1974_02 The Daily Collegian February 1974

              8-THE DAILY COLLEGIAN- Thurs., Feb. 14,1974 WORLD  NEWS  IN   BRIEF
The revolutionaries
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ructions Director Ray Procunli
In an interview, Procunler said
he belleves be or other high state
officials will be harmed by the
revolutionaries ln the next few
months.
■But I won't change my lifestyle because of them, I won't go
Into hiding,* Procunler said. *lf
I do, they'll I
I    V
't have
Revolutionary groups ln (he
last few years, according to Investigators, have:
United States where escaped
prisoners have been hidden (one
escaped prisoner mentioned Detroit and New York as areas
where hiding places have been set
up).
-Divided themselves Into
small 'terrorist cadres"—like
the Symblonese Liberation Army
—to practice murder and destruction. Joseph M. Kemlro,
for example, said to be a member
of both the SLA and Venceremos,
was charged with the Foster am-
actually   perfi
with   (
e killing of prls-
cdStat.
build a revolutionary
Attempted topers
llshcd prison gangs II
lean Mafia (which ha
stretching to South At
Law program
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purpose of curing t
ety has placed upon
W^d
LETP   is "outsu
Kelley,   a   retired
police   ;
expects   the CCCJ.
'through
During the remaining tl
Kelley said he hopes to obi
the   necessary   funding   for
said.
K LETP doesn't receive either, Kelley predicts that more
than half of the 45 minority students participating ln the project
will   be   'unable to finish their
-I don't personally feel It will
be phased out. I wish they would
let us know as soon as possible,
though. We have 150 additional
applicants, but we have no funds
•I am enthused about this
project continuing, because on
this project you're assisting
some minority person coming
through college with a degree
and placing him ln a permanent
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Europe and controlled from behind bars, an Investigation Indicates) aad the rival New Family
prison gang to quit killing each
other, and kill guards Instead.
-Developed a plan (revealed
ln a letter to: police from the
SLA after the Foster murder) to
finance a *war against Ihe Establishment* by kidnaping prominent
The Symblonese Liberation
Army claimed responsibility for
the kidnaping of Mis s Hearst ln
a letter to a Berkeley radio sta-
Investlgators are alarmed by
the ruthlessness of the revolutionaries. There have been 70
unsolved killings In theSan Francisco Bay Area alone, on? high
state official said, 'which appear
to be senseless, simply terrorist
killings aimed at furthering the
goals of these groups."
The     Symblonese    Liberation
ebeen:
REINECKE
California Lt. Gov. Ed
Relnecke, whose, possible Involvement in tbe Nixon administration's dealings with IT&Tare
being Investigated by Watergate
Special Prosecutor Leon Jawor-
skl, has hired a local attorney
to represent him.
Relnecke, a candidate for governor, denied any involvement In
the IT&T scandal and said he
hopes to to exonerated quickly.
PERON
Police In Buenos Aires said
Tuesday that at least 30 members of an Argentine guerrilla
group have been arrested ln
connection with an unsuccessful
attempt to assassinate President Juan Peron, his wife and
the visiting president of Uruguay.
The attack apparently was In
12 such killings, US Atty. Gen.
William Saxbe acknowledged.
•We've never seen anything
like this before,* said L.S. Nelson, warden at San Quentln prls-
revolutlonary activities revolving around the prisons. 'Guards
have been butchered, seemingly
in his administration.
SOLZHENITSYN
Nobel Prlze-wlnnlng Soviet
author Alexander Solzhenitsyn,
stripped- of his citizenship and
expelled from Russia, arrived
In    West    Germany yesterday.
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had divided the nation and filled
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California State University, Fresno
XXVI11/79                     FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1974
Elaine Brown speaks on
Black political scene
Ethiopians highlight
Black History Week
'Shades of Black Experience*
is the theme of this year's Black
History Week at CSUF. The program Is'designed to Introduce
studenta and the comfnunity to
the  worldwide  Impact  of Black
Activities scheduled far the ro-
n ainder   of   the   week  Include:
FRIDAY
The Nigerian Student Association will present a program of
styles and dances highlighting
ihloplan Black Culture. At 7
; m , the Lotus Company Dance
: roupe from San Francisco will
perform   lir*j|he College  Union
SATURDAY
A Black Survival Workshop
will be sponsored by the Imojau
Center at 10 a.m. ln the College
Union Lounge. The group will
also demonstrate "cornrow*
techniques.
