The Chicago MaroonVolume 94, No. 36 The University of Chicago Friday, February 22, 1985Inter-dorm funding group runs out of moneyBy Hilary TillThe year-and-a-half old, ex¬perimental Housing Activi¬ties Resource Council(HARC), a money-dispensinggroup set up to encourageinter-dormitorv and inter¬house activities, has run outof money, and its continuedexistence is in question.Because HARC’s initialfunding was not sufficient tolast through the year, it deli¬berately allocated the last ofits $2400 budget in the begin¬ning of the month. With zerodollars in its treasury,HARC’s activities will be con¬fined to publicizing thegroup’s actions over the pastyear and a half. HARC’s pub¬licity campaign will be con¬ducted in an effort to secureits future existence.According to Constance Ho-loman, director of StudentHousing, “there is a possibili¬ty’’ that this may be the lastyear of HARC.HARC was formed lastyear as a “spin-off of theInter-House Council,” statedGinger Ostro, HARC’s Hitch-cock-Snell representative. Inits brief existence, HARC hassubsidized social events heldby various dormitories.HARC’s guidelines stipu¬late that any money given outby the group must be for anBy David LanchnerNewly announced transitcuts which may go into effectin either April or early Maypromise to make Hyde Parkan even more isolated com¬munity than it currently is.The cuts, a result of a pen¬sion fund dispute between theCTA and the AmalgamatedTransit Workers Union willeliminate practically all busservice to and from HydePark as well as shut down allrapid transit service through¬out Chicago from 8 p.m.-5a m. daily. Weekend servicewill be cut out all together.Bus lines which will nolonger serve Hyde Park arethe no. 6 Jeffrey Express, theno. 1 Indiana/Hyde Park andthe no. 2 Hyde Park Express.The only means of transpor¬tation downtown after 8 p.m.and on weekends will be theno. 4 Cottage Grove bus andthe IC. The Maroon Expresswill continue to provide a fur¬ther although skimpy alterna¬tive to city transportation onFriday and Saturday nights. event for at least two housesfrom at least two differentdormitories. For example,HARC would not help fund aparty held by Lower Rickertand House and Upper Wal¬lace House because bothhouses are in WoodwardCourt. But a party held byLower Rickert and ShnreyHouse would be eligible for atleast partial funding fromHARC because the twohouses are in different dormi¬tories, Woodward Court andPierce Hall.HARC is composed of onemember from each of the dor¬mitories in the UniversityHouse System. The Shorelandgets one representative asdoes Blackstone Hall. All theundergraduate dormitoriesare represented along withBroadview Hall, 1215 (E.Hyde Park Blvd.), and theCommuter Center. The NewGraduate Residence (NGR)Hall is eligible to send a rep¬resentative to HARC but didnot do so this year. (NGR,though, has received fundingfrom HARC for parties heldjointly with Mathews House,a graduate house in Burton-Judson Courts.)Originally, the 1983-84school year was supposed tobe HARC’s experimentalyear, and this year HARCIt is not known whether theUniversity will take steps towiden this service if the cutsgo into effect.There appears some reasonto hope that they will not. Ac¬cording to the Chicago Tri¬bune the cuts primarily rep-resent a move bytransportation officials togain leverage in contract ne¬gotiations. Bernard Ford,CTA executive director saidin Wednesday’s Tribune thatthe cuts, which city-wideamount to a 22 percent reduc¬tion of services, could beavoided if the TransitWorkers Union drops its de¬mand that the city contribute13 percent of wages, around$36 million a year, to theUnion’s pension fund. TheTribune described the CTA’sproposed service reductionsas “playing hardball” withthe union. In addition to thecuts the CTA plans to lay off2,200 of the city’s 12,000 trans¬portation workers.Jonathan Kleinbctid, vice-president for University would either not exist or be apermanent organization witha permanent source of fund¬ing. A student advisory refer¬endum was held last springquarter to determine if stu¬dents living in the House Sys¬tem wanted HARC enough tobe in favor of a small mone¬tary increase in their roomcontracts. The referendumas\ed students if they wanteda two dollar per quarter in¬crease in their housing bills tofund HARC.Except for Hitchcock-Snelland the Shoreland, a majorityof those who voted from eachof the other undergraduatedormitories voted in favor ofthe proposal. Fifty-five per¬cent of the undergraduatedorm residents who elected tovote were in favor of the pro¬posal while forty-nine percentof graduate residents wereagainst the idea.The Housing Office and theOffice of Dean of Students ofthe University decided thatthe results of last year’s ref¬erendum were inconclusive,so it was decided to continueHARC this year, again, on anexperimental basis.This year HARC was effec¬tively funded by dormitoryvideo game receipts. TheHousing Office expects thatfive percent of this year’sNews and Community af¬fairs, said “the Universitytakes the proposed cuts veryseriously.” He added that“any curtailment in serviceswould adversely affect staffas well as students and isvery disturbing.” Kleinbardwas especially upset by thenews that the Hyde Park Ex¬press and Jeffrey Expresswould stop serving HydePark. “A large number ofpeople and organizations in¬cluding the University andthe South East Chicago Com¬mission worked very hard toget those lines to expand theirhours and services.” He con¬tinued, “if you want to have astable, viable community youhave to be able to get around,and with these cuts that willoe difficult.”Kleinbard refused to makeany further elaboration onUniversity plans in face of thecuts until after meeting withCTA chairman Michael Car-dilli. He hopes to see Cardillisometime in the next fewweeks. dorm video game money willtotal $2400. The Housing Of¬fice gave HARC $2400 at thebeginning of the school yearwith the expectation that itwould be reimbursed in full atthe end of the academic yearby the five percent of videogame receipts.With this budget, the repre¬sentatives of HARC made adeliberate decision not to tryto make the money stretch forthe entire school year, ac¬cording to Ostro. The HARCrepresentative wanted to sub¬sidize activities at a level ap¬propriate to encouraginginter-house social eventstated Holoman. This stc .c:meant that HARC’s moneywould probably not last ifenough houses brought goodproposals before the council,and this is what has happened.At present, HARC is inlimbo. The members of thecouncil are continuing tomeet in order to write up a re¬port on its past activities, butthey cannot fund any moreactivities.By Thomas CoxPresident Reagan plans toreduce federal student aid by$1.7 billion dollars before tur¬ning all student aid programsover to the states, accordingto The College Board and TheChronicle of Higher Educa¬tion (2-13-85). The remainingmoney, about $6.2 billion, willbe targeted for low-incomefamilies with children whowant to attend state collegesrather than private colleges.Reagan also wants toeliminate completely Sup¬plemental Educational Op¬portunity Grants. State Stu¬dent Incentive Grants,Graduate and ProfessionalOpportunities Programs.Public Service Fellowships,and National GraduateFellowships. These programstotalled $507 million last year,according to figures from TheCollege Board.Reagan would also limittotal aid to any one student tono more than $4000, which issupposed to be the averagecost of attending a public,four-year college for oneyear. That number does notinclude room, board, ortransportation costs. Theaverage cost of tuition andbooks at private four-yearcolleges is around $9000. Thisceiling will probably reduceaward levels at private col¬leges, like Chicago, by about$1371, or 28 percent of currentlevels, according to The Col- Holoman said that she didnot think the Housing Officecould provide any moremoney for the group thisyear. She was not sure whatthe future of HARC would be.One proposal is that HARCwould be funded from some ofthe Student Activities Feemoneys.Holoman stated that thestaff of the Housing Officeand the Dean’s Office mayconsider holding another stu¬dent advisory referendumduring spring quarter to pollhouse system residents ontheir opinions about HARCand a permanent method of’’unding for the organization.Or, the two University officesmay rely on the results of lastyear’s referendum and alsotake a poll of hall and housecouncils to get their opinionsabout HARC.If a fee were going to beadded to housing bills to fundHARC, the Housing Officewould make this decision pub¬lic in May before next year’sroom sign up, Holoman stat¬ed.Institute of Independent Col¬leges and Universities.Reagan would also increasefunding to Work-Study pro¬grams. but at the same timewould narrow eligibility. Onlystudents whose families earnless than $25,000 before taxeswould be entitled to Work-Study.The University of Chicago'sDean of Admissions and Aid,Dan Hall, is working to findout how the cuts Reagan pro¬poses would affect the Collegeand the University. He isreluctant to speak until he iscertain of the facts, but ad¬mits the cuts could impair theCollege's ability to attractstudents. He is consideringmaking up in Universitysources whatever studentsmay lose from the federalgovernment, but the Univer¬sity of Chicago has a muchsmaller endowment thanother universities of equaldistinction, making it poten¬tially difficult to continue thatfinancing indefinitely.Connecticut Senator LowellWeicker Jr., who chairs theSenate appropriations sub¬committee that is in charge ofDepartment of Educationbudgets, told the Chronicle ofHigher Education that “ac¬cess to higher educationwould be severely limited,and we would return to thedays when only theeconomically advantagedcould go to college.”lege Board and the NationalGCJucINVESTMENTANDSOUTH AFRICA:WHYTHE BIG ISSUE?By trimming 22 percent of its operations and suspending night and weekend train service,the CTA will make this scene all too familiar if prooosed cuts go into effect in April orMayNew CTA cuts could isolate U of C Gov’t aid falls $1.7 bil2■■■■The Chicago Maroon—Friday. February 22. 1985 ^■^^■■■■■■■■■■■■■■iMeeting of Studentsin All Division of The CollegeInterested in theThe Program in the Liberal Arts and SciencesBasic to Human Biology and MedicineASHUMTuesday, February 26,4 p.m.Harper 130Faculty and advisors will be present todescribe the aims and content of theprogram and to answer questions. The Humanities Student Advisory CommitteeCordially invites youto a 'STUDENT■FACULTYPARTY-On Monday, February 25at 7:30 pmIda Noyes Library/LoungeHosted by James Redf ield -Master of the Humanities and NewCollegiate Division -and HSACRefreshments (and a warm fireside) ProvidedDO YOU HAVEQUESTIONS ABOUTALCOHOL ABUSE?ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS(A. A.) INVITES YOU TO ANOPEN MEETING THURSDAY,FEBRUARY 26, 7:00 PMBISHOP BRENT HOUSE,5540 S. WOODLAWNX-i)ALL STUDENTS,/ACULTY, STAAND MEMBERS OF ThICOMMUNITY ARE N/RCOME. The“North Side”MAROONEXPRESSTake advantage of the near-thaw and headdowntown with the Maroon Express...... Friday & Saturday see Claudio Abbado conductor, withPinchas Zucherman, violin and Ellen Shade, soprano at8pm. Call 435-8111 for ticket info. One block south of ArtInstitute on Michigan.... “The Life and Times of Harvey Milk” starts today at the FineArts Theatre...get off at Art Institute.. . Catch “The Breakfast Club” and “Fast Forward” haveopened at the Water Tower... “a nos amours”, winner in France of the Cesar Award. Bestpicture of 1983 is now showing at the Biograph... .drink some colossal margaritas at “Quadala Harry’s” onRush - - check out what’s happening on Rush while it’swarm enough to cruise.Tickets for the Maroon Express can bepurchased with a U of C ID at the Ida Noyesinformation desk, Reynolds Club box office,or any Residence Hall front desk. Individualone-way tickets cost $1.25.news 3iThe Chicago Maroon—Friday, February 22, i<Students are effective sounding boards when faculty listenBy Julie WeissmanDuring the 1960’s, when students ha¬bitually questioned authority and pro¬tested when they were not satisfiedwith the answers, U of C students triedto redefine their decision-making rolein this university. They wanted — de¬manded — more say in the Universi¬ty^ affairs, and held sit-ins in the ad¬ministration building to prove theywere serious.Students presented a wide range ofdemands for how much power theyshould be given. One of the more dra¬matic demands, according to WayneBooth, who Wt s dean of students at thattime, was that in all promotion cases,not only students in the University, butalso the citizens of Hyde Park be ableto vote on faculty tenure. This demandwas never granted, nor did U of C stu¬dents ever get a vote in any curricularmatter. What the administration didconcede to was the formation of stu¬dent advisory committees. Students onthese committees have the opportunityto “advise” faculty and administra¬tors on matters of curriculum and stu¬dent life in general.FSACCSLThe Faculty Student Advisory Com¬mittee on Campus Student Life(FSACCSL) met with Dean of StudentsCharles O’Connell for the first timetentatively in 1967. FSACCSL, whichstill exists, and still meets with O’Con¬nell, consists of eight members electedby the student body, three from theCollege, two from the GraduateSchools, and three from the Profession¬al Schools. The president of StudentGovernment, the editor of the Maroon,a representative from WHPK, the stu¬dent ombudsman, and several facultymembers are also invited to attend.The committee meets several times aquarter to advise, and O’Connellstresses the word “advise,” the Deanof Students in the University in theareas where he is responsible.According to O’Connell, the commit¬tee has recently discussed such thingsas the renovation project of Ida Noyesand the current Student Activities feeincreases, and in the past it has dis¬cussed, for example, the introductionof the Pub into Ida Noyes and Ex Librisin Regenstein Library. “The decisionshould ultimately be up to the Universi¬ty,’ says O’Connell, “but the Universi¬ty has followed the advice of stu¬dents.”In the opinion of several FSACCSLmembers, however, the committee atpresent is not very productive. FrankLuby, the Maroon representative onFSACCSL, feels particularly disgustedwith the way things are going. Accord¬ing to Luby, the problem with the com¬mittee is fundamental. “I don’t think itis taken seriously by administrators,”and as a result, “the meetings are sopoorly planned, we couldn’t possibly doanything worthwhile.”The topics discussed, say severalFSACCSL members are extremelygeneral, and since no one even knowswhat the topic will be before the meet¬ing begins, no one can research anyconcrete problems or solutions to evenadvise the Dean on. Because of this“identity crisis,’’ students onFSACCSL have met on their own to“revitalize” the committee, and createa “statement of purpose for it,” as Stu¬dent in the College Myra Germain putit.They want to come up with an agen¬da of specific issues which everymember will have researched when hewalks into a meeting. Said Germain,“If we do a good job of this, (O’Con¬nell) has got to act.” O’Connell is infavoi of this. “Students would like to domore homework, and this pleases mevery much.”The group would like to be a more re¬sponsible, more effectual committee,that really advises O’Connell. They areconcerned not only with the committeethis year, but also with future years.For example, they would like to meetwith next year’s members at the end ofthis year, so they will not spend half ofnext year not knowing 'hat is cMng on.“We are trying to promo: ity, ”said Student in the C**’ i Lai. They also suggested that in the fu¬ture, to provide some accountability,the committee be required to publishsomething explaining what they havedone over a quarter or year.The committee cannot legislate, sothere are no guarantees that any “ad¬vice” they give will have any conse¬quences. Most people would agree,however, that FSACCSL provides anecessary connection between the stu¬dents and the administration, if takenseriously. “Because we are answeringto the Dean’s office,” said Law StudentMark Ranali, “we can be very power¬ful.”Collegiate CommitteesFSACCSL is only one of the manystudent advisory committees at the Uof C that function as a connection be¬tween the faculty and administrationon the one hand, and the students onthe other. Most of the deans in the Uni¬versity, and even President Gray meetwith student advisors. In the college,each of the five divisions — Humani¬ties, Social Sciences, BiologicalSciences, Physical Sciences, and NCDhas an advisory committee which isconcerned mainly with curriculum.Representatives from each of thesecommittees in turn meet with Dean Le¬vine on the Dean’s Student AdvisoryCommittee (DSAC) to discuss issues ofstudent life in the college.The most concrete and tangible thingthat the individual collegiate studentadvisory committees do is make upcourse evaluations appropriate to theirdivision for the students to rate andcomment on the courses and instruc¬tors in their division, distribute theseevaluations to the students in eachcourse, and summarize them for the“Course Summary Evaluation Book¬let” which is published each spring.These evaluations take up most of thetime and energy of the five commit¬tees: the Humanities Student AdvisoryCommittee, and the Physical SciencesStudent Advisory Committee. Ideally,however, these evaluations should notbe the sole, or even the major functionof any of the committees.Serge Lippe, co-chairman of HSAC,feels that his committee should have amuch more important role than it cur¬rently does. Ideally, according toLippe, the role of the committee is “toimprove student/faculty interaction”and to constructively advise facultyabout the opinions of their students soas to eventually improve courses andcourse offerings. “A good number ofthe faculty,” says Lippe, “are morethan glad to help out.” Most of themappreciate this interaction.Two main obstacles, however, pre¬vent the committee from being as ef¬fective as they would like. First, al¬though Master of the HumanitiesDivision James Redfield is always will¬ing to hear the committee’s sugges¬tions, students don’t recognize them orwhat they can do, says Cecile Davies,co-chairman of HSAC. “If studentscome to us with problems, we couldhave them heard...I wish students par¬ticipated more, or at least broughttheir grievances to us.”Second, the technical work of sum¬marizing all the evaluations bogs thecommittee down so they don’t havetime to do much else. The HSAC had140 evaluations to summarize fromFall quarter alone, and only about 10active members. “I just don’t havetime,” says Lippe. “My calendar isfilled with appointments to see peo¬ple,” he says, but he can’t do every¬thing by himself, and he encouragesmore people to join the committee.The NCD and Biological Science Stu¬dent Advisory Committees, on theother hand, only have relatively fewcourses each quarter to evaluate. TheBiological Sciences only offer 30-40 un¬dergraduate courses each quarter, avidits committee has 15 regular members.Not only do they not have a recruit¬ment problem, but students must applyfor membership. This, says ChairmanJudy Kim, is to “keep out pre-medswho only want to be on the committeeso they can put it on their tran¬scripts.”All of the five committees plan social FSACCSL members (I. to r.) Maneesha Lai, Mark Ranali, Paul Francel, andMyrah Germain meet at the Regenstein to discuss ways to make theirgroup more effective.get-togethers for students and faculty.Every quarter, for example, the Bio¬logical Sciences committee invites afaculty member to give a talk, with areception afterwards. Not only is thisentertaining, but biology students getan opportunity to see what a professoris like as a lector, and whether the ma¬terial he will be teaching is relevant towhat they are studying.The HSAC, last quarter, had a picnicin Redfield’s backyard. Although onlyabout 3 faculty members and 7 stu¬dents showed up, and it rained, every¬one had a good time and there was a lotof good food. This quarter, on Febru¬ary 25, they are planning a big stu¬dent/faculty get-together which shouldprove to be more successful. The HSACurges everyone in the college to at¬tend.