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WELCOME BACK
Fall 1984
by Segun Eubanks
Nummo Staff
First of all, on behalf of NUMMO NEWS, The Office
of Third World Affairs, CCEBMS, BCP, and all the
Third World organizations on the UMass campus and
in the 5-College area we would like to welcome all of
you to what we hope will be a very productive and
positve semester - Fall 1984.
To the returning students, we hope that your sum-
mer vacation was an excellent one and that your
academic efforts and successes will continue. To the
Freshman class, we would like to offer a very special
welcome to this area which, although filled with short-
comings and pit-falls, is prepared to offer you ideas,
programs, opportunities and friendships which you
may never again get the chance to take advantage of.
The first week of our new semester has been, as
usual, a very busy one. A week to schedule and
reschedule classes, to get aquainted and reaquainted
with the University and of course to get the run-
around from Oscar and the Whitmore Administration
building. Hopefully, as we begin the second week of
Fall 1984, the academic, financial and housing pro-
blems that most of us encounter are settling down and
we can begin to work toward taking care of business.
Of course we must remember that we are not star-
ting from scratch. While most of us were at home en-
joying the summer fun, some Brothers and Sisters
such as; Sherwood Thompson IOTWA), Rick Townes
(CCEBMS), Chester Davis (Afro-Am), Marilyn Bou
and John Rudduck (Third World Caucus), Yadira
Betances (Black Affairs), Chris Winslow (BMCP),
Dwight Tavada (MEP), Phil Cheung and Bobby Tam
(AASA), Delphine Quarles (Student Activities),
Roberta Uno-Thelwell (NTWS), Rev. Robin Harden
(UCF) and many others, have been working hard all
summer to make this year a successful one for all of
AH eyes are on actress/ model Jayne Kennedy, who made an appearance at Price Chopper on Friday after-
noon.
photo by Ed Cohen
us.
Our challenge for the coming semester/year is to
assure that the work done by these Brothers and
Sisters has not been in vain. I'm sure alot of you at-
tended the 5th Annual Jeans and T-Shirt affair on
Saturday and had a great time. We must remember
that this event was made possible through the effort
and hard work of many people. And without our
cooperation and participation its success would not
have beeen possible.
The Jeans and T-Shirt Affair is but one sample of
the many exciting events and activities to come, none
of which will be successful without all of our work,
cooperation and participation.
Our responsibility begins of course with academic
effort and achievement in the various areas of concen-
tration within the University. However, we must
realize that academics is just one aspect of our college
education. There are many other variables to be taken
into account before our "education” can be complete.
First we must be very aware of the history and cir-
cumstances which have made it possible for us to be
here. We, e* Third World students, are at the Univer-
sity, not through gratitude or pity but through struggle
and sacrafice by students and staff who came before
us. The Malcolm X Center, New Africa House, Afro-
American Studies department and others are not here
through chance but through the struggle and
s^rafice just mentioned. And if we begin to take
these all important resources for granted they will
quickly dissappear or be taken away.
Second, we must be aware of the fact that Racism,
oppression and discrimination both exsist and are
practiced right here at the University. Those of you
who remember the Yvette Henry case (see future edi-
tions of Nummo for updates) know that the atrocities
of Racism can effect any of us at any time. For exam-
ple, largely as a result of the Henry case, the Universi-
ty has proposed a new set of rules and regulations
which would severely curtail our rights, privledges,
and powers as students. We must be aware that our
rights will be protected not through apathy and ig-
norance but through communication, unity and strug-
gle.
Thirdly, we must work together as a community to
build and rebuild our resources so that not only us but
those who come after us will have the opportunities
that we now have. And in order to do this we cannot
be spectators or onlookers but instead active par-
ticipants and leaders. We must take control of our
own destinies and not only work toward our individual
success but also the succes and growth of our com-
munity.
Lastly, we must not allow self-defeatism to destroy
our efforts. Negative attitudes, back-stabbing and
gossip are very dangerous and can easily disrupt and
divide our community. We have the ability to bring
WELCOME Continued on page 2
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NUMMO NEWS
Monday, September 10, 1964
Jesse Jackson Update!
The Democratic Convention
photo by Ed Cohen
reprinted from the August Issue of The National
Leader
By Ken Smilke
With one of the most memorable speeches
delivered at the 39th Democratic National Convention,
the Rev. Jesse Jackson brought his campaign for the
party's presidential nomination to a spectacular end.
As the 30,000 delegates in Mascone Center listened to
the Chicago minister's emotionally charged sermon,
many were moved to tears. It was Jackson's finest
hour.
But even as his thundering address was being
drowned in cheers and applause, some of Jackson's
Black delegates were questioning exactly what the
Rainbow Coalition could claim as a victory. They had
come prepared to fight. Though Jackson asked that
delegates vote for him on the first ballot as ''a vote of
conviction, a vote of conscience,” many were
displeased with the conciliatory tone of his remarks.
Said one, "We weren't supposed to be coming here
with hat in hand."
The Tally of tangible results for his supporter's ef-
forts were perhaps best expressed by Jackson himself
to a caucus of supporters prior to his convention ad-
dress. "Your'e mad because the woman got a vice
president, the South got Bert Lance, the West got
Manatt, and you ain't got nothing."
Three of the four major planks set forth by Jackson
for the party's platform were the elimination of runoff
primaries, a cut in defense spending, and a pledge of
"no first use" of nuclear weapons. All three planks
were rejected by at least a 2-to-1 vote. A fourth plank
asking for support of racial quotas was accepted only
after it was changed to support of "goals, timetables
and verifiable measurements."
Though Jackson is unilaterally credited with unify-
ing the Democratic Party with his stirring words, the
last days of his campaign seemed lackluster, political-
ly, when compared with prior accomplishments.
When Mondale named Geraldine Ferraro as his
choice for vice president, some of the stuffing was
knocked out of Jackson organization's clout. The at-
tention of the convention shifted away from the
mystery of Jackson's eleventh hour strategy and
whether he would support the nominee. With the
spotlight solidly focused on the first woman on a ma-
jor party's ticket. Mondale looked less toward the sup-
port of Black voters and placed new hope in the
numerical strength of America's women.
Black women, on the whole were the big losers in
San Fransisco. No one from their ranks, despite
recommendations from Jackson, was interviewed as a
possible selection for the number two post. As the
primary supporters for the Jackson planks. Black
women were dealt a second blow when they were
overwhelmingly rejected by the delegates.
Cardiss Collins, Congresswoman from Chicago, ex-
pressed the feelings of many others: "Black women
will walk away from this convention with a lot of hurt
feelings. Their intersts clearly weren't considered
here."
The candidate and delegates were angered by Mon-
dales's "lack of respect" toward Jackson, and threats
to walk out heightened tensions. But the former Vice
President swayed little from his steadfast position. In
private meetings, he offered promised to appoint a
Black national co-chair to his campaign. He told
Blacks would be appointed to his Cabinet.
The distance between Jackson and Mondale,
however remained. In his speech, Jackson conceded,
"There is a time to compete and a time to cooperate."
He also reduced, perhaps eliminated, the political
liability with Jewish voters by asking forgiveness. "If
in my low moments...! have caused anyone discom-
forts, created pain, or revived someone's fears, that
was not my truest self."
The ball is now in Mondale's court. With Jackson
saying he’s prepared to campaign for the Democratic
ticket. Black voters must be given something in ex-
change. The convention offered the best opportunity
to demonstrate to Black America a desire to repay
their patronage. It will be more difficult to attract
Jackson sympathizers with promises of whgat will be
done for them after January.
Jackson's future is bright, if uncertain. He will likely
seek permission from the Soviet Union to visit Andrei
Sakharov and attempt to negotiate his release. Now
that he is no longer a candidate, foreign governments
may be less cooperative than they were when Syria
freed Navy Lt. Robert Goodman and Castro released
48 prisoners from Cuban jails.
NAACP-
A
rich history
by Julian Tynes
Nummo Correspondent
In June of 1905, William Edward Burghardt Dubois
sent out a call to a select group of black persons for
"organized determination and aggressive action on
the part of men who believe in Negro freedom and
growth." The group of 29 people who met in a small
hotel in Niagara Falls in July of 1905 became known as
the Niagara Movement
The Niagara Movement's goals were, equal voting
rights, and complete social equality, for Blacks in
America. To accomplish these goals the leaders of this
organization published a "Declaration of Principles,"
which had been written by Dubois and Monroe Trot-
ter, editor of the Boston Guardian. Both of these men
felt that Blacks had to fight against injustice and
racism. This policy was in direct conflict with the
policy of moderation, which was in vogue at the time.
The policy of moderation, which was publicly ad-
vocated by Booker T. Washington, was that Blacks
were to become economically independent and in that
way, earn equality.
As the Niagara Movement gained more followers
the difference in philosophies between Dubois and
Washington became readily apparent. While the
Niagara Movement had the support of masses of
Blacks who were excluded from any type of political
activity Washington had the support and financial
backing of a White philanthropist. Because of a lack
of financial resources, (among other reasons) in 1909
the Niagara Movement ended. However it left a vital
impact, many reformers felt there was a need for a
permanent civil rights organization.
In January 1909, Henry Moskovitz a Jewish social
worker, William English Walling a socialist southern
journalist, and Mary Ovington (a rich nothern white)
met together, and felt that if Whites were to join the
members of Niagara Movement in a permanent
organization much more could be accomplished.
These three people contacted the members of Niagara
Movement and "The Call" was sent out on the
centennial of Abraham Lincoln's birthday. This
message called for the convening of various peoples
to form an organization to fight for civil rights. This
organization became known as the National Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Colored People or the
N.A.A.C.P. The organizations stated purposes were
"To promote equality of rights and eradicate caste or
race prejudice among the citizens of the United
States: to advance the interest of colored citizens: to
secure for them impartial sufferage: and to increase
the opportunities for securing justice in the courts,
education for their children, employment according to
their ability, and complete equality before the law."
To reach the peoples the N.A.A.C.P. published a
preiodical under the editorial leadership of Dr. Dubois
entitled "The Crisis'.
The Crisis became a mouthpiece for the organiza-
tion. As a result of Dubois brilliant editorials, by the
end of its first year, the Crisis had 12,000 readers. The
circulation eventually rose to 100,000 a number un-
precedented for a Black publication of that time
period.
However for the N.A.A.C.P. the struggle had just
begun as there was much hardship, trials, and tribula-
tions down the road.
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NUMMO
WELCOME
Continued from page 1
together the cliques, groups and sub-groups amoung
us and to build a strong, viable community that will
most assuredly be beneficial to all of us. There are
many obstacles we must face during our stay here. If
we allow ourselves to be the biggest obstacles we will
never reach our full potential.
In closing, I would like to once again welcome you
back to the University of Massachusetts and invite
you to participate and take advantage of the many op-
portunities that the University has to offer. The future
is very bright and if we reach for the light together we
will surely catch a rising star.
Peace and Love,
NUMMO NEWS
• • •
NUMMO STAFF * * *
Segun Eubanks
Andrea Baker
Nina Cordova
Yvonne Mendez
Julian Tynes
Judi Russ
Marc Elliot Giles
Editor In Chief
Business Manager
Typesetter
Layout Editor
Researcher
Typesetter
Photographer
.
Contributors * * *
Ed Cohen
Photographer
Special thanks to Asian American Students Associa-
tion, The Afro-American Studies Department, The
Collegian, and the New World Theater Series
Address all leters to the Editor to: Nummo News, New
Africa House Room 103
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NUMMO NEWS
Monday, September 10. 1964
NWT: New Name, Same Excellence
The former Third World Theater at the University of
Massachusetts has changed its name to THE NEW
WORLD THEATER. The program was founded in
1979 as a showcase for the theatrical works of non-
European peoples, a forum to spark discussion of cur-
rent issues, and to broaden the cultural experience of
its audiences. According to program director Roberta
Uno Thelwell, a member of the UMass Theater
Department faculty, "We felt a name change was
timely because the program has grown beyond our
original need to identify the type of theater we project.
After five years, I think the community knows we offer
a comparitive look at the various theaters of Black,
Hispanic, Asian, and Native American peoples;
however, theater goers and actors have sometimes
felt our former name indicated a separatist
philosophy. Our new name more accurately reflects
our reality as a multi-racial program and also our op-
timism about the future of the American theater.
Housed in the administrative offices of the Universi-
ty's Fine Arts Center, the New World Theater employs
a multi-racial staff of fifteen student workers, interns,
and volunteers, a part-time administrator and a full-
time program director. In addition to presenting
theater works by touring companies, the New World
Theater stages two original productions yearly, pro-
viding a ''laboratory'' environment for students to
receive training and experience. This multi-racial
theater ensemble is cast each year from students at-
tending the five-college and forms the core of an ex-
panding actor pool for the New World Theater pro-
ductions in the Valley. Auditions for the ensemble are
held each September (see next weeks NUMMO for
times and places).
Other aspects of the New World Theater include an
internship program in areas of theater production and
administration and a colloquium/workshop series.
The fall theater series, which marks the tenth
season, will open with'' Love To All, Lorraine", a
touching drama based on the life of the late
playwright, Lorraine Hansberry, author of "A Raisin in
the Sun", on October 13. On November 17, the New
World Theater presents "Life in the Fast Lane", starr-
ing Japenese-Hawaiian poet. Lane Nishikawa. The
final production will feature the New World Ensemble
in Miquel Pinero's "Short Eyes", a powerful look at
racial tension inside a prison. The show will run
November 29 through December 8 under the direction
of Smith College faculty member, Patricia Gonzales,
with assistant direction by Lee Elliot Hammond, a stu-
dent at the University of Massachusetts.
POETRY
Now that silence is here and I have your attention.
Lend me all ears and empty minds...
Let me tell you this.
If you reasoning for being uninformed is a result of
subjugation,
desecration, trepidation or even startling realization,
people there
is no room for rationalization. The question I ask is
"Haven't you heard?" One day while walking down
the street, I approached a younger
brother and asked him, "Haven't you heard?" He
replied of course
"I've heard - that's the latest song by the Sugarhill
Gang. I heard
the word, you heard the word, they heard the word
and everybody say
Whoal"
On another occasion I asked a very dear lady friend
that same question,
"Haven't you heard?" She replied, "Sure I've heard
about Luke and
Laura on General Hospital and how Erica's divorcing
Adam on
All My Children."
It seems as if we spend too much time paying atten-
tion to those issues
of lesser importance, while those issues which dictate
my life and
yours remain uncontested and unidentified. So
tonight, when I ask
you. Haven't you heard," what will you say?
As Dynasty and Flamingo Road glorify power, wealth
and so much
sex... no one sense the hex of 1984 which is now upon
us.
Haven’t you heard about the latest fashion in nuclear
war? Not an
atom bomb or a hydrogen bomb but a nuetron bomb
that will completely
destroy your enemy but still preserve your Jordache
jeans?
Haven't you heard about hunger in the world the
makes new born babies
chew their tongues in El Salvador, Somalia and the
Sahele? Or have
you forgotten that a hungy man is an angry man?
Haven't you heard about the American Dream? Be-
ing unemployed and
morally destroyed with double digit inflation and
chronic violation
of what you think is right - as we all strive to be profes-
sional.
Well can someone awake me from this American
Dream for it is now a
nightmare.
Haven't you heard that there's more to life that fast
cars, bass
guitars and punk rock bars that rock with perpetual
motion?
Haven't you heard that the Price isn't Right? So come
on down Amherst
landlords, college tuition and rapid transit fares - for
you see these
are not items up for bid and as you can see I am not
Bob Barker.
Haven't you heard about majority rule? Of course you
have, that's
the Democratic way - one man one vote. Well then,
check out South
Africa and tell me what's happening on the Mother
Continent?
Has anyone heard the latest spelling for relief? Its no
longer
R-O-L-A-l-D-S, but
R-E-V-O-L-U-T-l-O-N. But no one
wants to listen...
no one wants to take the time until it's too late. Vet I
thank each
and every one of you for giving me this time to share
my message with you.
For those of you who haven't heard about some of the
issues which
I've already mentioned - then my friends - you haven't
been listening.
Terry Waller
BLACK BROTHERHOODS DESTINY
As they reach out to meet thier destinies
They find themselves hanging on to the world
Never letting go, never reaching their destinations
Their destiny lies in the universe, under the moon
And over the and is theirs to tint the question why
They realize that every day is an extention of yester-
day.
And if they could grab their destiny today, they
would
But thier destiny is intertwined with our black
brotherhood
Something that they never really understood
Been too preoccupied with pretty illusions to seek
the truth
To find their destiny, so that it can do them some
good
Give them some use
Now they have searched, and think that they have
found
Our black brotherhod, that's gathered dust just lyig
around
What does it mean, our black brotherhood?
I'll tell you, as they realized and relayed it to me.
Tony Robinson
Photos of the
Week
NUMMO NEWS
Monday, September 10. 1964
Page 4
ANNOUNCEMENTS
New courses offered by the
Afro-American Studies Department
AFRO-AM 212
SCULPRUTE: SHEET METAL
INTER-TRIBAL POW-WOW
Date: September 15th and 16th
Place: U.Mass Amherst
Inter-tribal Drummers and Singers
Prizes for Traditional and Fancy Dancing
Contests
Traditional Crafts and Foods Speakers
Rain or Shine No Drugs or Alcohol
EVERYWOMAN’S CENTER
Counseling Program has position opened as
Administrative Assistant
Duties include service requests, scheduling
speakers and intake appointmentsassisting
with research, and some supervisory respon-
sibilities
ke
20 hr/week and work-study student prefer-
red. Minority students are encouraged to ap-
ply
Application deadline is September 21,1984
EVERYWOMAN'S CENTER at are looking
for volunteers and interns to staff the
resourceroom at EWC for the fall
University and community woman are en-
couraged to apply. Interns and volunteers
provide information about area services and
events, medical and legal referrals, do occa-
sional crisis intervention, and up-date and
maintain resource and referral information on
many topics of concern to woman
THIRD WORLD CAUCUS
The Third World Caucus will be having an in-
troductory meeting for interested Umass
students on Wednesday, September 12th at
6:00 in the Dukes Room, Student Union
Bldg.
For more information call 545-2517 or come
to the office of Third World Affairs, 308 Stu-
dent Union Bldg
SUPPORT FOR GRADUATE WOMAN
WAGES a program at the Everywoman's
Center has started a graduate program.
Graduate WAGES will address the specific
needs of graduate woman through support
groups, workshops, speakers, social events,
brown-bag lunches, resources and ad-
vocacy.
For more information contact Graduate
WAGES at EWC, 545-0883
AFRO-AM 112
SCULPTURE:CLAY&PLASTER
Prof. Hill
MWF 9:05-11:00 NAH 01, lect. 2
AFRO-AM 113
AESTHETICS OF AFRO-AMERICA ART
(C)
Prof. Stevens
TUTH 4:00-5:15 NAH 109
AFRO-AM 155
REVOLUTIONARY CONCEPTS IN AFRO-
AM MUSIC I
Prof. Shepp
MWF 12:20-3:20 NAH 311
AFRO-AM 157
RESEARCHeBIBLIOGRAPHY IN AFRO-
AMERICAN STUDIES
Prof. Terry.Euge
MWF 2:30-3:20 NAH 110
AFRO-AM 197 A
Prof. C Packard
MWF 10:10-11:00 NAH 302
DESIGNED FOR STUDENTS IN LEADER-
SHIP POSITIONS— ►
NUMMO meeting - Today at
4pm 103 NAH
Paid positions available, work-
study prefered but non W/S
possible call 5-0061
Prof. Hill
TUTH 1:00-3:45 NAH 01
AFRO-AM 297 A
RACEEtWHITE SOTHERN WOMEN
WRITERS
Prof. Terry, Esther
TUTH 11:15-12:30 NAH 109
AFRO-AM 318
BLACK MUSIC AND THEATER
Prof. Shepp
THURSDAY 19:00-21:30 FAC 152
AFRO-AM 320
CONTEMPORARY BLACK URBAN
EDUCATION
Prof. Davis
TUTH 11:15-12:30 NAH 315
Name of Course: Leadership Development
for Volunteer Groups (H297B)
No. of Credits: 3
When: Tuesday .4*6:30 p.m.
Where: Machmer E-10
The course will be taught by the Director of
Student Activities, Randy Donant. The for-
mat of the course will consist of experimen-
tal activities, group presentations and
discussions as well as lecturettes.
AFRO-AM 331
THE LIFE WRITING OF W.E.B. DUBOIS
Prof. Meade
WEfF 11:30-12:30 Smith College
YVONNE' S PLACE
Monday - Friday
12:30 - 6:30 pm
A sample of treats include:
Fried Chicken
Island Curried Fish
Vegitarian Platter
Fried Rice
Curry
Thursday - Friday
S tudent Discount Days
Lamb
Shrimp
geef Basement of the New Africa House
Curried Goat Fridav is Soul Food daV-
p n . Coffee end Donuts are served daily.
tree uessert WEST ,ND1AN COOKING AT ITS BESTII
Monday. September 17, 1984
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CCEBMS/BCP Welcome New Staff
by Marilyn Bou
Nummo Staff
The Billingual Collegiate Program and the Collegiate
Commitee for the Education of Black and Minority
Students have hired three new employees/espective-
ly.
Kathy Mullins, former office manger for the B.C.P.
has been promoted inter-departmentally to the posi-
tion of Business Manager. Mullins worked closely for
over a year with Angel Garcia, former Business
Manager. During this time Mullins said "I got to know,
appreciate, and understand the components of the
program, and feel qualified for the position."
Mullins is a graduate of Berkshire Community Col-
lege with an Associates degree in Legal Studies, and a
UMass alunmni with a dual major in Physical An-
thropology and Spanish literature. Being business and
working in conjunction with Dr. Benjamin Rodriguez
director of the program, she said, "we are able to run
a very successful program overall".
Mullins said working with the students in the pro-
gram is a pleasurable and rewarding experience, "with
everyone working as a unit the program is sure to have
a pleasurable experience as well as enhancing the
community as a whole this year."
B.C.P. is an excellent tool for students to become
involved with one another in academic as well as
social areas. Mullins said. She added "B.C.P brings,
people together who otherwise would not be able to
find on such large campus peers of their own cultures
and backgrounds with whom they are able to relate,
learn from, and open new doors.
B.C.P. as well as Ahora, a Hispanic organization on
camus, will be celebrating their tenth anniversary the
week of September 29th through October 6th. The
week has been officially proclaimed as Billingual week
by Governer Dukakis. Mullins said "it is going to be a
wonderful, exciting and culturally affair that will bring
together culturally diverse groups within a schedule of
events." She said the events will be an education op-
portunity as well as a chance for the university com-
munity, the state and the nation to come together to
share the success of bilingual education and minorites
in higher education.
Doris Clemmons is the new academic advisor for
CCEBMS. Clemmons, a university alumni has been
employed by the university for twelve years. She
worked for the Department of Government
Documents where she advised students, faculty and
staff on information in the library system.
She took the position in CCEBMS out of a desire to
work in a more professional atmosphere. "All depart
ments on campus should work toward a common goal
of providing the students to finding their place in life,
since universities are molding the future minds of
America." Clemmons said. She finds the New Africa
House to be a close community which will enable her
to successfully fulfill her responsibilities as advisor. "I
am here to assist students in making their experiences
at the University as enjoyable and educational as
possible." she said.
Clemmons asks Christian students not to forget
how they were raised and to remember that with
Christ there isn't a problem that can not be overcome.
"Whatever goal you set for yourself, you will be able
to make a reality." she said.
CCEBMS has also hired a new assistant director,
Carol Young. Young is also a UMass alumni with a
master of arts in education and counseling.
Young was co-chairperson of the American Asian
Students Association. Her responsibilities at CCEBMS
include working closely with Paul Barrows CCEBMS
director, and Rick Townes, Assistant Director. Young
is responsible for coordinating a peer advising pro-
gram for Asian Americans on campus. "The program
is much like a big brother/big sister, she explains. The
program will use volunteer upperclass students to ad-
vise and assist underclass people.
"It is important for students to have a place to go
where they feel welcomed, supported and comfor-
table, the New Africa House symbolizes that for many
minorities." Young said. She added, "it's important
for students to participate and contribute on a
philosophical as well as on a physical level.
Young said a staff can make an organization func-
tion, but without student's imput it cannot be suc-
cessful
Writer Speaks
on Ethnicity
By Yadira Betances
"Writing is both therupedical and the best method
for dispelling sterotypical attitudes about ethnic
minorities in the United States,” said Nicholasa Mohr,
a Puerto Rican fiction writer who spoke at the Univer-
sity of Massachusetts last Wednesday.
Mohr, a native from New York, has written from a
personal perspective to educate about the Puerto
Rican experience as an ethnic minority in the
American society. But she said she ' feels lonely and
isolated," in the writing world. She wished there were
more Hispanics writing about their experiences.
"People are introduced to Puerto Ricans in my
literature. They are ready to know about the Puerto
Rican experience," she said citing the excess mail she
receives from the continental U.S. Although she sees
poetry as a way of expressing concern, she said.
"Poetry makes s short statement," she said. There
should be more writers and playwrights." Mohr,
writes about her personal experiences disguised as fic-
tion. She has never attempted to be a voice for all
Puerto Ricans. "Being a woman and being here is
what I write about," she said.
Continued on page 2
:ree Style Breakers and other youngsters from various Western
i/lass, communities came together at Bowker Auditorium, Saturday to
participate in a breakdance competition sponsored by the Com-
muter Area Government. nho,o hv soaun Eubanks
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NUMMO NEWS
Monday. September 17, 1984
1900: NA A CP Aids Legal Cases
by Julian Tynes
Nummo Staff
Part 2 of a series on the history of the N.A.A.C.P.
During the early part of the twentieth century,
whenever a Black was arrested, the accused was
customarily identified by race. Other offenders,
whether Polish, German, Italian, etc. were never iden-
tified by race. Examples of this were headlines such as
"Negro Hold Up, Artist Arrested." and "Black Hood
Mugs Older Citizens." Other than crime. Blacks were
seldom mentioned in newspaper articles.
During its first year of existence, the N.A.A.C.P. at-
tempted to change this situation. As a result, the
Associated Press orded there be no emphasis on race
or religion in its crime stories.
The first major legal case the N.A.A.C.P. handled
was filing a petition in 1910, for the pardon of Pink
Franklin, a black sharecropper in South Carolina.
Franklin had been mistreated by his former employer
and as a result moved to another farm to work. A war-
rant was then issued for his arrest. In moving he had
allegedly violated a South Carolina law which forbade
a share cropper to leave his employer after receiving
an advance in his wages. An officer and his assistant
force their way into Franklin's cabin after midnight.
The policemen did not state their purpose and Franklin
did not know who they were. A shoot-out occured
and one officer died a few hours later as a result of a
bullet from Franklin's gun. Pink Franklin was found
guilty of homicide and sentenced to be executed. His
case was taken to the Supreme Court and the court
upheld the decision saying none of Franklin's constitu-
tional rights had been denied. It was at this point the
N.A.A.C.P. interceded, filing a petition with the
Governer of South Carolina requesting a pardon. The
Governer changed the sentence to life imprisonment.
The organization felt that though the Governer had
done a curageous act in changing the sentence, a life
sentence was junjust and Franklin should have been
released. The N.A.A.C.P. had the case reopened in
1915 and in January 1919. Pink Franklin was granted
a parole and became a free man.
The N.A.A.C.P. also cooperated with another
organization the Negro Fellowship League, in the
Steve Green extradition case. Steve Green was a
laborer who had moved his family from Arkansas to
Tennesee in 1910. After a few months there was a
large increase in his rent, so Greene and his family,
and many other tenants moved. Greene was told by
his former employer that if he did not work for him, he
wouldn't work anywhere in the state. Greene did not
return. One day soon after, his former employer rode
up and shot him. Greene ran into his house, grabbed
his rifle, and killed his assailant. He immediatly fled.
His friends supplied him with enough food, money,
and other neccesities to go to Chicago. However,
while in Chicago he was betrayed, and arrested on a
false charge of larceny. Greene was given no food or
water for four days, while being questioned about the
Arkansas shooting. He attempted suicide, and
became so weak he had to be placed in a hospital
The Negro Fellowship League and the N.A.A.C.P.
became involved, providing legal counsel for his
defense. But when the Arkansas sheriff demanded
that Greene be sent via extradition papers back to
Arkansas both organizations fearing Greene's execu-
tion helped him escape to Canada.
The N.A.A.C.P.'s third legal case, its first year, in-
volved Thomas Williams. Williams was arrested in
November of 1910 and cham .vitn the murder of an
eleven year old white girl at Asbury Park, New Jersey.
There was no evidence against him, he had merely
been sighted near the scene of the crime. While in-
vestigating the case, the organization found out
Williams had been beaten and tortured in an attempt
to make him confess. After completing the investiga-
tion, the organization helped secure Williams' release
due to lack of evidence.
As a result of these early victories the young
organization attracted many new supporters and
members. Encouraged by early successes the
organization stepped into new frontiers fighting for
desegregation, voting rights, and anti-lynching laws
as well as the right to an equal education
Continued from page 1
Mohr is a feminist. "Feminism has always been a
part of me." She became a feminist when she noticed
how different she and her brothers were treated. Her
mother mapped her feministic values. She was an in-
spiration, not a role model." Mohr said her mother
saw her as more than someone's mate.
In Rituals of Survival: A women’s perspective and
Going Home her lastest writings due out in 1985,
Mohr explores issues never uncovered before. In
Rituals of Survival she introduces the reader to the
strengths amid struggles of the Puerto Rican woman.
She hopes the book "dispells the stereotypical at-
titudes towards us as women and Hispanic." Going
Home, a sequel to Felita, Mohr surfaces the problem
between islanders and Puerto Rican Americans. In the
story, Felita encounters hostility and mistrust from her
people when she visits the island in search of the
paridise her grandmother spoke so much of.
"I hope they have the same awareness as the other
books had," Mohr said. Mohr finds Puerto Ricans to
be nomads. She said they migrate to the island in
search of identity and security. "These are questions
never spoken about. They're finally coming out."
POETRY
THE NEED FOR PROTEST
a poem for my people of Latin America
Brothers and sisters.
There must be protest!
Why protest?
There must be protest
so there will be peace in the world
to calm children's hunger
and quench our thirst for justice.
There must be protest
to wipe out racism and sexism,
to stomp out poverty
and to combat capitalism.
Finally, there must be protest
to liberate ourselves
of foreign oppression.
La necesidad de la protesta
Un pema para mi gente de Latino America
Por Yadira Betances
Hermanos y hermanas,
hay que protester!
Por que protestar?
Hay que protestar?
para que hay a paz en el mundo
para calmar el hambre de/os ninos
y para saciar nuestra sed de justicia.
Hay que protestar
para aplacar el racismo y el sexismo,
para pisotear la pobreza
y veneer el capita/ismo.
En fin, hay que protestar,
para liberarnos
de invasiones extrangeras
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Marilyn G. Bou
Yvonne Mendez
Marc Elliot Giles
Julian Tynes
Lisa Viega
Nina Cordova
Lisa Huff
Judy Russ
Editor In Chief
Managing Editor
Layout Editor
Photo Editor
Researcher
Business Manager
Administrative Assistant
Typesetter
Typesetter
Contributors
Ed Cohen
Darlene Jackson
Yadira Betances
Photographer
Correspondent
Correspondent
Special thanks to Darlene Jackson, Andrea Baker,
Rod Clark and al who partxpated in the NUMMO Open House.
Address all letters to the Editor to: Nummo News,
New Africa House Room 103
Why protest?
We need to protest!
There must be protest, there must be protest
to save our nations!
By Yadira Betances
Por que protestar?
Necesitamos la protesta!
Hay que protestar, hay que protestar
para lograr nuestra indepencia!!
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Monday. September 17. 1904
Roving Reporter
ALONZO FEEMAN(left) and TRACY BROWNE
by Segun Eubanks
Nummo Staff
Nummo News asked the following group of Black
Fresmen what their first impression of UMass was:
SYLVIA GOMES
Alonzo Freeman from Randolph Ma., says:
"I like UMass. It's a nice big school, and the people
seem cool. The reason I came here is because my
cousin went here, and said it was a good school. The
classes are righteous. I'm an Engineering major anc
my classes are very challenging.”
Sylvia Gomes from New Bedford, Ma. says:
It s a big school, but the people seem friendly. The
only thing I don't like are the co-ed bathrooms. I gel
lost alot but I play it off. I use the library as my guide
and use my map because people send us (freshmen)
to the wrong places.”
Tracy Browne from New Jersey says:
"I feel it's a good school, and I will enjoy myself here
I had a very good first impression, when I visit las
year, that's why I'm here now. The classes are hard
but I know I can deal with them.”
Rochelle Victor from New Bedford, Ma. says:
"My first impression is that I'm never going to find my
classes."
ROCHELLE VICTOR
Introducing- Nummo Sports Talk
by Julian Tyneo
Nummo Staff
This is a new column in Nummo on sports for all of
you dedicated Black sports fans.
So what did you think of the Summer OLympics?
There were a lot of bright spots for Black atheletes.
Did you realize every Gold Medal in track that the
U.S.A. won, was won by a Black athelete?Even with
the Soviet led boycott many of those Gold Medals
would have stayed in the possesion of the U.S.
What about the mens and womens basketball
teams? Blacks dominated both teams. With Cheryl
Miller leading the women and Michael Jordan leading
the men, there wasn't a close game for the U.S. in the
whole tournament.
What about Carl Lewis and his four Gold Medals?
Very impressive, but it makes you realize how great
Jesse Owens was, and appreciate Owens accomplish-
ment. Owens was completing in the "Nazi” Olympics
of 1936. He almost single handedly destroyed the
myth of "Ayran supremacy." Suprisingly unlike
Lewis, Owens was not looked upon as a possibility to
win 4 gold medals.
Looking at current sports news, Franco Harris is cut
by Pittsburgh1 Franco Harris11 He of the "immaculate
reception." Here is a man who toiled for this team for
12 years, but they "no longer feel he fits in. *" The
owners complain about a lack of loyalty, where is their
loyalty?
Another example of this is the recent article in the
Collegian urging the Red Sox to trade Jim Rice. Rice
has been one of the most consistent hitters in Baseball
over the last 10 years. You can practically mail in a
minimum 2.80 - 2.90 batting average 30 hrs and 110
RBI's before the season even starts.
Yet now, because the man wants to be paid along
the same lines as others with similar statistics, they
say trade him. Well remember this, consistency is
what separates Rice from Armas, Evans, Buckner,
Boggs, Gedman, etc. He does the job year in, year
out. Rice is having a mediocre year for his standards
yet he is still among the league leaders in HR's, and
RBI's. Trade him and watch im lead another team to a
pennant, maybe a World Series.
SPORTS UPDATE: The Hitman is back' Thomas
Hearns the W.B.C. junior middleweight champion
destroyed Fred Hutchings knocking him out in 3
rounds. Hutchings barelv survived the first round,
when he was knocked down twice. The Hitman kept
up the pressure nearly finishing the fight in the second
round. However, Hutchings kept tying Hearns up in
order to survive the round.
The third round began with both fighters attemp-
ting to stick and move. Then Hearns stunned Hut-
chings with an overhand right and proceeded to pum-
mel him with combinations. Before Hutching was
seriously hurt, referee Arthur Meccante ended the
fight. Don't worry fight fans, this was one fight that
should have been stopped.
Hearns later said, he felt he was stronger than Hut-
chings so he decided to use his punching power.
When asked about middle weight champion Marvin
Hagler. Hearns said "I know Hagler's watching.” "He
knows his time is coming, just like everyone else the
Hitman will get to him too.” In the wake of his 3 round
T.K.O. of Fred Hutchings (the number 3 contender*)
and his stunning second round knockout of Roberto
Duran, (the only time Duran has ever been knocked
out) perhaps Marvin Hagler should beware. The Hit-
man is back*
NUMMO NEWS
Monday. September 17, 1984
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THIS IS US:
MEDIA
DRUM
DRUM is a Black literary publication
started in 1969 by a group of Black
students at the University of
Massachusetts. The magazine, focusing
on cultural and political issues, was a
self run publication throughout the early
70's. Now, with the assistance of artist
Nelson Stevens, DRUM has been incor-
porated into the Afro-American Studies
Department as a three credit course.
With the help of Afrik-Am and the
Third World Caucus, DRUM will be able
to publish another fine magazine. All
Third World students are encouraged to
participate in this year's production.
Those students with an interest in
writing, photography and lay-out are
deeply encouraged to join DRUM. With
your help we can continue to build a
stronger DRUM.
NUMMO NEWS
Nummo News, which is the UMass
Third World community's only indepen-
dent newspaper, was founded in 1975 by
a group of Black students who felt that
the Collegian was not representing the
interests of Third World students.
Nummo thrives to be the printed voice
of the Third World community in and
around the 5-College valley. Community
events and issues that are important to
Third World students are published and
distributed in every Monday's edition of
the Collegian.
Nummo is located in 103 New Africa
House, 545-0061.
BLACK AFFAIRS - A department of
the Massachusetts Daily Collegian
responsible for providing a fair and ac-
curate view of the news and information
petaining to the Third World community
on campus.
CONCEPTO LATINO, Student Union,
(413)545-2 '-79:
C.L. provides the five college
radio listening audience with a wide spec-
trum of music, both traditional and contem-
porary, from Latin American.
BLACK MASS COMMUNICATION PRO-
JECT (BMCP)
POLITICAL
THE AFRIKAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS
SOCIETY
Afrik-Am is the major Black cultural
organization on the UMass campus. It
dictates solely to the cultural and
political needs of the Black community.
Afrik-Am operates as an educational and
support network to the few Black
students on the Amherst campus. In the
past, Afrik-Am has been able to fund
other organizational groups for educa-
tional and cultural events.
Sincerely happy to serve the Black
community at UMass, Afrik-Am extends
a welcoming hand to all new and return-
ing Third World students. Afrik-Am
plans to provide the Third World com-
munity with a stimulating school year.
As within the past, Afrik-Am will con-
tinue to invite guest speakers to the
University, plus provide debates and
disscussions for Third World students
and the school in general.
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK
ENGINEERS:
N.S.B.E. was formed to ad-
vance, stimulate, and develop Black and
ethnic minority interest in engineering and to
assist with all levels of responsibility in the
advancement within the engineering
disciplines.
ASIAN AMERICAN STUDENTS
ASSOCIATION
AHORA
AHORA was born out of the desire of
the members of the Spanish speaking
community, including students, faculty,
and the community in general, to have
an organized and united voice in speak-
ing to thos issues which affect thier
lives.
AHORA is composed of various
cultural groups tied together by a com-
mon language. With this knowledge in
mind, AHORA openly strives to create a
flexibility of structure, a respect for
diversity of opinion, and an atmosphere
of freedom to express one’s views in a
democratic and open environment
within the framework of our organiza-
tional goals.
AHORA is organized exclusively as a
perpetual organization for charitable,
educational, cultural and scientific pur-
poses, to serve the Spanish-speaking
students and communities of Western
Massachusetts.
ASIAN AMERICAN PEER ADVISING
PROGRAM
The Asian American Peer Advising
Program has been established by
CCEBMS to aid incoming Asian
American students in adapting to
University life.
The Peer Advisors are upper-class
students who volunteer their time to
help a small group of the new students.
Not only can experience be shared, but
also new friendships may develop.
BMCP provides the University of
Massachusetts and the Five-College area
with Third World programming, in the
area of music and public affairs.
BMCP, created twelve years ago, came
about due to the lack of Black program-
ming on the UMass radio station;
WMUA. Today, BMCP continues to pro-
vide Black music and broadcasting
throughout the Pioneer Valley.
Stressing the need for Black music
and information-news, BMCP en-
courages all Third World students who
are interested in radio or television com-
munications to join the organization.
BMCP will train students to work in the
radio station, plus teach editing and TV
production.
CULTURAL/
The Asian American Students
Association (AASA) is a registered stu-
dent organization. It was founded in spr-
ing of 1974 by students in order to pro-
mote the presence of Asian Americans
and also to strenghen the ties between
them.
AASA has been active in programs of
interest not only to the Asian American
community, but of interest to all. AASA
has sponsored the visits of distinguished
speakers such as Yuri Kochiyama, U.S.
District Judge Robert Takasogi and Liz
Young. Some other activities the
Association has sponsored include inter-
collegiate club basketball tournaments,
the annual Asian Talent Night and Party
and a film and theatre series involving
Asian Americans. These and many other
social and cultural events are held as the
result of commited students.
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Highlights of
Third World Organizations
UHURU
This performing arts ensemble offers an
opportunity for Third World community
members at the University to aquire a
broad-based knowledge of procedures
necessary to execute a full-scale stage
production.
AFRICAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION,
New Africa House: A.S.A. devises and
cultivates closer relationships among African
students in the five college area so they may
study fundamental problems facing African
countries and find solutions.
CAPE VERDEAN STUDENTS ALLIANCE,
New Africa House, (413) 545-0031:
C.V.S.A. is committed to promoting
cultural, political, and historical programs in
order to maintain a sence of cultural identity
at the University.
CENTERS
MALCOLM X CULTURAL CENTER
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. CULTURAL
CENTER
The Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural
Center, located in Dickinson Dormitory,
Orchard Hill, facilitates the needs of
Third World students in the Orchard Hill
and Central residential areas. The
Center, in the past, has provided Third
World students with a studious at-
mosphere, a library and social events.
This fall The Martin Luther King Jr.
Cultural Center will once again be open
to the Third World Community.
CENTER FOR RACIAL STUDIES
Located in Moore House (Southwest),
the Center for Racial Studies' mandate is
to increase social and racial awareness
in Southwest, and well as reaching out
to the greater UMass community. The
center does anti-racist work and training
by offering courses, independent
studies, workshops, films and speakers.
It also has a small library available for
student use. 545-0472.
ANACOANA CENTER: Dwight House:
The Anacoana Center is the Third World
Cultural Center that serves the northeast
residential center. The center provides a
quiet place for students to study.
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS ON CAMPUS
AMERICAN INDIAN ASSOCIATION
DUKE ELLINGTON COMMITTEE. Prince
House (4131-545-0716.
THIRD WORLD SCIENTISTS SOCIETY
This
organization unites undergraduate Black students
who have a common goal in science.
This is just a partial list of groups and
organizations for Third World students
in the area. So no matter what your
background or interests are there are
resources and opportunities available to
you. And they all need your help to con-
tinue...so LET'S GET INVOLVED!!!!
Study groups, workshops and casual
get togethers are some of the activities
the Program sponsors. The stress of the
first year at school can be alleviated by
the help of fellow students like the Asian
American Peer Advising Program.
For more information on this program,
contact; Carol Young or Jeff Mar at
CCEBMS, 213 New Africa House,
545-0031.
OFFICE OF THIRD WORLD AFFAIRS
The OTWA is the only University Office
primarily charged with protecting and
promoting the political and cultural in-
terests of Third World students on cam-
pus. The office is funded by the Student
Senate and its general policies are ap-
proved and directed by the Senate's
Third World Caucus. The office advises
Third World students on creating or
maintaining organizations; assists in ad-
vocating and promoting issues relevant
to their interest and dealing with pro-
blems blocking these interests. They
maintain extensive files on educational,
social and political issues. They are com-
mitted to working to further a University
environment free from the diseases of
racism, sexism, and injustices against
people of color. Room 308 Student
Union, 545-2517.
THIRD WORLD CAUCUS
The Third World Caucus is the main
legislative body that represents the Third
World community in the Undergraduate
Senate at UMass. This representation
helps to insure diversity by promoting
Third World student interest and
unity .The Third World came into ex-
istence in the late 1960's in responce to
the struggle waged by Third World
students to correct the exclu sionary
practices of the UMass Undergraduate
Student Senate.
The caucus serves as the governing
board of the Office of Third World Af-
fairs. It maintains communication with
Third World organizations and assists
them with their organizational goals.
For more information, please pay us a
visit at 417 New Africa House or call
545-2157.
The Malcolm X Center, one of the
largest Third World centers on The
UMass campus, was started in the early
70's by a group of Black students who
petitioned the Southwest Area Govern-
ment for space and funding. The center
within the past has served as a meeting
place for Black and Third World
students.
With an emphasis on programming,
the Malcolm X Cultural Center offers
Third World students cultural and
political activities throughout the school
year, along with two or three academic
courses per semester. Also, the Center
has provided Undergraduate and
Graduate students with work-study
positions. Located in the basement of
Berkshire Dining Commons, Southwest.
KOREAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION,
located in the Student Union.
VIETNAMESE STUDENTS ASSOCIA-
TION
V.S.A. serves to strengthen discussion
for the challenges ans apirations of Viet-
namese students.
THE CHINESE CLUB
THE IRANIAN MOSLEM STUDENT
ASSOCIATION
THE UNION OF IRANIAN STUDENTS IN
AMHERST
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Getting down to basics-Sherwood
Thompson, Director of the Office of
Third World Affairs and CCEBMS Rick
Townes talk to students at the CCEBMS
Meeting last Wednesday, as Rudy
Jones, Assistant Director of
Undergraduate Admissions and Paul
Barrows, CCEBMS Director analyze the
situation
With people of all agos, races and sex,
popping, spinning and moving to the
beat, the first annual Breakdance Com-
petition, held Friday, Sept. 14th at
Bowker Auditorium was a tremendous
success. Sponsored by the Commuter
Area Government.
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Cultural sounds
to hit the valley
ARCHIE SHEPP
Archie Shepp will be performing at the
Iron Horse Coffee House on Friday,
September 21st at 8:30 p.m.
The Iron House is located at 20 Center
St., Northampton. Tickets will be 5.00
and can be purchased at the door.
"JAZZ/AFRICA”
Ghanaian Master Drummer Obo Addy
will perform "Jazz/Africa at the Iron
Horse Coffeehouse in Northampton on
Tuesday, Sept. 18th at 7 and 10 p.m.
The Show will feature Obo Addy with
the group KUKRUDU for ticket reserva-
tions call: 584-0610
BLACK UHURU
The campus of the University of
Massachusetts will be honored with a
performance of Black Uhuru on Wednes
day, September 19th at 8:00 p.m. in the
Student Union Ballroom.
This rymthic reggae band, one of the
finest out of Jamaica, consists of
Michael Rose, Puma Jones, Ducky
Simpson, Sly Dunbar an Robbie
Shakespeare.
Tickets to this UPC Production and
Duke Ellington Committee sponsored
event can be obtained at the University
of Massachsetts in Amherst Fine Arts
Center Box Office, Springfield Civic
Center, and the Stop & Shops in Nor-
thampton, Pittsfield, Greenfield,
Holyoke and Hadley at the cost of $9.50
for UMass students and $11.50 for the
general public.
Black Uhuru, "Uhuru" meaning
freedom in swahili, has come a long way
from its beginning as a hotel and club
band in Jamaica.
The band is credited for playing sold
out shows throughout Europe and
America. They have also opened for the
Rolling Stones in England and the Police
in America.
Puma Jones, the band lead vocal,
started in 1978. Her past work had in-
cluded some backup for Ras Micheal
and Sons of of Negus.
Black Uhuru greatest additions are Sly
Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare. They
have played on about 70 percent of all
reggae albums recorded in Jamaica, and
they produced a number of them as well.
Dunbar and Shakespeare have done
work with Joe Crocker, Peter Tosh and
Grace Jones. Some of their recent work,
outside of Black Uhuru, includes playing
rhythm on solo albums by Mick Jagger,
Carly Simon, and Bob Dylan.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
SUPPORT FOR GRADUATE WOMAN
WAGES a program at the Everywoman's
Center has started a graduate program.
Graduate WAGES will address the specific
needs of graduate woman through support
groups, workshops, speakers, social events,
brown-bag lunches, resources and ad-
vocacy.
For more information contact Graduate
WAGES at EWC, 545-0883
CCEBMS
CCEBMS is in need of tutors in ANY sub-
ject. All interested individuals applay at
CCEBMS, Non-work study and work-
study.
CCEBMS students - remember the
deadline for tutorial request is Oct. 1st.
SCERA - An activist organization that
won't scare you.
SCERA is a student organization that
works with social issues such as sexism,
racism and anti-semitism. In addition to
this SCERA researchs and conducts
campaigns dealing with issues affecting
students such as rents and fees,
academic affairs, residential issues, ect.
Work-study and non-work study posi-
tions are available for students who feel
concern about any of these issues and
would like to work on them.
Additional information and applica-
tions can be obtained at 420 Student
Union Bldg weekdays from 8:00 a.m. un-
til 6:00 p.m. They can also be obtained at
the offices of CCEBMS, BCP, O.T.W.A.
and AHORA. The deadline for applica-
tions is September 26.
EVERYWOMAN'S CENTER at are looking
for volunteers and interns to staff the
resourceroom at EWC for the fall
University and community woman are en-
couraged to apply. Interns and volunteers
provide information about area services and
events, medical and legal referrals, do occa-
sional crisis intervention, and up-date and
maintain resource and referral information on
many topics of concern to woman.
EVERYWOMAN'S CENTER
Counseling Program has position opened as
Administrative Assistant
YVONNE'S PLACE
Monday - Friday
12:30 - 6:30 pm
A sample of treats include:
Fried Chicken
Island Curried Fish
Vegitarian Platter
Fried Rice
Curry
Thursday - Friday
Student Discount Days
Lamb
Shrimp
Beef
Curried Goat
Free Dessert
MALCOLM X
Basement of the New Africa House
Friday is Soul Food day.
Coffee and Donuts are served daily.
WEST INDIAN COOKING AT ITS BESTII
ANACAONA CENTER
The Malcolm X Center welcomes all
returning and new students to the
University. We hope you are ready for an
exciting year. For those students who
are not aware of the Malcolm X Center,
it is the largest Third World Center on
the UMass Campus. The Center is
located in Southwest in the lower part of
Berkshire Dining Commons.
The Malcolm X Center has been ex-
istence for thirteen years as an academic
as well as a social center.
The Center is offering the following
courses:
SW191F - West Indian Cultures,
Tuesdays 3-5 p.m. taught by Yvonne
John .
SW291I - Student Leadership and Stu-
dent Groups Wednesdays 7-10 p.m.
taught by Earl Brown.
All classes are 3 credits and can be
signed up for in John Adams lobby.
The Center is open Sundays 2-11 p.m.
and Monday - Friday 12 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Study hours at the Center are Sundays -
Thursday 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Have a good semester and stop by to
see us.
The Anacaona Center and the Sylvan
Cultural Society of Northeast/Sylvan
Residential Area is seeking qualifying
students for the 1984-85 year to develop
programs, implementing events and
budgetting to asses the needs of
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Applications are available in 103
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tacting Ian Clinton or Dr. Brown.
Application deadline will be 5 p.m.
September 19th.
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SHIP POSITIONS
Name of Course: Leadership Development
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No. of Credits: 3
When: Tuesday 4-6:30 p.m.
Where: Machmer E-10
The course will be taught by the Director of
Student Activities, Randy Donant. The for-
mat of the course will consist of experimen-
tial activities, group presentations and
discussions as well as lecturettes.
For further information call Randy at
545-3606 or come to the Student Activities
Office, Room 416 Student Union
Monday. September 24, 1984
James Baldwin delivers message
Saturday at a tribute in his honor.
Lerone Bennett gives a powerful
speach in his keynote address
honoring author James Baldwin
photo by David Walker
connected with the Collegian
for the sole purpose of
Volume 13 Issue 3 distribution
A Tribute to a
Living Legend
by Segun Eubanks
Nummo Staff
This past Saturday, the University of
Massachusetts was honored with presence of some of
the most influential black authors, artists and leaders
in America. Their reason for being here was to
celebrate the 60th birthday of "a brother, teacher, and
friend," "a intellectual giant," "an american original":
A tribute to the life of author, playwright and pro-
fessor, James Arthur Baldwin.
The event was sponsored by UMass Chancellor
Joseph Duffey and was attended by such people as
Lerone Bennet (author, editor) Maya Angelou
(author, poet) Romare Bearden (artist) Dr. Ruth Love
(author) Mrs. Baldwin, David Baldwin (mother and
brother of James) and many others. The very elegant
yet casual atmosphere of the first floor Campus
Center provided a backdrop for one of the most ex-
citing evenings in UMass history.
Pat Murphy, the director of 5-college services
began the evenings proceedings with the formal an-
nouncement that James Baldwin will be back as a
5-college professor in the 1985-86 school year.
Baldwin will teach courses in two or three of the
5-college schools and the courses will be available to
all 5-college students.
Chancellor Duffey, then announced the formation
of a James Baldwin Scholarship Fund which will be
available to 5-college students. Donations for the
event were contributed to the Scholarship Fund.
Samuel Floyd, Queens College professor and close
friend of Baldwin continued the tribute. "James and I
have laughed, talked and drank a lot for a quarter of a
century," Baldwin has shown America through his
writing the plight of the Black man but also "has the
courage to change the circumstances." said Floyd.
"James has helped to lead us up the rough side of
the mountain, we will always be grateful to James
Baldwin," said Maya Angelou in a very poetic speech.
The keynote speech came from Lerone Bennett,
author and editor of Ebony magazine. "James Arthur
Baldwin of Harlem, of the world has triumphed over
the world... This is a celebration of life's victory of a
runner who is still in the race, a warrior who's still in
the battle of an eagle who is still i n flight," said Ben-
nett in a very moving and exciting oratory. "James
Baldwin has transformed the vision of millions who
once were blind. ..He has almost singlehandedly
redefined race thinking in this country." Bennet spoke
of dealing with the "organic sickness of American
society.” "We have a tremendous moral responsibility
and opportunity here." said Bennett.
The formal tribute continued with short messages
from Paul Barrows, Director of CCEBMS, Marily Bou,
speaking on behalf of Third World students, and of
course Mr. Baldwin.
Baldwin with his gentle manner walked up to the
microphone and thanked everyone for joining him in
celebrating his 60th birthday. In his soft voice he joked
with the crowd, "I will not keep long, now seriously
there many, many things I cannot say and many
things I do not have the words to say, and many many
Continued on page 2
The Controversy Continues:
by Julian Tynes
Nummo Staff
B M C P vs. WML A
A major rift has developed between B.M.C.P. and
W.M.U.A., over both programming content and air-
time. Chris Winslow, B.M.C.P. General Manager and
acting Third World Affairs Director says that
B.M.C.P. hours have been cut "without any justifica-
tion." B.M.C.P. member Neil Grant added "that pro-
per procedures were not followed for the allocation of
air-time for B.M.C.P. in terms of working with the
project on the new air schedule." Winslow also stated
"under the constitution they're supposed to work with
us."
Many members of B.M.C.P. who have been trying
to form a compromise with W.M.U.A. feel the new
schedule has been given with a "take it or leave it" at-
titude. This is evident by the fact that W.M.U.A's
original proposal was for 34 hours, and B.M.C.P's was
fpr 46. The current schedule calls for 33. This is out of
a W.M.U.A. weekly total of 168.
In answering to the charge that B.M.C.P. has not
given the station a 24 hour advance notice of a D.J.
not being able to fill their slot, Grant says "how are we
supposed to give a 24 hour advance notice, if the D.J.
calls in 3 hours before his show?" "When this hap-
pens we do our best to find someone to fill these slots
as quickly as possible."
As for the lack of diversity, all members of the pro-
ject approached feel that B.M.C.P. definitly adds
diversity to W.M.U.A's programming. Winslow says
"there are plans being considered within B.M.C.P. for
new and different types of programming. Such as
more public affairs, black news, B.M.C.P. and sports-
talk. With the new schedule it will be difficult to bring
about some of these ideas," "but we are going to
keep on with our plans."
Ani Benglin W.M.U.A. General Manager refused
further comment on the situation.
page 2
NUMMO NEWS
Monday, September 24. 1984
Lynching: A National Disgrace
Part 2 in a series on the history of the NA A C P
by Julian Tynes
Nummo Staff
In 1911, the N.A.A.C.P. launched their initial cam-
paign against lynchings. This campaign against lyn-
chings. This campaign began with an extensive in-
vestigation on lynchings in the United States.
The Executive Committee received its first report on
a lynching in Livermore, Kentucky. This lynching
which occured in April 1911 involved the murder of a
white man. The accused was taken to the town's
opera house and tied to the stage. An admission fee
was charged to those who wanted to witness the lyn-
ching and the proceeds were donated to the family of
the murdered white man.
The Executive committee appealed to the President
of the United States to bring an end to all lynchings in
the U.S. A resolution opposing lynchings was sent to
the President of the United States the President of
the Senate, and House Judiciaries, and also to the
Associated Press. The resolution was delivered by a
committee of the Washington branch, which asked
the President to send a special message to the Senate
and the House in regard to the matter of lynchings.
President Taft informed the committee he could do
nothing since lynching was not a federal offense and
was a matter left entirely up to the states.
