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University and environs
Vol. 63, No. 8
November 8, 1968
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Black student Union issues demands
BSU president elucidates
The USF Black Student Union issued a series of demands
to the university community
early this week. The demands
are: (1) office space; (2) establishment of a department of
black studies with a black man
as the co-ordinator and head of
the department; (3) more black
teachers; (4) black counsellors;
(5) an extended effort to recruit black high school students; (6) black students on
the advisory boards which recruit black high school students; (7) that the word "disadvantaged" be dropped from
USF's black recruiting program.
Joe Marshall, President of
the BSU, explained these demands to the Foghorn Monday
morning.
"We need the office space,"
Marshall said, "because people
in the black community depend
on the BSU. Communication is
needed because if people in the
black community can't get in
touch with the BSU their lives
are affected." The BSU got
their office, Room 136 in Phelan Hall, last Tuesday.
The rest of the demands are
of an academic nature and will
probably be presented to Paul
Harney, S.J., academic vice-
president.
"We would like to see the pilot program expanded," Marshall said. "We don't like the
way the program was handled
in the first year. It was badly
mishandled. The tutoring program wasn't put together at all
until after school started."
Marshall went on to praise
John Canney, English instructor and co-ordinator of the program.
"The BSU would like to make
it known that we are very, very
pleased with him," Marshall
said. "If all white men were
like Mr. Canney, we might possibly be able to live together."
In regard to the demand for
black teachers, Marshall said,
"We will submit names." As
for the name of the program,
he stated, "We would like either EOP (Educational Opportunities Program) or Black
Studies. Preferably Black Studies."
Regarding the recent flap over the choice of the homecoming queen, Marshall said, "We
thought that homecoming was a
student activity. However, I
talked to Leo Murphy (senior
class president) and he told me
that it was for alumni. We are
urging all students to check into the procedures for horn e-
coming.
Murphy denied that he told
Marshall that homecoming was
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an  alumni   activity.   "What  I
told him," Murphy said, "was
that homecoming was for the
whole university: students, faculty, administration, and alumni." When asked if there had
been any students on the panel
that chose the homecoming
queen finalists, Murphy replied,
"If I remember correctly,
there were no students on the
finalists committee."
Marshall also said that the
BSU was not sponsoring Breakthrough Day, which had been
scheduled for November 14.
Finally, Marshall mentioned
that the BSU will be sponsoring
a canned food and money drive
on campus beginning next Monday. The proceeds from this
drive will go to needy black
families in the community for
Thanksgiving.
YNA sponsored collection
hopes to bail out H-A clinic
By Harvey Sullivan
Foghorn Staff Writer
The Youth for a New
America, under the San
Francisco direction of John
Bergez, sophomore English
major at USF, will be holding
a benefit "Quarters for the
Clinic" collection here during the week of November
15-22. The purpose is to provide financial help to the
Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic,
which has been attempting to
overcome a 10,000 dollar deficit.
Before it was closed for
lack of funds, the Haight-
Ashbury Clinic provided
many necessary services to
the people in or around the
Haight-Ashbury and surrounding Golden Gate Park
area.
Their area of service was
threefold: 1) physical —
this field covers all manner
of bodily aches and pains
accrued in the daily routine
of the hospital, 2) psychiatric
— both group therapy and individual treatment were
stressed in the program at
the clinic, and 3) research —
the primary concern in the
research department at the
Free Clinic was . the study
of drugs, their use and abuse,
and the profiles of typical
drug users. The average
number of patients was three
thousand to four thousand a
month, making it the largest
Free Clinic in the United
States.
Bergez, who is chairman
of the drive proper for the
Bay Area, and Bill Chambers
sophomore poli sci major
and president of the USF
branch   of   the   YNA,   have
spearheaded a program to
contact all parishes in the
diocese, explaining the situation, and seeking financial
aid. "So far," said Bergez,
"We have found those we
have been able to contact to
be very receptive, and a few
parishes have given substantial amounts."
