1970_04 The Daily Collegian April 1970

              commentary
Sister Sadie says
I'm puttin' the
nasty mouth on you'
Nathan Heard:
The friendship of
District Attorney Daly
By Nathan C. Heard
The dictionary, among other
things, defines friend as: «one
attached to another by affection or
esteem; one hot hostile," etc.
The word comes from Old English
FREON, meaning to love.
Fresno's "Illustrious, neutral*
You   know,   here   It   ls   April
20th and folks  still ain't got  no
Ethnic Studies or even If anybody
ls.   I been thlnkln' long and strong
that other folks ain't come to the
same conclusion. (Though quiet
as cat, maybe they have come to
the same conclusion and dig that
and Universities all
country cryln' and
Black folks to corm
little Black Studies
some color t<
.   Colleges       about I'
educated  a
d don't need n
Old and un-
ilte folks don't,
like    a    student   or
just anybody off the
folks I'm v
pected me
time teachin' and students has had
a hard time learnln', Black
Studies at Fresno State ls built
of the students and teachers ln
the procram. And If them teachers decide to stay It's, because
they cares about creallri' an educational program that will help
black people create a thrlvln'
black world. But educational
programs Is exportable and, like
I say, don't nobody need Fresno
State.
Them's my conclusions. These
Is my predictions:
It's the middle of April already.      Around   the   middle  of
lty ln ai
e the c
unity o
Issue of support
effort to teach for another year
at Fresno State College. Daly
says he wrote the letter to three
of his   *frlends.*  I   doubt If he
Christmas   card   or   an   Easter
kind of "friendship* pertains to.
Daly,  who  Is  supposed to be
In gettln'. <
call myself tryln' to teach no
white speech cause as far as I
know, that's all lies. But I guess
some folks ain't hip to the fact
that Fresno State College ain't
everybody's first and last chance,
and that folks can get downright
nasty when other peoples start
messln' wld they pride and they
I just come to this conclusion
when my home girl come by. She
what you might call the original
dizzy chick but she can lay some
•They still told yo' all nothln'
'bout next year, huh?*
hln definite," she say, "but
a teacher. They've
terrorized and Intl-
bout this job.   They
stuff.    These folks have sUpped
ler head and slowly walked away.
People overlook an lmportan
fact ln all this and th
t find n<
I nasty mouth Is out
Then the actors
ell, we tried. You
i' for people. We
find nobody.    See,
>nly been neutral-on-the-
slde-of-the FSC Administration.
He has disregarded student complaints, but gave a ready white
man's ear to the puny screaming
of PhllUp Walker's complaint
against the students. He has disregarded the desires of black
people who want to keep me on
campus, but, again, turned his
white-man's  ear to the desires
run FSC. I was p
students tried to i
,d It w
black community and, Invariably,
these 'friends* turn out to be
prominent people whom the racists want to use ln order to gain
control over the black community. This happened often ln the
past, but we're serving notice
right now that Insults like this
will not continue.
Daly's letter showed his utter
contempt for us and our leaders
by first, tacitly Implying that If
one wants to control blacks one
must control black ministers because we are spiritual and emotional, but not Intellectual beings.
Secondly, by thinking that he
could make our leaders desert to
his way of thinking, as opposed
to the alms of black people, he
delivered the ultimate Insult to
their personal Integrity. It was
the dirty trick of an outright
racist whose every contact with
the black community MUST BE
suspect. Our leaders came
through like champs and exposed
his behlnd-the-backdealings, and
also served notice on htm, and
those like htm, that we will not
be used by him to further his
devious alms. The time of Uncle
Tom ls past for the great majority   of black  people  and,  Daly,
start that he
was hostile to them and had no
Intention of honoring their complaints. He treated them as If they
were on trial. They even told him
that he wouldn't honortlielrcom-
Tom Terrific and his Magic Dean Meet the Man
from the Land of Fikes ana1 his Electric Revolver .
By D. R. Safreno
s Magic
sent upon us the Magic Dean.*
Women fainted and strqng men
cried. No one had paid any
attention to the Magic Dean since
his deadly combat with the loved
land of Burtner. Now, however,
the people cried "Ol
the Magic Dean am
Memorandums shall tear asunder
our freedoms and fling dung upon
be found ln the land. The man
from the land of Flkes cheered,
•Verily, verily, do not fear for
I have an Electric Revolver which
loved people." All the people
were happy, for they had never
seen   the   Magic Dean and were
The people waited during the
deadly day of battle. But, alas,
no sound was to be heard. Then
out Into the street came Professor Bondage from Krapp University and exclaimed, "Hola, the
dread Dean must be dead for the
man from the Land of the Flkes
hs>s not fired his Electric Revolver and the Dean must surely
have died of fright.*
But his words fell upon the
sterile ground, for all the people
soon realized that the man from
the  Land  of the  Flkes and the
same being with two heads. The
nice people were sore afraid.
