Dabney THE Takes It CALIFORNIA -VOLUME 86 PASADENA, CALIFORNIA / FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1984 NUMBER 5 Nobel Peace Prize New Ass't Dean Chosen Winner Interviewed by Lily Wu combine" for a good by Mary Ellen Perez South African tribes: Xosa and Morgan Gopnik was chosen understanding of students, Bishop Desmond Mpilo Motswana. His father was a to fill in for Chris Wood tem­ their needs, and problems. Tutu, Anglican church leader schoolmaster. Tutu himself was porarily as the Assistant Dean Chris Wood is presently and General Secretary of the trained as a teacher and taught for undergraduate students, recovering from a back injury, South African Council of for four years. beginning last Monday, accor­ but Dean Lorden hopes she can Churches, was named the 1984 When the Government in­ ding to Dean Gary Lorden. return by second term. In the recipient of the Nobel Peace troduced Bantu Education Gopnik is a fourth year meantime, Gopnik will be Prize. (separate and inferior educa­ graduate student here in En­ Assistant Dean full time. The 54-year-old bishop is tion for blacks) in 1958, he viromental Engineering. She is She does not, however, ex­ an outspoken black opponent gave up teaching for the also a Resident Associate for pect the new office to conflict of South Africa's system of priesthood and was ordained in Fleming House, head of the with her being R.A. of Flem­ apartheid (racial separation). the Anglican Church in 1961. Organization for Women at ing. He is presently a visiting pro­ He taught in seminaries in Bishop Tutu in Pasadena Caltech Executive Committee, Chief among her concerns fessor in Anglican Studies at South Africa, Botswana, - photo courtesy Mary Perez and manager of the Red Door is enrollment of women General Theologican Seminary Lesotho, and Swaziland before you realize that the Bible is Cafe. undergraduate students. This in New York City. His being appointed to the World very subversive. And, it may be Her extensive involvement year's class has the smallest response to the announcement Council of Churches in Lon­ something like the case of in extracurricular activies number of women in the last was to offer thanks to God in don from 1972 - 1975. Jeremiah. God takes you by highly qualifies her for this five years and the causes need the Seminary Chapel. He became Dean of Johan­ the scruff of the neck and says, new position. "My first hand to be identified. Gopnik also Who is the personality nesburg in 1975 and then 'You can do it' - and you do it. experience with both the would like to look into possible behind this prestigious honor Bishop of Lesotho from 1976 I don't think anybody - or very academic and the social life curriculum changes. in the name of peace? My re­ -1978. He has been Secretary many people - certainly in the cent interview with Bishop General of the South African religious sense - set out to Smith Nominated For Tutu in January and subse­ Council of Churches since become leaders and spokesper­ quent meetings with him in 1978. sons. It's something that is Pasadena reveal his tremen­ When asked how he became almost always thrust upon you. Times Book Prize Aime Cesaire was born in dous humanity as well as his a leader and spokesperson for [The Soweto riots of 1976] by Julian West Nominations for the 1984 1913 on the Carribbean island deep convictions concerning the black cause against apar­ was about the time that Los Angeles Times book prizes of Martinique, and was how change must come about theid, he stated, "I think in perhaps some people thought I have been announced, and one educated in Paris. While in his in South Africa. part it is because most of our was articulating the aspirations Caltech author is on the list. twenties he wrote a long and His views have placed him leaders are either in exile or are of blacks, but I tried to see Dr. Annette Smith, an brilliant poem, "Cahier d'un at odds with not only the South in prison and nature doesn't myself as a Christian leader Associate Professor of French, retour au pays natal" - the African Government, but also allow vacuums even in leader­ who happened to be black with black and other ethnic ship situations. has been cited for her transla­ "Notebook of a return to the rather than being black and tion of "Aime Cesaire: the col­ native land." This work has leaders in his country. And so, many of us are secondarily a leader - though Desmond Tutu was born drafted into leadership posi­ lected poetry," which she co­ been described as the "national essentiallY, and obviously, the authored with Clayton anthem of blacks the world near Klerksdorp, west of tions in