1979_05 The Daily Collegian May 1979

              The Daily Collegian
Phillip Walker was one of 'the unholy triumvirate' I Student"government, klenuty crisis, pressure, & tuition
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"tarter, a 1970.
Br DR. KENNETH SEW
TW third auzoiar of what bacam.
™**" "**• »«hor- triumvirate" of
Falk. Ilkae. «»d Walker wu th. Acting
Qua aj tk. School of Art, and Sctencu
"■Sltii    «S»ttaa« h.
"•>**-• wfco eumed to .licit .or
Proteuor of Hiatory at Vuui Colleg.,
at the inauguration of Pr..ld.nt Alan
Simpaon. P.rhapa it would aarv* a< a
guidelin., a pouibl. .lampl. for
Walker, hi* friend .uggeated.
,.°J !*r ,d*y„of "—'» inauguration,
thm helpful coUeagu. Mt uncomfortably
in th. nudl.net, a. Philip Walker read hi.
introductory apaach-almcat the exact
-am. .peach, with only the appropriate
nam., chanced, that Proteuor Griffin
gavaatVauar.
Walker'. plaoiaxUm wu not uneov
•r.d until Ht. run, later. Whan oon-
Walk., pWdad ignouaca Th. tect J
nuuaed, howar«, that on. of Acttog
Pruktent Talk: major appelate?,
waa guilty of what fa, to academician.,
of   lntaUactual
w.r. th. correct one. and .hould be d.
aired by ev.ryone else.
Finally, it .earned, too, that Ilk. all
buruueraf. Phil Walker wu .xp.nd-
able If . major crUU axoM between
Walker and th. colleg., Walkar would
b. th. first to go. And; M lt t^^ oat
later, he waa.
Walker', first crlal. cam. in F«b-
™ary, 1970, wh.n ha r.v.,ud . pr#.
viou. racomm.ndation to r.hir. "-»>
tfnt Profja*>, of Enoliah Ev.r.tt E
Frcat for th. 1970-71 school „ar.
Walker gave th. Department no rea-
•on for hi. rejection, .fating that h. wa.
not required to empport auch a rac-
ommendaUon with 'detaiJad' written
»tetom.nt of th. reaeon.." But the raa-
•on. w.r» not hard to find
But h. wu a good teacher who had the
'•■pact of both hi. stud.nt. and oollaag-
ITi "f f P'omiaing young William
Blah, scholar who wa. already becoming
a racognixwl .xpert in his field.
R«fu-dng to giv. .ubatanUv. lnfw.
maUon.bout Fro.t'» dtemiual Walk.!
Onally agraad to meet with the Englteh
Department.
During th. meating, Walkar .Utad
that h. had "private Information" about
frost that wu brought verbally to hi.
attention by tr— *-- -»—'—'     -
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you had any repercussions from net dis¬
closing the full reason?
Yes   I've talked to a tot of people
about it. And after talking to a lot of
people, I felt that I should talk about it
I should bring it out
I'm not really sure what administra¬
tive repurcussions there will be. To be
■ —•«"™ *"™ ■*■ «tteieat opponent*.
^ Win with. W-Jkar had th. mhrfor-
k»kto, HJa! Nikolai SJ mtdtltotZ
**■ »°°. *» twanty-fJir. jwmn, u
^h<«d In thm grora. of acadam. for
to-D. » Th«t.r Art. (Walker final!
gothl.oagia.lnl972).
'alk aad Fikaa-wa. difficult to guu-
Hoa. For . long tlm., h. was a g.nuln.
mooWata-to-Uft Iib.r.1, although word.
■PPbed to faculty at Fra.no Stat. Colleg.
who, on campuae. Ilk. B.rk.lay or
ColumbU,   would   have   b-n   right   of
Duxtog  CPrtrtdant Frwlrick)   N«i',
finjt yaar. of office, Walkar bagan mor.
" m hi. cbacontont with
tka   -Hbaral*
">db«Mntodi
-~-^aa to drift toward th. right
But it wu hard to dan, that ha baltov-
•dwhat ha «id, parhap. out of wm.
deap-rootad twentieth century mahua.
Walkar'. wu not a Ian  of ethnic
Amaricaa) aor wu it neceu^y a oon-
»»pt for .Indent, (many rtud.nt« liked
W^« •aanarf mor. ^„i of hi.
