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scription of the school's condition. Bands of pickets roamed the campus, seeking to prevent nonmilitant students from entering classrooms. Although his predecessors had been reluctant to use police to restore order, Hayakawa-backed strongly by a majority of the trustees of California's state colleges and by Governor Ronald Reagan-had no such compunction. On Tuesday, police arrested 32 protesters, ten of whom were injured in a melee; two days later, 23 more were carted off to jail. The maintenance of order was helped by a Committee for an Academic Environment, organized by proadministration students. Wearing blue...
Despite the strike and the sporadic battles between police and militants, Hayakawa claimed that 80% of the college's students were able to attend classes without interruption. Having proved that he could keep the campus open, Hayakawa at week's end then tried to accommodate the most reasonable of the dissidents' demands. An announcement read over campus loudspeakers declared that the college would take immediate steps to set up a new black-studies department, and that 128 additional places would be made available to minority-group students. As a further gesture, a faculty spokesman said that...
Neither Black nor White. Hayakawa, who has spoken repeatedly and vigorously on the need for more effective civil rights initiatives, professes some hope that his own color will help him work out a compromise between black militants and whites at S.F. State. "In a very profound sense," he said, "I stand in the middle. I am neither white nor black." Thus he would like to be come "a channel to bring blacks and whites together...
Despite the new president's unusual advantage, the prognosis is gloomy. For one thing, many faculty members resent the fact that Hayakawa was named without the approval of the "president-selection committee"-of which Hayakawa himself was a member. Dr. Nathan Hare, the Negro coordinator of the college's black-studies program, promptly predicted: "Hayakawa will go out faster than Smith. He takes the hard line. We'll be ready for him." Militant students promised picketing and demonstrations if the campus is reopened; they even threatened to call strikes on some of the other campuses...
...problems," Hayakawa admitted, "are almost beyond solution, but I will give it a trial." At week's end he declared war on the S.F. dissenters by announcing that classes would resume immediately. "The relation between teacher and student," he said, "the freedom to think and study and discuss, will be protected by all means necessary. The people who cannot live with such a system will simply have to move...