1969_03 The Daily Collegian March 1969

              The Daily Collegian
LXXIV/89      FRESNO STATE COLLEGE, FRESNO, CALIFORNIA     MONDAY,.MARCH 3,1969
Student riots, draft are rally topics
Harris makes      DJ warns that
plea for
nonviolence
With a plea for nonviolence
which was reminiscent of an era
gone by, draft resistance leader
David Harris and his folk singer
wife Joan Baez spoke to students
In the Men's Gymnasium Friday
night.
Harris, expressing many of
the same Ideals he expounded In
• his November visit to Fresno,
said that the common probler
out of the world as It exists now.
•This must begin with making
sense of our own lives, and un¬
derstanding that our lives func¬
tion as tools," he said.
cess of living." he stated. "Our
The former Fresnan and stu¬
dent body president of Stanford
University said that the first and
most Important politicald<
CONFRONTATION I
speaker   at  a  YAF  sponsored  rally  in   Ihe Tree
speech area Friday. Here he points a microphone
at student Jay Goodwin with whom Dee had a
debate. The rally lasted almost two hours at
traded approximately 100 people.
Committees seek interest
s owned by
the student association and the
use of the building will be de¬
termined by that body, said Os-
trotr.
•The committee has had no
formal requests for the build¬
ing's use," said Ostroff. The
Committee will report Its find¬
ings to the Student Senate, be¬
fore a recommendation Is made
to the Board of Director*.
The Registration Committee
will meet Tuesday March 11 to
discuss registration procedures.
The committee Is not an ad-hoc
actual registration procedures
and to work on smoothing out
some of Its operation.
Michael Wheeler, student
member of thecommlttee, saldhe
would like students who have
Ideas on Improving the registra¬
tion procedure to come to the
meeting and to express their so¬
lutions.
He cautioned, "Registration Is
a very complex problem andstu-
D1 Buduo said, *We want sug¬
gestions for Improving orien¬
tation week for the betterment
of new freshman. We want to
eliminate some of the things
which we did not Uke about the
•We want the freshman , es¬
pecially to make suggestions and
to express their opinions, be¬
cause they were directly Involved
and they know what was wrong
with the program."
He said areas for possible
Improvement are more eropha-
11 registration procedures,
cated.
The Registration Committee,
a Joint student-faculty commit¬
tee, Is working on ways of Im¬
proving registration procedures.
The New Student Orientation
Committee, a Student Senate sub¬
committee In conjunction with
Student Activities, Is working on
changes in freshmen
•ehelpfr
prograi
several things could b
In order  to add more
seeking the support of
students and requesting sug¬
gestions on vital campus Issues,
The Bookstore Committee, a
Student Senate sub-committee Is
trying to find a use for the Book¬
store  structure after  It Is va-
riots will bring
budget cuts
Between glib comments, biting
sarcasm and Jeers, Fresno disc
Jockey Gary Deeof KMAKwarned
students that taxpayers are going
to cut the college budget if riot¬
ing and destruction of state pro¬
perty does not end.
Dee, a former student of Fres¬
no State College and commenta¬
tor of a telephone dialogue pro-
crai
S   Of 01
t Its
Suggestions regarding each
committees work may be sub¬
mitted by students, faculty and
staff by letters to the commit¬
tee (each has a mailbox In the
Student   President's     Office).
The Bookstore Committee,
headed by DaveOstroff, will meet
Tuesday at 11 a.m. In the Stu¬
dent President's Office in the
College Union.
The purpose of the committee
will be to explore possible fu¬
ture uses of the building which
now houses the bookstore, but*
which will soon be vacated,
according to Ostroff.
judgments
Labeling the L	
draft card as a 'deed i
ship for the state," Harris called
.for all Americans to decide If
•murder Is going to remain as a
part of United States foreign
policy."
With reference to democracy,
Harris said that symbols such as
the American flag help to give
children a motivating forf*e In
their destiny.
