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Voight, Beroen and McGovern Morality of the Nixon Era by gory devine staff writer The visibleroot of theMcGovern under Richard Nixon. The war. nothing in the American people candidacy sent tendrils into the the ITT case, the Watergate stronger than mild suspicion or lawn of Central Park Tuesdayin incident, all constituted in disgust, thiit Americanshad been the forms of Jon Voight, Candice Voightsmind — the worst of what drugged by the type of moral Bergen,and TerriMcGovern (the was and is happeninginAmerica. leadership now in power. Senator's daughter) who spoke Voight then turned to the al- Concluding with the McGovern about the Democratic campaign ternative: George McGovern. remark that the President had in this political year. McGovern is tough yethonest, he vowedfour yearsago toget crime Around one o'clock the listensto thepublicwill.and.most off the streets and had brought it McGovern party arrived, and the importantly, he is moral. Voight into the White House, Candi crowdsettledback to listen.First was an impressive speaker, and brought on Terri MeGovern. was Jon Voight. Looking like a one easily believed.Alter a short Ms. McGovern began with a pale and thoughtful psychology quest ion-and-answer session, campaign plea: she had heard major. Voight addressed himself the actor brought on Candice from the Washington. D.C, head- to the reasons for his own per- Bergen. quarters that it was considered sonal committment. Speaking Candi beganby tellingusthat she "possible" that the McGovern quietly despite the frolicking of was really Tricia Nixon Cox candidacy Would win California, several large dogs and a few- disguised as Candi Bergen, and and if more volunteers could be stray photographers ("Some of that she was here to— wreck the gotten, that possible would my fans," said Voight), the star McGoverncandidacy as ifMrs. becomea proabable.Terri talked of the silverscreen describedhis- Cox could do such a thing, or then on the issues of the concern for the.quality— of life (heaven forbid) even dream up campaign, making a short but political and moral in the U.S. such an immoralact.Inany case, impressive contribution to the her presentationwas shorterthan rally, by recallingthe past— and Voight's.a bitmorepersonal,and well-known— mistakesandmoral covered again the morality of transgressions of the Nixon the Nixon administration. Then Administration (i.e. Attorney Candi toldthe audience of a news General Richard Kleindienst's reportshe hadheardonthewayto remark following the D.C. mass Irvine: the American govern- arrests in 1969: "We'll worry ment would not sign the peace about theConstitutionlater.. ."). accorduntil and unless the North She appealed to all those present Vietnamese army was with- to "electa manwhowillreturnus BSK/ersity drawn entirely from South to our highest ideals." reminding Vietnam. This announcement us that once a country.loses its provokeda mildreactionfromthe freedom, it is veryhard toregain. crowd, and that reaction led Terri McGovern smiled and nicelyintoCandi'scentraltheme: waved, then departed, thanking U.C.I. VOL. 5/ NO. 11/ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1972 that the Nixon Administration,in the assembly and the McGovern acting immorally, aroused campaign movedalong. THE SAGA OF STUDENT F.TK'S The sign outside read alwaysget you want, wasn't about to' give up to department and the "People's English Depart- You can't what students. There would be no Chancellor. After a long ment." Inside there were but if you try sometime you just might student FTE's that year. The bureaucratic pause for people talking, typewriters get you excuses given were that breath, the ten nominees clattering, signs being paint- find you what need. dosiers were sent in toolate to were finally approved. The ed. The writing center wads by the red herring collective* be reviewed and that budget student FTE's on campus this decorated withpinesprigsand mold students into Senate but at the same time cuts meant there was not quarter are: Carol Mermey the walls were lined with marketable products beganon denied he would necessarily enough— money for student (Social Science). Kenneth artwork, poetry and slogans the Berkeleycampus with the accept its decision. A FTE's all 35 FTE's were Brungess (Music), Erica drawn on butcher paper. Free Speech Movement of tumultuous meeting of the given directly to the depart- Sherover (Philosophy). Lynn Classes met. leaflets were 1964. Five years later, the Academic Senate followed in ment. But because of the Sukenick (English). Steven written, hundreds of tags Irvine students began to see which an ideological battle students' show of strengthand Simmons (Social Ecology) , lettered KBS were produced, that Irvine was becoming was wagedbetween juniorand support for the program, an and Shierry Weber (History). and the writing center was another Berkeley, another senior faculty. The issue of administrative promise was Carlos Castenadas, who is declared "Liberated Area machine. Through thefiringof "student power" split the given that the FTE program splitting a position with Carol n\." This was the height of the Kent. Brannan, and Shapiro. faculty wide open, with the would not be overlooked the Mermey. willbe teachinghere student power movement at Irvine studentsbecameaware junior faculty supporting the next year. in the spring. There are also Irvine. The Writing Center of the University as an in- democratic— student demands Last year's (71-72) student two physics professors shar- was "liberated." sat-in.lived- creasingly dehumanized The senior faculty FTE program drew an over- ing a position who will be here in for five daysin February of factory unconcerned with the defending the status quo. Out whelming response and next quarter. 