News Scrapbook 1968-1969
USD Students Call orOu ter fDean By CHARLES DAVIS~~ 'Jbe 'an Diego Union Education Writer · A n \lly formed lTniver ty ofjday with the Very Rev. John E. San Diego student roup ye ler- Baer, president of the USD day called for re I ation of the Men's College. un1ve ity's ac:adcrnic: dean and He de cribed the affair as "a Jlpport for a teach r planning most unfortunate coincidence or to give a studPnt a failing circumstances." · grad . Webster, 21, a speech student The reque I!! came from ~tu- of Lott's, made public a list of dent!! for Ethical Practices "recommendations"-one of (SJ<;P) at an. unu ual gathering them for Martin'~ resignation- of bout 75 m front of tH~ Col- lifter, in effect, giving Father legc for Men on tho normally Baer until noon to comply pri- plac1d 1,250-stuclent Alcala Park vately, campus. Dr. Henry Martin, the dean, OTHER ISSUES later told a r porter he has no Other recommendations in- lntenti r of r i nrn!( ln n grad-. eluded a "qualified black lead- ing L~sue nlleg d to involve him- er" to participate in future s If, R1t·hard Lott, an llSS()Clate selection of EOP students "in a pr tssor, and a tudent in a program that we approve of, speech cla~s taught by Lott. but 1s generally known to be B. U Of, FICER poorly planned." . . The gro1Jp called for written '!'he stu_dent, Leonard Jones, 1~ administrative support of Lott's prime minister of the campus decision on the grade, and for recently, organized Black Siu- upholding the teacher's decision d nt.~ Union and is among a aga n t jlermitting Jones to par- group of d1sadvaolaged students ticipate in a coming speech admitted in an Educational Op- tournament. portom1ties Program . . . dmini tr,1\ion a n d SEP Lott, m the letter distributed spok smen gave different inter- by SEP, said Jones had att~nd- prelations to events that include ed fewer than.half the meetings plans by Lott to i;ive an "F" of the one-umt class and was grade to Jone , and an advance, advised \~ ~ake efforts to pre- termination notice slmultane- vent the F grade. ously given to Lott.
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Students lo al college campus have been urged to stay out of classes tomorrow and Tue clay out of sympathy for the death of a man named James Rector. 'r'housands of them w11! compl\', they say. Thp students are anrnPJwg a na- tionwide call 1o stnke sent to thcfn through key student lea~r.rs hne. but f"W of fhem know that 'i!o t beliPv the stnke art on on each c.impus 11 iS initialed by it 0,1 n students The incident that w1L take out of cla~s was promised some ks ago by student activists, although ne could promise the exact form 11 would f.ake. 1hey could guarantee only that they would be ready for a "confronfa• ti:m'' and then warn aulhoritie to he prPpared. Thr. setting was :eadv-made, and it was no secret that v1olcnre was inPvitable. WHE rr BROKE LAST WEEK in Berkeley, at least 25 wrrr. hospital- ized, one was permanently blmded, and one was dead Because the ba1lle had been prom- ised and Jaw enforcement agents were warned to p1epare for "the wor~t,' the worst happened. The Sheriff's Department of Ala- meda· County had issued bird hot and buckshot, bullet-proof , est~. face masks, shotguns and gas masks. The buck~hot killed ,James Rector, 25. a non-student who had arrived two days before at Berkeley to help plant trees in People's Park, a littered parking lot earmarked by campus officials for construction of a soccer field. Berkeley students say 1he .·estab- lishment" did not like the parking lot because 1t was a gathering 1 pla ·e for drug sales. When the parking lot con• struction was announced, the students moved onto the 'park'' site al\d placted trees and shrubbery some m open de- fiance, others furtively. -\nd 'hen came Rr>ctor, bn e death 1s the axle or next \ e k'· wrPel of events around the nation. THI past week 75 of the People's Park mu · tants were awakened and evicted by the construction crew. Supporters help• ed them retake the park and the law :-nforcers, standing by, moved in. When force met force, the •·non-violent and non-coercive" park sitters had their in cident, promised weeks before, Rector was shot. IIP. died Mondav. tudents "ho are answermg a natiomndf' call, on chedule. to make genPral demands as outlined and add your own local de mand " rn a strike on campuses throughout !hp nation