1980_11 The Daily Collegian November 1980

              UHUR/JNAUMOJA
Black Center
To Benefit All
By Anna C.Wong
Marooned by the world's largest traffic lam, suburban neighbors confront hard
choices in the Sin Francisco Mime Troupe's SQUASH Photo by Michael Bry
S.F. MIME TROUPE
IN FRESNO
'...winning the audience with quality...*
-Chicago Times, 11-23-73.
The internationally renowned San
Franc/sen Mime Troupe will be perform¬
ing its entertaining, socially relevant,
musical romedy extravaganza: SQUASH
on Tuesdav. November 25 at Northwest
Church
As with all Mime Troupe shows,
beneath the energetic veneer of precise
movement, fast dialogue and funky
music, lurks a serious concern of the
group. In a 'take or be took* world the
collective tries to examine the difficulties
in mounting successful programs of com¬
munity action. A major question is
postulated: Whv is it that when a slave
gets his/her freedom, she/he wants to
be master?
The show's topicality is rivaled only
by its energy and entertainment values.
Besides possessing the lean dialogue
and broad physical characterizations
indicative of the Troupe's 20 years of
performing, the presence of a foot tap¬
ping, bouncy, five piece band insures
that a good time will be had by all. The
music, which is used throughout the
piece to illustrate mood, character and
situation is eclectic in nature-featuring
elements of salsa, rachero, funk and
(surprisingly) even Broadway-like show
tunes
The evening's program will begin
with the Bluestein Family whose con¬
certs are a unique blend of entertain¬
ment and education. They are truly a
family exDerience, with songs ihat
everyone from the children to the grand¬
parents will enjoy. At full strength the
group consists of scholar-performer
One Bluestein and the Bluestein
children-Joel, Evo, Jeremy and Frayda.
In concert they demonstrate with power
and precision the old styles of American
Folk Music and the more current work of
Woody Guthrie, Malvina Reynolds and
others.
The program is sponsored by the Fres¬
no Free College Foundation and KFCF-
FM. A donation of M per person and $8
per familv is being asked. Ticket outlets
are Stephenson Musk Centers and
Upstart Crow. Tickets and information
can be obtained by calling 233-2221.
Show time is 800 p.m.
If things go smoothly, CSUF will soon
be welcoming the Center for Black Af-'
fairs on hoard.
According to the BFSA's (Black Fac¬
ulty and Staff Association) proposal,
plans *rr now underway to establish the
center that will greatly benefit Blade fac¬
ulty and staff students, and the commun¬
ity.
The concept of the Center for Black
Affairs rame *$ a direct result of the
Black faculty and staff members recog¬
nizing the need for it.
A subcommittee was set up to look
into some of the problems that Blacks
face on famous. Professor Joe Tony was
" the head of the subcommittee that ask
Dean Ford to draw up the initial pro¬
posal.
According to the proposal, the pur¬
pose for the Center includes the im¬
provement of: Educational opportunities
for Black students, professional develop¬
ment and research activities for Black
faculty, continuing career development
and training for Black staff and relation¬
ships with the Black community.
The omoosal also states that the Cen¬
ter will nrovide the major thrust in the
development and coordination of those
University activities and programs now
responsible piece-meal for Black affairs
at CSUF
A dose liason will be developed and
maintained with the academic depart¬
ments of the University in order to assist
them in the promotion and development
of the onoortunities for Black faculty,
students and staff in their respective
disciplines.
Some of the programs that the center
would involve include affirmative action,
in-house training and cultural archival
activities that will make visible the Black
cultural influence.
A home to store the materials of
Allensworth would also be included in
the program. (See Uhuru October, 1980)
In late August, Dr. Herman George,
Asst. Professor in the Ethnic* STudies
Department was appointed to a half-time
position as director of the center by Dr.
PAU Privileges
Revoked/Renewed
By Rhonda Karriens
Saturdav. September 20, 1980, was a
night for partying in the College Union
(CU) Lounge. But to the dismay of the
Pan-African Union (PAU) the club had
its privileges to use the CU Lounge taken
away as a result of events which oc¬
curred that night. A dance-sponsored by
the Pan-African Union was held from
9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. The dance was
well remembered by the students on
Monday morning because the Bulldogs
beat the Cajuns of the University of
Southwestern Louisiana and celebrated
the victory at the dance.
According to Klifton Andersen, who is
the president of the PAU, the decision to
revoke privileges was made because
there was a stack of chairs placed in front
of the CU fire escape doors.  .
According to Louis Ambriz, who is the
Administrative Vice President for the
Associated Student Senate, all clubs
were notified and warned not to place
anything in front of the fire escape
doors, "if anything, such as chairs, table
. etc., is blocking the fire escape doors,
then those clubs were subject to fire vio¬
lations leading to having their privileges
to use the Cu lounge taken away.* said
Arciniega Academic Vice President.
In earlv September, Ceorge introduc¬
ed an elaboration of Dean Ford's pro¬
posal. This proposal is now in the pro¬
cess of being revised to make it accept¬
able to the Black Faculty and Staff
The permanent Center priorities that
Dr. Georee proposed consist of cultural
activities extramural proposal writing,
affirmative action, community relations,
research and publication and extracurri¬
cular funding.
Dr. Ceorge disclosed that the five
basic goals of the center are a newslet¬
ter, statistical profiles of Black (Ameri¬
can) students at CSUF, Afro-American/
African Art project and a Black Students
in Science Day.
The kev and integral goal, according
to Dr. George, would be the Black stu¬
dents being able to control the finances
of the center. Regarding financing from���on-camcxis money and grant money. Dr.
Ceorge savs. 'I think that there will be -
always he attention between what the
funding sources want...versus what the
Black Community wants; there is v\ in¬
herent tension present.*
Dr. Ceorge went on to say that the
long ranee goals of the Center are to
stimulate a thinking, productive, har¬
monious Black community on campus-
rally peonle together—to give them a
sense of direction and provide them an
outlet for their constructive energy.
According to Dr. Ceorge, this is just
an interim period for the center. He's
trying to he a catalyst for the program to
get if off the ground.
The center idea is being given flesh
and structure. Dr. Ceorge says in his
parting statement, "Black folks on this
campus cannot.afford to 'let Ceorge do
it'; it's Hot to be a collective effort."
Ambriz Nevertheless, the doors were
blocked hv the stack of chairs.
Klifton told us that the doors were
blocked to help maintain crowd control,
because the fire escape doors were un¬
locked. Also, there were only a limited
number of PAU members present at the
dance.
According to Andersen, had there
been more club members there to su.id
by the doors to secure admission through
the main entrance, the chairs would not
have been olaced there.
The PAU was notified one week after
the dance by letter that the club's privi¬
leges to use the CU lounge were taken
away. The letter also stated the PAU
could still reserve the conference rooms
to hold meetings, and that there was to
be a meeting held on October 28,1980 if
the PAU wanted to appeal.
On October 28, the PAU brought their
story to the meeting of the Committee
for the College Union Services of the
Facilities After 4:00 p.m., the decision
was made by Earl Whitfield, who is the
see Privileges Page 4
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