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THE GRAPEVINE
THE FAMILY MAGAZINE
Mayor Ted Wills
Nathan Heard
Dr. Karl Falk
Nancy Turner
Rev. Reuben Scott
Roscoe Pondexter
Marven X
George Purdom
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March-April, 1970
Table of Contents
Letter From Editor ------------------------------ 5
Alpha Phi Alpha Queen --------------------------- 6
Lu Davis and Jarvis Tatum ----------------------- 7
Blacks in the Field of Journalism --------------- 8
Black Studies in Elementary Schools ------------ 10
Author Marvin X -------------------------------- 11
How Color Began -------------------------------- 13
Golden Wedding Anniversary --------------------- 14
School Board Faces Further Dilemma ------------- 15
Los Angeles Councilman Tom Bradley ------------- 16
Local High School Basketball Stars ------------- 18
Recipe of the Month ---------------------------- 20
So You Think You Are Smart --------------------- 21
Mayor Ted Wills and Dr. Karl Falk -------------- 22
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Grapevine seeks to present
to the reader the positive side of
the Black community. To accomplish
this a variety of articles are
periodically included.
Contributions are presented on
the authority of their authors and
do not necessarily reflect the
views or bear the endorsement of
the Grapevine. For this reason,
the contributing personnel is restricted
to people who have training
and experience in their respective
areas of concentration
and interests.
This month's issue features several
articles that may be of special
interest to our readers. For instance,
the readers with a biblical
background the article submitted
by Deacon Jack L. Smith, titled
"How Color Began," should be of
interest. The latest works by Author
Marvin X, titled, "The Parable
of The Sleeping Lion," will
surely radicate some comparisons
for the alert readers. The article
titled, "School Board Faces Further
Dillema," adds a new dimension
to the local de facto segregation
problem. The main feature
this month concerns two controversial
men, Fresno's Mayor Ted
Wills and Fresno State College
President Dr. Karl Falk.
The Grapevine staff thanks our
advertiser and subscribers for
your continued support.
Editor
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1970 ALPHA PHI ALPHA QUEEN
Miss Nancy Turner
Miss Nancy Turner, formally of
Madera, Calif., has been named
Alpha Phi Alpha 1970 Queen.
Miss Turner was selected from a
field of five at a recent formal contestants'
ball. Selection was based
on personality, grooming, charm,
and poise.
Miss Turner is attending Fresno
State College, majoring in social
welfare. She is also working as a
Program Aide at Trinity Street Opportunity
Center in West Fresno.
She lists her hobbies as cooking
and going to good movies.
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FSC'S DAVIS MAKES LOOP STAR QUINTET
Lu Davis of Fresno State College
is the only senior named to the first
team all Pacific Coast Athletic Association
basketball team as chosen
by the league's coaches.
Junior center George Trapp of
the champion and NCAA tournament
bound Long Beach State Forty
Niners was voted the most valuable
player in the fledging circuit.
Long Beach, which was 10-0 in
league play and 23-3 for the season,
also placed sophomore forward
Billy Jankens on the first
team.
Rounding out the top five are
junior center Doug Rex of University
of California, Santa Barbara
and sopohomores Mose Adolph of
Los Angeles State and John Tschogl
of UCSB.
Fresno State and LA State each placed two players on the six-man
second team. Seniors Rob Stephens and Bob Vasilovich are the Fresnans
while Ron Knight and Morris Thomas are the Diablos.
Also on the second team are Shawn Johnson of Long Beach and Coby
Dietrick of San Jose State.
Davis, 6-foot-4 1/2 Berkeley product, broke the career FSC scoring record
held by Maurice Talbot. Davis registered 597 points this year for
a 22.9 points a game average which pushed his three-year varsity total
to 1,511 points.
Davis also averaged eight rebounds a game.
TATUM SIGNS WITH ANGELS
Jarvis Tatum of Fresno recently
signed his 1970 contract with the
California Angels baseball team.
Tatum, an outfielder, played 10
games with the Angels last season
and hit .318.
Tatum is a graduate of Edison
High School. Many local fans believe
that this year will be his big
years with the Angels.
Jarvis Tatum
7
BLACKS IN THE FIELD OF JOURNALISM
Michael Craig
As pointed out in an article
last month on Black people in
the field of journalism, news
writing is not the only function
performed in the profession.
There are many jobs related to
the journalistic world and opportunities
exist for Black people
in those jobs.
There is, however, a requirement
journalism is an exacting
field and those entering it
must prepare themselves in
school and while working in the
career itself.
Michael Francois Craig is a
Black Fresnan who prepared
himself for a journalistic career
and while learning the trade is
working for the Fresno Bee as
an editorial assistant.
The job gives him an opportunity
to observe and learn the
various operations of a newspaper
and methods of writing
news stories. The job is also a
springboard to any department
of the newspaper.
Others who worked at the job are now news reporters, photographers,
work in the business office and advertising department.
Craig, a native of Los Angeles, came to Fresno nine months ago. Before
joining the staff of editorial assistant at the Bee he worked as a
freelance writer and did advertising copy for local radio and television
stations.
He is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles and
currently is attending classes at Fresno City College. He studied at Los
Angeles City College prior to coming to Fresno.
While attending Los Angeles City College, Craig edited the campus
paper an wrote movie reviews for SCENE magazine. He also wrote
sports news for the Los Angeles Sentinel.
In addition to his job as an editorial assistant he covers events for the
ee s sports department. Craig has had his byline appear on several
news stories in the Bee.
Craig was assistant sports editor for United Pictorial Review in Los
He also was a sports' commentator for KDAY Radio in that city.
8
Irman Perkins
Inman L. Perkins has been employed
in the Bee's dispatch department
for three months. His
job at present is delivering
proofs and tear sheets to advertisers.
Perkins, a native of Salt Lake
City, Utah, is a graduate of Edison
High School. He also graduated
from Fresno City College
and attended Fresno State College.
His major was radio and
television broadcasting. Perkins
worked for slightly more than a
year as floor manager for KJEO
TV.
He is a member of the Evangelical
Community Church choir
and is married to the former
Donna Lung of Fresno. They
have a child, Scott.
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West Fresno Elementary Schools Have
One Of State's First Black Studies Programs
Marvin Howard
Franklin, Teilman, Columbia and
Lincoln Elementary Schools have a
black studies program. This program
which is sponsored by compensatory
education monies began
at the beginning of the school year.
Marvin Howard, Black Studies Coordinator
for the program stated
that the program is designed to
supplement the regular history textbooks.
What it does is to insert the
Black man into his proper place in
history as it is being taught in the
class room.
Presently Mr. Howard and Mr.
Preston Merrill, a lecturer, are teaching
the 6th grade classes at Franklin
and Teilman Schools. After six
weeks they will teach the other
Marvin Howard schools in the program. Howard
states, "I can truly see the need for
Black History in the elementary schools. These students at a young age
should be aware and enlightened by the numerous contributions made
by their ancestors. This is one of the most important factors in education
for blacks that has been overlooked.
Many parents, as well as black educators, question the use of money
distributed by compensatory education. And I can sincerely say in what
better way should funds be used than introducing and educating our
youngsters about themselves."
Howard attended Edison High School, Fresno City College, and is
presently enrolled in evening classes at Fresno State College.
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EXCLUSIVE
Written especially for the Grapevine Magazine
The Parable
of The
Sleeping Lion
By Marvin X
Once there was a lion who lived on a cage in a wilderness. He did
not like living in a cage, but he was put in the cage by his master. He
was strong and he used to run free, but now he was in a cage. The
master fed the lion food to make him sleep. Soon the lion began to like)
sleeping. He would sleep all day. Visitors came to the cage and wondered
why this lion was sleeping all day. The master had trained the lion
so that he never growled anymore—he just slept all the time. He even
had a sleepy look on his face when he was awoke. Some people called
him sleeply. "Sleeply, wake up," someone said. "Don't bother me,' he
said, "can't you see I'm sleeping."
One day Sleeply's friend, another lion, escaped from the cage next to
Sleeply's. Sleeply could have escaped too, but he was sleeping. And
when he woke up and found the other lion gone, he was very angry.
"I'll never sleep again," he said, "I'll never sleep again."
Now when it came time to eat the master got angry because Sleeply
wouldn't eat the food that made him sleep. Sleeply wasn't a fool! The
master couldn't understand his lion. "Eat," the master told Sleeply.
Sleeply growled for the first time in a long time. The master jumped
back he was so shocked. The master got his whip and went into the
cage. "Eat," he said, cracking the whip over Sleep's head. Sleep growled,
turned, ran ti the master and began eating him to death. . . .
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HOW COLOR BEGAN
By DEACON JACK L. SMITH
Original King James version Holy Bible as translated from the
Hebrew language 1611.
I want to clear up some confusion concerning people of different
colors. God created man out of the dust of the earth and there was
no mention of color of earth Genesis 2:7. Seth out of Adam and Eve
was the son of Adam. Noah came through from many generations
Genesis 5:3-32. Most people are familiar with Noah and the Ark.
Genesis 6th chapter, the flood, 7th chapter. Noah left the Ark Genesis
8:16-19. Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. All
their wives made eight people to come out of the Ark. All people
were the same color. Ham's sons, Genesis 10:6; Japheth s, Genesis
10:2; Shem's descendents, Genesis 11:10-26, Abraham, Nahor,
Haran. God called Abraham to leave his people. The Israelites descended
from Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. Genesis 12th ch. God told
Abram to get away from his kindred. Abraham's first son was by
Hagar the Egyptian maid of Sarah. Ishmael Genesis 16:4-11. Isaac
born Genesis 21:3. Abraham had six other sons, but Jacob out of
Isaac was chosen to be the father of the Israelites Genesis 32:28;
35:10. There is still no color change in nations. Moses was chosen
to lead the Israelites out of the tribe of Levi Ex. 2:1. Moses appointed
by God to lead his people, 3rd chapter. God gave Moses the ten
commandments, Ex. 20th-24th ch. God revealed to Moses all the
blessings He would give them if they obey His law, Deut. 28:1-14.
