1971_04 The Daily Collegian April 1971

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Strangulation of Fresno State
Y COLLEGIAN
Friday, April It. 1971
EDITORIAL
Bylaw revisions: 'all or nothing'
The student body has been left with Uttle choice next Wednesday
ln voting on the proposed revisions ln tbe Assocl atlon Bylaws. Either
students vote "yes* on the whole package - some 250 changes - or
True, most of the changes are "insignificant" and the Bylaws
have been ln need of revision for some Ume, but the "all or nothing"
approach ln which they are being presented to the voters can only
meet with rejection.
There are some changes ln the new Bylaws favored by students
and some that are not. But how is a student to Indicate his feeUngs
on Individual revisions? Maybe he likes the revised preamble but
dislikes the change ln election of senators-at-large. Does he vote
•yes* for the entire package or "no*? Does he vote for the bad as
well as the good?
The student government wtll find most students are going to vote
"no" because they don't like being put ln the position of rubber
stamping something they've had little time to digest and don't agree
If the student government wanted
large scale changes ln the Bylaws, 1
ginning of the school year presenting
limited  the  r
popular endorsement of
should have started-al^tli
:he changes a section at a
ber of revisions It proposes. Time should have
r education and debate, so voters are more fully
ry are voting on.
As lt stands now, the student government has wasted much time
and effort ln working on a package which will be rejected by the
students and with good reason. The pill ts Just too big to swaUow
and as a result no changes will be made at all this year.
-Burton Swope
(ConUnued from Page 1)
remove the men from their departmental poslUons, although,
as tenured professors, both men
would retain their teacMng positions. At 3:00 p.m., Friday,
Dec. 4, 1970. Rea showed up at
the EngUsh Department offices
with letters of dismissal, two
armed campus cops and a team
of locksmiths and carpenters to
secure the department offices.
Tbe locks were changed and one
of the doors bolted with a formidable hunk of wood. In a statement later, the college administration characterized Rea's actions as "normal academic pro-
Zumwalt's demotion (and,
Ironically, Rea's elevation to tbe
position of acting chairman of
the English department) was tbs
dramatic culmination of a complex three-year battle for control
of Fresno SUte CoUege. Two
weeks prior to the barricading
of the Engllsh department offices,
president Baxter, ln an announcement routinely made each year
around Halloween, released a
list of names of those professors
who would not be rehired, or who
following year. Thirteen teachers
(plus two administrators) were
to be released when their contracts ran out. Campus liberals,
a group with a rich and largely
Justified tradition of paranoia,
Immediately took up the cases of
six of the teachers and began yeU-
lng "massive purge."
Rampant paranoia aside, the
liberals had a good  case.   By
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Berkeley (
>r Harvard standards,
the six we
re hardly the type of
radical academics who keepJohn
Mitchell   awake  at  night.     Yet
there Is strong evidence that Bax-
nated   these   men (In
s over the strong rec-
ommendatlons of both their de
partments
and  their  chairmen)
p   they
i  Rea's
words,  "politically  I
lessors.•  Some examples:
Joe Toney, a black Ph.D. (Illinois) In organic chemistry,
Toney's major offense seems to
be an active interest In the cam-
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pus' Black Student Union. Toney
was one of the last black teachers
remaining on campus after a
purge of the Ethnic Studies program the year before. He was
unanimously approved by both
his department and the dean of
tbe school of natural sciences.
Baxter axed him.
Elton HaU, a mild-mannered
philosophy teacher currently
completing his Ph.D. thesis entitled 'On Excuses.* Hall has
never met Baxter nor has he been
very active on campus. "I seldom
went to rallies and never make
speeches,' he says. But for complex reasons the philosophy department Is ln Ul favor with toe
administration and so Rea, the
dean of humanities, cut Elton
HaU.
Edward Dutton, an associate
professor of social work and
community organizer. Dutton
was approved by bis department
for tenure, but overruled by his
chairman. Dutton Is an activist
with close and powerful ties with
the Chlcano community ln the
San Joaquin Valley. Dutton, clean
shaven even by strict Valley standards, ts resigned to his fate:
•I've risked myself by getUng involved ln a social movement with
nlnorlUes and labor. I expect to
n the II
lose when the guys you oppose
are too powerful."
Everett Frost, an Engllsh professor and the closest thing Fresno State has to a genuine radical.
Frost occasionally lashes out at
Zumwalt because of Zumwalt's
liberal positions. "Zumwalt,"
says Frost, "truly amazes me
because he thinks that the only
problem we'have Is 'bad people.'
He does not see that the problem
Is the system, the power structure which runs this whole valley." But Frost, on any other
campus with a corps of professors to the left of RamseyClark,
would blend ln Inconspicuously
wtth all the other army field Jackets and Marcuse heads.
