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STUDENTS STRIKE for EDUCATION President cont. Review "to name a few. Please make sure your information is reUable or at least researched next time, you cosmic clown. The Aspiring Joumo's Friend - - 'V-r UQU AGAINST ONYANGO Dear Editors, . murderer, . tyrant, must be Letters over SOO words are annihUated, a leader can change so my cut off and marked with support for one could also change, only asterisks. .African member of the club and its STUDENTS STRIKE FOR EDUCATION president, . very popular here and that's why other Africans are jealous, was mentioned in Pariiament, an assurance With campuses througliout Australia taking votes on whether or not to that applications for poUtical asylum support a national student boycott on April 28, students nationally are. y^EROSa would be favorably considered, . like '.Rhodesia and South Africa so why getting a chance to say what WE think, and the message is clear. Both Dear Sir, shouldn't we also criticize him. I keep nationally and within Queensland the decision of students has been to ' Why are so many people so uncon­ to myself . other Africans are hypi- strike in support of better conditions of education. scious of what they are doing to their cri tical. We have taken up the demand that ALL students should be paid a living world? Every day, mUlions of people ' These are only a few jibes which could dcodarise themselves, "de-stick" their wage rather than some students getting a subsistence TEAS, and that be gleaned from the Ugandan dissident, fry-pans, freshen up their toilets, kUI Charles Okwiny-Onyan^o, during the they should not have to pay it back at the end of study. insects, stiffen up their clothes and their dying minutes of a drinking session at the Students and staff alike are expressing opposition to Fraser's. hatchet hair, lather their faces, and paint their Royal Exchange Hote. attitude to education and welfare which began with last year's budget. furniture with substances that come out Coming from Sydney and having heard The initiative for the strike action has come from the AUS annual of aerosol cans. They appreciate the con­ the expression of worry from some I venience of having so much at their conference of constituent members attended by over three hundred Sydney University Ugandan students I finger-tips, but few of them seem to ^ve about possible repercussions when they delegates. any thought to the fact that acrosal return home from AustraUa having been All Queensland campuses who have voted at the time of going to press cans are harmful to health, and well- identified with the Onyango move, I have supported these initiatives It is interesting that even those campuses being. feel it duty-bound to touch on the who have seceded from AUS, eg Mt Gravatt CAE and QIT have voted The next time you press a button on a Onyango move and how so unnecessary spray can, look at the way the corftents it is. For brevity let me summarise. to strike. come out in a beautiful fine mist, then Forming ah AustraUa-Uganda Friend­ It is unfortunate that some union councils such as QIT saw fit to vote on give some thought to the nasty little ship Club is so unneccessary for the the issue without taking it directly to the students - but then they seceded chemicals that make them into such a foUowing reasons: lovely spray-flourocarbons. from AUS this year without directly consulting the students! a. Australians don't envy Ugandans This harmless sounding name concleas On such an important issue as the second national students strike, it is for being persecuted by Amin. a far from harmless compound that is imperative that referenda be democratically constistuted, ie that students b. AustraUans dcn't have to be con­ capable of killing a man-not through vinced that Amin is bad. The press here be directly consulted. poisoning, but through sheer physical is already doing that. bombardment. If you have difficulty AUS cannot direct its members to act democratically - it is up to indiv­ c. To organise an anti-Ugandan move­ imagining such an eventuation, put an ment in a place half the globe from idual campuses to get students involved in running their own affairs. aerosal can in a fire, stand well back, and Uganda is unrealisUc. And most campuses which hold general meetings, althouKh uettine onlv. then think of a fireman in a fiercely burn­ d. The expressed intention of seekmg ing house. a relatively small attendance, have suceeded. political asylum for Ugandans studying Those who cared enough to come to a meeting have voted to strike - These vicious little compounds also here is unrealistic because many have the angelic property of being students were asked and they answered: Strike