Tenants, Landlords Dash in Berkeley
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By MIKE GROSSBERG “system of hiring and firing and the hierarchy Staff Writer that makes decisions and limits the right of With closed doors the only outcome of each others to make the University the kind of place previously tried path, a new tack is being in which they wish to study.” . attempted by the Radical Union and the Kenegos views Allen’s firing as a value Associated Students Intelligence Agency (ASIA) confrontation between his ideas and teaching to reverse the decision that will remove Bill Allen methods and the established methods of the from this campus. anthropology department. Students in the lobby of the Administration Building are asking those passing by to sign a “They are involved in maintaining the kind of petition calling for an open hearing on the Bill system he opposes; they feel threatened and Allen tenure case. Through this petition the must fire him,” stated Kenegos. sponsoring students hope to have an open Allen’s contract could not have been hearing in which the anthropology department terminated by normal professional criteria, according to Kenegos, because of his high placing will state the' exact reasons for Allen’s termination and in which he will be able to in the recent evaluation of faculty performance present a defense to those charges. in last quarter’s anthropology classes and the fact As of Monday morning, the petition had that he has more grants than any other UCSB anthropology professor. approximately 6,000 signatures of students, faculty and University staff members. The The open hearing, Kenegos asserts, “will allow anthropology department has made no public the anthropology department to either admit the statement on the Allen case since department value conflict or state the actual reason Allen is chairman David Brokensha declared that he being fired.” j would resign before an open hearing was held. The students sponsoring the petition drive, According to Ken Kenegos, a member of the which has been organized primarily by Jeff Radical Union and participant in the petition Fisher, are optimistic about its success. With gathering, Allen’s firing is much more than just a strong support from the student body, they feel single issue. The dismissal reflects the whole the decision can be overturned. Bill Allen of Anthro Dept gaucho Photo by J. Melchione cl Tenants, landlords V o i.5 0 -N o . 60 Tuesday, January 2 0 ,1 9 7 0 University of California, Santa Barbara dash in Berkeley Create a r t LNS — Three carloads of apartm ent. The landlord Alameda County Sheriffs drove stubbornly denied any up to the white-stuccoed responsibility for maintaining for ecology mini-apartment house at the apartment. 1860-66 Dwight Way. It was a In Berkeley, rents have gone Persons with artistic talents Tuesday morning, Jan. 6. may enter a contest offered in up very fast, as much as conjunction with Jan. 28. They were accompanied by doubling in the last five years. The January 28 Committee, a big green moving van that Housing is getting scarcer and which is planning the day at had no license plates. Sixteen most of what’s available is SBCC in order to bring to the protesters and lots of substandard. The old buildings attention of more persons the plainclothes police watched the are decaying and the new critical ecological state of the 12 sheriffs evict two families h o using is shoddily world has organized a contest from the two-6tory building. constructed. open to persons in the Santa When the van, loaded with Although the Union lost this Barbara area. the hapless tenants’ furniture, skirmish, it has been successful Posters, paintings and pulled away from the scene, a in other cases, and is building drawings are expected to be The State of 'T h e Land of The free..." Berkeley Tenants Union strength for a massive rent the major portion of entries organizer hopped on his strike later this winter. In a submitted. However, motorcycle and followed it. large rent strike, the Union will photographs, sculpture, After a while, the unmarked have two advantages: it can cut cartoons or any type of visual Ecology week focuses on van stopped for a few minutes off rent from all the tenants of presentation pertinent to and then went on again. A few certain landlords, and it can tie conservation and/or minutes later the motorcyclist up the courts so that the anti-pollution, which are community coordination was stopped by a police car — landlords cannot afford to lose adaptable to display, may also somehow they had received a the rent for the lime it takes to be submitted. By CINDY HEATON report of a stolen bike that was evict the tenants. Persons entering the contest Feature Editor just like his. should note that entries will be Reknowned ecologists will join with state officials, professors The housing situation in This mystery book scene is judged on artistic merit, and