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A First Step

Convocation No.1 Monday began the series of

CSCSB convocations designed to inform students on vital issues in educa t ion and of fe r an opportunity for expression of student interests. A five member panel, representing a spectrum of views qualified to illucidate problems on a system-wide level, faced an audience of approximately two hundred and fifty. Monday's panelist were: Tom McGraf f , Ass i s tan t Vice-Chancellor of the State Colleges; Dr. John Pfau, President CSCSB; Dr. Edward White, Assoc. Professor of English; Dr. Bob Roberts, Professor of History and moderator for the panel; Dr. Kent Schofield, Assis. Professor of History; and Dr. Ronald Barnes, Jr., Assoc. Professor of Drama.

President Pfau opened up discussion with an explanation for the need of the convocations. He

cited the urgency of the problems facing the state college system, the tension among students and faculty created by these conflicts, and the need for a stu den t-f acuity-admins tration dialogue.

Dr. White, chapter president of the ACSCP, defined the unrest and upheaval in higher education in terms of rigidity of political controllers of the system, poor public image and communication, and the fact that the academic community reflects the evils in our own society. He claimed that most people think of the student and faculty demands as the product of radical, communist minorities who have decided to cause trouble without cause, but in reality this is a simplistic, uninformed response. "You don't attack he who yells 'Fire!' "

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CONVO NUMBER TWO: Professor Waldron and S. F. student Ron Varney presented the con side of the strike issues^ Ugtloiibtably. Dr. Waidron is either citing the Lady's Home Journal or Readers' Digest to accentuate his arguments. (Photo by Terry Nicholson)

S.F. Strikes

Pro/Con Debates By DAVE BROWN

The topic of Tuesdays Convocation was the strike at San Francisco State College and was moderated by Dr. Leslie Van Marter. There were four panelists: Russell Bass, Student Body President of san Francisco State; Professor Dennis Day of the speech department at San Francisco State Assistant Professor Howard Waldron of the Industrial Arts Department and Ronald Varney, a student and member of the "Committee for an Academic Environment" at San Francisco State.

Russell Bass presented his reasons for supporting the. strike: "It is simply the last alternative," said Bass. "We have tried many times and in many different ways to bring the problems to the attention of the Board of Trustees and Chancellor Dumke. As of this point, we have obtained no

"meaningful response and in fact, the Board has refused to even negotiate until the striking has stopped." ' "This is the most preposterous thing I have ever heard, it's like some factory telling the strikers that there will be no negotiation until the workers return to their jobs!" "Why bother to negotiate when there is nothing to negotiate about?"

When the question was asked of Bass if he thought the BSU would

-negotiate if they thought they would be able to get meaningful results, Bass replied, "Yes, I think they would if all of the 15 demands were met in principal."

Professor Day supported his

CONVO ONE: a five member panel moderated by Dr. Roberts spoke on system wide problems of the state college system. In attendance Monday was an audience of 250 students and faculty. (Photo by Steve Imiaiek)

The

- Published by the Associated Students of Cal-State SB -

VOL. 4 NO. 12 San Bernardino, California 92407 January 24,1969

EAR, Negro Novel at CSCSB

position of being on strike by saying that he was striking for the very existence of his profession. He also said that, if the Board of Trustees does not negotiate, it will be the students in the future who will be hurt. But, he added, "I am sacrificing now, as my associates are, for my profession, and for the students so they may have a truly meaningful education. I am not striking for higher wages, more fringe benefits or a smaller work load. 1 am fighting for the rights that are guaranteed me in the Bill of Rights, specifically the rights of freedom of speech and of assembly." Professor Day pointed out also, that many students were being clubbed by the tactical squads at SF State and that most of the arrests being made were arrests for "illegal assembly."

Professor Waldron, in defense of his position on the anti-strike said said, "The riots at S. F. State are fun and games." He then accused his opponents of trying to snow the issue by using big words and irrelevant rhetoric and then proceeded to read several articles out of Esquire and The New York Times. Professor Waldron's main point was that the State College System needed more money.

Ronald Varney, a student and a member of the Committee for an Academic Environment said that he supported the principals involved and the underlying issues but that he and his committ^ did not agree with the violence. Varney then made the statement that he and his followers were the "new wave," which elicited a response from the panel of, "ride on surfer."

