1971_02 The Daily Collegian February 1971

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E DAILY COLLEGIAN
v. February 10, 1971
Baxter's faculty poll ridiculous
•It's a little bit funny, this feeUn' inside,* Is a bit of lyric frotr
a popular song by rock artist Elton John. And while those words
speak of love, they can easily by applied to tbe latest poUUcal move
by Dr. Norman A. Baxter - that of denying the validity of the Academic Assembly's Jan. 14 vote calling for a legislative InvesUgaUon
of the governance of Fresno State CoUege.
Baxter says that the original Assembly vote Is valid, yet blatanUy
contradicts his statements by conducting a ludicrous poll of bis own,
In essence asking, "You don't want a legislative investigation, do
you?*, and 'Please sign this, so that I (Dr. Baxter) wiU know who
you are." Those faculty who did not attend the Jan. 14 Academic
Assembly meeting (roughly numbering 550) are now having that
question brought to their doorsteps so that they can either support
Baxter's moves or voice their dissent.
This poll represents an unfair tactic In that It asks faculty members to vote on the Investigation issue without the benefit of hearing
debate rendered at the Jan. 14 Assembly meeting. This "pin the tall
on the donkey* method Is worth nothing before It starts.
What I ask you 550 faculty members to do is much simpler than
what you are asked to do by Dr. Baxter. That request Is that you
be consistent. You copped-out of the original vote, now cop-out on
this ridiculous poll.
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COMMENTARY
The myth of Angela Davis
u know
open meeting because
, you can at least save
survey. Your Images
students   If  you respond to'absolute
for   the  -Nielsen  TV  Ratings,*   not
Demand.that  the  original  Academic Assembly
without delay so that the legislative Investigation
these surveys
imunlty.
i can take place,
s humorous quality
o laugh at the Baxter poll.
ANGELA  DAVIS-the myth o
from New York to L.A. for more
than two years. Behind this maze
of newspaper articles, the
smokescreen of the media, lies
the reality of a woman now
charged with crimes ranging
from murder to kidnapping. Thus
far, the only concrete evidence
the  State   has   presented to ac-
t for Angela'.
Indlctmi
Friday Flick
student  ID  to  the gentlemi
>  pointed out that there
mpty s,
that   movie   houses   t
sand
s late. I presented n
Pretty 3 bedrm home set on
lovely landscaped 1/2 acre
lot. Only $3,800 down to assume loan of $15,673. Pay-
pay at the time of showing allow
entrance' at any time, but he
absolutely refused to let us enter.
The Issue here is not so much
the flagrant abuse of our rights
as members of the FSC student
association as It Is another example of the growing estrangement between the student and
those   who   have   the   authority
secret Informer (no doubt well
paid by the F.B.I.) who will testify that Angela was actually In
league with the Soledad Brothers
In planning the killings. There Is,
however, a mitigating factor to
the State's unwarranted and extraordinary persecution of this
woman-Angela Davis is a threat
to the existing power structure,
or rather, more precisely ii is
the myth of Angela Davis that Is
threatening. The black woman
professor at UCLA now Imprisoned In San Mateo County Is an
Innocent victim of a repressive
society.
) split Angola
in two - both the mythic and real
are an Integral part of her character. It Is only the fragmented
vision of this society that causes
this split ... a split that is a
painfully evident factor in the
consciousness of the American
Black. For each second of his
life, the Black exists In a world
of oppressive duallUes - he Is a
citizen and an alien, a stranger
In the strange land of his country.
He was the living example of an
existentialist before the White
World defined the term. There is
a poem by the French writer,
homosexual and thief, Jean Genet,
"The Condemned Man* -
•It seems that next door lives
an epileptic . . ./I am not going
to be gulUotlned this morning,
I can sleep In peace . . .* Sartre
has stated that Genet's position
in terms of society ts very similar   to   that   of   the  American
SAINT GENET. This Is further
amplified by Sartre's statements
on the repressive society. "Wnom
does one lynch In the American
South for raping a white woman?
A Negro? No. One's self. Evil
is a projection.*
The myth of Angela Davis Is a
Davis had to be stopped and unmasked for what she Is. Even
though she may be cleared of all
charges,  the overt  stigma will
will always be guilty in the eyes
of White America. She has to be
guilty since she Is evil. She Is
evil  because she li
f the manifest
evils of this society. This Is the
mythic nature of Angela's character. It Is this myth that wlU
stand trial In San Mateo County.
This is why Angela Davis Is a
political prisoner and will obviously not receive a fair trial.
In a real sense, Angela Davis
Is guilty, or rather, as guilty as
any Black committed to change In
America. The Black man Is In
conspiracy against the State
every minute of his life, by his
very act of existence. He Is the
other evil. In an abstract, but
very real sense, It was the Black
Nation that klUed the pigs and
kidnapped the Judges In San
Mateo. Angels Davis will be only
the symbolic embodiment of her
■I.Bui
OUR IDEA IS SO OLD
IT IS WRITTEN IN STONE
. . . LIVING TOGETHER
SHARING WITH EACH OTHER
. . . LOVING EACH OTHER
may believe, are
laws ot tne on-going Dialectic.
