 11 p. m. Tickets are display versatility. His explora­ sional musician since the mid­ detailed finesse was still miss­ priced at $1 for students. Tjader, an SF State graduate, fifties, has reached into the past ing. has been a professional musician tions into Oriental music and Evans blends all the compo­ other unusual formats have ebb­ to find something new. But there were moments-many John Handy nents of his music -- melody, since the mid - ’50’s. He has trans­ He is once again playing with of them-which indicated a bright posed Jackson’s flowing, convol­ ed. harmony, rhythm - into a distinc­ Though he has done much to violinist Mike White in the new future for this aggregation. Nock sometimes solved the tive and personal style, and is par­ uted, percussive style into several John Handy Concert Ensemble, Mike White’s presence alone is problem by playing a series of musical areas and has gained one popularize jazz by stretching its ticularly well known for his sen­ vocabulary into other lands, he a combo which may prove to be a major asset. The unorthodox “rolling chords.” These are con- sitive treatment of ballads. of the largest and most diverse has slowed down considerably Handy’s most exciting. possibilities he holds are limit­ tinous runs with both hands up Kind of Blue mass of followers. and down the basic scale of a Tjader consistently attracts at a time when the contemporary Handy, White, pianist Mike less. In addition to performances His tone, so different from piece. The notes come in clusters capacity crowds wherever he music scene is changing faster Nock, bassist Bruce Cale, and with bass and drum accompani­ that of the other instruments, or bunches, and roll onto one plays, and Feb. 16 was no excep­ than ever before. drummer Larry Hancock will be ment, Evans has ventured into saturates the whole texture of another with great rhythmic mo- tion. The new heroes are Bobby playing at the Both/And through other musical contexts. He played the group sound. memtum. Over this background, Music fans, most of them col­ Hutcherson, Gary Burton, and this weekend. an integral role in the classic White’s previous stay with John During the Mike Nock ballad White had a wider range of notes lege students, overflowed the Uni­ Roy Ayers. The king is still Milt Miles Davis record album, “ Kind Handy in 1965-66 was a high “Projections,” White’s long, con- to choose from. versity of California Bear’s Lair Jackson. And Cal Tjader is float­ point in both men’s careers. Each tinous strokes within the revolv­ Bassist Cale and drummer Han­ of Blue.” as the Tjader unit initiated Cal’s ing with the mainstream. His most daring albums from man reached his peak in pop­ ing, wavy rhythmic flow sounded cock are very, very strong. Han­ 1968 jazz cabaret series. cock has quick hands and is not a rhythmic standpoint are accom­ ularity and each had reached at indentical to a tambura drone.... Latin Style BEATLES RETREAT thrown by intricate passages. Cale panied only by guitarist Jim Hall, least a temporary peak in crea­ eerie, inevitable, wiry, passively Tjader’s present quintet, with TO SYLVAN CENTER has an exceptionally clear way “Undercurrent” and “Intermod­ the potent conga drummer Ar- tivity. hypnotic. ulation,” and the two albums on White and Handy split in Simply by the nature of his of becoming the center-the pulse mand Peraza, is into the famil­ which Evans accompanies himself RISHIKESH, India AR - With November, 1966. White became instrument, White’s own solos -of the music. iar Latin bag for which Tjader is by way of double and triple two Beatles and Mia Farrow med­ a sideman in a number of groups are remarkably free. He can swo­ His function is indispensable. so famous. tracking. itating inside and the other two and Handy led combos of varying op and bend his tones into big The whole point of Handy’s Peraza, pianist A1 Zulaica, bass­ Evans’ concert comes after two Beatles on the way, guards and instrumentation. semi-circles or small curls, bear music is to give life. A nervous ist Stan Gilbert and drummer Carl sellout concerts by vibist Cal three rings of barbed wire are Both men improved their tech­ down on two strings at once, or pulse must be at the center. Burnett conjure up a crowded Tjader and saxophonist John keeping youthful mobs out of nical mastery of their instruments saw his way nimbly through a and precise rhythmic backdrop. In everything the ensemble Handy. Maharishi Maheshi Yogi’s sylvan and both ventured into more and standard blues scale. plays, the pulse is the essence Jazz Apex Gilbert is by far the most center for transcendental med­ more difficult areas of music. But the nature of White’s in­ of the piece. It is what makes imaginative member of the rhy­ itation. Having grown independently strument also presents one very The 1968 Cal jazz program will a song move and breathe, giving thm section. He plays forcefully The estranged Mrs. Frank Sin­ of each other, they are trying big problem. The violin sound, in reach its apex April 19 and 20 off human electricity. and cleanly, with full control atra arrived Friday with George once again to grow together. a modern jazz context, can be with a three-concert festival fea­ It’s working again for John of the farthest reaches of his Harrison and John Lennon and The new quintet has been to­ limited by unimaginative piano turing some of the most innova­ Handy and Mike White. The rough instrument. their wives. Ringo Starr and Paul gether for not quite two weeks. accompaniment. tive and popular performers in spots still need to be worked out. But even Gilbert’s relatively McCartney are expected soon. In addition to its nightly sessions White’s best solos came when modern music. But both men, and the rest of the The partial lineup includes free conception could not save at the Both/And the unit gave pianist Nock laid out. When Nock ensemble, are centered in their Miles Davis and the Gil Evans the group sound from becoming FREEDOM FOR ADOPTIVE two stirring concerts last Friday played chords in the 1940’s bebop music. overly stiff. orchestra, Carmen McRae, Cecil CHILDREN challenges any SF night to a pair of overflow aud­ style, things got bogged down. If they continue to grow from Swings Hard iences in the University of Calif­ White was then forced to impro­ Taylor, Herbie Hancock, Billy State couple to adopt, or even the Center, nothing will go wrong. Tjader believes his playing can ornia Bear’s Lair. vise off of thick, immobile chords • Taylor, Earl Hines, Denny Zeitlin, try to adopt, a baby from any Thelonius Monk, the Thad Jones- swing hardest when superimposed of the three agencies in this Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, and over a busy, unified, and crisply state. Certainly you cannot Lot 49 by Geoff Link Wes Montgomery. executed fabric. adopt one of their precious He’s right. The music swings babies. In the name of “adop­ very hard. But it also becomes tion fee,'' over $25,000,000 monotonous after about half an (twenty-five million) worth of Bob Dylan’s latest alburq.. hour. babies were sold in California Additionally, Tjader tends to since I960. 