1982_04 The Daily Collegian April 1982

              Pag* l«-the Daily Collegian-April 14, 1M2
Lady 'Dogs shut out
in two tournaments
Those who live by pitching die by
pitching?
This may not be the case with the Bulldog women's Softball team, but it sure
must have crossed someone's mind a)
Fresno State was quickly kayoed in two
tournaments during the Easter break.
FSU lost its first two contests in the
Pony Tournament in Fullerton and went
home and then dropped two in a row, the
first a 21-inning marathon, to be eliminated in the UOP tourney at Lodi.
Ace pitcher Wende Ward worked all 21
innings on the mound for head coach
Donna Pickel in the long contest with UC
Santa Barbara. She fanned some 13 bat-
Wende Ward fanned
some 13 batters and
threw a phenomenal
249 pitches
ters and threw a phenomenal 249 pitches
only to take her second loss of the season.
But the Lady Bulldogs did not get any
bat support when they needed it. The team
batting average dipped to a season-low
.208. Ward, with a .370 clip, is the top
hitter. No other starter is hitting over .300.
"Out play overall was real good, but our
hitting was a factor," Pickel said.
Two of the team's hottest hitters before
the tournaments were third baseman
Roberta Garcia and outfielder Alyce
Rodriguez. Garcia has dropped to .275
while Rodriguez remained about the i
with a .286 mark.
This tournament (the UOP event) was
le for us with the way the draw was set
up," Pickel offered. "But I don't think
we've played the type of ball needed for
tournaments.'
Second baseman Sandi Taylor has
steadily risen out of a minor slump. She
had four hits, including an RBI double, to
raise her average to .271.
Fresno opened the UOP tourney with a
3-2 win over Cal State-Dominguez Hills.
But UCSB gave the Bulldogs more than
they bargained for in the second contest.
The Lady Gauchds rallied for a pair of
runs in the top of the 21st to beat FSU.
The marathon was the longest game in
Bulldog history, lasting 4:25. Ward's 13
strikeouts were good to tie another FSU
Fifteen minutes later, Fresno was
forced to do battled with lowly San Francisco and the Lady Dons scored a 2-0
victory to send the 'Dogs back to Fresno.
But Fresno State's pitching still ranks
among the nation's best, boasting a team
earned run average of 0.45. Ward, now
9-2, has a sparkling 0.24 ERA while
freshman hurler Barbara Cambria (8-1)
has a 0.88 ERA.
Fresno State will get a rematch with the
Gauchos this afternoon at Bulldog Field,
near the campus Residence Dining Hall.
A non-conference doubleheader is scheduled to get underway at 2 p.m.
Santa Barbara's main threat is pitcher
Tracy Witherell. The right-hander no-hit
the Bulldogs for seven innings. Vickie
Lovelace is one of the Gauchos' top
hitters. She had three hits against the
Bulldogs.
' The games (today) will probably hold
more meaning for us now than ever,"
Pickel said.
Fresno will:
this weekend in the Las Vegas Tourna-
Nevada-Las Vegas. The round-
robin tourney will match the Bulldogs
with Dominguez Hills. Friday afternoon
and then host UNLV at 5 p.m.
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April 14, 1982-the Daily Collegian-Pag* II
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O'Brien
Continued from page 1
academic professionalism of the school
and the university," wrote Burton.
O'Brien replied in a Nov. 25 letter to
Haak that Burton's actions were "impulsive, unprecedented and malicious."
"All of Dean Burton's charges are
false," O'Brien said. "My words may be
negative or derogatory but they do not
constitute defamation. None of these
allegedly defamed individuals has ever
sued fbr libel or slander or complained."
In that same letter, O'Brien then offered
what he said was "the only possible excuse
for Burton's actions." He said he had been
told by .Paul Lange, chairman of the
Department of Finance and Industry, that
the Dean suffered a serious health problem which may have clouded Burton's
judgment.
Lange denied making any such statement and said so in a memo sent to administrators and business school faculty.
Burton also denied the accusation.
In a memo sent Monday to those
involved in the matter. CSUF President
Harold Haak reflected on the resolution
of the issue.
"With those issues closed." Haak wrote.'I anticipate that all parties to earlier
disputes will put any past resentments
behind them and extend to each other all
of the professional respect and courtesy
we normally assume in collegia! relation-
Continued Haak:"lt is my hope that
these matters, like all sensitive personnel
matters, will be treated by you in the strictest of confidence."
Under tei'ms of the agreement. Burton
and O'Brien exchanged letters this week
that were somewhat conciliatory in tone.
In his letter. Burton made an indirect
reference to his decision to distribute his
Nov. 16 memo to business school faculty.
Burton wrote, "While 1 obviously feel
strongly about the matters which caused
me to seek disciplinary action against you,
and while I felt justified in informing
members of the School of Business. I
regret that the dislrubution of my memorandum...may have inadvertantly contributed to public discussion of the issue and
may have made a resolution of the matter
more difficult."
Wrote O'Brien in his letter to Burton: 1
have reflected on the situation and have
come to recognize that, while 1 too felt
justified in the substance of my complaints, 1 may have allowed my frustration
regarding those grievances to cause me to
use intemperate language in characterizing the problems as well as collegues who
were party to them."
Both  Burton and  Professor Warren
Kessier, who served as O'Brien's representative in the settlement, said the charges
did not revolve around O'Brien's teaching
abilities. Kessier said the professor has
received high marks from many students
since he came to CSUF in 1965.
-At issue when Burton filed charges
against O'Brien in November was the
school's contention that O'Brien's conduct had "willfully disrupted the orderly
operation of campus," a California Education Code requirement before any disciplinary action can be taken.
And while that contention will not be
tested because of Monday's settlement
Haak said in the announcement that "personal relationships between Dr. O'Brien
and members of SOB AS had deteriorated
to an unacceptable level."
