1985_03 The Daily Collegian March 1985

              4 The Daily Collegian
Opinion
Agency reports Peruvian atrocities
Atrocities committed by Peruvian go¬
vernment forces in the country's remote
highland provinces have reached unprece¬
dented levels in the country's modern
history, according to a report released by
Amnesty International in January. Hun¬
dreds of Peruvians have been tortured and
killed during the last two years, and more
than 1,000 have "disappeared" after go¬
vernment agents seized them without war¬
rant from their homes. Many of the
victims are students and teachers, killed
because of their alleged association with
the Shining Path armed opposition group.
An army patrol abducted Pedro Gomez,
a university student, when he returned
from Lima to his parents' rural home 18
months ago. He has not been seen since
the abduction. Arguimedes Ascarza, an
18-year-old student from the Ayacucho
highlands, also remains among the "disap¬
peared." Hooded men dressed in army
uniforms abducted him from his home in
July, 1983.
Massive human rights violations began
to occur in Peru in December, 1982. when
the government of President Fernando
Belaunde Terry placed nine western pro¬
vinces under military rule. Shining Path
guerrillas have been especially active in
these provinces, targeting government se¬
curity personnel and local community
leaders for execution-style killings. Last
summer the government extended the
Emergency Zone to 13 pmmmarma
Despite domestic and ii
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test against the "dirty wars" waged by
government authorities, military forces,
Peruvian police, and the civil guard conti¬
nue to violate citizens' basic human rights
with virtual impunity. While condemning
the killings and other abuses committed
by the Shining Path, Amnesty International
has called upon the government of President
Belaunde to observe international stan¬
dards for protection of individual citizens'
fundamental human rights.
Students and teachers in the Emergency
Zone have suffered brutal treatment, in
part because young people have been
recruited into the guerrilla movement.
Evidence compiled by Amnesty Interna¬
tional suggests that military agents suspect
young people, simply because of their age,
of participating in guerrilla activity.
Victims of government agents also include
farmers, lawyers, journalists, and leaders
of peasant organizations and trade unions.
Security forces have dumped or buried
hundreds of bodies at several sites in the
Emergency Zone. Fifty bodies were found
in seven shallow graves at one site last
summer. At other sites military authorities
have obstructed exhumation or identifica¬
tion of corpses, which often bear clear
marks of torture and a single gunshot
wound in the head. Removal of clothing,
severing of fingers, and the mutilation of
facial features render identification diffi¬
cult. A Peruvian woman testifies that she
and her daughter had searched for her
missing son "at the place where the dead
bodies appear. But we have only found
the collar of his shirt, which the marines
used as a blindfold on another person."
Numerous victims of "disappearance"
were last seen alive al one of two govern¬
ment centers. The Huanta Stadium, a
concrete structure built in 1974 for sporting
events, serves as a provincial naval com¬
mand headquarters. Authorities have
denied detaining many of the prisoners
held under the grandstand and in open
areas of the stadium. Los Cabitos Bar¬
racks, a regional army headquarters, re¬
portedly serves as the Emergency Zone's
i interrogation and detention center
Prisoners released from the barracks ha\
testified that they saw people held the,
whom authorities denied detaining. Thei
testimonies support evidence that guarj
in the barracks systematically torture rJt.
tainees. Norma Cordero Martraza.a |;
year-old schoolgirl taken from her hor_.
at midnight last year, is among those In
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Letters
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Police responsibility
Editor:
I was recently disgusted by the actiom
of one of our campus policewomen. As
was crossing San Ramon Aveni
crosswalk, I observed her exceeding the I
mph speed limit. She was easily travelinf,
at a speed of 30 mph. She displayed norei
lights, sirens, etc., so 1 would rationally
assume that she was not in an emergenc
situation. The fact that she was exceedia
the speed limit does not bother mi
much as the fact that she did not yiel
even look at me, a pedestrian, who
well into the crosswalk.
The police should not only be respon¬
sible for enforcing the rules that protect
but they should also abide by ihoj
rules that we all rr
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News
March 1,1985 5
Deaf
Continued from page 3
1986.
"There's different kinds of deaf stu-
dcnts,"s»id Coletti. There are four group.
in the elementary schools, h^s-id: The
Hmongs and Spanish deaf who don't
know English which doubles the burden
of communication; the lip-readers; and
the Total Communication group .who
attend Norseman Elementary School.
"When there's more exposure, many
school districts try to s_ve their money by
not sending their deaf children to a resi¬
dential school in another part of the state.
So they try and save their money, well
that's fine. But what about the quality of
ihe interpreter?" asked Coletti.
"A lot of people are trying to turn the
deaf people into hearing people," he con¬
tinued. "They should stop patronizing
and controlling us, they should stop
screening things they think might be ir-
revelant to us. Just let us grow on our
• For Janet Szatkowski things are a little
easier because she is partially deaf and
wears a hearing aid. But she has met up
with her share of difficulties regarding her
impairment at CSUF.