By BEN JACQUES A large part of the present

state-wide crisis in education centers around the demands that colleges meet educational needs of non-white minorities by admitting them in larger numbers «nd by offering adequate courses in their history and culture. This crisis is seen most dramatically at San Francisco State College where students have demanded the formation of a separate black-studies department and open admission to all minority applicants.

This week PAWPRINT talked with two professors on this campus who are involved in programs relevant to the state-wide conflicts: Professor Ernest F. Garcia (education), who heads the Exper imenta l Admiss ions Program; and Professor Robert A. Lee (English), who teaches a course titled "The Black Novel."

The Experimental Admissions Program (EAP) began at the beginning of the fall term when 11 students who otherwise would not have gained admission were admitted to CSCSB. Three more entered the program this quarter; three to five will enroll through EAP in the spring. Primarily, the students are Negro and Mexican Americans.

EAP students face the same study curriculum and degree requirements as other students. They are given tutorial help by g radua te ass i s tan ts and under-graduate student tutors.

Professor Garcia said he was "very enthusiastic" about the "success" of the new program. With a good tutoring program it should be more successful, he said.

However, EAP, in order to meet the community's needs "will have to grow, grow quite a bit," Garcia stated. He said he hoped that larger numbers of students could be admitted as the program developed. Presently enrollment through EAP is limited by the State College Chancellor's office at four percent.

Asked if he supported the demands at San Francisco State that all minority applicants be

given open admission, Garcia said he would like to see all applying students accepted, but there would have to be a design to insure that every opportunity for success be given the students; otherwise, he noted, there would only be more frustration. There would have to be co-operative efforts between faculty, students and administration to create this design for success, according to Garcia.

Of course, much of the problem facing college education for minorities stems from primary and secondary schools, noted Garcia. Besides overcoming language problems and acquiring basic reading and writing skills, there are other obstacles to overcome for many minority students. For example, children from Spanish — speaking families are led to believe that because their language and their customs are not taught in the schools that they are "on the bad side of the ledger," said Garcia, which gives them a sense of isolation from the educational process. Rather, he explained, the minority student must learn that "who is he and what he is, is an asset."

Although he had ideas on how the educational structure might be

improved, Garcia said that expansion of EAP "can be successful within the present structure." He stressed the need for a "success — orientated" attitude among teachers and students.

THE BLACK NOVEL "The blacks are right," said

Professor Robert A. Lee, "the past ignoring of black art has been educationally indefensible."

For the second quar te r , Professor Lee is teaching a course in the black novel. According to Lee, CSCSB is responding to the need for ethnic studies, hopefully before the time comes when demands are presented by physical confrontation. There are proposals to the faculty body for expansion of ethnic studies, perhaps the of fe r ing of ethnic-study degrees in a few years, as the school grows, noted Lee.

One major problem in designing a course in an ethnic society's art or history at CSCSB's relatively small campus is, "Who will take the course?" said Lee. Four students took the upper-division course last quarter. However, this quarter the class is over-filled with 21; four of them are black students.

CONVO NUMBER TWO: For the pro side of the S. F. State strikes, ASB President Russel Bass and Dr. Dennis Day expressed their views to Tuesday's audience of 170 students.

Page 2 PAWPRINT January 24.1969

Editorial The 400 Blows

What does it take to motivate an individual to utilize an opportunity disigned to inform him about his life? Or rather, to motivate a CSCSB student? Evidently, six hours of convocations supported by the administration and faculty, and specially called for by the ASB government is not enough. Perhaps the fiery hand of God, a major earthquake, or the crumbling of our prison-gray PS and BS fortresses MIGHT just make them pause and reflect a moment. Even if one concedes the possibility that there were two hundred students discouraged by the rain, another two hundred were long distance commuters, and still another two hundres are married with families and jobs, that sadly leaves at least Four Hundred students who regarded each day of the convocations as a grammar school recess.

It's these Four Hundred (and you know who you are) that pose a far more serious threat to our society than a condensed core of all the Joe McCarthys, George Wallaces, Max Raffertys, Klu Klux BClansmen, Minutemen, and Black Panthers combined. You Mighty Four Hundred, are you the same people now that you were five years ago? Or is it possible that you have changed .... your goals? your values? your aspirations? your knowledge? your means of need-fulfillment? Obviously, the entire life of the human animal is one of change, and thereby no greater aggregate of humanity — no society - can remain static and fixed. Not even yours. So why then, when you are handed the chance to witness the need for change, begged to offer your own opinion on how to best implement that change, and given the resources of information necessary to understand that change, did you choose instead to stay home? Is "Love of Life" really that exciting?

