1967_11 The Daily Collegian November 1967

              LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
2—THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Friday. November 10. 1967
Higher Education
A Right Or A Privilege?
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last in a series ol
articles on Higher EducaUon—A Right Or A Privi��
lege?
Lt. Gov. Robert Finch now suggests that ln order
to enroll mere minority and lower-Income students,
the University of California should admit toe top
12 1/2 percent of toe graduating class at each high
school rather than skimming off toe cream from
toe general statewide crop.
Statistics show toat few ghetto youngsters gain
admittance to toe University of California. But
university officials explain that these youths just
don't apply.
In his bid for tuition, Mr. Reagan said toat part
of the Income from student fees would also be used
to sat up faculty 'teaching* chairs at toe various
University of California i
comparison with these, he said, toe university
seems to neglect teaching.
Matchlng-tund QuesUon
aid to toe state In any form.
Central to California's educational phUosophy ln
recent decades has been the avallabUlty of public
higher educaUon to everybody-at some level.
This concept has not gone unchallenged through
the years. But toe master plan was drawn up
with toe general acceptance of toe concept.
Thousands of high-school graduates from across
toe nation migrate to California every year to
enter toe world's largest educational system. Most
are willing to pay high nonresident fees for a Ume.
Many eventually become Callfornlans and then spare
themselves these charges.
California has gained a worldwide reputation for
providing high-scale public educaUon on a big scale
at a minimum expense to the student.
Rcstudy Under Way
But now state officials say this may no longer
e feasible. And toey are calling for a restudy of
tho   r
The r
r plan a
s toe si
colleges and 18 state colleges wlto primary re¬
sponsibility for teaching-particularly at toe under¬
graduate level. Emphasis on research Is reserved
for toe state-wide university.
During recent budgetary disputes between toe
university and toe governor, university officials
warned toat a cutback of state research dollars
would result In a comparable withholding of federal
This state-federal subsidy, toey said, has been
the Impetus over toe years to California's nadon-
wlde leadership ln agricultural and oceanographlc
discoveries.
Governor Reagan Says he has no Intention to
undermine productive research. But he admits be
has serious reservations about massive federal
embraces.
A legislative subcommittee on higher educaUon
already has started such a reevaluaUon. Headed by
Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, this group expects
to issue a report on tuition and student fees next
January. A full analysis of the master plan is due
In 1MB.
Meanwhile, othor agencies, such as toe Coordin¬
ating CouncU for Higher EducaUon, may start their
own studies. CCHE grew out of toe master plan.
And Its 18-member advisory board has general
Jurisdiction over toe state's public educational net-
A good many Insiders maintain toe master plan
ultimately will be pulled apart at toe seams. Some
educators agree this might be a good thing. But
their greatest concern at this Juncture Is Just how
higher educaUon ln toe state will then be resUtched.
"OH, rjjjrtwpeOfESStX.'SSNiF — ARE YOU 60ING
TO COVeH ANYTHING IWCWAMT IH C/.ASS TDPAY?"
EDITORIAL
LETTERS
Want To Bet?
This erudite comment came from Student Body Second Vice Presi¬
dent Rod Bannister at last night's Inter Club CouncU meeUng. You
remember ICC — that Xerox copy of toe old Student councU. ICC
has a fancy name but has little or no etfecUve responsibility ln the
overall picture of student government on toe FSC campus.
Student President Mike Case and Bannister have evldenUy been
toe idea toat 'Spectra's cost isn't equal to toe bene-
Slnce when did the draft board
Rapt Draft Edict
Editor:
Four star General Hershey has
recenUy   admitted  toat he has against destroying draft cards?
ordered toe local draft boards The punishment was specified and
to suspend draft deferments for lt did not Include getting drafted,
those who burn their draft cards I   always thought that mUltary
or harrass     Induction centers. service was an honor not a duty.
Wresist.
re get fi
Tl It.*
50 Umes a day—while you are to
the service.)