“If you can get faculty and studentstogether socially,” Lippe believes,“they become more comfortable, andmore able to talk about problems.”DSACThe DSAC meets several times aquarter to inform Levine of problemsin the college, and act as a “soundingboard” for some of his ideas. “Theyare an advisory group to me...on any¬thing that affects the experience of stu¬dents in the College.” The committeeconsists of one or two representativesfrom each of the five divisional com¬mittees. Levine has also appointed arepresentative from the freshmanclass, the chair of SG’s Academic Af¬fairs Committee, and other students asseems advisable.During a typical meeting, Levinewill ask the committee some thingsthat he wants to hear student opinionabout. “Do they think a certain propos¬al makes sense?” or “What will hap¬pen if the administration does a specif¬ic thing?” Then the students on thecommittee will bring up some prob¬lems that they think are important.At the meeting last February 4. forexample, which I attended. Levinebrought up that some members of theHumanities faculty have wanted to ex¬plore the possibility of installing com¬puters to help students with papers in the common core. The committee forthe most part advised against this, be¬cause they did not think that com¬puters could greatly help students withwriting, and they doubted whether theUniversity has sufficient resources forthis!The students, in turn, brought upcomplaints they had about the reduc¬tion in the Bursar’s hours. Levinepointed out that the U of C is tight fina-ciallv. “Where do you cut? Academicsor nonacademics?” The U of C cutsnonacademics, so he doubted whetherstudents could convince them to returnto their old hours. After some discus¬sion, the committee decided that thebest alternative would be for the Bur¬sar to rotate its hours, so that at least afew days a week there would be some¬where for students to cash a check be¬tween 1:00 and 3:00 in the afternoon.Levine sent two students, with his rec¬ommendation to suggest these possiblealternatives to the Bursar. As yet. how¬ever, nothing has been resolved.Most of the committee members feelthat the DSAC is worthwhile. “(Le¬vine) needs students to bounce thingsoff of...and he does seem to listen to ourcomplaints.” said Beth Zimmerlv,who, in her five years in the Collegehas served on the SCAC, the Presi¬dent’s Student Advisory Committee,and has spent four years on the HSAC.“The DSAC this current year is themost productive, progressive commit¬tee I have seen.”Although, like FSACCSL, the DSAChas no actual legislative power, mostmembers feel that Levine listens towhat they have to say. Landry be¬lieves that “students can’t know whatis going on in the administration.” andtherefore they should not do more thanadvise. Zimmerlv agrees with this.“We traditionally and proudly mistrustour administrators.” she says, "butstudents are here for only about fouryears, and faculty are here for life.”Although she admits that serving on anadvisory committee can be extremelyfrustrating, she believes they do getthings done. “That’s why I’ve stuck,with is so long.”CAPS offers workshop for gradsCareer and Placement Services an¬nounces a workshop, “Career Planningfor Graduate Students” on Saturday,March 2, from 8:30 to 5:30 in Ida NoyesHall. Graduate students at all stages oftheir studies are encouraged to at¬tend.This workshop will help students an¬alyze their skills, preferences and ca¬reer options for either academic ornonacademic careers. The programwill include a self-assessment work¬shop and a panel on career choices,directed by University of Chicago fac¬ulty and Ph.D.’s currently in nonaca¬demic professions. Other workshopswill cover resume writing, CV prepara¬tion, the job search and the interview.“Career Planning For Graduate Stu¬dents” proceeds from the assumptionthat the hallmark of graduate study atChicago is its emphasis on inquiry.Every student learns to seek knowl¬edge by subjecting material to a delib¬erate, orderly process of questioning. This workshop invites students to in¬quire into the nature of their skills andinterests, to examine a variety of ca¬reer options and to learn how to do re¬search on employment opportunities.Advance registration is requested byWednesday, February 27th and in¬cludes a $10 fee to cover workshopcosts. An optional box lunch is avail¬able for $3.25 if ordered in advanceOthers should plan to bring a brownbag lunch since Ida Noyes Hall has nofacilities for purchasing lunch on Sat¬urdays. Drinks will be provided by theconference. Registration forms areavailable from the receptionist inReynolds Club 200.This workshop is organized by theOffice of Career and Placement Ser¬vices and is subsidized in part by gen¬erous contributions from the Dean of.Students in the University and theDeans of the Divisions of BiologicalSciences, Humanities, PhysicalSciences and Social Sciences.4 letters■^^■^The Chicago Maroon—Friday, February 22, 1985bhhhhbbbhhhhFSACCSL needs a faceliftThough Dean of Students Charles O’Connell regularly assures themembers of FSACCSL (Faculty-Student Advisory Committee onCampus Student Life) that he indeed takes all of their comments andwisdom to heart when making decisions, one must wonder how that ispossible after observing the FSACCSL process in action, (see article onpage 3) Basically, what can be accomplished in a one-shot meetingabout a vaguely defined and even more vaguely approached issue?Nothing? You guessed it.Many students on FSACCSL have expressed dissatisfaction with itsoperation this year, and have made their views known to O’Connell. Itseems, however, that until the meetings are structured (the last, if Irecall correctly, was arranged to discuss “Alcohol on campus”—asharp, well-defined topic, right?) FSACCSL amounts to a sham, unableto produce any kind of serious dialogue.FSACCSL is a good, necessary idea. Hun with a specific list of ques¬tions given to members beforehand, and designed so that real discussionabout specific issues may take place between prepared, informed peo¬ple, FSACCSL can work and at least offer the dean something worthconsidering. As it stands now, poor organization has undermined the op¬portunity f'">r the current FSACCSL members to speak to the best of theirabilities, and has reduced FSACCSL to a pat-on-the-back to make theadministration seemed genuinely interested in student opinion. —Frank LubyPlus-Minus rationaleis still not so clearTo the editor:I read with increasing bemusementthe continued w'rangling over the im¬plications of our new “policy” of plus-minus grading. Having watched withequal bemusement the interesting ma¬chinations which led to its birth. I canonly wonder where it will all end. No.that's not quite right - there’s no ques¬tion but that Julie Weissman is quitecorrect in her assessment that “like itor not, we are now officiallyplus/minus.” Nor is there any questionthat Dean Sinaiko is also quite correctin his assessment that “the entire con¬troversy will soon be forgotten.” Ofcourse it will! The historical perspec¬tive of the undergraduate student bodyonly lasts four years, or the time ittakes for a cohort (or most of it) tocomplete the degree program. Anothercouple of years, and no one will re¬member any of the rhetoric whichmarked the great debate (actually, thesecond great debate, since the wholething had been debated and abandonedonly two or three years before some¬body raked it up again).A few points are worth mentioningbefore all of the history becomes pre¬history: first, my colleagues and Iwere continually puzzled by the factthat in every discussion we held withstudents in our owm classes, the senti¬ment against grade modifiers wasoverwhelming. But, of course, we hadthe assurances from Maroon editorialwriters and College administratorsthat a significant portion of undergrad¬uates felt very strongly in favor of thechange. I guess we can’t talk to thesame students.Second—and 1 think incoming stu¬dents ought to be told all of the facts—the legislation passed by the CollegeCouncil left open the option of using oror not using modifiers in grading—inother words, a non-policy. The idea,clearly spelled out during debate overthe issue, was that the whole thingwould be evaluated after a “trialperiod.”In many private conversations withboth faculty and students about the question, numerous ironies emerged.One faculty member put it rather ele¬gantly in observing that modifiers re¬presented an attempt to impose finedistinctions on an intrinsically inaccu¬rate process. A student said, with re¬freshing candor, that “plusses wouldbe nice, but minuses wouldn’t.” Thegreatest irony of all. in my admittedlylimited sphere of experience, lay in thefact that among faculty with whom Iconversed, those most strongly infavor of adding modifiers teachcourses in which grades are deter¬mined mainly or exclusively on thebasis of non-quantifiable work - essaysand papers.The decision on the part of first andsecond-year German staff not to usemodifiers was influenced strongly byconversations writh our students. Wewere naive enough to overlook thegradual process of historical forget¬ting, and also the effects of “complet¬ing,” if you will, with other courses inwhich modifiers were added. To date, Ihave heard no complaints from thosewho would have received minuses. Isuggest that they get together withthose who have complained becausethey didn’t get plusses and work thematter out. And I further suggest thatthe student body try very hard to as¬sure that whatever prevailing opinionthere may be on the question gets a fairand open hearing. I remain very uncer¬tain about that point at this time, andbefore we reconsider our position, Iwould like to be reassured and per¬suaded of the merits.Robert D. HummelDepartment of Germanic Languagesand LiteraturesPierce studentemployees: challengeshift reductionsTo the editor:We, the student employees of PierceCommons, feel that it is necessary toexpress our shock and dismr.y concern¬ing the recent events hi our place ofemployment. A decision has beenmade to eliminate several studentshifts, thereby reducing student hours.We feel we must protest this sudden de¬ cision on several grounds.First, the cuts were made with noconsideration for a student’s length ofservice. One student, for example, haslost all of his shifts—and therefore hisjob—despite having been employed atPierce Commons for three and one-halfyears. Second, these cuts are beingmade in the middle of the quarter. Wefeel it is frankly cruel to force a studentto seek employment in the middle ofthe quarter; many students depend ontheir paychecks to provide rent andgrocery money, and to force these stu¬dents to seek new employment, for thepurpose of supplementing a reduced in¬come or replacing a lost income, withlittle or no notice is callous and insensi¬tive.The “Student Employee Handbook”for Residence Halls and Commonspoints out that all students “are ex¬pected to remain on the job throughoutthe quarter,” while resignations are tobe preceeded by a “written notice twoweeks in advance.” We feel we are notbeing unreasonable in requesting thesame courtesies from Residence Hallsand Commons in its treatment of us asit expects in our relations to it.In conclusion, we would like to em¬phasize that this protest is not frivi-lous. Even if the recent actions atPierce Commons do not cause severehardship (a point into which we did notdelve, due to considerations of pri¬vacy), there is certainly the possibilityof severe hardship being created bythese actions. These actions were arbi¬trary and were made without any inputfrom the student employees whatso¬ever. The “Student Employee Hand¬book” expounds upon the responsibili¬ties of each student worker at greatlength, yet there is little or no refer¬ence to the rights of the studentworker. We would like to believe thatany employee who performs his jobwell would be insured a certain amountof protection from immediate termina¬tion of his job. We realize that budge¬tary considerations may very well ne¬cessitate some elimination of shifts inthe future, but wre believe these actionsshould be implemented more fairly.The recent developments have beenbad for morale, affecting not only theindividual student employees, but alsothe entire Pierce Commons operationand all of Residence Halls and Com¬mons.We make no demands, nor do we be¬lieve we should dictate policy to theUniversity; we are simply requesting areview of the policy to eliminate stu¬dent shifts in mid-quarter. We wouldlike to add that the managerial staff atPierce Commons has been very help¬ful, especially the Student Leader,Chris Caperton. They have tried to findnew shifts for those who have lost theirformer slots. Their actions have helpedto mitigate the effects of the decision toeliminate shifts. Unfortunately, manystudents cannot adjust their schedulesbecause of prior time commitments,particularly commitments to classes.The Student Employeesof Pierce Commons“Human rights”violations at U of ITo the editor:Today’s news reports record the caseof racial discrimination against Mr.Gregory A. Parron. Mr. Parron ex¬posed the University of Illinois-Chica-go in the paying to a white employee$8,000 more than it is paying to him forthe same work - the white’s classifica¬tion is a grade lower than that of thisAfrican-American.Mr. Parron filed this human rightsviolation and his grievance with theEqual Employment Opportunity Com¬mission asking for equal pay. The vio¬lated also demanded “an end to allforms of discrimination within the uni¬versity system.”Clearly - as US public officials re¬proach other countries about “denial ofhuman rights” - here in the center ofthe US the august and publicly fin¬anced University of Illinois System isclearly denying and contemptuouslytreating “human rights.”This Illinois University System has along heritage and history of racism andviolations of “human rights.” We be¬lieve that heritage and history violatesthe U S Constitution and the covenants of the United Nations, that world bodyof the collective opinion of the majorityof the nations of the world.This condition in the University of Il¬linois raises many questions. I raisesome of them hoping that the “media”or readers can help to answef.What right has the Illinois Govern¬ment - Governor, Legislature and thecourts - to allot money for the Universi¬ty under such violations of “humanrights.”? Isn’t there a gross and exten¬sive violation of the U S Constitution?Why doesn’t the Illinois Governmentwithhold all funds until there is a clearguarantee that the University Systemwill end the violation of “humanrights?Can and will someone supply thenames of people in top jobs and belowinvolved in, and responsible for theUniversity’s violation of “humanrights?” Why not put the criminals re¬sponsible for these violations in thepenitentiary? Why 'not publish thenames of the “human rights” violatorsthat are administratively involved?• Where are the voices of the Univer¬sity’s learned people, professors,scholars, student leaders or the future“learned” ones? How can the learnedones pose as scholars, authorities,travel before scholars conferences andlearned societies silent on the humanrights violations in the University of Il¬linois System?• Are there trade union and tradeunion members on the campus? W’hereis the voice of labor defending therights of all university workers and ex¬posing the University’ violation ofhuman rights?• Lastly — and the important one —can and will some educator or educa¬tors, philosophers, or scientists, in theUniversity of Illinois or not in that uni¬versity answer the question as to howqualified is a University System toteach science, ethics, philosophy, his¬tory and morality in the context of his¬torical and current violations of humanrights in the University System itself?Ishmael FloryStudent concerned withour cultural omissionsTo the editor:You’ve done it again. Ms. Sills’ lec¬ture made front page of the lastMaroon while Amira Baraka’s wasn’teven mentioned. This, no doubt, has ev¬erything to do with your sense ofwhat’s important: white cultural artistis happening; controversial black cul¬tural worker is not.This year’s George E. Kent Memori¬al Lecturer was Amira Baraka. Hecame to the U of C to talk about people;he came to talk about love and he cameto talk about our common struggle. Hetalked about the barriers standing inthe way of our existing as one people,united in love and brotherhood. He didnot come to talk about careers in operaand he was not considered by yourpaper.When you neglect to cover a speakerlike Amira, you deny the campus theopportunity to learn about the realitiesin society. All these future leaders whostudy at this University will leave be¬lieving that society is fine and thatthere is no work still to be done. Theywill perpetuate the status quo, its rac¬ism, its hate and its insensitivity.You as the editor of the Maroonshould realize your responsibility tothe campus community. There is noBlack studies department here. Blackhistory month only comes once a year.You have once chance to make peopleaware. Instead of taking advantage ofthis, you listen to the grapevine.1 don’t think you understand. Butthen again, you, like everyone elsehere, have not had the chance tocome aware. If I had been whitmaybe I would think like you do, and iiyou had been born black, maybe youwould think like I do. We aren’t all bornwith the same perspective. That is whywe should try to expose ourselves to asmuch as possible before entering soci¬ety and making decisions that impactlarge groups of people.I have learned all about your cultureand all about you. That’s good, but...ifyou are going to deal with differentpeoples, I know that I personally wouldrather that you knew a little aboutthem first. Newton HallS.G. Minority Atlairs CommitteeThe Chicago Maroon is the official student newspaper of the T/evshy of Chicago.It is published twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Fridays. The oixitcs of me Maroon arein Ida Noyes Hall, rooms 303 and 304, 1212 E. 59th St., Chicago, Illinois, 60637. Phone962-9555.Frank LubyEditor in chiefMichael ElliottNews EditorDavid LanchnerNews EditorFrank ConnollyAssoc 'ate News EditorRobert BarlingViewpoints Editor Dennis ChanskySports EditorJulie WeissmanFeatures EditorAlexandra ConroyAssociate EditorPhil PollardPhotography EditorCraig FarberCopy Editor Wally DabrowskiProduction ManagerBruce KingGrey City Journal EditorStephanie BaconGrey City Journal Ez to •Lisa CypraAdvertising ManagerTina Eller beeBusiness Manage' Jain «e WeihrichOfficr MunagerLeslie RigbyChicago i Horary Review EditorDavid SullivanChicago Literary Review EditorStaff: Karen E. Anderson, Paul Beattie, Tony Berkley Sc„tt Bernard, RosemaryBlinn Mark Blocker, David Burke, Mike Carroll, /nthory Cashman, Tom Cox, Ar¬thur U. Ellis, Kathy Evans, Paul Fl^od, Ben Forest, John Gasiewski, Jessie Goodwin,Ingrid Gould, Cliff Grammich, Peter Grivas, Gusiic, KeKn Horvath, Mike Ilagan,Jim Jo2efowicz, Larry Kavanagh, AJ Knapp, Stephen “Skip- Lau, Marcia Lehmberg,Amy Lesemann, Armin Lilienfeld, Jane Look, Mike Lotus, L.D. Lurvey, Carolyn M.Mancuso, Helen Markey, Melissa Mayer, David McNulty, Raj Nanda, Karin Nelson,Ciaran Obroin, Ravi Rajmane, James Ralston, Max Rhee, Paul Rohr, Matt Schaefer,Geoff Sherry, Frank Singer, Brad Smith, Jeff Smith, Stan Smith, Paul Song, SteveSorensen, Rick Stabile, Joel Stitzel, Adena Svingos, Jim Thompson, Hilary Till, BobTravis, Terry Trojanek.Contributors: Michelle Hart, Peter Kutscheracomics 5Hospital to offerfree checkupsThe University health clinic will holda free health screening program forthe public in the West Clinic of ChicagoLying-in Hospital from 10 a.m. to 6p.m., on Thursday, April 18. From pos¬ture appraisal, to pap smears, to bloodcholesterol checks, more than 20 dif¬ferent tests will be free to anyone 18 orover who is healthy enough to crawlthrough the door. Taking all the testsrequires an hour, but patrons are freeto take as few as they wish.This is only the second year that theUniversity of Chicago Hospital is offer¬ing this service, but it has already paidoff. Last year, besides glaucoma, hy¬pertension, and poor posture, the pro¬gram detected a case of possible endo-mitral cancer, which would probablynot have been spotted otherwise, in an18-year old woman.The free checkup is part of the “Tar¬get Health” program, which consists oftwo weeks of nationwide free healthcheckup and is coordinated by the “Na¬tional Health Screening Council forVolunteer Organizations.” The pro¬gram is supported in Chicago by theTribune Corporation, WLS TV, localhospitals, and innumerable volunteers.Most of these volunteers are healthprofessionals, but there is a need forunskilled help as well. If you would liketo volunteer to work for the programthis year, call Carol Southard at962-6757. The Adventures of legmanTt-Z i The Chicago Maroon—Friday, February 22, 1985 ■■■■■■by Skip and JoelDpyVJ'Of|ilfftFMMHBBlfo.1MritY'rnijimiLLtyH,m£ iWhtU dbOSFOob...lkvJOfirtHtteismxrmlriASfBmwrateNToFgbitibWFKimAr. 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WnUrdwrgi 4 chocks Career Planning ForGraduate StudentsSaturday, March 28:30 AM-5:30 PMIda Noyes HallREGISTRA TION FORMS A VAILABLEIN REYNOLDS CLUB 200ADVANCED REGISTRATION BYFEBRUARY 27thASTOPGO DIRECTLYto TEXTBOOKSIf you have not bought all of yourbooks for the Winter QuarterUNSOLD WINTER TEXTBOOKSwill be returned to the publisher afterMonday, February 25thBOOKS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FORRETURNS AFTER EIGHTH WEEK -University of Chicago BookstoreTextbook Department - 2nd floor970-E. 58th962-7116wm7IF YOU DON’THAVE LUNCH PLANSTHURSDAY,YOUR FATHERWOULD LIKE TOSEE YOU.BRENT. - The EpisccHouseThe Episcopal Church at the University of Chicago5540 South Woodlawn AvenueHOLY COMMUNION every THURSDAY at NOON in BOND CHAPELevery SUNDAY at 5:30 PM at Brent House The Chicago Maroon—Friday, February 22, 1985by Rachmaninov, J. 5. Bach,and AJicc ParkerThe University Chorus and Motet ChoirB ru ce Ta mm en, cond uetorSt.Thomas the Apostle Church5472 S. 