1979_05 The Daily Collegian May 1979

              The Slow Death of Fresno State
Newly-elected Pres. Baxter axes La Raza Studies
•rsity.-teach
On Friday morning, April 3, 1970, a
group of 300 West Fresno arisen, enter-
ed the campu. to present a list of de¬
mands to Executive Vice President
James Fike., demands concerned with
the fate of th. fiv. students who had _ »—-~ ~
allegedly held Acting Dean Walker cap- the real function of the university can
tive in his office. Fike. and Norman occur. What we'vm had a Fresno State is
Baxter were there to meet them. *° maa'r disruptions that the real fane-
While Fike. proved hoeiile and event-     tioB °* *• <"iiv.rsity has not been able
ually   walked   away,   Baxter  stayed   to     to take place.
answer   their   questions.   When   asked
questions about the Ethnic Studies staff,
Baxter disclosed that it was usually his
policy   to   accept   nominations   of   the
respective   deans   for   faculty   positions
and    that    the    recommendations
Ethnic Studies would be forthcoming. A
that   would
major function, of .
ing, research, and public service'.
"My attitude toward administration,"      townspeople into <
he   said,    "is   that   all   the   governing     thus making the
alsments-including   student,   in   some     between campus
integrated  so     than a Bub rasa oni
Although it seei
poeal on the surfac
an open ii
Norman    Baxter
before him -was
bind. He was. ai
forced--per hape
team player
agains
President    Ness
in an unpleasant
t his will-to be a
He waa, in ad
than    the    othei
ditksy
more accessible
found. Other pe
to open up channels of
-n the April 3 march of
or instance, Baxter was
administrator,   to   be
rsonnel in the building
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catedti
I off,c<
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asked to speak with Walker, they found
that hi. office wa. cloeed and that
neither he nor any of his staff were on
campus. During such Incidents, Falk wi
t  oi  t,
Should the university be	
ment of social change? "My feeling -
Baxter replied, "is that ii the univ.r.ity
become, a party to a cause then it is
s ability tc\function ior all
i  .i-.-i.   ,i  ^ gfcjaej.ji,
of  society...
^in-American community die
with him about what La Rata i
«to take a position a. an institution,     September   11,   1970)   that   '
a did pi
.   One  could
There
pair when Nor	
by the Board of Trustee, on July
th. sixth Pre«ident of Fr.»no State
Collage. Thar, was some disappoint¬
ment among members of the faculty,
for it had been hoped that the new
Permanent pre.ld.nt would be someone
from outside the college. It waa peculiar,
to say the least, that Assistant Chan¬
cellor Keens insisted almost until the
time of the announcement that the can¬
didates for the presidency were from out
Yet Baxter may have been the best
choice after all. He was familiar with the
.ituation at Fresno State-as someone
Mid, "he know, where the bodies are
buried" -and there war. indication.,
now that h. was permanent pre.id.nt!
that h. would bo hi. own man. It was
perhaps symbolically significant that
■*"       1 month after thi
then it would lose the ability to perfoi
its  other  function.;   at   least  it   would
greatly impair it.'
Baxter was equally emphatic about tho
university as a place for the free expras-
Baxter wu selected      "i°n of ideas: "Thi. is th. advantage of
-» ■ -■-■ •■" the university. It ought to be an impartial
forum for the discussion of all Issue..
Rational discussion ought to be an im¬
partial forum for the discussion of all
issue*. Rational discussion ought to take
place on the campus. This Is the place
to do it without being harangued, or
without being pressed or without being
 " ' about it. And it has to r.main
M.xican-American com¬
munity, as indicated by their correapon
dence, have said they and they alone
would screen and .pproVe faculty,"
but th. correspondence Dr Baxter
attaches does not bear thi. out
These letters agree with thi
indicating   the   La   Mesa   Dtr-__
to Dr    Baxt«
Be* ii
During        Satur
st all cc
But   what   about   faculty   member.? Dr. Baxter pro
Did they, too, have th. right to speak out -'ion to a spo
on partisan and political issue.? "Faculty Am.rican comi
member, are as free as anyone else to This   time,
political    or    unpopular    views,"
Baxter said.               t    	
that   the   professional  ethics  and   pro¬
fessional   conduct   of   faculty   require,
them to distinguish themselves. "
Th.   important   thing   in   all    those
      matters, Baxter stated, was th* amount
Baxter's    appointment,    e_-Pres"no     °l  "'nPut' *""*■ «" campus elements.
