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the state Senate debated for over an hour and a half before passing the four bills this morning. Two of them require firing. Teachers are expelling students who disrupt or try to disrupt the normal activities of state colleges. The student faculty member or other employee could not

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be reemployed or re enrolled in any state college for a period of three years. A third bill specifies that a state college president may declare a state of emergency on his campus if he feels its normal operation is being disrupted or might be disrupted. And the

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fourth makes it a crime punishable up to five years in prison or a $5000 fine to use force or threats to prevent students from attending classes. One of the opponents' of these bills was Senator Nicholas Petras, a Democrat from Alameda. Those bills are typical of about

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30 or 40 bills that are coming through. I haven't read them all but out of the whole bunch. My understanding is there's only one that says let's make some room for some students on the policy making bodies, that's the sentiment, Dunlop's bill. All the rest are

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saying crackdown and some of them are saying crackdown in a place where the law already cracks down. Now that doesn't mean I'm for violence. Author of the bill Senator John Harmer, Republican from Glendale, doesn't agree with Senator Petras, and you're of the academic process from going

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on as it should operate in a situation where respect for law is supreme. The bills now go to the Assembly, where a special committee has been set up to handle nothing but campus legislation. Rollin POST for Eyewitness News Sacramento I think those who have committed acts

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of violence and have violated the law should be swiftly prosecuted and convicted. It doesn't mean I'm for all the things that are done, but what I'm saying is that we've closed our ears and our eyes too long to a great number of students who are not

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militant, who made reasonable demands a long time ago and simply were ignored. But I'm afraid that these types of bills, where they emphasize getting tough and don't have any other provisions, are simply playing right into the hands of the most militant, and that's not the way

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to solve it. There's nothing in these bills to prevent the legitimate student grievance from being heard and from being alleviated. If in fact it is such. What the bills say are not that you may not have change, that you may not have the experimental college, that

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you may not have a black studies program. It doesn't say that the bill says, as you may not burn down buildings to get changed, you may not come onto the campus to foment strife and disrupt the whole operation of the campus for no meaningful purpose. Without

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having engaged in any other type of remedy, you may not come onto the campus and threatened faculty members with their lives, bar students from classes physically and do all of these other anti social acts of violence which have been going on. These are the things that

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the bills prescribed.