1986_02 The Daily Collegian February 1986

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OPINION    February 5, 1986
Angolan rebel asks for U.S. help
To the Point
LEROY BARNETT
Angola rebel leader Jonas Savimbi
was in the United States last week aslcihg
for help in his fight against the Cuban-and
government.
After his talk with President Reagan on
Thursday he was upbeat about his chan¬
ces for receiving some form of aid from
the United States.
But the harsh fact facing Savimbi is the
strong opposition by the Senate and House
intelligence committees lo any covert aid
for hisanti-communistguerrilla war. There
is equally strong opposition from Secre¬
tary of State George Shultz for giving him
laintaining
control of a large part of Angola during
the ten-year civil war Some of the land is
adjacent to Ihe South African-dominaled
Namibia (South Wesi Africa)
fast Germans. 1.500 Soviets, and 2.000
North Koreans, in order to push the pres¬
ent government into negotiating with him
lor open elections. Presently, the foreign
troops arc oppressing Angola and depriv¬
ing it of self-govcrnmenl
If the United States decides to give
Savimbi aid. it will be in direct conflict
wilh U.S. support of Chevron Corpor;
lion's oil investments in Angola
n-Gulf investment in Ango
. the Angola
receives somewhere between s606 million
and $1.7 billion a year in taxes and royal¬
ties from the firm. Oil is one of the major
industries in Angola.
Sen. William Proxmire has recently
suggested that President Reagan step in,
under the authority of the Economic
Emergency Act, and prevent,Chevron-
Gulf from helping the Angolan govern¬
ment. Proxmire also recommended that its
aid be cut from the Export-Import Bank.
Proxmire said the United States should
demand that all foreign troops leave
Angola or the United States will take out
Gulf Oil.
rius
e Sovii
Richard M. Nixon said in his book Real
Peace that it costs the Soviets $5 million a
military equipment to Angola last year.
Without the oil revenue, the Soviets
would have a hard time keeping lhc pres¬
ent government propped-up, because, as
Kirkpatrick pointed out, guerillas can't
freedom fighters or Leninists. So wilh that
in mind, should the United States give
Savimbi aid?
United St:
He said
and free e
other black Africans
giving him aid.
: he is in favor of di
had to get help from w)
could get it. It is not only me, it is in the
past history."
Savimbi claims he is not nor has he ever
been a Marxist.
Some people on Capitof Hill are reluc¬
tant to give him aid because he has
received some aid from South Africa.
Kirkpatrick said that Savimbi is very
well understood in Africa to be a major
African leader and nobody in Africa thinks
Savimbi, who is black, supports apartheid.
"Anybody that is engaged in a life and
death struggle — including us in World
War 11 — accepts aid where he can get it,"
Kirkpatrick said.
His decision to ask South Africa is also
knows anything about the weaponry deve¬
loped in South Africa, knows that it is
some of the best in the world. South Afri¬
can arms developers could teach the
Soviets, Americans. Belgians. Germans.
Austrians, and Israelis something about
making weapons.
Savimbi made a moral appeal in his
argument when he said. "It is wrong —
morally wrong for Gulf Oil to pay for
the Cubans to kill Ihe indigenous people
Savimbi said he will attack a Gulf Oil
ips lobbying again;
American military aid for his revel forces.
Whether the United States decides to
provide aid to Savimbi or not remains to
be seen. But whatever the decision, the
United States should nol let the shadow of
Vietnam prevent it from funding the back¬
ing of other anti-communist rebels.
Kirkpatrick said, "The United. States
must not be traumatized by the slippery
slope syndrome of Vietnam, which moved
the United States military assistance to
500,000combat troops. The United States
doesn't have to do that."
Whatever the U.S. policy ends up being
regarding Savimbi, it should be one of
consistency. If the decision is to fund
Savimbi, there should be a decision to
prevent Chevron-Gulf from helping the
Angolan government.
The United Stales should not be afriad
to use both its military and economic
strength. President Eisenhower once said.