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Ask aboutour student and facultydisount.667-8776 The Chicago MaroonThe University of ChicagoHypertension Clinic is looking torpeople with high blood pressurewho are willing to participate inclinical studies. Participants mustbe 18-69 years old. Selectedapplicants will receive the initialevaluation of their high bloodpressure without charge and thosecompleting studies will receivefinancial compensation. Ifinterested, please call 962-6457between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.DR. MORTON R. MASLOVOPTOMETRIST• EYE EXAMINATIONS• FASHION EYEWEAR(one year warranty on ,-yeglassframes and glass lenses)SPECIALIZING IN• Al l TYPES OFCONTACT LENSES•CONTACT SUPPLIESTHE HYDE PARKSHOPPING CENTER1510 E. 55th363-6100:» 1 R01I ROCKEFELLERMEMORIALCHAPELSunday,February 24th8:30 a.m.EcumenicalService ofHolyCommunion11:00 a.m.UniversityReligiousService-4 JAMES A. GUSTAFSON E OLD PLAYBOYSFORCOLLECTORS60s, 70s, and 60s$175mKm each!BOB'S NEWSSTAND5100 S. LAKE PARK • 684-5100Monday thru Friday 7 am to 8 pmSaturday 7 am to 11 pmSunday 5 30 am to 8 pmCigarettes s114all the time.A CLASSIC RESIDENCEIN ACLASSIC LOCATIONFIFTY-TWO HUNDREDSOUTH BLACKSTONETHE BLACKWOODLuxury, high rise apartmentbuilding in the Hyde Park area nowoffering a limited selsction of oneand two bedroom apartments.Situated near the Illinois Central.University of Chicago. HarperCourt and only a short walk fromthe lake, our apartments feature cen¬tral air conditioning, individuallycontrolled heat, ceramic tile, securi¬ty intercom, new appliances andwall to wall carpeting. Onebedrooms from only $430. twobedrooms from Ask about ourstudent and faculty discount.8 comics■^■■MThe Chicago Maroon—Friday, February 22, 19851BLOOM COUNTYgeneral..m PontKtmvcusm PRttfrmr?UP A SECRET YOU HR/EN'TSHUTTLE FLIGHT A SHREP OFTHIS MORNING.. PROOF'£ by Berke Breathed CALENDARFebruary 23: “South Africa the strug¬gle against Apartheid Today” Spon¬sored by the Militant Labor Forum forBlack History Month. Maurice BishopMilitant Bookstore, 3455 S. MichiganAve.* *February 24: Professor Todd Endel-man. Associate Professor of Historyand Jewish Studies at the “Breakfastwith the Rabbi” series. 5200 Hyde ParkBlvd., at 10 a m.* $ *February 22: Professor Marvin Zonis,Dept, of Behavioral Sciences and theCollege will speak on “The New PLO.After Amman Prospects for Peace,” atthe University Hillel Foundation at 8:30p.m.* * *February 25: Professor Amos SmithIII, Dept, of Chemistry, University ofPennsylvania will speak on “Total Syn¬thesis of Phylanthocin and other Archi¬tecturally Novel Anti-tumor Agents,”at 4 p.m. in HGS 101.* * *February 22: Philip A. Sandberg, De¬partment of Geology, University of Illi¬nois, will speak on “Temporal Varia¬tions in Non-skeletal CarbonateMineralogy,” at 1:30 p.m. at the HindsAuditorium. Refreshments at 2:30 inthe commons room.* * *BRIEFLYThe University of Chicago’s CouriTheater is now accepting plays for the1985 Charles H. Sergei Drama PrizeContest. Acceptance ends June 1, 1985.The winner will be announced by De¬cember 1, 1985. The purse is $1,500. Allcreative Writers are urged to Partici¬pate. The script must be accompaniedby an entry blank obtainable fromCourt Theater. The competition is res¬tricted to full-length, unpublished, andunproduced plays. The agency, prod¬uction and publication rights remainwith the author.1309 E. 57,h STREETPHONE-643-2424 mm-' 'OPEN 7 DAYS§pg|■MM« jSfe^l,mm 'SUNDAY11AM-5PMmjtSwEk'' %■ "m* i ' HSh vL', i- :Tkni IwmmmMM Wk H The University of ChicagoDEPARTMENT OFANATOMYPRESENTSLECTURES ON THESTRUCTUREOF LIFEJAMES HOPSONSpeaking on..."In Warm Blood:The Fossil Evidence forthe Origin of Mammals"THE LECTURE IS INTENDED FOR GENERALAUDIENCES AND WiLL BE HELD IN ANATOMY 104AT 8:00 P.M. ON TUESDAY FEBRUARY 26A Good Look At -Hey, calm down. Don’t think the world is about toend just because Denny Crum won’t get 20 wins forthe first time in his career, or that Tom Landrymight retire, or that Gene Mauch has been givenanother chance. There is still Gil Thorp. CoachThorp is in his 26th season as head varsity coach ofevery conceivable sport at MiKord high, that ti di-tional Valley Conference power. Some of theCoach’s friends will be throwing him a silver anni¬versary party this coming Monday, February 25 atJustins, a north-side sports bar.Gil Thorp is, of course, the signature character ofthe nationally syndicated cartoon strip “GilThorp.’’ The strip is written by Jack Berrill, who isthe source of all of Gil’s sporting knowledge andgeneral wisdom. Berrill has not been afraid overthe past 25 years to deal with some controversialissues in the strip. Using the ever-changing role ofstudent athletes, Berrill has had Coach Thorp coun¬sel his players on how to deal with such problemsand issues as teenage pregnancy, mental retarda¬tion, alcoholism, divorce, homosexuality and de¬pression.Coach Thorp has protected a generation of giftedhigh school athletes from ravenous recruiters whodo not have the student’s best interests at heart.Even though he doubles as an informal counselor,Thorp is first of all an athletic coach, and his sooth¬ing influence and brilliant tactitioning have helpedMilford high win so may big games over the years.Right now, as you read, he has brought his basket¬ball team into the big tournament, even though itwas supposed to be a rebuilding year for them.For all these reasons and many more, Gil’sfriends in Chicago want to throw him a silver anni¬versary party. They have prepared a big spread,including Gil Thorp T-shirts, trivia questions, andofficial silver anniversary scrapbook. There willalso be a Gil Thorp look-alike contest, but, it is to behoped, no one be entered. For more information onthe party, call Justins at 929-4844. sports 9The Chicago Maroon—Friday, February 22, 1985«mhhbbGIL THORPRookie coach in 1958-59...^IF THE TILWELLKIP HAS MENTALPROBLEMS ..IT'S60IN6 TO AFFECTHIS FUTURE INathletics, oil f EASY POESIT, MARTY. .WE ALL HAVEHAN 6-UPS.' HOWEVER, IA6REE THATBUBBA SHOULP6ET SOMEPYSCHOLOOlCALHELP IN PEALINOWITH HISPEPRESSiON.'Work obviously agrees with him (1983).Men’s track prepares for conference at HCFH next FridayBy Scott BernardThe qualifying time in the 800 metersfor this year’s inaugural Division IIINCAA National Indoor Track Cham¬pionship is 1:54. Last Thursday in theField House, four study half-milers lin¬ed up to try to get under that time:three of North Central College’svaunted distance runners and the U ofC’s own larger-than-life John “Mr.Big” Seykora.The brawl began right after the gunwent off. All four runners went im¬mediately for the lead, leaving the restof the 800m field far behind. Muchboisterous pushing and punching en¬sued, whereupon Seykora decided towait until the halfway point of the raceto seize the lead. But w'hen he wasready to make his move, he found thatthe conniving North Central runnershad boxed him in. And even worse, his400m split was a couple of secondsslower than what he thought he neededto hit 1:54. So Seykora “reached waydeep down,” as he put it after the race,and struggled mightily to escape fromthe box. He shoved his jailers; theyshoved him back, turning him everywhich way but loose. Finally, with lessthan 200 meters to go, Seykora droppedback momentarily and roared to theoutside, unleashing the furious kick forwhich he is feared far and wide. His op¬ponents shifted into high gear. Thetrack trembled. The rafters shook. Thepartisan fans roared, as if with onevoice, “Go, big John, baby, go!”When the bedlam finally abated,post-race, the bruised and batteredSeykora had finished third, a scant twotenths of a second out of first. His timewas a personal-record 1:55.8. None ofthe runners had qualified for nationals.“I think we spent too much timebeating each other up,” commentedSeykora. “I suppose it was exciting forthe partisan fans, but it took its toll onme.”The 800m was definitely the highlightof the four-way meet between Chicago,North Central, Wheaton, andElmhurst. “The race was alsoparadigmatic of the way scoring wentin the meet,” mused a transitive CoachTed Haydon. “North Central over¬whelmed us, and we beat Wheaton andElmhurst.” The meet was scored as ifeach school had competed one-on-oneagainst every other school. Chicagolost to North Central 90-36, defeatedWheaton 65-52, and beat Elmhurst 68-43.Junior Gary Levenson was the only Chicago athlete to win his eventoutright. He cruised to an easy 2:21.9victory in the 1000-yd. run. outdistanc¬ing his closest opponent by more than50 meters. Freshman Ned Hale was theMaroons’ high-point man, scoring 17points against the three other schools.He ran the 60-yd. dash in a quick 6.7seconds and the 300-yd. run in 34.4seconds.Other solid performances forChicago were Stephen Thomas’s 4:31.9mile, Mike Rabieh’s 9:50 two-mile run,Guy Yasko’s 1:16.3 600-yd. run, MarkCawi’s 41-1 shot put. and Butch Anton’s20-7V2 long jump.By Michael IlaganThe University of Chicago Women’sTrack and Field team captured secondplace in the 1985 Chicagoland Intercol¬legiate Indoor Track and Field Cham¬pionships at the College of Du Page onFebruary 8. At 7 p.m. tonight, theMaroons will host their second invita¬tional track meet in the Henry CrownField House.In the Chicagoland meet, the teamcompeted against a field of 9 teams in¬cluding Division I opponents Northwes¬tern, Loyola and University of Illinois-Chicago. Because the meet was thefirst of the season with team scoring,Coach Linda W’hitehead was not quitesure how her team would stack upagainst the competition. The final tallysaw Chicago rack up 64 team points,which was 25 points ahead of 3rd placeNorth Central, but quite a distance be¬hind Northwestern’s 200 point firstplace finish.The Maroons showed their strengthin the field events at the meet. Despitehaving only two competitors for ail ofthe field events, U of C placed at leastone athlete in the top five of each fieldevent. Natalie Williams, four-year vet¬eran of the team, set a conference re¬cord in the triple jump with a distanceof 31 feet 2 inches. Along w ith her re¬cord breaking jump, Williams placed2nd in the 55 meter dash and 4th in thelong jump. In addition to Williams,Linda Kinney competed in the fieldevents for Chicago. Her versatilityallows her to compete in not only theshot put and jumping events, but alsothe sprinting events, the middle dis¬tance runs and the relays. In the Chi¬cagoland meet, Kinney took second inthe shot put, 3rd in the nigh jump and Coach Haydon, continuing to see thebig picture sketched in the details oflast Thursday’s meet, felt that the meetforetold what w’ould happen to the var¬sity at next weekend’s Midw'estAthletic Conference track champion¬ship. “Tonight the other teams hit uswhere we ain’t,” he said after the meet,noting that the Maroons entered no onein the 60-yd. high hurdles and highjump and only one athlete in the polevault. “At conference we’ll be hurtingin the field events and sprints, andwe’re going to lose a lot of points inthose events. But we’re going to scorebig, as we did tonight, in every race5th in the long jump.In addition to the field events, theMaroons displayed unexpectedstrength in the running events. MegMalloy took 4th in the 800 meter runwhile Lisa Peterson placed 3rd in the500 meter run. And Shauna Smith cap¬tured 4th in the 55 meter hurdles.Coach Whitehead cited the runningperformances as outstanding particu¬larly because of Northwestern’sstrength in the running events.Tonight’s invitational at HCFH willfeature the same schools who partici¬pated in the first U of C invitational onJanuary 30. The meets have no teamscoring and are intended to provide a from the 600 to the two-mile. If we dowell in those events and pick up a fewpoints in the shot put and long jump. Ithink we’ll finish in the top five at con¬ference.”The men’s track team will host theconference championship next Fridayand Saturday in the Field House. Theyinvite all Chicago students to “comeout and watch,” although they note, inthe interest of accuracy, that the rumorthat IM points will be awarded to thehouse with the highest percentage of at¬tendance is false.tonightlow-pressure, developmental setting.The team used the first invitational asan opportunity for some younger run¬ners to gain some experience. But atthe meet, Linda Kinney managed to seta personal and school record in the shotput with a distance of 39 feet 5 inches.Coach Whitehead felt that the runnerslooked strong for so early in the year.The Maroons hope to get the «arnestrong performance tonight. This willbe their last meet before the Confer¬ence Indoor Charr pionships next week.Coach Whitehead summed up. “I waspleased with the early season perfor¬mance, but we have a lot of work to dobefore conference.”The Third StringMessrs. Fatter and Chansky are on assignment this week.They will be back in the March 1st issueVarsity SchedulesWomen’s SwimmingFeb. 22-23 Fri.,Sat.—Conference at Lake Forest AwayWomen’s Indoor TrackFeb. 22 Fri.—UC Women's Invitational II Home 6:30 p.m.FencingFeb. 23 Sat.—Notre Dame, Northwestern,Purdue AwayWrestlmgFeb. 23 Sat.—Conference Meet at MonmouthCollege AwayHigh-flying women’s track host meetThe Chicago Maroon—Friday, February 22, 1985CLASSIFIEDSSPACEApts, avail, soon. Grad, student pref. 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PamBruton: Day 753-4225; evening 241-5783SPACE WANTEDAPARTMENT WANTED seeking 2 BR apt.;Univ. Chic. area. Furnished preferred but notnecessary. Must have before 2/25. Inquiresphone collect (606) 885 5157,5-8pm CST.Looking for 2 bdrm apt. for 1-2 years from endof November 85. Call Ehud 684-5929 home 9627212 work.PEOPLE WANTEDPeople needed to participate in studies onmemory, perception, and language process¬ing. Learn something about how you carry outthese processes and earn some money at thesame time! Call the Committee on Cognitionand Communication, afternoons at 962 8401.Pf-time desk attendant needed. Study at work!Must be flexible, avail, to work mornings $4 hr.Call 752-8990 mornings BEFORE 7:00am orevenings AFTER 11pm. No calls during day.Babysitter needed 20hrs per week 4.00 perhour. In my Hyde Park home. Must be warmcaring person to sit with my 3 yr. old. One yr.commitment necessary. 624 3459. If no ans.624 2809.The Homework Center is a program which provides young people in the community withhomework help. It is housed in the BlueGargoyle Youth Center 5655 University Aveand operates on Toes and Thurs. 3:15 until4:15. We need tutors for reading and especiallyHigh school math. If interested call 955 4108.Babysitter to care for 4 mo. old in my home, M-F, 8:30 5:30. Ref. and exp req fall 7S? 0924eves and weekends. The Chicago Counseling and PsychotherapyCenter, 5711 S. Woodlawn, needs people whoare willing to talk about their personal problems and feelings for 10 sessions with apsychotherapist-in-training. Participationshould not be seen as psychotherapy althoughparticipants may find if a useful experienceParticipants will neither be paid nor chargedfor their sessions. Call Pat at 684-1800Need person with good knowledge of Script andWylbur to complete book. Approx 40 hrs. Call962 8199 leave messaqe for Austin.SERVICESJUDITH TYPES-and has a memory. Phone955 4417.Moving and Hauling. Discount prices to staffand students from $12/hour with van, orhelpers for trucks free cartons delivered N/CPacking and Loading Services. Many otherservices. References Bill 493-9122.PASSPORT PHOTOS WHILE U WAIT ModelCamera 1342 E. 55th St. 493-6700Weddings and other celebrations photograph¬ed. Call Leslie at 536-1626.CARPENTRY—20% discount on all work doneJan March. Custom bookcases, interiorcarpentry of all kinds, free estimates. CallDavid, 684 2286.WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHYThe Better Image 643-6262TYPIST Exp. Turabian PhD Masters ThesesTerm papers Rough Drafts. 924 1152.James Bone, editor-wordprocessor-typist,$15/hr. Call 363-0522 for more details.Childcare Exp. Mother w/Background in Edand Child Devel. Campus Loc. Ref Avail. 493-4086Prof typing papers, ex< ms. 684 6882 PM &Wkds.TYPING-Books, Manuscripts. Thesis. I typeyou proof & edit. $.50/page for draft. Word Pro-cp ,sor. Call M. Brown, 536 2441.FOR SALEVictorian House on Harper near 59th $275,000.PL2 8377.VINTAGE CLOTHING SALE A BRATIONEverything half price. This month open twoweekends to better accommodate youFebruary 16, 17 -F23, 24 12noon-6pm We cleanout you clean up at HEAVEN 6981 N. Sheridan.Conover Grand $500 (752 8377)Nova runs great $495 288 5295/962-1987 (R AM).Brother EP-20 typewriter. Can be used as acomputer keyboard. $100. Call Leslie: 752 9655.HYDE PK townhouse, campus bus routes, 15mins downtown, 3 b/room incl. huge masterb/room, IV2 baths, dry full basement, centralair, new appliances, private yard, large com¬munal lawn assigned offstreet pking. Low$l00,000's, 8% assumable mortgage. 962-7311days, 624-0183 evg weekend.JDs KO MBAs ONE DAY TICKET SALE. B-Schoolers & others can buy tkts to Return ofthe JD, law sch musical-comedy detailingdefeat of U of C MBAs by superior JDknowhow. Show is Mar. 1&2 at I House Tktsavail 1st fir Stewart ONLY on Tri Feb 22 121:30. $5ea.Cfiazfotte <~Vif?itzomczRea( £itate Co.493-0666MAKE YOURSELFMARKETABLEIs finding and getting the job you want impor¬tant to you? Your career search may be one ofthe most crucial steps you take. Get off to agood start with the help of Marsha Myerson.an experienced Career Consultant and HumanResources Specialist Marsha has worked withsome of Chicago's largest companies in theareas of recruitment and training and develop¬ment. Marsha can show you how to makeyourself marketable for today’s competitivecareers and offer valuable insights into theemployment process.Learn how to strategically plan a job search,establish valuable professional contacts, whento send and how to write resumes and coverletters, sharpen your interview skills and moreLet Marsha Myerson put her experience towork for you. For a confidential appointmentat either her downtown or Lincoln Park loca¬tion. call 525-3740. Call now and start plann¬ing your success!APARTMENTS iFOR RENT 1GRAFF & • SiMlCHECK ! i1617 E. 55th St. |1 '/i, 2%, studios, and 11 bedroom apartments kin a quiet, well- Smaintained building. 1Immediate OccupancyBU8-5566East Park TowersBarber Shop1648 E. 53rd St.752-9455By AppointmentSPACIOUSGRACIOUSLVING 14ROOMSCOACH HOUSEHAS INCOME APT*360,000GOOD IMPRESSIONIS EASTING IMPRESSION2300 SQ FT(3 BR - 3 BATH)*99,900TREE LINED WOODLAWN AVE.Near 49th50th & The Lake Narragansett Lobby1980 SQ FT(2 BR-2 BATH)*59,500* '♦“UlWCCf » .AN RESTAURANT*mg in Cantoneseand American dishesOpen Doily 11 A -8:30 P MClosed Monday1318 E. 63rd MU 4-1062CLASSIFIEDSSCENESWRITERS WORKSHOP (PL2 8377)Iranian Film Series: "Asrar-I Darrah I Jinni". Friday, Feb. 22, 7:30pm at Crossroads,5621 Blackstone. 