1974_11 The Daily Collegian November 1974

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4-THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Friday, November 1, 1974
Black Americans- Africa
(Continued from Pag a 1)
lng their support to tbe cause of
African   Uberation   movements.
Tha question of material sup¬
port to Uberation movements ls a
political consideration of the
highest order. A possibly danger¬
ous repercussion ts the Implicit,
or even explicit, control the
"benefactor* obtains from such
support. For monetary or ma¬
terial gifts are oftentimes con¬
tingent upon a return favour.
White American support ef¬
forts under the agency of such
groups as the 'American Com¬
mittee on Africa,* "World Coun¬
cil of Churches,* am
Support Movement"
viewed by Blacks v
suspicion.
Committee (ALSC) had the
trlbutlons taken directly to
where they met with the \
liberation movement leade
Investigation team was a!
up to report on the actlvltt
needs of the various Uberation
Travelling more than a thou¬
sand miles on foot, the chairman
of ALSC's Investigation com¬
mittee spent three months Inside
the liberation areas of Angola to,
parUy, clear up the controversy
which made the Angolan move¬
ments function Ineffectively.
Black Involvement In the Issue
of Southern Africa has now mush¬
roomed. Black students and long¬
shoremen In the southern state
of Louisiana organized actions
against U.S. Importation of Rho-
destan chrome. Black workers at
the Boston Polaroid plant began
organizing protests against Pola¬
roid's complicity with the apar-
The photograph on the pass car-
Boston group, called "The Pan
African Liberation Committee,"
launched a nationwide "Boycott
Gulf Oil" campaign.
The largest U.S. corporation
investing In Angola, Gulf-oil was
by 1970- pumping $20 million
directly Into the Angolan econ-
omy„ostenslbly used In support¬
ing the. Portuguese war. Under
the pressure of boycott. Gulf sup¬
ported Its position stating: 'Real
progress for Angolan people lies
In more, rather than fewer jobs.*
But Gulf omitted to state that out
of about five million Blacks in
Angola, Gulf directly employed
a mere 33 while their Angolan
investments ranged close to$200
million.
The Involvement of black
church-funded organizations,
• most notably The Inter-religious
Foundation for Community Or¬
ganization (IFCO), The Black Af¬
fairs Council of the Unitarian
Churrh and The Executive Coun¬
cil   of  the   Episcopalian Church
Ivlty
espectablllty tc
iupport efforts,
so, the southern Afr
Dean Ford on minority problems
Speaks, a popular Afro-Ameri¬
can weekly, accused the organiz¬
ers of the African Liberation Day
demonstrations ' of "escapism.* .
Those Blacks involved In south-
being reproached for relating to
far-flung struggles In an attempt
to eschew the more Immediate
and confused needs of the Ameri¬
can urban ghettoes.
Owusu Sadaukal clarified the
Pan-African position as: *The
plain fact ls that the export of
U.S. capital is Increasing the
misery of our people (at home).
It Is further entrenching a racist,
capitalist, Illegal and lllegltlpate
government In power."
Alluding to the situation of
American multi-national corpor¬
ations in South Africa, he went
on to say ". . . and even where It
does give jobs, lt affects only a
small number of African people
and It ends up creating a whole
new level of petty bourgeois Black
people who will move to stifle
the legitimate concern of the
masses for democracy and self-
determination.*
Essentially, conflicting Ideo¬
logical tendencies also fell under
the rubric of Pan-Afrtcanlsm.
The freight-line cultural nation¬
alists presiding In a euphoric
adulation of all that ls African
rlth national leadership
of ALSC who had evolved a more
strictly scientific socialist ten-
port of the struggle of 'Black
people tn America.
As early as 1968, Jonas Savim-
ol, UNITA's president had as¬
serted: "Our struggle against
colonialists In Angola Is' at one
with that of Black people In
America, containing America
which Is Portugal's suppliers of
money and military equipment...
we must combine our struggles.*
4As a group too powerless to
present Its own exploded status
In the International arena, Black
pride to and hope for the m
ments of liberation, a
so forceful In their position,
would actually risk American
government censure In arguing
Black America's cause.
If  the   i
e of r
mem of Afro-Americans to take
up arms In southern Africa along¬
side their fighting brethren were
to come up, there would not be
enough planes to carry them over.
However, movements do no long¬
er suffer from lack of manpower
and, after all, the very central
tenet of armed struggle ls fight¬
ing on one's own familiar terrain.
One Pan African leader put lt this
way: "We should heighten our own
struggles everywhere we are,
and If we do, we will help weaken
and ultimately destroy the hold
that the white ruling class has on
The  liberation  r
provide thelm-
revolutlonary activity In Afro-
the      particular
struggle   within   America itseir.
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PRESIDENT FORD walks between Rep. Bob Mathias, (R-Tulare), and Clovis Mayor Dennis Prlndlville (right), on h
Friday. The "Western Way of Life" caught on quickly, as Mayor Prlndlville presented the President and Mathias w
ieers.   Photos by Jim Denman.
Fresnans go wild trying to touch President
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1
^EEegian
CALIFORNIA      STATE      UNIVERSITY,      FRESNO      .
Student Senate, consumer groups
work out new watchdog program
CSUF student is pulled,
jabbed and hit by crowd
and elbowing her while trying "•
By Gerald Kent
Collegian Staff Writer
More excited than 10,000 people 'For   a   few   seconds   I  was
trying to see and hear President frightened,*   she   said.   "I. was
Ford speak  at the Fresno Air afraid I might fall and get tram-
Terminal  Friday were several pled.   Physically  I didn't have
hundred trying to touch him after- any control."
ward. One man tn the crowd who had
'The   crowd   went   berserk,* just  touched the President had
a   CSUF tears In his eyes and was say-
9 Presl- lng "I don't believe It. I don't be-
dent's hand. lleve It,* said Cunha.
