San Diego State University

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In this 2017 interview, Jim Carr discusses his tenure at Cal State San Marcos working with Distribution Services.

Scope and Contents "'Hip' Barred at Border" [satirical article about hippies being turned away by Mexican authories]; "Black Student Council Honors Malcom X"; "Sailors Duped in Pot Bust: 11 Charged"; "Free Huey [Newton, Minister of Defense, Black Panther Party]; "SMC Conference Student Strike" [Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam]; "Irresolute Faculty Does It Again" [Faculty Senate at San Diego State College defeat Vietnam War resolutions]; "You're Free To Go" [police harassment at traffic...

Scope and Contents Carol Graham is a Master Garderner. She has a Bachelor's degree in Zoology and began her career working at Saturn Oak–San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Plant One. After its closure, she enrolled to become a Master Gardner volunteer that was sponsered through the University of California Cooperative Extension program. The Master Gardner program is dedicated to distributing information for an environmentally-responsible home and garden. She has been a Master Gardner since 1983 and...

Scope and Contents "Human flag. Jack Murphy stadium - San Diego. Orange Glen High School Band attended." "Orange Glen High School, Escondido, band staff helped co-ordinate the effort of forming a giant human American flag in the parking lot of Jack Murphy stadium as a effort to support the troop in the Middle East. Source: Times-Advocate. Jan. 30, 1991. TA photographer, Dan Rios.""Human Flag was orchestrated by local radio DJs Jeff and Jer on B100."[Five images: img 183 wide...

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The Ron Packard papers (1982-2001) documents the congressional activities of Ron Packard, a Republican Representative from California who served the 43rd District (1983-1993) and the 48th District (1993-2001) in the House of Representatives. The collection includes his political activities (e.g., speeches, letters, presentations, awards, and photographs) in the House of Representatives and on various subcommittees, from his 1982 campaign through his retirement in 2001.

Scope and Contents "Chicano Community Fights Deportations" [Interview with Herman Baca, Chicano activist, includes photographs]; "Boycott Demonstrators Picket Gallo H.Q." [mass picket at Gallo Headquarters in Los Angeles; contains photographs]; "Black Nationalism: 'Counter-Revolutionary and Proud'"; "Hero Worship: A Form of Oppression"; "Class Struggle Main Theme of Chicano Conference" [16th Annual High School Chicano Conference, San Diego State University. Keynote speaker was Bert Corona]; "Middle East Issue...

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In her interview, Diana Saldivar discusses how the Cross-Cultural Center provided her with a sense of belonging on campus and served as a second home. Saldivar explains how the center provided her with lifelong friendships, skills and connections that has helped her become the person she is today. Saldivar recounts how the CCC provided a safe space, allowing for conversations with others that are often deemed controversial, and how the center encouraged those to constantly seek knowledge.

Scope and Contents "Escaped Marine Desperados Terrorize San Diego" [interview with Pvt. Timothy Eckman, Pvt. James Sanford, and Pvt. Larry Deardorff, escapees from the Maine Corps Recruit Depot Brig]; "Bag of beads" [Subersive Progress Report, Encounter, The Generation Chasm]; "Letters to Editor"; "Love Is A Four Letter Word: Shit"; "Large Class Size Spoils School Program" [Mangelson School]; "New Left, Old Left, What's Left?"; "Hippocrates" [effects of tear gas]; "Co-ops are coming" [grocery co-op in...

Scope and Contents "Door Liberated From Price Tag"; "Bag of Beads"; "Screenings"; "From the Other Side of the Tracks" [heroin, the drug war, and minority control]; "Eight-Point Program of the American Serviceman's Union" [Collective bargaining, election of officers, end of saluting and sirring of officers, federal minimum wages, end to racism in the armed forces, self-determination of Black people and Puerto Rico, rank and file control over court-martial boards, right of free political association, right to...

Scope and Contents "The Big Lie Laid On Children" [Cycle of socialization of middle-class American values]; "Iconoclastic Spastic: Spastic Solves the Problems of Ecology"; "Letters to the Editor"; "XEMO, A Racist Station" [San Diego AM radio station]; "Book Review" [Star Sine Make it / Richard Brautigan]; "Can a Black Make It?" [Black people in politics]; "CIC to Continue?" [Citizens Interracial Committee, San Diego]; "Wanta Go to Vietnam?"; "The Frustration Wall" [popular hang out for youth in Ocean Beach...