March 30, 1995
The assault and battery charge in the Jason "Quddus" Archie parole revocation hearing last Thursday stemmed from a July 1994 altercation between Archie and a teen-ager at SF State,Regional Parole Director Ron Chun confirmed late Tuesday afternoon.
Archie was recently sentenced to a six-month prison term after just cause was found for threatening another, disturbing the peace, and assault and battery without serious injury.
According to a University Police Department report dated July 15, 1994, while Archie was employed as a counselor by the National Youth Sports Program (NYSP) he was involved in a physical altercation with a participant.
Archie told the UPD he had been counseling one of the participants, who was between 14 and 16 years old, when the youth became verbally abusive.
The youth had used profanity, Archie said, and threatened to get a gun and shoot him -- then threatened to have his father assault Archie.
The youth then walked quickly toward Archie, the report said.
"It was just a reaction," according to Archie's statement. "I just reached up and grabbed him by the throat and pinned him against the locker. When he stopped yelling, I let him go and he walked out of the locker room."
In the report, Archie said he didn't remember if the youth had hit him before he pinned him against the locker.
Witnesses said it was only after the youth had hit Archie several times in the chest that Archie grabbed him.
After the incident, another counselor said he overheard the youth on a pay phone saying, "Dad, I need you to come down here and kick this counselor's ass," the report said.
The report said there were no visible injuries to the youth and that photographs had been taken.
According to Jennifer Jones, activities director for NYSP, Archie was fired as a result of the incident.
The report stated the youth's mother said she was satisfied with the disciplinary action taken against Archie by the NYSP's directors and did not want any further police action taken.
According to Jones, every NYSP counselor is required to attend a daylong workshop before working with the economically disadvantaged 10- to 16-year-old participants. Half of that day is dedicated to training counselors on how to discipline participants.
At no time are counselors allowed to use physical force in disciplinary action, but instead are supposed to contact the director, Jones said.
UPD Officer J.W. Wilson, who wrote the report, recommended that the "case be closed due to the fact that no further police action was requested by all involved parties.
Archie, an Associated Students legislator and black studies major, was arrested Feb. 21 on a parole violation after a verbal confrontation with English Lecturer Virginia Elliott on Feb. 16.
The charges of disturbing the peace and threatening another stemmed from the incident with Elliott, according to Liz Tanaka, media coordinator for the Board of Prison Terms. Mark Friedman contributed to this report