With hope they looked to Steward
Saddle who said "Alas, alas; I
am talking to the doorknob and
playing with my sheep. Leave
things alone and all will be well."
The people welcomed these words
and left everything alone putting
all their faith ln Steward. The
people all did what the Magic
Dean said and walked around with
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We as a people are finally
coming to realize that the white
man ls not going to miraculously
wake up color-blind one morning
and begin to treat blacks as full
citizens; he has proved himself,
time and time again. Incapable
of swallowing his "superiority*
based on his thin skin and the
fact that (like any other bully)
he ls bigger. Blacks are uniting
against all racists who attempt
to divide us by getting us to at-
Daly's   contemptuous referral
ls an attempt to plant the *Klss
of Death' on them, because he
knows the mood of black people
makes them automatically suspect a black leader who allows
himself lo be labelled 'friend*
by   a   white   man   whose actions
■d their i
story. Stay tuned ln, however,
for our next episode, *The Cod
Squad meets the Pepsi Generation during half-time."
■friends" trying to make them
move against their brother. Did
Daly send his "friends* aChrlst-
Daly sent a letter to his
•friends* trying to make them
sacrifice the very principles for
which they already stood when
they marched on FSC. Did Daly
send his 'friends* an Easter
card? A Birthday card perhaps?
I think Daly ought to reatf the
dlcUonary before he starts defaming black people with his white
man's version of the distortion
of ■ friendship." Dig him, black
folks, he's for real!
THE DA.LY COLLEGIAN
PERHAPS WE. CAN
TOS-TIN-THE
■P VOU PEOPLE
Monday. April 30, 1970    THE DAILY COLLEGIAN    3
CHOICE
The power is the realization
And the result is facing
the ultimate
whatever it Is
And that Is death. How you wai
Eaters of the honey
(tired of the shit)
which Is always and forever the end
Ain't that death?   And how you wanna face it?
Nathan C. Heard
Nixon calls for end to National Defense Student Loans
t  long-range
(CPS)-President Nixon's proposals to revamp federal aid to
college students have been blasted by the higher education lobby
and applauded by the American
Bankers AssoclaUon.
Nixon's new plan, which must
be approved by Congress before going into effect, provides
for an end to the NaUonal Defense student loan program. In
Us place would be established
the National Student Loan Association (NSLA), which would'enable all students to obtain government guaranteed loans," according to Nixon.
Interest on these loans would
be at market rate, currently
9 1/4 per cent per year. UnUke
the current program, where the
government pays Interest while
the student ls ln school, Interest
payments would be deferred until
•the borrower ls well out of
school and earning a good Income." This would be accomplished "by extending the maximum repayment period from 10
to 20 years.*
Nixon estimated that the NSLA
would buy up to $2 bllUon ln
student loan paper from banks
and colleges. NSLA would raise
money by selling stock to financial Institutions. Students would
be able to borrow up to $2,500
per year, up from the current
$1,500.
•The ability of all students to
obtain loans would be Increased,*
Nixon said. "The financial base
of post-secondary educaUon
would be correspondingly
strengthened. It ls significant
that this would be done at no
cost to the federal taxpayer.*
All federal aid to students
whose parents have gross Incomes of over $10,000 would be
•3nded by the new proposals. Nixon called this a step toward
revamping student aid *so that
it places more emphasis on helping low-income students than It
does today.
•Something ls basically unequal about opportunity for higher
>?ducatlon when a young person
whose family earns more than
J15.000 a year is nine Umes
more Ukely to attend college
than a young person whose family
earns less  than $3,000,* Nixon
Something ls basically wrong
'•'lth Federal poUcy toward higher educaUon when It has failed
lo correft this Inequity, and when
Government programs spending
S5.3 bllUon yearly have largely
been disjointed, lU-dlrected and
without   a   col
•Something ls wrong with our
higher educaUon policy when -
on the threshold of a decade in
almost 50% — not nearly enough
attention ls focused on the two-
year community colleges so lm-
young people.
"Something ls wrong with higher educaUon Itself when curricula are often irrelevant, structure ls often outmoded, when
there ls an Imbalance between
teaching and research and too
often   an   Indifference  to lnno-
Nlxon said his proposals wiU
Increase aid to students who are
parental Income of $3,000 would
receive $700 ln federal scholarships and work study, and $700
' lized loans, with the Hi
lt «.  I
$300 during the summer, Nixon
said/ this would enable him to
attend a 'moderate cost* college
which costs $1700 per year, Including fees, books, room board,
and miscellaneous expenses.