"We should sell the Russians anything
that they can't shoot back." When they
use their economic ties with the West to
Soviets are in effect shooting back our
The West cannot be so foolish
President Reagan i
right w
aid to freedom fightei
sleeper issues during 1986
II say. *
The Chev
has been lher<
Depending
BLOOM COUNTY
support of other
black African. European, and Arab coun¬
tries, that are jusl waiting for the United
States lo give him the nod of support
before they come out publically and
endorse him
To people that say he  is a   Marxist
Savimbi says. "Those that have foughl
Market cornered
for IRA funds
A Closer Look
STEVE BRUHN
verS350,000availa
for educational p
cademic endeavors, one
illy i
applying for these funds is less than two
students probably
Population boom a
bust but end still on
The Party's Over
JACK RATCHETT
Federation wresllcrs and a freshman with
a bottle-cap collection filling 700 Vlasic
pickle jars. The smell was prctly bad, not
to mention the aroma from the pickle jars
But icientisls. once claiming Ihere would
only be one square yard of living space per
individual, have come forward with some
revised figures Apparently, ihe new date
set for this close quarters calamity has
been moved to 7.30 this Friday
"I don't know whai happened \Vnh all
these terrific late night shows lite
Letterman, well, wc just didn't expect
people would be doing so much um. well.
. ." babbled one now unemployed and
tally expendable staii-.ii
Hov
inIk
community were better prepared for the
over-crowdingcatastrophe. "I wasn't going
to tell anyone until we had sold lhc living-
room furniture and the sheepdog."
But the public reacted differently to this
over-booked bummer. "Wftat am I going
to do? Somebody's responsible for this I 1
furiously throwing laundry baskets and
coffee mugs at my shins.
"1 hope your plot of land lurns up Hol¬
la's head!" I yelled in a moment of brave
repercussion, hoping she could hear me
over the plane's engines at 10.000 feet.
Indeed, the public is going lo be hit
hard, especially in Africa. Expert sour¬
ces couldn't be reach. ring their gar¬
age sales, but my thiru-cousin aptly
remarked on this congregation vexation;
"The average family has 2.5 kids, a Buick,
and a pool. Well be forced to tighten our
belts and reduce things to a pet hamster
and a pair of roller-skaies "
garions are dedicated to both sides of the
story. And it seems factions are in dis¬
agreement with these finding. "We're not
sure where these guys came up with their
data, but I would say 7:30 is anywhere
from two to two-and-a-half hours early.
We can all breathe a little easier for a
while." insisted a man in MIT who would
only identify himself as Oscar.
NASA officials would not comment on
the possibility of moving into Space, but
the spirit of togetherness there may soon
impose upon us all. And well be the better
for ij. This is Jack Ratchet reporting live
from China. Now, back to you, Roger.
ilable.and for the purposes mentioned
ig for these func
laven't heard anything
Why? Wouldn't there be a lot of
,iotential for putting this money to good
use? Shouldn't students be made aware of
this so they could plan projects and wrile
proposals?
The answer lies in how this particular
fund came about and how it has been
administered at CSUF.
The fund seems lo have been created
and maintained primarily for lhc benefit
of the athletic program. This led lo a
major controversy a couple of years ago.
forcing some changes lo be made. Whal's
lion of what this fund is to be used for. and
anadequate means for ma kingstudentsaware
of it so that the funds could be used to
their fullest potential.
The fund is called Instructional^
Related Activities (IRA). It was created
by state law in 1978 and was designed to
ease the burden on student senates in the
expensive programs year after year.
The new IRA fund met a very specific
need. Each campus could collect an IRA
fee as part of each student's registration
costs and use the money as a consistent
source of revenue apart from the university
budget and the student senate. University
presidents were given authority to decide
how the money is spent rather than student
senates, which change every year and arc
less predictable (and less controllable).
It is very probable that athletic depart-
responsible for IRA. If they were not. they
might as well have been, since they were
among the first to take full advantage of it,
and intercollegiate athletics is the first
isted in the law that created IRA as
an approved budgeted area. At CSUF, the
athletic department was able to dominate
the IRAbudgel process from the very
budget for years.
