1985_01 The Daily Collegian January 1985

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UNESCO MUST SURVIVE
Enlightened opinion the world over'
would easily understand that the grave
concern provoked by the United States'
decision to pull out of the United Nation'/
Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) was borne more
of a consideration for the unity of man¬
kind, more than anything else.
UNESCO, it must be admitted, has
been one of the resilient threads holding
together through the promotion of cultural
understanding and educational co-opera¬
tion the diverse peoples of the world.
Avoiding politics as much as possible, it
has from its inception in 1945 been operat¬
ing with remarkable credit.
At the risk of stating the obvious, the
UNESCO whose membership is volun¬
tary, makes for opting out by any member
which so desires. Yet, what we consider
nauseating is the way the United States of
America has set about doing this. Yes, the
US had complaints against the UNESCO.
But it did seem that the new World Infor¬
mation Order (WIO) was the grievous,
nay the worst sore thai irked it. In a frenzy
of bittencss, the US suffered amnesia: it
forgot the procedures for seeking redress
for grievances, real or imagined, in a mul-
al organization such as UN ESCO.
the majority, a principle for which the US
is a self-proclaimed apostle. The new WIO
has been endorsed by the UNESCO. The
USA must therefore take or leave it. And
leave it, it has done by calling it quits. But
that is naot the end of the matter. The rash
action is a rebellion against democracy.
The revolt is even an epitome of hypoc¬
risy: the US champions the democratic
tradition when it serves its designs but
fights against same when it can't get its
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erlying principle governing the
membership of a multi-state organization
is the readiness to submit to the ultimate
wish of the central body. This is the rule of
Let nobody be deceived. The US has
lost its grip on the UNESCO. It could no
longer manipulate the world body as an
instrument of imperialism. The withdra¬
wal is better seen as a self-inflicted loss on
the US and a monumental gain for
UNESCOespecially the Third World coun¬
tries who constitute the bulk of its mem¬
bership. Britain can as well tread the path
of the US without further flying a kite.
Wc do not share the illusion that the
operations of the UNESCO would be
crippled financially consequent on the
withdrawal of the United States and Bri¬
tain. True, the two countries had contrib¬
uted 25 and 5 percent respectively of the
UNESCO's budget which amounted to
180 million dollars. The UNESCO should
redistribute this percentage among its
members and demonstrate that it has the
capacity to sustain the freedom it has just
won from its imperialistic members.
Are you involved?
An open letter to black CSU, Fresno
students:
As we rise to start another day here at
CS UF many of our brothers and sisters in
South Africa will not. They will be the
forgotten victims of minority rule in
South Africa. Africa, motherland of our
culture, the birth place of our people,
where great kingdoms, leaders and armies
once ruled the whole Continent. Today,
in the same area that was once the great
Zulu Kingdom, our people are being ruled
by a white minority.
The definition of nigger in my Webster's
New Collegiate Dictionary, copyright
1976, on page 768, gives as follows:
1) Negro — usually taken to be offensive.
2) A member of any dark-skinned race
—usually taken to be offensive.
Are we to say that we are just any dark
skinned race? Our ancestors in Africa had
advanced civilizations in Egypt, Songhai,
Mali, and Timbuktu to name a few, many
years before the Greek and Roman civil¬
izations were in existence. But we are
taught through movies, television and
history books nothing about this, except
maybe that we were savages and could not
be trusted. But we had advanced schools,
sophisticated military techno¬
logies and we were skilled craftsmen in
gold and ivory among others.
Look at what many Blacks have done to
better today's world. Charles Drew and
his medical contributions, Martin Luther
King and the Civil Rights movement,
Malcom X and his idealogies. We are
great inventors. With the stop light, light
bulb filament, to name a few. Today we
even had a black man put a serious bid for
the presidency of this country, a black
man ride into space, a black Nobel prize
winner, and  a  black woman  win the
pulitzer prize.