3340A-22nd St., fall into a repetitive shaping of San Francisco 94110. Now that Bob Dylan has finally says, "is a parable on temptation: -JD i will be left to the “Dylan scho­ his phrases because the rhythm released a new album, I know Judas lure Jesus into a bawdy- lars,” for Dylan is far too ac­ how the Elizabethans must have house, where he dies.” complished a poet to have meant felt when Henry V first came Simple Style so trite a lyric to be taken lit­ out: It wasn’t quite as good as Dylan’s style here is deceptive­ erally. the two preceding plays, but it ly simple. The lyrics are less Among the best cuts: “As I was still better than anybody else surreal and imagistic than some Went Out One Morning,” “All was doing at the time. of his earlier songs, but they can­ Along the Watchtower” and “The And that’s how it is with “John not be dismissed easily. His abrupt Wicked Messenger.” What they Wesley Harding.” The analogy departure from the visionary rock “mean” is up for grabs. is not perfect, however, because of “Blonde on Blonde” in favor Healthy Influence Dylan clearly is working outside of a more traditional setting for Though these may be some of the style of “Blonde on Blonde” his lyrics is perhaps the most Dylan’s most lasting efforts, they CALL TODAY FOR TICKETS TO and “Highway 61.” deceiving. probably will not be the most AMERICA’S GREATEST REPERTORY Much of this LP, and parti­ The title song “John Wesley influential songs on the album. 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Country and Western makes him a hero, almost in the 61” and “Blonde on Blonde” IT’S YOUR HUSBAND Feb 11-7:10, Feb 18. 24, M ir I Country and western is not manner of Guthrie’s “Pretty Boy he took rock about as far-out new to Dylan. In earlier albums, Floyd.” Dylan’s song, though, is lyrically as it can go. A roaring explosive though, other musical genres pre­ not so clearcut. It was time to re-emphasize duo of plays. Stage ALBEE ACTS dynamite dominated and Hank Williams’ Adding the “g” to Hardin could his musical roots. Time to do Feb 19— 2 pm, M ir 9, M ir 10— 7:10, influence was less apparent. perhaps be just a poetical device, for country and western what But now Dylan really is bring­ since the tune appears to come Paul Butterfield and John Mayall ing it all back home. “ My first from the old folksong “John have done for the blues. TOO For The SEESAW idol was Hank Williams,” Dylan A strange alliance of devotion and sex. Hardy.” Dylan says the name Maybe now, through Dylan’s Feb 9, 13, Feb 18— 7:30, Feb 21. Feb 22— 2 pm, M ir 1. 2. 3— 7 30 wrote in a poem. And later he always sounded to him as if it influence, country and western wrote: “if someone thinks nor- should have a “g” but just who will move into the cities and TINY ALICE by EDWARD ALBEE man mailer is more important the new John Wesley Harding is suburbs. A dazzling parable of Sex, God and Society. than hank williams, that’s fine. Feb 10— 7:11. Feb 22, M ir 21. 22. M ir 21— 2 pm. M ir 10 I i have no arguments an i never drink milk.” EXCLUSIVE NORTHERN Dylan borrows freely from the CALIFORNIA ENGAGEMENT OUR TOWN Timeless classic of the American theatre country and western artist’s in­ ______Feb 9, 21, Apr 1, 12. 14— 7:M , 10. May 4______strumental and vocal techniques, WINNER but the influence is not just THIEVES'CARNIVAL musical. A line like “And I bowed ACADEMY An evening of high comedy, love and larceny. my head and cried” is familiar Feb 14, 20. M ir 1 4 - 2 pm & 0:10, M ir IS, 20, 21— 2 pm, M ir 23, 26 to anyone who used to listen AWARD A barrage of to Grand 01’ Opry. 4 CHARLEY'S AUNT exuberant, comic Leadbelly is here, too. His confusion. “Good Night, Irene” provides NOMINATIONS! Feb 10. 22. 23. Feb 27. 28. 29— 2 pm & 8:30. Mar 3. 5, 6. the melody for “I Pity the Poor THE CRUCIBLE ... f o r b i d * * nm | Immigrant” and “Down Along l secret societies and adui- the Cove” borrows his phrasing. No Imitator ARTHUR MILLER ,?Z','Z7»'ZT» ! Dylan is no imitator, and these influences no more detract from AN EVENING’S FROST his efforts than the fact that some The life and artistry of America's beloved poet of Shakespeare’s plots originated Feb 15— 2 pm with Holinshed’s “Chronicles.” Mar 1 Fri TWO FOR THE SEESAW 8:30 So far, most reviewers of “John Mar 2 Sat TWO FOR THE SEESAW 8:30 Wesley Harding” have admitted Truman Capote’s Mar 3 Sun TWO FOR THE SEESAW 7:30 I that the Dylan of 1965 and 1966 Mar 5Tues CHARLEY’S AUNT 8:30 * I N COLDS&i Mar 6 Wed CHARLEY'S AUNT 8:30 made them feel a bit like Mr. Mar 7 Thur AN EVENING’S FROST 2:00 Jones. However, the 1968 version N* BLOOD Mar 7 Thur AN EVENING’S FROST 8:30 of Bob Dylan is easier to handle, Written for the Screen and Directed by they say. Richard Brooks An Associated Press writer Music b y QIJINCV JONKS" A Columbia Piet urcs Release In Panavision* Positively no one under 16 admitted unless accompanied by a patent or guardian li»»l o claims “The dreams on this LP can be understood by even those Open 15 minutes before I who aren’t ‘Dylan scholars’.” showtime Wed, Sat. Sun 12:30, 2:50. 5:10, 7:40, 10PM I “The Ballad of Frankie Lee and - FORMIftlY MARINA TMlATRI other days 7 & 9:20PM | Judas Priest,” Time magazine CHISTNUT-STIINI* 921-1234 SAN FRANCISCO

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With China embroiled in an focus on the cultural revolution, along with Dean of Social Sci­ the last US Ambassador to Main­ internal struggle and in the fore­ US - Chinese relations, Chinese ence Devere Pentony who heads land China, as a speaker. Carter front as a world power, students relations with its neighbors and up the China task force, students lost his job with the State Depart­ from SF State’s International Re­ the military capabilities of the investigate world trouble spots ment during the McCarthy era lations Center (IRC) plan four country. and present public briefings are but was reinstated in 1954. He briefings on the Chinese situa­ International Relations Depart­ open to students. has since served as Consul Gen­ tion. ment Chairman, Marshall Wind- In conjunction with the China eral in Morocco and Algeria. IRC coordinator Jeff Freed miller, is one of the originators presentations Freed hopes to The IRC gave five briefings said the China series will probably of the IRC. Under