Don Lee
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Invading Shockley
The Campus Judicial Panel (CJP) began hearings Feb 21 1972 for four students charged with violation of the Policy on Campus Disruption for entering the class of Electrical Engineering Professor William Shockley on January 18. The four are Venceremos members Don Lee, Alice Furumoto and Gerry Foote and Third World Liberation Front member Ho Kwon Ping.[1]
Shockley testimony
A key defense witness had his testimony stricken from the record yesterday for refusing to identify an informant in the Campus Judicial Panel hearings of three persons charged with disrupting Professor William Shockley's quantum mechanics class January 18 1972 . The three defendants are Don Lee, Ho Kwon Ping, and Alice Furumoto. In addition, the defense submitted for decision the case of Gerry Foote, originally charged with the other three, without presenting any testimony in her behalf. Her case will not be officially concluded until the prosecution recalls one of its witnesses against her.
The testimony of Bill Flores, a Political Science graduate student, was stricken after he refused to tell the prosecution the name of the person who informed him that there would be a disruption of Shockley's class. Hearing Officer Henry Ramsey overruled strong defense objections by claiming that the question concerned the "veracity of the witness." Defense co-counsel Ricardo De Anda told Flores, "You don't have to answer that if you're going to get somebody in trouble." Flores again refused to answer and his testimony was thrown out. The defense was dealt another blow earlier in the day when Ramsey would not allow them to present testimony relating to what constitutes a disruption in a classroom situation. In obtaining the objection, Ramsey declared, "The charge of the hearing officer is to find out what the hell happened in that class and not what this professor things." He then recessed the hearing until the afternoon. In his stricken testimony Flores claimed Shockley made taunting remarks to the person who read a statement condemning Shockley and asking him to debate. Flores said Shockley's remarks stirred up the originally quiet group of demonstrators. After Shockley had agreed to a debate with Psychology Professor Cedric Clark, Flores testified that the demonstrators left when they felt their purpose had been accomplished.
Flores remembered Furumoto speaking out only once during the half hour protest and Ho only twice. In addition, Flores said there were only three whites in the room, and that they were "observers instead of participants" because the protest was largely run by Third World people. The only testimony entered into the record yesterday was given by Charlie Bennett, a KZSU news analyst. Bennett remembered Shockley saying, toward the end of the protest, "I would vote for the suspension of any student who has disrupted my class."[2]
Venceremos
Katherine Barclay, Bradford Dowden, Geraldine Foote, Michael Fox, H. Bruce Franklin, Jane Franklin, Andrea Holman, Michael Holman, Chris Katzenbach, Don Lee, Aaron Manganiello, Merle Rabine, Theresa Ramirez, Ted Smith, Janet Weiss, Sharon Winslow, Jeffrey Youdelman were all members of Venceremos at Stanford University in 1971.[3]