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Okay, so the war in Vietnam, the problems of race and the cities These are issues facing the citizens of the United States, and they are issues vividly facing the students on an urban campus. This is San Francisco State College, which one of 18 in the California

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State college system. It's been a part of the vast educational complex of the state since 18 99 but it's phenomenal. Growth has come in the past 10 years, from 12,000 students to 18,000 in that time. One significant fact. In those years, the percentage of black students

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has dropped from 11% to less than 3%. The overcrowding, the race, conflict, the fear of the draft and the war in Vietnam have brought the students to an active search for solutions. In December, the tensions erupted. However, Dr Summer skills reward for his action, and his

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decision was repaid by a full scale investigation into his handling of the matter. The State College Board of Trustees, with Governor Ronald Reagan with state Superintendent of Schools Max Rafferty and Assembly Speaker Jesse Andrew, met in an emergency meeting in Los Angeles. The political interest in

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the educational system of the state of California took center stage. Mhm, mhm. If Dr Summers ago had his problems with the political structure of the state on one side, he found himself truly in the middle with the students on the other side. I want to say

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skill has been speaking. Summer school is running this university. This camp is here. Summer school is the one that's been oppressing us. It was something that made those races. Ladies and gentlemen, it's good to be home. Oh, it's Uhh! It's been a very difficult week for

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all of us and that business down in Los Angeles with no picnic. I want you to know you've been with this guy like Sorry, skill has such great principles. I don't think he has very many principles. If he can cover your seriously, expect me to believe

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that he wants a fair trial for those black people? The B s. You have a copy of a letter that summer skill hope to the faculty and it said, quote the guilty people have been caught and they will be punished. Now if that isn't a trial,

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that's unfair. Those people are not guilty before before Trump. So people are innocent until proven guilty at all these white people. But it isn't a matter of law. And order is the man who has the power and the man who has the gun. Do you understand

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this? These are the people that run this country. And these are the convict institution. Do you understand that? Now, don't ask us to understand. Don't say Well, you little color guys. You black guys should try to go along with law and order. Law and order is

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not set up for us. This is the only time in the history of the United States in the history of college institutions when we've had a planned, planned, planned riot and nobody got hurt. I'm a skill here. This is a no president and use report. Thomas,

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you are supporting. You already get suggested that black people have been raised in this country and we see that Thomas killed here is representing the main enemy. Now we'll let Thomas killed speak, but we're still gonna continue to fight against them. We're gonna continue to fight

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against your rations. Attitudes out there. You asked why do we need violence in the society? We need thousands of society because we have that we don't We had encountered racism. 50 faculty yet is the deputy supporting silence. Who is the main attack on us? John Summer

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skill is off the hook. For the moment, the board of trustees has retained him as president of San Francisco State College. Although there are many calls in Sacramento for new and tougher rules about the disciplining of students, the faculty and the student body at the college

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give him strong support for the most part. But the underlying tensions are still there, ready at any provocation to boil again. Student body president Phil Darlington was asked if he thought student government could take any action which would affect the roots of student discontent. Frankly, I

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doubt it. I I c student government is being pretty irrelevant to the whole thing. They're only there only two issues that are of any significance on the campus and those two issues of the race and the war race in the war. And I think that, uh

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as far as dealing effectively with either of those problems, that there's not a ghost of a chance that the student government will be able to do it. This is John Morrissey, international relations lecturer and one of the faculty leaders of the attack on the administration building.

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He was later fired by Dr Summer Skill. You see this crowd right here in back of you today in every classroom, every students that met began to discuss for the first time seriously and concretely the issues involved. There's a lot of people are very confused, a

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lot of people who don't really understand why anything happened or what will be the outcome of it. But for the first time they are discussing those issues. They're searching for the real meanings of everything that's troubling us in a microcosm here, which is the same thing

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that's troubling us in the overall country, and I think that is the main achievement of what took place is a fantastic victory.