1971_05 The Daily Collegian May 1971

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COMMENTARY
Trustees appointments
not for student benefit
l look a
:e Col
lege Board of Trustees wUl give
you a dear picture of what Is
wrong with higher educaUon in
CaUfornla.
What Is needed on the board
are young liberal non-poUtlcal
appointees, people who can relate
to stodente-and student needs, who
have recently graduated from
CaUfornla State CoUeges themselves and know the problems and
the dlfflcuIUes faced by students
a the cam
pus of today.
What do we get? Courtesy of
Ronnie Reagan, we get Wendell
W. Witter, who 4s the execuUve
vice president and director of
Dean Witter & Co., a nationwide
stock brokerage firm. Witter,
who has to be a conservative to
have been appointed by Governor
Ronnie ln the first place, will
feel right at home with Glenn
Dumke and the rest of the old
gang on the board.
In a burst of equal opportunity,
we also get a woman, Mrs. Louis
Lancaster. I
grees, none-of which was earned
ln a California SUte CoUege, is
also a member of all the 'right*
clubs. Who Is her husband? None
other than Louis Lancaster,
chairman of the execuUve committee of the Santa Barbara Na-
THI DAILY C0LLE6IAN
a    Campua    Building.    I
tlonal Bank. All bank presidents
are real liberals and the friends
of the student, right?
Now, aside from their obvious
qualities (which Reagan loves)
such as the fact that they must
be 60 or over, rich, conservative, and have no personal knowledge of the State College system,
what do we have?
We have nothing, folks, except
the picture of a dim future
stretching before us Uke a dirty
rub. These people are about as
relevant to the student of today
as Reagan himself, and we all
know how relevant that Is. Worthless before, the board will sink
even further.into uselessness,
Intent with their beady Utile conservative eyes on doing each and^
every student In the system the
most harm at the least expense
to the beloved taxpayers.
The unfortunate thing Is that as
usual you don't have a damn thing
to say about It. You don't think
they represent you as a student?
Well, you're right. The sad fact
Is that power Is what counts In
this country, and Ronnie and his
stooges   on   the   board  have  it
What we need on the board, and
what we. need in government, are
people who will get their heads
out of the past, wake up to the
fact that things are changing, and
get on wtth the Job of helping the
charige, not doing everything they
can lo hold It back. Issues which
are vital to the student will be
repressed, or overlooked or Ig-
lgnored when they reach the
board. Just as they are overlooked and Ignored by our own
President Baxter, himself a vtc-
ttm of the college-ls-a-factory
psychology. If you think Baxter Is ,
Inaccessible and unfeeling and Insensitive and a menace, stick
around for the next few years of
board of trustees decisions.
COMMENTARY
Oil companies control economy,
propogate racism and poverty
What have the oil companies
done to benefit the people? Less
than nothing. They pursue their
-.private ends at the expense of
the people. The people of the
United States are excluded from
the heart of the political process,
for real power lies within a network of corporate decision makers and stockholders. Their plans
and projections are changed only
Insignificantly by the comings
and going of parties and presidents.  Rather, their moves and
which politicians must maneuver.
Oil is the basis of automobile
life. OH Is pari of the powerful
highway lobby - along with cement, asphalt(oll product), building contractors, auto manufacturers, steel. This powerful alliance chokes America with roads
and highways, fills the air with
poisons, throttles the development of a usable and cheap pub-
.''stem. When
put a new highway, the answer
Is obvious: shoot It through the
ghetto, through the Black people's
homes, the poor people's nelgh-
suburban
zoom past the
ghetto to work; . the poor are .
forced to pay Inflated prices for
lousy buses and subways. Auto
mobile and power plant pollution
stink and fumigate the poor areas,
.while commuters go home at night
to relatively clean air suburbs.
Our air started out free once
upon a time , . . but now you
have to pay-for air conditioners
and estates ln the countryside to
buy lt back. Who pays and who
profits from oil? Who gains and
who takes the loss?
Consider the power of the Oil
Lobby: The U.S. government extends always at the expense of the
people, numerous special privileges to the private petroleum
Industry - among them the oil
depletion allowance, write-off of
Intanglblr drilling costs and foreign royalties, the Import-quota
system, and other tax dodges and
bookkeeping evasions. The Import quota system costs the consumer somewhere between 5 and
7 -billion dollars annually In artificially Inflated fuel prices. The
oil depletion allowance alone has
cost the American taxpayer over
$140 billion since Its Inception.
