1974_10 The Daily Collegian October 1974

              4-TH1 DAILY COLLEGIAN        Monday, October 7, 1974
WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
COLD WELCOME
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger Ms expected to get a
cold welcome Wednesday when he
arrives In Cairo with the hopes
of negotiating a lasting peace In
the Middle East.
The cold welcome will stem In
part from President Ford's call
for the oil producing nations to
use enlightened price policies.
PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT
Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.),
a former hawk, and Rep. Robert
F. Drlnan (D-Mass.), a dove,
appeared together tn a Boston
suburb this weekend.
The appearance Is considered
to be part of Jackson's tactics In
his pursuit of the Democratic
presidential i
CHILE-US DEAL
In a multlmllllon dollar arms
deal, Chile Is buying Jet fighter
and clese-alr-support planes
from the United States, It was
learned yesterday.
Sources say that Chile Is pur¬
chasing the aircraft because ills
tually go to war against Chile.
and the government to exercise
self-restraint and self-discipline
in the fight against Inflation.
NIXON QUOTE
Rabbi Baruch Korff has quoted
former President Nixon as saying
that he was willing to go to Jail
and did not want to be pardoned.
Three days before he resigned,
Nixon said, *II they want to put
me behind bars, let them," ac¬
cording to Korff.
Ford.
WATERGATE TRIAL JURORS
The fifth day of questioning for
potential Watergate coverup trial
Jurors begins today.       *.
When chosen, the Jurors will be
under guard, day and night, until
Christmas or longer. U.S. Dis¬
trict Judge John Sirica said it
would be difficult to estimate how
long the trial would last.
•I would estimate it would be
somewhere in the neighborhood
of three to four months," he said.
MARIJUANA LAWS
Donald E. Santerelll, former
head   of   the   Law. Enforcement
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SUSAN MORRIS,
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St. Johns on campaigns
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view, he said, 'candidates don't
have sex-hut they haveramllles."
St. Johns said that candidates
are *jusf people. We've got tostop
making candidates something they
iKLATION CONTROL
an economic plan
•People tend to empha
strength of candidates,*
"Even thouRh we profess
leaders are supposed to
and all that stuff, we know
Asian studies protest
n in campaigns Is dur-
marles and not the
ctton campaigns, St.
The primary is "more rewai
inii to the participants" and
•where the tounh decisions a
required," he said.
St. Johns said that he worked
for Nixon and Agnew in 196e
because "I believed In that ticket
at that time." He said that what
able" In his knowledge.
Early semester
system proposed
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Friday deadlines
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LADIES I il NT L E ME N
SHOWS   MON.-FRI.  AT   7:00   AND   9:00
SAT.  AND SUN.  AT   1:00-3:00-5:00-7:00  AND  9:00
LATE SHOW - FRI. AND SAT. AT 11:00 PM
Senate will meet
t p.m. In Science 162.
'The California plan for Hls-
1c    Preservation,"   a  slide-
show, will be presented
Women's Gym room 131
,   a   Japanese-
organization, will
6 p.m. in CU 310.
v before the ExecutlveCom-
mlttee of the AcademlcSenateand
may go before the senate today.
The proposal recommends the
adopted "as soon as possible,'
according to Dr. Waller F. Row¬
land, chairman of the Academic
Policy and Planning Committee,
which drafted 'he proposal.
If adopted, final exams would
he over before Christmas vaca¬
tion. Spring semester would start
towards the end of January, to
allow transfer students from lo¬
cal colleges to complete their
semesters before coming to
CSUF.     About    1,000    students
TWhlte Racism and the Third '
World," an Ecumenical Campus
Ministry  lecture,  will be  pre¬
sented by the Rev. Joseph Barndt
InCU 312-14 at 12:15 p.m.
The second pre-retirement
counseling meeting will be In
CU 308 at 2 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
International Room of the Cafe
;erla at noon.
The Disabled Students on Cam¬
pus Organization will meet at
4 p.m. In the International Room
of the Cafeteria.
G. Johnson will speak on "What
is happening in lly? field of ac¬
counting?" at noon in the second
floor dining hall of the Cafeteria.
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About 12 CSUF students, moat
of them residents of the CoUege
Green Apartments, braved a
rainy Monday night to demon¬
strate against what they called
the poor quality of their dwell¬
ings. /
The group picketed a resi¬
dence belonging to Hal Klaaler
at 1211 E. Ashlan St. Klaaler la
the overseer of the apartments,
which  are owned by Teacher's
Klaaler recenUy terminated
Mickey Ussery aa llve-ln mana>
ger of the CoUege Green. Ussery
claimed she had been fired be¬
cause she had repeatedly voiced"
student demands for housing re¬
pairs.
