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'Guardian Angel'Speaks AtLC by Cathy Maroney anti-crime measures and added, "We are not According to Sliwa, prospective members Speaking about the Guardian Angels, a saying we can deal with all the aspects of are screened, interviewed and tested in a »ciii/cn-patrol" group, and their efforts to crime, but we can stick to one contribution "stress situation" such as being attacked. If control New York City Subway and park that we can make." approved, they are taught the "ins and outs crime, group founder and leader Curtis Originally a 13-man anti-crime group of the penal code" and instructed in the mar- "Rod" Sliwa spoke to a crowd of approxi- called "The Magnificent Thirteen" which tial arts. Group members are not permitted mately 100 people on Tuesday in the Pope was founded in 1977 and patrolled the Ford- to carry weapons while "on patrol." "If I Auditorium at the Lincoln Center campus. ham area of The Bronx, trie Guardian Angels just wanted a bunch of gangbusters out The College at Lincoln Center Pre-Law Soci- has expanded to an organized and trained there, I could get them. There's plenty of ety and TUFF (Urban Fellows of Fordham) group of 542 volunteers who can be distin- them," he said. sponsored his appearance. guished by their red berets and white em- The group, however, has been labeled According to Sliwa, "Crime is all over the blemed T-shirts. "We are nothing more than "vigilantes" by various city and state offi- place—everywhere you look. It affects us all citizens," said Sliwa of the self-funded group sh cials, including Mayor Edward Koch. But, deeply because it's all around. This is the which is made up largely of black and hispan- according to Sliwa, "What keep us from be- reason for the Guardian Angels." During a ic men between the ages of 16 and 38, al- ing a vigilante group is the fact that we can two-hour session conducted by Pre-Law though there are currently 23 women work- follow the law and the law is such—we can. Society President Joseph Perno, CLC'81, Sli- ing patrol shifts both "with men and on their legally make citizen's arrests." He said his wa cited the current ineffectiveness of present own." Angels' Founder Curtis Sliwa Continued on page 3 U.S. Postage PAID Bronx, New York Permit No. 7608 Non-profit Orfl. Thursday, October 2,1980 Volume 62 FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK Number 21 a#B#ffi*sfe*fe(# »-<^'*< ^ ^.s^^ ^^^<83*8&^,^*A*^t^ j, K^fcjk. Ambassador McHenry Speaks: Law School Hif s 75 United States Ambassador to the United derstanding the political underpinnings of Nations Donald F. McHenry spoke Wednes- the nonajigned movement." day night on the emerging order of the non- Both the dismantlement of colonial em- aligned nations at a dinner commemorating pires and the birth of almost 100 independent the 75th anniversary of the University Law nations in the past 30 years contributed to the School. A proposed extension to the law rising trend of world nationalism, said Mc- school building and the fund drive to support Henry. The ambassador said that in the that extension were also announced at the 195O's leaders such as Yugoslavia's Marshal dinner. The $150-a-plate affair was hejd at Tito began to question whether it was in the Former Reagan Strategist John Sears the New York Hilton and over 600 people interest of those nations to be identified attended. strictly with either superpower. These leaders In his talk, McHenry focused on the emerg- felt that issues most important to their coun- ing third world alliance and its frequent con- tries "would always take a back seat to super- flicts of interest with the United States and power politics within the rigid bi-polar struc- the Soviet Union. "Our search for new stabil- ture of the world," McHenry said. Election '80 Forum ity will depend on large measure on how we McHenry described the 120 nations in the handle the instability brought to this world nonaligned group as "nonmonolithic," and by the new nationalism." According to Mc- said that their positions diverged widely. But, cused Carter, Reagan, and Anderson of "ob- byBobTulini Henry, after the Soviet invasion of Afghani- McHenry added, all seek an end to colonial- scuring the issues. They are not asking us to Responding to charges by opening speaker stan the American press jumped to the con- ism and racism, they all seek to be allowed John Dancy that the presidential race this commit ourselves to any real policies but sim- clusion that third world nations had finally self-determination, and they all seek a fair year is dull and the candidates are avoiding ply to the man." begun to understand