This reminds me of the Big
Lie theory of propaganda. For
those of you who feel strongly
about toe draft, you better shape
up, or you wlil find yourself
squared away to an oUve drab
nightmare. From which you can¬
not awake.  K. H1LLMAN  A5123
Oondits
FLOWERS
& GIFTS
This train of thought shows little appreciation of one of toe most
outstanding publications ever to hit toe campus. Bannister em¬
phasized toat toe thought "Is to do away wlto such an elaborate
handbook.* Why??
After all, Isn't lt the intention of an Introductory manual to sell
FSC? Shouldn't toe handbook Introduce all facets of coUege life and
the college community to new students?
What wlU other college and university officials think of old 'grape
state tech* after toey peruse Spectra.
CurtaUlng such an excellent Journalistic venture seems a step ln
toe wrong direction.
We strongly recommend toat Bannister and Case truly sound out
the feeling of the student body. Do students want such an introductory
manual? Isn't toe high quality of Spectra, due to toe talents of Editor
CoUeen Leman, worth toe extra expense?
It's about Ume penny pinching 'leaders* on this campus give
credit where credit is due. ^
Good  things don't  come cheaply. And we speculate toat If Miss
Leman's Spectra is an IndlcaUon of what her 1968 yearbook Campus,
will be  llke-FSC  Is getUng  a great deal more than lt deserves.
" CMS
Mr.Wrangler!
Wremember,
the "W" is silent.
II somebody tries to tell you
that oil slocb ore cut Ilk* Mr.
Wrongler. resist. Hold out for
no-Hob trimness. And don'l foil
(or anything (hot doesn't hove
'"ranglok*>. the vVrinUeflghtar
g never. These Hondo*
|lhe Soturdoy night jeans)
ol wido-wcto corduroy In whisVoy,
putty and charred green $7.00.
Oxford b.d. shirt In strong colors.
$5.00. And everything v*)ors bel¬
ter because there's KODEl* in II
-o muscle blend of 50% Kodol
r/50% combed cotton.
Ollenberger's
National Dollar Store
Gwymm's Sportswear
Oh, oh.
Bet my date is
the one with
"personality."
a
Blind dates are a chance. But you can always depend on
refreshing Coca-Cola for the taste you never get tired of.
That's why things go better with Coke, after Coke, after Coke.
COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF F
Friday. November 10. 1967
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN—3
Strife Erupts Over S.F. State Publications
By MIKE LASS1TER
SAN FRANCISCO-What began a year ago as a student
protest against cafeteria prices at San Francisco State
CoUege culminated Monday In a violent physical attack
upon toe editor and other staff members of toe student
newspaper, the Dally Gator..
Editor James Vaszko, two Daily Gator sta
and a part-time Instructor were attacked by
the militant Black Student Union. Baszko required hos¬
pitalization. The cause was apparent UI feeling among
Union members over delay ln running a picture of a
homecoming queen candidate toey had sponsored.
This was not an Isolated Incident at toe DaUy Gator.
For toe past year toe Gator has been ombroUed ln campus
turmoU. It has been toe target of persistent verbal at¬
tacks from various sources although there bad been no
violence untU Monday.
cafeteria Pickets
It all began quietly enough on an afternoon last Novem¬
ber when a group of students calling themselves toe
Boycott Steering Committee began picketing toe cafeteria
to hopes ot gaining a 20 per cent cut ln food prices.
Various segments of th j student community Joined toe
protest. Groups as diverse as toe GatorvUle Housewives of
toe Married Student Village andtoeCallfornlaCommlttee
to Legalize Abortion contributed food, signs and pickets.
From toat seemingly unrelated incident a controversy
erupted over toe role of student publlcaUons on toe cam¬
pus. In toe ensuing struggle a new student weekly news¬
paper was started-and soon banned. A DaUy Gator editor
was ousted and students, faculty, admlnlstraUon and toe
general public became Involved to a statewide censorship
The Daily Gator's attitude toward toe boycott apparenUy
sowed toe seeds of its later dlfflculUes. The boycott re¬
ceived no formal backing from either Jim Nixon, student
body president, or toe Daily Gator. Despite this lack of
support, toe boycott leaders, Dick Tewosand JonMcKen-
ney, claimed lt was 90 percent effecUve at one point.