684 6060.ME HER BABA-A talk by Lyn Ott, blind artistand 2nd year disciple, Sun Feb 24 1:30pmLoyola Park Fieldhouse 1230 W. Greenleat rm209 into 684 3845.AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL presents a tilmscreening: "Your Neighbor's Son" Thisdramatized documentary depicts the "Makingof A Torturer" in the training of GreekMilitary Police of former military junta. Sat.Feb. 23, 7:30 pm Crossroads, 5621 S.Blackstone, Wed. Feb 27, 4:30 PM ReynoldsClub N. Lounge.Make your feet happy by learning & doing in¬ternational folk dances every Monday at 8:30in Ida Noyes, teaching till 10p.m., requests till11 or so. come when you wish, no partner or ex¬perience needed. Info call Tom 363-5214.LOST & FOUNDLOST DOG m-sm, short brn hair, red collarans to "DC" pis call 962 8138 or 363-5756reward.CONDOS FOR RENT53rd and Kimbark6 Rooms-3 bedrooms, 2 baths. Modern kitchen.Oak cabinets. Floors refinished. $700/Mo.5 Rooms-2 bedrooms, 1 bath. Open sunporch.Modern bath and kitchen. $575/Mo. Call Nancyor SteveParker Holsman Company 493-2525GAY? LESBIAN? Bl?GALA holds its weekly meetings at 9:00 pmevery Tuesday at 5615 S. Woodlawn. Meetingswill be followed by a social hour withrefreshments.THE MEDICI DELIVERSDaily from 4 pm call 667-7394.COMING OUT?GALA holds a small informal meeting for peo¬ple who have never come to a meeting before.We discuss what it means to be gay and theproblems and possibilities that follow this option. Tuesday at 8pm, 5615 S. Woodlawn.TENSE NERVOUSANXIOUS?If so, you may qualify to receive treatment foryour anxiety at the University of ChicagoMedical Center. Treatment will be free ofcharge in return for participating in a 3 weekevaluation of medication preference. The pur¬pose of this study is to examine the effectsvarious drugs have on mood and determinewhich drugs people choose to take. The evaluation involves only commonly prescribed drugs.Following participation in the experiment,subjects will receive 6 weeks of a nonexperimental treatment which will be made ona clinical basis by an experienced therapist.For more information or to volunteer CALL962 3560 weekday mornings between 9 and 12.Subjects must be 21 years of age.LOX! BAGELS!SUNDAY!Hillel has Brunch Every Sunday From 11 to1pm. Only $2 For A Lox & Bagel Sandwichincludes Coffee or Tea, Danish, OJ & all theNew York Times You Can ReadHIGH FRONTIER"ABM Defense and the Star Wars Myth"—filmand lecture by Ralph Westberg of High Frontier. Time: March 3rd, 7:30 pm. Location:West Lounge, Ida Noyes, 1212 E. 59th St. Sponsored by Students Against Nuclear War (SANsWAR). Further information call 684 8024.HAVE FUN!EARN MONEY!MACINTOSH OWNERS!PC GOODIESEducation Sec'y Bennett says, "Divest!"LOTUS 12-3. Still factory wrapped S300LATTICE C. Rtl $500 New, but open. $250HAYES 1200 Ext'l Modem. Never used $450MUTIMATE. Like Wang ded. WP $200. Callif you have a question or make an offerEvenings best. Tom 493 2735.BASS PLAYERSENIOR PICTURES HOT MIX PARTYTONIGHTThe Organization of Black Students presentsan All University Party. Two DJ's fromWBMX will be spinning from 9pm until lam. Socome to International House with S3 and beprepared to have fun.WORD PROCESSORNORC, a not-for-profit survey research centeraffiliated with the University of Chicago, is anational leader in the design and conduct ofsocial research surveys, and the analysis ofsurvey data. We are looking for a word pro¬cessor to type a variety of materials of averageand above average difficulty. Assignmentswould inlcude questionnaire and manuscriptsprimarily, and statistical tables and charts.One year of NBI experience is required. NBIsystem 6400 experience is a plus. Some collegepreferred. Minor edifing skills and excellentspelling required. Experience in manuscriptand statistical typing also helpful. Artisticsense of layout work and excellent typing skillsdesirable. Knowledge of Spanish an asset.Salary range $12,000-15,000. Full time. CallFrances at 962-8953. An EOE employer.CARING? SENSITIVE?Are you interested in helping other studentslistening to their problems and learning aboutthe resources available to them in the Univer¬sity and Greater Chicago? The U of CHOTLINE trains committed volunteers inreflective listening and provides a comprehen¬sive program to acquaint them with the dif¬ferent issues that confront our listeners, if youwould like to learn more about HOTLINE andSpring training, come to our informationmeeting Wednesday at 7pm in Third FirTheatre Ida Noyes.ORIENTALCARPETSOUR FOURTH YEARBeautiful and unique designs (geometric,floral), warm and pure colors, superb wools,all sizes, fair prices. For appointment, call 288-0524 (evenings and weekends).MINIWASHER-DRYERSThe AVANTI miniwashing machine, importedfrom Italy, is the only PORTABLE washer-dryer available today. It operates on regularhouse current at a cost of about ten cents perhour. Ideal for daily wash items and perfect fordorm rooms and small apartments, it easilyhooks up to any tap and uses the sink for drain¬ing. It can wash and rinse about 5 pounds anddry about 2>/2 pounds of clothes at one time. Itweights 19'/2 pounds and its size is18"xl8"x22". Limited one year warranty.Price only $170 (plus tax). For more informa¬tion or brochure, call evenings/weekends: 288-0524. (U. of C. student, state registereddistributor).BIOENERGETICTHERAPYRichard J. Robertson PhD Certif. BioenergeticAnalyst Inds, cpIs family 8. group Dynamic 8.Bioenergetic Therapy 5712 Harper 643 8686 orans Ser. 782 5989.ORGAN RECITALSFree each Tues 12:30 pm: Thomas Wikmanplays the magnificent new baroque organ atChicago Theological Seminary, 5757 S. Univer-sityAve FEST|VAL!Artists: Come celebrate the rebirth of ourEarth and her children. Offer your talents in afrenzied sacred feast. Some funding available.Call 684 4194 PREGNANT?UNDECIDED?Consider all the options. Want to talk? CallJennifer—947 0667—any time.TIREDOFSEX?Needed: Third and sixth grade boys and gi»"!sfor fun study on art. Earn money! Call Wendyat 962 1548 and leave your name and number. Regain your sense of humor. Come see ANEVENINGOFONE ACTS by G B SHAW Produced by Concrete Gothic theatre. TH-S Feb21 23 W-S Feb 27 Mar 2. 1st floor Reynolds ClubTheatre. Tickets at door $3. Curtain 8pm.HATHA YOGAMacstation $75.00 Great deals on all hardwareand software! Yes, we do custom programming! Golden Rule, Inc. 929-2592. Two 8 week classes will convene on Tuesday,Feb. 26, and Thursday, Feb. 28, from 6 to 7:30p m. Price $40 for one series, $70 if you want tocome twice a week.Hatha Yoga is a systematic program ofphysical conditioning for men and women of allages. It's slow deliberate movements ofbreathing and stretching, relaxation and concentration bring you a tested method of dealingwith stress. For more information call JackMerring 955 0936.First Unitarian Church5650 S Woodlawn$RESEARCHSUBJECTSNEEDED!Experienced bass guitarist wanted for dancerock band, vocal ability desirable Call Steve:947 9593Tom. 324 6850 Eves. We pay $160.00 for your participation in athree week study of drug preference Requiresonly that you are free on Tues, Thurs andSaturday afternoons between 2:30 6 30pm. In¬volves only commonly prescribed drugs. If youare in good health and between 21 and 35 yrs. ofage, call: 962 3560 T. 8. Th. mornings, 9 to 12.Senior pictures will be taken for graduatingstudents who havent had their picture takenand for those who want to retake their firstshooting on Mon Feb 25 & Tues Feb 26 9am to5pm in Ida Noyes 217. Call or visit SAO for Appointment 962 9554. PERSONALSMy husband and I are interested in adopting aninfant, If you know of anyone who is consider¬ing placing a child for adoption please call collert 31? 848 7971 11The Chicago Maroon—Friday, February 22. 1985el cameraSTAR TREK: available for only s2995V. irt .ALSO! STAR TREK: THE TV SERIESCOMING SOONONLY s1495 AN EPISODEDARKROOM SPECIALSILFORD CIBACHROME A-11 , ,Value Pack i 7 reg. >2967Check our prices now on:AGFA SPEED, AGFA BROVIRAILFORD MULTIGRADE MATTEbefore manufacturer price increase!PLUS! 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HARPER 493-4410in Harper courtALL MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTEDTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOJOHN M. OLIN CENTERpresentsIrving KristolEditor, The Public InterestonRELIGION AND POLITICSWednesday, February 27,19854:00 p.m. Breasted HallOriental Institute1155 E. 58th StreetFebruary 22, 1985 • 17th YearSOUTH AFRICA:THE U OF C CONNECTIONby Rosemary BlinnLast month, over 100 University of Chi¬cago students demonstrated in front of theSouth African Embassy to protest UnitedStates’ involvement in South Africa. Mostwere vehement in saying that steps shouldbe taken to help South African blacks butfew of the protestors said they knew thatthe U of C has invested in companies doingbusiness in South Africa.Before making your sign to picket theAdministration building, realize that theUniversity is like many academic institu¬tions around the country facing the issueof to what extent private institutions forhigher learning should be concerned withsocial change. The issue was hotly debatedat the U of C in the late seventies and aSecretary of the Trustees Alison Dunham,even claimed that the University’s invest¬ments were “none of your (the students)business.”Hanna Gray became president amidstthis debate and U of C students of '78 and’79 say she was noncommittal in her state¬ments on divestment. Student leaders gra¬duated, the issue died and nothing morewas said about the University's divestingfrom companies operating in South Afri¬ca.The issues that were vital to themhaven't changed, although the Universityclaims to have adopted a more complete,responsible plan for investment. Issues in¬clude the following: 1) Should the University invest in SouthAfrica?2) To what extent should universities beinvolved in lobbying for social change inanother country?3) Can the Sullivan Principles advocat¬ing responsible investment for socialchange work?4) Is it wrong for University trustees tosit on boards of companies that the Uni¬versity has invested in?5) Should trustees listen to student andfaculty protest on involvement in SouthAfrica?Perhaps the first question to ask is“Does the U of C invest in companies doingbusiness directly or indirectly in SouthAfrica?” The answer, according to HannaGray, is yes, but not much. The specific list¬ing of companies that the University is in¬vested in is confidential, at the discretionof the administration.There were in fact seven colleges anduniversitites (Antioch College, HampshireCollege, Michigan State University, OhioUniversity, University of Massachusetts,University of Oregon, and University ofWisconsin) that had totally divested as ofOctober 1979. Ten more had pledged to di¬vest at least partially at that time. The Uof C wouldn’t be alone if they chose to di¬vest, but it hasn’t and it isn’t likely to, ac¬cording to Hanna Gray.University officials claim that it wouldnot make sense for the University to di¬ vest. Trustees in the late 70’s said thatthey were primarily concerned with mak¬ing money for the University and had tomake that their primary concern, ratherthan being an agent for social change. TheMaroon printed an article at that timeshowing that in fact over the five yearperiod of 1973 to 1978, the Universityhad lost money in 10 out of 18 investmentsin companies doing business in South Afri¬caGray said that, obvious’y, the Universi¬ty would not stay in ar.y investments inwhich it was losing money. However, shesaid that the University is more likely tostay with a long term investment than tostrictly go for short term profit.When Gray became president, the ad¬ministration underwent changes, accord¬ing to F. Gregory Campbell, special assis¬tant to Gray and secretary to the Board ofTrustees. For example, the University for¬mulated a policy on investments in compa¬nies operating in South Africa. The policysays that the board members will considerstockholder investments proposing divest¬ment. The University also subscribes to theInvestment Responsibility ResearchCenter (IRRC) which provides institutionalinvestors with information on a company’spractices.While the University has pledged to sup¬port the anti-apartheid movement, this“support” is perhaps loosely defined.While other universities like Columbiahave had their senate working on theissue since the late 70’s, the issue seem¬ingly died at the U of C. The issue did notreceive the faculty or administrative sup-oort necessary for a full investiation.Therefore, in answer to issue two, it nies, those people probably would nothave the savvy necessary to make wise fi¬nancial decisions.This is a problem for all colleges and un¬iversities. Northwestern has chosen todeal with it by making sure the invest¬ment committee of their board of trusteesdoes not have connections that wouldmake them privy to “inside” informationon a company that Northwest ,r.' has in¬vested in.The U of C Board of Trustees chose a poli¬cy whereby whenever a trustee mighthave a conflict of interest, he or she doesnot participate in discussion of the com¬pany, nor does he or she vote on the in¬vestment.Gray is aware of these issues and hasaddressed them in the following inter¬view. The final question one might ask is“Granted that the University claims tohave minimal involvement in companiesoperating in South Africa, is there some¬thing this University can do to further dis¬cussion of the issues involved in apartheidand investment? Is the University in factpromoting the “open” discussion thatGray espouses?”Once again, Gray addresses this by say¬ing that the University should be a forumfor discussion but that it should leave ac¬tion to the political bodies of government.What this has meant from 1980 to 1985 isthat there has been no organized move¬ment on the part of students or faculty tohold a forum and discuss apartheid. There¬fore, the issues haven’t been discussed.Other universities have adopted a moreactive stance of “we think this is a prob¬lem and we are going to discuss it until weunderstand the issues better or haveCompany Total Market Value Income Yield <%)Baxter Trsvenol 1,955,000 180.000 92,210.560 70,080 3.17328,125 8,250 2.51Coca Cola 1,000,938 98,750 2.32Control Data 3,525,000 66,000 1.87Deere & Co. 1,980,000 1,800 9.091st Chicago 3,420,000 211,200 6.18General Electric 7,941,090 308,528 3.89General Motors 2,010,400 215,000 4.66IBM 9,850,000 357,000 3.57Mobil Oil 4.901,488 397,540 8.11Motorola 975,833 87,000 8.7Proctor & Gamble 1,279,503 111,800 4.56Squibb 5,-387,500 160,000 3.4TOTAL 46,765,437 2,272,948Total of all ,, 532,865,755 32,864,693 6.17Security HoldingsU of C investment in companies directly or indirectly involved in South Africa as ofDecember 31, 1984.seems that the U of C goes no further thantacit support of the black workers' move¬ment. By subscribing to the Sullivan Prin¬ciples, Campbell said the University hopesto put positive pressure on the govern¬ment to make changes. The crux of thePrinciples is that US companies pledge notto support unfair labor practices and theydemonstrate to the government that itmust change if it wants their money in thecountry. The U of C and all organizationsthat subscribe to the Sullivan Principlesbelieve that they will bring about gradu¬al, peaceful change through economicpressure.Some say that no change will happenwithout a revolution. They claim that thegovernment will not be swayed by eco¬nomic lobbying and therefore the blackworkers must rise in a coup to overtakethe government. Charles Hayes, our con¬gressman, supports this view that whitesupremacy will only be overcome by abloody revolution.Supporters of these tactics say that bysupporting apartheid, the University is re¬ally supporting the government of SouthAfrica. They say the Sullivan Principlescan't work because the Soutt frican gov¬ernment will make only toxen changeswhile money is still flowing into thecountry. Therefore, they argue, major in¬vestors should divest from companies un¬willing to stop operations in South Africato in turn put economic pressure on thecompanies.Should University trustees sit on theboards of the companies that the Universi¬ty is invested in? This seems like a poten¬tial conflict of interest. The companies thatinvest in South Africa won’t make changesunless their boards call for economic sanc¬tions. Those boards won't change if theyare -in turn sure of investors who alwayssupport the management's position — likesome universities. However, as Campbellexplained, the University needs to attracttrustees who will be financial assets. If theUniversity sought trustees who did notserve or. the bodids of any maior compa¬ reached some conclusions.” For example,Columbia University while they end uphaving a policy for investment in SouthAfrica similar to the U of C’s, states in areport filed last fall:”The Trustees of Columbia Universi¬ty act for an institution that is aunique investor. We are an ethicalinstitution whose purposes extendfar beyond considerations of in¬come. For example, we cannot own arace track or a liquor store. This isnot because these activities are ille¬gal but because such institutionsserve purposes at variance with ourview of ourselves as a humane insti¬tution. Occasionally we make errorsof judgement but in the main theTrustees try to follow a policy of in¬vesting only in legitimate companieswhich are above reproach in all ourbusiness operations.Evjn Universities like Harvard and Prin-ceto i have committed themselves to par¬tial divestment and have openly debatedthe ssue since the late 70’s. After the U ofC C ommittee for Action on South Africaend .*d in ’79, the U of C did not openly pur¬sue the matter. Gray says she does notkne a whether the responsibility for thatres.s with the students, faculty, or admin-ist ation but this indicates a lack of initia-tiv i rather than a suppression of theis.* ue.it seems that the University has not pur¬sued the matter because no one has askedthat it be pursues, or ratner, that notenough people have asked for it. The Uni¬versity can be seen as negligent in notdealing with the issue of investment incompanies operating in South Africa as aleading university should and really push¬ing for an investigation of the issue, but oninvestment in companies operating inSouth Africa University suffers from lackof involvement, rather than of overinvol¬vement.Quatfeiwalan $?ance.‘ps.ti va lwrflt1hc Xnfemafiwwl<f Sf.'fl»«irMa'5 0^ (Cwfteriiuiy^ ^ ^8:oopm Jtfg limesOt>\skrClat>1 sue fettiwrm//»in^ ffiff<; K i: \ I !** I’ I \ \Student Rush $4Wed., Thurs., and Sun. eveningst\\e^a1[Vu,-^rr******^ \\C N^u>xv CsWtWn^ c \\ fax &‘VA''vA''sV°uLLLuCiqp-mm "it,1601 and 1603 E. 55 th StreetChicago, IL 60637Chiles Relleno's pho"*: 68465,4Two Mexican style chile peppers stuffed with chichuachuacheese, then pan fried to perfection, with tomato sauceover peppers. Served with rice and beans. A must $5.99MilanesaSkirt steak seasoned with spices and flour, then liohtly panfried to a crispy, golden taste. Served with fries ar . beans.$5.99Caldo oeres (available in dining room only)Mexican style beef soup. Delicious $2.99Come in and try our new specials availableFriday through Sunday2—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1985—GREY CITY JOURNAL...I■n.m- Johnny Cash — we remember him when.DANCEGuatemalan Dance Festival The In¬ternational Dance Group of St.Thelma’s of Canterbury willteach folk dances as part of anevening of Guatemalan dancing,eating, and celebrations, thisSaturday, Feb. 23, at 8.00 in theIda Noyes Cloister Club. Spon¬sored by CAUSE and the U.C. folkdancers, and funded by SGFC.Muntu Dance Theater Contemporaryinterpretations of traditional Af¬rican dance from Senegal andWest Africa. If you have neverseen an African dance concert, dogo see this one—it’s a lovely andexciting form, and this troupe isreputed to be very fine. Interna¬tional House, Saturday at 8 p.m,$5 /S3 students; 753-2274.MUSICAlex Chilton . helped found theCramps and is a former memberof the Box Tops, but he is bestknown as a songwriter who hasinfluenced the pop new-wave im¬mensely. Author of “My BabyShe Wrote Me a Letter," amongothers, this Boston based musi¬cian rarely makes appearancesanywhere, so if you don’t see himnow you may not get anotherchance for awhile. Tonight at theWest End, 1170 W Armitage.525-0808.The Waitresses are a bunch offormer sociology majors fromKent State who garnered a hitwith "I Know What Boys Like" afew years ago. Brain/ andbrawny, they don’t let their lacki of rmjsical ideas upset theirsongwijiting, in true rock 'n rollform. Slat Feb 23 at the West End,1170 w] Armitage. 525-0808.Ashford and Simpson, S.O.S. BandTwo great black pop bands. Ifyou listen too closely, their fnusicj (bight run against your ideologi¬cal sensibilities, but the grooveand feeling of the music hardlydemands analysis in the firstplace. 8 and 11 tonight at the Au¬ditorium Theater, 70 E Congress.922-2210 or 661-1215,Eurogliders A new minor sensationfrom Australia (again) this bandwith a female lead singer andanonymous sounding players isdoing a WXRT budget show. which are as cheap as a MAB con¬cert. 8 pm Feb 27 at the ParkWest, 32 2 W Armitage.666-6667.The dB’s put on great danceableshows, proving they’ve survivedthe loss of one of their leadsingers surprisingly well: Theirold stuff is great; their new stuffoften comes close, sometimeseven beats it. They might eventhrow in a Jerry Lee Lewis or Replacements cover to stir things upsome more. 8 pm Feb 28 at Caba¬ret Metro, 3730 N Clark.549-0203.Johnny Cash and June Carter CashThe Man in Black had many trulyoriginal rockabilly and countryhits in the fifties and sixties. He’salso got a lot of integrity; I don’tthink he’s ever lost sight of hisFulsom Prison roots (on a recentalbum he did three very appro-pos covers from Springsteen’sNebraska), even when his inspi¬ration has failed him. His daugh¬ter is talented too. Sat Feb 23 atthe Paramount Arts Center.896-6666Large Scale Drawings By SculptorsArtists represented are: AndreaBlum, Barry LeVa, RobertMorris, Bruce Nauman, and Rich¬ard Serra. Closes Saturday, atthe Renaissance Society, 4thfloor Cobb Tues-Sat, 10-4, Sun12-4.Concentrations in the Collection: Eu¬ropean and American DecorativeArts.. They call it, "a glitteringarray of decorative arts": dishesfor your dream house, art as in¬vestment,.yawn. Thru March 17at the Smart Gallery, 6550Greenwood. Tues-Sat, 10-4, Sun12-4.Ten Foiks at Hyde Paik Fioin the titleof this show I was expecting areal disaster*-macrame plant “hangers or something—but it ac¬tually turned out to be a prettysolid show, and lots of fun. Myparticular favorite was the workof Iris Adler—little dioramas ofscenes from the garden of Eden,which are electromcized—movingsnakes, sound effects, littlelights, etc. I also liked the workof Christine O'Connor, her cruci¬fix and other Christ-icons had theleering seasick coloration ofNolde's Christs,"while her use ofGrey City Journal 22 February 85Staff: Steven Amsterdam. Rosemary Blinn, Pablo Conrad, Jesse Good-wm, Susan^Greenberg, David Kay, Irwin Keller, Michael Kotze, Nadine''MpGannTTjjlVid Miller. Patrick Moxey, Brian Mulligan, Susan Pawloski,Jhhn Ptobes’.kk^v, Rajmahe,. .Max Renn, Paul Reubens, Rachel S'&Hz,Wayne Scott, Franklin Soults, Mark^Tomal, Bob Travis, Ken Wissoker,Rick Wojcik. 