Long one of the outstanding members of California's 18-campus state-college system, San Francisco State has lately been foundering in disorder. Violence began last November when Black Students Union members wrecked the offices of the student paper and beat several staffers for printing what the blacks called racial slurs. Tension increased when demands for immediate reinstatement of five B.S.U. rioters were refused. Students held a sit-in at the administration building. In an embarrassing televised inquisition, the trustees interrogated the college's president, John Summerskill. Not long afterwards Summerskill resigned in disgust, forced out after just 21 months in office.
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