1969_04 The Daily Collegian April 1969

              CHRISTIAN YOGA
EAST-WEST WEEK
through a Japanese tea garden with one of his
The Daily Collegian
FRESNO STATE COLLEGE, FRESNO, CALIFORNIA
LXXIV/108 TUESDAY, APRIL 8,1969
Academic Assembly votes
to retain PE requirement
The
imbly hi
upheld the Academic Senate
vote retaining physical educa¬
tion credit as a requirement for
graduation.
The assembly vote was 148-77
that the requirement be removed;
two votes short of the 2/3 re¬
quired to reverse aSenate actton.
The Issue in debate was not
the benefits of physical activity
but rather the preferred status
given to PE as a requirement
outside   the   general  education
The recommendation that the
requirement be dropped originat¬
ed with the Academic PoUcy and
Planning Committee. It was sent
to the ExecutiveCommitteeof the
Academic Senate for approval but
failed. From there lt was put on
the agenda of the Senate and
failed by a 31-30 vote. The As¬
sembly   meeting was  called In
i the Senate ai
order to vote
Uon.
A motion was proposed by
Eugene Zumwalt, associate pro¬
fessor  of EngUsh, to return the
consideration In Ught of new gen¬
eral education Information.The
motion failed.
Randy Walsh, first student vice
president, spoke In favor of re¬
moving the requirement. He
discussed the Student Senate's en¬
dorsements of the recommenda¬
tion on Dec. 11 and Feb. 3. He
cited this as an indication of tbe
attitude of the student body as
a whole on the matter.
Allan Dorfmeir, the newly-
elected senior senator pre¬
sented a student petition favoring
the recommendation, lt contained
1200 verifiable    signatures   he
arguments, stating that physical
training Is a part of a total
education.
Other student athletes and
PE fculty restated these
senUments and defended the
necessity of physical activity
on a compulsory basis.
The  variety In physical educa-
Rally today
A rally to react to student de¬
mand* made on Fresno State
CoUege President Frederic Ness
will be held today at noon In the
Free Speech area.
The rally la sponsored by the
Black Students Union and the
Mexican American Student Coo-
federation.
Students find statement 'unacceptable'
FSC explores
Eastern cultures
Meditation will be one of the
facets of Eastern culture ex¬
plored by Fresno State CoUege
studenta during East-West Week,
which began yesterday.
Sri Subramuniya the founder
of the Christian Yoga Order and
Himalayan Academy wUl lecture
at noon today on meditation. He
will be speaking in the Inter¬
national Room of the Cafeteria.
Subramuniya wUl also be hold¬
ing an all-day discussion to-
. day with students In CoUege Union
309. Students can make Indi¬
vidual appointments through tho
College Y.
He wlU hold a dance seminar
at 2 p.m. In the Women's Gym¬
nasium. Kandlan and Manlpurl
Indian dances  wlU be featured.
A cultural night will be held
from 6 to U tonight in the CoUege
Union Lounge. Eastern food,
arts and crafts, slides and pic¬
tures will be displayed. Foreign
studenty will be available to
answer questions.
* The FSC Associated Student
Body, the College Y, the Asian
Studies program Committee and
the Beth Harnlsh Memorial Lec¬
ture Fund are Jointly sponsoring
East-West  Week.
Floyd H. Ross, professor of
philosophy at California State
Polytechnic College In Pomona
will be the guest speaker tomor¬
row at the Beth Harnlsh Lecture
at 8 p.m. In the Little Theatre.
William Shelton, professor of
non-Western music at Colgate
University and secretary of the
Asian Society of the United States,
will lecture and perform Indian
music Thursday at 7:30 p.m. In
tbe Music Recital Hall. He wlU
also conduct a musical seminar
at 1 p.m.
A special extension course
workshop - Geography 128T,
East-West Cultural Exchanges
Through the Centuries - wlU be
held In Agriculture 109 on Fri¬
day, from 4 to 10 p.m. and from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday.
One semester of coUege credit
will be offered. The cost Is
$18.00
The lectures are free to the
pubUc. Stucents wishing to
register for credit should contact
the extension division for regis¬
tration materials.
Four university professors
will participate In the course.,
professor Liang-yen Chow from
toe Monterey InsUtute of For¬
eign Studies will speak on 'Chi¬
na's Response to the West
In the 19th and 20th Century.'
Professor    Yuan-U  Wu of toe
University of San Francisco wiU
speak on 'China's Experience
for     Under-Developed    Coun-
Aasodate Professors David
J. Stein Berg and L.A. Peter
Gosling of the University of
Michigan wlU speak on TheU.S.
