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THE DROP CALIFORNIA T)AY VOLUME 86 PASADENA. CALIFORNIA / FRIDAY 8 MARCH 1985 NUMBER 20 Buthelezi, III Radical Change by Ketan K. Shah [1his is the last ofthree articles on South Africa inspired by the recent speech of Chief Buthelezi at Caltech. Last week's article described the conditions under g> which the Black Consciousness f2 Movement and Inkatha, the Zulu ~ cultural organization, were & created, and the status ofInkatha .s among various South African ~ groups.] 1i In his Caltech speech, Chief I Buthelezi called for radical change Harvard Professor Stephen Jay Gould spoke to a packed house last Monday afternoon in Baxter without "destroying the growth base of our economy. " The chief is alone among major black leaders of South Africa in calling for change without the burden caused by foreign divestment. This stance is patently contradictory to those who seek the dismantling of apar theid through fundamental reforms that include the dissolution of in by John Fourkas kind of mutation could not be oy tlIsano Sonoda yard?" Ifthere exists thiS consmm stitutions that nurture apartheid. "The tide of evolution carries helpful and therefore would pro In a completely full Baxter Lec- struggle, shouldn't we see changes Apartheid laws have long protected everything before it, thoughts no bably not survive). What we must ture Hall (with people packed into in already existing organisms as large and small businesses, less than bodies, and persons no look for, then, are strange im the aisles, standing in back, and well as completely new ones? especially those that employ less than nations. " perfections in nature, such as the forming atleast 10 rows ofseats up The two other tiers of time ac Prof~ssor thousands of black workers, like -Santayana panda's "thumb." The panda front), Harvard Stephen count for no explanation of pro mining companies. Although the tide of evolution (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) strips Jay Gould began hIS lecture on gress. In the second, normal tier of In the 1960's and '70's, the may carry everything before it, leaves from bamboo by slipping the Monday with a slide of a chim- geological time, there are the South African economy underwent Stephen Jay Gould made it ap stalk between its fingers and panzee with a walking stick. In his "standard materials of paleon rapid growth that brought about the parent to a full Beckman thumb. The strange thing is that it lecture "Pattern and Non-Pattern tology" which have not changed involvement of Afrikaners in large Auditorium Tuesday night that he is a well known rule that carnivores in the History ofLife, " the first of over time. Mass extinctions, which scale industry previously is much more worried about the do not have manipulable thumbs. two given at Caltech this week, have occured approximately every dominated by English-speaking tide of creationism. Gould, the Close inspection shows that a pan Gould spoke about his views on 26 million years, create a problem whites. Along with an annual 1985 Buwalda Lecturer, gave his da indeed has five digits, one of evolution... for paleontologists attempting to growth rate of 5-6 % predicted for talk on "The Fact ofEvolution and those being the expected non Gould fust dIscussed two explain progress. Gould claims that the 1980's, the South African the Politics ofCreation. " The lec manipulable thumb. The pseudo former theories ofevolution before the adaptive struggles in the first economy has a serious bottleneck ture was jointly sponsored by the thumb is actually an elongated presenting his own. The first was tier have nothing to do with in skilled labour. The government Divisions of Geology & Planetary wrist bone. It does not make sense, the "chain of being" theory in whether an organism gets through recruits qualified whites in Western Sciences and Biology. then, for the panda to have had to which life is viewed as an a mass extinction or not. It is a ran countries, but the shortage ofskill Gould's talk was divided into develop a poorly designed "organized, uniiinear progress dom process. ed labour has been caused by ig three sections, the first of which "thumb" unless the panda is in towards perfection" (from amoeba "Progress is not the ordering noring black education and train concerned the evidence for evolu deed descended from carnivores to humans). The second was Dar- pattern in history," said Gould. ing. It is against the law in South tion. This evidence comes in three and therefore has a "useless" true win's theory, characterized by the "Pattern exists, but it is not what Africa to train blacks for most jobs basic forms: thumb. As Gould put it, "If God concepts of local adaptation and we thought it was. " According to that require skills and to give them Small scale direct: What one made it, it