1979_12 The Daily Collegian December 1979

              The Daily Collegian
December 10,1979
CSUF Foundation has South African connection
South Africa's segregationist govern¬
ment is in part financially supported by
indirect investments of the CSUF Foun¬
dation, a non-profit corporation which
raises funds for the university.
The foundation's governing board an¬
swers to the university president. Dr.
Norman Baxter, still technically presi¬
dent of the university, is listed as secre¬
tary for the organization and as a mem¬
ber of the governing board.
South Africa has a policy of apartheid
which ensures white minority rule over a
Black majority Apartheid has received
worldwide condemnation
A comparison between a list of corpo¬
rations investing in South Africa and a
list of corporations which the CSUF foun¬
dation invests in shows 13 corporations
m common The list of corporations do¬
ing business in South Africa was com¬
piled by the office for National Action
Research of the Military Industrial Com¬
plex, a non-profit activist organization
The foundation's investments are
handled by a San Francisco investment
firm, Dodge and Cox, Inc Earl Bassett,
general manager of the foundation, said
the investment firm assured the univer¬
sity that all the corporations doing busi¬
ness in South Africa which the founda¬
tion invests in have signed the Sullivan
Principles
The Sullivan principles were written
bv a black clergyman from Philadelphia
to prevent US companies which do bu¬
siness in South Africa from implement¬
ing racism It provides for non-segrega¬
tion of workers, equal employment prac¬
tices, equal pay for equal work, training
programs for non-whites, an increase in
non-whites in management and supervi¬
sory positions and improvement of em¬
ployees ' lives off the |Ob
However, according to a list circulated
earlier this year of corporations which
signed the principles, only five of the 13
corporations which comprise the univer¬
sity s South Africa connection have
signed the document
Whether the corporations are adher¬
ents of Sullivan Principles may be a moot,
question. EunicetSchmidt of the Stop
Banking on Apartheid (SBOA) organiza¬
tion in San Francisco, said that 'the Sul¬
livan Principles are a cosmetic approach
to apartheid."
Schmidt said the principles do nothing
to change the basic structure of South
Africa's white supremacy policies.
"Corporations which invest in South
Africa prop up the most racist regime in
the world,' Schmidt said, regardlesi.pf
whether they signed the principles. She
added that the principles are not b-ing
implemented anyway. 'They are getting
around that by establishing different job
titles for blacks and whites,* she said.
"What all the liberation leaders are
saying is, 'we don't want a more com¬
fortable prison; we want the bars re¬
moved, '" Schmidt said.
Dr Herman Ceorge, an instructor of
ethnic studies at CSUF, also had harsh
words for the foundation's South African
investments
'It calls into question the social con¬
science of the foundation and the univer¬
sity which allows (the investments),*
Ceorge said.
Ceorge called the investments an *af-
frontery to all third world students stu¬
dying here.'
There is no legal or moral reason to
substantiate the investments,* he add¬
ed.
Ceorge said the Sullivan Principles are
a "PR smoke screen" designed to justify
corporate investment in South Africa
"The question of control is not even ad¬
dressed," Ceorge said.
SBOA also advocates a consumer boy¬
cott of banks which, it said, have loaned
substantial amounts to South Africa and
its businesses The foundation, accord¬
ing to its '78-79 annual report, has
$587,865 48 deposited in Banks listed by
SBOA as financial supporters of South
The banks are Bank of America,
Crocker National Bank, Wells Fargo
Bank and Security Pacific National Bank.
The corporations doing Business in
South Africa in which the foundation has
invested  are:   General   Motors   Corp.,
Union Carbide Corp., CilletteCo., ITAT,
Sybron Corp., Borden Inc., General
Foods Corp., Caterpillar Tractor Co.,
Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp.,
Newmont Mining Corp., IBM, Eli Lilly
and Co., and Upjohn Co.
Dr. Jesus Luna, of the La Raza Studies
department, upon learning of the invest¬
ments called for the foundation to pull
out of its South African holdings. Luna
was unsure of whether the university
was aware of the investments.
The CSUF foundation is one of four
auxiliary organizations on campus. It
provides funds for a number of scholar¬
ships. It's governing board is comprised
of 13 members from the university and
community.
Dr. Robert O. Bess, acting vice-presi-.
dent in charge, said he only oversees
three of four of the university's auxiliary
organizations and that the CSUF founda¬
tion was not among them.
He said that he recalls a policy state¬
ment circulated by the Chancellor's of¬
fice which called for university founda¬
tions to be sensitive to such issues as
South Africa investments.
