New Club Forms As Result of -'Strike' Information from local, national and international sources will be distributed to the student body by a new organization . being formed on campus. The idea for the formation of the group · was announced at last Friday's "strike" program by Bruce ~ Siggson, speaker for the group. Siggson said that the school had started a good thing by having the speakers on campus, and in order to keep the good thing going a club would be formed to circulate information to the students about important issues, to keep them thinking. "If the views are presented then · the students will make the right choice. We have faith in the student body," Siggson said. · He also stated that the club will try to have subscriptions to most of the magazines and newspapers that deal with national and .international problems, in order to keep students informed. According to Siggson, the club will try to set up a table where students can pick up literature. He said they will try to keep from presenting only one side of any issue and will .be open to information from any source. Siggson's announcement came after the appearance of off-campus speakers Dr. Herman Yeager, philosophy instructor at Cal State, Robert Machado, Peace and Freedom
Party candidate for state assembly, and Pete Vigil, student body president of Chabot College. Dr. Yeager spoke on the philo· sophical and moral question of the draft, quoting from Isaiah in the Old Testament and calling for students to refer to their personal code of morality when judging the .draft. He directed several of his remarks to the "young ladies" in the crowd who were encouraging their young men to go off to war, and told them that if the war should result in a total call-up they too would be required to serve. Machado's remarks were directed toward the U.S. policy ·in Vietnam, saying that it is a sick society that_ spends $58 per year to help · each poor person and $300,000 to kill one Viet Cong. He went on to criticize the U.S. support of "dictators" in South Vietnam, saying that the U.S. had denied free elections in that country and installed "right-wing dictators." When questioned as to when the last free election in North Vietnam took place, Machado answered "That's not the point. There will never be free elections in North or South · Vietnam, so what are we fighting for?" Vigil spoke on the civil rights movement and said he was alarmed by the "we's and they's" students were using when speaking of the
STUDENT 'STRIKE' ORGANIZER passes program of the day's speakers to students assembled on front lawn . rights of the minorities. He also expressed his disdain at the "tokenism'' of renaming bridges and parks after one of our leaders has been slain, instead of doing something concrete to change what is causing the problem. He said he was appalled by the type of people this tokenism appeases. History instructor, Dean Frazer~ was called in to speak by Steve
Bammel, student body president, who was moderator for the program, an said that he agreed with Bammel's call for students to commit themselves to the vital issues of the day. Frazer also said that the constant that man has had the most trouble coping with is the constant of change, and that, "If we all commit ourselves to change we may
once again make this society into the great thing that we in history teach it once was." Psychology instructor, Finis "Pete" Wilson, who opened the program, summed up his feeling about the possibility of having more speakers in the future by saying "I hope the response to future speakers may be that we may learn to love one another.''
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Vol. 7, No. 11
Thursday, May 2, 1968
Students represe~ting 82 Comm unity Colleges, including Ohlone, dedicated their . reqent statewide conference to Dr. · Martin Luther King.
The prevailing mood at the semiannual student government meeting was one of concern for the racial crisis in the United States, according to the official convention reporter. It was resolved that April 4 be-
Drama Department Needs Short, I Muscular Actor to Play Monkey Ohlone drama department is now preparing to present "The Little Hut" by Andre Raussin on the weekend of May 31, June 1 and 2, and the following weekend, June 8, 9 and 10. Leading roles will be taken by Tom Watterman, understudied by Willis Edens, and Bruce Mardar, understudied by Tom Lee. Alternating leading ladies are Pat Fran-
co, Nancy West and Kathy Williamson. < The high-comedy, "adults only" play, takes place on a desert island, where three Englishmen - a man and wife, and their mutual male "fi:iend"-are shipwrecked. "The Little Hut" will be performed in the daytime in an amphitheatre type of setting behind the old Serra Center building on campus.
Herald Receives Trophy At Annual Journalism .Meeting The Saint's Herald Staffroom has a trophy for editorial cartoons. The third place award is a result of three cartoons by Gary Barnum which have appeared in the Herald since last fall. Six Herald staff members were present at the Journalism Association of Junior Colleges convention which awarded the trophy. Over 600 stud e n t s from Junior Colleges throughout California attended. Resolutions concerning the problems facing -1unior College newspapers were discussed and passed at student section meetings. Resolu-
tions to fight administrative control and censorship, and to support· the rights of reporters and editors to w i t h h o 1d the identity of their sources are only two of those supported by the convention. There were panel discussions and guest speakers as well as the student section meetings and competition in editorials, news, advertising, and related subjects.
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Graduation . Applications Available Graduation exercises are being planned for 7 p.m. June 19. Students who will have the required. 80 units may pick up application forms at the admissions office. According to William Blum, dean of students, students who will not have the required units until the end of summer sessions may also apply for graduation in June.
Testing and registration dates for summer sessions at Ohlone have been scheduled. For the six-week session (July 1Aug. 9) the ACT testing will be held fJ,"om 5:30-10 p.m., June 25 in E-80 on the main campus. Registration . for this session will be held May 831 for continuing day students, June 3-6 (8:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m., in B-33) for continuing evening students, June 27 from 6-9 p.m. for new students. Late registration will be held from 9~11 a.m. and 6-9 p.m., July 1 and 2 in B-33. For the four-week session (Aug. 12-Sept. 6) the ACT testing will be held 12:30- 5 p.m., Aug. 9 in B-20. Late registration will be 9-11 a.m. and 6-8 p.m., Aug. 12 in B-33. Those enrolling in the six and four-week sessions may register for both at the six-week session registration.
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Choral G.roup To Perform Ohlone's' Choral Group and Wind Ensemble will join the Contra Costa College Choral Group for a t~o part Liturgacial choral presentation. Modern and Renaissance choral music will be performed by the combined groups. The four works to be · presented are Durufle' s Requim, Verdi's . St a 1 i et Mater, Vaughin Williams' 0 Clap Your Hands and Gabrielli's Jubliate Deo. The first presentation will be at 4 p.m., June 2, at St. Anne's Epis~ copal Church, 2791 Driscol Road, Fremont. The second and last of the series will be at 8:15 p.m., June 4, at Contra Costa College. Both of .the programs are free and the public is invited to attend.
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come an annual memorial day to Dr. King, that campus seminars to explore inter-racial relationships be established, and that more courses concerning minority groups be given in history and science. Workshop - committees recommended that student government leaders al$O favor intensive recruiting of ghetto Negroes into the teaching field, that the first week of April and the last week in November, be designated "Brotherhood Week," that a Human Relations Commissioner be established to promote better inter-racial understanding, and that more Negro instructors be hired. Another committee favored setting aside one week annually for the Black Student Union to collect funds for poverty areas with all such drives conforming to the State Attorney General's rules.
Congratulations By Chairman Sears Wes Sears, chairman of the bo~rd of trustees, issued the followmg statement to the Saints' Herald: "I think that too much has been said in the press already. I will have more to say after we can have a board meeting and also a meeting with student leaders. I think there has been an over supply of mis-information. I attended the presentation, (Friday's •istrike") and I would like to congratulate our students on the manner in which · they conducted themselves."