Jihad at San Francisco State

Ahhh, isn't tradition a beautiful thing?

Chronology of Events

September, 1966.
Dr. John Summerskill is appointed seventh President, San Francisco State College. He is young, liberal, and has the reputation of being able to get along with faculty, administration, and students.

May 2, 1967.
Sixty students "sit in" in Dr. Summerskill's office, protesting the college practice of providing students' academic standing to the selective service office.

June 22, 1967.
Students and faculty picket campus administrative offices to protest Chancellor Glenn Dumke's directive to the campus to continue supplying academic standing records to the selective service office.

June 22, 1967.
A "major corporation" (the Carnegie Corporation of New York) invites San Francisco State College to apply for funds to develop programs for teaching black history, art, and culture on campus. This information is divulged during a discussion of Black Student Union activities on campus in the Spring, 1967, semester.

November 6, 1967.
Several black students attack James Vaszko, editor of the Gater the campus newspaper. Mr. Vaszko had stated in an editorial that he had written to the Carnegie Corporation asking them to cease any plans they might have had to grant money to the college's "service programs," which included Black Student Union sponsored programs.

The Gater, November 7, 1967

November 11, 1967.
Six of the black students who attacked James Vaszko are booked on felony charges.

November 17, 1967.
The Black Students Union members hold a press conference and discuss their programs, which have been designed to awaken and develop black awareness and consciousness.

November 18, 1967.
San Francisco State College's Board of Appeals and Review holds closed hearing on the suspension of students accused of assaulting Vaszko. Sympathetic students picket outside.

November 29, 1967.
Dr. Summerskill appoints ten faculty members to a committee to investigate the causes of campus tension which resulted in the Vaszko attack.

December 2, 1967.
Two writers for the campus literary paper, Open Process, are suspended after publishing a poem which uses offensive language and contains sexual connotations. 450 students protest and attack Summerskill's "liberalism" and the Vietnam War.

December 6, 1967.
Students protest over suspension of the black students in the Vaszko incident and break into the administration building. Summerskill closes the campus rather than calling in the police.

December 10, 1967.
Dr. Walcott Beatty, Chairman of the Academic Senate, says that campus demonstrations and disturbances will not end because of the causes, including Vietnam and racial tension. He says, "the campus is a microcosm of society."

February 22, 1968.
Dr. Summerskill hands in his resignation, effective in September, even though the Trustees of the California State College system have given him a vote of confidence.

February 29, 1968.
300 high school and junior college minority students come to the campus to ask for waivers of admission requirements for the fall semester. Dean of Admissions Charles Stone says that he does not have power to grant waivers. Sociology professor Juan Martinez is influential in inviting the students.

March 1968.
Black Panther Minister of Defense Bobby Seale speaks in the main auditorium at San Francisco State and tells the audience (mainly white students) that the only power blacks have is with a gun.

March 23, 1968.
The Third World Liberation Front (a coalition of the Black Students Union, the Latin American Students Organization, the Filipino-American Students Organization, and El Renacimiento, a Mexican American student organization) occupies the YMCA office on campus, and moves YMCA staff out.

March 26, 1968.
Several San Francisco State College student leaders call on State Superintendent of Schools Max Rafferty to protest campus activities of the Black Students Union and the hiring by the student government of black playwright LeRoi Jones, who was a visiting professor in the Spring, 1968 semester.

March 31, 1968.
Summerskill tells the Third World Liberation Front to move out of the occupied offices. Professor Juan Martinez has not been re-hired for the following year, and this factor complicates the eviction process.

May 21, 1968.
Police are called in to remove students from the Administration Building after a nine-hour sit-in. Approximately 400 students were protesting: (1) An end to Air Force ROTC on campus, (2) Retention of Juan Martinez, (3) Programs to admit 400 ghetto students in the fall semester , and (4) The hiring of nine minority faculty members to help the minority students. 26 persons are arrested.

May 23, 1968.
Students again protest for campus reform. Demonstrations are led by Students for a Democratic Society and the Third World Liberation Front.

May 24, 1968.
Chancellor Glenn Dumke asks Dr. Summerskill to resign immediately.

June 1, 1968.
Dr. Robert Smith becomes President, San Francisco State College. He is a professor of education.

September 10, 1968.
George Mason Murray is rehired as a teaching assistant. He was a graduate student in English, and was hired to teach special introductory English classes for 400 special students who were admitted to the college.