. p„u_i bvTTi. uj  tv -..-j     ■What I'm saying now Is that no one of
these has been able to lead th* univer¬
sity as effectively aa it .holdd have bean
led," Baxter said. "There has to be some
kind of dsvio* to bring all of th... .la-
One such device that President Baxter
presented to th* faculty during his first
wasks in office was what ha called a
"politica
diti „
State Pr.sid.nt Frank W. Thoman died
in Pasadena of a stroke. It was th. snd of
on. era and, so th. faoulty hop*d, the
beginnnlng of a new one.
On July 26, newly appointed Pre.id.nt
Baxt.r was interviewed in the Fresno
Bee by r*port*r Riy Stasis, Jr. In a
statement reminiscent of Ness's 1965
Inaugural address,  Baxt.r listed three
individuals.
<?" _"* J_ ov" 10° "Ii I ill i a*
of La Mesa Directiv. met with Pre.id.nt
Baxter at 7:00 a.m. to discuss the La
naxa Program.
After being discouraged by Baxter at
this meeting and again in a m**ting on
th* steps of th* a__in_tration building
th* group of run, women, pri**ts'
Uwysrs, businessmen, rtud.nU and
childr.n walksd slowly to th. gym¬
nasium, wher. registration was is
process for th* Fall s*mest*r. They
assembled quietly across the entrance
to   th*   btdldlng,   preventing   studsnU
waiting   to  register  form  entering  th.
Shortly after noon, uniformed police¬
men walked through the crowd and
opened one of the gymnasium door.,
flanking the door, while waiting stu¬
dents began to enter. Without warning,
a small group of young man, several
carrying club*, chargsd the studsnts.
The violence left three women and five
Responsibility      for      this      violence
was   hard   to   pinpoint.   Mr..   Virginia
Sanchez     Mid     that      the     attacking
students 'were not a part of our group."
Chicanos    blamed    the    "environment"
created by Baxter and th* polic*. Wit-
Ve    main    responsibility
: on the administration,
nch   had   ordered   campus   police   to
ke   students   through   the   crowd-by
Jess Ouintero,  a spokesman for the
exican American community, said that
s  incident   was  an   "attempt  by  the
American     community     to
communicate the frustation and despair
over the  cancellation of  the  La  Raxa
The Fresno Be* Sept. IS, 1970)
editonalixed that "The burden, in short,
was on FSC to produce a program
and its excuse, for not doing so appwr
self-serving."
Aa . result of thi. incident, the
Director of Ethnic Studies, Gens Otto,
resigned-after what was apparently an
J    '   '        " ttempt to put the blame
'Without warning, a small
group of young men,
several carrying clubs,
charged the students.'
"The administration was e_i_fi to
give when giving was necessary,"
Orro was quoted as saying, "It was un¬
able to see extenuating circumstance,
wh.n it was imperative they did. They
were unable to view candidates in any
but on. light -th*lr potential for being
troublemaker, on campus...I think th.
administration really think. It', protect¬
ing its ridiculou. .tend on hiring.
'On  th*  oth.r  hand,  I realty t
the community believes In th* nece	
to deal with the administration In a direct
way without me as a buffer son*. It go*.
without saying I disagree with th.
administration and I partially disagree
with the community which had pushed
this thesis. "
At th* same time, Adan Juarei, coor¬
dinator of the FSC Work-Study Progr.—
and a Mexican-American,  resigned his
Juaiex stated In
■ duties of  my
for  me  to oc    	
office under th* situation as It a
relation to th* present college s
tration. '
On* month latar, Baxter announced a
cutback In th* Work-Study Program,
a program d*sign*d to provid* financial
«id to needy student. (Many of th.m
minority studsnts), a cutback that would
r*duo*    all    funds    approximately    PC
The Dairy Coll-Rian
Fresno North Forty
) North Forty
TMI Plaza: Shaw's classy, big-league quarterback
  .w.  ,,,,,,>,  *Ao* n<  town:    The auarterback. From First to Fresno        Then they took the canvas down
By KELLY LEWIS
Consider the competition.
Fulton boasts only a deserted mall
and a cute but simple stretch of build¬
ings between Olive and Belmont.
Blackstone is a street of signs, not
buildings, and it caters to the man on
his way to somewhere he'd rather be,
not the man trying to be where he is.
Olive, like Fulton, has its moments
(or blocks, depending on whether you
travel in time or space), but except for
the stretch (which measures both) be¬
tween Blackstone and Fruit, Olive could
just as well be Belmont
Van Ness comes closest because it
dares to deviate in a drawingboard town
of clone homes and straight streets
Variety is nice, but for some reason Van
Ness takes a bite of everything Fresno
has to offer and still leaves the table un¬
derfed.   Or   undernourished.   Or   with
Enough of this floundering metaphor.