CSCSB is your college. You are investing your money, time and sweat to gain the necessary mental ability and awareness that is to enable you to deal with society and its conflicts. But are the values intrinsic in your academic environment reflective of the values you'll be confronted with in your community? in your society?

Dear Mighty Four Hundred, these funny little battle-worn concepts called freedom, representation, due process, civil liberties, autonomy and self-awareness will always remain just funny little concepts as long as you're here< No army of Rightest Establishment Pigs, nor mob of Leftist Radical Revolutionaries could destroy more efficiently a human society than you apathetic slugs who refuse to acknowledge your own slime. When you hoisted your flags of non-involvement, you deservedly joined the ranks of the thirty-nine "witnesses" from Queens, New York.

Look around you. Four Hundred .... beyond KRNO, beyond The Sun, even beyond San Bernardino. What do you see? Student upheaval in Canada, Mexico, USA, England, and Europe; riots, strikes, demonstrations; Trustees running institutions of learning like the giant corporations they own; everywhere you turn, the cry for CHANGE is echoed. And yet, you myopic moles, you burrow even deeper in your dim womb-tombs when a six hour shaft of light attempts to reach you.

Credit must be given where deserved. Those students who attended this weeks' convocations, whatever their personal or political opinions, at least realized the importance of taking an active part in an educational dialogue. These convocations displayed more student interest at CSCSB than the campus has ever experienced. But even so, those interested students who attended bore the responsibility of involvement refused by the Mighty Four Hundred. Evidently, the cure for apathy works slow. Who knows .... by next week, it might be down to three hundred ninety eight.

Pawprint Staff SLAVE DRIVER - Mark Trenam

INSTIGATOR Dr. L. E. Van Marter

TALL TALES - Ben Jacques FABRICATIONS - Don Lannon STAFF PSYCHOANALYST

Dr. Sigmun Id PONY EXPRESS - Carol Correia FUNNIES • Jerry Hambleton

PASTE AND FINGERPAINT Tim Murphy

SNOWJO^— Kim Brinton CULTUR^— Eric Romstad

EFFICIENCY EXPERT FICTICIOUS FLICKS Marilyn Petric

CHOREOGRAPHER Bubbles Squire

Terry Nicholson COPY CAT - Sam Houston

CAST Terrie Bouton, Frank Moore, John Stamp, Dave Brown, Harvey Friedman, Mike Zlaket, Chris McAllister,Malcomb Simpson

Editors Note: Due to the limitations of

available space, the Pawprint requests that all letters submitted to the editor be no longer than 300 words. The paper reserves the right to edit all copy submitted. Anonymous letters will not be accepted^

I would like to reply to the two letters, written by Mike Clark and Ken Harper on C. S. C. S. P. A. and the Executive Cabinet meeting, which appeared in last weeks "Pawprint." In this letter Mr. Clark stated that he felt: the resolution on recent Trustee actoin was passed without due consideratin, the wording over simpliHed the situation at S. F. State, the wording would hamper instead of help the students the resolution placed the blame for the crisis continuing on the Trustees, and that he felt C, S. C. S. P. A. had degenerated from a past of rational and sound work in solving problems on the state college campuses.

In answer to the first point of Mr. Clarks I would like to say that he was totally ignorant of what

had been happening at the convention. The Cal State Presidents had spent two and one half days discussing the problem of Trustee intervention. (Most of this time Mr. Clark had been in AAA meetings, and been in his hotel room in bed). The statement that the language of the document could only harm student progress is a valid point. However, it was felt that, in order for the document to really be meaningful andnot be used as sanitation material in the Trustees' restrooms, the document had to be strongly worded. It was also felt that the students and faculty siding with the views of the administration could be placed in the same BASIC group; as could the faculty, administration, and students siding with the BSU and TWLF.

The reason the Presidents felt the responsibility for the crisis should be placed on the Trustees is because the Trustees have, at THEIR disposal, the means to halt thecrisis. The three basic uses are: 1) negotiation (negotiations have never taken place because BOTH rides have not wanted to

negotiate) 2) closing of the school; and 3) (God forbid) put an end to the crisis by force.

