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The Newspaper For T-he lthaca·College Community 0 Issue 7 ,r~ftiic_l/BRARY ___,, ___ • October 13, 1988 · ,..,..N,·· · i1·e'i11 ·••:,·!: : :·, ' : lv=::J . ,ca,s 24l pages* 1Free Divestment Former hostage Clubs 9 ask IC to sell praises Reagan s South African holdings Gulf policy BY STEPHANIE KURTZMAN Shareholders On Tuesday, Oct. 25, Students and Various Ithaca College clubs, Faculty Against Apartheid will show organizations, and faculty are com­ BY ANDREA PHILLIPPI with a hate-Iran emotion for too long. For example, Ford Motor Com­ the film, "Last Grave at Dimbaw." at bining forces this year to try to Ambassador L. Bruce Laingen Pragmatists in Iran today have the up­ pany, General Motors, and IBM have 7:30pm in the South Meeting Room eliminate South African apartheid, who, along with 62 other Americans, per hand, and that is good for us," all sold their operations to various of the Campus Center. The film and they are starting by questioning was held by Iranian terrorists for 14 he said, adding, "We hope that they South African companies with which depicts "the devastating human costs IC's stock holdings. months from November 1979 until will be able to establish rational, more American corporations still have of apartheid," says Thomas. January 1981, held a news conference responsible relations with the rest of Groups involved mamagement and marketing in Ithaca Tuesday morning. the world." He did say, however, that agreements as well as a financial in­ Planned events Apartheid is the system of institu­ Laingen, 66, is the former vice this will probably have to wait until terest. IC holds $210,000 in General On Wednesday, Oct. 26, the com­ tionalized oppression and division of president of the National Defense the Ayatollan "disappears from the Motors stock, $420,000 in Ford mittee asks all IC members of the IC races, andhasexisted in South Africa University. He was the Changes d' Af­ scene." Motor Co. stock, and $900,000 in community to wear a black armband, fairs of the U.S. Embassy in Teheran for decades. Organ.iz.ations such as the IBM stock, adding up to more than which will be distributed inside and in when the hostages were seized, and Regarding the failed rescue attempt Afro-Latin Society (ALS), the Gay $1.5 million (as of July 29, 1988, when front of the Campus Center on that 1981 he was awarded the Department of the Iranian hostages, Laingen said, and Lesbian Alliance (GALA), the the Treasurer's Office made available day. The armband will be a symbolic of State award for valor. He was in ''The military option has to be there. Forum for Progressive Students, Col­ their stockholdings), says Thomas. protest of South African black Ithaca to deliver the Bartels World However, it is never an easy option to lege Democrats, Kuumba, Students oppression. Affairs Lecture at Cornell this past apply; innocents and hostages can and Teachers Allied for Nuclear Oticorp investment films Tuesday night. easily get hurt." He added that "I re- Disarmament (S.T.A.N.D.), and the Also, according to a memo department of Anthropology have distributed to the representatives of Wednesday night, at 7:30pm in already joined to form the committee various college organizations, Citicorp Friends 209, the committee will show HJ called Students and Faculty Against has more than $700 million in loans another film, "Witness to Apar­ think that we have been Apartheid. The week after Fall Break, in South Africa right now. IC holds theid," a 1986 movie that the New Oct. 24 through Oct. 28, the commit­ $113,000 in Citicorp' stock, says York Times called a "brave and beset with a hate-Iran tee is kicking off what they plan on Thomas. powerful piece of journalism show­ being a year-long series of anti­ The memo adds that these IC in­ ing why South Africa blacks cannot emotion for too long. '!J apartheid activities. vestments (which are partially fmanc­ be content with [the current] ed by student tuition) help arm and piecemeal reforms." Following this IC stock holdings Laingen stated that "The Iranian diplomacy first and foremost.' computerize the South African film, as well as the Tuesday night Although the IC Treasures office situation dramatized the depth of the military and police force. "In order to film, will be a discussion on apar­ Foreign Policy has sold off its stocks with "direct in­ Iranian disagreement with American achieve complete divestment from theid and IC investment policy on foreign policy." We were too comfor­ Laingen also spoke about current vestment" in South Africa, Garry South Africa, Ithaca College would corporations doing business in table with the Shaw at that point," he U.S. foreign policy. '"I think that we Thomas of the department of An­ need to sever all ties with corporations South Africa, says Thomas. thropology, who in February, said. He added that the old traditions used force effectively in the Persian 1987, that have any kind of holdings in that was one of the faculty members who and policies of 40 years ago were Gulf," Laingen said, adding that country," according to the memo, requested the college's divestment, simply not effective, in the changing making partial concessions and deals "including those that have claimed to says that the school still has stock have pulled out when in fact they are Also, Thomas adds that a musical world. with the terrorists is not only ineffec­ tive, but also very hard for the holdings in major corporations that still there hiding behind a curtain of event or rally outside of the Campus Iran hatred families. AlthoUgh.·he said that the ad- still have substantial financial interest changed names and indirect Center is being considered for some "I think that we have been beset .. , see Hostage page 6 in South Africa. investments." time during the week. main at heart a diplomat. I believe in The challenge of independence BY ANDREA PIDLLIPPI The time is 8:04 am, and Alan Washer has already been at work for more than an hour. Alan, 33, is an employee of Challenge Industries, a vocational rehabilitation facility that helps remove society's barriers and integrate disabl­ ed people into the community. For the past eight months, he has worked as a dishwasher in the Ithaca College union dining hall. He spends from 7 am until 2:30 pm Mon. through Wed. surounded by other Challenge workers, huge vats of soapy water and lots of dirty dishes. ,. Enjoying work ,,1· Alan says that he is happy with the work he is doing now. "My job here is really nice. I like it a lot." However, Ii like some Challenge employees, Alan hopes to find other employment eventually. "Some day I want to get another job." When asked how he feels about the college students, Alan said, "I'm not sure; I don't get to see them very much." Although Alan and the other 25-30 Cliallenge employees are important in making the college run smoothly, many students are unaware of their presence. "They're practically invisible. To many students they are just pairs of disem­ "ed hands that they see as they slide their trays in to be washed," said Mitchell Green, director of Ithaca Col­ lege's dining services. Green is referring to the dishwashers employed by Ithaca through Challenge in all three din­ ing halls. History with Challenge Challenge Industries is a non-profit agency located on East State Street. One of it's largest employers is IC,cur­ rently employing between 25 and 30 of its workers. The college first bega.,., ~ing Challenge workers three years ago when there was a severe shortage of student workers. "We're not elirninatmg any student jobs; there was no other option," They've really been a saving grace, filling all of the gaps nicely." Challenge perfonns work for more than 300 companies each year. Some jobs perfonned for Ithaca College in­ clude mailing, janitorial work, dining hall work, and light groundskeeping work in the swnmer months. For other companies, Challenge people perfonn electrical ~bly and light mechanical assembly. Most of the correspondence that students receive from Citizen's saving bank is mailed by Challenge workers. Finance for the agency have been imJ?roviJlg steadily despite an early 1987 cut of $70,000 in state funding. Bar­ bara Brenner, manager of transitional services for ChaJlen.ge, says that "cuts in funding for us are a very serious, "SAVING GRACE": IC has been employing Challenge Industry workers see Challenge page 4 in the dining halls and all around campus for about three years. .,) . -~ r r ... .. - ~ i , \ 1 J 1r :-- -: ~ ~· 2 TIIE mnACAN October 13;· 198ft Mission accomplished NASA proves victorious with Discovery and the planet Venus. The successful flight of the space In addition to redesigning rocket cidental shutoff.