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Show f i Campus unrest Reagan holds 'hard line' with dissenters By Phil Semas College Press Service SAN FRANCISCO (CPS)-When a settlement was reached recently in the teachers strike at San Francisco State College, Gov. Ronald Reagan suggested that the teachers might just be going back to work to re-establish themselves as faculty members and then strike again. The teachers, however, have gone back to work and stayed on the job, making Reagan's remark look more like wishful thinking than a realistic appraisal of the situation. Ronald Reagan has plenty of reason for wishing that higher education in his state will remain in turmoil. Student unrest is Reagan's issue and it has served him well. In his campaign against Democratic Gov. Edmund G. "Pat" Brown in 1966 he put special emphasis on the unrest at Berkeley and beat Brown by nearly one million votes. Since he has been governor, more than half his speeches and press conferences are devoted to the problems of higher education. During the current crises at Berkeley, San Francisco State, and other campuses it took a major flood to get him off the subject for a few days. Reagan Popular Campus unrest has kept Californians on Reagan's side. A recent Mervin Field poll showed that 78 per cent of California voters think Reagan is doing either a "good" or a "fair" job as governor. And half of them asked why they thought he was doing a good job, spontaneously pointed to his firm handling of campus unrest. In another poll, which asked specifically about student unrest, 76 per cent said they favored a hard line like that Reagan has taken. It sometimes seems as if Reagan doesn't want the unrest to end. When a settlement was reached in that San Francisco State teachers strike, he was immediately opposed, and agreed to vote for it at a trustee meeting only after it was couched as a new grievance procedure and after the trustees passed a resolution declaring that there had been no negotiations with the striking teachers. When student strikers cooled off hostilities at the University of California ,n the hope that the university regents might d luhei demand for a college of ethnic studies, Reagan attacked the strikers for trying to influence the regents and, at his urging the board Jed tough newrules on student unrest. P d Unrest Increased iigpiiissis have suggested th TZa "g Phce force on campus, they as one t , dent e it e Z7 Ught ' de3,t With So, eing "soft o opponents of siHe SLSZ ' P'itiCal t0 P-tica, interfere in CZS j higher education. The outrage may be an act, but Reagan is no' good an actor. j Informed by Police j Part of the problem may be faulty information. Reagan apps-gets apps-gets all his information from the police, which explains his deniaj there have been any police beatings of demonstrators at Berkek San Francisco State. His sidekick, Lt. Gov. Ed Reinecke, re suggested that Berkeley Chancellor Roger Heyns was out of touci what was happening on his campus because his reports didn't agm police reports. Neither Reagan nor Reinecke set foot on the ci during the strike. ! But the real driving force behind Reagan's war on student rr may be a deep rightwing moral outrage. He and the radicals sta completely opposite philosophies of higher education-and of everything else about society. Reagan believes campus unrest is caused by a small minoi "professional agitators" among faculty and students. He also k there is some kind of nation-wide conspiracy behing it all and II answer is early use of extensive police iorce. He denounces then many campus administrators, newsmen, and other observers It presence of police increases violence. ' ( Controls Presidents ' Reagan already has the hands of three presidents-Clark Ken University of California and John Summerskill and Robert St j San Francisco State-as trophies and is working on Berkeley Cha: ' Roger Heyns as a fourth. The only administrator he seems to rea." Noted is S.I. Hayakawa, the hard-lining actirgpresident of San Francises cents. Reagan has introduced a four-point program in the state legu to combat disorders, including banning suspended student' returning to the campus, dismissing students convicted of disr. T finng professors convicted of similar charges, and setting' I-penalties I-penalties for unauthorized use of loudspeakers on a campus. 1 He is also pushing his ideas nationally. At the most recent ie governor's conference, he tried to get his fellow state execw rr, . demand a national investigation of the "conspiracy" behi: I disruptions. His proposal failed but Reagan will keep pushin: -I- j number of governors, such as Wisconsin's Warren Knowles have: adopted Reagan's ideas. It is not Reagan's anti -intellectual ideas, his legislative prof even his excellent standing with the voters that makes t Rob dangerous. In California the real power over higher education is? sought-by sought-by the governing boards, the university regents and the state ? will p trustees, and Reagan now controls both boards. Thursd; i auspice Liberals Lack Votes ; Artists-' He has taken control through a number of recent appoint nas always had his toughest time with the regents, but al f Meml meeting when liberal regents tried to water down a tough reset commui campus disruptions they were beaten 12-11, even though c rates. ! voie was absent. And that seems to be the largest number of r purchas. liberals can muster. On some issues the most they can count cents e ou of 24 votes. ,. tickets a hJiliT Rf3ugan',S Srowing Power the regents and trustees ha( ny left tlTJ reh6r line on camPus disruptions and are putlir $4.50, rnnci!i Ptefu,Ie on campus administrators. The regents? director pm eioa the Xhs the Power to Miss P DhHh' aHmovefwhlch will enable them to remove such le the mV phMosopher Herbert Marcuse, a professor at UC-San Diego. j & on (Si forni 'nS Wi" n doubt create ues and more ,,na tee win h Campus- Men ke Smith and Heyns will bef f when rodent JT6 Hayakawas ing colleges and univerf TdminislM demonstrate angrily against tough newrules, -wilT bT he p?' Hnd, the Purge of left wing professors, RonH ""istmS"1 diSSid6nt mi"rity mUSt ntb" jJ i j |