September 18, 1968.
President Robert Smith announces the creation of a Black Studies Department. Dr. Nathan Hare is named Acting Chair.

September 26, 1968.
California State College trustees vote to ask Dr. Smith to reassign Black Panther George Mason Murray to a non-teaching position. At a Fresno State College rally he allegedly had stated that, "We are slaves and the only way to become free is to kill all the slave masters." At San Francisco State College he allegedly had said that black students should bring guns to campus to protect themselves from white racist administrators. President Smith refuses.

October 24, 1968.
Chancellor Dumke orders President Smith to suspend Murray temporarily.

October 31, 1968.
Chancellor Dumke orders President Smith to suspend Murray after Smith refuses to carry out the trustees' request. President Smith delays. The Black Students Union threatens a strike on November 6, and presents their 15 demands.

November 1, 1968.
President Smith suspends George Murray.

November 6, 1968.
Student strike begins. Strike is led by Black Students Union and Third World Liberation Front members, as a protest for a larger black studies program and for the reinstatement of George Murray. Most students attend classes. Police are called in after students march on the Administration Building.

November 13, 1968.
The campus is closed after a week of confrontations between students and police. During the week there has been widespread minor damage by striking students all over the campus. Some faculty members are considering striking.

November 14, 1968.
At a faculty meeting in the Main Auditorium, Dr. S. I. Hayakawa, Professor of English, speaks on racism. He urges the faculty to support Dr. Smith. President Smith appeals to Dr. Dumke to reinstate George Murray. The Academic Senate debates the issues, and requests Chancellor Dumke's resignation.

November 15, 1968.
The faculty meets to consider the problems. Dr. Smith asks the faculty and administration to consider plans under which the campus could be reopened.

November 18, 1968.
Governor Ronald Reagan wants the campus reopened. The trustees order Dr. Smith to reopen the campus immediately. President Smith wants the students to return for discussion, not formal classes. A faculty grievance committee says that George Murray was suspended without due process.

November 19, 1968.
The faculty do not want to reopen the campus, but want to have a convocation to discuss the issues.

November 20, 1968.
Approximately 10% of the students return to campus for departmental discussions. Few classes are held. The convocation begins.

November 26, 1968.
Convocation continues. Black Student Union leaders confront the faculty panel and President Smith at the convocation. BSU leader Jerry Varnardo calls President Smith a 'pig,' and is booed by the audience. President Smith resigns. Dr. S. I. Hayakawa is named Acting President. His first official act is to close the campus.

December 2, 1968.
Campus is reopened. Sound truck incident occurs. Striking students position sound truck at corner of 19th and Holloway Avenues to urge other students to continue the strike. Hayakawa climbs on the truck and tries to disconnect the speakers. A crowd pulls his tam o'shanter from his head. He allegedly yells, "You're fired!" to noted author Kay Boyle, and she calls him "Hayakawa Eichmann" in return.

December 10, 1968.
Ronald Haughton, University of Michigan professor and labor arbitrator is called in to mediate the strike. Mayor Joseph Alioto has also organized a citizen's committee to help settle the strike.

December 11, 1968.
The campus American Federation of Teachers local seeks strike sanction from the San Francisco Labor Council. More than 50 AFT members have set up an informational picket line around the campus, urging the trustees to negotiate with the students.

December 13, 1968.
School is closed for the Christmas holidays one week early. Campus offices remain open.

December 15, 1968.
Trustees meet with AFT representatives to hear their grievances. Mayor Alioto's citizen's committee works on mediation efforts.

January 4, 1969.
Acting President Hayakawa bans meetings and gatherings on the central campus, says no unauthorized persons will be allowed to set foot on campus, and states that picketing must be limited to the perimeters of the campus.

January 6, 1969.
Campus reopens. The San Francisco State College local of the American Federation of Teachers goes out on strike, and puts a picket line around the campus. About 350 teachers are involved. They wanted educational reforms, removal of police from the campus, agreement to student demands, and a collective bargaining contract for the California State College teachers.

January 8, 1969.
Judge Edward O'Day of the San Francisco Superior Court orders the AFT teachers to call off their strike. The strike continues.

January 19-20, 1969.
Striking students, including some student library workers, initiate a "book-in" in the library. They take books off the shelves and bring them to the circulation desk, leaving them there in order to clog library operations.