Bess said that although the foundation
is an independent, non-profit corpora¬
tion, as an auxiliary university organiza¬
tion its funds cannot be expended with¬
out university consent. He said that if a
foundation was doing something contra¬
ry to the university's interests, 'the pre¬
sident has the authority to stop that from
happening.'
Foundation general manager Bassett
said the topic of South Africa investment
has never been discussed by the govern¬
ing board.
Dr. William York, executive assistant
to the president, said, "I would really
nave no occasion to know [ot South Afri¬
can investments).,' Dr. Baxter was un¬
available for comment.
A survey done in 1978 by the Investor
Responsibility Research Center, a non-
pi .fit research organization, found*that
U.S. college and university investments
in companies with ties to South Africa to¬
taled $2.2 billion or 30 percent of their
total common stock holdings.
HEW sets new guidelines in
athletic scholorship proportioning
Washington AP- The Department of
Health, Education and Welfare said
last week it will require the nation's
colleges to either give women athletes
their proportional share of scholorships
or face federal action for violating a law
against sex discrimination.
But HEW Secretary Patricia Roberts
Harris, in a major revision to the guide¬
lines previously proposed for a section of
law called Title IX, said colleges will not
be required to equalized per capita
spending on male and female athletic
If 7 percent of a college's athletes are
male, they are entitled to 7 percent of the
scholarship aid, but women must get
3 percent, she said in remarks prepared
for a news conference
Last year's proposed guidelines
touched off a storm of contro¬
versy, particularly from colleges with
major football programs. HEW's new
guidlines will take effect as soon as
they are published in the Federal Reg¬
ister. No time was set aside for public
Title IX covers high school sports as
well as college intramurals, club and
intercollegiate athletics. Most of the
uproar over Title IX has been at the
college level
It is part of a 1972 law that bans sex
discrimination in all federally supported
education programs, not just athletics.
Next meeting set for Dec 18
Conversion controversy continues
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The Fresno County Board of Supervi¬
sors is coming close to a conclusion con¬
cerning the condominium conversion
controversy They heard a report Mon¬
day afternoon from the Fresno County
Task Force, which was established at the
end of the summer to study the condomi-
The supervisors' next meeting will be
on Dec 18 when they will hear argu¬
ments for or against extending the mora¬
torium against building condominiums,
which expires this week They will also
bring up points they would like to see in¬
cluded in a county-wide condominium
conversion ordinance
In his report, Judge Harold
Thompson, chairman of the task force,
suggested that the board consider the
impact on the people displaced and the
available rental housing when drafting
;>ental units should be a deciding factor
The board members said they were
pleased with the task force's work and
generally concurred with their recom¬
mendations
Supervisor   Sharon   Levy   asked   the
could place a proposed ordinance before
the board Don Livingston, director of
the planning commission, answered that
they   "could draft  an  ordinance  fairly
Thompson then said that the board
might consider the ordinance the city of
Clovis already has in effect. But he add¬
ed that while condominium construction
is not illegal, the Clovis ordinance is so
strong that it is almost impossible for
converters to meet the code. "In effect, it
is almost a prohibition," he said.
Supervisor Bruce Bronzan suggested
that when the planning commission
drafts the ordinance they Uke a look at
the Clovis Plan. "We may not want an
ordinance like Clovis, but it might be a
good starting point," he said.
Everyone on the board agreed that
strong consideration should be given to
the vacancy rate and construction rate of
rentals before allowing conversions to
take place.
Bronzan said that the "economics of
the market have already dealt with the
issue of condo conversion" but the issue
goes beyond the question of condo con¬
versions, and "Fresno County needs
something on the books" to regulate
housing in the future.
Meanwhile, if things go according to
schedule, students living in the apart¬
ments that were passed for i
by the city council in the pre-r
comes from the economic laws. Bronzan
said, "Right now there are no rental
units being built, or very few; there is no
money available. It would in effect cut
down conversions.'
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The Dairy Collegian
Third CSUF presidential candidate on campus today
Student representatives express satisfaction with Haak
Student representatives expressed
satisfaction with presidential candidate
Fredrick Obear last week. But their
meeting with Dr. Harold Haak seemed to
leave them with an even more favorable
attitude.
Although none of the student sena¬
tors who met with Haak at the 7 a.m.
breakfast meeting would say how
Haak answered questions concerning
specific issues, they all said they were
impressed with him. The meeting, like
others with Haak Thursday, was not
open to the press or the public. In fact,
his presence on campus was originally
intended to be secret.
The meeting was attended by repre¬
sentatives of the Associated Student
Senate, (MECHA) Moviemento Estu-
diante of Chicano do Aztlan'or Chicano
Student Movement of Aztlan, College
Union Programming, Dean of Student
Affairs Bill Corcoran and Haak's wife,
Betty.
