1970_12 The Daily Collegian December 1970

              i    THE DAILY COLLEOtAN    Thuraday,
Education dean to
leave post in fall
Dr. Richard K. Sparks, tbe
flrst dean of the Fresno SUte
CoUege School of Education, will
leave his administrative post next
faU   to   return
Hla request for reassignment
to his tenured position as professor of education In the Department of Elementary Education
has been approved by FSC President  Dr.  Norman   A.   Baxter.
tn his request for reassignment. Sparks said he favors an
•administrative  cycle concept*,
cation division head and dean of
the School oi Education, a cycle
has pretty much run Its course,
and In the best Interests of the
school and myself, a change
should be accomplished."
Sparks said his decision tore-
quest reassignment 'did not In
any way reflect dissatisfaction
or unhapplness."
Baxter said he agrees with
the concept of an administrative
cycle. The administration Is
currently studying the concept
of term appointments for deans.
Sparks came to FSC In 1961,
as head of the FSC education
division. In 1965, President Dr.
Frederic Ness appointed Sparks
first dean of the School of Education.
Prior to coming to FSC, Sparks
professor, coordinator of student
teaching and assistant chairman
of the division of education at
Los Angeles state College. From
1946-55, he was an elementary
and secondary school teacher,
principal and district administrator  in  Washington and Call-
in- n
Sparks  has published In several educational journals and Is
listed In Who's Who In America.
-Reprinted   from
The   Fresno   Bee
Editor selection today
The Senate Board on PubUcaUons will meet today to elect
the editor-in-chief of thc Dally
Collegian for the spring semester. The appUcants are Burton
Swope, current editor of the Collegian who Is seeking a second
' term, Lee J. Trachtenburg, John
S. Travis and DeWayne Albert
Williams. Jr.
majority vote of the nine voting
members of the board at its
weekly meeting today in CU 308
Swope,   a   senior   journalism
Tiber of Phi
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will   c
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Public Relations Committee and
member of Blue Key, a campus
"A total up-dating of the Dally
Collegian In content and size
needs to be considered by the new
editor and the Board on PubUcaUons.' Travis said. The applicant suggested review of 'the
total function of a college news-
s.ild
policies established under my
editorship this fall.' His policies
are 'to follow current guidelines
of the Board on Publications and
strive for excellence In reporting
and  writing:   to  seek added dl-
the student body better; to make
the Dally Collegian more relevant
to the needs and desires of the
majority of students."
Trachtenburg, a junior journalism major, reports for Insight, the journalism department's laboratory publication,
through enrollment in an advanced reporUng course.
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UFWOC official asks for student support
Support for United Farm Workers' Organizing Committee pro-
tesU against a Salinas Valley
lettuce grower was sought at
Fresno State College yesterday
by Gilbert Padllla.
Padllla, UFWOC vice president, requested student Involvement in two demonstrations
against Bud Antle, a lettuce corporation partially owned by the
Dow Chemical Company.
In an afternoon Free Speech
Area rally, padllla said farm
workers have no money, but only
their "bodies and voices." Therefore, he charged, opponents of the
workers jtre attempting to "put
people's voices and bodies In
jail."
Cesar Chavez, president ofthe
UFWOC, faces possible Imprisonment on charges of violating
a court Injunction against lettuce
boycott activities. The contempt
of court citation was lodged by
attorneys for Antle, described by
UFWOC as -the only major cor-
involved In Ihe lettuce
deal   11
s refus
Chavez Is required to face
charges tomorrow at the Monterey County Courthouse In Salinas. Padllla urged student participation  In  a rally supporting
begin   at    10   a.m.   outside  the
A local rally -protesting actions against our leader" will
take place throughout today at
Fresno's Dow Chemical Company
office, announced Padllla. The
local branch of Dow's packaging
division Is located at 4787 East
Date Ave.
The court action stems from
an Oct. 6 Injunction prohibiting
boycott of Angle lettuce granted
by   the Salinas   court. Charging
UFWOC   began ap-
peal proceedings.
the court order could be appealed
st$2.75 million bond t
Angle from losses. F
the requirement to p
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'another example of Salinas justice* and will also be appealed.