Compromise Proposed
Seven days after toe boycott began, CoUege President
John SummerskUl proposed a compromlse-a 10 percent
cut to prices and an Investigation of price policies at
other Bay Area campus cafeterias by toe school's busi¬
ness fraternity.
The DaUy Gator favored toe proposal. In an editorial,
the newspaper said toe nonprofit organization which runs
toe school's cafeteria and bookstore 'was acting ln good
faith by agreeing to toe Interim cut and study." A few
days later toe boycott ended, but not without hard feelings.
On Dec. 14 toe groups most acUve to the cafeteria
boycott, Including toe Black Student Union, formally at¬
tacked toe Gator, claiming toat toe school paper had,
"maintained priority over toe dispensing of lnformaUon
on campus.* They suggested too Gator become a news¬
paper 'committed to too principles of student power."
Over toe next few months cries came from various
campus sectors for another student paper. Strongest to
their plea were student government agencies which felt
their programs were not being adequately covered by
toe Gator.
On March 2 Nixon appointed former student body presi¬
dent Joe Perslco, now execuUve secretary of toe Com¬
munity Involvement Program (CLP), to membership on toe
Board ot Publications. The BOP consists of seven stu¬
dents and five faculty members and Is responsible for
publishing all campus publications.
New Paper Proposed
Sho'rUy after Persico's appointment he became BOP
chairman. Gary Wagner, another CLP acUvlst, proposed
creation of a campus weekly dedicated to "providing an
open channel of communication for the enUre academic
community of San Francisco State.* The proposal called
for emphasis on toe 'dissemination of current Ideas and
lnformaUon about Issues and to provide a vehicle for
toe expression of new ones.*
In a BOP meeting tainted by a controversy over a
member's right to vote, $4,555 was appropriated topiint
a new weekly newspaper called Open Process on an ex¬
perimental basis. This was In addition to Tho DaUy
Gator's flve-day-a week publication.
The political furor touched off by toe boycott by now
had evolved Into a rivalry between toe paper and student
government.
The Gator publicized toe fact toat Nixon had both his
wife  and ex-wife  on  toe student government payroll.
Biased Coverage?
In AprU toe Gator was accused of biased coverage of
the student presldenUal elecUon. Phil Garllngton, student
president-elect and former city editor of toe Gator, was
charged wlto using his newspaper column to attack Nixon
In Its final edlUon last spring, Open Process ran an
article on toe Eden West nudist colony. Accompanying
the story was a frontal photo of a nude woman. Labeled
the 'summer love edition,* toe weekly also contained
certain four-letter words often considered Inappropriate
tor mass circulation publication.
Thus toe Issue of 'good taste' ln coUege publications
was raised.
Dr. SummerskUl, acting on his own volition, placed a
ban on Open Process. The Inability of toe BOP to take
action, due to organizational problems, was bis justifica¬
tion. I
The editorial staff members of Open Process felt toey
had not violated their stated objecttves. They felt that to
properly toey had to use toe 'raw language
Umes* and explicit photography. Questionable
were Justified by the argument that this Is toe way
talk and thus lt Is unnecessary to cover up.
s second meeUng this fall toe new BOP advised
toe suspension. SummerskUl followed through
» bis el
Compounding toe Issue was the discovery toat Gator
editor Ben Kong -Torres, whohad been doing gradualesludy
in radio-television, had not registered as a student tor
toe second semester.
The Journalism department, which advises but does not
control toe newspaper, also came under attack. Depart¬
ment chairman Leo Young, learning of Torres' non-
student status, asked for his resignation. Torres refused,
tearing lt would set a precedent for department control
of toe paper when, according to toe BOP bylaws, sole
responstoUlty belonged to toe BOP. The cop then bounced
Ironically, as toe Gator was under attack by both stu¬
dents and members of toe Journalism faculty tor Its
"tainted conduct,* lt received an all-Amerlcan raUng to
toe nationwide college newspaper compeUtlon sponsored
by toe AssoclaUon of CoUege Newspapers.