1 .. * -VrProduction: Stephanie Bacon, Bruce King, Laura saltzEditors: Slephanie Bacon, Bruce King * plastic trinkets and some tooth¬paste-like sculpting materialgave the hackneyed subject mat-vter a wacky and irreverent no¬velty, Kevin Henry’^ movingwood sculptures are lovelyT andmost appropriate to the alleged“folk-art-jnfluepce’.’v theme of the*'. show. I realj/- hated the paint¬ing/sculptures off Robert Agne—canvases virtually, devoid of con¬tent are affixed with baseballbats and . other protruding phallicobjects, .Vj/hat a violation—sendthis guy bacloto school. And themacrame-ppge r awardgoes to Pet^rSb^smjrtn ‘-fbr.jher"socially relevant" quilts—couldcertainly, live without these. Allin all, a lively and worthwhileshow. At the Hyde Park ArtCenter, 1701 E. 53rd st. 11-5,Tues-Sat. —SBVera Klement One of the Universi¬ty’s greatest cultural assets—na¬tionally recognized painter VeraKlement—exhibits very recentwork at Roy Boyd gallery. Herwork is a beautiful integration offormalist concerns and a veryspiritual and organic impulse.The paintings, most of which con¬sist of two juxtaposed canvases,consider the symbology of thelandscape, the vessel, and thefigure relation to each other.Usually precise but restrained inher use of color, Klement as¬tounds us here with a spectacularpallette (notably in Blue Bowl—for Linda, 1984) At Roy BoydGallery, 215 W. Superior.642-1606 —SBUrsula Kavanagh The first one-per¬son show by ARC member Ka¬vanagh features figurativepaintings and pastels on variousmythologies, notably Hindu.Showing concurrently will beConceptual Perception, a light in¬stallation by Annalee Koehn.Both shows thru March 2, at ARCGallery, 356 W. Huron. Tues-Sat,11-5.Great Drawings From The CollectionOf The Royal Institute Of British Ar¬chitects Eighty two works, includ¬ing drawings by Andrea Palla- Jdio, Sir Christopher Wren, FrankLloyd Wright, Mies van derRohe, other notables. ThruMarch 31 at the Art Institute, Mi¬chigan at Adams. 443-3625vLeon'Golub While billed as a retro¬spective, "spanning 40 years ofthe artists career” etc. etc., themost exciting work in this showis the most recent. His neo-ex¬pressionist works of the fiftiesand sixties (in which the quintes¬sential Golub theme of patriar¬chal power abuse- is already evi¬dent), as well as his Vietnamseries of the early seventies, aregaining in value historically andloosing in value in terms of for¬mal interest as they age. Inchoosing to limit his subject mat¬ter to narrative depictions ofpower-abuse situations, Golubran a high risk of his work be¬coming dated, as indeed some ofit has. ,-i -His recent work is quite power¬ful and makes the show worth •seeing, even to those already fa¬miliar with Golub’s older work.The primary themes are tortureand interrogation, the primarysettings South and CentralAmerica and South Africa. Theworks are huge, and the depic¬tions of torturers, murderers,etc. is thoroughly grotesque, butstill naturalistic enough to be jar¬ring. The coarse canvases arescraped to a dry pasty surfacewith vaguely nauseating colors;oppressor and victim are figuredin poses full of life and tension.This work is a true consummationof Golub's impulsb to artistic in-tegrity/social responsibility. It'sa bit eerily out of context at theall-too-well-fed MCA ThroughApril 7 at the Museum of Contem¬porary Art, 237 E. Ontario.280-?660 More of Golub's workis on view now through March 9at jthe < Rhona Hoffman Gallery,215 W Superior. 951-8828— SBBruce Clearfield Paintings Theworks depict a lexicon of gaymale activities which, in theprocess, ‘ also reveals thetr activi¬ty as common to all" (from thepress release). Showing concur¬rently will be sculpture by Rich¬ard Rezac Closes Saturday atFeature Gallery, 340 W HuronTues-Sat, 11-5Installations by seven artists includ¬ing the Atlas Sportswear Fash¬ion Booth by Joel Klaff, live an-* imal installation by MichaelPaha, hpn-live animal sculptureby Bonnie J. Katz, and equallyintriguing sounding ideas by Ray Bemis, Tom Czarnopys, David'Helm, and Gaft Simpson ClosesSaturday, at ° Randolph StreetGallery, 756 N.' Milwaukee.666-7737.New Performances/New Performerstwo evenings of performance atRandolph Street: Tonight’s pro¬gram will be Little Pitchers HaveBig Ears by ■ Kevin Henry andMan Handler by Maria Lovullo.Saturday’s performance will beby Boca iy Ear, four musician/ar¬tists. Both performances start at8 p.m., and cost $3/$2 students.At Randolph Street Gallery, 756N. Milwaukee 666-7737.THEATREThe Dark Lady of the Sonnets, HowHe Lied to Her Husband, TheShewing Up of Blanco Posnet Anevening of one-acts by George Ber¬nard Shaw, courtesy of the Con¬crete Gothic Theatre. Tonight,tomorrow, and Feb 27 - March 2 at8 PM. Reynolds Club Theater. $3,students.Forbidden Broadway Energeticallyattacks shows from Annie to Zorba.Opens this coming Monday at thenew Cabaret Continental, withpreviews all this week. The HotelContinental, 505 N. Michigan Ave.,321-0350. Call box office forshowtimes. $15-517.42nd St. Last weekend to see this big-time Broadway show. ShubertTheatre, 2 2 „ W . Monroe,1-800-233-3123. Tonight, Sat., at 8;Sat. matinee at 2. $15-537.50Hamlet Currently the hottest show intown, and for good reason. DirectorRobert Falls' contemporarytouches, some of which you willhave to see to believe, will makethe purists among you gasp, but inmost cases, they actually serve toilluminate the text. Wisdom BridgeTheatre, 1559 W. Howard, 743-6442.Wed-Sun at 8; Sun matinee: 2PM.515-S17. Thru 31 March Student dis¬count, half-price student rush dayof show. — SPOrphans Steppenwolf has extendedthe run of this tale of an unlikely in¬stance of male-bonding in northPhilly to March 10. SteppenwolfTheatre, 2851 N. Haisted, 472-4141Tues-Fri at 8; Sat at 6 and 9:30; Sunat 3and 6 $12.50-$17.FILMLiquid Sky (Slava Tsuckerman, 1983)The ultimate in self-conscious post-new wave nihilist intellectual ex¬hibitionism, this film combinesideological critique, satire, andfashion show through the excuse ofscience fiction. A totally '80s exam¬ple of projection, the plot of themovie is motivated by an extra¬terrestrial’s addiction to a chemicalsimilar to ,a component of heroine,which iS released in the humanbrain during orgasm, thus the filmfollows a care-less sex-objectthrough the New York punk scene,as she is unwittingly manipulatedby this external force. Soundsawful? Well, yes, it doesIn fact, this film is not reallyscience fiction’ — personally, Ican't tolerate the stuff. It is a filmabout identity and self¬construction; about sexual dif¬ference and sexual diffidence;about self-alienation and self-obsession; about sex and power;about sex and death, it is also aboutNew York City; about shining lightsat night; about clothes. I have heardthe claim that it is just a fashionshow: it is not. The film not onlyrefers to but displays the post¬modernist aesthetic at its mostvibrant — and exposes thti politicalimplications of that aesthetic andthe morality with which itassociates. What is behind theshine is not emptiness, but aregime of power relations that areas denigrating and abusive in theireffects as they are brilliant, shock¬ing, even exciting in their visual andaural manifestations. Dare I evenclaim that this film is feminist? I doAnne Carlisle is not an airhead; sheis an embodiment of political con¬tradiction She has internalized notonly the power structures of thesociety in which she survives, butalso various reponses to it —nihilism, anarchism, passivism,schizophrenia, anorexia — and assuch is the ultimate victim. Any pro¬blems? Well, after a treatment ofgender difference which ishumorous, sensitive, andstimulating, if subtle, the film doessell out to a version, of sorts, of theromantic dream in the end. But if I explain either dftfhefee commentsI’ll run the risk of giving away “thebest, along with the worst. DOC*s£rtvFeb 22 at 7, 9:15 and 11:30. $2 50. —NM, / ’ JThe Bridge on the River Kwai (LeaniJ;'1957) Who hasn’t seen this one? FriFeb 22 at 7:30 and 10. LSF. $2.Drunken Angel (Kurosawa, 1947) inmy opinion, arguably one of thefinest movies ever made. In aJapanese post-war slum, a downand out derelict doctor tries to curehis neighbors of the tuberculosiscontracted from their polluteddrinking water. His most difficultcase is a young, high-livinggangster (Toshiro Mifune, veryyoung, in his first collaboration withKurosawa), who must drasticallychange his life if he is to survive.The gangster will not, and the battleof wills between doctor and patientculminates in one of the most mov¬ing tragedies ever seen on screen.Kurosawa tells a tale ofunspeakable darkness, bbt within itlies a tale of soaring hope, of caringfor other people, even beyond theheinous acts they perform. The lastthree scenes alpne’, are ingeniousin their acknowledgement of boththe universes of hope and despair.DOC, Sun Feb24, 8. $2.50. — PRNew York Story/ Sigmund Freud’sDora (Renaut/ McCall, et al.) New-wave psychoanalysis.* I wonder ifDora will wear her Freudian slip.DOC, Mon Feb 25 at 8, $2.Your Neighbor’s Son Amnesty Inter¬national presents this dramatizeddocumentary on the “making of atorturer” in the training of Greekmilitary police (ESA) of the former,military junta; a part of Al’s cam¬paign to abolish torture (see article,this issue). Sat Feb 23 at 7:30 andWed Feb 27 at 4:30.The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hit¬chcock, 1955) It’s good! Sat Feb 23at 7:30 and 10; Sun Feb 24 at 8:30.LSF. $2.Assunta Spina (Serena, 1915) andCops (Keaton and Cline, 1922) Apresentation in the Film Center’scontinuing series on the History ofCinema. Sat Feb 23 at The FilmCenter, School of the Art Institute,Columbus at Jackson. 443-3733.$3.50 public; free for members.Nothing But A Man (Michael Roemer,1964) A Black railroad sectionworker, Ivan Dixon, marries aschoolteacher from Alabama andfinds himself thrown info a racistcommunity. His wife and father-in-law have come to reconcilethemselves to community expecta¬tions of Blacks, but Dixon refusesto bow to racism and therein lieshis struggle. Wed Feb 27 at 8. Inter¬national House. $2. —BTJules and Jim (Francois Truffaut,1961) Jules, a German, and Jim, aFrenchman, are close friends inParis before the First World WarThey both fall in love with ICatherine, and seek to share her asthey share all their other ex¬periences. Jules, however, marriesher and takes her back to GermanyWhen the friends meet again afterthe war, Jim becomes her lover, butCatherine cannot resolve the shif¬ting relationships in her life andtheir relationship ends. Thurs Feb28 at 8:30. International House. $2.-BTFarenheit 451 (Francois Truffaut,1967) In a vaguely futuristic society,firemen run around torching thebooks that the fascistic governmenthas banned. Oskar Werner portraysa reluctant fireman who kills hischief and runs away. Julie Christie,in her only dual role, plays both hiscomplacent, suicidal wihe, and thegirl next door who introducesWerner to the pleasures of perusal.Truffaut’s first English languagefilm is plagued with problems andyet his usual charm elevates theproject above the cheesy sci-fi film’that it seems to be Oskar Werner,one of the stars of the successfulJules et Jim, had, according toTruffaut, grown belligerant and un- Icooperative. At one point duringthe filming, Werner was asked towalk closer to a burning pile of Ibooks. He refused,, and insteadwalked away, forcing Truffaut to juse the film backwards and dub thesound in later The production Idesign looks rather silly and givesthe impression of simple blandness {rather than the hovel’s active op- Ipression (conveyed via Bradbury’spurple prose) Even so, some of the -isequences such as the woman whowill not leave her burning libraryand the society of book memorizerswho hope to preserve literacy, ex- jude enough good will to sustain in¬terest even if they don’t remind usof "the temperature at which bookswill burn!" Sat Feb 23 at 7 and 11:30DOC $2 50 -OKdGREY CITY JOURNAL—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1985—j——. ■ 1 ■1111I.F. 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I do not ad¬vocate that. The other is through economicpressure.” Kumalo’s statement, thoughalmost facetious in its simplicity, is devoid ofany naivete. The United States, as SouthAfrica’s primary trading partner, could andshould, through economic sanctions, be ef¬fective in exerting pressure upon the SouthAfrican government to work towards rescin¬ding its policy of apartheid.According to recent State Departmentestimates, direct investment by Americancompanies in South Africa amounts to over$2.3 billion. This sum, however, does not in¬clude loans made by financial institutions andstocks in gold. Assessing the value of bankloans and gold stock, as well as general ex¬penditure for factories and real estate, theSouth African Institute of Race Relationsestimates total US holdings to top $14 billionas of 1982.The magnitude of US involvement is moresignificant when one compares the $14 billionin investments to the Gross National Productof the Union of South Africa, which in thesame year (1982) was a bit more than $70billion. Thus, American financial involvementin South Africa is commensurate to 20% ofthe entire value of goods and services in theUnionThe push for divestment began ten yearsago on several US campuses as collegestudents, protesting the inequity and brutali¬ty of apartheid, pressed trustees to sellstocks in companies operating in SouthAfrica. The response of trustees at mostUniversities, including the University ofChicago, was to adopt a selective divestmentscheme called “constructive” or “responsi¬ble” investment. However, in light of the re¬cent violence spawned by the South Africangovernment’s increased relocation tactics,the push for broader divestment has gainedmomentum.South Africa, because of its unique com¬bination of vast mineral resources and amassive, poorly unionized, and completelydisenfranchized African labor pool, remains avery lucrative market for foreign corpora¬tions. University and municipal trustees whoare bound by law to look after the financial in¬terests of their institutions, also remain at¬tracted to investing in corporations operatingin South Africa despite their avowed grossmoral reprehension to apartheid.An unexpected opponent of divestiture isMangosthu Buthelezi, the hereditary leaderof the Zulu nation of South Africa. Buthelezisaid in a Wall Street Journal article “mirroringthe stance of US corporations operating inSouth Africa” that US involvement in SouthAfrica does not necessarily buttress theSouth African government nor does it help toperpetuate the exploitation of the Africanlabor force through apartheid. Butlezi con¬tends that “Black vertical mobility is a con¬comitant of economic growth.” The blackleader sees a greater likelihood for changestimulated by the increased interdependenceof blacks and whites in the rapidly bloomingSouth African economy.Big business, says Buthelezi, no longer ex¬ploits the black work force. Consequently,“in the circumstances that now appertain,withdrawal of investments in South Africa byAmericans is a strategy against black jn- ►princeton •Students Say “No Investments in South Africa!”*£>m•N3cd■«-»cnVJ»«■&•3cd"cao*a>eCA£eosfiUrnafi THESOUTH ^ A occidental*3033•oCA3ARMY RICAN ftSAYSeosCA “thanks U.S. universities! 9 9tufts•rutcers^u of oregon«brandeis*santa barbara»smith*u mass*harvard •amherst to«<*iC/5cft•ato3osC/503l-t33oftto3Cieterests and not a punitive stick with which tobeat apartheid,” said Buthelezi. Rather, “in¬creased economic commitment in SouthAfrican companies by US companiesassociated with a US constructive engage¬ment policy,” such as the Sullivan Principles,is according to Buthelezi. a strident form ofmoral protest of apartheid.South African expatriate and Professor ofEnglish at Northwestern University, DennisBrutus is an outspoken advocate of divest¬ment. In a telephone interview Brutuschallenged the efficacy of responsible invest¬ment as in instrument of controlled subver¬sive change. “Corporations which have exer¬cised ‘responsible investment' for the pasttwenty years have not effected a change inthe policy of apartheid. Conditions for mostAfricans have actually become worse.”Dumisani Kumalo of the New York basedAmerican Committee of Africa reflectsBrutus’ assessment of the overall failure of“constructive investment.” It is commen¬dable that at a Ford plant black workers arebeing trained to do some jobs which they didnot do before, are being paid more, and theirworking conditions are improved. But whenthese workers leave the plant, they are backin South Africa where being black is a crime,said Kumalo.Kumalo also echoed Brutus' stance onwhether the black work force, which wouldbear the brunt of economic hardship ifmassive American divestiture were to occur,is against foreign divestment. “Blacks inSouth Africa,” said Brutus, “are willing tosuffer if they can even hope to achievefreedom.” Lastly Brutus indicated that theSouth African government is so vulnerable todivestiture that if an African even calls fordivestment he is liable to be incarcerated formore than twenty years. ITTTTTTTT7777/Apartheid, an Afrikanese word meaning separateness, is the name aiven by the governmentof the Republic of South Afr^a to its system ot rac.a; segregation, oop essiori and e nlouationiw O... •*..W ICww ti.uil WHW sJ» •« «C pupuiu IIWII. i u lUiihui liltRepublic’s affairs.Under apartheid, the freedom of movement and the political and socio-economic rights ofAfricans, colored persons, and Asians are sharply curtailed Eighty-seven percent of the lands set aside for the white minority. Africans are forcibly kept apart, assigned by the govern¬ment to reserves that constitute less than 13 percent of the least productive land in South Afri-Cd.Apartheid is the cornerstone of South Africa's economic as well as political structure: indus¬tries and business firms — owned mainly by whites and foreign interests — benefit fromapartheid. They earn large profits through the exploitation of Africans, whose land and naturalresources have been taken from them and who toil at poverty level wages, providing the cheap'abut on wntcn ouuin mrica s economy oepenos.From the Coalition in Illinois for Divestment for South Africa fact sh. rt. 1984Dennis BrutusGREY CITY JOURNAL—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1985—5U OF C:AGENT OF SOCIAL CHANGE?by Jesse Goodwinin 1977 and 1978, the Chicago Maroon learned of theUniversity of Chicago’s investments in corporationsthat did business in South Africa. Of $143 million instocks and bonds, the University held $64.7 million in32 corporations with dealings in S. Africa. Of those cor¬porations, seven refused to disclose information ontheir labor practices and at least ten sold military sup¬plies to the S. African police such as planes, trucks,fuel, electronics, and photo equipment. The Bank ofAmerica, where the University owned $.9 million inbonds, extended credit to the S. African TreasuryDepartment.In October of 1977, the University purchased $1.9million in stock from Mobil, which controlled 22% of S.Africa’s oil market and had over 1/3 billion dollars in¬vested in S. Africa. Another University investment, Ex¬xon. sold gasoline to the S. African defense and the S.African police department, who were responsible for600 killings in the Soweto incident of 1976. The Univer¬sity also held $1 million in bonds in Texaco, whichhelped to supply S. Africa with 1/3 of its oil needs.General Motors, with whom the University invested$4 billion, sold vehicles to the S. African defenseForce.The University also invested $6.7 million in IBMwhich sold $60 million in computers to S. Africa. Someof their computers were used by the police for inven¬tory and for personnel purposes.The Trustee’s Connectionft was also revealed that the University Board ofTrustees profited more from S. Africa than any otherUniversity trustees in the U.S. Of the 56 trustees, 232were on the board of directors of companies that didbusiness in S. Africa, including 10 directors of banksthat made loans to the S. African government. Thecase of continental Illinois Corporation is such an ex¬ample.In 1976 the Continental Corporation lent an un¬disclosed amount of money to the S, African steelagency I.S.C.O.R for the construction of new mills and vestment Committee, was chairman of First NationalBank of Chicago. In 1976. First National collaboratedwith two other banks to extend a five year, $110 milliondollar loan to the S. African Treasury Department.University trustees Robert Anderson, Marshall Fieldand Robert Ingersoll. who still serves as a trustee, alsoserved on the bank's board.Hanna Gray, University President, was a director ofMorgan Guaranty, which made loans to companies thatdid business in S. Africa, Elmore Patterson, chairmanof Morgan Guaranty, was also a University trustee.University Reactionin response to growing student concern about S.African investments, former University President JohnWilson said in a Maroon interview, “In my judgement,pulling out of S. Africa or divesting would not be acourse of action that would enhance the position ofthose you’re trying to help, because I believe theserious problem of S. Africa is labor, and there aremar.y American companies down there who havetaken a position in terms of principles of equal op¬portunity and that sort of thing which run counter to thelaws of S. Africa. And if you remove those forces Idon’t think you enhance the position of the peopleyou're trying to help/’ in further defense of the in¬vestments he referred to the Proxy Policy Statementwhich stated, “The voting of shares m individual com¬panies is rarely, if ever, an effective or appropriatemethod of discharging the University of Chicago’s in¬stitutional obligations to improve the cultural or socialvalues or performance of our society.'’ Mr. Wilsonsaid, “I don’t think the University should be an agentof social change.”Jn a poll of the faculty, it was apparent that most ofthe professors did not want to get involved in theissue Of the 22 professors questioned about their opi¬nion of the S, African investments, one third refused tocomment. Half of those who commented were in favorof forming a committee to get as much informationabout the investments as possible, and half thoughtthe issue was not important.furnaces to increase the manufacture of arms. I.S.C.O.R. is wholly owned by the S. African government,which also appoints all its directors. Continental alsoloaned to E.S.C.O M . the S. African electrical supplycommission According to the Johannesburg Star, anAfrican newspaper, E.S.C.O. M.’s black employeesearned only 11% of white wages at that time. Continen¬tal also lent S. Afrikaners $1.2 million from 1973-78 tohelp them buy aircraft from Rockwell International.These light aircraft usually ended up in the hands ofthe S- African Air Commando Reserve, which helps torepress blacks in times of revolt, according to the U.S.State Department, in addition, Continental sold S.African Kruggerands to 3,000 correspondent banks.This supplied half a billion dollars to the S. Africaneconomy. The University held a large payroll accountand $2.4 billion in stock in Continental. Universitytrustees Robert Mallot, Joseph Wright, James Bere,and William Johnson served on Continental s board ofdirectors. Continental’s chairman was also on theboard of trustees, and Robert Benneker, the Universi¬ty chairman, was a trustee of Continental. -Another trustee, Robert Abboud. of the Trustee In- Hanna Gray defended her association with MorganGuaranty in a Maroon interview When asked if shethought there was a conflict of interest in her servingon a bank with S. African ties she answered, "We’retalking, in the case of Morgan Guaranty and J.P.Morgan, about an international bank that has madeloans and continues to make loans to companies thatdo business in S. Africa but is not continuing, is notmaking loans to S. Africa. No, I do not see a conflict ofinterest there."The Secretary of Trustees, Allen Dunham, com¬mented on the University investments. “We think thebest object for the University of Chicago, the lawfulposition, is to get as much money as possible fokstudents’ education.” 'There reactions ran counter to the conclusions ofthe Kalven Committee of 1967. Established by theUniversity of Chicago administration to address thequestion of the University’s investments in companieswith S. African interests, it stated that Universityownership of some forms of property may seem “soincompatible with paramount social values as to re¬quire careful assessment of the consequences.”6—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1985—GREY CITY JOURNAL by Ravi RajmaneThe trustees of both Harvard and Stanford Un¬iversities, who In the heyday of the divestituremovement were impervious to the call for divest¬ment from South Africa voiced by their students,have each taken action against companies whichhave violated policies on employment practices inSouth Africa. Neither University’s decision, howev¬er, is a direct response to the spate of rioting out¬side of Cape Town which has left thirteen dead andover two hundred injured, during the course of thepast week. Rather, these actions do represent abroadened application of checks upon the employ¬ment practices of corporations in South Africa,In its first such instance of divestment upon moralgrounds. Harvard University announced that it hadsold its shares in Baker International, a firm whichproduces oil-drilling and mining equipment. TheUniversity was not satisifed with the corporationsefforts to promote what Harvard termed “reason¬able ethical standards in South Africa.” Baker In¬ternational is not a signatory of the Sullivan prin¬ciples. Harvard is also currently consideringdivesting itself of shares in three other companieswhich have similarly failed to meet with Harvard’sstandards for employment practices in South Afri¬ca.Proceeding Harvard's announcement by a fewdays, Stanford Trustees elected to sell over fivebillion dollars of holdings in Motorolla if the cor¬poration continued selling equipment to the SouthAfrican military or police.But the maverick institution in the movement fordivestiture has been, for the oast decade, ColumbiaUniversity. The University was one of the first edu¬ cational institutions to makeinvestments in South Africaunlike the University of Chicaluctant to translate its moraprotest. A report from the Urlumbia stated that the Univito lead, not only by examplepolicies with other institutioemment to take steps that wthe moral message of theirimpact on the South African G>Dialogue between the SenaColumbia in 1977 resulted inpoint statement of principlesment policies.Furthermore, last year, Covaluated their proposal of 1£the success of their six-pointconcluded that the economiceid had not been weakened }»it had actually, tightened itsblack labor force. “Indeed bylife of non-whites in South Afunbearable for the governmeiproceeded to complete itswhich divides the majority intminority with South African csolute black majority withoutinternal hornelands.”Based upon its analysis oSouth Africa over the past <Senate recommended to theture of all business in Southhowever, did not heed the r«Senate but did place a corntCOLUMBIA TAKES A STAIStudent ReactionIn February of 1978, the student government passeda resolution catling for divestment. Carol Swanson,student government president, called trustees “ir¬responsible and arrogant” for failing “to consider allaspects of investments, not only the money returned.”The Action Committee on S, Africa, formed in 1977,was the largest campus political group since the Viet¬nam era. Its purpose was to achieve University divest¬ment from companies with S African interests. At aforum on divestment sponsored by Action in Januaryof 1978, 200 students attended. Ed Blair of the Universi¬ty Investment Committee was invited to represent theUniversity but declined to attend.On February 10,1978, a two hour debate in a Univer¬sity board meeting held at the First National Bank ofChicago concluded that divestment will not persuadethe S. African government to end apartheid and thatU.S. companies there strived for change. Their conclu¬sion was partly based on the views of some trusteesthat had recently visited S. Africa. While an Actionrepresentative was denied entry into the meeting, 80Action members demonstrated outside the building.On February 28, the Action Committee ended a threeweek drive with 2400 petition signatures advocatingdivestment. Two hundred students protested the in¬vestments in the Main Quadrangle,Eight months fater In October, Robert Renecker,University Chairman, addressed the issue again. “TheBoard shares the board national consensus that thepolicies and practices of the government of SouthAfrica raise questions both moral and social relating tothe fundamental rights of the non-white population.Several of our trustees have been in South Africarecently and they reported in detail on both the condi¬tions and on the efforts of the United States corpora¬tions to quietly provide hope and encouragement inthe efforts to secure equality. It was the view of thesemen that there are better ways to improve the lot of theblack South Africans than trying to penalize the com¬pany that provides him with a job'and improving condi¬tions This view was supported by the black leaderswith whom these trustees visited while in SouthAfrica.”The Action Committee on South Africa addressedMrs, Gray: “The Action Committee's call for divest¬ment is not simply an act of moral outrage at theUniversity of Chicago’s tacit complicity with apartheid.Divestment by the U of C would be a part of a growingnationwide campaign by Universities, labor unions,and church groups to force U.S. corporations towithdraw from South Africa.“President Gray, as the leader of the new ad¬ministration, you have the opportunity to reopen con¬sideration of the university s investments in SouthAfrica. Despite our efforts, the Action Committeebelieves that ♦here has not been proper discussion ofthe issues, .as president, you can encourage an op..nexchange between students, faculty and othermembers of the campus, and the trustees who haveheretofore remaired silent and invisible. We takeseriously your premise of an open and responsive ad¬ministration, and we hope you take us as seriously. Wehope that the new administration will be available forpublic discussion of the issues Finally, we call on youto make public the position of your administration inregard to the important issue of the University's in¬vestments in companies doing business in SouthAfrica.”In December she commented on S. Africa. “My posi¬tion is that I’m not in favor of divestiture. First of all, thejudgement that would lead to a certain result in S.Africa is not necessarily correct. The presence andpolicies of U.S. corporations can be helpful.” Demonstrators at UC, 1978by RosemaryThe Sullivan Principles guiSouth Africa in behaving resiing company agrees to abidetices:1) Non-segregation of the rafort, and work facilities.2) Equal and fair employmerployees.3) Equal pay for all emplccomparable work for the same4) Initiation and developsgrams that will prepare, inblacks and other non-whitesministrative, clerical, and techn5) Increasing the number ofwhites in management and sup6) Improving the qualify ofside the work environment in stransportation, schooling, refacilities.The principles were put forSullivan in 1976. Twelve US *IBM, General Motors, Union Cnally signed the document antover 110 other companies.The University of ChicagoPrinciples by investing inthese practices. As Hanna Gr(guidelines) as important becipanies in a small way to be alement in society by in effect «of equality within the workplaceOthers, like Congressman (these principles because theyto continue giving the countryeconomic support. Hayes ampublic statement against thi“v ’.V:make moral statements onAfrica. Columbia University,f Chicago, was and is not re-i moral protest into politicalthe University Senate of Co-i University should continuesample, but by initiating jointstitutions and pressing gov-that would magnify not onlytheir actions but also their'ican Government,e Senate and the trustees ofted in the formation of a six-inciples which goven invest¬or, Columbia University ree-I of 1977 in order to gauge<-point principles. The Senateonomic machinery of aparth-ened in any manner, but thatned its stranglehold on theleed by many measures, theJuth Africa has become morelernment of South Ai•.^ ^ haste its “homelands" policy,>rity into a small urban blackfrican citizenship and an ab-without citizenship except inlysis of the development inpast decade, the Columbiato the trustees total divesti-South Africa. The Trustees,I the recommendation of thea complete freeze on future investments in South Africa. Also the total invest¬ment in South Africa was scaled down from 39 mil¬lion to 33 million which has now been earmarked asa ceiling figure.The trustees of Columbia University defendedtheir rejection of the Senate proposal on thegrounds that such a move would not be econom¬ically feasible. In fact the trustees have the right toburst the 33 million ceiling if they believe that aparticular investment in South Africa is especiallylucrative.However, complete divestiture by an educationalinstitution is not uncommon nor is it necessa ily fin¬ancially ill-advised. Since the mid 1970’s, at leastseven Universities have completely divested fromcorporations operating in South Africa. The pushfor divestiture has also been espoused by munici¬pal corporations. In 1982 Philadelphia became thefirst major American city to enforce a divestmentordinance. Since then Washington D.C., Boston, andNew York have followed suit. Massachusetts, Mi¬chigan, Nebraska, Connecticut have also passed di¬vestment ordinances.The decision hy the trustees of New York City towithdraw investment of its public pension fundsfrom businesses in South Africa is especially signifi¬cant in that the total value of divestiture is nearly$700 million. This will be an example to other insti¬tutions that divestment is economically feasible.The guidelines adopted by New York City exceedthe rigidity of the Sullivan Principles. In five yearsfunds from the pension fund will be divested fromor not invested in any corporation “not deemed bythe trustees to be of substantial assistance to ef¬forts to eliminate apartheid.”fAND- U OF C SITS OUTN PRINCIPLES EXPLAINED|semary Blinn;s guide US companies inig responsibly. A participat-I abide by the following prac-the races in all eating, com-|oyment practices for all em-employees doing equal or| same period of time,^elopment of training pro¬in substantial numbers,/hites for supervisory, ad-technical jobs.ier of blacks and other non-id supervisory positions.Ify of employees’ lives out¬let in such areas as housing,Ig, recreation, and health[ut forth by Reverend LeonUS corporations includinglion Carbide and Ford origi-Int and were later joined by|cago supports the Sullivanin companies followinga Gray said, “I see thosebecause they allow com-Ibe almost a subversive •!•»Iffect administrating polic es<place.”nan Charles Hayes, rejectthey allow the companiesluntry (and the government)fs and other signers of ast the Sullivan Principles “see the Principles not as a genuine change ir. cor¬porate attitude but as a public relations ett >rt torespond to black demands which the companies re¬cognize as too strong to ignore.”The protestors instead agree that, “Only t ie peo¬ple of South Africa themselves can end apartheid.But there are ways in which the US can help We sailon American corporations, the American govern¬ment, and the American peop’ i io act now to end UStrade with South Africa; to han bank loans and in¬vestment in that country; and to join with the Unit-ed Nations urging the withdrawal of all companieswith existing operations in South A'Hca.” (Ameri¬can Committee on South Africa)In the South Africa/Namibia Update of February1984, Sullivan called his principles “too weak.”Also, the Coalition for Illinois Divestment fromSouth Africa reports, “(Sullivan) said the least anyforeign company operating in Souih Africa could dowas live up to the highest standards cf social re¬sponsibility and work to help change apartheid —or be forced to leave South Africa.”“Whereas a few companies earnestly are tryingto fulfill their social responsibilities in South Africa,too many are no* exerting themse'ves enough toimprove the conditions o' blacks Indeed, some aredoing nothing much at all. Of the 147 companiesthat have signed the Principles, half of them aremaking good tc 'air progress, while the other halfdisgracefully are dragging their feet Moreover,one half of the JS corn pan is s iri Couth Africa, or al¬most 150 of the'ti, have not even signed the Princi¬ples yet. These ignoble companies should withdrawfrom South Africa, for they have no moral justifica¬tion for operating there,” Sullivan observed.He said as well, “Let it be heard in the boar¬drooms of the companies of the world that eitherthey should shape up or ship out of South Africa.” PRESIDENT GRAY:DIVESTMENT ISN'T HAPPENINGEditor's Note: this interview with PresidentHanna Gray <HG) was conducted on February 20 byRosemary Blinn (RB) and Ravi Rajmane (RR).RB — Why is this information (a list of companiesthat the University is invested in) no longer pub¬lished?HG — It was always out of date by the time it waspublished because it was list ?d for a given dateand when it was published, of course, there weremany changes. It has to. therefore, be continuallyupdated. Also, in combining what had not been somuch a published, as an available, report of theTreasurer with what had been not so much a pub¬lished, as a printed, report of the Comptroller wedecided in 1980 to publish an annual report o' theUniversity which would have both the Treasurer sreport and the financial statements of the Universi¬ty and which would also have some text about sig¬nificant developments at the University during theyear.It does not include listings of the holdings and se¬curities because of their being out of date. Thesequarterly reports, are of course, accessible. Proba¬bly by now, on the 20th of February, some of thoseholdings have been changed.RB — Is the University currently invested in com¬panies operating, either directly or indirectly, inSouth Africa?HG — Yes.RB — Why is that? What is the policy for invest¬ment now versus the policy of the late 70’s?HG — What the policy for ’78 says is that it’s apolicy about the trustees’ position on the issues ofdivestment and shareholder resolutions. What thatpolicy essentially was then, and is still, is that com¬panies that may have some business indirectly ordirectly in South Africa are not excluded from thepoint of view of investment policy. Secondly, whatit says is that ordinarily the presumption would beagainst that of divestment of securities on thegrounds that those companies had direct or indirectinvolvement in South Africa. Thirdly, that when oneis a shareholder of a company that may have suchconnections with business in South Africa, eachshareholer resolution is looked at individually.Now, there is the question of divestment — shouldone hold stocks in companies that have any director indirect business in South Africa, and if oneshould not, then how should one invest them. Andthen, there is the question of one’s behavior as ashareholder in a company and by what criteria oneshould vote one’s shareholding voting power. Thatis clear. Policy says we should look at each such sit¬uation individually rather than under the guidanceof an absolute policy. We do that with all share¬ holder resolutions.Therefore, when you ask why we hold stock incompanies doing any form of business in South Afri¬ca, the answer is because we hold stock in compa¬nies which obviously don’t have their primary busi¬ness there. We looked at the conduct of thosecompanies and to the way in which shareholder res¬olutions should be voted.Now it’s the duty of the trustees as fiduciaries ofthe endowment of the University to see to it thatthe endowment is invested as well as it can be fo'-the purpose for which the endowment is givenwhich is education and research. The endowmentconsists of resources given to the University to beheld in perpetuity — sometimes in the form of cauh,sometimes in the form of securities. The trusteesare bound to realize the purposes for which thegifts have been given, namely the purposes of edu¬cation and research.The income from the endowment is one portion ofthe University budget which depends in muchlarger respects on other kinds of revenue. For ex¬ample, your tuition doesn't go into endowment, itgoes directly into the unrestricted budget for thepurpose of paying financial aid. faculty salariesand other things that unrestricted funds pay for.The obligation of the trustees is to invest the en¬dowment in such a way as to maximize the securityand value of that position of our income and assetswhich depends on the endowment. Now, they're notobliged to make those investments in such a way asto harm anybody. In other words, it isn’t as thoughit is inappropriate for fiduciaries to considerwhether their responsiblity is just one that you lookat with blinkers or whether you look more broadlyat the companies in which you invest. What ourtrustees are saying is that their, principal resonsibi-lity is obviously legally, under the laws of the stateof Illinois to adopt a prudent Man Rule vis a vis in¬vestment. At the same time, in their policy of in¬vestment and in their policy as shareholders, theycan and should look more broadly at the policy ofcompanies.The next issue has to do with divestiture itself.Some people argue that to be implicated in anyway with the holdings of a company that may dobusiness in South Africa, is to be implicated in anevil policy that we would all, and do all, condemn.Therefore, purity itself would require that we haveno association with such evil. There are those whowould argue that the dramatic act of divestiture isan important statement to make to those who areresponsible for the conduct of a policy which is ab¬horrent, the policy of apartheid.Equally thoughtful people who have the same de¬sire — namely that apartheid be eliminated andthat the political society continued on p. 8CONGRESSMAN HAYES:GET THE HECK OUTEditor’s note: This interview with Illinois Con¬gressman Charles Hayes was conducted by Rose¬mary Blinn and Ravi Rajmane on January 26.On his involvement with the anti-apartheid move¬mentMy interest and concern about