European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Intro in Hayakawa with California gov. Ronald Reagan. Plaque has quote from Reagan Campaign speech. Up Hayakawa says youths Don t know How to resolve disagreement maybe we could blame Little lip by Kelly Smith Tunney a staff writer semantics was the specially of s. when he was a regular teacher at san Francisco state it s controversy. As acting president of the embattled Campus Hayakawa is a staunch de fender of academic Freedom to some flamboyant fool to others. At any rate Samuel Schyle Hayakawa is not Dull. Hayakawa signs his name with a bold flamboyant flourish each period a conspicuous Black Dot. He was taught More conservative penmanship but then Haya Kawa is not and never was a conserva Tive. You might say says he hands jammed in his pockets of an Avocado pinstriped suit i m is the Jaunty controversial fellow who wore a plaid Tarn o Shante to riots put Flower pots in his conference room wore an Orchid Lei to meet the press and blasted dissident students with get the hell out of he was named acting president of Sanfrancisco state College last november succeeding or. Robert r. Smith who re signed during student disorders faculty dissension and repeated Campus closure involving militant negro students and sympathetic faculty members. He was selected for the Post by the Board of trustees of the California state colleges. At the height of student protest on the Campus he suggested on duty police festoon themselves with Flower garlands the sign of peace to hippies. He asked College trustees to invite Mahalia Jack son to sing to soothe wayward souls. He reluctantly gave up driving his Redalia Romeo sports car in favor of police escort. Yet threats and criticism have not subdued his snowman s flair for a spicy phrase or the unexpected. Lots of colleges have militant students but for better or Livorse no one else has hayakaiva.9 Page 12 invited As a guest to the Kyed Tele vision program newsroom in san Francisco he was interviewed As part fan hour Long program focusing on Campus problems. He did t stay minutes after his interview began he denounced the questioners As ene Mies pounded his fists on the table and with untold thousands watching stomped off the set. You re a hero to some a son of a Bitch to others says the Salty undaunted one agrees or disagrees with his approach he s nonetheless effective in one respect drawing unprecedented attention to san Francisco around the country began to ask is he real is he fake what going on at san Francisco state issues in the san Francisco state Dis Pute Are Complex and Brittle ranging from a demand for More minority Stu dents to reinstatement of a Black pan ther teacher suspended for suggesting negro students carry guns. Strikers both students and some faculty refuse peace offers. They say their 15 demands Are of colleges have militant Stu dents says one College professor but for better or worse no one else has fans he s a cause celebre a diminutive Don Quixote wielding a sword for academic Freedom steeled in his belief that a teacher s duty is to teach a Stu Dent s duty is to learn. And the school at All costs must remain say he s making a mockery of education. Ayakawa s launch pad into the National spotlight occurred the Day he leaped atop a student sound truck Tarpon his head and ripped the sound system asunder and told a throng of students to shut up. This is a self revealing Job Haya Kawa said in an interview at his office i be found out some things about that i did t y when he leans Back in his Blackfeather swivel chair his feet barely touch the floor. He s an unassuming 5-feet-6with thinning Salt and Pepper hair a neatly trimmed moustache and thick Tortoise Shell glasses. He looks younger than his 62 years. Women find him charming. Men say she tells a Crafty joke. I be always known i was patient he said but i did t know i could move As fast As i can. Like when i ripped those a f v i be found that when a fixation involve challenger danger i dress up for it says Hayakawa. Up he grins impish by goes to his office refrigerator and Peers in. There Are hard boiled eggs kippers Rolls and takes out a snack. He s not very Good at sitting he says. He paces Toad fro. I be found that when a situation involves Challenge or danger i dress up for it he said for instance i wore a real Good suit today a Brand new Necktie and shirt and my i. Magnin Vest i be bought two new suits in a month i never buy two new suits in a the Tarn same thing. Dress he wears the Tarn nearly every Day even to the state Capitol to visit gov. Ronald Reagan. He bought it several years ago for fun now admits it comes in Handy. A Oyakawa has been involved with is before As a columnist for the fro newspaper the defender As an Wizer of the anti digit dial into preserve Telephone prefixes jazz critic find As a Parent in mental i Datola. One of his three children is icon Goold. In describes himself As one seized by a terrible sense of duty in he s a Fisherman Art collector fences weekly to keep his 150-Odd pounds trim thens Lurges by cooking Oriental dishes for his wife Marge. In news conferences he s a profession Al wearing pastel tones for the cameras. He reads news releases handed out prior to his arrival with gusto As if telling a thrilling bedtime friends and critics say sometimes he talks too Day nine persons were Hurt in Campus violence he said it s the mos exciting thing since my 10th birthday when i Rode a roller coaster for the on a recent network television inter View program he said he thought some teachers backed student revolts because alienation is a literary fashion among intellectuals now. If you want to spit inthe Eye of the establishment you Are praised for it you Are told you Are Abright after 14 years on the faculty he no teaches but one class a monday night seminar. There Are waiting lists for discourses. Acting College president much of his life since last nov. 26 has Bee restricted to room 103, a Persimmon coloured office behind a locked door in the administration building. A Security offi cer stands guard. Police once used teargas and drawn pistols to drive Yelling students from room 103.his office overlooks the Green Campus spread out across a Hillside shaded with Redwood and Pine ringed by picturesque Bay area Homes. He lives in a split level near by. Sometimes he stands silently at the window watching the unaware on the s As if a whole generation of Young people militant White and Black Youn people have missed part of their Educa Tion. Namely How to resolve he twirls the Large Turquoise ring on the Middle Finger of his left we could blame Little league baseball Hayakawa be noticed kids Are Over supervised in Little league baseball. They can t re solve a fight Over whether a strike s a strike without an adult referee. No adult no ballgame. A whole Bunch of kids nowadays Don t know How to solve prob lems on their Hayakawa Calls striking faculty Mem Bers bored Middle aged adolescents and likens students on the picket line tothe process onary Caterpillar an insect that goes round and is not limited to strikers versus non strikers. Ii Ayakawa s appointment raised howl when it bypassed the presidential selection committee of which he is member. It s said he did t even know the names of the College Deans. Be admits he has never administered any thing. The Day nine persons ice re Hurt in Campus violence he said it s the most exciting thing since my both birthday when i Rode a roller coaster for the first time his major credentials appear to have been the Public drubbing he gave school officials Only 10 Days before he took of fice. He gained respect from hard line advocates by scolding his superiors forgot being tougher and said the school should remain open even with police. He s Over his head says one col league. I liked him Well enough and still do. But the College president i caught Between the governor the trustees and the Good of the Hayakawa was born Samuel Schyle each a Lay to japanese parents Liv ing in Vancouver British Call him Don. In another Century he says he Wouldhave been a priest not an establish ment priest any More than he s aues to abolishment educator but one dedicated to preserving the citadels of study. As it was he became internationally recognized As a Sein Anticis author lec Turer and psychologist. He s written an edited seven books on How to make words change human behaviour an in Terest motivated from childhood frustration. His Mother spoke Only japanese a language he s never mastered. Hayakawa defines semantics As theart of How not to make a fool of your All the jobs you be had he was asked the travel the books the lec Tures even the Early Days of being cab Bie and Houseboy which was the mos fun immediately without hesitation he smiled and answered this the stars and stripes thursday f4 Ory 13, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 13