Organizations
to celebrate
Ghandi Week
Gandhi Centennial Week, ob¬
serving the 100th anniversary of
the birth of Mohandas Gandhi,
wlU begin on April 21 and last
until April 25.
On Monday, April 21, at noon,
Mr. K. S. Bajpal, Indian Counsel
General In San Francisco will ba
hosted at a luncheon In the Inter¬
national Room of the Cafeteria.
At 12:15 p.m. the film •Ma¬
hatma,* a documentary on Gan¬
dhi's Ufe, wiU be shown to
Science 161. At 8 p.m. Bajpal will
speak In the CoUege Union Main
Lounge on the 'Pursuit of Truth
and Non-Violence.*
On Tuesday, April 22, Richard
Keyes, holder of the Black
Studies Chair at Fresno State
College, will speak on 'Gandhi
and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'.
Keyes' talk will be at 12:15 p.m.
in the CU Main Lounge.
Elizar Rlsco, holder of La
Raza Studies Chair will be the
main speaker on Wednesday, Ap¬
ril 23. Rlsco's topic win be
'Gandhi: An Approach to Social
Problems.' Rlsco wlU speak at
4 p.m. in Science 121.
Various parts of the film ■Ma¬
hatma,' which is in several parts,
will be shown at 12:15 p.m. and
7 p.m. In Science 161.
Dr. Framroze A. Bode will
speak at 1:15 p.m. on Thuraday,
April 24, on "Relevance of Gandhi
In Today's Crises.* Bode, an
Indian visiting the philosophical
Research Institute In Los An¬
geles, wlU speak in the LltU*
Theatre.
The
> film
•Mobatroa' will be In Science 121
at 12:15 p.m.
On Friday, April 25, Somnato
Dhar, Counsel at the Indian Con¬
sulate General In San Francisco,
wiU speak on'Gandhi's Approach
to Human RelaUon*.' The loca¬
tion   has   not   been   announced.
•Mahatma* will be shown at
12:15 to Science 161.
Ness makes reply to student demands
Editor's Note: Tbe following Is
a statement by President Frederic
W.Ness on toe demands that have
been presented to him by toe
Black and Chlcano students.
After meetings yesterday with
the president, toe minority stu¬
dents and the Student Coalition
declared before reporters thai
Dr. Ness' position on their de¬
mands was "unacceptable."
On Friday before the Easter
' Recess the Black and Chlcano
students presented a Ust of de¬
mands. On Monday, April 7, I
made a detailed oral response to
these demands. Thla response
■ consistent with the policy of
—-'-•-
!■  lake
reasonable steps to Improve the
quality of educational services at
this college.
For the Information of the en¬
tire campus a digest of my an¬
swers to the specific demands Is
offered here:
1. That the EOP b
to 400 students for the a
year 69-70.
This Is a reasonable figure and
I commit my support In trying to
achieve lt.
2. Full financial support for
EOP students for all of their
academic Ufe.
The achievement of the four
hundred figure will not be pos-
made available to assure meet¬
ing the.student's needs. No state
funds "have aa yet been.made
available for this purpose, and
our requests for Federal KDEA,
Work Study, and EOG funda have
not received an official answer.
I have committed myself and my
administration to making every
effort to secure these funda and
have Invited three minority rep¬
resentatives to accompany me
to Sacramento this week to meet
with certain key leglslatora.
3. That there be a public com¬
mitment from the administration
to guarantee full financing of
EOP students during their
I pledged the efforts of my ad¬
ministration to seek means
whereby the requisite financial
support can be provided all of our
economically disadvantaged stu¬
dents to achieve their educa¬
tional goals. Despite our budget¬
ary inflexibility, Mr. Levin has
been asked to explore every pos¬
sible avenue for funda from this
source. The administration ha*
made repeated efforts to secure
private financing. A public cam¬
paign for emergency fund* was
launched by the president's Ad¬
visory Board at lt* regular
monthly meeting on April 3. Its
i wlU depend largely upon
sent our needs to tbe public.
4. That Black* and Chlcano*
have complete control of one edi¬
tion of the CoUeglan every two
I expressed my firm convic¬
tion that toe college newapaper
should be broadly representative
of the total campus community,
and also my conviction thai lt
should function with an absolute
minimum of administrative in¬
terference. I nevertheless
pledged that I would make a per¬
sonal representation to the Board
of PubUcaUons to ensure that
to* mtoority groups share fairly
i toe CoUeglan'* coverage. 1 did