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 DR PAUL DALE BUSH
Receives the 2009
Veblen-Commons Award
On
January 3, 2009, Dale Bush received the annual
Veblen-Commons Award
in San Francisco
during the annual meetings of the Allied Social
Sciences
Association
(ASSA). All of the major professional economics
associations are
members of the
ASSA. The Award is sponsored by the Association
for Evolutionary
Economics and is
given to a scholar in recognition of his/her
contributions to the field
of evolutionary
institutional economics. This prestigious award
is named after two of the
early American
pioneers of institutional economics, Thorstein
B. Veblen and John R.
Commons. Past
recipients of the Award have been such
luminaries as Gunnar Myrdal
(Nobel Laureate
in Economics), John Kenneth Galbraith, Rexford
G. Tugwell
(a former member
of President Franklin Roosevelt’s “brain
trust”), Robert Heilbroner,
and Marc R. Tool
(internationally renowned institutional
economist and long-time
editor of the
Journal of Economic Issues), among others.
Dr.
Janice Peterson, a member of the economics
faculty at California State
University,
Fresno, and one of Bush’s former students,
introduced him at the awards
ceremony. After
commenting on Bush’s many contributions to the
field of institutional
economics, she
ended with praise of him as professor, teacher
and mentor.
“We
students were cautioned about accepting a
particular set of theories as
reality without careful consideration of the
philosophical preconceptions
and
framework within which the different
microeconomic worldviews could
be
identified and analyzed. This framework not only
provided the opportunity
for a
historical and critical analysis of the economic
models, but also made
them
fascinating to study. Instead of merely being
abstract mathematical pro-
lems,
microeconomic models became key players in an
intellectual contest
over
the meaning of reality.”
At
the outset of his teaching career, Dale Bush’s
professional work as a scholar
was delayed by several years during which he was
immersed in the academic freedom
wars of the California State University (CSU)
system during the late 1960s
and early 1970s. He earned an odious reputation
in the eyes of the university
administration for his advocacy of the rights to
academic freedom and due process
of CSU students and faculty. When he
was not in the classroom, his time
was spent
in grievance and disciplinary action hearings throughout the state in
which he represented
faculty and students whom the administration had charged with engaging in
actions
and public utterances offensive to the powers
that be. In the late 1960s he served
as the president of the Association of
California State College Professors (ACSCP),
a position that brought him to the disapproving
attention of the Reagan administration
in Sacramento. In that capacity Bush publicly attacked Reagan’s
destructive budgets
for higher education and criticized State
College president, S. I. Hayakawa’s introduction
of a police state at San Francisco State College. Amidst these outrages,
Bush was a
leader in bringing collective bargaining to
higher education in the State of California.
In 1968, Dale Bush and four
other professors at the Fresno campus
established the Fresno Free College Foundation
in order to support the poet
Robert Mezey who was fired by the Fresno State
College administration without
cause. Since the Mezey case, the Fresno Free College Foundation has sought
to
protect other professors and students from administrative tyrannies and to
serve as an instrument for highlighting the need for the protection of
academic freedom and due process on university
campuses.
Alex Vavoulis
The
Fresno Free College Foundation
40th Anniversary Annual Report....
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Regular
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3rd
Tuesday at 7:00 PM
Machinists Union Hall on W Olive
The Fresno
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PM December 15, 2009 IAM Union Hall 544
W Olive Ave Fresno, CA. The meeting is
open to the public.
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Fresno Free
College Foundation is a community-based
membership organization dedicated to the
principles that the well-being of the
community is measured by the respect
that it shows for the civil liberties,
intellectual and artistic freedom of its
citizens, and that the exercise of this
freedom enriches the individual and
society as a whole.
AGENDA
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Call to
Order 7PM Determination of
Quorum Introduction of Guests
I.
Adoption of Agenda
II.
Excuse of Absences
III.
Approval of Minutes
IV.
Public Comment
V.
President's Report
VI.
Executive Director/Programming
Director's Report
VII. Chief
Engineer's Report
VIII.
Regular Reports
A.
Budget Committee
B.
Community Outreach Committee
C.
Fundraising Committee
D.
Governance Committee
E.
Programming
Committee
F.
Personnel Committee (closed session)
G.
Election Committee
H.
KFCF Representative to KPFA LSB
I. Ad hoc committee on criteria
for membership of honorary board
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Consent Agenda - none at time of agenda
preparation
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Business
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Board budget retreat/consultant
b.
job descriptions for staff
c.
election
d.
updating web site
e.
other old business
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Business
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Regular ED Evaluation Process and form
b. Free
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Dr. Martin Luther King and the Greek classics :
By Alexandros P. Mallias -
This year
will mark the 40th anniversary of the death of
Martin Luther King, Jr.
His death on April 4,
1968, found my country in the midst of one of
its darkest
hours, as the one year anniversary
of an oppressive military dictatorship neared.
With my fellow citizens living under military
rule and deprived of the very basic freedoms,
I
was inspired by the people of Birmingham, Ala.,
of Memphis and Atlanta, who, in a most
dignified
way, poured into the streets, standing up for
what was rightly theirs.
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Abstract
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The terrestrial
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Kazantzakis, crowned by the paeans he
sang to the infinite
beauty of the earth
and to the human life rooted in the
soil, is as intensely depicted
as his
momentous struggle to achieve spiritual
ascent. Scattered in his writings
we
find innumerable passages on the
fundamental importance of the material
realm combined with his humanistic
commitment to mankind's terrestrial
habitat—
to live and "flower"
in it; and his spiritual growth, the
ascent, is crucially linked
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On June 9, 1975,
the following
announcement was reverberating
throughout the Central Valley:
“The
signal of Pacifica Radio station,
KPFA in Berkeley, can now be heard
in the
Central Valley.” It was a
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listener-sponsored
and not influenced by corporate
advertisers or government
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Foundation) to provide
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during the winter
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sleeping bags, blankets
and money will be
greatly appreciated.
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GIFT OF 40 RADIO PROGRAMS TO CSUF
The
FRESNO FREE COLLEGE
FOUNDATION presented a gift to
the Henry Madden Library at
California State University, Fresno
of 40 Radio Programs on CDs. The
original gift in 1994 was on audio
cassettes and has been catalogued at
the Madden Library since that time.
The FFCF wants to avoid destruction
of the cassettes by deterioration
over time and provide the Library
with the CDs that have a longer
life.
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Music Still Lives on KFCF
There
clearly has been a void since
"The Johnny Otis Show"
left the radio airwaves on
Saturday mornings at KFCF,
88.1FM. Johnny Otis is a legend in
music. He was
deservedly inducted
into the rock & roll hall
of fame, and possessed a charismatic
personality which contributed to his
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Fresno State should stand up for free speech
By Dr. Alex Vavoulis
(Updated Sunday, September 28, 2003, 4:00 PM)
In 1968 the distinguished poet Robert Mezey, an assistant
professor of English, was denied retention as a member of the Fresno
State College (now California State University, Fresno) English
faculty. While the college administration claimed that
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