1991_03 The Daily Collegian March 1991

              The Collegian • March 10, 1991
Harmony: Growing concern on campus
Continued from page 1
note speech by Sucheng Chan, chair
of the Asian-American studies pro¬
gram at the University of California
at Santa Barbara.
In her address at a luncheon Satur¬
day, Chan said change should occur
gradually.
"Raceisa touchy subject," she said.
"When you talk about radsm, you
get a lot of people uptight. However,
there are changes that need to take
place before there is racial harmony."
Chan said the growing concern over
race relations on college campuses,
exemplified in conferences like this
one at CSUF, in recent years are not a
result of diversifying student popu¬
lations.
"TheUni ted States has al ways been
a multicultural nation," Chan said.
Rather, she said, the concern is in¬
dicative of a fear on the parts of uni¬
versity officials of an increasing
number of racial incidents that have
been occuring on college campuses
throughout the United States.
"We have become aware of this be¬
cause the mass media has been re¬
porting— and sometimes sensation¬
alizing — these occurrences. They
don't just sweep them under the car¬
pet anymore," said Chan.
•      •      •      •      •
Chan said university officials are
partly responsible for the number of
racial incidents that go on record.
"[The] persons in positions of author¬
ity [oncollege cam puses] try tosweep
it under the rug."
Chan said university officials have
in the past tried justifying theactions
of offenders out of concern for the
students' academic records* "What
about the student of color [who of¬
tentimes is the victim]?" said Chan.
"The victims keep quiet because
they feel they have no recourse ...
Now, with an increase in the number
of students of color" things are differ¬
ent, Chan said. More demonstrations
by cultural student organizations
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with racial incidents.
"All of a sudden everyone is ter¬
rified. Because of tbe refusing of
the very people who should be
taking care of this."
Another workshop Saturday
tided "Campus Responses to Hate
Crimes and Harassment: Policies,
Programs and Procedures" ad¬
dressed university officials' re¬
sponse to racial incidents.
•      •       •      •      •
CSLTF University Police Chief
William Anderson and Arthur
Wint, director of affirmative ac¬
tion services at CSUF, led the
workshop.
In earlier campus workshops
this semester, Anderson had ex¬
pressed an intolerance for harass¬
ment on campus.
Students who participated in the
workshop said the discussion and
debate revolved mainly around
the First Amendment right to free
speech.
"We talked about what people
can and cannot do and say [on
campus]," said CSUF student June
Stanfield.
Wint, who is an attorney, said
the U.S. Supreme Court has not
been definitive about the limits of
public expression. He did say that
the court has made decisions on
expression that have resulted in
behavior.
Political science professor Ade-
wole Umoja, who was at the
summary session as well as a
member of a panel discussion the
opening night, said of the Supreme
Court rulings on public expres¬
sion: "It's so loose ... it has to be a
substantive disturbance of the
peace" to bring on a restriction.
Chan said in her keynote speech
that university officials' response
to student demands in the past
has not satisfied some students.
"Of the demands, they maybe
choose the most innocuous of the
demands," said Chan. "There's
usually some token concession.
This doesn't solve the problem."
Chan said the result is tension
among white students who feel
reverse discrimi na tion and a mong
students of color who don't feel
satisfied with the outcome.
"I think all of these workshops
won't work unless we understand
that we'reliving througha transi¬
tion," Chan told the 60 people at
the luncheon. "This is an abso¬
lutely critical transition.... These
people who have enjoyed power
... their entrenched privileges are
being challenged."
Chan said people of color are
using "American ways" tocha ngc
the power structure in the United
States.
•      •      •      •      •
"Withour increasing numbers,
wecan demand our rights... In the
process we're changing the bal¬
ance of power," said Chan
Chan said people of color must
exert caution once they ha ve joined
the power structure.
"Wc have to be generous with
thc people whose positions we'd
like to take ... you have to make
your wav in there someway," she
said.Chan said the "much-ma¬
ligned white male" feels threat¬
ened when his "automatic privi¬
lege" is taken away.
Chan said some of her students
in her Asian-American studies
courses had complained that they
felt excluded by the class subject
matter. She said she responded to
those students by telling them
"Good. Now you feel whafs ifs
like to be a minority. Maybe you
have some inkling as to how
people feel walking into a room
where they are the minority."
• • • • •
She said different groups must
work together to achieve racial
harmony. "So we can create a
society that the world has never
seen ... Despite alt our problems,
despite our history, maybe wecan
feel very patriotic about creating a
society that is equal."
Theremainder of theconference
consisted of workshops that in¬
cluded: "Unlearning Racism/
Reaching Out toDi verse Com mu-
nities," "Cross Cultural Retreats:
How Do They Work and What's
Involved?", "BuildingMulticultu-
ral Coalitions," and two work¬
shops on conflict mediation.
During the "Unlearning Ra¬
cism" workshopstudentscrossed
an invisible line based on race,
economic status and for other
reasons.
"When wc talked about rape,
we saw men on one side and
mostly worn en on the other side,"
said DarleneRoach,a FresnoCity
College counselor who partici¬
pated in the conference. "We saw
thatall these things are stereotypi¬
cal," she said. "I learned that these
things haven't stopped me; they
have strengthened me and en¬
riched me."
SAE: Investigation underway,
fraternity brothers move out
Continued from page 1
regarding "several students in
possible disciplinary situations."
Investigations could continue "for
a number of months."
Corcoran added that a small
group from SAE has been meeting
regularly and working on a sur>
mission to the university. The SAE
national charter and the SAE
Alumni Association hope their
submission will allow them to
remain active at CSUF.
Rumors of SAE re-establishing
its CSUF charter as soon as next
fall have gotten back to Corcoran,
buthedoesn't see that happening.
"1 wouldn't bet on it; not this
soon, if at all," he said.
Corcoran is encouraged,
though, by the trilateral coopera¬
tion of the university, the SAE
National Charter and the local
Alumni Association.
1 ha ve never experienced a situ¬
ation where the National Charter,
thealumni and the university have
worked so well together to resolve
this," he said. "We're all on thc
same wavelength. The Charter's
expections for reinstatement are
high"
Corcoran said the SAE house is
owned by the Alumni Associa¬
tion, which has theoption of leav¬
ing it vacant, renting it to another
fraternity oroperatingitasa small
apartment complex.
Alumni president Robert Wood
said all of the students housed at
SAE at the time of eviction have
found new places to live and that
the house is now vacant.
"Ifs closed for major capital
repairs, hopefully re-opening for
next fall," Wood said. Hedeclined
further comment and said an SAE
representative would be contact¬
ing the media regarding its status
in the months to come.
The fraternity was placed on
probation by the university fol¬
lowing an incident early last fall
involving "a party that got out of
hand," according to Corcoran.
SAE was already on probation
with the National Charter for an
incident that occurred a year be¬
fore.
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