Trustees Ask Murray Fired

Trustees ask Murray fired The State College Board of Trustees “requested” to stop teaching, he’ll have to come in and take me ple” and that “this increasing racism is also ex that SF State President Robert Smith transfer out or call in the pigs and have them take me out.” emplified by Max Rafferty eating grapes while George Murray from his present position as English Murray said he will continue to teach “regardless Mexican-Americans are starving to death and be instructor to a non-teaching position at its meeting of the position of the college president, the chancel ing held captives to illiteracy.” yesterday. lor, or the English Department, because the power When asked what the reaction of black people Murray has been under attack from conservative to decide does not rest with them but with the Black would be on campus and elsewhere to the Trustees’ Trustees for being Minister of Education of the Black Studies Department. decision, Murray said, “We’U just show this to the black community and use it to uplift the revolution Panther Party for Self-Defense while teaching at Contrary to information in yesterday’s SF Exam SF State following the Eldridge Cleaver controversy ary consciousness of black people. They will decide iner, Murray does not teach “remedial” English what to do here and in’the streets of America.” at the recent University of California Regents meet courses, but has been hired to instruct two “basic ing. The controversy over Murray being re-hired to English” courses. teach English at SF State this Fall ai-ose after the Joseph White, Dean of Undergraduate Studies Ben Stewart, chairman of the Black Students Un UC Regents restricted Black Panther Minister of here, said, “as of right now, President Smith is ion, said, “As far as we know, the administration Information Eldridge Cleaver’s participation in an staying with his original decision that Murray has still supports George Murray, and he will continue experimental course on racism at the Berkeley been hired to teach.” to teach.” campus. The Trustees’ decision apparently gives Smith The BSU, he said, is mainly concerned at present Murray was attacked at the Trustees meeting for the option of retaining Murray as an instructor or with helping the new SF State students in the Special his participation in last Fall’s fisticuffs in the Daily transferring him to a non-teaching position. Admissions program and “we don’t have time to Gater office. Stewart said he did not think the Trus At a press conference in Dean White’s office, goof around with buffoons like Max Rafferty.’” tees acted because of Murray’s trip earlier this year Murray called the Trustees’ request “a racist deci Murray said that the Trustees’ decision is an ex to Cuba, “but because he’s Black and a Black Pan sion by a group of racist pigs. If Dumke wants me ample of “increasing racism against all Black peo ther.” JR_ mMs J f Volume 100, Number 6 San Francisco State Col lege Friday, Sept. 27, 1968 Spock calls for movement by Greg deGiere als and radicals.” derstandable” for a “few hot Dr. Benjamin Spock spoke “Organization, in my mind, heads” to assassinate the of his sparring with the Amer is the key word,” he said. American ambassador in ican courts and outlined his The famed pediatrician Guatemala. hope for a “fourth political went on to say that a move However, Spock made it movement” in a--speech be ment that is well organized clear that he disapproved of fore an overflow audience in will realize more rewards than the incident. the Main Auditorium yester will just a few people “fly day. ing off the handle.” He also came to the defense He spent as much time talk Spock was also pointed in of the United States and ing of his conviction as any his criticism of the US in termed himself “a loyal thing else, and the crowd volvement in Vietnam. American.” warmly received his seeming “The war is not an excep “I don’t think the United ly casual speech. tion, it is characteristic of an States is worse than any oth Spock was arrested for expanding imperialistic ten er country. It just happens to counseling young men to dency. It is both technically be strong enough to get away avoid the draft, specifically and totally illegal. It’s also with murder,” he said. for signing a document called unwinnable,” he said. In addition to his opinions “The Call to Resist Illegiti According to Spock the on international a f f a ir s, mate Authority.” United States has paid two ex Spock also touched on domes “I thought the government orbitant prices in waging the tic problems. would realize it would do no war: Baby doctor Benjamin Spock