1970_03 The Daily Collegian March 1970

              2    THE DAILY COLLEGIAN    Tueeday, starch 3. 1970
editorial
Revolution is evolution
You say you want a revolution?
Well, you know.
We all want to change the world.
You tell me that it's evolution?
Well, you know.
We all want to change the world.
But when you talk about destructic
e to si
1 plan.
You ask me for a contribi
Well, you know.
We're doing what we can.
But when you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is; brother, you have to wail.
Don't you know it's gonna be alright?
Alright . . .   Alright . . .
You say you'll change the constitution?
You better free your mind instead.
But if you go carryinq pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow.
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"The streets of our country are in turmoil.   The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting.
Communists are seeking to destroy
our country.   Russia   is
threatening us with
her might and
the Republic is
in danger.
Yes, danger from
within and without.
We need law and order."
— Adolf Hitler, 1932
When machines take over
(Editor's note: The to\\o\
commentary was written for
Dally Collegian by former Fi
no State College linguistics ;
of lOCfi refused tn
tmded   by   the  t
ito the
uvjled
black people and Vietnamese,
against young people and good
people^nd ultimately against all
people.    For the machines have
ft the country.   1
Europe this summer while
rltlng for an American motor-
i-cle magazine and writing nu-
erous free lance articles. Cur-
■ntly ln Japan on a visa, Black
working   on   two   books   and
By Byron Blac
vare brotherhood means that
e responsibility for my acts.
men pay for their deeds, and
('o:isi'qur>!irc
e deeds al-
Bir authors.
During the year and a half 1
taught at" Fresno State College.
I always tried to leach through
example, and to live a life that
would lie an example of others.
with
:   and -tightening
r rule.    But I now
re sentient beings.
telleci capable of all decision.
You will always get what you
ask for: one of the rules of
the   house.     And ln the ecology
responsibility for your deeds on
this earth.
As human beings, you must
decide the purpose and harmony
of your days. And If you try
to abrogate such decisions to the
authority of tradition, or to machines, or to the grinning, aged
will
i   Of O
tlan   awakening,      true Buddha
hlrth   - and this experience can
lie   shared   with   all  other men.
I now speak to you from across
iequences.' In
ie of daily holocaust, light-
change and steadily rising
you may quite naturally wish
aw comfort and protection
huge machines I
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ponsibility of this act, and your
meat  and  your mind will be -
have   been   -   forfeited to the
Will of the Nation.   The result"
The mightiest States of the pla
net run fantastic protection rack
ets   -   which   they  happily   call
•defense" - and agree on the sly
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to play out their belligerant pos
tures   In   order   to   keep  their
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frightened, mass media-fed populations in perfetual terror and
obedience.
The last question I put to
students at a Resistance Day
demonstration was 'How much
meat do you need for your machine?" It was a deadly serious
- though rhetorical - one. How
many American lives for our
•commitment" to Vietnam? The
FBI men who questioned me said
•as many as It takes.' How much
spending to deepcorrked govern-
abroad?      How   much  economic
to grind out more junk for a sick
consumer economy, and pour
. more poison Into the biosphere '
How many missiles and how many
machine-guns to keep the Chinese and the Black Panthers off
wreckage and walking, talking,
tenure- and degree-craving robots to keep the factories of
higher education pumping out-
more and more diploma-certified meat to feed the corporate
carnivores? Don't expect answers to these questions -cause
as soon as people realize how
they're being screwed, the jig's
Every day you play the game
by the rules of your Presidents,
one a contemporary of Joe McCarthy and the other boasting of
having learned how to handle students from Adolf Hitler — you
keep the system going.  But you
r you may think. Just
r eyes and make the
md   it's   changed,   It's
But keepltgoingIfyouplease-
remembering that the decision,
and the responsibility, ls yours -
If you register for the draft, and
do not work against the War-
the blood of Song My Is on your
hands. And If you end up dead
because of a policy mistake of
some shrunken, senile old man
ln Washington. It's because you
It. wha
wish
fled   the  c
e FBI a
lifted and the great police monopoly of'the Land of the Free Is
fingering me wherever 1 go. But
In spite of never being able to
return a free man to the USA.
I never regret having opposed
the War. the Draft, the racism,
the vlous drug and sex laws, or
other diseases of
Nlghtm:
:a.    I a
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
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(Continued from Page 2)
students to accept the idea of the
boycott.   Since early age  most
have been taught to respect, and
not question, authority.