These tax gifts to the wealthy
shove the burden of taxation onto
the poorer people. In fact, the cost
of subsidizing the wealthy petroleum Industry each year Is
the fastest rising cause of death
ln the United States Is emphysema, a respiratory dtsease
Unked to air polluUon. The rapid
rise In cancer Is directly attributed to air polluUon. If you live
down tn the city, who gives a damn
about cigarette smoktngl
povi
e the t<
)f wel-
GROUP DISCOUNTED AUTO
INSURANCE FOR ASSOCIATED
STUDENT.MEMfeERS
College Student Insurance Service has worked with the auto
insurance industry for 5 years to prove that the college stu-
EXAMPLE
California Financial Responsibility Law requires'$15,000 -
$30,000 Bodily Injury, and 1*000Property Damage Liability
Coverage. Coats are:
ASB
Male Operator age 25 and up $31  6 months
Female Operator age 21 and up $31  6 months
Married Male age 16-24 $54 6 months
Female Operator age 16-20 $54 6 months
Single Male age 21 - 24 $70 6 months
Single Male age 16-20 $95 6 months
Above rates for Fresno Area. Lower rates for nearby
communities.
Fora personalized quote, fill in the blank below and send it to:
CS1S, 2740 Fulton Ave. Suite 1056
Sacramento, Calif. 95821     or
Telephone (A'C916) 482-6656
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P hone ■School I
Present policy expires (date)___^__
No. of yeara licensed to drive '
No. of moving violations, laat 3 years	
No. ot accidents responsible for (3 years)
wtth damage exceeding $100	
LONGINES
WITTNAUER
ACCUTRON
BULOVA
CARAVELLE
WYLER
KEFPSAKE 'DIAMONDS
Oil owns our health and has a
deadly grip on the poor. Automobiles are responsible for more
deaths In the United States alone
than occurred In all the previous
wars ofAmerlcanhistory.Today,
scourges of American society.
Tbe war and often narrow opposition to war has blunted people's
awareness of these scourges. Secrecy now protects the gigantic
oil corporations from facing their
responsibility for that war and
their guilt tn reaping Immense
profits at the expense of the people of Vietnam and at the expense
of the poor and all people of color
ln America. The power, the prof-
fits, and the policies of Standard
OH and associated oil and financial corporations lead the way for
the few hundred corporations
whose rule over the U.S.A. creates, maintains, and supports our
aggressive behavior abroad and
our oppressive conditions at
home. Without breaking the rule
of these corporations, we will be
unable to exert control over our
own communities, unable to end
the war in Indochina, to end racism, or to end poverty'— and
falling to do that, we roust expect the current wave of repression against Black and Brown
people and antiwar activists to
gain strength until lt puts an end
to our lingering hopes foradem-
ocratlc and Just America.
-Reprinted from
Uncle Oil and Anti-war
ARTISTS CONSULTANTS PRESENT
ELTON JOHN
WITH:   DEE MURRAY
NIGEL OLSSON
& MARK-ALMOND
WED.. MAY 12-8 P.M.
SELLAND ARENA
TICKETS: $5.00 - $4.00 - $3.0*
Tickets on sale at the CONVENTION CENTER BOX
OFFICE, 700 *M* St. (by Mall, enclose stamped self-
addressed envelope). Agencies: Village Records,
Weinstocks, Varsity Shop, Greenbriar (both stores),
Gottschalh's (Merced and Visalla only), Kings Stationers, Hanford, Lewis Travel, Tulare, Coallhga Hardware.
LETTERS  TO  THE  EDITOR
Thuraday. May 6. 1971    TOE DAILY COLLEOtAN   3
Advertising students seek answers fo recent J-dept. quarrels
The recent decision of the
Journalism faculty to refuse the
reinstatement of Mr. Don Williams, head of the department's
advertising sequence, waa a pitiful  example of the conflict be.
vertlslng factions which rages ln     and ad
Mr.       .«_______
resign laat February ln order to
further hla education. Tha da*
partment has still failed to coma
up with hla replacement. Two
weeks ago, tha department aaked
htm to remain on the faculty here,
and he accepted. Than, last week,
a meeting waa held which.Mr.
Williams was not allowed to attend, at which tha news-edltorlal
sector of the faculty mustered
enough votes to deny Mr. Wll-
llama' stay on the faculty.
We want to know what made
them change their minds ln oo
short a Ume. Mr. Williams has
served hla students weU. Ha bas
taught us tn a very Inspirational
way, drawing upon bis vary lm-
pressIve background ln tba advertising field. We have become
ao Involved ln advertising that
have com about our studies
ad sales for Insight with outstanding success. Unfortunately,
*a we are finding out by thla recent decision, our success ln advertising in now costing us our
It seems that news-edltorlal Is
Jealous to see the advertising sequence grow at such a fantastic
rata, while news-edltorlal creeps
along ln Its usual stodgy fashion.
