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Marshall Law Officially Ends!
“Now is not the time to point fingers. Now is not the time to be fearful of one another. Now is the time to unite.”
Yet, when Faulk officially announced that he wouldn’t return to SDSU for his senior season at a news conference in the Stadium Club at San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium, he left behind a legacy that may never again be equaled.
– Pieter Frick, dean of the College of Engineering
This was the key sentiment expressed at the all-university memorial service yesterday afternoon in the Open Air Theatre. Hundreds of faculty, staff and students gathered to remember engineering professors Chen Liang, Preston Lowrey III and Constantinos Lyrintzis. “We mourn them and we celebrate all that they gave us,” said Gene Lamke, university senate chairman. The three professors were shot and killed at approximately 2:05 p.m. Aug. 15 on the third floor of the campus engineering building where they had gathered to evaluate a graduate student’s thesis. Campus police were at the scene just two minutes after they were notified, said University Police Lt. Stephen Williams. The suspect, Frederick Martin Davidson, 36, was arrested and taken into custody.
Marshall Faulk left the San Diego State football program Tuesday afternoon the same way he entered it — unassuming, fairly emotionless, speaking with a soft voice and wearing the same sort of clothing.
As the greatest running back in school history and the all-time NCAA record holder for combined rushing and receiving yards in a three-year career, Faulk accomplished virtually everything an individual could at SDSU. The one obstacle that eluded Faulk was a Western Athletic Conference championship, which he admitted gives him “an empty feeling.” Faulk, who was rumored to leave after his sophomore season but elected to return, said he never regretted his decision to return this year. He said he made his final decision to forego his final year of eligibility three or four days ago. “It was a long thought process,” Faulk said. “Me, my mom, my (high school) coach — we talked about it all through the year. ‘If I have a good year, what would I do?’ It came to a point where I thought I wanted to come back, but with the coaching changes and the year that I had, I felt like it was time for a change.” AZTEC ATHLETES continued on P3
Since then, Davidson has pled not guilty to the murders. His attorney has entered a plea of insanity. Davidson’s preliminary hearing has been set for Dec. 5 by Municipal Judge Albert Harutunian.
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He was awarded the first honorary doctorate degree given by the California State College System. He was met by an enthusiastic crowd of about 30,000 persons in Aztec Bowl. He had just completed a successful parade down the streets of San Diego.
A nation and much of the world still mourn his passing. We at SDS had more than the usual attachment with the late President. He “belonged” to this college by the fact that he made a special effort to speak here and accept a degree from us. The students of this college have reacted greatly to the late President’s call for volunteers to his pet prokect, the Peace Corps. He was a martyr in every sense of the word. Death came to him during his service to his country.
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The 2006 referedum promised additional facilities, such as a 24/7 “state of the art” study space with lounges, theatre-style performance space, healthy food offerings for the Aztec Center Food Court, a day spa, new fitness and recreational facilities, more meeting rooms for students, and more bowling allies and electronic games, not to mention more job opportunities for students to staff these outlets.
He spoke here during commencement little more than six months ago. He described himself as an “instant graduate.”
The youthful President dead and buried.
“I have never seen the university as glued together as I have in the past 20 days – from the president of the university to the smalled person,” said Dr. Nihad Hussain, associate dean of the College of Engineering and professor of mechanical engineering.
This week, student will be given the opportunity to vote on whether to self-impose a new student fee for facility upgrades to Aztec Center. For some students this may sound like deja-vu—in 2006 students voted on a similar measure to increase student fees by $56 throughout the course of four years; the last portion of that fee increase went into effect this semester.
An SDSU alumnus is dead.
He was widely identified with young Americans.
An overwhelming amount of support
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Cou n ci l Mee t i n g E n d s i n Viole n ce Six persons were injured and the bottom floor of the Administration Building left in shambles as approximately 35 persons turned a special Associated Students Council meeting into a violent demonstration which lasted over an hour yesterday. What started out as a special Council meeting to allow various administrators to explain to interested students what they were doing about the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), the Affirmative Action Plan and other issues related to the demands made by Mecha last Friday, turned into a display of violence. Members of Chicano and white radical groups said the administrators were not giving what they considered valid answers during the meeting. Rico Bueno, Mecha representative to the Council and another Chicano student rose at the meeting and shouted that the group must show its power then and there. Approximately 35 persones then marched to the Administration Building chanting “Chicano power, black power, white power, people power!” and began clapping and shouting in front of the building. After several secretaries the glass doors of the building members of the crowd started breaking windows and burning trashcans and copies of the Daily Aztec in front of the building. CONTROVERSY continues on P8
“Black Weekend” brought tragedy in more than the death of the president. The American-way of justice also suffered in the city of Dallas, Tex. The murder of the accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was reminiscent of old-time lynchings. The act did nothing but deprive Oswald of his right of a fair trial, something we guard very closely in the United States. Millions of persons were as emotionally upset after the President’s death as Jack Ruby, but the death of Oswald solved nothing. Our judicial system would have served the purposes of this nation better than the bullet and curse of Ruby. We have much to be sorry about – the death of a good President, the act of murder that robbed Oswald of his trial and the loss of an opportunity to decide why Oswald might have committed such heinous crime. It was a bizarre weekend, one that should never be reinacted. We can never forget John F. Kennedy and we can never forget the weekend in which our system of justice was ignored by the emotions of a nation. JFK continued on P6