the apartheidgovernment of South Africa goes beyond the recentincreased activity nationwide. As a trade unionleader, a member of the AFL-CIO and, as a leader ofthe Coalition of Black Trade Unionists we adoptedresolutions several years ago at the national con¬vention calling for an end to investments and sup¬port of the system on the part of trade unions, par¬ticularly support related to the pension money thathad been used.So it was natural for me to become involved inthe recent focusing on consulates throughout thecountry that are the outposts of that governmentover there. My concern was (and we had resolu¬tions calling for support of the black workers tohave unions and calling for an end to the differentunions and separate wage scales) we know, as didTransafrica, that unless we could get them to raisethe cry that these unions would probably sufferwith same fates as others who had been jailed.I don’t see this ending without a real blood bath.First, because of the support that this government(of South Africa) gets from here (the US) and otherplaces. Secondly, because of the holdings of moneyand the profit that’s being made by the exploita¬tion of labor. Africa is a country that’s rich in natu¬ral resources — you’ve got diamonds, uranium, andcoal. It makes us really have to put pressure on theinstitutions that have investments and try to getthem to divest. This (economic support) helps tokeep that kind of government existing.On the US governmentThey’re very hypocritical in saying that they de¬plore the human rights (conditions) in one part ofthe world, but suddenly putting on their blinderswhen it comes to South Africa.On the University of Chicago’s investment in compa¬nies operating in South AfricaThey ought to get the heck out and withdrawwhatever investments they have there becausethey’re actually supporting the continued snuffingout of democracy in that part of the world. Whenyou’ve got 22 to 24 million people whose wholelives and futures are controlled by tour million, tome that cert'inly doesn't sound like a democratic approach. I believe in majority rule. I believe in theright of people to determine their own destiny —politically and economically, and to enjoy the fruitsof their own natural resources.The University of Chicago has had the image foryears of being one of the more, aside from its highacademic standards, liberal universities in thewhole United States, but I think that's a misnomerif they continue to follow the path of support ofthat type of government through investment.On University trustees sitting on the boards of com¬panies in which the University investsThere is a conflict of interest. The top administra¬tors of the University are knowledgeable in invest¬ments and the interests that they have personallyin that (governmental) system in South Africa.They're naturally going to be opposed to a changein that position.On whether divestiture can workThose in power don't relinquish that power volun¬tarily. You have to get into a position to take it.Those of us who are supporting the South Africangovernment with the sale of arms are certainlyknowledgeable of the fact that this same systemwill use these arms to protest their position. I justdon't see this working (with the wealth) tricklingdown.On whether responsible investment is possibleNot through the conduits of the present system.On what push can be made by congressmenI think we re gradually moving toward an under¬standing of the injustice that exists in South Africaas a result of the demonstrations. I think you’regoing to find officials in government having tospeak out more against our support to Sjuih Africathan you have in the past. Otherwise, our prestigeand our image all over the world will continue todwindle.These articles were written and researched byRosemary Blinn, Jesse Goodwin, and Ravi Raj¬mane.Wh'ie we ‘>awr ttempteo to represent the issuesshowing br*.h s;c..o, we have not depicted, perhaps,the most compelling moral reasons that change isneeded in South Africa We do not mean to suggestthat our information here is exhaustive. We hopethese articles will serve to open discussion onceaaam of this rnmnio* >ssucGREY CITY JOURNAL—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1985—7continued from p. 7and the constitutional rights of South Afri¬cans be transformed — argue that divesti¬ture does not realize that objective, andthat if you own shares in a company thatdoes business in South Africa and say ‘‘Iwon’t have anything to do with this,” andget out, you have no way of influencing theconduct of those companies. You get outand somebody buys those shares. Presum¬ably it could be somebody far less con¬cerned with the social and ethical issuesthat are raised by the potential conduct ofsuch companies. So there is a real diver¬gence in the point of view of the means tothe end that everybody has agreed on.Our trustees would say, and I am in fullagreement, that staying in and continuingto look at the conduct of the company is abetter means to the end of responsible in¬vestment. We re hoping to influence, how¬ever one can, a desirable outcome in SouthAfrica, rather than getting out.Now we come to the question of whetherthere is some criterion of quality for thosecompanies. I would say that very broadlyspeaking, the kinds of guidelines suggest¬ed by the Sullivan Principles site ones thatwe do pay attention to. I see those as im¬portant, in part because they allow 'ompa-n.es, in a small way. to be almost a subver¬sive element in society by in effectadministering policies of equality withinthe workplace. rhose are policies thathave to do with equal pay for equal work,fair employment, equality in the work¬place, and so on.Again, people argue about whether thatis in one sense doing very little, orwhether it is in some sense doing as muchas an American or international corpora¬tion can do in the context of that society.In summary I would say that our positionhas been that the University may invest incompanies that may do some business in orhave some association with business inSouth Africa, but not in companies whoseprimary business is in South Africa. It ishoped that these are responsible compa¬nies that behave responsibly in terms ofthe conditions and policies governing theirconduct in South Africa. In looking at that,we make use of the Center for InvestmentResponsibility (CIR) analysis and otherkinds of information when it comes to theevaluation of particular shareholder reso¬lutions. All that comes under the frame¬work of the trustees’ fiduciary responsibil¬ity. As trustees of the endowment, theyhave to make choices informed by thislarger sense of responsibility.RB - When you’re considering the Univer¬sity's investments and the IRRC (InvestorResearch Responsibility Corp.) or the CIR informs you that a company is violatingfair labor practices, what would you do?HG - We’d take them very seriously, Ithink. Assuming again that the presump¬tion is against divestment, the presump¬tion is also in favor of responsibility. Thatis how I would put the attitude and spirit inwhich the policy is administered. Also, thetrustee is a responsible investor, and isabove all a fiduciary responsible for theassets of the University. Responsibility forthe University includes responsibility formaintaining the University as an environ¬ment for debate and free inquiry. Trusteesare also individuals behaving as citizens,not presuming to speak for the Universityin a corporate capacity on a particular so¬cial issue unless it is one that reaches thevery heart of the University.RB - Does that mean that the Universityhasn’t spoken on the apartheid issue be¬cause it doesn’t touch the University?HG - No. The University has every reasonto have an opinion on the issue of aparth-ied because that seems to me to go to thevery heart of what a university is about,and what in the end any decent institutionwhich has made a commitment to equality,non-discrimination and all those thingsthat we value is about. These are thingsthat are of the essence, not only of whatwe hope are the ideals of our society, butalso what we regard as the essence of theUniversty.So, it is entirely appropriate for the Uni¬versity to declare itself anti-apartheidand entirely appropriate for the Universi¬ ty qua university to say that it can’t be aneducational system in which that kind ofdiscrimination, segregation and depriva¬tion of equal rights to equal education istolerable.When you come to questions that are fun¬damental questions of strategy (and Imean strategy in a non-trivial sense) andwhen you come to questions of political ac¬tion and political choice, that’s where theinstitution has to maintain the opportunityfor people to argue about these differentmeans toward the end. Individuals haveother places to go to seek action, namelythrough the political process itself. That’swhere I think the University should notpretend to speak as though there wereone solution.RB - In that case, has the fact that therehas not been any open discussion of theissue since 1978-79, been the fault of thestudents, the administration, the faculty?HG - I don’t think it's been anyone’sfault. There were a series of discussions in78-79. I was not here for the first series ofthose. When I came I became involved in anumber of such discussions which includedthe forum that was held at Mandel Hall inFebruary 1979 where people spoke on dif¬ferent sides. Over a series of severalmonths we talked about and through theseissues. I think that perhaps there has notbeen a major discussion of that kind sincethen perhaps because it was so wide¬spread and, in a sense thorough, withoutcoming to an agreement other than pehapsa greater consciousness of what the posi¬ tions were on different sides of the ques¬tion. I am not sure why there hasn’t beenany discussion in the past five years. It’snot because anyone’s wanted to preventit. If students want to have a forum, theyshould.The situation in South Africa is never astatic situation, and yet I believe that thefundamental basis for the position that Idescribed as my position and the consen¬sus of the trustees continues.RR - Are you satisfied with the Universi¬ty's policy of responsible investment in ex¬erting some sort of subversive change? Doyou see any change in the past few yearsin the South African government’s policyof apartheid?HG - I don’t think that the University di¬rectly affects the situation. The question iswhether the companies in which the Uni¬versity may be invested are doing that,and therefore whether the University as ashareholder, as are many other sharehold¬ers, is involved in that. What I’ve sen'not a major change in the posture oi .South African government. In someways,obviously that postion is hardened.In other ways, the South African govern¬ment has tolerated things that are in ef¬fect illegal in tolerating the presence with¬in the corporations that conduct theirbusiness according to the Sullivan Princi¬ples. In theory, those principles areagainst the law. Perhaps a small subsec¬tion of the South African population hasbeen made better through that, and per¬haps in turn they can be helpful to people.That’s a very modest potential benefit.The University’s role qua university isnot that of trying to create social and po¬litical change. That’s what we are about ascitizens and that’s what we ought to beabout an individuals but it’s not the role ofa University as an institution. The Univer¬sity exists for the purpose of educationand the development of knowledge andresearch. It hopes to produce thoughtfulpeople who are going to be concernedabout the social and political issues oftheir time. It is itself an institution in soci¬ety that ought to stand for certain valuesthat have to do with that. But it is not thegovernment.RR - Other universities have been dis¬cussing this and agree that their policies ofthe late 70 s (which are similar to the U ofC’s) have not caused change and they aretherefore considering strengthening thosepolicies. Has the U of C considered doingthis as well?HG - I don’t really see it happening in thekinds of discussions I’ve seen happening sofar. I think obviously those are issues thatneed to be reviewed.mmMkxmAh END TORTUREby Michele Marie BonnarensToday more than one third of theworlds governments systematically tor¬ture. Amnesty international’s publishedreport, Torture in ;f>e Eighties, cites alle¬gations of the torture and ill-treatment ofprisoners in 98 countries. This kind of gov¬ernment abuse is not confined to the Eastor the West, the right or the left. Hundredsof thousands of citizens have been bruta¬lized. from security headquarters in Spainto prison cells in Iran, from secret policecenters in Chile to interrogation houses inAfghanistan.The United Nations defines torture asany severe physical or mental pain inten¬tionally inflicted for punishment, mtimida-tion, confessions, or information by or atthe instigation of a public official. Thus,concentrated in the torturer's electrode isthe power and responsibility of thestate.With the government’s support the tor¬turer controls everything, even life Itself.An Argentine woman, Graciela Guena, re¬members the guards telling her, “We areGod in here,” as they repeatedly appliedelectee shock to her body. She lay hand¬cuffed to the springs of a metaf bed, hercries echoed by the screams of other vic¬tims and the laughter of their torturers.“They catted us 'the walking dead/ ” shesaid, “reminding us constantly that theonly thing to be decided was the time ofdeath.”Torture victims Include people of all so¬cial classes, age groups, trades, profes¬sions, and beliefs. They may be criminalsuspects or political detainees. Children inft Salvador have been tortured and inIran they have been forced to watch theirmothers brutalized. Wives and husbandshave endured the sights and sounds oftheir spouses being beaten, burned, orkilled.Torture occurs because a government has chosen it as part of the state-con¬trolled machinery to suppress dissent, itspurpose is to intimidate victims and othersfrom political activity and/or to obtain in¬formation or confessions with little regardfor their veracity. Some governmentshave tried to increase then control overwhole population groups through tortureand murder. This happened in Guatemalain the early 1980s, when the governmentterrorized rural peasants to discouragethem from supporting guerillas. Tortured,dying villagers were displayed to rela¬tives and neighbors. Newspapers pub¬lished photographs of mutilated bodies,ostensibly to aid families seeking theirmissing relatives, but also to warn allGuatemalans.There is no apology for torture, but apo¬logists exist. They claim that the destruc¬tion of a few individuals can protect thefives of many. This argument is morallyand historically bankrupt. When torture isallowed once, twice, half-a-dozen times,almost inevitably it wilt be used forbroader purposes against a greater pro¬portion of the population. The interroga¬tor forces his prisoner to speak, to give in¬formation that may be false or to confessto crimes she or he did not commit — any¬thing to stop the unbearable pain. En¬couraged by apparent success, the tor¬turer goes on torturing. Other methods ofinterrogation begin to seem slow and inef¬ficient, and like a disease torture spreads.Elite corps of security personnel are creat¬ed, trained in sophisticated methods ofbrutality and degradation, taws that pro¬tect the populace are broken constantlyby the very officials meant to enforcethem.Torture is fundamentally undemocraticand any government that tortures is notruled by or for its people. If a governmentpurports to hold up justice, torture mustbe banned, because it subverts a basrctenet of just punishment — a prescribed penalty for a proven offense Since mostnational constitutions as well as interna¬tional law explicitly prohibit torture, anygovernment that subscribes to the rule oflaw will forbid it.Amnesty International calis upon allgovernments to give meaning to their alltoo often hypocritical declarations againsttorture by taking specific action towardsits abolition, it’s not enough to deny thattorture exists. Torture does not occur in avacuum. Certain conditions facilitate thismost serious abuse of prisoners and allowits cover-up. Amnesty International hasworked against torture for more than 20years. The group has not worked alone,lawyers’ groups, medical associations,church groups, and trade unions haveworked to combat torture in their owncountries. From and with them Amnesty In¬ternational has developed the followingTwelve-Point Program that must be imple¬mented by any government serious in itscommitment to abolish torture and workfor its end worldwide,f. Government leaders should make itciear that torture will not under anycircumstances be tolerated.2. Governments should ensure that actsof torture are punishable offensesunder criminal law.3. During the training of security per¬sonnel St shoutd be made clear thattorture «s a criminal act.4. AH reports of torture should be im¬partially and effectivefy investigat¬ed and findings made public. Com¬plaints and witnesses should beprotected from intimidation-5. Those responsible for torture shouldbe prosecuted no matter where thecrime was committed or where theyare. There shoutd be no safe havenfor torturers.6. Go-Sessions oi other evidence ob¬tained through torture should neverbe invoked in legal proceedings.7. In some countries torture occurs in se¬cret centers after victims have -'‘dis¬appeared.” Prisoners should not beheld in secret detention. 8. Torture often occurs when victims areunable to contact people outside whomight help them. Thus, incommunica¬do detention should be strictly limitedand prisoners should be allowedaccess to relatives, lawyers, and doc¬tors.9. Detainees shoutd be Informed of theirrights, including the right to lodgecomplaints about their treatment.There should be regular. Independentinspections of places of detention. Au¬thorities responsible for detentionand interrogation should be sepa¬rate.10. The physical and psychological effectsof torture can fast a lifetime. Victimsand their dependents should receivefinancial compensation, appropriatemedical care, and rehabilitation.11. International agreements containingsafeguards and remedies against tor¬ture should be ratified.12. Governments must use all availablechannels to intercede against othergovernments accused of the ill-treat¬ment of prisoners, inter-governmen¬tal mechanisms to expose and abolishtorture should be established. Gov¬ernments shouid ensure that military,security, or police transfers or train¬ing do not facilitate the practice oftorture.Because torture is so widespread, somepeople view ft as a regrettable, but ulti¬mately incurable disease. This was once acommon attitude towards slavery, whichis new at! hut extinguished throughout theworld. The same fate is possible for tor¬ture. Ail that is lacking Is the political willto halt this calculated assault on humandignity. 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KellercToC r P / Graduate Student in the Humanitiesol00b°o000 i P U o| TO,he editor:" Ever since the gay movement attained0 r momentum io the late 1960‘s, two/fistmctTo the author of “Stop the Lies'. , - .. „ v v o qt sympathize with the pain you ate ex- more concerned with differences. Wayneperiencing, unable to be open with anyone Scott covers the first view in Gay tdervaboyt your homosexual feelings. You tityp in last Friday’s Grey City Journalhave made a great step in realizing that but a die has more than one side,those feelings don’t belong to any catego- Like Blacks, gays suffer from discrimina¬ry of right or wrong, but are simply your tion and have traditionally been excludedfeelings. from mainstream society (t is thereforeWhat you should know is that you don’t small wonder that there are two viewshave to go at this problem alone. The Com- in Black ideology that correspond roughlying Out Group Is for people in your situa- to the two here mentioned. K“-tion. Don’t be frightened by the name. At- tween Black and gay viewstending one of our discussions doesn t over-emphasized, however, differenceslabel you gay or mean that you've “come abound, a key one being that gays canout.” Not only do we maintain the strictest hide, hence the proverbial cfoset.confidentiality, but against gaysvironment where men and women can be is based on a unifying sexual preference,,themselves — whether that’s gay or les- it follows that gays as a block suffer from:cohfusdd, We’fe / problems hot ‘©ncourhered by moat whitebian or bteexuai...or jus:there as a suppprl tor pd10WteOa0K5ao^!T®lo ©>C w v v ^ v wOt^ne ywuuu UIjn rj „although many do eventur: those confronting straightop. topper ^Street, OWO *?jGQQO O O icularly men. From here^ '' et of pressures and000000O Most Wrpp yov ^haven't “tailed'’ in any respect. 