"I felt that he was a very intelligent
man. He's got a lot of good ideas. His
response  to certain   questions,   about
university issues, sounded like he has a
lot of past experience," said Senator Bill
Murphy.
Murphy was not inclined to say exactly
what were the questions about univer¬
sity issues. The senate received word
that the Presidential Selection Com¬
mittee members had received unfavor¬
able feedback from Chancellor Clenn
S. Dumke's office about a story last
week in the Collegian about Obear's
visit to CSUF, according to Dave Ditora.
Statements about the candidate and the
chancellor were quoted in the article.
Murphy said that he was impressed
with Haak but would not make any
decisions about which candidate would
be the most desirable until he learns
more about their backgrounds. He added
that he likes tp go into depth when
; choosing someone for such a position by
looking into their past experiences, even
their family life. A person's family
dictates how they relate to people in the
real world," heaisosaid.
Such issues as the teacher evaluation
process, affirmative action, non tradi¬
tional students, the re-entry program,
and relations with student government,
minority groups and the
were discussed, according to the student
government members.
It appeared that Haak would be easy
to communicate with, according to Luis
Sepulveda, AS legislative vice president.
Communication has been one of the sen¬
ate's primary concerns.
"His orientation is really open,'
said Jerry Hinkle. "I have a very good
ioipression of Dr. Haak as being very
friendly, lively.' Hinkle also said that
he was impressed with Haak's philo¬
sophy of attacking problems by first
looking at the goals to be achieved.
But one senator indicated she was not
as impressed as the others. *l thought he
was fairly open-minded,' said Senator
Naomi Coyle. Coyle did not meet Obear
when he was on campus.
Carl Pherson, a campus representa¬
tive on the Presidential Search Com¬
mittee, said the day before Haak arrived,
that the committee would be content
with any of the three presidential
finalists.
Pherson said it would not be possible
to arrange an interview with Haak.
He said that Haak would not be available
because of a number of reasons, such as
a heavy schedule. But he also referred to
the rubuke that the Presidential Search
Committee received from the chan¬
cellor's office from revealing the names
of the three finalists at an Academic
Senate meeting about two weeks ago.
He added that the purpose of the visits .
by the candidates is primarily to enable
them to form an opinion about CSUF
and not to acquaint all students with the
candidates.
Haak was instrumental in the develop¬
ment of the Women's Studies program
on campus when he was CSUF vice pres¬
cient of academic affairs from 1971-1973.
Haak is now the chancellor of the
University of Colorado, Denver. The
remaining candidate, Dr. Robin S.
Wilson, will be on campus Monday. Wil¬
son, assistant to Ohio State University's
Chief of Academic Affairs, was chosen
as a finalist. after Dr. Robert Bersi
removed himself from the running   •
A new president will be chosen Tues¬
day to replace Dr. Normal Baxter,
whose resignation was called for as' a
result of faculty and student dissatisfac¬
tion. The operation of the university was
place in the hands of Dr. Robert O. Bess
at the start of the Fall semester.
NVU Center for Near Eastern Studies
CSUF coordinator named to present Lectureship
Dr. Dickran Kouymjian, coordinator of
Armenian Studies at CSUF has been
named by New York University's Center
for Near Eastern Studies to present the
1979 Distinguished Xevorkian Lecture-
Ship in Near Eastern Art & Civilization.
Dr. Kouymjian is the first scholar from
the United States to give the series and
this is the first time that an Armenian
authority or an Armenian topic has been
chosen for the lectureship. Previous
holders of the annual lectureship have
been Professor Dietrich Wildung of Mu¬
nich, Professor Janine Sourdel-Thomine
of the Sorbonne, Paris, Professor Seyyed
Hossein Nasr of Tehran, Dr. Heinz
Caube of Frankfurt am Main, and Dr.
Miriam Tadmor of the Israel Museum,
Jerusalem.
Four public lectures will be presented
at 5 p.m. Dec. 13, 17, 19 and 20 in the
Stephen Chad Auditorium at the Kevor-
kean Center for Near Eastern Studies in
Washington Square, New York.
Dr. Kouymjian was invited last spring
by Professor Bayly Winder, director of
the Kevorkian Center, to present the lec¬
tures on an Armenian subject. The topic
of the sixth annual lectures will be 'Con¬
tinuity and Diversity in Armenian Art:
The Iconography of Pentecost.* The suc¬
cessive lectures are entitled, 'The Icono¬
graphy of Pentecost and Its Uniquely Ar¬
menian Features,' "Animal Headed Fi¬
gures and the Metamorphosis of a
King,* 'Dogs among Men and a Man
among Dogs: St. Andrew and the Cyno-
cephali* and 'The Place of Pentecost in
the Armenian Narrative Cycle: Continui¬
ty and Diversity.'