All the curses, Deut. 28:15-68, if they disobeyed His commandments.
There is still no difference in the color of man. In Deut. 28:22
Moses wrote the curse of extreme burning as one of the curses.
Deut. 28:46, curse of sign and wonder "blackness. Jeremiah 8:21;
Job 30:30. Burning instead of beauty, baldness instead of well set
hair, Isaiah 3:24. When the Israelities did wicked things God
brought these curses on the Israelites spoken of in Deut. 28:15-68
Jeremiah the first to be burned black 8:21; Job 30:30. When God
put these curses on Israel it was on all Twelve Tribes, Joel 2:6;
Nahum 2:10; Jeremiah 14:2. At that time Israel was scattered all
over the world, Deut. 28:36-37; Luke 21:24. How black they were
read Lamentations 4:8; 5:7-10. No sun on any heat but the hand of
God could burn man black and bald and he still live. There have
been many whites living in hot climates like the black man and he
is still white. Cursed to be white, II Kings 5:27, for disobedience
and lying to his master Elijah. Don t misunderstand that only God
can do these things, so man will fear Him. No other people but
blacks have gone through all of these curses spoken of in Deut.
28:15-68. I and they are now black descendants of the original
Hebrew Israelites. Your nationality is derived from the country you
were born in or become a naturalized citizen. Black is not ethnic,
they are a people, special, peculiar, Deut. 7:6; 14:2; Jeremiah 13:11;
II Cor. 11:22; Romans 11 ch. Who is a Jew? Romans 2:28, 29; 3:
1-3; Rev. 2:9. There is no respect of people with God for Jesus died
for all, Rom. 3:22. Without the Spirit of God it is hard to understand
the scriptures. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom,
Prov. 1:7, 9:10; Job 28:28. Natural man does not understand things
of the spirit, I Cor. 2:13-16. I'll consume man, beast, fowl and
fishes in the sea, Zepheniah 1:3. There will be a new heaven and
earth, Rev. 21. All will see Jesus at the second coming, St. John
5:28, 29. We are living in the red horse days now, Rev. 6:4. Black
horse next, Rev. 6:5. Amen.
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GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy White
New Year's Day 1970 marked
tehe golden wedding anniversary
of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy White.
The couple's children hosted a
party in the Del Webb Towne-
House honoring their parents,
who have 31 grandchildren and
six great-grandchildren. The
couple was married in Chandler,
pkla., Jan. 1, 1920, and moved
to Fresno in 1938. The couple
had 11 children, and the nine
living are Mrs. Eetta M. Wells,
Mrs. Robert Slade, Mrs. Gene
McCough, O. C. White, Oswald
White, Charles White and David
White, all of Fresno. Mrs. Joe
Burnley of Oakland and Mrs.
Grandy Stephens of Sacramento.
White was in the trucking business
and is a member of the Masonic Lodge.
The couple attends the Mount
Pleasant Baptist Church.
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Another Viewpoint
School Board Faces Further Dilemma
Reprint: California Advocate
The busing of school children from one part of the city to the
other in order to solve racial imbalance is but a small part of solving
the overall racial problems that exist in the Fresno City Unified
School District. There are many other areas of concern that have
been overlooked and perhaps that is more important than the mixing
of children . . . one of which is the failure of the school district
to employ minority personnel in administrative positions within individual
schools. It is hard to believe that even in West Fresno
schools, most of the administrative personnel—principals, counselors,
and even secretaries, typists, switchboard operators, etc., are
approximately 95 percent white. Outside of the West Fresno area
the percentage is even higher.
The school board has received very little pressure from the local
level on this issue, but pressure from Health, Education and Welfare
is expected in the near future. HEW conducted an investigation into
the hiring practices of the school district that began in April 1969
. . . the results of which are expected any day now. There is every
reason to believe that the district will be found guilty of irregularities
in hiring. The physical evidence, or lack of such, is indisputable.
The absence of minority teachers in the Fresno Unified School District
has also been an area of concern for the minority community
for sometime. Presently there are 2,541 teachers and other professional
personnel in the district; of this number 51 (2 percent) are
black; 62 (2.4 percent) are brown; and 35 (1.5 percent) are Oriental.
The Board has been able to avoid a great deal of pressure on this
issue by pointing to the unavailability of qualified minorities in the
area. The Board's hiring policies do not change, however, in the
recruitment of minorities for teacher aid positions. And, of course,
the over-used shallow excuse of qualification is not valid in the
teacher aid spot.
There is an estimated 512 teacher aids in the school district; of
this number less than 5 percent are minorities, and most of these
are confined to the West Fresno and Southeast Fresno communities.
In addition to the 2,541 professional employees, there are 2,699
other employees with the district—176 (6.5 percent) of which are
black; 191 (7 percent) of which are brown. Needless to say, the bulk
of the 367 black and brown employees in the latter category are
employed in the lowest paying jobs—custodian, kitchen help, etc.
It is tragic that along with the formula developed by the Federal
and state government to correct racial imbalance for students there
was no such formula developed to correct the racial imbalance for
teachers and administrators. The latter of which is much more important.
Perhaps once again the Board of Education will see fit to
appoint a "committee" to study these issues when HEW blows the
whistle. In the meantime both integrated and segregated schools
will operate at 90-95 percent white capacity—adminstratively, that
is!
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BRADLEY WILL SPEAK AT ANNUAL
DEMOCRATIC PARTY NIGHT
Councilman Tom Bradley
On Saturday, March 21, 1970,
Los Angeles City Councilman Tom
Bradley will speak at the Democratic
Party Night to be held at the
Fresno County Fair Grounds. Cocktails
will be served at 6:30 p.m.
and dinner at 7:30 p.m. Donation
is $2.50 per person.
Councilman Bradley has earned
wide recognition in multiple careers
in law enforcement, in politics,
as an attorney, in government
and banking.
While working full time on the
Police Department, the one-time
Polytechnic High School and UCLA
track and football star studied law
at night and won his law degree
at Southwestern University Law
School in 1956. The same year he
passed the bar examination and
was admitted to practice in the state.
Councilman Bradley retired in 1961 after 21 years of police service
and opened his law office. At the time of his retirement, he was Commander
of the night watch at Wilshire Station. When a vacancy occurred
in the office of City Councilman in the 10th District, Mr. Bradley was one
of several persons who sought appointment to that position. Ironically,
20 months afterward, he defeated that man who won the appointment,
being elected to the Council at the Municipal Primary on April 2, 1963.
In April, 1967, he was re-elected to a second term on the City Council.
He ran unopposed for re-election on the ballot. This was unprecedented
for a first-term Councilman.
Councilman Bradley is Chairman of the State, County and Federal Affairs
Committee of the Council; he also serves as Chairman of the Public
Works Priority Committee, as well as Chairman of the Committee on
Proposed Legislation. Among his other affiliations are: Member Board of
Directors Joint Commission on Mental Health of Children—a National
Agency created by Congress,- was appointed by the President as a member
of the Peace Corps Advisory Council: President of the L.A. County
Division of the League of California Cities, 1968-69; serves on committees
of The California League of Cities and the National League of
Cities,- member Board of Directors University Religious Conference. By
appointment of the Governor he is a member of the Council on Intergovernmental
Relations.
He was President of the Southern California Association of Governments
(SCAG) 1968-69, a major voluntary study and planning group of
local city and county representatives designed to coordinate and work
on regional problems. For tickets call 268-0863.
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LOCAL BLACK HIGH SCHOOL
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Roscoe Pondexter—6'5" Junior
San Joaquin Memorial High School.
First team All Valley. Averaged 26.5
points per game, top scorer in Valley
Led his team to North Sequoia and Valley
Championships. One of the best high
school basketball players in the state.
Named to the first 1969-70 All-Metro
team.
Howard Bell—5'11" Senior
Edison High School. Plays guard, averaged
16 points per game. Rated as one
of the top college prospects around. Top
defensive man. Named to the first 1969-
70 All-Metro team and second team All-
Valley.
Ed Swillis—6'3" Junior
Clifton Pondexter 6'6" Freshman
Central Union High School. Leading
scorer on team. Although injured part of
the season he was the fourth leading
scorer in the Valley at 23.1 points per
game. Named to the second 1969-70
All-Metro team.
Clifton Pondexter 6'6" Freshman
San Joaquin Memorial High School.
Rated as the best freshman high school
ballplayer in the state. In his first year
of high school ball placed third in scoring
in his league, 16.5. Many times
Clifton and his older brother, Roscoe,
alone would outscore and outrebound
their opponent's team. Named to the
second 1969-70 All-Metro and third
team All-Valley.
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BASKETBALL STARS
Jeral Richardson—6'3" Senior
Clovis High School. Plays center. One
of the most improved players in league.
Led his team in scoring and rebounding.
Outstanding high jumper.
Glenn Cotton—6'3" Junior
Edison High School. Center. One of
the league's top rebounders also one of
Yosemite league's top 10 scorers. Stars
also in football. Named to the second
1969-70 All-Metro team.
David Tucker—6' Junior
San Joaquin Memorial High School.
Outstanding jumper and rebounder. Injured
part of the season, instrumental in
leading his team to league and Valley
championship. Also holds the national
high school triple-jump record at 50'3".
All around athlete.
Joe Epperson—6' Senior
San Joaquin Memorial High School,
guard. Helped his team to gain league
and Valley title. Very underrated player.
A defensive standout. A good college
prospect.
Clenzel Potts—6'1" Senior
Washington Union High School. Led
his team in scoring per game, 14.1, and
placed seventh in the top ten scorers in
the North Sequoia league. Good all
around ball player.