his guidance, bring in John Carter Vincent, on Vietnam last semester; it plans four more on the Southeast Asian situation. Topics for considera­ tion include an evaluation of the war, the politics of South Viet­ nam, relations of different politi­ cal groups to the government and a questioning of where the war will lead to. All briefings last approximately one hour and are augmented by pictures, graphs, films and other aids. With a map of the Middle East as backdrop, Efforts are being made to re­ IRC Task Force lecturer Mark Stein analyzes cruit more speakers for the center the problems of that political tinderbox. including informations officers from the Indian consulate in San includes toreign magazines and dents, knowledgeable in the for­ Francisco and a speaker from the publications not usually carried eign policy of a country, are Cultural Conference in Havana, on the news stands: Gramna, seated around a room with head Cuba. the official organ of the Cuban sets. In a control area a monitor Film Showings Communist Party, the US Depart­ is set up which can have students The IRC plans to show Felix ment of State Bulletin, the Bri­ representing a country talk with Greene’s “China” and a movie tish Information Service Bulletin those of another and try to work by former CBS correspondent and the Vietnam Courier, a North out agreements on issues. David Schoenbrum, “Vietnam: Vietnamese publication. Up to eight different countries How We Got In - How We Can may be represented at one time Get O ut.” Policy Conferences Students of the International Relations Cen­ and all may be tuned in together. The center maintains a speak­ The latest program within the This process is also run by writ­ ter discuss the theories of debray and the poli- ers bureau which sends out teams situation in Bolivia. From left: Gil Lusero, center is an electronic interna­ ten messages which may be passed to give talks on any topic of tional conference simulator. Stu­ around the room by couriers. and Michael Chegwyn. international interest. The IRC also maintains a li­ A critical look at plight of Pueblo brary open to all students. It WINNER 5 State textbooks g ACADEMY By Lee Heidhues Both Windmiller and Freed be­ which states that if one nation’s I AWARD , lieve the Pueblo was on an el­ ships violates the territorial wat­ Two spokesmen for the Inter­ ers of another the seizure of that ignore theory ^NOMINATIONS! % ectronic spying mission. “That national Relations Department, ship is justified. was more than likely in Korean SF State’s foreign affairs center, Freed said the Pueblo may waters,” Freed said. believe there is more than meets have been in territorial waters Windmiller was more direct: of evolution the eye in the seizure of the in­ when it picked up the North “The Pueblo was spying and spy­ telligence ship Pueblo. Korean vessels on its radar, but ing is very annoying to the nation Marshall Windmiller, acting cha­ then went into international wat­ Ignoring Charles Darwin isn’t irman of the department, and being spied upon.” ers to avoid capture. unusual. His birthdate was the Jeff Freed, coordinator of the Last June during the Israeli- “If the ship was in territorial 12th of this m onth - but it’s International Relations Center, called Lincoln’s birthday. Arab confrontation, the Israelis waters the North Koreans have a TECHNICOLOR* PANAVISIQN* FROM WARMER BROS.-SEVEN ARTS i f f are critical of Washington’s ver­ This is excusable, but ignoring fired upon a US INtelligence ves- good case,” Freed said. TICKETS AT BOX OFFICE O R BY MAIL sion of the incident. Darwin in state elementary text­ SHOWSNIGHTLY AT 8:30 What the Pueblo was doing in EXCEPT SUNDAY AT 7PM The Pueblo was seized by the C U R T it Aigue^a fired upon a US Intelligence ves­ the Korean area has been a ques­ books is not. This is like teaching ORONET Phone SR.’ U Q O MATS WED. SAT. SUN. & HOLS 2PM North Koreans off the Korean sel, the Liberty, while it was off tion raised by many. Many Amer­ astronomy without mentioning O! coast on Jan. 23. The US said the the Sinai Peninsula. Thirty-four the stars. < ican papers have speculated that — i.i.lii <1 i vessel was in international waters Americans died in that attack. the ship was possible a monitor­ The science texts, “Concepts at the time of the seizure. The “The American government did ing station for the National Se­ in Science,” adopted by Califor­ North Koreans have charged the not get nearly so exercised as it curity Agency or may also have nia for grades one through six, Pueblo’s 83-man crew with vio­ has over the Pueblo,” Windmiller been watching Chinese submarine contain nothing of Darwin or NOW AT MUSIC BOX lating territorial waters, justifying said. activities. evolution. Other theories and sci­ the capture. “We customarily violate inter- entists are discussed with ease. Chinese Subs Professor Lawrence Swan, of natioanl law and territorial inte­ 3 0 THREE The Chinese now have n u ­ Serious Damage grity whenever we want to, and SF State’s Biology Department, clear submarines with a missle Windmiller said the Pueblo in­ it would not surprise me to learn said evolution today should not 1 ^ range of some 5 0 0 m iles. cident has “seriously damaged the that the Pueblo was well within be a controversial subject. GREAT NEW position of the US in Asia.” Freed speculates that the US wee North Korea’s 12-mile limit,” he ignored North Korean warnings He believes the North Koreans said. That Old Time Religion because President Johnson was have created the crisis the North Warnings RELEASES looking for an excuse to call up Most objections to Darwin’s Vietnamese the idea, he said is A week after the Pueblo’s to force the South Korean govern­ the reserves. theory traced to the fundament­ seizure Newsweek, in its Peri­ alist religions. Others object be­ FROM ment to bring home some of its scope column, said the North 49,000 troops Fighting in Viet­ cause it is only a theory. Swan nam. No hippies, please thinks this point of view is ridi­ Koreans had warned the US on culous. “North Korea’s attempt to as­ Jan. 9 to get the vessel out of CAPITOL RECORDS “ If Darwinism is a theory, sassinate President Ching Hee Park Korean waters. Howard Payne College is no than most of biology is a theory. BOBBIE GENTRY plus the seizure of the Pueblo On Jan. 26 the Tokvo Sankei, longer a haven for hippie evolve- Tracing a bone to a dinosaur is a have made our Korean allies mad "THE DELTA SWEETE” a newspaper close to the Japanese ment. theory. Claiming the earth is at us and made LBJ look like a government, reported the North The school, located in Brown- round is a theory.” he said. Her new album! The fool,” Windmiller said. Koreans