Finally, as to Mr. Clarks statement that C. S. C. S. P. A. used to be a relevant group, 1 would like to disagree. According to most of the people who have attended C. S. C. S. P. A. conferences C. S. C. S. P. A. had not done anything fruitful, at least along the line of resolutions and solving problems. However, in my opinion C. S. C. S. P. A. at this meeting had moved toward becoming a relevant group.

I would like to agree with Mr. Hwper that the document. _was badly worded and confusing. However, I resent the fact that Mr. Harper is trying to make "political hay" out of the situation instead of representing the best INTEREST of the students. I will sign this letter in respect for a free and just country under an EQUAL LAW.

Joe McKee

Pres., Soph. Class

Initiative Rights Sought By RONALD McCAFFERTY

Last quarter there was circulated a petition whose purpose was the amendment of the Constitution for the Associated Student Body of California State College at San Bernardino. The petition was necessary.

Article IV (Section 2), first sentence now reads: "Legislative power shall be vested in the Student Senate." We, the undersigned, agree that Art. IV (Sec. 2) should be amended to read:

"Legislative power shall be vested in the Akociated Student Body and then In the Student Senate. The Associated Student Body shall also initiate legislation independently from both the Student Senate and the Executive Cabinet. The Student S'-.iate shall then vote on the proposed legislation within a reasonable amount of time. When legislation is initiated by a member of the Associated Student Body, other than a member of either the Student Senate or of the Executive Cabinet, and approved by the Student Senate, the Executive Cabinet shall have neither veto nor item veto power over that legislation. When the Student Senate does not approve legislation proposed by a member

of the Associated Student Body, a petition signed by fifteen percent (15%) of the members of the Associated Student Body and presented to the Associated Student Body President will qualify to place the proposed legislation on a ballot for which a

special election shall be called by the Associated Student Body President. Once an election shall have been called, the ratification of the proposed legislation shall no longer rest within the jurisdiction of the Student Senate to decide one way or the other."

CSCSPA What is It ? Student Body Presidents from

the 18 schools in the California State College System banded together in 1959 to form an organization to speak for the State College students on statewide and local issues.

Today this same organization, the CALIFORNIA STATE C O L L E G E S T U D E N T PR ESI DENTS ASSOCIATION (CSCSPA) is the ofHcially recognized voice and spokesman for over 210,000 students in the State Colleges.

Totally oi^anized and operated by State College Students, CSCSPA is the only State College student spokesman recognized by the Assembly of the California State Legislature and recognized by the California State College B^rd of Trustees and Chancellors Office.

CSCSPA also operates student services in computer job placement and overseas summer travel.

Student Body Presidents meet at least four times during the academic year to discuss and decide positions on problems and issues affecting students. These meetings also feature noted speakers, debates, and an exchange of ideas.

In conjunction with the Presidents' meeting, a committee of the CSCSPA called the Academic Affairs Assembly also meets to discuss matters of academic concern and to discuss solutions to problems.

President of the CSCSPA for 1968-69 is Victor Lee, San Jose State College Student Body President during 1967-68. Vice-President is Lenny Starks, Student Body President at Sacramento State College. Student Body President at San Fernando Valley State Collie, Glenn Mahler, is the o]^nization treasurer and David Warren, for Cal State, Long Beach is the Executive Coordinator.

Comps:Need or Deterrent? January 24.1969 PAWPRINT PagaS

By HARVEY FRIEDMAN What is the purpose of CSCSB's

s e n i o r c o m p r e h e n s i v e examination? This, requirement was implemented into the curriculum of tliis college by the "original eight" member planning staff (Pfau, Scherba, Roberts, Petrucci, O'Gara, Phillips, Farwell, and McMichael) in an attempt to complement CSCSB's liberal arts educational policy. This policy accents the need to place a lai^er share of educational responsibility on the student (foster independent study) and stresses breadth and depth in education rather than specialization. The senior comprehensive requirement is consistent vrith this policy according to original planning staff consensus. Undoubtedly, comps generate excessive independent study. The college catalog states, "the examination is designed to encourage the student to synthesize the material of his major field." How might one adequately synthesize any

enormously complex discipline with one questionably valid examination?

