1982_03 The Daily Collegian March 1982

              TiFT
P»ge7
Jirraoifs wilu ams, jr.
Professional Resume
February 1982
PrrsonmtDnta:
Office Address and Telephone:
120 Thomas Administration Bldg.
CSUF. Fresno, CA 93740
(209) 294-2506 or 294-2494
Education:
August 1971 ■ May 1975 University of
Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 Juris Doctor completed May
1975.
May 1972 - August 1974 University of
Michigan School of Education, Ann
Arbor, Michigan 48109 24 hours towards Masters Degree in Educational
Administration.
August 1967 - May 1971 University of
Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology completed
May 1971.
Professional Certification:
April 1977 Admitted to Michigan Bar.
July 1981 Admitted to the U.S. Federal District Court for the Western District
of Michigan.
Current Employment:
Nov.  1981 - Present California State
University. Fresno.
Position: Associate Professor of Ethnic
Studies.
Assignment: Director, Center for Black
Affairs. Responsible for formation and
development of ancillary unit to Black
Studies Depart-
meni. including fund-raising, inlra-insli-
tufional research and program development.
Assignment: Academic Specialist for Core
Student Affirmative Action. Responsible
\for administrative staff support to the
' Student Affirmative Action program including outreach, retention, faculty enhancement and proposal development.
Related Employment Experience:
June 1980 • Nov. 1981 Private Law
Practice.
Position.- Attorney.
Duties: Operate a sole-practitioner law
practice specializing in educational advocacy and education law.
July 1975 - Oct. 1980 Project for Fair
Administration of Student Discipline.
University of Michigan School of Education.
Position: Associate Director (Primary Research Investigator}.
Aug. 1972 - Dec. 1973 Saginaw Student  Rights  Center.   1407 Janes St.,
Saginaw, Michigan.
Position: Director.
Articles Authored
"In-School Alternatives to Suspension-
Why Bother" published in In School Alternatives to Suspension, Washington. D.C.:
National Institute for Education. 1979.
"Procedural Problems in Conducting
an Educational Planning and Placement
Committee Meeting and a Special Education Hearing:an Advocate's Perspective,"
in Alternatives to Litigation: The Necessity for Parent Consultation. Rhodes, W.
et al. (editors). Lansing. Ml: Michigan
Department of Education, 1977.
"The Impact and Implications of Litigation," in The Impact and Implications
of Stateand Federal Legislation Affecting
Handicapped Individuals. Market, C. et
al. (editors). Ann Arbor, Ml: University
of Michigan. 1977.
'Due Process in School Disciplinary
Proceedings," in Breakthrough, Vol. 3,
No. 2. Winter 1974. Ann Arbor, Ml:
Program for Educational Opportunity.
The  Rights and  Responsibilities  for
Michigan Public School Students (with
William Harris). Saginaw. Ml: Saginaw
Student Rights Center. 1972.
Recent Consultations:
Detroit Public Schools ■ Developed a
city-wide student expulsion policy and
procedures which were adopted by the
Detroit Board of Education in September, 1981.
St. Louis Public Schools ■ Assisted
administrative personnel in developing a
city-wide discipline and attendance policy. Policy is currently being reviewed
administratively for presentation to the
Board.
Cherry Hill, Michigan Public Schools -
Assisted administrative personnel in developing codes of student conduct adopted by the Board in August. 1981. Elementary Code was published by the National
Institute of Education in "The Educated
Ear," an audio-cassette and materials
packet.
Louisville Legal Aid Society - Currently serving as an expert witness in pending
litigation in Federal District Court challenging the disproportionate impact of\
discipline upon minority students (Stevenson vs. Jefferson County Board of Education)
Community Service:
Board of Directors, Center for Study of\
Alternatives to Corporal Punishment,
Temple University, Psychology Department, Philadelphia, PA (1980 - present)
Board of Directors, Student Advocacy
Center. Ann Arbor. Ml(1976 ■ 1978)
Member. Task Force on Youth Rights
for the Michigan Department of Juvenile
Justice Services (1976 - 1977)
Member, State Superintendent's Ad
Hoc Committee on School Disruption for
the Michigan Department of Education
(1974). _
By Yolanda Davit
Where are you from?
