1989_05 The Daily Collegian May 1989

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the Daily Collegian
California State University, Fresno
TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1989
Expansion
on campus
proposed
By Deborah A. Lorenzen
Staff Writer
CSUF students will be asked this November to vote
on the expansion of several areas of the campus, an
events center, a swim complex and a new student union.
These new facilities are being presented by Steve
Mortensen, head of the University Student Union Board.
If the students approve the construction and sub¬
sequent fee raises, the first building to go up would be
the University Student Union, Phase II. The new USU
would be placed where the existing Satellite College
Union sits but would be a much larger complex,
Mortensen said.
One of the main reasons for this expansion, according
to Mortensen, is the need for facilities on the east side of
campus so that the students attending class there have a
place to eat and study.
The new USU will be approximately 33,000 square
feet, whereas the Satellite Union is only 13,000. It will
include commercial shops, such as a copy center and
vending, shops and a recreation area with billiards and
video games as well as lobby and lounge areas for
conferences and studies.
The main focus is to provide lounge space on the
east side of campus,11 said Mortensen. He said there was
a concern about those students that park on the far side
of campus, walk to class iruhe Peters building, then
walk back to their cars without ever gaining anything
from theirest of campus.
Food services will also be a big part of the new
facility. Speaking of the Pit, Mortensen said "Right now
you can hardly get downstairs between ten and two to get
some lunch."
The other main feature of the new SSU addition will
be a multi-purpose room able to seat 2,200 people and
used, Mortensen said, for lectures, art presentations or
whatever activity the student body would like.
Mortensen added that all of the staging in the multi¬
purpose room will be portable so the entire room could
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After rolling down a grassy hill near the Joyal Administration Building, Takashi
Hasegawa (2) helps Chel (4) walk back up to reunite with their mother and younger
brother. Their father Is a graduate student at CSUF from Japan.	
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Speech examines African violence
By Nancy Forrest
Staff Writer
Mass lulling and ethnic separatism are
not peculiar to Africa alone, said Dr.
Lewis Gann, senior fellow of the Hoover
institution at Stanford, in a lecture Mon¬
day'at noon in Upstairs Cafeteria 200.
The lecture was tided "Mass Violence
in Independent Africa," focusing on the
escalation of violence on the African
Gann o utl ined three forces for violence
and mass terror in Africa They include,
' he said, strongman rale, Marxist-Lenin¬
ism and religion (primarily Western). He
compared the policies of the Nazis and of
Stalin to what is going on in Africa.
The Nazi movement was bent on
"world salvation" as its goal, Gann said.
This did not happen in Africa. Africa
has to deal with the problem of ethnicity.
It is not solved by extending state pow¬
er," Gann said.
In the Stalin era, the goal was more of
creating a "new man" with the classless
society.
It's a rubbery concept that lends itself
to terror," Gann said. "We have seen
genocide in Africa but none that nearly
reaches the level of that of Europe."
Gam said that much of Ok problems
with violence in Africa are based on the
multi-ethnic diversity of the nations of
This his nothing to do with color.
They [the violence problems] hinge on
ethnicity," Gann said.
Gann defined ethnicity as being based
on common language, culture and ident¬
ity.
This has more to do with loyalty and
what is worth dying for. It is an issue for
"[The economic consideration] becomes
a political issue. 'In order to be loyal to
your state, you must be loyal to the
economic interests of your stale,'" Gann
said. j
In Africa, there is not the presence of
"ethnic affinity" and that, translates into
conflict over such things as what langu¬
age will be used in schools, according to
Gann.
When ethnic separatism is linked to so¬
cial institutions, you have the recipe for
social dynamite. Ethnic violence glares
around the corner.
every leader and an issue for every
general.
"Guerrilla activity is insociable because
of the sheer number of aims," Gann
continued. "When ethnic separatism is
linked to social institutions, you have the
recipe for social dynamite. Ethnic viol¬
ence glares around the comer."
He said that the potential for ethnic
violence grows greater as the state gains
more power.
Other characteristics of modern Africa
include the interdependency of the econ¬
omic and political situations.
Gann spoke of the situation in Uganda
as evidence of the "strong man" concept
Gann said that upon gaining independ¬
ence from England in 1962, there was
much optimism of future success of the
burgeoning nation. Uganda had a balanced
budget, balanced trade policy, was secure
from outside intervention and had no
white plantation owners.
"All of these seemed to be a pres¬
cription for a bright future for Uganda,"
Gann said.
However, all was not well in Uganda,
according to Gann.
"Uganda was ethnically - divided and
these ethnic divisions entered the mili¬
tary, fdi Arnin was a Muslim but not a
fanatic. Violence gradually gathered
speed," Gann said.
The ranks of the Ugandan army grew at
an alarmingly fast pace, while Amin was
turning away from the West according to
Gann.
.  Terror became iisdiscriminate," Gann
said.
The Ugandan military invaded Tanzania
with the aid of Libyan leader Col.
MourmarKadriaffi. Tanzania res ponded by
displacing Amin. _a
In Amin's wake, there were left an
estimated 300,000 dead, "a conservative
estimate," according to Gann.
"Amin left behind a legacy of further
violence. Terror begets terror. Vengeance
begets vengeance," Gann'said..
Several African nations have recently
discarded their affiliation with Marxist-
Leninism, according to Gann, among
them Angola, Ethiopia and Mozambique.
These countries are finding that there
is a profound price to be paid for Marxist-
Leninism. They have now decided lo
modify that system and back off from it,"
Gann said. "Nowhere has [Marxist-
l-eninism] been able to transcend the force
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