In August 1911, Zack Walker a black man from
Coatsville, Pennsylvania, was wounded in a fight with
a policeman whom he killed. Although he pleaded
self-defense, he was taken from the hospital, dragged
through the streets by a mob then lynched. After ef-
forts to have the mob indicted failed, the Executive
committee hired the Williams J. Burns detective agen-
cy to uncover enough evidence for a conviction. The
investigation revealed that the district attorney had
been involved in protecting the lynchers and the state
had decided not to prosecute the case.
As part of the campaign against lynching a lynch
map of the United States was kept in the N.A.A.C.P.
New York Office, a pin was used to mark each lyn-
ching. The lower half of the map was filled with pins.
In the spring of 1916, a lynching occured which sent
horror and shock waves througout the United States.
The lynching even shocked people not interested in
the civil rights of blacks. In Waco, Texas 10,000 men,
women and children cheered when Jesse Washington
a mentally disabled 19 year old black man was burned
alive in the Public Square. Photographs were taken as
the events assumed a carnival atmosphere.
The N.A.A.C.P. sent a white investigators to
Texas. His findings were published in The Crisis in an
8 page supplement entitled "The Waco Horror."
"Washington was dragged through the streets, stabb-
ed, mutilated, and finally burned to death in the
presence of a crowd of 10.000... After death what was
left of his body was dragged through the streets and
parts of it sold as souveniers. His teeth were brought
for $5.00 apiece and the chain that had bound 25
cents a link."
In 1916 the N.A.A.C.P. distributed more than
200,000 pieces of literature which pointed out that the
U.S. A. was the only civilized country in the world
where human beings were publicly burned alive
without a trial of any fashion. During 1916, fifty-nine
people were killed by mobs. That is more than one a
week. In 1917 there were 47 lynchings. It had
become so unusual for a law enforcement officer to
take action against a lynch mob the N.A.A.C.P.
presented a silver cup to Sherriff Eley of Lima, Ohio
"for devotion in preventing the lynching of a colored
prisoner."
In 1919 Missouri Representative L.C. Dyer introduc-
ed a bill designed to make lynching a federal offense.
The proposed legilation which was introduced that the
request of the N.A.A.C.P. never made it past
southern fillibusters in the senate, after passing in the
House. In 1918 (the previous year) five men were lyn-
ched in one day in Valdosta, Georgia and there were
67 hangings and burnings for the year in the whole
country.
Within those thirty years, 3224 men and women had
been lynched. In only 19 percent of the cases has rape
orother sex offences even been alleged. Although the
South justified lynching as a means of "protecting”
white women from Black male rapists. Since 1889 on-
ly seven states had not had at least one lynching. Ten
states had more than 100 a piece, with Georgia topp-
ing the list with 386. Most of the lynchings occurred in
the southern.
In the study some of the more gruesome lynchings
were described. A detailed report of the lynching of Eli
Person the Memphis Press stated "15,000 men,
women, and children cheered as they poured the
gasoline on the ax fiend and struck the match. They
fought and screamed and crowded to get a glimpse of
him, and the mob closed in as the flames his hand
crossed on his chest."
*ln another case a mob near Valdosta, Georgia
frustrated at not finding the murderer of a plantation
owner, lynched three innocent Black men instead.
The pregnant wife of one of the three wailed so loud
the mob grabbed her and burned her alive too. As the
flame enveloped the woman's body her unborn child
fell to the ground and was trampled by the crowd.
These cases which were backed up by names,
dates, and places were carried in the N.A.A.C.P.
booklet on lynching. Some action had to be taken.
The N.A.A.C.P. continued to put pressure on the
President, Congress and on state politicians to end
this national atrocity.
To this day there is still no anti-lynching law in the
United States.
Continued from page 1
EDITORIAL
I am writing this letter to the entire community at
UMass, but particularly to Mr. Bill Stephew and Mr.
Randy Scollins.
First of all Mr. Stephew and Mr. Scollins have ac-
cused BMCP of a lack of diversity in programming.
Obviously neither of the two know much at all about
Black music nor do they bother to listen to BMCP
shows. Maybe they never listened to Lea Loftus' Ec-
clectric show or Gene Issacs' Reggae show or Chris
Winslows' Quiet Touch or my Jazz show or Eon
Johns' show or they would clearly find the diversity
that they are so desperately searching for.
Ten or fifteen years ago the most popular forms of
black music were shown as Soul and Funk. This in-
cluded James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Parliament,
Diana Ross, The Stylistics, ect. This music was also
the most frequently played on BMCP, naturally. To-
day the most popular form of Black music is Urban
Contemporary which includes artists such as Run
DMC, Grandmaster Flash, Chaka Khan, an d yes even
James Brown. This of course, is the most frequently
played music by BMCP.
But clearly the racism, bigotry and ignorance that is
alive and well at WMUA has clouded these very
logical conclusions. Yet Ani Benglian, station
manager of WMUA had the naivety to say "Race is
not the issue” (Collegian Friday, Sept. 21). I sat in the
last WMUA Management Board meeting when Mr.
Scallon said BMCP was not diverse, "I want to hear
some White Funk." I suppose when Stephew speaks
of diversity ( Collegian Friday, Sept. 21) he is referring
to White Jazz, White African, and White Latino
music.
And if you were aound four years ago you would
have heard Stephew complaining about too much
funk on BMCP. The rap is always the same and the in-
tentions are very clear. If not for the fact that the last
WMUA General Manager Carl Lowman did not allow
it, these types of manuevers by WMUA would have
taken place a year ago.
The real question is whether or not BMCP, The
Third World community, and the UMass community
as a whole wil allow a few racist, ignorant, narrow-
minded individuals to change WMUA into their type
of diverse music - all White.
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things which I have already said.”
Baldwin addressed the audience on the importance
of everyone taking responsibilites for themselves and
the world in which thy live, "you need not civilize me
with guns and terror," Baldwin said, "we are talking
about a civilization who has the power to blow itself
up.” Baldwin went on to say, "people are responsible
for politics.
The white man brought us here against our will, told
us we were uncivilized but not to worry he would
civilize us, he does not realize however, that I need not
be civilized by people who despise me." said Baldwin.
"He (the white man) says he does not want me to
break-up his neighborhood, well I would never have
had to if he had left mine alone."
The formal tribute ended after Baldwin's elegant
speech but the many important messages and strong
community sense remained and will remain long after
the event is forgotten Thanks to the James Baldwins,
Lerone Bennetts and Maya Angelou's of the world,
the messages of peace and love will one day be a reali-
ty. Perhaps the feeling was best expressed by Maya
Angelou when she said, "we have to have enough
love to build bridges and then enough trust to cross
them in order to reach each other."
COME WORK
FOR
NUMMO NEWS
Work-Study positions
for reporters
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page 3
NUMMO NEWS
Monday. September 24, 1984
Black Uhuru brings excitement to the S.U.B.
by Segun Eubanks
Nummo Staff
Obo Addy makes the music come
alive with African rythms.
Micheal Rose, lead singer of Black
Uhuru, urges the audience to partici-
pate during the concert last Wedne®
sday at the SUB
Jamacian reggae group Black Uhuru
and Ghanian Master Drummer Addy
brought the cultural sounds and inner
feelings of Africa, Jamaica, and Black
America to the Student Union Ballroom
last Wednesday with two brilliant
musical performers.
Obo Addy and his group Kukrudo
opened the show with a startling perfor-
mance of traditional and modern African
music. A strong horn section, bass and
lead guitars, and an array of African
drums came together in unique rythms
which many listeners thought similar to
jazz.
In a backstage interview Addy said
"People say my music sounds like Jazz
and it does. This is because Jazz has its
roots in African music." He went on to
talk about the difficulties of obtaining
black musicians and black audiences.
Black Uhuru staged an excellent reg-
gae performance. With lead singer
Michael Rose and outstanding musi-
cians. Sly Dunbar, Darryl Thompson,
Franklin Bubbler, Sky Juice, and Robbie
Shakespere. Black Uhuru proved to be
one of the best reggae groups in the
music industry.
The only dissappointment was that
the tickets were far overpriced and out
of the reach of the average student.
photos by David Walker
Alicia Smart performs a solo at
the Tribute to James Baldwin,
sponsored by Chancellor Duffey,
YVONNE'S PLACE
Monday - Friday
12:30 - 6:30 pm
A sample of treats include:
Fried Chicken
Island Curried Fish
Vegitarian Platter
Fried Rice
Curry
Thursday - Friday
Student Discount Days
Lamb
Shrimp
Beef
Curried Goat
Free Dessert
Basement of the New Africa House
Friday is Soul Food day.
Coffee and Donuts are served daily.
,A/ro-r ikiniAu rnnviKir: at its RFSTII
SUPPORT YOUR THIRD WORLD ORGANIZATIONS’
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NUMMO NEWS
Monday. September 24, 1984
announcements
The New WORLD Theater Ensemble is
a multi-racial group of 5-college
students working together under the
auspices of the Fine Arts Center New
World Theater. The NWTE provides
actors and technicians with perfor-
mance and production experience. In
addition, ensemble members take
workshops with visiting artists and
select the original productions of the
New WORLD Theater. Members of
the NWTE have the opportunity to
develop their skills in all areas of
theater through these workshops and
the participation on the plays produc-
ed. Last year, the NWTE produced
GULLAH! and Do Lord Remember Me
in its debut season. All members
receive the privilege of attending all
New WORLD Theater performances
and other selected plays at no cost.
Auditions for SHORT EYES by Miguel
Pinero, and also a limited number of
Ensemble positions are available for
male and female actors. We also en-
courage people with limited ex-
perience, who have talent and en-
thusiasm to apply. The auditions will
be held at:
BOWKER AUDITORIUM-
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 24 AND 25
FROM 6 P.M. TO 9 P.M.
CALL BACKS ARE WED.
SEPTEMBER 26 FROM 6 P.M. TO 9
P.M.
FOR INFORMATION, CALL 545-0190
There will be a mandatory meet-
ing for all CCEBMS 1984 Summer
students on September 2b, at
4:00 p.m. in the New Africa
House Library. Please be on time
CCEBMS
CCEBMS is in need of tutors in ANY sub-
ject. All interested individuals applay at
CCEBMS. Non-work study and work-
study.
CCEBMS students - remember the
deadline for tutorial request is Oct. 1st.
EVERYWOMAN'S CENTER at are looking
for volunteers and interns to staff the
resourceroom at EWC for the fall
University and community woman are en-
couraged to apply. Interns and volunteers
provide information about area services and
events, medical and legal referrals, do occa-
sional crisis intervention, and up-date and
maintain resource and referral information on
many topics of concern to woman
iMMHHMHMr
SCERA - An activist organization that
won't scare you.
SCERA is a student organization that
works with social issues such as sexism,
racism and anti-semitism. In addition to
this SCERA researchs and conducts
campaigns dealing with issues affecting
students such as rents and fees,
academic affairs, residential issues, ect.
Work-study and non-work study posi-
tions are available for students who feel
concern about any of these issues and
would like to work on them.
Additional information and applica-
tions can be obtained at 420 Student
Union Bldg weekdays from 8:00 a.m. un-
til 6:00 p.m. They can also be obtained at
the offices of CCEBMS, BCP, O.T.W.A.
and AHORA. The deadline for applica-
tions is September 26.
SUPPORT FOR GRADUATE WOMAN
WAGES a program at the Everywoman's
Center has started a graduate program.
Graduate WAGES will address the specific
needs of graduate woman through support
groups, workshops, speakers, social events,
brown-bag lunches, resources and ad-
vocacy.
For more information contact Graduate
WAGES at EWC. 545-0883
GREEN PARTY IS COMING TO
UMASS
Representatives of the Green
Party, the coalition of peace and ecology
movements opposing deployment of US
missies in Germany will speak on:
THE GREEN PARY AND CURRENT
STATUS - OF THE PEACE MOVEMENT
IN GERMANY
with speakers:
HILDEGARD VON MEIER, editor of
FRIZ, a national peace newspaper, and a
major organizer if Women for Peace, and
a member of the National Coordination
Committee of the West German Peace
Movement.
DR. ALBERT STATZ, peace researcher
from the Free University of Berlin, and a
member of the Green Party's National
Peace and Disarmament Committee.
THURSDAY SEPT. 27, 8 P.M. CAMPUS
CENTER 174 - 176
sponsored by: S.T.P.E.C, Women's
studies. Dept, of Afro-Am, the German
Dept, (UMASS); Hampshire College
Peace Lecture Series, AFSC Disarma-
ment working group, I.A.S.H.
All women working in student
groups are cordially invited to
attend a wine and cheese recep-
tion, Tuesday , September 25 at
5:30 in the Women's Leadership
project, 415 Student Union. For
more information please call
545-0254 or stop by.
MENS
Monday, October 1, 1984
connected with the Collegian
for the so/e purpose of
Volume 13 Issue 4 distribution
BCP:The Celebra tion Begins
by Marilyn Bou
Nummo Staff
The Bilingual Collegiate Program (BCP) along with the
student organization AHORA, kicked off their week
long birthday party at the University of
Massachusetts/ Amherst. The BCP is now ten years
old while the AHORA organization is twelve. The
celebration began with an opening night ceremony on
the tenth floor of the Campus Center freaturing a
number of keynote speeches. The mistress of
Ceremony was Dr. Gloria DeGuevera, Director of the
Educational Access and Outreach at UMass, who
welcomed everyone to the evenings festivities and
thanked all participants for coming.
Dr. Benjamin Rodriguez the Director of BCP since
its inception in 1974, took a trip down memory lane. "I
remember when this program was nothing more than
a dream. All we had for an office was a box at the New
Africa House."
Dean Field said to me, Ben, I wonder how this is going
to work." BCP now resiuec in Wilder Hall where there
is a full staff along with services catering to one of the
most diverse population on this campus.
Dr. Denis Madson, vice chancellor for student af-
fairs said, "A vear ago at the Graduation celebration,
the predominant theme was pride for the BCP, now I
see the Continued Commitment as the theme for an
orginization which has made higher education a reality
for many minorities."
Dr. Gloria DeGuevera leads the
singing of Happy Birthday at the
BCP/AHORA 10th Anniversary
Celebration.
photo by David Walker
Carlos Gonzales, a keynote speaker, is a
BCP/University alumnus. He played a very active role
while at UMass as a member fo the Student Govern-
’ment Association, President of AHORA, Director of
Spanish Programming at WMUA, D.J. for Concepto
Latino, and Resident Assistant. During his speech,
Gonzalez told the audience, "It is very scary being on
a campus of this size. When you first arrive, you look
around hoping to find a friendly face but it is difficult
when everyone around you is doing their own sear-
ching. This is one major reason for the BCP, for it not
only provides academic services, it also playes the role
of an extended family."
Governor Dukakis has officially declared the week
of September 30 through October 6 Bilingual Educa-
tion Week at the University and throughout the state
of Massachusetts. The proclamation was read by Dr.
Larry Benedict, Dean of Academic Support Services
at the UMass.
Timothy Barret the Assistant Superintendent of the
Holyoke School System, was the Guest Speaker.
"Bilingual education began in this country as early as
the 18th century, it has had ups and downs, but has
proven the importance of its existence." The BCP has
made this campus and surrounding communities
richer places. It provides an ooportunity for people of
diverse cultures to educate one another of these
cultures," said Barret.
The evening ended with a dance in the Campus
Center Auditorium, and began a week long celebra-
tion of the past struggles and future success of an
evergrowing population on the University of
Massachusetts campus.
Sports Feature : A Tribute To A Champion
by Julian Tynes
Nummo Staff
One of the most important sports stories in the last
month is the story of Muhammad Ali being admitted
to Columba Presbyterian Medical Center for Symp-
toms of Parkinson's Syndrome.
Ali, the former three time Heavyweight Champion
of the World, had been afflicted in recent years with
slurred speech and a halting gait. People from all over
the world expressed concern over his health and well
being. Ali, one of the most favored althlete in the
history of sports has a popularity that transcends box-
ing, because of both his religion, and his now famous
stand on the Vietnam war.
Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay was an Olympic
Gold Medalist in the Light Heavyweight Division in
I960. He quickly established a reputation as the fastest
and most agile fighter to ever grace the Heavyweight
Division. Imagine, a man 6 feet 3 inches and 220
pounds, moving with the grace and speed of a Sugar
Ray Leonard and the power of a Joe Louis. Ali was so
much better than other heavyweights, he often
predicted the round in which he would knock his op-
ponent out, making statements like "they all must fall
in the round I call." He also brought showmanship
to boxing by giving his opponents nicknames such as
"The Bear" [Sonny Liston] " The Rabbit" [Floyd Pat-
terson] and " The Acorn" [Earnie Shavers].
jn 1964, Ali defeated Liston in the eight rounds to
win the Heavyweight Championship of the World.
During that year, he also converted to Islam and in-
formed the public he was now to be referred to as
Muhammad Ali. This became a controversy as many
journalists and some of his opponents insisted on call-
ing him Cassius Clay.
In April of 1967 Ali made the decision that elevated
him above sports and into an international figure. He
refused induction into the United States Army on
religious ground, and because of this, he was tried,
convicted and sentenced to five years in prison. He
was also stripped of his boxing licences and his
heavyweight championship.
For more than three years, In the prime of Ali's
athletic career, he was not allowed to use his superb
boxing skills professionally. Then after numerous ap-
peals, his case was reviewd before the Supreme Court
and he won his case 8-0 with one absention.
Ali who had become a symbol to oppressed people
all over the world returned to boxing in 1970, and re-
tained his championship in "the motherland" Kin-
shasha, Zaire in 1974, using a new tactic the "rope a
dope." Ali defending his championship, fought all over
the globe in such diverse places as Koala Lampur, San
Juan, Tokyo, and fighting his most famous opponent
Joe Frazier, in the Phillipines in "The Thrilla in
Manila." He continued to fight in spite of advice to
retire and in Frebruary, 1978 he lost his title to Leon
Spinks. In September of that year he regained the
championship to become the only heavyweight to be
a three time champion. He then retired from boxing.
However, he tried to come back twice and was
defeated by two fighters he would have destroyed in
his prime, Larry Holmes and Trevor Berbick.
Ali has met world leaders such as Leonid Brezhnev
Continued on page 2
Page 2
NUMMO NEWS
Monday. October 1. 1984
Ro ving Reporter
by David Walker
"do " y oil" "f e e 1" *BM C p ' play* s a div-t tty of
Black Music. Why or W'.r Not?
Susan Tissnes:
Yes, Even with sever ly limited air
time, BMCP still manages to play a
wide variety of black music for its
listeners hearing pleasure.
Theo Moore:
Yes, I think they play as diverse
; as their time schedule allows.
more time will come more diversity Scott Stern:
variety.. BMCP should cater direct- Yes- There is diversity which comes
ly to its immediate listing audience about through D.J.'s individual style,
their needs and wants, which it Each individual brings to the community
their own stlye, but sometimes those
styles overlap,,
Orlando Vales:
Yes, BMCP plays music from quite a
number of years ago to present, with
a range that extends from jazz, funk
and blues to regaee; that's diversity.
Green Party Visits UMass
by Segun Eubanks
Nummo Staff
The Green Party is, "An ongoing process of bring-
ing groups together. A productive and creative pro-
cess in which conflict and confusion are not con-
sidered negative.... A people's movement that is need-
ed everywhere," said Eva Quistorp, editor of the book
"Women for Peace" and member of The Green Party.
Members of the Green Party, a political, activist party
in West Germany particpated in a panel disscussior
last Thursdsayon the current status of the peace
movement in Germany.
The Green Party is a coalition of peace and ecology
groups opposing the deployment of US missiles in
Germany. The Party began in 1979 as a coalition of en-
vironmentalists, trade unions, womens groups, and
other organizations with the goal of stopping US
deployment of the cruise and Pershing II missiles on
German soil. The Party is, however, involved in many
other military and environmental issues such as the
build-up of conventional weapons. Acid rain and
women's rights. "If we concentrate only on missiles,"
said Dr. Albert Statz, peace researcher from the Free
University of Berlin and a member of the Green Party,
"we will lose perspective of the overall arms build-up
in Europe."
Statz said there is a fear of the Soviet Union,
although "communist fear" as portrayed in the US is
not realistic. The other fears of the Green Party accor-
ding to Statz are nuclear and conventional weapons
and "our friends in America". There must be critism
of US and NATO policy, said Statz, because the com-
bined components of nuclear and conventional
weapons means that any military strategy for war
would result in the destruction of Germany.
Moderator William Strickland, professor and
historian at UMass, said that the situation in Germany
is very important to the Third World people. With over
340,000 American soldiers in West Germany, many of
whom are black, said Strickland, a so-called "Limited
Nuclear War" in Europe would cost the lives not only
of Europeans but of the American soldiers. Strickland
also said that the Green Party's non-violent protest
and building of coalitions can be at least superficially
paralled to Martin Luther King's Civil Rights move-
ment and Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, respec-
tively. Finally, Strickland noted that Black Americans
have the right and responsibilty to be responsibility to
be knowledgable about all issues that effect them, and
nuclear war effects all, black and white.
ALI
Continued from page 1
of the Soviet Union, Queen Elizabeth of Britian, and
was appointed as a roving ambassador by President
Jimmy Carter. As a roving ambassador, he inspired
millions of people.
During his stay in the hospital, information was
released on his condition. While Ali does not have
Parkinson's disease, he does have symptoms which
resemble the disease. His condition is not
degenerative. At the present time his condition is be-
ing treated with various medications. Let us all take a
minute and pray for the champ's continued recovery
and give thanks for the thrills and sportsmanship he
has provided through the years.
Thanks alot Dorothy Johnson -
Love NUMMO
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NUMMO NEWS
Monday. October 1, 1964
Celebrate With BCP/AHORA
Dukakis gives the community
a Birthday Present J
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This year the Bilingual Colliegiate
Program and AHORA are celebrating
ten years of service to bilingual
students at the University of
Massachusetts. As part of the celebra-
tion a number of educational and
cultural events are being held. BCP
and AHORA invites ALL students and
friends to participate and celebrate
with us. The following is a schedule of
events, including places and times.
Tickets are available at the BCP office
in Wilder Hall, UMass.
AHORA PRESENTS RUBEN BLADES
IN CONCERT
Friday, October 5, 1984
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
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By His Excellency
MICHAEL S. DUKAKIS
A PROCLAMATION
1984
WHEREAS:
WHEREAS:
WHEREAS:
WHEREAS:
WHEREAS:
WHEREAS:
The Bilingual Collegiate Program at the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst, the flagship campus of the Commonwealth's system of public
higher education, has today completed ten years of success in assisting
Massachusetts' bilingual minorities to enter and complete degree programs
at the University; and
The Bilingual Collegiate Program has complied an enviable record of
achievement in this effort, providing a broad spectrum of services to
assist Spanish-speaking and other bilingual minorities in taking full
advantage of the Unitersity's many resources and in obtaining the finest
possible college education; and
The Bilingual Collegiate Program has cooperated successfully, with
commendable results, with state and local organizations, including
the Massachusetts Department of Education, the Office of Bilingual
Education, and local school systems; and
The Bilingual Collegiate Program has encompassed not only the academic
area but has rendered vital service to many hundreds of individuals
in the areas of financial aid coordination and personal counseling;
and
The Bilingual Collegiate Program, through its intensive recruitment
and training of bilingual professionals, has been a key factor in
ensuring compliance, successful implementation and continuity of the
fira-t Bilingual Law in the nation, mandated by the Massachusetts
State Legislature in 1972; and
The Bilingual Collegiate Program's service to the University and to
the Commonwealth is deserving of the highest recognition and commendation;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, MICHAEL S. DUKAKIS, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
do hereby proclaim the week of September 30 to October 6, 1984, aa
BILINGUAL EDUCATION WEEK
at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and throughout
the Commonwealth.
By His Excellency the Governor
PRINTS FROM PUERTO RICO ART
EXIBIT
Sunday, September 30 to Saturday,
October 6, 1984
Student Union Gallery
The exibition presents different art
work of contemporary Puerto Rican
Artists. Some of the prints will be for
sale.
BCP STUDENT ART EXHIBIT
Wednesday, October 3 to Sunday, Oc-
tober 14, 1984
Wheeler Residence Hall Gallery
October 3 OPEN HOUSE- Meet the
student artists.
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Wine and Cheese.
The Gallery will be open for viewing
from Sunday Oct. 7 to Sunday Oct. 14
from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m.
BCP student artists participating:
Orlando Cardona
Americo Rebelo Jr.
Maria Leandres-Phelan
Luis Melendez
Jose Luis Pedraza
Ruth Arroyo
Miriam Torres
BCP/AHORA AWARDS NIGHT
Thursday, October 4, 1984 7p.m.
Student Union Ballroom
Presentation of awards to alumni
and others who have been instrumen-
tal in the past ten years of the BCP.
GALA CELEBRATION
Saturday, October 6, 1984 5:00p.m
to 1:00a.m.
Campus Center Auditorium
5pm to 7pm: Buffet dinner
7:30pm: Keynote speaker. Dr.
Cleveland Donald, Associate to the
Chancellor, University ol
Massachusetts.
Entertainment: Sorobei, Taller de
Artey Cultura; Vietnamese Students
Assoc, and Rancho Folclorico-
Encantos de Portugal.
Dance to follow: music by Juventud
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Prices: $12.00 per person (includes
buffet)
$20.00 per couple (includes buffet)
FREE to students with ID (after
7:30 only)
Cash Bar
GOD SAVE THE COMMONWEALTH OP MASSACHUSETTS
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NUMMO NEWS
Monday. October 1, 1984
ANNOUNCEMENTS
AUGUSTUS SAVAGE GALLERY
The Augustus Savage Gallery, located
in the New Africa House will be featur-
ing the SU. NU. FU. Blue Series from
i|Setember 28 thru October 1st. The
gallery is open from 10 a.m.- 4.p.m. Mon-
day thru Friday, There will be a lecture
Hflby Napoleon Jones Hendrson, the artist,
Mat 3 p.m. Friday October 5th, with a
■ | reception to follow at 7:00 p.m.
| "My work in it's essence is spiritual;
meaningful. This is how I feel while em-
bracing my fibers as they fold into their
images. I do not make "Art"; rather I am
participating in ritual, a ritual as impor-
tant to the Afrikan man as it was to his
*5 Creator. We must be about the business
4K
of expressing
ourselves."
what is beautiful:
Napoleon Jones Hender-
NMuMNES
NEW WORLD THEATER
The New World Theater (formerly Third
World Theater) of UMass begins it tenth
season of unique theater programming
depicting Asian, Hispanic, Black and
Native American experiences. The
season opens on Saturday, October
13th, with the production of "Love To
All, Lorraine" at Bowker Auditorium at 8
p.m. Tickets are available by reservation
from the Fine Arts Center Box Office
(545-2511), or at the door. Free childcare
will be provided by phoning in a reserva-
tion one week prior to the performance
at 545-0190
SOPHISTICATED LADIES
The National Broadway Touring Com-
pany brings Duke Ellington's
"Sophisticated Ladies" to the Fine Arts
Center at the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst on Sunday,
October 14 for two performances. The
matinee performance which was
originally scheduled for 2 p.m. has been
changed to a 3 p.m. curtain time. The
evening performance will be at 8 p.m.
Tickets are available at the Fine Arts
Center Box Office, at DATATIX outlets,
; and at the Springfield Civic Center.
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i Most CCEBMS tutor requests have
■ been filled and may be picked up now!!!
All persons who requested a tutor, see
your CCEBMS Advisor nowlll
McCoy Tyner Trio at the Iron Horse
20 Center St., Northampton, 584-0610.
Reservations 7 and 10 p.m. $9.50 Thurs-
day, October 4th.
WORK-STUDY POSITIONS
Work-study position available for an of-
fice manager for Third World Caucus.
Working 19 hrs/weekly at $3. 35/hr. If
you are interested please contact the Of-
fice of Third World Affairs, 308 Student
Union, or call 545-2517. Deadline is Oc-
tober 3, 1984.
PEOPLES MARKET
Peoples Market is hiring. We need hard
workers with strong commitments
10 + hrs. per week $3.65 an hour. Applica-
tions available at People's Market
located at the rear of the Student Union
Building. A member of Affirmative Ac-
tion we are an equal opportunity
employer.
The Cape Verdean Student Alliance
will have a meeting Thursday, at 5:00 in
the New Africa House. Guest person Ray
Allavera, from the Embassy of Cape
Verde, will discuss the future develop-
ment and growth of the C.V.S.A. New
Members are welcomed
WAGES a program at the Everywoman's
Center has started a graduate program.
Graduate WAGES will address the specific
needs of graduate woman through support
groups, workshops, speakers, social events,
brown-bag lunches, resources and ad-
vocacy.
For more information contact Graduate
WAGES at EWC, 545-0883
COME WORK
FOR
NUMMO NEWS
Work-Study positions
for reporters
available!
.
NUMMO STAFF * *
Segun Eubanks
Editor In Chief
Marilyn G. Bou
Managing Editor
Robert Lynch
Layout Editor
Marc Elliot Giles
Photo Editor
Julian Tynes
Researcher
Lisa Viega
Business Manager
Nina Cordova
Administrative Assistant
Lisa Huff
Typesetter
Judy Russ
Typesetter
David Walker
Photographer
•
Contributors * * *
Ed Cohen
Photographer
Darlene Jackson
Correspondent
Yadira Betances
Correspondent
Address all letters to the Editor to: Nummo News,
New Africa House Room 103
Monday. October 15, 1984
connected with the Collegian
Volume 13 Issue 6 ,or ,he sole Purpose of
distribution
UMass
South African
Investments
By John Ruddock
An article appeared in the Sept. 7 issue of the Col-
legian conerning the status of UMass-corporate in-
vestment is South Africa. While the exact purpose of
this letter may be said to be unclear, it may be deduc-
ed the the desired effect was to enlighten students as
to the current stock that the University held in com-
panies operating in te aparthied regime, as well as to
demonstrate the willingness of the Board of Trustees
to reaffirm their commitment to "divest from com-
panies involved in South Africa". As both these objec-
tives are indeed meritious and worthwhile, it is unfor-
tunate to note that the article did not achieve either, to
any degree of distinction. However, it is hoped that
this article will lay to rest any questions or concerns
that the reader might have on UMass' involvement in
South Africa, thus accomplishing the objectives of the
previous article.
In 1977, after much disscussion, deliberation, and
student protest, the Board of Trustees voted to divest
from all stocks in the companies operating in South
Africa. This measure was taken only after the process
of review, in which South African-related stocks were
evaluated using the Sullivan Codes of Conduct. The
Sullivan Principles were devised by Rev. Leon
Sullivan, former Civil Rights activist, as a set of stan-
dards by which US companies in South Africa could
promote racial and sociai equality in the workplace.
These principles are seen by many South African and
US activist groups as a "band-aid" remedy for racial
oppression, which not only seems ineffective in com-
batting racism in South Africa, but actually impedes
the struggle for freedom being waged by the 22 million
Black South Africans who currently are oppressed by
the apartied regime.
At this time te University Trustees discussed the
idea that the (1977) South African related stocks be
divested "within a reasonable period of time" so as to
make good on thier Trustee vote. The responsibility
for the investment portfolio (which the South African-
related stocks were a component) was then delegated
to Treasurer Robert Brand, and the entire issue of
UMass' involvement in South Africa was put aside,
presumably to make room for more "important"
issues.
Seven years later, several students, upon making
inquiries as to the current status of UMass in relation
to South Africa, discovered that the University was
still retaining stock investments in South Africa,
several of which were among those listed in the
original investment report of 1977 ( see table).
Shares
Market Value
-American Hospital Supply
Corporation
1500
§48,000
-Proctor and Gamble
1600
§80,000
-Textrionix
700
§39,200
-Foxboro
1575
§50,400
-Thomas Bett
1OO0
§65,000
-General Signal
2466
101,106
Alarmed at the flagrant inaction of the Trustees
and/or Treasurer Brand to uphold the mandate of the
1977 Trustee motion, these students formed a coali-
tion to further research the possible ramifications of
such action. The South African Divestment Coalition
(SADC) began to document and verify UMass in-
volvement in South Africa, paying particurlar atten-
tion to the economic, social, and legal implications of
such involvement. After a great deal of investment
research, and cross-check referencing, the SADC
discovered, using eight reputed financial reference
manuals, that the six stocks that UMass held were in-
deed investment in corporations operating in South
Africa. As these documents clearly verified UMass' in-
direct involvement in South Africa, this laid clear the
path for any strategy for divestment of the stock in
question.
Upon further research and consultation with the
Legal Services Office at UMass, it was determined
that, due to the Trustee regulations concerning South
African stock investment, which prohibits UMass cor-
porate investment in South Africa, the actions of the
Treasurer and Board of Trustees to maintain stock in-
vestment in that country was in fact an illegal action,
since the Treasurer and, indirectly the Trustees
themselves, violated their own statute. It must be em-
phasized at this point that whether this situation arised
either through negligence or lack of an effective
monitoring system, the Treasurer is, by the fact that
he is delegated the responsibility of executing and
monitoring the University investment portfolio, direct-
ly responsible, while the Board of Trustees are
ultimately responsible for this action, for they are the
Executive body of the University, and moreover, they
were the ones who wrote the statute in the first place.
With this information in hand, the SADC began to
press the University for immediate and full divest-
ment. A letter outlining all pertinent stock information
was sent by the SADC to Treasurer Brand on August
20. Five days later Brand responded to the letter by
both questioning the resources that were used for the
SADC investment research and to rationalize his
monitoring of UMass stock investments by
acknowledging that "just identifying the parent com-
panies (of South African corporations) is a difficult job
for professionals." If this ratonal is to be used, then
the obvious questions arise: Why didn't the SADC,
which used reference tools available to the public, en-
counter these "difficulties" expressed by the Universi-
ty Treasurer? Treasurer Brand's reluctance to divest all
holdings in South Africa was based on several asser-
tions made by him. As these assertions were made to
possibly justify a lenghier divestment period, the
SADC began to provide defences to these assertions,
as follows:
A) The University's data does not support our findings
Since 1977 the University has used only 2 souces of
information to verify South African stock in-
vestments: the South African Review Sen/ices
(published by the Inventory Responsibility Research
Center (IRRC)) and the investment Counsel of Stan-
dish, Ayer & Wood Inc. Yet, while the Treasurer
reputed the SADC cources as not beng up-to-date, it
must be noted that the SADC used the same issue of
the IRRC document (1982) to verify the American
Hospital Supply Investment that the Treasurer pur-
ported to use to maintain the investment porfolio.
Question: Why did it take the SADC letter to alert
Treasurer Brand to stock information included in his
Continued on page 3
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NUMMO NEWS
Monday. October 15. 1964
Editorial
Rod Clare
BCP family portriat of the Western Mass Latino photo by David Walker
community, BCP staff and alumni gather to celebrate 10 years of success.
Celebrating Success
by Marilyn G. Bou
Nummo Staff
The Bilingual Collegiate Program(BCP) and Ahora,
the Latin student organization wrapped up thier an-
niversary celebration on Saturday, October 6th, with a
Gala celebration. The week long activities began with
a reception on the tenth floor of the Campus Center,
followed in the auditorium with a dance.
AHORA was born twelve years ago out of a desire
by students who sought to uplift the Latino race. The
manner in which to accomplish this most succesfully,
they saw, was through education. Thus the creation
of the Bilingual Collegiate Program in 1974. The BCP
is an academic support program which assists
students in facets of their education. However, while
realizing academic needs they also provide personal
counseling, financial counseling and tutorial services.
There have been many people responsible for the
success of BCP and AHORA. On Thursday Oct. 4, an
awards night was held in honor of these contributing
individuals. Thirty-seven awards were distributed.
Because of these two organizations many students
have discovered different avenues, they (BCP/Ahora)
support you and assist when you need guidance, said
Carlos Gonzalez a BCP alumni. He continued to say.
"The organizations allow you to retain your culture
while helping you to adjust to a new one."
The Student Union Gallery held an exibit which was
flown in for Bilingual Week. The exhibition presented
different art work of contemporary Puerto Rican
artists. In addition to this exhibit there was one which
proudly displayed the work of many Hispanic UMass
students.
BCP/Ahora's success has been so grand that they
have successfully graduated over 400 students. In lui
of this, a BCP Alumni Association has been formed.
Over the past twelve years Ahora has been directly
responsible for enriching cultural awareness at the
University and surrounding communities. I dare to
say, however, that the concert of Ruben Blades and
Seis del Solar on Oct. 5th in the Fine Arts Center was
the one event which united the diverse Latin
communities in the area.
The week was one that provided many memories
for all involved. " The celebration does not only bring
back the struggle waged then but also reminds us
about the road yet before us", said Yadira Betances, a
senior Journalism major.
Africa is the second largest continent in the world
comprised of more than 50 countries. With such
divergency, no one is expected to know all the dif-
ferent societies and cultures that exist in Africa. One
country that no Black person should be ignorant of,
however, is South Africa. Despite the publicity given
to Communist repression, it is South Africa whose in-
famy is based upon fascist policies. Without a doubt.
South Africa is the most malicious of all countries in
the world.
Although Blacks comprise 70 per cent of the
coutry's population, they do not play any significant
role, nor do they have any power in the government,
or power do anything that would threaten "national
security".
The white minority's government sanctions apar-
theid, the separation of races. The majority of Blacks
are being forced onto "bantustans" which are arid
desert land with very little water or food and no in-
dustrialization, with the exception of very meager
shacks for inhabitation. The South African govern-
ment explains their policy as not being racist but one
that provides Blacks with their own nations.
As a result, Blacks perform menial labor and receive
the lowest possible pay, usually 1 / 10th of what a
white worker receives. Blacks can be jailed for an in-
definite period of time without a trial or any other
technical legalities. Half of the Black children born in
South Africa never live to age five. The South African
government is so brutal and repressive that it has been
said that the only fair comparison to its system is Nazi
Germany.
One reason South Africa has been downplayed in
the American media is because its major economic
backer is the United States. U.S. companies invest
billions of dollars worth of business and capitol with
South Africa and billions more go to military aid and
equipment for the South African government. The
United States considers South Africa as a reputable
friend and pledges continued support.
South Africa is known throughout the world for its
two mojor policies; its present anti-communism and
its policy of aparteid. While anti-communism is not
too readily emphasized, the same certainly cannot be
said for its apartheid policies. South Africa was saved
from expulsion out of the United Nations by only one
veto vote by the United States. People should read
more about South Africa so that a firm oosition can be
taken against white rule. This should be one issue
which Blacks the world over can unify upon.
Reprinted from the September issue of " Gramma "
weekly review.
JOHANNESBURG-More than 40 people have been
killed in the wave of repression unleashed by the racist
regime against South African blacks, reported Latin-
Reuters.
While blacks were burying thier dead more clashes
erupted in Katlehong, east of the city.
Racist police officials acknowledged having killed
another person and said one of thier agents was
critically wounded after having been attacked by
demonstrators.
In the Daveytown area, some 300 demonstrators ig-
nored a court ban on demonstrations and marched in
the funeral of four students murdered by police.
Police sources reported that the hospitals were filled
with wounded and that the situation remained tense in
black neighborhoods around Johannesburg.
The recent demonstrations in South Africa came to
protest the new Constitution, which legalizes apar-
thied and denies all rights to the black majority of 24
million.
Demonstrators, who met with strong army and
police repression, also opposed recent economic and
social measures such as rent hikes and the poor
education in black schools.
* * * NUMMO STAFF
Segun C. Eubanks
Marilyn G. Bou
Robert Lynch
Marc Elliot Giles
Julian Tynes
Lisa Viega
Nina Cordova
Emmett Grady
Judy Russ
David L. Walker
Editor In Chief
Managing Editor
Layout Editor
Photo Editor
Researcher
Business Manager
Administrative Assistant
Reporter/ Photographer
Typesetter
Photographer
Contributors
Ed Cohen
Darlene Jackson
Yadira Betances
Photographer
Correspondent
Correspondent
Address all letters to the Editor to: Nummo News,
New Africa House Room 103
Ras Lance Douglas, a Ras Tafarian leader and
spokesman for the Theocratic Government of Ras
Tafari will speak at the University of Massachusetts on
Thursday October 18, 1984 at 7:30 p.m. at the New
Africa House. Sponsored be Afrik-Am, a black stu-
dent organization and The Five College Black Studies
Executive Committee, Ras Douglas will speak on the
effects of partisan political violence and economic vic-
timization on the Jamaican poor.
"In recent years" Micheal Thelwell, a Jamaican-
born professeor in the W.E.B. Dubois Department of
Afro-American Studies, explained, "Jamaican society
has witnessed an excalation of social and political
violence of the most destructive and painful kind. The
people who have borne tho weight of the suffering are
the poor and especially, young black people from the
Ghetto. Some of the violence can be traced to the in-
ternational drug trade, but most of it can be directly
laid on the door of the two major political parties -one
conservative and the other socialist -- which are strug-
gling to control the country's development."
Ras Douglas represents an influential and activist
group of young Ras Tafarians who operate in the
ghettoes of Kingston. They have the respect and con-
fidence of the youth because they preach against the
killing and are associated with neither political party.
For this reason they seem to be the only people who
can move freely through the armed camps of the ghet-
to, from conservative areas to socialist areas. They
can and do speak at first hand of the effects of this
polarization on the lives of the Jamaican poor.
This Week in
Black History
On October 14 ,1964 the Nobel Peace Prize was
awarded to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
He was the second Black American to receive this
prestigious award. (The first was Ralph Bunche )
Monday, October 16, 1964
NUMMO NEWS
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Love
by Segun Eubanks
Nummo Staff
The New World Theater Series began its Fall 1984
season on Saturday with a moving one woman perfor-
mance by Elizabeth Van Dyke entitled "Love To All
Lorraine”. The play was a portrait of the late
playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry. Yet Ms.
Van Dyke's imaginative and eloquent performance
provided not only a look into the life of a creative,
strong black woman, but the legacy, history and feel-
ings of the Black Freedom Movement in America.
Through the portrayal of Lorraine Hansberry, Ms.
Van Dyke paid tribute to such great Black leaders as
Paul Robeson, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes and
others. She brought forth the feelings, frustrations
and contradictions of Black America as it was in the
1950's and 60's. Racism, segregation, poverty and
struggle were just some of the aspects of Black
American life that Van Dyke featured in her per-
fomance.
But of course the play was based on the life of Lor-
raine Hansberry and Ms. Van Dyke, who wrote,
directed and performed the production, did a more
than adequate job in giving the audience a close per-
sonal view of a woman who affected the history of
Sports
Talk
by Julian Tynes
Nummo Staff
Marques Johnson traded1 In a daring move that will
affect the Milwaukee Bucks, the N.B.A.'s Central
Division and the Eastern Conference playoffs, the
Bucks traded forwark Marques Johnson, F.G. Junior
Bridgeman and center Harvey Catchings to the Los
Angeles Clippers for Power Forward Terry Cummings
and Guards Craig Hodges and Ricky Pierce.
This was a surprise move because both Johnson
and Cummings are considered to be among the
N.B.A.'s elite players. Last season Johnson averaged
20.7 points, 6.5 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game for
the Bucks. In his career his averagees are 21 points,
7.5 rebounds and 3.7 assists. Cummings, going into
his third year in the N.B.A., averaged 23.7 points and
10.9 rebounds his first year and 22.9 points and 9.6 re-
bounds his second.
With Bob Laniers' retirement and Alton Listers' an-
ticipated move from power forward to center,
Milwaukecs' front line will be younger and quicker,
featuring Lister, Cummings and Kenny Fields!?). The
Clippers have gaind a premier small forward in Mar-
ques Johnson and a superb sixth man in Junior
Bridgeman. This trade creates many questions. Will
Kenny Fields (or whoever plays small forward) be able
to handle the talented opposing small forwards in the
Eastern Division (Julius Erving, Bernard King, Larry
Bird, Dominique Wilkins, Clark Kellogg)? Who is go-
ing to play power forward for the Clippers? Are the
Clippers going to get any bench strength up front?
Who will be Milwaukees new sixth man (the old one
was Bridgeman) and why did Milwaukee trade Mar-
ques Johnson?
Here's two tips for those making predictions on the
N.B.A. Watch the Philadephia 76ers (naturally) and
watch the Washington Bullets (surprise). Both teams
are loaded1 The Sixers picked up both Leon Wood
(merely the best pure guard in the country last year)
and 6'6", 280 pound Charles Barkley in the Draft.
Barkley should start at power forward, with Wood
coming in as the third guard. This means the sixers
should no longer have any weak spots.
The Washington Bullets acquired both Clifford
Robinson and Gus Williams for Ricky Sobers and a
first round pick. With Rick Mahorn, Jeff Ruland, Clif-
ford Robinson and Greg Ballard up front and Gus
Williams, Frank Johnson, Jeff Malone and Rookie
surprise Ricky Ross (watch him) in the back court, the
Bullets are deep and dangerous!
This also means that the Atlantic Division will be
very competitive with all five teams pushing for “elite”
status in the N.B.A. Only the New York Knicks have
failed to appreciably improve themselves on a talent
level (unless you really think Pat Cummings is the
answer).
The Atlantic Division and the rest of the N.B.A. will
be showcased with pre-season predictions in later
issues of NUMMO NEWS. Be sure to be on the
lookout!
To All , Lorraine
this country more than most people realize.
The performance was set in her Study in 1964 dur-
ing the last six months of Hansberry's life. Through
bouts of pain she was suffering from terminal cancer,
Lorraine Hansberry talked to the audience about her
life, her family, her writings, and her feelings. She tells
of her father, a "true American” who was “beaten
down” by the very system that he believed in. And of
her mother, a very feminine, yet strong woman. And
of many people, such as her husband, freinds and col-
logues who influenced her life.
Black people had been “waiting so long to see truth
on stage”, she said speaking of her play 'A Raisin in
the Sun'. The play opened on Broadway in 1959 and
Lorraine told the audience of the struggles, inter-
views, successes and challenges that arose from the
production which was the very first Broadway show
written by a Black author.
Hansberry also told about her role in the Freedom
Struggles, about her early career as a journalist for
Paul Robeson's 'Freedoms Journal' and how her
writings and plays such as 'Toussant', 'Les Blancs',
and 'Raisin', expressed the strengh and spirit of a peo-
ple struggling against oppression.
Every manner possible “from the petition to the
vote” has been attempted by Blacks to gain equality,
yet we are still "accused of being impatient" said
Hansberry. Her challenge to white liberals who try so
hard to understand the plight of Blacks but can't
-"Stop being white liberals and start being white
radicals."
As the play climaxed Lorraine brought out a munber
of questions that many Black freedom fighters have
had to struggle with over the years. "Can liberation be
achieved without violence?” Hansberry asked. And if
not, "Am I prepared to be a revolutionary?". She
spoke of the comforts in her life and how it "has
become a corruption in itself". Yet through all the
conflicts, contradictions and questions Lorraine
Hansberry knew, ”1 must continue to work. Work,
work, work, work..."
After the performance a very tired Ms. Van Dyke
was kind enough to take the time to answer questions
and talk to the audience about the production. Why
would a successful actress put all of her time and
energy into a production such as this? In the words of
Ms. Van Dyke; "Because I love my people”.
Bryant Lewis, Director of the Amherst Upward photo by Ed Cohan
Bound Program at UMass is spyed enjoying a quiet afternoon of fishing.
Continued from page 1
own reference material? Has the University not used
its own information to verify its holdings?
B) The Directory of American Firus Operating in
Foreign Countries is not a sufficiently definitive source
upon which to rely. The Treasurer claims that the
Directory cannot be relied upon because, "...the
listings are not considered definite as the legal status
of the relationship between the American firms and
their business affiliates." However, the question
arises: How 'definite' does a relationship have to be,
when the subsidiary in South Africa carries the name,
address and telephone number of the parent com-
pany? Futhermore, the University, in a gesture of
good faith, divested from 20 stocks in 197Tin corpora-
tions whose subsidiaries operated in South Africa If
the criteria was sufficient then, what change in the
Trustee regulations justifies any further delay towards
immediate and total divestment?
It is clear that Treasurer Brand's arguments are not
valid. The mere fact that these arguments were
presented by the Treasurer almost gives reasons to
question the motives of the Treasurer himself. The
legal, social and economic aspects of UMass' involve-
ment in South Africa has been brought to light and
the seven year "reasonable period of time" given for
the original divestment action has gone long past. The
SADC on behalf of the the student body at UMass,
demands that the Treasurer IMMEDIATELY divest
from all stocks held in companies and/or subsidiaries
operating in South Africa. Furthermore, the SADC
demands the establishments of an effective monitor-
ing system of UMass stock investments, so to ensure
the impossibility of any recurrance of such a blatant
case of negligence. It has been stated that the Univer-
sity wishes to "reaffirm their commitment not to in-
vest in companies who do business in South Africa".
Well Trustees, the SADC wants you to now "put your
money where your mouth is".
John Ruddock
Co-External Coordinator - Third World Caucus
on behalf of the South Africa Divestment Committee.
Editor's Note: On October 10, the Undergraduate Stu-
dent Senate passed a motion, which was introduced
by the SADC and SCERA, demanding that the
University Treasurer sell all stocks in companies doing
business with South Africa. As of this printing the
University has taken no official action to do so. NUM-
MO NEWS supports the SADC and SCERA in all ef-
forts for divestiture in South African- related stocks.
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Announcements* Announcements
CULTURAL EVENTS IN THE VALLEY DATE CHANGE FOR GILLESPIE CON-
CERT
On Friday, October 19, 1984 the
Association of Pan-African Unity at
Mount Holyoke will be sponsoring an
evening of Afro-American Cultural
entertainment entitled "Ufahamu". The
program will commence at 8:00 p.m. in
Chapin Auditorium on the campus of
Mount Holyoke College. Following
Ufahamu a reception will be held at the
Betty Shabazz Cultural Center. We cor-
dially invite all members of the 5-college
community to attend.
Afrik-Am, the Five College Executive
Black Studies Committee, and the
W.E.B. Dubois Department presents
"The Destruction of a Generation, a Ras
Tafarian view of political violence in
Jamaica today". By Ras Douglas,
spokesman of the Selasseii Theocratic
Government of Ras Tafarii. The event
will take place on Thursday. October
18th at 7:30 p.m. in the Shirley G. DuBois
Library, New Africa House, UMass. All
are welcome.
The Women's Leadership Project
along with the Student Government
Association will sponsor the film "My
Love Has Been Burning", a film by
Japanese director Kenji Mizpguchi. It is
the story of the struggles of a 19th cen-
tury feminist. Also featured will be "No
Regrets For Our Youth". This film is
directed by Kurosawa. It is the first post-
war attempt to portray the modern
Japanese woman. The heroine ex-
presses the need for Japan to "renew
itself through respect for the individual".
Both films will be shown on October
16th in room 163 of the Campus Center.
For more information please call
545-0254.
IOTA SMOKER
The lota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc. will
be holding an interest meeting on Thurs-
day, October 18 from 7 - 9 p.m. at the
Malcolm X Center in the Southwest
residential area.
Jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie will appear
at the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall on
Wednesday, October 17, 1984 at 8 p.m.
rather than a week later, as previously plann-
ed.
In the early 40's along with Charlie
Parker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus and
others. Gillespie originated the music
which was to be called "bop". He was
the first jazz musician to tour for the
U.S. State Department as a good will
ambassador, and now, after more than
45 years in the business, has performed
in nearly every country in the world.
Instantly recognized by his bulging
cheeks and his curved-bell trumpet. Diz-
zy Gillespie continues to delight his au-
diences. Accompanying him to Amherst
on October 17 will be Sayyd Al-Khabyyr
on saxaphone, Walter Davis on piano,
John Lee on bass, and Nasyi Al-Khabyyr
on drums.
Tickets are available at the Fine Arts
Center Box Office (545-2511), local
DATATIX outlets, and at the Springfield
Civic Center. For phone charge reserva-
tions, call 1-800-243-4842. Mastercard and
Visa accepted.
SUPPORT GROUPS OFFERED
THROUGH THE WORKING WOMEN'S
PROGRAM
An Unemployed Women's Support
Group will begin on October 23, 1984 and
will meet on Tuesday evenings from 7:30
- 9:30 p.m. at the Everywoman's Center.
The group will be facilitated by Betty
Swain and will focus on issues such as
self-esteem, overcoming stress, career
goals, etc. This group will run for eight
weeks.
An Assertiveness and Leadership
Skills group begins on October 23, 1984
and will run for eight weeks. The group
will meet on Tuesday evenings from 7 - 9
p.m. at EWC and will be facilitated by
Joyce Clark.
A career Development Skills Group
will begin on November 7, 1984, and will
be meeting on Wednesday evenings
from 7:30 -9:30 p.m. at EWC. The group
will be facilitated by Jane Carey.
There will be no cost for these ser-
vices, and confidentiality is assured. For
more information and to pre-register,
please csll Everywoman's Center at
545-0883.
All Minority/Third World students in-
terested in Law School please leave your
name, address and phone number with
Carol Young in CCEBMS New Africa
House. There will be a sign-up sheet
posted outside her door.
PEACE AND PEACEFUL RELATIONS
WITH THE U.S.S.R.
Mr. Alan Thompson, a Presbytarian
Minister and the Executive Director for
the National Council of American-Soviet
friendship will speak about "Peace and
the U.S.S.R." and will be available for a
following question and answer period.
The event will take place at the
Unitarian Church, 220 Main Street in
Northampton at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oc-
tober 19th, 1984.
The Everywoman's Center Graduate
WAGES program will be sponsoring a
series of Brown-bag lunches, which will
run until December 12, 1984. The infor-
mal lunches will be held every Wednes-
day from noon until 2 p.m. in Campus
Center room 805-809. On October 17,
Veda Andress will speak on "Women's
Life Cycle and Nutritional Needs".
For more information about any
Graduate WAGES program, contact
Diane Goodman at EWC by calling
545 0883.
Conference
A week long conference entitled:
"Clouds of War, Winds of Change - The
United States and Revolution in Central
America" will be held at the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst campus dur-
ing the week of October 22-26, 1984. The
Keynote speaker will be Howard Zinn,
author of "A People's History of the
United States" and professor at Boston
University who will speak on 'The
History of US Intervention in Central
America'. It will be held on Wednesday,
October 24, 1984 at 7:30 p.m at the Cam-
pus Center room 163.
The schedule for the weeks events is
as follows:
Monday, October 22, 7:30, Red Room,
Amherst College, Discussion: "Elec-
tions, Democracy and Popular Participa-
tion"-Speakers: Mel King- Rainbow
Coalition; Carolee Bengelsdorf-
Hampshire Co. and Jon Childs- Amherst
Co.
Tuesday, October 23, 7:30, at a local
church in Amherst to be announced.
Discussion: "The Role of the Church in
Central America" / "The Sanctuary
Movement". Speaker: Jim Stormes-
Jesuit Preist, UMass.
Thursday, Oct. 25, 7:30 pm CC163
Workshop: "The Militarization of Central
America-Anniversaiy of the Grenadian
Invasion". Speakers: Karen Wanza
Esq. -Grenada Foundation, NY and Ar-
thur Barisano Esq.- Lawyer's Committee
against Intervention in Central America.
Friday, Oct. 26, 7:30pm CC101 Discus-
sion: "Elections, Media and Misinforma-
tion" Speaker: Frank Brodhead, Co-
editor of Radical America, and author of
'Demonstrations Elections'.
These public forums are sponsored by
a Central America Coalition of various
5-college and comunity groups and are
designed to provide for education,
discussion and protest concerning the
current administrations repressive and
undemocratic policies in the region.
Films, video and slide shows about the
region will be shown on the Campus
Center Concourse on Oct. 19, 22 ft 25th
from 10-4pm.
For more information call: days
545-2145; and for press interviews with
speakers call nights 586-1449 or Mauricio
at 785-1251, ext. 246.
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Volume 13 Issue 6
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for the sole purpose of
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Unity Through Organization
Black Homcoming and Third World Leadership Conference Come to UMass
by Marilyn G. Bou
Nummo Staff
The New England Third World Leadership Con-
ference along with Black Homecoming will be held
from Friday October 26 through Sunday October 28,
at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. The
two events will compliment each other throughout the
weekend. They are two very significant happenings
for the Third World Community. Third World Leader-
ship Conferences began in December 1983 at UMass
to encourage students, administrators and faculty to
gather together for the purpose of networking for
Third World interests, while Black Homecoming has
been a tradition for the Third World Community since
1975.
True student power comes from effective organiza-
tion and implementation of ideas." The conference
will help to bring together the minds of students of
color, for the purpose of networking and exchanging
contacts and mutual cooperation", said Sherwood
Thompson Director of the Office of Third World Af-
fairs.
The conference will feature panel and workshop
sessions which cater to issues such as students of col-
or and administrators in predominalty white univer-
sities. The conference w'1! also feature cultural events,
karate demonstrations, display booths and an evening
dance.
The conference registration will begin at 8:30 a.m.
with a welcome and conference overview to follow at
9:15a.m.