would work better." competition. Darwin's theory says Gould, the most important pattern employment in jobs reserved for can see directly about evolution The second section of the lec that local adaptations (bio- in the history of life is that from whites. (e.g., the development of heavy ture concerned the history of the mechanical improvements) will ac- diversity to a decrease in mor This has caused a major brake metal or DDT tolerances, Dar evolution-creation debate. This cumulate in time to yield progress phological design accompanied by t?a~ ~orld, on growth and since there is an win's pigeons, or the famous pep debate has had three major tactical and in a full the only an increase in number: Early ex estimated shortfall of about per moths). Small scale direct stages, the first of which was the way m IS by pushmg another out, perimentation, later 750,000 white skilled workers, the evidence shows no progressive Scopes-type laws. These laws so the best organisms will survive. standardization. economy now has to rely on its trends. This kind ofevidence is so basically stated that it could not be Although Gould believes the Gould ended his lecture with an black workforce for industrial obvious that creationists must ac taught that man descended from a greatness of Darwin's theory lies anology to trends in baseball. He growth. Apartheid is thus the ma ceptit, but they claim that it does lower order of animals. Gould in his belief that small-scale asked the audience why the batting jor obstacle to economic growth. not imply that evolution is correct spent a fair amount of time at this changes amoung to large-scale averages of the players are almost As a result, South Africa's white theory. point in the lecture dispelling the changes in time, he thinks that it is never over .400 anymore, while business came out strongly against Large scale direct: Primarily three major myths about the Scopes a paradox and that progress is not the mean batting average has hard apartheid in a statement last the fossil record, which shows trial: cumulative. "We cannot look at ly changed since the beginning. January. Their report concluded many of the structurally in (1) Scopes was persecuted; time in Darwin's way. We would The answer is that variance has that apartheid was harmful to termediate forms of evolution. (2) Darrow destroyed crea do better if we looked at progress declined from both ends11no one business, and it condemned deten Creationists argue that because tionists by making Bryant look like in terms ofthree tiers oftime," he has as low a average as some did tions without trial, called for black there is no complete unbroken a fool; suggested. The three tiers of time when there were .400 hitters political participation, free trade chain ofevolution shown by fossil (3) Creationism temporarily are: 1) the ecological moment, 2) either. This regulization through unions, an end to restrictions on the record, the record is meaningless. disappeared. geological time, and 3) mass time is a common property of all free movement ofblacks, the right Evolutionists can point out many In reality, the story went something extinctions. systems, concluded Gould. of all races to own shops or con obvious intermediary forms (such like this: The ACLU advertised in The paradox of the first tier, The lecture was one of a series duct business anywhere in the as the archaeopteryx) and relatively 1925 for somebody in Tennessee to which deals with the struggle for of lectures sponsored by the Divi country and an end to the practice unbroken chains (such as the chain teach evolution so that the constitu survival of an individual in a sion of Geological and Planetary of reserving certain jobs for whites. showing the transition from reptiles tionality of the anti-evolution law population, can be summarized in Sciences held anually in memory of What has all this got to do with to mammals). Also, so many could be tested. Mr. Robinson, the the question, "Why is there no ac- its late founder (in 1925) John foreign investment? Chief animals (such as man) fossilize so owner of a drugstore in Dayton, cumulating progress in my back Peter Buwalda. '. Buthelezi sees corporations, in poorly that we cannot expect to decided that the image ofthe small cluding foreign-owned ones, as find a complete record. town needed enhancing. He con Chicago, his hometown) was that question). Scopes was convicted, catalysts in the process of political Indirect: The study of living vinced the substitute biology he had a hot date planned. At any and the judge fined him $100. change in South Africa. Some organisms and their geographical teacher at the local school (the true rate, the trial was actually a disaster However, it turns out that state law American compenies are reluctant distribution.

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