had warned the US about wood Texas, officially announced Delta girl who made South Kores’s anger apparent­ tge Oyebki a policy Thursday barring “hip­ Not a Best Seller “Ode to Billie Joe” ly stems from the US lack of con­ the Pueblo two weeks before the pies and other bizarre personal­ famous sings: “Okolona cern when North Korean com­ seizure. ities” from enrollment. There are many areas of the The article said the North River Bottom Band,” mandos filtered into Seoul and The announcement stated that country where elementary texts Koreans warned the US it would “Penduli Pendulum,” attempted to execute Park. The “those who were not hippies do not sell if evolution or Darwin US failed to protest this tren- “take resolute action if such act­ is mentioned, Swan said. and other Down Home ivities are not discontinued within when they enrolled but became songs. uously in the talks at the Pan- so later will be asked either to “To properly educate child­ munjom turce site. the next two weeks.” change their ways or to with­ ren,” Swan said, “the philosophy Freed believes the US knew draw.” as well as the facts of science LOU RAWLS munjom truce site. about the warnings and “tried to should be taught. There is a great Windmiller believes the North bluff the North Koreans into at­ The new policy also stated need to know that we as human “PEELIN’ GOOD” Koreans have “adopted a policy tacking the ship. that “no student or person af­ beings are part of the animal Feel good.. .LISTEN to Justified Seizure of embarrassing the US. filiated with the college will be kingdom. Lou’s soulful renditions The question of whether the Spy Ship permitted to use any kind of hal­ “We’re not just a product of a of ‘Evil Woman,” “The Both Windmiller and Freed be­ Pueblo was in international waters sudden miracle. We have genes Letter,” “My Son,” and lieve the Pueblo was on an el- when it was captured brings up lucinatory , habit-forming or harm­ that relate back to our earliest more! lieve the Pueblo was on an el- the question of international law ful drug or alcohol.” ancestors, he said. 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Editor Max Ascoli of The this country who call themselves con­ aspirations is deceitful; the War on Reporter magazine has given servatives to dissociate themselves Poverty is not only unsuccessful, Phoenix permission to reprint from the radical Right, i.e., those it was designed to be so; there this article in whole. The article whose techniques and purposes are are no imjxirtant differences in appeared in the Feb. 8 issue of essentially and occasionally explicitly attitudes, purposes, or policies among The Reporter. Copyright 1968 by antidemocratic. Most men of the the leading j>olitical figures in this The Reporter Magazine Com­ Right condemn the Klan, the Min- country, from George Wallace to pany. utemen, and the Nazis; but too Nelson Rockefeller; and our great many of them have not been willing universities and colleges are really to repudiate the many other wild nothing more than willing and cor­ men, whether Birchers or local ven­ rupt instruments of the guardians of WILLIAM P. GERBERDING dors of related poison. And so we the status quo. watch with amusement as, say, There are grains of truth in this n e o f the recurrent problems for William F. Buckley, Jr.—McCarthy chamber of honors, but they are O liberals in the United States is apologist and, more lately, clever trivial alongside the immense distor­ what their relationship with radicals spokesman for a kind of sophisticated tions and crass falsehoods. Much of should be. If liberals are defined and somewhat housebroken rightist what passes for a redeeming and roughly as those who accept,the basic viewpoint—attacks Robert Welch healthy idealism among today’s youth characteristics of the existing politi­ but defends the John Birch Society, is based on these and related gro­ cal and economic systems and who and finds himself the object of bitter Anyone who believes that is fooling of guarding the President of the youth is to tell the truth and to tesque distortions ol truth and on a believe that the government should attacks from his erstwhile auinirers. himself and, more importantly, help­ United States, if there had been refute error. The sins of omission virulent anti-intellectual and anti- be an active instrument for improv­ How, we ask ourselves, can experi­ ing sow the seeds for an illiberal rumors of an attempt to storm the and commission of the over-thirty rational bias. For liberals to indulge ing the lot of our citizenry and enced, knowledgeable, and apparent­ reaction of incalculable proportions. hotel, if the marchers had stopped generation (if it makes any sense to** these fantasies, to congratulate every perhaps of mankind as a whole; and ly reasonably decent people like I live in California. The New Left in front of the hotel in violation speak in such general terms) are adolescent rebel on his (fictitious) if radicals are defined as those who Buckley put themselves into such has been shrewd enough to under­ of a court order and their parade many and serious; so it has always moral superiority, to applaud each seek fundam ental changes in the po­ absurd and demeaning postures? stand that its activities were and are permit? Is anyone prepared to argue been and so it will always be. But new millennial prescription or apoc- litical, social, and economic systems a political asset for Ronald Reagan that Presidents of the United States unless one is willing to compare alyptic vision, to deny or ignore the —some adhering to democratic norms l t h o u g h perceiving this moral both as candidate and governor. are immune from physical danger? reality only with utopia, then the positive aspects of American politics and some not—then it is obvious A and intellectual fuzziness in They welcome this development for Or is there perhaps a conviction nation into which these young peo- anc^ society, is to become what the that the relationship between liber­ others, many liberals have not been all of the usual foolish and incom­ among some liberals—as there as pie are entering as adults cannot radicals claimed we were all along, als and radicals will usually be as alive to the related dangers among patible reasons; “Things must get suredly is among many radicals— be simply oi reasonably character- , e > dishonest, cowering, sentimental, strained and often nonexistent. Only themselves. Thus it was a rare treat much worse before they can get bet­ that this particular President does i/ed as a “sick society.” It is, among irresponsible, hollow men. in periods of great stress and loss of to learn recently that the Northern ter”; “It’s time for a