Black people in America more harm than good to pros * • 27,000 Americans have Following his discussion of perialistic motives of the “have a right to be as mili ecute me or anyone els e,” been killed; the war Spock expanded into tant as they have to be in or Spock said. • The United States has United States. In addition to an explanation of US imperi the military, Spock also spoke der to get justice,” he said. However, Spock refused to lost its leadership of the Free alism around the world. of the use of foreign aid as a Though he painted a dim condemn the American judi World. “We’ve been in trouble ev tool of imperialism. picture of American society, cial system. Spock said that one of the Spock pointed to one hope. “Even if I go to jail I won’t most dangerous aspects of er since the end of World War “Our foreign aid gives us consider it a sign that the en war is that people in the II when we emerged the direct political control over “The one hope on the hori tire system is corrupt,” he Johnson Administration a re strongest power. There were most of the countries in the zon is youth. At least a mino said “kidding themselves” into power vacuums left and we world,” he said. rity of the youth are very Spock, tall and balding and thinking they are fighting a wanted, and did, fill them,” He cited as examples US courageous,” he said, point apparently confident, told his Communist takeover in South he said. involvement in Guatemala, ing to demonstrators at the listeners “we’ve got to build east Asia. He termed the ad Spock pointed to the 30,000 Nicaragua and South Ameri Democratic Convention in Chi- a fourth political movement ministration’s stated philoso US military bases around the ca. cago as an example of cour by drawing together the liber phy “a kind of paranoia.” world as evidence of the im Spock felt it was “quite un age. Trustees ax Union proposal The designs for SF State’s projected Student Union Though the Union would be completely paid for But Margaret Nixon, former executive secretary have been turned down by the State College Trus by student funds, the Trustees have the final say. of the CUC wasn’t even that optimistic. “There isn’t tees. AS President Russell Bass described himself as a chance in the world for the Union,”’ she said. The Trustees” thumbs down decision culminated “just incensed by the Trustees’ action. I spent the While the Trustee finance committee declared the twofyears of effort by architect Moshe Safdie, who entire morning glowering at them,” he said. project financially feasible the campus planning won Expo 67’s top architectural award for Habitat. “This is the first meeting that I’ve been on the committee, citing incompatibility with other cam The Union, praised for “beauty” and “utility” same side of the barricade with a lot of the col pus struuctures, sealed the union’s fate when it when shown to students and faculty here, was writ lege’s top administrators and faculty,” Bass said. voted 5-2 against the Union. ten off as “ugly,” “impractical,” and “incompatible “That indicates the massive support the proposed “More than $125,000 in student funds has been with the present architecture on the campus” by Union has at the college.” paid off in architect fees and for primary sche Trustees. Bass said that if a decision is postponed again he matics,” Miss Nixon said. “I sat there not believing what I was hearing,” would come back and weld together student sup said the architect who is one of the most sought port for Safdie’s design and take it back to the Trus after in the world. tees again. Kaffke's back s e e page 3 Crystal Clear - «« ■ ■■ *«* I l i o G a . t ^ r Rock, films, sports, art, nite club ENTERTAINMENT and ballet happenings around town Millis Foster, vocalist, con This weekend at the Avalon tinues as the featured housc- Ballroom Flatt-Scruggs, Sons Kathy Bramwell**»»* band playing for the Sunday of Champlin and Country matinees beginning at 5 p.m Weather will appear. Mike Bloomfield and A1 at 3 p.m. “Boudu Saved From graphs by Irene Poon,” and Ladies are admitted free Kooper, who are two-thirds Drowning” will be shown in “French Visionary Architects every Tuesday night.. responsible for a current best the Auditorium of the de of the 18th Century.” * 8 * The San Francisco Ballet * * * selling album, “Super Ses Young Museum. George Chakiris, star of announces its 25th anniver sion,” will headline the bill at This film was directed by “Cabaret,” starring Signe “West Side Story,” opened at sary season of the full-length Fillmore West tonight and to Jean Renoir in France in 1932.

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