The plans for this project
in the near future include a
proposed Town Hall on
"Haight-Ashbury," the re-
establishment of the financial contacts needed to keep
the clinic in operation, and
an increased program on
campus to win the support of
the students.
As a chartered organization of ASUSF, the YNA does
have the right to request
funds from the treasury, but
as yet they have decided not
to draw funds from this
source.
The clinic has planned a
tentative re-opening for mid-
November, and by that time
they hope to have raised the
remainder of the funds
needed.
Seale here
Tuesday
Whites Against Racism announced last Tuesday that they
have obtained the services of
Black Panther leader Bobby
Seale for the upcoming Town
Hall on racism. The discussion
will begin at 11 a.m. Thursday,
November 14, and will be held
in Harney Plaza if weather permits, otherwise in the 21 club
area in the University Centre,
first floor.
Meeting today
Constitutional controversy
(As the nation faced the possibility of Constitutional crisis
caused by the Electoral College Tuesday night, the USF student body was faced with its own constitutional crisis. The
Foghorn reprints the major documents of that controversy
below, along with excerpts from an open letter by ASUSF
president Mike Galligan.—Ed.)
On October 30,1968, Galligan issued the following directive.
"In accordance with a petition signed by 15 percent of the
student body, the following proposal will be put to a vote
of ASUSF next Tuesday, Nov. 5: Do the members of the
ASUSF approve the appropriation of $14,000 to the Foghorn
appropriated by the Legislature on September 10, 1968?"
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Objecting that the referendum was not worded constitutionally, the Foghorn asked the student court to decide the
issue. Chief Justice John Dalton then issued the following
injunction, postponing the vote until such time as the validity of the Foghorn's claims could be ascertained.
"Acting upon the request of the Foghorn, the Student Court
grants a temporary injunction prohibiting the referendum
scheduled for 5 November 1968. The Court enjoins the
President of the ASUSF from holding the aforesaid election until such time as the Court determines the Constitu-
ional nature of the Budget Committee, its relationship to the
ASUSF Legislature, and its susceptibility to referendum.
"The Court will hear arguments from the circulators of
the petition requesting the referendum and from the Foghorn on Thursday, 7 Novembber 1968, in room U.C. 419 at
11:30 a.m."
Robert A. Sunderland, S.J., issued the following some
hours later.
"By the authority of the President of the University, I
have accepted and do reverse the injunction issued by the
Student Court against the referendum called for, legitimately
and with proper manner, by Michael Galligan. Therefore
the vote on the student's referendum shall take place, as
requested by Michael Galligan and his constituents, on
Tuesday, November 5, 1968."
The Court responded:
"In reviewing the 'notice' of the Vice President for Student Affairs, the Student Court finds this action to be extra-
constitutional and unacceptable, since the judicial power of
the Student Court 'Shall be final and subject to no appeal
except at the request of the Vice President for Student Affairs.' (Article IV, Section ii, Paragraph C of the ASUSF
Constitution) Since the Vice President for Student Affairs
has made no such request, and since he has no authority under this Constitution to accept or reverse decisions of this
Court, the 'Notice' issued by the Vice President for Student
Affairs has no Constitutional validity.
"Therefore, the Student Court enjoins the ASUSF President Michael Galligan and the Chairman of the Board of
Student Control, Frank P. McGee, to take no official cognizance of the statement of Robert A. Sunderland, S.J.
"It is with deep regret that the Student Court finds itself
in opposition to the Vice President for Student Affairs; however, in its role as the guardian of student liberties, it finds
this action sadly necessary."
Tuesday evening Galligan issued his open letter, explaining the situation. He went on to state:
"I want to make very clear my position in this matter. I
beleieve that the students have a right to express their opinions concerning the campus newspaper. I myself called the
referendum . . . Nonetheless, I also believe that any student
has the right to seek legal protection for his rights through
judicial procedure, even if some may consider him to be in
the minority."
Galligan later called for a meeting of all faculty, students, and administrators for today, November 8, at 3:00
p.m. in UC 417-19 to discuss this matter.
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