The NYU lectures on Armenian Pente¬
cost will be principally concerned with a
curious animal headed human figure
which is a unique feature of the artistic
rendering of the scene of Pentecost in
the Armenian tradition. In attempting to
clarify the historical evolution of this fi¬
gure from the 11th to the 18th century.
Dr. Kouymjian will examine neighboring
Syrian Christian, Byzantine, and the Is¬
lamic traditions. Various theories associ¬
ated with the cynocephali (dog-headed
people), animal headed saints, and the
curious legends of King Tiridates, re¬
sponsible for the conversion of Armenia
to Christianity in the 4th century, will be
discussed. All lectures will be illustrated
with color slides. Theseries will be pub¬
lished in book form by New York Univer¬
sity Press.
The lectures are free of charge. The
public is invited, but because of the li¬
mited number of seats, interested per¬
sons must request an invitation. This can
be done by writing Ms. Doris Miller,
Outreach Coordinator, Hagop Kevorkian
Center for Near Eastern Studies, 50
Washington Square South, New York,
NY 10003, or telephone (212) 598-2411.
At CSUF Dr. Kouymjian has reorga¬
nized the Armenian course offerings into
a functioning undergraduate program of
Armenian Studies and as advisor to the
Armenian Students Organization on
campus has helped it grow into one of
the most active groups at the University.
The organization' s major achievement is
the publication of the only Armenian
Student's newspaper in the United
States, The Armenian Movement.
Dr. Koumjian was born to Armenian
American parents in Roumania, but
grew up in Chicago and in Racine, Wis¬
consin. He earned a B.A. degree in
European cultural history from the Uni¬
versity of Wisconsin, Madison, a M.A.
in Arab Studies at American University
of Beirut, Lebanon and a Ph.D. in Arme¬
nian Studies at Columbia University,
New York.
- For the past 20 years Dr. Kouymjian
has been teaching Near Eastern and Ar¬
menian history and art as well as wes¬
tern humanities at universities in this
country and abroad including Columbia
University, the American University of
the   American   University
Cairo, the American College in Paris,
Haigazian College in Beirut and CSUF.
The author of several books and nu¬
merous articles, Dr. Kouymjian's spe¬
cial interest is in his Index of Armenian
Art, a systematic card index of all repre¬
sentations of medieval and ancient Ar¬
menian art, currently housed in the Ar¬
menian Studies Program of CSUF; and
the second division of the Index on 11th
century Armenian manuscript illumina¬
tions has just been issued at CSUF. He
has also collaborated on a book and seve¬
ral articles with his Paris born Armenian
wife Angele Kapoian, herself a scholar-
Dr. Kouymjian is member of more
than a dozen professional societies and
was in recent years elected Into the Soci-
ete Asiatique of Paris and made a mem¬
ber of the editorial board of the most im¬
portant Armenological journal in the
world, the Revue des Etudes Armeni-
ennes of Paris.
In 1976, Professor Kouymjian was
sent to the Libyan Arabic Republic by
UNESCO in Paris to advise the Libyan
Department of Antiquities on the clean¬
ing, preservation and study of ancient
and medieval coins. In 1978, among the
150 international scholars who participa¬
ted in the Second International Symposi¬
um of Armenian Art in Erevan, Armeni¬
an S.S.R., he was the only one to be per¬
sonally invited as the guest of His Holi¬
ness Vasken I, the Catholicos of All Ar¬
menians.
Dr. Kouymjian is often asked to pre¬
sent communications at international
symposia in a variety of disciplines inclu¬
ding Oriental studies, Byzantine studies,
numismatics, and current affairs. Earlier
this year, he organized an international
symposium at CSUF on the Armenian
Folk epic David of Sassoun to coincide
with the world premier on campus of
Earl Robinson's folk opera David of Sas¬
soun.
He is currently editing the papers of
the conference for publication. At the
same time he is preparing a memorial
volume for the late Haig Berberian, edi¬
tor of the Revue des Etudes Armeni-
ennes, which will be published with the
support of the Calouste Culbenkian
Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal. Also to
be published in 1980 is a Critical Biblio¬
graphy of Armenian Art and Architec¬
ture by C.K.Hall of Boston.
Armenian Studies at CSUF has been
named to present the 1979 Distinguished
Kevorkian Lecturship in Near Eastern
Art and Civilization.
Photo By John Walker