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press release or as a basis for this entire movement. We've set this up right now. Therefore, we ask that this campus be reopened at once by the school administration. Second mhm number three. We are in favour of the creation of a campus ombudsman. Mhm. Mhm. All

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right. We do not feel the present government has adequately coped with the present problems on this campus under the provisions of the Associated Quiet Island. Keep on rehab. 3 ft there. Okay, then fucking up. Parker? Yeah, Okay. We want to add something onto this by the

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two demands. We've been asked to comment or address ourselves to the 10 commands. Uh, 10 commands the 10 demands. They're both pretty much the same thing. We think that under the present coercive environment, the present coercive pressure that has been brought to bear on the campus

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as a whole that any discussion of the 10 demands is completely inappropriate. In fact, I think I can speak for the group as a whole and saying that we consider any discussion of the 10 demands to be completely ridiculous at this point. Excluding the hecklers and

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people yelling and screaming, I say that most of these are Some of these people are about 25 or 30 all students, full time students, concerned students. What do you mean, right? There is a provision for that in the Constitution. I don't have one with me right

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now. What? That's not The issue should be recalled on the grounds that it does not truly represent election, which we had had approximately. I believe 8% of the student body of voting just does not office that this does not constitute a majority of the student body.

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We have decided that it is time for the what we termed the silent majority of this campus. Yeah, mhm to express their opinion at the polls, I want to ask a question. Everyone's saying they should have stood up and spoke. What's wrong with standing up and

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speaking now in this manner? Come on, That's it. Developed the sarin disco state makes it abundantly clear why such a recall is needed. We need new people to represent us in this campus, people who aren't gonna allow the kind of situation that has developed here in

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the last couple of days to happen ever again. OK, at this time I'd like to just cut it right here. Yeah. What is your thing? Think that the recall attempt is going to succeed? Because I recall Attempt has tried last spring. Uhh by Mr Steven Diaz.

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And that failed, um, it didn't even get the required number of signatures. Also, uh, mhm the fact that, uh, the associated Students, when it is the left, so to speak, and the associated students when it took power back and has endorsed the strike, We are, uh,

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back of the strike. 100%. Yeah. There's, uh, one of the buffets of the game. What buffets? Do you think? It's justifiable criticism. Well, if I felt that I had acted irresponsibly, I wouldn't be trying to carry through and what we're attempting to do here, would I?

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Dr Smith, you mentioned helped create the crisis here, or Yeah, well, it does help clarify his position. Smith, is there any chance that, uh, over the long pole, uh, in the next year? This would depend upon the kind of perceptions that develop out of, uh, trustees

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meeting and the legislative hearings that are coming up next week and the kind of, uh, sense that the Legislature and the people of the state can grasp of the the driving needs for additional support, at least for next fall, for especially in the urban area. Dr.

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Smith, you're saying are you optimistic? Looking to a Tuesday, Smith, Some of these students is there anything truth to that? Would you like to identify the source of the rumor? I've been living in quite a mythology. The last, uh, the last couple of weeks, I have

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not been asked to resign. The basis for that was some of our hearings out there yesterday. Wallace State Group was here. Mhm. Well, no, I I don't agree with that. If I did within, there wouldn't be any point in my trying to continue in this role

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because I think there major changes and adjustments that need to take place in higher education and in the pattern of higher education, its relation to the urban community, for colleagues such as this, and to the minority groups within it. And that's part of what we're part

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of what the conflict is over and part of what we're working on. I think that the channels look far more difficult to students than I think I understand why they do in some measure than they do to the people in the college. But you send some

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of that feeling among the faculty as well. Welcome the if you look at the Donahoe Act that set the system up, uh, it says that the, uh, trustees are responsible for the administration of the state college system. And I, uh, it doesn't say that they're responsible

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to see that they're administered. It says that they're responsible for administering President. They did order you to do something. And I take that problem on At the time it came over the horizon, the way I've tried to the other, uh, unexpected problems and talking to him,