on April 28! Ugandans intend to go home anyway. It capable of destroying the ozone layer in has been the Ugandan govemment our atmosphere. The ozone layer filters poUcy for the past six years (which is as ultra-violet rays from the sun which are far as I know) to send people here to do capable of causing skin-cancer. Recent short term courses especiaUy in town CHOICE surveys have shown that incidents of skin- planning and In teaching in specialised CORRECTION Dear Eds, cancer arc on the increase around the areas. At present only.six Ugandans in In the days before the student strike world. Scientists and doctors are becom­ AustraUa have stayed longer than three In the last issue of GAMUT we stated on April 28 (here will no doubt be many ing more and more worried about the years. One of these b married to an inadvertantly that the ABC's ratings requests for lecturers to show their sup­ effects of'flouro-carbons on the atmos­ AustraUan woman in Melboume. port for students by cancelling classes. pheric ozone and therefore on us. So far, were 4.3%. This should have read that Given these points one could only I have seen only one positive effort to Students should resist these requests conclude that Onyango is being motivat­ the ratings of the ABC's 4QG were 4.3%. control this menace. The State of for the following reasons: ed by personal reasons. If this conclu­ Oregan in the USA ("the conservation 1 By cancelling classes lecturers sion is correct, that too is unnecessary. would effectively be fordng individual State") has banned the use of flouro- Fintly, about to get an MSc in Vet students to take part in a campaign which carbons in aerosal cans with heavy fines Science his chances of getting a job here they may not support. If classes are can­ for offenders. I would Uke to know why is very good. celled, the free choice of students; which flouro-carbons aren't banned all around tertiary institutions of all places should the world. How long wiU people keep Secondly, he holds an AustraUan GAMUT COLLECTIVE be upholding, is denied. their heads burned in the sand and their Government Scholarship, not a Ugandan Government scholarship. 2 By the samv token, the moral force fingers firmly on smaU plastic buttons Thirdly, he did obtain a lectureship UQU: Ross Peake of the campaign is diminished by cancell­ before they realise that ozone is more position in Ghana (not Uganda) outside Radha Rouse ing classes. The point of the strike Is to important than convenience? Uganda. measure student opinion by the number Sheryl Hansen Mark Wolff The apparent success of the Onyango KGCAE: Tony Geilic boycotting classes. If this number DDIAE includes unwiUIng students recruited by campaign, seems to me, to be under­ DDIAE: John Coulter/ the cancellation of classes the credibiUty standable within the context of the Devid Creagan of the results is placed in doubt, and the nature of the press here. ART'COLLEGE: David Briar contribution of students genuinely in COMIX ALIVE Being completely anti-Black majority favor of the campaign risks being w^ted, rule, and forever receptive to anti-Black Dear Editors, African poUtlcs, the local press found PASTEUP 3 StUl more seriously, it would lake 1 am afraid that your fearless masked Onyango a most fetched-up leader in the the decision to strike out of the hands of journalist, Andromeda, has had the dick anti-Black thought movement. individual students and thus negate the Steve Qarry and the editors as far as his article on underground * • • • whole point of the campaign which is to as usual comix. He states that the Oz underground George Kweifio-Okai show student opinion. comic scene is dead-his education is (Former holder of the' foUowing posi­ Any decision to cancel classes would TYPESETIING sorely'lacking if he has never heard of tions: Organiser of, the All-African be an attack on the freedom of choice of such wonderful weekly productions as Students Union of AustraUa; secretary aU students, both those who wish to GregAdanMNi Captain Goodvibes (ask any surfer) in of the African Students Union of Q'ld, abstain and those who wish to take part. tracks, or Zen and the Art of KiUing Asastant secretary of the UQ AUS, It must be resisted to the fullest. Biggies Off and Nature Notebook, aU hy , Secretary of OSS, Vice president: of the ^ R;L. Samson Col Buck (keep, fit) Chudleigh in Nation International House Students Qub.) UQU WE ONLY SCREEN THE-BEST WEDHESDAY THURSDAY. FRIDAY _7| 5pm MARY. QUEEN OF 271 B.I 6 MONTY PYTHON 1pm MONTY PYTHON'S 291 1pm MONTY PYTHON & ffj SCOTS (NRC) 5.16 MONTY PYTHON'S aJ —J THE HOLY GRAIL Fin 2.30 ' AND THE HOLY GRAIL AND NOW FOR SOMETHING GlendB Jsctaoo, Venesja Redgrwe.
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