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"P" lllt.ll..<<»-.*f*>" mmf.'mmt m c_ |ii,.JlB vHMMMWaipHlil Hjliliiiiiife Stones predicts he'll be reinstated for Olympics "I'll probably go to the Olumpics Wednesday afternoon, Stones, AAU are all black. You have 60- to choice, including my tf-ack club.'" with NBC because I think I can doactin g like a fighter who had been 70-year-old officials from the Following Holt's directions. • -I a good job and because it will be down for the eight count but was Midwest. They figure, 'well, he's Stones donated his winnings to his 1 the ultimate test of my cold-turkey coming on strong in later rounds, got a big mouth, but he's white.' I ' i j Desert Oasis Track Club. t 1 withdrawal symptoms from track t>oldly predicted he would be will definitely benefitTrom the fact "Nothing was said until May and field." reinstated within "six to eight that blacks dominate high jum 1978. I told the AAU, which gave 1 • - DWIGHTSTONES. APRIL 1979 weeks." ping," Stones said. me clearence, but they told me SpeaMng BeTor F ferativeTy nrrthird reaisfiT igcoFding w TWtrmgrmmwtsasmmTmasir ByJAYPRIVMAN small audience, Stones said there Stones is that he feels the AAU ,:, ] are three reasons for his sudden saying he never told me this," "realizes 1 am still the top jumper Stones said. m H Six months ago high jumper change in attitude. in the nation. We don't have any The AAU is the U.S. governing Dwight Stones sounded like a I am now willing to pay back the consistent jumpers.'' body for amateur sports. The 1 ! beaten man. money I won in Superstars," Stones then elaborated on how lAAF is the international Since being suspended from Ston^ said. his troubles with ther AAU com organization. competition by the Amateur He won more than $33,000 in the menced. Stones likened the situation to Athletic Union in May 1978, Stones fall of 1977 from that competition "Before I went on Superstars, I "the president ticking down to the had taken all kinds of legal action and that is when his prolonged talked to John Holt (the secretary govemor." so that he could compete in the 1980 fight with the AAU began. general of the International Stones, after hiring an attorney, Olympics. Stones then gave, the other Amateur Athletic Federation). He proceeded to sue the AAU and the But in an April interview with a reasons for feeling he will be said amateur athletes could cm- lAAF. The court case has been national sports magazine, Stories eligible "by the end of November." pete, but you can't receive the backlogged five years, according had admitted that he had all but "Unfortunately, there are still money directly," Stones said. to Stones. He fired his lawyer. given up. bigots and racists in this country. "He said I could 'donate it (the That has changed. The top seven high jumpers in the money) to the charity of my Please turn to page 15 DWIGHTSTONES .1 daily-,^ _ vol.24 no. 24 California state university- northridge, California sundial friday/ October 12,1979 Artist uses exhibit as his swan song (irad "Homage to Irving Block" Colorado Springs, Colo., Art Center, La JotOa, Calif., Art Museum; as well as other galleries named He renders not an image in the Los Angeles area. But the reflection "I look with great enthusiasm to the new of the object phase of my life," Block said. "There are a /n its reincornatton lot of paintings in my head that are just —ARNOLD CHANIN begging for Ufe." to post 1975 Block has won the Greater Boston Fihn ByCARLLOVB Council award for his film, "Rembrandt, Poet By ELLEN REAGAN of Light," the Venice Festival and A coordinator has been named Metrop(riitan Museum Awards for "Goya," for the joint CSUN and Los Angeles "The time has come for me, after so many and the Edinburgh Festival award for "World Unified School District Studtent semesters, to live for myself. How wonderful at Rubens." Affirmative Action Program. to be able to wake up in the morning and say, "1 will definitely have some more films Juan B. Alvarado, a graduate of 'Now I can work on that painting today, and forthcoming," Block said. '"Hiere will be a CSUN, is the coordinator of the tomorrow too,' " Irvii^ Block, professor of film on the work of my friend, Hans program designed to inform 1»- art, said. Burkhart. And maybe I will write some Ungual and Latin studoits of op Block Wednesday addressed a group of b<x>ks. portunities available in h^ber students that could (xily be described as a fan "My whole Ufe, since I was a-^cid, has been education. club about an exhibition