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I've been I have not had an opportunity to talk to him directly. You're person have no corresponded them to his call for arbitration. We've My staff has talked to his staff about it. Dr. Smith, Clarification on Europa. What? I think it's 15 when we have a

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complete compliment, and that includes trying to manage the campus 24 hours a day. I think it will do that when I get down there. We will not have made the decision yet as to whether we can. I think that it's a more of an effort to

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try to focus on the in some of the very real problems that that we have to assess before we can open and to push the discussion along the faculty and administrators and to see if we can do that. Dr. Smith, how would you describe the exchange

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of concerns? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, sure, exactly what happened? So I think we will. Mhm. A similar interest of the board of trustees is probably seen in someone like Catherine Hurst, who is both a university regent and an owner of newspapers. Now you

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can't expect that when students strike in a university and the region's try to put down the strike or the board of trustees or whatever that the newspapers, her very newspapers would come out in favor of the strike. Certainly they've attacked it. Comments about the sepsis of

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chronicles, coverage of the strike. Okay, the Examiner. Uhh! When I talk about their attempts to unionize now, when the bloc's struggle comes to the campus and manifest itself through a black studies program which eventually will organize and is organising community people to fight for a decent

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life. The prophets of Del Monte Corporation are very directly threatened. It is in the interest of Mr Swim to keep Mexican American people from getting an education, because who else is going to pick in his fields for a dollar and a quarter an hour to make

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a huge profit margin? You see, it's in his interest to keep Mexican Mexican Americans ignorant of the economic alternatives and opportunities you see. Don't you see the contradiction there Very wealthy people run the newspapers who asked the same sort of the same kind of people run

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the university. And, uh, the only people who can afford these huge newspaper chains are people with a lot of money. What should be done? Well, I'm not here to explain what the newspaper Anderson should or should not do people in this country to struggle against against

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the institutions and against the people who control those institutions who are maintaining those people. Maintaining Third World people prevent in in a position of oppression and preventing them from getting, you know, preventing them from using this institution and, you know, to to to, you know, to

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end that oppression were saying The attack on George Murray. The attack on the on the Third World programs, the attack on the black studies programs were an attempt by the administration, by the trustees and by the state government to, you know, to suppress the right of

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non white people in this country to fight and to stand up and fight together. It's very higher than demands are met. The strike will be over. But we're saying in relation to the attack, which we consider racist, that it's not. It is in the interest of

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white students and white people in the community to support to support these 10 demands to support the strike. Because racism is used in this society as a divisive force by the power structure to keep people, for instance, an Associated students elections where they opposed the, uh,

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program people the, uh, people to the left of center. And we urge students responsible in the current disruptions to see such actions present their demands in a manner consistent with the academic environment. Okay, mhm mhm. Under the provisions of the Associated Students Constitution, we intend to

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circulate a petition calling for the special elections of all student body officers and legislatures just get the whole process back. So it's in an orderly faster we can you feel like nothing to me. So wait a minute. We feel that nothing can be solved unless the

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situation on the campus is settled down and it's nonviolent. Wherefore Nonviolence 100% we don't feel it here that has been conducted by various groups on the campus is conducive to any uhh logical, any basis for an argument. We don't think any result can come from it

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unless you have water on this. I've been involved in associated students on campus for quite a while and consider myself somewhat of a self educated authority on how the right wing on this campus operates in any group of 18,000 students, You're bound to have a few,

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uh, right wing individuals. What makes you say they're really right wing? Well, because they use the same tactics that they've used in all the elections. I saw some of the same individuals. I saw nobody speaking for them or supporting them or standing behind their table that

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I knew that had any sort of left wing views or ideology. It was reported at the exception of the strike that the strike was only 2 to 3% effective, and I don't know where the Examiner report has got their information. But let me finish my statement.

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Please excuse me. I think it's our press conference. Were the ones that are being asked a question. You see, our point is not to a to insult individual reporters. That's not the point. The point is to show that there's certain corporate interests that run the university

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and not coincidentally, the same corporate interests also run newspapers. Oh, everybody can express company. What is your What is your Lucas South?