SPC Changes Dow Tactics

EAR Basically, EG fans, we have shot our wad fo r this quarter: This is the last issue. Good luck on finals, EL GAUCHO have nice holidays. Love and Kisses. -T h e Editors Voi. 48 - No. 51 Santa Barbara, California Friday, Dec. 1,1967 SPC Changes Dow Tactics; Regents Consider Draft Card Turn-In Set Sig Chi, Salaries ByNINAPINSKY JEAN FISHER By STEVE BAILEY EG City Editor EG Feature Editor and EG Staff Writer Dow Chemical Co. is making its long awaited appearance on this campus Mon SAN DIEGO—Sigma Chi came under fire again yesterday at the monthly meet day and Tuesday, with Student Peace Committee (¡SPC) spokesman Jim Gregory ing of the Committee on Educational Policy of the Board of Regents here. declaring Dow's compliance "a moral victory" for the SPC. At the Board's October meeting at Davis, acting University President Harry According to Gregory, "Dow has complied right down the line with every R. Wellman informed the Board of a letter he had sent to Floyd R. Baker, Grand thing we've asked forgone of their west coast public relations heads is appear Consul of Sigma Chi, asking about the initiation practices of the fraternity. ing here to discuss Dow's policies and recruitment with all interested parties." SpecificaUy asked was: "If a chapter of Sigma Chi located at one of the cam The public relations expert from Dow, as yet unnamed, will speak with stu puses of the University of California should pledge a Negro, would it subsequently dents at 2 p.m.Monday in the UCen Program Lounge. be permitted to initiate him in order that he would become an active member?” In reply to the letter, Baker answered: "If a chapter of Sigma Chi located at DEMONSTRATION CHANGED' one of the campuses o t the University of California should pledge a Negro it As a result, the demonstration against Dow by the PjC., starting at 11 a.m. could subsequently initiate him into active membership.” in front of the Administration building, "will not be directed at Dow's recruiting Regent Frederick Dutton found this answer inadequate, and called the Board's policies, but simply at Dow's complicity in the Vietnam war," declared Gregory. position, if the answer were approved, "Uncle Tomish.” He referred to the fact The demonstration will include picketers with placards showing photographs that four state colleges had found Sigma Chi's pledging practices discriminatory and stated, i f approved, the Uni of 'the atrocities of napalm." versity would be ''advocating A delegation of the SPC will de facto discrimination." try to speak with the Dow re BERKELEY CRISIS: NO END IN SIGHT He continued, '4t is the cruiters to present them with a BERKELEY— Mass m ill-ins protesting the recent suspension of two students continued grossest hypocrisy to say w ell statement of beliefs and pur into their second day here. An estimated 1,000 protestors marched to numerous buildings, grant and encourage student poses which the .Committee has including Dwinele Hall, which holds the Chancellor's Office, and halted regular activities with drawn up regarding Dow’s role aid to Negroes, yet at the same their mill-in tactics. time w ell grant discrimination in the war. According to leaders of the demonstrations, the mill-ins will occur throughout the Berkeley However, he qualified his op in campus living groups." campus until their demands concerning the suspended students are met. Regent Elinor H eller found timism: "At the same time, Included in the demands are: withdrawal of the suspension of the two students, as well the question of discrimination we are unhappy that the Ad the probated suspensions of 18 others; guarantees of no punishment for recent CIA and to be a much broader one and ministration did not agree to Dow protestors; and a guarantee of no further University interference in the current crisis. called tor an investigation of a revision of their policies concerning recruiters." the whole fraternity system. Dutton asked that no action be taken until February when a DRAFT CARD TURN-IN concrete decision on the Greek In the second major pro system as a whole could be test of that day, a group of made. students plan to demonstrate in The report of Sigma Chi was front of the Santa Barbara Draft included in President Well Board at 3:30 Monday after man's monthly report to the noon. At 4 "m o re than 20 in Regents, and was passed as a dividuals from this campus and report. Dutton, however, w ill the Santa Barbara area will bring up the question again hand in their draft cards to today at the general meeting of protest the Vietnam situation," the Board. accorded Gregory. Also, approved