2,000 marchers demand 'On Strike! Shut it Down!' By HILARY KAYE Seated together in front of Staff Writer the Administration Building, Striking students marched the students voiced support for through the campus yesterday the strike and formed afternoon chanting “On strike! organizational committees. Shut it down!” A campus-wide Tasks meted out included strike was called for, beginning picketing, contacting at 8 a.m. today. organizations on campus for This action culminated a support, calling professors noon rally in front of the asking that classes be held off Administration Building, where campus, organizing the dorms about half a dozen persons, and canvassing Isla Vista. including Bill Allen, spoke to While the striking students the crowd of 1,000. The march remained in the Administration serpentined throughout the Building area, the campus, picking up persons announcement was made that along the way, until marchers UC Santa Cruz had joined with numbered around 2,000. UCLA and Berkeley in their Students paraded through support of UCSB and the Allen both academic buildings and situation. Last night, Santa residence halls yelling “On Cruz held a solidarity rally on strike — Join the march!” and their campus. “Power to the People!” This morning at 8 a rally of Participants in the march all persons supporting the ended up at the Administrstion strike will be held in front of Building. They circled once the Administration Building. and sat down in front. Last Thursday’s tactics of -------------------------------- 1 locking the front doors with bicycle locks and newspapering RALLY TODAY the windows to keep the campus police inside from 8 a.m. viewing the outside activities, were employed. Outside police were off Administration campus all day, and there were Building no incidents of trouble with police authorities. PART OF 2,000 MARCHERS who yesterday called a strike until demands are met. Priv. and Ten. Committee defeats open hearing 6-1 By MIKE GROSSBERG Staff Writer In a letter to Bill Allen yesterday the Committee on Priviledge and Tenure of the Academic Senate informed him that it was “unable to find that there is a prima facie showing that the termination of your contract by the anthropology department was Vol. 50 - No. 73 Thursday, February 5,1970 University of California, Santa Barbara based on professionally or academically irrelevant considerations and a formal hearing will therefore not be initiated.” This committee decision was reached with the agreement of six REPORTING DEMONSTRATIONS of the seven committee members. Walter Buckley, associate professor of sociology, dissented, stating that he “did not feel the committee investigated far enough to determine whether there was prima facie evidence for a formal hearing.” Truth and the News-Press Buckley will submit two statements of his opinion today. A detailed copy with evidence bound under the principle of By LARRY BOGGS demonstration were “so poor o f demonstrators last confidentiality will be sent to the Chancellor’s Office. The other Arts Editor you couldn’t identify the Thursday. statement will be given to Allen. Conflicting reports and individuals.” inaccurate accounts of the • “Venegas said he ‘grabbed’ continuing demonstration • “The protestors then Hall, and several other officers Last Board pushed him to the ground to against the firing of Bill Allen threw rocks, smashing the glass Through this decision by the Committee on Priviledge and subdue him after Hall used a have become the rule rather of four large windows and the Tenure the last normal faculty review board has been exhausted by entrance doors.” The doors megaphone to urge the crowd Allen. The decision not to rehire him can now only be altered by than the exception with the Santa Barbara News-Press. were broken by the charge to ‘get ’em ...charge ’em...kill the Chancellor. policemen made on the crowd (Continued on p. 8, col. 5) Chairman of the Academic Senate James Walters, and Lewis Some of the erroneous Walton, chairman of the statewide Committee on Rules and statements made in the Jurisdiction, explained the position of the statewide Academic News-Press since the Senate on the issues in the Allen case and their assessment of demonstration began last Arrested students barred Tuesday’s meeting in an interview with EL GAUCHO. Thursday include: “The burden of proof is never on the department to show cause • “Repeated references to why a member shouldn’t be fired, it is on the faculty member to ‘ringleaders’ of the from campus by recent law prove why he should be hired,” Walters said in explaining the demonstration.” There are no normal procedures of firing faculty members. ringleaders, and the word itself By JEFF PROBST not informed of other This is based upon the Harvard system, which according to directly implies conspiracy. Staff Writer-in-Exile subdivisions in the section Walton, tries to find