1986_09 The Daily Collegian September 1986

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California Staff University, Fresno
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Vol LXIV, No. XXXXVI11
Thursday, Sept. 4, 1986
PIGSKIN PREVIEW
See Sports, page 6, for a look
at this year's 'Dogs.
Whalen wins CSU post
« # Tony Otmosl The Daily Collegian
Bob Whalen, CSUF's associated students president, was recently elected chairman of the California State Student Association. See interview with Whalen on page 2.
Cael Weston
Staff Writer
CSUF Associated Students President
Bob Whalen was elected chairman of the
California State Student Association at
the group's June 28th convention in Long
Beach.
The association is comprised of the state's
19 CSU student body presidents and rej)-
# resents all 325,000 CSU students. It is the
largest student block in the country.
"I was elected because I remained impar¬
tial and didn't stand up for the far left or
the far right, and wanted to make sure the
association runs effectively." Whalen said.
Whalen. a finance major, said he consi¬
ders himself politically moderate and is a
rejmtered Republican.
AsTtte association's chairman. Whalen
will meet with CSU trustees in Long
Beach bi-monthly and with the executive
staffs of the CSSA*and the CSU trustees
in the interim months.
Whalen attended a national conference
of the state university associations in San
Francisco this summer and will meet
again with other state student organiza¬
tions in Washington D.C. later tjiis year.
Whalen cannot voteat the trustee meet¬
ings, but shares a horseshoe-shaped table
with representatives of the state academic
senate, state alumni council, and chan¬
cellor's staff. He can speak to the trustees
on issues pertaining to students before the
vote.   „
The first trustee meeting of the academic
year was held this July and was devoted to
setting priorities for the corn-
coming year. As CSSA chairman, Wlialen
was allowed to propose two priorities.
"We had this brainstorming session.
Board awaits apartheid vote
By Cael Weston
-Staff Writer
The CSU F Foundation's board of gover¬
nors will vote September 18 on a proposal
that may eventually lead to divestment in
companies doing business in South Africa.
James B. Mayer, chairman of the foun¬
dation board of governors, will present
the proposal at a public meeting Septem¬
ber 18 in Room 117 in the Thomas
Administration building.
The proposal does not call for divest¬
ment, but rather that the foundation con¬
tinue monitoring stocks and the mora¬
torium on buying stocks in companies
doing business in South Africa.
If a May 1987 deadline for "positive
change' in South Africa' is not met, the
foundation would consider total divest¬
ment, according to the proposal.
The foundation, which administers pub¬
licly funded scholarships, will use "asser¬
tive share holding," the proposal says.
Warren Kessler. a member of the CSU F
faculty divestment committee, described
this technique as a method of pressuring
companies in South Africa by joining
forces with major stock holders.
The CSUF Academic Senate voted a
year ago to urge the foundation and
teacher's union to divest. A five-member
committee was selected at that time to
investigate possible senate actions.
The student senate passed a proposal
similar to the faculty's and put it to a
student vote last spring. A student referen¬
dum passed by a two-to-one margin.
Kessler said that although the found-
dation's board would have to determine
what exactly is meant by "positive steps/'
the faculty senate will not be satisfied
unless gains are "much, much more than
symbolic."
He said the release of Nelson Mandela,
one of the most respected and influential
black leaders in South Africa," would be a
positive step and an "act of good faith."
Kessler added that "face to face" nego¬
tiations with "respected black leaders"
would convince faculty that a serious
effort was being made by the white mi¬
nority government.
"Some will say this is not enough,"
Kessler said, "but we're no longer banging
heads."
Kessler added that the board of gover¬
nors controls the foundation's $2 million
fund, about $500,000 of which is invested
in companies doing business in South
Africa.
Those companies are: Eastman Kodak,
Exxon, Fluor, General Motors, Eli Lilly,
IBM, Xerox, Texaco, CIGNA, Cater¬
pillar, Dow Chemical, John Deere, Gen¬
eral Electric, Upjohn and ITT.
When the issue began to heat up a year
ago, Mayer said in a Fresno Bee interview
that apartheid is a "cancer." He said that
foundation funds were only invested in
companies observing the Sullivan prin¬
ciples. The principles, developed by a
Philadelphia minister, call for all com¬
panies doing business in South Africa to
ignore all apartheid laws and to support
the rights of blacks to organize trade
unions.
and all the student body presidents sat
down and developed a list of priorities.
We then narrowed the list down to two
priorities and submitted those to the Board
of Trustees." Whalen said."They adopted
those in July."
The first was that the trustees change a
rule that prevents student* publications
from supporting political candidates with¬
out the writers accompanying byline.
fuHenKrjewspapers, like all publica¬
tions that  print opinion,  must decide
See WHALEN, page 2
Affirmative Action:
New chief builds
on small victories
By David Comfort
Staff Writer     *
Recently appointed Affirmative Action
Services Director Arthur Wint is taking a
slow and careful approach to his new posi¬
tion at CSUF.
"I'm still in the assessment process," he
said. "I'm still looking at what my prede¬
cessors have done. It is better to create
little victories and successes and build
from there."  -
Wint, 35, stressed his desire to attract
quality minority faculty and students.
"The job of affirmative action is to inter¬
rupt the status quo, to do everything we
can to create an environment that is invit¬
ing to groups that have historically been
excluded," he explained.
"I'm looking at what we have to offer to
the (high) schools and to potential faculty
members so we can say, 'Hey, CSUF is
here, we're a vital place, we are striving for
excellence and we can have excellence in
affirmative action.'Affirmative action and
excellence are not incompatible. That's
See ACTION, pta 2
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