the danger in alliance realignment of the global economy. the issues, former Reagan political strategist "The main reason this election year has with the Soviet Union, and that third world The ambassador also said the Soviets often John Patrick Sears and forrner Carter pub- been so dull is the candidates themselves. nations would begin to ally themselves with line up behind the third world nations be- licity man Gregory_.Schneiders~joined forces Himmy Carter hid behind the hostage crisis the United States. Although the Soviets suf- cause they do not have the same degree of to defend the role of politicians in the elec- for half a year and suddenly developed an in- fered a defeat when the United Nations called economic involvement and are therefore free toral process in the American Age-sponsored tense interest in campaigning only when he for a withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, to get behind a "popular movement." "Election 1980 Forum" last Tuesday. was defeated in New York State. Ronald Rea- according to the ambassador the third world "Nonetheless," said McHenry, "the Unit- Opening the forum by commenting that gan slept late and quit early to make sure he nations will continue to see issues from their ed Nations is not run by a voting trust con- voters choose a candidate "on his image would have the strength to carry on through own point of view and not from the point of sisting of the Eastern block and the third rather than on the real issues," NBC White the campaign. The only mildly interesting fig- view of either the Americans or the Soviets. world" and "even if the nonaligned nations ure in this election is John Anderson and House correspondent Dancy said, "Prob- "1 never shared the view that there was an shy away from opposing the Soviet positions ably, for most of us, our decision will be then only because he hadn't been overex- when they perceive their interest is at stake, posed before the campaign began," said automatic anti-American majority in the made on personality perceptions." According United Nations, but neither is there an they joined with the United States in con- to Dancy, "If we vote on issues at all, we are Dancy. demning the invasion of Cambodia by the "Another thing that has contributed to the automatic anti-Soviet majority in the United likely to vote an the emotional issues such as Nations," he said. "Both of these positions Soviet-backed government of Vietnam." general inertia of the electorate this year has •he Equal Rights Amendment, abortion, reflect an American tendency to see every- McHenry said the third world nations also school prayer, evolution, and the draft." been the lack of issues. Reagan and Carter thing that happens in a context of an East- continue to resent the economic role they feel Dancy believes "the real issues go begging both favor a tax cut. Both say they want a West confrontation. It prevents us from un- they have been programmed to play in trade i» a campaign—issues like defense." He ac- Continued on page 3 with the West. He said while the developing nations continue to produce cheap raw mate- rials that are subject to the fluctuations of the Proposed Emergency Medical Squad: Western market, Western nations continue to export expensive manufactured goods, the prices of which seem to have no relationship to the prices of raw materials. Students Plan Expanded Health Services In closing McHenry said, "What I hope is developing, and what we must strive to devel- by Kate Sullivan A.M. to 5 P.M. with a single registered nurse, lice car. Marks died the next day. op, is a stable international society. The 1'ordham College senior Arlene Paregian is Margaret McQuillan. The infirmary has a In a similar incident on July 28, 1980, a emergence of the third world is one of the leading a group of Rose Hill students who physician only two days a week, Mondays Yankee Stadium concessionaire died after best hopes for that society," and he said the want to organize an on-campus medical re- and Wednesdays, from noon until 2 P.M. waiting one hour for an ambulance, despite new order must be "so broad in its base that sponse unit. This medical emergency squad The infirmary offers basic first aid for mi- repeated calls by passers-by to the 911 emer- it cannot fail." w°uld provide both on-campus medical nor emergencies. In case of a severe emergen- gency number and the local precinct. Earlier The proposed law school extension, which emergency services and courses in basic first cy, students are forced to reiy upon the New that month, the Daily News reported two top was also announced at the dinner by the Law aid and cardiopulmonary respiration.