Mustang Daily, January 10, 1975
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Mustang Daly Volume 39: Number 2 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Friday, January 10, 1975 Group claims state colleges Suit charges are slighted • Funding policies racial bias called unjustified BY TOM McCABtIiY at Cal Poly Controversy is growing as a group persists in its attempts to win more money for the system by MARK GROSSI from the State Education fund. Cal Poly has been charged with According to Acala, the whole The Committee for Equal racial discrimination against state university and colleges Treatment in Higher Education Mexican-American employees in system will oe affected by the (CETHE) is gaining recognition a class action suit filed Thursday decision. as it continues to publicize its in San Francisco U.S. District “We were looking for the best belief that each student who Court by the Mexican-American case to bring to court. Cal Poly attends a branch of the Legal Defense and Education represents the best case of University of California (UC) Fund (MALDEF). discrimination in the California annually receives close to $300 The case cited in the suit is that state university and colleges more than do students who are of Dr. Manuel Guerra, demoted sytem.” enrolled in comparable programs head of Poly’s Foreign Language Guerra was demoted from at a state college or university. Department. According to Carlos photo by DAVID STUBBS department head, the suit According to CETHE co Alcala, national director of charges, after Kennedy learned founder J. William Leasure, the educational litigation for he had filed a complaint with the discrepency in funding is due to Steve Archer sings praises to God in a performance here MALDEF, $810,000 in damages Thursday. state Equal Educational Op the lack of comparable budgeting as well as reinstatement of portunities Commission. In the methods between the two public Guerra are being sought. complaint, filed in April, 1974, systems of higher education in Guerra received notice in Guerra charged Kennedy and the state. He contends that the Archers sing More parking November, 1974 his tenure would Dean Erikson with California State University and be denied and he would no longer discrimination on his evaluation Colleges (CSUC) system is an their praises be a member of the teaching staff as an instructor. nually “shortchanged” $100 will be lost as of June 1, Acala said. million. The complaint by Guerra was Calling the budgeting Singing what they call “Jesus to building University President Robert filed in response to the negative techniques now in use by the two music” the Archers performed Kennedy, Jon Ericson, dean of evaluation he received, said before a receptive University The new year may be underway, the school of Communicative Acala. Guerra appealed the systems “unjustified,” CETHE is but the Student Affairs Com attempting to correct the alleged Hour audience in the plaza of the Arts and Humanities, acting negative evaluation to the University Union Thursday. mittee (SAC) was reminded chairman of the Foreign Faculty Review Committee, financial inequities. Wednesday night that an old However, ‘ University of In prelude to their Thursday Language Department Verlan which unanimously rejected night concert in Chumash problem still remains: parking. Stahl, the university and Glenn S. Dean Ericson’s decision, said California administrators along The reminder came from Joe with other education interest auditorium the group presented a Dumke, chancellor of the state Acala. variety of religious songs in Toole, chairman of the Parking university and colleges system, groups are in opposition to Management Committee. Fin Said Acala, “We have CETHE’s actions. tended to relate t.heir Christian were named as defendants. beliefs. ding a parking place is more of a documented proof that Dr. UC Vice-President C.O. Mc- problem this year than last, The suit also charges that Guerra was harrassed on the Corkle is convinced that if fun According to lead singer Tim Archer, the group is attempting according to figures Toole cited. Guera was hospitalized last telephone, docked in pay, his ding imbalances do exist they are Last year that was a parking rate month as a result of nervous reputation maligned, and that the partially justified because of the to “present a message with our music.” That message, said of 89 per cent. It has risen to 97 tension caused by the abuse he university is trying to black ball UC’s responsibility to train Ph.D. per cent this year. suffered from the university. his future employment. candidates. Archer, is the truth of God The Archers are a non- Some 90 additional staff Guerra said he was physically But in a press statement President Kennedy has denieu deminational group that uses its parking spaces have been in threatened in April 1974 by a Cai Leasure said that CETHE did not any violation of the school’s rock style of music to Convey its stalled near the football stadiurrt question the validity of the Poly employee. faculty evaluation process as members’ religious convictions and the Food Processing ^15,137,933 which was allocated to building, making less parking own procedures for evaluation of charged. He had no further the UC system in 1974 to finance The group’s performance was arranged by the Chi Alpha available for students. faculty members. comment on the lawsuit. its graduate programs. Leasure Three parking lots, totaling 100 stated, “We’ve no quarrel with fraternity. The Archers Cal Poly concert spaces will be soon eliminated by this money or the cost of the the construction of the new ar expensive doctoral programs the was the first stop in the group’s nation-wide tour. Future chitecture building on the site SAC members university conducts. We’re only formerly occupied by the old talking about equal treatment in engagements are scheduled for New York, Chicago, Denver, and Ag Ed building, said Toole. comparable instructional Construction of the new programs.” other major cities throughout the approve Meland country. building will begin in about three McCorkle also stated his belief weeks, he said. Staff members A new Finance Committee visory Board. The three reps will that since only the top 12 per cent Archer said that he had head the drive on campus to “found the truth of God” and that will lose two per cent of their chairman and a new ASI of the high school graduates in Secretary were introduced inform the student body about the it was the intention of the group current parking spaces and California, are admitted to the students an equal percentage as a Wednesday night as the Student referendum next month on university, the state has an to continue its style of preaching Assembly Bill 3116. The results of in order to inform people of the result of the construction, Toole Affairs Council opened its Winter Quarter term. the referendum will determine (continued on page 4) need for religion in their lives. pointed out. Ole Meland was approved as whether the ASI card fee now the new Finance Committee being paid will be lowered or chairman taking the place of remain the same. George Delange, who resigned. In his report, ASI Vice- Tax cut in March? Meland, who had served as vice- President Mike Hurtado an chairman of the committee, nounced that the John Holley WASHINGTON (UPI) - Rep. A1 investment in certain equipment. announced that budget hearings The Oregon Democrat told Memorial Fund has been Ullman, to be the next chairman Additionally, said Ullman, the will begin Jan. 27 and that there reporters that after the new established to operate in the of the House Ways and Means measure would include an end to are four vacancies on the com Congress convenes Tuesday, “I same manner as are emergency Committee, predicted Thursday the oil depletion allowance which mittee that must be filled. will recommend that our com loans. A student may borrow $30 his panel will approve by March 1 now provides oil producers with a The vacancies are from the mittee go into immediate con a quarter for a 25 cent service a multi-billion dollar tax cut for large deduction in their taxes. He schools of Communicative Arts sideration of an emergency tax charge. Students may also low and middle income groups. said if controversy over ending and Humanities, Business and bill with relief for low and middle borrow up to $200 but need a co Ullman would not give his own the depletion allowance threatens Social Science, Engineering and income groups.” signer over 18 who is not a to stall the emergency bill, the Technology, and Agriculture and preference for the size of the cut Firm figures to define low and student. Donations may be made saying only that it would fall provision would be dropped and Natural Resources. middle income groups depend on to the Financial Aids Office. between $5 billon and $30 billion, a vast areay of factors but the dealt with later in a seperate ASI President Scott Plotkin depending on how much of the committee has generally con measure. announced that Pamela Fischer lost revenue can be made up sidered low income, the poverty “The important thing right now would be the new ASI Secretary, Sue Stevenson, head of the through other tax increases. level, as $5,450 a year for a four- is to act quickly to get revenue replacing Cathy Harris. Fischer Housing Advisory Group, advised “If we act quickly the cut would mamber family, and $15,000 ro into the economy,” said Ullman. will await approval by SAC at its SAC that a job description for the not have to be as large as it would $25,000 for middle income. Ullman met Thursday with next meeting.