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Vol. 95 No. 78
Mandela release sparks rally
Many celebrate
Friday at SSU
By Catherine Juguet-
Jlglalre
Contributing Writer
The release of Nelson Mandela
February 11 alter 27years In prison
sparked a celebration In the Satel¬
lite Student Union last Friday.
The Rally for Freedom was spon¬
sored by the CSUF ethnic studies
program and attracted 150 people.
Ironically, the liberation of the 71 -
year-old African National Congress
leader took place during the Afri¬
can-American history month.
At noon, a troop of people left the
SSU to march around the windy and
frozen campus. The parade chanted
'Nelson Mandela's free, Nelson
Mandela's free." to the rhythm of a
drum. The children led the musi¬
cians and the followers.
Students Joined them.
When the troop returned, three
TV stations were covering the event.
Once they all entered the SSU. the
audience was Invited to Join the
parade on stage.
The rally's organizer. Kathiyn L.
Jones, a student In peace and con¬
flict resolution, opened the celebra¬
tion with her introductory speech.
"Nelson Mandela Is free, but the
people are not."
Fresno Mayor Karen Humphrey
made a brief allocution.
The liberation of Nelson Mandela
is a true hope for South Africa." she
said. "Freedom is breaking out all
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Ceil Duckett. an ex-stufient, plays a Jimbe' drum from West Africa as other participants yell, "Nelson
Mandela is Free" at a rally which took place Friday at the Satellite Student Union.
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over the world."
To conclude her speech. Humphrey
announced that February 16 was de¬
clared African Children's Daytn,the city
of Fresno.
The rally included different speakers.
The main focus was on freedom for the After the speeches, the celebra-
Black people not only in South Africa Uon continued with dancing.  Sev-
but also In the United States. era!   children   danced   to   Janet
"America Is deeply implicated in South Jackson's  hit.   "Rhythm Nation,"
Afilca.aswellasweareimplicatedanthe along with native African dances.
Blacks' depravation," said one speaker, and rap.
USF dodges lawsuit, okays rights
College Press Service
As other Catholic colleges continued
to limit what their students can see or
read on campus, students at the Uni¬
versity of San Francisco won an en¬
dorsement of their right to talk freely
while at school.
"We are reafflrming the right of every
member of the university community to
free expression, free association and
free exercise of religion," USF President
John Lo Schiavo said Feb. 6 In an¬
nouncing a new policy to allow free
discussion even of topics proscribed by
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USF.
Lo Schiavo, most observers agreed,
was trying to avoid a lawsuit threatened
when USF refused to let students dis¬
tribute pro-choice literature o»,campus
last spring.
"We are very happy." said a spokes¬
person for the American Civil Liberties
Union, which had threatened to sue
USF on behalf of the censored students.
example, firedatenured professor whose
classroom teachings about birth con¬
trol differed from the official church po¬
sition.
At Alvemla College, a small Catholic
college in Read-
USF and Lo Schiavo introduced the
new policy as a way to let students
speak freely without compromising
Catholic Church doctrine, which in the
USF case opposes abortion.
Under the new
plan.studentscan JlWrB IS HO OUeStlOn Mt     J^LS*. \t
distribute materi-       , , ,        .   , rnlnistrators ed-
aisasiongasthey theyhavethenghttocen-  !tedH^tudent
cany a disclaimer 3 * handbook   over
the summer to
delete passages
ensuring colle¬
gians "the right to
freedom of ex¬
pression without
prejudice" and to
add a passage
making the Alver-
nian. the student
that USF doesn't
endorse the "views
herein," and that
advises readers to
contact certain ad¬
ministrators or the
Campus Ministry
to get a "Catholic
perspective" on
the issue.
sor,
Ideally, though, students
should get to make the
decision.
-Gary Meyers
Letting students at the nation's 200
Catholic campuses deal with issues and
solutions that contradict church doc¬
trine has provoked a series of confron¬
tations In recent years, especilly over
abortion, alcohol, premarital sex and
condoms.
Catholic University of America,   for
paper, the "oflcial campus newspaper."
The designation clarified that Alver-
nla Itself published the paper, and con¬
sequently had the right to determine
what It does and does not publish.
On some campuses, officials have used
their publisher status to try to keep
their students  from reading ads for
condoms.
In Milwaukee, for example. Marquette
University forbade distributing copies
of CV Magazine inside issues of the
Marquette Tribune, noting that some¬
one had already distributed copies at
off-campus sites and that the magazine
included "a full-page ad promoting the
sale of condoms."
The Vatican, of course, has long op¬
posed "the use of contraceptives like
condoms. These days condoms, how¬
ever, are frequently promoted as-impor¬
tant devices in slowing the deadly spread
of Acquired Immune-Deficiency Syn¬
drome.
Similarly, the bookstore at Loyola
University In New Orleans halted distri¬
bution of an issue of Campus Connec¬
tions, a free Insert In the student paper,
last fall because each copy contained a
condom.
Loyola has since forbidden The Ma¬
roon, Its student paper, to run ads that
promote Illegal or irresponsible drink¬
ing.
See CATHOLIC. page4