Here on our campus the black popula¬
tion of about 500 is very small compared
to an overall population of 16,454. Recent¬
ly, a black freshman dormitory student
was threatened with a knife, the campus
"peace" officers beat up one of our brothers
last April, one of the dormitories held a
slave action party, in which one of the
slaves (white of course) dressed up as a
slave with paper chains to show he was a
slave. He was bought for a mere $4.50.
What a stupid joke. We Blacks do not
find this amusing. The Dean of Student
Affairs has suggested that the seniors at
Edison High School do not seem to have
the right stuff for C.S.U. Fresno (Daily
Collegian, Nov. 1), while one of the student
recruitment coordinators spends most
of the days he should be out in the field
recruiting on the fairways playing golf.
The Black table is in shambles and no one
cares about the BLACK PEOPLE'S HIS¬
TORY MONTH coming up in February.
No one cares about coming to any of the
PAN AFRICAN STUDENT'S UNION
meetings on Thursdays at 12 noon in the
C.U.
Well, you 500 black students out there,
what is wrong with you? Your shoes on
too tight? Let us see some unity among us
and get together so that those in the major¬
ity will have to be held even more accoun¬
table to us as a whole. Get involved. It is
not a sacrifice, it should be a commitment,
just as our brothers and sisters in South
Africa are committed to majority rule in
their country.
PROTESTING APARTHEID
The brutality of the South African
Government and its immoral apartheid
policy, has led to formation of a broad
anti-apartheid movement in the United
States uniting conservatives and liberals
in opposition to our own government's
South African policy.
That policy is called "constructive
engagement" and supposes that friendly
persuasion rather than open criticism will
move the South Africans to open their
system to all of their people, including the
four out of five who are black.
But "constructive engagement" has not
worked. South Africa's leaders have
taken it to mean American toleration of
blatant violations of human rights. And
in the absence of outside pressures, they
have solidified their system.
Recent protests have moved President
Reagan to make a strong denunciation of
apartheid. Add to this a strong denun¬
ciation of the government's policies by
three dozen conservative congressman, a
public commitment to work for change by
U.S. companies with a presence in South
Africa, and the mushrooming support for
the anti-apartheid movement, and you
have the grounds for a drastic change in
U.S. policy.
Such a change v
is the only country i
ould be in the long-
nation. South Africa
l the world to base its
openly refusing the
izenship rights to its
elementary
black majority.
As a people who consider ourselves
moral and as leaders of what we term "the
free world," cooperating with such an evil
system is wrong and it cannot be justified.
Important commercial and strategic
interests in South Africa have served as
the excuse for cooperating with the South
African government. It is said we can't
afford to endanger our access to rare
materials, nor endanger our strategic posi¬
tion by opposing a friendly government.
But unless we ally ourselves with those
in South Africa who do not accept its
racist system, in the long run wc are likely
to lose both the metals and our strategic
position.
For apartheid is doomed to fall sooner
or later, perhaps by violence. If that
happens — and it must, for no government
can keep 80 percent of its people in virtual
slavery — then whatever government
emerges from the ruins will view the U.S.
Internal pressures, as much as external
ones, can bring about peaceful change and
power sharing between blacks and whites.
South Africa's business interests are all
loo aware of the fact that the economy
cannot grow without the contributions of
educated urban blacks.
That contradicts the official policy of
separate, inferior education for blacks
and forced settlement in rural homeland
areas. It explains why South African
business groups protested the jailing of
militant union leaders by the government,
and why there is hope for peaceful change.
Our government can help, by pursuing
policies that reward progress and punish
excesses. That would include voting in the
U.N. to condemn outrages, embargoes on
militarily sensitive materials, and sanc¬
tions on new investments, among other
At the same time, we could generously
assist educational, training, union, and
self-help groups within South Africa that
are working for change, and from whom
the country's future leaders will come.
Ultimately, only South Africa's whites
and blacks — together — can find a way
out of their tragic situation. America's
proper role is to be helpful in that process
— to nurture it, and to support construc¬
tive change. But whatever we do, we
cannot ally ourselves with the open racism
of a small minority of South Africans to
help them preserve their power at whatever
Black studies courses still available. For
additional information, contact the Ethnic
Studies program (209) 294-2832 or visit
San Ramon 5, Room 131.	
