San Francisco Foghorn

              Police 'harassment' grows
as hippie migration predicted
By Mike Williams
Foghorn Night Editor
San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district may be teeming
with as many as 50,000 to 100,-
000 added hippies when school
ends this summer, as a result
of the world-wide publicity the
H-A has been receiving.
Although there is no definite
proof that any mass migration
to the Haight will occur, the
general feeling among residents is that the number of
hippies will grow appreciably
during the summer months.
Mayor John F. Shelley on
March 2 sent a letter to the
board of supervisors urging
them to go on record as opposing   any   "migration"   of
hippies to San Francisco.
Dr. Jack Curtis, director of
USF's Urban Life Institute
which is active in Haight-Ashbury community affairs, estimated that about 50,000 hippies might arrive in the
Haight.
Allan Cohen, editor of the
Oracle, and Joel Roberts, past
Vanguard president, feel sure
that there will be an influx,
although they confess that
they have no way of knowing
what the number of newcomers might be.
The expected migration so
alarmed the Recreation and
Park Commission that on
March 17 it passed a resolution forbidding overnight res
idence in the city's parks because "this would create a
health and sanitary problem."
A number of Haight-Ashbury residents, according to
Cohen, had hoped to set up
camping facilities in Golden
Gate Park and Kezar stadium
for the expected newcomers,
and had asked the assistance
of the Recreation and Park
Department before the intervention of the Park Commission.
Eight two-man teams from
the city health department
have been checking a fifty-
block area of the Haight-Ashbury district this week for
violations of city health codes.
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Phil requirement
limited to 12 units
The philosophy department
has made plans to limit its
share of the core curriculum
to 12 units of required courses
beginning with the fall term of
next year.
At the March 14th meeting
of the department, the seven
members present voted unanimously to revise the philosophy requirements to meet
the recent recommendations
of the core curriculum committee.
The new philosophy curriculum would consist of three
units each of Introduction to
Philosophy, Philosophy of
Man, Philosophy of Being and
God, and Ethics.
These courses are identical
to those recommended by Core
Curriculum chairman Edward
Stackpole, S.J. at a meeting of
the assembled faculty early
last February.
Since the philosophy depart-
SEC flick
"The Grapes of Wrath" is
on tap Sunday night in the
Phelan Hall dining room. Admission is two bits.
John Ford directed this
Academy Award-winning adaptation of John Steinbeck's
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Henry Fonda, Walter Brennan, and a turtle are featured.
ment also assigned courses
to its professors on the basis of
the new curriculum, a number
of inside sources speculated
that at least that part of the
core curriculum proposal is
very near to being approved
by Charles Dullea, S.J., university president.
To accomplish the changeover to the new course schedule, the department also
agreed that those who have already taken either Phil 12a or
12b (History of Philosophy)
need not take Introduction to
Philosophy, which now will be
required for freshmen (however, a previous course in
Logic will not substitute for
the Introduction course); students who have already completed either of the two currently required ethics courses
(Phil 105 and 106) will have
satisfied the senior requirement for three units of ethics.
Of the other new courses
Philosophy of Man will be required for sophomores and
Philosophy of Being and God
for juniors.
Lower division requirements
for philosophy majors for the
first time will be completely
different from those required
of all other students. Three
courses in the History of
Philosophy (ancient, medieval
and modern) and Symbolic
Logic will be required of department majors.
Rock tonite
The Axoms will ring out
the old month tonight at ?
mixer sponsored by the
Math Club and KUSF.
From 8:30 to 12:30 p.m.
anyone who has paid a dollar and donned a coat or
sweater and tie may participate in the revels, to be
held in Phelan Hall.
Midway through the
dance, a team of the Math
Club's five top theoreticians
will find the square root of
any number tossed out by
the merrymakers. Winner
of the competition will receive a four-year scholarship to MIT.
The preceding is, of
course, a rumor and has
not yet been confirmed.
Editorial
Lay off the
Haight-Ashbury
As lemmings rush to the sea, so will several thousand
hippies probably rush to San Francisco this summer.