That deterioration was detailed in Burton's memo to Haak.  Included in the
memo are five pages of documental
that Burton said proves his contention
that O'Brien has defamed administrators
and fellow faculty.
The five pages list 108 faculty members,
officials and local groups allegedly "defamed" in memos by O'Brien. Included
in the list are more than 40 business school
faculty members, along with seven out of
the nine department chairmen in that
Among the names: Burton, Lange, Professors Sarah Bedrosian, Victor Panico
and Robert Kutschcr, retiring state college system Chancellor Glenn Dumke and
economics Professor Izumi Tanjguchi.
Also on the list are 278 expressions that
Burton said O'Brien directed at many of
the names listed.
'...our faculty have the
right to be protected
from defamation of
character by a fellow
professor...'	
Among the expressions are "bigot,"
"imported guns," "militant Baptist," and
"the Jew."
While Burton did not question O'Brien's right to freedom of expression, he
said.'Certainly, our faculty have the right
to be protected from defamlion of character by a fellow professor..."
After the decision was made last month
to press for O'Brien's dismissal Associated
Student Body President Jeff Watson and
another student leader defended O'Brien
and said that Burton's call for dismissal
was an attempt to overturn the professor's
academic freedom. The tenure system is
used to protect academic freedom.
Dismissal of tenured faculty is rare. The
only CSUF case in the last decade
occurred in 1977 when a faculty panel
recommended that Enology Professor'
Sigmund H. Schanderl be dismissed.
Inherent in that freedom, Watson suggested, is the right to criticize the actions
of collegues.
"It would be a severe injustice to the
students at this university and to the university as a whole to release one of the
finest faculty members at this university
for what would seem to be personality
conflicts among collegues," Watson said
last month.
Business student and A.S. activist Tom
Slocum agreed and said, "O'Brien is a first
class teacher. His instruction is unsurpassed on this campus. I think he's the
best of them all."
In an interview with the Dally Collegian
before the settlement was announced Burton acknowledged O'Brien's classroom
abilities, but with reservation.
There's no question that the man can
be brilliant in class," Burton said, "but he
cap also be brutal." The dean said his
office has received several calls from students and parents complaining about
what they say were verbal abuses by
O'Brien.
Watson questioned whether O'Brien's
tendency to challenge the decisions of his
superiors through legal action had influenced Burton's call for dismissal.
"He's been a thorn in the side of the
adminstration and this is attempt to
remove that thorn," Watson said.
Chairman Lange told a student reporter last semster. "He has, at various times,
taken issue with everyone in the depart-
almost everyone in the School of Business, every past dean and every past
administator in the university."
Continued Lange: "He has brought a
number of grievances, brought lawsuits to
state and federal court, action to local
committees here, action befor the Equal
Opportunity Employment Commission,
and in every single case, it's been determined that he didn't have any basis for
complaint."
One of these complaints, which was
dropped in keepintg with Monday's
agreement involved, in part a decision by
business school administrators last year to
drop one of O'Brien's classes. Business
Administration 101, from the finance and
industry department's option require-
O'Brien said at the time of the decision.
They are not acting in good faith...they
are out to give me the shaft, and I am
powerless because everything is done by
majority rule.
They are acting in concert to destroy
my academic career, and that is an academic atrocity."
Concerning th charges leveled against
O'Brien, Kessier said administrators have
made a'"mountain ofa molehill."
"J ohn," Kessier said, "has done nothing
Kessier added, "We are as concerned
with the reputation o.f everyone involved
as we are with Dr. O'Brien's career."
The decision to press for a hearing was
the result of an investigation during the
first half of December by Instructional
Media Center administrator David
Quadro. Quadro was appointed by Haak
in late November to investigate O'Brien
after Buton filed charges.
"I went into this thing with no ax to
grind." Quadro said. "1 had no connection
with either side."
Quadro said he offered to take names of
people to interview from representatives
of both sides of the case. He said he also
tried to interview a cross-section of students to gain their opinions on the
professor.
The results of his investigation reached
Haak's desk on Dec. 15. The finding:
Quadro endorsed Burton's call fordismis-
sal proceedings.
O'Brien was then notified of the finding
and given five working days to accept
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dismissal or ask lor a hearing.
Under the rules for such proceedings,
O'Brien had the choice ofa hearing before
the California Public Employment Relations Board of before CSUF faculty.
O'Brien decided to have a closed hearing before a faculty committee, but Monday's settlment changed that. The settlement resulted in the creation of an
Applied Ethics program that will include
O'Brien and Kessier. who will serve as the
program's acting coordinator.
While the progran
ning stage. Haak s
O'Brien's contested Business Administra-
tionlOI class—titled "Economics. Ethics
and Civilization"—among the courses
The program will be in one of CSUF's
eight schools, but not the School of Business. Peter Klassen. dean of the School of
Social Sciences, said his school is a likely
candidate for the program.
The fine print outlining th program,
which is scheduled to begin next year,
must be approved by Haak and the campus Academic Planning and Policy Committee before it goes into effect.
Said O'Brien of the settlement: "I am
obviously quite pleased with the settlement and my transfer to the new program.
All I want to do is teach my classes and
pursue my scholarly interests."
Under the terms of the settlement.
O'Brien will also teach classes in the
Department of Economics beginning next
O'Brien grew up in Scotland and was
part of the Royal Army Service Corp during World War II. puring that time he
was captured by the Germans and held in
a prison camp until 1945.
O'Brien has been a teacher and professor since graduating from Scotland's University of Strathelyde.following the war.
He taught in Scotland and Canada before
going to Notre Dame and getting his
PhD.
He then worked as a professor at several Canadian and American universities
before coming to CSUF. .
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