The amount of aid would drop
as parental Income rose. Students     whose   parents    earned
work study or federal scholarship aid, but would be eligible
for the bank loans at market
rate which are detailed above.
Observers predicted the plan
would force many students to
turn   to   expensive  bank loans.
The American Bankers AssoclaUon reacted gleefully to the
plan which would Increase bank
profits by dropping the present
7% celUng on federally guaranteed student loans. They called
It *a most constructive recom-
mendaUon.*
But the American Council on
EducaUon (ACE) said the mis-
sage signaled a 'fundamentally
undesirable shift to high Interest
loans as a major naUonal approach to the financing of higher
educaUon."
"Requiring all students whose
families have annual Incomes of
over $10,000 to rely solely on
unsubsldlzed loans at current
rates of 9 1/4% will throw an
Impossible burden on them. A
student who borrows $1,000 a
year for four years, will If he
elects to repay ln twenty years,
repay over $11,000 for that loan,
ln effect almost tripling the cost
of his educaUon.*
Besides proposing changes ln
federal aid to students, the message asked Congress to estab-
Ush:
-A National Foundation for
Higher Education *to make grants
to support excellence, Innovation,
and reform ln private and public
InsUtutlons.*
-A Career Education Program
"to assist States and Institutions
ln meeting the costs of starting
new programs to teach crlUcaUy-
needed skills ln community colleges and technological Institutes.*
While applauding the emphasis
on *ald to the disadvantaged,*
the ACE said the President's
message represents "a severely
constrained proposal for federal
aid to higher educaUon.'
There ls no menUon,* said
the ACE, "of reauthorizing such
fundamental programs as the National Defense Fellowships and
other forms of assistance for
graduate educaUon. Thus, almost 200 Institutions that have
been encouraged since 1958 to
launch and expand new ph. D.
programs may And their basic
source of support ended.*
Nixon's 1971 budget, said the
ACE,  has  already  proposed  to
—Grants for graduate and undergraduate faclUUes;
-Direct Loans for Academic
faclUUes;
• -The Community Services
Program;
—The College Teaching Equipment Program;
—Annual Appropriations for
the land-grant colleges;
Foreign language development
—Foreign language development and area studies;
-Basic grants for Ubrary re-
COMMENTARY
gress. Middle Income taxpayers
are Ukely to Inform their rep-
resentaUves that they aren't able
to pay the cost of a college educaUon, no matter what the President says. Tbe wlU also point
out the plan makes no allowance
for famlUes with two or more
children ln college at the same
of $1700 for a
■moderately priced* coUege ls
also Ukely to be severely cri-
Ucized. The University of California, with annual fees at a
modest $300, estimates total
costs for a •Umlted* budget as
being over $2,000. With fees
going up across the naUon, tbe
figure of $1700 will be even more
unrealistic next year.
Another quesUon which wiU
be raised ls whether students
from families with Incomes of
$3,000 per year wlU be willing
to borrow $700 per year tor
each of four years, as provided
by Nixon's plan. If tbey are
not, the fundamental purpose of
the changes, to divert aid to low
Income students, Is not Ukely to
Black studies needed-aid to FSC progress
t necessary to evaluate     unanswered
1 deem
the feeUngs of the program from
those directly Involved; the Ethnic Studies staff and the students
who have taken such courses.
During.last semester, I took
a course entitled, "LlberaUon
Workshop*; this semester I am
also enrolled ln a Black Studies course. This course was
unlike any other course I have
ever taken. For the black stu- .
dent, Ethnic Studies courses provide material which ls very re-
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levant and necessary for him.
QuesUons concerning his heri-
* ' '  have gone previously
Anally being
brought out into the open and
discussed. He ls finally learning about himself and the achievements of the black man.
The staff of the Ethnic Studies program ls well quaUfled,
and able to relate to the black
student. I found, through my own
experience, that I could also relate what I learned ln the Ethnic Studies courses with other
subjects which I have taken.
Marcus
I feel that Black Studies
coursoo can and wiUoffleragreat
deal to the Improvement of the
curriculum of this coUege. Not
only wlU black students benefit
from them, but they can also
enUghten many white students
to the problems which black
people face dally. The mutual
understanding that would result
could make Fresno State abetter
coUege for both blacks and
whites.
To consider this program as
Irrelevant would be to deUberately halt tbe progress that this
coUege has, and can still make.
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