Photograph of past campus president, Robert D. Clark. Dr. Clark became the 18th president of San Jose State in 1964, after 20 years on the faculty of the University of Oregon. "The college will move with vigor to eliminate racial discrimination in housing for students," Dr. Clark announced in 1967. "Social events or entertainment shall be equally available to black and white athletes -- or available to none." Dr. Clark placed the school's fraternities and sororities on probation until they complied with the new anti-discrimination policies. And he canceled a football season opener between the Spartans and the University of Texas after outsiders and the United Black Students for Action threatened to disrupt the game. Dr. Clark died of natural causes on Tuesday June 28, 2005 in Eugene, Ore. He was 95. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/03/BAGGMDIIC71.DTL&type=printable Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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