UHURU STAFF
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Aaaistante to Editor
Mark Kimber
Greg Barfield
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California Advocate
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: lady who mesmerized the world's raunchiest rock star. Prince, foi
. When she walks on stage, her smouldering'sexuality and animal
magnetism hold audiences spellbound and lee*e them Wanting more. Yet dark,.
itic Vanity, the most beautiful woman on the world'«pop scene, says she's just
all-town, down-to-earth girl.
M y parents were real strict," says the 26-year-old from Niagara Falls, Ontario.
iad to be good, and if I wore my skirts shorter than my mother thought was
decent, or mixed outrageous clothes and colors, she'd march me straight back
s to change...sometimes three times! I never believed I was sexy or pretty
lie time Prince first saw her across a crowded room at a glittering Holly¬
wood party, she was more than both. The man who's even got Michael Jackson
n the run, took one look at Vanity's blazing eyes and stunning figure, sauntered
ver to her, smiled wickedly and said: "Will you come to the bathroom with me? I
,ant to try on your coat."
Vanity giggles as she recalls the meeting: "It was a great tine and it turned out he
ad nothing on underneath his own teapord-skincoatl He was very bizarre and
xciting. Later, when I got home, he phoned me at four in the morning toask me
n a date for the next night. We had so much fun together, I was madly in love
aih him by the end of the week."
Prince was pretty besotted with her, too, and whisked her back to Minneapolis
3 become the lead singer of his backing trio, Vanity's 6. That was the start of a
assionate love-affair that lasted for three years.
As a lover, Prince is the best," Vanity says. "I've spoken to many women who
ave been to bed with him and they all say the same thing. Prince is something
ifferent, something special. He's not like any other man on earth.
-He's totally uninhibited and wild, in and out of bed, but he can also be
icrcdibly tender. Love to him is pure instinct and he's got the most amazing inner
"During our time together, we became so dose it was frightening. It was as
lough we'd always known each other, like we'd been together in a previous life. It
as a deep, intense relationship and sometimes a love-hate one. I often hated the
fact that I loved Prince so much.
"Life with Prince was really wild," Vanity recalls. "He really enjoys every
loment and can get away with the craziest, most bizarre things that other people
ouldn't even dream of doing.
"One night, for instance, we were at a James Brown concert when Prince
uddenly climbed on to his bodyguard's back and rode into the middle of the stage
nocking over some equipment and singing at the top of his voice. It was a typical
'rince outburst. With him it's Blways"here I am and there I go," while everyone
Ise sits back and watches in stunned amazement.
"Another time we went loan awards ceremony in Los Angeles. On the way, we
rank a bottle of champagne in the back of the car and got very merry. When we
rrived, we staggered up this sweeping staircase, hanging on to each other, then
oiled all the way down again in front of all the well-behaved superstars. There
.were lots of crazy times like that with Prince."
those times a^e over now. Vanity's affair with Prince ended two years ago
lis is the first time she's really talked about why she walked out on pop's
■honest property.
"I wanted Prince all to myself and he's just not the sort of guy you can hold on
'," she says sadly.
"When it comes right down to it, you see, I'm basically an old-fashioned girl
ho believes in fidelity and trust. I didn't need other men. I wanted only Prince,
id for him to want only me.
"One day I found our that he was seeing other women while we were together
" confronted him with it. 1 scrcajicd and cried and pleaded, but it didn't do
So I left Minneapolis without telling anyone where I was going. I just disap-
beared. I still loved Prince, but I knew that our relationship was over.
'as a very traumatic time for me and I really suffered, but it was the only
'ay, there was nothing else I could do."
t was then that Vanity also decided to go it alone as solo artist, as Prince had
ays encouraged her to do throughout their relationship.
He had groomed me for solo success and, when I left him, I felt it was the right
e for me to break with Vanity 6, too. So I took an apartment in Los Angeles
I   'lew myself into work.     . '-.'aSHHl
fashionei
Gift..
"I "m very demanding, when it comes to work and a lot of my attitude I got from
Prince. He always insists on every last detail being perfect, even if it takes all day
and all night to get things that way.