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NECK BONES
• 5 Pounds Fresh Pork Neck Bones
• 1 Chopped Onion
• 1 Clove Garlic, crushed
• Salt & Freshly Ground Pepper, to taste
• Seasoning Salt
Place neck bones in a kettle and add water to reach about one
inch above the level of the bones. Add ingredients and simmer
until meat is tender. Cook 1 '/2 to 2 hours.
Good with rice or noodles.
CORN BREAD
• 1 Cup Yellow Corn Meal
• 3/4 Cup Flour
• 1/2 Teaspoon Salt
• 1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
• 1 Cup Milk
• 2 Eggs, silghtly beaten
• 2 Tablespoons Melted Butter.
Preheat oven to 350° F. Sift together the dry ingredients into
mixing bowl, add milk, eggs, butter—mix well but do not beat.
Pour into a greased 10" square pan or muffin tins and bake 20 min.
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READ EACH WORD CAREFULLY!
1. Can a bird fly backward? Yes or No.
2. I have two coins in my hand. Together they total 55 cents. One is
not a nickel. What are the coins? ----------- ----------
3. A little Indian and a big Indian are walking down a path. The
little Indian is the big Indian's son. The big Indian is not the little
Indian's father. Then, who is he or it? ------------------------------
4. Which is correct: 4 and 7 are 12, or 4 and 7 is 12? ----------------
5. A monkey is at the bottom of a 30-foot well. Each day he jumps up
three feet and slips back two. At that rate, when will the monkey
reach the top of the well? --------------------------------------------
6. There are ten black stockings and ten white stockings in a drawer.
If you reach into the drawer in the dark, what is the minimum number
of stockings you must take out before you are sure of having
a pair that match? ---------------------------------------------------
7. Take two apples from three apples and what have you got?
8. A shepherd has 17 sheep. All but nine died. Flow many did he have
left? ----------------------------------------------------------------
9. We all know there are 12 one-cent stamps in a dozen, but how
many two-cent stamps are there in a dozen? -------------------------------
10. Only the female mosquito ever bites you. True or False?
ANSWER-
1. Yes, Hummingbird; 2. 50c and 5c; 3. Mother and Son; 4. Neither; 5. 28 days;
6. 3; 7. 2 Apples; 8. 9; 9. 12; 10. True
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CITIZENS SPEAK OUT
ON
Fresno's Mayor AND Fresno State College
Ted Wills President Dr. Karl Falk
A REPLY:
From F.S.C. President Dr. Karl L. Falk
Dr. Karl L. Falk, Acting President of Fresno State College, has been both
praised and criticized since his appointment to head of the 59 year old
institution.
Grapevine was interested to learn from Dr. Falk what he is doing for
minority groups on campus and why he has made personnel changes
Here is his reply:
Regardless of what may have been written or said about our administration
at Fresno State College, I am stating again, as I have repeatedly
stated since last October, that I am committed and dedicated to the improvement
and enlargement of education for minority students. Because
of my long interest in minority problems and my activities in providing
both private and public housing for minorities, I support the Ethnic Studies
Program and the Educational Opportunity Program at Fresno State
College.
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"Unfortunately many people think that Ethnic Studies and EOP are one
program. They are not one program but instead are separate, with different
objectives.
"First let's discuss Ethnic Studies—the academic program on campus
consisting of courses about the traditions and values of minority peoples,
and the method of looking at all information from the persepctive of the
minority individual.
"We need Ethnic Studies' programs. We want Ethnic Studies, and to
this end I have this week approved a 20 percent increase in the number
of faculty positions for Ethnic Studies for the 1970-71 academic year.
"The Educational Opportunity Program on the other hand is a financial
program to provide students who need financial aid, the opportunity to
obtain a college education. This is a money program—money provided
by the California State Legislature and the federal government.
"Like Ethnic Studies I support the Educational Opportunity Program.
There will be an EOP program on this campus next year, although the
State Legislature has not yet announced the amount of money to be made
available for this program. We feel confident that funds will be made
available but the exact amount will not be known until the official State
Budget is approved. When the State budget is announced, it will be added
to the federal money and we will then be permitted to notify applicants
of their acceptance. In preparation of this we have sent out more
than 1200 applications to individuals and high schools so that when the
total budget is announced we can accept new students.
"Although FSC is spending more than $500,000 this year for EOP, I
want to see the program not only continued but expanded. We were
authorized to have 150 new special admission EOP students last fall,
through additional sources, we were able to accept 182, bringing the
total EOP students on campus to approximately 350. The total number
of minority students now enrolled exceeds 1100.
"We want to see this number increased, and to bring it about, along
with the Presidents of the other eighteen State Colleges, I am working
and talking with legislators in an effort to persuade them to appropriate
more money for minority education.
"In addition I have asked the Academic Vice President to examine
various proposals and to eventually establish a Minority Education Advisory
Council made up of community representatives, students, and faculty
to advise the College in its minority programs, to help work with the
legislature for additional funds, and to aid the college in providing
quality education for minority students.
"In answer to the question, 'Why have I made changes?' Let me say
that I have made only two administrative changes at the College. All
personnel changes affecting minority groups were made by administrators
not directly under my control and without my knowledge or consultation.
"Actions I have taken have been done with one purpose in mind—to
guarantee the integrity of the institution, to maintain its academic standing,
to make a degree from FSC acceptable anywhere, and to establish
this College as one of the leading centers for higher education.
"Change is always difficult but if this institution is to continue to serve
the needs of you and your children, it must change, it must grow, it must
develop, it must recognize the need for education for all students, especially
minority students.
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FALK
By NATHAN C. HEARD
F.S.C. Professor
Nathan C. Heard
To write about Karl Falk, acting/
temporary/permanent President of
Fresno State College, is not to write
about him at all. To write about
Falk is to write about white America:
four-hundred years (that's worth
repeating) FOUR-HUNDRED YEARS
of degradation, hypocrisy and outright
lies which can be summarized
in the current phrase: White Racism.
Now a man doesn't have to
speak the rhetoric of the Ku Klux -
Klan to be a racist; he doesn't even
have to commit any overt act of
racism to be a racist; all he has to
do to be a racist (in a society
where only action counts) is to do
nothing. Not to be active in the
black man's fight for freedom and/
or equality is one of the more timid
ways whites have for expressing racism.
Falk is a public man, therefore, he has an image to keep, a role to
play that will (he hopes) soothe white consciences and at the same time
calm black anger. He has to give the impression that he's doing something
when in fact he's doing nothing. He has to be on the side of LAW
and ORDER (which interprets: money, church and the continued exploitation
of poor people while making these people think they're getting help)
and he also has to be on the side of "progressive" negroes who have
internalized whiteness to such a great degree that they don't believe
there's any other way of life except that which was defined by white
people. In fact, the only thing that keeps these negroes from totally acting
in accordance with white racism is the color of their skins . . . but
they have faith in the power of Nadinola.
Falk has succeeded in giving the black and brown people of Fresno
the impression that Fresno State College is doing them a favor by allowing
them to attend it. He has continued the tradition of white men, of
having the black masses believe everything he says while doubting
everything a black man says to them. For example, Richard D. Keyes,
Chairman of Black Studies at the college, has nothing at all to gain by
telling lies to black Fresnans for he is fighting for the freedom of black
people and will answer any question truthfully. Yet I have seen, time
and time again black people doubt him, challenge him and attack him
out of their ignorance and fears of attacking the real enemy of their
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FALK (Continued)
people. When Falk speaks few blacks question him, even if they suspect
he's lying. They only put the burden of proof on their black brothers,
because they know their brothers are less powerful than the white men
who rule them—body and mind.
Falk has the reputation of being a "Minority housing expert" though
I doubt that he's ever lived in a black slum, in fact or in spirit. He's a
banker, but I doubt that black people can bank on him to help supply
their needs—especially with long-term interest rates. Yet, because he's
been presented to black people as a Leader, as a representative of White
Power, as a synonym with Money, black people accept him also. This
acceptance of him may be unconscious but it is nevertheless a sad fact.
This can be so plainly seen in the black community's reluctance and
(I would even say) gear of confronting Falk concerning their own kids
attending the college. Black kids, it should be remembered by black
adults, are the only future that black people have. Why haven't black
Fresnans objected to the fact that Falk constantly consults with the white
community on the goings-on at FSC but seldom deigns to consult with
the black community—outside of a few black businessmen who are
probably in debt to his bank or trying to get in debt to it?
It is time for black people to stop believing the white man s lie about
money being the solution to race problems. Money is, no doubt, good,
but it will not buy manhood, it will not buy full citizenship in your own
country because no matter how rich you get (which won't be but so rich
anyway) you're still a nigger to the people who mint the money and
have the power to take it away from you anytime they so choose.
Falk is symbolic of all that has been presumptuous and demeaning in
this white world and it's going to take active interest and self-serving
action on the part of black people to remove this pious, racist blockade
from the path of their progress. I said ACTIVE interest and SELF-SERVING
ACTION, which simply means to stop being afraid of what the white
man is going to think about you snatching the reins of freedom from his
reluctant and very greedy hands. If nothing else, the history of black
people in this country should tell you that white people have not been
working for the best interest of black people. Think about the area of
Fresno called Jerico, or "F" and Tulare streets, or the conditions in West
Fresno which would never be tolerated where the whites live. Only a
fool would value the words of Falk above those of Richard Keyes. I think
we have been fools long enough.
Black people must get interested in the forces which control their
lives. Falk is one of those forces and we have got to forget what he says
and watch, ever so carefully, what he does because that is what will
affect us. Don't bother to listen to that junk about his friends in the
black community—has he given YOU the impression that he is a friend
of yours? I doubt it. White people have always talked about their black
friends" until that "friend" tries to become an equal. Dig it.