The keynote speaker will be Mr. Playthell
Benjamin, Political Advisor for Fight Back Labor
Organization in New York City. Ambassador Omaru
Yousofous of the Organization of African Unity's
representative to the United Nations will also be
featured as a guest speaker at the luncheon which will
be held in the Student Union Ballroom from 12:45 to
1:45.
Concurrent workshops will begin at 11:00 a.m. and
last till 12:15 for session one, while the second set of
workshops commence at 2:00 p.m. and end at 5:15
p.m. The workshops range from International Health
Issues, Student Leadership Development, Cultural
Event and Music Presentation to Housing Discrimina-
tion in College Towns.
Black Homecoming will kick-off its schedule of
events Friday at 8:00 p.m. with a comedian nite,
featuring Herb Quinones and Mitch Kyser at Hampden
Theatre. On Sunday October 28 there will be a Semi-
formal and dinner beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Cam-
pus Center Auditorium and ending at midnight.
The conference will assist students of color in gain-
ing strength and a better communications base.
Lifestyles of people of color at colleges and univer-
sities is a unique experience for all of us, in order to
improve these obstacles which are part of a college
experience as people of color we must come together
to ensure the exchange of ideas, influence and make
our voices heard. If we do not address our unique
needs and exchange cultural interests, universities will
almost immediately cease to exist. The struggle has
taken many steps forward but still continues. Third
world students, faculty and administrators must begin
taking active responsibility in the continuation of the
transformation and education in order to produce
even more progressive changes on the campuses
throughout the New England area.
Conferences such as this provide the opportunity
needed to ensure influence and power. They en-
courage dramatic change in institutions which tradi-
tionally tried to obliterate the existence of students of
color on campuses along with creating misconcep-
tions of our peoples. Through effective communica-
tion among ourselves and people sensitive to our in-
terests the practices of these educational institutions
can come to pass.
Black Homecoming provides the community with
an opportunity to share cultural and social activities
Continued on page 3
Mondale /Ferraro: A Political Analysis.
Geraldine Ferraro speaks at Saturday's rally.
by Segun Eubanks
Nummo Staff
As most people affiliated with the University of
Massachusetts already know, Gelardine Ferraro, the
Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate, visited the
campus and participated in the rally this past Satur-
day. Anyone who watches television or reads any
newspaper in Massachusetts probably already knows
just about everything that Ferraro said and did at
Saturday's rally so we will not waste space repeating it
here.
Instead, what we would like to do is to take a little
time and space analysizing what Ferraro and Mondale
represent for Black and Third World voters. Even
more so what Ronald Reagan represents.
First of all, let's be honest with ourselves.
Democrats have never done much for black people
unless they have been politically forced to do so (of
course this goes double for Republicans). When Jim-
my Carter was in the White House he didn't do a hell
of a lot for blacks. However, Carter knew very well
that it was the black vote that got him into office and it
would be the black vote that would keep him there.
Therefore, he implemented a few programs and put a
few blacks into his administration (very publically I
might add).
Perhaps, if Carter would have been a little more
receptive to the constituency that made the difference
in getting him in elected, we may have gone out and
voted and the Democrats would not be in the spot
that they now find themselves.
issue at hand: Mondale/ Ferraro. Thanks to the hard
work of black political leaders such as Jesse Jackson,
Richard Hatcher, Louis Farrakan and many others,
Black Americans have the chance to play a more
pivital and important role in the upcoming election
than perhaps in any other Presidential race in United
States history.
In the past, Black Americans have always been
stuck in a dilemma over which candidate to vote for.
We would get to the polls and say, "Uh, let's see, will
it be Dwiddle Dee or Dwiddle Dum?" However, the
tide seems to be changing and black voters, for the
first time in many years, have the opportunity to cast a
vote that will actually make a difference in their lives.
Now I'm still not totally convinced that the leaders
of the Democratic Party have gone through any
dramatic changes, but I know that the current ad-
ministration is the most dangerous leadership to black
people since James Edgar Hoover and his
COINTELPRO programs.
When I listened to Geraldine Ferraro speak on
Saturday, I felt better about American politics than I
ever have before. Perhaps this is because when I listen
to Ronald Reagan (Re-Ron) I feel worse about
American politics than I ever have before. I guess I feel
kind of hypocritical when I say, "Hey, let's vote for
Mondale/ Ferraro. At least the Racism, discrimination
and oppression of people of color won't get too much
worse."
Yet I know that the political pressure is on the
Democrats full force and they can't afford to alienate
Photo by Andy 'Heller.
For now, let's put all of that aside and deal with the
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NUMMO NEWS
Monday. October 22, 1984
NAACP Fights For Justice
by Julian Tynes
Nummo Staff
When the N.A.A.C.P. was founded in 1909, "Jim
Crow” laws had been in affect since 1896 when the
Supreme Court ruling established the "seperate but
equal" doctrine in its historic Plessy vs. Fergusen deci-
sion.
Disenfranchisement had been considered one of the
most flagrant forms of discrimination. It was felt by
members of the N.A.A.C.P. executive committee that
there could be no solution to the race problem in the
south until blacks obtained the right to vote. The Fif-
teenth Amendment had given blacks the right to vote
but Constitutional changes in many of the southern
states after Reconstruction prevented blacks from go-
ing to the polls.
There were several methods used to prevent blacks
from practicing their right to vote. Among some of the
more common were: 1) Registration months in ad-
vance of actual voting. 2) Payment of poll taxes. 3)
Required ownership of real estate property. 4) Literacy
tests in which people were required to read and inter-
pret the Federal and State Constitutions to the
satisfaction of election officials. 5) The infamous
"Grandfather Clause" which stated that a person
could become a registered voter only if they had serv-
ed in the United States Army, the Confederate Army,
or was the descendant of such a person or had the
right to vote before 1867. 6) Force and intimidation.
The N.A.A.C.P. began to investigate the Constitu-
tionality of the Grandfather Clause and appealled to
the U.S. Solicitor General to challenge the law. The
case was brought before the Supreme Court and in
June of 1915 Chief Justice Edward D. White read the
decision stating that the Grandfather Clause was un-
constitional.
The N.A.A.C.P. also attacked discrimination in
education. After Reconstruction blacks recieved only
a small amount of public funds for education.
Facilities and materials for the education of black
children were far inferior to those of white children.
Because of this the organization felt that the answer
was an intergration of school facilities.
Segregation was fought on all fronts including
housing. One of the more famous cases was that of
Ossian Sweet. Ossian Sweet was a promenient black
surgeon in Detroit, Michigan. In 1925 Dr. Sweet pur-
chased a house in a modest income neighborhood but
hesitated to move in for several months because he
was receiving threatening letters. Finally, on
September 23, 1925 Dr. Sweet asked for police pro-
tection and moved his family into the house.
The police guarded his house for that night and the
following day. On the second night, as the Sweets
and their guests were about to eat dinner, stones were
thrown through the windows and a huge mob
gathered outside the house. The police arrived but
failed to disperse the crowd. Shortly after, more bricks
were thrown through the windows followed by gun-
shots. Those inside feared for their lives and someone
in the house grabbed a gun and fired into the crowd.
A member of the mob was hit and dropped to the
ground dead. The police entered the house and charg-
ed all 11 occupants with murder in the first degree.
The N.A.A.C.P. hired a panel of six lawyers, head-
ed by the great Clarence Darrow, to represent the
defendants. Because of Darrow's great fame (he had
just concluded the Scopes 'Monkey trial') white
newspapers gave the Sweet case wide coverage. The
first trial began on October 30, 1925 and resulted in a
hung jury. Clarence Darrow's arguement was based
on the premise that everyone has a right to defend
their home.
The second trial involved Sweet's brother Henry as
the only defendant. This case recieved a lot of publici-
ty because the prosecuting attorney was a member of
the Klu Klux Klan. Hostile witnesses took the stand
and testified that there had been no crowds milling
outside, no threats, no stone throwing, no shooting
and no riotous action. When cross-examined by the
defense many of these witnesses seemed to have
memory lapses. No one remembered being at a
meeting in which plans were made to rid the
neighborhood of the black family.
There was, however, one man of basic integrity
who admitted that he did not like blacks and told the
truth about the events that occured that night. There
had been threats and stone throwing. There had been
shots fired from the crowd. A white woman from the
neighborhood corraborated this testimony. Also a
white newspaper reporter, who was at the scene,
testified that the crowd had become so riotous that he
had become filled with fear and left.
Numerous witnesses testified to the difficulties
blacks in Detroit had been facing in obtaining housing
and of the moral integrity of Henry Sweet and the
Sweet family. Finally Clarence Darrows' summation of
the defense was presented to the jury. Darrows'
speech was called one of the greatest in the history of
American jurisprudence.
The main point of Darrows' arguement was that the
Sweet case involved racial prejudice, not murder. He
said, "If white men had shot and killed a black while
protecting their home and lives against a mob of
blacks, no one would have dreamed of having them
indicted. . . They would have been given gold medals
instead." He told the jury, "You are twelve white men
trying a colored man. I want you to be on your guard. I
want you to do all you can to be fair in this case - and I
beleive you will."
Near the end of his seven hour address Darrow
placed his trust in the jury. He stated: "I do not believe
in the law of hate.... I would like to see the time when
man loves his fellow man and forgets his color or his
creed. We will never be civilized until that time comes.
I know the Negro race has a long way to go. I believe
the life of the Negro race has been a life of tragedy, of
injustice, of oppression. The law has made him equal
-but man has not. And after all, the last analysis is
what man has done. Gentlemen... I ask you in the
name of progress and of the human race to return a
verdict of not guilty."
Clarence Darrow then sat down. The next day the
jury went into deliberations. Late that afternoon the
jury informed the court that it had a decision. The ver-
dict: "Not Guilty".
Next week: Brown vs. Topeka.
Continued from page 1
any of their would-be supporters; even if they do get
elected to office. And when I hear Ferraro speak of
making the Civil Rights Act a permanent part of the
Constitution and fighting for Human Rights in South
Africa (in front of an over 90 percent white audience
no doubt), I can't help but feel good. And when a
woman can step up to the podium and command
respect and leadership as well as any man has ever
done, how can you complain (too much).
Of course the middle/upper class, vast majority
white male Republican club, complete with signs such
as, "Ditch the Bitch, Ronnie kick ass at UMass”,
came out to show their true colors. But then the
typical white male has always seemed to be paranoid
of blacks and women (perhaps with good reason
now).
Yes, I believe that we, as people of color, finally
have a half-way decent choice. I would just like to say
thank you to Jesse Jackson and the many, many
other strong leaders, black and white , male and
female, for making this choice possible. And especial-
ly thanks to Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro for
being smart enough, maybe even sincere enough, to
realize that Reagan is a threat to all of us and he can-
not be defeated without a "Rainbow Coalition".
* * * NUMMO STAFF
Segun C. Eubanks
Marilyn G. Bou
Marc Eliott Giles
Julian Tynes
Lisa Viega
Nina Cordova
Emmett Grady
David L. Walker
Rod Clare
Editor In Chief
Managing Editor
Photo Editor
Researcher
Business Manager
Administrative Assistant
Reporter/ Photographer
Photographer
Reporter
* * Contributors * * *
Ed Cohen
Darlene Jackson
Yadira Betances
Yvonne Mendez
Photographer
Correspondent
Correspondent
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Address all letters to the Editor to: Nummo News,
New Africa House Room 103
Correction: The photo of the "BCP Family" on page
two of last weeks issue was taken by Ed Cohen not
David Walker.
Marla Cahillane, Nummo News
extends its thanks.
Editor's note: Nummo News would like to inform the
organizers of the Freshman recruiting programs that
every effort was made to cover the recent field trip
made by high school students. Unfortunately, the
communication came too late for adequate, fair
coverage. We sincerely hope that communications
will improve and that we can continue to serve the
media needs of such an important project.
South African Bishop Receives Nobel Prize
by Rod Clare
Nummo Staff
Bishop Desmond Tutu, General Secretary of the
South African Council of Churches, was named as the
1984 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, last Tuesday.
A visiting professor in Anglican studies at the General
Theological Seminary in New York City, Bishop Tutu
is said to be the leading spiritual voice of Blacks in
South Africa. His congregation has 18 member chur-
ches with more than 12 million followers.
A nonviolent but nonetheless strident foe of
aparteid, Bishop Tutu's method of opposing South
African rule was applauded by the selection commit-
tee, which said that his struggle "is of vital importance
for the whole of the continent of Africa and for the
cause of peace in the world."
Described as small in stature but large in heart,
Bishop Tutu said, "the award made a tremendous
political statement and despite all distortions af truth,
the world recognizes that we are striving for peace."
The news of his being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
has been given very limited coverage in white South
Africa, with dismay being spread as to how such a
man could stand for peace.
Bishop Tutu began his involvement in the church at
an early age and at 25 trained to become a clergy. He
was ordained in 1960 and used the church to espouse
his views of nonviolent opposition to apartheid. In
1975 he became the first Black Anglican Dean of
Johannesburg. In 1978 he was appointed the first
Black General Secretary of the South African Council
of Churches and quickly became the most outspoken
of the Black clergy in denouncing apartheid.
He made it known that this is the last chance for
peaceful change in South Africa, with the chance of
bloodshed occuring if nothing is done. Bishop Tutu
said, "Blacks don't believe that they are introducing
violence into the situation, they believe that the situa-
tion is already violent.” Although a clergyman, he
knows that the voices of Black protest are getting
stronger, and that the church will have to take a side if
a civil war ensues.
Bishop Tutu is expected to arrive in South Africa to
celebrate, although his passport has been withdrawn
several times in the past. His plans are to then attend
an awards cermony in Olso, Norway and then return
to New York to finish his term at the Seminary. After
which he will travel back to South Africa to continue
his work.
Mr. T utu is not the first South African to receive the
Nobel Peace Prize. In 1960, Albert Luthuli, former
president of the African National Congress also receiv-
ed a Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent oppostion to
apartheid. The only other black person to receive the
Peace Prize was Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964. To all
these brothers and for the others still to come, men
and women alike, we say "Don't give up the fight.
Monday, October 22, 1984
NUMMO NEWS
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Duke Ellington Series Begins With Dizzy Gillespie It Don t Mean A
Thing If It Ain’t Got No
by Keith Johnson
This past Wednesday October 17, the University of
Massachusetts was honored with the performance of
Dizzy Gillespie, one of the major innovators of jazz
music, at the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall. The con-
cert was the first in the FAC's Duke Ellington Series
which features notable jazz musicians. Gillespie was
joined by Sayyd Al-Khabyyr on sax, Walter Davis on
piano, John Lee on bass and Nasyr Al-Khabyyr on
drums.
Although the concert started a half hour late, the
impatient crowd of about 1500 people seemed pleased
from the first song to the last. Gillespie set the tone
from the beginning with his raspy voice, when he
belted out, "UMass, take me I'm yours. I offer my life
for your love”. From that point on the crowd bobbed
their heads, tapped their feet and laughed at the antics
of the performers.
Gillespie, with his curved-bell trumpet and bulging
cheeks, went through not only some of his own
famous tunes.such as "Night in Tunisia”, but also
performed Don Redman's "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To
You”, and Lalo Shifrin's "The Blues". Besides
Gillespie, Sayyd Al-Khabyyr was a definite stand out
on sax, flute and clarinet, recieving loud applause for
his solos. Both Nasyr Al-Khabyyr and John Lee, for-
mally of the Mcoy Tyner Group, proved that, although
they are young, they can hold their own among such
veterans. Walter Davis was one of those veterans
with his strong piano playing and stage presence.
Gillespie has been a musician since 1935. He is
noted for helping to create the jazz form "bop”. It was
a new form that was based on the New Orleans Jazz,
made famous by Louis Armstrong and "Jelly Roll"
Morton. "Bop" turned the New Orleans Jazz into a
more harmonically and rhythmically complex form. It
was not accepted at first but by the 1950's Gillespie
and Charlie "Bird" Parker, Charles Mingus and others
had turned it into a very popular form of music.
After 45 years of playing with such Jazz greats as
Roving
Reporter
What does Black Homecoming mean to you ?
Dierde Lawyer
Soul.
Dizzy Gillespie chats with admirers after his con-
cert Wednesday night. ^ fay Marc_Elliot Giles
Cab Calloway, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Billy Eckstine and
others, Gillespie is still playing, touring and cutting
records.
About a year ago Gillespie performed on a hit tune
with Stevie Wonder. Gillespie now plans to appear-
with Wonder on his next LP. He is also taping a seg-
ment for the "Bill Cosby Show" that will be aired in
November.
The crowd participation and standing ovation at the
end of Dizzy's performance proved that he was greatly
appreciated. Dizzy Gillespie will go down in history as
one of Jazz music's greatest innovators.
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Keith Johnson
Black Homecoming should be a time of the year
when Third World Students and alumni come
together to honor Third World experiences at UMass.
To remember past struggles and triumphs and to plan
for new ones. To reunite old friendships and to bring
the community together to have a good time.
All the Black people can get together with a com-
mon understanding of Brotherhood and Sisterhood
and unite as one. UNITY!
Terry Armstrong
I feel it is good that Black people can come together
to make a strong bond among themselves within the
Black community.
Brett Andrews
Knowing that there is a lack of unity in the Black
community as a whole in America. I feel Black
Homecoming is a stepping stone to bring Black people
together. Therefore we can set an example for the
youth so they have a higher view of life and can
establish themselves in the American society.
photos by Marc-Elliot Giles
by Segun Eubanks
Nummo Staff
Last Sunday, October 14, the Fine Arts Center
presented the production of "Sophisticated Ladies",
the famous Broadway musical based on the music of
Duke Ellington. Although "Sophisticated Ladies" was
a long running, smash hit on Broadway, the produc-
tion at the FAC lacked the charisma, talent and most
importantly the soul that the orignal production must
have had.
Under the dierction and choreography of Claudia
Asbury and the musical direction of Duke Ellington's
son Mercer Ellington, the show consisted of an array
of tunes and melodies from Duke's outstanding reper-
toire with the singers and dancers performing a variety
of skits to fit the music. The hour and a half show per-
formed over 30 of Ellington's best going as far back as
1928 and ranging all the way up to 1966.
"Sophisticated Ladies" did have its high points.
The band and the music was excellent. Freda Payne,
who played the lead female role, proved that although
she cannot move like she used to, her voice is just as
powerful and beautiful as ever. The performances of
Bruce Anthony Davis, who played the lead male role,
and Lynn Sterling were also very commendable. Other
than those few highlights "Sophisticated Ladies" was
rather flat.
Given that the sound system provided and the
acoustics of the Fine Arts Center were as bad as they
could possibly have been, the performance could not
have reached its full potential anyway. However,
these were not the decidings factors that made the
performance a dissappointment. As previously men-
tioned, the production at the FAC lacked the soul it
most definitely needed.
The Company of dancers and singers performed the
choreography with typical " Juliard" precision. That
would have been fine for a Classical ballet but it was
not appropriate for the music and style of Duke Ell-
ington. The music of Duke Ellington is not just lyrics
written on a page. It is tied into a broader picture of
history and tradition. The Harlem Renaissance, the
"bop" and jazz eras, and African culture all influenced
the music of Ellington. And it seemed clear that the
original intent of "Sophisticated Ladies" was to bring
the rich culture and history of Black America to the
stage. So when a white singer says "I'd rather be in
Harlem", it just did not sound right.
I am not critizing the performance of the cast as
much as the ability of the cast to understand and
"feel” the music, its history and its significance. The
lack of swing and soul was not due to lack of talent
but lack of the experience and understanding of black
musical history. Most off the roles were clearly written
for black performers and I'm sure there are many
talented black dancers and singers who would have
been honored to perform in the production.
So as not to end on a negative note let me once
again commend the wonderful performance of Freda
Payne and the Mercer Ellington Band (which received ,
the most enthusiastic applause of the evening with a
excellent piece after the stage performance was over).
I would have enjoyed the perfromance more if the
band would have played and Freda Payne just walked
out and sung.
Continued from page 1
unique to Black students at the University. The strug-
gles of past students and the hard work of the current
organizers of Black Homecoming will come to fruition
with what will surely be a beautiful event and rewar-
ding experience for anyone who attends.
Finally, both Black Homecominy and the Third
World Leadership Conference will be depending on
one very crucial factor for their success. YOU' Please
come out and support the hard work of fellow
students. Remember these events are designed with
you in mind.
Monday. October 22. 1984
NUMMO NEWS
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A Rastafarian Perspective
Ras Douglas of the Royal Theocratic Government
of the Rastafari spoke of the current levels of political
violence occuring in Jamaica, last Thursday at the
New Africa House Library. Douglas talked of the
history of violence, beginning with the situations at
the end of slavery in 1838 and coming up to the pre-
sent.
The Jamaican landocracy, in 1838, never believed
that slavery should have ended and began to transport
slaves illegaly to the West Indies. When it was learned
that heavy fines would be levied to any new shipments
of slaves, masses of black men and women were
thrown overboard to drown. The British government
compensated the Jamaican Landocracy for their loss
of property with $200 million. The attitudes of this elite
have not changed much over the ensuing years, said
Douglas.
In Ras Douglas' view, there is a sinister plot by the
government to keep the people backwards.
Jamaicans are the fourth group of immigrants enter-
ing the U.S. and if it were possible for more to leave;
the island would be practically deserted says Douglas.
Jamaica is a "slave plantation" with prisons so brutal
they have been described as resembling the Middle
Passages of the slave trade continued Ras Douglas.
The scenario of mass political murders began in
1972 when Michael Manley, leader of the People's Na-
tional Party (PNP) defeated the Jamaican Labor Party
(JLP). Under Manley's "democratic socialist" govern-
ment Jamaica's economy began to improve and he
won a second term in 1976 by defeating Edward
Seaga, leader of the JLP.
After the election, however, things "went a bit
bad" for Manley, said Ras Douglas, because some of
his programs were too ambitious and lacked the
necessary funds. Meanwhile, Mr. Seaga, determined
to lead his party (the more conservative of the two
with close ties to the U.S.) to victory in the 1980 elec-
tions, began to mix the ballot with the bullet, said
Douglas.
Mr. Seaga began to have community and political
leaders murdered. A series of "tit for tat" murders
began to take place with the JLP killing on and the
PNP killing another for revenge.
The level of terror that the special government
forces or "Eradication Squads" spread was increasing
said Douglas as he described how he was almost a vic-
tim of their brutality. Although the official figure for
those who died was 750, Ras Douglas said it was more
like 4,000. For an island of nearly 2.5 million people
that is a very high figure. Douglas put it in perspective
by asking the audience to imagine that during the
Reagan-Mondale campaign, 400,000 were killed.
The level of violence has decreased since the elec-
tion but Seaga, who won the 1980 election, has let it
be known that before the JLP gives up power there
will be a fight and if they don't win the election they
plan to win the war noted Douglas. There was to be
an election in 1985 but in December 1983 Seaga called
a snap election. The JLP now claims that it has power
until 1989 but the PNP fiercely disputed this.
Douglas noted that there has been a call for
Rastafarians to become politically involved in
Jamaica, something they have not traditionally done.
Now some Rastafarians are saying that political steps
must be taken. In Douglas' words, "repatriation yes,
but liberation before repatriation."
The people of Jamaica now live in a state of
perpetual fear, said Douglas. The island that produced
some of the fiercest maroons (rebel slaves) such at
Cudjoe and more modern leaders like Marcus Garvey
and Bob Marley who spoke out against foreign
domination, now finds itself brutalized by its own peo-
ple.
In the opinion of this reporter there seems to be no
easy solution to the country's problems if any at all.
Perhaps Bob Marley said it best in the song "Natural
Mystic":
There's a natural mystic blowing through the air.
If you listen carefully now you will hear.
It could be the first trumpet.
Might as well be the last.
Many more will have to die.
Many more will have to cry.
Don't ask me why.
\
Ras Douglas gives a presentation on violence in
Jamaica at the New Africa House this past
Thursday.
photo by David Walker
Announcements + Announcements
MINORITY ENGINEERING CAREER
DAY
A Minority Engineering Career Day
will be held October 24 in the Campus
Center Auditorium from 10:00a.m. till
3:00p.m. The event is sponsored by the
National Society of Black Engineers.
University Placement Service, and the
Minority Engineering Program. All
engineering students are encouraged to
attend.
BLACK WOMAN'S SUPPORT GROUP
Everywoman's Center will be sponsor-
ing Black Woman's Support Group
beginning on October 24,1984 and runn-
ing for six weeks. The group, which will
meet on Wednesday evenings, will be
facilitated by Wanda Ruffin. Discussion
will focus on issues pertinent to Black
women: specific topics will be decided
by the group.
For more information and to register,
please contact Everywoman's Center by
calling 545-0883.
ASSERTIVENESS AND LEADERSHIP
SKILLS
The Working Women's Program at
Everywoman's Center will be sponsoring
an Assertiveness and Leadership Skills
group beginning October 23 and running
for eight weeks. The group will meet on
Tuesday evenings from 7-9p.m. at the
EWC, and will be facilitated by Joyce
Clark.
For more information and to pre-
register please call EWC at 545-0883.
Conference
A week long conference entitled:
"Clouds of War, Winds of Change - The
United States and Revolution in Central
America" will be held at the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst campus dur-
ing the week of October 22-26, 1984. The
Keynote speaker will be Howard Zinn,
author of "A People's History of the
United States" and professor at Boston
University who will speak on 'The
History of US Intervention in Central
America'. It will be held on Wednesday,
October 24, 1984 at 7:30 p.m. at the Cam-
pus Center room 163.
The schedule for the weeks events is
as follows:
Monday, October 22, 7:30, Red Room,
Amherst College, Discussion: "Elec-
tions, Democracy and Popular Participa-
tion'-Speakers: Mel King- Rainbow
Coalition; Carolee Bengelsdorf-
Hampshire Co. and Jon Childs- Amherst
Co.
Tuesday, October 23, 7:30, at a local
church in Amherst to be announced.
Discussion: "The Role of the Church in
Central America" / "The Sanctuary
Movement". Speaker: Jim Stormes-
Jesuit Preist, UMass.
Thursday, Oct. 25, 7:30 pm CC163
Workshop: "The Militarization of Central
America-Anniversary of the Grenadian
Invasion". Speakers: Karen Wanza
Esq. -Grenada Foundation, NY and Ar-
thur Barisano Esq.- Lawyer's Committee
against Intervention in Central America.
Friday, Oct. 26, 7:30pm CC101 Discus-
sion: "Elections, Media and Misinforma-
tion" Speaker: Frank Brodhead, Co-
editor of Radical America, and author of
'Demonstrations Elections'.
These public forums are sponsored by
a Central America Coalition of various
5-collage and comunity groups and are
designed to provide for education,
discussion and protest concerning the
current administrations repressive and
undemocratic policies in the region.
Films, video and slide shows about the
region will be shown on the Campus
Center Concourse on Oct. 19, 22 £r 25th
from 10-4pm.
For more Information call: days
545-2145; and for press interviews with
speakers call nights 586-1449 or Mauricio
at 785-1251, ext. 246.
MENS
Monday. November 5,1984
connected with the Collegian
Volume 13 Issue 7 for the sole purpose of
distribution*-
Election 1984: Our Time Has Come
by Segun Eubanks
Nummo Staff
With the Presidential election just one day away,
most voters already have their minds made op about
who to vote for. However, as this crucial day comes
closer, many still do not realize its significance. Not
neccesarily the significance of the Mondale campaign,
but the possibility of four more years of Ronald
Reagan.
Mr. Reagan himself has made the threat very clear
with his favorite campaign slogan, "You ain't seen
nothing yet." If one takes the time to look at exactly
what Mr. Reagan has done for/to this country, it
becomes apparent that this slogan is indeed a
"threat" and a very dangerous one.
A few facts about the Reagan administration may
make this point clearer. Reagan brags consistently
about his big tax cuts and how much they have saved
the average American. Obviously, Reagan does not
consider eighty percent of the population as average.
The fact is that anyone making less than $20,000 a
year (eighty percent) has paid MORE in taxes, while
those making between $30-50 thousand (a mere fif-
teen percent of the population) have saved a whopp-
ing one percent in taxes, while the remaining five per-
cent of the population making $51,000 and above
received the largest tax break.
—"You ain't seen nothing yet"~
Are low-income college students or women "better
off now"? More than 3 million school children have
been dropped from school lunch programs, hundreds
of thousands of women, infants and children have
been cut from nutrition programs, 700,000 low- and
moderate-income families have been unable to obtain
Guaranteed Student Loans and over 5.4 million men
and women have fallen into poverty-"You ain't seen
nothing yet.”
Reagan has: Cut real Federal spending to education
by twenty-five percent, tried to eliminate the Depart-
ment of Education and Federal aid to college educa-
tion, gutted the Civil Rights Commission, tried to end
the Voting Rights Act, spoke out against the Equal
Rights Amendment, engaged in union busting, and
supported the racist South African Regime and other
dictatorships, and promised us, "You ain't seen
nothing yet."
The evidence is strong and the threat is very clear.
Yet in debate, Reagan and his supporters can only
ramble on about a stronger America, a communist
threat and something about cheating on welfare and
buying steak with Food Stamps. We have yet to hear
facts or weigh evidence, for there is no evidence of
which to weigh. Only imagery, trickery and deceit.
If white America falls for the imagery (Black
America has not), they will prove to be the most
gullable, unknowledgable, selfish voting population in
recent history. One Republican, who happened to be
a woman, simply loved the television commercial of
Reagan symbolically standing up to the mysterious
bear (U.S.S.R.).
If a majority of the American voting public is this
naive and ignorant of the facts, then Ronald Reagan
will win tomorrow's election. However, we don't
have to accept or be discouraged by the results of
Mass Media's polls which state that Mondale doesn't
have a chance.
Nummo News fully supports Democratic party can-
didates Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro. In the
words of Jesse Jackson, "Our time has come" and,
unlike Reagan, we believe whole-heartedly in the
Voting Rights Act and popular participation.
Therefore, we encourage everyone, no matter what
your political beliefs are, to exercise your right to vote
on Tuesday, November 6th.
Perspectives of a Divided Nation
had shown signs of slowing down, apparently enough
anger remained among some Sikh individuals to cause
such an attack to occur.
Indira Gandhi's rule was always somewhat
autocratic. India is a country of such diverse religious
and ethnic groups that it is very difficult to rule. The
invasion of the Sikh temples was not the first time she
ruled with an iron fist. She took part in a war against
Pakistan in 1971 to help create the new nation of
Bangladesh and among other things carried out forc-
ed sterilization measures against thousands of men
during the mid-70's.
At the same time she was dearly loved by a great
portion of the Indian population. Daughter of the first
prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, she was
said by many to be the mother of all India and the
phrase "Indira is India" was often quoted in leference
to her. The country had seen progress in agriculture
and technology under her rule and she was often the
unifying force that kept India together.
Her funeral took place last Saturday as many
foreign heads of states attended the ceremonies.
Meanwhile, major Hindu rioting is taking place
throughout the country, with at least 500 Sikhs
reported dead and thousands injured. Curfews along
with orders for soldiers to shoot rioters on sight have
been given by Rajiv Gandhi, Ms. Gandhi's son and the
new prime minister of India, in order to quell violence.
Mr. Gandhi has been described as soft and inex-
perienced in Indian politics, entering the field in only
1980. It will be his major task to try and bring peace to
a country that has always trod a thin line of stability
and which now faces a serious crisis.
by Rod Clare
Nummo Staff
Playthell Benjamin speaks at
Third World Leadership Coherence.
See story, page 2
Indira Ghandi, Hindu prime minister of India, was
gunned down Wednesday in New Delhi by two
vengeful Sikhs who were angered over the repression
of their religious group through Gandhi's policies.
There has been tremendous strife between Sikhs
and Hindus in India over the past few years. Sikhs,
two percent of India's 730 million population, have felt
that Hindus, seventy-eight percent of the population,
control Sikh lives too much. A majority of Sikhs now
favor creating a separate state in the Punjab region
where Sikhs are over fifty percent of the population.
Last June, Gandhi moved to combat growing Sikh
militance by ordering the invasion of the "Golden
Temple in Amritsar," the Sikhs' holiest shrine, to rid it
or extremists who were using it as a shelter. The of-
ficial number of those killed is listed at 600 but this is
highly disputed. There was and still is a news
blackout along with a state of emergencey taking
place in the Punjab region so there was no free inquiry
into the amount of people killed, but it is said that at
least 1500 people were killed. Also, Golden Temple
was not the only temple attacked. All the Sikh
temples in India were invaded, raising the death toll as
high as 30,000 in some estimates, a situation virtually
unreported in the news media.
This incident galvanized the Sikh population, prod-
ding even moderate Sikhs to take a more hard line ap-
proach. Cries that Ms. Gandhi be brought to justice
were echoed throughout the Sikh community and
some Sikhs threatened her life. Although hostilities
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NUMMO NEWS
Monday. November 5,1964
Today’s Student Leaders,
Tommorow’s World Leaders
by Marilyn G.Bou
Nummo Staff
Keynote speakers, workshops, live music, a lun-
cheon, and demonstrations, along with enthusiastic
participants contributed to the overall success of this
year's third world student leadership conference held
at the University of Massachusetts/ Amherst on Satur-
day, October 27th.
Workshops ranged in content from Housing
Discrimination to International Health Issues. A
workshop on Combating Racism, for example,
discussed overt and covert methods of oppression.
Mitchell Smith, director of A Better Chance House
(ABC) in Amherst and facilitator of the workshop said
there is no specific definition for the word racism
because the word encompasses so much for so many.
Educating no only ourselves but each other is
something which we all must do in order for us to
learn and unlearn about our past, present, and future.
Several booths displaying and selling jewelry, dies,
and various products lined the Student Union
Ballroom.
Mr. Playthell Benjamin, political advisor for the Na-
tion Fight Back Labor Organization in New York City
and keynote speaker, said in his address that
Democrats are not the answer for all the problems
minorities and the working class face, but another
four years of Ronald Reagan can only be worse. He
went on to say, "It is not an exaggeration to say that
the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting
poorer." Benjamin advised the young that an educa-
tion is of utmost importance but it would by no means
secure us a position at the top. Benjamin said,
"through organized labor the working class can and
had power, for the corporate elite are not interested in
social good and social welfare, but in increasing their
profits."
Ambassador Oumaru Youssofou, speaking during
the lucheon began his speech by emphasizing to
young and old and those in between the importance
of retracing one's roots and origins. He said, "Only
a
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United Nations Ambassador Oumaru
Youssofou from the Organization of
African Unity, gave an exciting and
informative presentation at the
Third World Leadership Conference.
through obtaining this knowledge can you give and
demand respect as Americans, for the image is
distorted in the media. If you continue to believe what
is given to you, you'll be in serious trouble."
Youssofou has served as Ambassador for various
nations in Africa and has travelled extensively
throughout the world. He said, "Americans must look
at themselves not only as they want to se themselves
but also accept the true image they portray to the rest
of the world."
As Afro-Americans, Blacks, People of Color, or any
other noun you wish to address yourself with, you
have a responsibility to understand what is going on in
South Africa because what ever effects Africa, effects
you, whether indirectly or directly, Youssofou said.
'Students are at their intellectual prime and also
fibve the time flexibility, among other factors, needed
to eliminate apartheis in South Africa, said
Youssofou. He also said, "People who are bringing
revolution to South Africa aren't people like me, but
people like you."
When asked if UMass should divest from stock in
South Africa Youssofou said, "We are not a violent
people, but when Black South Africans are told that
34 million people don't exsist because the white South
Africans don't want you to and you have struggled for
over fifty years to peacefully negotiate, you then
realize you can only be victorious if violence is applied.
We have to kill in order to be free. So here you
(America) take care of crushing them financially
through divestment and we'll take care of the killing."
The conference ended with a spectacular karate
demonstration. Pariticpants showed the audience the
beauty of the "u" system of karate while effectly
displaying the art of self-defense. The demonstration
ended with the instructor breaking 200 pounds of ce-
ment blocks with his feet, elbows, hands, and head
Those who paricipated in the conference enjoyed a
day filled with cultural, educational, spiritual, and
political enlightment; for those of you that didn't
bother to partake, you are the losers.
Grenada Revisited
by Rod Clare
Nummo Staff
The U.S. invasion of Grenada which began on Oc-
tober 25, 1983 was the most recent in a series of
American violations of the Carribbean countries'
rights to sovereighty, according to a member of the
Grenada Foundation.
Karen Wanza, Grenada Foundation member, said
the intervention in Grenada is one example of U.S. ex-
pansionist tactics in the region. She cited the Bay of
Pigs incident in 1961 and the blockade of Cuba which
followed, and the destabilization of Jamaica as other
examples.
Speaking on October 25 in response to the first an-
niversary "celebration" of the invasion, Wanza also
discounted claims that U.S. national security was be-
ing threatened by the unstable Grenadian government
set up after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and
members of his cabinet were killed. U.S. officials had
feared communist infiltration in the new government.
Wanza and Lawyer's Committee against Interven-
tion in Central American member Arthur Barisano ap-
peared at the University of Massachusetts on "Stu-
dent Liberation Day," which celebrated the anniver-
sary of the American medical students at St. Georges
University in Grenada.
Grenada is presently under much repression, accor-
ding to Wanza. Although psychological warfare by
U.S. forces against Grenadans is evident, the old
political songs remain strong, as does the only in-
dependent newspaper in the country, which is the
most widely read.
"A people united can never be defeated,” Wanza
said in closing her speech.
Barisano started his discussion of Central America,
and the U.S. role there, by saying that the theoretical
context for U.S. involvement in Central America since
World War II has been anti-communism.
In the U.S. eyes, Barisano said, any people's upris-
ing must be ultimately sponsored by Cuba or the
Soviet Union. Barisano also said the one thing that
President Reagan has consistentlv overlooked in the
region is the severe poverty existing there.
Barisano said starving people do not need com-
munists to tell them they are hungry.
Turning to the specific example of Nicaragua,
Barisano said that Reagan views the country, which is
ruled by the Sandanistas, as a cancer to be excised.
Showing the Sandanistas to be more democratic than
acknowledged by either the U.S. State Department or
the press, he pointed to constant U.S. pressure as
pushing the goverment further to the left.
Barisano said the basic purpose of the anti-
communist rationale in Central America on the part of
the U.S. is an excuse to get into the country and set
up intelligence networks. "All the rules can be thrown
out of the book because we're searching for com-
munists"' Barisano said.
According to Barisano, he became involved with
the Lawyers Committee Against Intervention in Cen-
tral America because he felt the country was becom-
ing too conservative. He saia he was not sure if
Wnlt“r Mondale was the answer to unifying
moderates and liberals, but that he was a reponse to
"Reagan's Social Darwinism."
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AN ELECTION DA Y MESSAGE:
Jesse’s Challenge Remembered
EXCERPTS FROM THE REVEREND JESSE
JACKSON'S SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE NA-
TIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION ON JULY 17,
1984
"The Democratic Party is the best hope for re-
directing our nation on a more humane, ,ust and
peaceful course. This is not a perfect party, we are
not a perfect people, yet we are called to a perfect
mission. Our mission; to feed the hungry, to clothe
the naked, to nouse the homeless, to teach the il-
literate, to provide jobs for the jobless and to choose
the human race over the nuclear race."
"Throughout this campaign I have tried to offer
leadership to the Democratic party and the nation. If
in my high moments I have done some good or of-
fered some service, shed some light, healed some
wounds, re-kindled some hope, or stirred someone
from apathy and indifference or, in any way along the
way, helped somebody, then this campaign has not
been in vain. ..If in my low moments, in word, deed or
attitude, through some error of temper, taste, or tone
, I've caused anyone discomfort, created pain or reviv-
ed someone's fears, that was not my truest self. If
there were occasions when any grape turned into a
raisin and my draw bell lost its resilience, please
forgive me. Charge it *o my head and not to my heart.
My head so limitea in its finitude, my heart which is
boundless in its love for the human family. I am not a
perfect servant, I am a public servant. Doing my best
against the odds, if I develop and serve, be patient
god is not finished with me yet...
"Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender
enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes,
humble enough to admit them, strong enough to ab-
sorbe the pain and resilient enough to bounce back
and keep on moving.
"Our flag is Red, White and Blue, but our nation is
Rainbow, Red, Yellow, Brown, Black and White. We
are all precious in God's sight.
We have proven that we can survive without each
other but we have not proven that we can win and
make progress without each other. We must come
together.
We are bound by shared blood and shared
sacrifices. We are much too intelligent, much to
bound by Judiao-Christian heritage, much to victimiz-
ed by racism, sexism, militarism, and Anti-Semitism.
Much too threatened as historical scapegoats to go on
divided, one from another. We must turn from finger
pointing to clasped hands. We must share our
burdens and our joys once again. We must turn to
each other and not on each other and choose higher
ground.
"The Rainbow Coalition is making room for Arab-
Americans. They, too, know the pain and the hurt of
racial and religious rejection. They must not continue
to be made pariah. The Rainbow Coalition is making
room for Hispanic Americans who, this very night, are
living under the threat of the Simpson-Missola Bill.
And farm workers from Ohio who are fighting the
Campell Soup Company with a boycott to achieve
legitimate worker rights. The Rainbow is making
room for the Native American, the most exploited
people of all. A people with the greatest moral claim
amongst us. We support them as they seek the
restoration of their ancient land claim amongst us... as
they seek their ancestoral lands and the beauty of a
land that was once all theirs... The Rainbow Coalition
includes the Asian-Americans now being killed in our
streets; scapegoats for the failures of corporate, in-
dustrial, and economic policies. The Rainbow is mak-
ing room for young Americans. Twenty years ago,
our young people were dying in a war for which they
could not even vote. Twenty years later, America has
the power to stop a war in Central America and the
responsibility to vote in great numbers.
“I am more convinced than ever that
we can win. We ’ve fought up the
rough side of the mountain, we can
win. Our faith, hopes, and dreams
will prevail. "
liev. Jesse Jackson
"Too often what we call hate, as if it were some
deeply rooted philosophy or strategy, is simply ig-
norance, anxiety, paranoia, fear, and insecurity..."
"President Reagan says the nation is in recovery.
Those 90,000 corporations that made a profit last
year, but paid no taxes, are recovering. The 37,000
military contractors who have benefited from
Reagan's more than doubling the military budget in
peace time, surely they are recovering. The big cor-
porations and rich individuals who have received the
bulk of the 3-year multi-billion dollar tax cut from Mr.
Reagan are recovering.
But no such recovery is on the way for the lest of
these. Rising tides don't lift all boats, particularly
those stuck at the bottom. For the boat stuck at the
bottom, there's a misery index. This administration
has made life more miserable for the poor. Its attitude
has been contemptuous. Its policies and programs
have been cruel and unfair to working people. But it
must be held accountable in November for increasing
infant mortality among the poor in Detroit, one of the
great cities of the Western world. Babies are dying at
the same rate as Honduras, the most underdeveloped
nation in our hemisphere. This administration must be
held accountable for policies that have contributed to
growing poverty in America. There are now 34 million
people in poverty; fifteen percent of our nation.
Twenty-three million are white, 11 million are black,
hispanic, asian, and others. Mostly women and
children. By the end of this year, there will be 41
million people in poverty. We cannot stand idoly by,
we must fight for change nowi
Under this regime we look at Social Security, the
1981 budget cuts included 9 permanent Social Securi-
ty benefit cuts totaling 20 billion dollars over 5 years.
Small businesses have suffered under Reagan tax
cuts. Only eighteen percent of total business tax cuts
went to them. Eighty-two percent went to big
business. Health care under Mr. Reagan has been
sharply cut. Education under Mr. Reagan has been
cut twenty-five percent. Under Mr. Reagan, there are
now 9.7 million female-headed families. They repre-
sent sixteen percent of all families. Half of all of them
are poor. Seventy percent of all poor children live in a
house headed by a woman, where there is no man.
Farmers' net income is only half its level of 1979.
In his appeal to the South, Mr. Reagan is trying to
substitute flags and prayer for food, clothing, educa-
tion, health care and housing. Mr. Reagan will ask us
to pray and I believe in prayer... But then we must
watch false prophecy. He cuts energy assistance to
the poor, cuts breakfast programs from children, cuts
lunch programs from children and then says to an
empty table 'Let us pray.' Apparently he is not
familiar with the structure of a prayer. You thank the
lord for the food you are about to receive, not the food
that just left. I think that we should pray. But don't
pray for the food that just left, pray for the man that
took the food to leave-We need a change in
November."
"Under this administration we've lost the lives of
our boys in Central America, in Honduras, in Grenada,
in Lebanon, in Nuclear stand off in Europe. Under this
administration, one-third of our children believe they
will die in a nuclear war. The danger index is increas-
ing in this world."
On voting...
It is not enough to hope the ERA will pass, how can
we pass ERA? If blacks vote in large numbers, pro-
gressive whites win. It's the only way progressive
whites win. If blacks vote in great numbers, hispanics
win. When blacks, hispanics, and progressive whites
vote, women win. When women win, children win.
When women and children win, workers win. We
must all come up together.
"In all of our joy and excitement, we must not save
the world and lose our souls. We must never short-
circuit enforcing the Voting Rights Act at every level.
When one of us rise, all of us rise. Justice is the way
out. Peace is the way out. We should not act as if
nuclear weaponry is negotiable and debatable. In this
world in which we live, we dropped the bomb on
Japan and felt guilty. But in 1984, other folks also got
bombs and this time if we drop the bomb, six minutes
later, we, too, will be destroyed. It's not about dropp-
ing the bomb on somebody, it's about dropping the
bomb on everybody. We must choose developed
minds over guided missiles and think it out and not
fight it out.
To the youth...
"I have a message for our youth. I challenge them
to put hope in their brains and not dope in their veins.
I told them that, like Jesus, I, too, was born in the
slum. But just because you're born in the slum does
not mean the slum is born in you. And you can rise
above it if your mind is made up."
"We leave this place looking for the sunny side
because there's a brighter side somewhere. I am more
convinced than ever that we can win. We've fought
up the rough side of the mountain, we can win. I just
want young America to do me one favor... exercise
the right to dream. You must face reality that which
is, but then dream of the reality which ought to be,
that must be. Live beyond the pain of reality with the
dreams of a bright tomorrow. Use hope and imagina-
tion as weapons of survival and progress. Use love to
motivate you and obligate you to serve the human
family. Young America-Dream! Choose the human
race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and
don't bury people. Dream of a new value system.
Teachers who teach for life and not just for living.
Teach because they just can't help it. Dream of
lawyers more concerned about justice than a
judgeship. Dream of doctors more concerned about
public health than personal wealth. Dream of
preachers and priests who will prophesize and not just
propheter."
"Our time has come. Our faith, hopes and dreams
will prevail... Give me your tired, give me your poor,
other masses who yearn to breath free and come
November, there will be change because our time has
come. Thank you and God bless you."
-The Reverned Jesse Louis Jackson
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NUMMO NEWS
Monday, November 5,1984
Announcements * Announcements
SOUTH AFRICAN
EDUCATION WEEK:
THE STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID
SLIDESHOW AND SPEAKERS
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER I3ih.7-}0p.r
CAMPUS CENTER 16} UMASS
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CENTER FOR RACIAL STUDIES
Moore House-Southwest Residential
Area
Film Series
Nov. 6-Guilty By Reason of Race,
Asian American-Film
Nov. 13-To Be Young, Gifted and
Black, Life and Works of black
playwright Lorraine Hansberry
Nov. 20-Brave-Hearted Woman, Life
of Annie Mae Aquash, Native American
Film
Nov. 27-Number Our Days, Ac-
count/Creation of a Jewish Community
Ageism
All Film Showings -7 p.m.
PLEASE COME!! REFRESHMENTS
SERVED. Traditional Food following
each film. Pot Luck Welcome.
The brothers of the Delta Chi chapter
of "Omega Psi Phi" is presenting a
"Smoker" on November 8, at 7:00 at the
Malcolm X Center. This is a meeting for
young men interested in gaining more
knowledge of the fraternity. So come
and bring a friend, refreshments will be
served.
TERTULIA/COFFEEHOUSE
On Friday, November 9 beginning at
7:30 p.m. there will be a celebration of
the 15th Anniversary of the Venceremos
Brigade. Featured artists include the
Sorobei, a Puerto Rican children's dance
ensemble, jazz pianist Mark Weidenfeld.
Joe Platz and the Afro-Cuban drum
ensemble, songwriter Et guitarist David
Weidenfeld, poetry on women by Irma
McLauren-Allen, and others. There will
be refreshments, dancing, and a Cuban
poster art sale. Bring instruments and
your dancing shoes! A small donation at
the door-benefit for the WMass.
Venceremos Brigade
Tired of the Meal Plan?
YVONNE’S PLACE
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KAPPA ALPHA PSI JEWELS OF
ACHIEVEMENT COMMITMENT TO EX-
CELLENCE EXTRAVAGANZA 84
A Sensual Journey Through Pure Par-
ty Pleasure Ectasy and Pain!
The Brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi Invite
You to their Autuman 84 Extravaganza
Saturday. Nov. 10, 1984, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.
Marriott Hotel, Springfield Room, Spr-
ingfield, MA
$5.00 in advance
$6.00 at door
Cash Bar
Dress To Impress, No Sneakers or
Jeans, Please.
THE 16th ANNUAL VENCEREMOS
BRIGADE
The Venceremos Brigade has the
longest his/herstory of any educational
project in solidarity with the Cuban
Revolution. For 16 years the Brigade has
sent 15 contingents-over 5.000 people-
to Cuba. Whether you've made the trip
before, or have just been curious and
never applied, come join the Brigade for
three weeks in the Spring of 1985.
Join people from across the U.S. in
working alongside Cubans in citrus or-
chards or on construction projects. Tour
the island to learn first-hand about the
"NEW" Cuba.
For more information on the up-
coming contingent, contact us by
November 12, 1984, or for general infor-
mation on the work we do and up-
coming events: Venceremos Brigade
P.O. Box 539 No. Amherst, Ma 01059, or
call 586 7863. 586-7615, or 549-4593.
Monday - Friday
12:30 - 6:30 pm
A sample of treats include:
Fried Chicken
Island Cumed Fish
Vegttarian Platter
Fried Rice
Curry
Thursday - Friday
Student Discount Days
The New World Theater at the Univer-
sity of Massachusetts at Amherst
presents "Life in the Fast Lane" on
Saturday, November 17, at 8 p.m. in
Bowker Auditorium. Written and per-
formed by Japanese Hawaiian poet.
Lane Nishikawa, "Life in the Fast Lane"
is a dynamic play about growing up
Asian-American. Critics have called it a
"one-man tour de force". From the
country twang of the good ol' boy in
'The Bigot', to the street rap of 'The
Black Jap', to the pigdin English of 'They
Was Close. Those Brothers’, to a
recollection of foods prepared by his
Oba-Chan (grandmother), Nishikawa
shares his experiences with the au-
dience. Produced by Sansei Productions
of San Francisco, "Life in the Fast Lane"
returns to Amherst after a successful
performance at the University in 1982.
In conjunction with the play,
Nishikawa will present a lecture
demonstration on Asian-American
Theater at 2 p.m. on November 17 at
Emily Dickinson Hall, Hampshire Col-
lege. The lecture is free and open to the
public.
Tickets for the evening performance
are available at the Fine Arts Center Box
Office (545-2511) or at the door the night
of the performance. Childcare can be
provided by phoning 545-0190 one week
prior.
SUPPORT GROUPS
A Battered Women's Support Group
will focus on some common issues fac-
ing women who have been or are in
physically and/or emotionally abusive
relationships. Some of these are self-
esteem. building new relationships,
trust, and dealing with family and
friends.
Any woman who has experienced in-
cest is invited to attend an Incest Sur-
vivors' Support Group. Pre-registration
is required.
A Support Group for Survivors of Rape
will focus on some common concerns
facing rape survivors such as.fear,
anger, making plans, family and friends’
reactions and trying to recapture in-
timacy in relationships.
Dates of the groups will be announc-
ed. For more information and to
register, please call Everywomen's
Center at 545-0883.
ASSERTIVENESS AND LEADERSHIP
SKILLS
The Working Women's Program at
Everywoman’s Center will be sponsoring
an Assertiveness and Leadership Skills
group beginning October 23 and running
for eight weeks. The group will meet on
Tuesday evenings from 7-9p.m. at the
EWC, and will be facilitated by Joyce
Clark.
For more information and to pre-
register please call EWC at 545-0883.
BLACK WOMAN'S SUPPORT GROUP
Everywoman's Center will be sponsor-
ing Black Woman's Support Group
beginning on October 24,1984 and runn-
ing for six weeks. The group, which will
meet on Wednesday evenings, will be
facilitated by Wanda Ruffin. Discussion
will focus on issues pertinent to Black
women; specific topics will be decided
by the group.
For more information and to register,
please contact Everywoman's Center by
calling 545-0883.
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Tuesday November 13,1984
Volume 13 Issue 8
connected with the Collegian
for the sole purpose of
distribution
APATHY : Root Cause of Ineffectiveness
Editor’s Note: In recent years the central issue sur-
rounding Third World Organizations has been student
involvement. Student apathy and lack of participation
have often been the root causes of ineffectiveness
among Third World groups. All too often a small core
of dedicated students have taken on the reponsibi/ity
of running these organizations while the majority of
the student population , either directly or indirectly,
reeps the benefits.
A prime example of this was the Third World Stu-
dent Leadership conference held at UMass on Oc-
tober 27. This was the second year UMass hosted the
conference, specifically designed for student involve-
ment, and the second time that visiting students out-
numbered UMass students. In light of this situation,
NUMMO NEWS interviewed a number of students
and administrators, who were present at the con-
ference, to get their opinions on the cause of the pro-
blem and the potential solutions. The following are
excerpts from those interviews:
JOHN RUDDOCK, CO-EXTERNAL COOR-
DINATOR, THIRD WORLD CAUCUS:
"I feel that the (Third World Leadership) conference
brings students together around the issue of leader-
ship. People are given intense exposure to ad-
ministrators, leaders and other directly involved in
post-college fields. It is a unique opportunity for
students to learn and share experiences from the Third
World, experiences in the University and life in
general."
"Students, in apathy or lack of support of Third
World organizations, are neglecting the experience of
acquiring practical knowledge in fields that they plan
to enter. Students must realize that over $100 thou-
sand of their Student Activities Fee is used to support
and provide co-curricular activities for this exact pur-
pose. If organizations are not used to learn more, they
(students) will cheat themselves of all the resources
the University has to offer."
"Leaders have a mandated reponsibility to recruit
and organize new students into organizations. If for
no other reason to lay down a foundation to protect
Third World resources which others made available to
them. While it is very important for Third World
students to expand and enlargen our sphere of in-
fluence at the University, it is more important for us to
maintain the power base which we presently have.
We have not yet gone over the mountain but we can-
not afford to slid into the abiss."
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS, JUNIOR TRANSFER
STUDENT FROM QUEENS COLLEGE:
"I am gravely dissappointed in the turn-out (of the
conference). What has shown is a reflection not just
of black students at the Unversity but black people in
general. It seems they (blacks) will celebrate or par-
ticipate in anything, as long as it has nothing to do
with being black.”
"Everyone is here to study but a lot of peoople
would have been here for other functions. A lot of
GROUPS weren't even here. When there is a party at
the New Africa House or Smith (College) everybody
knows and everybody goes. It's a shame that people
struggled for things like this (organizations and
events) to exist and what I see happening is that it is
heading toward extinction. Twenty years after the
Civil Rights Act and things are getting worse."
"Black people are too comfortable today. When
oppression gets worse it brings the most out of peo-
ple. The cushion (that blacks rest upon) will fall
apart.”
From left to right are: John Ruddock, Christopher
Williams and Rudolph Jones (Paul Barrows not
shown).
photos by Marc-Elliot Giles
RUDOLPH JONES, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF
ADMISSIONS:
"We are now in a post-activist environment. Prior
to the 1970's, there were burning issues and interests
that students could be modivated to get involved in,
such as Civil Right and the war in Vietnam. This new
"me" generation and environment speaks to lesser
issues. Black students should never be caught in
complacent attitudes where they believe that they are
equal. They have a responsibility to perpetuate the
struggle."
"I am appalled at the level of participation in Black
organizations. Particularly Black males, who are
allowing females to carry the weight of leadership and
responsibility."
PAUL BARROWS, DIRECTOR OF CCEBMS:
"I am deeply troubled about the lack of presence
and participation of students. However, the Office of
Third World Affairs and the few core students who do
the leg-work should be commended for their outstan-
ding work. We must not dwell on the negative. We
have established where we are and the work that is
ahead of us. If the social consciousness of students is
low it means we must work that much harder and
make them aware of how they can participate in a
focused way."
"The enthusiasm of students in the freshman and
sophmore classes does not match the level of involve-
ment that I had anticipated. I am not sure, however,
that the lack of attendance is due, exclusively, to lack
of interest. All of the Third World staff and students
have a moral responsibility to provide leadership to in-
coming students so they can become aware and ac-
tive in issues at the University.”