February 3, 1969
Acting President Hayakawa speaks before a Subcommittee of the House Education Committee concerning campus unrest

February 4, 1969
Judge Henry Rolph of San Francisco Superior Court orders the San Francisco State AFT local to end the strike. The strike continues.

February 24, 1969
The San Francisco State AFT local announces a tentative strike settlement.

February 29, 1969
Black Studies Department Chair Nathan Hare and English instructor George Murray are not rehired for the following year. The strike continues.

March 5, 1969
Timothy Peebles, San Francisco State freshman, sets off a bomb in the Creative Arts building at night. It explodes in his hand, and his hands and face are injured.

March 20, 1969.
An agreement is signed between "representatives of the Third World Liberation Front, the Black Students Union, and the members of the Select Committee concerning the resolution of the fifteen demands and other issues arising from the student strike at San Francisco State College."

March 21, 1969.
Strike ends.

Force our leaders to do their jobs, is my position. Shame them into it! Impeach them if necessary. We simply must use politics to solve these problems.

“The only way we can defeat you is to kill as many as possible! I’d rather die a suicide bomber’s death than to call myself an American!”-Palestinian student

Why isn't this woman on a plane back to her little shithole rat warren of a "country"?

I hope he has enough fortitude to file assault charges against her. If she had to sit in the pokey for awhile it might calm her down. If not, I hope he slapped back! 8)

In the 60s the American university left embraced the "free speech" movement, from UC Berkeley.

In the 2000's the American university left is embracing the radical muslim movement.

The democrats cares more about palestinians, afghani and iraqi civilians, than it does American soldiers.

I read a post on DU stating he hoped the US Marines got their asses kicked in Fallujah.

This accounts for minority status.

Please don't insult Amsterdam in that manner, ok? :-)

I read a post on DU stating he hoped the US Marines got their asses kicked in Fallujah.

I hope we are building a good database on these treacherous scum and are prepared to use it wisely.

No insult intended, just a reality of a common threat. ;~)

Wish I could go visit it...I'd bring a friend to photograph me w/ a Confederate flag while flippin' off Malcolm X's statue or whatever memorial honored him.

Why won't conservatives get in the faces of these leftists, & fight them back physically when threatened like this, rather than playing patty-cake with them?????

The naive ,"no-blood-for-oil hymning" leftist liberals have no clue. They (along with the MSM) are being used by the Islamofascists to infiltrate the universities in and brainwash the youth of America. If these Muslim fanatics succeed, the future of America is theirs. Islamofascism has a two-prong strategy (jihad): infiltration (which is succeeding in Europe) and terrorism.

Typical leftist behavior. During my undergraduate years (1959-1964)at the U of Colorado the Young People's Socialist League (YPSL) got control of the campus newspaper and shortly thereafter the campus. They were always screaming "Free Speech", however they believed that it only applied to them. The gutless administration let them run roughshod on the rest of the students. Needless to say, I don't send a dime to Colorado when I happen to get a fund raising letter.

I've heard about the two-pronged approach which I believe is happening. But - is there any way to use the rule of law to get rid of the infiltration piece, especially for those born here? How can we get rid of them without becoming like them?

First we have to ban the Muslim men from having multiple wives. That means each "family" has about 50 children.

In Kingston, New York yesterday, we had only 2 Jihadis opposing us in their crowd of 150.

I rather be in Amsterdam then in San Francisco.

>Why the hell are we educating these people?<

They came here to educate US --- right into our bloody graves!

Did anyone log onto my earier post re:www.frontpagemag.com and click on The Death of the Dutch? If not, I strongly advise it. When will we ever learn?

That's something I couldn't figure out back in the late seventies - early eighties when the Iran thing blew up. we had Iranians galore protesting and they were all in the college of engineering taking our technology. Deportation should have been the rule of the day and strict adherence to that policy. You come to this county for our services and cause trouble... you go back where you came from the same day you cause the trouble.

No kidding! The Bull Dog Cafe (or several others)....plus the fact that maybe the Dutch are beginning to get tired of the Muslim terrorists, too--& are going to do something about it!

I know. Remember the South Korean, Kim Sun-Il, who got beheaded? They messed with the wrong people. South Korean military is really brutal. In Vietnam War, Vietnamese feared Koreans more then Americans. Korean troops hid in trees and ambush armed Vietnamese with just knives and kill them in a slow and agonizing death.