But Fresno State's tolerance
for Marcuse heads Is exceedingly
low. For years Fresno State was
just a sleepy little community
college, heavy on agricultural
vocational training. It educated
the children of the Okies and the
immigrants who made lt big ln the
agri-business of the San Joaquin
Valley, an area said to be the
richest agricultural area ln the
world. Then, ln the 1960's, educaUon ln CaUfornla became as
no State, absorbed Into the Call-
H El P WANTED
FARRELLS
fornla State CoUege system, began growing as rapidly as asparagus tn the spring. In 1959, the
coUege had 4,000 studenU; in
1965, enrollment doubled to
87000; and now lt ts at 13,000.
Faculty jumped from 200 tn 1958
to close to 800 now.
By 1968 the counter-culture
and poUUcal activism also began
to dribble Into tbe Valley in the
most innocent and often superficial ways. Several of the liberal
arts departments began to attract
top teachers. And Fresno State's
educational program was sharply
upgraded. But conflict between
the straight Valley community
and that Uny segment of the college community gingerly approaching Consciousness III (and,
more dangerously, poUUcal activism) was Inevitable.
Two Affairs (as toey are known
at Fresno State) highlight the
struggle for ideological control of
the college. In the fall of 1968,
during a campus symposium on
drug problems, Robert Mezey,
a talented poet and winner of
Harvard's Lamont poetry award,
casually menUoned that while he
did not find pot a particularly
rewarding experience, he saw no
reason why people should not be
allowed   to   decide   freely  for
stant crlsls-The Meze>' Af,aJr
became the Dreyfus Affair of the
Valley. No one was without an
opinion. The following spring,
despite the fact that students
voted Mezey one of the campus'
outstanding teachers, his contract was not renewed. Typically, the Mezey Affair is stlU before the California'courts, and
Mezey himself Is tucked away in
a house ln the San Joaquin Valley writing verse and teaching
MARVIN X
In the fall of 1969, the new
Ethnic Studies program at Fresno
State hired a black Muslim named
Marvin X. who, while conservatively dressed and soft-spoken,
frightened the VaUey community
with his brutally candid analysis
of black-white relations. SUte
College Chancellor Glenn Dumke
called ln three Fresno State officials and told them to fire Marvin X or lose their own jobs.
Frederic Ness, then president of
the CoUege, but who had intended
to resign ln the spring, fired
Marvin X, turned In his master
key and fled the campus. Dumke,
a former liberal whose educational politics changed drastically when Reagan was elected In
1966, appointed Karl L. Falk to'
the job of President of Fresno
State. His orders were to clean
up the campus. Falk was a professor of economics at Fresno
State tor 30 years before retiring to become a president of a
local savings and loan assocla-
Falk moved wtth a sure vengeance. He fired Dale Burtner,
a dean who had brought Fresno
State out of tbe educational Middle Ages, and tossed out a half-
dozen other administrative of-
f leers. He emasculated an Experimental CoUege program, which
. offered, for example, a coarse tn
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•How to Beat tbe Establishment
at Their Own Game." In tbe
spring of 1970, Falk eliminated
tbe Ethnic Studies program; a
riot broke out on campus, a computer was burned; and a group
of studenU brutally arrested.
Kent/Cambodia followed with
more riots.
Baxter was made president ln
the fall of 1970 wltb the hope of
calming the campus, but hu firing of tbe six liberal professors
and hU ousting of Zumwalt troubled tbe campus. The campus,
however, remained superficially
quiet. Student actl vis m Is at a low
ebb, having dissipated lu energies last spring. But tbe campus
is covered with a layer of petty
vtndlctlveness as thick and Impenetrable as the wet San Joaquin
fog. A recent AAUP report on the
Fresno flrlngs masterfully understated tbe situation by citing
the "lack of civility ln lnter-
faculty and faculty-administration relations." Scholarship, the
AAUP report also notes, has been
forgotten. Law suite, legislative
investigations. AAUP studies and
H.E.W. reports keep the typists
ln Dean Rea's"bfflce extremely
TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT
In the end, one ts tempted to
call the entire matter a tempest
ln an academic teapot. Something
Edward Albee, not Clark Kerr,
should write about. Yet what's
happened at Fresno State underscores a number of critical education problems larger than
Fresno State itself.
Community control Is one of
them. While nearly 25 percent of
the Fresno community Is minority (18 percent Chicano) the vast
majority of the community would
like to see Fresno State without
Ethnic Studies or an Experimental College. A community college,
as most folks see it, should turn
out studenU who will further develop the agri-business of the
Valley. In purging the coUege of
the 'radicals,* Falk and Baxter
were simply responding to community pressures. This poses a
difficult problem for Uberals who
iethat cc
nuntty
control means liberal control.
