Thursday, February 27, 1992
Dumisani Kumalo
against apartheid
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release of Nelson Mandela, said
Kumalo, produced a tangible
leader for the South African
' people.
"With the release of Nelson
Mandela came the removal of the
signs that were so well known
about apartheid," added Kumalo.
The first experience Kumalo
had with apartheid was when his
father took him to buy a new pair
of school shoes. There were two
entrances to the store. One for
blacks and one for whites. The
black side of the store had no
carpet or amenities.
"I made a secret vow to
myself that I would never rest
until the segregated entrances
were gone and every six year old
had the right to choose where to
sit to buy their new shoes.”
He said that although Nelson
Mandela is out of prison and
things have changed some,
apartheid is not dead in South
Africa. A current referendum,
which could do away with
apartheid, will be voted on by
white South Africans only, said
Kumalo.
"In South Africa the
constitution of 1910, which has
Behrend students win research award
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awards a year to undergraduates
* from across the country to
undergraduates who distinguish
themselves in research.
SGA election
orientation
The search is on for students
who wish to become candidates in
this year's Student Government
elections.
The elections, held the second
week in April, will determine
student leaders for the 1992-93
academic year.
*1 ELECTIONS
SGA
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This coming Monday, March
2, SGA will hold an orientation
meeting in Reed 117 at noon and
again at 8 p.m. This orientation is
designed to acquaint potential
candidates with the requirements
involved in running for and
folding an SGA office.
The following positions will
be filled in the upcoming election:
SGA president and vice-president;
eight commuter senators; five
resident senators; Joint Residence
Council president and vice
president; Student Programming
Council president and vice
president; Commuter Council
president and vice-president; and
Student Organization Council
president and vice-president
been amended over and over
again, says that the only citizen
of South Africa are the white
South Africans."
The southern states in
America, said Kumalo, denied
civil rights which were contained
in the United States
Constitution to African
Americans, but black South
Africans aren't even included in
their constitution.
"87 percent of the land in
South Africa belonged to white
people," said Kumalo when
referring to the Land Act of 1915.
Laws which detract from
South Africa's struggle for
democracy include the Population
Registration Act which,
according to Kumalo, requires all
40 million South Africans to
register according to color ex’ race.
After appeals to change their
status, Kumalo said, "Fourteen
whites became colored, seventeen
Chinese became white, two
whites became Chinese, three
Malays became white, one white
became an Indian and fifty Indians
became coined..."
In 1989, one educator wrote
to the government requesting that
his racial category of white be
"The award was unexpected," We really give, credit, to the.
said Ray Mozes,-£r seventh' faculty at the Plastics Technical
semester plastic engineering Center. Without their help this
technology major. "We didn’t wouldn't have been possible."
even know there was an award.
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changed to human being. They
replied there was no such
category.
Kumalo said South Africans
were hopeful when President
DeKlerk announced the new
changes which were to take place.
But bringing about Democracy
may be a lot of hard work and he
added the problem is democracy
must push down the steel wall of
apartheid.
"Right now, there are two
hundred trials going on in South
Africa for people accused of
attempting to overthrow
apartheid." He said this causes
some of the violence which has
been over-reported by the media.
The majority of the violence,
Kumalo said, is between
elements of certain factions, not
all black- against-black.
"Hotf do you promote
democracy when you fund a
group that even the South
African courts, the South African
media and everyone says is the
group who is perpetuating the
violence," Kumalo asked of the
Bush administration's recent 2.5
million dollar allocation to the
group.
Nation
HARRISBURG State funded universities
told a Senate panel Tuesday they need more
funding from Pennsylvania's 1992-1993
budget, but lawmakers say it's doubtful the
schools will get what they want. Senators said
tough economic times and declining state
revenues call for cost-cutting instead of
program expansions. Penn State has
requested a 12.9 increase from $258.7
million to $292 million. Penn State
President Joab Thomas said the proposed cuts
in spending would mean less services and
programs for students. Thomas said he has
appointed a committee to recommend which
programs to eliminate.
NEW YORK Natalie Cole, daughter of Nat
King Cole, received honors for record, song
and album of the year and took home seven
. awards in all at Tuesday night's Grammy
} Awards, "I thank my dad for leaving me such
a wonderful * heritage'\ said Cole about her
album "Unforgettable." The winning song is a
spliced-together duet with Cole's father, who
died of lung cancer in 1965.
ARCHDALE, NC A 14-year-old girl died
Tuesday after being stabbed in a classroom as
25 other eighth-graders watched. Her former
boyfriend was arrested on a murder charge,
said authorities. The killer entered the middle
school, stabbed her once near the heart and
fled the classroom. He then ran to a local
business, phoned the police and turned
himself in. Willis Odell Gravely, Jr., 16, of
High Point was charged with murder and held
without bond in the Randolph County Jail.
GREENSBURG, PA -- Survivors of soldiers
killed a year ago in a Scud missile attack said
Tuesday their grief would be tempered if the
Gulf War would have done away with Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein. One relative of a
victim soldier said,"lf they had got him out of
power it would be a lot easier to stand here
today, knowing that they just didn't do this
for oil" In the brutal attack 13 members of an
Army Reserve unit were killed last Feb. 25. It
was the worst single loss incurred by Allied
forces during the war. The dead soldiers were
remembered at a tearful ceremony that was
followed by the unveiling of a granite and
bronze monument in Greensburg.
DETROIT -- Sales of vehicles manufactured
in North America rose 6.7 percent in mid-
February, offering further evidence of
improvement in the failing automobile
industry. Sales by the three largest U.S.-based
automakers -- General Motors Corp., Ford
Motor Co., and Chrysler Corp. rose 4.6
percent. Car sales were up 3.1 percent and
truck sales were down 1.3 percent.
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