f Exclusion of men called patently illegal
By BRENDA TABOR
Of the Emerald
A decision by members Monday night to ex
clude males from the Women’s Resource and
Referral Center was termed “patently illegal” by
Gerald Bogen, vice-president of Student Services.
The decision that “men shouldn’t be involved in
the organization and meetings, but can participate
in specific issues,” was made by members at their
regular meeting Monday.
“It is patently illegal for any public group to
close its meetings, according to state and federal
law and regulations, based on preliminary legal
investigation,” Bogen said.
Members of the Women’s Resource and
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Referral Center held a policy meeting Thursday to
consider possible legal implications of their
statement. An Emerald reporter was not allowed to
attend the meeting.
There are no IFC or ASUO guidelines against
such discrimination, but Bogen said that “the law of
the land takes precedent over such institutional
guidelines.”
Members of the group diluted their statment to
a preference in their Thursday meeting. "We prefer
that men not attend meetings and hope to establish
guidelines to explain why we have this preference,”
said Beth Kendrick, group member. She said the
group is looking into legal implications of different
policies.
“The Women’s Resource and Referral Center
will release a policy statement next week, ” ac
cording to Dena Rakower, contact person for the
center.
The ASUO was unaware erf the youp’s
decision. Dan Garner, administrative assistant for
programs, was assigned to the Women’s Resource
and Referral Center earlier this term. Gamer said he
explained to Rakower that meetings couldn’t be
closed to men when he met with her earlier this
month.
In the past, budgets of programs with
discriminatory policies have been frozen by the
ASUO comptroller.
The center is in the process orf being organized
this term to serve as a resource center. Group
members are researching areas for information that
will be used to refer anyone with a problem or need
to an appropriate agency in the community.
Exiled activist returns to U.S
Cleaver said optimistic about chance for fair trial
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The sister of Eldridge Cleaver
says the black activist is optimistic about his chances
for a fair trial on the attempted murder charges he fled
seven yevs ago, but she fears for his life if he is returned
to California state prisons.
A heavier, graying and dean-shaven Cleaver
returned Wednesday to California after seven years of
self-imposed exile.
Accompanied by two federal marshals from New
York, he was escorted off the commeraal jet flight and
driven by a half-dozen other waiting agents to the
Metropolitan Correctional Center, a federal facility in
downtown San Diego.
Reporters were kept inside the terminal as Cleaver
was rushed off the airport apron at Lindbergh Field. So
were his sister Wilhelmina and a sister-in-law, Margarita
Olivas.
But the two women were later granted a 40-minute
visit with him in the modern, high-rise federal prison.
“I got to hug and kiss him,” said Mrs. Cleaver, 48.
“He looked good. He looked really good. He’s got a few
gray hairs and he’s put on a little weight. But he just
looked beautiful to me.”
Cleaver’s sister, a vocational counselor at California
State University in Los Angeles, said he “sounded very
optimistic about the trial, but I tried to stay away from
that subject.”
Asked if she thought he would have to go to jail, she
said: “Yes, I believe he will.”
If so, she said he may face death threats from prison
guards, ex-Panthers or militant black prisoners such as
the Black Guerrilla Family, which has been linked to
several prison stabbings in recent years.
She said Cleaver could become “another George
Jackson,” referring to the black revolutionary slain four
years ago during a reported escape attempt at San
Quentin prison.
Cleaver, now 39, faces three counts of attempted
murder and three charges of assault with a deadly
weapon in connection with a gun battle between
members of the Black Panther Party and Oakland police.
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