Fresno SUte Is also a classic
study In the politics of higher
education In California. At their
respective convenience, both liberals and conservatives in California have wept over the polltl-
callzaUon of the campus. When
Max Rafferty, the former state
superintendent of public Instruction ln CaUfornla, said that • more
and more of the loose nuts on the
faculties* of California coUeges
wlU have to be unbolted and discarded, tbe liberals screamed
'political purge.' And Fresno
SUte was a political purge. Tbe
grime froro tbe purge dirties
hands all around the state: Reagan, Dumke, and scores of state
legislators, all have their hands
in tbe battle at FresnoState. When
liberals of St. John's were purged
some years ago, the deed was
done swiftly, the coUege marked,
but the matter was localized and
somewhat private. But ln California educational matters are
seldom private.
The critical question at Fresno
State la wbo should run the college. The faculty clearly believes
that tbey should have a strong
voice ln the matter. But they do
not. Dumke, the ChanceUor ofthe
California State Colleges, contends that to these hurried and
troubled days of higher education, faculty discussion of lm-
.portant tssierr is Da longer possible, 'l he power of coUege governance, says Dumke forcefully,
should be ln the hands of 'the
administrative- officers of the
school who are ulttmately ac-
counUble for the college.* And
since Dumke, and by extension
Ronald Reagan, appoint the administratis officers of the colleges, Dumke U a contented man.
—Reprinted from Commonweal
X
CAMPUS FOOTNOTES
Fourth Hour
Next week's Fourth Hour programs wlU feature UC Davis Professor Kevin Roddy speaking on
"Medieval Religious Drama* on
Monday, and a faculty-student
reading of Edgar Lee Masters'
•Spoon River Anthology'on Wednesday. Programs start at 3 p.m,
and are held lnIA 101.
Throne of Blood'
version of SI
both' wtU be shown Sunday night
at 8 p.m. in the CoUege Union
Lounge. The aim Is presented by
the Fine Arts Board, and FSC
I. D.  card ts required for ad-
Waterhole #3'
James Coburn stars in "Water-
hole #3", tonight's Friday Flick
ln the College Union Lounge. Show
times are 6 p.m. and again at
8:30 p.m. I. D. card Is required
for admission.'
Law school
Students Interested ln the study
of law are invited to an "Orien-
Utlon Night', 8 p.m., April 20
on the campus of Fresno Pacific
College. The meeting will be In
Room 6 of the Science Building
and is being sponsored by theSan
Joaquin College of Law. Fresno
Pacific Is located at 1717 S.
Chestnut Ave.
Legal Fund benefit
A benefit performanceot'Folk
Songs and Poetry* Is being sponsored Thursday, April 22, at 8
p.m. in the NewmanCenterby the
United Professors of California
and the Fresno Free College
Foundation.
Featured entertainers will be
Gene Bluestein, Pete Everwlne,
Phll Levine and Bob Mezey.
Proceeds wlU go to the FSC
Legal Fund which Is established
within tbe Fresno'Free CoUege'    tlon wtll meet Monday, April 19,
ed to appeal the decision of the
federal judge ln regard to six
fired faculty members: professors Edward P. r^utton,"Erring
Ruhl, Everett Frost, Elton Ball,.
RendeU Mabey and Joe Toney.
StudenU are asked todonate Jl
and non-students $5. Donations
are tax deductible. Tickets may
be purchased at the door or by
calling 487-2359 or 487-2270.
For confirmation call Dr. Alex
487-2270 or Dr. William Cowling at 487-2359.
I.D. cards
Effective Monday, April 19,
the old temporary I. D. card will
no longer be valid, the Student
Records offlce has announced.
Valid I. D. cards sre:
Plastic "cards with a picture
and "1* imprinted in the first
box of the second row, upper left.
(Exception: special *no photo*
cards, which are marked as such
and initialed by Registrar Robert
Board.)
Orange, paper temporary I. D.
cards written wtth green flow pen.
No other card is valid. If any
other Is.presented, students
should be referred to the Student
Records Office, New Administration Building, windows 8 and
9 ln the north wing.
Mid-term reports
Fresno State College Registrar Robert Board announced
yesterday mid-term enroUment
reports are now available ln
Library entrance foyer and lobby
of the New Administration Building. The reports are listed tn
I. D. number sequence Instead
of alphabetically to ensure some
degree of privacy. If there are
to be made ln a re-
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Friday, April 16, 1971
Cafeteria, and at 1 p.m. to tbe
same room, Dr. Diaz wlU discuss
entrance requlremenU tor tbe
UCSD Medical School.
i opportunity
•Women and PoUttcs' will be
the topic of discussion wltb Political Science Professor Dr. Ann
Pre-med students
Dr. Arthur Diaz of tbe 1
varsity   of   California   at
Dlego Medical School win
Interested   students
Monday, April 19'. There will be
an  Informal luncheon at 11:30
a.m. to theCoIleglateRoorolnthe
Youth Council
Tbe Freeno Touto CotmcU to
a 'Youth Caucus* to-
igPark.
Voter registration will also ta
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