I am originally from Battle Creek. Michigan, and recently from Ann-Arbor.
Michigan.
Where did you attend College?
I attended high school in Battle Creek,
Michigan, and attended undergraduate
school at the University of Michigan
where I received a Bachelors Degree in
Sociology. I attended law school at the
University of Michigan and received a
Juris Doctor Degree.I also took graduate
courses in Education Administration from
the University of Michigan.
How long have you been at CSUF. and
what were your reasons for coming here?
I have been here since the latter part of
November. The particular combination of
jobs taht I have is my main reason for
coming here. And the State of California
has always been attractive to me. having
grown up in the mid-west.
What are your responsibilities as director of the Center of Black Affairs?
The Center is an outgrowth of activities
that the students, staff, and faculty participated in for the last two years. The
Center is a focal point to draw attention to
the needs of black faculty, staff and students. My basic function is to direct the
Center and get the organizational development of the Center accomplished, so that
it's a recognized unit on campus. Right'
now the Center is still in the developmental stages—trying to get a good conceptual framework for what we should be
doing and getting the necessary approvals
to operate as an ancilary unit. I also work
part-time in the Core Student Affirmative
Action program where 1 am an academic
specialist. I provide administrative staff
support to (he assistant vice president as it
relates to the affirmative action program
funded by the State of California. The
program attempts to bring more minority
and women students to campus because
these groups have been traditionally excluded from higher education.
Dr. Junious   Williams Jr.
Could you tell us a little more about
what the Center will be doing?
The Center will be working with the
University in terms of issues of access of
Black students, basically enrollment and
retention.  There is  no need to enroll
students here if they flunk out in the first
semester. So. there is an issue of not only
getting Black students enrolled, but also
making sure that there is a good institutional response that will permit them to
succeed on campus. Developing the status
of the faculty and staff on campus is
another issue with which the Center wishes
todeal. The Center also will be attempting
to improve the responsiveness of University to the community which it is supposed
to serve, especially the Black community.
There are questions as to whether the
Black  community adequately  benefits
from the resources which the University
has to offer. The Center will be working
with the infra-structure of the University
to try and make some institutional
changes.
Will the Reagan administration's
Budget cuts affect the Center?
Yes. in a  variety ai ways,  but not
directly. If this had been a decade ago it
wou Id have been a lot easier to tap Federal
funds to help operate the Center. Much of
the federal money is drying up for funding
novel ideas and initialing experimental
programs. There will be a direct impact
that will force us to seeek money from
private industry, foundations and corpor-
ationsinordertoget money to operate the
Center. The other impact that Reagan-
omics is going to have on the Center will
have to do with mission of improving the
.status of Black students, faculty and staff
on campus. The cuts, coupled with the
whole mentality which lies behind them,
are going to have an impact since there
will not be as many funds for scholarships,
loans or work study. This will impact upon
Lhe ability of Black students to attend a
university. I think it is also going to have
an impact in termsof theactionslikcthose '
recently initiated by the Trustees requiring the three years of English and two
years of math as entrance requirements.
These types of actions I  relate to the
mentality that Reagan brings to the White
House and politics in general in terms of
people thinking we need to turn back the
clock on some issues and re-evaluate and
reinstate some "mystical" standards. This
whole line of rhetoric suggest that minorities and poor people have perhaps moved
too far and the nation needs to tighten up
and go back to the good old days. Those
are a couple of things, which are prominent, that suggest a real major change in
attitude which is going to directly affect
on the.efforts of bringing about a change
for Blacks on this campus.
What are your main goals as Director
of the Center?
My primary goal right now is to find
some sources of funding for the Center.
Given the financial status of the state,
right now it seems to me that if the Center
is going to stabilize, we need to acquire
some type of funding that will permit us to
maintain the type of activities for which
the Center is designed. So. my number
one priority now is to acquire some stable
source of funds that will relieve some of
the immediate funding problems of the
Center.