by the Regents This "second resistance," at the same committee meeting across the nation will feature was a study into the possible hand-ins in nearly all major increase of faculty salaries THE BARBERS' NIGHTMARE . With only a few tickets left for tonight's Rob Gym Concert, a cities. In addition to the 4 within the University system. word to the wise is sufficient, and all you'll get . -Marshall photo p.m. turn-in, locally, Gregory Presenting the report before disclosed that the Student Peace the Board was President-elect Committee is attempting to se Charles J . Hitch who noted cure use of a church that after Integration Wallace HQ that the proposed increase in noon for a draft card burning. Well-Known salaries is the result of a com parison made with eight other Questioned Opens in SB universities. Realtors By MOLLY SAMUELSEN Hitch explained that compari By RICK ROTH sons in the past were made with EG Staff Writer Architect only five institutions, and only EG Staff Writer "T h e only alternative we now 'Boycott1 "W e're getting quite an en with the figures from the Col have to another civil war is the lege of Letters and Science. thusiastic response,” remark ethnic separation of this Now, the evaluation is conduct ed the silver-haired matronbe- nation,” declared W.H. Ferry, Visits Here ed with all schools within the IV Study hlnd the registration desk at the a self-termed "aging liberal” University except for Medicine, Wallace for President Head from the Center for the Study The distinguished Am Dentistry, and Law which oper Last night's planned meeting quarters in Santa Barbara. of Democratic Institutions. erican architect and de ate under their own salary between I.V . Study Group and "T h e folks around here are Before a predominantly white signer R. Buckminster scale. local realtors turned out to be starting to stand up for their a ‘ b o y c o tt" on the part of the group last Tuesday night in San Fuller w ill be visiting the country and their consciences." The purpose of this type of realtors, as not one showed up Miguel lounge, Ferry present College of Creative Studies comparison is to establish a* for the uniform contract study. ed a 3 5-page thesis entitled next week. The little stucco office on mean salary scale for profes " I hope it is a mistake on "FareweU to Integration." He A series of informal dis Carillo Street is just one of sors and employees in the UjC. their part—but if it isn't, it will described it as "a thoroughly cussions will be presented a multitude of Wallace rally system as the result of the eight be by the time this is o v e r ," disagreeable, depressing paper Monday and Wednesday at points throughout the state as schools considered. angrily vowed Mike Goldberg; which gave me intellectual con 2 p.m. and Tuesday and the husband of Alabama's gov This recommendation for chairman of I.V . Study Group. stipation to w rite." Thursday at 3 p.m. in Bldg. ernor attempts to get his Amer higher salaries was made by the According to Goldberg, the A former worker for the 431, Rm. 102. ican Independent Party on the Coordinating Council to the proposed contract w ill now be civil rights movement, Ferry Fuller's one-man shows baUot next November. state legislative Finance Com drawn up by two lawyers with indicated that "The concept erf have been seen throughout Over 100 voters have switch mittee. out the aid of the realtors. integration is still a great idea. the UJ>. and Europe, and Its only flaw is that it is sen he has appeared as a guest ed their allegiances to Wallace Hitch predicted that the Uni timental, not doctrinal. It can lecturer at the world's in this area, according to his versity would be "in a very not possible succeed in an in leading coUeges and uni headquarters. "W e're awfully serious condition" at recruiting | AFSC Drive corrigibly racist nation such as versities. tired of the way things are tim e if the increase is not grant The American Friends Ser o u rs ." The designer-inventor - going on out there at the Uni ed. vice Committee will hold a fund Challenging the inteUectuals author was educated at versity," exclaimed one eld T o be discussed at the raising drive to aid injured o f ‘ 4>lack tow n" and "white Harvard, the UJ5. Naval erly visitor to the office. meeting today are the recent civilians in North and South town,” Ferry urged them to Academy, the University Not to be outdone, her com campus demonstrations at Vietnam this Saturday. Partici realize the immediacy of the of North Carolina, Michi panion, a man w ell on in years Placement Centers.

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