Keep Talking
Opportunities for Discussion ore Necessary
A new concept in informal University
discussion will be attempted this weekend
when the Oregon Assembly holds its first
meeting. The assembly, composed of stu
dents, faculty members and administrators,
will meet to discuss student responsibility
and the University’s role in giving students
the opportunity to exercise mature and re
sponsible ideas. Coming on the heels of the
Berkeley demonstrations, this discussion
has perhaps taken on added meaning.
The assembly is new this year. It has ap
parently replaced the academic retreats,
held several times a term for the past two
years. While the assembly provides some
of the same opportunities for discussion and
reflection that was provided by the retreats,
we are sorry to see the latter program ap
parently abandoned.
The retreats were held apart from the
campus and usually extended overnight.
Participating students were given a list of
books or publications to read before the
retreat. The discussion was then on some
general topic for which the books provided
background. Faculty members and admin
istrators participated in each discussion.
Topics for discussion ranged over a broad
area, from specific problems to broad, philo
sophic questions. The retreats were small,
with only a limited number of students al
lowed to sign up for any given weekend.
Admittedly, the Oregon Assembly does
serve very much the same purpose as the
retreats did. However, because of the size
of the group participating in the first as
sembly (and hopefully in succeeding eve
ning sessions) assembly programs must be
carefully scheduled at times when the
greatest number of interested individuals
can attend. One advantage of the retreats
was that because of their limited size they
could be held frequently, involving varied
groups of students and faculty members.
Since both programs have merit, there is
no reason to assume that one must replace
the other. Both could be held at different
times throughout the year, involving an in
creasing number of students and faculty
members in the type of discussion which
gives meaning to a university. The academic
retreats have not been held so far this year.
We hope this does not mean that a good
program which has proved itself in the
past has been abandoned.
Choronology of Events
On Berkeley Campus
Some of the complexities of
the Berkeley situation may be
clarified by presenting the
events in a brief chronology.
The following is developed from
a record of events prepared by
two faculty members at the Uni
versity of California and anoth
er by the Public Information
office.
June—During the Republican
National Convention, the San
Francisco Chronicle reported
that charges had been made that
Scranton supporters were ille
gally recruiting student volun
teers on campus.
Sept. -I — Picketing of t h e
Oakland Tribune by a group
which recruited support on the
Berkeley Campus.
Sept. 14—Dean of Students
Katherine Towle issued state
ment banning posters, easels, and
tables at the Bancroft-Telegraph
gate to the campus and remind
ed students of “rules prohibit
ing the collection of funds and
use of University facilities for
planning and implementing o(T
campus political and social ac
tion."
Sept. 17-18—United Front is
formed among 20 student organ
izations. The group asks Dean
Towle to reconsider decision.
Sept. 21—Bancroft Telegraph
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The Faculty Role at UC
By CATHY NEVILLE
Emerald Editor
One encouraging sidelight of
the semester-long disturbances
at the University of California
has been a resurgance of faculty
interest in student life and
teaching at that University.
“For the first time, the fac
ulty genuinely understood some
of the undergraduate frustra
tion at the situation,” one Uni
versity staff member observed.
The frustration he refered to
is the size of the University, in
many cases the lack of personal
contact with faculty members,
and the unfortunate situation in
which many professors find
themselves devoting a great deal
of time to preparing research
papers for publication rather
than teaching.
As a result of the Free Speech
Movement, faculty members
found themselves asking to be
given some responsibility for
student discipline, a function
which the faculty had gladly
given up several decades ago.
Legislature Ruled
When UC was founded by the
State Legislature, disciplinary
powers were vested in the fac
ulty. In 1921, at the request of
the faculty, the situation was
revised and power over disci
pline was given to administra
tors with the Board of Regents
retaining final authority in all
disciplinary matters.
In the now famous Dec. 8
motion passed by the Academic
Senate, the faculty asked by a
vote of 824 to 115:
“That future disciplinary mea
sures in the area of political ac
tivity shall be determined by a
committee appointed by and re
sponsible to the Berkeley Divi
sion of the Academic Senate.”
Although the Board of Re
gents subsequently declared that
they will not delegate disciplin
ary authority to the faculty, giv
in the faculty only advisory
power over student discipline,
the fact remains that in reasses
sing its role the faculty was
willing to accept a greater re
sponsibility for the student com
munity.
Loss of Contact
But the question of faculty
involvement in student disci
pline is not the major one at
Berkeley. As the dispute devel
oped throughout the fall months,
some faculty members were gen
uinely surprised to see the in
tensity of student desires. To
many, it brought home the real
ization that contact with under
graduate students had been
only limited and that the desires
and nature of the undergraduate
student body were unknown to
many faculty members. Faculty
dedication to teaching had un
fortunately been weakened by
the pressure to do scholarly re
search.
“At the last faculty meeting
there was a marvelous feeling
of resolve and of a new commit
ment to action and to teaching.”
one faculty member observed.
Faculty participation in the
dispute came slowly. Some
teaching assistants had been in
volved early in the dispute but
all action had been on a per
sonal basis. The first formal fac
ulty participation came when
the tri-part committee was
formed Oct. 2 to discuss stu
dent demands.
