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I want an effective and fair judicial system, as does everyone else. Yet I cannot accept a proposal that relies on student membership in the judicial process that is being chosen by the president student government that has been publicly active in promoting a strike, which includes violence

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and a conscious and as a conscious and deliberate, deliberate tactic. Yeah, I feel that the closing of the campus by the trustees and Mr Hayakawa was a signal victory for the students, for the American Federation of Teachers at the college and really for the people of

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San Francisco and in particular, the labor movement, because I think that the labor movement now realizes that this is a very important issue. And it's one in, really who controls this campus, whether the people of San Francisco are going to be able to exercise some control

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or whether we must submit ourselves continuously to outside control. Big question. Now, will the A. F. T strike when school resumes? Well, our position is that, uh, we cannot return to work until the issues we have are under negotiation. And until the grievous problems that afflict

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the minority students on campus are resolved and and some implementation of those resolutions is assured. So we're waiting right now for negotiations to begin to point out, with respect to our Christmas vacation action that we could have kept the campus open next week with police assistance,

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which was assured us. But as we announced our decision, as we announced, our decision was based upon our consideration for the safety of people during a time when all other schools in this area would have been out to

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his left. Okay, that's all. That's all. I think there's reason for optimism because now, as people pointed out to me in the academic Senate meeting, there is a polarization is taking place with three weeks off, during which we opened Christmas presents and eat turkey and get

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drunk on New Year's Eve and all the things we do in the holiday period. Maybe all of us will relax a little bit so that we can confront each other as rational human beings. Again, there'll be some informal talks going on. Not only that, they will

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be the the office of the administration office of the administration will be hard at work. The academic senate will be hard at work They invited me already to meet with them during the Christmas vacation. So lots of things will be going on to announce to get

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done during the vacation so that by the time January 6th rolls around, there may well be a certain change in climate because of certain accomplishments that we will have accomplishments that you think the striking students will accept. That's their problem. But there will be real accomplishments

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are in our eyes or we would not bother to announce them.