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Winning the race In regard to the fine article in the April issue about Brutus Hamilton, former Cal track coach ("The gentleman from California"), let me mention the Archie Williams controversy. Williams, an African American, was a world champion 400-meter runner on Cal's 1936 track team and was selected to represent the U.S. at the Berlin Olympics. A controversy developed as to whether or not Cal should participate in the 1936 Olympics because of Hitler's well-known bias against black people. The Daily Cal ran editorials advocating that Cal boycott the 1936 Games, and the Men's Athletic Counsel (of which I was a member) was in a dilemma. Brutus Hamilton came to our rescue. He was Archie Williams's coach, and felt that Archie would win at Berlin and that he and other black athletes could figuratively thumb their noses at Hitler. Because of Hamilton's wise advice, the Counsel voted unanimously that Cal should endorse the 1936 Olympics. Archie Williams went to Berlin and won the 400 meters. Nate Rubin ’36 Los Angeles Campus pubs The "mildly risqué" cartoon that Rube Goldberg '04 drew for the 60th anniversary issue of the Pelican ("Calzone," February) would hardly raise an eyebrow in today's student publications scene. The campus humor magazine since 1991, the Heuristic Squelch, is totally uncensored. Continuing in the tradition of the Pelican, but with far more freedom, the Squelch roasts the chancellor and the administration, uses profanity freely, and specializes in explicit sexual spoofs. The sad demise of the Pelican was one of the unfortunate consequences of the student movement of the late '60s. Cal's premier literary publication, the Occident, also went under. Fortunately, campus publications have made a remarkable comeback, and today they are thriving like never before. For example, the Blue and Gold is one of 11 finalists for this year's Associated Collegiate Press award for the best yearbook in the country, X won the Independent Press Association's award for the "Best Coverage of Race and Racism" among campus alternative journals, and Berkeley Science Review was awarded a gold medal by the Columbia Student Press Association, one of the highest honors a college magazine can receive. Hal Reynolds Berkeley Student Affairs Office |
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