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Few students feel that the department has ironed out all of its academic problems, but many seem to believe that a good beginning has been made. William Dickson, a black junior who hopes to start law school at Stanford next year, credits the black economics courses with giving him "a whole new outlook" on what he can do to help in the ghetto where he lives. Other students have serious complaints. Bill Insley, a white graduate student, signed up for a black psychology course but dropped it because he wasn't learning any psychology. He complains that the instructor failed to assign a single psychology text and lectured more on politics than anything else. When the instructor announced that students would be required to work either for the Black Panthers' breakfast program or the black student newspaper —neither of which Insley considered pertinent to the study of psychology —he quit.
Disturbed by reports that militant members of the Black Students Union are gaining control of the still-chair-manless department and using it as a training ground for revolution, Dean of Undergraduate Studies Urban Whitaker has been trying unsuccessfully since September to arrange a group meeting with the black faculty. Unless the faculty meets with him by next Monday, Whitaker has implied, he will stop signing their pay vouchers.