-Following an eight-hour depo-
slUon by Chavez Nov. 23, he was
presented with an "order to show
cause* for Injunction violation
and the contempt citation, Padllla
the union has stated. 'The other
growers,* it conUnued, *are aU
looking to the Antle suit as their
salvation.*
Padllla, a former farm worker,
assisted In founding the UFWOC
In 1962. The union, heesUmated
currently numbers 42,000 members throughout the western and
southwestern U.S.
i California  and Arizona.  'In
ddlUon, In 1969 he (Antle) re-
d subsidy payments from the
s future plans to
U.S.
5690,000,
The U.S. military buys about
60 per cent of Its lettuce from
Angle, according lotheUFWOC.
In addition to Its protests over
Angle's failure to recognize the
union, UFWOC is opposed toDow
Chemical's manufacture of pes-
mlgants. The farm workers' organization has long attempted to
restrict the making and use of
such alleged "economic poisons,"
'It looks Uke a nitty-gritty
scene wherein It Is Antle or us,'
The union h
expand Into the
•Getting the growers to recognize us,' was described by Padllla as the UFWOC's major
difficulty. The farm workers'
organization also faced a jurisdictional dispute over membership recruitment'with the Teamsters Union which has now been
The controversial grape boycott, which resulted In the unionization of many California vineyards, has been the union's
greatest success, said Padllla.
The UFWOC Is now expndlnglts
efforts lo Include laborers in
strawberry, lettuce ind other
vegetable fields.      •**
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TWO FRESNO STORES
sags;
REA DENIES ALLEGATIONS
Zumwalt charges 'spies'
in classrooms, asks probe
By Barbara McDowell
Collegian Staff Writer
Charges .that student «sples*
may have been hired by the Fresno State College administration
to Investigate English classes
have been denied by Dr. Ralph
Rea,  dean of the School of Hu-
The allegations of espionage
were voiced yesterday by English
Department Chairman Eugene
Although he had received ■reports of paid or directed spies
In the Department of English,'
said Zumwalt, he has thus far
been 'unable to get confirmation."  However, the department
ued investigation by the School
of HumanlUes Personnel Committee and possible retaliatory
action are being considered..
According to Zumwalt, the Initiator of the alleged espionage
effort Is Rea, a music professor
appointed to his current post by
former Acting FSC
Karl L. Falk.
Zumwalt also reported that the
dean sent his secretary to Investigate an Engllsh course taught
by Instructor Tom Speer. The
secretary reportedly took notes
throughout the entire class hour
on statements by both the Instructor and his students. The Incident,
said Zumwalt had a 'terribly
dampening effect* on the class.
The English Department chairman's statements were made at a
United Professors of California
press conference. The session
was designed to Increase community knowledge of recently announced non-retentions of nine
FSC faculty and administration
members.
The alleged Instances of 'spying* were associated by Zumwalt
with the faculty non-retentions.
The three dismissed professors
In the School of HumanlUes (Assistant Professor of English Everett Frost and Assistant Professors of Philosophy Elton Hall and
RendeU Mabey) charged that
Rea's recommendations of their
termination of employment were
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Collegian
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1970
•poUtlcaUy motivated.*
Such investigations, charged
Zumwalt, serves to remove free
and open expression from the
classroom.
Following the press conference, Rea admitted that he had
sent his secretary to investigate
Speer's class. However, he denied the charge ot hiring student
spies as 'an out and out lie.'
The visit by his secretary to
Speer's classroom, said Rea,
resulted from *complalnU from
parents of obscene language and
material* used In the course.
According to the dean, he 'asked
the Engllsh Department to investigate,' but. after continued complaints, decided to take matters
into his own hands.
Rea stressed that his action
was a 'last resort* measure.
*I rarely have to go to this extreme,* he commented.
Speer did not ask the secretary
either to give her name or to
leave the room, said Rea. The
dean added that -he (Speer) apologized to the class that day for
his language.*
According to Rea, Speer later
reported to Zumwalt that a'mysterious person* had attended his
■Those people are absolutely
paranoid," said Rea In dismissing
the student espionage charges.
He commented that there was
•no need" for spies, since 'dozens of complaints" have been
voluntarily registered with him
by students.
Rea charged that the English
Department was 'trying to make
me look bad,'while he was merely (ul filling his obligations lo the
college.