1969. by hundreds of students. needs of its students, and in of all this came an agreement enthusiasm from students. The student FTE's on The center was occupied in which students were barred in principleby the Chancellor Forty-one dosiers were campus this year are offering protest to the firing of three from taking an active role in and Academic Senate submitted to an ASUCI com- classes not ordinarily avail- popular professors. George determiningthe forms and di- concerning student par- mittee by various individuals able at Irvine-and these ticipationin the governanceof and student groups. Of these classes have proven to be VOL. 2/NO. 39/TUESOAY. APRIL 14.1970 VOL INO 14 THURiOAT. F£8ltUJJtr 11 IMf m^ . the University and the forty-one, the ASUCI com- extremely popular. Over 200 Hoc:They Go £ establishment of a student- mittee selected ten highly people signed up for Carol REHIRE ? Ad Won'tLet §f S faculty committee to work out qualified and unusually Mermey's women's studies the details. A month later the interesting teachers to be icl1 ?„: 1^ committee reported recom- submitted for scrutiny to the continued on page 3 & To mendation that students control 10% of all new teach- ingpositions. The faculty first vacillated over this recom- mendation, but after renewed Attention Dog Owners student pressure, they VOL conceded student control over Iwould like to share with your readers a growing 2% of all faculty appoint- problemfor the pet owners on campus. Over the past two B ments (FTE's Full Time years there has been an increasing problemconcerning Equivalents). loose dogs on campus. Recently there has been an The implementation of the increasednumberof complaints by bothstaff and students student FTE program the over the nuisance that loose dogs arecreating.Therehave following year was only a been cases of dog attacks, people getting caught in dog partial success. For,although fights,and obstaclecourses beingcreatedin thehallways '<♥/,, °r . nan> |Ad Hoc Committee VowsI three student-selected bydogsthatchoose to relieve themselves in the buildings. ai>°Ptfo Action On Wednesday | professors werehired, theone What is the university goingto do to alleviate some of 2^ most wanted by students, the these problems? One alternative would be quite simple: Kent, Don Brannan and Steve rections of their own same Steve Shapiro of KBS. allow no dogs on campus at all. There are three laws Shapiro in the fall of 1968. education. was disapprovedby the Chan- concerningdogs.One, that all dogs must be licensed and These men were teachers The Ad Hoc Committee to cellor. After much more have had their shots. Two, that all dogsinpublic must be whose skills and dedication Reinstate Kent, Brannan and bureaucratic ping-pong, it on a leash (less than six feet). Three, that no dogs are had made them important Shapiro was formed in was decided that students allowed in publicareas such as parks,beaches, and the enough in the lives of the November in response to the could have their professors, UNIVERSITY. The University would be well within the students to make them worth firings. After three months of but that the student FTE's law to callin the animal control officer to round upevery fighting for. what was described as "being could not be used to hire pro- dog (even those on leashes). This application of the law The KBS struggle began as tossed back and forth like fessors who had been fired. doesn't seem very desirable. one over personalities, but it ping-pong balls between ad- In 1970-71, of the 35 new fac- Our best alternative is to police ourselves. If the dog soon became clear to the ministrators and jlty positions open, only one catcher cameon tothecampushe wouldcollect ALLof the students that the real issue at departments," it was decided was given to a student select- dogs. To keep the problemsdown toaminimum, students stake was the nature of the that reasoned arguments ed professor. Realizing the should keep their animals on aleash,that way they would institution itself. The Uni- could not change values when need to re establish the power know where their animal is and what it is doing. By versity of California has long one side had power and the that moved the bureaucracy respecting other people's rights and watching their own built its reputationonthe fame other side none.

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