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FALK and EOP
By MARIANNA BORKERT
F.S.C. Student
Since taking over as acting President
of FSC, Dr. Karl Falk has made
many abrupt and startling chonges;
shocking to some and welcome to
others, depending upon political
stripe. One thing seems certain: it's
"high noon" for liberal speaking
and acting professors and administrators
as well. The Honor Roll of
the Severed continues to climb,
holding such esteemed names as:
Dr. Dale Burtner, former Dean of
the School of Arts and Sciences; Dr.
Harold Walker, former Executive
Vice President, and Dr. Paul Murray,
FSC Ombudsman (the Ombudsman
is a citizen's defender and the
position is a device to insure accountability
of anyone in public office.
Murray was critical of the
Falk adminstration). Other disruptive
actions (taken from boycott resolution) include:
(1) Refusal by the Acting Dean of Arts and Sciences, Phillip Walker, to
allow the faculty of Arts and Sciences the use of facilities necessary for
the Academic Council to function;
(2) Reversal by the Acting Dean of a previously stated recommendation
to rehire a faculty member for 1970-71, without justification for such
sudden reversal;
(3) The Acting President has issued an order to the Association staff to
refuse payment of poet Robert Mezey during a poetry reading, and dismissing
reasons why with a verbal "it was in the best interests of the
College";
(4) Acting President Falk has stated, via representatives before the Consultative
Procedures Committee that the Consultative Procedures are "legally
nonexistent," that the procedures are only "proposal consultative
procedures" and "are not binding upon the president or any other officer
or body of this college";
(5) Acting Executive Vice President Fikes has shuffled the duties from
the Dean of Students office, with no apparent consultation with the Dean
of Students, Donald Albright, beforehand, thereby placing direct control
of Admissions, Financial Aids, and the EOP program in the hands of an
administrator of questionable sensitivity, particularly in the area of EOP
and relations with minority students on this campus,-
(6) The administration has threatened the existence of the minority
editions of the paper, and placed pressure upon student representatives
to alter their differing positions, and further backed such pressure with
admonishments about possible action by the Board of Trustees;
(7) Cut off privileges from the staff of the College Religious Center, for
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FALK AND EOP (Continued)
apparently allowing Marvin X to use the facilities of the center after
being banned on campus;
(8) The Acting President has cancelled the curriculum of the Experimental
College for Spring, 1970, with no assurance that experimentation
will continue on this campus in the future;
(9) Subsequent cancellation of the Experimental College has resulted
in the removal of the Director of the Experimental College;
(10) The administration has entered into a serious philosophical clash
with the staff of the Ethnic Studies Department over the whole of the Ethnic
Studies Department of FSC, and Acting Dean Walker has made statements
to the community about the Ethnic Studies program, without allowing
the representatives of the department to speak in their own favor
On February 24th and 25th, a campus-wide boycott of classes, supported
by the Student Senate, was held in protest of the Falk administration.
An estimated over one-third of the student body boycotted and
over 2,000 signatures in protest of the administration was gathered on
petitions from students on campus during this boycott. Although Acting
President Falk made a public statement before the boycott saying that
"hardcore militants" were trying to bring on a confrontation and force
him to call the police and National Guard unto the campus, the boycott
was peaceful, marred by only one incidence of violence. A student marshal
was assaulted at the main entrance of the campus Tuesday afternoon
by another student not supporting the boycott. So for all of Folk's
cries of "Wolf," he was left looking sheepish.
Recently, Falk called a press conference to clarify his policy on the
EOP and Ethnic Studies programs.
During the news conference, open only to representatives of the news
media, two black students, representing UHURU asked to be admitted,
they were refused admittance and a scuffle occurred leading eventually
to the admittance of one of the students.
At the conference, Dr. Falk stated that he is not trying to destroy the
EOP and Ethnic Studies at FSC but striving to improve and expand the
present programs.
"At the present time we cannot accept any new students for fall,
1970," Falk said. The increased quota of students would depend mainly
upon funding. It may be necessary to go to the community for funds,
Falk said, and the response of the community depends upon the behavior
of EOP students.
In an interview, Kenneth Lewis, Director of Financial Aids, said the
breakdown for the amount of money given directly to EOP students is
as follows:
—Federal Assistance, $478,630;
—FSC Association grants, $20,000;
—State EOP grants, $60,000;
—Community grants, $5,000.
Whatever the final outcome at FSC, the atmosphere is tense with fear
and repression, and mutterings are being heard all over the campus. The
lid is about to blow.
SPECIAL ARTICLE NEXT MONTH by Publisher Lesly Kimber and his
confrontation with the Fresno Police Department.
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MAYOR WILLS: Politician or Statesman?
By REV. RUEBEN SCOTT
Pastor of Providence Baptist Church
Rev. Rueben Scott
Walter Lippman defines a politician
as a man who seeks to gratify
some particular interests and
desires. As a leader of a power
elite or political party he may seek
to enlist the support of others to
his cause by making specific
pledges to them. If fhat is not possible
he may employ some form of
deception under which Lippman includes
the whole art of political
propaganda whether it be half
truths, ambiguities, direct lies, calculated
silence, red herrings, slogans,
showmanship or buncombe.
The politician is a man who works
for partial community or national
interests. At worst his own pocket.
At best it may be his party, class,
or institution with which he may
be identified. You can never feel
that he can or will take into account all of the interests concerned because
bias and partisanship are the qualities of his conduct and cannot
be trusted.
Moreover the statesman under modern conditions is able to penetrate
from and rise above naive self interests of each group to their permanent
and real interests. The statesman follows that difficult course where
the great virtues of justice, wisdom, self-control, and courage are of
cardinal importance. The statesman recognizes that government arises
out of the needs of mankind. The statesman's role is difficult because it
does require dealing with reality and not unreality as does the politician,
it requires deep sympathy and a vast amount of information.
If, in fact, a man can be judged by his deeds, Mayor Wills must, from
the writer's viewpoint, fall into Lippman's definition of the politician. A
catalogue of events will help to substantiate this conclusion.
The politics of confusion and deception has been used more than once
by the chief executive at City Hall. How well do we remember the attempt
to confuse the public concerning the Model Cities application approval
and the deliberate attempt to discredit the work that had been
done to reduce thousands of pages of relevant data to a mere seventyfive
pages. Another attempt to confuse the public and to raise suspicion
concerning this program was the recent statement that the Model Cities
program had no money, when in fact, a letter of credit had been issued
and only needed depositing.
Then there was the confusion created by the Mayor concerning the
status of the Internal Revenue Service Center. The "don't-rock-the-boator-
it-may-be-lost-talk" was just another cog in the "politics-of-confusionwheel"
to divide and alienate concerned citizens of the community. The
(Con't on Page 30)
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THE QUESTION OF LEADERSHIP
By GEORGE PURDOM
Board Member of Fresno Chamber of Commerce
George Purdom
As a city we have wondered
what 1970 will mean to us. As we
look back over the past year, and
relate it to the prior three years,
we have cause to reflect seriously
over what 1970 possibly might
mean to the people of Fresno.
We see the hard work of dedicated
leadership and inspired citizens
in the areas of renewal (both
human and physical) and race relationship
dissipated and prostitued
by indifferent and hostile
governmental leadership. We
see a closed ear to appeals to
reason in almost every situation,
no matter how critical, and in the
midst of affluence we see oppressive
poverty, and the dream of the
All America City is beginning in
the face of cold reality, to be just
a dream. Almost without exception this has been caused by a failure in
leadership.
We have experienced leadership failure before, but never in the city s
history has it been so pronounced in our minority community. The hopes,
the trusts, yea, the deserved resepct and consideration so vital to the
inspirations of the community has been dissipated by lack of concern
and consideration, and has been replaced by wide spread distrust of the
institution and the establishment. And the distrust is not limited to radicals
as we would be made to believe. These conditions are very urgent,
and the number of citizens who are concerned is vast, and not restricted
to race. All you need do is talk to people on all levels and you will find
that there is a deep and pervasive feeling among all segments of populance
that in spite of federal, state, and city's money expended things
aren't working" for us here in our city.
Leadership's attitudes must change, and, we must do more to set a
tone of urgency to which we can all respond, and more to exemplify in
our own actions a determination to work a change in these attitudes.
We are not—and should not become—docile followers of the leader. In
a vital community the citizen has a role that goes beyond the act of
voting. He must advocate and support social and civic reform, provide
funds indiscriminately, criticize, demand, expose corruption, and support
leaders who lead.
One thing the citizen must do is to refuse to accept all politicians who
exploit fear and anger and hatred for their own purposes. He might not
be able to rid himself entirely of these emotions, but he can rid himself
of politicians who thrive by manipulating them. Rid himself of such politicians
and go ahead and "take care of business."
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THE QUESTION OF LEADERSHIP (Continued)
Examples of this type of manipulation is playing white ethnic minorities
against black and brown minorities and brown against black minorities
which can only hurt all concerned; and the politician who pursues that
strategy should be rejected by all.
I am convinced that most of our citizens do want to see our problems
solved, including the problem of race, poverty and the quality of life.
Some Americans equate the inner city problems with racial tensions—
and say they are tired of the race problem and wish it would go away
Well, that won't happen, but if it did, we would still have the urban
crisis. Poor housing, unemployment which involves black and white, and
inefficiency and often corruption of municipal government would remain.
t is true that minorities and the poor are hit first when the urban
system breaks down, but the problem is much more serious and broader
an will in the long run affect all of us. Make no mistake about how
meaningful this thing is to all of us, and we must—have to—"do our
thing."
Mayor Wills: Politician or Statesman? (Cont)
(Con't from Page 28)
Fake emergency trip to Washington to "Save the Center" further illustrates
the political prowess of the Mayor. He fits Lippman's definition of
the politician.
The latest political maneuver was the appointment of Mr. Ethan Bernstein
to another term on the Redevelopment Agency Board. The interests
involved in the appointment were clearly "personal" rather than for the
unity and health of governmental relations in the larger community and
specifically that community most affected by Redevelopment activity.