the best possible man in the country for an • “Students from the The UCSB students who which entitle them a legal right open position. Thus a non-tenured faculty member is competing Radical Union, made up were arrested in connection to have an open hearing within against all other available men in the country and must prove why chiefly of members of Students with last Friday’s one week of their petition to he should be appointed. for Democratic Society__” demonstration will present a appeal the notification. Few members of the Radical petition today to the The students were also By laws Union were campus members Administration to have an denied the information that The two members of the Academic Senate went on to explain of SDS. None of them were open hearing on the matter of they have a right to go on that there are statewide bylaws on personnel matters which set up even members of the national their two-week suspension campus for the specific purpose the jurisdiction and methods which each branch must follow. organization. from campus. of filing the petition and that “Changes in academic government can only be made by the • “Using television video The students were notified upon entering campus they are university-wide assembly of the Senate..and is then subject to tapes of the mass on Monday that according to a exempt from arrest. review by the Board of Regents,” Walton said. demonstration on campus relatively new section of the According to several As an example, Walton pointed out that UC Irvine had tried to Friday, law enforcement Penal Code, “...any consent lawyers, including members of get students as voting members of their Academic Senate but that officers last night obtained you may have had to remain the American Civil Liberties this was rejected by the University-wide assembly. warrents for the arresst of the on the campus...is hereby Union, this legislation is a very In Walters’ view, students’ request for a voice in personnel 19.” According to Barry withdrawn.” recent enactment which can be review matters will be “debated for a long time and the main Capolla of the Santa Barbara The notification, dated used voluntarily by an question is that of confidentiality.” District Attorney’s Office, the Saturday, Jan. 31, and signed administrator to keep students Walton concluded by stating that the issue “involves matters warrants were not based on by Dean of Men Robert Evans, in line. that might even have to go clear back to the Regents.” video tapes. continued by stating that if the As soon as the petition is Tuesday night’s Senate meeting, the two faculty members felt, Kent Bishop of the Office of students are on campus they presented, the Administration “did one thing in the direction of the students,” in creating a Learning Resources here at are “committing a crime and must immediately notify all student-faculty committee to study methods used elsewhere for UCSB stated that the quality will be immediately arrested.” students of the day of the open increasing student participation in campus governance. of the tapes taken at the However, the students were hearing. P A G E 2 -----E L G A U C H O ----- THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 5. 197 0 Visually exciting show Old Vic singer directing opera exhibits Tantric art Visiting artist Joan Cross Commander of the English performs at schools and music will direct the UCSB Opera Empire. festivals. One of the first and by far contem porary western Theatre’s production of Playing principal roles in the the largest exhibition of painting. Claudio Monteverdi’s “The The visiting director has UCSB opera production will be directed and staged operas in Tantric art ever to be shown in Primarily used as vehicles of Coronation of Poppea” in Marjorie Lathrop as Poppea, this country will open Feb. 8 England, Holland, New visual concentration in the Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall Floyd Rigby as Nero, Jane at the Santa Barbara Museum Zealand, Canada and Norway. exercise of yoga, these works Friday, Feb. 13, through Spears as Amalta, Suzanne of Art. “Tantra: From the She directed ‘The Coronation are immediately fraught with Sunday, Feb. 15. Lukather as Ottavia, Alan Collection of Blanche Manso” of Poppea” in Oslo in 1907 visual excitement quite apart Tickets for the 8 p.m. Means as Ottone and Suzanne will continue to be on from their original application performances are available at and has been a director of the Champion as Drusilla. exhibition through March 22. a n d inherent oriental the Campus Box Office, the Norwegian National Opera. Professor Carl Zytowski will aesthetics. Lobero Theatre and the Miss Cross also was a producer conduct the opera which has Included in this exhibition Discount Record Center. for BBC and ‘ Norwegian been designed by Jean Jones. are paintings, drawings, MYSTICAL WORKS Miss Cross, visiting here television.