After his speech In support of Cunha said the only way she
congressional candidate Bob Ma- could  tell where the President
thlas, President Ford walked be- was,  was by  his white cowboy
.   bind the bleachers to shake hands hat which was presented to him
with the public. by the Mayor of Clovis.
CSUF students
: elated problems may have on-
jmpus assistance by January If
plana for a proposed consumer
tdvocate group are approved by
he Student Senate.
The proposal ls currently be-
'ore the campus affairs commlt-
ee, according to Don Beckman,
graduate student In consumer
•■clence. Beckman, who ortglnat-
■ l the plan, hopes to Incorporate
.' in his thesis.
if approved by the committee,
"ie proposal wiu go before the
■senate. Beckman said he has the
support of the senate now and
•lopes lo get the project under-
■Baslcally, we want to arbt-
ttate complaints,'Beckmanssld.
>: addition, tbe group would run
price surveys to Inform students
of bargains and educate students
In landlord/tenant law.
"A lot of students are getting
pretty much deceived,* he said.
According to Beckman, CSUF
students do not make much use
of already existing consumer
groups within the community.
It's pretty difficult to get out
there without transportation,*
be said.
Beckman thought .there was
"definitely a strong need" for a
campus consumer group.
This wiU be one of the first
In California,* he said. "I don't
know of any others.* The Uni¬
versity of California's Davis
campus Is currently working oo a
slmUar project.
The group will work primarily
as a system of arbitration. Stu¬
dents will bring their complaints
to the group and fill out a form
e the
explaining the problem,
vestigator will then ta
other party and try to i
If the problem cannot be re¬
solved, Beckman said, the mat¬
ter will be referred to the Bu¬
reau of Weights and Measures.
"They're the major complaint
people don't even know about It,".
r and closer to
i," said Cunha. «AU of a sud-
people  got  really, aggres-
If It appeared that a fraud was
Involved, he said, tbe matter
would be referred to the District
Attorney.
Beckman expects to have suf¬
ficient volunteers. He has been
assisted so far by B1U Fellers,
a senior political science major',
and Mike Garth, a junior business
major. In.addition, Mrs. Kath¬
arine Karikka, associate profes¬
sor of home economics, advised
"I put out my hand and touched
fingers," she said. 'They
s flesh.*
inha was. pushed away, and
Cunha was pulled along by the     the President moved on.
crowd, a wave In a sea of people,       Tha   Secret   Service   agents
she said, who were pulling her       (Continued on Page 4, Col. 3)
WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
REV. LEROY roll center.
The Tennessee Baptist Mis¬
sionary and Educational Conven¬
tion, a black religious group, has
branded a recent television spe¬
cial by Flip Wilson as 'an Insult
to God and a breach of the Third
Wilson's character of Rev.Le-
roy was condemned by th^ group
for portraying the black preacher
as 'a sort of ecclesiastical Stepln
Fetchlt* and for showing the black
church aa a spiritual rock and
BROWN HOLDS LEAD
According to a survey taken
by the Los AngelesTlmes, Demo¬
crat Edmund G. Brown, Jr. con¬
tinues to bold the lead In the race
for governor. Brown holds the
lead despite small gains by his
Flournoy.
The poll also showed that fol¬
lowers   of   Flournoy   aooeared
(Continued on Page 4, Col. 4)
CSUF prof will become 'environmental archaelogist'
going oi
•and an
A Department of Transporta¬
tion grant to CSUF anthropology
professor Dr. Dudley Varner to
study effects of potential highway
engineering projects on the
state's archaeological sites ls In¬
dicative of tha Increasing role of
what Dr. Varner calls the "en¬
vironmental archaeologist.*
State law requiring environ¬
mental impact reports on con¬
struction projects and a large
amount of recent building and land
development have opened up new
careers for archaeology students .
who formerly would have ended up
at tha professor's lectern, said
Dr. Varner.
•There's so much development
.* satd Dr. Varner,
"and anything can destroy these
archaeological sites  which are
example, Dr: Varner
cites finding an archaeological
site where the Department of
Transportation Intends to
straighten curves on the roadway
to Shaver Lake. The proposed re¬
alignment would top bedrock
mortar holea where Aboriginal
Tha anthropology department's
■resident archaeologist" plans
further Investigation and possibly
excavation work to find what Ues
under tha bedrock. However, he
says excavation Is avoided if
possible because of its potential
damage to a site.
Highway projects In district
six, which includes Fresno and
Madera Counties and some land In
adjacent counties, are studied for
their Impact on archaeological
sites by Varner. Archaeology
graduate student David Stuart
supervises the CSUF lab where
some of ihe findings are analyzed.
Varner says the Department of
TransportaUon modifies their
plan or decides the archaeologi¬
cal site cannot be saved.
•Hundreds of thousands of ar¬
chaeological sites have been lost
becausei of work like this,* said
Varner.'But pressure fromCall-
fornians concerned about the cul¬
tural and historical values of
many sites has persuaded public
and private firms to consider the
problem whan making many of
their plans, he said.
■It's an attempt to save the en¬
vironment more than anything
else.*
'Many public agendas and pri¬
vate businesses are beginning to
hire archaeological consultants
to investigate various projects,
he says. Many, a re hiring for In¬
dividual plans while soma are
offering -environmental archae¬
ologist* positions'on their staffs.
Varner says a Saturday field
class In tha anthropology depart¬
ment is training'for archaeologi¬
cal surveys such as the ones
done perlodtcaUy for the U.S.
Forest Service, which sometimes
studies specific Umber land sale
araaa. He counts tha number of
archaeology majors at CSUF at
30.