I consider the competition only to keep
the election honest  r II begin the article
The quarterback. From First to Fresno Then they took the canvas down  Cood
could play any professional block in LA idea,  guys   Whoever you are.  By the
and stay in the game   Or win   Civic way, who or what are you, TMI?
pride. RAH. ROOT ROOT. Spellout   S- Teachers   Management   and   Invest-
H-A-W. Trade Fashion Fair to Orange ment Corporation   Yes,  teachers.  Not
County for two disco bars and a drive- some rich geek named Teacher. School-
is center stage at pome    in church. Them give the newcomers teachers A bunch of 'em  They borrow-
time. i nerirsi class section of the White    their unconditional  release and go to ed around V4 million in 1977 to buy the
Flight Make your reservations early.          the drafting board for new talent. Cood building   from   Robbins-Nielson-Hewitt
Of course, Shaw is commercial. Cer-    Block. Class Act. Ignore LoyLoy Yeah. Inc.   of   Sacramento.   Down   payment
Uinly, it's a marketing meat rack. Sure-        TMI Plaza. Right. »882,000  Total Cost: J5 million. Thirty
ly the message is money. Yes, the few        Maybe the name Bob Stevens sounds year loan at 9V>% interest, payments of
homes between Clovis and West stand    familiar to you  He designed the Selland J33.345 per month to Phoenix Mutual
Shields was the  north edge of   	
Shaw was the road to Timbuktu-or
Clovis. Manchester Center provided the
only alternative to shopping downtown.
There were figs in Fig Garden Al Radka
had hair.
Now Shaw is center stage at prime
t like fat girls in a chorus line.
i. Selland i!
Right now 	
Shaw Avenue is the premier street
in Fresno. The gourmet section ot this
supermarket. The artichoke hearts in
the salad. The King of the Hill (what
hill?) The Cock of the Walk (who
walks?) The bully of the block and the
neighborhood rich kid rolled into one
well-dressed tough guy.
Let the rest of them fight for second
/Men., Complex. Oh, .
nm.  -  great, but it could be ...»w. „ ...
I'd rather tell you what's right. also designed the Phoebe Conley Art
Neon has been blamed. Power lines Building at CSUF. I wasn't sure about
have been buried. Land has been the Art building at first. But Phoebe
scaped. Buildings go being built with grows on you. I like it now. It's modern
taste and integrity and different be art I don't like And this "New journa-
one from another. Fashion Fair once be- lism" either. The refuge of hacks,
ing to various gahilks a point of pride Bob Stevens designed the TMI Plaza
now go exposing itself by comparison too It's a redwood rectangle with round-
as the concrete logjam it do be. If that ed corners. True, basic lines Attractive ly, not loudly, witn woras i unutrr>uu_.
which they sought was to make sprawl- from all sides. Basic brown Light Words? Buildings don't talk, you fool
ing Fashion Fair, succeed they have. It brown, red brown, clay brown, burned Besides: this one wasn't built; it grew.
do sprawl. Sprawl like it daid. Hoping brown, terracotta brown. A little black Bob Stevens plants buildings. Charles
now that what killed it don't spread, for accent Earth tones Tingey Associates, Inc. leases them
Fred. Until November there were strips . CTA leases office space in the TMI Pla-
VVhy am I talking like this? Get on of orange canvas strung along between za. A hundred-thousand square feet of
the article, you hack. the building's three levels. Bright or- it, the most under one roof in Fresno
'" -    Thriving.   Right ange canvas. Nothing earthy about or-     Unitas.   The   prospective   leasee   has
.... Insurance Co Oh, them I guess
they really own it Really Reeeeeeealy
Regardless of who owns it, the Plaza
itself is quite real Its realness is what at¬
tracts me. It fills the space it occupy
It possesses Thereness. Veritas I feel
the need to touch-embraceS-it, not to
assure myself that it is, but to reinforce
mv belief that I am.
The building states its presence tirm-
loudly, with words I understand
TMI Plaza Alive. Thriving. Kigtu ange canvas. r_un.., _»«.., _-,_, _
Yea Right across from Fashion Fair, ange Nothing natural about canvas.
Right anywhere. Better than Fashion Nothing honest about flashy ornaments
Fair Honest Warm. Sturdy. Simple. Integrity was not preserved
TMI Plaza is a professional building
Big league And the north side of Shaw
between First and Fresno is the best
team of structures in town (Ignore Loy
,Loy. It's been there since before the be¬
ginning. It can't be helped.) TMI Plaza
is the star structure  The cleanup hitter
three levels ti
mall c
A garden
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