Have you been involved in any community organizations in Fresno?
No. not directly, but I have been attending some public meetings to get a feel of
what (hecommunity is like.
Were you involved in any of the civil
rights or black consciousness movement?
For most of my career I've been involved in public school desegregation. I
woked in the University setting where I
worked with school districts which were
undergoing desegregation. To help them
develop desegregation plans and working
with (he staff trying to make desegregation a successful experience. Through
staff development, we hoped to change
the curriculum, policies and procedures
which were carryovers from the times that
the schools were segregated. We tried to
make sure the schools were responsive to
all the students (hey were serving, and not
just working on the white, middle class
perceptions 'of what students need and
should be. So in that sense I've been active
in the movement. Also, when I was in
college I was involved in the Black Action
Movement and in a strike that occurred in
the University in regard to the University's
responsiveness to the needs of Black students. Its striking for me, when I look
back at those experiences and look at
whats happening on this campus and
many campuses in the U.S.. it is quite
frightening. During the sixties people had
a social commitment and social consciousness: but right now people seem to
be more interested in the economic environment, and in some senses it's disheartening. The sort of actions that people
wer einvolved in during the sixties and
early seventies helped to break down some
barriers and was an education in and of
itself that one can't get out of the library
and classroom. Many students that were
involved in the movement are now respectable, middle class people, both black
and white. But I still think that they carry
with them a social consciousness and
-commitment to issues. If they ever become
involved in decision-making, they carry
with them that consciousness. 1 am a little
bit concerned when I see students not
involved with some of those issues. I am
not talking about raising hell and closing
down Universities: but simply being aware
of what's happening and speaking ou( on
issues. I've been here two or three months
and as I pass thcTree speech area it seems
as though religious issues are the only
thing I. hear people speaking out on.
Certainly religion is part of free speech,
but free speech not only deals with religion, it deals with political and social issues
which are of concern. Indicative of what I
Continued on page 7
. i
Dr. Williams
Continued from
page 6
see as one of the differences between when
I was in college and what it happening
now is an article in the Daily Collegian
where the President of the Associated
Students was talking about a transformation of the area between the library and
Education/Psychology  building into a
free speech area. He wanted to commit
S150,000 to renovate the free speech area
which indicates to me that he really doesnt
understand free speech. You don't neces-^
sarily  need  a  designated; comfortable
place to exercise free speech. 1 guess I
would question his consciousness when
he's talking about spending J150.000 for
that, given the kind of fiscal strain the
country is in and how bad the prospects
for student financial aid are. I question the
need to place free speech in some plush
area. Free speech is about speaking out
and dialogue, and you don't need a comfortable place to do that. You just need a
consciousness that it's necessary to discuss
and argue issues. I haven't seen much of
this going on around here. It may be a sign
of the times, but I wish, like some of the
old conservatives, to go back to the good
old days, which were the sixties for me.
A re there any crucial issues concerning
students, faculty end staff you wish to
speak about?       <^ ......
"    Yes;' the upcoming state and congressional elections, t think we can all scream
about how bad] Reagan is hut the real
cniicalpoiM.which it coming up. in the
%l elections. These elections are going to
have a real impact on whether the things
Reagan is doing are going to take hold"of
the fabric of society. People need to get
about the business of registering to vote
and helping other people by encouraging
them to register so that when the November election comes, people are mobilized
lo go to the polls and tell Reagan that his
policies are B.S. and the people arc not
going to permit him, his henchmen and
rich people in this country to simply
dismantle most of what's humane about
this society.  I  consider this the most
critical issue in terms of the campus and
community. Looking back at the period
of the '50's, '60's and early "70's one of the
most critical things that students got with
was the whole issue of voter registration.
And this was during a time when people
had to put their lives on the line when
talking about going into Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia to register people to
vote. Now, it's simply a matter of people
going out with minimal external interference and trying to encourage people to use
the franchise. If I could leave people with
one message. I would say that the November election is going to determine the
direction of this country for the rest of the
century, and if people aren't voting and
showing their displeasure with current
policies of the country we might as well
give it up for the next decade or perhaps
forever.