But   Klssler,
The Dally Collegian at the dam-
ne,   said he had
Ussery because apartment
repairs were he» responsibility
and she  had  Aft'done her Job.
The    tigtntsj ()ia*cfljexpected
more support .from other tenants
More than 40 students had
signed petitions to be sent toTMI
backing Ussery and asking for
better facilities.
Some of the main complaints
of the Students Included no
screens on the windows, allowing
peats to freely enter; boles In
carpets; leaky roofs and ceilings;
and unclean walla.
Dennis McCoy, a formerCSUF
student among the protesters,
said students quite often paid a
$25 cleaning deposit to have their
apartment cleaned when they
moved In, but that the cleaning
wasn't usually done. .
■My apartment is In the worst
shape,' said McCoy. *I have a
hole In the carpet a foot-and-a-
half In diameter, and It goes
right down to the concrete.*
Rosey Vaught, a CSUF student,
said Insects and a malfunctioning
air conditioner were two of her
main complaints.
Klssler said many of the re¬
pairs should be made by the man¬
ager, and added that the $100
cleaning bill paid by the four
students In each apartment didn't
really cover the repair costs.
Denton orders committee study
on future of Asian Studies
WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
A new development has taken
place In the controversy over the
future of Asian Studies at CSUF,
which began when part-time In¬
structor Rita Yee was dismissed
Sept. 24. .
Dr. Charles F. Denton, deanof
the School ot Social Sciences,
announced the formation of a
committee composed of five fac-
- ulty members and two students
late Monday afternoon.
The group Is togtveltsrecdm-
mendatlons on the future form or
Asian Studies at CSUF, aa well as
on the future additions or dele¬
tions In course curriculum.
Student members or the com¬
mittee are yet to be.announced.
Faculty members Include: Steve
Thorn, head of Asian Studies; Dr.
MarnCha, associate professor of
economics; Dr. Sidney Chang,
professor of history; and Dr.
Shlen-Mln Jen, assistant profes¬
sor of anthropology.
A protest against Denton's dis¬
missal of Yee began shortly after
her contract to teach Asian
studies 115 was cancelled on
Sept. 24. Denton was accused of
being unfair and singling out
Yee'8 class, which had 15 stu¬
dents in It, while many other
classes had fewer students In
them, because Asian Studies
•was at the bottom of the peck¬
ing order,* In the words of Yee.
FORD'S ECONOMIC PACKAGE
Today President Ford will pre¬
sent Congress with Ms proposals
to control Inflation and stabilize
the economy. His economic pack¬
age Is expected to Include pro¬
posals to shift some tax burdens
from the poor to the well-to-do,
to restrain energy consumption,
and to stimulate the lagging hous¬
ing Industry.
to deliver the
l session of Con-
fetti
TUESDAY, OCTOBEFt 8, 1974
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Ford Is
televised
f gress.
GRAIN SALES
Secretary of Agriculture, Earl
L. Butz admitted Monday that he
had not been "firm enough* In
warning Soviet officials and U.S.
grain company executives against
the kind of massive grain sale
cancelled last week by the Ford
He announced a system under
which his department would ap¬
prove or disapprove large sales
of U.S. grains to foreign coun-
Secretary of State Henry Kis¬
singer said Monday that Russia's
failure to give the United States
assurances about the level of
Jewish emigration It will allow in
return for better trade relations
with this country baa resulted
In Congressional opposition to
new trade legislation.
The new trade legislation would
give Russia preferential tariff
treatment.
BAJA CALIFORNIA FOSSILS
The southern tip of Baja Cali¬
fornia contains a series of major
fossil beds yielding the remains
of giant tortoises, primitive
horses, camels, whales, and
sharks, dating back 60 million
years oc so, according to scien¬
tists at the Los Angeles County
Natural History Museum.
Scientists report there may be
proof of human habitation In Baja
as long ago as 50,000 years —
which would place man's entry
into the new world much earlier
than is generally believed.
Chris Burden: art is in the act, not in the end product
By Gerald Kent
Collegian SUA Writer
Art to Chris Burden Is lying In
bed for 23 days; breathing water;
crawling on his stomach through
broken glass; and having himself
shot In the arm with a bullet.