Directly, or indirectly, we have
been taught that those ln authority are correct. Otherwise, they
would not be where they are. Top
college officials do not make
mistakes, and if they do, certainly a mere student should not be
the one to call them to task for It.
such a frame of reference
makes It difficult to question the
makes It difficult to question
Acting president Falk's actions,
even when evidence shows that
his actions are questionable. It
ls too easy to assume that those
In power are  always acting ln
I do not mean to Imply that
those in authority should not be
respected. 1 do believe that such
respect, to be maintained, must
No Individual — no matter what
his position — ls above the criticism  of those who are affected
1 am very concerned with the
attitude of the administration ln
regard to the boycott.Specifically, I question the sincerity ofDr.
lames Flkes, the ranking administrative officer present dur-
Action
tabled
(Continued from Page 2)
they  would   not have otherwise.
Dr. Wardle was referring to
.in agreement reached on the
makeup of the Consultative Procedures Committee which normally consists of Dr. Smetherman. Dr. Vavoulis and Professor
Grady Mullennlx. Charging that
Vavoulis and Mullennlx were prejudiced. Wardle, Wilcox and
Walker asked that they withdraw
from the committee. Vavoulis and
Mullennlx agreed and reportedly
both sides agreed that the report
would be forwarded to the Executive Committee.
Wardle charged yesterday that
If they (Dr. Falk's representa-
lng the boycott.
Dr. Pikes claims to be vitally
Interested In student activities
and ln preventing violence. Yet,
not once did Dr. Flkes contact
tbe boycott planning headquarters
to see how things were.
Not once did he seem even
moderately concerned about the
way ln which the boycott was being conducted.
Contrast this to the close working relationship that was established between the boycott marshals and the Chief of Campus
Security, Douglas Bambrldge.
Dr. Pikes had a beautiful opportunity to bring the students
and administration closer together, which he did not use.
Dr. Flkes had the opportunity
to express his surprise, gratitude
or relief that the two days went
boy with only one Instance of disruption (when a boycott marshal
was the victim of an unprovoked
Dr. Pikes could have congratulated the students for organizing
a peaceful and reasoned way of
expressing their concerns.
He could have struck a note of
harmony and cooperation and
tried to bring some unity to the
campus.
Instead, he chose to ridicule the
boycott. He called It the work of
a 'small group of dissidents*
and Implied that those who supported the boycott were not as
Interested as other students ln
obtaining a'quality (
This lsadlsappolntlnga
tratlve moves, Chancellor Glenn
Dumke, at the suggestion of student leaders, has agreed to undertake an 'administrative review" of the current FSC administration.
The Executive Student Officers
have thanked the Chancellor for
undertaking this examination, and
have offered whatever assistance
we may provide during the study.
demlc community would be very
naive to overlook the possibility
that the Chancellor's 'administrative review' of the present
administration may be ln reality
)  'did   ii
report would con
Uve   Committee.
Senate and perhaps the
it the
to the   makeup of the
ie point Edwin Rousek,
n of the Executive Comit duly constituted
■s withdrew and
port. Dr. Zumwalt pointed out.
however, that the members withdrew at the request of Dr. Wardle
and Acting Dean Walker and that
they agreed to abide by the decision of the committee.
Dr. Robert Comegys, who
asked that the matter be tabled
until next week, pointed out that
the report raised several constitutional questions and suggested that members ofthe Executive Committee give the report .
serious thought before, taking any
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to protest administrative
County and the 150 Chicano stu- foods and drink only water,
dents suspended from Woodlake *It ls the hope of all Chicano
High School for a sympathydem- students, faculty and community,
onstratlon. that the Fresno State Collegead-
The strikers have  requested ministration will take this oppor-
routlne health checks by the FSC tunity to respond peacefully to the
Health Center during the week. will of the people,* they said In
They say they will eat no solid the statement Issued yesterday.
THESE CHICANO STUDENTS are  In the  second day of their hunger si
procedures. Photo by Mike Eberlein.
Strike
(Continued from Page 1)
He said the demand for a co-
director of the EOP program was
made because the program has no
administration. *We need at least
one director. The EOP Committee was dissolved last December
and since then the director has
Martinez charged that the administration was. trying to destroy the La Raza'Studies Program. "Their philosophy,* he
said, 'Is for us to become 'good
Americans' according totralnlng
is not going to be allowed ln this
The hunger strike, billed as
the 'ultimate non-violent protest
action ln support of the student
struggle against the non-respot
slve and Irresponsible admlnli
tratlon of FSC,* was also callec
ln support of Chlcanos demanding
a food-stamp program ln Kings
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