News Scrapbook 1970-1972

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- Vnlverslty of California stude_nt leaders won a par- tial victory Friday in their fight to prevent $3.2 mil- lion In tuillon revenue from being spent on cam- pus construction projects. ltPgents, ending a two-day meeting here, vol- ed by an 11-7 margin to

The Umver ,· v of San Diego yesterday announced it is ending its freshman basketball program, e£1ective imme- diately, and will instead concentrate on improving its var- sity program. Athletic Director Phil Woolpert said, "It is with sincere regret that we made this decision. We had planned to con- duct the freshman program on a non-scholarship basis be• ginning with the 1972-73 ~ea son. However, the number of players turning out for freshman ball this year was m• su[ficient to continue the program.'' Woolperl emphasized that the action does not mean a de• emphasis of the USD ba•kelbah program. He stated that the school in the future will concentrate on recruiting players of strictly varsity caliber. Woolpcrt aL,o pointed lo the recent M'.AA ruling allowing !re hman play- ers to play on var lly !teams at small colleges as a leading factor in the decision USD had contracted for a 20 game freshman schedule this ~eason It was learned that there have been offers from area service and AAU teams to fill in the dat at prehminaries to Toreros' varsity games. IJSD fre. hman coach John Cunnmgham will now assist varsity coach Bernie BickcIStaff and cont nue a head base- ball coach.

Mike Salerno of UC San- ta Barbara said studenl3 are willing to meet for c!a.ses "in tents, barracks, domes or temporary build- ings" if that is what It takeR to provide the mon• ey needed to keep finan- cially troubled students in school. The revenue comes from the education fee, a form of tuition, that Is assessed against all students. Regents who ~upported the compromise said they thought the university should explore cheaper ways of providing class- room and I a ho r a tor y space, and that i;tudent J1- nancial aid in any event had to get top priorif y. In another action, rc- gen!s b lked at ask! ng tile Legislature to verrida Gov. Rea a 's to last week of a 71/2% r.ay i-ai e for profe , ors, but did agree to aslc. the l.5overnor and lawmakers for a 5,:, raise.

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kelcy zoo og1sts for the r Pac 'ic ma- r ·1c talion It ooca!"e Ihe Scr1pp ln- st1tut1on of Oceanogr, phy, which 1s pre- eminent in its fields of study. ln the fall or 1964 l'C'SD op ncd to undergraduate· The plan then was to have about 27.500 tuden ahoul as many a at UC B •rkeley or L;C Los Angele by 1990. They were to work and hvc 1n 12 sem•-autonomou co lege . each v.1th •ts own acaderT!'C her• The f t two col ge lfrve1:e and lu r, are science and arts or cnt d p - 11vel} Th, ye·1r the Board of Hegen re- duced even ual enrollment to a p :itcau" ol ~.000 to lO 000 t nts n three or four college,~ fl be re ehed bv about 1960 T1g~t budg • ar d 01,er

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real ability a chance lo enter UC. Later in ,January, the l'C statewide Board or Admis- sions failed to approve lhe proposal - it didn't vote for- mally - and sent it back for clarification on several points. On Feb. 20, 1970, the Board of Regents approved the aca- demic plan. They pointed out they 1'.Cre not implying any approval of the controversial admissions variance. re- cruiting tor Third College got further into swing. On June 18, 1970, the regents named Or. Wat.son as provost. The following month the Third College received a $149,000 Ford Foundation grant for developing curricula, a small series of starter grants for re- search, paymg salaries of students involved m planmng and admimstration and for setting up reading, writing, organization of information clinics. A few davs before the col- lege openect" 1t got a burst of publicity around the U.S. through an Associated Press story in which state Assem· blyman John Stull, R-Leucadi., assailed it as "an experim nt in racism." National columnists Rowland Evans and Hobert Novak also attacked it as a program that would lower academic slan- dards and •·beckon radical students nationwide lo what had been until recently a quiet campus." Third College opened Mon- day, Sept 28 1970, with near- ly 170 st Ill and 19 faculty. It was a a:, of eth,'ic music and food festivities on what used to be a rifle-range. A few da:,s later Or. Jef- frey Hart, A Dartmouth Eng• lish professor and former speechwriler for Gov. Reagan a n d President Nix- on, attacked Third College in a "National R · w" article "Gulp: There Goes UCal La Jolla." The article recalled a fatal shark attack off La Jol- la, and cast Third College as a shark. On Oct. 15 Acting Chancel- lor Or. Herbert F. York as- sured the regents during a meeting in San Francisco that Third College's success is assured "by the academic excellence of its program." Faculty and student

