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the student convocation, which has been in process now for about two hours before what happens next at San Francisco State College depends to a great extent on what happens in the meeting in the building right behind me tried

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to two play an interpretive and hopefully an educative role in my public statements that would suggest that more people in this state must respond constructively and that I think I'm quite aware as well that in the ways in which we have in an unsuccessfully at this

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college, up to now gone about resolving the issues and resolving the temple and putting forth the resources necessary to keep abreast or encourage some of these aspirations has led us into a set of circumstances which has escalated, as I tried to say yesterday, and certainly not

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too well has escalated the crystallization of attitudes, uh, within, uh, the state and within our community, and certainly within the college. I think what you'll see around this country, if not around the world, the same strategy and the same tactic being implemented again and again and

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again because it works because it's functional because it gets the point across. We're serious. We know what we want and we're going to get it or it doesn't go on. The talks today are not in any way to be taken as a

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negotiation session. It is not in any way scene as an attempt to come to any compromise solutions on any kinds of demands. The whole purpose today is informational. The point I'm making is that we are dealing with our education and we are dealing with how do

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we as people as black people, brown people, red people and yellow people and, yes, white people. How do we deal with this world? And the world is not some damn imagina torrey thing out there that you know that we are, uh, incubated against here in this

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educational cocoon. The world has all of a sudden came into this room and we say we are going to deal with it. If you don't allow us to deal with it, it won't be dealt with at all. Nobody will deal with anything. Although

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classes have been reopened for those who want to attend, it's quite possible that these panel discussions will hold the spotlight throughout this week. There was still disagreement here to be sure, for example, those minority student demands have not been resolved. But there appears, for the moment

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at least, to have been a shifting from argument over tactics to discussion of issues. This is Mike Lee, Eyewitness News, San Francisco State College.