1974_04 The Daily Collegian April 1974

              Students rally to support Summer Institute
A rally to show support forth*
EOP's Summerlnstlluteprogram
was held Friday morning, despite
the.cancellatlon by an administration official of a meeting to
discuss s study of the program.
Student Senator Mario Galvan
said he call**] Carl Levin's office
Wednesday to confirm the meet-
made Isst Monday by Levin's
secretary.
Galvln said the secrelary told
him that Levin (chairman of tbe '
FSC Association Board of Directors), would not be on campus
Friday sod thus could not meet
with the students.
•She told me that he (Levin)
was still on vacation and that she
had not realized this when she
made the appointment,* he said.
'She said she had been trying
to contact someone to Inform
that that the meeting waa off, but
she said she couldn't reach any-
posedly was to have conducted a
serious study between June 2,
1973 and June 27. 1973. looking
Into the feasibility of having the
EOP Summer Institute run concurrently with the fall semester
Il 21, w
proximately 38 students, mostly
chlcanos,  want to student body
president, KurtSchmldt, and confronted him with his reported Intent to veto funds for. the pro.
Schmidt agreed to give his decision the following Monday. On
Monday, about 60 students again
confronted Schmidt, not only concerning th* Summer Institute,
but also what they called "racist
and sexist* remarks which he
bad mad* at th* previous encounter.
Schmidt and student body veep,
Dave Davenport, ended up leading
th* students on a march to CSUF
Norman Baxter's of-
Baxter was out of town and th* '
students decided to go to Levin's
office. Representatives for th*
students went Into his office and
road* the appointment to meat.
with him on the 29th. Th* rally
was then set to begin Friday
morning before the meeting.
At the rally, an estimated 100
students heard speakers talk of
th« purpose of th* Summer In- ~
stltute and tha apparent reluctance Of the administration to
meet with students about its
funding.
Robert Harry Satcber, president of the Pan-African Union,
told the students he considered
'the attempt to discontinue the
program aa part of "a national
plot  to do away with  minority
Summer Institute Program
BLANC A GOMEZ was one of several speakers airing her Support Of th* EOP's
before Friday morning's rally In Ihe Free Speech area. Photo by Barry Wong.
studies."   He said he had just meeting   with ,Levln   had   been At th* end of th* meeting, a
received a memo' from Clara- changed to Monday for 10 a.m. petition calling for the removal
mont College which reported a cut and were asked to meet ln front of Kurt Schmidt and DaveDaven-
In their Black Studies program. of th* New AdmlnlstrattonBuUd- port from student office was pre-
The   students   were   told  the lng to show support. sented to th* students.
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CALIFORNIA      STATE      UNIVERSITY,      FRESNO
Nader: American public is victim
of 'orchestrated crisis,' criminality
WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
Nader, speaking Friday night ln
visalla, said tha American public is the victim and the pollution
control drlv* a casualty of *an
rchestrated energy crisis on
one hand and the very planned
Watergate-type   criminality   on
He said solar en«rgy was *oui
greatest hope of solving the ener
gy problem for*v*r."
Nader  said  there  Is
energy shortage ln the
real
(oil, gas, coal) because there is
an estimated 285 billion barrels
of oil that can be recovered,'
given present technology, In the
48 steles. But. he said, theprob-
lam Is a real on* for th* consumer because the oil companies
have created an energy shortage
ln marketable products.
He said the oil Industry's own
figures show tha amount of "net
petroleum supplies* ln th* country to b* slightly higher during
the last six months than It was
during that time last year.
Oil Industry data shows l
than last year and by a considerable margin, he said.
■What we see here Is a decision being made to create
shortages ln certain parts of
the country.* he said.
Nader, said the lines were longest In New Jersey and ln areas
"where the oil companies want
to soften public resistance to
offshore drilling. ■
•We certainly should not tolerate an orchestrated, fake ahort-
age to push us into accepting
more pollution, higher prices,
more monopoly snd more indirect
subsidies from th* small jax-
payer to the big oil companies
which have turned Washington
Into 'accounts receivable',*'be
said.
It was December and th* temperature ln energy chief William
Simon's office waa 77 degrees,
Nader said. «l asked htm how
com* and he aald, 1 Ilk* lt that
way'.*
Simon's solution to th* energy
crisis, Nader aald,
tha   prices,   which will  reduce
aggregate demand and
production.
■Ha uses th* term aggregate
demand, which is on* of tha moat
unfeeling phrases ever,* said
Nader. 'How about tha poor people who have to buy certain
kinds of fu*l?»
Nader said lt was a fact that
there haa been a hug* demand on
th* companies which manufacture
th* tanks used for storing gasoline.
Besides th* hoarding, people
are burning "a gallon of gas an
hour* waiting tn lines and they're
burning fuel looking for gas sta-
' (Continued on Pg. 8, Col. 3)
BANANA POWER
A new organization, tha Union
of Banana Exporting Nations, is
threatening Americans with s
one to two cent Increase In the
price they pay for bananas. In
a move similar to that of Its
sister exporting alliance, theOr-
ganlzatlon of Petroleum Exporting Countries, th* six Latin
. American countries plan to effect the Increase by April 15.
As of now, there have been no
threats of a banana boycott.
ETHIOPIAN CONFLICT
Ethiopia was reported to be
calm this morning, after recent
weeks of civil and military disorder, but nothing more has been
heard about rive American and
Canadian oil prospectors who
disappeared after .a helicopter
crash. It Is speculated that they
were captured by separatist Erlt-
rean guerrillas.
GURNEY FACES SCANDAL
Florida Senator ! Edward J.
Curney, who became well known
to Americans for his rote on the
Krvln Committee during th*
height of th* Watergate Scandal,
now faces troubles of Ms,own.
Curney, according to at toast on*
witness, traded Influence with the
Federal Housing Authority for
a beachfront apartment. The witness, Larry Williams, is disputed by the Miami Herald.
ONLY HIS BARBER
Corp* has visited Ma barber ln
an attempt to find out that be
does. He credits Ms young look
Building to provide needed facilities
Industrial Arts and Technology
chairman, Frank Schroeter, said
th* department's new $2.25 million building under construction
Applications now
open to women
i an initial 14 new
1 ndustrial arts classes are scheduled  for the fall aa a result of
He expects this number to double
An energy utilization lab, a
fluid power lab; an auto diagnostic center, and an Industrial
metals lab are only a few of
th* new facilities that will b*
housed ln th* building, said
Schroeter. Study ar*aarpres«ntly
existing in th* oM building and
which wlU bo expanded ln th*
' new one, lnclud* graphic arts and
communication,  and  electronic
feels confident th* CSUC Board
Of Trustees will budget »500,000
to furnish the new building.
Larry Elkins, Bio* Key prwsl-
■dent, said, *W* had no b*n*flt
being all males.*
Bin* Kay la open to active students with at least, s 3.0 grade
point average and Junior standing. Th* group meets every three
weeks and Is currently raising
~ mpnsy to donate a braille duplicator to the university library.
Editor applications
avallabU in CU 301
Applications ar« availabl*
in room. 301 of the College
Union for editor of] th* Dally
CoUegtan, La Voz, UHURU
and Backwash for the faU
Th* deadline for flUng applications la April 22. Selection of the editors wUl be
■pad* by lb* Board on Pub.
UcaUoos May 1.