Without the Other, the Self would
not  exist.  The Self e:
the Other. The
State may kill Angola Davis, just
as It bound and gagged Bobby
Seale and exiled Eldridge Cleaver, but It win never rid Itself
of the Black Consciousness that
these   people  r
time the State kills a Black man,
lt kiUs the part of Itself that it
recognize. It Is slowly,
but surely destroying Itself. It is
not Angela Davis who Is the enemy of the State, lt Is the State
Itself.
-Reprinted from New
University, UC Irvine
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CAMPUS FOOTNOTES
E DAILY
ineadiy. I
March is Women's Monfh af FSC and FCC
March wiU be'
at FSC and Fresno City CoUege.
The two coUeges are cooperating
in presenUng programs throughout the month which wiU Include
several well-known guest speakers. The tentaUve program includes the Los Angeles Feminist
"Theatre; Eileen Fernandez, national president ofNOW(NaUonal
OrganlzaUon of Women), who
speaks on the role of Black women
in the Women's Liberation Movement; Roxanne Dunbar, editor of
No More Fun and Games, whose
topic wlU be "Women's Role Tomorrow"; and Sister Madeline de
Frees, professor of EngUsh at
the University of Montana. Sister
de Frees, a published poet, wiU
read some of her poetry and will
Further speakers will Include
Tl-Grace Atkinson; Virginia
Carablllo, president of the Los
Angeles chapter ofNOW;Jacqueline Wertz, chairman of the
women Studies Program at San
Diego State College; and Kate
Millet    author  of 'Sexual PoU-
rllm
i   be   shown  lnclui
1930's, starring Katharine Hep-
hurn. In the movie, she portrays
a woman who dares to have a
child without having a husband and
v.orld of magazine publishing.
Further Information concerning women's Month will be given
at a later date through the Dally
Collegian.
Parliamentary Procedure team.;
are: President, • Warren Ball,
Clovls; Vice President, Gary !
Hunt, Pomona; Secretary, Fred
Pfaff, Clovls; Reporter, DarreU
Cordova, Mariposa; and treasurer, James Morris, Pomona.
Each team member was presented a leather briefcase and
gavel by the Sears-Roebuck
Foundation.
EOP siudonts
A March 1 deadUne has been
set for applications for financial aid during the 1971-72 school
year. Besides the regular green
applications, which should be
submitted to the Financial Aids
Office- as soon as possible, the
student must submit either a
Student Confidential State ment or
a Parent Confidential Statement
which must be mailed to the California Scholarship Service (CSS)
In Berkeley, plus an affidavit
of non-support. The applicant
should also check the many new
regulations governing financial
aid with Les Warren at the EOP
office In the new AdministraUon
Building, "Room 238, or by phoning him at 487-1021.
Tokalon scholarships
Mrs. Patty Hodges, women's
activity advisor at the Student
Activities Office, has announced
that applications are now being
accepted for the $300 Tokalon-
Ina Gregg Thomas Memorial
Scholarship. Applicants must at-
•tend an honorary tea In their
honor Feb. 28 at 2 p.m. at the
home of Mrs. Gary Fisher, 1135
W. Stewart. Any undergraduate
woman   student   who has  com
pleted 48 units ot college .work
Is eligible for tbe grant. Members of the scholarship committee wlU Judge the applications on "need, scholarship, cam-
personal impressions.*
Student Nunos
AU nursing students and faculty members are invited to attend an Informal party sponsored
by the Student Nurses Council
tomorrow from 7 to 10 p.m.
in the International Room of the
Cafeteria. Further Information
can be obtained by contacting
Joyce Preston between 3 and
4 p.ro. at 227-8569.
The organization will also hold
a meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday,
Feb.  17, in Ag-Mech 101 to or-
Sociol Welfare
The Social Welfare undergraduate organization will bold a
meeting today at noon in the
Collegiate Room ot tbe Cafeteria. The agenda includes a
discussion by President Russ'
Badder and a movie, *TJp Tight
BUck and White.*
Criminology Club
The Criminology Club will
meet tomorrow at 3 p.m. In CU
309. A spokesman said all students interested in Joining the
club   may  attend  the meeUng.
Students are reminded that
Friday is the last day to pay the
$2   Health  Service Fee at the
Business Office-in the New AdministraUon Building. Thla concerns thoee who did not pay the
fee during registration.
After Friday, fees wlU no longer be accepted, and while students
wlU still be able to receive medical treatment, they wlU have to
pay for any prescriptions issued
Recreation Night
Recreation Night wlU begin
tonight and continue every Wednesday, from 7-9:30 p.m. in the
Men's and Women's gyms. Basketball, volleyball, shuffleboard,
table tennis, weights, trampoline
and other sports equipment wUl
be available.
Noah's Ark
The CoUege Religious Center
is presenting 'Noah's Ark* tonight at 8:45 p.m. at the Center.
Featured performers vrtU be John
Fresno State CoUege captured
team and individual honors at the
state finals of the California
Young Farmer competition in
Redding, California, Feb. 6.
The FSC Young Farmer Chapter won first place In the statewide parliamentary Procedure
Contest, and Joe Bezerra ot Lemoore. a recent graduate of FSC
and past president of the FSC
Young Farmer Chapter, was declared the organization's Out-
sunding Agriculturist.
degree from FSC last month and
i- now working In a dairy partnership In the Rlverdale area,
won his title In competition with
li community and stale college
i nung Farmer contestants.
Members  of the winning FSC
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