0000000000<k&6h.S! &<*bl&nO and&M:OO01navemt naueo 7 rnany respeoT, n n rs n AOFN5* „T,jnnlet Group is not the only sympathetic Every year women and men are6n . dampdd. Bothi^igdept Mehtal housing; access to the media/ to pothat It isof the past, it engulfs us' toda>5e^fth and atrthc occupations In:the Jofc" sexual prefertinceVo®5OOWO"suit 'us*apartD O O 0 0 OOOO O^WyO^ are dff-94 -~PrPr ,*T"i‘^«> OOOOO tefpPX ty hretflr&r WdyTjhe it oft must annlaud some vUrv r&ahonabile Qrpjtfps, differertdeO OWWmm main1 must applaud soobservations i n WayneSeif-Conceived Oppressio/i 0 ’ in last wee l$r;' the sirGrey City. U rs true thbetween the 0 ‘gay .e rise to the ghetto. We are oftenome elsewhere tf we chose tqrjlbe1 ere‘are similarities Dm/htch, ( _ wmainstream personal experience. After aft, openly gay, so many choose to live in thewe ware raised in the same world with the ghetto rather than live a life of lies. So tooSame rules, and it Is reasonable that we reach with gay establishments; most netghbor-into the same realm of emotional and IntedeC- hoods, for instance, do not want a gay bartuai choices tn responding to stresses and in tneir midst, though they are content tosocietal pressures. At this basic-level, K have, a number catering to the main-shoutd not be hard for a straight person to streamIdentify with a gay person’s experience or Publications tike Christopher Street dovice-versa. not create the ghetto, a point'made by MrWhat’s more. Mr. Scott points out quite cor- ScOtt. It is demand in the ghetto thatreetty that gay people represent a vast spec- creates them. But the mainstream mediatrum of lifestyles, personalities, professions. Still excludes gays. It is tor this reasonand that their -values are as diverse as the that there is now a gay TV cable station inlarger ‘straight* culture around them. In¬deed, this NYC No, I do not see a conspiracy on theinformation is crucial for the part of the editors of an obsolete” Chris-education of society and the attainment of topher Street to eifforce ghettoization sorights, .. / . that they may increase circulation, as MrOOOOOBut ft is neither similarity to the mainstream Scott seems to imply.Perhaps a more volatile issue is whetherso-called gay • life-style Is that dif-nqr diversity of its members that informs theexistence and identity of a minority group, thebut rather the shared experience which ferent from the heterosexuaf one. a pointdiverges from the mainstream. well raised by Mr. Scott. Well, what is theA child growing up as a member of a mmori- heterosexuaf fife-style? The gay Ufe-styiety perceives at a young age the fact that s; he is just as elusive. But be it what it may. weis considered different. Gay children, alone do have special concerns and needs notin this knowledge, not able to turn even to felt by the average American in a host otfamily for support, may later on seek spltdah- fields ranging from entertainment ♦«toOO OOOOOOOOOr arises: Where in the$ Mr. ScOttVview fit?ty among those who have had a similar ex- health facilitiesperience. This fs not gratuitous and self- The question lserving ghettoization. This is a building ex- scheme of thingsperience; becoming strengthened by a com- Stressing that we are just tike everybodymumty m which you are not the exception, else can be seen in one of three ways; a) asThe gay and tesbiarr community in whatever blind stupidity pf the sort seen in peopleform it takes (and that question certainly who claim that discrimination againstdeserves some critical attention — perhaps Blacks ended in the late sixties; b) as Ide-It> another forum), finds Its primary purpose alifim, where we are all very similar atm undoing some of the damage that growing heart; or c) as a program for progressup an outsider in this society can do. This fast interpretation is “very real ” ItEthnic and minority groups often achieve presupposes that if gays make themselvesthis end by celebrating their common more palatable to mainstream societv.heritage. By finding value m their traditions, and at the same time become a more re-titerature, art. music, -they take those things gpeeted and powerful economic block, they0 wh eh marked them..%pp5eht£ bf ptefudlce ^ ^ w _ vrecognize them as rightful objects Of prideand honor achieve acceptance (a la B. T. Wash-and honor.ocfa>o$ „:;> 3>u&ifoifOvtsi: / There fs much to.be said tortn mind that ecoryahHcdo03 not in and of itself confer ac3W-*Op times etus)vp thing,: CkC:\ Z'il.tfb ’dZ& i*'N1 ramtiavften cloaked tn “hlstortcat innuendo” mit of the ethinc Chinese dernQn-' mo.oopoo 00cor our sake across Americaanyone that lhey jBreCfc<0 ,t>e ,reheve<t> ofCiliJfO.OBOtOUCtilas il^r« ^Pjjfi^Ppa-the pursuit 01 gay culture seem an athtjciaeavor. But that is not so. We reclaim ourour culture, and teach gay dealt with.- of our imagination.Oinffcance tosay O OOOCOOOOOOOcloses (earing that he may bejh degree 6)>oooo< OOOOOOOOOO QjQXXQjO *qpjDOjDOOOO p OPPOTFOTTOVyOOOQOQOQQQQQ 50 OO OoOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOaaannnnflaftnnofinnfmn«yAi>»rtAAr,, CHANTAL: YOU NUT!by Rachel SaltzStructuralist-Feminist-Gaulist directorChantal Akerman is the hottest thing fromEurope since Butter-rolls. Her “look Ma. noentertainment’’ stand has endeared her toboth critics and audiences in search of analternative cinema. Certainly Ackermanhas something to please all camps; hermovies are anti-Hollywood and spurn con¬ventional narrative. The feminist virtue inbypassing glittery Hollywood modes iskey; Akerman isn’t interested in rewritingmale-moviedom (no feminist noir or Cag¬ney and Dielman for Chantal), but in creat¬ing movies that show situations andthemes that aren’t touched on in eitherHollywood or European films. Her project— and it’s as much artistic as feminist — isnothing less than inventing a new cine¬ma.It seems positively ungrateful to com¬plain, but Akerman’s legendary master-work Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Com¬merce, 1080 Bruxelles is a cold fish of amovie. Made in 1975 when the directorwas 25 (and done by an all-woman crew).Jeanne Dielman is as rigorous as theycome. Clocking in at 198 minutes the moviedemands that the audience accept its real¬time pace (as stylized in its way as themore expected movie-time) and watch asDelphine Seyrig makes coffee, foldsclothes, kneads meatloaf and exchangesbanalities with her son. Akerman’s idea isa good one but the movie’s dead on arriv¬al. She wants to show what she calls the“daily gestures of a woman” and it isJeanne’s routine, the rhythm of her work,that the film presents.Unfortunately good ideas don’t alwaysmake exciting movies. Sure there’s plentyto discuss after the film and its methodicalpresentation is part of its point, but thereare some numbingly boring stretches inthis movie which don’t restructure your un¬derstanding of time so much as put you tosleep. (Even the staunchest Dielman sup¬porters have been spotted dozing whileour anti-heroine heroine boils her pota¬toes).Akerman’s style matches what she’s cho¬sen to show. Her camera doesn’t move butframes its spaces with classical symmetryand then records in very long takes. Theresult is images that are static and, aftera while, sterile. In fact, there is a drynessabout the film which makes it seem like anexercise instead of a work of art. Themovie may be purposefully drained of passion — again that’s part of what’sbeing said about Jeanne’s life —' butthere’s only so much of this kind of thing aperson can take. (And yes, that's the film'spoint too — get it?). The Akerman aesthet¬ic seems to be that movies about oppres¬sion and boredom should be boring andoppressive. Well, triomphe.Akerman’s sledgehammer naturalismmakes all the clinical dissection of thesedaily activities overly obvious. We don'tneed to see things 3 times at length to getthe picture. Nor is all this exposition nec¬essary for the audience to recognize thecrack in Jeanne's routine. We know thewoman’s nuts when she doesn't buff aftershe shines, so why not spare us the missedbutton, the sloppily folded clothes and thecoffee going Dad. Isn’t there a Belgianword for “etc.”?It’s a shame that Jeanne Dielman hasbeen pegged as Akerman's masterpiece.Her other work is equally challenging andin the case of Les Rendez-vous D'Anna ar¬tistically exciting as well, (the good newsis that Akerman is a versatile filmmaker).In Anna (1978) her first studio production(financed by Gaumont and starring AuroreClement), Akerman is assured enough todo away with the bombast and quite deadseriousness that marred Jeanne Dielman;the result is “alternative’ cinema with ac¬tual audience payoffs. The camera moves(Chantal. you nut!) and the classically com¬posed frames are, in this new relaxed con¬text, beautiful. They are still alienating —as she wants them to be — but not thepoint of disengaging the viewer.Similarly the working against conven¬tion and studio structure is present here(the cast is studded with big name Euro¬stars doing very un-starlike work) but themovie succeeds as cinema where JeanneDielman only succeeded as an M A thesis.Rendez-vous has scenes of real power: thealienated delivery of dialogue (mostly inthe form of monologues) is enigmatic butengaging. The climactic scene in which\nna tells her mother about a Lesbianove affair (while mother and daughtershare a hotel bed) is as powerful as it isbecause of the film's tone; emotion isearned.Les Rendez-vous D'Anna has a non-showy brilliance that merits Akerman'sfame as avant-femme of the nouvellestvogue. If Chantal Akerman didn't existthe Village Voice would have inventedher; having the genuine issue means newhope for new kinds of cinema.Je»nno DielmanGREY CITY JOURNAL-FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1985-11MUSIC POLL RESULTS: THROUGH THE WILDERNESSby Franklin Scu>!l«Twenty-thice iOus> votes. That's the sumtotal of ballots cast for the Fave Tunes '84 pel'run here two weeks ago. I was hoping theresults above would reveal something aboutthe collective pop tastes at this school, but allthey reveal about the school's condition is ageneral state of apathy. A lot of people askerjme about the results of this poll, but when Iasked them back it turned out not one hadcontributed their own vote So it goes. I can¬not pretend I'd do any better in a reversedsituation, so all I really regret is not havingbetter organized this thing or pushed itharder f-om the beginning.For the most part those who responded didso out of "heir own general enthusiasm aboutmusic, revealed by their votes' breadth ofpop knowledge and charged addendums.One committed pop fan declared in avigorous hand on top of the ballot, “I refuse*o be oppressed by these categories!” andproceeded to list -as many albums andsingles as she or he could cram onto the slipof paper. Others gave cursory explanationsfor their choices which were as careful asthey were opinionated. It was the popknowledge, however, which created the mostinteresting result of this poll: that is, namely,the extensiveness of the results themselves.rhis group of thwenty-three voters managedto pick fifty-seven different favorite albumsand seventy-five different favorite songs from1984. They ranged from works by Ashford andSimpson to Laurie Anderson, from efforts byformer Haircut 100 member Nick Kershaw tohardcore's The Minutemen. Generally thevoters’ tastes not only didn’t contradict eachother, they actually complemented eachother to create a continuum that might serveas the main contemporary reference libraryfor an alternative radio. This was mainlyevidenced by the fact that whereas favoritealbums and singles were spread across theboard, the voters had a surprising amount ofagreement on which songs they didn't like.Pluralism is the key here, but these peoplestill recognizev'4 their common enemyIf nothing else, this poll shoulddemonstrate that there is a community outthere which finds vitality *^oth in and beyondthe confines of the mai stream m sic whichThe Spectate ' wou'd ha.e WMPK mainly ad¬dress itself to. (Sie the editorial in thcr r-stissue). This group of voter s certainly isn’t aperfect cross-section of U of C undergrads,but I think it is a fair slice oi the s'-zeable com¬munity here who listen to anc carts about con¬temporary (semi-) pop mus:c ' goaded on'vtwo people into contributing their votes tothis poll, and as far as i know most of thevoters were not part of the Grey City Journalstaff (noted procrastinators that we erc*. gothis tiny voting community created itself out F»*** A?!*untr1) 8ruce Springsteen Born tii the USA2) Go-Go’s Talk Show3) REM Reckoning4) Lou Reed New Sensations5) The Smiths The SmithsFave Singles '841) Brut, j Springsteen Dancing in the DarkyPink Cadillac2) Husker Du Eight Miles High3) REM So. Central Rain4) The Replacements / Will Dare5) Alison Moyet Love ResurrectionLeast Fave Songs '851) Wham! Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go2) Elton John Sad Songs Say So Much3) Madonna Like A Virgin4} Duran Duran Wild Boys5) David Bowie Blue Jeanneof its own passion for music. Because of this,I believe it most probably reflects the con¬cerns of the broader audience of musiclisteners from which it was drawn and istherefore worthy of some attention.I was hoping that we could have extendedthe final results to include the top tenchoices in each category, but for that to havebeen plausible we would have needed two orthree times the number of returns than thosewhich actually came in. To have listed therecord that received say, three ten-pointvotes, as the eighth or ninth favorite albumwould have been to blatantly overstate theimportance of what was basically just a coin¬cidence in sampling. As it is, listing many ofthese records that appear in the iop five forany category also is an indulgence in thesame ir/erprative fault, but nevertheless, Ithink a few things can be said about theresults.The fate of the two biggest pop stars inAmerica last year was perhaps the most in-teiosting result. I don’t know if this wouldcarry over to a larger sampling, bui Prince’smegaplatinum Purple Ram received only twovotes (one of which was somewhat half¬hearted) and on v one of the many singles offthat record was even mentioned (one vote foiLet's Go Crazy). Springsteen’s Born in theUSA. however, appeared in almost half theentries, and it was enthusiastically receivedby new wave oriented voters and more popinded ones alike. Alsc the Go-Go's and REM Votes Points1C 1137 707 675 503 5Votes Points5 524 433 333 313 29Votes Points5 -654 -504 -484 -433 -34were mentioned by over half the voters,either together or separately, in ballots thatotherwise didn’t necessarily coincide. Itwould seem these three artists would remainstrong even if the polling had been more ex¬tensive. Had there been more responses, Ithink the only other group that would havedefinitely placed well is The Bangles. Eventhough they didn’t place in any of the top fivepositions of either category, they hadenough votes split over their LP and album,as well as over different songs, to suggestthat the group has a wide base of appealwhich would register in a broader survey.The strong appearance of all four of thesegroups suggests an audience whose con¬cern with romanticism (not necessarilyromance) is stronger than most new-waverswould care to admit. But, on the other hand,all four artists are post-punk in their warinessabout the intentions and meanings of otherpeople and institutions. Springsteen is theonly one who works these concerns into apalpable philosophy of life through hismusic; for the most part the others approachthe problem in what is a curious yet not-so-foreign post-punk development: to keep theromanticism meaningful they limitthemselves to singing about their own world,defining it (or not defining it) however theychoose. It’s not that personal music is sostrange, but they go about creating the per¬sonal by de-emphasizing or obscuring asong’s references to a larger world. REM’s music doesn’t mean any thing because thethings it means are transmitted so vaguelythat they attain depth only in the subjectivechords they strike. The Bangles and the GoGo’s sing about men, but the former’s way ofdoing so is through personal musicalreferences to sixties culture, and the 'atteidon’t ground their songs in any shared com¬munity of interests that would flesh out themeaning, like the sixties girl groups did.The personal meaning inherent in most ofthe collective favorites suggests that there isa community of listeners here only in name,not in any real sense of having shared in¬terests. But, if pop music is fragmenting-albums' meaning becoming vague, albumsbecoming less important than singles,singles becoming less agreed upon thananything—these voters suggest a trendtoward pluralism in taste which is coherent.As was noted, many people voted for recordsthat nobody else mentioned, but when itcame to least favorite songs, they voted forthe same things that everyone else did: peo¬ple might take to different music as theychoose between personal meanings that aremore or less pert.nent to ‘heir lives, but theyknow what meanings they must revolt againstin common. (The only real disagreementhere was over Frankie Goes to Hollywoodand Cyndi Lauper, both of whom were men¬tioned about equally in the Faves and LeastFaves categories). But, you’re asking, if theaudience generally works at a level of per¬sonal meaning, what happens to the myth ofcollective appreciation, of community crea¬tion? Gone—that's what happened. Still,because the fragmentation of the audienceisn’t a divisive one for these voters, our com¬mitment to the pop process doesn’t have tolessen.A good example of how this pluralist pro¬cess can work is evidenced by the ap¬pearance of Husker Du’s Eight Miles High atthe number two spot in the Fave Singlescategory. If it is a fact that the strong finish ofpopular media figures like Springsteen sug¬gests not only how much he means to peo¬ple. but also how available he is to thegeneral public, then Husker Du’s strong ap¬pearance is a triumph of the song’s powerover its anonymity, a triumph that would beimpossible if the audience were united in itssense of purpose. The result of this led onevoter to write, “There’s more great musicnow than anytime since '78 or '64 or ’56,”which were the other memorable years whenthe pop process cracked open. Husker Ducompeted with Springsteen because nobodyhas a handle on the pop market in com¬munities like the one these voters are a partof. I heard Husker Du’s song maybe fourtimes last year—twice on college radio sta¬tions, one of which was WHPK— but by thesecond time I was convinced it was one of thebest songs I'd ever heard in my life. Thesheer emotive potency of the song isunignorable and untenable to commercialnepds: piay it on commercial radio and youwould be able to faintly hear the cumulativethud of a thousand suburban housewivesdropping dead on their kitchen floors. !tmiaht easily have slipped by me if I hadn’tbeen listening to the radio at a certain houron a certain day, just like it probably slippedby most of the voters. The important thing isenough hearo it to make a difference, butconsidering the number of solitary votes fordifferent songs in the Fave Tunes category,it’s very possible that another Eight MilesHigh is there, its existence oblivious to all butone voter. That’s where this poll can be usedas a tood *o further pop recognition. I’m prin¬ting a partial portion of the Fave Singles listso renders c,in go out to a record store andexperime it with singles or call up a radio sta¬tion and ex pc iment with requests. The list iscomposed of tunes I would have mentionedmyself given room and tunes I’ve never heardbu* whose titles are alluring (see what I meanby partial?). The holes these songs might fillin other people's lives is certainly the biggestbenefit this pell could have.Some Fave Tunes (in no particular order)Rank and File, Listen to the Sound of theRain. Smiths, Heaven Knows I'm MiserableNow. P-Funk All Stars, Pumpin' It Up. Kooland the Gang, Misled. 'Bangles, The HereTakes a Fall. Salem 66. Across the Sea.Diffuser, World Suicide. Nails, 88 Lines About44 Women. Notrend, Teen Love. M&M, BlackStations, White Stations. Siouxie and theBanshee, Dazzled. Don Henley, Boys ofSummer. Dominatrix, The Dominatrix SleepsTonight. The The, This is the Day. CabaretVoltaire, Sensoria. Pretenders, 2000 Miles.Ramones, Howlin' at the Moon (Sha La La).Lou Reed, I Love You Suzanne. Fun Fun,Color My Love. Chaka Khan, / Feel For You.Elvis Costello, The Only Flame in Town.Run-DMC Rock Box. Joceyln Brown,Somebody Else's Guy. Scritti Politti, WoodBeez. Sheila Chandra, Shakti. New Order,Thieves Like Us. Psychedelic Furs, Ghost inYou. dB s, Spy in the House of Love. EastBay Ray, Trouble in Town. Hoger Hiller (?)Johnny. New Edition, Cool It Now.Kraftwerk, Tour de France Sade, (pronounc¬ed Shar-day) Hang On to Your Love. LosLobos, Will the Wolf Survive? King Crimson,Three of a Perfect Pair. >-Nuke Madonna This poll compiles the ballots of twenty three students who voted for their five favofitealbums, five favorite singles and five feast favorite songs of last year. The voters divided 50points among their choices in each category. The number of votes received by each of the fivetop entries is indicated, as is the total number of points. Baliots for this poll appeared two andfour weeks ago in the Grey City Journal. Voting was open to everyone.12—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1985—GREY CITY JOURNAL