1970_04 The Daily Collegian April 1970

              Administration suspends chemistry prof
and five students in Walker 'detainment1
Student Senate
may act on
suspensions
The Student Senate may go on
record today favoring the Immediate reinstatement of Ove students expelled from campus for
alleged participation ln a con-
fronfaUon on March 19 Involving
the Acting Dean of the School
of Arts and Sciences PhllUp
Walker.
Some members of the senate,
who asked not to be Identified,
said a resolution will be Introduced at today's meeting urging
Black Student Union President
Harry Jeffrey, Osby Davis,
Charles Lewis, Lavert Lucas,
and Don Teeter.
All five students have been suspended effective today by the administration for one week. The
suspensions are ln connection
with Walker's alleged detention
by Black students during a meeting called to discuss the Ethnic
Studies program just before Easter Vacation.
Last week the Fresno "^unty
District Attorney's office Issued
criminal complaints against the
same five students and a black
faculty member charging them
with 'violating the personal liberty* of Walker and "disturbing
the peace." Twoof those accused
have been arraigned.
The  senate resolution claims
e expulsion of s
Daily
Collegian
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1970
Ribbon-cutting ceremony
marks opening of Bookstore
they    I
I   ln
•prejudices* theli
fringes on their right to a fair
and impartial trial.* It also
asserts the administration's actions imply the students are
"guilty until proven Innocent.*
The "reinstatement resolution" promises to be the most
controversial Issue to come before the Student Senate since the
grape    boycott    resolution   last
By Barbara McDowell
Collegian Staff Writer
Painfully familiar to Fresno
State College students are endless lines awaiting book store
admission, stretching up to 100
yards ln the heat of September
and rains of February. Equally
distressing to recall ls the search
for materials In the cramped facility and return to a second line
for   the   privilege   of financing
The s
312-313-314 at 3 p.m
ts today ln CU
terday's opening of the new FSC
Bookstore, a three-story structure adjacent to the College
Union. Constructed at a cost
exceeding* $900,000, the facility
boasts a floor space of 24,500
square feet.
Following a concert by the
FSC jazz band on the steps of
the building, the 1 p.m. rlbbon-
cutUng ceremonies were opened.
First to speak was Student President Doug Broten, who proceeded to Introduce the affair's
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Fifty dusty but high-spirited ecology action
marchers arrived at Fresno State College yesterday afternoon and will today take pari in an Eco-
The marchers
itaging a Survival I
Los Angeles to dramatiz
well as the country's, ti
exhlbl
r today — everything from a
nigra
theatre on ecology.
The Survival  Walk  hopes to stress four main
areas of action: (1) to establish absolute conditions
of trust  to those that furnish us with goods and
'  service to fulfill our biological needs and cultural
aspirations, (2) to facilitate the transformation from
today's gross practices of maximizing the impact
upon agricultural land, 1he use of fossil fuels and
electrical energy, tbe withdrawal of natural resources, the impact on the ocean communities that
furnish 70 per cent of the planet's oxygen and the
stress upon many people struggling as best they
can under very difficult conditions, (3) to initiate
programs that will rehabilitate our surroundings
and (4) the acknowledgement that such a large
transformation of our society will bring temporary
inconveniences to large numbers of people.
The marchers are advocating a change in fife
style for Americans. They are at FSC today to
give access to Information and perspectives on
saving, the planet that Is shrouded in chaos yet
makes possible man's existence. —VJvl. Photo
by Don LeBaron.
faculty member on the basis of
their participation ln a meeting
March 19 that resulted ln the alleged detainment of Acting Dean
Phillip Walker. The suspensions
are effective as of today.
Given ah Interim suspension of
one week were students Lavert
Lucas, Osby Davis, Harry
Jeffrey, Don Teeter and Charles
Lewis. Dr. Joe Toney, assistant
professor of chemistry, was given a temporary suspension from
West Fresnans
present protest
petition to Daly
By Gloria Davis
Collegian Managing Editor
Yesterday afternoon
i of.t.
