1970_05 The Daily Collegian May 1970

              VALLEY POETS READ TODAY
Fresno poets win read from their recently published anthology "Down at the Santa Fe Depot* today at 3 p.m. ln the Amphitheater.
Disciplinary recommendation
expected to be made today
Daily
Collegian
FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1970
FSC Live and Learn
program cancelled
By Gloria Davis
CoUegian Managing Editor
Dr. James Fikes, FresnoState
College's AcUng Executive Vice
President, recently cancelled the
Live and Learn Program currently ln progress at Baker Hall.
In a recent memo to Associate
Dean of Students Deryle K. Allen,
Flkes stated Richard Keyes and
EUzer Rlsco, chairmen of the
Ethnic Studies Department, were
requested to respond to the problems ln the program as outlined
by R. S. Brooks, Director of
Housing.
•To date, nothing has been received concerning the proposed
future of this program,* Flkes
stated.
tn the memo, Flkes stated that
the Chancellor's Office had directed the administration to provide tor full student occupancy
of all dormitories for the next
school year (1970-71)ln order to
meet bonding requirements. Allen was therefore authorized to
make the necessary adjustments
ln staffing and other arrangements for full use of Baker Hall
as a student dormitory next year.
tn the memo to Allen, Flkes
stated, "The administration
shares your Interest and concern
for minority student orientation
and hopes It can be accompUshed
through an off-campus arrange-
Commentlng on the cancellation of the program, Keyes stated
both Flkes and Acting President
Karl Falk have pubUcly stated
opposition to the Live and Learn
Program without ever really requesting any Information concerning Its purpose or objectives,
Keyes also disclosed that Falk
has stated ln the newspaper that
the dormitory was an example of
separatism and following that
statement, he made the same kind
of statement at a meeUng with
some people from the black community.
In answer to Flkes' statement
that he and Rlsco did not respond
to.a memorandum senttothemby
Brooks last February, Keyes
said, «In referring to the memorandum of February 26, 1970 by
Mr.  Brooks,  you (Flkes)  must
the staff of the Ethnic Studies
Program was terminated and to
date have received no confirmation of employment. Therefore,
we cajnot understand how you expect us to propose the future of
an experimental program for
staff that to date ts non-existent.
In closing his memo to Flkes,
lleve t
LAMBDA CHI will hold Its Annual Push Cart Relay today al 3p.m.
on the FSC track field, with jompetition to fraternities, their
auxMltrles and Independent groups. The fraternity yvill sponsor a
TGIF celebration at 4:30 p.m. on Fraternity Row. Later tonight,
victors and losers alike will celebrate at an All-college dance In
the Selland Arena at 8 p.m. featuring Elvin Bishop and the Accents.
board'!
he had Ume to review the case,
and Usten to tapes of the hearing.
The students, Osby Davis, Lavert Lucas, Don Teeter, Charles
Lewis and Harry Jeffrey, are
charged under TlUe 5 of the
CaUfornla Administrative Code
with obstructing or disrupting
■the educaUonal process,* physical abuse of the person or pro-
property of a member of the college community, misuse of state
coUege property and abusive behavior directed toward a member
of the coUege community.
In addition to facing charges
under the California Administrative Code, the students and Assistant Professor of Chemistry Joe
Toney, also face charges ln crlm-
By Burton Swope
CoUegian Staff Writer
Recommendations for disciplinary action against five students accused of violating campus
rules and regulations ln connection with the alleged detainment
of Acting Dean Phillip Walker
may be forwarded today to Acting
President Karl L. Falk.
Dr. Leland Mach, chairman of
the student-faculty disciplinary
board Investigating charges
against the students, said yesterday rumors that the board would
make pubUc Its recommendations
today were not true.
He said, "We are planning to
make no public announcement.
According to the document under
which we operate, the recommendations are sent directly to.
the President of the college and      Deadline  JS   MaV   8
at the president's request." *
The board went into executive
session late yesterday afternoon
to work on the final draft of Its
If everything went smoothly and
the board finished Its business,
the recommendations would be
passed on to the Acting President
this morning.
EarUer ln the day yesterday,
a member of the board, who requested his name not be mentioned, said the board made its
final decision last Monday, and it
had been using most of the week
to draft Its recommendations. He
said the board had tried to steer
a "middle course "and that neither
side (the students or administration) would be too happy with
lnal court May. 11 of "false Imprisonment" and 'disturbing tbe
peace,* ln connection with the alleged March 19 incident.
The faculty-student disciplinary hearing board ls composed .
of two faculty members, two students and a faculty adviser. It
began bearing testimony on the
administration's charges April
IS and concluded its hearings on
April 23. The board went Into
executive session last Friday to
consider the evidence and then
Depending on the board's rec-
and review of tbe
Acting President,
the students  face possible acquittal, suspension, probation or
expulsion.