Young proposed toat toe Journalism department take
over toe publishing of toe Gator from the BOP. But ad¬
ministrate problems to handling money, paper work and
advertising prohibited such a takeover.
The possibility of toe department completely separaUng
Itself from toe Gator Is still under consideration. Young
would like to see a setup where no member of toe Jour¬
nalism faculty Is either a member of toe Board of Pub- .
llcatlons or adviser to toe newspaper. A laboratory
paper, printed to toe department as a teaching tool, was
considered but space limitations and lack of funds make
lt presenUy impossible.
Controversial Weekly
The controversy then moved to toe now weekly, Open
Process, and away from toe DaUy Gator.
The Open Process staff consisted of too more liberal
thinkers on campus. The Haight-Ashbury element exem¬
plified by Jefferson Poland, leader of toe Sexual Freedom
League, gained more and more control of toe paper's
UfUng
But toe crux of toe problem r<
toe BOP still had to select an editor, pick an adviser, ap¬
prove a budget and accept a statement of obJecUves
before printing of Open Process could begin.
Diversity of opinion among faculty members of toe
BOP hindered such selecUon.
"Censorship Irrelevant" _
Dr. Jerrold Werthlmer, associate professor of Jour¬
nalism and a BOP member, saw the situation as a matter
of a publisher deciding what the policy ofhls paper should
be. It Is up to toe Board of PubllcaUons to decide what
type of paper lt wants and to make sure an editor who
thinks along toe same lines as toe board Is put In charge,
he said.
'The censorship Issue Is Irrelevant; as pubUsher we
(BOP) decide  toe  nature of toe paper,* he declared.
Another BOP member, Daniel Peck, professor of ed¬
ucation, viewed toe problem from a sllghUy different
angle. Peck felt toe coUege's responsibility to toe stu¬
dents' parents and friends < "
■Wo don't want to make a mistake again," he said.
•We should be reasonably sure toe coUege Is not hurt
any more than lt already has been by Open Process
content.*
Opposing both views was Dr. Patrick G. Gleeson, as¬
sistant professor of English. Gleeson likened toe Open
Process controversy to toe Free Speech Movement ai toe
University of California's Berkeley campus. He cautioned
that unless toe Board of PubllcaUons allowed toe paper
to publish lt could "build a mountain out of a molehUl
and tear toe coUege apart.*
Though Open Process Is again prtoUng ln a mellowed
format, toe mounting Issue of toe coUegepubUcailon role
ln reviewing and shaping social beliefs and InsUtuUons
wUl continue to brew on campuses throughout toe state
and the naUon.
College publlcaUons are designed to be a learning
process, but toat does not mean toey are exempt from
Ihe wralh of public opinion their public counterparts
somoUmes face. Rarely does It reach toe extreme of
physical violence, but toat does not mean dissent Is not
Psychological Guilt Explained        Student 1$ One    IMPRESSI0WS
At Inter-Varsity Fellowship Meet, Qf -j j Qn$en Good Trouble-Makers
etiology, teacher at pacific Col¬
lege. 'But toey really expose sin
by forcing a person t<
id get at toe.
gum.*
Speaking on 'Psychological v
Spiritual Guilt* at Thursday's
Inter-Varsity Christian FeUow-
shlp meeUng, Dr. Berg defined
guUt as 'the feeling toat there's
Distinguishing between psy¬
chological and spiritual guUt, Dr.
Berg explained psychological
guilt arises out of faulty Inter¬
actions with other people.
Individuals who develop Impos¬
sible expectations and set up un-
reasonable demands for
themselves are most likely to
suffer from psychological guUt
^- according to Dr. Berg.
Many Umes this type of per¬
son feels he has to measure up
to exorbitant standards In order
to be accepted.
