Woods Calls for Total Divestment by Laura Downs Africa

VOL. XXII, NO.119 FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1989 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY’S Woods calls for total divestment By Laura Downs Africa. He emphasized Staff Reporter counter-propaganda as one of the major phases in this move Donald Woods, a white South ment and listed the five main African whose experience was points of propaganda that the the basis for the recent movie South African governm ent uses “Cry Freedom”, urged eco in securing the economic sup nomic sanctions and divest port of other countries. ments in South Africa, in a lec He then spoke of measures ture he gave Thursday. that the U.S. citizen could take to help hasten the downfall of apartheid. Among his sugges Press conference on tions were writing a letter to apartheid / page 3 Nelson Mandela in prison, giving strong support to anti apartheid groups, and writing Woods began his lecture by to senators and congressmen speaking on what he called urging stronger action in Octo “the crazy side of apartheid.” ber when sanctions come up in This portion of his speech in Congress. T he Observer/E.G. Bailey cluded a discourse which ex “The thing the South African Former South African prisoner and outspoken critic of apartheid Donald Woods (right) spoke last night plained some of the irrational government fears most is eco aspects of the South African nomic sanctions and divest about apartheid, divestment, and his experiences in South Africa. After the lecture, Woods relaxed with government, such as the intr ments,” said Woods. He said students and faculty and answered questions. icate “toilet laws.” that putting economic pressure “Extreme prejudice is like a on the South African govern sort of illness,” he said. He said ment to end apartheid would be Faculty Senate may disband that prejudice exists in every the most effective tool and that culture but “what makes South the sanctions that have already By CHRISTINE WALSH mode of operation. Many senators agreed that Africa unique is that racism is been placed by the U.S. are Senior Staff Reporter •Disband the senate. the reason why the senate was written into their constitution.” “starting to bite.” •Unionize the Notre Dame fac so ineffective was that Univer Next, Woods moved on to Following Woods’ lecture, A motion made by a member ulty. sity President Father Edward what he referred to as “the un the floor was opened for audi of the Faculty Senate Thursday After presenting the state Malloy, and previous presi funny apartheid.” He ence members to pose ques called for the complete dis ment, which was requested to dents, supported the present elaborated on some of the tions to him. banding of the senate itself. be placed “verbatim” in the system of University gover abuses that the government Woods became editor-in- In a seven page statement by senate minutes, Rice made the nance tightly controlled by a imposes upon the blacks under chief of the South African news Senator Bob Kerby, he motion to disband the senate. small group of administrators. their jurisdiction, including 312 paper, The Daily Dispatch, in potrayed the senate as ineffec Immediate reactions were The option to unionize was racial laws plus economic, so 1965. His editorial attacks on tual, and even more powerless divided on the issue, but the presented as a means of giving cial, and territorial dis the racial policy of apartheid than Kerby remembered it to senators agreed with the ex faculty a g re a te r say in U niver advantages. drew hostility from the South be when he served a decade pressed sentiment that the sen sity matters. A senator stated He said, “white people, no African government on ago. ate was largely an impotent that the University should be matter how nice they are, are numerous occasions and in “I don’t have confidence that body, in addition to its status more than just the administra incapable of a complete per 1977, he was arrested for this body can govern anyth as a non governing body. tion. ception of what it is like to be publishing details of the killing ing. this is the most useless “I agree with what we’re Other proposals, in addition a black living in a racist soci of the young black leader body I have ever served on... trying to say here but (we to the dissolution of the senate ety. Apartheid is an evil, unjust Steven Biko by officers of the it is kind of fun, but it’s a use shouldn’t dissolve the senate) were put on the floor. system but as far as blacks are State Security Police. less waste of time,” com right now. I think we have to “An alternative, which I concerned it’s much more than Three months after his ar mented Senator Charlie Rice. follow up with this meeting don’t promote, would be for the th a t.” rest, he escaped