Burden, who .has appeared
throughout the country doing
these art 'pieces,* was the first
In a series of guest artists for a
class called Philosophy of Visual
Burden presented slides, mov¬
ies and video tapes of his art
Wednesday evening in the Art
Building Theater.
•Art Is not objects,' he said,
It Is .Interacting with objects.*
Burden showed slow motion
movies of himself being shot in
the arm with a .22 caliber bullet
from a rifle at close range.
Burden described this as "In¬
stant sculpture.'
There was no pain, he said.
It felt like a truck hit my arm
at 80 miles an hour... It didn't
have much feeling In It.'
This art piece, like all Ms art
pieces, allowed Mm to 'experi¬
ence first hand what I had always
been curious about,' he said.
Burden has traveled throughout
the country at the request of mu-
.seums, universities and art ln-
SECRET HPPIE-Chrls Burden in his art piece 1 became a secret
hippie.* In 'Hippie,* Burden had his hair shaved off, and a star-
shaped stud waa pounded Into his chest before he donned a suit and
tie. Burden, a Los Angeles artist, has worked with CSUF students
for the pas* several weeks, explaining tome of hie radical departures
from traditional art.
tation in art circles the past four
years which Is Just beginning to
make Mm a living. Burden stress¬
es; however, that money Is not
the motivation for his work.
In one piece called Through
the night softly,* Burden crawled
on his stomach through about 50
feet of glass chards with Ms hands
tied behind Mm wearing only
swimming trunks.
A 16-mllllmeter movie pro¬
jecting Ms struggle through the
glass was shown to the students.
of glass, and an objective sell
which said, 'My toes are bleed¬
ing too much, I can't use them
anymore."
Burden's ^rt Is an act of Ms
Will. *T tell myself, 'I am going
to do this',' he said.
Usually, Burden does not de¬
cide what he Is going to do until
he gets to the city where he will
do the piece.
'Once I make the decision, I
can't go back on it,' he said.
In March 1972, at a Los An¬
geles art gallery, Burden exhib¬
ited "Bedpiece," In wMch he lay
silently In bed for 22 days, hav¬
ing meals brought to Mm.
1 was like an object,* he said.
After a wMle Burden began to
enjoy the piece.
'For a week and a half I was
very bored, Vt5 said, "but the
longer I stayed there the more I
liked It.*/
A video Tape was shown to stu¬
dents of a piece Burden did at
the School of the Arts Institute
In Chicago.
•Today I am going to breathe
water, which Is the exact oppo¬
site of drowning because I be¬
lieve It to be a thicker, richer
air capable of sustaining life.*'
Burden then submerged Ms
head In a tank of water and pro¬
ceeded- to breathe water through
Ms nose. He gurggled and gulped,
and occasionally lifted M* head
gasping Into the air, then sub¬
merged It for more.
As an artist, Burden Is free to
do things that would normally be
thought of as Insane, he said.
•What's InsaMty tn one culture
Is not In another,* be said.
However, artlstictfreedom has
In 1972 Burden was arrested
after lying under a tarp in a
street. He put flares on either
side of him 'so I wouldn't get
run over,* he said.
Some one called the police and
Burden was arrested and tried
for 'causing a false emergency
to be reported.* The charge ca
i Jail t
a $1,01
fine but the jury was dismissed
for being unable to reach a unan¬
imous decision.
Slides of many of Burden's art
pieces were shown at the presen¬
tation and Include such things as
living In a two - by - three - foot
locker for five daya, driving a
bicycle around an art gallery for
seven hours a day, having a metal
shooting match rockets for three
hours at his node wife, lighting
15-foot wooden crosses soaked In
gasoline to surprise traffic, and
paddling In the ocean for ten daya'
In a kayak.
In *F Space,* from a suspended
platform In a room he yelled ob¬
scenities    Into   a   microphone,
wMch could be !
and a half,* to
asked, "Why did you c<
air?*.
There are Involuntary - reac¬
tions that are bard to control, he
said. One purpose of the piece
was 'just to see If 1 could do It.*
Burden said his art Is an ex¬
pression of his fantasies. Part
of Ms purpose Is to look for a
disparity between "what 1 think Is
going to happen and what does
happen,* he said.
lntoth
He yeUed such tilings as 'Get
the fuck out,* be said, until they
left. *It was a way to control
that space verbally.*
Burden said that In all other
areas of society, such as Indus¬
try and politics, aggression Is
permissible.
■Art la the only place It is not
allowed,* he said.
In a piece called'220,* Burden
and some friends sat on ladders
on a floor covered with several
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