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The Rollins Sandspur. 1633. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur/1633 Volume 92 No. 10 12 November 1985 PROTESTS LOSE STEAM CPS Anti-Aparthied activism reaffirmed its status Wesleyan demostrators carried signs saying rested. as the dominant college protest issue of 1985 "Wes must divest" and more than 100 students Activists say the fall semester is not as with a string of nationally-coordinated demon­ were arrested after blocking the entrances to conducive to protest as the spring term. strations on campuses across the country. administration buildings. City police were "People have alot to do in the fall," said But some leaders think the movement may be so called on campus for the first time since Andrew Weisberg, an activist at Cornell, where successful at getting colleges to sell their Vietnam War Protests. Wesleyan has about 18.5 about 250 students attended a forum during interests in firms that do business in South million invested in firms that do business with which protesters made the case for divestment Africa that it may be about to run out of or in South Africa. to members of the school's board of trustees. steam. At Berkeley, about 40 students who slept Added Perrin: "Students want to be academic Last week, led by students at Wesleyan Uni­ overnight in front of a campus administration in the fall. They want to get down to some versity, where more that 100 were arrested, and building were joined the next day by 900 pro­ serious business." California-Berkeley, where nearly 1,000 rallied testers, some of whom broke windows and later There is not as much to protest against, and several broke windows in administration blocked the entrance to a Bank of America of­ either, since scores of schools have sold stock buildings, activists successfully kept the push fice about two blocks from campus. UC offi­ in the companies or now are debating doing so. for divestiture in the spotlight. cials have rejected demands for total divest­ Already this fall, officials at Vermont, "The momentum toward divestment has been ment. Duke, Arizona, Arizona State, Oberlin, Southern great," said Josh Nessen, student coordinator At Harvard, some 50 students camped over­ California, Iowa State, Columbia, Rutgers and with the American Committee on Africa, which night in front of President Derik Boik's Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, have staged the Oct. 11 "National Protest Day." office. The next day, about 150 people at­ joined 16 other schools that have approved at "We want to build added pressure." tended a noon forum, many chanting "Not you, least partial divestment since the wave of A random survey indicates the demonstrations not me, we won't endow brutality." anti-Aparthied protests last spring. attracted far more students than the last Na­ At the University of Maine, some 60 students About 60 schools now have approved at least tional Protest Day April 4, but substantially erected a makeshift shantytown in Orono, where partial divestment. Of those about 20 have fewer than the hordes of students who partici­ the school is located. adopted total divestment. pated in the wave of locally-organized anti- In Boston, some 90 students from area col-, Even more significant, counselors at some Aparthied protests during late April and early leges rallied at the downtown office on the schools, including the Universities of Miami May, 1985. International Business Machine Corp. shouting and Colorado, now question if investing in "We've attracted more hard-core activists "International Business Machines, you don't firms that do business in South Africa is this fall, but there aren't as many people out know what freedom means." financially wise because the domestic turmoil there carrying signs," said Graig Perrin, an At Iowa, where officials have approved a in that country has made assets insecure. anti-Aparthied organizer at the University of divestment plan, some 250 students joined in a University officials used to argue against Iowa. mock funeral procession. divestment because it would hurt a school's Nevertheless, even though the fall semester Even protest leaders acknowledged the October investment portfolio. was less than a month old at some schools, 1 turnout did not approach last spring's, when At schools where the issue is still hotly several October 11 anti-Apartheid protests students protested at 51 campuses and staged contested, the arguments are between those who attracted substantial support: strikes at about 19. More than 1,000 were ar­ continued on page 7 ALARMS SPARK CONCERN This Week "On average, about once a month," said Wasowicz. "A by Janet Miller1 ' lot are caused by oil popcorn poppers, cigarette smoke, The Ward Hall fire alarm sounded around midnight and hair spray." She added that although there were two Tuesday, October 22. Although no cause has yet been pranks last year, this is not as common as alarms set found, the alarm raised questions of the number of off by small things. occurrences of the fire alarms, the effciency of the In contrast, McKean Hall has a high rate of sounding. alarm system, and the daiigers of their frequency. Last year, for example, Resident Aide Alice Powell esti­ A Trendy Brooch "I don't think it was (deliberately) pulled," said mates there were about thirty soundings, half deliber­ p.5 Mary-Ellen Berlo, a Ward Resident Aide. Maybe smoking, ately pulled. or a fault in the system caused it." One reason for the contrasting difference of soundings People in the Nevs The danger of there being too many false alarms is in each building is the location of the detectors in the p.5 that after a while, people won't take them seriously and ceilings and the difference in ceiling heights. Pine­ Sportsbeat may do this during an actual fire. hurst and Ward, buildings with some of the lowest rates p.6 Although there is a fine for maliciously pulling an of alarms, have a twelve foot ceiling as opposed to Football Picks alarm, there is none for refusing to leave a room during McKean's nine feet. "Therefore fumes from a deodorant p.6 one. can sprayed in Pinehurst will take longer to reach the Coiaunity "That's what happened just the other night," said detectors than one sprayed in McKean," said Dean -Bari Watkins. P- 7 Marge Hampton, of Security. "People don't take them seriously because we've never Most of the fire alarms in Elizabeth Hall have also had a major fire. They wait for their friends or they been caused by the concentration of ions from different don't leave at all, " said Laura Wasowicz, another Ward substances, according to Resident Aides and Watkins. Resident Aide. To prevent fatalites like this, however, There were not many soundings last year (less than there is a system in which resident aides meet in the eleven), according to Resident Aide Rob Isner. lobby, then go back to their units to make sure everyone "There have been five this year, but those have been leaves. without malicious intent," he said. The problem with the Ward alarm system that night was The alarm systems are highly sensitive, but for good getting it turned off and reset. reason. "You want to strike a balance between an overly "The panel light was messed up, so the alarm wouldn't sensitive system and one that doesn't go off until the turn off," said Berlo. Residents went back -to their building's engulfed in flames," said Watkins. They're rooms at about 12:40, forty minutes after it sounded. not sensitive to heat and smoke, as you would think, but How often does the alarm in Ward go off? to the concentration of ions in the detectors." $fi*Mtw>2 12 November 1985 WASHINGTON VIEWPOINT oX* by Sen. Lawton Chiles HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT RATES Editor Dino Londis REACH CRISIS LEVEL Years ago, the great out rate goes a lot farther American poet, Langston than just affecting the in­ Photography Editor Lisa Curb dividual. With the U.S. _ Hughes, began a poem about a troubled child with these competing in international 1 want to invite you to write for Sandspur. words, "Lonely little ques­ high technology markets, If your group club, or organization has an up­ tion mark on a bench in the where knowledge and re­ search are king, it is impor­ Staff: coming event that you want the school to know, park..." I think that is a pretty tant that our young people then write a story telling about what it is and Writers Steve Appel powerful image. The child stay in school so that they what it is going to entail. After the event, was all alone watching the can contribute in our efforts Pam Kincheloe write another story about what happened at your people, the planes and the to be the leader of the pack. Janet Miller event. birds pass him by. And he I've been, doing a lot of This way the school knows of the event and wasn't in school.