Police Chief Tom Cahill at first, rather short-sightedly,
refused to believe it, but then decided that, hippies being
"no asset to the' community," "law, order .and health regulations must prevail" in order to keep them out. And lo.
a new injunction — camping is forbidden in Golden Gate
Park.
This hypocritical use of the law in regard to hippies
is nothing new. Late last September police cordoned off
the Haight-Ashbury during the Fillmore and Hunter's
Point- riots, .instituting virtual martial law by shooing
pedestrians off the street as early as 8 p.m. Early in
December the proprietor of The Psychedlic Shop was
arrested for selling The Love Book, which the police had
termed obscene. On March 9 The Blushing Peony and
other shops were relieved of "obscene" buttons and posters, while across the Bay six teen-age girls suspected of
smoking marijuana were hustled off to jail in handcuffs.
And last Monday several heaKh inspectors trooped into
Haight-Ashbury homes checking sanitation and such; presumably they will evict if the places they cited are not
cleaned up.
The hippies have done nothing to merit this gratuitous punishment. They're not trying to destroy society;
they've quietly turned their backs on it. Compare the
Easter Newport bacchanals of six or seven years ago and
the three-hundred plus arrests at Fort Lauderdale last
weekend with Haight-Ashbury's Easter — all quiet until
a few hippies stopped tourists' cars and urged them to turn
Oh, at which point the police descended.
The police and city administrators can't comprehend
the hippie mentality, which would rather form its own
community than stick with one that's persecuting it. This
lack of understanding breeds fear, and fear is a dangerous
thing in men with authority: it is vented in harassment.
But this is the risk we run in a welfare society. We give
a beaurocracy certain regulatory powers and hope it
doesn't run amuck, .and we end up with a police department telling us what we can't read and a park department
telling us where we can't sleep.
The authorities have overstepped their bounds, and we
who empowered them must regain the rights they have
taken from us.
We established a police department to keep people
from killing each other, not to decide what is immoral or
to prevent us from reading it. We set up a parks department to maintain places where we can enjoy ourselves, not
to determine who should be barred and who admitted. And
we created no agency at all to regulate intrastate migration.
We suggest, then, that the police go back to catching
thieves, the parks department to planting trees, and city
officials to clearing up the Bay Area Rapid Transit mess.
We'd like to see the park open again, and accessible to
those who want to live there because they haven't anyplace else. Of course supervision would be necessary, to
make sure hippies don't set themselves or the trees afire,
but that could and should be taken care of by the Diggers
or the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council. It's a community job; the police are neither needed or wanted.
Perhaps someone should tell them. J- S.
Campus group sponsers ad
protesfing fhe Vietnam war
Ten USF faculty members
and two students have signed
an "Open Letter" calling for a
"reassessment of American
involvement in Vietn.am."
The letter, addressed to the
"Catholic Clergy and Laity of
the United States," appeared
as an "advertisement in the
magazines "America," "Commonweal," "Continuum," and
in the newspapers "National
Catholic Reporter" and "The
Catholic Voice," the latter of
the diocese of Oakland.
USF faculty members who
signed the advertisement
were: Virginia Barry, assistant professor of business law;
Barbara Broderick, instructor
of theology; Robert Brophy,
S.J., assistant professor of
English; Dr. James Colwell,
assistant professor of psychology; Dr. Robert Cunningham, professor of philosophy;
Dr. Jack Curtis, director of the
Urban Life Institute; Thomas
McClendon on student freedom
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Drain, instructor of theology;
Msgr. John Tracy Ellis (now
visiting professor at Brown
University); Dr. James Haag,
associate professor of physics;
and Eugene Schallert, assistant professor of sociology.
Student signers were Lawrence Putnam and Catherine
Collins. Miss Collins is vice-
chairman of the campus chapter of the Catholic Committee
on Vietnam, which sponsored
the advertisement. She was
primarily responsible for collecting faculty signatures at
USF.
Taking their cue from the
words of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, "No
one is free to evade his personal responsibility by leaving
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