Ethiopian Night will highlight
Black History Week ln the main
Cafeteria at CSUF. Food, dances
and a cultural demonstration will
be given for all visitors.
Black History Week will end
with a dance at the Ivy Center ln
West Fresno at 10 p.m.~The
Stacy Wilson Review will play at
the dance until 2 a.m.
Spokeswoman for the Black
' Panther - Party, Elaine Brown,
spoke about contemporaryBUck
politics last night ln tbe CoUege
Union as part of Black History
Week.
Elaine Brown is a 30 year old
Black woman. She waa born on
March 2, 1943 in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. A graduate or the
Philadelphia High School for
Girls, Elaine attended Philadelphia's Temple University aa
a pre-law student. She waa
raised by her mother ln one of
thla country's worst ghettos,
North Philadelphia, and grew to
understand from her own experiences the plight of being
Black and poor.
Moving to California ln 1965
and settling. In Los Angeles,
Elaine Brown tried for several
years to make a decent living
working at many 4obs. from
selling books door-to-door to
waiting on tables. Around 1967,
she began working as a volunteer in the Jordon Downs Projects, In Watts, teaching piano to
children there. From that point,
Elaine's life was directed toward •
Among Elaine Brown's early
experiences In the then-growing
Black movement was to edit the
Black ■ Congress' newspaper.
(The Black Congress was a local,
Los Angeles umbrella organization of Black groups.) Elaine
also started a newsletter for
UCLA's Black Student Union and
helped form the Southern California college Black Student
Alliance composed of over 20
different Southern California
college Black Student Unions.
Eventually, she came into contact with the Black Panther
Party and Joined Its Southern
California Chapter ln April of
Since Joining the Black Panther Party, Elaine Brown has
worked In Los Angeles and Oakland. She has made an album of
songs, 'Seize the Time,"written
and sung by her. This beautiful
album is composed or made up
of a selection of songs about the
ELAINE BROWN, spokeswoman for the Black Panther Party, and a
former candidate Tor Oakland's City Council seat ln April, 1973,
discussed contemporary Black politics last night'in the College Union
struggle of Black and poor people. Elaine's second album,
"... Until We're Free," was
produced at the new Motown offices In Loa Angeles.
An outspoken woman, Elaine
has represented the Black
Panther Party and the Black and
poor communities of this country
around the world. She has traveled to the People's Republic
of China twice, to the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea, the Democratic Republic
of Vietnam, lo Algeria and elsewhere around the world.
Elaine also ran as a candidate
for Oakland's City Council seat
ln April 1973. She had chosen to
run for office to represent the
forgotten and overlooked needs
of   Black,   poor   and working
women, not as a "women's liberation" advocate, but as a Black
woman who knows the special
problems of our community. As
Elaine has said, "Being Black,
and a woman, my candidacy for
Oakland City Council adda a new
and needed dimension to local
politics. My many different experiences, from the ghettoes of
Philadelphia and California, to
places like Peking, China, and
other world capitals and communities has" left me with one
particular and long-lasting impression   -   the   oneness   and
Elaine had gained some 36,000
votes which although It didn't
afford her the Council seat — It
was a great victory for the
Black community.
Black Studies: 'Struggle to overcome historical indifference
(Editor's note: This Is Part
ne of a three-part article on
lack Studies.  Part Two'wlll t
i the  n
e of
I HURU.)
By Alex Poinsett
like a new boy on the block,
usslng and lighting to prove his
legitimacy, Black Studies, after
nearly five years of black crusading, Is still a foundling tn
white colleges and universities.
Gone are yesterday's often vto-
tween angry black students demanding 'relevance* In their
education and appeasement-
minded, white administrators
seeking peace at any coat, but
in today's Black Studies' class-
rooms, black and white students
sometimes segregate themselves voluntarily and latent tensions often explode into open
hostility. Objections are no
longer raised that.the field'ia
too barren to support and Justify
Black Studies, but they have been
granted a place only on the
fringes of the educational establishment, if, at one time, white
colleges- and universities liberally funded BUck Studlea,
diminishing financial support of
'hese programs has signaled a
weakening of institutional commitment. And so, for example,
the Unl"eraity of Wlaconaln recently withdrew lta funding of the
Afro-American Center and the
University  of Illinois allocated
even less money for Its already
under-financed Black Studies
program.