CSCSB's adoption of the open and stimulating 3/3 liberal arts o r i e n t a t i o n a n d t h e implementation of small seminar classes is reflective of gradual innovation, relaxation, and humanization of the educational experience. Thus, this experience is not mass and mechanized; it is open, flexible, and stimulating. However, the need to install a "comprehensive valve" to negatively motivate independent intellectual pursuit is deteriorative of a healthy self-directive i n t e l l e c t u a l c o m m u n i t y . Comprehensives compel and coerce independent study as a means to an undei^raduate disciplinary end. The comps do not motivate independent study for the sake of intellectually stimulating satisfaction; they function as reinforcement of education as a negative but necessary process. Nor do

comprehensives necessarily prepare, fufill a prerequisite, or orientate a student for graduate school. Independently free intellectual spirit that is motivated by a positive autonomous style of academic life is exceedingly conducive to individual achievement; the present symptomatic stress producing Comps are a liability to a positively geared academic life style.

The Comps foster and promote a stress producing mechanized impersonal education that is not consistent with the liberal arts orientation of this school. Rather, the comprehensive requirement is far more consistent with the creation of an intellectual community that is even more greatly alienated than the present one. Eight men decided that senior comprehensives are necessary, purposful, and consistent with the liberal arts orientation of this school. Were they right?

THE GRAND ENTRANCE of the San Francisco Mime Troupe entertained an audience of more than 2S0 people in PS 10 last Monday night. Their biting satire vividly revealed such social dilemmas as the war in Viet Nam, the oppression of the minority races, and the involvement of students in today's cultural revolution. (Photo by Terry Nicholson)

majors. 3. Special lectures by

psycologists, sociolopsts, and a n t h r o p o l i g i s t s o n u r b a n problems.

Marx Bros, at Races By ERIC ROMSTAD

"A Day At the Races" featuring the famous trio. The Marx Brothers (no relation to Karl for those of you who are the suspicious types) will be playing tonight at 8:00 PM in PS 10. This will be first Him of a humorous sort shown by the LPA Committee in comparison to the preceding films such as; "Potemkin," "Citizen Kane," and the "Four Hundred Blows." CSCSB has been fortunate in having so many superb films which of course have been taken full advantage of by our thoroughly involved Student Body.

In "A Day at the Races" Groucho, the one with the funny eyes and Revolutionary mustache, plays Dr. Hachabush (his favorite role), a horse doctor accidently put in chaise of a sanitarium for rich hypocondriacs. Chico is a porter turned race track tout; Harpo is a cabaret entertainer who destroys a piano and creates a harp. It all ends in a wild steeple

•Dance Can you dig?!! Yes, this

Saturday night promises a great dance and light show sponsored by the A. S. Activities Committee. Black Lights, posters, and strobes will illuminate this first A. S. shindig of 1969 and will run from 8 p. m. 'til 12 midnight in the little gym. Live entertainment will be provided by the fabulous "Shadows of Doubt." Admission is free and refreshments will be provided throughout the evening.

chase to round it all off. The film was released in 1937, produced by MGM and is 109 minutes long. A quote from the review in Time Magazine reads, "Happily dlstinquishs from previous Marx pictures in that it contains more jokes. Superlative entertainment."

For evening of really fine entertainment, that is guaranteed to be enjoyable to all, even for a CSCSB student. Come and see it, for free.

Announcement "Students who plan to student

teach spring quarter are requested to submit their application for student teaching to the Department of Education by January 31."

Division Studies By KEN HARPER

Currently under study by the Vice-president is the possible f o r m a t i o n o f c o m m i t t e e s composed of students from each of the academic divisions and/or majors. These committees would be responsible for the research into and planning of, activities oriented toward studies within that academic field. This would include such possible things as;

1. Special lectures by businessmen for business majors on new experiments in business that have not yet been included in textbooks.

2. Special lectures by scientists (possibly Nobel Prize winners on new developments, for science

NICK PENCHOFF, CSCSB student, eloquently directs several pertinent questions to the faculty and adminisri-ators during the convocations. Reflected h^e is the type of student expression needed to evoke the active interest necessary to oust campus apathy. (Photo by Dan Randolph)

A First Step Convovation No continued White, "You attempt to find the flames." In concluding his remarks. Dr. White proposed this analogy: "How sick is the state college system? Is it like a bad cold, or is it possibly a terminal disease?" His own response was that the system is very sick, possibly incurable.

Professor Kent Schofield, AFT chapter president, described the involvement of the AFT faculties in terms of a need for collective bargaining. Such grievances as no power to determine wages, retirement, sabatical leave, e m p l o y m e n t c o n d i t i o n s , retention, promotion and tenure are presently plaguing the state college faculties, according to Schofield. The faculties are dependent upon the Governor, the Legislature, and the Board of Trustees for these matters, all of which are political bodies with non-acadenuc backgrounds. The American Federation of Teachers is attempting to organize so that teachers may gain the power to

^ ^ (Continued from page 1) determine their own conduct.

