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Today's a good album. Yeah, Training Grounds started. They met with President Smith this morning, and this agreement has been reached. Faculty and students are to meet in their department from 12 to 3 today to make proposals for a Monday convocation. Now this is your chance to

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correct all the things that I neglected when I first proposed the convocation, so come up with some good ideas and some creativity. Those will be considered at a 3 p.m. Faculty meeting today. Go to your department chairman's office and find out where your department will be

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meeting. You get an awful lot out of when people smile or when they applaud or when they turn their heads away or when they walk out. So you've got to watch the nonverbal communication as well as the words because, as I was saying a few moments

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ago in the example about how one gets along with a husband for 26 a half years, you can get very hung up on words until you get past those two. What the feelings underneath and the ideas are. You don't really get any place in getting along.

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It's trying to convince the different people in the different departments that one of the things they should say about the convocation, if it happens on Monday, that there should be absolutely no classes being held during the convocation. It wasn't explicitly said no classes, but the program

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of the college for this afternoon is 12 to 3. All students and faculty in department meetings. How can you have classes of all students? Faculty are in that meeting. And then everybody at that meeting at three o'clock. Listen, we need help. We need help to communicate

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to the rest of the campus. What's going on? I think most of you people have gotten the message. The people in the cafeteria of the people of the people out there, the people up to the immense building and all the other corners of this campus that

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are so hard to get through. Two Don't know. How many volunteers do I have to get together and go inform people? Okay, Well, you come up here and make a decision about which part of the campus you're going to do to go to and do that

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right now sit down right here and figure out where you're going and see the campus is covered. If we're going to be a message center, then we've got to be a message center. And the only way we can do it because we don't have a P

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a system all over the campus is by personal encounter. The personal encounter bit is what we're trying to get done here. All classes are officially cancelled from 12 to 3. All students are to go to departmental meetings. He's meeting with the Council of Academic Deans and

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other representatives from the administration to formulate a policy on after three o'clock. What that means is that in order that classes don't resume at three o'clock for those faculties who don't want to come to the faculty meetings that you've got to get, cover every department and

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get every single department on this campus to agree to have no classes at all whether is a convocation. Okay, it's up to you kids. We're doing our damnedest to help you. Now you've got to do something to help yourself. Mhm. Yeah, right. That's all I'm trying

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to say. Poly psy is Yeah, Surrogate. Yeah, I have an announcement official. The president has directed them all the classrooms we'll carry on classes, are discussion groups and classes and try to involve as many students as possible. And all the facts

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in this county. Plainclothes policemen being called off. The policeman was being called off campus. We will work on that as we assess the situation. I haven't even had an opportunity to talk about the world in there sometimes, you know. I mean, uh huh. Simply that he's

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hopeful that we can, uh he can lend resources where we need them. He made the number of specific proposals, which certainly we will take under consideration. But we've tried to We'll be planning the conference, Uh, you know, ourselves. And we would hope to, uh if we

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can get agreement, that this is what we're going to do. Have you heard from the chancellor, the governor or anybody? Directly or indirectly, There hasn't been time. I'm sure President Smith, we ran a program this morning, did we not? And we agreed that with the academic

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Vice president and now the deans that we would ah, have departmental meetings from 1 to 3, uh, to consider proposals to go to the faculty meeting at three o'clock this afternoon. Uh, from 1 to 3 so the departments could meet. Well, then there's a faculty meeting

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in any way that you canceled all classes this afternoon. Yes, it would. In this police continue. It's been reported that you were holding a meeting to get the police off campus. Is this true? No. No, that's not true. How long will they continue on campus? I

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don't know. I've got several things to do. We'll start considering that black students that I think they're ready to start trying a little bit of communication again with the black students. I don't think we want to care that that's all it may be. Nothing. It may

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be something that we have nothing better to do. I think we can go in there. I didn't sit around. I think we can try to talk to Smith. That's your privilege. But I just wanted you to know that there is a little teeny bit of something

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starting to move on. So that's it? Yeah, The tendency has been for most people to get in little offices behind closed doors, are in little huts or whatever, and discuss things among themselves and then go out and maybe confront somebody in another office. And then somebody

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says, Well, there's a rumor that such and such happened, or I read in the paper that this happened and nobody really knows what does happen. New proposed There is not, You know what to say In the process of debate and discussion, classes will not be there.

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Why did you not stand up to challenge discussion the convocation which was going on when the classes were going on? All right, why don't you challenge? I'll tell you, I When I made a road up the resolution, I had no idea if I'd even have a

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chance to present it. If you know anything about faculty meetings, you have to line up at Microphone one or microphone to and wait for your chance. And you have to know enough about parliamentary procedure to know whether you can make a motion or whether you can

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amend the motion or substitute emotion. It's the time to discuss with anyone else all the details of the proposal I was making so that some of those were not worked out. When I talk to people about trying this, they were willing to give it a try.