a kind of interim way. black situation was the issue Eschelman. Eschelman was over." Johannesburg, in 1931. He But I think once you take one had to address." Caltech's resident poet up until Cesaire is still alive, and in considers himself "detribalized" seriously what the Bible says, Bishop Tutu has been con­ since he is a mixture of two then in a situation of injustice last year. addition to carrying on his continued on page 2 writing, he is a member of the French National Assembly representing Martinique. Smith and Eschelman's Dr. Yonas Defends Star Wars Program at Ramo book is one of six books nominated in the poetry terest, so that insiders would by JuHan West of the system would be before any decision can be category, including two new much want to prolong their jobs by Dr. Gerold Yonas defended in space, it would not primarily made. works by American authors. building an expensive and un­ The other books nominated are the so-called "Star Wars" pro­ be designed as a boost-phase In the mean time, he said, necessary system. Yonas gram before.a crowd of about intercept system. He argued we should pursue negotiations "The Maximus Poems" by replied that the decision would Charles Olson, "Sweeny 275 people in Ramo that mid-course intercept with the Soviets. He did not be in the hands of the govern­ Auditorium on Monday night. capability and a terminal believe, however, that the Astray: a Version from the ment, and he believed that the Irish," by Seamus Heaney, Dr. Yonas, who received his defense system using inexpen­ Soviets were as willing to government would be able to PhD from Caltech, has been sive (in military terms) projec­ "Selected Poems" by Philip negotiate as the US Ad­ make a responsible decision. appointed chief science advisor tiles were equally important. ministration. Levine, "A Wave," by John Dr. Yanas also stayed after Ashberry, and "Willingly" by for the Strategic Defense In­ A computer graphics film Yonas extended his visit in the talk to speak with a small of to field a large range of Tess Gallagher. itiative (SDI). pointed out the magnitude order group of interested members of Dr. Lew Allen, the head of the problem. The film The awards wil be announc­ questions from the audience. the audience on an informal JPL, introduced the speaker on demonstrated two possible Most questioners were critical ed in the Los Angeles Times' behalf of the Y, the World Af­ basis. He expressed a desire to Book Review on November 4. scenarios of an all out attack of the scheme, arguing that the return to campus and give fairs Forum, and the Space the prizes are given in 5 by Soviet ICBMs on,US missle Soviets could attack the United another talk when the research Weapons Study Group. categories to books published silos. The warheads were track­ States using submarine­ program had been underway Dr. Yonas gave a very witty ed from launch to landing as launched cruise missles. Some in the United States within the for a while. He felt that and lucid talk, admitting that points in a dense swarm felt that, if it came down to it, past year. The categories, in educating the community about addition to poetry, are: fiction, "we (SDI advocates) have not heading over the Arctic. , they could put nuclear weapons the program was of paramount done a very good job of ex­ Yonas felt that such an into suitcases and smuggle history, current interest, and plaining" their position. He importance. biography. enormous "threat cloud" could them across the Mexican Dr. Richard Garwin will made clear his belief that "in a be successfully countered, at border. Dr. Yonas did not res­ speak on the other side of the free society (the United States) least sifficiently well that the pond clearly to these objec­ the information will be space weapons issue on Mon­ Soviets would not contemplate tions. day, October 29, at 8 pm. That In available to the public." such an attack. When asked whether the event will also be sponsored by Yonas explained that the Dr. Yonas' exposition of United States should offer to the Y and the World Affairs Memoriam technical requirements of the the problem was by far the construct a defense along with Forum, and will also take place . Jim Drake, an system are that it be effective, put forward by most clear yet the Soviet Union, Yonas said in Ramo. Like Yonas' talk, it undergraduate since 1979, died survivable (Le., protectable) any proponent of the system. that it was an interesting idea. has been heavily advertised on on August 1 in a mountain and that it be less costly to He made it plain that, despite He felt that the Soviets would climbing accident. field than to counter.