with his wife The senate should consider with the president and the rest senate to buy a page (in The Woods then spoke of a four- and five children across the three options in relation to the of the officers. .if we dissolve Observer). and supervise its phase “unspoken war” that is fate of the senate, according to today, we have no reason to< (Kerby’s statement) presenta currently taking place in South see WOODS / page 5 K erby: meet with anybody,” said tion,” said the senate secre •Leave the senate in its current Senator Mohammed Gad-el-Hak. tary. Chem students visit Maynard to speak on journalism local grade schools By JIM WINKLER dropout, was named a Nieman In 1979, Maynard was named By DAVID JACOBSON vides, said Cimprich. The Staff Reporter Fellow at Harvard in 1966 and editor of the (Oakland, Calif.) News Staff club is composed of has been a writer since that Tribune. He became the first chemistry students who are The Red Smith Lecture in time as well. He became the black to own a major Undergraduate students interested in being “exposed Journalism will be held next first black associate editor at metropolitan daily newspaper from Notre Dame are visit to different areas in Tuesday and will feature in 1983 when he purchased the ing local grade schools to chemistry and to the differ Robert Maynard, editor and Tribune. Two years after that give chemistry demonstra ent options they have,” ex president of the Tribune in Oak he began writing a syndicated tions, in a program that is plained Cimprich. land, California. column for the Universal Press run by the American Chemi The students began visting The lecture, sponsored by the Syndicate, appearing in over cal Society Student Af the schools in 1987, when American Studies Department 150 newspapers. In addition to filiates. Professor Tom Nowak, the and the Year of Cultural Diver his work at the Tribune, Karlene Cimprich, club project’s advisor last year, sity, will focus on changes in s Maynard sits on the Associated president, said that schools was contacted by area American life and journalism Press board of directors, as are being visited “to schools that wanted “stu during recent decades. well as on the board of the promote interest in dent affiliates to go out and Robert Maynard, this year’s Pulitzer Prizes, the Rockefel chemistry among those stu get people excited about sci speaker, is a noted columnist. ler Foundation and Mills Col dents.” “These visits are in ence fairs,” said Cimprich. “The Red Smith Lecturer is al lege. conjunction with National ways someone who has earned This is the seventh year that Science Week,” said Karen Schools visited so far by recognition as a writer and the lecture series has been Morris, chemistry lecture the students include Clay someone who upholds high held. The lecture honors the demonstrator. Middle School and Christ the journalistic standards. For late Walter “Red” Smith, a Robert Maynard The students visiting the King. More schools will these reasons and others, 1927 graduate of Notre Dame schools are volunteers from receive demonstrations next Robert Maynard is a perfect the Washington Post in 1967, who is called one of the greatest the American Chemical So week, which is National Sci choice,” according to Robert and ten years later founded the sportswriters in American his ciety Student Affiliates club, ence Week. Professor Schmuhl, director of the lec Institute for Journalism Educa tory. The purpose of the lec and are devoting their time Robert Hayes is the advisor ture and an associate professor tion, which trains minority ture, according to its sponsors; to this worthy effort mainly of this year’s program, said in American Studies. groups for careers in jour for the enjoyment it pro Cim prich.____________ Maynard, a high school nalism . see Red / page 7 page 2 The Observer Friday, April 14, 1989 WORLD BRIEFS Little brother’s driving is Two Syrian helicopters rocketed two Soviet navy vessels in the Mediterranean this week, injuring seven Soviet sailors, one critically, Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady Gerasimov reported Thursday. Syria apologized for the attack, and a pre ‘the scariest thing’ liminary investigaton indicated the helicopter pilots attacked in The scariest thing ever happened to me over error. The alleged attack took place at 10 a.m. Tuesday, 35 miles Easter break. I ended up having to go home for off the Syrian port of Tartus. M y brother is that the break and I found out that my brother started driving. Not golf balls, but a car. biker that always Princess Diana was lunged at by a man outside a workshop I was mortified, not to mention scared to cuts in front of your for the mentally handicapped in northern England Thursday but death.

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