"More outreach with students is needed. More stu-
dent organizations need staff members to work with
them in an advisory roll. Staff can provide continuity
and leadership. Other incentives, such as credit and
financial arrangements can be used. If we get the
message to students, involvement will go up."
Ethiopia 7 s Devastating Famine Stirs Old Issues
by Rod Clare
Nummo Staff
On October 30, NBC broadcast a five minute report
on the massive famine in Ethiopia. The film captured
in horrific detail the plight of starving millions and ex-
plained that a number of factors contributed to the
severity and scope of the problem:
1. ) inadequate rainfall,, which over the past 15
years has made the oil infertile;
2. ) neglect of village level development projects;
3. ) a sharp increase in world oil prices;
4. ) severe world recession stalling investment in;
5. ) wars and civil strife hampering cultivation and
harvests.
In Ethiopia you will find the worst suffering in Tigre,
Gondar, and Wollo provinces and in the disputed ter-
ritories of Eritrea. In all of these areas, national
movements are fighting to throw off rule by the cen-
tral government in Addis Ababa ore stablish a degree
of local autonomy. An estimated 200,000 Ethiopians
died in the country's last great famine a decade ago
and relief officials estimate that well over a million
might die now.
Getting the food to Ethiopia's hungry is no easy
matter. The country's antiquated ports permit the
delivery of no more than 50,000 tons of food a month.
Only about 1 in 7 drought victims is easily accessible,
many live in mountain villages that cannot be reacheo
even by four-wheel-drive vehicles. As many as one
,third of the relief commission s zOO trucks are crippled
by lack of spare parts, and until recently the Ethiopian
Army was reluctant to lend any of its own vehicles to
the rescue effort.
Some relief officials charged that Western govern-
ments had deliberately dragged their feet because of
their opposition to Ethiopia's socialist government.
The U.S., however, has been the largest single donor
to Ethiopia, pledging over 100,000 metric tons of grain
this year. Actually, the government itself to even
acknowledge the crisis until after the September
celebrations marking the 10th anniversary of its
seizure of power - a ^elcL.auon that cost up to $250
million.
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NUMMO NEWS
Tuesday November 13,1984
Happenings in the V alley
Rahim Imani
Nummo Correspondent
by Marilyn G. Bou
Nummo Staff
The Five College Faculty Concert took place
November 8 and 9 at Mount Holyoke College and also
at Amherst College on the 10th and 11th of
November.
The dance concert series included choreographers
from the five colleges and Dr. Pearl Primus, a five-
college professor of dance and a reknowed black
dancer and choreographer.
The concert which highlighted "Excerpts from an
African Journey, " for the most part was a disappoint-
ment. The overall production was average with a few
capturing acts. The act entitled, "Ground," in which
the dancer performed the part of a person yearning to
fly, twisted his body into figures one only expects a
pretzel to do.
Two performers acted out a scene in which they
were having a romantic dinner while trying to kill one
another, this was done in such a way that laughter
was inevitable.
"Chants" where two songs, native of Africa, were
performed. This seemedd to be enjoyed by the au-
dience. "War Dance," lifted the mood within the con-
cert hall. "Drum talk" featured two men on congas,
drums native to Africa and the Carribean. had the au-
dience swaying to the beat. "Hi-Life," a social dance
which originated in Ghana and now danced
throughout the West and Central Africa, was the
overall highlight of the entire production. The deep
drum music and dancers enchanted the audience.
Dr. Primus should be complimented on her con-
tribution to this production. The tradition of African
dance and culture was portrayed as beautifully as
could be expected from people who are not native to
the continent. The dancers along with all the behind
the sconces participants, I am sure, put forth
countless hours towards the production and should be
given a round of applause.
The disappointment of "Excerpts" was the im-
balance of Black people in a production which catered
to Africa. It seems that perhaps there are not enough
people in the Valley that care about their African
heritage. Enough of us are ready to displace someone
who is not Black, but it seems they are more eager to
learn about our heritage than we are. Many of us are
to "busy” to care, being "cool" and worried about
learning the newest dance step to stop and wonder
where it came from.
Dr. Primus is known throughout the world and has
knowledge of her roots. This was a wonderful grow-
ing and learning experience which many of us passed
up.
by Marilyn G. Bou
Nummo Staff
The Caribbean Cultural Events which took place at
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst from
November 7 through the 10th, reinforced for many,
the continuous struggles of our people, but also the
pride which we hold in our hearts for those Islands.
The events ranged from films, poems and music to
art.
Guest poet Jose Ramon "Che" Melendez, from
Puerto Rico, read his poetry to an attentive audience
whose blood warmed an cooled with his words. A
film entitled "The Two Worlds of Angelita" encom-
passed one person's struggle of leaving her native
island and confronting the cultural and geographical
changes of New York City. "Brigada Venceremos"
celebrated it's fifteenth anniversary on November 9
with a talk on the longest history of any educational
project in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution. For 15
years the Brigade has sent 15 contigents-over 5,000
people-to Cuba. The participants enjoyed the perfor-
mance of " Sorobey", a folkloric dance group com-
posed of children from the Valley. Irma McClaurin
Allen delighted the audience with her poetry.
A panel discussion held on November 10th discuss-
ed the struggles Carribbean peoples encounter when
they come to America. Language is the most basic
problem of the barrier, for it emcompasses everything
else. A dance which featured "Massai", a Reggae
band form Rhode Island along with "Junentud 77", 3
Latin band from Springfield, rapped up the week's
events.
This past Saturday, the second concert of the in-
novations: Traditions In Change Jazz Series took
place at the new Center for the Arts in Northampton
with a performance by Clyde Criner and Omar Hakim
with special guest Tim Moran and Tony Vacca. The
concert was a collection of some very new and in-
novative jazz music by today's young-and-upcoming
artist.
The program started with Tim Moran and Tony
Vacca. Both are local musicians of the Pioneer Valley.
Vacca showed great skill on various African percus-
sion instruments with Moran accompanied on sax and
Sports
by Julian Tynes
Nummo Staff
WESTERN CONFERENCE PACIFIC DIVISION
The Los Angeles Lakers have captivated the Pacific
Division title and been in the NBA Finals four of the
past five years. However, this year there may be a lit-
tle more competition. Portland is tough and has that
look of a championship contender with the acquisition
of Kiki Vandeweghe and Sam Bowie. Phoenix
features the Greyhound, Walter Davis, and the
Ayatollah of Slamola, Larry Nance. Yet unless free
agent Maurice Lucas (McMean) is signed, there may
be problems in the land of the rising "Suns." The
L.A. Clipper have improved themselves with the ac-
quisitions of Lancaster Gordon, Harvey Catchings,
Junior Bridgeman, and superstar, Marques Johnson.
Seattle is attempting to find out if there is life after
Gus (Williams) and Golden State is entering the
Patrick Ewing sweepstakes.
Los Angeles Lakers-
The Lakers are, as usual, loaded, they have
superstars Kareem Abdull Jabbar, and Magic
Johnson. They have supporting stars, James Wor-
thy, Jamaal Wilkes, Bob McAdoo, Michael Cooper,
and a budding superstar in Byron Scott. Solid role
players Mike McGee and Kurt Rambis will play key
roles.
Rebounding is the Laker's weakness and the reason
why they are not the current NBA champions. Maybe
first round draft pick Earl Jones of U.D.C. is the
answer, maybe not. Unless the Lakers get more re
bounds from their other front court players the road to
the championship will be filled with road blocks.
Portland Trail Blazers-
pnrtland has that look of an up-and-coming con-
tender with Sam Bowie, Mychal Thompson, Kiki
Vandewghe, Jim Paxson, and Darnell Valentine as the
starters. With Audie Norris, Kenny Carr, and Clyde
Drexler, Portland has depth. With the acquisition of
rookie Sam Bowie, Wayne Cooper, Calvin Natt and
Lafayette Lever have been traded. Portland does have
question marks. Who will back up Valentine? Who
will back up Paxson?
flute. Both are members of the local group Winds of
Change that will end the series in two weeks.
Clyde Criner has also lived in the area in the past
and is now residing in New York where he is playing
keyboard with some of today's jazz greats. Omar
Hakim who has some of the same credentials is most
noted as being the drummer for the group Weather
Report. The two used a combination of recorded,
electronic, and percussion music to come up with an
innovative sound. Yet the concert was flawed at
times because the show started a half hour late. After
Moran and Vacca finished there was a long intermis-
sion and then Criner and Hakim took too much time
between songs. This lead to a show over at midnite.
The program was entertaining but much of the crowd
left before the show had ended.
Talk
Phoenix Suns-
A team with a lot of question marks. Will they sign
Maurice Lucas? Will James Edwards come through at
center? How good is Jay Humphries? If Lucas signs
Phoenix could be tough. With a front line featuring
6'10” Larry Nance, 7'1" James Edwards, aqd 6'9"
Maurice Lucas, the Suns are big and quick. Quality
front court depth is present with Alvan Adams, Alvin
Scott, Charles Pittman and (please don't laugh) Rick
Robey. However, Lucas is the key player in the front
court. He contribute rebounding, leadership, and in-
timidation.
The Phoenix back court situation is unsettled. In
Walter Davis (Sweet D.) they have an all-star guard.
The question is who will play with him Jay Hum-
phries may be the answer. Some scouts compare him
to Dennis Johnson because of his height (6'3"),
defensive skills and leaping ability. Some compare
him to Norm Nixon because of his quickness, ball
handling and outsidee shot. While some compare him
to Ernie Grunfeld, a college star who has never been
more than a spot role player in the pros. II Lucas signs
and Humpries is a combination of D.J. and Norm Nix-
on, Phoenix could be tough.
A team on the move. In the past six months, they
have acquired Lancaster Gordon, Junior Bridgeman,
Harvey Catchings, and Marques Johnson. If these
new players blend with Norm Nixon, Derek Smith, Bill
Walton, and James Donaldson, the Clippers could
surprise some people. However, with Terry Cumm-
ings gone who will play power forward? With
Donaldson and Walton in the lineup, the Clippers are
much too slow defensively. The rest of the lineup ap-
pears solid with Nixon and Johnson set as starters.
Junior Bridgeman adding scoring and expeirence off
the bench and Gordon and Smith (the Louisville con-
nection) providing a youthful base to build upon.
Seattle Supersonics-
The Supersonics have problems. The Sonics who
won an NBA title as recently as 1979 and played in the
conference finals in 1980, have been victimized by bad
trades and poor drafting. Look at the record. Sum-
mer of 1980, Sonics trade Dennis Johnson for Puall
Westphal. Sonics refuse to sign Gus Williams for the
money he requested, Williams sits out a year. Result:
Westphal was injured part of a year, started declining
and is nearly washed up. A weak back court without
Gus and Seattle falls to 34-48 on the year.
Draft of 80-81 , Seattle covets Al Wood as a scoring
forward. However, Wood is picked fourth so Seattle
picking fifth chooses Denny Uranes ahead of front
court players Larry Nance, Tom Chambers, (whom
they eventually acquired). Jay Vincent, Gene Banks,
Eddie Honson, Lewis Lloyd, Kelly Tripucka, Orlando
Woolridge, Herb Williams, and Albert King. Seattle,
which also needed guard help, by-passed Mike
McGee, Frank Johnson, and Rolando Blackman.
Needless to say, Seattle would love to have some of
the players previously mentioned. The draft and trade
have not worked out well for Seattle and the team has
a lot of rebuilding to do before they could be con-
sidered contenders.
Here is the predicted order of finish:
1. ) L.A. Lakers
2. ) Portland Trail Blazers
3. ) Phoenix Suns
4. ) L.A. Clippers
5. ) Seattle Supersonics
6. ) Golden State Warriors
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NUMMO NEWS
Tuesday November 13.1984
A Perspective of the State of Black America
by Christopher Williams
With this year's presidential campaign by the Rev.
Jesse Jackson and with over 200 African-Americans
as elected officials throughout the U.S., some
African-Americans have begun to form the opinion
that they are now better off than they have been in the
past. However, this opinion is not shared by one
African-American-Michael McCann-who is a student
at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. "A
selected few blacks have made progress, but I think
you'll find that a few go up and a lot more come
down," said McCann.
McCann said he believes that the individual
achievements accomplished by certain black people
like a black astronaut or even a black Miss America are
good within themselves, but they cannot solve the
problems that blacks have as a race. "A recent figure
released by the government showed that white's take-
home pay had increased by $500, under the Reagan
Administration, while that of blacks has decreased by
$2,500", said McCann.
When asked about the presidential election Mc-
Cann stated that it had no relevance to black people
whatsoever, democrats and the republicans are one in
the same. "Both parties are heading in the same
direction, one slighlty slower than the other, but with
the same goal in mind," said McCann.
McCann said he believes that this goal is to maintain
the existing American economic and political system,
and make any necessary improvements upon it. Fur-
thermore, he added, "that this is not a partisan goal,
but one that both parties zealously pursue. McCann,
also convinced that the system possesses innate con-
tradictions that help to produce disasters like famines
and scarce employment opportunities, especially for
black youth, "...no one seems to care, no one is doing
anything about it," stated McCann.
According to McCann, blacks are not free while
they are the constant victims of starvation and ex-
ceedingly high unemployment. Citing an analogy by
Malcolm X, McCann then said, if a prisoner who is
placed in solitary confinement was then suddenly
allowed to roam the prison at his own discretion,
would that constitute freedom?
McCann believes that blacks will be truely liberated
when they accept the fact that they are sometimes
their own worst enemies. He also added that Black
people should socially ostracize uncle-toms who
misrepresent black people, and replace them with
such leaders like the Minister Louis Farrakahn, the na-
tional spokesman for the Nation of Islam, a black
muslim group. "We should also realize that we as
black people are diametrically opposed not just to
white people, but to any non-black people," said Mc-
Cann.
When he was asked whether or not this last state-
ment was racist, McCann replied by saying, "I con-
sider it racist in the sense that I have an unbridled love
for my people. I hold no true hatred for other races,
but I feel that at this stage in history it is too early for
universal love."
Since McCann said that blacks do not have much of
a future with the republican or even the democratic
party, he believes that blacks will have to become self-
reliant. "So, I feel that blacks in America will have to
sacrifice like never before to travel, learn and live with
blacks in other countries to try and solve the very real
threat of extinction," McCann concluded.
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Asian American Students Association
What We Are
The Asian-American Students Association (AASA)
is a recognized student organization founded in 1974
by students who wished to amplify their education
and learn more about themselves as Asian-Americans.
Now, ten years later, our organization has grown in
awareness as well as in number. In order to continue
this growth, we need your support. The ultimate
goals of AASA are, as stated in the recently revised
constitution:
To promote the views and voice of Asian-American
students.
To provide Asian-American students with a foun-
dation, be it social, educational, and/or political, with
which they may relate.
To pursue incorporation of Asian-American
culture, customs, and folkways into contemporary
society.
Enroute to achieving these goals, AASA sponsors
many activities which in some way enrich our sense of
being and belonging.
Who We Are
activities with little or no problems. Those who have
recently immigrated are the ones who would benefit
most from our organization. This is because they are
in a new and very different environment. It takes time
to get used to a new environment and to become
fluent in a new language. AASA can shorten this
period of adaption by holding meeting and other
gatherings where students can familiarize themselves.
In addition, many Asian-American upperclasspersons
voluteer their time as peer advisors. The Asian-
American Peer Advising program was founded a year
ago to help those students who are struggling in social
and/or academic areas. This program was started
because students tend to be more comfortable con-
fiding in peers rather than going through a more for-
mal format with professionals.
The Asian-American Student Assoication en-
courages and invites all students to attend our
meetings and functions. AASA meetings are held at
least every other Thursday in the campus center. Par-
ticipation brings success. AASA is only as much as
what our members put into the organization.
Other organizations of interest (contact RSO office):
Our organization is composed of members of
various national origins; They include Chinese,
Korean, Japanese, Phill'pino, Indian, Cambodian, and
still others. Our officers and members (100+ ex-
pected this year) are unique individuals who want
something more out of this University and are
therefore dedicated to excellence.
THE DISILLUSION
Many students, Asian-Americans in particurlar,
embarassed to join our organization because of a cl-
inging myth that an assembly of any culturally-based
organization carries a bias towards their own culture.
These students, thinking that joining a club such as
'AASA would "cramp their style", shy away from
alleged obsolencence.
If they were right, then what about all the current
members of AASA? Are we all so naive that we are
ignorant of how society runs or how we may be ac-
cepted into society? Those who disapprove of our
organization are employers of stereotypes, guessing
without actually trying to find out what AASA is
about.
Asian-Americans are members of AASA because
they hold pride in their heritage and because they
want to be involved in social programs which they can
relate to. Non-Asian students join mainly for the
recreational activities and for the social context of the
organization. All members, regardless of why they
joined, will grow in cultural and social awareness.
Asian-American students may be sub-divided into
numerous categories. The two general ones are: 1.
those born or raised at an early age in the United
States, and 2. those who are recent immigrants.
Those Asian-Americans who have adapted to the
American way of life naturally go on with
Chinese Club
Indian Students
Korean Students Association
Vietnames Students Association
The following are AASA contact persons:
Carol Young, Assistant Director of CCEBMS
Jeff Mar, Co-coordinator of the Asian-
American Peer Advising program
Mike Wong, Academic Advisor
Phil Cheung, Co-chair, AASA
Bobby Tam, Co-chair, AASA
Association
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NUMMO STAFF
Segun C. Eubanks
Marilyn G. Bou
Marc Eliott Giles
Julian Tynes
Lisa Viega
Nina Cordova
Emmett Grady
David L. Walker
Rod Clare
Editor In Chief
Managing Editor
Photo Editor
Researcher
Business Manager
Administrative Assistant
Reporter/ Photographer
Photographer
Reporter
The New World Theater at the Univer-
sity of Massachusetts at Amherst
presents "Life in the Fast Lane" on
Saturday, November 17, at 8 p.m. in
Bowker Auditorium. Written and per-
formed by Japanese Hawaiian poet.
Lane Nishikawa, "Life in the Fast Lane"
is a dynamic play about growing up
Asian-American. Critics have called it a
"one-man tour de force". From the
country twang of the good ol' boy in
'The Bigot', to the street rap of 'The
Black Jap', to the pigdin English of They
Was Close, Those Brothers', to a
recollection of foods prepared by his
Oba-Chan (grandmother), Nishikawa
shares his experiences with the au-
dience. Produced by Sansei Productions
of San Francisco, "Life in the Fast Lane"
returns to Amherst after a successful
performance at the University in 1982.
In conjunction with the play,
Nishikawa will present a lecture
demonstration on Asian-American
Theater at 2 p.m. on November 17 at
Emily Dickinson Hall, Hampshire Col-
lege. The lecture is free and open to the
public.
Tickets for the evening performance
are available at the Fine Arts Center Box
Office (545-2511) or at the door the night
of the performance. Childcare can be
provided by phoning 545-0190 one week
prior.
Continued from page 1
Nor has Ethiopia received much help from its majo
ally, the Soviet Union. While Moscow has supplie.
the country with $3 billion to $5 billion worth of arms
until last week it had shipped only 10,000 metric ton
of rice. The severity of this famine could have bee
avoided if the warning signs that the Ethiopia
government put out itself in a 1982 report had bee
heeded. But instead civil strife and a government dit
tatorship along with world politics has made the situ<
tion what it is today. Aid is being rushed but the ol
problems will remain assuring that those in need w
receive it too little, too late.
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NUMMO NEWS
Tuesday November 13.1964
Announcements + Announcements
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-IMPORTANT --
All RSO's desiring funding for fiscal
year 1986 (7/1/85 - 6/30/86) must come to
Room 420 S.U.B. and get a budget
packet by 5 p.m., November 19, 1984.
RSOs that do not get a budget packet by
the deadline should kiss their budget
hopes good-bye.
Please be advised that the deadline for
a rough draft of the budget is November
20. 1984. Budget packets can be picked
up from 9-11 a.m. Monday-Friday in
Room 420 S.U.B.. 545-0341. DO NOT
DELAY!
SOUTH AFRICAN
EDUCATION WEEK:
THE STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID
SLIDESHOW AND SPEAKERS
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER Uch. 7:30 p.m
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TUNITY
AUGUSTA SAVAGE GALLERY EXHIBIT
On the 8th of November. 1984 "The Luis
E. Guarnizo Exhibit" opened at the
Augusta Savage Memorial Gallery. The
exhibit includes Senor Guarnize's pain-
tings and drawings.
The strength and dramatism of his
work will move the viewer to see Colum-
bian life, the pain and the anguish yet
above this the colour and the beauty of
the society. Senor Guarnizo is presen-
ting us with volumes of feeling and col-
our which harmoniously protray man's
universal quest for strength and peace.
His painting technique explodes with
warm and strong "Alla Prima" colours
expertly executed through the exclusive
use of knives. This unique combination
generates rich and deep textures.
The exhibit will run until November 21
and a reception will be held on
November 16 from 2 until 5 p.m.
The Augusta Savage Memorial Gallery
is open to the public and our regular
hours are Monday thru Friday, 10 a.m. to
4 p.m.
CENTER FOR RACIAL STUDIES
Moore House-Southwest Residential
Aren Film Series
Nov. 13-To Be Young, Gifted and
Black, Life and Works of black
playwright Lorraine Hansberry
Nov. 20-Brave-Hearted Woman. Life
of Annie Mae Aquash, Native American
Film
All Film Showings -7 p.m.
PLEASE COMEI! REFRESHMENTS
SERVED. Traditional Food following
each film. Pot Luck Welcome.
Wednesday, November 14. 1984
HUNGER AWARENESS. Rm 811-815,
C.C., Press Conference.
Thursday, November 15, 1984
WOMEN CONFERENCE, Rm 165, C.C.
Forum 1985 Women Conference.
For More Information, Contact the
O.T.W.A.
Housing Services is offering a unique
internship program to qualified
sophomores and juniors.
The program combines theory and
practice in experience-based learning in-
terns may earn $3.65/hr for a 15
hour/week (academic credit optional).
Interested students should submit
resume, personal goal statement and
two letters of recommendation to:
Joya Jimenez. H.S.I.P. Coordinator
c/o J.Q.A. Lobby. Southwest
Application deadline: November 30,
1984
For Information Call: 5-0626 or 5-1550
TALENT SEARCHI!
New Third World Gospel Choir - Spring
'85. Earn Creditsl! Sign up at Room 211,
New Africa House, Hours: 8:30 - 5:00.
Monday-Friday.
SUPPORT GROUPS OFFERED
THROUGH THE WORKING WOMEN'S
PROGRAM
JAZZ CONCERT SERIES
Starting Monday, November 12th at 9
p.m., Amherst musician Greg
Chapopoulo will launch the first of six
weekly jazz concerts to occur on Mon-
day nights in the Tavern of the Lord Jef-
fery Inn. These concerts will feature the
talents of Black artists from New York
and New England. A different guest per-
former will be highlighted every week,
some of whom are top name recording
artists. Last spring, Greg Chapopoulo
submitted three proposals to the
Amherst Arts Council for review, and
this concert mini-series is one which
was late approved. The Lord Jeffery Inn
has matched the Arts Council funds, and
Valley residents can now enjoy these
weekly Monday night performances
through December until Christmas
week. THE PURPOSE OF THE SERIES IS
TO HIGHLIGHT AFRO-AMERICAN
MUSICIANS AND THUS FOSTER A
GREATER UNDERSTANDING, AP
PRECIATION, AND AVAILABILITY OF
LIVE JAZZ MUSIC.
The Monday night shows in the tavern
of the Jeff will begin at 9:30 p.m.. EX-
CEPT the first one (9 p.m. above), and
will consist of two shows. Future guest
artists will be listed in local papers.
PEOPLE ARE STARVING!
Join the "Fast for a World Harvest" on
November 15th. Twenty-eight human
beings, twenty-one of them children, die
as a result of hunger every minute of
every hour of every day. THIS IS THE
EQUIVALENT OF A HIROSHIMA EVERY
THREE DAYS. It's a human
tragedy. ..that YOU can help change.
ON CAMPUS:
Sign up at the D.C.'s from November
13th until lunch on the 15th to fast, and
by skipping your evening meal on Thurs-
day the 15th, Food Services will donate
the cost of that meal to OXFAM. We en-
courage you to fast all day on the 15th to
experience hunger first-hand, and to
donate what you can spare to Oxfam
America through the UMass Hunger
Task Force (watch for the HTF table in
the Campus Center).
OFF CAMPUS:
Fast on Thursday, November 15th and
donate that day's food money (or as
much as you can spare) to Oxfam
America through the UMass Hunger
Task Force. Your donation can be drop-
ped off at the HTF table in the Campus
Center Concourse, the office in 428 SUB,
or mailed to HTF, Box 167, SUB, UMass,
Amherst, 01003.
An Unemployed Women's Support
Group will meet on Tuesday evenings
from 7:30 9:30 p.m. at the
Everywoman's Center. The group will be
facilitated by Betty Swain and will focus
on issues such as self-esteem, overcom-
ing stress, career goals, etc.
An Assertiveness and Leadership
Skills group. The group will meet on
Tuesday evenings from 7 - 9 p.m. at EWC
and will be facilitated by Joyce Clark.
A career Development Skills Group
will be meeting on Wednesday evenings
from 7:30 -9:30 p.m. at EWC. The group
will be facilitated by Jane Carey.
There will be no cost for these ser-
vices, and confidentiality is assured. For
more information and to pre-register,
please call the Everywoman's Center at
545 0883.
ASSERTIVENESS AND LEADERSHIP
SKILLS
The Working Women's Program at
Everywoman's Center will be sponsoring
an Assertiveness and Leadership Skills
group. The group will meet on Tuesday
evenings from 7-9p.m. at the EWC, and
will be facilitated by Joyce Clark.
For more information and to pre-
register please call EWC at 545-0883.
NEWS
Monday. November 19, 1984
Volume 13 Issue 9
connected «vith the Collegian
for tne sole purpose of
distribution
South African Women Face Double Oppression
r'enny Andrews, ot the fSAAL’f
speaks on Racism/Sexism as part
of South African Education Week
Photo by Brian Gonye
The Struggle
Continues
by Rod Clare
Nummo Staff
Unrest among South African Blacks against the
government has been on the rise in recent months.
The immediate causes for Black anger are said to be a
combination of economic deprivation caused by a pro-
found recession and a sense of political isolation due
to the implantation of a new Constitution.
The Constitution offers a limited political voice to
Indians and people of mixed descent but ignores the
23 million Blacks in South Africa and its nominally in-
dependent homelands. Rejection of this policy was
shown in that only 20 percent of the eligible Indians
and 30 percent of the eligible 'coloreds' bothered to
vote members of their perspective groups into Parlia-
ment. On the very first day the new Constitution went
into effect, rioting broke out in several Black
townships protesting the fraudulent elections.
These actions have led to a wider protest of the
apartheid system by students who refuse to attend
school and by striking workers. The strike was par-
South Africa Continued on page 2
by Marilyn G. Bou
Nummo Staff
Women in South Africa have a double oppression
to deal with; an apartheid government and the oppres-
sion by men. In 1955, Lillian Ngoyi crossed a line she
was standing in at the Post Office and stepped into
the "white" line. This began the organized move-
ment of women against apartheid. "South Africa is a
very sexist society", said Penny Andrews of the
NAACP who spoke at the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst on November 15, in con-
juction with the film "You Have Struck A Rock".
Sexism, battered women and issues of the kind can-
not even begin to be discussed until basic human
rights can be insured in South Africa" , said Andrews.
Households very rarely consist of a husband, wife
and their children under one roof. Men could only find
employement on work camps, the jobs did not usually
last long, leaving wives and children to fend for
themselves. In order for husband and wife to be
together wives had to sneak into the work camps and
risk raids by the police in which the wives would be
arrested, according to the film. The government, in
1955, went on to require women to carry passes just
as the men do. Women however dealt with this action
by active protest which lasted seven years. The
women held peaceful protests, though government
troops along with police often opened fire, beat and
arrested them., much like the Civil Rights Movement
here in America. With women demonstrating success
men realized it was also their country and they burned
their passes. Government officials saw this as a
direct threat" to the safety of the nation and outlaw-
ed the liberation movement. The ending protest pro-
duced a blood bath that killed 69 people. Andrews
said," the film is a realistic view of the struggle of
African women." Women who were an intergal part
of the movement were tried for treason and banned
from the areas, and every Black person is now re-
quired to carry passes.
An anonymous person from the audience respond-
ed to the question ot divestment from another au-
dience member by saying, "when you are in South
Africa or know you are going back, you tell others that
you love everything and everyone including the racist
regime or when you return you can rest assured you
will be tried and given a minimum sentence of 5 years
in prison or the maximum sentece which is death. An-
drews responded to the question by saying,''! cannot
answer the question of divestment because I am one
of those who will be returning".
On the issue of women, Andrews said, " when the
issue of apartheid is dealt with properly then we as
women, as people can begin to deal with the oppres-
sion of women, it will be important to seejiow long it
takes for American women to respond to Black South
African women." Andrews said, "it is a very oppresive
system and often it is hard to distinguish the struggle
of Black women fromthat of Black people".
Culture Through Drama /Poe try
by Segun Eubanks
Nummo Staff
Japanese-America: Oppressed, tortured, alienated
and sometimes confused - yet the culture lives strong
and vibrant in the heart and in the mind. This was the
message portrayed by Japanese Hawaiian poet Lane
Nishikawa in the dynamic one-man performance,
"Life in the Fast Lane". Produced by Sansei Produc-
tions and brought to UMass courtesy of the New
World Theater Series, "Life in the Fast Lane", was
performed to a packed house last Saturday at Bowker
Auditorium.
Lane Nishikawa, who both wrote and performed
the production, gave the audience doses of poetry,
comedy and excellent monologue in an hour of en-
joyable and meaningful theater. A sparsely set stage
with a few platforms and a directors chair, timely
blackouts and lighting technique, and taped music
and sounds provided a backdrop that allowed the im-
agination to do the work.
The play started off with Nishikawa entering an of-
fice to be interviewed by a white publisher. As the
publisher apparently asks Nishikawa some very niave
questions, he replys with a quick retort and the lights
go black. Nishikawa then appears at another part of
the stage to present dynamic poetry about the
Japenese-American experience.
'"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust', is not enough for
you. ' I love you' is not enough for you." said
Nishikawa in his poem Oba-Chan, a dedication to his
grandmother. "The Bigot", a poem about a down
home southern white man and his dillemna over his
children's romantic involvement with "Japs", provid-
ed a good touch of comedy along with the important
message. Other poems talked of the oppresion
Japenese-Americans had to face during World War II,
The struggles of living in the city (San Fransisco), the
life and death of Nishikawa's uncle, who fought for
America in WW II and relationships between Asian-
America and Black America.
As Nishikawa ended his interview with the white
publisher, he asked the man if he was ready to hear
some of his poetry. "Oh, not enough time," said
Nishikawa after the obvious negative response. He
then tip-toed to the front of the stage and whisered to
the audience, "Would you like to hear a poem?"
Nishikawa then presented the most exciting poetry of
the evening with "Japanese Junkies". The poem,
while challenging those Japanese who may deny thier
culture, also expressed the strengh and beauty of
Japanese-American culture and Stressed that all of us
have cultures and heritage that we must learn and be
proud of.
Nishikawa's efforts were rewarded with a tremen-
dous standing ovation as his strong message and per-
formance obviously had a positive effect on the au-
dience. Once again the New World Theater Series
must be commended for bringing to the University
another excellent performance. "Life in the Fast
Lane" proved to be not only very enlightening, but
one of the most enjoyable evenings of theater this
reviewer has encountered. Good luck NWTS, you've
got a hard act to follow.
nummo news
Monday. November 19, 1984
Upcoming Events: Music/Theater, the
cultural enjoyment never ends
NEW WORLD THEATER PRESENTS
"SHORT EYES"
The New World Theater at the Univer-
sity of Massachusetts at Amherst con-
cludes its fall season with a production
of Miguel Pinero's "Short Eyes’ to be
presented at the Hampden Theater,
November 29 through December 1, and
December 6 through 8,
"Short Eyes is a powerful portrayal ot
prison life where a group of convicts
-predominantly Black and Puerto Rican
-attempt to preserve their sanity and
create a sense of community. A white
man accused of child molesting is
thrown into their cell block and the
stage is set for a sizzling and shocking
scenario. "Short Eyec is prison slang
for child molester. The play, which is ex-
plicit in both its themes and its
language, is not recommended for
children. "Short Eyes" is directed by
Smith College faculty member Patricia
Gonzales.
Tickets are available at the Fine Arts
Center Box Office (545-2511) or at the
door the night of the performance.
Playwright Miguel Pinero will present
a lecture entitled "The Development of
"Short Eyes" at Hampden Theater on
Saturday, December 1 at 2:00 p.m.
South Africa
Continued from page 1
their town being swept by police looking for criminal
and revolutionary elements."
The strife now taking place in South Africa isn t due
to totally political reasons. The government announc-
ed an increase in rent and electricity rates, enraging
local residents who complain that they are already
hard pressed. Many people have since refused to pay
rents on the small, square homes that lie in the Black
townships.
The Pretoria regime has taken an incresingly hard
stance towards dissent with the arrest on last Friday of
2,300 Black workers, the biggest mass arrest in years.
An equally disturbing situation is that the army has
now lent support to the police in its township raids.
The government has announced that regular army
units will continue to play " a greater supporting role
in troubled areas. It remains to be seen how much
more force the government wili use against the incres-
inalv strident demands of the South African people,
ticularly significant in that it had unusual support
among ordinary workers and also brought in rival
unions to protest against the apartheid system.
So far st least 160 people have been killed since ear-
ly September, all except one Black, while several hun-
dred have been injured. Raids by the South African
police have also been conducted in numerous
townships. The police have carried out house to
house searches, the most alarming of which was in
Sebokeng where the town's 120,000 residents found
Actors rehearse a scene tor Short
Eyes, opening at UMass on Nov. 29.
SARAH VAUGHAN TO PERFORM AT
FINE ARTS CENTER
The incomparable Sarah Vaughan will
perform at the University of
Massachusetts Fine Arts Center Concert
Hall on Saturday, December 1 at 8 pm.
A leading jazz vocalist and recording
artist for the past forty years, Sarah
Vaughan enjoys the distinction of being
a jazz performer with the range of an
opera singer. Her delivery and repertoire
embrace all types of music, from gospel
to jazz, and from classical to pop. Sarah
Vaughan began her career as vocalist
with the Earl "Fatha" Hines band and
then moved on to perform with the
legendary Billy Eckstine band whose
personnel included, among others. Dizzy
Gillespie, Fats Navarro and Charlie
Parker. After leaving the Eckstine band,
she joined the John Kirby Combo, and
then went on to star with her own
group. She will be joined in her Amherst
apearance by the Sarah Vaughan Trio
consisting of George Caffney, piano; An-
drew Simpkins, bass; and Harold Jones,
drums.
Tickets are available at the Fine Arts
Center Box Office (545-2511), local
DATATIX outlets and at the Springfield
Civic Center. For phone charge reserva-
tions, call 1-800-243-4842. Mastercard and
Visa accepted.
Jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughan will
perform at UMass on Dec. 1.
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NUMMO Sports Talk I POETRY
by Julian Tynes
Nummo Staff
MIDWEST DIVISION
This may be the most balanced division in the NBA,
featuring some of the leagues best scorers. 5 of the 6
highest scorers in the NBA last season play in this divi-
sion. Bernard King, the only exception was 5th, edg-
ing out George (Iceman) Gervin. This division had the
leagues two highest scoring guards, Gervin and
Rolando Blackman.
Lest you be confused, this division also has
defense. Shot blockers like Mark Eaton of Utah,
Houston's Ralph Sampson, Artis Gilmore of San An-
tonio, LaSalle Thompson of K.C. and rookie Akeem
(the Dream) Olajuwon prowl the lanes looking the
throw back shots. While guards like Utah's Rick Green
and Denver's T.R. Dunn continually strip the leagues
best ball handlers and swipe opponents' passes.
With all of this talent why hasn't the Midwest divi-
sion ever produced an NBA Champion? Perhaps it s
because most of the teams are relatively new to the
NBA. The only teams that have been in the league for
more than 15 years are K.C. and Houston. Maybe it's
because the Midwest has never had a super team, just
good teams. However, within the next two years all of
that could change. The Dallas Mavericks are a center
away from being championship contenders, the Utah
Jazz are strong and getting stronger, the San Antonio
Spurs are determined to prove they are still among the
NBA's elite and the Houston Rockets have the poten-
tial to revolutionize the game. Each team in the Con-
ference has improved itself to the point were any team
could win the division.
DALLAS MAVERICKS
Dallas is young (the franchise only in its 5th year)
and talented. However they do not have that most im-
portant ingredient for a championship team; a center.
At every other postion they have both talent and
depth. At forward there's Jay Vincent, Dale Ellis, Sam
Perkins and the amazing Mark Aguirre. Each one has
NBA all-star ability. Derek Harper, Brad Davis and
Rolando Blackman provide a young, strong, solid
back court. Now they need a dominant big man.
Dallas has 3 first round picks in the 85 draft and 2 first
round picks in 86. They might use these picks as
trades to obtain Pat Ewing or Joe Barry Carrol. Trade
talks involving Jay Vincent and/or Dale Ellis have also
been dissussed. However, even if they do not obtain
Ewing in the draft things aren't so bad; there's a
center right in Dallas, going to S.M.U. named Jon
Koncak who may fit in just fine.
SAN ANTONIO SPURS
What happened last year? After 3 straight Midwest
championships, 11 straight years in the playoffs and
never having had a losing record San Antonio plum-
meted to 37-45. Part of it could be blamed on the
coaching changes. Stan Albeck left to coach the N.J.
Nets and Morris Mchone became the new coach.
After an 11-20 start he was fired and Bob Bass (the
G.M.) became the new coach; the team never
recovered.
Part of it can be blamed on injuries, center Artis
Gilmore missed 18 games because of fractured facial
bones. In spite of his injuries Gilmore still led the
league in field foal pet and finishted 5th in the league
in blocked shots. Scorer George Gervin missed 6
games due to injuries and the spurs were 0-6 without
him.
This year things will be different. They have a new
coach. Cotton Fitzsimmons, who has a proven track
record. Artis Gilmore (reputedly the strongest man in
the N.B.A.) lifted weights during the off season, for
the first time in his carrer, for this season. And the
Spurs obtained a defensive gem in Olympian guard
Alvin Robertson. Look for the Spurs to be back up to
around 45 wins.
HOUSTON ROCKETS
This team is young and loaded. In Ralph Sampson
and Akeem Olajuwon they have rebounding,
shotblocking, low post scoring and intimidation. They
have three players, Robert Reid, Lewis Lloyd and
Rodney McCray, who can play small forward or off
guard, giving Houston versatility and scoring. Mit-
chell Wiggins helps cement the off guard position
while John Lucas and Phil Ford secure the point.
More depth is present with Jim Peterson and Craig
Ehlo while Bill Fitch is one of the best coaches in the
league.
One problem is that Ralph Sampson seems slightly
lost at forward. He is not rebounding or scoring like
the 83-84 Rookie of the Year. However, once this
team jells, watch out, they will be dangerous1
UTAH JAZZ
Quick, which team had the leagues leading shot
blocker, scorer, 3 pt shooter, scorer off the bench and
i ball thief? That's right, the Utah Jazz. Mark Eaton led
the league in blocked shots, Adrian Dantley in scor-
ing, Darrell Griffith in 3 pt. accuracy, John Drew in
scoring off the bench and Ricky Green led the league
in steals and was third in assists. With all of this Utah
finished at 45-37, thier best record ever.
The Front court is solid with Eaton, Dantley and
Thurl Bailey starting, and John Drew, Mitchell Ander-
son, Rich Kelley and Billy (the Whopper) Paultz com-
ing off the bench. Premier performers Green and Grif-
fith (who is on his way to super-stardom) are at guards
but there is little back court depth. Only rookie John
Stockton is a solid contributor. However, if Utah can
coax a few more rebounds from Bailey and Eaton and
both of them can become more effective offensively,
Utah could go a long way.
THANKSGIVING FOR WHAT?
Yes , you have a day that you call Thanksgiving. A day
in which you rejoice when Europeans came and killed
the Red man. How grateful you are for that!
Yes, on this day you eat your turkey and your
cranberry sauce while you pat yourself on the
shoulder and say, " aren't we good murderers "
No guilt or remorse on this day is shown; only red,
giggling faces at the family table.
Yes, grin, grin, you have alot to be thankful for since
Europe flushed you out of her latreen.
Where are the Potcuwatami, the Sioux or the Iro-
quois? Are they dead ? No they shall never die because
their spirit lives.
They, like their brothers, are vagabonds in their own
homeland the Bantustans of the U.S.A.
What have they done to you Red man.
What have they ever done for you to be thankful for?
They gave you blankets that killed you.
They scalped your men, women and children.
They even cut off your women's breasts.
And now they ask you and I to join in this celebration
of blood. NEVER I
There is nothing to be thankful for if you are either
Red or Black; unless you like being the victim of
GENOCIDE.
by Christopher Williams
and on a deeper level...
we have been here... forever-yesterday
, existing back through time and space from
this continent to the middle passage to the
shores of the Land of the Blacks...
AL-KE-BU-LAN...
BILAD ES SUDAN...
AFRICA.
Our bloodline flows to the Great Pyramids and
beyonder...
non-stop... back to the hands of our First
Fathers.
and on a deeper level...
we have been here... forever-yesterday
and if we are to be here forever-tomorrow
we have to take care of those who are the
Keepers of that time which is forward of us... the
CHILDREN,
carl e yates
DENVER NUGGETS
The highest scoring team in the league has a new
look this year. Coach Doug Moe is preaching defense
but in this town offense is still the name of the game.
Front court players Alex English, Dan Issel and newly
acquired Calvin Natt can fill the rim to the brim. This
year however, with Natt and new man Wayne Cooper
they also have rebounding and a little defense.
Another banger is Danny Schayes who may see less
time with the acquisition of Cooper. Denver s
backcourt is headed by Lafayette Lever who came
over from Portland with Natt and Cooper. Lever is a
point guard who can pass, shoot and play defense.
His back court mate is T.R. Dunn, who has led the
team in rebounding the last two years. Mike Evans
adds back court depth. Denver will be exciting,
however, until they get an off guard who can shoot
and a rebounder who can play defense - exciting is «
they'll be.
KANSAS CITY KINGS
The Kings have talent and depth. Unfortunately it's
all in the skill positions (guard, small forward). They
are lacking in the positions of power forward and
center. In Larry Drew and Reggie Theus they haveone
of the finest backcourts in the NBA. Third guard Mike
Woodson can score with anyone and Don Buse is a
solid, dependable point-guard. Small forward is set
with Eddie Johnson, one of the leagues underrated
players. Billy Knight is an explosive scorer who adds
instant offense when Johnson comes out for a
breNowthe problems begin. At power forward Mark
Olberding is the incumbent but he has not been the
answer. The Kings do have a prospect in Otis Thorpe
however. Thorpe may turn out to be a blessing. At
center, Lasalle Thompson at 6'10" does not have the
height or the offensive skills to play center. Perhaps he
is really a small forward. However, he does block
shots, rebound and play with intensity.
SOME HOW WE SURVIVE
Somehow we suvive
and tenderness, frustrated, does not wither.
Investigating searchlights rake
our naked unprotected contours ;
over our heads the monolithic decalogue
of facist prohibition glowers
| and teeters for a catastrophic fall;
\ boots club the peeling door.
I But somehow we survive
| severance, deprivation, loss
Patrols uncoil along the asphalt dark
I hissing their menace to our lives,
most cruel, all our land is scarred with terror,
rpndered unlovely and unlovable;
sundered are we and all our passionate surrender
| . but somehow tenderness survives,
by Dennis Brutus
PREDICTIONS
The Midwest is the most evenly matched division in
the NBA this year. Any one of the six teams could win
the division of come in last. Here are my fearless
predictions:
II Dallas Mavericks
2)San Antonio Spurs
3|Houston Rockets
4)Utah Jazz
SIDenver Nuggets
6IKansas City Kings
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NUMMO NEWS
Monday. November 19. 1984
Announcements* Announcements
AUGUSTA SAVAGE GALLERY EXHIBIT
On the 8th of November, 1984 "The Luis
E. Guarnizo Exhibit" opened at the
Augusta Savage Memorial Gallery. The
exhibit includes Senor Guarnize s pain-
tings and drawings.
The strength and dramatism of his
work will move the viewer to see Colum-
bian life, the pain and the anguish yet
above this the colour and the beauty of
the society. Senor Guarnizo is presen-
ting us with volumes of feeling and col-
our which harmoniously protray man s
universal quest for strength and peace.
His painting technique explodes with
warm and strong "Alla Prima colours
expertly executed through the exclusive
use of knives. This unique combination
generates rich and deep textures.
The exhibit will run until November 21
The Augusta Savage Memorial Gallery
is open to the public and our regular
hours are Monday thru Friday, 10 a m. to
4 p.m.
JAZZ CONCERT SERIES
Starting Monday. November 12th at 9
p.m., Amherst musician Greg
Chapopoulo will launch the first of six
weekly jazz concerts to occur on Mon-
day nights in the Tavern of the Lord Jef-
fery Inn. These concerts will feature the
talents of Black artists from New York
and New England. A different guest per-
former will be highlighted every week,
some of whom are top name recording
artists. Last spring, Greg Chapopoulo
submitted three proposals to the
Amherst Arts Council for review, and
this concert mini-series is one which
was late approved. The Lord Jeffery Inn
has matched the Arts Council funds, and
Valley residents can now enjoy these
weekly Monday night performances
through December until Christmas
week. THE PURPOSE OF THE SERIES IS
TO HIGHLIGHT AFRO-AMERICAN
MUSICIANS AND THUS FOSTER A
GREATER UNDERSTANDING. AP
PRECIATION, AND AVAILABILITY OF
LIVE JAZZ MUSIC.
The Monday night shows in the tavern
of the Jeff will begin at 9:30 p.m., and
will consist of two shows. Future guest
artists will be listed in local papers.
CENTER FOR RACIAL STUDIES
Moore House-Southwest Residential
Aren Film Series
Nov. 20-Brave-Hearted Woman. Life
of Annie Mae Aquash. Native American
Film
All hum Showings—/ p.m.
PLEASE COME!! REFRESHMENTS
SERVED. Traditional Food following
each film. Pot Luck Welcome.
TALENT SEARCH!!
New Third World Gospel Choir - Spring
'85, Earn Credits!! Sign up Room 211,
New Africa House, Hours: 8:30 - 5:00,
Monday-Friday.
BUS DRIVING JOBS
UMass Transit Service will hold an in-
formation and applications meeting on
Nov. 20th at 7:00pm in Campus Center
room 174 for the Wintersession training
program. You can train in January to
start work in spring semester. Starting
pay is $4.40/hr. To qualify you must:
-be at least 18 years old
-have had a driver's license for one year
-have 2 or more sems. remaining at
UMass
To get an application, you must bring
proof of your class year (schedule,
transcript, pre-registration form or letter
from the Registrar-no ID's) to the
meeting. Only 100 applications will be
given out, so be early! For further info,
call Jenny at 545-0056.
UMTS is an AA/EO employer.
Women/minorities/older students en-
couraged to apply.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT OPPOR-
TUNITY
Housing Services is offering a unique
internship program to qualified
sophomores and juniors.
The program combines theory and
practice in experience-based learning in-
terns may earn $3. 65/hr for a 15
hour/week (academic credit optional).
Interested students should submit
resume, personal goal statement and
two letters of recommendation to:
Joya Jimenez, H.S.I.P. Coordinator
c/o J.Q.A. Lobby, Southwest
Application deadline: November 30.
1984
For Information Call: 5-0626 or 5-1550
BLACK WOMAN'S SUPPORT GROUP
Everywoman's Center is sponsoring a
Black Woman's Support Group. The
group, which meets on Wednesday
evenings, will be facilitated by Wanda
Ruffin. Discussion will focus on issues
pertinent to Black women; specific
topics will be decided by the group.
For more information and to register,
please contact Everywoman's Center by
calling 545-0883.
SUPPORT GROUPS OFFERED
THROUGH THE WORKING WOMEN'S
PROGRAM
An Unemployed Women's Support
Group will meet on Tuesday evenings
from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. at the
Everywoman's Center. The group will be
facilitated by Betty Swain and will focus
on issues such as self-esteem, overcom-
ing stress, career goals, etc.
An Assertiveness and Leadership
Skills group. The group will meet on
Tuesday evenings from 7 - 9 p.m. at EWC
and will be facilitated by Joyce Clark.
A career Development Skills Group
will be meeting on Wednesday evenings
from 7:30 -9:30 p.m. at EWC. The group
will be facilitated by Jane Carey.
There will be no cost for these ser-
vices, and confidentiality is assured. For
more information and to pre-register,
please call the Everywoman's Center at
545-0883.
A Battered Women's Support Group
will focus on some common issues fac-
ing women who have been or are in
physically and/or emotionally abusive
relationships. Some of these are self-
esteem, building new relationships,
trust, and dealing with family and
friends.
Any woman who has experienced in-
cest is invited to attend an Incest Sur-
vivors' Support Group. Pre-registration
is required.
A Support Group for Survivors of Rape
will focus on some common concerns
facing rape survivors such as.fear,
anger, making plans, family and friends'
reactions and trying to recapture in-
timacy in relationships.
Dates of the groups will be announc-
ed. For more information and to
register, please call Everywomen's
Center at 545-0883.
YVONNE'S PLACE
Monday - Friday
12:30 - 6:30 pm
A sample of treats include:
Fried Chicken
Island Curried Fish
Vegitanan Platter
Fried Rice
Curry
Thursday - Friday
Student Discount Days
Lamb
Shrimp
Beef
Curried Goat
Free Dessert
Basement of the New Africa House
Friday is Soul Food day.
Coffee and Donuts are served daily.
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Announcements ★ Announcements
PLANNING MEETING
The Introductory Planning Mooting for
International Woman's Event t983
When: Monday f 2/3/84 3-7 pm
Whore: Campus Center Rm 903-909
Please and Join usl For more Info call
343-034 f
LUNCHTIME FILM AND DISCUSSION
The Working Women's Program ot
Everywomen's Center will be sponsoring a
lunchtime film and discussion on Dec 4,
1984 from noon-fpm
The film, entitled "Women's Voices: The
Gender Gap Movie", includes Nocole
Hollander's cartoons, and Interviews with
women concerning the policies of the
Reogon Administration. Event will be held
In Campus Center 174-f 76. For more Infor-
mation please contact EWC by calling
343-0863
CAPE VERDEAN MEETING
The Cape Verdean Student Alliance will
hove a meeting Dec 5. t964. 7:00 pm New
Africa House 2nd floor lounge. Agenda
students from New Bedford High will be
here Please attend.
EDITORIAL
Funding in
Jeopardy
GALLERY OPENING
The Augusta Savage Gallery is pleased
to invite you to a reception for Senor
Carlos Martin Caban. His exhibit entitled
"Between Two Worlds, Reality and Fic-
tion" is In his words An Illustrators Look At
Life.
Exhibit: 27 Nov.to Dec. 14, 1984
Days: Monday-Friday
Times: 1 0:00om-4:00pm
Reception: 7 Dec. 1964 3:00-7:00pm
Place: Augusta Savage Gallery, Rm. 101,
New Africa House
A WORD FROM THE ARTIST
Because I was born and raised In New
York, of Puerto Rican parents. I have
always been exposed to two rich and con-
trasting cultures. The energy and drive of
life In the city has combined with the love
of nature, the cultural history and religious
beliefs of the Puerto Rican people.
I became aware of the richness and
beauty of Indian and Hispanic cultures
through the experience of serving In the
Peace Corps and living with a Nomadic In-
dian tribe In the deserts of Columbia.
The quest for self brought me back to
New York and finally to Puerto Rico,
where I try In my art to blent this
awareness with my love of Illustration and
my need to tell stories.
I draw and paint on wood using old and
newtechnlques-bumlng the blacks and deep
browns directly Into the wood and draw-
ing with colored pencils and tempera.
Through my paintings I bring
together these varying Influences, uniting
them to help me "Illustrate Life" in a liv-
ing, electric and emotional way.
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TWO WORKSHOPS OF WEST AFRICAN
DANCE
Featuring Eno Washington and Drummer,
Bamldele Osumarea.
Sat. and Sun. Dec. 8 and 9.
Sat Dec 8 Robert Crown Center Hampshire
College 1-4 pm
Sun Dec 9 Betty Shabazz Cultural Center
Mt. Holyoke College 2-3.30 pm
Sponsored By: Speaker b Artist, Source.
The Women's Center. The Peace Center,
and The Mt. Holyoke College, Assoc. Of
Pan African Unity.
*You are encouraged to attend both ses-
sions!
"LESBIANS CONSIDERING CHILDREN"
"Lesbians Considering Children" is the ti-
tle of a forum for women considering
becoming parents with other women or
alone. Activities will Include: a panel,
which will adress the legal, medical,
psychological and practical issues for
women parents; a film ’Choosing Children’
In Its Western Mass premiere; small group
discussion and a reception. The forum will
be held on Sunday, December 9th from
2-6pm at McConnell Hall, Smith College
and Is sponsored by Everywomen's Center,
Flower Foundation and Smith Lesbian
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For more Information contact the Work-
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343-0863.
NUPE JAM AT UMASS AMHERST
The New World Theater's (formely Third
World Theater) exsistence was placed in the
“hands” of only five people last week. The
Budgets Committee of the Student Govern-
ment Association passed a motion that it
will not fund Fine and Performing Art
Groups for fiscal year 1985 Exceptions to
this motion are the Union Program Council
and literary magazines, Spectrum, Drum
and NUMMO NEWS. Just to set the record
straight NUMMO NEWS is a newspaper not
a magazine! An argument given in support
of this motion is that Fine and Performing
Art Groups should be funded through the
Arts Council since they reoieve $ 10.00 from
each undergraduate student. If the time
had been taken by, Mr. Stair the maker of
the motion and Mr. Rosner who seconded
the motion along with anyone who voted in
favor of it, to investigate whether or not the
Arts Council had the lee-way in their budget
to fund these groups they would have never
endorsed suoh a ridioulous motion. First of
all, almost every organization or group on
this campus must go to more than one
source of funding in order to obtain enough
monies to put on a function, in fact the
members of the Budgets Committee are the
first ones to tell the organizations to go to
other sources of funding, nice of them now to
want to cut New World Theater and others
for doing exaclty that! New World Theater
is only one of the Third World organizations
on this campus which has a proven track
record of success, in working against such
external barriers as finacial constraints and
racism. Speaking of racism, there is a
potential for the approved motion not to
fund these groups as one in a recent series
of aotions to eliminate Third World
organizations. New World Theater
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Marc Eliott Giles
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organization will no longer be a direct stu-
dent activity without funding from the Stu-
dent Government Association. A supporter
of the motion said, it cannot be interpreted
to be against the Third World community at
all and he would like to see someone give
solid arguments in proving this is a racist
action. The proof is evident. If funding is cut
countless numbers of Third World actors,
directors, playwrights, producers and pro-
duction people will be denied an invaluable
opportunity to put thier talent to use. This is
RACISM. Besides, the burden of proof is not,
or should not be, placed on the victims. I
challenge the supporters of this motion to
prove that it is not racist.
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WHEN: December 6, 1964 Saturday!
TIME: 9:00pm to 4:00am
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The Politics Of Starvation
SA3S'
by Segun Eubanks
Nummo Staff
An article in the New York Times, in reference to
starvation in Africa said, "Observers do not think peo-
ple will die of hunger, they assume it as part of
reality." Recently, drought and starvation in Africa
and Ethiopia in particularhave been on the headlines
of newspapers and television all over the country. The
holiday season has brought out countless aid pro-
grams, flashing pictures of starving children and en-
couaging Americans to help these apparantly helpless
people. However, there has been no analysis as to
how the problem of famine developed or what needs
to be done to assure that African nations can feed the
population. These issues and the role the U.S. has in
the development of Africa were discussed by a panel
of distinguished educators in the presentation of "Aid
to Africa" last Friday in the Campus Center.
The panelists included moderator Dovi Afesi, pro-
fessor of African History in the UMass Afro-American
studies department, Frank Holmquist, Professor at
Hampshire College and Or. La.isine Kaba from the
Republic of Guinea, professor of African History and
Chairman of the Deaprtment of African and Afro-
American studies at the Univesity of Minnesota.
"Famine is a political process," said Kaba, in-
dicating that there have been many period of drought
in African history :<i which famine did not follow.