This omnibus of events can leave no doubt in the minds of those who
take them seriously that Fresno is weighed in the balance and found
wanting for a statesman in the Mayor's seat. But he is a first rate
politician.
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Table of Contents
Letter From Editor ------------------------------ 5
Alpha Phi Alpha Queen --------------------------- 6
Lu Davis and Jarvis Tatum ----------------------- 7
Blacks in the Field of Journalism --------------- 8
Black Studies in Elementary Schools ------------ 10
Author Marvin X -------------------------------- 11
How Color Began -------------------------------- 13
Golden Wedding Anniversary --------------------- 14
School Board Faces Further Dilemma ------------- 15
Los Angeles Councilman Tom Bradley ------------- 16
Local High School Basketball Stars ------------- 18
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So You Think You Are Smart --------------------- 21
Mayor Ted Wills and Dr. Karl Falk -------------- 22
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Grapevine seeks to present
to the reader the positive side of
the Black community. To accomplish
this a variety of articles are
periodically included.
Contributions are presented on
the authority of their authors and
do not necessarily reflect the
views or bear the endorsement of
the Grapevine. For this reason,
the contributing personnel is restricted
to people who have training
and experience in their respective
areas of concentration
and interests.
This month's issue features several
articles that may be of special
interest to our readers. For instance,
the readers with a biblical
background the article submitted
by Deacon Jack L. Smith, titled
"How Color Began," should be of
interest. The latest works by Author
Marvin X, titled, "The Parable
of The Sleeping Lion," will
surely radicate some comparisons
for the alert readers. The article
titled, "School Board Faces Further
Dillema," adds a new dimension
to the local de facto segregation
problem. The main feature
this month concerns two controversial
men, Fresno's Mayor Ted
Wills and Fresno State College
President Dr. Karl Falk.
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1970 ALPHA PHI ALPHA QUEEN
Miss Nancy Turner
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Madera, Calif., has been named
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Miss Turner was selected from a
field of five at a recent formal contestants'
ball. Selection was based
on personality, grooming, charm,
and poise.
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State College, majoring in social
welfare. She is also working as a
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FSC'S DAVIS MAKES LOOP STAR QUINTET
Lu Davis of Fresno State College
is the only senior named to the first
team all Pacific Coast Athletic Association
basketball team as chosen
by the league's coaches.
Junior center George Trapp of
the champion and NCAA tournament
bound Long Beach State Forty
Niners was voted the most valuable
player in the fledging circuit.
Long Beach, which was 10-0 in
league play and 23-3 for the season,
also placed sophomore forward
Billy Jankens on the first
team.
Rounding out the top five are
junior center Doug Rex of University
of California, Santa Barbara
and sopohomores Mose Adolph of
Los Angeles State and John Tschogl
of UCSB.
Fresno State and LA State each placed two players on the six-man
second team. Seniors Rob Stephens and Bob Vasilovich are the Fresnans
while Ron Knight and Morris Thomas are the Diablos.
Also on the second team are Shawn Johnson of Long Beach and Coby
Dietrick of San Jose State.
Davis, 6-foot-4 1/2 Berkeley product, broke the career FSC scoring record
held by Maurice Talbot. Davis registered 597 points this year for
a 22.9 points a game average which pushed his three-year varsity total
to 1,511 points.
Davis also averaged eight rebounds a game.
TATUM SIGNS WITH ANGELS
Jarvis Tatum of Fresno recently
signed his 1970 contract with the
California Angels baseball team.
Tatum, an outfielder, played 10
games with the Angels last season
and hit .318.
Tatum is a graduate of Edison
High School. Many local fans believe
that this year will be his big
years with the Angels.
Jarvis Tatum
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BLACKS IN THE FIELD OF JOURNALISM
Michael Craig
As pointed out in an article
last month on Black people in
the field of journalism, news
writing is not the only function
performed in the profession.
There are many jobs related to
the journalistic world and opportunities
exist for Black people
in those jobs.
There is, however, a requirement
journalism is an exacting
field and those entering it
must prepare themselves in
school and while working in the
career itself.
Michael Francois Craig is a
Black Fresnan who prepared
himself for a journalistic career
and while learning the trade is
working for the Fresno Bee as
an editorial assistant.
The job gives him an opportunity
to observe and learn the
various operations of a newspaper
and methods of writing
news stories. The job is also a
springboard to any department
of the newspaper.
Others who worked at the job are now news reporters, photographers,
work in the business office and advertising department.
Craig, a native of Los Angeles, came to Fresno nine months ago. Before
joining the staff of editorial assistant at the Bee he worked as a
freelance writer and did advertising copy for local radio and television
stations.
He is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles and
currently is attending classes at Fresno City College. He studied at Los
Angeles City College prior to coming to Fresno.
While attending Los Angeles City College, Craig edited the campus
paper an wrote movie reviews for SCENE magazine. He also wrote
sports news for the Los Angeles Sentinel.
In addition to his job as an editorial assistant he covers events for the
ee s sports department. Craig has had his byline appear on several
news stories in the Bee.
Craig was assistant sports editor for United Pictorial Review in Los
He also was a sports' commentator for KDAY Radio in that city.
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Irman Perkins
Inman L. Perkins has been employed
in the Bee's dispatch department
for three months. His
job at present is delivering
proofs and tear sheets to advertisers.
Perkins, a native of Salt Lake
City, Utah, is a graduate of Edison
High School. He also graduated
from Fresno City College
and attended Fresno State College.
His major was radio and
television broadcasting. Perkins
worked for slightly more than a
year as floor manager for KJEO
TV.
He is a member of the Evangelical
Community Church choir
and is married to the former
Donna Lung of Fresno. They
have a child, Scott.
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West Fresno Elementary Schools Have
One Of State's First Black Studies Programs
Marvin Howard
Franklin, Teilman, Columbia and
Lincoln Elementary Schools have a
black studies program. This program
which is sponsored by compensatory
education monies began
at the beginning of the school year.
Marvin Howard, Black Studies Coordinator
for the program stated
that the program is designed to
supplement the regular history textbooks.
What it does is to insert the
Black man into his proper place in
history as it is being taught in the
class room.
Presently Mr. Howard and Mr.
Preston Merrill, a lecturer, are teaching
the 6th grade classes at Franklin
and Teilman Schools. After six
weeks they will teach the other
Marvin Howard schools in the program. Howard
states, "I can truly see the need for
Black History in the elementary schools. These students at a young age
should be aware and enlightened by the numerous contributions made
by their ancestors. This is one of the most important factors in education
for blacks that has been overlooked.
Many parents, as well as black educators, question the use of money
distributed by compensatory education. And I can sincerely say in what
better way should funds be used than introducing and educating our
youngsters about themselves."
Howard attended Edison High School, Fresno City College, and is
presently enrolled in evening classes at Fresno State College.
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EXCLUSIVE
Written especially for the Grapevine Magazine
The Parable
of The
Sleeping Lion
By Marvin X
Once there was a lion who lived on a cage in a wilderness. He did
not like living in a cage, but he was put in the cage by his master. He
was strong and he used to run free, but now he was in a cage. The
master fed the lion food to make him sleep. Soon the lion began to like)
sleeping. He would sleep all day. Visitors came to the cage and wondered
why this lion was sleeping all day. The master had trained the lion
so that he never growled anymore—he just slept all the time. He even
had a sleepy look on his face when he was awoke. Some people called
him sleeply. "Sleeply, wake up," someone said. "Don't bother me,' he
said, "can't you see I'm sleeping."
One day Sleeply's friend, another lion, escaped from the cage next to
Sleeply's. Sleeply could have escaped too, but he was sleeping. And
when he woke up and found the other lion gone, he was very angry.
"I'll never sleep again," he said, "I'll never sleep again."
Now when it came time to eat the master got angry because Sleeply
wouldn't eat the food that made him sleep. Sleeply wasn't a fool! The
master couldn't understand his lion. "Eat," the master told Sleeply.
Sleeply growled for the first time in a long time. The master jumped
back he was so shocked. The master got his whip and went into the
cage. "Eat," he said, cracking the whip over Sleep's head. Sleep growled,
turned, ran ti the master and began eating him to death. . . .
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HOW COLOR BEGAN
By DEACON JACK L. SMITH
Original King James version Holy Bible as translated from the
Hebrew language 1611.
I want to clear up some confusion concerning people of different
colors. God created man out of the dust of the earth and there was
no mention of color of earth Genesis 2:7. Seth out of Adam and Eve
was the son of Adam. Noah came through from many generations
Genesis 5:3-32. Most people are familiar with Noah and the Ark.
Genesis 6th chapter, the flood, 7th chapter. Noah left the Ark Genesis
8:16-19. Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. All
their wives made eight people to come out of the Ark. All people
were the same color. Ham's sons, Genesis 10:6; Japheth s, Genesis
10:2; Shem's descendents, Genesis 11:10-26, Abraham, Nahor,
Haran. God called Abraham to leave his people. The Israelites descended
from Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. Genesis 12th ch. God told
Abram to get away from his kindred. Abraham's first son was by
Hagar the Egyptian maid of Sarah. Ishmael Genesis 16:4-11. Isaac
born Genesis 21:3. Abraham had six other sons, but Jacob out of
Isaac was chosen to be the father of the Israelites Genesis 32:28;
35:10. There is still no color change in nations. Moses was chosen
to lead the Israelites out of the tribe of Levi Ex. 2:1. Moses appointed
by God to lead his people, 3rd chapter. God gave Moses the ten
commandments, Ex. 20th-24th ch. God revealed to Moses all the
blessings He would give them if they obey His law, Deut. 28:1-14.
All the curses, Deut. 28:15-68, if they disobeyed His commandments.
There is still no difference in the color of man. In Deut. 28:22
Moses wrote the curse of extreme burning as one of the curses.