News-edltorlal fears the excitement and Interest which Isdraw-
Ing more and mora students into
our sequence, no smaU thanks to
Mr. Williams, who Is largely responsible for all the success. The
faculty seems to think that by
getting rid of Mr. WllUams, tba
atodenU, If only by default.
Thla latter is not a eritti	
of the entire faculty, but rather of
those members who seek to destroy tba advertising program.
Thay know wbo they ara..
of frustrated faculty
with no mora Individual power
than Mr. WlUlams can pot their
small minds together to decrease
tba quality of onr education, or
aUmlnate It altogether. Wa muat
take action now! We ask your help,
both students and faculty alike,
ln demanding to know the particulars of this ease, and In seeing
to lt that Mr. Williams Is re-
Instated. They're burning oa up
by trying to burn us outl
Tim Ventura
Elton John concert will test
Convention Center controls
gather by famous Engllsh I
artist John May all. Jon Mark on
acoustic guitars and John Almond
lanago-
•vtiowtll
By Bruce Krejclk
Collegian Staff Writer
The Convention Center's i
probX be lifted bttorTn hal J"01* Mfy»U5° ft ,0,,.M8 jg
any affect. According to Robert "'""•v. J™"** Polntl *Dd
ShoetUer, Director of the Con- 'Empty Room..* These two now
ventlon Center, the moratorium *™ "» *£?£« the,r 0Wn
•will probably be lifted within ht«wJr n,u»,c*1 band'
30 days — at least by June first.*
The moratorium was to take
effect after the laat of the Convention Center's current rock
concert bookings waa fulfilled,
and would last until tbe problems
of gate-crashing, police and
doorman abuse, and concertgoers
sitting tn the aisles were solved.
It now seems likely that the
problems are solved. Gatecrashing wlU be made more difficult by a fence which win fully
encompass Selland Arena. Also,
there will be guards at the doors
to check Uckets, not at the fence.
Additionally, those who go to the
concerts win be asked to keep
their ticket stubs so they may be
Identified as having paid for their
admission.
To help minimize disturbance
and eliminate sitting In the aisles,
the Convention Center,
ment will have monitors
try to straighten out any problems without have to have police
help. Also, there win be some
personnel changes ln the Arena
so people wlU be working ln Jobs
for which they are better suited.
This wlU help things ln general,
not any specific problem. Shoettler noted that no one has been
fired — 'The changes are Just
re assignments.*
As for one of the most serious
problems — thatoftroublemaklng
loiterers outside the Arena Itself — the Convention Center has
found a state law which will enable them to prosecute those who
cause 'unpleasant'disturbances.
Manager Shoettler says that they
will prosecute when lt Is necessary, and has hopes that very UtUe wiU be necessary. Shoettler'
thinks this last change will have
the quickest, most definite effect of all the changes, and that
the rock concerts will be able to
continue without undesirable Incident.
All these changes wlU undergo
their first test next Wednesday
night, as Elton John and Mark/,
Almond will give a concert at
the Arena. Elton John is the newest EngUsh star. He sings, plays
piano,- and writes the music for
Bernte Tauptn's lyrics. Elton
John haa released three albums
In quick succession here, and aU
have sold very well. Mark/Almond is i new group formed aaa
spinoff from a band brought to-
TerryLaBrue
Peter Padllla
Vivian Moreno
Russell Vorrath
Chinas* 'girl*'
tlons _^^^^^^^^
at. Thla is not only
blatant male chauvinist trick
draw attention to the article,
it  alao shows   me that pete
Nelda Cherrstrom
(Editor's Noras Pata Booka-
man had no prior knowledge those
particular photos were being used
with his article. Tba photos were
Inserted Into the article during
tha production process by Cam-
Boolcttor* Rip-off
Students are being ripped-off
every day at tha Fresno State
CoUege Bookstore. To cite a
typical example:
Otr Tuesday, May 4, I was
browsing In the 99 cent apodal
section when a book UUed, The
New York Times Election Hand-
prices or rebates f<
Thla Is Just another chapter ln
OFFs by the so-called Student
AssodaHon SERVICES.
Bruce Morris
original •new" book price of 95
cents which was crossed out and
marked 48 cental!
Needless to say, I was shocked
at this outrageous RIP-OFF. So,
» programs offered to them. It's about Ume the
legislature did something about
tbe InequlUes ln the tax structure
>f what'e happening ln China. The
ceeded out of tba Bookstore. The
RIP-OFF bas been ripped-off.
If the manager of the FSC AssoclaUon Bookstore is
my behavior, I will be
happy to return the U .
for It (48 cents) in exchange for
class and low and middle income
people.
Close the loopholes, kill ihe
withholding, and tax the heU out