Would you comment on the alleged
discrimination against Black students al
Bob Jones University?
The Bob Jones University situation is
interesting because it reflects again a problem with the Reagan Administration in
terms of its willingness to enforce the Civil
Rights Laws. I don't want to support Bob
Jones University by permitting them to
acquire tax exempt status which means it
doesn not have to pay certain types of
federal, state and local taxes. I resent
paying for a University or any institution
when I fundamentally disagree with their
mission as it relates lo discrimination. 1
Would you comment on the political,
economic situation among Blacks in Michigan compared to Hacks in the valley?
I am not yet well acquainted with the
economic conditions here in Fresno. What.
I have picked up so far has been mostly
from the newspapers. I think generally
Michigan is one of the most depressed
state economies in the country. That condition is related mostly to the foreign
takeover of automobile-related industry.
The area that employed most of the
people was the automobile industry. So in
many places in the state, like Detroit.
Flint, and Saginaw, that have large numbers of automobile and related manufacturing, the unemployment rate is over
40%. I think one of the things that the
people in the Reagan administration fail
to recognize about unemployment, and
sacrificing unemployment to get inflation
down and production up. is the fact that
when those people are unemployed they
don't  pay taxes.  And  in a slate like
'You just need a consciousness that
it's necessary to discuss and argue
issues,'
'-• ; '* '.J*-'*    -'-'.'
X:vrX   >■ -'-.S. ,'■•..-,
think "that the whole issue as Jones has
portrayed it is really indicative' of his kind
of racism because he states that the real
concern that the University has is interracial dating and that it's biblically related. Although until 1971, by his own
admission, the way they ahd attempted to
deal with this problem is by not admitting
minority students at all. The IRS at this
point made them concede and admit minority students, but they maintained the
policy of prohibiting inter-racial dating.
I believe that it's an issue of to what
purposes will public resources and assistance be put? I don't think tax exemption
resources should be used to support institutions or organizations who discriminate
on the basis of race, sex or national origin.
The one interesting issue I somewhat
agree with him about is why aren't similar
strictures enforced with respect to seminaries training only male priests, which
discriminate against women on the basis
of sex. There is a national policy against
discrimination as reflected in Title IX of
the educational amendment.
Michigan, with so assay pcoaje unemployed, the state doesn't have enough
resources to take care of some real nee**.
Shortly before I left Michigan, schools
were having major cutbacks; three school
districts temporarily closed from lack of
money. Social services are being dismantled, and mental health services in the
state are dramatically reduced at a time
when the experts in the mental health field
were indicating that child abuse, spousal
abuse, alcoholism, drug problems and just
about every sign of ill mental health in a
society were on the incline. And at some
point  that's  going  to    lead  to a
catastrophy.
The main thing is that for the kind of
economic and social trends we seem to be
on nationally. Michigan was the forerunner of how bad things are going to get.
And its worst impact is upon the hopes
and aspirations of people. The case in
Michigan is that there is very low morale
almost every place, because people,are
having to deal with an economic reality
that's quite harsh. People want to work
and be productive. 1 think; its a i	
caption to think that people would prefer
to be on welfare or prefer to be unemployed. People want to work and to the extent
that jobs are not available, I think it's
going to demoralize people. Then, even if
jobs do become available after one has
been out of work so long, and that becomes a habit, it's going to be hard to get
back to work.
Would you like lo comment on the
article 'Affirmative Action Panel Challenged" in the Dally Collegian, February
19. 1982 which quoted you?
I think its inaccurate in several respects. First, the dear implication of the
way the article is constructed is that it was
something that was being done by the
faculty of the Black Studies Program. It
was coincidental that we were'both there
and there was no prior planning. We have
common concerns; we agree on many
issues and we happened to be silting next
toeach other. Unfortunately, the reporter
mistook that as some sort of concerted
action. A second factor is that there are a
number of inaccuracies in the article
which are unrelated to either Rogers or
myself that she just completely missed.