Defining a broader view of the state of higher education today. Dr. Barnes, chapter president of the AAUP, stated that "To limit a man's education is to limit his> freedom." The current crisis in education represents a meeting at the crossroads of financial p r o b l e m s , l o y a l t y o a t h s , desegragation, and the concept of educating the masses, not the wealthy.

Finally, Assistant Executive Vice-Chancellor Tom McGraff voiced the views of the Trustees office as he interpreted them. Reacting to Dr. White's atatement, McGraff commented that the fact that the academic community reflects the problems of the society is not a major conflict, but simply an inevitable phenomenon. He refuted the remark that the Trustees and the college structure were rigid, and pointed out how individual campuses may juggle their own curricula to accomodate priority needs.

•Barca Barks

4. Special lectures by educators on experimental edcuation methods, for future teachers.

5. Field trips by groups for gathering of specific information.

6. Special equipment.

These are only examples. It is hoped that the committees would come up with new ideas. Such activities would be those that the college cannot pay for, or could not handle on short notice. The committees would be responsible for the planning of the activities, and would be formed fo students who would benefit from them. Such activities would supplement classroom instruction, and would be financed by A.S.B.

Because it is late in the year and such a program has never been tried, the program would not be very effective this year. However, with proper planning, the committees could plan possible activites and present budgets to the A.S. Senate for activities during the 69—70 school year.

These committees have not been formed. The work needed will have to be done by the students that will be benefiting so that a relevant program can be drawn up. Students are ui^ed to contact the A.S. Vice-president in BS 22 if they are interested or have ideas. If the Vice-president is not in, please leave your name and let him know when and where you can be contacted.

Dear Barca: Please tell me,, since you've

sired twenty-four pups in your short life, what is the secret to your virility ?

Signed, Hopeful Dear Hopeful:

Eat more dog biscuits. Dear Barca:

For three years now, I have dated this one chic. But every time I make a pass at her, she says she has a headache. I just can't keep this up much longer. Any advice? Signed, Frustrated Dear Frustrated:

By the time she gives in, you will have forgotten what you were after. Slip some Excedrin into her

cocktails and give it one last try. Dear Barca:

I am a twenty-nine year old homosexual, the guy I'm dating is a lesbian, and I wet my bed whenever I dream of my mother. Could you help?

Signed, Confused Dear Confused:

Ecchhhhhhh! Was it something you ate? Dear Barca;

My girl friends tell me that my b e h a v i o r i s c l a s s i f i e d a s "nymphomania." What would the comparable behavior in a boy be termed? Signed, Irma Dear Irma:

Normal. (My office is PS 22)

Calendar REGULAR MEETINGS: Alpha Phi Omega Jan. 27 Sophomore Class Jan. 28 AS Senate Jan. 28 Psychology Club Jan. 28 Outdoors Club Jan. 28 Natural Science Club Jan. 28 Ad Hoc Speech & Adv. Jan. 28 Theta Psi Omega Jan. 28 Chess Club Jan. 29 Activities Committee Jan. 29 Philosophy Symp. Jan. 29 Student Faculty Dialogue Jan. 30 Freshman Council Jan. 31

12:30 PS 102 10:30 PS 131 11:30 L 114 11:30 PS 329 11:30 PE Conf. Room 10:30 BS 124 10:30 L 114 11:30 PS 202 3:30 L 147 12:30 Faculty Dining Room 2:30 PS 104 11:30 C 113 2:30 PS 104

Lectures and Public Affairs Presents Val and Lila Stuart, PS 10 • Vocal Duet, Tuesday, 11:30, Jan. 28.

Social Sciences Division Meeting Jan. 29 2:30 BS 101

Faculty Senate Jan. 28 2:30—5 PS 102 Activities Comm. Dance — "The Shadows of Doubt" Jan. 25

Junior Class Bake Sale Jan. 30 8—12 Little Gym — Free 9 a.m. — 2:30 p.m. Foyer Library

Page 4 PAWPRINT January 24,1969

Writer's Workshop in S.B. By DALE KARR

"It is a whisper on a Whitman night in a field alien from home." Thus James Thomas Jackson begins to describe the Watts Writer's Workshop, of which he was an original member. From this the Douglass House Foundation was formed, to be the uniting force for the many workshops which were forming in the area, and to help in the formation of new workshops. One of the new ones being formed is here in San Bernardino.