°°""agna., of contomporary tr.nd. of
th. Zrtlx.., (J,  1972    WaIk#r  wm "
^°^"pfxxtn"*S" H.nry J^Jaon,
l~|J2,«~-«**»atf». of the Democratic
««"■*- far U. prr«id.ncy). All in
•JLjtjr- hard to «y what  h. wu
*• ■» hi. bumbling qualiba.,  thay
A« Acting Dun of th. School of Art.
"dSctoaou, WJkar often dmmlt with
f~*-«*ary mattar. In a way that aaton-
•^Wc* -ehool IMuithamauc. rtud.nt to
Hta alkxbnaat of fcculty pcaitton. to
at. «hooJ Mt thou who h«ud hu?„*
part. lacrMalou (Walker wu appar-
—?. "*"—1 »**« hatf-and qaarfar-
l"»*a^noaldh.rilot»d). *^
ft blunder c
According to the Daify Ccllmaian,
Walkar aakf ha baaed hla dactaton on
lnformatton ha received about Fro* from
two faculty members. Throughout th.
ruulting meeting, ha rafueed to divulg.
either the Information or the .ource Ha
did uy, however, that it wu Froat'a
competence In the 'entire ~-~J-~t-
community' that wu in cruutton.' The
Utter aUtamant did not clarify mattar.
very much.
On Fabmary 20, 1970, the Eagliah
°^>artmant and Frcat received another
memorandum from Walkar thi. one
atattog that Walker had r«»n.id.r«l hi,
pcaitton and wu reverting to hi. previ-
omjracomm.ndabon that Frcat be re-
"On the baaia of impending March
1 dwKlllng for employing faculty and
current ruulU of an ongoing inveatlga-
Shown above in a recant pteu conf.r-
mm calkd to diMmm th. CSUC W
tae. evaluation of Pruioant Baxter are
Cheater Col., th.«vPruid.nt of the Con-
gran  of Faculty Aaudation.;   Phillip
di.hor^ty that on. can commit-pUgter.
** * W*J"' »- itmmm and ab-
.urdly bumbling, to many he wu far
from hareuau. Hi. rtrong opinion.
pUcad him in axtxem. ^SmTZ
auacat every major campu. uwue
forcing him and the Falk Adminurtl.tion
into further ahuu. of powr in ord.Mo
hold firm their philosophical lin..
Walker, in many way., wu a ».ln„„
—-———-. u» oouMrvatiY. clichu-
C^untet. and revoluttonariu war.
afoot in th. land, aakiag ra*ly fo, .
great take-over. Our young people'«
moral, were being corrupted by athairt
f/ofaawaa, almcat aU of them in th.
Hunumitte.. Black. «rf othar minoritte.
wer. unwitting Communl»t tool, who oot
Englljh   profaeaor.   were   dirty,   long-
haired, dop. moker. bent on mbverttog
tlieinaocanc. of the young.
Anned   with   auch   belief.     Walkar
•**»*«« '»ady to beitove ^ythingand
he a-M.mmt of hi. Judg.Znt,  on
rhurpar. and innuendo.
w'lL"**"7 °? *■ *«™pna, Philip
Walkar « the uhtmate buraaucr.t
"!?S* c*rri«» °»«oroara.' He wu
uao^ubtabry aincar._rtnc,r^T onim™
•ted -lncar.ly bUud In hi. Judged.
Seib, pruioant of ute cam^u/chapta,
of th. United Profa^r, Of CUllform?
Frcat wu an outepokan liberal oddo-
nent of the Falk admlniatr.tlon JI
of the campu. antiwar Jeed.r». Furuter-
mor., Frrxrl! wu acUvaly Involve in
•mm, draft couueling, „ .nduvor
?W^. wkU» PTfactly Ug.1, wu
frowned upon by the admlruatr.tton.
To top matter, off, Frcat looked Uk. .
Uft*h7*!,^•'l^ih?"• rf tn. N«,
I-«he wu bearded, fond of casami
J-^S    P-on.    to    J^Si
Public -tetem.nt. by both Walkar wid
Flku .ugguted that th. 'ongoing in-
vutig.tion' wu not only of Froet but of
th. enure Engli.1, Department.
'W. .till don't know what b. mean,
by ongoing inv.rtig.tion," Eugene
Zumw.lt, Cliairman of th. Englteh D.
partment wu quoted u uving. "and
■too. he hu rtill not provided ua with
any .ubrtaattal mfonnatton, w. don't
want to bee too optimistic at thi. point."
