Evidence Gibson Opens Hearing

UWM POST Vol. XV, No. 8 October 13, 1970 Evidence opens Gibson By Marie Rohde "elevated" at this timhearine and that has complete discretion tgo grant of The Post staff Gibson and Blair left when re or deny permission of another fused permission to speak to faculty member to speak and Francis Blair, associate pro the class. that anyone has the right to fessor in exceptional education Blair also admitted that he request that permission. here, said Monday that actions and Gibson had entered and at Class time-belongs to the against Morgan Gibson warrant tempted to speak to the fresh student, Turner said, but the "formal reprimand," and not man English class of Virginia professor must be asked per dismissal. Haas, a teaching assistant. He mission to speak, under nor • Blair was the first defense said they spent no more than mal circumstances. The strike, witness to appear Monday be five minutes in either class, he said, presented a unique set fore the nine member faculty and that no students had left. of circumstances. council hearing charges a- Blair was granted immunity The defense attorney, Sander gainst Gibson stemming from Jrom charges that may arise Karp, asked for and was gran last spring's student strike. from his testimony. ted, permission to question the The council is composed of The first of the three ori council on their attitudes con elected faculty representatives ginal charges filed against Gib cerning the defendant. of the entire University of Wis son was dropped by the state About 3 p.m. a bomb threat consin system. attorney general's office. was called in, but the room Gibson, along with three other This charge, aiding and abet was not cleared. Students com Barb Seater at rally faculty members, faces pos ting a group of students in posed the majority of the spec sible dismissal. His is the preventing the start of a class tators at the hearing. first case to be heard. May 6, was brought as the re The state attorney general's Math prof arrested Gibson faces two charges of sult of a report filed by Rich assistant, David Hansen, com interrupting classes May 7, the ard Falk, a former English in pleted questioning Monday af second day of the student strike. structor. ternoon, and filed a brief. Blair testified that he and Falk requested the dropping Karp will continue question for alleged battery Gibson entered an English lec of the charge because he had ing his witnesses Tuesday ture of Harriet Sweetland, as not intended the report to be morning at 9 a.m. Gibson will An assistant professor of math thered for a noon rally in front sociate professor, and re used against Gibson. also testify on this day. ematics here was arrested early of Mitchell hall. At 12:30 quested time to speak. Robert Turner, chairman of Karp said he would call wit Monday afternoon at the Ci p.m., about 200 demonstrators Sweetland had previously tes the English department, was nesses to explain the special vic center campus for al marched to the Civic center tified that she ignored Blair twice called to testify in an circumstances that occurred leged battery to a police of campus to attend the hearing of and Gibson and continued her attempt to define or clarify during the strike here and dur ficer. Morgan Gibson, one of the four lecture. Sweetland and Blair academic freedom. ing others across the nation. The arrest came during a charged faculty members. both testified that voices were Turner said that a professor demonstration outside the room where hearings are being held for four UWM faculty mem City to ask bers threatened with possible dismissal. payment for The demonstration began when police, who were checking stu dent ID's and searching people cop overtime "at the entrance to the hearing room, informed a group ga In action taken Oct. 6 by the thered in the hallway that no Milwaukee common council, the more observers would be ad city clerk has filed two claims mitted. with the state to reimburse the (Prior to admitting people city for police overtime re to the hearing room, police told sulting from campus disorders the crowd that only 50 per here. sons would be let in.) The first claim, $20,745, is The group then began push for overtime by the Milwaukee ing, shoving and chanting, "let police dept. during the 1969 us in, let us in." The pro demonstrations. fessor was arrested during The second, claiming $56,000 the scuffle. overtime, if for demonstrations About 15 minutes later, the during the spring semester. back part of the room was "The claim is a referral, opened arid all persons with Brian Mitchell, administrative proper identification were ad assistant to the common coun mitted. cil said, "and will proceed to Bail money was collected for Chancellor J. Martin Klotsche the arrested professor, al for certification of the amount though it was later announced of overtime charged." that bail would not be set un From there it will go to til Tuesday morning. the state claims board. Earlier Monday, a group of SUPPORTERS OF THE four faculty members ended at the University's civic center campus The file is presently before approximately 400 students ga here facing dismissal charges marched down where hearings on the four are being held. Mayor Maier awaiting his sig Prospect av. Monday. The march started (Post photo by Paul Henning.) nature. Maier must return the on the Mitchell hall lawn after a rally and file by Oct. 14, after which the city clerk will send it to Klotsche. Latin Americans stage sit-in Typesetter fails, columns crooked By Larry Mackowski night. The committee had asked the reached including the naming Some articles in today's is of The Post staff Roberto Hernandez, chair administration to appoint a dir of Ricardo Fernandez, a Span sue of The Post are improper man of the negotiating commit ector for the Outreach insti ish professor at Marquette ly set because of mechanical A group of Latin American tee for the Council for La tute and to offer more finan university, as director of the failure of typesetting equipment, students are staging a sit-in tin American education, said cial aid to Latin American stu institute. Fernandez has~since Post Production Manager James and hunger strike on the lawn that the group plans to stay dents. withdrawn his application be Hanin reported. of Chapman hall to protest al at Chapman hall "until we get The Outreach institute, ac cause he said he felt the Uni Articles had to be set man leged University lack of inter some positive results." cording to Hernandez, would be versity had"no sense of ur ually, Hanin said, because of est in enacting programs for Last week, the committee an a Spanish speaking center de gency." failure in one of two typeset Spanish speaking students. nounced that it was severing signed to recruit Latin Ameri Earlier Monday, Ernest Spaights ting machines. Because of About 50 persons, carrying negotiations with the Univer can students. It would also an assistant chancellor, re this, he said, columns will be plain brown posters, formed a sity because of what it called help the students obtain finan leased a statement which read: uneven. picket line in front of the buil "a lack of interest on the cial and scholastic assistance. "We hope that we can con The machine, Hanin said, will ding Monday afternoon. About part of the University in act Hernandez said that some tinue our discussions with the be repaired before the publica 30 planned to remain over ing on agreed upon programs." . tentative agreements had been (Cont. on page 4, col. 4) tion of Friday's newspaper. Page 2 UWM POST October 13, 1970 Women must fight to change society Women in America will win undermining the revolutionary freedom and equality only when movement by defining it in "li they organize politically and beral, middle-class" terms "make total and fundamental suppressing the true revolu changes in American society," tionary nature of the struggle. Marlene Dixon, a revolutionary What she described as the women's liberation organizer said "pig media" passed on to the Monday. American public this distorted Dixon, an assistant provessor view of the movement." of sociology at McGill univer Dixon said passage of the sity, Montreal, explained her equal rights amendment cur view of the women's liberation rently before congress would struggle at the Milwaukee wo be a defeat for working men men's center. and women. Dixon called the women's lib She explained that the amend eration movement "morbid and ment without an extension of obsolete" because of their con current protective legislation, CHANCELLOR J. MARTIN KLOTSCHE and other dent groups with the chancellor and his staff. cern with "emotional head would result not in equal rights administrators met with members of The UWM Left to right: Kathy Clark, accountant; Kelly trips," which she defined as for women but would allow em Post staff at a luncheon Monday and discussed Clark, editor in chief; Richard Mial, managing endless discussion with no re ployers to disregard current problems facing the University. The luncheon editor. In the foreground is Post reporter sulting action. laws protecting workers. was one of several designed to acquaint stu Joanne Engelking. (Post photo) The National Organization of Women (NOW), she said, is both reactionary and detri mental to the revolutionary movement. Summer work study doubted Both organizations, she said, are primarily concerned with could not find jobs off-cam spending of $200,000.

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