students in discussing the ecological future of Santa Barbara Berkeley is not much different the latest in a series of run-ins originality and pertinence to and its relationship to the future of all peoples of the world on from the rest of the country, between the landlords and the the contest theme. Wednesday, Jan. 28, when Santa Barbara City College hosts the and the rent strike movement Berkeley Tenants Union. The Entries will be accepted principle events of Ecology Week. is certainly not new. Since the Union, organized in the from persons of all ages. Attempting to begin anew in their movement to save the successful Harlem rent strikes aftermath of the People’s Park Categories include students in environment, several community organizations have coordinated struggle, is striving to become of 1963-64, the movement has elementary, junior high and the program which will feature, among others, Paul Ehrlich, slowly spread across the the coUective bargaining agent high schools and college. In Congressmen Charles Teague and George Tunney and San for Berkeley’s tenants. In this country. Last year, 1,000 St. addition, both professional and Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto. Louis strikers succeeded in incident, the tenants had been non-professional adults are Focal point of the program, which will continue throughout the getting their rents rolled back withholding rent because the eligible. day, will be the reading and signing of the Santa Barbara from an average level of 42 per heating wasn’t working. Each category will have a Declaration of Environmental rights by its author, Associate cent of their income to 25 per (Berkeley gets pretty cold in winner, who will receive a $10 Professor of History Roderick Nash and other participants. cent. About 1,200 tenants in the winter — and one of the cash award. There will also be a Preceding Nash will be a panel of speakers, including Ecology Ann Arbor, Mich., have been children had been repeatedly grand prize of $25 for the best Action coordinator Geoff WaUace, who will address the political on strike for almost a year iH.) Several repairs had not overall entry. and social implications of ecology, including the need for new life now. been made. Deadline for the contest is 5 styles and the rechanneling of industry. The Ann Arbor Tenants p.m. on Jan. 26,1970. Entries Afternoon plans which have not yet been finalized will indude a The San Francisco Chronide Union and the National should be delivered to the march from SBCC to Steam’s Wharf and possibly a reading by the described one of the Tenants Organization have San Francisco poet Gary Snyder. apartments, — “a tour of the January 28 Committee’s called a “national conference drab apartment revealed that temporary headquarters at Past attempts to form an ecological coalition between members on student’s and the tenant's the toilet was in need of repair, 1510 San Andres St., Santa of the academic community and Santa Barbara residents have, at rights movement” to take place Barbara. best, had little success. at least two windows were in Ann Arbor Feb. 20-22. AH awards will be made and Focusing Wednesday’s program on the effects of ecological broken, and one window was winning entries will be destruction on the lives of the entire population will, hope its loose in its frame, allowing For further information on displayed at SBCC on Jan. 28. coordinators, help to draw all members of the community into a chilling breezes to blow the conference, write to Ann For further information, united environmental front. Community coordination, they through the small room,” and Arbor Tenants Union, 1528 contact Nancy Hauser, emphasize, must precede the development of large scale remarked that the situation Students Activities Building, 966-5793. movements. was similar in the other Ann Arbor, Mich. 48104. P A G E 2 --- E U G A U C H O ---- TUESDAY. JANUARY 20. 197 0 Performance series Peyote hunt shown in film The Huichol Indians of Following his talk, Furst will November and December small Mexico and their art will be the present his unique, hour-long groups of the most religious features Rexroth, Gates subject of a lecture and Aim Aim in color entitled “To Find Huichols set out on a long evening to be presented at the Our Life: The Peyote Hunt of journey to hunt the small A weekly series of noon Rutkowski, cellist, and Robert Santa Barbara Museum of Art the Huichols of Mexico.” psycho-active peyote cactus, performances is being offered Silverman, pianist. on Thursday, Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. An exhibition of Huichol which grows in the desert and every Wednesday in UCSB’s An hour with UCSB poets Peter Furst, anthropologist yam designs, collected by has great sacred and magical Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, reading their works is and Coordinator of Academic Furst, is now being shown signiAcance for the Huichols.