tomorrow and Tuesday. The call went out Thursday to kev student leaders known to have sympa- thetic views, and was signed by th "Strike Committee of Santa Cruz" and the "Radical Student Union of Berke- ley." In San Diego, every campus has been hit. WHETHER THE STuDEM' BODY of each is on strike depends on whom mu ask. Although classes have not been canceled. attt>ndance is zero in some, and some professor, are refusing to teach Others rpport full attendance. At th" Revelle Campus of the lni- , ers1t~ of California here a red flag with clenched fist and the word •·strike'' was remo\·ed frcm the pole where 11 flew heneath •he <\.men- can flag until late Thu da a s, mbol of "protest and not of \ Jenee," a stnker said. At Revelle, a cla~• a 1t h Paul Saltman was int p eel y a fellow a ty memb r who ent ed h1~ class to his n a out "because the e momentum in the plaza." OnJ.r a i reportedly followed the philoso p fessor, Reinhard Lettau, out thP tlo l'CSD's Acr.demic Senate, com of senior fac ultv members, voted Wed- nesday to 'urge'' that classes Thursday and Friday be devoted to discussion of crises on campuses, especially the Berk- on every \' DAW.· THURSD Y Today he is a s, rnbol to
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THE NEWLY: FORMED SSOCI· a ed Moderate Students at UCSD issued a statement that said its members "de- plore he violent confrontations at the Brrkelcy campus, (and! believe that hnth demonstrators and police forces mu t \'ithdraw (because) a pullback of only tile law forces will not resolve !he situation; it may even make it worse." m~ Frida • night no withdrawal was plannPd by either side. according to sourc,,s on that campus.) The AMS does not support the present UCSD strike· 'Jt is not a good channel for solving ~ny university problr>m," the statement sav · At San Diego State, about 2,000 students attended rallies Thursday and Friday at noon in front of the school lihrary. They declared the flag should f at half-staff for Rt>ctor Thursday, a on F'ridav a "non-violent and non- coercive' strike was called by Con- •·erned Students - a strike committee. '.l'hey outlrned their strike "Oals _Fridav ni~ t at the Wesley Foun ahon on ca pus. STUDENT BODY .RESIDENT Ron Breen at San Diego State said Rec- tor' death is a •side issue" The main rea~on for the strike, ne said, is that studcin R feel the Board of Trustees, the Legisla ure and Gov. Ronald Rea.gan ar " ng the education system as a pol'tical football"-putting down stud- ! protest in order to be reelected. ( Add your own demands," the coordi- nators said.) The president of San Diego State, Dr. Malcolm Love, was out of the city at last report, and although his office was keeping his whereabouts a :secret, a delegation from local campus admin- istrations is in BPrkeley to negotiate e1acuation of s•udents !!Jere mto class- rooms on San Diego campuses The transfer proposal was present- Pd to the Berkeley Academic Senate nday. \ ed Friday to honor the nationwide strike call. although students the Senti- nel alked to did not say they knew it was "a nationwide strike call"-they believed the urge to strike began with then· own demands, at the initiative of wn students. the University of San Diego, he p esident of the College for ll!en the Re . .Tohn Baer He said no classes a e cheduled this week at lJSD be- cau USD slUdeiitS'R~l,uest Support for Professor A tudent group at the Uni- ver it of San Die 1 0 yester- Lott, n a letter d1 tributed by SEP, told of continuing plans to give the gr, d desplte efforts he said v.ere mad by Martin for rccon Ider lion "for the i:ood of tlK- university " The letter sald Martin told him of a forthcoming termina- tlon notice during• a d' CIJSsion or Jones' grad on Moy 16. /n«-f ,t '6'1 . . forts to get him (Lott I to re- consider giving the grade •·for the good of the university." SF;p at a meeting on lite Lott s decision on l;he t'a1liHg grade and to uphold Lott's de- cision to prc1·ent ,Jones from participating in the commg speech tournament. New Contract Signed The letter also said that Bartin told Lott of a forthcom- ing termination notice involv- ing Lott when Lott and Mar- tin discussed Jones' grades on Jlay 16. i 'ewman said that the ter- mrnation and gradmg dispute are unrelated, that Lott is a non-tenured professor and al- ready has signed a 1969-70 teaching contract Loft's ter- r ,nination is not effective until after completion of the new contract, Newman said. Newman said the one-year ermination notice '·stems from other matters all togelh- ('J"" Ile said 1hr. decision to ermrnate Lott "comes from consultatmn \11th o th e r re- sponsible faculty members." campus ycstcrda adm_inistra_tion ked the to s u JJ~ _or t Chemistry Co petition Se't t US !