Deut. 28:46, curse of sign and wonder "blackness. Jeremiah 8:21;
Job 30:30. Burning instead of beauty, baldness instead of well set
hair, Isaiah 3:24. When the Israelities did wicked things God
brought these curses on the Israelites spoken of in Deut. 28:15-68
Jeremiah the first to be burned black 8:21; Job 30:30. When God
put these curses on Israel it was on all Twelve Tribes, Joel 2:6;
Nahum 2:10; Jeremiah 14:2. At that time Israel was scattered all
over the world, Deut. 28:36-37; Luke 21:24. How black they were
read Lamentations 4:8; 5:7-10. No sun on any heat but the hand of
God could burn man black and bald and he still live. There have
been many whites living in hot climates like the black man and he
is still white. Cursed to be white, II Kings 5:27, for disobedience
and lying to his master Elijah. Don t misunderstand that only God
can do these things, so man will fear Him. No other people but
blacks have gone through all of these curses spoken of in Deut.
28:15-68. I and they are now black descendants of the original
Hebrew Israelites. Your nationality is derived from the country you
were born in or become a naturalized citizen. Black is not ethnic,
they are a people, special, peculiar, Deut. 7:6; 14:2; Jeremiah 13:11;
II Cor. 11:22; Romans 11 ch. Who is a Jew? Romans 2:28, 29; 3:
1-3; Rev. 2:9. There is no respect of people with God for Jesus died
for all, Rom. 3:22. Without the Spirit of God it is hard to understand
the scriptures. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom,
Prov. 1:7, 9:10; Job 28:28. Natural man does not understand things
of the spirit, I Cor. 2:13-16. I'll consume man, beast, fowl and
fishes in the sea, Zepheniah 1:3. There will be a new heaven and
earth, Rev. 21. All will see Jesus at the second coming, St. John
5:28, 29. We are living in the red horse days now, Rev. 6:4. Black
horse next, Rev. 6:5. Amen.
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GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy White
New Year's Day 1970 marked
tehe golden wedding anniversary
of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy White.
The couple's children hosted a
party in the Del Webb Towne-
House honoring their parents,
who have 31 grandchildren and
six great-grandchildren. The
couple was married in Chandler,
pkla., Jan. 1, 1920, and moved
to Fresno in 1938. The couple
had 11 children, and the nine
living are Mrs. Eetta M. Wells,
Mrs. Robert Slade, Mrs. Gene
McCough, O. C. White, Oswald
White, Charles White and David
White, all of Fresno. Mrs. Joe
Burnley of Oakland and Mrs.
Grandy Stephens of Sacramento.
White was in the trucking business
and is a member of the Masonic Lodge.
The couple attends the Mount
Pleasant Baptist Church.
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Another Viewpoint
School Board Faces Further Dilemma
Reprint: California Advocate
The busing of school children from one part of the city to the
other in order to solve racial imbalance is but a small part of solving
the overall racial problems that exist in the Fresno City Unified
School District. There are many other areas of concern that have
been overlooked and perhaps that is more important than the mixing
of children . . . one of which is the failure of the school district
to employ minority personnel in administrative positions within individual
schools. It is hard to believe that even in West Fresno
schools, most of the administrative personnel—principals, counselors,
and even secretaries, typists, switchboard operators, etc., are
approximately 95 percent white. Outside of the West Fresno area
the percentage is even higher.
The school board has received very little pressure from the local
level on this issue, but pressure from Health, Education and Welfare
is expected in the near future. HEW conducted an investigation into
the hiring practices of the school district that began in April 1969
. . . the results of which are expected any day now. There is every
reason to believe that the district will be found guilty of irregularities
in hiring. The physical evidence, or lack of such, is indisputable.
The absence of minority teachers in the Fresno Unified School District
has also been an area of concern for the minority community
for sometime. Presently there are 2,541 teachers and other professional
personnel in the district; of this number 51 (2 percent) are
black; 62 (2.4 percent) are brown; and 35 (1.5 percent) are Oriental.
The Board has been able to avoid a great deal of pressure on this
issue by pointing to the unavailability of qualified minorities in the
area. The Board's hiring policies do not change, however, in the
recruitment of minorities for teacher aid positions. And, of course,
the over-used shallow excuse of qualification is not valid in the
teacher aid spot.
There is an estimated 512 teacher aids in the school district; of
this number less than 5 percent are minorities, and most of these
are confined to the West Fresno and Southeast Fresno communities.
In addition to the 2,541 professional employees, there are 2,699
other employees with the district—176 (6.5 percent) of which are
black; 191 (7 percent) of which are brown. Needless to say, the bulk
of the 367 black and brown employees in the latter category are
employed in the lowest paying jobs—custodian, kitchen help, etc.
It is tragic that along with the formula developed by the Federal
and state government to correct racial imbalance for students there
was no such formula developed to correct the racial imbalance for
teachers and administrators. The latter of which is much more important.
Perhaps once again the Board of Education will see fit to
appoint a "committee" to study these issues when HEW blows the
whistle. In the meantime both integrated and segregated schools
will operate at 90-95 percent white capacity—adminstratively, that
is!
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BRADLEY WILL SPEAK AT ANNUAL
DEMOCRATIC PARTY NIGHT
Councilman Tom Bradley
On Saturday, March 21, 1970,
Los Angeles City Councilman Tom
Bradley will speak at the Democratic
Party Night to be held at the
Fresno County Fair Grounds. Cocktails
will be served at 6:30 p.m.
and dinner at 7:30 p.m. Donation
is $2.50 per person.
Councilman Bradley has earned
wide recognition in multiple careers
in law enforcement, in politics,
as an attorney, in government
and banking.
While working full time on the
Police Department, the one-time
Polytechnic High School and UCLA
track and football star studied law
at night and won his law degree
at Southwestern University Law
School in 1956. The same year he
passed the bar examination and
was admitted to practice in the state.
Councilman Bradley retired in 1961 after 21 years of police service
and opened his law office. At the time of his retirement, he was Commander
of the night watch at Wilshire Station. When a vacancy occurred
in the office of City Councilman in the 10th District, Mr. Bradley was one
of several persons who sought appointment to that position. Ironically,
20 months afterward, he defeated that man who won the appointment,
being elected to the Council at the Municipal Primary on April 2, 1963.
In April, 1967, he was re-elected to a second term on the City Council.
He ran unopposed for re-election on the ballot. This was unprecedented
for a first-term Councilman.
Councilman Bradley is Chairman of the State, County and Federal Affairs
Committee of the Council; he also serves as Chairman of the Public
Works Priority Committee, as well as Chairman of the Committee on
Proposed Legislation. Among his other affiliations are: Member Board of
Directors Joint Commission on Mental Health of Children—a National
Agency created by Congress,- was appointed by the President as a member
of the Peace Corps Advisory Council: President of the L.A. County
Division of the League of California Cities, 1968-69; serves on committees
of The California League of Cities and the National League of
Cities,- member Board of Directors University Religious Conference. By
appointment of the Governor he is a member of the Council on Intergovernmental
Relations.
He was President of the Southern California Association of Governments
(SCAG) 1968-69, a major voluntary study and planning group of
local city and county representatives designed to coordinate and work
on regional problems. For tickets call 268-0863.
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LOCAL BLACK HIGH SCHOOL
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Roscoe Pondexter—6'5" Junior
San Joaquin Memorial High School.
First team All Valley. Averaged 26.5
points per game, top scorer in Valley
Led his team to North Sequoia and Valley
Championships. One of the best high
school basketball players in the state.
Named to the first 1969-70 All-Metro
team.
Howard Bell—5'11" Senior
Edison High School. Plays guard, averaged
16 points per game. Rated as one
of the top college prospects around. Top
defensive man. Named to the first 1969-
70 All-Metro team and second team All-
Valley.
Ed Swillis—6'3" Junior
Clifton Pondexter 6'6" Freshman
Central Union High School. Leading
scorer on team. Although injured part of
the season he was the fourth leading
scorer in the Valley at 23.1 points per
game. Named to the second 1969-70
All-Metro team.
Clifton Pondexter 6'6" Freshman
San Joaquin Memorial High School.
Rated as the best freshman high school
ballplayer in the state. In his first year
of high school ball placed third in scoring
in his league, 16.5. Many times
Clifton and his older brother, Roscoe,
alone would outscore and outrebound
their opponent's team. Named to the
second 1969-70 All-Metro and third
team All-Valley.
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BASKETBALL STARS
Jeral Richardson—6'3" Senior
Clovis High School. Plays center. One
of the most improved players in league.
Led his team in scoring and rebounding.
Outstanding high jumper.
Glenn Cotton—6'3" Junior
Edison High School. Center. One of
the league's top rebounders also one of
Yosemite league's top 10 scorers. Stars
also in football. Named to the second
1969-70 All-Metro team.
David Tucker—6' Junior
San Joaquin Memorial High School.
Outstanding jumper and rebounder. Injured
part of the season, instrumental in
leading his team to league and Valley
championship. Also holds the national
high school triple-jump record at 50'3".
All around athlete.
Joe Epperson—6' Senior
San Joaquin Memorial High School,
guard. Helped his team to gain league
and Valley title. Very underrated player.
A defensive standout. A good college
prospect.
Clenzel Potts—6'1" Senior
Washington Union High School. Led
his team in scoring per game, 14.1, and
placed seventh in the top ten scorers in
the North Sequoia league. Good all
around ball player.
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FOODS
Recipe
Month
by Frank "Gil" Glasse
NECK BONES
• 5 Pounds Fresh Pork Neck Bones
• 1 Chopped Onion
• 1 Clove Garlic, crushed
• Salt & Freshly Ground Pepper, to taste
• Seasoning Salt
Place neck bones in a kettle and add water to reach about one
inch above the level of the bones. Add ingredients and simmer
until meat is tender. Cook 1 '/2 to 2 hours.
