1974_11 The Daily Collegian November 1974 Reloaded

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4-THE DAJIY COLLEGIAN
Friday, November 1, 1974
Black Americans, Africa
(Continued from Pag* 1)
ing their aupport to the cause of
African   liberation   movements.
The question of material support to liberation movements is a
political consideration of the
highest order. A possibly dangerous repercussion Is the Implicit,
or even explicit, control the
"benefactor* obtain* from such
support. For monetary or material gifts are oftentimes contingent upon a return favour.
White American support efforts under the agency of such
groups as the 'American Committee on Africa,' 'World Council 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 actlvttt
needs of the various liberation
Travelling more than a thousand miles on foot, the chairman
of ALSC's investigation committee spent three months Inside
the liberation areas of Angola to,
partly, clear up the controversy
which made the Angolan movements function ineffectively.
Black Involvement In the Issue
of Southern Africa has now mushroomed. Black students and longshoremen In the southern state
of Louisiana organized actions
against U.S. Importation of Rho-
deslan chrome. Black workers at
the Boston Polaroid plant began
organizing protests against Polaroid'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 supporting the. Portuguese war. Under
the pressure of boycott. Gulf supported 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 Organization (IFCO), The Black Affairs Council of the Unitarian
Church and The Executive Council   of  the   Episcopalian Church
tvlly
espectablllty tc
iupport efforts,
so, the southern Afr
Dean Ford on minority problems
Speaks, a popular Afro-American weekly, accused the organizers 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 American urban ghettoes.
Owusu Sadaukal clarified the
Pan-African position as: 'The
plain fact Is 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 Ulegltlpate
government in power."
Alluding to the situation of
American multi-national corporations in South Africa, he went
on to say ". . . and even where it
does give jobs, It 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 ideological tendencies also fell under
the rubric of Pan-Africanism.
The freight-line cultural nationalists presiding In a euphoric
adulation of all that Is African
ilth national leadership
of ALSC who had evolved a more
strictly scientific socialist ten-
port of the struggle of 'Black
people In America.
As early as 1968, Jonas Savim-
ol, UNlTA's president had asserted: "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.*
'As a group too powerless to
present Its own exploited 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
ment of Afro-Americans to take
up arms In southern Africa alongside their fighting brethren were
to come up, there would not be
enough, planes to carry them over.
However, movements do no longer suffer from lack of manpower
and, after all, the very central
tenet of armed struggle Is flght-
Ing on one's own familiar terrain.
One Pan African leader put It this
way: "We should heighten our own
struggles everywhere we are,
and If we do, we will help weaken
and ultimately destrdy the hold
that the white ruling class has on
The  liberation  r
provide theim-
revolutlonary activity in Afro-
the      particular
struggle   within   America Itself.
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PRESIDENT FORD walks between Rep. Bob Mathlas, (R-Tulare), and Clovls Mayor Dennis Prlndlville (right), on h
Friday. The 'Western Way of Life* caught on quickly, as Mayor Prlndlville presented the President and Mathlas w
ieers.   Photos by Jim Denman.
Fresnans go wild trying to touch President
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1
^IUegian
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.   1. 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 in the crowd who had
"The   crowd   went   berserk,* just  touched the President had
a   CSUF tears In his eyes and was say-
9 Presi- ing 1 don't believe It. I don't cedent's hand. Have 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 Clovls.
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 is currently be-
'ore the campus affairs commute, 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 will go before the
■senate. Beckman said he has the
support of the senate now and
•opes to get the project under-
'Baslcally, we want to arbt-
■ite complaints,'Beckmansaid.
In addition, the 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,'
he said.
Beckman thought .there was
"definitely a strong need" for a
campus consumer group.
IMS will be one of the first
in California,* he said. "I don't
know of any others.* The University of California's Davis
campus Is currently working on a
similar project.
The group will work primarily
as a system of arbitration. Students 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 :
If the problem cannot be resolved, Beckman said, the matter will be referred to the Bureau of Weights and Measures.
"They're the major complaint
people don't even know about It,".
r and* closer to
i," said Cunha. 'All of a sud-
people  got  really, aggres-
If It appeared that a fraud was
Involved, he said, the matter
would be referred to the District
Attorney.
Beckman expects to have sufficient volunteers. He has been
assisted so far by Bill Fellers,
a senior political science major',
and Mike Garth, a junior business
major. In.addition, Mrs. Katharine Karikka, associate professor 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,       The   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 Missionary and Educational Convention, a black religious group, has
branded a recent television special by Flip Wilson as 'an Insult
to God and a breach of toe Third
Wilson's character ofRev.Le-
roy was condemned by th^ group
for portraying the black preacher
as 'a sort of ecclesiastical Stepin
Fetchlt* and tor showing the black
church as  a spiritual rock and
BROWN HOLDS LEAD
According to a survey taken
by the Los AngelesTlmes, Democrat Edmund G. Brown, Jr. continues to bold the lead In the race
for governor. Brown holds the
lead despite small gains by his
Flournoy.
The poll also showed that followers   of   Flournoy   aooeared
(Continued on Page 4, Col. 4)
CSUF prof will become 'environmental archaelogist'
going oi
•and an
A Department of Transportation grant to CSUF anthropology
professor Dr. Dudley Varner to
study effects of potential highway
engineering projects on the
state's archaeological sites is Indicative of the increasing role of
what Dr. Varner calls the "environmental archaeologist.*
State law requiring environmental impact reports on construction 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 the professor's lectern, said
Dr. Varner.
There's so much development
." said 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 realignment would top bedrock
mortar holes where Aboriginal
The anthropology department's
■resident archaeologist" plans
further Investigation and possibly
excavation work to find what lies
under the 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 the findings are analyzed.
Varner says the Department of
Transportation modifies their
plan or decides the archaeological site cannot be saved.
•Hundreds of thousands of archaeological sites have been lost
becausei of work like this,* said
Varner.'But pressure fromCall-
fornlans concerned about the cultural and historical values of
many sites has persuaded public
and private firms to consider the
problem when making many of
their plans, he said!
It's an attempt to save the environment more than anything:
else.'
'Many public agencies and private businesses are beginning to
hire archaeological consultants
to investigate various projects,
he says. Many, are hiring for individual plans while some are
offering 'environmental archaeologist" positions* on their staffs.
Varner says a Saturday field
class In the anthropology department is training'for archaeological surveys such as the ones
done periodically tor the U.S.
Forest Service, which sometimes
studies specific Umber land sale
areas. He counts the number of
archaeology majors at CSUF at
30.