McGill: Movement Was. 'Anti-Intellectual' by John H. Taylor the oppressed and of trying to improve the condition of humanity " Edltor-In-chlef According to McGill, in the wake of the development of a counter­ Cu lture universities relaxed course requirements to accommodate the A former UC San Diego chancellor has labeled the "counter-culture" radicals, because "many faculty members were tremendously Im­ of the 1960s and early 1970s an "anti-intellectual" movement com­ pressed with the romanticism of the counter-culture kids They copied prising young people who "in the end .. .couldn't feed themselves." the style; they copied the speech, and they copied the clothing " In an interview published in the San Diego Union Sunday, Columbia This loosening of requirements, he said, brought on pass/ fail grading University President William McGill, chancellor here during the most and other " non-competitive" grading plans that were popular only violent period of student activism, said campus radicals have been until it was discovered that students who took advantage of these plans replaced by students whose protection against society is "some " could not b'e placed in professional or graduate schools " A a result. commitment to some special kind of professional work ." He said these he said, students have stopped attacking grading systems students of the 19705 "saw the dismal state of the counter-culture and McGill said that during the counter-culture period, radical t acher rejected it." who really " didn't want to teach " came onto the scene, but left schools In the same interview, McGill said he was strongly opposed to labor when the public attention was no longer focused on them. "A number unions for college professors. of people with weak academic backgrounds were brought into tenure 'Romantic' positions ~t that time. Of course, they are intellectual CrIpples , and McGill said the student movement he encountered at UCSD, and they are still around." also at Columbia when he became president there in 1971, was a Radicals Not Popular Marxist " romantic ... movement of rejection, and it appeared to be He said that at Columbia "a few old-time Marxist socialists" remain on the faculty, but they are not prominent, nor are they " very at­ directed against the disciplinary requirements of a technological tractive to the students." The most popular professors there now, he society." He added, "The movement was linked to the anti-war ac­ says, are in chemistry and biology. tivity ... because of its romantic character." Financial insecurity among students, said McGill, has produced a McGill also described a "disciplined and tough" group of radicals, cyn icism that has replaced "the equally naive romanticism of the '60s " whom he said were often confused with "the rather romantic young tudents." He said the radicals had a "sales pitch which talked about William McGill Continued on Page 3 Assembly SubcoTnmittee to Investigate Student Elections The California State Assembly hopes to extend campaign and committee of the A sem bi has formed a special sub­ election reform fo tered by Elections and Reapportionment comm ittee to investigate student Proposition Nine to all elections Committee elections at California's public In the state Deceptive Practices universities and colleges. The The special investigating " umerou complaints have committee, under A semblyman committee which Assemblyman rea ched assembly member from Tom Bane (Democrat-Van Nuysl, Tom Bane will chair is a sub- all parts of the tate which allege deceptive election pro cedurp and practice ," Bane said " Becau e campus leader \\ ill President Ford to Visit one day be our leader , It " crit ical to our elect ive proce s that th e 'tra ining ground' be San Diego Tomorrow abo ve reproach," Ban e con­ tinued Just like 01' times., . by Mark Stadler the Ford administration , in­ Ban e's ubcomm lttee w ill Community editor cluding Federal Energy Ad ­ Inve tigate tudent election at ministration chief Frank Zarb and Pre ident Ford will make his tate college and un lver Itle , a Jame T. Lynn , director of the first visit to San Diego his well a community college , all 0 1 sin~ Office of Budg ot and ascension to the presidency to wh Ich receive tat~funG s UC Los Angeles Hosts Management. In attendance will address the White House " tud nts mu t be expo ed to be several hundred labor, Domestic and E onomic Affairs the most pure elect Ion pract Ices management and con sumer Conference tomorrow evening at Student bod elect ion hould b group leaders. Mayor Pete Wilson Charter Day Festivities the EI Cortez Hotel. models for all elective procedur , will assist in opening the con­ Downtown Walk and ce rtainly hould hav ference, which will be closed to afeguards equal to publ iC Ford will arrive in San Diego the public. election tudents hould be Outgoing UC Pre si dent Charles J. Hitch will be honored at festivities