Senate es cnlially approved the BSC-MA YA concept or education relevant to minor- ity students and the study of prestnt social problems "in principle " The climax ~amc lhe next day, when it met again, only to tumble into a complicated pr0<·edural d1scu sion. About 36 studrnts were present. Al one point a jack-bootrd, leather-Jac·keted black stom- ped m, abused the cnate ver- bally, stared at some mem- bers and walked out. The tu- dents, disgruntled with the parliamentary bog-do" n, left. While they were gone, an associate profes, or in bwlo- gy, Dr. Silvio Varon, pro- oo~ed a resolution recom• mending a 16-mrmb<'r com- mittee to plan Third College. Jt would con isl of eight stu- dents and eight faculty. Its effect would be lo implement the previous day's re olution. lt \\ould also disengage the senate from any previous commitments and allow an uninhibited approach. The Senate voted 94-5 for it, with seven abstentions. But while the Senate voted, 52 tuden s were sitting-in in the regi~trar's office; they had smashed a plate-glass window at 5:45 p.m. to seiie it. Al- though the senate knew of the sit-in 1'.hen it voted, members present wirtel,· disclaim that the sit-in as such in!luenced their vote. The vote over. senior aca- demics and adm1mslrators rushed to the rfg1strar's off- ice to ask, in pffect: "What did you have to do that for?" Arter a 29-23 vote, the mili- tants withdrew, 1 hour 20 minutes after breaking-In. No police were called and some weeks later the university said it had received anonv- mously $80 to pay for the bro- ken glass. The sit-in was the first at UCSD. JI and the senate deci- sion drew broadsides !rpm State Sen. Clair W. Burgener, R-San Diego, who criticized ''campus anarchy and black- mail" and "total lack of guts of university admini trators . .." and The San Diego Union which carried an editorial about "80 minutes of an- archy" and "concessions to bullies," while a La Jolla Light and Journal writer sug- gested similarities to total• itarian Nazi Germany's Hit- ler Youth tactics. On campus, two small con- servative student groups, UCSD Students of Objecliv- ism and UCSD Young Ameri- cans for Freedom, attacked what they saw as a surrender to raw threats at the expense of academic freedom. The sit- in, they said, capped a series of intimidating inci®nts.