showdown, a not merit protection? many other things, a nation that Decency and self-respect require confidence will liberals be drawn California regional officers of the N a­ confrontation, between bourgeois The Bis Lies enjoys and has always enjoyed more ^iat liberals avoid such a craven toward radical prescriptions and per­ tional Committee for a Sane Nuclear America and ‘the prophetic minori­ . . political, cultural, and religious free- r°le’ kut so to° d° political consicl- rim brings another issue into view. sonalities. The 1930’s are the classic Policy ( s a n e ) resigned en masse be­ ty’ ”; “Reagan is the incarnation of clom than any—or almost any— erations. For better or for worse, the The unremitting efforts to defame example of how alluring this temp­ cause the national board of s a n e re­ the true American spirit”; “We pur­ other society, past or present; it is American public is not amused by tation can become at such times. jected their request that it purge sue principle, not expediency”; and President Johnson are repugnant guilt-ridden, hand-wringing displays The distemper and division in the itself of what the Northern Califor­ on and on. These slogans and ra­ and unfair. They are, relatedly, a nation with an economy of almost of self-flagellation by liberal adults, nation today are so intense that nia officers called “anti-democratic tionalizations are attractive to the politically disadvantageous. Liberals unbelievable productivity; and it is The radicals at Berkelex sought and many liberals are receptive to radi­ and anti-American elements.” Si­ totally alienated, to the hysterical, have generally understood that the a nation that has, since having lead- deserved greater student freedom; cal analyses and conclusions, and lence or an attitude of indulgence and to Utopians. But they are dan­ conspiratorial and devil interpreta­ crship thrust upon it, generally therefore to radical politics. Many has been a more typical response of gerous doctrine for democratic lib­ tions of American history so common played an honorable role in interna­ liberals, including this one, believe liberals to the excesses of some of erals and they will continue to weak­ on the radical Right are bizarre and tional affairs. that the decision to intervene in the radicals. When, for example, an en the political power of liberals absurd. Roosevelt may have mis­ I know all the arguments against Vietnam with American combat officer of Students for a Democratic while strengthening that of the Ron­ judged Stalin, but he did not will­ such positive and optimistic state­ ments, and I know how many quali­ Society ( s d s ) was recently reported as ald Reagans and the George Wal­ fully betray the interests of this having said that “When an institu­ laces. The New Left and the black country. Yet many of these same fications and disclaimers need to be tion is w ithout legitimacy, it is w ith­ racists do not make distinctions people are now prepared to believe added. Especially it must be said that out rights, it is without the right among such categories, except per­ that Lyndon Johnson is a moral the unemployed and the Negroes of free speech,” how many liberals haps that they reserve a special con­ monster, a man who actually loves do not share appropriately in wealth view this as the blatantly illiberal tempt for liberals while saluting the war and hates Negroes, and whose al­ and status and that American for­ pronouncement that it most certain­ “honesty” of the others mentioned. leged concern for education and tor eign policy has its darker side. That ly is? Liberals, suffering from the weak­ the poor is a gigantic hoax. Consider there is plenty of room for improve­ In addition to these basic ques­ nesses of their virtues, too often re­ the success of the play M acBird. A ment is all too obvious. tions about who is morally and in­ ceive such abuse with forgiveness, portion of the liberal community It is a measure of our loss of con­ they got it. Then they went on and tellectually an acceptable ally in an understanding, and even—among enthusiastically embraced this sick fidence and a sign of the super- sought other goals, intra- and extra- emergency, there is the practical those obsessed with guilt—agree­ imagery, some of them arguing sophisticated fashion of our time mural. A vacillating administration question of the likely consequences ment. A more fitting response is to evasively that of course they didn’t that few liberals say such things —unimpeachably liberal, tolerant to of co-operation with or even of an make the contempt mutual, because believe Johnson had killed Kennedy today. Anyone who deviates from a faidt—hesitated, fumbled, and lost indulgent attitude toward the New what divides liberals from the anti­ an unremittingly hypercritical and its nerve. It was not Governor Ed- but that the play contained a “larger Left and the black racists. It seems democratic radicals is fundamental gloomy line about institutions, poli- muncl G. Brown who profited from truth.” Compare the response of troops was a grave strategic mistake; obvious to me that association with cies, and people is regarded as this prolonged debacle; it was Ron- and not negotiable. these same people to Robert Welch's but whether the original interven­ these elements is a political liability square, pompous, and flag-waving, aid Reagan. And so it will continue charge that Dwight Eisenhow’er was an evader of ugly truths. We are to be. I find it difficult to blame onh tion was wise or unwise, our massive and, therefore, destructive of the here is also the problem of the a conscious agent ol the Communist presence there changes the situation very purposes for which I think lib­ relationship between liberals and in danger of becoming a generation the students for failing to distinguish T conspiracy. From the radical Right, entirely and renders it infinitely eral democrats ought pre-eminently the police. I admit that the ritual­ of cranks. Surely it is a derangement between legitimate demands (which this kind of nonsense is immediately more difficult to try to answer the istic “anti-cop” attitude of many of the critical faculties when a na- were met) and genuinely liberal lead- to be striving, i.e., a satisfactory ter­ perceived and properly denounced. question of what should be done mination of the war and an imagina­ liberals is sophomoric and escapist. tion as diverse and complicated and ers on the one hand, and radical From the radical Left, it is too often comparatively successful as this one extremists who pursued unreason- now. tive, creative, and unprecedentedly I trust that no one is prepared to taken with great seriousness and, if is perceived exclusively in negative able goals for their own illiberal In such agonizing times, it becomes costly attack upon the unacceptable argue that we can do without police not altogether accepted, then justi­ terms. reasons on the other. They were more difficult to distinguish between realities of Negro life in this coun­ forces. A good beginning—and only fied in terms of some larger and encouraged to do so by blindly per­ legitimate and illegitimate dissent, try. (There are, of course, many other usually murky purpose. The Anti-Intellectual Rampage missive. intellectually sloppy, and between constructive opposition and problems that need attention, but ■r»rr.