A Presidential Report

Volume 95, Number 60 184 SAN FRANCISCO STATE COLLEGE Wed., May 10, 1967 Class ranking Summerskill meets S D S A Presidential report President John Sum by Dick Karagueuzian the recent Senate decision to Henry McGuckin, associate merskill will hold a pres President John Summerskill end class ranking. dean of the School of Humani idential conference today told the Academic Senate yes Summerskill met with Dum- ties, proposed that the Senate at 9 a.m. in Ad 101 to terday that Chancellor Glenn ke on Monday to inform him take all the responsibility for discuss class ranking Dumke’s office was studying of the Senate’s decision to ending class ranking, thereby and recent Students for s a Democratic Society terminate class ranking. making unnecessary the stu (SDS) actions. Summerskill said he had dents’ protests. conveyed to the Chancellor as All interested persons Another Senator suggested best he could student senti are invited to attend as that all demonstrations should ment on the draft and the Summerskill puts him stop, at least for the time be Senate’s argument to change self on the firing line. ing, to give the President the class ranking policy at his SDS demonstrators have enough time to work on the recent meeting with Dumke. twice sat-in in his office matter until “ all channels are demanding an end to “I’ve done everything I broken down.” can,” the President said, and class ranking at SF added he would continue his Then the Senate discussed State. They also picketed efforts to realize the Senate briefly what course it would his inauguration last and student wishes. take if the Chancellor’s office Tuesday. To show his good will and GLENN DUMKE refused to order the Regis Responding to the genuine interest in the mat trar’s office to end class rank demonstrations the Aca ing. ter, Summerskill said that he tion on which the Senate would demic Senate passed a will hold a presidential confer vote later. A resolution, not yet voted resolution calling for the ence in his office today at 9 end of class ranking As of press time the sub at Dress time, was introduced a.m. to discuss the situation here. Presently the col committee had not introduced by McGuckin nroposing that a with student leaders. lege is negotiating with the resolution yet, but the gen moratorium be established on the chancellor’s office on The Students for a Demo eral feeling was to avoid UC class ranking immediately. the matter. cratic Society sent Summer Berkeley-like incidents at SF The chancellor’s office, in skill a letter urging him to The SDS is also plan State. considering the issue of ending abide by the Senate decision ning to hold an open for Professor of philosophy Art class ranking at SF State, is on class ranking or “ expect a um on Thursday and has Bierman said that he would reviewing the legal conse repetition of last week’s activ threatened more sit-ins not vote for a resolution ask quences of such a move, Sum ities,” meaning demonstra if Summerskill does not ing city police intervention to merskill said. tions or sit-ins in the Adminis meet its demands by remove students from the Ad tration Building. Thursday. ministration Building in case Dumke’s office also men Summerskill asked the Sen tioned the college’s responsi they decide to sit in. ate’s advice on how to handle bility towards students who future demonstrations. “Fuzz beat people some enrolled at SF State with the standings sent to the draft The Senate decided to leave times,” he said. “ I would not implicit understanding that boards in order to secure a the matter to a Senate sub like to be in the students’ po they will have their class deferment, the President said. JOHN SUMMERSKILL committee to write a resolu- sition.” 'Safran' success Czech diplomat on Magazine that was European politics Apparently the cam pus is Recognition of East Ger just wild about Safran. many and the complete re Safran, the college’s “ gen pudiation of the 1938 Munich eral interest” magazine, has agreement, which gave the sold out, all 800 copies, after Czechoslovakian Sudetan Land being on sale only two days. to Hitler’s Germany, were “We’ve gotten a lot of good called for by Dr. Karel Duda, feed-back, too,” said Safran Ambassador of Czechoslovak Editor Linda Taylor. “They’ve ia, yesterday. come back and told us Safran In a speech here, Dr. Duda is the best thing to hit the said it was necessary to recog campus since hydrangeas.” nize the existence of two The magazine was sold for German states in order to rec 35 cents a copy after the staff ognize the political reality in had saturated the campus Europe. with publicity, including a top He asked that the Munich less — alm ost — Miss Safranr*' agreement be repudiated say during the past few