\!ES \ A ut ol ch 1stry Die o City and Co nty ools PX- peeled to participate ·n the annual c.hcmistry c ntest sponsored by the Am ,can Chemical Society. The local tPst thi year is being held at th.e U111, r- sity of San Diego Satui day, May JO, from 8:::0 am. to noon, at the USD College far W'.Jmen T11eatre. The examination has been prepared hy the USD ml'm. bcrs of the <'ontest commit- tee according to SJ ·•er Agne Schmit, chairman or th e college for women chemis- try department. (Continued on P::,'\'e A-2) -- ............. Chemistry (Continued from Page A-1) Olhrr memb l'~ of the C LLED U rREL TED day a ked fnr the support of a professor who planned to give a Black Student Union mem- ber a fa ling grade. The group also called for the resign a hon of an academic dean. The requc t came from the newly formed Students for Ethical Practices (SEP), which claimed that academic dea11 Dr. llenrJ M a r I i n hruught pres ur on a.ssocrnte profe sor Rich ·d Lo't to pass studr11t Leonard Jones, after Lott said he w s gomg to fail Jones. ,Jones, a member of Lott's SJ)!'ech clas , i. prime mm1s- tcr of the chool's recently or- ganized Black Students Unmn and I among a group of di • advantaged tudcnts ado, t ro m an Educatwnal Opp rtuni- tics program. Charges Termed False Michael ewman, director of the univer. ity's public rela- t10ns and de\'elopment, said today the student allegations that the I ~-,!&ft/,,, THE SAN DIEGO UNION 8-2 / USO Plans Tribute To Col. Anders Apollo 8 astronaut l\'illiam A. Anders. who was I eared in La Mesa, will be the main speaker at the University of San Diego's commencement exercises in Civic Theater at 3 p.m. Sunday The Air Force lieutenant colo. nel, born in Hong Kong and now of Houston. 1~ill be presented an honorary doctor of science de- gree by the university at the same time. His parents retired Navy Cmdr. and :1-lrs. Arthur S. An- ders. of La lesa. 0nd his wife's parents, .\fr. and :\-!rs. H. G. Hoard of Oceanside ( formerly of of Lemon Grove), plan to at- tend the ceremony. The astronaut, a graduate of Bo)den School and the U.S. Na- val Academy, is a member of the backup crew ( second team) of the moon-landing Apollo 11 mission scheduled for July. JOI~T EXERCISES The commencement exercises will be the second annual joint exercises of liSD's three col- leges. For the College tor Wom- en, the olde,\t of the three, it is the 16th annual graduation. how- ever. The Most Rev. Francis J . Fu- rey, bishop of the San Diego Catholic diocese and chancellor of the unh-ersity, will preside at the ceremony, in which 308 per- sons will receive academic de- grees. The College for Women will graduate 85 the College for Men, 109, and the School of Law. 114. A unh·ersity spokesman said more than 2.000 part>nts, friends and relati\'es or graduates are expected to attend the comm- encement. THEATER RITES It was necessary to hold the exercise in Civic Theater be- cause there is no facility on campus that could accommo- date this many persons the spokesman said. The Rev. Charles S. Casassa, retiring president of Lo,·ola Uni- versity at Los !\ngeies, wlll speak to the graduates at a Bac- calaureate :\lass in lmlhaculata Chapel, on ille campus, at 10:30 a.m. SaturdaJ. rather Casassa has been pres- ident of Loyola for 20 years. He plans to retire at the end of June. Ad,u:e Given Jones Deans e m n said, do not make such d c1. ions '·on their own on these matters." The SEP letter also con- tained a statement from Lott who explained that Jones had attended fewer than half of the class sessions, and that Jones was advised lo make ef- forts to prevent the failing grade. Colonel Anders to Address USO Graduates $.M..'1J.!9y Wlule the yes of the nat10n mander Frank _Borman Cmdr 0\ d th e • lt o· - · , . • n ers was e wer <>PO o I s c1rcu1t Command Module pilot James - --- around the moon at the A L II J d _ executive oll1cer of a gunboat, , . ove . r., an Anders the USS p hi h Universit): of_ San Diego it 1s journeyed 230,000 miles to orbit • - .. anay, w c was Apollo 