The workshops are first and foremost a community group, and must represent the needs and wishes of the community in order to exist. The Foundation exists to help the community get a workshop going and to provide the services that the community wants.

To this end, Taljnadge Spratt, the director of the National Branches for the Foundation, has come to San Bernardino to work with Dave Matlin, the organizer of the San Bernardino branch to make a second try at getting the

workshop going. It failed here a year ago, because said Mr. Spratt, "The Foundation could not spend enough time in this branch to get it going," and consequently, "there was a lack of leadership and organization." He feels that this lack has been provided for and the workshop can go on to "make a mar, culturally, in this city."

Within the next few months, the workshop is expected to be open five days a week from five to nine p. m. From there, the workshop can keep itself open as often as the community feels a need for it. For the next two months the workshop will be operating at one meeting a week, in the general area of writing, on Mondays from seven to nine p. m. Eventually it may expand into music and art, or anything else the community wants.

The workshop is located at 2095 north E St., and Dave Matlin may be contacted there any weekday evening by calling TU 6-2403.

SCTA Reps. Meet in S.F. SCTA held its Semi-Annual

Executive Council at the Hilton Inn, San Francisco International Airport, December 7 and 8,1968. The theme of this conference was "Student and Teacher Militancy." Sent as delegates with all expenses paid from CSCSB's SCTA were Carol Hartenstine and Diane Bingham.

Among topics presented in conjunction with "Student and Teacher Militancy" were the current crisis at San Francisco, and the "sanctions alert" — threatened blackist — of the state's two higher education systems voted recently by the Representative Council of the 1,900 member California Collie and Univers i ty Facul ty Association (CCUFA).

CCUFA charges that inadequate financing of the University of California and the State College system is causing a major crisis in

^Judicial Board — The ASB Judicial Board of

CSCSB will conduct a hearing on Wednesday, January 29 from 9:30-11:30 A. M. in the Staff Dining Room, Cafeteria Building. The case (Nicholson versus The Executive Cabinet) concerns the constitutionality of the resolution passed by the ASB Executive Cabinet on January 8, 1969. This is the resolution in which the official Executive Cabinet position on guidelines for student freedom was adopted.

Members of the ASB Judicial Board are: Tom Aquine, Chief Justice, and Justices Jim Penman, Skip Johnson, and Darrow Milgrim.

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THE PAWPRINT AWARD FOR SPELL-BOUND ATTENTION DURING THE CONVOCATIONS goes to . Is it "Lady Chatterly's Lover," "Candy", or "Lord of the Rings?" Anyway, some parts of the two

hour stretches were a tittle boring, some students said. (Photo by Terry Nicholson)

the state in a number of ways: 1. Because of the lack of

professors, equipment and facilities, a large number of qualified students are being refused admission from various campuses.

2. Work loads that overburden faculty and administration are contributing to the erosion of quality education.

3. Low salary and inadequate fringe benefits are making it difficult to recruit and keep qualified faculty.

Robert E, Phelps, CCUFA's executive secretary, stressed that while CCUFA is eager to secure adequate state financial support of higher education through normal channels and procedures it is also ready to move ot alternate and stronger responses.

Not only did SCTA pass a resolution in support of CCUFA's "sanctions alert," but we also voted resolutions in favor of the implement of Interdepartmental Ethnic Studies at all institutions of higher learning and in censure of the State College Board of Trustees and the U. C. Board of Regents for bringing political interference into the internal affairs of individual campuses. The Council also adopted a Statement of Academic Rights and Responsibilities of Students in Teacher Education.

Adopted as part of our 1968-69 program was a "Martin Luther-King Scholarship" to be raised and presented to a minority college student interested in teaching as a profession. Montzella Watts here at CSCSB has been appointed to head this worthy campaign to begin during Brotherhood Week in February. •fWWMELV L^kc^i STOCK • open Evenings

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Vocal Duet Here • By MIKE ZLAKET

Two brilliant young singers, Val and Lila Stuart, will appear in recital on Tuesday, January 28. The performances will take place at 11:30 A. M. in P. S. 10.

The two artists hold degrees in music from the University of Utah, and Indiana University. Val Stuart also holds a degree from Weber State College. They are both students of the eminent singer-teacher, Margaret Harshaw.