Faculty Role
From this point on, the fac
ulty role became increasingly
important in the discussions.
Feelings ran high within the
faculty, as they did within every
other segment of the University
during the days of agitation,
but the faculty continued to act
as a mediator in the action
One major point of friction
came when the Heyman commit
tee, appointed by the Senate to
advise President Clark Kerr on
disciplining the eight students,
indefinitely suspended in the
first days of the dispute. The
committee recommended that
the students be reinstated pend
ing a hearing and further study
of the situation. The request was
denied by Chancellor Edward
Strong.
At the time the request was
denied, the tri-part committee
was still meeting to discuss the
student demands. Negotiations
in this committee had broken
down when student leaders, im
patient with an appartmt im
passe concerning the right of
students to advocate action
which might result in illegal acts
(civil disobedience). Adminis
trative representatives on the
committee contended that the
University should reserve the
right to discipline students for
illegal acts advocated on the
campus.
The student position, in op
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position to this, was that only
courts could determine whether
advocated actions were legal or
illegal and that any punish
ments for advocating action
should rest with the law instead
of the University.
Students, impatient with the
impasse reached within the com
mittee, set up tables again
Chancellor Strong then dissolved
the tri-part committee, stating
that students had violated the
provisions of the Oct 2 agree
ment by beginning new demon
strations.
Regents Meet
At this point the Board of
Regents met again, accepting
recommendations for suspend
ing the eight students and modi
fying their policy to allow "law
ful ofTcampus action” to take
place on University property.
Since the faculty could not
get the Regents to accept their
informal policy of not limiting
the content of speech on campus
through the administration, it
would become an official faculty
position.
On December 8 the Academic
Senate recommended 1) no dis
ciplinary measures against mem
bers organizations for activities
prior to Dec. 8; 2) that time,
place and manner be the only
regulations and that these reg
ulations be made only to pre
vent interference with the nor
mal functions of the University;
3) that the content of speech not
be restricted; 4) that a faculty
committee be made responsible
for future disciplinary measures
in the area of political activity;
and that peace be restored.
With some modification, the
faculty’s position has been the
final course followed by discus
sions.
Students Wanut Role
One generalization drawn
about the situation by a stafT
member is “students are de
manding a role in the educa
tional community, not the solu
tion to a specific problem.
“We now have a different
breed of student than we have
in the past. Intellectually they
are more mature; emotionally—
probably not.
“There was a time when stu
dent pranks or disorders were
tolerated to a great degree. As
students have become more so
phisticated, the community has
become more intolerant. Before,
there was always the suspicion
that nothing really had would
happen.”
Racoon coats were funny,
beards aren’t.
informational literature but pro
hibition of advocacy or organi
ziition of political and social ac
tion remains. Students hold first
rally on steps of administration
building, Sprout Hall.
Sept. 28—Chancellor of t h e
Berkeley campus Kdward Strong
allows distribution of campaign
literature and similar material
at designated locations. Stu
dents picket the meeting at
which Strong announces this
policy change and set up ta
bles advocating political and so
cial action in an effort to make
a test case concerning the Uni
versity’s rule prohibiting advo
cacy.
Sept. 30—Five students cited
by dean for illegally manning
tables. 400 students sign state
ment declaring joint guilt. Fight
students indefinitely suspended,
students stage sit in until 3 am.
in Sproul hall.
Oct. 1—Tables set up in front
of Sproul hall. Jack Wineberg,
a former student, arrested. Stu
dents surround police car, re
main for 36 hours.
Oct. 2—Police assemble on
campus, car still surrounded.
Administrators, faculty mem
bers and students agree to a six
point truce. Demonstrations end.
Oct. 3, 4—Free Speech Move
ment organized under that
name.
Oct. 13 — Academic Senate
(faculty) passes motion favoring
"maximum freedom for student
political activity.”
Oct. 15—President Clark Kerr
asks Academic Senate to estab
lish ad hoc committee to ad
vise on disciplining the eight
suspended students. (Heyman
Committee)
Oct. 21—Heyman Committee
requests Chancellor temporar
ily reinstate suspended students
pending hearing and report. Be
quest denied
Nov. 5—Picketing resumes
Nov. U—FSM rally on Sproul
steps. Tables set up again Uni
versity officials take names of
some students, 800 sign joint
guilt statements.
Nov. 10—Chancellor Strong
dissolves administrative faculty
student committee because FSM
has resumed demonstrations.
Nov. 20—Regents accept rec
ommendation for suspension of
eight students and placing Savio
and Art Goldberg on probation.
Regents also agree to modify
policy on political activity, stat
ing that lawful off-campus in
volvement may be organized in
designated areas on campus.
Students advocating unlawful
action will be subject to Univer
sity discipline.
Nov. 22—FSM sit-in for three
hours in Sproul over issue of
University discipline for off cam
pus activity.
Nov. 25-30—Disciplinary ac
tion proposed against students
who have participated in demon
strations. Teaching assistants
threate n strike.
Dec. 1—FSM demands Univer
sity drop charges, asserting only
courts have the right to regulate
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