the most diverse art form " The area should encompass all the pcr!ormmg as \I ell as the fine arts, including film- making. -Foreign Languages. Spanish and French were mo t important, and " ... We would, of course, urge strong empha is on African, Indian and Asian languages." -Cultural Hentage. "This area will emphasize the nrh cultural heritage of all people of color ..." -White Studies. "Courses in this field will emphasize the negative as well as po i· live clements or the histor) of Western civilization,'' the de- mands said. The BSC and MAYA ac- knowledged or claimed sup- port in preparing the de- mands from individuals in the black community of San Diego, the Urban League, the Citizens' Interracial Com- mittee, NAACP, COPE, CORE, San Diego State BSC, local Black Panthers and US, another black organization. Some UCSD faculty and stu- dents say Miss Davis, now 27, masterminded Third College and is in fact responsible for it. "There is no shame on our part that she was involved," says Provost Walson. lie says the Lumumba-Zapata de- mands wouldn't have been made if the earlier minority faculty and student efforts had not failed. Former Third College as- s:stanl dean Antonio Rey savs that lo say Angela Davis is responsible for Third College is "an insult to the hundreds of people who worked ... to bring this place into being .. . for over two vears." Chancellor \1 c G i 11 made counter-proposals. On April 3 he called for detailed dis- cuss10ns I'. ith minority group representatives. lie conceded UCSD had '·been slow in com- ing to grips with its educa- tional responsibilities to mi- nority communities." He said he would treat the demands as "serious proposals." Negotiations continued In private through April. In mid- April about 80 students pick- eted in front of McGill's of!- ice. Their placards demanded the university administration ''stop stalling." UCSD at this point had 33 black and 44 Mexican-Americans among 3,600 students. On April 29, the Academic Senate, after much sweating, commended BSC and ~1AYA for having "responded imagi• natively" to Rappaport's request for proposals. It said it recognized that UCSD's

"I voted for Varon's pro- posal, thus in a sense remov• ing myselr from the Job. I don't feel badly done hy at all. although I do feel we I his provisional faculty com• mittee) could have come up with a major contribution in ethnic and minority studies, useful courses and faculty ap- pointment ." Dr. William !?razer, an ele- mentary particle physicist who had joined Revelle Col- lege nine yt'ars before, was the pl, nmng comnuttee chairman; in August Chan- cellor McGill named him act- ing provost. Tensions evaporated as the committee got stuck into planning and meeting on campus and in faculty mem- bers' homes. The university paid the student members t/,.77 to $2.91 an hour. The professors' lime was free. In l\'ovemher 1969, a Board or Regents delegation visited UCSD for a briefing on the Third College Academic Plan. Chairman DeWitt Higgs, of San Diego, said they were "favorably impressed." In the spring student-body elections. all candidates supported Third College's minority - oriented theme. UCSD clipped past the next milestone on the road to Third College on Dec. 8. 1969, when the Academic Senate backed the Academic Plan 114-14, v.ith four abstentions. The plan's preamble on the college's "Educational Phi- losophy and Goals" is a de- clawed fleshing-out of the orig- inal BSC-MAYA demands pre- amble. More moderately worded, ambitious, highly idealistic - perhaps in places to the point or pie-in-the-sky - serious, it is about five times longer. The plan dedicates Third College to educating "large numbers of minority ym1th who possess the will and the potential· to become lcadmg citizens within their own com- munities, to alleviate contem- porary social and economic problems and, in so doing, to provide public benefit to our society al large." A month later, the Academ- ic Senate approved, without opposition, an Academic Plan appendix to vary normal UC entrance criteria. Under the variance, Third College stu- dents would be selected by a formula which included weighted factors such as "persistence," "motivation," and "potential" as well as the usual high - school grades. Rustling up of a forum de- layed the start of the meet- ing.