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But anyway, I did not get up. I did not get up and ask why classes were in session because I didn't know they were in session when the By the time the convocation recess at noon, I had been a either on the phone are over, helping

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to try to get the mechanics arranged and get people agreed to go on it. I had to go and ask Garrity. I had to go and ask Smith. I had to go and ask everyone who appeared on that to agree to do it between 7. 30

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in the morning and 10 o'clock and that had gotten into the place where it could walk on its own. It fell down. I've come back. I'm trying to pick it up as well as I know how I've gotten to Smith this morning. I've got into Penn

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to me. I've gotten to McClatchy. I've gotten to members of the Third World. I've gotten to members of the BS, you people, the people I've talked to say we want to find a solution that only classes are not there. We want you to respond to that

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kind of question. Everybody was No, no, no. Let me say it something, will you? Just a minute. Have you ever All right. Okay. Yeah. I've been here with a new president and the militia in two hours. All right, maybe I'm telling you what I know. That's

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all I know. I was told maybe that's not true, but will you give us a chance to find out if there is some way of doing it? The BS you have said they were willing to come together with the president who says he's willing and try

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to talk about ways of getting going again. It broke down. We're trying to get it started again. I can't do it. Just I can't do it myself, obviously. But at least people seem to be willing to talk to me for some insane reason. And I'm trying

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to talk back to you as soon as I know what's happening here was taking notes that he recognizes the problems that that we have in the community that we have here. And he recognizes, uh, at least the great part, the validity of all the demands. And

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he recognizes the need to discuss these demands. He recognized the convocation as being a very positive thing though certainly as we all have discussed before, it's not any sense of negotiations but is clarifying issues for many of us. So what he is proposing, essentially is that

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we have classes. We have classes in which the classes will be directly related to these issues. In other words, for students in mathematics, for example, who are not, who can't see or science for, say, or someone. Some of the people who don't see how they directly

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relate to this social problem, that it is irrelevant to their education and that these Indians go. This is where it's being these classes, having these classes or having a complication in the auditorium. I'm afraid it certainly isn't up to me to make that distinction, but I

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think the idea was that he was presenting is that by having it in these classes, uh, they will be able to relate to the issues in a in a way, which is not quite so. It doesn't make them feel alien, know where they'll be using familiar

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jargon. I'll be talking to uh, the statement is that if these workshops were held in the classes and this would be complying with the the orders of the trustees, Reagan or what have you? As opposed to that? We were supporting the strike. Say that this matter

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should take place in the convocation. Write the following for those of you who don't know. Yes, you can see I have a message now from the BS. You just as know about the position of the BS. You okay? Yeah. I'm Chuck Levine's physical science department. I

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don't have any official word or position on the from the BS you, But they were. Some of the leaders were in that meeting, and at the point that Smith said that we would meet from 12 to 3 and then have the count of the faculty meeting

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at three o'clock, there was a big smile on their faces, and they applauded. So I I don't know if they're gonna come out and support you, urge you to do this between 12. And three. But you can rest Assure that there with this and they feel

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this is a step ahead. So I urge you all to please do this. This is our only chance to watch people's nonverbal communication. So the nonverbal cues are important too. I think the fact that the BS you smiled. It's nice to hear it's the first time

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I felt like smiling in quite a while. Let's give him a chance. Okay. Hey, one count up here and there. There's four or five people walking behind you. You're not gonna have anybody who can read the black man's point of view. The B S. U s

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point of view for the Third World's point of view. Now, I think this idea is basically good, but I think it should be coupled pages. If you're concerned about getting more students here, go get to a phone right now and call them. You've got half an

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hour to do it. That's what I was doing all afternoon and evening. It is by making motions or talking, or however the department is going to be run. It's the clear implication There was no doubt about it, that there would be no classes, and President Smith

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said, Let's do it. Okay, Would you people move a little further away? So it people at the mike can hear Elio Toe said over the radio that he would not withdraw the police. They are unsure now, as to uh hearing several different reports as to whether

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he will withdraw them or not. They said they will not participate in any discussion until the police are first withdrawn. Does anyone know when the police are going to be withdrawn? And for if they already have, or if they are going to be withdrawn? You got

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it. Does anyone know the answer to that question? Okay. Would you go into the administration building and see what you can find out? We'll go to President Smith's office and ask you. Okay. I heard I heard the press conference on the radio, and as I understood

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it, Al Yoda said in his plan for getting group discussions in the classrooms did take place. Then he would call all policemen on campus. Yes, if each department is meeting in HLL 2 13 at one o'clock, any department announcement you get, I'll give to you as

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fast as I get an is writing them down and I'll read it. And students one o'clock to 10. Yeah, Student meeting at 12 o'clock at the gallery. Lounge E S s 104 12. I'm sorry. Yeah, This is what? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Here's a suggestion

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from the Department of Geography. Yeah, Yeah. Social Welfare One o'clock and ed 1 17. Here's a suggestion that has come out from the Department of Geography, which has been discussed in their department and has been distributed to all other departments. Why don't you bring this up

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in your discussion with your department? It's this We commit ourselves to the following proposals that student fees for the spring semester for 69 be increased to $20. 10 of allocation, please. Look, he said in relation to the BS, you demand a statement that they would not

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discuss until the police were off campus. That he said this was not one of the conditions, but he was going to a meeting now, and he was going to get the police off campus as soon as arrangements could be made, which will probably be after a

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little after lunch. Okay, I think if you're listening now, will you all really listen? We're not getting everything we want at once.