‘ This will not do. It is morally morally confused professors, ad­ destructive adventuring, between they do not at least currently involve Liberals should not be ashamed to and intellectually unacceptable for ministrators. and politicians, most those who honor humane and demo­ the explosive force and immense make positive claims about Amer­ liberals—or anyone else, for that of whom were liberals. Most of these cratic values and those who do not. tragedy of the two mentioned.) ican society and politics, not only matter—to manufacture Big Lies in people have continued to congratu­ That there are anti democratic ex­ Among liberals, there is always ten­ because they are true but also be­ order to combat the very real prob­ late themselves on their “principled" tremists seeking to exploit the disaf­ sion between those who are willing cause today’s youth is being told position, ancl they will probably con­ fection of the anti-Vietnam liberals and able to look the hard facts in lems that beset us as a nation. We so many other and contradicting tinue to do so if their past and fu­ and of the aroused Negro Americans the face and those to whom moral must be able to make the elementary things. The view of reality that the ture actions help to elevate the lucky should surprise no one. What is sur­ posturing and denigration of the po­ kinds of distinctions that extremists radicals of the Left are trying to Reagan into the Presidency. prising and dangerous is the extent litical processes are the more com­ are incapable of making, or we shall peddle to today’s youth includes the to which disaffected liberals have fortable responses. It is the latter lose our integrity and our claim to following ingredients, among others: T w i l l b e sa id t h a t a n attack on a been willing to associate their names who, despite their adherence to dem­ seriousness. the United States started and has liberal-radical coalition is a call for and activities w'ith the extremists. ocratic norms, are the most suscepti­ Moreover, the consequences of perpetuated the cold war: the poli­ I inaction. It is no such thing. There ble to sentimentality and confusion a beginning—is to tell the whole such cynicism (or, to give it the ben­ cies associated with the containment is plenty for liberals to do, as there No Compromise about such phenom ena as the New' truth about police activities and re­ efit of the doubt, such naivete) are doctrine could have been designed always has been, ancl the generous In the opinion of this writer it is Left and the black racists. sponsibilities. This has not by any not pleasant to contemplate. The to promote U.S. economic and spirit of democratic liberalism will wrong and destructive to embrace or means been automatic among liber­ fund of decency and mutual respect political imperialism, and the anti- even to adopt a tolerant attitude The Beneficiaries als. Much of the liberal reporting upon which a democratic society de­ Communist rhetoric, especially re­ continue to motivate people to ac­ tion, as it always has. But condoning toward the radical politics of, for What “facts” am I suggesting need and commentary on, for example, pends for its survival is not avail­ garding Vietnam, is a cynical mask: or co-operating with the anti-demo­ example, the New Left or the black to be faced? The following discus­ the riots outside the Century Plaza able on demand in this or any other genuine democracies can only be cratic elements of the radical Left racists. It is wrong—morally and in­ sion includes some with an uncon- Hotel in Los Angeles while Presi­ society. If some liberals join those found in Communist and under- is morally insupportable and politi- tellectually—because these radicals, testable status as fact, while others dent Johnson was there last [une was who debase political discourse for developed countries, not in the callv disastrous. whatever may be their personal mo­ are more arguable. My only claims shockingly one-sided. No doubt the short-run gains, they are playing with West; the Johnson administration is tives and however real and profound are that where I have substituted police acted too harshly once they fire and are adding strength to those determined to exploit and suppress their grievances, do not offer liberal opinion for fact it is because the moved on the crowd of anti-Vietnam very forces in our society whose loy- the Negro population, as is “ the democrats an acceptable alternative, facts are not conclusively known and demonstrators; perhaps they should altv to democratic norms is most establishment” in general, and all William P. Gcberding, the au­ nor are they acceptable allies. They that these opinions deserve to be not have moved at all. But why was suspect. They poison the well. talk of the search for assistance and thor, is an associate professor detest compromise, conciliation, and taken seriously. it so seldom pointed out that both co-operation with legitimate Negro of political science at the Uni­ l t h o u g h I am over thirty, I will versity o f California. Lrs Angeles. accommodation, the necessary ele­ First and foremost, an overwhelm­ the parade permit and a court order also say something about young ments of a democratic, tolerant, and ing majority of the body politic re­ prohibited stopping in front of the A people and about the relationship be­ humane policy; they accept violence jects violence as a permissible meth­ hotel, and that the police warned tween generations. 