1970_03 The Daily Collegian March 1970

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The Academic Policy and Planing Committee report on Fresno
tate's Experimental College was
eleased yesterday to the Execute Committee of the Academic
' containing both
imendedpol-
objectlve history of
e program, advised conUnua-
)n of the Experimental College
ider revised standards.
The Academic Policy and Plan-
ng study, Including an expanded
valuation section, will .be the
,plc of an April 6 meeting of
ie Academic Senate. In response
request proposed by
Gil Acuna, president pro tem of
the Student senate, the Executive
committee agreed
students to the session. Thus, It
was reasoned, the program and
presiding officer ca
mined by the faculty body.
In other action, the ExecuUve
Committee unanimously requested Acting President Dr. Karl
Falk to consider the procurement
of additional campus police of-
growlng crime
Daily
Collegian
pMB REVISIONS
AP&P recommends continuation of EC
rate. A measure proposed by the
Security Department and presented at yesterday's session
would provide a four-man Increase ln the current staff of 12.
AcUng upon a request by Director of ActlvlUes Dr. Kenneth
Kerr, the board heard an AP&P
proposal dealing with academic
recognition. The new system
would base graduation honors
upon the entire academic program, rather than omitting Anal
semester records as Is present
procedure.
Much of the meeUng was devoted to reports by Dr. Robert
Comegys and Dr. David Provost,
statewide academic senators.
Recent action of lhat council Included a motion asking "mutual
concurrence* between faculty selection committees and the Chancellor In the choice of new state
college presidents.
It was disclosed that both Sacramento and Long Beach State
Colleges had faced situations
slmtlai^to current limitations of
rights Imposed upon the FSC
selection committee, and had
forced the ChanceUor's office to
concede.
The State Academic Senate also
). ROBERT COMEGYS AND DR. DAVID PROVOST
sm  illegal,   in response, a     Fresno State currently employs
was recommended.
Proposed legislation calls on state
to curtail rapid population growth
TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1970
DISTINGUISHED LECTURER
Mongols' quest for national
identity will be Lee's topic
Dr.   Robert   E.  Lee,  Fresno       at 8 p.m. ln the FSC LlttleThea-
State College's   rf.69-70 dlstln-       tre.
gulshed   lecturer,  has  selected Dr. Lee Is an associate pro-
•The Mongolian People's Republic: A Rightful Quest for National Identity and International
Recognition" as the topic for his
igulshed Lecture.
i lecture, which wlU Include
|  dents   are   asked   to bring
r temporary I.D. cards,
I  student  acUvtty
social security cards.
Dr. Lee ls an associate
fessor of geography and the I
FSC professor to receive the
Dlntlngulshed Lecturer award
since It was established In the
1964-65 academic year to honor
outstanding faculty members.
Distinguished Lecturers are
presented ln a convocation open
to faculty, staff, students and the
general public.
Dr. Lee Joined the FSC faculty
ln 1964. He received his bachelor
and master's degrees from San
Jose State College, where he majored ln political science and
social science, and his doctorate
degree ln geography from the
University of California at Los
Angeles.
His major regional Interest ls
the Soviet Union and ids major
systematic focus ls poUtlcal geography.
He regularly offers courses at
FSC ln world geography and geography of the USSR, Africa and
Europe. He has traveled extensively, visiting the Soviet Union
and Mongolia Just last summer.
He also has taught geography
classes on around-the-world and
European cruises by the Uners
Iberia and Arcadia.
Dr. Lee ls a member of the
following honorary and' professional organizations: American
Association of Geographers,
American Geographical Society,
California Council of Geographic
Education, Far West Slavic Conference, National Geographical
Society, Gamma Theta upsilon
and PI Gamma Mu.
The author of California's 1967
TherapeuUc Abortion Act recently Introduced legislation that
would make It easier for women
to obtain aborUons and for physicians to provide birth control
Information.
The Therapeutic Abortion Act
provides that abortion may be
performed ln hospitals accredited by the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Hospitals when
a committee of the hospital's
medical staff finds that there ls a
substantial risk that the continuance of the pregnancy would
gravely impair the physical or
mental health of the mother, or
the pregnancy resulted from rape
The legislation, which wlU
probably be considered ln the
next few months, also calls upon
the state to take other steps to
curtail   its   rapid   population
In a reportjrom Ernest Mob-
ley, assemblyman from the 33rd
district of the California State
Legislature, the author warns the
alternative to the measure ls a
"doubling of the California population to 40 million ln 30 years."
Calling overpopulation an "environmental disaster", he pointed
out that the general pubUc must
start to reaUze that for a married couple to have a large family
ls a "socially Irresponsible act*,
and warned that failure to pro-
ride and encourage such voluntary controls on population might
require the government someday
to enact more stringent measures
such as compulsory sterilization
of parents after they have had
two children.
The  leglslaUon, as proposed,
-Limit state Income tax credits to two children, except for
adopted children.
-Eliminate hospital restrictions on voluntary sterillzaUon
operations.
-Make aborUons illegal only
when they are not performed by
a physician or surgeon.
-End restrictions on doctors
ln providing birth control lnfor-
populaUon unit within the department to help plan poUcles todeal
with the problem of over-popu-
laUon.
-permit minors to purchase
prophylactics, both to combat
venereal disease and provide
greater birth control.
Under the bill, he said, credits
for all existing children wouldbe
continued because *we are concerned only with eliminating governmental encouragement of future births. UnUmlted credits for
adopted children would be allowed, to encourage adoption of
homeless children before additional children are brought Into
the world.*
During the first year foUowing
enactment of the abortion act of
1967, 4,291 appUcaUons were received from accredited hospitals.
Of the  total applications, 3,673
mother, representing 86 percent
of the total applications.
Danger to physical health was
listed as the reason In 253 cases
and rape or Incest ln 365 cases.
Of the 4,291 applications, 3,903
(91 per cent) were approved by
hospital abortion committees and
3,775 (88 per cent) were actually
'performed.
information and services readily
AND THE LORD SAID . . . David Yost, a member of Inter-Varsity, a
collegiate Chtistian group, was one of several Fresno State College
students who read the Bible in what was described as a 'bible reading marathon* yesterday in the Free Speech Area. The marathon
began yesterday morning and continued through the night with spreading the Bible in various shifts. Soant attendance was ob-
the  marathon,  which  is  scheduled to con'iue
PubUc Health, and provide It vrlth      seryed throughout the  marathon,  which  lischeduled to con*'
J2 mlUlon to make birth control      unti|   )t ^  bten read from beginning-™ end. At press time I
> a demographic and     hm
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were completing the Book of Samuel.