"Somethimes we'd start working at three in the morning and we wouldn't stop
for 24 hours," Vanity remembers. "We were so close to each other that he stopped
having to use words in order to teach me. I couU feel what he wanted just by
watching his eyes. ,
"Prince was my stepping-stone, my education to rock 'n' roll. But my ambition
had always been to be a big solo success like Diana Roes I didnt want to be one of
"The day Prince told me he thought I'd really make it if I went solo, I knew he
believed in me and I began to gain my own confidence. Leaving Prince was good
for me, but it was hard."
Vanity, who is known as the Raquel Welch of rock 'n* roll, walked away not
only from Prince, but also from the star part she was to have had in his film Purple
Rain. It was a role she would have loved and which went, instead, to the dazzling
Apollonia.
"I had to make a complete break, and that meant losing the part, too," she
explains. "I just left my lawyers and accountants to sort out everything.
"I'm not jealous of Apollonia, but I think it's amusing that she's trying so hard
to look like me. Since I was with Prince and Vanity 6, IVeseen lots of girls trying
to copy my looks and clothes. And I think it's kind of neat that I've set a trend in
female fashion.
"But it's still very difficult for me to watch Prince on the screen. I can't bear to
go and see Purple Rain because I know 111 just break down in tears. I saw the
video for When Doves Cry and I just bawled my eyes out.
"I still adore him and I dont think 111 ever get over him. It's so much harder to
leave him behind than it would be any other man. Not only because he's so special,
but also because 1 see him everywhere on posters and on television all round the
world. His face is always there, looking at me, wherever I go.
"IVe. had no contact at all with Prince since we split up. It would be too
painful." But the lady who also won the heart of Adam Ant for a time, doesnt
plan to just pine ber life away.
"Last year's album and single were sort of testing the water," Vanity says. "But
Mechanical Emotion's the big one. Like all my songs, its very sexy and Morris
Day, who used to be with Prince's backing band. The Time, features on it with me.
"I like writing about sex and, in spite of my mother's strict dress code, I like
coming over as a bit of a vamp. I think women should try to be as sexy and
feminine as possible.
"I have my own ideas on fashion and have all my clothes designed for me, based
■ on art deco ideas. I also love old-fashioned lacy dresses and sexy lingerie, and for
seven yean I dreamed about having a gorilla coat, until I finally got one. I'm
wearing it on the cover of my album Wild Animal, and it Vstunning.
Away from the spotlight, Vanity's an odd mix of old-fashioned and wild
modern. She now lives on her own in an apartment in Los Angeles and says:
"Sometimes I just feel like slaving home, cooking myself a meal and having a
quiet evening. When I met Miekad Jackson I thought there was some similarities
between us in that he also tends to shy away from the world — he's very quiet and.
intense. Also, like me, he's totally into his work."
At other times, though, the high-spirited side of Vanity comes but — the wild,
zany Vanity that rolled down the stairs with Prince, and, of course, she's much too
sensual a lady to shut herself off from all the admiring men, even if her heart does
still belong to Prince.
"IVe had plenty of lovers over the last two years, but none of them have really
meant anything special to me. They were all quite casual affairs. 1 suppose the
truth is that I'm finding it very hard to meet anyone who can live up to Prince.
"One of my big passions at tbe moment is for fast cars. I love speeding down the
freeways and jump into my silver-grey Jag and take off whenever I have the time.
I'd like two or three cars, eventually. I want to buy a Corvette, and I just must have
a little black spoils car soon!
"Basically, I'm really a big kid at heart, ant so's Prince — that's one of the
reasons we hit it off so well. Nothing really gets me down for long — I can always
find something to lift me up and get me bubbling with excitement again, rwant to
be famous, hut I dont ever want to grow up."
Her solo career really got going last year, with her first album. Wild AsataaJ,
and her single and stunning video, Pretty Mess. And this week hew new single.
Mechanical Emotion, is to be released. She alto tings one of the songs on tbe
soundtrack of the film. The Last Dragon, which will be in Britain around Easter