1 teach in a uni­ as an appropriate means to whatever od of altering policies and conditions the marchers about their responsi­ versity and am familiar with and ends they happen to be pursuing at in this country. It is fashionable bility to disperse? Do liberals want appreciative of the idealism and al­ any given time, abjuring any serious these days to point out that violence lo lr~ in a society where court or­ truism that inspire some of the moral or political calculations about has always been a conspicuous ele­ ders and parade permits are routine­ most visible elements of this gener­ which ends justify which means un­ ment in American life; that a case ly violated? It is no answer to say ation of south. What most ol the der what circumstances; they preach can be made—and I agree—for its that some laws and regulations are more sensational and publicized racial hatred and intolerance; their legitimacy under extreme conditions; manifestly unjust or unconstitu­ among them do not deserve is to style is full of cant, hypocrisy, and that many Negroes have despaired tional and that breaking them is a have their sweeping socio-economic- self-righteousness; and their ultimate of achieving their rightful aspira­ moral light, perhaps a duty. The political pronouncements taken purposes are at-best shrouded in tions through nonviolent methods; questions are: which laws and where so seriously. The solemnity with mystery and riddled with naive uto­ that violence has indeed “worked” and when? Is a California court or­ which adults treat such things as pianism, and are at worst coercive in alerting many more people to der the same as a Mississippi sheriff's the anarchic demands of mans stu­ and illiberal. Many of them have such realities as Negro deprivations decree? An inability or unwillingness explicitly rejected liberal democracy and the depths of dissatisfaction with to make such distinctions is intellec­ dent radicals, or the social analyses as a sham and a fraud. the administration’s policies in Viet­ tually inexcusable and politically of the Students for a Democratic The ability to make basic distinc­ nam. All this is true, but it is a be­ risky. Society, or the pronouncements tions is a cardinal virtue in politics. guiling non sequitur to conclude It’s tcx) bad there aren't more lib­ of the black racists about history Liberals have long and properly been that therefore liberals will profit po­ erals on police forces, but what would be laughable il it weren t so contemptuous of the frequent ina­ litically from an attitude that con­ would a liberal police chief have consequential. bility or unwillingness of those in dones or even encourages violence. done if he had had the responsibility The first responsibility toward Page 8 PHOENIX Thursday, February 29, JUMPING JACK OF THE GATORS Second By Glenn Schwarz FWC title Everything is going up, up and but he planted himself under­ Confidence away these days - or so we’re neath the defensive back board told by airline commercials and and wil the rest of the Gator Chatman gives the coach cre- peace demonstrators. front-line put plenty of pres­ cit for helping him improve his for But, this “up and away” sure on the Aggie players. all-around play and developing phrase seems particularly apt to The big boys from Davis his confidence. Chatman shows apply to the play of SF State seemed to take delight in driv­ his confidence when he says, “I Girard Chatman. ing to the basket and then forc­ feel that we can out-rebound grapplers The 6-foot-6 jumping-jack per­ ing up muscle-shots. The thought any team.” forms on weekends at one of the of Chatman stuffing the ball gyms of a Far Western Con­ Rundell calls Charman “a down their throats must have The SF State wrestling team, ference cage team. complete ball player.” Besides been dancing in the Aggies’ heads with the Far Western Conference He’s the man smoothly snatch­ scoring a lot of points (his high because they missed countless title safely pinned to the mat, is ing rebounds from the Gators’ shots that should have been easy was 32 in a non-league game opponents as if the ball was a now eyeing the Olympics in Mex­ two p o m ^ s . ico City in October. loaded pistol and the opposition against Cal Poly) and doing the job on the boards (25 rebounds The team hopes that three of a quintet of babies. The Gators’ reliance on Chat­ its top members will win a place Chatman currently is tops in man was evident last week. In against Sacramento State), Run­ on the American Olympic team. the conference race for individual their upset loss to Sacramento dell notes that Chatman usually During the season, which end­ State he was held to just 10 rebounding honors. He has 191 re­ draws the assignment of guarding ed recently, five Gator wrestlers bounds to his credit. He also has points and 13 rebounds. When he the opponent’s best front-liner. bounced back against Nevada won FWC individual champion­ scored 200 points, and there are ships. They are: still two conference games to go. His quickness enables him to Don Smothers (115), beat Ben­ He’s called “G” the following night, with 19 ny Barrientos (Chico State) in points and 15 rebounds, returned come out from the bucket to Two weeks ago, as the Gators guard his man, then dart back for a triple overtime thriller 9-6. to their winning ways. Art Chavez (123), flashy trans­ knocked off Chico State in a Chatman prepped at Balboa the rebound when a shot goes up. warmup for the crucial tilt with fer from Bakersfield. He beat High and then attended City Col­ Maxwell (Chico State) 10-5. UC Davis, Chatman sparked a lege for two years. He was the The Bay Area sportswriters nine-point tear midway through named Chatman Northern Calif­ Wayne Hubbard (137). He beat sixth man on the fabulous City Kileen (Nevada). 6-5. the second half that upped the ornia Player of the Week for the Gator lead to 50-39 after the Gene Kopecky (191) won his College club of last season which first week in January. More hon­ Wildcats had come from an ors should come his way in the final match on a default. also included Gator forward Dar­ “Terrible” Tom Powell (300) early 15-point deficit to narrow groups end-of-the-year balloting it at 41-39. ling Thomas, that was ranked Ben Northrup (177), Jim God­ second-best among California ju­ Chatman contributed 13 of his for NorCal season-best players. dard (167) and Bill Grant (130) nior colleges. were upset as defending champ­ 20 points in the Streak that saw Chatman, who digs the jazz the Gators lock up the win. He ions. Northrup and Goddard Chatman, a soft-spoken, mo­ sounds of Wes Montgomery and placed third. Ashley Sherman also finished with 13 rebounds. dest individual says, “I was just Jimmie Smith, is a math major. (160), and Andy Foley (152), an average ball-player at City.” He says he would like to use his and Frank Sousa (145) placed “G,” as he’s known to his But coach Paul Rundell was degree to work in the Bay Area, third also. SF State finished with teammates, didn’t have a great happy to find the slender Chat­ possibly as a teacher. 