. This was accomplished by the creation
of an IRA board made up of six members,
three of which were appointed by the uni¬
versity president. The other three were the
executive officers of Ihe Associated Stu¬
dents. The president's appointee made no
secret of their bias towards athletics. One
was even on the board of directors of the
Athletic Corporation! The student mem¬
bers, more often than not, were while
males eager to gain acceptance into the
"good-ol-boy" network and would quietly
go long without meaningful protest when
they were reminded that 60 percent of the
IRA money was already spent.
The IRA budget process was either
poorly publicized or nol publicized at all
to ensure only a trickle of other funding
applications and athletic corporate domi-
Thc budget process was a joke. Each
group applying for money was given a
time to present a proposal to the IRA
tuld r
reminded that it had "j
Some student groups would come to
IRA for money and then be sent to the
Associated Students Senate. Some came
to AS for money and were sent to IRA.
This sometimes left students totally con¬
fused and disgusted with both, and many
good projects never got the attention
they deserved.
The Athletic Corporation's control over
IR A board suffered a major setback when,
during the 1983-'84 year. Andrea Hedgley
was AS president. She came into office
determined to strighten the IRA mess out.
She was successful in turning the IRA
issue into a political liability for the uni-
in particular. She held a press conference
just before the spring '84 IRA budget
deliberations and called for a change in
the IRA budget (The Athletic Corpora¬
tion clearly no longer needed the money
because of the phenomenal success of the
Bulldog Foundation) and also proposed
that a percentage of the Foundation's
income be used for instructional purposes.
So* LOOK, page 9
February 5, 1986     NEWS
Look
This made the front page of 77ie Fresno
Bee and the administration panicked as
the whole town was talking about the stu¬
dents who wanted to take the Red Wave
away, and all this .over a measly IRA
As publicity on the IR A issue increased,
ihe funding applications poured in. The
number of IRA requests nearly doubled in
Iwo years. The board was forced to give in
to students demands by both the publicity
and the number of requests. One of the
university president's appointees {tbe one
from the Athletic Corporation) wasquietly
Since Hedgley's term the IRA board
hasn't been the same. The "prior com¬
mitments" argument doesnt work any¬
more and the board has since then tried to
regain the Athletic Corporation a momen¬
tum by cleverly defining IRA to exclude
the new areas coming to the board for
money. Before Hedgley, they would argue
that in order to qualify for IRA funds, a
project should include both travel and
competition. (Guess what fit this criteria
the best?) Another argument was that it
should be connected with a class in order
to qualify. Thisexcluded a lot of new areas
also allowed the board to turn things
down'on the justification that the project
should be responsibility of the depart¬
ment. This of course did not apply to
It is reallv a shame that IRA has been
around for eight years and has yet to be
utilized to enhance the educational
atmosphere of the campus as much as it
could. Instead this fund has been abused
and mishandled for the benefit of a selfish
corporation that needs the money about
as much as we need two Bulldog Stadiums.
There is room for a fund like the IRA to
help fill the gap between tbe student
senate budget, which pays for student ser-
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necessary to maintain a senate po:
Castorena, 27, ran for a senate p
because of "a lack of proper repr
tion of graduate students in the AS. Hi<
goals consisted of the "forma tionand organ¬
ization of a graduate student council and
association, establishing a central meeting
place for graduate and evening students,
strengthening the credibility and respec¬
tability of the AS student government and
increasing the responsibility and accoun¬
tability of AS officers and senators to
students."
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The IRA board needs to stop treating
the IR A fund as if it were a secret and stop
making up arbiury definitions as to whal
Ihe money is for and then only applying
IRA applications for the 1986-87 school
yearare dueat 5 p.m. on Feb. 14 in the AS
office. CU 316.
icano-Latino Students Association Presents:
The State of Higher Education:
"What's the problem?"
Guest Speaker
Dr. Tomss A. A rciniega
President, California State University, Bakersfield
Wednesday, February 5,1986
12:30 p.m.
College Union, Room 312-314
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