150-
200   r
civic, and business organizations
met •at the Fresno County Courthouse and presented Fresno's
District Attorney, WlUlam Daly,
with a petlUon against the actions of the administration of
Fresno State CoUege.
This acUon was ln protest of
the complaints filed against a
black chemistry professor and
five Fresno State College students by AcUng Dean of the
School of Arts and Sciences,
PhllUp Walker, charging them
with being abusive and violating
his personal liberty.
In the petition, the administration Is charged with having shown
an Inability or at least an unwillingness to understand the nature of the problems of minorities. It ls In this light that the
black community seeks to remove
Criminal charges have bees
filed against Toney and the Ave
students. A jury trial Is scheduled for Toner May 11. Lucas
and Jeffrey will be arraigned ln
tbe Fresno Municipal Court today.       .     .
Under the Interim suspension,
the student's -case ls reviewed
within' a week of the suspension.
Hearings for the students will be -
held ln closed-door sessions
Monday In the office of Derylo
Allen, assistant dean of students.
During the suspension period the
students wlU not be allowed to
other than to attend the hearing.
Violation of any condition of
the Interim suspension, according to the student handbook, ls
grounds for expulsion.
Dr. Falk announced the suspensions at a press conference
yesterday morning. The suspensions stem from the March 19
Incident ln which 40-50 students
reportedly detained Walker ln a
conference room for approximately two hours. The students
had come lo Walker's office to
discuss the rehiring of Ethnic
Studies faculty and Nathan Heard,
a lecturer ln the EngUsh Department. Subsequently, Walker has
reiterated his refusal to approve
the nomination of Heard for reappointment next year and some
action ls expected to be taken
this week on the status of the
Ethnic Studies  faculty nomlna-
Reading from a prepared statement, Dr. Falk said: *The acUons
of a group of students and faculty
member toward AcUng Dean
PhllUp Walker on March 19 cannot be tolerated on the campus
of Fresno State CoUege.
"On that date between 40 and 50
students and one faculty member
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from the black community, and
•disrupt their lives as d.ey have
so maliciously disrupted the lives
of black students and the black
community.*
The demands were then presented to Daly, as the charges
were filed with him, and withdrawal of the charges ls sought
by the minority group. Along
with the demand for the withdrawal of charges, Daly was
requested to forward the remainder of the demands to 'his
personal frfcnd* Phillip Walker.
The demands, which were presented ln the peUUon drawn up
by the organization of parents of
black students .at FSC, are as
follows: —
We are petitioning to:
1. Demand the Immediate rehiring of Nathan Heard, our Instructor In the EngUsh Depart-
2. Demand removal of charges
of assault against black students
and Professor Joe Toney, which
resulted from a premeditated plot
by Phillip Walker to make an
Innocent effort by black students
seeking solutions to problems at
Fresno State, appear to be of a
criminal nature. . -
3. PubUc admission by Acting
Dean, PhllUp Walker, that black
students did not assault him In
any way.
4. Reinstatement of policies
and personnel that governed the
operation of tbe E.O.P. Program and tbe Ethnic Studies Program prior to the malicious Intervention of tbe Falk-Flkes
combine.
5. Development of a Council
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Yearbook future
will be discussed
at BOP Thursday
The fate of the Campus, Fresno State College's yearbook, will
be determined Thursday at a
meeUng of the Board of PubUcaUons at 1 p.m. ln College Union
312.
Students are urged to attend
the meeUng at which Ume board
members will discuss a resoluUon calling for the elimination
of the publication.
There has been discussion of
eliminating the yearbook at previous board meetings. TheCam-
pus has been troubled with lack
of sales for quite a few semesters. According to Earle Bas-
sett, director of the FSC AssoclaUon, the budget calls for a
minimum sales order ot 2,300
books so production expenses can
be met. This year however, fewer
than 1,000 students have reserved
a book.
It ls the opinion of some members of the board that tbe lack
of sales apparently Indicates lack
of students Interest ln the yearbook.
While some members of the
board support outright elimination of die yearbook, there haa