Good with rice or noodles.
CORN BREAD
• 1 Cup Yellow Corn Meal
• 3/4 Cup Flour
• 1/2 Teaspoon Salt
• 1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
• 1 Cup Milk
• 2 Eggs, silghtly beaten
• 2 Tablespoons Melted Butter.
Preheat oven to 350° F. Sift together the dry ingredients into
mixing bowl, add milk, eggs, butter—mix well but do not beat.
Pour into a greased 10" square pan or muffin tins and bake 20 min.
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SO YOU THINK YOU'RE SMART
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READ EACH WORD CAREFULLY!
1. Can a bird fly backward? Yes or No.
2. I have two coins in my hand. Together they total 55 cents. One is
not a nickel. What are the coins? ----------- ----------
3. A little Indian and a big Indian are walking down a path. The
little Indian is the big Indian's son. The big Indian is not the little
Indian's father. Then, who is he or it? ------------------------------
4. Which is correct: 4 and 7 are 12, or 4 and 7 is 12? ----------------
5. A monkey is at the bottom of a 30-foot well. Each day he jumps up
three feet and slips back two. At that rate, when will the monkey
reach the top of the well? --------------------------------------------
6. There are ten black stockings and ten white stockings in a drawer.
If you reach into the drawer in the dark, what is the minimum number
of stockings you must take out before you are sure of having
a pair that match? ---------------------------------------------------
7. Take two apples from three apples and what have you got?
8. A shepherd has 17 sheep. All but nine died. Flow many did he have
left? ----------------------------------------------------------------
9. We all know there are 12 one-cent stamps in a dozen, but how
many two-cent stamps are there in a dozen? -------------------------------
10. Only the female mosquito ever bites you. True or False?
ANSWER-
1. Yes, Hummingbird; 2. 50c and 5c; 3. Mother and Son; 4. Neither; 5. 28 days;
6. 3; 7. 2 Apples; 8. 9; 9. 12; 10. True
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CITIZENS SPEAK OUT
ON
Fresno's Mayor AND Fresno State College
Ted Wills President Dr. Karl Falk
A REPLY:
From F.S.C. President Dr. Karl L. Falk
Dr. Karl L. Falk, Acting President of Fresno State College, has been both
praised and criticized since his appointment to head of the 59 year old
institution.
Grapevine was interested to learn from Dr. Falk what he is doing for
minority groups on campus and why he has made personnel changes
Here is his reply:
Regardless of what may have been written or said about our administration
at Fresno State College, I am stating again, as I have repeatedly
stated since last October, that I am committed and dedicated to the improvement
and enlargement of education for minority students. Because
of my long interest in minority problems and my activities in providing
both private and public housing for minorities, I support the Ethnic Studies
Program and the Educational Opportunity Program at Fresno State
College.
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"Unfortunately many people think that Ethnic Studies and EOP are one
program. They are not one program but instead are separate, with different
objectives.
"First let's discuss Ethnic Studies—the academic program on campus
consisting of courses about the traditions and values of minority peoples,
and the method of looking at all information from the persepctive of the
minority individual.
"We need Ethnic Studies' programs. We want Ethnic Studies, and to
this end I have this week approved a 20 percent increase in the number
of faculty positions for Ethnic Studies for the 1970-71 academic year.
"The Educational Opportunity Program on the other hand is a financial
program to provide students who need financial aid, the opportunity to
obtain a college education. This is a money program—money provided
by the California State Legislature and the federal government.
"Like Ethnic Studies I support the Educational Opportunity Program.
There will be an EOP program on this campus next year, although the
State Legislature has not yet announced the amount of money to be made
available for this program. We feel confident that funds will be made
available but the exact amount will not be known until the official State
Budget is approved. When the State budget is announced, it will be added
to the federal money and we will then be permitted to notify applicants
of their acceptance. In preparation of this we have sent out more
than 1200 applications to individuals and high schools so that when the
total budget is announced we can accept new students.
"Although FSC is spending more than $500,000 this year for EOP, I
want to see the program not only continued but expanded. We were
authorized to have 150 new special admission EOP students last fall,
through additional sources, we were able to accept 182, bringing the
total EOP students on campus to approximately 350. The total number
of minority students now enrolled exceeds 1100.
"We want to see this number increased, and to bring it about, along
with the Presidents of the other eighteen State Colleges, I am working
and talking with legislators in an effort to persuade them to appropriate
more money for minority education.
"In addition I have asked the Academic Vice President to examine
various proposals and to eventually establish a Minority Education Advisory
Council made up of community representatives, students, and faculty
to advise the College in its minority programs, to help work with the
legislature for additional funds, and to aid the college in providing
quality education for minority students.
"In answer to the question, 'Why have I made changes?' Let me say
that I have made only two administrative changes at the College. All
personnel changes affecting minority groups were made by administrators
not directly under my control and without my knowledge or consultation.
"Actions I have taken have been done with one purpose in mind—to
guarantee the integrity of the institution, to maintain its academic standing,
to make a degree from FSC acceptable anywhere, and to establish
this College as one of the leading centers for higher education.
"Change is always difficult but if this institution is to continue to serve
the needs of you and your children, it must change, it must grow, it must
develop, it must recognize the need for education for all students, especially
minority students.
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FALK
By NATHAN C. HEARD
F.S.C. Professor
Nathan C. Heard
To write about Karl Falk, acting/
temporary/permanent President of
Fresno State College, is not to write
about him at all. To write about
Falk is to write about white America:
four-hundred years (that's worth
repeating) FOUR-HUNDRED YEARS
of degradation, hypocrisy and outright
lies which can be summarized
in the current phrase: White Racism.
Now a man doesn't have to
speak the rhetoric of the Ku Klux -
Klan to be a racist; he doesn't even
have to commit any overt act of
racism to be a racist; all he has to
do to be a racist (in a society
where only action counts) is to do
nothing. Not to be active in the
black man's fight for freedom and/
or equality is one of the more timid
ways whites have for expressing racism.
Falk is a public man, therefore, he has an image to keep, a role to
play that will (he hopes) soothe white consciences and at the same time
calm black anger. He has to give the impression that he's doing something
when in fact he's doing nothing. He has to be on the side of LAW
and ORDER (which interprets: money, church and the continued exploitation
of poor people while making these people think they're getting help)
and he also has to be on the side of "progressive" negroes who have
internalized whiteness to such a great degree that they don't believe
there's any other way of life except that which was defined by white
people. In fact, the only thing that keeps these negroes from totally acting
in accordance with white racism is the color of their skins . . . but
they have faith in the power of Nadinola.
Falk has succeeded in giving the black and brown people of Fresno
the impression that Fresno State College is doing them a favor by allowing
them to attend it. He has continued the tradition of white men, of
having the black masses believe everything he says while doubting
everything a black man says to them. For example, Richard D. Keyes,
Chairman of Black Studies at the college, has nothing at all to gain by
telling lies to black Fresnans for he is fighting for the freedom of black
people and will answer any question truthfully. Yet I have seen, time
and time again black people doubt him, challenge him and attack him
out of their ignorance and fears of attacking the real enemy of their
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FALK (Continued)
people. When Falk speaks few blacks question him, even if they suspect
he's lying. They only put the burden of proof on their black brothers,
because they know their brothers are less powerful than the white men
who rule them—body and mind.
Falk has the reputation of being a "Minority housing expert" though
I doubt that he's ever lived in a black slum, in fact or in spirit. He's a
banker, but I doubt that black people can bank on him to help supply
their needs—especially with long-term interest rates. Yet, because he's
been presented to black people as a Leader, as a representative of White
Power, as a synonym with Money, black people accept him also. This
acceptance of him may be unconscious but it is nevertheless a sad fact.
This can be so plainly seen in the black community's reluctance and
(I would even say) gear of confronting Falk concerning their own kids
attending the college. Black kids, it should be remembered by black
adults, are the only future that black people have. Why haven't black
Fresnans objected to the fact that Falk constantly consults with the white
community on the goings-on at FSC but seldom deigns to consult with
the black community—outside of a few black businessmen who are
probably in debt to his bank or trying to get in debt to it?
It is time for black people to stop believing the white man s lie about
money being the solution to race problems. Money is, no doubt, good,
but it will not buy manhood, it will not buy full citizenship in your own
country because no matter how rich you get (which won't be but so rich
anyway) you're still a nigger to the people who mint the money and
have the power to take it away from you anytime they so choose.
Falk is symbolic of all that has been presumptuous and demeaning in
this white world and it's going to take active interest and self-serving
action on the part of black people to remove this pious, racist blockade
from the path of their progress. I said ACTIVE interest and SELF-SERVING
ACTION, which simply means to stop being afraid of what the white
man is going to think about you snatching the reins of freedom from his
reluctant and very greedy hands. If nothing else, the history of black
people in this country should tell you that white people have not been
working for the best interest of black people. Think about the area of
Fresno called Jerico, or "F" and Tulare streets, or the conditions in West
Fresno which would never be tolerated where the whites live. Only a
fool would value the words of Falk above those of Richard Keyes. I think
we have been fools long enough.
Black people must get interested in the forces which control their
lives. Falk is one of those forces and we have got to forget what he says
and watch, ever so carefully, what he does because that is what will
affect us. Don't bother to listen to that junk about his friends in the
black community—has he given YOU the impression that he is a friend
of yours? I doubt it. White people have always talked about their black
friends" until that "friend" tries to become an equal. Dig it.
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FALK and EOP
By MARIANNA BORKERT
F.S.C. Student
Since taking over as acting President
of FSC, Dr. Karl Falk has made
many abrupt and startling chonges;
shocking to some and welcome to
others, depending upon political
stripe. One thing seems certain: it's
"high noon" for liberal speaking
and acting professors and administrators
as well. The Honor Roll of
the Severed continues to climb,
holding such esteemed names as:
Dr. Dale Burtner, former Dean of
the School of Arts and Sciences; Dr.