John Jeltnrlea
ASKS PROBE-Dr. Eugene Zumwalt, English department chairman,
charged at a press conference yesterday spies were being used by
the administration to watch the activities of English instructors in
their classrooms. Rea has denied the charges.
Fired FSC faculty vow to 'stay and fight'
Alarm over Fresno SUte College President Norman A. Baxter's failure to retain nine faculty
and administration members was
expressed yesterday by the FSC
Chapter of the United Professors
of California.
The terminations of employ-
denounced
the college and to the entire
Fresno community" by FSC
Chapter President William
Cowling.
The UPC position was announced at a morning news con-
COLLEGIAN EDITORSHIP
ference designed to provide Information to the community
concerning the staff non-retentions. The dismissals, In most
have been described as 'pollU-
cally  moUvated" by  several of
Also participating In the conference were Associate Professors of Social Work Edward Dutton and Ervlng Ruhl, Assistant
professors of Psychology Elton
Hall and RendeU Mabey, Assistant Professor of Chemistry Joe
Toney and Assistant Professor
of EngUsh Everett Frost. All six
Swope gets second term
By Jenny Bailey
Collegian Managing Editor
Burton Swope, editor-in-chief
of the Dally Collegian, was elected spring semester editor of the
Collegian by the Student Senate
Board on PubUcaUons at lu
weekly meeting yesterday.
Swope, a senior JournaUsm
major, waa one of four candidates
running for the office. Other candidates were Lee J. Trachtenburg, Junior journalism major;
John S.Travis, senior JournaUsm
major and DeWayne Albert Wll-
11 ams Jr., sophomore Journalism
major.
Swope received Ave of the nine
voting members' votes, Trachtenburg -.ne and Travis three.
During the meeUng all candidates  were  Interviewed  sepa
rately for their reasons for seeking the office.
Travis, a candidate for editor
last semester, said a 'total updating of the Dfely CoUegian in
content and size is needed.*
TravU urged forming an Advisory Council to study the Collegian and- said he would have a
Black and Brown student work
with him as News and Managing
Editors.
- Trachtenburg, then questioned,
'said that tills was his first semester at Fresno SUte CoUege.
Trachtenburg said, *lf 1 were
editor and if a reporter for the
CoUegian was not fair in bis
reporting, then I would get rid
Board members questioned
(ConUnued on Page 3, Col. 1)
wlU be dismissed at the end of
the academic year.
Student Activities Director
Kenneth Kerr, Housing Director
Robert Brooks and. James A.
Bates, field Instructor In social
work, none of whom attended the
conference, received one-year
terminal contracts from Baxter.
EngUsh Department Chairman
Eugene Zumwalt, Philosophy Department Chairman James M.
Smith and Chemistry Department
Chairman Richard Clula were
present to provide commenUand -
statements   from their depart-
Cowling, an FSC associate professor of EngUsh, announced that-
the UPC *wlH act to recUfy immediately and through every possible channel a situation in which
there exists severe threaU to
Individual rights, to the educational process at FSC and to the
hopes to Insure 'future protection of the faculty."
The dismissed staff members
are facing * a desperate and frustrating situation." Toney commented. The chemistry professor said that actions ofthe president "cannot be challenged under
faculty grievance procedures."
Frequently alluded to by the
conference participants
American Association of Unl- '
verslty Professors statement on
Governance of Colleges and Universities adopted by the SUte
CoUege Board of Trustees In
1967 ai a guideline for faculty
Judgments. According tothepoll-
cy, the •president should, where
the faculty has primary responsibility, concur with the faculty
Judgment except in rare instances
and tor compelling reasons which
should be stated In detail.'
(Continued on Page 3. Col. 3)
The chapter has already requested financial and legal assistance from Its statewide organization. Locally, the UPC is working with the Fresno Free College
Foundation, a- recently established group 'dedicated to the
defense of stodent'an* faculty -
rights," he said.
•By the end of the week we will
have other posslblUUes for action," said Cowling.
FSC personnel pracUces wUl
also be Investigated by theCoun-
dl for Social Work EAicaUon
and the National Association of
Social Work, organlzaUons to
which Ruhl and Dutton belong.
PRESS CONFERENCE-Edward P. Dutton, associate professor of
soolal work, and Everett Frost, assistant professor of English,
answer questions concerning their non-retention by the Baxter Administration. The professors have charged their firings are polHI-
cally motivated.