Faculty resignations at SF State

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Film Date
6/29/69
Film Reference Number
KTVU 101
Description
Scenes from a press conference at SF State College during which four members of faculty explain their decision to resign from their posts. Joseph White states: ?There is one and only one purpose to reducing EOP: to prevent non-white students from enrolling in this college ? Under these conditions we can only submit our resignations.? Ends with President S.I. Hayakawa?s immediate reaction to these resignations: ?Each of the men involved had already made plans to leave? and he goes on to claim that the Black Studies Program might well be ?enhanced by their resignations.?
Format
16mm color magnetic sound film