Dr. Kaba said, the emphasis of U.S. -African rela-
tions should be what has not been done and what
could be done. "Africa is not a continent cursed,"
said Kaba, pointing out that although there is a major
crisis, Africa has made tremendous progress in the
areas of social service. Dr. Kaba said the basic causes
of the famine crisis in Africa stem from the impact of
the competition between the super-powers. Threats,
acts of violence, and the repressiveness of the newer
African states. There is a crisis of leadership in Africa
said Kaba, giving as an example the very high
unemployment rates of University graduates
throughout the continent.
U.S. aid to Africa started after World War II as a
means to get rid of surplus food and set up industry.
Government food assistance comes in three basic
forms: aid or food given to programs for free, food
sold on "good consetional terms" and emergency or
disaster relief. According to Dr. Kaba the food sold to
African nations create competition against local pro-
ducers. The United States created a dependency by
supplying food for prices much lower than what is
produced locally.
Kaba cited examples in which U.S. aid is politically
motivated. Why does Isreal receive far more aid than
the whole continent of Africa, Kaba asked, stressing
that he was not Anti-Semetic. "Because there are
political concerns involved," he said. Kaba also noted
that the U.S. cut aid to Zimbabwe because President
Mugabe did not authorize voting in favor of condemn-
ing the U.S.S.R. for shooting down the Korean
Airlines plane.
Dr. Kaba then introduced his "agenda" for a major
effort to improve the situation in Africa. The three
points of the agenda are an improvement of the World
Monetary system that would allow funds to be chan-
neled more effectively, the need to reassess the condi-
tions in which the International Monetary Fund and
the World Bank make stipulations for loans which im-
pose on African countries, and to extablish a new
economic order whereby African commodities can get
the prices deserved for their products. "What is need-
ed," said Kaba, "is for the U.S. to assume its respon-
sibility in the capitalist order.
A discussion period followed the presentation in
which many important issues were brought out. In
responding to a question raised by a member of the
audience Dovi Afesi questioned whether the World
Bank wants to prevent drought. The drought in
Ethiopia was used to embarass the new government
according to Afesi. "The Soviet Union has been more
interested in selling guns to Ethiopia than food," said
Afesi, pointing out that both super powers are using
the drought for political gains.
The role of Black Americans in African-U.S. rela-
tions was also discussed. Kaba said Black Americans
have played a major role in African politics but with
the slight exception of the Carter administration they
have had little influence on Capital Hill. Professor
Davis from Amherst College, who was in the audience
said the struggle of Black Americans made it possible
African students to be at the University and mention-
ed the organization Transafrica as an example of in-
fluence in Washington. 'The values of people must be
changed, "said Davis, "How will we get young people
to go home [AfricaJ and do practical things and deal
with realities?"
Global Gifts, the new African art shop at the Hamp-
shire Mall, is the perfect place to do your holiday
shopping. see story on page 2.
photo by David Walker
High School Students
Visit UMass
by Christopher R. Allen, Sr.
Nummo Correspondent
About 29 students from the New Bedford High
School in South Eastern Massachusetts visited the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst on December
5 and 6.
The teachers responsible for organizing and chap-
peroning the trip are: Rhoda Purcell, Cynthia Con-
wood, and Cheryl Gibbs. According to Mrs. Purcell:
"The visit was organized to give minority students in-
formation on the programs and opportunities at
UMass." She said that the students participating in
the visitation were all active members of the Minority
Student Awareness Club at New Bedford High. The
students arrived early Wednesday evening and were
treated to a nice dinner at Yvonne John's restaurant in
New Africa House. After dinner the students mixed
and mingled with current students at UMass and then
retired in their rooms in the Campus Center Hotel. On
Thursday the students received advice on how to plan
for college and also a brief overview of college life by
some UMass students at the College Awareness Day
sponsored by The Committee for the Collegiate
Education of Black and other Minority Students
fCCEBMS] and the University Admissions office.
Continued on page 4
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Solidarity Against South Africa Regime
by Rod Clare
Nummo Staff
The South African government has been under at-
tack by Blacks in the past few weeks for its racist oc-
cupation of South Africa. This attack has not caused
any blood to be shed however, nor has it been led by
Blacks in South Africa. These protests have been non-
violently conducted by Black Americans who are sick
of America's encouragement of the South African
regime.
The protests started on November 21 in
Washington D.C. when three prominent Blacks stag-
ed a sit in at the South African embassy to dramatize
the plight of South African Blacks and in particular the
detention of 13 Black labor leaders. Randall Robinson,
head of the lobbying group Transafrica; Mary Frances
Berry, a member of the United States Commission on
Civil Rights; and Walter Fauntroy, congressman from
the District of Columbia; were those arrested by the
D.C. police. After posting their own bonds, they went
on to form the "Free South Africa Movement" that
would extend the picketing around the country. Since
then several Black congressmen along with other
Black activists have been arrested in front of South
African consulates in New York, Los Angeles, and
Washington D.C.
Bishop Desmond Tutu has been fierce in his con-
demnation of the Reagan administration's policy of
"constructive engagement," calling it "immoral, evil
and totally un-Christian," and requesting a meeting
with Reagan to discuss South Africa. They met in the
White House Friday and although the meeting was
cordial, both came away unswayedin their views.
Reagan insisted that his policy of quiet diplomacy was
benefiting Blacks while Bishop Tutu said that "the
system of apartheid had worsened in the past few
V Rev. Jesse Jackson has received a visa to visit
South Africa next year but said that if the "Free South
Africa Movement" asked him to stay he would not go.
The demonstrations are receiving front page coverage
in South Africa, showing that the regime is very sen-
sitive to how it is perceived throughout the world,
especially in the United States.
Reagan adminstration officials said, the protests will
have no impact on its policy towards South Africa.
One unidentified official in the White House said, the
leaders of the protest were not addressing issues of
importance to Blacks." Considering the level of sup-
port given to the demonstrators around the country by
Blacks, it shows that the Reagan administration is ig-
norant on what issues concern Blacks in both the
rir»mp<stir and foreian fields.
by Rod Clare
Nummo Staff
Unrest among South African Blacks against the
government has been on the rise in recent months.
The immediate causes for Black anger are said to be a
combination of economic deprivation caused by a pro-
found recession and a sense of political isolation due
to the implantation of a new Constitution.
The Constitution offers a limited political voice to
Indians and people of mixed descent but ignores the
23 million Blacks in South Africa and its nominally in-
dependent homelands. Rejection of this policy was
shown in that only 20 percent of the eligible Indians
and 30 percent of the eligible 'coloreds' bothered to
vote members of their perspective groups into Parlia-
ment. On the very first day the new Constitution went
into effect, rioting broke out in several Black
townships protesting the fraudulent elections.
These actions have led to a wider protest of the
apartheid system by students who refuse to attend
school and by striking workers. The strike was par-
ticularly significant in that it had unusual support
among ordinary workers and also brought in rival
unions to protest against the apartheid system.
So far st least 160 people have been killed since ear-
ly September, all except one Black, while several hun-
dred have been injured. Raids by the South African
police have also been conducted in numerous
townships. The police have carried out house to
house searches, the most alarming of which was in
Sebokeng where the town's 120,000 residents found
their town being swept by police looking for " criminal
and revolutionary elements.”
The strife now taking place in South Africa isn't due
to totally political reasons. The government announc-
ed an increase in rent and electricity rates, enraging
local residents who complain that they are already
hard pressed. Many people have since refused to pay
rents on the small, square homes that lie in the Black
townships.
The Pretoria regime has taken an incresingly hard
stance towards dissent with the arrest on last Friday of
2,300 Black workers, the biggest mass arrest in years.
An equally disturbing situation is that the army has
now lent support to the police in its township raids.
The government has announced that regular army
units will continue to play " a greater supporting role”
in troubled areas. It remains to be seen how much
more force the government will use against the incres-
ingly strident demands of the South African people^.
African Crafts Shop
Ms. Carol Cresswell-Betsch owner of Global Gifts and
Cresswell Gallery.
by Christopher Williams
Nummo Correspondent
Finding a shop in the Amherst area where there is a
relatively large selection of African and African-
American crafts, jewelery, and posters to chose from
was virtually impossible-that is before Ms. Carol
Cresswell-Betsch arrived on the scene.
Ms. Cresswell-Betsch, who has two daughters that
assist her, began her enterprise, now called Cresswell
Gallery, in the upstairs office of a friend's store in
Amherst. "I began in the upstairs office of a friend
who had some space available. I used this office space
for two years, until I moved downstairs in March of
this year,” said Cresswell.
Cresswell wishes that she could find a larger loca-
tion for her merchandise in the Amherst area, but so
far this wish has only been partially granted. Recently,
she has opened a larger store in the Hampshire Mall in
Hadley called Global Crafts. However, this is only on a
temporary basis, because she will have to vacate the
building by December 31 of this year. "I would like to
find a store this large in Amherst, but right now its not
available,” stated Cresswell.
Even though Cresswell's store in the Hampshire
Mall is only temporary, she does have Cresswell
Galleries, located on N. Pleasant St. in Amherst.
Cresswell Galleries is much smaller than Global Crafts,
but nevertheless Ms. Cresswell uses the limited
amount of space creatively.
When she was asked why she had opened the
gallery which has been in existence for four years, she
replied, "I wanted to try something different. I was a
graduate student at UMass and after I had earned my
Ph.D. in education, I found it difficult to find employ-
ment in the valley, so I created my own employment.”
Cresswell then said, she has learned a lot from this
experience. "There are a lot of things that you have to
learn, and I learned the hard way. I did this because I
liked it, I do not have a business background, my field
is education,” said Cresswell.
Furthermore, she added that she has learnt that
Africans and African-Americans share many things
with other people of color. "There are somethings
that you see that carry between cultures. There are
many similarities between people of color,” stated
Cresswell.
Cresswell's gallery and her temporary shop in the
Hampshire Mall are worth visiting. There are many
crafts, jewelery, and beautiful prints from Senegal,
Kenya, Nigeragua, Ghana, and Botswana just to
name a few.
In concluding Cressweli has this to say about the
economic difficulties of a small business: "It's a
wonderful idea to go into business for yourself, but
there are some problems that one has to encounter as
a small business, like competition. If I don't make my
sales I have no sponsors who can bail me out. To
make money you have to spend money. A lot of
things were revelations to me, like the tastes and ex-
pectations of people, and the economy. People would
want to purchase, but due to the economy it's just not
possible,” said Cresswell.
Rastas want Peace
by Rod Clare
Nummo Staff
Ras Leonard, a Jamaican Rastafarian poet now liv-
ing in Brooklyn, gave a speech on what the Rasta
movement stands for last Tuesday at Hampshire Col-
lege. He laid a background on how the Rasta move-
ment began and then explained the Rastafarian view
on life today.
Ras Leonard said that the impetuous for
Rastafarianism started in slavery with the struggle of
Black people who were robbed of their past. In 1927
Marcus Garvey was deported from America to
Jamaica. After arriving he said to his followersto look
to Ethiopia for there a new king shall be crowned who
shall deliver the Black race. In 1930 a new king was in
fact crowned and his name was Haile Selassie I and
his title was "King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquer-
ing Lion of the Tribe of Judah."
This was front page news in Jamaica and some
people began to check their Bible to see if this was the
person Garvey prophesized to save the Black race.
When they checked Revelations and saw that so-
meone adressed as the "King of Kings, Lord of Lords,
Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah” opened the
book with seven seals, it was figured that Garvey was
right and in 1930 the Rasta movement was born. Ras
Leonard noted that the Rasta movement was "a
climaxation of Garvey's teaching.”
He said that Rastas, "being forcefully uprooted
from their homeland had to be the new pioneers in the
search for world peace.” Leonard identified Babylon
as "the wicked system of exploitation" in the world
and not just meaning the United States. The
Rastafarian movement's main goal as he saw it is
world peace and that "until Babylon the great has
fallen, there is no peace.”
Rastas in his view are only seen as Black nationalists
when in fact what they truly represent is "the inspired
word of peace and love." He said that when he found
Rastafarianism, he actually found himself and that it
taught him love. In closing he that principles and
ethics, including respect for your elders, are the
greatest things that you can teach your children.
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photo by Marc-Elliot Giles Carlos Caban next to "Between Two Worlds" one or
his artworks presently on display at the Augusta
Savage Gallery through December 14.
by Segun Eubanks
Nummo Staff
by Marilyn G. Bou
Nummo Staff
The Augusta Savage Gallery located in the New
Africa House at the University of
Massachusetts/Amherst is featuring the art work of
Juan M. Caban.
Almost one hundred people attended the formal
opening of the exhibit on Friday December 7.
Caban was born and raised in New York City of
Puerto Rican parents, "I have always been exposed to
two rich and contrasting cultures," he said. His art
symbolizes these contrasts while exposing you to the
beauty and ugliness of life in a city. Caban's work is
extremely diversified. There are art works portraying
bar scenes, Christmas joy, city, country and island liv-
ing. The piece that drew the most response is entitiled
"Between Two Worlds," which protrays a grand-
mother in a rocking chair with an altar on her dresser
and city life outside her window. Caban's style of
work demands that you stop in front of a piece to
study it. He places hidden scenes and messages
within his work. "I like to use symbols such as a
grandmother, snakes, etc. The subconscious tells a
deep story when symbols are used." Caban went on
to say, "in telling my story I reflect to others their
story."
Caban is a pioneer in the art field by being the first
to use wood and pencils along with burning and tem-
pra, instead of the traditional materials. "The wood
and pencil are a very nice marriage," he said.
Also at the Gallery are Christmas cards in Spanish
designed by Caban, that are on sale to the public.
The exhibit will run through December 14. Anyone
who has not visited the gallery is encouraged to do so.
This artists' work is not just something you admire, he
invites you through his work to experience it!
If you have never been to prison. The New World
Theater Ensemble provided an excellent opportunity
to see and feel its effects last weekend at Hampden
Theater at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst
with the presentation of an original production of
Miguel Pinero's "Short Eyes."
"Short Eyes" is a drama about the realities of prison
life. The scene is set in the day room of a New York
jailhouse. When a young white man accused of child
molesting is placed in the day room the plot develops
into a shocking scenerio. Clark Davis, the man accus-
ed of child-molestation is beaten and harrased by the
other prisoners, but finds a friend and confidant in
Juan [played by Edwin Cancel), and reveals that he
has a history of child molestation.
The play comes to a climax when some of the
prisoners decide to rape Clark Davis. When Davis
threatens to tell the captain, the prisoners panic and
kill him, only to find out later that he was innocent of
the crime.
"Short Eyes" is a prison slang for child molester and
although the play revolves around that issue it brings
out many other prison realities such as sexual relation-
ships, racial relations and religion.
Miguel Pinero's writing was excellent but it was the
great work of the actors that made the production
both enjoyable and educational. Louis Alfred (who
plays "Ice") and Jay DiPucchio (Clark Daris, which
was later by Colin Wood) had excellent monologues.
Markos Deoliveira (plays Paco) also had an excellent
performance.
The realities of prison life are very harsh ones for all
people. Black, White or Puerto Rican. And the New
World Theater ensemble mesmerized and educated
the audiences with an outstanding performance.
In The Clowns .
THEATER, MUSIC, AND ART
by Marilyn G. Bou
Nummo Staff
Sarah Vaughan, one of musical history's most
gifted singers, performed at the University of
Massachusetts/Amherst fine Arts Center, Saturday
December 1,1984. Vaughan recieved a round of ap-
c plause as she came in stage. Much to the audience's
® delight she began the evening's performance with
° "Fasicating Rhythm".
■a Over forty-four years of singing have proveded her
“ with many opportunities to accompany and be ac-
■° companied by musical greats such as Billy Eckstine,
2 Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro and Charlie Parker just to
■c name a few. She has also been a member of the Earl
"Fatha" Hines band, with which she began her career
at the age of sixteen, and moved to perform with the
John Kirby Combo before beggining her own trio. In
her performance here at the University the Sarah
Vaughan Trio consisted of George Gaffney on piano;
Andrew Simkins on bass; and Harold Jones on
drums. Jones deilghted the audience with his solo dur-
ing "East 0' the Sun".
Vaughan, while singing added her own versions of
lyrics to the songs. Throughout the performance she
stopped to speak to the audience. In doing so she
developed an atmosphere in which the diversified au-
dience was at ease.
Vaughan had planned to end the evenging's perfor-
mance with Cole Porter's "From This Moment
On", the audience provided a standing ovation that
didn't stop until she came out once again.
She asked the audience for their favorites and final-
ly chose "Send In The Clowns" as an encore.
Vaughan a genius in her own field gave the au-
dience a night a memoreos which were sweet and are
sure to be treasured.
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NUMMO NEWS
Monday, December 10, 1M4
Letter To The Editor
To the Editor:
A misunderstanding has seemed to develop bet-
ween the Student Government Assoication [SGA]
Budgets Committee and the editors of the Nummo
News. In your editorial ("Funding in Jeopardy",
December 3, 1984], you have mistaken opinions and
interpretations for facts. I would like to take the time
now to set the record straight and hopefully heal some
wounds on both sides.
For the fiscal year 1986, the SGA is staring at a
mandatory budget decrease of approximately
$120,000.00 due to full-costing. This is quite a major
dilemmna that I am sure no one would ever want to
face. The maker of the motion [not to fund Fine and
Performing Arts Groups] and myself thought that it
would be in the best interest of every Recognized Stu-
dent Organization [RSO] if we explored which groups
could be cut the most and still survive. Arts groups
happen to have a trust fund set up specifically for
them (the UMASS Arts Council supervises this trust
fund] and in the past, many RSOs have combined this
source of funding with the Student Activities Trust
Fund [SATF]. This is all well and good, however,
because of the mandatory cut in expenditures by the
SGA, many RSO budgets may be cut-some drastical-
ly. The maker of the motion and myself believe that in
order to save some RSO's budgets [including Third
World groups] we would require Fine and Performing
Arts groups to use the trust fund set up explicitly for
them-the UMASS Arts Council.
The charge, made in your editorial, that this motion-
and in effect the makers-is racist is insulting, reckless,
inexcusable, heinous, unjustifiable, slanderous, and
Indefensible. Third World organizations were not the
sole "victims" of this motion. The RSOs that the
Budget Committee interpreted as being affectd by the
motion were: New World Theater, Uhuru, Chamber
Choir, The Blues Band, "SPECTRUM," and
"DRUM." It is apparent that not all of these groups
are Third World organizations, and furthermore, it
should not matter whether they are or not-all RSOs
should be treated equally. The Budgets Committee
acted in a sensible way and passed the motion-a Third
World Caucus senator even voted in favor of it.
It is easily seen that racism played no role in the mo-
tion, nor was it the intention of the motion. Therefore,
I call upon the Nummo News to apologize to the SGA,
the Budgets Committee, the maker of the motion, to
all those who "voted in favor of it," and myself.
JORDAN A. ROSNER
DISCUSSING THE X
by Rod Clare
Nummo Staff
"Most white students in the Southwest area
government think that the Malcolm X Center is sup-
posed to teach about Malcolm X," said Anthony
"Husky" Robinson, co-coordinator of the Malcolm X
Center, in an interview with Nummo News. The
Malcolm X Center was formed in 1968 to provide a
place where Third World students can come together
and enjoy each others company while at the same
time participating in workshops, guest lectures, and a
Black film series.
In reference to the Southwest area government
Husky said, "the Malcolm X Center has had a history
of problems dealing with the administration." Defin-
ing the root of the problem, Husky said, that he felt
that the administration is trying to take control of the
Malcolm X Center and run it the way they want to.
Questioned as to whether he though the administra-
tion understood what the Malcolm X Center meant,
he responded, "I don't expect them to understand
about the center because it doesn't serve them any
purpose."
Now that there's a new Southwest area govern-
ment, he was asked if he thought they would respond
to the Center's needs, to which he replied, "I really
don't know. There's been a few steps to better rela-
tions with the Southwest area's new co-presidents.
Bill Collins and Laura Goldstrich. They seem to
understand and are willing to work on bettering rela
tions between the Center and the government, but
that is yet to be seen I
Describing the importance of the Center, Husky
noted, "First of all, it's an educational, cultural, and
social center that caters to the needs of the Third
World community in the University." We are the
largest Third World center on campus and, along with
the other organizations and centers, are only some of
the places that cater to the needs of the Third World
community in the Pioneer Valley.
Citing the support his staff has given him, he said,
all have been very helpful but gave a special thanks to
his co-coordinator Cassandra Edwards about whom
he said, "She's the backbone to the Malcolm X
Center." Pledging to continue trying to work-out the
Center's problems with the administration he made
sure to stress that the Malcolm X Center "will con-
tinue to be the same "X" we were in the past."
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Segun C. Eubanks
Editor In Chief
Marilyn G. Bou
Managing Editor
Marc Eliott Giles
Photo Editor
Julian Tynes
Researcher
Lisa Viega
Business Manager
Nina Cordova
Administrative Assistant
Emmett Grady
Reporter/Photographer ,
David L. Walker
Photographer
Rod Clare
Reporter
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According to Paul Barrows, Director of CCEBMS
an average of 200 students are accepted annually into
the University through this program. Bernedette, a
senior at New Bedford High said, "I love it here but
this campus is big." Robert Woodbery, another
senior, said he heard it was a good school; therefore,
he decided to check it out. "Wow this place is big;
but, I heard the teaching is good" said Daryn Gomes,
another New Bedford senior when asked about his
reaction to the University.
Mr. Barrows said he is grateful to the UMass Cape
Verdean Student Alliance for their tremendous help
towards the College Awareness program. All of the
teachers thanked Rudy Jones, Assistant Director for
Admissions, and Paul Barrows, Director of CCEBMS,
for hosting the visit which they felt was successful.
They emphasized that they hoped that this was only
the beginning of an annual collaboration between
UMass and New Bedford High School.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The author of the editorial reffered
to above requested NUMMO to withhold their name.
Whether or not the editors of NUMMO agree with the
author is, in this case, not the issue. We apologize for
not making it dear that this was not a statement from
NUMMO, but one person's opinion, however, we do
not find any reason to apologize for the content of
the editorial.
TALENT SEARCH!!
New Third World Gospel Choir - Spring
'85, Eern Credits!! Sign up at Room 211,
New Africa House, Hours: 8:30 - 5:00,
Monday-Friday.
ANNOUNCING! INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN'S EVENT 1985
Planning Commitee Meeting Mon.
Dec. 10 at 4:00p.m. in Campus Center Rm
917 UMass. Please Join Us ! Everyone is
welcome.
Tuesday, December 11,1984 at the
New Africa House Shirley Graham
DuBois Library representatives from the
National Park Service will present Sum-
mer Jobs Application Workshops.
Presentations will be at 1,3 and 5:00p.m.
ALL CCEBMS and Minority students are
urged to attendl
ATTENTION!
Third World Bible Study Class
Spring 1985
Sign Up 211 New Africa House
COMING NEXT WEEK
POETRY AND ARTS
NUMMO NEWS will be publishing its annual
Arts & Poetry issue December 1 7. Anyone interested in
participating please submit poetry, art, and photography
along with name and phone number to NUMMO by
4:00p.m. on Thursday December 11.
Announcements
The Resource/Referral Program at
Everywoman's Center will be staying
open extra hours during final exam week
for people to come study. The Resource
Room can be used as additional space
for general study purposes as well as for
research and resource materials. A
member of the Resource/Referral staff
will be available to direct students to any
of several resource services. Resource
files offer extensive information on
women's issues in the form of
newspaper and magazine
articles, newsletters, pamphlets and
bibliographies. Resource books can be
found on a variety of Women's Studies
topics. Everywoman's Center also has a
lending library totaling more than 1,000
volumes of fiction, non-fiction and
poetry by.for.and about women. The
schedule for the additional hours is as
follows:
Sunday-December 16,2-IOp.m.
Monday 17,4-10p.m.
Tuesday 18,4-10p.m.
Wednesday 19,7-10p.m.
Thursday 20,4-10p.m.
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WOMEN AND
by Begun Eubanks
Nummo Staff
Racism and sexism run hand in hand in the South
African Apartheid regime. So also do Black men and
women fight hand and hand in South Africa for
equality and control of their rightful homeland. Thus is
the view of the African National Congress (ANC) as
exemplified in a presentation Sunday evening in the
Campus Center by Nomazizi Sukudela, Secretary of
the ANC Regional Political Committee.
Sukedela, a native South African currently exiled in
the United States for attempted political organization,
presented a lecture and discussion in conjunction with
the showing of the video "Last Drop of Blood" on the
issues of the Current South African National Libera-
tion Struggle and the role of women. "Sexist inequali-
ty comes from the racist South African regime" said
Sukudela, pointing out that Black men and women
SEXISM IN
must identity the true enemy, "dividing the struggle
(between sexism and racism) would be self-defeating.
Contrary to the Reagan Administration reports, the
situation in South Africa is not getting any better, ac-
cording to Sukudela. "Babies are mowed down in
South Africa because according to the government
they are future terrorists." In spite of the fact that
South Africa is one of the richest countries in the
world mass starvation is still blamed on the drought.
As Sukadela pointed out, in some rural areas children
are dying at a rate of six per hour from starvation,
disease and murder.
Sukadela urged American citizens to keep fighting
against the South African government. She attacked
a study done by the Reagan administration which
claimed that Black South Africans did not want U.S.
companies to leave the country. If a Black person
speaks in favor of divestment they will be charged
with high treason said Sukudela She supported
struggles for divestment as a legitimate means of
APARTHEID
destabilizing the South African economy. Trade sanc-
tions worked against Nicaragua and Poland, why not
South Africa she questioned. The A.N.C. has sup-
portedermed struggle against the South African
regime and will continue according to Sukadela.
Many leaders of nations, including ours, state the
Soviet Union has completely controlled the A.N.C.
since its existence. That, says Sukudela, is not possi-
ble. The A.N.C. began in 1912, five years previous to
the Russian revolution.
It is true that the Soviet Union supplies arms to the
Blacks of South Africa, you see, said Sukudela, "we
will accept arms from anyone willing to give them to
us. "contructive enganement" has not worked in 400
years we do not believe it will work, said Sukudela.
"We are not a violent people, our struggle has
always been one of peaceful intentions it was the
white racist regime who shed the first drop of blood,"
she continued "now we will fight to the last drop ol
our blood."
BOTHA S PLAN;
BLACK SOUTH AFRICA SELLOUT
by Christopher Allen
Nummo Staff
The South African Government said recently, that it
would partially suspend the forced resettlement of
black communities to tribal homelands, away from
South Africa's white population.
The announcement capped a week of unusual
government proclamations on its racial separation
policies: a week in which President P.W. Botha of-
fered terms for the release of imprisoned Black leader
Nelson Mandewla - an offer spumed by Mandela's
family and South Africa's new, three chamber
segregated Parliament.
Botha's National Party, which has controlled the
white-minority Government since 1948, said it was of-
fering the Nation's 22 million Blacks a new deal.
Under South African law Blacks are considered
citizens of 10 homelands, and have political rights only
in those areas. Gerrit Viljoen, minister of Cooperation
Developlment and educatin said the Government will
review the planned resettlement of hundreds of
thousands of Blacks who are to be moved to tribal
-homelands from land exbropriated whites.
The practical effect of the review remained unclear
because the Government often is accused of appoin-
ting Black leaders who go along with the
government's wishes and lack support from the peo-
ple.
Viljoen said, the three major changes which are be-
ing made in South Africa are - 1 . Residents of 25 to 30
urban Black townships and 30 to 35 rural areas, who
were to have been moved to tribal homelands from
designated white areas will be allowed to remain at
least temporarily, while each community situation is
reviewed. 2. The strict controls on Blacks working and
living in the countries urban areas will be eased
gradually and supplanted by a program of "orderly ur-
banization" that will allow Blacks to move to the cities
if job opportunities and adequate housing are
available. 3. Some of the Blacks who have moved into
Shantyowns on the outskirts of such cities as Cape
Town in defiance of present regulations will be offered
sites on the outskirts of new black housing areas on
which they may build.
The main reasons for the policy changes were the
fast growth of the black communities that were to be
resettled, the mounting opposition from them to
resettlement and the criticism of the program at home
and abroad, the minister said. The biggest factor in
persuading the government of the need for change,
he added, was the "strong and persistent arguments"
of Black township officials and homeland leaders for
an end to forced resettlements, easier urban migration
and freehold property rights for blacks.
Botha offered to release Mandela if he renounces
the use of violence. Mandela, 66. a former policeman,
prize-fighter and lawyer, is imprisoned near Cape
Town and could not respond publicy to the offer. The
leader of the outlawed African National Congress, has
served 20 years of a life term for sabotage.
Nummo News would like to welcome Professor
David DuBois back to the valley. We look forward to
working with and learning from Mr. DuBois who is a
visiting 5-College professor.
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AUGUSTA SAVAGE REMEMBERED
On Sunday, February 10, 1985, from 3 to 8
p.m., the Augusta Savage Memorial Gallery
in New Africa House will be rededicated in
honor of Ms. Savage, the eminent Black
sculptress after whom the gallery is named.
Ms. Murcie Poplar Lavender, who was the
only private student Ms. Savage chose to in-
struct during her long career and who is
now an art teacher in the Gary, IN. public
school system, will be the guest speaker. In
addition to speaking about Ms. Savage as a
person and creative artist, Ms. Lavender
will exhibit several sculpture pieces by Ms.
Savage and photographs of other works.
This will be the first time since the gallery
was established that the campus communi-
ty will have an opportunity to view any of
these works. Ms. Lavender will also exhibit
examples of her own work. The rededication
ceremony will also include a blessing and
libation by Professor Dovi Afesi and a dance
performance by Ms. Patti O'Neal.
Augusta Christine Savage sculptor,
educator and art center director, was born in
Green Cove Springs, Florida. She died on
March 27, 1962. She studied at Tallahassee
State Normal School, Cooper Union (New
York City), Grande Chaumiere (Paris),
Academy of Fine Arts (Rome), and the
Woman's Art School (New York City). Her
works have been exhibited in numerous
galleries , including the Harmon Founda-
tion, Architecture League, National
Association of Women Painters, Harlem
YMCA, Sociate Des Artistes Francais,
Paris, Schomburg Library, New York, and
South Side Community Art Center, Chicago.
Among the collections in which her works
are included are Morgan State University,
the National Archives, and the Schomburg
Collection, in addition to numerous private
collections.
During her career Ms. Savage was the
recipient of awards from the Julius Rosen-
wald Fund, and the Carnegie Fund. She was
also the first Black woman to be accepted as
a member of the National Association of
Woman Painters and Sculptors. Her major
work includes 'The Harp', 'Gamin', 'Black
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Woman', 'Prima Donna' and 'Lift Every
Voice ", a sculpture group which was in-
spired by the Black writer and poet James
Weldon Johnson's poem 'Lift Every Voice
and Sing', set to music by his brother Rosa-
mund and generally referred to as the
'Negro National Anthem'. This sculpture
group was exhibited prominently at the
1938 New York World Fair.
MURCIE POPLAR LAVENDER
Ms. Lavender, who resides in Gary, In-
diana, is a painter, sculptor, writer,
designer, children's book illustrator, and
teacher.
At the age of seven she was awarded the
February is Black History Month. During this
month, which' is 'coincidently' the shortest of the
calender year, African-Americans are supposed to tell
their entire history - an almost impossible feat. Unfor-
tunately, many people who have taken the respon-
sibility for presenting our history have done so without
its contemporary relavence. Thus, by presenting our
history in this vacum mode it will inhibit us from
liberating our minds. However, there are some
Africans who do the contrary. Two that come to mind
are Dr's John Henrick Clake and Yosef ben-
Jochannan. Having been influenced by these two
great men has promoted me to discuss what Black
History Month should be.
Black History Month should provide a direction that
African people can go in! This direction should con-
tain the following: Community, Respect, Love and
Self-reliance.
first of several arts scholarships to study at
the Art Institute of Chicago. After gradua-
tion from Roosevelt High School in Gary,
where she recieved that school's first art
scholarship, she received Bachelor's and
Master's degrees in art from Indiana
University, where she also was the first stu-
dent to receive a scholarship from the
University's art honorary society. While a
college student she recieved a gift of a 2,200
pound piece of Indiana limestone from
which she sculpted an 8 faced work entitled
''Steel Workers'' as a monument and gift to
the men who worked in the Gary steel mills.
This work, which depicts the various ethnic
groups of the city, was unvieled by the
mayor of Gary and stands in a small park op-
posite the main gate of the mill. Later, Ms.
Lavender lived and studied with Augusta
Savage in upstate New York for 12 years.
In addition to teaching art in the Gary
school system, Ms. Lavender is a member of
the Greater Gary Arts Council Board, which
promotes and sponsors cultural activities
for the city. With this organization she
established the Gary Art Institute and
Children's Art Institute, and helped initiate
the city's first International Folk and Art
Festival.
Ms. Lavender has also been an illustrator
for ''Letter Magazine" and several
children's books, and has designed a com-
memorative candle for the late Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. For further information
call 545-0932 or stop by the Gallery.
EDITOK1BL
Black History Month should be a time when African
people look back to the past to see where we have
come from and to look into the future of the rapidly
approaching twenty first century. Without this basic
principle it is not adequate to present films,discus-
sions and lectures on Frederick Douglas, the now crip-
ppled Civil Rights Movement and on integration. In
order for history to assist us in our struggle today
there has to be some sort of analysis from an African
perspective in an attempt to relate the past to present
conditions.
During this period it is not enough to know that it
was the Ancient Africans, now called Egyptians, who
built the pyramids. Those of us who are pursuing
careers in engineering or the natural sciences should
attempt to build some pyramids in the Harlems of the
world. However, what do most of us do? We try to
brag and boast to the world about working for a
business or corporation that rapes and sucks the
blood of African people and her resources.
With a clear understanding of history we will instan-
taneously see that this behavior we are engaging in, is
insane and morally incorrect.
Furthermore, Black History Month should give us the
insperation to be self-reliant again. In 1985 we can no
longer sit back and beg for crumbs; it is now the time
for positive planning and meaningful action. As
Booker T. Washington said, "cast down your buckets
where you are”.
OPEN COURSES AFRO —AMERICAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT
AFRO-AM 131 AFRICAN HISTORY II (C)
Afesi
Tues. 2:30-5:15 NAH 110
AFRO-AM 158 REVOLUTIONARY CONCEPTS IN
AFRO-AMERICAN MUSIC II (C)
MWF 12:20-1:10 NAH 315 Shepp
AFRO-AM 157 RESEARCH AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
MWF 2:30-3:20 NAH 315 Eugene Terry
AFRO-AM 161 INTRO. BLACK POLITICAL SCIENCE (D)
Strickland
Tu/Th 11:15-12:30 NAH 109
AFRO-AM 254 INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN STUDIES
Afesi/Prlmus
Wed. 19:00-21:30 NAH 315
AFRO-AM 197A INTRODUCTION TO CIVIL LIBERTIES
MWF 10:10-11:00 Mechmer Hall W26
AFRO-AM 197B BLACK AMERCIAN LIT. II
Tu/Th 11:15-12:30 NAH 110 Packard
AFRO-AM 236 HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS MOVMENT
(C)
Thelwell
Tu/Th 11:15-12:30 NAH 114
AFRO-AM 292R RACE AND BLACK SOUTHERN
WOMEN WRITERS
Esther Terry
Tu/Th 11:15-12:30 NAH 315
AFRO-AM 297A THE AFRO-AMERICAN PRESS
DuBols
TUTH 9:30-10:46
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH:
A TIME FOR REFLECTION
BLACK HISTORY MONTH 1985
University of Massachusetts/ Amherst
"The Struggle for Freedom:
The Past, Present and Future"
Schedule of Events
MONDAY, February 4, 1985
End of Month Exhibition of the Phillis Wheatley
Poems. The first Black woman to publish poems in
North America and the third woman to publish
anything in North America. Special Collections and
Rare Books Reading Room 25th floor - Library Tower.
"The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America"
Lecture by June Jordan
Memorial Hall Auditorium
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
FRIDAY, February 8, 1985
Paul Goodnight Reception
With performance by Ingrid Askew and Patti O'Neal
Augusta Savage Art Gallery
New Africa House
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
SUNDAY, February 10, 1985
Rededication of the Augusta Savage Art Gallery
With Dance Performance by Patti O'Neal
New Africa House
3:00 - 8:00 p.m.
JAZZ: "A Tribute bo Great Black Music"
Featuring the Fred Clayton Quintet
Hampden Theater, Southwest Residential College
9:00 p.m.
MONDAY, February 11, 1985
Lecture by Paul Robeson, Jr.
TOPIC: "What happened to the Civil Rights and Black
Power Movements"
Campus Center Auditorium
8:00 p.m.
TUESDAY, February 12, 1985
Seminar with Paul Robeson, Jr.
New Africa House Library
9:05 - 9:55 a.m.
THURSDAY, February 21 and Friday, February 22,
1985
"Struggle for Memory" - Performance by UHURU
Bowker Auditorium
8:00 p.m.
Admission: $2.50 UMass/Five College Students
$5.00 General Public
SATURDAY, February 23, 1985
"A Soldier's Play" - Performance by the Negro
Ensemble Company
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
8:00 p.m.
Admission: $8,$10,$12; Half price for UMass/Five
College Students
SUNDAY, February 24, 1985
THURSDAY, February 14, 1985
"For a New Tomorrow" - Graduate School Fair
Hampden Student Center
3:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Social After the Fair
9 p.m. - Midnight
Admission: TBA
TUESDAY, February 19, 1985
Doll Workshop presented by Martha Bonda and Leslie
Jones
Augusta Savage Art Gallery
New Africa House
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Rededication of the Malcolm X Center
Malcolm X Center, Southwest Residential Area
4:00 p.m.
MONDAY, February 25, 1985
"An Evening with Maya Angelou"
Bowker Auditorium
8:00 p.m.
Admission: $2 UMass/Five College Students
$3 General Public
THURSDAY, February 28, 1985
VIDEO: "I Heard It Through the Grape Vine: James
Baldwin retraces the Civil Rights Mowement Nar-
rative by James Baldwin.
Augusta Savage Art Gallery
New Africa House
10:00 a.m.
AFRO-AM 297B STUDIES AND PERFORMANCE IN
AFRO-AMERICAN LITERATURE
McPhall
MWF 2:30-3:20 NAH 315
AFRO-AM 354 CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN NOVEL
Thelwell
TUTH 2:30-3:46 NAH 114
AFROAM 397B DANCE PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP
Gresham
Tues. 9:30-12:30
AFRO-AM 2971 THE THEATER OF THIRD WORLD
AMERICANS
Uno-Thelwell
Frl. 9:06-12:06 FAC 204
AFRO-AM 331 THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF W.E.B.
DUBOIS
Meade
MWF 1:26-2:16 NAH 316
AFRO-AM 391A HISTORY OF CAPE VERDE
Barrows
Wed. 3:36-6:00 Emily 104
AFRO-AM 397A PROFILES IN AFRO-AMERICAN
MUSIC
Shepp
Thur 19:00-21:30 FAC 152
AFRO-AM 490A ADVANCED SCULPTURE
Hill
MW 1:26-3:20
AFRO-AM 497W THE PRESS & THE THIRD WORLD
DuBois
TUTH 1:00-2:15 NAH 316
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Announcem ents
AUDITIONS SET FOR NEW WORLD
THEATER
The New World Theater at the Univer-
sity of Massachusetts will hold auditions
at Bowker Auditotium on the University
campus on Tuesday, Febuary 5 and
Wednesday, Febuary 6 at 6:30 each even-
ing.
Persons may audition at that time to
become members of the New World
Theater Ensemble or they may audition
specifically for a part on the April pro-
duction for " Moon on a Rainbow
Shawl" by Errol John. The play, to be
directed by Dian Mandle, will run April
11-13 and 18-20 at the Hampden Theater.
It calls for 10 male and 5 female per-
formers of varying ages.
The New World Theater Ensemble is a
multi-racial ensemble which is compris-
ed of students and community members
from the five college area and forms the
core of an expanding pool of actors for
the New World Theater productions.
For further information, call 545-0190.
RUN DMC RUN DMC RUN DMC RUN
DMC RUN DMC RUN DMC RUN DMC
Free All Day Program for Women In-
terested in Law Studies
Saturday, Febuary 9. "Career Con-
ference for Women Interested in Study-
ing Law". Panels, talks, roundtable
discussion about women and the law
school experience. Free admission, free
childcare. 9:00 a. m. -4:00 p.m. Western
New England College, 1215 Wilbraham
Rd., Springfield. For more information
call [413] 782-3111, ext. 406.
CCEBMS TUTORIAL PROGRAM
Deadline to request a tutor is Febuary
22. See your advisor nowt
Applicationsare being accepted for
tutorial positions. They can be picked up
on the second floor bulletin board, in the
New Africa House. Return applications
to Carol Young room 213.
CEEBMS MEETING
"Yesl Our Minds Are Free" This
month the Augusta Savage Memorial
will open its doors to celebrate 1986's
Black History Month.
The works of Mr. Alan Rohan Crite, Mr.
Tom Feelings, Mr. Paul Goodnight as
well as Mrs. Murice Poplar Lavender and
Ms. Augusta Savage will be exhibited.
Our monthly program will include an ar-
tist reception on Friday the 8th of
Febuary from 4-8 p.m. with a slide
presentation by Mr. Goodnight at 5:30
p.m. on Nicaragua, Haiti and the growth
of his works. At 6 p.m. Ms. Ingrid C.
Askew will present a poetry reading
with dance by Ms. Patty D. O'Neal.
On Sunday the 10th of Febuary Mrs.
Murcie Poplar Lavender will rededlcate
the gallery to Ms. Augusta Savage. Beg-
gining at 3:00 p.m. with dance offerings
by Ms. Patty D. O'Neal, the festivities
will run until 8 p.m.
On the 13th Ms. Pearl Primus will give
a multi-faceted presentation.
During the month the gallery will pre-
sent educational films. Please contact us
at 545-0932 for programming schedules.
We welcome all to join us to rejoice in
our celebration.
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This fall, SCERA will hire
undergraduates to learn political
organizing and student-interest research
skills. For two days each week, SCERA
students will meet and learn political
organizing and then apply these skills to
issues of concern to students.
SCERA also has positions for the
resource center and for the clerical sup-
port team.
All positions are ten hours per week and
pay $3.35 per hour for non-work study
and work study undergraduates.
Pick up an application and more infor-
mation at 420 Student Union weekdays
8:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.
All applications due by Febuary 13 at 5:00
p.m.
Friday Febuary 8,in the Student Union
Ballroom at UMASS there will be a LATE
NIGHT RAP SHOW with special guests
DR. JEKYELL and MR. HYDE. The party
will begin at 10:00 p.m. and end at 4:00
a.m. Tickets are available at the Fine
Arts Center, Springfield Civic Center,
and Stop and Shop locations in Nor-
thampton,Holyoke Greenfield and Pitt-
sfiled. UMASS students I.D. required
with student ticket, $7.00 for UMass
students. Public $8.00. No cans, bottles
and also no recording devices.
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CELEBRATION
A Tribute to Great Black Musicians
with Music, Slides and Narration
Fred Clayton Quintet featuring: Leroy
Blair, vocals
Richard Scott Gordon, narration
Sunday, Febuary 10, 9:00 p.m.
Hampden Theater, Southwest, UMass
FREE
There will be e mandatory meeting for all
CEEBMS students on Sunday, February 10th in
Mahar Auditorium. All are urged to attend.
THIRD WORLD CAUCUS MEETING
Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 6:00 p.m.
heck schedule for room number
DOLL WORKSHOP
As part of our Black History Month
celebration the Augusta Savage
Memorial Gallery will sponsor a Doll
Workshop.
On Tuesday the 19th of Febuary Ms.
Martha Banda and Ms. Leslie Jones will
exhibit their hand made dolls. Their
workshop will begin at 1 p.m. and run
until 4 p.m. Educators are encouraged to
bring their students to view and/or par-
ticipate in this workshop.
For participation registration please
contact Marilyn E. at 546-0932 from 9
a.m. to 12 noon. This workshop Is open
to the public.
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Life After UMASS??? Grad School May
Be For You
by Segun Eubanks
Nummo Staff
"Graduate School? Are you crazy? If I never see
another classroom again it will be too soon." This is
the typical reaction of most students (particularly peo-
ple of color) after four or five years of undergraduate
study at UMass. However, in coordination with Black
History Month, The members of the Office of Minority
Graduate Student Recruitment (OMGSR) and the The
Minority Graduate Student Association (MGSA) are
ready to convince you that, "it's not all that bad," and
this Thursday, Valentines Day, you may even fall in
love with a graduate school.
From 3 to 7p.m. at the Hampden Commons in
Southwest, OMGSR and MGSA will present the First
Annual Minority Graduate School Fair. The fair, which
is designed to provide information to undergraduate
students about potential graduate school prospects, is
part of an effort to increase minority enrollment in
Umass Graduate programs and the enrollment Umass
graduates in general.
Other goals of the Graduate school fair include in-
itiating a mechanism to monitor the progress of
minority undergrads as they enroll in graduate degree
programs and to establish dialogue between minority
graduates and undergraduates. To achieve the ladder.
University of Massachusetts graduates will act as
recruiter for schools participating in the fair as oppos-
ed to bringing in professional recruiters from the
schools.
There will be information available from over seven-
ty universities throughout the United States (see
table), included among them, a large number of tradi-
tionally Black schools. Law programs, Medical
schools, PH.D programs and more will be featured
along with two workshops facilitated by Judy
Toyama, Director of the OMGSR. While academic
achievement is the major factor in determining admis-
sions into Grad school there are many other factors of
which Ms. Toyama wil discuss in the workshops.
Now I'll bet you're just dying to go check out this
spectacular event. But wait! There's more* After you
are enlightened with the wealth of information provid-
ed, you can unwind and have fun with your favorite
sweetheart at a Valentine's Dance also in Hampden
Commons from 9p.m. to 1 a.m. (a bit early but
remember it's a school night). The sounds of the Fred
Clayton Quinlet and the music of "Daddy" Neil will
provide the entertainment that is sure to bring the en-
tire community together for a fun evening.
A small donation will be requested for the dance,
but if you attend the fair and send for more informa-
tion on at least two universities, the dance is on the
house.
With a full schedule of activities that include infor-
mation, education and entertainment, the First An-
nual Minority Graduate School Fair is an event not to
be missed. So be sure to stop in Hampden Commons,
Southwest this Thursday. It may be the wisest stop in
your college career.
Celebrating Artistic Creativity
NUMMO NEWS
Monday, February 11,1985
Page 2
This Fanatical Call For ‘Just - Us’
by Chris Williams
Nummo Staff
When Bernard Goetz shot four Black youths on the
Saturday before Christmas in the name of self-
defense, many people both Black and White, sup-
ported his action. This is not suprising considering the
rampart crime that occurs in New York City, especially
in the subway system. Black on Black violent crime af-
fects a large segment of the Black population,
therefore to a certain degree it can be understood why
many Blacks supported Goetz's behavior.
What should be questioned besides the incident of
the shooting is the way Bernard Goetz has been
treated by society. Hardly anyone can say what exact-
ly happened on the subway except that Goetz was
asked for five dollars by four Black youths, but it is the
lynch mob mentality that has swept the country that
concerns me. White America in particular seemed to
applaud Goetz's actions, lacking concern that the
screw drivers that the youths possessed were not
sharpened or brandished. Furthermore, two of them
were shot in the back which means that they were
running away, and that several of the bullets that
February is Black History Month. During this
month, which is 'coincidently' the shortest of the
calender year, African-Americans are supposed to tell
their entire history - an almost impossible feat. Unfor-
tunately, many people who have taken the respon-
sibility for presenting our history have done so without
its contemporary relavence. Thus, by presenting our
history in this vacum mode it will inhibit us from
liberating our minds. However, there are some
Africans who do the contrary. Two that come to mind
are Dr's John Henrik Clarke and Yosef ben-
Jochannan. Having been influenced by these two
great men has prompted me to discuss what Black
History Month should be.
Black History Month should provide a direction that
African people can go ini This direction should con-
tain the following: Community, Respect, Love and
Self-reliance.
Black History Month should be a time when African
people look back to the past to see where we have
come from and to look into the future of the rapidly
approaching twenty first century. Without this basic
principle it is not adequate to present films,discus-
sions and lectures on Frederick Douglas, the now crip-
Goetz used were "dum-dum” bullets which means
that once they enter the body they explode causing in-
creased damage.
If Goetz was a Black man who shot four white
youths, under the same alleged circumstances, I
seriously doubt if he would have recieved all of this
praise. In fact, a Black person under these cir-
cumstances would run the high possibility of recieving
death threats. But what the courts have found him
guilty for is illegal possession of a firearm, and not for
shooting the four youths. Such a decision should send
a message to the Black population, especially males,
that its "open season” on them. This of course has
not been acted out directly, but you can be sure that
the subtle implications of this case are noticed by
This fanatical call for justice just like everything else
in America reaks in white suremacist idealogy. What
the white, general public, politicans and judiciary
means by justice is "justice for just us1" Black people
should remember that in the Dredscott vs Stanford
case the Supreme Court ruled that, "They (Blacks)
had no rights which the White man was bound to
respect."
I suggest that Black people observe this mentality
instead of thinking that money, college degrees, light-
skin, jerri-curls, and Bill Blass clothes will change the
way most White people think about us. If we do not,
we might find ourselves in concentration camps.
ppled Civil Rights Movement and on intergration. In
order for history to assist us in our struggle today
there has to be some sort of analysis from an African
perspective in an attempt to relate the past to present
conditions.
During this period it is not enough to know that it
was the Ancient Africans, now called Egyptians, who
built the pyramids. Those of us who are pursuing
careers in engineering or the natural sciences should
attempt to build some pyramids in the Harlems of the
world. However, what do most of us do? We try to
brag and boast to the world about working for a
business or corporation that rapes and sucks the
blood of African people and her resources. With a
clear understanding of history we will instantaneously
see that this behavior we are engaging in, is insane
and morally incorrect.
Furthermore, Black History Month should give us the
inspiration to be self-reliant again. In 1985 we can no
longer sit back and beg for crumbs; it is now the time
for positive planning and meaningful action. As
Booker T. Washington said,"cast down your buckets
where you are".
Bishop Tutu:
Committed to Change
by Christopher Allen
Nummo Correspondnet
Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace
Prize, was enthroned as the first Black Anglican
bishop of Johannesburg after getting special permis-
sion to enter the white neighborhood where the
ceremony took place.
During the ceremony. Bishop Tutu gave the white
minority government a deadline of two years to
dismantle Apartheid.
In a service to staid reformation rites and joyous
African hymns at the candle - lit Cathedral of St. Mary
the Virgin, Bishopl Tutu attacked South Africa's racial
segregation as "evil and un-christian. I am commit-
ted to peaceful charge," the 53 year-old clergyman
said as he reviewed his offer to serve as a go between
with the outlawed African National Congress, the
main organization opposing Government oppression.
A ripple of applause, uncharacteristic of Anglican ser-
vices, spread through the 2,000 white and black
parishoners at the end of the sermon.
Foreign diplomats joined church representatives
from Europe and the United States, as well as im-
poverished blacks from villages and segregated
townships, in the prayers and singing. The South
African government sent no representative to the ser-
vice.
Strick security measures were imposed at the
ceremony after death threats were reported.
Policemen gathered in groups around the cathedral,
and four police riot vehicles were parked on streets
crowded with worshippers who could not squeeze in-
to the church. There were, however, ro incidents.
Right Rev. Merwyn Castle, dean of St. Mary's said
I the Church had recieved "about four" telephone
threats against Tutu's life in the past weeks, the per
I son who took the call said the caller spoke with an
Afrikaan accent.
Afrikaan is the Dutch-derived language of the
ancestors of white settlers who arrived at the Cape of
Good Hope in 1652. Government television and some
Pro-Government news media have criticized Bishop
Tutu's selection for the Nobel Prize, saying he is a
radical using his position as a cleric to hide his inten-
tions of encouraging violence against whites.
EDITORIAL
by Chris Williams
Nummo Staff
Building today's pryamids
Monday, February 11, 1905
NUMMO NEWS
Page 3
VMass rated high in AA
“A Soilder’s Play”
But is it enough
by Christopher Allen
Nummo Correspondent
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst has
been declared the highest Black faculty employer
presently. The statistics run counter to a national
trend of state colleges having appreciably better
minority hiring records than private colleges, accor-
ding to federal data. Affirmative Action specialists at-
tribute the difference to the greater sensitivity of
public fiananced schools to political pressure.
The hiring record of Massachusetts public colleges
has improved slightly since the election of Gov.
Michael S. Dukakis, who has made a public commit-
ment to increased minority hiring, and the Affirmative
Action officer of the State Board of Regents is op-
timistic about more progress. As of last July 30th, five
of the twenty-eight state institutions (Framingham St.
College, Middlesex Comm. College, Quinsigamor
Comm, and Mass. Maritime Academy) have no Black
teachers.
The all-white faculties at the three community col-
leges contrasted with the record that such institutions
across the country have of hiring more blacks, accor-
ding to federal records. Affirmative Action specialists
say community colleges usually have better records
because there is a large pool of applicants with the re-
quired Master's degree, rather than the doctorates
needed at universities.
Umass-Amherst employs thirty-four Black pro-
fessors while Umass-Boston and Roxbury Community
College employs 32 and 20 respectively.
"I've always been looking for the specific answer
why we don't have more black faculty," said Bruce
Rose, Affirmative Action Director at the State Board
of Regents. "The Board of Regents does not have
personal authority over the campuses. Without that,
it's a little difficult to get leverage."
At Umass-Amherst, Affirmative Action Director
Ron Sinacori said a $250,000 "special opportunity
fund" was established as of Jan. 1 to provide salary
funds for academic department that have recruited
minorities, but do not have job openings.
The Negro Ensemble Company, America's
foremost black theatre, will present its critically ac-
claimed production of "A Soldier's Play" on Satur-
day, February 23, at the University of Massachusetts
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall. Winner of both the
Pulitzer Prize for drama and the New York Critics Cir-
cle Award, Charles Fuller's myster thriller has been
hailed as a triumph in cities throughout America. The
8 p.m. performance is co-sponsored by the New
WORLD Theater and the Fine Arts Center at the
University.
Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, Louisiana, shots ring out in
the night and Technical Sergeant Vernon Waters, a
black career Army man, is found dead. In the
suspenseful mystery that follows, special Army in-
vestigator Richard Davenport finds that to unmask the
murderer he will first have to unlock the terrible secret
of the dead man's agonized last words - "They still
hate you." A compelling whodunnit, the case takes
on a deeper dramatic dimension as it probes a man's
search for dignity amid the tangle of old hate and new
hope confronting World War II America.
Playing to capacity houses in New York for fourteen
months prior to the start of this national tour, "A
Soldier's Play" was selected as one of three American
productions to appear in Los Angeles in conjunction
with the 1984 Summer Olympics International Arts
Festivial, after which it was a U.S. representative to
the prestigious Edinburgh International Festival in
Scotland.
Tickets for the February 23 performance are
available at the Fine Arts Center Box Office, at
DATATIX outlets, and at the Springfield Civic Center.
For ticket information, call the Center Box Office at
(413)545-2511. For phone charge reservations, call
1-800-243-4842. Mastercard/ Visa accepted.
NUMMO STAFF
Segun C. Eubanks
Marilyn G. Bou
Christopher Williams
Lisa Viega
David L. Walker
Nina Cordova
Emmett Grady
Rod Clare
Editor In Chief
Managing Editor
Researcher
Business Manager
Photo Editor
Administrative Assistant
Reporter/ Photographer
International Reporter
Contributors
Ed Cohen
Yvonne Mendez
Christopher Allen
David G. DuBois
Photographer
Layout
Correspondent
Faculty Advisor
Address all letters to the Editor to: Nummo News,
New Africa House Room 103
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NUMMO NEWS
Monday, February 11, 1965
Announcements
CCEBMS ANNOUNCEMENTS
The CCEBMS Law Group will be reac-
tivated on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 7 pm. The
meeting will take place in The New
Africa House Library. Please be prompt.
Come full of ideas.
Work-Study positions ar available at
the Northampton Youth Center for 10-15
hours a week. If you are interested in
working with and have experience work-
ing with adolescents, see Carol Young
rm. 213 NAH.
Talent Search for the Third World
Gospel Choir is underway. Credits
available. Sign up in rm. 211 NAH.
Sign up for Bible Study class in rm. 211
NAH.
CCEBMS TUTORIAL PROGRAM
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
It’s never too late to learn
EVENTS MARKING BLACK HISTORY
MONTH
SMITH COLLEGE
SUNDAY - February 24 "Souls Release" (Art
Expression) 8-10 p.m. at the Hallie Flannigan
Theatre.
THURSDAY - February 28 "Tribute to Black
Woman" Award (Toni Morrison)
FRIDAY - March 1 Cabaret at the Davis Stu-
dent Centre 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Admission $5
SATURDAY - Concert with Angela Bofill
Adm. $7 students with valid I.D. $9 General
Public in advance, $10 at the door.
