1980_02 The Daily Collegian February 1980

              AS Senate
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ment will be announced in a week or two. .
In other Senate action Tuesday night,
Brian Ehlers was unanimously appointed
to .the position of Senator for the School
of Engineering. Ehlers, a junior with ex-
' perience from high school in student
government, was recommended by. AS -
President Oave Ditora (currently attend¬
ing a conference in Washington, DC.)
who said Ehlers has been 'highly Inter¬
ested in the position for some time* and
"appears quite capable" of performing
the functions of an AS Senator.
Thielmann
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fessed one thing and yet, in reality,
lived a completely different life."
Thielmann said that Jones' change in
philosophy actually began in 1962 and
that "during hours and hours of talking
with J im 'he was deliberating between
following Cod and simply doing his own
thing.".
And in'. 1971, Jones made that choice,
according to Thielmann, because "Jim
was looking at other, people as opposed
to looking to Cod. And so he had decided
to do his own thing."
Jones had now changed.his outlook
and his views so much that, while using
religion is a 'masquerade,* he was, in
fact, a self-professed Marxist who
believed in socialist and communist
governments, Thielmann said.
'Jim was certainly using religion as
a masquerade. He duped a great many
people through his phoney healings and
his phoney revelations and.he used that
(religion) simply for his own purpose,
because it was convenient for him at
that time,'Thielmann said.
And while Jones was using the guise
of a 'socially and politically aware mini¬
ster,* Thielmann said, "sexual immorali¬
ties" w,ere occuring at the Temple on a
regular basis.
"Jim was a homosexual who not only
molested men but women and children
as well," Thielmann said.
Thielmann believed that Jones did
have charisma and leadership qualities
but his greatest fault was his inability
to cope with power and an.inflated ego.
"Jim's whole desire was to go down in
history and be known—to be remem¬
bered. And certainly he succeeded—not
in a very positive way, for sure—but he
succeeded," said Thielmann.
. "I believe he was sincere in the begin¬
ning," Thielmann said, "but he ended up
getting in a power trip that eventually
destroyed him and his people."
When some members "became aware
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the Senate also worked on and okayed
the final draft of a brochure"explaining
the purpose arid, duties of the Associated
Student Senate. The Senate allotted $549
for the Daily Collegian ad staff to put it
together. The Senate has said that using
the Collegian staff, the senate would be
utilizing student skills on campus.
Bill Corcoran, Interim Dean of Student
Affairs, told the Senate that newly-
installed President Harold Haak has ex¬
pressed an interest in meeting with the
Senate, College Union and Student
leaders for a few "bull sessions". The
Senators had a very positive reaction to
the suggestion, saying it would be
"interesting".
of the political blackmail that Jim was
using to keep people in the church and
the danger these people faced when they
left People's Temple," Thielmann said,
"they were killed."
"They were gunned-down in alleys,
they were given overdoses of medicine,
and one was thrown on train tracks and
a train ran over him," Thielmann said.
The man run over by the train, Thiel¬
mann said, was a man catted Bob
Houston—a close friend of Thielmann's.
In 1973, when Jones realized he
couldn't convince Thielmann to stay,
Jones threatened to kill her and "make it
look like an accident," she said.
Thielmann "defected" anyway and
believed the reason she wasn't killed
was because she "didn't run and every¬
body else did." •
"And People's Temple was facing a
situation where, if.I were killed, there
were too many people who knew that I
had been a member of People's Temple
and it could have put the Temple in very
hot water," Thielmann said.
Between the time of her defection and
the events at Jonestown and because
People's Temple had "destroyed her
faith in Cod," Thielmann said, she
became an atheist and even pondered
committing suicide.
On the night those thoughts of suicide
were taking real form and Thielmann
had drawn-up mental plans of how to kill
herself, she "rediscovered" God
through, what she described as, her own
—"self-preservation mechanism," she
said.
Thielmann, now a "born-again
Christian," decided to go with Ryan to
Jonestown and "mediate." She felt that
she could encourage those who wished
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Senator suggests resolution of
concern and supportfor Grant
by Kimberty Kuhn
Some of the trials and tribula¬
tions of the Athletic department
caught up' with the AS Senate
Tuesday night concerning recrea¬
tion, basketball and baseball.
The Recreation department re¬
quested and. was given a $1,000
augmentation in their budget from
AS unalloted funds. The Justifica¬
tion given -for.the augmentation
'.was rising salaries and maintain-
ance costs.
Senator Ron Ramirez attended
the press conference of Head
Basketball Coach Boyd Grant
Thursday afternoon and reported,
the results which saw CSUF giving
up two home games for further
illegal scrimmages, this •time with
Fresno Pacific.    . '
Ramirez suggested that the AS
Senate respond to rumors that
Grant' may resign his coaching
position by drawing up a resolution
stating concern over and support
of Coach Crant.
Senator Patricia CHivereira, re¬
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student-faculty committee, said
that a student seating taction Has
been established behind the CSUF
dug-out near the 3rd base line at
' Pete Beiden Field. Oliveira urged
students to go to the baseball
games and sit In «eh- section
starting this weejarnri to show
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to leave to follow Ryan and herself
because, even though threatened with
death, no attempt had been made on her
life.
While Thielmann waited in George¬
town, Jones had radioed from Jonestown
a message to send her.
But Ryan called and said Thielmann
couldn't use his plane to get to Jones-'
town.
Thielmann didn't know it at the time,
but reports were substantiated by the
' FBI and by people who had gotten out of
Jonestown alive that men were waiting
with guns with orders to shoot Thiel¬
mann. once she disembarked from the
plane, she said. .
Ryan and a select band of news people
went to Jonestown without Thielmann
and eventually the mass suicide and
murder of more than 900 persons, in¬
cluding Ryan and the newspeople,
occurred.
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