tomorrow morning to participate assured of the ame Integrl! In ommemorating UC's 107th anniversary during the annual University California Trip in a breakfast at the Little voting procedure a the general Charter Day celebration tomorrow at Los Angeles. America Westgate Hotel with Ford's viSit to San Diego is part voting public," Bane tated various local news media of an expected two week foray executives. From there be will through California. It began Road to Corruption Hitch, the 13th president of UC, will speak on "Missions Imposs ible," walk across the st reet and Sunday with an Easter trip to The Valley legl lator expre ed a e sing his seven and a half years as president and what the future through the Community Con ­ Palm Springs after the Pre ident the con cern of t ud nt I ad r holds for university. He will retire on June 30. course Plaza to a news con­ signed into law the $22 billion tax and admln I trator who fear that Tomorrow's celebration marks the return of Charter Day festivities to ference at noon with represen­ rebate bill Saturday ev nlng. unfair elective procedure on the U LA , which were last held in 1967. Faculty and student represen­ tatives of the local press and the Currently Ford is at the Elk Hill college campu may erv a a tatives from the nine campuses are expected as well as the regents and White House press corps Naval Petroleum Reserve near training ground for politI al other Un iversity officials. travelling with Ford. Then at 5 pm Bakersfield, and from there he orruptlon rather than leading th Ford will speak at the co nference. Will proceed to San Diego, and trong tr nd toward reforming Also scheduled to speak at the probably an Franci co on April PUriOUS electtve activity dnd 4. UCSD Represented conference are eight member 01 openln' campaign and ex ­ penditure to er t public ruttn y The UC San Diego contingent is led by Vice-Chancellor of University "No! on I ar 0 ur publici Relations Clifford Grobstein. Karen Steentofte will represent the un ­ elected r we entatlv s required dergraduates, Henry Brod the graduates, and Avrum Stroll, philosophy to b a cOLlntabl to the voter, professor, the faculty UCSD graduate student Deborah Kavasch will but all lev,' 1 ot el cted and lead th inging for the University hymn. appoint ed I( ader mu t observe that rule," Han on luded I he Inve tl 'at I ub- Though UCLA will host the AII-Univer ity elebration, Berkeley, the lommltt on tud nt [I tlon\ olde t of th nine campuse , will hold it own ob ervance of harter h" ad Will \(>ek to d fll" :I-w D~y ..Senatory Edward M . Kennedy (Dem-Ma sa hu elts) Will be the probl m\ and mak \ug!w\tlon\ PrinCipal speaker of the event and Will lat r deliver an addre to the tor corre tlon, If need d, to t'w California Alumni Association during it Charter Day celebration ll'gl .. latur(' B ~ke l ey was the ight of the first Charter Day celebration in 1874 wh£'n Ht'dflnl4 ddt('\ and 10< itt IOn' phtlo!>Opher Josiah ~oy e, then a tudent at B£'rk ley, won an oratory \\111 1)(' \( h('Ciult'd and puhl "h ..d tontest Later a building at UCLA wa named after the age h\ B,lnl''' \UO( ommltH'" Montgomery Reed Revelle Provost Morris Friedkin mark of Revell e's emtence. Coop OKs has formed a committee to discuss changes in the Revelle Parents' We'?kend Who is Behind the 'Mandatory Fee' Question? curriculum. Friedkin said the The Revell parents' weekend committee will halle a large A week or sc. ~o I received a phone call from Sara organizations are all gainina- momentum alUl renewed government Interventions were needed just to keep New Budgl!t will be held April 18 and 19. Lowen of the Tri n Times. In all other respects it was a attention. Hopefully, the successes and failures of past capitalism afloat. Not YAF. They oppose taxation (and by Richard Yep st udent membership, and will Parents will visit classes and labs. fairly normal ar-the-end-<>f-the-quarter day. After organizations, such as the Student Non-violent Coor­ the $6/quarter Campus Activity fee) on the grounds that Staff Writ., work to a significant extent with and will participate In discussions contributing ano~her six or seven hours toward my first dinating Committee (SNCC) and the Students for a 'people shouldn't have to contribute to projects other Although it failed to elect a input from students. with faculty members. In ad­ set of glasses, squinting over the fine print in the Democratic Society (50s), will be studied and absorbed than those of their choice.' Blows Budget Resource Group (BRG) The committee members from dition, San Diego lawyer and UC reference sectivn of Central library, I was really too by enough people to provide a basis for a higher le'Jel of Such an argument is insidious in that it seems logical coordinator, a post vacant for the faculty are physics professor Regent DeWitt Higgs will address wasted to be shocked when she asked me to do one of action and thought.