SUNDAY - March 3 Gospel Jubilee Church
Service at choirs from over New England,
10:am at Chapel.
BMCP MEETING
The Black Mass Communications Pro-
ject will hold the first meeting of the
semester on Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 5:15
pm. in the Campus Center (room
number will be posted by C.C. elevator).
Attendance is mandatory for all
members. All interested in new member-
ship are encouraged to attend.
SMOKER
The Brotherhood of lota Phi Theta
Fraternity, Inc. of Beta-Beta Chapter at
UMass will present an interest meeting
for young men and women about the up-
coming pledge season. The meeting will
be held on February 13 at 7:30 pm in the
Malcolm X Center, Southwest. All are
welcome.
For more information contact Chuck
Rhinehart at 546-7875
BLACK HISTORY MONTH 1985
University of Massachusetts/ Amherst
"The Struggle for Freedom:
The Past, Present and Future"
Schedule of Events
MONDAY, February 11, 1985
Lecture by Paul Robeson, Jr.
TOPIC: "What happened to the Civil Rights and Black
Power Movements"
Campus Center Auditorium
8:00 p.m.
TUESDAY, February 12. 1985
Seminar with Paul Robeson, Jr.
New Africa House Library
9:05 - 9:55 a.m.
TUESDAY, February 19, 1985
Doll Workshop presented by Martha Bonda and Leslie
Jones
Augusta Savage Art Gallery
New Africa House
1 :00 - 4:00 p.m.
THURSDAY, February 14, 1985
"For a New Tomorrow" - Graduate School Fair
Hampden Student Center
3:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Social After the Fair
9 p.m. - Midnight
Admission: TBA
WOMEN PERFORMERS WANTED
Mimes, singers, musicians, poets, etc.
wanted to participate in a coffeehouse
on March 7, 1985 in honor of Interna-
tional Women's Event. If interested
please contact Elsa at 545-0341 during
the day or at 323-4966 in the evening.
WHERE IT PAYS TO LEARN
This fall, SCERA will hire
undergraduates to learn political
organizing and student-interest research
skills. For two days each week, SCERA
students will meet and learn political
organizing and then apply these skills to
issues of concern to students.
SCERA also has positions for the
resource center and for the clerical sup-
port team.
All positions are ten hours per week and
pay $3.35 per hour for non-work study
and work study undergraduates.
Pick up an application and more infor-
mation at 420 Student Union weekdays
8:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.
All applications due by Febuary 13 at 5:00
p.m.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH 1985
"Yesl Our Minds Are Free"
Throughout this month the Augusta
Savage Memorial will open its doors to
celebrate 1985 s Black History Month.
The works of Mr. Alan Rohan Crite,
Mr. Tom Feelings, Mr. Paul Goodnight
as well as Mrs. Murice Poplar Lavender
and Ms. Augusta Savage will be ex-
hibited.
On the 13th of February Ms. Pearl
Primus will give a multi-faceted presen-
tation.
During the month the gallery will pre-
sent educational films. Please contact us
at 545-0932 for programming schedules.
We welcome all to join us to rejoice in
our celebration.
DOLL WORKSHOP
As part of our Black History Month
celebration the Augusta Savage
Memorial Gallery will sponsor a Doll
Workshop.
On Tuesday the 19th of Febuary Ms.
Martha Banda and Ms. Leslie Jones will
exhibit their hand made dolls. Their
workshop will begin at 1 p.m. and run
until 4 p.m. Educators are encouraged to
bring their students to view and/or par-
ticipate in this workshop.
For participation registration please
contact Marilyn E. at 545-0932 from 9
a.m. to 12 noon. This workshop is open
to the public.
Deadline to request a tutor is Febuary
22. See your advisor nowl
Applications are being accepted for
tutorial positions. They can be picked up
on the second floor bulletin board, in the
New Africa House. Return applications
to Carol Young room 213.
ATTENTION
The Third World Caucus meeting will be held
on Wednesday, Feb. 13 at the S.U.B. Rm
310 at 6:00. All are encouraged to attend.
JOB OPENINGS
Western Mass. Latin America Solidari-
ty Committee has three work-study
positions for assistant coordinators. In-
dividuals should have good organiza-
tional and communication skills and be
able to work without supervision. Ap-
plicants may apply at Room 404 Student
Union Building. Deadline is Feb. 15.
Women and people of color encouraged
to apply. WMLASC is an AA/EEO
employer.
NEWS
Tuesday, February 19.198F
Volume 13 Issue 13
connected «ith the CoUegien
for tne sole purpoee of
distribution
UMass Students Travel To Learn
by Christopher Allen
Nummo Correspondent
The 14th Annual Communications Conference was
held at Howard University , Washington
D.C. from February 14-17, 1985. The four day con-
ference which featured exhibits and recruiters from
across the country, had more than 60 panels and
workshops. Topics ranged from "Communication
Development in Africa and the Third World" to New
Technologies in Communication Science." Ten
representatives from Nummo News and BMCP attend
this grand celebration.
College Juniors and Seniors had the opportunity to
be interviewed for job placements in communication
industries around the country. Recruiters in the
Broadcast field came from companies such as ABC,
CNN, and NBC just to name a few. The Print Media
had recruiters from Associated Press, Boston Globe,
Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald , Wall Street Jour-
nal, and many more print media companies.
Workshops were held on "What Editors really expect
of the Newsreporter," "New Technologies in Com-
munication Science," "Sports Communication,
'Televison Production" and many other interesting
topics. "Making it from Student Editorials to Profes-
sional Journalist," was an interesting workshop which
was moderated by Joseph Perkins of the Wall Street
Journal.
Continued on page 7
photo by Segun Eubanks
students enjoying banquet in
Washington, D.C.
New courses offered Through
Grad School
by Segun Eubanks
Nummo Staff
A low student turn-out and lack of recruiters from
the represented schools were the two negative
aspects pointed out by participants. While the large
amount of information provided was said to be the
most positive ingredient at last Thursdays Minority
Graduate Fair.
Approximately 200 undergraduate students brows-
ed through Hampden Commons to take advantage of
the information provided. Along with information
from 75 graduate school admission, a reception for
graduate students and staff and a dance after the Fair
feturing the Fred Clayton quartet and D.J. Daddy
Neal.
University graduate students were used as mock
recruiters for the schools. "What can "Joe Smoe" tell
me about Howard University if he goes to UMass,"
said one undergraduate^student who preferred not to
photo by Segun Eubanks
Leah Loftis looks for information about Graduate
school from recruiter Gerry Blocker at Graduate Fair.
be identified. The reason for using UMass grad
students according to the Fair's coordinator Curtis Pit-
tman, a Staff Assistant for OMGSR, was "The need
to have interaction between graduate and
undergraduate students." Pittman pointed out the
statistics have shown that minority students have
found it very difficult to graduate from the University.
"Graduate students can best explain the trial and
tribulations of graduating (from UMass), as opposed
to recruiters who would be staff members or profes-
sionals (from the represented schools)," Pittman said.
Graduate student D. Anderson Hoker particpated
as a recruiter, "Because I thought that I could help
Black students and minority students with their tran-
saction into graduate school." Hooker said that he
was very dissappointed with the turn-out, "mainly
because the information was here, and until we can
teach people to fish they will always be hungry," he
said.
"The targets, freshman and sophmores, are not
really interested," said Pittman. "More outreach is
needed. We must evaluate the interest of the
students," he added.,
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NUMMO NEWS
Tuesday. February 19,1966
Welcome Back Bob Clark
by Bod Clare
Nummo Staff
The newest academic advisor for the CCEBMS pro-
gram is Bob Clark, a 1984 UMASS alumnus. A native
of Cambridge, Massachusetts, he graduated with his
bachelors holding a double major of political science
and psychology along with a minor in Latin
What sets Clark apart however, besides his
academics, is the fact that he is an American Indian,
the only one on the CCEBMS staff. A member of the
Wampanoag nation that resided in in the northern
New England states, Bob also explained that is part
Black.
While Bob atended UMass he was a member of
the American Indian Student Association and it was
during this time that he found American Indians had
the lowest acceptance rate of any group in the Univer-
sity Also in his experiences were the facts that
American Indians had the lowest education rate, the
highest infant mortality rate, and the highest rate of
unemployment of any group in the U.S. along with
the fact that half of the 1 % million American Indians
live on reservations or bantustans.
With these types of figures staring him in the face,
it was no suprise that Bob became involved in human
services work. He had been appointed Western
Massachusetts Commissioner for Indian Affairs by
Governor King and has been reappointed under
Governor Dukakis. While there are no difinitive figures
on the amount of American Indians in UMass, Bob
said it couldn't be more than 50, graduate and
undergraduate.
Asked about his relations with the CCEEBMS
organization since he started on January 6, Bob
replied: "Love it. I consider it a family. An excellent
staff." Expressing the same happiness about his con-
tact with students he noted that it was nice to do a job
what he always felt committed to personally. Seeing
himself as a radical "in the sense that I see things that
need to be radically changed" he added that these
changes "oecfto come throughout the system."
Decrying the melting pot as a myth, Bob said that
racism is just as strong nowadays as in his earlier
years. Acknowledging the fact that the name calling
and slurs have decreased, he said that racism
manifests itselft in a "more institutional and subtle
form."
Leaving a message for the students, Bob said: "I
would tell them to take their studies
seriously... because not everybody has the chance to
go to school. They should shoot for A's and not for
C's."
EDITORIAL
by Segun Eubanks
Nummo Staff
Ten University students from the Black Mass Com-
munications Project and Nummo News took a trip to
Washington D.C. this past weekend to participate in
the 14th annual Communications Conference at
Howard University. It was an unforgettable weekend
for all, although for some the memories are quite dif-
ferent than for others.
For those that took advantage of the Conference,
the workshops and interviews were very rewarding
and offered an opportunity to get a head start in the
very competitive Communications job market. Merrit
Crawford, a University of Massachusetts almuni cur-
rently working at the Assoicated Press, was given
recognition for outstanding achievement at the con-
ference banquet and served as an inspiration to
minority students attending his former instititution.
The atmosphere at Howard University was also
educational. When we arrived on campus, about 400
students were holding a rally to fight apathy in
Howards's community. While the theme is very similar
to the challenges we face in this community, the spirit
and enthusiasm of Black studen leaders was remin-
sent fo the 1960's Black Power movements.
Students from different backgrounds, religions, and
interests came together to fight a common cause,
something we have been unable to achieve at UMass
for a long time.
There were, of course a few disappointments. The
conference was not as well organized as it should
have been, with many workshops and events being
cancelled at the last minute. Also many members of
our entourage pointed out that a lot of Howard
students acted very bourgeois.
The biggest dissapointment, however, came from
within the group of UMass students. Apparently many
members of the group had no intentions to attend or
participate in the activities. Instead they spent their
time hanging out at Howard, looking up old friends
and searching for party spots. Moreover, their search
for a good time actually impeded the efforts of the
students who were interested in taking care of
business.
It is very distressing to think that the two organiza-
tions paid for the trip from hard earned revenue funds
and their very own members took advantage of the
opportunity afforded them. The most ironic part of it
all is that those who had their priorities together
managed to take care of business, learn a lot of impor-
tant information and still have a good time.
It would be suggested that in future endeavors such
as this, Third World organizations make a more exten-
sive investigation of particpating students and develop
a system of checks and balances. After all our funds
are far too valuable and scarce to be wasted.
READ
NUMMO
Civil Rights An
On-going
Struggle
by Rod Clare
Nummo Staff
Paul Robeson Jr., son of the late great Paul
Robeson, spoke on "What Happened to the Civil
Rights and Black Power Movements" Monday at the
University of Massachusetts Campus Center.
Mr. Robeson set the preconditions to the Civil
Rights era by starting off with slavery. During this time
Mr. Robeson explained that each slave was counted
as two-thirds of a person and that while white inden-
tured servants served 7 years then got 40 acres and a
mule, the freed slave received nothing. Reconstruc-
tion was very helpful towards Black progress but was
eventually turned back. Ex-slave skilled Black workers
"were driven up North and destroyed as a group." On
top of that Mr. Robeson said that the Industrial
Revolution by-passed Black America "by almost in its
" until the 1930's.
Paul Robeson Jr. speaks to audience of Civil Rights
last week photo by Michelle Segall
All of these factors led up to the Civil Rights move-
ment which was for Blacks the "rock bottom
minimum for survival" in Mr. Robeson's view. He said
that whites supported this movement because it
wasn't perceived as being anti-white and because it
was non-violent. Although he supported the move-
ment he said, "I would never turn the other cheek if
struck on one." He further added that thousands, in-
cluding himself, were waiting to see if Martin Luther
King's strategy would work and if didn't, another
more militant tactic would have been adopted.
The Black Power movement which came later was
the structure on the Civil Rights foundation. Mr.
Robeson noted that the Black Power movement came
about because the Civil Rights movement didn't work
well for working class Blacks. The inner strength of
the Black community upset many whites because they
feared Black unity and a great many whites thought
that Black Power meant that Blacks would rule whites
even though Blacks were only 12 percent of the
population.
Turning his attention to affirmative action, Mr.
Robeson said it was "the biggest hoax ever played on
the American public” to call affirmative action
discrimination in reverse because what it really stands
for is an equal opportunity for Blacks to compete. He
compared the current situation Blacks have to face
with being allowed to run in a track meet but with no
sneakers tracksuits, or training against a fully prepared
competitor.
Taking an extended view of present day America,
Mr. Robeson started a tremendous attack on the
Reagan administration, calling Mr. Reagan "one of
the most racist presidents in living memory." In addi-
tion to giving instances of Mr. Reagan's "ignorance",
Mr. Robeson saidthat whites in general use the call for
color blindness as a cover for racism.
After finishing his statements about Mr. Reagan,
Mr. Robeson made a call for Black unity and also the
possibility of coalitions with other groups such as
labor to fight the current mood of the country.
Tuesday. February 19. 1966
NUMMO NEWS
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Manley and Seaga: Who Can Lead Jamaica
by Chrlstophei*Allen
Nummo Staff
Former Prime Minister of Jamaica. Michael N.
Manley has begun trying to make a comeback after
spending four years on the political sidelines. Because
of the crushing defeat Mr. Manley suffered in 1980
after the economy had virtually collapsed, many
Jamaicians and Western Diplomats had expected him
to strike a moderate stance when he re-emerged. In-
stead, recently he opened what his party describes
early elections, calling the present Prime Minister Ed-
ward P. G. Seaga "an arrogrant, stupid fool" and
threatening measures that could lead to years of in-
stability.
With many supporters cheering wildly at a rally in a
palm tree dotted square in downtown Montego Bay,
Mr. Manley and his Socialist People's National Party
proclaimed that the government they hoped to form
would feel no obligation to recognize any contracts or
agreements made by Prime Minister Seaga, thus
casting in doubt the continuity for investors here and
for other nations. Manley and his party declared that
the present Government had no "political authority"
to make new agreements with the International
Monetary Fund. They warned that Prime Minister
Seaga and his Jamaica labor party "must assume full
political responsibility for any social unrest or instabili-
ty" that was "likely to ensue" from additional austeri-
ty measures.
With the country facing staggering and economic
problems, many Jamaicans and Western diplomats
say the threats are likely to give foreign investors and
international bankers second thoughts about
Jamaica. They say it could further disrupt the
country’s tourist business.
Mr. Manley's threats are being taken seriously
because recent polls have indicated that if elections
are called, he would probably defeat Mr. Seaga with
59 percent of the vote. The Prime Minister insists that
he will not call elections until he is constitutionally re-
quired to in 1989. Mr. Manley, tall and gray-haired is
an eloquent and captivating speaker is still held in awe
by many Jamaicians.
In his eight years as Prime Minister, beginning in
1972, he inspired national pride, leading the country to
prominence among militant developing countries. He
lashed out against what he called capitalist im-
perialism and developed a close relationship with
Cuba.
In 1980, Jamaica turned to Mr. Seaga, a Harvard-
educated sociologist who portrayed himself as a
reliable and efficient manager and promised to restore
calm and economic vitality. Mr. Seaga's Jamaica
Labor Party won 51 of the 60 seats in Parliament. As
one of his first official acts, Mr. Seaga broke
diplomatic relations with Cuba. He has become one of
the Reagan Administration's closest allies.
At the rally in Montego Bay, Mr. Manley's old style
and appeal seemed unchanged. He uttered two
words, "Comrade Chairman" to begin his speech and
the crowd roared with cheers and applause for several
minutes, according to reports. Banners on the dais
warned against "Imperialism and U.S. domination."
There was unmistakable anger in the voices of Mr.
Manley and other speakers at the rally. They maintain
that they were cheated by Mr. Seaga when he sud-
denly called elections in December 1983 while at a
peak in popularity after his strong support for the
United States - led invasion of Grenada. Both sides
have publicly pledged that elections would not be
held the nation's voter-registration lists had been up-
dated to account for about 150,000 newly eligible peo-
ple and the death and migration of 100,000 more. Mr.
Manley refused to particpate in the 1983 election.
With opposition from only a handful of independents,
Mr. Seaga's party took all 60 seats in Parliament.
There were no challengers to 54 of Seaga's Can-
didates, and they won without any ballots being cast.
For the first time sinceuniversial suffrage was granted
in 1944, Parliament was occupied by only one party.
Last summer, both Mr. Seaga and Mr. Manley said
in interviews that the one-party Parliament had proved
to be unexpectedly effective; but increasingly,
educated Jamaicans say they believe it is impossible
for members of any one party to provide the kind of
scrutiny and criticism that comes from a true opposi-
tion.
Fight For Justice
by Christopher Allen
Nummo Correspondnet
Comptroller Roland Bu;rie, or.e of three blacks
elected to state-wide office in the nation, acted out of
character recently when he bypassed the black caucus
of the Democratic National Committee and won the
vice chairman's job.
Burris, a normally cautious, low-profile politician,
was elected after he appealed directly to the full com-
mittee. the DNC's black caucus had, by a narrow
margin, endorsed Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, In-
dianna.
The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, an unsuccessful can-
didate last year for the Democratic presidential
nomination, said in an interview published Monday in
the Washington Post that he would not recognize
Burris' election. Hatcher had been Jackson's cam-
paign chairman. Jackson also criticized the DNC's
selection of new party Chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. as a
continuation of the party's domination by organized
labor. Burris, an active Baptist churchman who
sometimes preaches from pulpits across Illinois, said
he did not intend to respond to comments that he had
betrayed the caucus in the Feb. 1 election. He was
equally noncommittal when asked to comment on
Jackson's statement. "Some people might find it
"disturbing" that I won the election," he said. But, he
added, "I'm the duly elected vice chairman. My pur-
pose is to elect Democrats to state office, to Congress
and to the presidency." Burris said he would try to do
some fence-mending by calling a meeting of the black
caucus soon.
Burris and Jackson have known and worked with
each other for years; in 1977, Burris was national
director of Operation PUSH, Jackson's Chicago-
based civil rights organization. State Rep. Carol
Moseley Braun, chief spokesman in the Illinois House
for Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, said of Burris:
"Right now, he's getting beat up pretty bad." But,
she added, "He hasn't put himself in a position where
he can't heal the breach." Said Rep. Arthur Turner,
an independent black Democrat from Chicago:
"Those black leaders who are really tuned in... they
understand. They respect Roland's credentials."
Burris, who at 47 is in his second term as Illinois'
budget watchdog, is generally regarded as an able ad-
ministrator who brought the state's accounting
system up to date and who provide timely and infor-
mative reports on the economy. Politically, he has
solid credentials in the black community, and his fiscal
conservatism appeals to whites. When Republician
Gov. James R. Thompson pushed in 1983 for a per-
manent increase in state income taxes, Burris caution-
ed such a large boost was not needed and that a tem-
porary surtax would suffice.
Democrats must "present a program that shows the
Democratic Party has the economic interest of
American people at heart," Burris said in a recent in-
terview. Programs for the poor "must be energized
through the economy, not government spending."
Burris said he intends to help other blacks round the
country run and win election to state-wide offices by
appealing to white voter. "You do that by showing
them this is nothing unusual - that this person is
qualified and can represent your interests. It takes a
selling job," Burris said.
His second-place finish in the state's Democratic
Senate primary last year was due mostly to strong
support in Chicago's black neighborhoods. He was
the leading vote-getter in Cook County in the four-
way race won by U.S. Rep. Paul Simon, who ousted
veteran GOP Sen. Charles Percy last November. Bur-
ris is the first black ever elected to one of Illinois' six
constitutional offices. It's a distinction he's proud of.
Besides Burris, the two other black politicians current-
ly elected state-wide are Henry Parker, Connecticut's
treasurer and Richard Austin, Michigan's secretary of
state.
Many politicians use the royal "we" when talking
about themselves, but Burris sometimes ventures into
the third person to recount what he calls "The Roland
Burris Story." "Roland Burris, born and raised in a
southern llinois town, born of African-American
heritage but set out on a goal to accomplish things in
life, which he has done," Burris said in an interview
during the 1984 primary campaign. Burris, the son of a
railroad worker from Centralia, has said he would like
to make a bid in 1986 for a higher state-wide office
-perhaps attorney general.
He has dropped hints he'd like to hold national of-
fice someday, too. "I can see in Roland's eyes that he
would like to run for president," said Turner, adding:
"I'm not sure the rest of the world is ready for it." Bur-
ris' wife Berlean, is chairman of the Dept, of Nursing
at Chicago State University. They have two children,
Roland II and Rolanda Sue.
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Tuesday, February 19, 1966
Roving Reporter
QUESTION: What do you think is the most relevant
person, event in black History?
Thelma Hamilton - Martin Luther King because he was
a positive influence and he brought people together to
cause a positive change. Event - "the right to vote.
Richard Ostrowksi - Martin Luther King because he
stood for equality and he preached racial harmony.
Event - The Underground Railroad because it showed
the caring between the two races and the beginning of
the Civil Rights Movement.
Brian K. Hall
lota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. - The most important
event to date in my opinion was Jesse Jacksons bid
for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. Although
he fell short of this particular goal, his bid for nomina-
tion shows that blacks have come a long way since
slavery. But the struggle is far from over.
Kids Do It Too
In South Africa
by Christopher Allen
Nummo Correspondnet
Thousands of Black school children rioted in the
orange free state recently, burning shops, offices and
cars in the worst anti-government student violence
this year.
Police, who used rubber bullets and tear gas to quell
the unrest, arrested at least 30 youths on the streets of
the Black township of Seeisoville, South of Johan-
nesburg.
According to reports there were at least two thou-
sand students in the initial mob, and hundreds more
joined in as the riot and destruction swept through the
ghetto, twenty-seven businesses were destroyed and
others were damaged, the sources said. Students in
many black ghettoes have been growing restive at the
government's delay in allowing students to elect
representative councils. The outbreak came a day
after jailed African National Congress Leader Nelson
Mandela announced that he would remain in prison
rather than renounce vilent oposition to apartheid.
The united Democratic font, South Africa's largest
legal opposition movement, issued a statement saying
"we are proud that Mandela remains so absolutely
committed to a meaningfully negotiated statement.''
Photo of the Week
Curtis and Shara Pittman and son Imani at Graduate
Fair.
photo by Segun Eubanks
EDITORIAL
by Chris Williams
Nummo Staff
Shame, shame, shame on you. Yes, you the so-
called ''Black'' students of the Five College area,
especially those of the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, for not attending the numerous events plan-
ned for Black History Month. Where were you? Please
don't tell me studying. Studying only takes up so
much of your time. Besides, any truely concerned
African student would have made the time by arrang-
ing to attend at least a few of the many events, but
not you, your too ''good” for that.
However, many have time to gossip. Many more
have lots of time to make endless excursions to the
Hampshire Mall to insure that Africans in America
maintain their high levels of consumption and non-
existent levels of production. And yes, you have to
time to party; we can't forgot that. This does not
mean that there is anything wrong with partying, but
too much of one thing makes Jack a dull boy. And
sore enough some of us are truely dumb; some are
deaf and blind too. However, the blame is not all on
you, after all we have all been programmed to self-
destruct.
Many of those who are in positions of so-called
"leadership” also failed to attend many of these
events. This is surely a tragedy, because the future of
the race and the world is in your hands. Well, if you
don't change your thinking and behavior, and soon
too, we are all surely doomed.
Those "Black” students who did not attend any of
these events because of indifference or laziness are
guilty of treason for not paying respect to their
deceased and living Africans who fought and are still
fighting for their liberation. It is a crime that Malcolm
X, Martin Luther King Jr, and countless others died so
that you could dance up and down with a bunch of
white people at a rappers concert. They gave their
lives for more than that; they offered their lives so that
we, the future, could excell in the things they
couldn't. They died so that the race could live and not
merely exist.
Unfortunately, this apathy is not new. Last fall there
was a Third World Leadership Conference. The turn-
out was relatively good, especially when the food was
served. African students came from all over the New
England area, many of whom arrived at 9:30 a.m.
when it began, but were were most of you then?
Some of us claim that we are Black, but are we and do
we want to be? It appears to me that some of us are
nothing more than Europeans wearing black face.
Nevertheless, all paraise must go to all of those
African students, faculty, and administration who
organized and attend any of the events held during the
last few weeks. For those of you who have not attend-
ed, I suggest that you do and soon tool This is not a
pleasant subject to write about, but the truth has to be
revealed regardless of who it may hurt or embarass.
Tuesday. February 19, 1966
NUMMO NEWS
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Continued from page 1
In the pleasant Washington weather people had the
opportunity to share their thoughts with different peo-
ple, many of which will continue after the conference.
The list of events climaxed with a dinner on Saturday
night with FCC commissioner Henry M. Rivera being
the guest speaker for the night. Many students were
offered jobs in Communication Industries while others
recieved internship positions. Among the many
recruiters were former University of Massachusetts at
Amherst student Merrit Crawford who now works for
the Associated Press in Washington D.C. Many com-
panies are still interested in seeking resumes from
qualified individuals even though they may not have
an immediate opening available. For more information
contact Nummo News at 103 New Africa House or
phone 545-0061.
Black Mass Communications Project and Nummo
members at 14th annual Communications Con-
ference.
photo by Segun Eubanks
York Carry Out-Best food in Washington, D.C.
photo by Ed Cohen
Maria Ingles, a Holyoke high student and Upward
Bound Amherst particpant, won an achievement
award during the Hispanic Institute of Holyoke's Third
Annual Awards Dinner last Saturday. Ms. Ingles was
Miss Teenage Massachusetts 1984 and represented
Massachusetts in the Miss Teen USA contest in
Florida.
Savage is honored
by former pupil
Reprinted with permission
of Yadira Betances
By YADIRA A. BETANCES
Augusta Christine Savage, who many have come to know
only as a name attached to the gallery in the New Africa
House, came to life when her only private pupil gave a
personal profile of her at the rededication ceremony of the
gallery on Sunday.
The ceremony started with a blessing by UMass's Afro-
American studies professor Dovi Afesi and a dance per-
formance by Patti O'Neal. Ironically, while Afesi spoke of
the African belief of the bondage "between the dead, the
living and the unborn," Maurice Poplar Lavender, who
lived with Savage for 12 years, spoke of experiencing a
"high plane level of tOnsciousness" in art between herself
and the renowned sculptress.
Lavender is a sculptress, painter, author, illustrator and
an art teacher in the Gary, Indiana public school system.
She met Savage at seven years old when her art teacher
invited her to hear Savage speak at Roosevelt High School
in Gary.
"She was my childhood and adult idol," Lavender said.
She added if Savage had not taken it upon herself to beat
the odds set against her becoming a sculptress, "I would
not be here today... she had the ability to attract the gif-
ted."
A high achiever. Savage successed in a climate that tried
to discourage her from becoming a sculptress. She had a
strong father figure, poverty and racial prejudice going
against her, but "she grew up on the faith," Lavender said.
It was not until twelve years later when they met again.
Lavender lost Savage's address and coincidentally found
her through a priest whom she met in New York.
During this time laspe, Savage had been very ill and was
once pronounced dead. Meanwhile, Lavender said she had
held on to Savage mentally in hope of finding her. "My
talent was transferred on to you. I could not sculpt if I
wanted to," Savage told Lavender.
Savage believed Lavender was the other part of her.
Lavender said she was never frightened by Savage's in-
tuitions because some incidents led her to believe the
same.
For example, Savage told Lavender that she would
establish an art institute. Lavender founded the Gary Art
Institute and Children's Art Institute. Savage also
predicted that Lavender's work would become religious. It
did.
Lavender and Savage's relationship was very intimate
and fully respected by Savage's daughter, Irene. "There
was always a lesson to learn from Savage." she said.
She said Savage had a good sense of humor. "She once
said I was her real daughter.” They also shared secrets,
like Savage's falling in love with James Walden Johnson.
Before Savage died in 1962, she commanded Lavender "to
take over," in encouraging others to pursue their artistic
talent. Lavender said sh was honored to attend the
rededication ceremony because "she is fulfilling that
commitment."
She hopes the rededication "brings about a new begin-
ning, a new awakening of binding together of arts "and the
many struggles Augusta Savage had to go through.”
photo by Segun Eubanks
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Tuesday, February 19, 1966
Celebrating Aristic Creativity
Due to a printing error photo captions were not visible in last week s paper, we apologize for any inconvenience.
photo by David Walker . . „
Artist Paul Goodnight gives a presentation at the
reception given in his honor.
Over one hundred people gathered at the Augusta
Savage Memorial Gallary at the University of
Massachusetts on Friday, February 8th. The exhibit
opened with an exhibit of hand-made dolls by Leslie
Jones and Martha Banda. As well as art works of Paul
Goodnight. Along with Mr. Goodnight from Boston,
the amazing artwork of Mr. Alan Rohan Crite, also
from Boston and the scultpure of Mr. Tom Feelings
from Brooklyn, New York have been on display since
the beginning of last week.
Featured at the reception were the poetry of Ingrid
Askew and the dance of Patti O'Niel. Askew, an actor
and entertainer, read some of her hilarious yet mean-
ingful poems, stating at one point that she wished
every month was Black History Month. "I think it
should be part of our everyday life,” Askew remarked.
In his address, Mr. Goodnight gave a special
recognition to Professor Nelson Stevens of the Afro-
American Studies Department at UMass. Goodnight
said that Professor Stevens was one of the artists who
played a significant role in his life, especially during his
initial stage as an artist.
The audience was later captured by the beautiful
ballent dance of Ms. Patti O'Niel who performed to
the music of her own "Spirit Movement.”
One observer, African drummer Stone Montgom-
mery of Boston was "delighted to see the quality of
the products on display and the amount of energy that
was put into this occasion.”
Marilyn E. Santiago, Interim curator of the Gallery,
did an excellent job hosting and organizing the pro-
gram which was very well recieved by those in atten-
dance.
by Christopher Allen
Nummo Correspondent
Jam Master Jay, D.J. for RUN DMC ., cuts it up Fri-
day night at the Student Union Ballroom. Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde were also featured in the performance
which played in front of a packed house.
Spirit Movement” (see story.)
Ingrid Askew recites poetry at the reception for artist
Paul Godnight last Friday at the Augusta Savage
Gallery (see story.)
Tuesday, February 19,1966
NUMMO NEWS
Page 7
ANNOUNCE M ENT S
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
It’s never too late to learn
EVENTS MARKING BLACK HISTORY
MONTH
SMITH COLLEGE
SUNDAY - February 24 "Souls Release" (Art
Expression) 8-10 p.m. at the Hallie Flannigan
Theatre.
THURSDAY - February 28 "Tribute to Black
Woman" Award (Toni Morrison)
FRIDAY - March 1 Cabaret at the Davis Stu-
dent Centre 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Admission $5
SATURDAY - Concert with Angela Bofill
Adm. $7 students with valid I.D. $9 General
Public in advance, $10 at the door.
SUNDAY - March 3 Gospel Jubilee Church
Service at choirs from over New England,
10:am at Chapel.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH 1985
University of Massachusetts/ Amherst
'The Struggle for Freedom:
The Past, Present and Future"
Schedule of Events
TUESDAY, February 19, 1985
Doll Workshop presented by Martha Bonda and Leslie
Jones
Augusta Savage Art Gallery
New Africa House
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
JOB OPENINGS
WAGES
The Women's Admissions and General
KAPPA ALPHA PSI
The Brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi will
be having an Interest Meeting for those
young men expressing an interest in the
fraternity on Thursday, Feb. 28 at
8:00p.m. at the Malcolm X Center.
CCEBMS TUTORIAL PROGRAM
Deadline to request s tutor is Febuary
22. See your advisor nowl
Applications are being accepted for
tutorial positions. They can be picked up
on the second floor bulletin board, in the
New Africa House. Return applications
to Carol Young room 213.
SUPPORT GROUPS
The Counselor/ Advocate program at
the Everywoman's Center is sponsoring
a support group for survivors of rape.
The group will focus on some common
concerns facing rape survivors such as
fear, anger, intimacy issues and family
and friends reactions. The group will
begin March 4 and meet Monday nights
from seven to nine for eight weeks at the
Everywoman's Center. The group is free
of charge, confidentiality is assured and
sign up is required. For more information
and to register please call Everywoman's
Center at (4131-545-0883.
S
i
s
I Educational Support (WAGES) Program
! at Everywoman's Center is looking for
re-entry women to become a half-time
! Program Assistant and a quarter-time
) Clerical Assistant.
i The Program Assistant would do in-
i take and pre-screening interviews, and
i help in the planning and implementation
i of WAGES Programming,
i The Clerical Assistant's duties would
t include typing, filing and other program
j maintenance. For more information con-
- i tact the WAGES program at EWC by call-
! ing 545-0883.
”
( THE ROSA MELENDEZ SUPPORT COM-
i MITTEE
{ Western Mass. Latin America Solidari-
( ty Committee has three work-study
\ positions for assistant coordinators. In-
| dividuals should have good organiza-
■ tional and communication skills and be
| able to work without supervision. Ap-
plicants may apply at Room 404 Student
| Union Building. Deadline is Feb. 15.
: Women and people of color encouraged
S to apply. WMLASC is an AA/EEO
!. employer.
\ PREMENSTRUAL
i WORKSHOP
SYNDROME
i
i "Premenstrual Syndrome: A personal
! and Political Perspective" is a workshop
i for women who have PMS and for
( others concerned with the controversy
( surrounding this condition. Discussion
( will focus on the personal and political
( implications of Premenstrual Syndrome
j on the lives of women. The workshop
j will be held on Wednesday. February
\ 27th at 7:30 p.m. at the Campus Center
j Room 802. This workshop is sponsored
j by the Everywoman's Center.
! RE-ENTRY WOMEN'S SUPPORT
( GROUP
,j..
j The WAGES Program at Everywoman's
j Center will be sponsoring a support
' gourp for women who are re-entry
The Rosa Melendez Support Commit-
tee is having it's second committee
meeting at the Everywoman's Center,
Wilder Hall 2nd Floor. To continual plan-
ning on fundraising and to give moral
support.
If Rosa is to be successful in regaining
her children she needs your help. For
more information feel free to contact
Julie Martinez at 545-0883.
students.
j The focus of the group will be the
| sharing of strategies for dealing with be-
ing an older student. University pro-
cedures, balancing children, school and
| other responsibilities, and many other
i concerns. The groupl will begin in late
S February. Register before Feb. 20th. For
I more info contact WAGES at 545-0883.
.
4- INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S Event
EVERYWOMAN'S INTERN RECRUIT-
MENT
Everywoman's center is now seeking
interns for all its programs for the Spring
semester. Women interested in develop-
ing skills by working in the
Resource/Referral,/ Educator/Ad-
vocates, Budget, Public Relations/
Outreach, Counseling, Working Women,
Wages or Third World Women's Program
should call Everywoman's Center at
5450883 or stop by for additional informa-
tion.
1985
WOMEN PERFORMERS WANTED
Mimes, singers, musicians, poets, etc.
wanted to participate in a coffeehouse
on March 7, 1985 in honor of Interna-
tional Women's Event. If interested
please contact Elsa at 545-0341 during
the day or at 323-4966 in the evening.
The Counseling Program of the
Everywoman's Center at the University
of Massachusetts is sponsoring a
general women's support group which is
open to all area women. The group will
begin March 4 and meet Monday morn-
ings from ten to twelve for eight weeks
at the Everywoman's Center. The group
is free of charge, confidentiality is
assured and sign up is required. For
more information and to register please
call Everywoman's Center at
(413)-545-0883
| Tuesday, March 5th
! Nikki Giovanni will be speaking on
i "International Women's Day: Past, Pre-
i sent, and Future" Student Union
i Ballroom at 8:00 p.m.
| Thursday March 7th
| There will be two films and a Cof-
■ feehouse "A Vielded Revolution" about
| the women's movement in Egypt.
| "Women in Nicaragua: The Second
X Revolution" about the women's strug-
1 gles in Nicaragua. Campus Center 163 at
i 8:00 p.m.
j
j The Coffeehouse will be in the Bluewall
j at 8:00 p.m, until 1 a.m. Talent is still
i wanted for this event. Please contact
; Elsa Elliot at 413-545-0341 if you are in-
; terested.
j Friday, March 8th
| International Student Association will
; be hosting a dance in honor of Interna-
j tional Women's Day. Campus Center
Auditorium from 9:00 until 1:00 a.m.
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NUMMO NEWS
Tuesday. February 19. 1906
ANNOUNCEMENTS
BLACK HISTORY MONTH 1985
"Yesl Our Minds Are Free" This
month the Augusta Savage Memorial
will open its doors to celebrate 1985's
Black History Month.
The works of Mr. Alan Rohan Crite, Mr.
Tom Feelings, Mr. Paul Goodnight as
well as Mrs. Murice Poplar Lavender and
Ms. Augusta Savage will be exhibited.
During the month the gallery will pre-
sent educational films. Please contact us
at 545-0932 for programming schedules.
We welcome all to join us to rejoice in
our celebration.
DOLL WORKSHOP
As part of our Black History Month
celebration the Augusta Savage
Memorial Gallery will sponsor a Doll
Workshop.
On Tuesday the 19th of Febuary Ms.
Martha Banda and Ms. Leslie Jones will
exhibit their hand made dolls. Their
workshop will begin at 1 p.m. and run
until 4 p.m. Educators are encouraged to
bring their students to view and/or par-
ticipate in this workshop.
For participation registration please
contact Marilyn E. at 545-0932 from 9
a.m. to 12 noon. This workshop is open
to the public.
The Negro Ensemble Company, America's
foremost black theatre, will present its critically ac-
claimed production of "A Soldier's Play" on Satur-
day, February 23, at the University of Massachusetts
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall. Winner of both the
Pulitzer Prize for drama and the New York Critics Cir-
cle Award, Charles Fuller's myster thriller has been
hailed as a triumph in cities throughout America. The
8 p.m. performance is co-sponsored by the New
WORLD Theater and the Fine Arts Center at the
University.
Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, Louisiana, shots ring out in
Wednesday, March 6th
Sofia Painiqueo from Chile will be
speaking on "Mapuche Women's Par-
ticipation in the Mapuche Struggle"
Campus Center Room 101 at 8:00 p.m.
the night and Technical Sergeant Vernon Waters, a
black career Army man, is found dead. In the
suspenseful mystery that follows, special Army in-
vestigator Richard Davenport finds that to unmask the
murderer he will first have to unlock the terrible secret
of the dead man's agonized last words - ''They still
hate you." A compelling whodunnit, the case takes
on a deeper dramatic dimension as it probes a man's
search for dignity amid the tangle of old hate and new
hope confronting World War II America.
Playing to capacity houses in New York for fourteen
months prior to the start of this national tour, "A
SURVIVAL AND VISIONS CON-
FERENCE
A multi-cultural Conference Is being
held on Sunday, March 7 thr March 10 at
the Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire C
ollege. There will be several speakers:
such as Dr. Jonetta Cole. Sonia Nieto,
Beckey Johnson and others who will ad-
dress issues of education, work, health,
and shelter. This conference is fee and
open to the general public; wheelchair
accessible; interpreted for the hearing
impared and translation for English and
Spanish. For more info call Anne Hackler
at 549-5600 ext. 540
CCEBMS ANNOUNCEMENTS
Work-Study positions ar available at
the Northampton Youth Center for 10-15
hours a week. If you are interested in
working with and have experience work-
ing with adolescents, see Carol Young
rm. 213 NAH.
Talent Search for the Third World
Gospel Choir is underway. Credits
available. Sign up in rm. 211 NAH.
Sign up for Bible Study class in rm. 211
NAH.
Soldier's Play" was selected as one of three American
productions to appear in Los Angeles in conjunction
with the 1984 Summer Olympics International Arts
Festivial, after which it was a U.S. representative to
the prestigious Edinburgh International Festival in
Scotland.
Tickets for the February 23 performance are
available at the Fine Arts Center Box Office., at
DATATIX outlets, and at the Springfield Civic Center.
For ticket information, call the Center Box Office at
(413)545-2511. For phone charge reservations, call
1-800-243-4842. Mastercard/Visa accepted.
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Segun C. Eubanks
Marilyn G. Bou
Nina Cordova
Judie Russ
Lisa Viega
David L. Walker
Rod Clare
Ed Cohen
Yvonne Mendez
Christopher Allen
David G. DuBois
Editor In Chief
Managing Editor
Administrative Assistant
Typesetter
Business Manager
Photo Editor
International Reporter
Photographer
Layout
Correspondent
Faculty Advisor
Address all letters to the Editor to: Nummo News, f
New Africa House Room 103
YVONNE'S PLACE
Monday - Friday
12:30 - 6:30 pm
A sample of treats include:
Fried Chicken
Island Curried Fish
Vegitprian Platter
Fried Rice
Curry
Thursday - Friday
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Shrimp
Beef
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Basement of the New Africa House
Friday is Soul Food day.
Coffee and Donuts are served daily.
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Cape Verde Ambassador Visits UMass
Cape Verdean Ambassador Jose Femandes-Lopes (left)
visited the University last week as a guest of the
“A Soldier's Story
by Segun Eubanks
Nummo Staff
In 1 944, America was at War with Germany, Italy, and
Japan. However, for Black soldiers in the U.S. Army the
enemy was much closer to home. The Negro Ensemble
Company's production of "A Soldier's Play," presented
last Saturday at the Fine Arts Center, poi-
ngantly expressed the physical and mental conflicts that
Black soldiers had to endure at that time period.
"They still hate you," were the last agonizing words of
Technical Sergeant Vernon Waters, a Black career army
man. as he is shot dead in the late night hours by an
unknown assailant. Special Army investigator Richard
Davenport, a Black Captain, is as-
signed to the case by white superiors who do not reallly
want the case to cause racial antagonisms, because
two white officers were suspected.
Aside from the investigation, Davenport must deal with
attitudes of white officers who have little respect for his
authority. "Being in charge just doesn't look right for
negroes." said Captain Charles Taylor, a commander of
the unit of all Black soldiers whose biggest assignment
in the Army was to play baseball against white teams.
As Davenport begins to unravel the events leading up
to the murder, through dramatic flashbacks of the
soldiers who were interogated, he finds the inner
dilemma that Sergeant Waters was battling. Through
his fight to maintain dignity and gain respect for Black
Chancellor. Lopes is shown here with Paul Barrows.
Director of CCEBMS (center) and the Ambassador's
assistant.
Expressions of Conflict
soldiers from their white counterparts. Water developed
an extreme hatred of certain Black soldiers whom he
called "lackeys." Soldiers who sung and danced for the
whites, had very little education, or were very naive
were considered by Waters to be a disgrace and an
embarassment to the Black race.
Waters had a particular resentment to one such
soldier. Pvt C.J. Memphis. Waters set up Pvt.
Memphis and had him thrown in the stockade. While in
the stockade Memphis committed suicide. Waters
became very distraught and took to drinking. The night
he was murdered he got in a fight with two white
officers. However, he was killed by two black soldiers
after confessing his deeds concerning Private
Memphis.
The irony of the struggle was pointed out when Captain
Davenport announced that the company, after finally
being sent into battle, was wiped out in a German
invasion.
The production was. to say the least superb. Directed
by Douglas Turner Ward, author of "Day of Absence"
and "Happy Ending" and co-founder of the Negro
Ensemble Company, the play has toured extensively
throughout the country and has won critical acclaim
everywhere. The audience at the Fine Arts Center, easily
got their money's worth for this unforgetable per-
formance. _ , y,
Continued on page 4
by Rod Clare
Nummo Staff
The Honorable Jose Fernandes-Lopes, the Am-
bassador from the Embassy of the Republic of Cape
Verde, visited the UMass campus between February
18-20. Mr. Lopes was invited as a guest of Chancellor
Joseph Duffey to come here and meet with ad-
ministrators and faculty to discuss possibilities for
some type of academic collaboration between UMass
and the Republic of Cape Verde and to meet with
Cape Verdean students here.
Mr. Lopes, educated in Portugal in agricultural
engineering and history and serving as ambassador for
almost 5 years, said that the trip was an enormous
success. He was very impressed with the scope of the
University and left making a commitment to contract
the Minister of Education in Cape Verde to encourage
further academic collaboration with Umass.
The ambassador identified three areas of possible col-
laboration with the University. The first and most im-
portant priority for Cape Verde is the field of manag-
ment. Middle level management positions are needed
to run businesses and agencies in the country. The
other priorities are in seeking training in such areas as
fishery and marine biology and hotel, restaurant and
tourism administration.
Paul Barrows, Director of CCEBMS, who was
responsible for setting up the Ambassador's visit said
the visit was, "A milestone in our efforts to assist
Cape Verde. To my knowledge this is one of the first
ambassadors from an African country to visit UMass. I
think the Ambassador was very much impressed with
the administration, the campus and in particular the
Cape Verdean students he had a chance to interact
with."
NUMMO
HISTORY
CONTEST
Beginning with this issue, NUMMO NEWS will have a
"History question of the week" contest. The person(s)
who respond correctly to the most questions will be
entered in a drawing to win a NUMMO jacket. Good
Luckl
History question of the week:
Who built the first clock in America?
The answer will appear in next weeks NUMMO.
Submit answers by Friday, March 1. 1985 to room 103
New Africa House.
photo by David Walker
NUMMO NEWS
Monday. February 25, 1985
Steering Towards Unity
by Marilyn G. Bou
Nummo Staff
In an effort to upon communication between the
exsisting Third World orginizations at the University of
Massachusetts, The Third World Steering Committee
has requested all organizations to send one or more
representatives to the weekly meetings held in the
Shirley Graham DuBois Library in the New Africa
House.
The Committee also serves as a network for recruit-
ment for the organizations. Efforts to create the com-
mittee first began last summer. Student leaders and
administrators held informal meetings to lay the
ground work for a committee. "An intent of this com-
to share information and support one anothers
effort," said Rick Townes, Academic Advisor for the
Committee for the Education of Blacks and other
Minority Students.
Efforts to create the committee first began last sum-
mer. Student leaders and administrators held informal
meetings today the ground work for a committee. The
goals and objectives of the Committee promotion of
festivities without overlapping of events, promotion
of communication both within the organizations and
the community at large, and coordination of events
with several registered student organizations so that
improvement of social and academic activities may be
incrased. Dominique Harris said, "The Committee is a
way for Third World Student organizations to sit
down and communicate, look at themselves, what
they are doing, where they are going and where they
want to be.
The committee is stirring much excitement within
the community. Richard Harrigan, vice-president of
lota Phi Theta, Inc. said, "The momentum is definitely
on the upswing. The coalition of student and ad-
ministrative leaders working together to achieve suc-
cess in the New World Community at UMass is thrill-
ing. I saw this as a catalyst for other New World
students to become doers instead of dreamers."
The State of Black America
by Rod Clare
Nummo Staff
John Jacobs, the head of the National Urban
League, spoke on the state of Black America last
Thursday at Amherst OoDege. In his message were
tones of hardships, insensitivity, reoancilatian and
most of all, hope for all of America.
Mr. Jacobs said, it is no myth that Blacks have
made significant progress in America during the past
25 yeara He gawa figures that abcxwad that in 1960, 56
peroaitcf Black America were poor while in 1979 cnfy
31 percent were classified as such. However, the
Reagan position that equal opportunity is here far all
so there is no need for affirmative action programs, is
false said Jacobs.
Under President Reagan, Mr. Jacobs said “the level
cf poverty fcr Black America has risen to 36 percent
and threatens to go hitler.'' Mr. Jacobs also said that
while poverty affects Blacks dispiTjpcrbcnatdy, mere
whites are cn welfare than Blacks, so it is just not a
Black problem, it is America’s problem.
In the process cf fighting poverty, Mr. Jacobs fur-
ther panted out that there are seme things that anfy
Blacks can solve fcr themselves. Che is the alarming
rate of Black teenage pregnancy and the need of a
supportive father in such esses. Black children were
also mentxned as problems that Blacks themselves
have to overcome.
Mr. Jacobs stressed the need far America to con-
tinue to live up to its obligations farall cf its citizens .
The issues of peace and poverty in Mr. Jacobs’s
estimate are going to be the agendas around which
BtackB and their white allies will unita Adding that the
Black-white Jewish rift is not as large as it made out to
be. Mr. Jacobs said the Urban League and some
white .liFXviri'i rrgru iLrfdjrm am estranging pmgnTunw in
which they both will participate to show that the ooeli-
tion, though slightly weakened, still exists.
His final topic for the evening was the issue of
divestment firm South Africa Mr. Jacobs stated that
he does not favor total withdrawal, but a stance in
which no mere American companies wrouid go in and
the ocmpanies that are already there would not ex-
pand. America, in his view, needs to be able to in-
fluence South African policies and withdrawal im-
mediately won’t solve the country’s problem. As a last
nefe he warned that U.S. ocmpanies have little time
to enact changes in Scxith Africa or a nx^re militant
leadership than that of Bishop Tutu may arise.
Eyewitness to History Visits UMass
by Christopher Allen
Nummo Correspondent
Author, physician. Dr. Han Suyin, will deliver this years
W.E.B. DuBois Lecture at the University of Mass-
achusetts at Amherst.Her lecture, "China and Africa:
Linkage in the thought of W.E.B. DuBois and Writers of
the Third World," will be on Thurs-
day, Fobruary 28. at 8 p.m. in room 163 of the Campus
Center.
Dr. Han Suyin has written 24 books of fiction, romantic
noves and studies on economics, politics and medical
work in Malaya. Hong Kong and China. Although best
known in the West for her noves made into the movie
"Love is a Many-Splendoured Thing," her major work
has been 5 volumes of autobiographical and historical
writings on China and the Chinese Re-
writings on China and the Chinese Revolution.
In 1938, with China at war. Dr. Suyin returned home,
married an officer in the Chinese Nationalist army and
Cast from "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered students from Mount Holyoke College on February 18
Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf", performed by and 19 photo by Ed Cohen
practiced midwifery in the interior. Her first book,
1 "Destination Chungking," dealt with her experience
during the war.
The W.E.B. DuBois Lecture features a guest of the
Chancellor each year. It will also mark the end of the
Black History Month at the University of
Massachusetts which has the theme this year "The
Struggle for Freedom: The Past Present and Future."
"We are extremely fortunate that Dr. Han is in the
country at this time and able to share with the University
the tremendous esteem with which Dr. DuBois was held
in the -Third World and the tremendous international
influence the he exerted," said University of
Massachusetts Chancellor Joseph Duffey.
She has since earned an international reputation as a
chronicler of China. Bertrand Russell once remarked.
"Anyone who wants to understand China must read Han
Suyin."
Immediately following the lecture on the 28th, Suyin
will be available to sign her latest novel of Impreial
China. "The Enchantress".
Daughter of a Chinese father and Belgian mother. Hen
grew up in Peking and went into medicine et a time
when it was not considered a career for women. She
entered Yenching University and was given a scholar-
ship to complete her premedical studies at the Uni-
versity of Brussels.
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Marilyn G. Bou
Nina Cordova
Judie Russ
Lisa Viega
David L. Walker
Rod Clare
Editor In Chief
Managing Editor
Administrative Assistant
Typesetter
Business Manager
Photo Editor
International Reporter
Contributors
Ed Cohen
Yvonne Mendez
Christopher Allen
David G. DuBois
Photographer
Layout
Correspondent
Faculty Advisor
Address all letters to the Editor to: Nummo News,
New Africa House Room 103
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EDITORIAL EDITORIAL
Letter to the Editor
A note on the Graduate Fair
Heed well the words of of Herbert Spencer, "There
is a principle which is a bar against all information,
which is proof against all arguments and which cannot
fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance: that princi-
ple is contempt prior to investigation.” This principle
by Herbert Spencer, is one of eight standard rules of a
student, edified not only to myself but to all students
within the Department of Pan-African Culture at Kent
State University by Chief Fela Sowande of Nigeria
during the turbulent years of the late sixties and early
seventies. This recollection is for you the reader who
may have missed the Minority Graduate Student
Association's Graduation Fair on February 14th at the
Hampden Student Center, simply because he or she
was "pre/post” occupied with the idea that the fair
was inept and served no purpose.
Although, professional recruiters from the par-
ticipating intitutions (except State University of New
Letter to the Editor
The Student Government Association (SGA)
Treasurer, John Mooradian is in the movement of try-
ing to end Registered Student Organization (RSO)
groups. Mr. Mooradian said at the SGA coordinating
committee meeting on Friday February 22, 1985 that
"We don't have to fund RSO groups.”
I talked to Mr. Mooradian about what he meant by
his words. Mr. Mooradian answered my question by
saying, "RSO's are groups whom are not part of the
senate.” This means only fourteen groups out of the
fifty groups would be getting money from the SGA
Budget committee. These fourteen groups are:
Academic Affairs,
Attorney General Office
Committee Public Policy
Economic Development Office
Finance/Budgets
Government Affairs
President's Office
Senate Governing Board
Senate Operation
Senate Rents and Fees
SCERA
SGA Payroll
SGA Affirmative Action Office
SGA Communication Office
These fourteen groups budget is even bigger than
the other 46 student group (the RSO's) budget. For
example, Scera's budget last year was $88,248.50;
Scera requested a $102,000 budqet. Senate opera-
tions budget was $65,484.24, President's Office
York), did not attend, some of the graduate students
who particpated as recruiters attended the schools as
undergraduates and/or as graduates. Others looked at
the information provided by the participating graduate
school one or two weeks prior to the fair in order to
familiarize themselves with that institution. However,
all the recruiters at one time or another took the
obligatory steps necessary to get into graduate
school, one of which is to graduate with a Bachelor's
Degree'
For a people, especially young people who are sup-
posedly conscious not only of race but have a cons-
cience of all oppressive measures within/without the
Third World community you cannot remain naive or
acquiescent and expect to survive in an educational
arena that is not just.
Paulo Freire, a visitor to this campus (try not to miss
him), has written in his Pedagogy of the Oppressed,
There is no such thing as a neutral education process.
R.S.O. Funding in Jeopardy?
$20,039.20 and Academic Affairs $22,117.54. Most of
the money for these senate RSO groups are payroll.
Furthermore, these people didn't even do their jobs
right because if they did we wouldn't be in the trouble
we are today! Do you know whom you should blame?
I'll tell you whom, the SGA Treasurer John Mooradian
and his buddy Chris Sullivan the SGA speaker.
John Mooradian also told me, we the SGA senate
and the Budget committee should fund the SCERA
coordinator of Anti-Opression. This position has been
vacant for six months now and the cost of the position
is $14,000.00. I personally disagree with Mr. Moora-
dian because we don't have the money to found this
particular position. Mr. Mooradian said to me, in the
SGA Constitution article 1, part G, "Developing and
implementing methods of exposing and combatting
human oppression,” gives grounds to fund this posi-
tion.
I think we should not fund this position because we
have other groups whom are doing the same human
oppression work on campus. We don't have the
money to give to SCERA for this vacant position.
Also, in the SGA constitution it doesn't say we (the
senate) should fund the SCERA coordinator of anti-
oppression. As you can see, Mr. Mooridian is just giv-
ing us his "B.S.”
Therefore J am asking the rest of the UMass SGA
Senate to join me and the budget committee to vote
down the motion of funding the SCERA vacant posi-
tion. What Mooridian fails to consider are the needs of
the students. For the price of one SCERA professional
EDITORIAL
Education either functions as an instrument which is
used to facilitate the integration of the younger
generation into the logic of the present system and br-
ing about conformity to it, or it becomes "the practice
of freedom," the means by which men and women
deal critically and creatively with reality and discover
how to participate in the transformation for this
world.” If the Third World undergraduate community
is to have a hand in the transformation and restructur-
ing of education then they must prepare diligently, ef-
ficiently, effectively and in concert with one another
to be successful.
The Minority Graduate Fair is just a beginning by
Third World graduate students to communicate with
their younger brothers and sisters and it won't be the
last. So the next time "JOE SMOE" puts on a show,
you come.