nd1ng feature would be an h1 to!iral approach to m~ bJCl'ts. Hol'.cver, m Apnl 1968 11 adopk'd m principle" a propo al by a biology pro- fes r, Dr. Dan L. Lindsley, ,\hicli would ha\e committed the college to allev sting in- equalities m educational op• portumty and oriented the curriculum stronglv towards ethnic studies, current social problems and improving ghetto conditions through • community mvolvement" Lmds ey also urged that the co ge be named after the recenlly a sassin ted Dr. lartm Luther Kmg. Some see this adoption "in principle" as in fact, a pi- geonholing. "My recollectwn of that time was that we sort of held 1t in abc:, ance while we sougnt more ideas," sa), Rappa ort. I9ti8 Rappaport was asking minority studenl s how the curriculum could in- corporate some of the r need . and cnl ting them t~ plannmr, comm1ttces for ar- cl'itecture, accommodation, gov rnment and other facets of college t:'e as well. he sug- gested "Operatwn Opportuni• ty" program 0r students from ' d:sadrnntaged and c•Jl- turally deprived environ- ments." He envisaged 50 such students entering in the fall of 1970, and proposed a $357 000 budget to cover 5iiu students o\er three yean;. Over the next few month~, howe,·er. contact bf> 1 ween the Thtrd College NJmmittee and the students wa. not particu- larly fruitful. And then in March 1969 everal npus. By July In Augi st 1968 Self-described "black wom- an Communist" Angela Da- VIS, then studying for a doctor- ate under Dr. Herbert Mar- cuse, read "non-negotiable de- mands·• of the Black Student Council and the Mexican- American Youth Assn. to Chancellor McGill, Rappaport and others. '·I was astounded. I was ~hocked. This was realiy some hing or a drastic drastic nature. I think I used the word 'betrayal,' " recalls Rap- paport. ' It was hke gomg to buy a loaf of bread and they succeeded in selling ) ou the whole store. ";\!cGill b,tened very cooly and said that he thought he ought to handle it. I told him that l would take it if he want· ed. I had less to lose than he. I knew that I had failed in a sense.'' The £ens:itional all-or-nolh- ing t ~er was a stem. while America m a pseudo- hun:anitarian stance, proudly prclaims that t · the ke, to equal opportumt, £or all.

DR. SILVIO VARO~ Action produced an academic plan

ful the world. Reading matter will include such authors as Le- nin, rikrumah, ~larx, Mal- colm, Fanon, Padmore, Che Guevara, and Mariano Azuela." - Analysis of Economic Systems, to "entail in-depth analysis of the historical and contemporary development or capitalism in the Western World, including the crucial roles played by !"olonialism. imperialism, sla1·ery and genocide . . . Statistical re- search is needed to determine the cconom·c cond1t1on or the minority community and also researcli application to guar- antee ound community econ- omy. u - cience and Technology, in I'. hich emphasis would be placed on the basic sciences as preparation for rcsearth in areas related lo the satis- faction of human needs. "This obviousiy excludes the theoretical inanities taught at Revelle College as well a~ he militarv research conducted at Scripps (Institution)." -Health Sciences aict. Pub· lie Health. "Minority people in the United States have a far shorter life-span than whiles and suffer diseases pe- culiar to oppressed people." Research into diseases of tropical areas had "been ex- tremely inadequate." -Urban and Rural Devel- opment. ''Minority people have suffered much more than whites in the American transition from a producing agrarian to a consuming in- dustrial society." The en masse migration of minority people lo the city "provides an important key to under- standing the acute con- traditions today between ur• ban and rural life." Black people would represent more than 51% of the populations of 50 American cities soon. Some 5 m i 11 i o n ;11exican- Americans would be living in the Southwest, the demands said. "These people live in the so-called inner city, the area of greatest exploitation and therefore of greatest ex- plosive potential. The prob- lems of the inner city are so deep that only revolutionary cli e will create a just solu- t on. -Commumca 10 Arts. iar.k p p e ha ·e I risbed revolutions around '

