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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. (Continued on page 2) sah f xt.mil foghoizn All-American 1954-66 Winner of the Pa-comaker Award Volume 61, No. 18 Friday, March 31, 1967 SK 1-3118, SK 1-3119 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 -see page 6 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 fContinued on page 4)
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Publication Date | 1967-03-31 |
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Transcript | 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. (Continued on page 2) sah f xt.mil foghoizn All-American 1954-66 Winner of the Pa-comaker Award Volume 61, No. 18 Friday, March 31, 1967 SK 1-3118, SK 1-3119 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 -see page 6 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 fContinued on page 4) |
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