Curtis L. Pittman
at $14,000, Third World students can recieve the
social support, benefits and programs of all of the
following organizations:
African Students Association
American Indian Student Association
Black Mass Communications Project
Cape Verdean Student Alliance
Concepto Latino
Korean Student Association
If the SGA Treasurer's policy is put into action, all
of the groups above would be cut and slashed to zero'
NUMMO NEWS, the only minority newspaper on
campus, would be chopped along with the other
RSO's. That's right, the paper you are now reading
would be history.
It is important to say that Mooridian doesn't want to
cut just Third World groups, but all groups that are
not part of the Senate.
If you do not want to see our RSO's die, then do
something about it. You can: 1) come to the Third
World Caucus meeting at 6:00 p.m. in the Dukes room
of the Student Union. 2) Come to the Student Senate
meeting this Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. in the Campus
Center. 3) Talk to your own dorm senator and tell
them how you fell. 4) If you really want to help, leave a
note in the Budget's mailbox in the Senate office, 4th
fir. SUB.
SGA Assistant Budget Chair and Student Senator
Michael Oduru
WE BUILT THE PYRAMIDS
by Chris Williams
Nummo Staff
Many myths still exsist about African people and thier
history. One of these myths is that the Ancient Africans,
now reffered to as Egyptians, did not build the pyramids.
Instead, many claim that they were built by various
outsiders like the Biblical Hebrews or more conviently
by the Arabs from Western Asia. The purpose of this
article is to show that neither of these two groups had
any role in the construction of the pyramids in Egypt.
According to popular belief, the pyramidswere buiit by
the Hebrews of The Old Testament while they were
enslaved in Egypt. First of all, the pryamids were
completed by the XIII dynastic period before Joseph
had even entered Egypt. The first pryamid that was built
in Egypt was the Step Pyramid of Sakara in the III
dynasty. It was built by an Ancient Egyptian multi-
genius called Imhotep, who is the real father of
medicine. Imhotep was also the Prime Minister to King
Zoser, and it is from him that we get the saying, "Eat,
drink and be merry for tomorrow we die." It should also
be noted that when the Egyptians built their pyramids
they always used Imhotep's method of using steps to
outline the basic structure of the pyramid. The most well
known of all the pyramids is the largest of the Great
Pyramids at Giza that was built during the IV dynesty.
This giant pyramid, which was designed by an African
named Cheops, is 451 feet high, has 2,500.000 blocks
of granite, each weighing 2.5 tons and it took 100,000
laborers thirty years to build it.
Abraham, who is supposed to be the first of the Biblical
Hebrews, was bom in Ur in Western Asia sometime
during Egypt's XIII dynasty. Many people believe that
the Hebrews were enslaved in Egypt and it was during
their enslavement that they built the pyramids. If indeed
this enslavement did take place (there is no historical
proof of this), the Hebrews were not enslaved by the
Egyptians during this period, which was the XIV to XV
dynasty, because the Egyptians were under foriegn rule.
This means that if the Hebrews were enslaved in Egypt,
they were not enslaved by the Egyptians. Besides, how
could the Hebrews buiid pyramids in the XIV and XV
dynasties when all pyramid construction ended in the
XI 1 1 dynasty? Joseph had not even entered Egypt as yet,
and when he did. and subsequently his family, the
pyramids were already built.
Furthermore, nowhere in the Old Testament is it
mentioned that the Hebrews built the pyramids. The
book of Exodus describes what the Hebrews did in the
following passage: "So the Egyptians pot slave-drivers
over them to crush their spirit with hard labor. The
Isrealites built the cities of Pithom and Rameses to
serve as supply centers for the king.” - Exodus l.ll
Today's English Version.
The next group that is given credit for building the
pyramids are the Arabs from Western Asia. The Arabs
had nothing to do with the construction of the pyramids,
because they did not enter Africa in any large numbers
until 639 A.D., thousands of years after the pyramids
were built. B**ides. when the Arabs entered Africa in
Continued on page 4
nummo news
Monday. Febuary 25, 1985
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Pyramids
Continued from page 3
the seventh century they ceme es colonizers end
enslevers ot Africe end its people. Meny of the tombs
end temples in Egypt were destroyed by the Arebs.
These Arebs hed no respect for Egyptien religions, in
spite of the feet thet the so-celled - Western’ religions of
Judaism Christianity end Islem evolved out of the
Egyptien Mystery System. Reeders who ere interested
in pursuing this subject should consult the following
books: "Mon, God end Civilization" by John G.
Jackson, "The Egyptian Book of the Dead", translated
by E.A. Wallis Budge, and "African Origins of the Major
'Western Religions'", by Yosef ben-Jochannan.
This discussion would not be complete without
discussing the reason why most people believe that
Africans did not build the pyramids. The answer is quite
simple, the need to believe in white supremacy. In order
for white supremacy to exsist. white supremists have to
use all of their resources to show that Africans did not
build pyramids. The very idea of Africans building these
gigantic monuments debunks the idea of white su-
premacy. After all. Africans were supposed to be in the
deep, dark jungles of Africa waiting for so-called
"Christian" Europe to bring them the "blessings' of
Chrisianity and the "fruits" of Western Civilization.
With the evidence presented in this article I hope that
one would think twice before saying any outsiders of
Africa built the pyramids, specifically the Biblical
Hebrews and the Arabs
★ Announcements
soldier’s story Continued from page 1
I believe that the play was a brilliant portrayal of the
inner struggles that black soldiers had to suffer,
particularly those who held rank, such as Sergeant
Waters, Captain Davenport and Corporal Cobb, whose
minds were caught in between dedication to tha Army
and commitment to the struggle of Black men to gain
equal treatment.
One black viewer did however, question the content of
the play, saying that he was not very comfortable
viewing such themes in front of a mixed audience.
"There are some things we do not want our oppressors
to know abo ut us," said the observer. However, a vast
majority of the audience thoroughly enjoyed the ex-
cellent performance. We look forward to the re-
appearance of the Negro Ensemble Company in the
Valley again very soon.
TONIGHT
Poet and author, Maya Angelou will present, "An
Evening with Maya Angelou" as part of Black History
Month tonight at 8:00 pm in Bowker Auditorium.
★ Announcements ★ Announcements*
FINANCIAL AID DEADLINE
The Financial Aid deadline for the 1985-86
academic year is March 1, 1985. All
Financial Aid Forms must be sent to the
College Scholarship Service by the
above date to receive priority funding for
the next academic year.
Any questions can be referred to the
Financial Aid Office, 243 Whitmore Hall.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
AASA
The Asian American Students Associa-
tion (AASA) of the University of
Massachusetts would like to wish
everyone a Happy New Year. According
to the Lunar Calender, Wednesday, Feb.
20, 1985 began the year 4683.
A COURSE IN SPANISH LANGUAGE
AND LATINO CULTURE
A community based group invites you
to participate in learning or improving
skills in the Spanish language.
The learning process will include infor-
mal discussions with members of the
Latino community, films, field trips, and
cultural events.
Language instruction will be offered in
the context of understanding issues con-
cerning the Latino community and its
connection with the strugggle of other
Latin American peoples. All language
levels welcome. Initial meeting will be
on Monday, March 4th at 58 Pleasant
St., Northampton beginning at 6:30 p.m.
This eight-week series will meet on
Monday and Wednesday evenings.
For more information call Paige
Bridgens at 586-3223 (or in the Northamp-
ton phone book under A. Halstead),
OPEN HOUSE
The Anacoana Center
promoting, educating and supporting
cultural and ethnic diversity, will spon-
sor an Open House on Wednesday, Feb.
27 at 7:00. The center is located in the
basement of Dwight House. The pur-
pose of this Open House is to inform
more students of the center's existence
and it's resources. In conjunction with
Black History Month, The Anacoana
Center will show two historical black
films during the Open House.
THE ANNUAL W.E.B. DUBOIS LECTURE
Han Suyin, physician. Historian and
author of five volumes of
autobiographical and historial writings
on China, including The Crippled Tree,
Birdless Summer, A Mortal Flower, and a
newly-released novel. The Enchantress, will
speak on:
''China and Africa: Linkage in the
Thoughts of W.E.B. Dubios and Writers of
the Third World" on Thursday, February 28,
1985, at 8 p.m. Room 163, Campus Center.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst. A
book-signing reception will follow.
The Black Student's Alliance of Smith Col-
lege will present the Tribute to Black
Womanhood Award to:
MS. BETTY SHABAZZ
Wife of the late Malcolm X, Thursday
February 28 at 8:00 pm at the Neilson Brows-
ing Room - Library, Smith College. A recep
tion will lollow.
THIRD WORLD CAUCUS
The Third World Caucus is the main
legislative body that represents the Third
World community in the Undergraduate
Senate at UMass. This representation
helps to insure diversity by promoting
Third World student interest and unity.
The Third World Caucus came into ex-
istence in the late 1960's in response to
the struggle waged by Third World
students to correct the exclusionary
practices of the UMass Undergraduate
Student Senate.
The Caucus serves as the governing
board of the Office of Third World Af-
fairs. It maintains communication with
Third World organizations and assists
them with their organizational goals. For
more information, please pay us a visit
at the Office of Third World Affairs, 308
Student Union Building, 5-2544.
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"THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD"
The New WORLD Theater at the Univer-
sity of Massachusetts at Amherst will
present The Dance and the Railroad, a
play by David Henry Hwang, on March 7,
8, and 9, at 8 p.m. in the Hampden
Theater on the University campus. In
conjunction with the play, martial artist
Richard Cesario will present a free
workshop entitled "Introduction to
Chinese Martial Arts (Wu Shu)" at 2 p.m.
on Saturday, March 9, at Emily Dickin-
son Hall on the Hampshire College cam-
pus. The workshop is open to the public.
Tickets for the three performances of
The Dance and the Railroad may be
reserved in advanced at the Fine Arts
Center Box Office by calling 545-2511 or
may be purchased at the door the night
of each performance. Ticket prices are
$4 for the general public and $2 for
students.
UMMO
Volume 13 Issue 15
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For too long in the past news of concern and
interest to the
Third World community has been ignored, extorted,
or delegated to the back pages of area newspapers.
Thus Third World students have had little forum to
express their concerns . interests and ideas. The
valley community at large have also been deprived
of reading about news that exists in the Third World
community in the valley, the nation and abroad.
To alter this situation. NUMMO NEWS has
provided the printed news of. by and about Third
World people. Filling in this void has accomplished
three major goals. First, is that when the community
wants to learn about what it means to be a Third
World student, they refer to NUMMO NEWS. We
feel that this has proved to be educational to people
that would otherwise remain ignorant of three
fourths of the world's population.
Second. the paper has been
Second, the paper has been a practical training
ground for people who want to join the field of
journalism, business management, graphics and
layout. This is an invaluable aspect of the
newspaper.
Finally. NUMMO is the largest weekly Third World
newspaper in New England. This, we feel, is not
only a credit to a consistent, determined and hard
working staff, but also to the University as a whole.
We plan to continue printing NUMMO on a weekly
basis so as to continue informing the valley about
Third World people.
Legend in Her Time:
Maya Angelou Visits U.M.
by Marilyn G. Bou
Nummo Staff
Maya Angelou, a poet, song and playwrite,
dancer, choreographer and speaker fluent in Eng-
lish, Spanish, German and Freeh, has indeed become
a legend in her own time.
"I am truly delighted to be here in this city of
UMass/Amharst," said Angelou in the opening of
her speech on Monday, February 25 at Bowker
Auditorium.
Angelou, who wp^ invited to speak as part of the
Black History Month celebration, focused on Black
poetry and the importance of Black literature. "The
writings of my people have so seldom been ap-
preciated, yet their exsistence symbolizes the love
which must be credited for the survival of a human
species," she said. Black writings have, throughout
history, been ignored by many, according to
Angelou. However those who have not educated
themselves, have denied themselves.
Among the writers Angelou quoted were Gordon
Parks, Countie Evans. Nikki Giovanni, Mari Evans,
James Walden Johnson, along with an assortment
of African proverbs. Angelou also sang excerpts from
"Take Time Out", a song she wrote which was
recorded by Roberta Flack. She reminded the au-
dience that life and love are precious gifts.saying,
"Take a moment for youselves, for without selflove
one cannot provide love for another."
Speaking on women Angelou pointed out that they
can be their own worst enemy. "Women should
challenge themselves to be the best in whatever
roles they are fulfilling at any particular time,
fulfilling at any particular time."
"I encourage you to LEARN," was Angelou's
message to the scholars in the audience, adding,
“All knowledge is expandable depending upon the
market." She also encouraged everyone to take
advantage of libraries.
In closing, Angelou told the audience,"Black
poetry, keep it alive." Her inspiring and educational
speech was rewarded with a standing ovation which
lasted well over three minutes.
Due to technical difficulties. NUMMO NEWS did not
appear until this issue of the COLLEGAIN. Our
normal distribution is on Monday. We apologize for
any inconvience to our readers.
Historical Links:
by Christopher Allen
Nummo Correspondent
Hundreds of people gathered last Thursday night to
I hear Chinese author and historian. Dr. Han Suyin
I deliver this years W.E.B. DuBois Lecture at the
Campus Center of the University of Massachusetts.
Her presentation was entitled "China and Africa:
Linkage in the thought of W.E.B. DuBois and writers
of the Third World". Africa has recieved great
feelings from China, said Dr. Suyin. "owing to the
common history of violence."
As cameramen moved from wall to wall in the
packed room and reporters took notes. Dr. Suyin
spoke to the crowd of the close links between China
and Africa and the links between Dr. DuBois and the
people of China. Following a film that was shown on
Dr. Dubois' visit to China for his 91st birthday. Dr.
Suyin spoke of the significance of the Dubois visit
and the pride she and the people of China had for
him. This (tribute paid to DuBois at UMass) is what
DuBois wanted," said Suyin.
Dr. Suyin went on to say that what is happening in
UMass (cultural events and intellectual exchange) is
going to be a fruitful beginning. She added, "If the
youth of today will only help each other, then one
day they would be able to take over this world." In
conclusion. Dr. Suyin cautioned in a whispered tone,
"When you drink from the water do not forget the
man who dug the well."
Continued on page 2
NUMMO NEWS
Wednesday, March 6, 1984
page 2
AND STILL... THE STRUGGLE
The Rededication of the Malcolm X Center
Twenty years have passed since Malcolm 'X', El Ha-
jj Malik El Shabazz was assassinated and still the
struggle for equality among people of color continues.
The annual rededication of the Malcolm "X" Center
here at UMass/Amherst featured as keynote speaker,
Ms. Betty Shabazz, Malcolm's widow. In keeping
with her husband's nonseparatist way of thinking
Shabazz said, "We must not get bogged down with
the system, we must however continue to realize that
our stregnth comes in numbers and we should max-
imize that power." She continued, "One snowflake
may not make the difference but many however, will
prevent an airplane from taking off. Shabazz said,
"We must continue to support equality all members of
the human race."
Malcolm was an inspirational leader for the Black
peoples of this country, with his most powerful
weapon being his gift of truth by word of mouth. An
example of the struggle still revelant today is the un-
tollerable regime which exists in South Africa. She
said, "We in this country must continue to dismantle
aparthied."
The "X" here at the university symbolizes both a
social gathering place as well as providing study space
for many students of color. Shabazz said, "Young
Another look at the
by Segun Eubanks
Nummo Staff
The following are excerpts from the presentation
and interview of the Cape Verdean Ambassador,
Jose Fernandes-Lopes.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
"I am impressed with the University's faculty and
facilities. We have a very positive attitude toward the
University of Massachusetts and we are looking
forward to working an exchange system for the
students of Cape Verde."
HIGHER EDUCATION IN CAPE VERDE
We received our independence ten years ago. We
didn't inherit any scholastic facilities from the
Portuguese government. Thus, we must send our
students to countries such as the United States,
Portugal, Brazil and many other countries."
"These students come to the recipient countries to
gain the higher education which the institutions
offer. Those students which have received gov-
ernment support will study abroad with the vehicle
to return to Cape Verde to practice their skills.
"The students are encouraged to study Agriculture,
Medicine, Law and Management. We hope to
develop our own system of Management, both
political and social."
TOURISM VS. CULTURE
This depends on the policy which the country sets
up. Cape Verde has avoided dealing with large
industries which have only financial interest. We
extend a welcome to private businesses with special
interest in our country, for example the Ocean-
ographers."
THE DRAUGHT
We had heavy rain in the winter months of
December and January. Thus we are able to produce
beans and vegatables. However our largest cereal
crop suffered a total loss.
"The F.A.O. which is a national organization to
assess the draught conditions in the world is helping
us recover.
HUNGER
We really don't have that problem (hunger) in our
country. There ar no relief programs with other
people today must realize that education is the most
effective means by which to overcome any present
and future struggles, not only in this country but those
of our brothers and sisters throughout the world."
photo by Ed Cohen
countries. We have programs to assist the elderly
and the poor very similar to your own (The United
States) Welfare program.
MESSAGE TO CAPE VERDEANS IN AMERICA
"I believe that the Cape Verdeans which are
citizens in the United States should always re-
member where they are from. I say to you this; do not
discard your culture and let your heretity become
just a folk reference. Keep you history and be proud
of your background. I believe this will strenghen you
as a person and as an American.
"For those returning to Cape Verde, we wish you to
educate our people and use your knowledge to make
ua a strong, self sufficient country.
"I am impressed with the University's faculty and
facilities," said Cape Verdian Ambassador to the
U.S. Jose Fernandes-Lopes during his recent visit to
the University to investigate possible academic
collaboration between UMass and the Cape Verde
Islands. However, while the Ambassador was
impressed with UMass, he also left his impression
on a number of Cape Verdean students here, whom
he met with at the New Africa House. NUMMO
NEWS talked to two such students to get their
reaction to the Ambassadors visit and how it af-
fected the newlyformed Cape Verdean Student's
Alliance. Sidonio Ferriera, a junior Mechanical
Suyitl Continued from page 1
Dr. Suyin has written 24 books of fiction, romantic
novel and studies on economics, however, she has
become best known for her historical writing on
China and the Chinese Revolution.
The W.E.B. DuBois Lecture features a guest
speaker each year, this years lecture marking the
end of Black History Month. The event was co-
sponsored by the Afro-American Studies Depart-
ment and the Chancellor's Office.
MULTI CULTURAL STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST SPRING
1985 1. African Stuants Association 2. Afrik-Am (Afro-
Amarican Students Society) 3. AHORA 4. American
Studants Association (A ISA) 5. Asian American Students
Association (AASA) 6. Black Mass Communication
Project (BMCP) 7. Cape Verdian Association 8. DRUM
Magazine 9. International Student Association 10.
Korean Students AssociationsfKSA) 1 1 NUMMO NEWS
12. Office of Third World Affairs fOTWA) 13. Third World
Caucus (TWC) 14. New World Theater Series 15.
Vietnamese Student Association fVSA) 16. UHURU
(Multi-cultural student performing arts group) 17
Armenian Student Association 1 8. National Society of
. Black Engine errs (NSBE) 19. Third- World Scientist
j Society 20. Martin Luther King Week Planning Committee
21. Black History Month Planning Committee 22.
J International Womens Event Planning Committee 23.
Engineering Major and Rui Pereira a sophmore Civil
Engineering Major seem to have their hands full with
academics but this does not stop them from being
involved in the community; they are the Co-
Chairman andPresident, respectively, of the Cape
Verdean Student's Alliance.
The Ambassador's presentation was "very
informative," said Ferriera, giving an idea of "what
Cape Verde has to offer to students here. What to
expect politically from Cape Verde when you visit,'
he said. When asked if the Ambassador sparked
interest in the possibility of going back to Cape
Verde, Pereira responded, "I had the idea of going
back, but with his visit I have reinforced my thoughts
about going."
The Ambassador stressed the importance of Cape
Verdean and other minority students, working hard
for good grades to prove societal stereotypes wrong,
said both Pereira and Ferreira. "Cape Verdeans are
always taught to be hard working people here at
UMass we must continue that tradition "Pereira
added.
Both young men agreed that the Ambassadors visit
affected the rule of
the Cape Verdean Alliance and reinforced their long
term goal of building alliances with other Cape
Verdeans in the area. "A main goal (of the Alliance)
is to have a conference to educate people about
Cape Verde, where they come from and who they
are," said Pereira. On the question of certain forms
On the question of cretain forms of disunity that
exists between some Cape Verdeans and Black
Americans, Rui Pereira and Sidonio Ferreira see their
role as trying "to educate both sides to see that we
are all brothers and sisters, all Africans." Indicating
that in Cape Verde there is very little distinction in
shades of color, both men said that it is not a
question of how you label yourself. "We do not
consider ourselves as white or black but as
Africans."
As a last satatemaent, both Sidonio and Rui asked
that stereotypes be dismissed. They remarked,
"Don't try to judge one Cape Verdean. There are
always some Cape Verdeans or Blacks who don't
want to associate with people. We invite all people
to come to our meetings, not just Cape Verdeans, to
check us out and see what we are all about.”
Mutually Impressed
important visit of Cape Verde Ambassador
Wednesday, March 6, 1986
NUMMO NEWS
page 3
NUMMO HISTORY CONTEST
AFRICA - Lost
Who built the first clock in America?
BENJAMIN BANNEKER Benjamin Banneker's
mechanical inventiveness led him, in 1761, to
construct the first clock made in America— a wooden
"striking" clock so accurate that it kept perfect time
and struck each hour unfailingly for more than 20
years.
Born in Ellicott, Maryland of a free mother and slave
father, who ultimately purchased his own freedom,
Banneker himself was considered free and thus able
to attend an integrated private school, where he
secured the equivalent of an eight-grade education.
His aptitude in mathematics and knowledge of
astronomy enabled him to predict the solar eclipse
of 1 789. Within a few years, he began publishing an
almanac which contained tide tables, data on future
eclipses, and a listing of useful medicinal products
and formulas. This almanac was the first scientific
book written by a black American, and it appeared
anually for more than a decade. Banneker's major
reputation, however, stems for his service as a
suveyor on the six-man team which help lay out the
blueprint for Washignton, D.C. When the chairman
of the committe. Major L' Enfan abruptly resigned
and return to France with his plans, Banneker's
prcise memory enabled him to reproduce the plans
in their entirety.
This week ’ s question
1,1 HC.
Benjamin Ban-inker's
Pennsylvania, Duuv.of, Mary-
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YEAR of our LORD j 795 ;
Being the Third after Leap-Year.
Continent?
by Rod Clare
Nummo Staff
It [Africa] will become a lost continent,”
forewarned C. Payne Lucas, unless it recieves help in
the long run. Long run development, not just short
term aid, was what Mr. Lucas stressed in his spech to
a mostly white audience at Amherst College last Tues-
day.
In his lecture, "A Call to Action on the African-
Crisis,” Mr. Payne, founder and executive director of
Africare, a rural help program, said that his priority is
to save lives but that "Africa needs a Marshall Plan."
Citing various problems that the continent faces, Mr.
Payne noted examples such as: the avarage income
for an African is about $200 a year, that people freeze
at night because they have no blankets, that a country
like Senegal loses about 300,000 hectacres of forest
per year, and that fs mers have little incentive to plant
food because they make no profit.
Mr. Payne said that the conflict cuts across lines
[racial, ethnic, religous, etc.J and the care that the
American people showed towards the famine victims
backs up his piont. He added though that since deaths
have decreased, news about the famine has been cut
back even Ethiopia is being ignored by the press.
The continent has great potential, said Mr. Payne
stressing that Africans have to help Africa and other
Africans because there are about 5 million refugees
over the whole continent. People are also moving into
urban areas for the type of life it offers so Mr. Payne
suggested that the rural areas would have to be made
more enticing to attract people back.
America's foreign policy also concerned Mr. Payne
because of the billions of dollars that go for military as
opposed to economic aid. He commended Amherst
College for being so concerned about Africa but sug-
gested that they go still furhter and "adopt a village"
in the sense that all the money thast Amherst raises
for Africa goes to one particular village. He also
recommended this for U.S. campus. In a final note,
he made a call for America to help Africa like it did
Europe.
Excerpts
QUESTION: What black Amherst Col-
lege graduate discovered blood plasma
and invented the Blood Bank? HINT: He
died from loss of blood after not being
admitted to a white-only hospital.
NUMMO NEWS will hav« •
"History qusstion of ths wash" contest. The parsonja)
who respond correctly to the moot questions will be
entered in a drawing to win a NUMMO jacket. Good
Luckl
The answer will appear in next weeks NUMMO.
Submit anewere by Friday, March 1. 1986 to room 103
New Africa House.
Missed the 'Perfect Beat'
If you experienced D.J. Africa Bambatta at the
S.U.B. on Friday March 1 st 1 985 from 9pm- 1 am you
were definitely a victim of an overpriced event which
produced little if any excitement. The Africa
Bambatta who appeared at the Fine Arts Center
spring semester of 1 983 was nothing like the Africa-
Bambatta that appeared here on Friday night.
There was a very poor attendance (approx 100
person including 20 or so who worked on security)
partially due to the price ($7.00) and not much
excitement due to the fact that Mr. Bambatta only
played his music for no more than an hour, and did
not once address the small crowd of Friday noght
victims. The BMCP D.J.'s played music longer and
better, and honestly, I feel anyone could’ve done a
descent job - because Mr. Bambatta could not find
the "perfect beat' ll
-Richard Harrigan
D.J. AFRICA BAMBATTA AT THE S.U.B.
Continued from page 6
...Jorge and I are back on the reservation. We were
very lucky-no permenent demage. We re scared a
lot, but we’re not the saame people we were when
we lived here before. V a learned a lot during th^
Allende years, and we understand our mistakes, too.
We will not be defeated again. For now we do wha*
we must.
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Editor In Chief
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Managing Editor
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Administrative Assistant
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International Reporter
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David G. DuBois
Faculty Advisor
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NUMMO NEWS
WadnMday. March 8. 1986
EDITORIAL EDITORIAL EDITORIAL
NUMMO EDITORIAL:
Have the Civil Rights of Yvette Henry, a black
resident assistant charged with one of the fires that
plagued Crampton dormitory in the fall of 1983,
been violated? Very possibly, says a report by the
Committee on the Status of Minorities, which has
yet to be publicity released by the Faculty Senate
Rules Committee. Since the Thursday, February 1 4,
1985 issue, the collegian has printed a number of
articles and editorials, including a full reprint of the
actual report, in an effort to inform the University
community and persuade the Faculty Senate Rules
Committee to release the report to the public.
NUMMO NEWS gives its whole hearted support and
joins the Collegian in the demand to release the
report, which all students, have a right to see. We
would like to commend the Collegian for meeting
their journalistic responsibility and even going
beyond that by supporting both the Civil and First
Ammendment rights of all students. The Faculty
Senate, by not releasing the report, is supporting the
same institutional racism that victimized Yvette
Henry. We, as a student community, must not let
what happened to Ms. Henry be repeated in the
future. The release of this support is vital to the
struggle to maintain the civility and diversity that
represented (but has not reflected) the ideas of our
University. We would, however, take issue * a
statement made by Rita Murphy (Wednesday Feo,
27. 1985) in her editorial titled "Doesn't anyone
care?" in which she states, "It seems the Collegian is
the only group displaying dismay at the behavior of
the administration and Faculty Senate in not
releasing a report..." While it is true that NUMMO
has not displayed "dismay" (Frankly, we are not at all
surprised with the conduct of administration
officials who have been supressing vital information
from students for years, the South African related
University investments as one example), NUMMO
and many other Third World Organizations have
questioned and challenged the University's actions
since the onset of the Yvette Henry arrest. NUMMO
published a number of articles and editorials (Dec. 5,
1 983, Dec. 1 2,1 983 and Feb. 6, 1 984) raising some
of the same questions brought out by the report. We
talked to the Black administrators who were
"present and involved" and we also talked to Yvette
Henry. Mrs. Henry (Yvette s mother), representatives
from the Legal Services Office, reporters from the
Philadelphia Inquirer.Boston Globe, Springfield
Daily News and others. It became clear to us that
racism and civil rights violations played a role in the
Henry case long before the Status of Minorities
report stated that possibility. At the same time the
Collegian did not find it necessary to do the same
investigative reporting, instead hiding behind so-
called "journalistic etiquette". It must be pointed
out that this year's Collegian staff is almost totally
different and has made up for last year’s inadequacy
with excellent, timely investigative reporting. Also,
Rita Murphy has proven to be a fair, responsible
journalist and we believe her statement to be and
over-sight,nothing else. Once again we commend
the Collegian's efforts and join with them in their
demand to Faculty Senate. We, as students, faculty
and staff have the right to know the facts.
Suppression of such vital information contradicts
the basic precepts of democracy and perpetuates
the poison of racism that has infested our society for
far too many years.
All unsigned editorials reflect the opinion of a
majority of the NUMMO staff.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Student Government Co-Presidential candidates
Kim Hackett and Micheal Sceratto had a scheduled
meeting with the Third World Steering Committee
on Thursday, February 28, to exchange platforms
and discuss the role of Third World issues in the
campaign. The candidates failed to appear at the
scheduled time and place. This letter reflects the
Third World Steering Committee's reaction.
No apology, nor any words, can change the fact.
Your failure to attend the Third World Steering
Committee meeting was an insult. It reflects your
racism and arrogance in relating to Third World
people. It was incorrect; you are wrong, you should
have been there.
If a Rightwing coalition had invited you to their
meeting, you would have made it. You would have
been on time and you would have stayed as long as
they wanted you to. You would have courted their
endorsement.
The arrogant way in which you just chose not to
show up, after communicating to our representative
that you would, tells us that yo don't really care about
our vote. If you were not going to come than you
should have sent word in advance.
The Third World Steering Committee has a
message for you, any other CoPresidency cand-
idates and all of the students in the S.G.A. who think
of themselves as the 'WhiteRight'. The message is
this: The Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native American
and all other people of color, are part of the American
Mainstream. The Rainbow Coalition is here to stay.
We pay the Student Activities Trust Fund tax and we
will have a say about how the whole pie gets spent.
The arrogance and insensitivity you have dem-
onstrated suggests you may not be fit to be Co-
Presidents. You obviously don't care enough about
ALL of the students on campus. You obviously have
chosen to write off the Third World vote. That is
quite unfortunate.
In expressing ourselves by writing this letter we
the Third World Steering Committee, want you tc
know about our indignation and disgust. As stated
previously, there are no words which you might say
that can reduce the ndignation all members of the
Committee felt when you tailed to appear at our
Thursday metting as scheduled.
In the upcoming elections for Student Government
officers, our voice will be heard. The fact that you
chose to insult us just means that you can count on
us not supporting your ticket.
In fact as a gesture to prove you are not racist, as
your behavior indicates, you ought to withdraw from
the race and get behind the ticket we will be
supporting.
Racism is a very peculiar institution. It has been
around in our country since the white men arrived.
From the days when genocide was perpetuated
against the Navajos and other Native Americans, up
through the cruel Middle Passage and slavery and on
through to today, some Americans have thought
they had something over other groups, just because
they have no complexion. You must understand that
the way in which you behaved is an example of the
'80 s' style of racism.
THE THIRD WORLD STEERING COMMITTEE
SHAME SHAME SHAME
by Christopher Williams
Nummo Staff
Editor s Note :
The following is being re-run due
to popular demand
Shame, shame, shame on you. Yes, you the so-
called "Black” students of the Five College area,
especially those of the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, for not attending the numerous events plan-
ned for Black History Month. Where were you? Please
don t tell me studying. Studying only takes up so
much of your time. Besides, any truely concerned
African student would have made the time by arrang-
not you, your too "good" for that.
However, many have time to gossip. Many more
have lots of time to make endless excursions to the
Hampshire Mall to insure that Africans in America
maintain their high levels of consumption and non-
ing to atteno at least a few of the many events, but
su e enough some of us are truely dumb; some are
deaf and blind too. However, the blame is not all on
you, after all we have all been programmed to self-
destruct.
Many of those who are in positions of so-called
"leadership" also failed to attend many of these
events. This is surely a tragedy, because the future of
the race and the world is in your hands. Well, if you
don't change your thinking and behavior, and soon
too, we are all surely doomed.
Those "Black" students who did not attend any of
these events because of indifference or laziness are
guilty of treason for not paying respect to their
deceased and living Africans who fought and are still
fighting for their liberation. It is a crime that Malcolm
X, Martin Luther King Jr, and countless others died so
that you could dance up and down with a bunch of
white people at a rappers concert. They gave their
lives for more than that; they offered their lives so that
exsistent levels of production. And yes, you have
time to party; we can't fornot that. This does not
mean that there is anything wrong with partying, but
too much of one thing makes Jack a dull boy. And
we, the future, could excell in the things they
couldn't. They died so that the race could live and not
merely exist.
Unfortunately, this apathy is not new. Last fall there
was a Third World Leadership Conference. The turn-
out was relatively good, especially when the food was
served. African students came from all over the New
England area, many of whom arrived at 9:30 a.m.
when it began, but where were most of you then?
Some of us claim that we are Black, but are we and do
we want to be? It appears to me that some of us are
nothing more than Europeans wearing black face.
Nevertheless, all praise must go to all of those
African students, faculty, and administration who
organized and attend any of the events held during the
last few weeks. For those of you who have not attend-
ed, I suggest that you do and soon too' This is not a
pleasant subject to write about, but the truth has to be
revealed regardless of who it may hurt or embarass.
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Wedneeday. March 6. 1985
A Look Back At Black History Month
photos by
Nummo Staff
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Lest We Forget
Excerpts From Our People
Editor's note: The following are exerpts taken from
a pam/ph/et entitled " Students and the African
Revolution, "printed and distributed by the All-African
People's Revolutionary Party.
The All-African People's Revolutionary Party
(A-APRP) emerged in 1972 as a product of the Civil
Rights, Black Power and National Liberation
movements of the 1940's,50's and 60's, dedicated to:
1) Building an organization capable of galvanizing the
collective energies of Africa's 900 million scattered,
suffering and struggling people (all people of African
descent are Africans and belong to the African Na-
tion); and 2) Directing that energy toward our total
emancipation.
Of strategic necessity we have chosen to focus on
developing a core group of genuine freedom fighters
armed with the skill of organizing, guided by scientific
thinking and inspired by just principles. We do not ex-
pect immediate rewards nor seek instant gratification
for the task we have shouldered is by its very nature
generational.
The international capitalist (economic) system has
sown the wind of African discontent and it is reaping
the whirlwind of the African Revolution - a whirlwind
of change whose ideas are being spread to Africans
everywhere by the enlightened organizers who con-
stitute the African revolutionary intelligentsia.
WHAT IS INTELLIGENTSIA?
The intelligentsia is that segment of the community
with the broadest acquisition of the knowledge and
skills available in society. They usually correspond to
those who have had the broadest exposure to formal
education, i.e., students, teachers, doctors, lawyers,
politicians, advanced workers, etc. As a whole, they
have been either co-opted to work against the in-
terests of the broad masses of the people, or they
have merged the problems of the people and their
own as one, and work tirelessly to see them resolved.
The intelligentsia serves both a political as well as an
economic function. Politically, they have the task of
defending and elaborating the ideology of the dominat
class in society. Economically, they have the respon-
sibility of ensuring the continued technological
development of society by introducing new ideas and
techniques, which increase the production capacity of
society as a whole.
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE AFRIC AN IN-
TELLIGENTSIA
Before contact with the outside world, Africa
developed complex societies with various educational
systems aimed at ensuring our continued intellectual
and technical development. Ancient Africa developed
writing, mathematics, astronomy, architecture,
medicine, etc. We must therefore turn to traditional
Africa to identify the intellectual basis of our struggle.
The roots of the African Revolution is found in the
struggle to harness nature and to destroy indigenous
African exploiters who sold their brothers/sisters into
The Following are excerpts from. "The Case of
Mariana Curileo Quintriple, Mapuche Indian.
Mapuches have lived on the reservation in southern
Chile since 1 884. ...through the years much of our
land was stolen. ..and with each generation the
parcels of land dwindled until the plots were an acre
or two for an entire family.... I grew up on such a
reservation... .We had three acres and live in a ruca, a
mud hut with thatched roof and earthen floor. With
five children to feed times were often hard, but our
family was very close and worked together. ...my
two sisters had to leave home to look for work in
Santiago; we just couMn't make ends meet any
more.. ..At home my little brothers watched our two
pigs and four sheep.while I helped my mother with
the weaving.. ..The blankets and ponchos we made
we copuld sell in town and buy food with the money.
... In 1970 I married Jorge Quintreple....He had
been off working in Santiago but he came home to
the reservation. He said he thought thing might
change under Allende but I didn't really believe him.
Politicians were always promising the Mapuche a
better life but nothing had ever changed for us.. ..At
...we knew takeovers had happen.. .that Allende
goverment had backed up. We also knew this was a
slavery and collaborated with the European im-
perialists who came to colonize our land - Africa.
The collaboration between the European im-
perialists and Africans seeking to exploit the people
while acquiring personal wealth, political power and
social prestige, devastated the African Nation. Over
90 million Africans were kidnapped from Africa and
shipped to the Carribean, South, Central and North
America; and stripped of their identity, culture and
were made to be ashamed of Africa.
The capitalist system emerged full blown from this
murderous slave trade of human flesh dripping with
blood from African veins and sweat from African
backs. Without exception, the U.S., France, England,
etc., left the masses of our people in poverty, diseas-
ed, malnourished and uneducated. Despite all of this,
they still could not destroy our desire to be free, to
rec’aim our dignity and remake our lives.
By 1960, capitalism/imperialism was being forced
to give ground under the weight of mass popu'ar
uprisings and resistance everywhere. National in-
dependence and liberation was sweeping the conti-
nent of Africa, the Middle East, the Carribean, Central
and South being consolidated in Asia, Eastern
Europe, Africa and Cuba. Everywhere,
capitalism/imperialism was in a severe crisis and suf-
fering set-backs and defeats. Imperialism had to res-
pond.
Its response was massive, brutal and vicious. It in-
cluded the development of neo-colonialim (a new
form of colonialism) internationally and the welfare
state domestically; attempts to blur, confuse, divert
and soften contradictions through liberal reforms. And
when all else failed, fascism, repression, intimidation,
harassment, imprisonment, enforced exile, murder
coups d'etat, outright invasion and war.
In the course of this struggle two important lessons
were learned: 1) That the movement had to be guiled
by one, revolutionary ideology of African orgir,
(Nkrumahism); and 2) this ideology (Nkrumahism) had
to be carried to the masses by young intellectuals
brought together in a revolutionary, mass, permanent,
Pan-African, political party.
THE ROLE OF THE STUDENT: WHAT MUST BE
DONE?
We have reached that err. cal point when historical
event have clearly identified he forces of contention
-the oppressed against the oppressors. The battle
lines have been drawn. In « e balance hangs the
future of our home -Africa- a. d its 900 million scat-
tered, suffering and struggling eople.
African students stand in a position to have an enor-
mous impact on the speed, direc*ion and outcome of
this great human struggle. The ooices faced by you
are crystal clear - modern si 'ery or freedom,
capitalism or socialism, revolutior or surrender We
know that many of you will continL to chase a life of
leisure and wealth, while putting y jr own personal
interests above the interests of the people. We also
chance to make a decent life for our selves. ...The
takeover didn't meet any resistance right off.... He
came out with a bunch of thugs and threatned us. but
a goverment official had been too, and told us we
were within our rights. He told the owner that too.
The owner and his men came out shooting about
three nights after the takeover. But we were ready
ofr them and fired back. They never tried that again.
Our farm was expropriated legally two months later.
...We renamed it Elicura, after a brave Machupe
warrior, and decided to run it collectively.. ..The
goverment sent us materials and a carpenter who
worked with us teaching us how to build houses. ...I
think when things began to settle down a bit we
women realize what a change was happening to us.
Back home we saw pretty much only our families and
close kin. On the reservation neighbrs were pretty
far apart. Visiting was an allday affair, and women
were expected to keep the water kettle warm at
home. But here we were 1 6 families. Oh. we were
all related one way or another, but we weren't used
toliving so close. We women could get together real
easy, and we sormed a Mother's Center. We started
trying to get a teacher and a clinic. Some of the men
objected to our activities, they thought we should
know that many of you will never gn*Mua»e. Those of
you that do, many will be jobless; all **'ili be landless
and powerless, and not one of you w I be free.
The A-APRP is looking to organize those African
men and women whose conscience impels them to
act on behalf of their people. Those we seek are
honest, disciplined, responsible and willing to set
aside the selfish ideas propagated by the capitalist
system. We call upon you to adopt a new set of
ethics, morals and principles in order to assume your
role as part of our new revolutionary intelligentsia.
You are in school as a result of the untiring sacrifices
of our people. You are the direct beneficiaries of hun
dreds of years of struggle and you must use your
newly acquired knowledge and skills to push forward
our struggle for Pan-Africanism.
We call upon you, African students, to join with
African youth throughout the world who have taken
to the streets with Positive Action as the struggle to
build mass, revolutionary organizations intensifies.
They are rising up, demanding liberty, unity and
socialism. They are adopting Nkrumahism as their
ideology and they are boldly challenging the anti-
quated concepts of capitalist society and the spineless
opportunism of those who claim to be our leaders.
African students, workers and peasants who bear
the brunt of capitalist exploitation have grown weary
of seeing the owners of factories, mines, banks and
imperialist combines grow increasingly rich off their
labor as the masses sink further into the depths of
poverty. We see the masses of African people as they
struggle to the limits of their consciousness against
this political and economic tyranny to no avail.
Consequently, revolutionary theory must be in-
jected into the mass struggle of African people by the
African revolutionary intelligentsia. This is the role of
the student.
For more Information Contact:
All-African People's RevoluTunary Party
P.0.33953 Washington, D C 20033
(202) 726-6133
stay home tendng to the mc<jis, gardens, and the
children. We still did all our work and cared for the
children, but most of us began to work together
more on projects. ...We got the teacher and the
schoolgoing pretty easily The teacher was one of
our own who got some training at a mission school.
The goverment sent her to a special program for rural
teachers, and she came back to teach at Elicura.
Ther were classes at night twice a week to teach the
adults reading and writing. The clinic was another
matter. Once a month a nurse visited Elicura and
brought the powdered milk. But that wasn't enough
for us. We needed a real clinic with a real doctor in
our area permanetly....l think the Allende Goverment
did a lot to helpmthe poor people. IT's just that there
were some problems and as we realize what they
were and what we needed, we just didn't want to sit
around waiting anymore. ...When the right wing
started sabotaging food distribution, we got our own
distribution system going, just like they did in the
city.. ..Earlier, in August, the military had invaded a
cooperative farm on the cos near us, saying the place
was a training ground for the MIR guerillas. All they
found was a bunch of old beat-up guns the owner left
behind;but they put out pictures of a huge amount of
bombs and weapons. The women on the farm were
stripped and dunked in the cesspool and beaten
awfully, all in front of their children. An old man was
thrown repeatedly into the cold winter water of the
river, and he died a few days later of pneumonia.
After four or five days the military left and took most
of the men to jail. ...At Elicura we had talked about
the resistance and defense and aht the struggle
might be like, but we weren't really ready.. ..One of
our leaders was executed before our eyes, as an
example. Our treasure finally killed himself because
they arrested and tortured him so many times that he
couldn't stand the thought og enduring more. And a
women who tried to organize our health clinic was
taken away. We heard she was shot.but we re not
sure. Then Junta gave Elicura back to the old owner.
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SPORTS ★ TALK
by Christopher Allen
Nummo Correspondent
Sophomore point guard, Carl Smith of the Universi-
ty of Massachusetts Minutemen, basketball team, will
go down in the history books for this basketball
season. Smith has been a hero at more than eight
games this season by scoring in the waning seconds
to give UMass a win or a tie. Surprisingly, egoism
never seems to be a problem for Smith.
Smith 20, who hails from Kings Mountain, North
Carolina, is a Sports Management major at UMass.
Smith attended Kings Mountain High School after
leaving Fork Union Military Prep School in Virginia. In
1983 Smith was offered a scholarship to study at the
University of Massachusetts, which he accepted with
gratitude.
Coming to the Eastern section of the country for the
first time in the fall of '83, Smith was attracted by the
size of the institution and the hospitality. "I was im-
pressed by how friendly the people were, when I first
came here”, the five feet 11 inch Smith said.
Although carrying a weight of 165 pounds, Smith is
still agile. He earned two cross country letters along
with three basketball letters at Kings Mountain High
School and one letter at Fork Union Prep. Smith has
proven himself here at the University. On the court
Smith is a key performer for his coach.
The two most interesting games for Carl were those
against Boston and Northeastern Universities, which
UMass won last year. "Both teams were from the Na-
tional Eastern and were supposed to be better than us
but. we were just bad", Smith pointed out with a arin.
Smith is business like both on and off the court. He
enjoys playing table tennis in his spare time. Smith is
well known for his T.V. commercial in which he adver-
tises used cars without engines.
J.T.'s N.B.A. Mid-Season Outlook
by Julian Tynes
Nummo Staff
N.B.A. Altantic Division
The N.B.A. s Atlantic division may be not only the
strongest division in the league but the most
competitive of any pro sport. Because of the trades
(and despite injuries), this division may be stronger
than last year, when all five teams qualified for the
playoffs. The division features three of the leagues
strongest teams: the reigning champion Celtics, the
powerful 76ers and the recharged Washington
Bullets. When everyone is healthy the N.J. Nets are
one of the best teams in the N.B.A. Now that Darryl
Dawkins is back, look out. And while the N.V. Knicks
have lost Ray Williams (row w*th the Boston
Celtics), Bill Carwright (broken foot), Marvin
Webster (Hepatitis) and Truck Robinson, they still
have the everdangerous Bernard King. The Atlantic
not only has the leagues toughest teams, it also
contains some of ine N B A *> premier players.
BOSTON CELTICS
No team has more heart and tradition than the
Boston Celtics. This is evidenced by thier stirring
comeback in the finals last year against the LA.
Lakers, after the rest of the basketball world
(including myself) left them for dead. Even with the
controversial trade of clutch performer Gerald
Henderson, the Celtics are tough!
The Celtic strength starts in the front court. With
Robert Parish, Kevin McHale, Cedric Maxwell (out
right now with a knee injury) and M.V.P. Larry Bird
the Celtics have a front court that has size, speed,
scoring, rebounding and defense, making it the best
in the league. Underrated center Robert Parish
blocks shots, scores and rebounds with the best.
Forward Cedric Maxwell, also underrated, rebounds,
plays great defense, is a good passer and scores
under pressure. Larry Bird can beat you a thousand
ways and sixth man Kevin McHale plays all three
frontcourt position well enough to be an N.B.A.
Allstar.
While the Celtic backcourt isn't quite as strong
with Danny Ainge and Dennis Johnson, it ain't
chopped liver either. Ainge has a quick first step and
can stick the open jumper. D.J. is one oflhe best all
around guards in the league. He can shoot, score.
pass, rebound and the man is a defensive genius.
Bench strengh is present with Scott Wedman and
Greg Kite upfront, Quinn Buckner, Carlos Clark, Rick
Carlisle and new acquisition Ray Williams back court
and M.L. Carr coming of the bench to beat on
opposing teams. Wi'h Cor.-s k.C. Jones at the
controls the Celtics a “ -:m to beat.
PHILADELPHIA 70ERS
After seting a playoff record 12-1 in the 82-83
season, the Sixers fell to injuries, apathy and lack of
depth last season. During the 83-84 season the
Sixers lost Moses Malone, Julius Erving (0 and 5
without him), Andrew Toney. Maurice Cheeks,
Bobby Jones, Clint Richardson and Franklin
Edwards at various times to injuries. Moses did not
have a "Moses" type year, forcing Dr. J to carry the
load. Erving had a great season averaging 22.4
points per game (1 2th in the league). 7 rebounds and
a total of 355 asissts, 1 .83 steals per game (10th),
and 1 .81 blocked shots (8th). This made him the
only forward to finish in the top 1 0 in both steals and
blocks. In spite of these awesome statistics Doc was
left off the first team of the N.B.A. Allstars. With
Cheeks plagued by injuries and Toney having
communication problems with coach Cunningham,
the Sixers were beaten in the playoffs 3-2 by a tough
New Jersey team.
Then the Sixers made some bold moves in the
N.BA. Draft, obtaining 6'6". 260 pound Charles
Barkley, Auburn's 'mound of rebound’ and Leon
Wood of the ‘84’ Olympic squad for added depth.
Upfront the Sixers start with the man, Moses
Malone. Moses is the leagues best low post player
as evidenced by his league leading 13.4 rebounds
per game and his 22.7 point average (highest among
N.BA. centers). He is very ably supported by the
ageless Julius Erving, who at 34 is still one of the
leagues premier players. Erving is nearing the end of
a great career and would love to end it with a
championship. Rookie Charles Barkley is the other
starter in the front court. Barkley has shown allstar
potential and may be the power forward Philly has
been looking for since George McGinness was
traded. Bobby Jones is the sixth man and still the
best defensive forward in the league. Front court
depth is present with Sam (slam) Williams, Gearge
Johnson and Clemon (The Lemon) Johnson.
The backcourt is among the best in the N.B.A.
Cheeks and Toney go together like strawberries and
cream, both being N.B.A. Allstars. They ae sup-
ported by Clint Richardson, Leon Wood and Sedale
Threatt. If Philly can keep themselves together it
should be a photo finish for first place.
WASHINGTON BULLETS
The old, slow Bullets no longer exsist. With the
acquisition of Gus williams and Clifford Robinson,
the Bullets are, at times, awesome. In the front court
the Bullets have Jeff Ruland, Rick Mahorn. Greg
Ballard and Clifford Robinson. No team has more
rebounding than the Bullets. With frontcourt depth
added by Darren Daye and Tom McMillen no one has
a deeper front court. ..no one. The backcourt brigade
is led by Gus Williams, a great scorer and passer who
also plays great defense (he is the N.B.A.s career
steals leader). His backcourt partner is Dudley
Bradley who shuts his opposing guards down with
his overpowering defense. Frank Johnson, Jeff
Malone and Tom Sewell are the backcourt reserves.
NEW JERSEY NETS
The Nets are young and strong. However, injuries
may ruin them this season. Darryl Dawkins had been
in traction with back problems most of the season
and Albert King has been out with muscle pulls.
Without these two performers the Nets have been
having a tough time. However, the outlook has
brightened as Dawkins has returned to action and
King should be ready in a couple of weeks. New
Jersey's strengh starts in the backcourt with Micheal
Ray Richardson and Otis Birdsong. Birdsong is one
of the leagues top off guards, able to hit jumpers
from practically anywhere on the court. 'Sugar', one
of the finest all around players in the game, is a great
passer, scorer, ballhandler and defensive player.
Only Magic Johnson can rival him in all around
basketball skills, and even Magic doesn't have the
defensive skills and shooting touch of Richardson.
Up front the Nets normally start with Darryl
Dawkins at center, Albert King as the shooting
forward and Buck Williams as the power forward.
Mike Gminski is the top front court reserve with
depth added by Mike O'Koren, Wayne Sappleton
and Olympian Jeff Turner. When the Nets are
healthy they are among the most talented teams in
the league. If everyone heals, this season could still
be salvaged.
NEW YORK KNICKS
"Helpl" That must be Hubie Brown's lament. The
Knicks have been devastated by injuries, leaving
them just a shell of the team that played Boston in a
tough seven game series. Only the wonderous
Bernard King keeps them competitive within the
conference. Up front the Knicks have lost starting
center Bill Cartwright for another month and resen/e
center Marvin Webster for the remainder of the
season with health problems. Forward Truck
Robinson is also out with injuries. Leaving Hubie
Brown a front court of Bernard King and an
assortment of players such as, Pat Cummings, Louis
Orr and rookies Ken Bannister and Eddie Wilkins.
The backcourt isn't much to talk about either. Rory
Sparrow is the point guard with jackcourt mates
Trent Tucker, who can shoot from outside but can't
drive and isn't aggresive defensively, and Darryl
Walker, a lightning quick guard who plays great
defense, can pass, rebound and drive but can't hit
the ocean from the beach with his jump shot. It will
be a long year for the Knicks.
PREDICTIONS
1) Philadelphia 76ers
2/Boston Celtics
3/New Jersey Nets
4/Washington Bullets
,5 New York Knicks
Look for a close race for first place.
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Wednesday, March 6. 1985
★ Announcements
The Joint Brotherhoods of IOTA PHI
THETA and PHI BETA SIGMA Fraterni-
ty's Inc. Present a night of Pure
Pleasure, Perpetual Partying & Funky
S t e p p i n ' .
Place: Hampden Dining Commons
Southwest Residential Area
UMass/Amherst
Time: 9:00 p.m. - Until you can't-stop
Date: Friday, March 8
Attire: Dress to impress - no sneakers
Admission is $3.00 proper I.D. is re-
quired.
"THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD"
The New WORLD Theater at the Univer-
sity of Massachusetts at Amherst will
present The Dance and the Railroad, a
play by David Henry Hwang, on March 7,
8, and 9, at 8 p.m. in the Hampden
Theater on the University campus. In
conjunction with the play, martial artist
Richard Cesario will present a free
workshop entitled "Introduction to
Chinese Martial Arts (Wu Shu)" at 2 p.m.
on Saturday, March 9, at Emily Dickin-
son Hall on the Hampshire College cam-
pus. The workshop is open to the public.
Tickets for the three performances of
The Dance and the Railroad may be
reserved in advanced at the Fine Arts
Center Box Office by calling 545-2511 or
may be purchased at the door the night
of each performance. Ticket prices are
$4 for the general public and $2 for
students.
★ Announcements ★ Announcements*
MANDATORY MEETING FOR ALL
CCEBMS STUDENTS AT MAHAR
AUDITORIUM AT 7:00 ON MARCH
10, 1985. AU STUDENTS MUST
ATTEND!!!
INTEREST MEETING
The brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi will
be having a MANDATORY interest
meeting for those young gentlemen
expressing interest in the Fraternity.
The meeting will be held Thursday
March 7th at 8:00 pm in a place to be
announced. Be prompt! Proper attire
will be expected.
For more information call:
Conrod Boone 546-7561
Nadie Pierre 546-7555
SUMMER JOBS
Amherst Upward Bound
Instructors for college preparatory
curriculum [BA or BS required] also
Counselors/Tutors for residential com-
ponents [no degree required]. Pick up
applications at 205 New Africa House
UMass/Amherst. Deadline is March 22.
VENCERMOS BRIGADE
16th Contingent
"PEACE and FRIENDSHIP"
The Venceremos Brigade, a national educa-
tional project in solidarity with the Cuban
Revolution, invites you to participate In the 16th
work Er educational contingent to Cuba for 2
weeks in April 1986. All persona interested in
learning and sharing the truth about the Cuban
Revolution, in breaking through the information
blockade against Cuba that separates out two
peoples, and in promoting peace and friendship
between our two nations are welcome to apply.
This is a critical time to show our willingness
to dialogue and sxcahnge with the Cuban peo-
ple. to demonstrate oue determination to pre-
vent further U.S. aggression against Cuba and
other nations in the Central America/Caribbean
region, and to show our committment to the
struggle for peace and social justice.
Join us this Spring. For Peace and Friendship.
NEW EXHIBIT AT AUGUSTA
SAVAGE GALLERY
On 11 March 1985 The Augusta
Savage Memorial Gallery at New Africa
House will play host to an exhibit
entitled Inner Being of Africa
Sculpture, which will be on display until
March 27 1985. This exhibit will
include selections from the private
colections of The Pearl Primus Dance
and Language Instated. Inc., P'of.
Percival Borde and Prof. Ethel
Alpenfels.it will include sculptured
mask and figures of wood and ivory,
musical instruments and much more.
This collection has been exhibited in
such galleries astheAmerican Museum
of Natural History, the University of
Wisconson. and New York
Univ ersity, it has also been presented
in various off Broadway Theaters.
Sponcered by the W.E.B. DuBois
Department of Afro-American Studies,
UMass Arts Council with a special
thanks to Dean Murr M. Schwartz
PAULO FREIRE AT UMASS
A dialogue with educator and author
Paulo Friere on Monday. March II, 1985
at 7:30 pm in Room 104 Thompson Hall,
Umass, Amherst. This event is spon-
sored by the School of Education, the
Division of Continuing Education and
the Program for Participatory Research
and Learning.
Applicants should be 18 years of age or older,
have a valid U.S. passport or permanent resident
card, be free of military duty and legal restric-
tions. Approximate cost of trip $600.00.
For more information or to request applica-
tion, write:
P.O. Box 539
North Amherst, Ma. 01059
or call 586-7863, evenings.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S EVENT
Tuesday. March 5
8:00 p.m.
Student Union Ballroom
Thursday, March 7
3:00 and 8:00 p.m.
Campus Center Room 163
Nikki Giovanni speaking on "Interna-
tional Woman's Day: Past, Present and
Future
Look for the story of Nikki's visit in this Mondsy's
NUMMO NEWS.