•The second motivating force
of our society Is the force built
on fear,* he said. He character¬
ized fear as being unable to see
other faces, or allowing a grown
man to 'drop a jellied gas on
children. That man must be blind
If he doesn't see those people,"
he declared.
•As long as fear Is the driving
force the butchering will con¬
tinue," he said.
fhe slightly balding draft re¬
gister said that one of the best
examples of fear In America Is
the fact that the United States
stores enough nerve gas in the
Rocky Mountains to "kill the en¬
tire  population  of the world 30
Harris declared that the Insti¬
tution of the selective service
■will not be destroyed until more
(Continued on Page 3, Col. 2)
for
Freedom free speech rally Fri¬
day afternoon. The rally signified
the end of the YAF blue button
campaign In support of S.I. Haya-
kawa, acting president of San
Francisco Stele College, and the
state's tactics In dealing with
SFSC strikers.
of  t.
1 that
the taxpayer Is 'going to cut you
(students) right off at the navel
when you start rioting. . . when
you have disrespect for the hand
that feeds you. When you no long¬
er come to college to learn. . .
but to destroy that which we(tax-
payers) built, then you're In
trouble and the vast audience. . .
Is going to cut it off where It
hurts, and that's the taxes."
Dee said that If It had not been
for the taxpayers and the people
of California who believe in high¬
er education, colleges would not
exist. Basically, he said, Call-
iqrnians are spending money for
college because they "believe in
learning,   but   learning   by   the
•As a taxpayer and an alimony
payer and as a gentleman who
has been accused on the radio of
doing everything else sinful, ille¬
gal and Immoral but a heck of a
• Dee a
it he w
proud of FSC because the students
were here to learn. He also said
that FSC had come a long way
since moving to the present lo¬
cation, when it was a 'miserable
campus."
•And look what (FSC) Is to¬
day,* Dee said. "In a period of
10 or 12 years it has grown into
one of the most beautiful cam¬
puses In the state.
•This is not done by you; this
Is not done by me," he contin¬
ued, 'this is done by every tax¬
payer.   They believe  In  higher
• 1)
(Continued on page 3, C
Honors program seeks passage
was   bad,   but   no solution has
He said, "The students have
to realize changing the simple
mechanics does not solve enough
courses available."
The New Student Orientation
Committee, an ad-hoc commit¬
tee headed by Nat Di Buduo,
will meet In the Student Presi¬
dent's Office at 1 p.m. Tuesday.
. The   objectives, according to
r the chairman, are to sludy the
fallacies if the present system
of   orientation   and   to   suggest
A new all-college program of
honors classes was discussed at
Friday's Executive Committee
meeting and was returned to the
Academic Policy and Planning
Committee. The AP&P had for¬
merly recommended theprogram
in principle. Pres. Frederic W.
Ness' motion to return it asked
for approval In specifics.
The program would provide for
both Inter-dlsclpllnary all-col¬
lege honors courses and specific
programs within the various de¬
partments.
Discussion centered on the Is¬
sue regarding the compulsion
placed  upon the student to take
Academic Vice president Dal¬
las TueUer said that the Execu¬
tive Committee's declining to ap¬
prove the program at this time
would rule out Its Inclusion In
next year's catalog. A general
statement on the program wlllbe
placed listing the source of spe¬
cific Information on the program,
however.
After AP&P reviews the pro¬
gram It will again be considered
by the executive committee. The
program Is the work of an AP&P
subcommittee formed last
March.
The executive committee ap¬
proved Pres. Ness* motion to
limit student participation on the
Campus Planning Committee to
three students until the end of
this academic year and then to
two. This number is more in
keeping with proportions of stu¬
dents  to  faculty on other com¬
mittees, Ness added.
The executive committee will
meet again today at3p.m.Among
the Items on the agenda Is an
AP&P recommendation to elim¬
inate physical education as a
specific  requirement  for grad-
Another portion of the same
AP&P recommendation which
eliminated algebra and geometry
as general requirements for
graduation was passed by the
committee at an earlier meeting
and approved by the president.