96 points while Nevada had 72 man eroded at SF State when But, before he enters the job for second. CS Hayward finished statistical night the following eve he returned from his two-year market, Gator fans should be third with 52. against league-leading Davis. But happy to know that he’s only a UP, UP, AWAY - Gator Forward Girard Chat­ Art Chavez received the out­ once again he played a major stint at the University of Kabul, junior and shall return to the man rises for a jump shot over Chico State de­ standing wrestler award and fast­ Afghanistan. Rundell claims that hardcourst next year. fender. role in subduing the Aggies. Chatman “had to be the best Who said up, up and away - in est and most pins award. Chavez Photo by Dennis Di Silva Chatman scored just 13 points, sixth man in the J.C. ranks.” a ballon? made two pins, one in 23 sec­ onds, and one in 1:15. The Gators end the season with a 10-1 record. Beat Santa Clara The only loss of the season was to Fresno State which is Cagers weekend dims title ; ranked No. 2 in the state and No. 4 in the nation. In two years, the SF State GATOR NINE team has 23 wins against two two FWC games left losses. OUTLOOK GOOD State’s victory over Nevada at This years’ baseball outlook By Mike Smith Bluff miracles to pull them lege of San Francisco he was Reno last Saturday was an entire­ is more than just promising. through. named to the All-Golden Gate ly different story as they got That’s the optimistic appraisal President John Summerskill Only a combination of two SF Conference team twice. He is back on the winning track by Head Coach Bob Rodrigo. can tell you that only bad news State wins and two UC Davis de­ considered to be a top prospect. squeeking by the Wolfpack 67- This team is probably the best seems to come out of Sacramen­ feats will give the Gators their to and so can varsity coach bas­ 63. Safran ever fielded at SF State,” he first outright conference title Darling Thomas, a high jump­ said. ketball coach Paul Rundell. since 1962. The Outfield ing 6 foot 5 forward who joined The Gator Nine will certainly The third place Sacramento Two Gator wins and one Davis The third base position is in Hornets last Friday virtually eli­ the club during the second half have to prove just how good they the sure hands of junior Bob loss will place them in a deadlock minated the SF State cagers from at the top. The last time this oc- of the season, led the Gator at­ are as they play some of the Paul, a returning starter who led tack with 19 points. nation’s best collegiate teams. the Far Western Conference flag cured was in the 1964-65 season the team in homeruns last season. race, 62-56, at the spoiler’s home The team also got a big lift Behind the plate is co-captain when SF State tied Chico State Gators v. Phils court. The loss left defending from ambidextrous guard Bobby On the non-conference level, Dowd, a FWD All-Star last sea­ for the title. Obviously the Ga­ titlist, the UC Davis Aggies, with tors cannot afford to lose an­ Grayson, whose fancy moves and the Gators play the likes of son who batted .351. lie has also sole possession of first place. outside shooting kept the ‘Pack’ Stanford, Santa Clara, U.S.F. and been contacted by professional other game, or they will be out With two games remaining on of it all. off balance all night. California. In their first game teams. the regular slate, both home con­ Despite their conference stand­ Roaming the outfield are Bill Meanwhile, the front running they battled the Philadelphia tests, the Gators will test its 9-3 UC Davis Aggies will host a ing, the SF Staters are not neces­ Phillies’ rookie team into extra Brody, Barry Carli and Silvis. record against the Sonoma St. sarily out of the running for a Brody started for the Gators last mediocre Nevada squad (5-7) to­ innings only to lose 5-4. Cossacks (210) tonight, and the night, and the Sacramento State possible post-season tournament year at catcher and was an all- Humboldt St. Lumberjacks (4-8) Rodrigo said that if the play­ Hornets Saturday night. bid. ers can play well against power­ star third baseman at the Col­ Saturday. The tip-off for both As Rundell pointed out, the lege of Marin. Carli, who played As to the chances of the Ga­ ful non-league teams, they will games is at 8:15 p. m. in the main tors tieing for the title Coach NCAA people will take a close be in prime condition for Far at City College, is an outstanding gym. look, at overall records too, when base runner against the Phillie Despite the records of the Rundell commented, “It’s very they decide tournament partici­ Western Conference action. possible, anybody can beat any­ Last week the Gators pulled Rookies he stole both second and Gators’ last two opponents they pants, and the Gators, if they can are not the push-overs that they body in this league. a fantastic come-from behind vic­ In the Sacramento loss, the sweep their remaining three tory over the highly rated Univer­ Rookies he stole both second may appear to be. In the team’s games, will sport a respectable and third in the same inning. Sif- last outing with the Lumberjacks local five hit a season conference sity of Santa Clara Broncos. 17-9 won-lost mark. vis, who sat out last season hit it took the local five an overtime low of 56 points. The big guns .441 for College of the Sequois, period to beat them, 61-57, and Trailing 10-7 with two outs in of Mike Paulle and Girard Chat­ in 1966 and was the Most Val­ Sonoma was barely edged out, man managed only 26 points bet­ the ninth inning, the Gators ral­ NOMINATED FOR uable Player in the Valley Lea­ 64-60. ween them last Friday whereas lied for four runs with Tom Cal- gue. While the Gators are not math­ both have game averages above ACADEMY AWARDS! len blasting a game winning three Rodrigo’s host of fine pitch­ ematically out of the running, it run homer. Righthander Bill ers, include righthander Sen­ will take one of those Coogan’s 15 points, and a combined ave­ Clark, who started the game and ior Dick Edwards who went 10 rage close to 35 points. BEST went four perfect innings, was innings against the Rookies: relieved by Tony Maganini in the Don Elam, who was 7-4 last PICTURE last of the ninth. He struck out season and included Santa Clara, Fresno and San Diego State, the first two batters lie faced among his victims. forced the final batter to pop u* Junior Bill Clark, who turned ROAD & TRACK’S ending the game. down offers to sign with the Starters Atlanta Braves, is a strong right B E S T S U P P O R T IN G The Gators collected 15 hits hader and also a fair hitter. ACTRESS! with Bob Dowd getting three. Left hander Ron Gilliam was an Tim Silvis and Neal McNiven all-league choice last year at the ROAD TEST each got two safeties. College of Marin. A starting team finds co-cap- With talent like that around, McNiven at first base. 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