Zumw.lt'. lack of optimum prowd
oorn-ct. In D«.mb.r, 1970, ,£„„„
Frcat, Jong with .even other liberal
faculty .ad admlniatratora, wu fired
' had    -R.
J*
Th.
Oil crisis:
OPEC in 74, Iran in 79
!    Phillip
Tobmeontlaumd
the war.
* sky
•■*■ Wad at f nuk that had recent).      .T         "■ bmt h»»sta»t» of the achool
i-aahwlariraa.b.... itMrnkta^amm
rocketing prices and gas rationing
It was Secretary of State Henry Kiss-
mger, according to Leet, who c7me up
with a plan to end the embargo He
^^ to'« OPEC dictate price, and
tZ rTrUrr-re,Urn ,or " ^eement
that the OPEC: nations would not disturb
he peace in the Middle East  Kissinger
LteTa?2!2? to Amerka and »°W his
dea to the oil companies on the grounds
thatthey would be, In essence'p^mg
tor^Tn 'off" to i0SUn ' iUbh ,Upp^ «
Between 1975 and 1977, the Middle
East *}tu,u0n M rerruin^Mrvely
»taok- and OPEC cad not raise their
prices an inordinate amount Domes¬
tically,   the   United   States   was   busy
K'jff prK< c°-""ol» which kept
Ma^rtT « «*• -W-t^
seentin.^8 .'^?POrter * tKe Shah's
seemingly $uble regime Anwt>
counted on Iran for at lC'IO^oT^
°2f half as severe in itself as the entire
p^^rrgCSgSi
«l«pric-,m|iv.rM«moX.
I was supposed to. For that, I'm sorry.
But then, on the other hand, I'm not
sorry about my performance in office.
I have no apologies about my perfor¬
mance... none whatsoever.
Do you have any regrets about being
AS president!
Not at all, not at all I wouldn't trade
it for anything in the world. It's a great
personal experience, a learning experi¬
ence to learn about yourself, learn about
other people It's an experience that
everyone should have a chance to do I
feel very priveleged to have served as
student president
You said that being AS president
made you learn about yourself. Did you
learn something about yourself that you
I did, I
frank with you, these interviews are
something I realize that I 've tried to be
honest about. To give an honest assess
ment of what I thought this year has
been. Let's face it, some people are
going to be upset Some of them about
some of the things I've said about the
President (Riddle discussed the relation
ship between student government and
President Baxter in an interview to be
published tomorrow)
I suspect that there will be reper¬
cussions. But that s the way it goes.
Are you worried about rhemt
Somewhat. But, again, that's the way
it goes. Well, let's talk about it. When
you're dealing with someone like Bax¬
ter, you know, those guys play rough.
But you've got to stick it out
I'm convinced that what I've done
overall has been good And my feelings
on President Baxter are clear and accu¬
rate, and a presentation of what hap¬
pened And I guess I can say that I am
comfortable with what is the truth I
feel that that is really important.
How long was it before you came out
Yeah, they were ..over Easter vaca¬
tion I tried to Inform some of them I
talked to some of them. Some of them
came up and asked me about it and I told
them. I'm sure that most of them know
about it by now.
It takes quite a bit of courage to speak
out this way
Well, I hope things hold up on their
own. But I am glad to do these inter¬
views. All of this is not very easy to Ulk
about I mean, talking about Baxter. .I
tell you it's not very easy.
People expect a tot out of the student
.pfe-^nl^a^^'meA.) didn't^.what
Well,
how I can be specific
Well did you go through some type of
Identity crisis ?
Oh, well, yeah. I think every student
president goes through that. Cordon
Riddle...I always perceived him as no
one special and just an average student
I was never the kind of individual who
felt comfortable being in the limelight
I like to do my job, but I like to do it in
sort of a quiet manner. But there's no
way as a student president that you can
be like that.
One day you're an average student,
lust someone off the street, and the next
day you' re the student president
Right after the elections, people per¬
ceive you differently People look at you
differently, and sometimes they expect
more out of you. Sometimes they come in
with a pre-conceived notion of what
student body presidents are all about
That takes a certain adjustment period
How did you overcome that preaaurel
I just tried to say well, it's just for a
year, then I can go back to what I was
Was the job of student president
hectic!
