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As a faculty member at Chico, I had only one conversation with Stan Cazier. It was quite weird. A student, a nice guy, who came to my house a few times, and who was in the Army reserves, approach me very nervously before my class. He explained that I knew that he was in the engineering part of the reserves and that he had some plastique explosives. He wanted to know what I think we should bomb. I told him I wasn't interested, but I related my experience to Cazier. His only reply was to ask me several times why I was discussing bombs with my class. I got nowhere telling him that bombing was not part of my classroom discussion, but I never got through to him. He was a nice guy. Pretty ineffectual as a president. A devout Mormon, who is not about to take any controversial positions on anything. I also flew cross-country in a seat next to Del Gardner. He was very tied in with California agribusiness interests. We spoke for a while, but we had nothing in common other than our connections with the University of California Berkeley. On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Dayne Goodwin via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > Makes me think of a university administrator who was president of > California State at Chico from 1971-1979 and president of Utah State > University from 1979-1992. Stanford Cazier was Vice-Provost at USU in 1970 > and was known as "the liberal' within the university administration when i > met with him and asked him to sign a petition to the Nixon > administration/attorney general to reconsider their refusal to let Ernest > Mandel into the U.S. > > Cazier squirmed out of signing using the argument that because he wasn't an > economist he didn't know anything about Mandel or his legitimacy. If the > chair of the Economics Deptartment, B. Delworth Gardner, would sign the > petitiion, then he would, Cazier said. I was back the same day with > Gardner's signature on the petition but Cazier still refused to sign. > > In the fall of 1971 Cazier began his tenure as president of Cal State at > Chico and i found myself working at the North California Peace Action > Coalition office in San Francisco asking for funds and endorsement of the > upcoming fall 1971 antiwar demonstration. I took some pleasure in getting > through all the secretaries and telling Cazier on the phone that i was > Dayne Goodwin who had talked with him a year ago at USU about signing the > petition for Ernest Mandel and i was calling to see if he would care to > endorse and contribute to the upcoming antiwar demonstration. He didn't > hang up on me but of course he said no. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleindienst_v._Mandel > http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1969/nov/20/the-mandel-case > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Cazier > > On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 10:37 PM, michael yates via Marxism < > marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > > > ====================================================================== > > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > > ====================================================================== > > > > > > Professor Salaita has been dealt a serious blow, and he deserves whatever > > support we can muster. I have been reading posts on some other lists > about > > what a pig Chancellor Wise is. No doubt true. However, I posted this to > > another list,in the interest of telling the truth that all chancellors > are > > pigs: > > > > > > > > Top college administrators are no different than their corporate > > counterparts. You have to jump through a lot of hoops to get these jobs, > > and to do so, you either have to be a pig or willing to become one. I > never > > met a boss I liked, and my college bosses were no different. Whatever > > academic values might be these days, you can be sure that administrators > > almost always will be willing to compromise them or abandon them > altogether. > > > > As tenure disappears, thanks in no small part to the many pigs among the > > tenured faculty, especially those who lust after administrative posts, > > academic freedom will disappear too. Constant struggles will be necessary > > to achieve even the victories gained so far in the Salaita case. How > often > > will it be that a similar situation arises? > > > > In 45 years of teaching, I knew but a handful of principled faculty, > > people who would make a personal sacrifice to uphold academic freedom, > for > > example, and not a single administrator. Right from the Chancellor down > to > > the department chairpersons. The default position for a "principled" > > professor is to write a letter. So how likely are the necessary struggles > > to take place? > > > > When the Yale workers went on strike, David Montgomery wouldn't even get > > his mail on campus much less teach his classes there. He's unfortunately > > dead. > > ________________________________________________ > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu > > Set your options at: > > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/daynegoodwin%40gmail.com > > > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/michael.perelman3%40gmail.com > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