Ad
missions
to c/<
ose
Fresno State CoUege will be
:losed to all admissions for the
all as of 5 p.m. Friday, May 8.
> charges
leveled at the sl
"estabUshed" through the evidence and that the others had been
"thrown out." He decUned, however, to say what the charges are
and what recommendations were
on  the board  member's  state-
The Fresno State College Community Relations Office released
a statement yesterday In which
Acting President Falk was quoted
as saying he would make no announcements upon receipt of the
yesterday afternoon. The action
has been approved by Acting
President Dr. Karl L. Falk and'
a coUege admissions advisory
committee headed by Dr. Loy D.
BUderback, associate professor
of history.
.The announcement Involves the
students and graduate students.
Previously, (on April 8), the
college closed admissions for
freshman applicants, foreign students and Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) students.
Dr. Harry E. Jones, FSC director of admissions and records, said the May 8 deadline for
applications from transfer and
graduate students was necessitated because the college has received more than the anticipated
number of appUcatlons. He estimated FSC wlU have on hand
10,000 appUcatlons wtren-the
deadline passes.
He said FSC has received approximately     200    appUcatlons
from other coUeges.
Dr. Jones said FSC can expect
an enrollment of approximately
14,520 students when the 1970-71
academic year begins ln tbe fall.
FSC currently has an enrollment
of Just over 13,000.
He said next fall's estimate ls
based on an anticipated 9,100 returning students and tbe enrollment of 5,420 of the expected
10,000 applicants.
New procedures set for
teacher recognition awards
By Jenny Bailey
CoUegian Staff Writer
New selection procedures wlU
be utlUzed this year as Fresno
State CoUege students give outstanding faculty members recognition through Distinguished
Teaching Awards.
The Student Senate voted on
Wednesday to approve the changes ln the procedures for nominating teachers tor Distinguished
Teachers Awards.
The new procedures call for a
campus-wide primary election
on Monday, May 4, ln which students will be given ballots with
three blank Unes on them. Students will write ln the names ot
the three Instructors and their
departments which he, wishes to
nominate. There wiU be one voting location ln the Free Speech
Area and students wlU be Instructed to print and use Ink on
After the polls close on Monday, senators conducting the poll
wlU take the top 20 candidates
and place them on another ballot.
Students will go to the polls again
on Wednesday and will be able to
vote for one or two of the Usted
names. There will be no write-in
candidates and only ballots with
the official stamp will be tabulated.
The names of the top six vote-
getters and two altenvates will
be sent to the Academic Senate
with  a  request  for  making the
Under the old procedure, student senators themselves made
FSC String quartet
plans final concert
The Fresno String Quartet will
appear upon the Fresno Conven-
tlon Center Theatre stage this
evening in its final concert ofthe
season. The 8:30 p.m. program
win feature tbe Schubert Quartet
ln A minor, the Schoenberg Second Quartet, and the Beethoven
String Quartet.
The Fresno ensemble ls composed of four members of the
Music Department faculty, violinists Werner Lywen and William Mullen, vloUst AlbertGUlis
and cellist Fred Dempster.
Tickets for the musical pre-
1 priced at J3 general
dents, with reservations made
through both the ConventlonCen-
ter box office and tha FSC Music
Department.
AP&P eliminates
EOP Committee
The Fresno State CoUege Academic Policy and planning Committee yesterday voted to eliminate the coUege's Educational
Opportunity Program Committee.
The committee, which currently ls Inoperative and has Umlted
authority, will be replaced by a
minority council It the recommendation of AP&P ls accepted.
AP&P yesterday voted to es-
tablfsh a committee todetermlne
membership and responslbUlty
of the new council. This committee has five members Including Burke Zane, AP&P chairman;
a representative from the Executive Vice President's office; a
representative of the Academic
Vice president's offlce, and two
representatives from Ethnic
Studies.
The minority council, as define-; by a special subcommittee
of AP&P which evaluated the
EOP program, ls to be an advocate for the education of minorities at FSC.
Several other aspects of the
EOP report also came up ln discussion Including clarification of
the definition of EOP. After considerable confusion, some agreement was reached, but It came
basically on the Issue of where
- tha monies for helping finance
education for disadvantaged students actually cornea from.
The committee also gave first
reading approval for a masters
degree program ln La Raza
Studies to be Instituted into tbe
coUege master plan.
In addition tbe committee heard
reports on the feasibility of aa- r—-
tabUahing Interdisciplinary atod-
los and a new college calendar.
Action on the Interdisciplinary
studies subcommittee report waa
delayed, while the calendar rec-
ommendatlons were forwarded toy
the office of the Academic Vice
Prealdent. That office win then
forward It to the various school
deans tor their reaction to it.
Next week AP&P will screen