The highly-talented Stuarts are new-comers to California. For the past three years they have been stalwarts of the famous Indiana University Opera Theatre. While there, they sang well over eighty performances. Mr. Stuart had twenty-two twenty-two operatic roles in his repertoire and Mrs. Stuart commands a total of eighteen. They are equally at home in oratorio, having sung songs by Honegger, Poulenc, and Milhaud, as well as the more common works of Bach and Handel. They have appeared as guest artists with major symphonies and concer t organizations. Mr. Stuart has also per formed on Vanguard recordings. Their accomplish­ments are similar, in that they both have been winners of the San Francisco Opera auditions, and each has been a regional winner of the Metropolitan Opera auditions.

The Stuarts have received high acclaim for their performances. When the Stuarts debuted with the Redlands Symphony, Charles Perlee of the Sun-Telegram wrote, " the Stuar t s d isp layed well-groomed and strong voices that make them heartily welcome in the area."

The recital program will include works by Handel, Debussy, Strauss, Schuinann, Mendelssohn, Boito, Ceoncavallo, and Puccini.

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The Above Remarks Reflect CSCSB Students

Opinion on apathy

By Assemblyman John Vasconcellos

T h e G o v e r n o r ' s "State-of-the-State" message is more likely to escalate the state of our crises, than it is to resolve the erises in our state.

The Governor ' s message expresses one false assumption:

"Higher education in our state colleges and universities is not a right, it is a privilege." and implies several false assumptions:

1. Students are not human beings, but children — to be seen and not heard with no right to participate in the determination of their own future.

2. Our universities and colleges are perfect.

3. Authority, force, fear and punishment are adequate answers to any problem in a free society.

4. Problems are solved by suppressing symptoms, instead of by resolving causes.

I, too, condemn violence — against person, property, or instituion (disruption) — yet condemnation alone provides no resolution, it only escalates the confrontation; condemnation alone grabs headlines, it doesn't resolve problems. The governor's plan — such as it is — promises nothing more than endless years of armed occupation of our campuses — hardly an ideal.

Each campus should be kept open, with the necessary force, but only with that force which is necessary, and never arrogantly employed. After all, these students — no matter how outlandish their conduct, their appearance, or their language — are not outlanders; they are our children, the product of our society (and as well, its inheritors).

Far better — while condemning violence and keeping each campus open — we recognize the dissenting students as human beings and ask — how come? How come violence? Is violence the result of despair? Is despair the result of frustration rising out of the too-wide gap between expectations envisioned, and realities experienced by students?

The Governor's qualifications to lead in this matter are questionable:

1. Did his veto of state college funds block creation of a black studies department at San Francisco State, and thus contribute mightily to the campus

unrest? 2. Has the Governor recognized

his responsibility to ALL Californians, cared enough to listen to ALL his constituents — has the Governor gone to any campus, talked to (better — listened to) the dissidents, to see who they are, where they are, what they want?

Simplistic answers don't resolve problems, they simply aggravate them. And while no one has cer ta in answers for the phenomenon of our younger generation, I suggest (as going to the causes of our situation) and will seek to effectuate by legislation and/or persuasion:

1. Immediate creation of black studies departments, at San Francisco State and elsewhere as appropriate.

2. Broadening (financing, admiss ions , tu tor ing) of educa t iona l oppor tun i t ies programs for minority group students.

3. Creation of fiscal flexibility through deletion of line-item budgeting for state colleges.

4. Increased funding for higher education, to assure the promise of a free society.

5. Student voting participation in all policy-making bodies in higher education.

6. Extending the voting franchise (and civil and criminal adult responsibilities) to all Californians over 18 years of age.

7. Campus visitations by state legislators, constitutional officers, regents and trustees — not during crises, as investigators — but r^ularly, as public servants providing access and redress of grievances to their constituents.

Prickly Pear On Tuesday, January 28, at

11:30 a. m. there will be a meeting in the Humanities Coffee Room of all those interested in working on the college literary magazine, THE PRICKLY PEAR. The present staff should appear, bearing all material submitted so far. New submissions are welcome throughout the winter term. These may be left in the PRICKLY PEAR mailbox in the Humanities office. Any writing, essay, fiction, poetry, what have you, that appeals to a general audience is welcome. At this meeting we will also discuss plans for another Write-in Chivaree and Hoedown.