Yeah. I don' t think students are aware
of the work that goes into that job. If
you are really concerned with doing a
good job, it' s going to take a lot of time
The student president is on so many
committees and boards that he is ex¬
pected to be functional on They are
important, don't get me wrong, but a lot
is expected from you
Didn't you reestablish the communi
They may not have to do anything with Can  the  st.rliats   tarn  Me  fhaae
that next year, it'll depend on what the reserves?
rumblings of the legislators and Trustees Only for capital improvement (perma
are to that. nent improvement of the campus).
Sure, any protects out of the reserv-
have to be approved through the Sena*
through our regular process, and the
ultimately approved by the President
So, actually, PreaieMat ejT^- *— "
final say M
On the re
Event*
Right
Why does he have the faaliay-w!
Well, he likes to have ultimate ccewjn
and the final approval of anything we oV
Do you hope so see that ctsfaajeatl
Well, I don't think it's i
been detrimental to us.
Could it be, though!
Oh, I think so   If we had
that we realty wanted to do and he
want us to do it then it would re*
hurt us
Then it may be beneficial to rSuaa
that system!
Well, all you could do is say that yi
didn't want the president's
But then again, I'm not »   .
about   administrators  that  they  <
offer some continuity to student govern
(CSSA) ward off tuition for
In terms of actual implementation,
sure. But there may be some type of
administrative effort being set up.
My own feeling is that they (the AS
Senate) should keep that as their number
one priority.
Do you think that students knew what
tuition is?
That's a good question because most
students pay their money and don' t even
know where it goes It's a series of fees
and the biggest chunk, obviously, goes
to student services
Some goes to the College Union, some
goes to IRA (Instructionally Related
Activities), some goes to voluntary
health fee and, of course. Associated
Students. That's really important that
students become educated as to where
their dol lars are going.
A tot of students fed they are pay¬
ing tuition. They don't understand that
K true, no student
it fight
So how does stuc
tuition next year!
Well, first, they have to educate the
students that if tuition is implemented,
some of them aren t going to be around
next year because they simply won't
be able to afford it.
Is there a group of students on campus
that doesn't approach the student
government lor help?
Sure, there is a group that isn't utili¬
zing the AS as much as they possibly
should That's the dormitories On a tot
of campuses, the dormitory students are
the largest force.
As examples, at Cal Poly, San Luis
Obispo, they are really a force. At Cal
State,  Sacramento,  they  pretty  much
Well, the fact that there are 1,500
individuals living in a dose geographical
area who, because of their living situ
ation, have a tot in cornmon It makes
them easy to organize.
The dorm students should realize that
they are what I would call the sleeping
giant in terms of political force on the
campus. It always amazed me why they
never saw that.
It'sneveri
xesented any real prat
to us   But I think that there is a |
it could be detrimental
The students did «ee that tsaa
didn't they?
Sure, the
emergency phone sy
came out of o
neof those reserves.
ito office, the biggest
downfall, I felt, within student govern¬
ment was that sometimes they were
going off on power trips and fighting
among themselves. There is no way you
can adequately represent students if you
do that.
To be specific, I felt the root of the
problem was the lack of communication
between the student president and the
Senate
You had some individuals in office
before who perceived that they had to be
so separated from the Senate.
I felt that if we could work as a group
instead of two entities, it would be much
more beneficial So I established the
rapport I went to all the Senate meet¬
ings and reported to them.
I think it' s important that the student
president and the student Senate have
a good rapport
What are some of the issues that stu¬
dent government will face next year?
They're going to have to address the
.•MitipjMSSitf,,aod reallvmfiWrp- jfef-
•  ton cib '33'tC' bfte alocw
leASI
a hit
Well, first of all, there is quite a
of programming that could be specifi¬
cally directed toward the dorm students
It s a simple political fact of life that if
a dorm council or a group of dormitory
students could deliver 1,000 votes or
1,200 votes in the AS election, you damn
well know that people would pay atten
ttontothem
It seems to me that the dorm students
would be very easy to organize if some¬
one took the effort.
And, realty, what issues would dormi¬
tory students take to home? They would
take to home programming, they would
take to home food services—that' s some¬
thing the AS has input on-things like
that. Even intramurals, although we
have been very supportive of the intra¬
mural program.
Ifatth
t AS b
where dees that money get
Well, the way our accounting system
That s correct We tett that w
spend  it   When  students  pay  $10 i
semester, they should get $10 back a
. ,tome kind of secyica,..,