Harold Walker, former Executive
Vice President, and Dr. Paul Murray,
FSC Ombudsman (the Ombudsman
is a citizen's defender and the
position is a device to insure accountability
of anyone in public office.
Murray was critical of the
Falk adminstration). Other disruptive
actions (taken from boycott resolution) include:
(1) Refusal by the Acting Dean of Arts and Sciences, Phillip Walker, to
allow the faculty of Arts and Sciences the use of facilities necessary for
the Academic Council to function;
(2) Reversal by the Acting Dean of a previously stated recommendation
to rehire a faculty member for 1970-71, without justification for such
sudden reversal;
(3) The Acting President has issued an order to the Association staff to
refuse payment of poet Robert Mezey during a poetry reading, and dismissing
reasons why with a verbal "it was in the best interests of the
College";
(4) Acting President Falk has stated, via representatives before the Consultative
Procedures Committee that the Consultative Procedures are "legally
nonexistent," that the procedures are only "proposal consultative
procedures" and "are not binding upon the president or any other officer
or body of this college";
(5) Acting Executive Vice President Fikes has shuffled the duties from
the Dean of Students office, with no apparent consultation with the Dean
of Students, Donald Albright, beforehand, thereby placing direct control
of Admissions, Financial Aids, and the EOP program in the hands of an
administrator of questionable sensitivity, particularly in the area of EOP
and relations with minority students on this campus,-
(6) The administration has threatened the existence of the minority
editions of the paper, and placed pressure upon student representatives
to alter their differing positions, and further backed such pressure with
admonishments about possible action by the Board of Trustees;
(7) Cut off privileges from the staff of the College Religious Center, for
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FALK AND EOP (Continued)
apparently allowing Marvin X to use the facilities of the center after
being banned on campus;
(8) The Acting President has cancelled the curriculum of the Experimental
College for Spring, 1970, with no assurance that experimentation
will continue on this campus in the future;
(9) Subsequent cancellation of the Experimental College has resulted
in the removal of the Director of the Experimental College;
(10) The administration has entered into a serious philosophical clash
with the staff of the Ethnic Studies Department over the whole of the Ethnic
Studies Department of FSC, and Acting Dean Walker has made statements
to the community about the Ethnic Studies program, without allowing
the representatives of the department to speak in their own favor
On February 24th and 25th, a campus-wide boycott of classes, supported
by the Student Senate, was held in protest of the Falk administration.
An estimated over one-third of the student body boycotted and
over 2,000 signatures in protest of the administration was gathered on
petitions from students on campus during this boycott. Although Acting
President Falk made a public statement before the boycott saying that
"hardcore militants" were trying to bring on a confrontation and force
him to call the police and National Guard unto the campus, the boycott
was peaceful, marred by only one incidence of violence. A student marshal
was assaulted at the main entrance of the campus Tuesday afternoon
by another student not supporting the boycott. So for all of Folk's
cries of "Wolf," he was left looking sheepish.
Recently, Falk called a press conference to clarify his policy on the
EOP and Ethnic Studies programs.
During the news conference, open only to representatives of the news
media, two black students, representing UHURU asked to be admitted,
they were refused admittance and a scuffle occurred leading eventually
to the admittance of one of the students.
At the conference, Dr. Falk stated that he is not trying to destroy the
EOP and Ethnic Studies at FSC but striving to improve and expand the
present programs.
"At the present time we cannot accept any new students for fall,
1970," Falk said. The increased quota of students would depend mainly
upon funding. It may be necessary to go to the community for funds,
Falk said, and the response of the community depends upon the behavior
of EOP students.
In an interview, Kenneth Lewis, Director of Financial Aids, said the
breakdown for the amount of money given directly to EOP students is
as follows:
—Federal Assistance, $478,630;
—FSC Association grants, $20,000;
—State EOP grants, $60,000;
—Community grants, $5,000.
Whatever the final outcome at FSC, the atmosphere is tense with fear
and repression, and mutterings are being heard all over the campus. The
lid is about to blow.
SPECIAL ARTICLE NEXT MONTH by Publisher Lesly Kimber and his
confrontation with the Fresno Police Department.
27
MAYOR WILLS: Politician or Statesman?
By REV. RUEBEN SCOTT
Pastor of Providence Baptist Church
Rev. Rueben Scott
Walter Lippman defines a politician
as a man who seeks to gratify
some particular interests and
desires. As a leader of a power
elite or political party he may seek
to enlist the support of others to
his cause by making specific
pledges to them. If fhat is not possible
he may employ some form of
deception under which Lippman includes
the whole art of political
propaganda whether it be half
truths, ambiguities, direct lies, calculated
silence, red herrings, slogans,
showmanship or buncombe.
The politician is a man who works
for partial community or national
interests. At worst his own pocket.
At best it may be his party, class,
or institution with which he may
be identified. You can never feel
that he can or will take into account all of the interests concerned because
bias and partisanship are the qualities of his conduct and cannot
be trusted.
Moreover the statesman under modern conditions is able to penetrate
from and rise above naive self interests of each group to their permanent
and real interests. The statesman follows that difficult course where
the great virtues of justice, wisdom, self-control, and courage are of
cardinal importance. The statesman recognizes that government arises
out of the needs of mankind. The statesman's role is difficult because it
does require dealing with reality and not unreality as does the politician,
it requires deep sympathy and a vast amount of information.
If, in fact, a man can be judged by his deeds, Mayor Wills must, from
the writer's viewpoint, fall into Lippman's definition of the politician. A
catalogue of events will help to substantiate this conclusion.
The politics of confusion and deception has been used more than once
by the chief executive at City Hall. How well do we remember the attempt
to confuse the public concerning the Model Cities application approval
and the deliberate attempt to discredit the work that had been
done to reduce thousands of pages of relevant data to a mere seventyfive
pages. Another attempt to confuse the public and to raise suspicion
concerning this program was the recent statement that the Model Cities
program had no money, when in fact, a letter of credit had been issued
and only needed depositing.
Then there was the confusion created by the Mayor concerning the
status of the Internal Revenue Service Center. The "don't-rock-the-boator-
it-may-be-lost-talk" was just another cog in the "politics-of-confusionwheel"
to divide and alienate concerned citizens of the community. The
(Con't on Page 30)
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THE QUESTION OF LEADERSHIP
By GEORGE PURDOM
Board Member of Fresno Chamber of Commerce
George Purdom
As a city we have wondered
what 1970 will mean to us. As we
look back over the past year, and
relate it to the prior three years,
we have cause to reflect seriously
over what 1970 possibly might
mean to the people of Fresno.
We see the hard work of dedicated
leadership and inspired citizens
in the areas of renewal (both
human and physical) and race relationship
dissipated and prostitued
by indifferent and hostile
governmental leadership. We
see a closed ear to appeals to
reason in almost every situation,
no matter how critical, and in the
midst of affluence we see oppressive
poverty, and the dream of the
All America City is beginning in
the face of cold reality, to be just
a dream. Almost without exception this has been caused by a failure in
leadership.
We have experienced leadership failure before, but never in the city s
history has it been so pronounced in our minority community. The hopes,
the trusts, yea, the deserved resepct and consideration so vital to the
inspirations of the community has been dissipated by lack of concern
and consideration, and has been replaced by wide spread distrust of the
institution and the establishment. And the distrust is not limited to radicals
as we would be made to believe. These conditions are very urgent,
and the number of citizens who are concerned is vast, and not restricted
to race. All you need do is talk to people on all levels and you will find
that there is a deep and pervasive feeling among all segments of populance
that in spite of federal, state, and city's money expended things
aren't working" for us here in our city.
Leadership's attitudes must change, and, we must do more to set a
tone of urgency to which we can all respond, and more to exemplify in
our own actions a determination to work a change in these attitudes.
We are not—and should not become—docile followers of the leader. In
a vital community the citizen has a role that goes beyond the act of
voting. He must advocate and support social and civic reform, provide
funds indiscriminately, criticize, demand, expose corruption, and support
leaders who lead.
One thing the citizen must do is to refuse to accept all politicians who
exploit fear and anger and hatred for their own purposes. He might not
be able to rid himself entirely of these emotions, but he can rid himself
of politicians who thrive by manipulating them. Rid himself of such politicians
and go ahead and "take care of business."
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THE QUESTION OF LEADERSHIP (Continued)
Examples of this type of manipulation is playing white ethnic minorities
against black and brown minorities and brown against black minorities
which can only hurt all concerned; and the politician who pursues that
strategy should be rejected by all.
I am convinced that most of our citizens do want to see our problems
solved, including the problem of race, poverty and the quality of life.
Some Americans equate the inner city problems with racial tensions—
and say they are tired of the race problem and wish it would go away
Well, that won't happen, but if it did, we would still have the urban
crisis. Poor housing, unemployment which involves black and white, and
inefficiency and often corruption of municipal government would remain.
t is true that minorities and the poor are hit first when the urban
system breaks down, but the problem is much more serious and broader
an will in the long run affect all of us. Make no mistake about how
meaningful this thing is to all of us, and we must—have to—"do our
thing."
Mayor Wills: Politician or Statesman? (Cont)
(Con't from Page 28)
Fake emergency trip to Washington to "Save the Center" further illustrates
the political prowess of the Mayor. He fits Lippman's definition of
the politician.
The latest political maneuver was the appointment of Mr. Ethan Bernstein
to another term on the Redevelopment Agency Board. The interests
involved in the appointment were clearly "personal" rather than for the
unity and health of governmental relations in the larger community and
specifically that community most affected by Redevelopment activity.
This omnibus of events can leave no doubt in the minds of those who
take them seriously that Fresno is weighed in the balance and found
wanting for a statesman in the Mayor's seat. But he is a first rate
politician.
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