'1xon acl.rl'inlstration. divides the minority people into ex- ploiters and exploited, the ex- plo1Ung class being the col- lege-trained bourgeoisie." " . . The puny reforms made so far are aimed at pac- ifying the revolts and sap- ping our strength. We there- fore not only emphatically de- mand that radical changes be made, we pro po ·e to execute these changes ourselves." that: - "Lumumba Zapata Col- lege" be devoted "to relevant educalion for mlnorlty youth and to the studv or the con- temporary socia·l problems of all people." -The college's archilecture be of Mexican and African style. The architects, general contractors, subcontractors and all supervisory personnel must all be from tlie minority commun'! •. -"The ' go,crning body of Lurnunba-Zapala College shall be a board of directors and shall con ·1st of two stu- dents. one faculty member and the provost." They would make final rulings on all gen- eral college policy. They would dispense and fill all teaching positions and ap- prove all administrative ones. ''Lumumba-Zapata College must have an enrollment of 35% blacks and 35% Mexican- Americans" in order to "com- pensate for pa~t and presen injustices and to serve those most affected by white rac- ism and economic ex- ploitation." ''Students must be selected on tbP. basis of heir potential by an admi sions committee controlled by minority stu- dents" •·Tue Universitv of Califor- nia admission requirements must not be used as an instru- ment for excluding minority students from or limiting therr numbers in Lumumba-Zapata College," the demands con- tinued. "All minority students a!- tending Lumumba-Zapala College must be fully sup- ported with funds supplied by the univrrsity to the extent that thev will not have to work or iake out loans." The demands gave a "gen- eral outline" of areas to be studlcd in the college. They were: - Revolutions. Black and brown people "must thor- oughly comprehend the theo- ry and practice of the suc- cessful as well as unsuccess- BSC-MAYA demanded

Third College was allocated 17 of the 24 new full-time teaching positions for UCSD this academic year. On June 2, a subcommittee of the Regents' Committee on Educational Policy visited Third College [or a hectic 5½- hour working day in which they heard reports from 28 faculty and !our students. On June n two of Third Col- lege's first four graduates re- ceived their degrees at com- mencement. Third College fin- ished its first caq_emic year. The end-of-year ass-rate was 81%, compared with Muir College's 93° 0 and Rev- elle College's 90%. On .July 17 ' e Na- tional cience Foundation. as UCSD' , t ancellor McElror pra1Sed Third Col- lege's CUrfl('l IJlll. Tomorrow: Courses at Third College. appointed Dr. McElrov, director of · m D.

The variance would have been experimental. The at- tempt was the · most am- bitious so far to vary UC's 10- year-old entrance require- ments under which UC se- lects most or its freshmen from the top 12%% of Cali- fornia's high-school gradu- ates. The proposers believed that UC's strict requirements dis- criminated against dis- advantaged students. Their 4,250-word paper cited po1er- t oyercrit schools, inexpenem.:ed teac:hei s, counseling of mi- non•v h ,h chool students into nC11rncademil' cou,· es as some Cl the obstacles which unintertionally but svstrm- atically denied studenls of

master plan had "not pro- vided sufficientlv for the edu- cation of minority students." It also said it "recognizes the necessity of more fundamen- tal changes than the mere ad- dition of ethnic-studies pro- grams to a traditional curric- ulum." Instead, it said, an educational program f o r them should grow out of "their environment, ex- periences and needs." bout 75 student·, three of m spoke. attended the senate meeting. The senate declined to directly support the name Lumumba-Zapala College, out it was arparent it now s mpalh1zed stroni1Iy with the substante of the de- mands. On May 6 the Academic

The) deplored "the absence of anv consistent moral stand on the part of administrators or faculty members." Their policy had been ''to have no policy" and this "is the su- rest way of encouraging mili- tant students to use increas- ingly violent methods of in- timidation and coercion on campus...." The planning c<'lnmittee set to work. Rappa rt wfm had earlier indica d fa, ld like to tep dJWn as prol'ost - (he fell a inonty person should hold s, po I) - re- signed.-He • sa oday that "the lime had ~ro1,.1bly come to do somethin even radical

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stroy,'' the preamble said. According lo it, the "sell in- dictment or the American educational svstem lie not so much in the·quantitative ex- clusion or people of color as in the quality or what is tau ht to the white as well· as to the black" and brow student." High schools and colleges were "mind-raping" students with "irrelevant inanities" and "consciously suhjectmg them to a cold-blooded and calculated indocr nation, into a dehumanized and unfree society,'' the preamble said. It attacked the "mis- education" of minority stu- dents, which •·has caused us to unconsciously ever our- selves from our communal and cultural roots, if not to be seduced mto the system which exploits our own com- munity. "Black capitalism, espe- cially as formulated by the

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