of his work currently influenced by a type of Jewish guilt. You just Alvarado, who graduated with a in Fine Arts Gallery 2. didn't do the things you Uke to do, you Uve for bachekir's degree in Chicane After 32 semesters in the art deportment at higher principles. Take care of the family, Studies, was coordinator ot ad CSUN, Block has decided to retire at the end keep the house up. Now my wife has missions and recruitment soîces of thte semester — or at least cut back on his - IRVING BLOCK convinced me 1 have to live for myself," Block said. for the Educational Opportunity teaching responsibilities. There are portraits of my wife, son, daughter Program at Cal Poly Pomoiuk. •and dog, who is very important," Block said. "Paul Klee said, 'The role ot the artist is to "I haven't decided yet if I will retire render the invisible visible.' So in my work, I He previously has taught at completely. I will proibably come back to , - The show was put together by Mark Jurey, instructor of art, and the art production class hope that there are things I reveal that go Loyola Marymount Univnîty, teach a class, now and then — if I'm beyond the visible, and touch the viewer in a Santa Mooica CoUege and Ventura wanted," he quipped. he teaches. "We did this thow to give the campus one way that one claîs the hand of another. Community CoUege and served as The exhibition, titled " .. .Be Seeing last chance to see his work," Jurey said. SilenUy." administrative assistant in You . ..", is "sort of a UtUe fareweU," Block Block has had one-man and group shows His current exhibit inchicles photographs of CSUN's Operation Chicano said. exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum and Block made by students in his classes as weU Teacher. "These are mostly things from my own Museum of Modem Art, New York; Corcoran as "drawings of myself that were done The implementation of this jmat private collection that have a sentimental Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the Los Angeles {Hx>ject adds another componait to value to me. They deal with my family life. County Museum; Phoenix Art Museum; Please turn to page 12 Please turn to page 12 Program unveils silent crime -^ battered women ByCARROLLLACHNIT knows when the chamJMr Is load<M; whether that she can't Ho whatHe wants. a>e may be *the first stage is tension buiUUng," this will be the beating that will scar, cripple beaten whether she makes lasagna or Fisher said. "Fnntration and anger,on the It wasn't the first time Betty Fisher got a or kill her. doesn't make lasagna. She reaUy has no man's part, fear and anticipation of what's telephone caH Uke this one. "My husband Fisher will speak on "Battered Womto: contr(ri." going to hai^n on the woman's. makes me play Russian roulette with him," the Silent Crime," and wiU show the fihn, The psychological effects of battering can '"Aie second stage is the explosive one — the woman said. "Violence Behind Closed Doors," tonight at be as bad as the physical ones. there's severe battering at that pmnt. The Fisher, program director at Haven HUls, 8 p.m. at the Women's Center, 9428 "The w(Hnan begins to lose her self- third stage is sort of a 'honeymoon'. The a shelter for battered women in Canoga Etiwanda Ave. esteem as the beatings occur over and man is sorry and wants his wife to know that Park, sighed as she recaUed the con "The main thing people don't understand over," Fisher said. "The people around her he is the man she married and the man she versation. about battered women is why they stay in don't know why she stays. She lacks con love;. He may fiU her hospital room with "I asked her if it wasn't scary that he put the situation," Fisher said. "Usually she is fidence in herseU and in her judgment. She flowers and candy. That's reaUy the payoff a gun to her head and pulled the trigger. hopeful that it will change. She loves her believes she needs this relationship. She — it restores the woman's hope for him and husband and wants him to change. She thinks she isn't capable of Uking care of the relationship," Fisher said. 'WeU, yes,' the woman told me, 'but it didn't herself." gooff.' " thinks she is in control of the situation. Then the cycle is repeated. "She thinks if she does what her husband Fisher and her coUeagues see a cycUcal The Ufe (rf a battered woman is a con Please turn to page 12 tinuous, game of Russian roulette. She never wants, everything will be OK. The catch Is pattern in woman battering.

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