"I've run into teachers who won't use
ihe equipment I have for classes," said
S?atkowski.Such equipment is the phonic
car which consists of a microphone and a
receiver. The microphone, which is con-
\ cniently cordless, is worn by the instruc¬
tor around his neck. Szatkowski controls
the receiver and can raise the volume of
the instructor's speech. With this device
she hears only the instructor, which is
both an advantage and a disadvantage
because it blocks out other students'talk¬
ing, rumpling papers, etc. But she can't
hear other students' class contributions
Szatkowski said with a little coaxing,
the instructors become agreeable to using
the phonic ear, but they're not happy
about it. However,.she said the vast
majority of her instructors were happy to
wear the device, which is on loan to her
from Vocational Rehab.
Szatkowski, a junior and a dietetics
major, is from Buffalo, New York. She's
been in California a year now and works
part-time at Saint Agnes Medical Center
in the Department of Nutrition Resources
as a dietary aide. She attended Rochester
Institute of Technology (RIT) which
houses the National Technical Institute
for the Deaf (NTID) which she also
attended. Szatkowski said they had every¬
thing, including an interpreter training
program.
• JancLessardwasbomdeaf.Sheisvery
active in CAPH and has been a board
member for six years now. Her major is
biology and she wants to work in the med¬
ical field "...to find a way to open ourdeaf
"1 really want to be an advocate for
hearing parents of deaf children," she
said. "I want to be a resource to them and
inform them."
Lessard has two children, both of whom
are deaf. They are enrolled in a hearing
impaired program at their elementary
school. She said sometimes it is a rough
situation for her kids because being child-
re n l hey have a tougher time being "heard."
"It's really hard sometimes, the com¬
munication breakdown, but other than
that I get along,"said Lessard. "I function
like everyone else, I look like everyone
else; I'm nodifferent. I don't have an iden¬
tifying mark that shows that I'm deaf and
why should 1 go and broadcast it?"
She said sometimes teachers and stu¬
dents are hard on her, and can't under¬
stand her writing because of her special
approach to language. She thinks in terms
of letters and words, but not sounds,
explained Lessard.
"I m willing to improve my writing style
if the teacher will be patient enough,"she
said. £he also thinks the teachers need to
understand that adjusting to a deaf person
s hould have the same priority as adjusting
lo a person bound by a wheelchair. Frus¬
tration from being spoken to in the third
person is another problem of being deaf,
explained Lessard.
"They say, _ik her this, ask her that'
and they should address me, talk to me in
the first person only."
"We have to realize that there wont
always be an interpreter around," she
said. "Other students can talke to me by
writing on paper. They dont have to be
afraid of me. Sometimes I'm a little bit
nervous, too, being with them."
Lessard thinks she. Mitchell and Coletti
have set an example to those who are hes¬
itant about mainstreaming.
"We have to work really hard to get by,"
she said. "Once we show them that the
doors are open, and any deaf person could
apply themselves and get in, then that is
almost half the battle."
NOTE: The Interview of the three subjects
intheanlcle, Lessard, Mitchell and Coletti,
was conducted ihrough the interpreter for
Disabled Student Services at CSUF. Brim
Riley, a student who has been accepted at
Gallaudet College.
CAMP
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out o^Aat situation," he said.
p£at "little extra help" includes per-
so-ftal and academic counseling, career
advisement and exploration, assistance in
obtaining financial aid, tutoring provided
by upper division and graduate students,
and a referral service for those not pro¬
vided by CAMP.
According to Hill, the most important
aspect of CAM P is that it gives the student
"a place to touch base with."
"The worst thing that can happen is that
they can experience personal trouble and
not talk about it. It hurts their academic
standing," he said.
1 be program works with about 90-125
students a year of freshmen standing.
According to Hill, about 8} percent stay
in college, demonstrating that students
from migrant backgrounds are equally
able to succeed if provided adequate gui-
"If they have a program like this, they
havea belter chaoce,"said Hill, "We have
seen a lot of students grow from Sep¬
tember to May."
Debbie Martinez, a junior majoring in
business at CSUF hasnt been a CAMP
participant since her freshman year, but
still likes to visit the counselors.
Martinez said she received help with
personal and school-related problems but
wishes the program was not restricted to
freshmen.    v
The invitation just said Macktie.
Thanks toyour friends,
you also wore a jacket and pants,
When none other than the Dean invites you to
a black tie reception, what do you do? Start borrow¬
ing: a jacket here (40 regular), a pair of pants there,
and before you know it, you're looking pretty sharp.
And when your formal party is j-j
over, there's another one you should jf]
arrange. Making sure that each
contributor to your wardrobe gets
what he deserves in the form of a
Lowenbrau.
After all, isn't any friend
worth a cummerbund, worth
one of the world's finest bottles
of beer?
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