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Education in Ferment
2003c87_a_0005935_r01.MP3
Item Title Education in Ferment
Speaker Hayakawa, S. I. (Samuel Ichiye) (1906-1992)
Date CreatedJanuary 24, 1969
Description

Hayakawa speaks about the strike at San Francisco State. He outlines how the strike does not exist to achieve concrete goals, explaining that the stated goal of the strike, a Black Studies program, as the college had and was already moving toward such a program with respective degrees. Instead, Hayakawa argues the strike exists merely as a power grab. He speaks well of the authorities' actions in response to the demonstrations. He states the goal of the demonstrators is to keep minorities down in order to stir revolutionary activity. He believes the revolutionaries want to shut down the college.

After discussing the strike, he focuses on his vision for the college. He would like to see it return to the Laguna campus as well as the Lake Merced campus. He sees this as the beginning of further expansion campuses in neighborhoods such as the Mission, Bayview, and Fillmore. He wants the College to serve a middle ground between junior colleges and the University of California system. He wants SF State to focus on teaching, helping the community in this function.

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Place RecordedSan Francisco, California, United States
DimensionsDuration: 58 minutes, 7 seconds
FormatSound Recording
Medium speeches (documents)
Hoover IDProgram 19690124; 2003c87_a_0005935
Record Number2003C87.333
RightsUsed with permission of the Commonwealth Club of California.This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the copyright owner.

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