Strict parents who demand per¬
fection before loving their child¬
ren contribute to toe development
of unreasonably high self-expec¬
tations on toe child's part says
In contrast, Dr. Berg refers to
spiritual gum as 'real guUt*
which must be dealt with as a
real violation ofa code of conduct.
"The   two   different types of
guUt, spiritual and psychological,
have two different soluUons,* he
explained.
"Since a code of conduct has
been violated, spiritual guUt de¬
mands confession and restitu¬
tion,* Dr. Berg added, 'while
psychological guilt can be re¬
lieved by gaining Insight Into Its
New Student Clubs
Given Recognition
The Student Life Committee
approved appllcaUons for toe
temporary recognition of four
organizations, toe Judo Club,
Geography Club, Campus Ad¬
vance, and Fresno State CoUege
Chapter of ClvU Engineers.
The Campus Advance and toe
ClvU  Engineers were approved
be modified to In¬
clude references to a quorum.
The Student Handbook Is being
reviewed by the Student Affairs
Committee to see If lt compiles
with student rights.
It will remain as coUege pol¬
icy until SAC has
The  i
For Area Council
James Hood, a senior agricul¬
tural engineering major from
Fresno, has been chesen to serve
on the Fresno Community Coun¬
cU, a county-wide citizens' or¬
ganlzaUon representing 118 pub¬
lic and voluntary groups.
Hood Is one of only 16 students
selected from Fresno high
schools, FresnoCityCollege, and
Fresno Stole CoUege. He will be
acUve to toe "Evaluation of Unit¬
ed Crusade Activities" commit¬
tee, which aids In determining
toe kind of health, welfare, and
recreational services toat should
be avaUable to Fresno.
The 16 appointments were
made by school administrators
and Dr. Dallas A. Tueller, FSC
academic vice president and
Community CouncU president.
CouncU officials explained toe
program's goal Is not only to
train toe students In community
planning processes, but to learn
from toe students as well.
Other students selected wlil
serve on the Volunteer Bureau
Committee, which recruits vol¬
unteers and assigns them to help
non-profit organizations, or wlil
be liaisons between toeCouncU's
Board of Directors and their In¬
dividual schools.
The cliche teUs us toat a leopard can't change his spots. But what
happens when the leopard gets new blood?
If It's anything like Fresno State College there wUl be some
changes. Slow at first but changes nevertheless.
The changes are ln toe form of Mr. Kenneth H. Beesley and
Leonard H. Hlldebrandt. Both men hold forth ln toe old administra¬
tion building. They might be described as a sort of good type of
trouble makers.
Between the two of them, some, not all certainly, but some of toe
pesky problems toat have bothered FSC'ers are being worked out.
Beesley, as ExecuUve Dean and Director of Institutional Studies,
Is actually doing something about toe horrible parking situation.
Construction is to begin shorUy for a parking lot behind toe dorms
and soon thereafter on toe corner lot at Barstow and Cedar Avenues.
Another "construcUve boat rocker* is Hlldebrandt whose Job lt la
to get funds toat are not avaUable through toe state budget. Niceties
like a new p.a. system ln toe Men's Gymnasium are ln his line of
work. There are bigger things also, such as his concern over toe
atrocious reglstraUon procedures.
Both men have expressed the desire for student opinion. They want
quesUons asked and suggesUons made. They arenewln toe commun¬
ity and bring with them new Ideas. They won't have any success
unless they get backing.
Total success? No, but some, yes. Somebody Is telling toe students
what toey are doing.
They have also suggested how toe students can help. Make an ap¬
pointment with their secretaries. Pass on suggestions. This goes
for president Ness as weU. He has always been available but now
he's asking ln a louder voice to be Informed about what's going on
around him. He has toe right to know. We have toe right and possibly
toe duty to teU him.
What does toe future hold? That's hard to say but to* first Im¬
pression was a good one. These men called me to ask and Inform.
That certainly must mean something.
We certainly can't lose anything. They can't take anything away but
tot potential to add Is certainly there.
PAUL SULLIVAN, JR.
KFSR News Editor