1977_09 The Daily Collegian September 1977

              ummrj - pas* 2
EDITORIAL
Uhuru   editor P
proposes    a change   i
for fhe beffer
Uhuru, a minority newspaper
directed towards Black students
at CSUF, ha* a new staff.  Along
Our hop* Is that Uhuru win
serve as an information source
to Black students at CSUF.
The policies and guidelines
for Uhuru Include a more professional image arid a better
rapport between Black students
and the various student related
activities.     We feel tl
the   Keats Bldg.     Office  h
are 1-2 Monday and Friday.
you this semester.
E. Jeannle Barry
itibarl M. Zulu
Calvin Paschal
Valerie Erwln
Lemuel Fleming
this rapport.
b to c
Commentary
commentary. Mainly because
we feel Black students on campus should be able to read our
publication and find Information
that will be beneficial to them
while students at CSUF.
We realize changes may not
happen overnight; but It will
not be because of our lack of
trying to make them happen.
We urge readers to submit
letters to the editor anytime
you have something to say.
, Uhuru's  office  Is   located 1
Reporter calls for end to
racism in South Africa
(ed note: This commentary >ras
written after extensive research
by the reporter. Facts and figures cited here were taken from
"The Christian Science Monitor,
The African   Awakener  and the
Cor
Committee.")
Southern Africa has replaced
ietnam as a main zone of poU-
Ical conflict between the exploi-
jd and the exploiter In the world
The Black majority of Southern
Its focus on South Africa. (Soweto
Is the Black township that rebelled
against the use of the Dutch
based Afrlkaaner language In tha
Black African schools.)
Currently 4 million whites
control the political and social
Ufa of 18 minion Black people
In South Africa.
The policy of apartheid is compute separation of the races
(excluding labor) - Blacks,
Whites, Coloreds, and Asians.
It Is a Ufe line to the continued
white minority of nonwhlte people.
^^ Stanford University owns $120  I
TOrter" million in  33 corporations and J
-th* University of California oi
During the last twenty years j3i2 ronuoh In 37 corporations. J
U.S. Investments haw skyrocket-. within the years of th* e"
od to $4 billion. 2/3's of which jiomeration between the U.S.
are tn the mineral extractions south Africa the U.S. has pre- J
of. platinum, manganese and vlded the South "African govern- I
chrome. ment   with   consultants  and tn* I
Most of the major U.S. corpo- necessary technology to develop |
rations such as General Motor*, nuclear reactors.-'
Goodyear, General Electric, Gulf, tnigsjs the American Corporation I
Ford, Chase Manhattan Bank, Mo- AlUs-Chalmars , erected Soutt I
Ml, Texaco, Standard Oil of Ca- Africa's first nuclear facility. I
Ufornla, International Business Tnt jj.g. Atomic Energy torn- I
Machines (IBM), Union Carbide miggion trained South African I
and others operate in South (-hit* only) staff members tt I
government's nuclear com. |
it 28 mlUlon
caning for an end
rles of exploitation
of African people In Nambla,
South Africa and Zimbabwe.
In South Africa hundreds of
thousands of africans have been
In open conflict with the racist
white minority regime. Since
thu June 1976 Soweto rebeUlon
worldwide attention has Increased
1 'In South Africa thousandsof African*
have been in conflitt with the racist
white minority.'        Jf
The system of apartheid control
is IronlcaUy supported by foreign
■s. Including companies In
d States.
United States lnv*stro*nts
only linked to the apartheid   France),
system by U.S. Corporations and        The criticism
companies      but   also   by   U.
by the Informats.
Boole Review
Pryor stars in
Greased Lightning
By Calvin Paschal
•   Staff Reporter
"Greased Llghlniig, " a roorle
starring Richard Pryor as W*n-
dell Scott, the first Black man
to become a race car driver, is
flUed with action, humor, and
. romance.
"Greased Lightning" depicts
.Scott struggling upward from a
cab driv*r to bootlegger, and then
to stock car champi m.
In  1962, Scott won the Grand
National Championship for stock
car racers.       H* had been the
only   Black   competitor   on   the   .
racing   circuit, tor about  thirty
Also starring with. Pryor In
"Greased   Lightning"  ar*  Pam
'Song of Solomon'
d design
- a gran
Song of Solomon by Toni    Morrison ,Knopf.S8.95
TonI Morrison's novels generally resemble a beautifully
patterned quilt. One begins by admiring th* Intricacies of
each square and ends surprised and delighted by the way
the desperate fragments combine to form the grand design
'of the whole.
Her start- i are set In Black neighborhoods of Midwestern •
towns,   where   h*r   central characters  struggle  to  reconcile
th* pressures of family  and culture with th* anarchic insistence of personal needs.
"Song of Solomon," her third novel. Is filled with .suspense,
family secrets and an Intriguing mixture of history and legend.
The story moves from they1930»s to the '60's and centers on
Macon Dead, dubbed Mlttrr&n, the pampered; son of th* most
distinguished Black family in Mercy, Michigan.
His father, Macon Sr., is lh real estate; his mother, Ruth
is the daughter of tbe town's richest Black doctor. Th*y hav*
despised each other for years and Macon's childhood is "heavy
with tbe smell of Illness, misery and unforgiving hearts."
Macon's aunt practices voodoo, supplies residents with boot-
tog, whiskey and lives wlth-Jier daughter and grandaugbter-
both born out oi wedlock.
Tba Dead family heritage is 'a dans* tangle oi* oppression, j
love and violence and tenacity.
The surname is the result of a drunken Yankee's recording I
error at th* Freedmen'a Bureau, where 'Macon's graodfa- I
tb*r registered tollowlng the Civil War.
Macon's grandfather left,his bom*, migrated to Panniylvania I
and acquired valuable land, only to be murdered by white T
farmers who wanted It.
Macon's   aunt' practices   voodoo,  supplies  residents with I
bootleg whiskey and Uves with her daughrer and granddaughter ■
It ~(k toft to Macon to reconcile these warring aid** of hii
In addition to Macon unraveling Ms ancestry ba learns that
racial and sexual heritage may-be not only a weight of wrc
but an exhilarating confirmation of strengths and posslblllt
This 1* s deep; book. It explores tba inter-ralattorisblp* of
a Black family and. can totally absorb tba raad«r. Th* book
At times tear* is a structural conflict In the style of Mor-
. rlson's novel. It also runs to subtle interpretation.
Howevar,   if th*  reader  can gat past these points and get   I
involved In the  essence of tha family conflicts and emotions,  I
Proposed learning center
to enhance student skills
Playwright taps Fresno for play premiere
plex In Oak Ridge ,
Recently, South Africa b
been- criHclrad for Its attempt I
to test Its nuclear potential. But I
Its criticise mainly thos* who I
provided th* necessary reaearcaij
-  technology  (Tha  "A   '
rtoal will I
tbe cause of the problem not!
the results of Information gained ■
Health insurance policy
deadline nears, costs up
(asks and mime portray
(expressions of the bizarre
Students earn units while
visiting community aged
Last Chancel