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...Hayakawa, who is the third new president in 27 months, will need a profound understanding of behavior in particular if he is to deal effectively with the convulsed San Francisco campus. Students have been beaten, buildings occupied, fires started, and stink bombs thrown; plainclothes and uniformed police were everywhere. Even the faculty seemed hopelessly divided...
...changes in curriculum and admission policy, San Francisco State College President Robert R. Smith reluctantly closed his campus down (TIME, Nov. 22). Last week, convinced that he was not the man to reopen the college, Smith resigned. Named to replace him as acting president was Professor Samuel I. Hayakawa, 62, an internationally recognized expert not in administration but in general semantics, the study of the interrelationship of language, thought and behavior...
Martyrs Without Martyrdom. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, of Japanese-American parents, Hayakawa has studied in Canada and the U.S. The most famous of his books, Language in Action, which he published in 1941, not only became a bestseller but is still a standard college text. A man of many and varied talents, Hayakawa for five years wrote a column in Chicago's Negro newspaper, Defender, served as director of the Institute of Jazz Studies in New York, and taught English at the University of Chicago before he joined S.F. State's English department...
Last month Hayakawa angrily reported to a faculty meeting that "black students are again disrupting the campus." And he attacked teachers who condoned or defended the disruption. "There are many whites who do not apply to blacks the same standard of morality and behavior they apply to whites," he said. "This is an attitude of moral conde scension that every self-respecting Negro has a right to resent-and does resent." As a semanticist, Hayakawa said, he wished to comment on "the intellectually slovenly habit, now popular among whites as well as blacks, of denouncing as racist those who oppose...
...After reading your story, "Kids Turning On" [Sept. 13] I wonder what Dr. Hayakawa would have to say about the generation that spent every Saturday at the movies and the rest of the time with their ears glued to the radio, listening to such gems as "The Green Hornet," "Stella Dallas" and "Jack Armstrong...