The plight of Black Studies
surfaces dramatically at the
U. S. Office of Education ln
Washington. Officials there report that 1,272 of the 2,576
colleges and universities in the
United States today offer 5,611
courses In Black Studies. Those
3,611 courses are nearly three
times greater than ■Spanish-
speaking Studies,* six times
greater than "Asian-American
Studies,* and nine tlmesgreater
than "American Indian Studies.'
Yet, each academic area is
equally represented by Its own
office within the Office of Education. That Is, each of these
smaller offices is a five-man
operation - as if their Jobs of
monitoring the respective academic disciplines were equal in
scope; or, as if the respective
racial and ethnic groups were
equally represented in the U.S.
population; or, aa t.', say, American Indian Studies were- equal
ln political importance to Black
Studlea. Or BUck Studlea, perhaps, la not important at all to
the Office of Education since -
If persistent rumors are correct - its "Office of African
Affairs* la about to be phased
out. In fact, the BUck Studlea
handled by thla office baa already lost lta racial and cultural
Identity by being dumped into an
."Ethnic Studies* grab-bag — as
if all black's, Spanish speakers,
Asians, Indians and other non-
whites look and experience alike.
At the very least, by assigning
only live persons three years
ago to monitor Black Studies developments throughout the nation, the Office of Education
betrayed lis less-than-enthust-
astlc attitudes about blacks -
the nation's largest minority -
and their historical and cultural
experiences. The Office's general Uck of genuine seriousness
perhaps mirrors a larger national indifference — If not hostility - toward BUck Studies.
Some of that indifference has
been exhibited by black students
themselves. The. number who.
actually major In Black Studies v
la seldom more than. 10 per
cent of the black student enrollment at 100 colleges recently
analyzed by Morgan SUte College's Dr. Nick Aaron Ford tn
his book, "BUck Studlea:Threat
or Challenge?* In fact, only a
email number of colleges and
universities offer a true major,
defined as a •concentration* of
from 24 to 30 semester-hours
of required work ln the field with "
a companion major ln such es- ~
UbUshed disciplines as history,
English, psychology, art, etc.
Critics have asked; "What can
a student dodOth a BUck Studlea
major?* A non-answer, "gleefully reported* four years ago
ln the New York Times, has
been cited by Michael Thelwell,
chairman of the W.E.B. DuBols
Department of Afro-American
Studies at the University of*.
Massachusetts. Writes Thelwell:
•The essence of this story has
to do with a student applying for
a Job and being told by a computer that Us training tn Black
Studies had prepared htm only
to pick cotton. To quote Ralph
Ellison's nameless protagonist,
'Bledsoe, you ain't nothing but a
greasy chimin' eater.' *
But  on the contrary, BUck
Studies majors are qualified to
fields of graduate study leading
to higher degress. A1972 Tale
graduate with a Black Studies
major was chosen as a Rhodes
Scholar for graduate study at
Oxford University. James Turner, director of CornollUnlver-
slty's African* Studies and Research Ceiter,  reports that
Turner'a program. Is of special  Interest bwcaase lt  was
established after black students
In April,1969 seized the student
center and later brought Inarms
during their 36-hour selge because they feared an attack by
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Letter Riggins announces bid for
County Supervisorial Post No. 1
"Wa need responsive, re-
soastbU government," said
Jtiggtaa In announcing his candidate for next year's supervi- dldacy. He further stated that
sorlal races. Ventura "has not addreaaed the
' needs of both Us urban const!-
Riggins plans to challenge In-       tuency and the rural farmers.*
combent John Ventura, who Is..'.
In his second four-year term as
supervisor of District 1, wUch „jj
includes West Fresno and gen-       the campaign maycontactfUoby
^^^^^^^^^^^^^grltlnf   to   P.O. Bos   IUH,
orally covers the northern half
.