Regarding Rogers and me. she suggests
that we, somehow disrupted what was
going on: we didn't disrupt it we simply
asked some pointed questions. I was originally supposed to he a panel member and
got withdrawn at the last minute because
'too many people .were invited. I was.
sianpry performing a (.action that the ';
ran* baaes of sa*etiacearwMadtaw whole,
debate of aJTinaativc actaaa. I think.**
part at the request t,,—,     ^ _.
ed the panel, la general, there are place I
where I was quoted out of context and in
language that certainly is not the way I
speak. Additionally, many issues of substance that were raised at the meeting
aren't reflected in the article and that's
perhaps the worst problem. The questions
I posed during the panel aren't in the
article at all. It's irresponsible journalism
on the author's part since she had an
opportunity after the program, when she
came to get my name, to cross check her
notes. She didn't attempt to do that. Now
I am faced this morning with an article
that I feel will give people some incorrect
impressions or what I said during the
meeting. That's unfortunate for me and
it's irresponsible on her part, and the final
outcome of it all for me is that I am going
to look at this so-called "newspaper" in the
future with a very critical eye because I am
not sure to what extent the reporting in
this article is representative of the general
quality and accuracy of articles it prints.
-V"* f ■*- *
Black Contributors to Science and
Energy Technology
Compiled by
Stephanie Booker
and DaryWCka Ford
Norbert RilUeux, 1806-1894
Norbert Rillieux of New Orelans Revolutionized the sugar industry by inventing in
1846 a refining process that reduced the time, cost, and safety risk involved in producing
good sugar from cane and beets.   *
Elijah McCoy, 1843-1929
The lubricating cup, which made possible the automatic oiling of machinery, was
invented by Elijah McCoy, a Canadian-born son t>f runaway slaves. An American
expression was popularized when persons inspecting new equipment usually asked if it
contained the "Real McCoy." meaning the McCoy oiling device.
EL . '
u»        Lewis H. Latimer, 1848-1928
Lewis H. Latimer, a member of Thomas Edison's research team, made outstanding
contribution 'to the development and commercialization of the electric light. He patented a process for making carbon filament for light bulbs and invented the bulb's
threaded socket.
Archie Alexander, 1888-1958
Archie Alexander, a design and construction engineer, left his stamp on the landscape
of America by building a variety of large projects including the tidal basin bridge and
seawall and the Whitehursl Freeway in Washington. DC.
David Crosthwait, 1891-197*
A graduate of Purdue University in 19-13. David Crosthwait became an authority on
heat transfer, ventilation and air conditio nary. He received 34 U.S. patents and 80
foreign patents and developed the heating system for Rockefeller Center in New York
City.
J    • -
Granville Woods, 1856-1910
Granville Woods was awarded more than 35 patents for electrical systems and devices
which created new energy techniques for the transportation and communication industries in the last part of the 19th century.
Garrett A. Morgan, 1877-1943
Garrett Morgan made significant contributions to public safety. Firemen in many cities
in the early I900's wore the safety helmet and gas mask that he invented. In 1923 he
received a patent for a stop and go traffic signal to regulate vehicle movement.
Frederick M. Jones, 1892-19*1
Frederick Jones held more than 60 patents in a variety of fields but refrigeration was his
specialization. In 1935. he invented the first automatic refrigeration system for long-
haul trucks, which was later adapted to a variety of other carriers.     .   '■
Lotus W. Roberts, 1913-
- Louis W. Roberts, physicist, mathematician and holder of 11 patents in electronics, is
Director of Energy and Environment at the Transportation System Center in Cambridge. Mass.. where he develops energy conservation practices for the transportation
industry.
Kstberin* Johnson. 1918-
Katherine Johnson is an aerospace technologist at NASA's Langlcy Research Center.
- Hampton. V A. A trained mathematician and physicist, she analyzed data gathered by
tracking stations around the world during the lunar orbital missions—the moon shots.