days. ing it was never valid. The The name Safran was a agreement was made under duress, he said, and should combination of saffron, a word KAR EL D U D A used in Donovan’s recording not be used today as plans for Mellow Yellow,” and an ab Czechoslovakia. creasingly friendly with the breviation of San Francisco. The ambassador from the West in the past few years. “Mellow Yellow” blared inter heartland nation said all Euro “ As an industrial country with minably away, assaulting by pean nations should recognize only one power source, we are standers in front of Commons the postwar frontiers in Eur dependent on our neighbors for two days as part of the ope including those of Poland for the bulk of our trade. We successful sales pitch. and Germany. “Only a mad have no political strings at The magazine is not printed man would try to change the tached to the trade and we with AS funds but “ went in frontiers without causing a don’t wish anybody to do so,” dependent” last semester. major conflict,” he said. Miss Taylor has promised that In added points, Duda said Dr. Duda stated. a few magazines will be he saw no reason why West The Czech government fa funded up for sale today. “ I Germany should have nuclear vors multilateral obligation wish we could have printed power “ under any disguise.” treaties without using force to 500 more,” she said. 'SAFRAN' EDITOR LINDA TAYLOR Czechoslovakia has been in- solve problems. Dr. Duda said. Chance for normal life Handicapped - self-help by Carol Corville Teaching assistants in the them to a level where they teach them to do for them Despite the braces on their legs or the wheelchairs they classrooms help the teacher may live as normal a life as selves. are confined to, the orthopedically handicapped can learn to move the immobilized chil possible.” “ The main point is that do many of the same things as the rest of us — from folk dren about and help them “ We teach them to integrate these handicapped people are dancing to playing a guitar. clean up afterwards if they into society,” John Hayden people first,” Chris Yamaoka This is the approach that students in the special education can not function alone. said. “ If they cannot integrate, summed it all up. department’s Orthopedically Handicapped Program are being Deana Demers, another of then we keep them in a pro Most of the students in the taught. the students in the seminar, gram which copes with their orthopedically - handicapped The students in the program teach in either special ortho summarized the theory behind physical or learning prob program are working towards pedic schools, such as the Sunshine School in San Francisco, the teaching of the orthopedic lem s.” both an MA degree and a spe or in special classes in regular schools, as part of their train ally handicapped: “To help Again and again, the stu cial education credential. ing towards credentials for teaching in such schools when they these children so that eventu dents emphasized how impor A regular teaching creden are graduated. ally some may be able to go tant it was to them that the tial is required before attain The orthopedically handicapped children fall into three ma into regular classrooms. children be taught to care for ing a special education cre jor types: those with cerebral palsy, motor difficulties, or “ Later in life, they won’t be themselves. dential through SF State, health impairments. able to be isolated for their “They don’t want to be although students may work Student teacher Carol Kelly expressed the attitude of her entire life, so we try to get served all their lives, so we on both credentials at once. fellow students towards the children they teach, in an inter view with her class seminar last week. “The school is there because the special equipment is need ed,” she said. Orthopedic schools abound with such special equipment as Farm labor support electric typewriters, ramps, handrails, and specially-designed by Mary Shepper thing is one of the most abused desks — yet except for these aids, these schools are basically izing Committee, AFL-CIO, in The Student Committee on freedoms in this country. the struggle with A. Perelli- like any other. Agricultural Labor (SCAL), Things have to be done,” Ed “ They dance, just like other kids do — they folk dance in Minetti & Sons, wine distribu is to support Delano strikers. monson said. tors. their wheel chairs,” Miss Kelly said. It was organized under Bob The Stonestown boycott The stores involved were “ At recess those who can, ride bicycles — and if some can’t, Edmonson and works out of takes on the QFI, Walgreen’s asked to take the “ scab” they race around in their wheel chairs just as fast as the the CIP.

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