11. first steps to the the earth's natural satehte 10 ~ttacked b} Japanese bombers launch site that are of concern times. in the Yangtze River in China. Locked into the training As a member of the back-up Anders_ and th~ crew fought schedule as back-up crew crew of the Apollo 11 flight back with machine guns before member of Apollo I, 1s the scheduled fora moon landing 1~ the ship had to be abandoned. speaker planned for the l'SD July, special permission was Anders commanded the comme11c:ement thb unday, ff.quired from ,NASA (J\,'ational evacu~t•on though wounded June I, Lt Col. Wilham A eronautics and Space Ad- U1rec times, once 111 the Utroat, Anders, USAF. mmi trationJ to release Anders and had to write his orders to the Anders member of Apollo 8 lor a day. Anders and his wife men. The boat sank, as a result of crew wlnc:h flew arrund the will lly from Houston for the Japanese actwn, but all 1110011atChr1 tmas, is to receive commencement, wh,ch will be aboard got safely ashore. an honor Q doctor of science held at 3 pm. at the Civic d •grce froJll lJ as well Theater giH• the endoff to the 1!169 The previ s day, Saturday, graduate of the univer 1ty \Iii) JI. Bal.'\·a1aureate Mass so will graduate ·rn will be celebraredat 10:30 a.m • I ti ·r Charle · S Casas a SJ tudmts from th ree schools. president of Loyola Unive~sity < ollcge for ,women, College, for 01 Lo, ngeles. will be the l\l 11, and chool o~ Law. I he speaker He will be r tir· t·omint·nc ment will be _the prt•s ent II Jum• 10 a ~u mgt~s s , 011d Jo1ot gradual!on x, 1 01 ch~nccllur s me e ('t'l'l'mony for the three schools. J • · l\.losl Bev Franci J. Furey, father Jlero . B1 hop of , an Diego and Un hand to set• their son l'ha11cdlor of the University ol honort.:ct wil} be Cmdr Arthur f,' Sau Di o, will preside. c6fiNDER~~,. TO SPEAK AT USD SUNDAY Astronaut Lt. Col. William Anders, USAF, will be com- mencement speaker Sunday at University of San Diego grad- uation ceremonies. Anders was a member of the moon-circling A p o 11 o 8 mission Christmas Day and is part of the back-up crew for the Apollo 11 lunar landing in July Diplomas will be handed out to 85 College for Women stu- dents, 109 College for Men, and 114 School of Law. The :'>1ost Rev. Francis J. Furey, bishop of the San Die- go Roman Catholic Diocese and university chancellor. will preside and will bestow on An- ders an honorary doctor of science degree. until the oppression a Berke! significantly the presence of Guard forces-is ended." Blacl{s' union seen mn.y? means of expression it Black students' need for! BSU would also sponsor expresS1on of ethnic identity cultural programs and cam- led to the formation of the pus dialogues to promote un. Black Students Umon at the . . . . University of San Diego, the ders~andmg wit_hin the uni, BSU chairman has told stud, vers1ty commumty, he added. ents and faculty. Jon Connor BSU minister of Black. students. organized, information, 'told the assem- sa1d W1l11am Miller, BSU bly ''In the past black stud- chairman, because "black ent~ wanted to 'be baseball p_eople have problems t~at players because of the black rise from our very bemg baseball stars. When I walk bfack, problems that we live down the streets of Southeast with 2_4 hours o~ every_ day. San Diego, people know I am This gives us. a singularity of a college man. That may turn purpose that !S ve:r har~ fo~ them off, but they know I am ot~ers 1? identify with: in college. Just being there is Miller _cited other eth:11c the best inspiration we can i::roups m Amen~a assoc1at. give black high school stud- mg from common rnterests as ents." a precedent. Principles and goals of the Asked whether the BSU University of San Diego BSU would seek black studies include the inspiring of black courses at USD, Miller re- and brown high school and plied that the organization to bring them seek higher education, and about if Jt. can. (USD will be once in school to stay there, offering a Black Literature Miller said. course in the fall.) junior college students to would try • A nd ers, USN. ret., and Mrs. Anders of La Mr. a. The semor hllro in his own A11dr1·s 1s right, having received the M lunar moJul polios mis ·ion la~t Anders wa pduto11 th~ · rvice Medal for yenr, mans first voyage to ?rb!I U1stingu1 I the moon. Spacecraft Com. A action in China in 1937.
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