Two films:
"A Veiled Revolution"
and
"Women in Nicaragua:The Second
Revolution"
International Women's Event Cof-
feehouse
8:00 p.m. at the Bluewall
Everyone is invited to an evening of
Women Performers
Wednesday, March 6
8:00 p.m.
Campus Center Room 168C
Sophia Painiqueo speaking
"Mapuche Women's Paricipation in
Mapuche Struggle"
Friday, March 8
9:00 p.m to 1:00 a.m.
Campus Center Auditorium
DANCE
° n in honor of
,ne International Woman's Day
Admission charge $2.00
Monday. March 11. 1986
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The Power Is In Your Hands
Today and tomorrow (March 11 and 12) the Stu-
dent Government Association (SGA) is holding it's
Presidential elections. The participation of Third
World students in these elections is vital both to the
outcome of the election and the general direction of
the election and the general direction of UMass Stu-
dent Government.
The three co-presidential candidacies in this years
election, are Michael Cerrato and Kim Hackett, Stacy
Roth and Dan Burgess and Patrick Keohan and
Theresa Sbarella. While all candidates support RSO
groups, student empowerment and more responsive
Student Government, there are important differences
in strategy and implementation that voters should
make themselves aware of.
Hackett and Cerrato are basing their campaign on
the platform of student rights, student a tivities and
stricter control of SGA financial activities. Many have
labeled the campaign as ''conservative” saying that it
is running a campaign for the Treasury not the
Presidency. Moreover, Hackett and Cerrato have fail-
ed to gain any support from the Third World com-
munity. In fact, strong tension has existed since the
candidates failed to show-up to a scheduled meeting
with the Third World Steering Committee.
Keohan and Sbarella have based their candicacy on
"the search for student input,” yet have seeked no in-
put from the Steering Committee or the Third World
Caucus. Whether or not this candidacy has a firm
grasp on the issues is a question that has been raised.
What is not in question is that these candidates failed
to effectively articulate their goals and objectives dur-
ing last Wednesday's presidential deoate. On a
positive note, Keohan and Sbarella were the only can-
didates to mention financial aid when asked about the
two or three most important issues affecting students
(it must be noted that the other candidates did ad-
dress the issue of financial aid but not in response to
the question of priority issues.)
Burgess and Roth are basing their campaign on the
issues of rising education costs, financial aid cuts and
student empowerment. They have been actively in-
volved in student rights issues (collecting 1,300
signatures for Students Advocating Financial Aid,
SAFA) and issues of oppression (such as the Anti-
Racism Team of SCERA.) These candidates have
adopted the Third World Issues Platform and have the
full endorsement of the Third World Steering Commit-
tee and the Third World Caucus. However, some
black students have labeled Roth and Burgess as "the
best of the worst” questioning just how far they
would stick their necks out to support black issues,
particularly at the cost of alienation by other white
students.
One of these candidacies will represent students in
the Board of Trustees and the Student Senate next
year. We, as Third World students, can and do have a
vital powerful role in this decision. Last year, approx-
imately 2000 students (of 15,000 eligible) participated
in the elections. Now the Third World Community
comprises about seven percent of the total popula-
tion, and an active seven percent can decide who
represents us.
NUMMO would like to make it clear that we are not
endorsing any candidates (although many members of
the staff are campaigning for one ticket.) What we do
endorse is active participation and turn-out of Third
World voters. Vote for the candidate of your choice,
vote for youself, your mother, or Prince - just make
sure you vote. Equally as important is where you vote.
There will be a ballot box at the New Africa House and
by the end of the election it should be stuffed with our
votes. This will send a message to whomever wins
that we are concerned, active and serious about the
issues that affect our education and it will serve as a
statement of power and commitment to achieve our
goals here at UMass.
The choice is ours; the power to elect is ours; the
responsibility is ours. We could take advantage of it or
we could make the same mistake we've made many
times in the past by under-estimating our political
power.
Friends and supporters of Han Suyin pose with the in-
ternationally known Author and Historian after her re-
cent lecture held at UMass.
Photo by Ed Cohen
Our Platform
The following is the platform computed by the Third
World Steering Committee. Of the issues and con-
cerns of the Third World community. It's these con-
cerns that will guide the political movements of the
Third World Caucus and Third World organizations in
the coming year.
Third World Issues Platform
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION;
- Enforcement of SGA A/A guidelines; increased
monitoring of faculty and administration.
- Elimination of favoritism through employment prac-
tices.
- Reorganization/ Development of Personnel Policy
- Redevelopment of "Vita-Bank” minority employ-
ment program
ACADEMIC ISSUES:
- Commitment to fight against the elimination of Math
104, 106, 107, and 120 courses.
- Continued support and implementation of an effec-
tive Academic Grievance Policy.
- Strong support of organizations such as CCEBMS,
BCP, an MEP that strive for academic excellence
among Third World students.
FINANCIAL AID.
- Actively pursue strategies against Financial Aid cuts
and tuition increases.
- To work with the Office of Third World Affairs (OT-
WA) and Third World Caucus (TWC) on issues pf
Financial Aid.
SGA BUDGET:
- Stronger support of Third World Registered Student
Organizations (RSO), particularly but not exclusively
on budgetary matters.
- Increased Direct communication with Third World
RSO's to help understand, develop, and enhance pro-
gramming.
- Commitment to ensure Third World RSO funding
criteria based on merit and services rather than
demographic representation.
STUDENT EMPOWERMENT:
- Respect the soveriegnity of the Third World Caucus
(TWC).
- Ammend the SGA Constitution and/or By-Laws to
ensure the representation of the TWC by Third World
Students.
- Commitment to ensuring Third World representa-
tion, essential SGA subcommitees (e.g.
Budgets/ Finance, Nominating Sub), as well as
University-Wide Committees.
- Political coalitions with the President's Office and the
various Third World RSO's, in particular the TWC; in
order to achieve intergral participation in such areas as
SATF Review, SGA Constitution, etc.
- Continue firm implementation of the revised Code of
Student Conduct.
- A fir commitment to challenge oppressive actions of
the UMass administration, such as the Yvette Henry
arson case.
To increase and enhance multi-cultural activities at
UMass, in order to break down cultural misunderstan-
ding, language barriers, and biases.
Monday, March 11, 1986
African Classical Literature : A Reality
by Chris Williams
Nummo Staff
From Febuary 21 to March 3 the Association for the
study of Ancient African Civilizations held their So-
cond Annual Conference on Ancient Egyptian Studies
in Chicago, Illinois, at Chicago State University.
Despite the absence of the leading Egyptologist
Cheikh Anta Diop, the conference attracted an im-
pressive field of scholars that included Dr. John
Henrik Clarke, Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan, and Dr.
Maulana Karenga. The purpose of this conference
was to present information on African Civilizations in
the various disciplines' such as, history, literature and
language, sciences, philosophy, ethics, and art. All of
the presenters, from the seasoned scholars to the
novices, deserve praise for their courageous scholar-
ship on African Civilizations. This article will give some
of the highlights of one of the most outstanding
speeches which was given by Prof Joy Hardim. i.
Hardiman began her speech quoting from
Chancellor William's classic "The Destruction Of
Black Civilization", Hardiman said, "What became of
the Black people of Sumer?" the traveller asked the
old man, "for ancient records shows that the people
of Sumer were Black. What happened to them?
"Ah," the old man sighed. "They lost their history, so
they died..." Hardiman added that story telling and
story making are two of the most critical activities for
a people's survival. This is because stories contain a
peoples culture and history.
Discussing language, Hardiman said that words can
cause damage to people. To illustrate this point she
said "if you call a people stupid long enough, they
become dumb." Hardiman believes that language is a
very powerful instrument that is used to create
negative images of African people in literature^
To counteract this onslaught of negative 'mages,
Hardiman has successfully attempted to teach Black
Classical literature to Black students who were enro I-
ed in her Egyptian studies class at Evergreen State
College in Washington State. Hardiman believes that
it is up to African people to alter these negative im-
ages by returning to their African classics, because as
she says, "he who controls the image controls the
premise." This bigotory is even found in academia,
because Hardiman alluded to the fact that it is taught
that the Greeks have classics and other cultures have
folklore.
the resurrection, the story of Job, the story of the Pro-
digal son, the story of the taking of Troy, and even
Cinderella are found in Ancient Egypt.
Hardiman said that teaching this classical literature
to older Black students is rewarding, because the in-
formation is quickly articulated in the community.
"What is taught in the class on Tuesday is heard in the
barber shop on Thursday, in the bars on Saturday
night, and in the pulpits on Sunday'"
She then concluded by saying the following.
"Thank-you [African scholars] for planting the seed so
we all might be. Because of your courage, conviction.
Resurrecting
The Spirit
by Christopher ASIen
Nummo Correspondent
In the last twenty years, the number of Blacks
elected officials in the 1 1 Southern states has grown
from fewer than one hundred to more than four thou-
sand, according to the Atlanta-based Voter Education
Project. The numbered of registered black voters has
climbed from about 2.5 million to more than 5.5
million according to project officials.
Hundreds of Blacks celebrated the 20th anniversary
of the voting rights march from Selma to Mon-
tgomery, Alabama with a new pilgrimage to resurrect
the "spirit" of the civil rights struggle. As several hun-
dred Blacks had assembled for a symbolic mass, the
Rev. Jesse Jackson said that they have unfinished
business.
Twenty years ago, on March 7, 1965, Bloody Sun-
day, state troopers and a mounted posse using billy
clubs and tear gas stormed the Edmund Pettus Bridge
in Alabama, and turned back the marchers. Two
weeks later. Civil Rights Leader, the Rev. Martin
Luther King led a march from Selma to Montgomery.
The events helped spur Congress to enact the Voting
Rights Act of 1965, which made illegal the intimidation
used to deny the ballot to blacks.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Joseph
Lowery, a march organizer, were given keys to the ci-
ty by Mayor Joe Smitherman at Selma's Brown
Chapel which is a landmark of the voting rights pro-
test. Smitherman was among the leaders of white
segregationist. "We recognize from the governor's of-
fice on down, that every American should have the
right to vote. We need jobs, and it's going to take
blacks and whites working together to get those
jobs.,'' Mayor Smitherman said.
At one point during the service, he shared a hymnal
with Jackson. Jackson called Selma "hallowed
ground" and said the aim of the march was "to resur-
rect the spirt of our struggle." He said that "we are
advised in the scripture to forget not the ancient land-
marks."
In conclusion, the Reverend added, "we choose not
to forget history lest we are doomed to repeat it."
i^scac
Hardiman then discussed the myths that currently
exist in academia. "In few places in the Euro centric
experience is it openly said that world civilzation
started in Africa. That Black Africans developed
Egypt, and were responsible for all of Egypt s periods
of renaissnace In few places in the Euro-centric educa-
tional experience is it openly said that Afrcian civi iza-
tion was the primary foundation for Western Civiliza-
tion. In few places in the Euro-centric educational ex-
perience is it openly said that the Ancient Africans
developed an influential body of literature thatmclud-
des: autobiographies, historical inscriptions, precies
and prayers, instructions orations and love lyrics,
said HardimanShethen added that the first versions of
the creation story, the story of the flood, the story of
brillance and endurence I was able in the TauKoma
program to develop a model that redefines classical
literature in our images. A model that is African in
form, historical content, context and process.
The Scholars at the Conference:
Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan Dr. Asa Hilliard
Dr Curtis Alexander Dr. Rosalind Jefferies
Dr. Diama Clark Dr. Ausbe Ford
Dr. Leonard Jefferies Dr. Richard King
Sister Rekhety Wimby Dr. Jacob H. Curruthers
Sister Joy Hardiman Dr. Anderson Thompson
Brother Joseph Ben-Levi Brother Ashuaf Kwesi
Dr. Maulana Karenga Dr. Molefi Asante
Jazz Recital EngulfsVersitility
by Daniel Lewis
Nummo Correspondent
Assistant Professor of Afro-American music at
UMass/ Amherst Jeffrey W. Holmes delivered his spr-
ing recital at Bowker Auditorium on Thursday, March
7th. Holmes is an accomplished composer and is an
equally versatile trumpet and piano performer. He is
better known at the University as director of Jazz
Ensemble I at the Fine Arts Center.
The recital featured a variety of style and orchestra-
tion within each of the compositions. Holmes com-
posed and arranged each piece. The music ranged
from Dixieland to soft rock and everything in between.
Holmes had eight guest performers to assist him in
the recital : Rich Down, bass; Jon Kelley, guitars and
banjo; Bob Hores, tenor saxophone, clarinet; Tom
Theabald, set percussion; Tim Atherton, trombone.
Holme displayed the talent of three of his students in
two of his compositions. Nicholas La Fluer, and Joe
Rodgers, cello, were featured in a contemporary ballot
entitled Horizons. Steve Kowalczyk, an Afro-
American music major, performed an uptempo soft
rock piece.
Holmes was brilliant throughout the performance,
switching from trumpet to piano to flugel horn at will.
Th opener Bop Top featured each of the members in
the ensemble in an uptempo Be-Bop style.
The mood changed in the next tune from Bop to the
free Jazz of "Snuggles." a composition which is
basically a saxaphone feature. Holmes said, the Piece
was inspired through the many ]am sessions he had
attended at the Parker house.
A banjo, clarinet and the mutes were featured in
"Circus Breakers" a Dixieland tune, with optional
solos, providing the audience a bit of a laugh.
Horizons was the next chart, with ' fen*®v “haW
and " Take Care of Your Love" ending the first halt.
The ensemble which closed the first of the program
with a bang cruised to a climatic finale. The second
half featured five charts, four of which were P™m'ere
performances. The final piece stood out over all others
of the night, within the Parker Bebop style.
Through the rhythmically articulation of each solo
section, it was possible to admire the talent of each in-
dividual performer. I was impressed with all of the ar-
tist however Professor Holmes seem to reach out to
the audience and captured the attention of each spec-
The evening was enjoyable and relaxing. However it
was upsetting to find the limited number of black
students at the recital. Jazz is an art form which
primarily comes from the Afro-American society. I
believe this performance by an all white cast, which
cares very much for the art form, should be seen by
both black and white sudents of this campus. For
those who did attend the recital. I'm sure you had a
oreat time. I would encourage anyone to attend the
next Afro-American Music Department performance
on March 29, 1985. The concert will feature all the
Jazz ensemb'e at the Fine Arts Center in the "Second
Annual Jazz5t case."
nummo news
Page 3
Monday, March 11, 1965
EDITORIAL EDITORIAL
Letter to the Editor
A White Response
Greetings from presidential candidates Stacy Roth
and Dan Burgess.
As most of you are by now aware, the Student
Govenment Presidential elections are being held today
and tommorrow. We're writing this letter to introduce
ourselves to further and to share with you our ideas
and perspectives-especially on issues of importance to
people of color.
We feel proud of our track record, in regards to our
voting historyand our activites and involvements. As
white people who have grown up in an institutionally
and individually racist society we've learned that to
eliminate racism in the world we must first educate
ourselves in how racism is institutionalized. And as
participants in society's institutions (schools, televi-
sion/media, families etc.) we must learn how we play
into the patterns of perpetuating racism.
We have taken responsibility to change ourselves'
Just as "in order to end male violence, men must take
initiative," we as whites must also take initiative. Tak-
ing initiative can and should occur on many different
levels - from calling our family and friends on racist
jokes, to "front line" action, to historical educational
introspection on how we're still unconsciously falling
into racist patterns.
Examples of work we have done include enrolling in
courses such as Educational and Institutional Racism,
Afro-American History, Inquiry into Race, Class and
Gender - to name a few. We've been very involved
with issues relating to South Africa. We participated
in the writing of the town by-law demanding
Amherst's divestiture, we were on the picket line this
January turning movie goers away from the racist and
South African produced film "The God's Must be
Crazy." We've been involved with the Dennis Brutus,
Nelson Mandela and the Leonard Peltier campaign
demanding their freedom. Dan was the education
coordinator for a weeks worth of education and
debate when he visited South Africa with 500 other
students on Semester at Sea. Activities included pro-
ducing 500 simulated "South African passbooks" and
debating the politics of divesture vs. economic control
and input. Dan also coordinated for two consecutive
years a bus to bring UMass students to Connecticut to
join folks in Hartford protesting the Klan's presence in
Connecticut.
Issues of importance that we've dealt with here on
campus have been actively resisting the racist raising
of S.A.T. scores as admittance criteria, encouraging
UMass divestment, and presently expressing our
outrage around the Yvette Henry case - as well as hav-
ing developed a proposal to reach out to Third World
communities in Massachusetts to invite and support
high school students visit to UMass.
What this brief history is intended to show is a
powerful commitment to change progressive
change. It is our intention by sharing this history to
share our action, as well as our words, because we all
know which speaks louder.
Current and future goals of our are struggling to
resist the oppressive implications of the cutting of
financial aid, to fight the budgetary attacks on Third
World Organizations, to pursue affirmative action
whenever and wherever possible, to defend academic
support services such as BCP, CCEBMS and MEP, to
promote soverignity in the Third World Caucus and
other Third World Organizations, and in general to
promote people of color here at UMass and in the
world in which we live.
A mechanism of communication that we're com-
mitted to is regular (bi-weekly or monthly) meetings
with the Third World Steering Committee - as well as
improving communication through other means such
as articles for Nummo, and maintaining institutionaliz-
ed "office hours" where we would be there for people
to share with us anything on their minds.
We hope we have been able to help you understand
us and where we're coming from. We also hope that
you will vote.
Stacy Roth and Dan Burgess
A Dialogue With Paulo Freire
by Athleen Ellington
■■I think the best way to get together this afternoon
is to have a conversation." said the radical Brazilian
educator, Paulo Freire. He was speaking at a
workshop organized by the Everywoman Renter and
the U.Mass department of Education, which has in
vited Freire to Amherst to give a series of workshops
and seminars during February and March.
Although Freire, who has made dialogue the cor-
nerstone of his educational theory, was only practic-
ing what he preached, this soft-spoken revolutionary
had taken his audience of students, professors a
community activists by suprise and »
silence ensued. They had come to imer™'
tionally acclaimed "educator of liberation to 'earn his
methods for giving power to the marginalized
classes ~ and he wanted to have a c0n™rsatl0n-
But to Freire, his very method of work, which con
sists of dialogue and participation, itself a form qf
empowerment." It is a process that ,s inherendy
Jizlitical "I am an educator and therefore I am a politi
ci an. There is no neutral education," he said. Refusing
to prescribe solutions, he said,
tc understand me in your country is • ..create me ac-
co ding to your cultural conditions.
He said people have told him that h,s ideas have
nothing to do with the first world, that they are only
for the third world. "But when l am speaking about
knowledge I am speaking about human beings.
Fare's radical theories of education were for-
mulated during his work with adult literacy programs
in Brazil and Chile in the early 1960s. But over the
oars he has extended his geographical defimtion °f
[he third world to include a political concept. Accor-
ding to Freire, the sub-cultlure of the U.S. and other
firs? world countries experience the same alienation,
domination and oppression that typiW the ' wodd of 'I
literates and landless of the Third World. With Z.Z
billion people in the developing countries now surviv-
ing on less than $400 a year, according to a recent
World Bank report, and with the numbers of poor
steadily increasing in this country, Friere's lesson in
•he "education of the oppressed" take on a sense of
urgency. . . .
According to Freire, education can be a tool tor
repression or liberation. While working with the rural
poor in northeast Brazil, he saw that widespread Il-
literacy served the purposes of the dominant classes.
His educational theories developed from his desire to
liberate the people who constitute what he calls the
cultures of silence:" people with no voice in their
country's political system. The military regime that
overthrew the Goulart government in 1964 found his
works so threatening that he was jailed for subver-
sive activities" and then exiled. He spent the next 16
years abroad, in Chile, Switzerland and for several
years in the U.S., where he was invited by Harvard
University to teach at its Center for Studies in Educa-
tion and Development in the late 1960s. He returned
to Brazil in 1980, and is teaching in Sao Paulo's two
universities.
Friere, a Christian Marxist who calls his process
dialogue a humanistic education, urged students and
professors to critically examine their own goals for
education. He criticized the separation of teaching
from learning and the "mystification of scientific
rigor" in Amercian universities. In highly bureaucratiz-
ed societies like the U.S., he said, teaching becomes
entirely the activity of the one who instructs and learn-
ing becomes the "duty" of the student.
In such a system the teacher becomes the
possessor of knowledge, as one might possess private
property. Like putting money into a bank, teaching is
reduced to depositing bits of information and skills.
Such a professor feels paternalistically "responsible
for his students whom he must make into "rigorous
scientists," says Friere.
He imposes "lots of readings of words,' explains
Friere, "but he almost never discusses the world. "If
you understand knowledge in this way," he says,
'you have nothing to do with dialogue."
Continued on page 4
POETRY
AT ANON— MEETING OF
METAPHYSICAL MINDS
And they asked
why / don’t write
about cherry blossoms and tea
the quaint art of sushi
ikebana and odori
the magnificence of Mt. Juji,
and they seemed astonished
that I could speak little and write
no Japanese.
So I told them about
my grandparents who came here
a hundred years ago
as indentured servants on
plantations,
saving enough for their sons
to buy land, grow crops from rock,
fingernails bleeding, dropping
babies in the fields,
about how
after so many years of quiet, suddenly,
they /we with 110,000 other Americans
of Japanese ancestry,
were thrown into concentration camps
because of the color of our
skin, and because they thought
we were not American enough.
And / told them
about Vincent Chin
who was beaten to death
in Detroit by unemployed auto
workers who thought he was
Japanese, Datsun/Toyota/ Nissan
rolled into one innocent Chinese American
and blamed for
Reagan's economy.
And I told them of
several generations before me,
Asians built railroads connecting
the West, and laundered shirts, and field
farms, labored in factories and sweatshops
and grocery stores and occasionally got lynched,
sold into brothels, and even though locked
out on Angel Island, locked into
Tule Lake, still survived.
And no, I had not climbed Mt. Fuji
but / know well the Transamerica building that
looms over demolished ashes of the I. Hotel
and displaced Manongs, sweatshops, and
poverty's projects.
So when they ask
why / am not enchanted by the metaphysical images
of sleep, I will answer:
with the objective correlative
of ikebana embracing heaven, earth and humankind
to embrace the struggles of our people,
with the symbolism of odori
to unbind my confininh obi, loosen my kimino skirts
and kick high my poetic foot.
with my metaphor of cherry blossoms
scattering as voices in the wind over the grave
of Vincent Chin.
and extend my vision
to thunder growing high on the mountain
and waterfalls, terrible /swift/ undeniable
in their paths for justice.
Janice Mirikitani
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Continued from page 3
Freirn explained this dichotomy was due in part to
rear. "It is fantastic how sophisticated the manipula-
tion of consciousness is in a technology advanced
society. In Latin America there is fear of physical op-
pression, but here you have other kinds of fear. He
said that for many professors in the States, who are in
constant pursuit of tenure, it "means walking roads
full of fear."
Friere believes his method of dialogue and participa-
tion leads to an awareness, or "conscientization,” of
the real problems to be faced, which in turns leads to
critical thinking. He said students wanting to know if it
was more important to change the institution or the
people inside it, should first apply this method to
recognize the obstacles to be confronted. Like a
general plotting his campaign, looking for the enemy's
weak spots, "We must build an idealogical map of the
institution," he says. Otherwise, action is futile and
"we succumb to despair, which leads to cynicism."
And Cynicism seems to have little place in this
64-year-old professor's thinking. "We came to the
world to change it, not to adapt ourselves to it," he
says, adding that there must be a balance between
ideology and action. "There is a dialectical movement:
as I change the world, I change. By getting involved in
conflicts, strikes for example, these things clarify our
minds."
Friere, a strong supporter of the feminist move-
ment, says there is also a need for "tolerance in diver-
sity" within many liberation movements. He says it is
the failure of the many Leftist groups in Latin America
to tolerate each other that is undermining the Left.
"They eat each other while the Right sleeps," he said.
For the same reason, he says the feminist struggle
can be carried on in collaboration with men who
believe in the struggle. "If women reject men just
because they are ideologically naive," he said. This is
in part because the feminist movement cannot be
understood apart from the question of social classes.
But he agreed the leadership must be by women. He
cautioned against men who joined the movement out
of feelings of guilt. "The moment we as men feel
guilt," he said, "itmeenswe still feel machismo."
He believes the same applies for blacks. "Blacks
have to reject whites who have feelings of guilt
because that means they are still racist. "Friere said
that women must also go beyond sexim and discover
the different levels of discrimination suffered by
women. For example, he said that a black, peasant
women coming to this country from Latin America is
discriminated against because she is black, because
she is a chicano, because she is a peasant and
because she is a woman.
Racism is not just a theory for Freire, a dark-skinned
man whose English is modulated by the rhythm and
syntac of his native Portuguese. "I have been
discriminated against in this country, and I hate it," he
said, revealing an anger against injustice which in-
fuses his idealogy and which he urged his listeners
never to lose. "Anger, not just love, moves us and
pushes us to action."
But he urged women to also go beyond anger.
Otherwise, "you remain in an attitude of rebellion, and
that is not enough." He said that if women stay at the
level of anger, they will have difficulty in creating tac-
tics. "If you have a preponderance of emotionality,
you will lose the ability to program your struggle."
NUMMO
HISTORY
CONTEST
NUMMO NEWS will have a
"History question of the weak” contest. The persons)
who respond correctly to the most questions will be
entered in a drawing to win a NUMMO jacket. Good
Luckl
The answer will appear in next weeks NUMMO.
Submit answers by Friday to room 103 New Africa
Photo Of The Week
John RuddocklJ.R.) Third World Caucus Senator and
community leader emphasizes a point before the
Undergraduate Student Senate at UMass/ Amherst.
House.
This week ’ s question
Whal was Malcolm X's previous
lust name:
Last weeks question
Dr. Charles Drew made one of the most important
single contributions to the Allied victory in World War
II. A doctor and scientist, he developed a process of
changing blood into plasma. This important discovery
has saved thousands of lives each year since 1940.
Born in Washington D.C.,in 1904, Charles Drew
combined self-discipline, work and intelligence to earn
honors in everything he did. An excellent student, he
also performed well in many sports. While he was a
student at Amherst College, he earned national
recognition as a halfback. At graduation time, he was
chosen as the student who had brought the greatest
honor to the college.
In 1950 he died from loss of blood, because he was
not admitted into a white hospital, after an automobile
accident. It is a disgrace that a man who donated so
much to the field of medicine had to die because he
was a victim of racism.
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SAVAGE MEMORIAL GALLERY
On Wednesday, March 13 the
Augusta Savage Memorial Gallery at
the New Africa House will play host to
an exhibit entitled "Inner Being of
African Sculpture" which will include
selections from the private collections of
th Pearl Primus Dance and Language In-
stitute, Inc. and the late professors, Per-
cival Borde and Ethel Alpenfels, which
includes sculptured masks and figures in
wood and ivory, musical instruments,
and much more. This collection has been
exhibited in such galleries as the
American Museum of Natural History,
the University of Wisconsin, and New
York University. It ahs also been
presented in various off-Broadway
theaters.
Dr. Pearl Primus will give a presenta-
tion later in the evening between the
hours of 7 and 9 p.m. The public is
welcome to share in this rare ex-
perience.
"Art as we know it was not carved for
art sake but for use amongst the
people." Dr. Pearl Primus, March ,1985.
The Augusta Savage Memorial Gallery
needs your support in order to continue
to bring to the community, the diversity
and quality of ite exhibits. Dr. Priimus
has consented to allow her collection to
be the catalyst of this effort. We are here
for you and know you are there for us.
PAULO FREIRE AT UMASS
A dialogue with educator and author
Paulo Friere on Monday, March II. 1985
at 7:30 pm in Room 104 Thompson Hall,
Umass, Amherst. This event is spon-
sored by the School of Education, the
Division of Continuing Education and
the Program for Participatory Research
and Learning.
BLOODS
BLOODS, a film on the oral history of
the Vietnam War by Black Veterans by
Wallce Terry. Terry, a Black journalist
covered the Vietnam War for TIME from
1967 to 1969. The film will be shown
Tuesday, March 11th at 7:30 p.m. in the
Student Union Ballroom at UMass.
SUMMER JOBS
Amherst Upward Bound
Instructors for college preparatory
curriculum [BA or BS required] also
Counselors/Tutors for residential com-
ponents [no degree required]. Pick up
applications at 205 New Africa House
UMass/Amherst. Deadline is March 22.
BENEFIT DINNER
Traditional Indian Feast of Native Foods
to support Native Amercian Prisoners in
struggle.
The dinner will take place on Friday,
March 29th at 6:30 p.m. in th First Con-
gretional Church located at 166 Main
Street in Amherst, Me.
Live contemporary music and tradi-
tional entertainment featuring the
Thunderbird Sisters along with a film
"Great Spirit Within The Hole" will be
provided.
Donations for adults is $10.00 and $5.00
for chidren. For more information please
call 253-7788.
Study Tour to Nicaragua
April 5-19 Social Service Workers and
others.
Seminars with:
Health Administrators
Women's Organizations
Small Businessmen
Oppositon Press
Liberation Theology Church Leaders
The cost is $865.00 from Miami. This
includes round trip airfere from Miami to
Managua, hotels, three meals a day and
land transportation. This rate is based on
a group of fifteen or more. Price may
vary slightly with smaller group.
For futher information and full intinery
contact: Steven Bengis at 586-6210. from
9 to 5 p.m.. Monday through Friday.
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Black Greeks:
A Look At Their Effect On Our Community
by Segun Eubanks
and Rod Clare
Nummo Staff
Editor's Note: Over the past couple of years
traditionally Black fraternities and sororities have
grown tremendously in our community. Three years
ago there were no Black frats or sororities on
campus. Today there are at least four fraternities
and one sorority either established or in the process
of being established.
These new organizations are effecting our
community in many different ways. Some people
say that they are the best thing that could happen in
our community because of the strive toward aca-
demic achievement, while others believe the rep-
resent divisiveness and elitism.
NUMMO NEWS interviewed four brothers
(brothers in the community sense, not neccessarily
fraternity sense) who are either members of a
fraternity, pledging a fraternity or attempting tc
initiate a new chapter, to find what their views are
on the effect of frats in the Black community.
This is part one of a four part series on fraternities
and sororities. In the near future NUMMO will
interview sisters involved in sororities, members of
the community who are opposed to Black Greek
organizations and Black students and administra-
tors who will attempt to analyze the over-all effect
that the organizations are having on our community.
The following four men met with reporters from
NUMMO NEWS to give their views on Black
Fraternities:
Crescent (pledgee) of Phi Beta Sigma, Charles
Anthony Sheffield.
Crescent (pledgee) of Phi Beta Sigma, A. Anthony
Gee.
Potential pledgee of Omega Psi Phi, D. Anderson
Hooker.
Brother of lota Phi Theta, Richard Steward.
NUMMO: Why are you, personally, interested in
fraternities?
Sheffield: Personally I ws not interested in frat-
ernities, but when I met a very positive person.
Roscoe Robinson, who was doing things to lay
ground for his fraternity (Phi Beta Sigma), I saw his
dedication. And also I had gone to Boston and had
met members of his fraternity who are all pro-
fessional people and they are striving for excellence.
I realized that this thing could be positive and I
realized also that the brotherhood that they were
pronouncing was truly there and it could help this
starving community.
Gee: I would just like to say that it's tough trying to
make it to the top and I don’t think that anybody can
di it alone. You need other positive people behind
you, with you, in order to geop you reach your goal as
a person, as an individual, as anyone. Everybody
should set a goal for themselves, everybody should
pursue excellence, everybody should set them-
pursue excellence, everybody should strive for the
best. I believe fraternities can make this goal a little
easier, can provide a vehicle for this.
Hooker: I, personally, have been studying net-
working as a means of uplifting the community and
ways of providing services, as far as health services
are concerned, as far as social services are con-
cerned, providing social support networks. And just
looking at the entire networking concept you see
that fraternities and sororities are that networking
concept in action and it wouldn't make sense to not
be involved in some sense in that networking
process.
Steward: The reason I got involved in a fraternity is
because I wanted to feel some unity on campus. I'm
from an all white community and before college I
was not exposed to Black awareness, Black to-
getherness. I felt that by joining a fraternity it would
help me in a further understanding of the Black
community, our work and just to be part cf the
community as one where I could interact and
understand the goals of the Black people on the
campus.
NUMMO: How are you (Black Fraternities) affecting
the community? Positively and negatively.
Steward: I feel that there is a positive effect of Black
fraternities on campus because it brings us together.
We are all going for a certain goal, the same goal, to
be unified. And now with different fraternities on
campus. Sigma's, Q's (Omega s) and other people
already on campus, we have to work together a lot
better so we can get that goal accomplished. If you
want to hold a function to get people aware of what's
going on, financial aid for example, or if it's just a
question concerning Black History Month or what-
ever it might be. With a stronger group we can
accomplish the task alot easier than just by our-
selves.
Hooker: I realize that ther is both a positive and a
negative infuence of fraternities on campus. The
positive aspects are that you see organizationally,
people striving for excellence and striving to find
ways to impact their community. It's an attractive
force for those who might want to come to the
University. They see positive images and people
who are here who haven't quite developed an image
for themselves can also develop positive role
models, not only in the administration, but also
within the student body. On the negative side, and
this isn’t necessarily something that has to be but at
present it has been, is that people from outside
usually recognize fraternities as cliques. And to a
certain extent they are cliques in that they separate
people who have achieved a certain level of
scholarship, a certain ability to relate to themselves
and others, a certain way of carrying themselves.
The more positive people have found a way to strive
further so others look at that as something that is
separate of cliquish and it doesn't necessarily have
to be that way, but it does seem to have had some
kind of t, schizematic effect, or providing some kind
of schizm on campus.
Gee: I just want to touch on what he (Hooker) said
about the clique. I Believe that this is a very negative
aspect of a fraternity. I believe no fraternity should
do that or should exemplify anything like that. I
believe that if you make it to your goal you should
turn around and lift somebody else up to their goal.
You just can't turn around and say, "I reached my
goal and nowyou reach yours the best way yu can." I
believe that the fraternities should act as a vehicle to
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Frats
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help other people gain what they have already
learned. That's the way I believe a fraternity should
act, I believe that's the way all fraternities will act at
some time and date.
Sheffield: The best way that I can answer this
question is to say that the negative aspects of course
are the cliques or the thing of bringing disunity. But
the positive things are that we get a group of people
together who are trying to do something for the
community. It's just like when you get that much
more, so instead of just having one person say. "well
I want to paint the New Africa House." you have a
whole group of people saying, "Well let's do it." and
it aets done.
NUMMO: There are some common crticisms about
Black fraternities in general. For example: when
frats do step shows they talk about each other very
badly. Or when a person is on linethey can only
speak to their "Big Brother". Or questions such as.
why not use Egyptian symbolism as opposed to
Greek? Many people percieve these as disunity and
separatism. How do you respond to this type of
criticism?
Steward: I feel that as someones who’s looking in it
from the outside, if you are a true friend you would
understand that while your friend is pledging he is
doing something that he feels is important and he
has to abide by certain rules and regulations of the
fraternity he is pledging to. And if you are a true
friend you understand that his not talking to you is
just a matter of what he has to do to accomplish his
task and achieve what he wants to achieve. And
once he becomes a brother you will still be friends,
maybe even closer friends because of that.
Gee: To mention what you (NUMMO) spoke about,
you going to a step show and seeing different
fraternities talk about otherfraternities. I believe that
should be minimized because of one simple fact: I m
not going to say that I really care about what people
on the outside looking in think and I'm not going to
say that I don't care because it's important to a
certain extent because you want other people to
become involved in your organization. You want
your organization to grow and to expand. However, I
believe that fraternities should perform steps to-
gether because I believe that it is a very important
part of fraternity life as far as it's concerned right
now. I believe we need that type of unity. You know,
maybe a show together or maybe holding hands,
some type of thing like that to show that all
fraternities are unified, not separated.
Sheffield: Perhaps I can address the issue of why we
use Greek letters instead of Egyptian letters. In
effect, as far as I see it, these fraternities are already
established and have been established a good 70
years, most of them. And they have florished and
turned out very prominent people and are doing
things now that just can't be started up again. So to
say that we should go back to our African past, that's
good, but we could do that right now by using Greek
letters. That doesn't mean you have to separate
yourselves from whites, or you have to separate
yourself from historically what is recognized is white
because they might have gotten their letters from
Egyptians.
Hooker: Just to embellish on that point, it is without
question that it's not a matter of they "could” have
possibly got there letters from Egypt, they did.
Civilization began in Egypt. Anything that has
happened since then has been a result of African
input and African development and therefore any-
thing we use from the beginnig of time is a
descendant of something that happened in Africa.
So it doesn't matterwhere we choose to use it, itwas
initially African.
Two other points. One particularly about the idea of
fraternities talking about each other, disrespecting
each other and so on and so forth. You'll notice that
they all do it with a certain amount of putting them
down, but it's also a certain amount of respect
involved in that because they can get together and
laugh bout it, talk about it. It's just like if your best
partner plays on a rival basketball team. All during
the game you're going to talk about him, you re
going to dog him out as best you can, but when thing
come down to it you both have the same perspective
on where you're trying to go, we are all trying to get
to the top. On the idea of social probation, when you
can't speak to people, you're developing leadership
capabilities. What you need to do is to be able to
recognize what you are really missing. If you can t
speak to people, rap to people, share your know-
ledge for six to eight weeks or however long it takes,
then when you're done and you gain some more
wisdom then it's all that much more important to you
to turn around and share it. I think it's really instilling
in you and reminding you that you do have a purpose
which is to go back to your community and take
everything you've gained in this process back.
NUMMO: In spite of the criticisms, fraternities and
sororities have become very popular amongst the
student body. To what would you attribute this
their reasons will change into more positive ones
such as being part of a positive group on campus.
And also, since we are only one percent of the
population on the campus we re much stronger as a
gruop than as individuals. And they realize that
within a group they can make more changes for the
betterment of the community as far as minorities go.
They can implement more benefits, they can
probably start a new center, a minority center likethe
Malcolm X Center, they can improve the Center, they
can help hold on to the Center because right now
people are trying to the the Center away from us,
which is wrong. But as a group, we have a stronger
voice in getting our point across.
NUMMO: What type of activities are the fraternities
currently involved in and what future plans do they
have as far as expanding and improving the
fraternities and the community as a whole?
Gee: Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. was just involved
in the painting of the New Africa House which is the
minority headquarters on this campus. And we
want to show the community that we are about
positive change and we are doing things. Justtoday
we completed a project with lota Phi Theta
Fraternity Inc. which was a tour for inner city kids.
We showed them around, talked to them and told
them all the possibilities of all the positive things.
We want to be involved in all the Greek fraternities
and we want to bring about positive change in the
community. We do not want to do this single-
handedly, we want to be unified, we want to bring
everybody together as one.
Steward: The brothers of lota Phi Theta Inc. were
involved in a Walk-a-thon to raise money for the ABC
House, which is A Better Chance Program for inner-
city kids who come to Amherst to attend high school
and have a better chance of going to college and
improving their education. We had a forum last
semester so we could bring people in from the
outside to better understand why there are Black
fraternities, how we operate. We developed a
workshop on sexism and contraception recently.
popularity?
Gee: I think that people are starting to realize the
fraternities and sororities potential. I believe min-
ority individuals are starting to realize that they do
have a chance to make it in the world, that they have
a good chance. And I believe they see fraternities as
the way to go in order to pursue their goals.
Hooker: For a period of time, recently, recent
administrations have encouraged individualism and
Blacks have bought into this idea that "I" have to
make it on my own and so on and so forth. Several
recent historical occurances. this constant Reagan
administration attack on the Black communities, the
rise in the number of people who are participating in
Neo-Nazi organizations, the number of people who
are participating in the Klu Klux Klan; those types of
training activities suggest to Blacks, regardless of
whether they are political or not, that there is a
certain amount of subliminal suggestion that, I
need to be involved in something that is going to be
unifying in some way. I have to be involved in
unifying in some way. I have to always be sure that I
have a network.” That support network is constantly
demonstrated, even on this campus. That support
network is constantly demonstrated even on this
campus where there are so many things that are
happening where Blacks see themselves slipping
backwards as far a attainments that have been made
over a period of years. The budget proposals where
they won’t fund and Third World organizations and
bizarre activities like that suggest that there is a
need to have some unified activity going on.
Fraternities and sororities are right now one of the
most visible unifying forces on this campus as well
as across the country.
Steward: I feel that the initial reason that some
minorities decide to join fraternities is because they
want a sense of belonging. That is not always the
best reason to do it but once they start pledging.
and right now we re planning a Greek Step Show
where we invite all the Black fraternities in the area
and in the Boston area to come down to participate,
and show what they can do and to show some Black
involvement for the campus.
Hooker: The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. has not
yet been chartered or begun actively participating on
this campus as the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc.
However, there are numerous individuals interested
in the organization who are serving in leadership
roles throughout the University community on a
regional, local and national scale. The Omega Psi
Phi Fraternity Inc. has a large scholarship fund
because one of their cardinal principals is scholar-
ship related: to encourage, draw and uplift minority
youth. And there are many other projects that they
will be involved in in the next who knows how many
years, weeks months. Feeding the community
through food banks, helping to raise money for
several organizations and doing scholarship drives.
Doing tutorials for university students and high
school students. Those are all the types of activities
that we ll be involved in. One point that I want to
make though and make really clear, is that these
activities don't only effect the minority community
on this campus, but by demonstrating to other
communities the strengh of the minority community
and the self-esteem and the togetherness on the
Black community on this campus, other factions,
particularly the majority, have to look at us in a more
positive light. Although that positive light tends to
cause some backlash at first because they don't like
to see us in a positive light, they do in fact have to
reflect on us in a positive light. So I thinkthat making
the diversity more clear, more open on this campus
is going to help not only the minority community but
the community as a whole.
Monday, April 8,1986
NUMMO NEWS
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The Whitmore Sit-In Two Perspectives
Editor's Note: Last week a group of about 50
students took over the Vice-Chancellor's Office in
Whitmore. For four days they stayed in the office to
demand and negotiate with the administration for
student rights. Among their demands where: Con
tinuation of the student run Board of Govenors.
modification of the $261 Universal Resource Fee
and a divestment of all remaining ivestments the
University holds that are South African related.
During the take over very few Black and Third
World students chose to participate. In talking with
various Third World students on campus. NUMMO
found that there were two basic trains of thought as
to why this was. One. that Third World students
missed out on an opportunity to become involved in
campus concerns and the other that Third World
students should not have been present anyway. The
following are further explanations of the two
opposing views:
It Is Not Our Battle
Essentially the sit-in that took place last week in
Whitmore was not our battle. While it is good to see
progressive white students battling the Admin-
istration, it was not our responsibility, nor should it
have been, to rush out and join them.
First of all, many of the same students that
participated in the sit-in have battled to cutthe funds
and resources of our organizations. The same ones
whose racist attitudes we have had to deal with on
the senate floor, in budget hearing and in campus
activities, from both the so-called "liberal” factions
and the "conservative" factions, are the ones now
condemning us for not participating in their sit-in.
All too often "liberals” are ready to build coalitions
when it is convenient for them to do so. Last year
when we called for a "Rainbow Coalition" in support
of Jesse Jackson, these same "liberals" were no
where to be found. Yet as soon as Mondale won the
nomination they came running, "Join our Coalition
they shouted.
Moreover, the Third World community was not
even asked for their input in the planning and
implementation of the takeover. They would have us
risk our academic; standing to sleep in the Vice-
Chancellor's office, yet they will not ask for our
leadership, our ideas, our agenda. Sure we suffer, as
does everyone, from raised fees and lack of student
control. But the concerns of the Third World
community go far beyong that. kWe are in a battle for
increased financial aid, for more Black professors to
teach us, for the re-implementation of Pre-Calculus
courses and even more basic for the preservation of
our own civil and human rights.
Yes, the Black community is very concerned about
the situation in South Africa, as we must be for their
situation brings back very disturbing memories of
our recent past right here in America. But to ask us to
fight for divestment is like asking us to put a band-
aid on a gun shot wound. Call for an all-out boycott of
all companies investing in South Africa, call for the
University to publically codemn the racist South
African regime, call for armed struggle to rid the
monkey of oppression from the backs of our brothers
and sisters in South Africa, and then we will
respond.
We do not expect white students to understand the
desires and feelings of the Black community, for you
never will until you've suffered the oppression and
genocide our people have experienced throughout
the history of European expansionism. Yes, some
bitterness still remains, and as long as racism and
oppression are alive in this world, in this country, on
this campus, we will be bitter. And we will continue
to challenge you to re-evaluate your actions, for
racism is a subtle disease that even the oppressor
can not always detect.
So do not fault us for not running to join you in
condemning the Administration for their actions
concerning the Yvette Henry case. That was over a
year ago. When Black students and administrators
placed their jobs and academics on the line to get
Yvette Henry out of jail and back into school, most of
you assumed her guilty and did not bother to look
beyond the headlines in the local newspapers.
Lastly, we as a Black community have served as a
catalyst for many of today's movements. As has been
the case historically, change has always come from
the bottom up. So if "liberal" white students here on
campus or anywhere across the country are truly
ready to struggle for change, they must actively
pursue the input and leadership of those who most
vitally understand the concept and the need for
change.
Where Were You ?
Where were you? I’m talking to ALL the students of
color, and that includes all Black, Latin, Asian, Native
American, everyone that is not white. Just in case you
haven't heard by now there was a sit-in held in Vice-
Chancellor for Student Affairs, Dennis Madson’s of-
fice for four days. The students that were there
wanted to get the point across that another fee
raise.no student control over areas where our money
primarily finances and investment in South Africa was
not settling well with them. Here’s a good question for
you to ask your conscious, how come you are letting
white people do your work when it comes to looking
out for the Universities present investments in South
Africa? Your so quick to say South Africa is ours yet
not many of you have done a thing to ensure this
University divests. O.K., your always saying we're ex-
cused from many things on this campus, those white
people never seek us out when they're planning
something., or I didn't hear about it. Well can't use
those excuses now can you? The rally was well
publicized, if you had attended the Third World
Caucus meeting the week before.you also would have
heard about it. On top of that if you had gone to the
rally you would have been made immediately made
aware of the sit-in.Your first error was not carrying
enough to attend a rally which was held to show the
Administration students care. You can't say either
that you didn't hear about it after the rally because not
only was it on the front page of the COLLEGIAN
everyday but it was on W.M.U.A. To further em-
phasize my point the sit-in was broadcasted from one
coast to the other. How much more publicity do you
need, give me a break people!
This was a perfect opportunity for students of color
to make their strength visible, a chance to build coali-
tions with each other and yes, with whites. I hope you
feel proud of yourselves , but let it be known. ..YOU
BLEW ITfll
New Africa House Art Exhi bi ts
by Christopher Al*3n
Nummo Staff
The view of Irene Hou's Chinese paintings such as
the one done on a fan made of bamboo left some tran-
quil and wishing they had the money in their pocket to
buy it.
An opening reception for the exhibition of Chinese
paintings by Mrs. Irene Hou (also known as Miss
Ssua-chin Liu) was held at the Augusta Savage
Memorial Gallery at the University of Massachusetts
on Friday, March 28.
Mrs. Hou is an instructor of Chinese paintings at
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute School of Art in
Utica New York. She has also taught Chinese
language at Colgate University and has held numerous
exhibits of her works at colleges, art cahfdrs,
museums and women's clubs and on educational T.v.
(at Syracuse, NY. I.
"It is beautiful. ..I haven't seen this work for a long
long time", said Phyllis Rodnin of the Future Student
Department here at UMass, as she embraced Hou.
One individual who asked not to be identified, said
"this work is incredible. I'm very delighted to see such
art being done by a woman."
Mrs. Hou specializes in painting bamboo and land-
scapes, especially in ink-wash style. At one point.
Miss Ssu-chin Liu painted a bamboo tree which had
the audience's attention and a crave for more.
"Beautiful arts, Mrs. Hou is a talented woman. Fine
example of art put on by Augusta Savage Memorial
Gallery", said Jean Sauter, head secretary of the
WEB. DuBois Department of Afro-American
Studies. Chickling Sauter said, that she has to check
out this work every time she comes to work.
Mrs. Hou also does paintings with her fingers. She
has studied Chinese painting for many years from
such foremost masters as Chang Ku-nien, Hu Ko-min
and Yu Chung-lin. She is married to Professor Chi-
Ming Hou of Colgate Universtiy. Hou has three adult
sons, Donald who has a Doctorate in chemistry;
William a Duke University Law School graduate, and
Victor, a senior at Columbia University, who plans to
attend medical school. 4 _ ,
This is one of a series of excellent exhibitions ar-
ranged and displayed at the Augusta Savage
Memorial Gallery.
The students of sculpture-clay, sculpture-metal and
advanced sculpture of the Afro-American Studies
Department had an exhibition of their work last week
in the sculpture studio located on the lower level of
the New Africa House. "This exhibit gives the
students the opportunity to share their creative
endeavors with the academic community", said Prof.
Dorance J. Hill, of the Afro-American Studies Depart-
ment and instructor for the art class.
Works in clay, plaster, sheet metal and bronze are
among the fine handicrafts displayed. Surprisingly
enough, most of the students have never taken a class
in such areas or have worked in such an environment,
however they have produced work which has proven
to be of a professional nature.
In additon to the works displayed in the studios
there are several large metal scultures displayed on the
lawn in front of the New Africa House. The exhibition
closes today.
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Announcements Announcements
WEST INDIAN THEATER STAGED AT
UMASS
The New WORLD Theater at the
University of Masschusetts at Amherst
will close its spring season with a pro-
duction of "Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
on April 11-13 and April 18-20 at 8:00p.m.
each evening in Hampden Theater.
Set in Trinidad, this internationally ac-
claimed play by Errol John is a powerful
portrayal of Carribean culture. A
humorous and bitter sense of life
permeates the themes of kinship,
rebellion, robbery, pregnancy, prostitu-
tion, and love. A classic of West Indian
theater, "Moon on a Rainbow Shawl" is
directed by Dian Mandle.
Tickets may be reserved in advance at
the Fine Arts Center Box Office by call-
ing 545-2511 or may be purchased at the
door the night of the each performance.
Ticket prices are $4.00 for the general
public and $2.00 for students.
GRANDOPENING! GRAND OPENING!
Yvonne’s CARIBBEANA
The Pioneer Valley's Only Carribean
restaurant
*featuring multi-cultural cuisine*
Carribean
African
East Indian
Chinese
American
Sundays-lnternational Brunch- Jazz
Hours:
Monday-Thursday 11:00a.m. -9:00p.m.
Friday-Saturday 9:00a.m. -1:00a.m.
Sunday 10:00a.m. -9:00p.m.
206 Russel Street
(Route 9)
Hadley. Massachusetts
Next to Soda City
-ON BUS LINE-
"The Far World Comes Near"
A photographic exhibition based on the
work of Joel Halpern, a professor of an-
thropology at the University of
Massachusetts, and Sam Pettengill, a
University of Massachusetts student,
will be shown from April 4-15 at the
Wheeler Gallery, located in Wheeler
House, at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst.
"The Far World Comes Near" focuses
on the two worlds of the Loation people,
the worlds of Before and After. The
world of Before is that of the Kingdom
of Laos before 1975, as photographed by
Joel Halpern before the most recent war
in Indochina. These photographs from
the old country touch on religous life in
the royal capital of Luang Prabang, as
well as aspects of village life. As a
counterpoint, the world of After, as
presented by Sam Pettengill, depicts the
Laotian people in New England as new
Americans. These photographs depict
the parallel processes of intergration in-
to American life, and the simulataneous
maintenance of valued traditions on the
part of New England's newest ethnic
group.
Wheeler Gallery is open: Sunday -
Thursday 7:00p.m. and Tuesday&Thurs-
day 12:30 - 2:30p.m.
CRISIS IN SOUTH AFRICA
The Failure of "Constructive Engage-
ment"
April 8. 1985
8:00p.m.
Johnson Chapel
Amherst College
by Randell Robinson
Mr. Robinson is Executive Director of
TransAfrica. a black foreign policy lobby
in Washington, D.C. He has been the
chief organizer of the recent nation-wide
protests against aparthied in South
Africa.
Conference For Minorities Interested In
Law
Western New England College School
of Law will present its spring "Minority
Law Day" Saturday April 13, 1985 from
9:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. in the S.Prestley
Blake Law Center.
The twice-yearly conference is design-
ed to provide information to members of
minority groups who are interested in
studying law. Admission is free, and pre-
registration is recommended.
Among the guest speakers will be the
Hon. Reginald Matthews, acting justice
of the Supreme Court of the state of
New York and supervising judge of the
Bronx Family Court; and Beverly J.
Hayes, assistant attorney general. Com-
monwealth of Massachusetts.
Workshops, lectures, and panel
discussions will address such topics as
"How to Choose a Law School", "The
Concerns of Nontraditinal Students",
and "What Do Lawyers Do?". There will
also be a mock law class.
An afternoon panel discussion will
feature Judge Matthews and minority
attorneys. They will discuss the practice
of law, the skills that law school
teaches, the problems of placement, and
the need for minority lawyers.
The day will end with a reception for
the participants. For more information,
or to pre-register for "Minority Law
Day."callthe Law School Admissions Of-
fice at (413) 782-31 11, ext .406.
Western New England College School
of Law. serving 860 law students each
year, is the only Massachusetts law
school outside of Greater Boston. It is
located on the campus of Western New
England College, 1215 Wilbraham Road
in Springfield.
NUMMO SPORT TALK
by Julian Tynes
Nummo Staff
Well, the 1984-84 College basketball season is
over. With the end of this season many fans across
the country have seen the end of some great
collegiate careers and the end of an era. This was the
last year of no shot clock in the NCAA tournament,
next year there will be a 45 second clock.
As for the great players ending their college
careers, the Big East is seeingtheirfirstcropof major
stars graduate. Chris Mullins of St. John's, Ed
Pinkney and Duane McClain of Villanova and Bill
Martin and Patrick Ewing of Georgetown were the
first group of high school All-Americans to choose
Big East schools, all are graduating after having
outstanding collegiate careers. Ewing in particular
may be as responsible for the prestige and dom-
inance of this conference as any single player.
Keith Lee of Mamphis State leaves the Metro
conference as its all-time scorer and rebounder. He
helped turn Memphis State from a 1 3-1 5 team (the
year before he arrived) to a top 10 team that made
the final 1 6 forthree straight years and the final four
this his senior year.
Other well known players ending their collegiate
careers are Micheal Adams of Boston College, Bill
Wennington of St. John's, Maryland's Adrian
Branch, U.N.L.V.'s RichieAdams, DePauls'Ty Corbin
and Kenny Patterson, N.C. State's Lorenzo Charles,
Cozell McQueen and Spud Webb, Arkansas' Joe
Kleine, S.M.U.'s Jon Koncak, Temples' Granger Hall,
George Washington's Mike Brown. Rutger's John
Battle, Loyola’s Alfredrick Hughes, Steve Harris of
Tulsa, Aubrey Sherrod and Xaveir McDaniel of
Wichita State, Sam Vincent of Michigan State, and
Greg Stokes ond Micheal Payne jof Iowa.
UMass also is losing three outstanding players in
Donald Russell, Horace Neysmith and Bobby Braun.
Braun, a key reserve in his first three years here,
moved to a starting spot at center and responded by
finishing second on the team and third in the
conference in rebounding. Russell, a co-captain and
four year starter, ends his career as UMass' all-time
leading scorer.
Neysmith, also a co-captain and four year starter,
finished his senior year as the teams leading
rebounder, second in the conference. He finished
his UMass career as the schools number two all-
time scorer and rebounder. These three men have
helped lay the foundation for UMass' return to
respectibility in collegiate basketball. We thank
them and will miss them very much.
The NUMMO NEWS All American Team
Center, Patrick Ewing - Senior, Georgetown (who
else?). Forwards: Keith Lee - Senior, Memphis State.
Wayman Tisdale - Junior, Oklahoma. Guards: Chris
Mullin - Senior, St. John's and Sam Vincent - Senior,
Michigan State.
NUMMO’s underrated All American Team
Center: Benoit Benjamin - junior, Creighton.
Benjamin led the nation in blocked shots, finished
second nationally in rebounding and averaged over
23 points per game. Some pro scouts rate him a
better prospect than Ewing. Benjamin has a good
mentor in his coach; former N.Y. Knick great, Willis
Reed.
Forward: Alfredrick Hughes - senior, Loyola. Hughes
is the fourth all-time scorer in NCAA history! A great
player who can score at will.
Guard: Steve Mitchell - junior, V.A.B. Mitchell is a
great defensive player who averages over 1 8 points
a game and is among the nation's best playmakers.
Guard: Steve Harris - senior, Tulsa. Harris is a great
scorer, averaging over 23 points a game. Some feel
he may be better than Vincent and as good a guard
as Chris Mullin.
Volume 13 Issue 18
Tuesday, April 9, 1985
Planning for the Future Today
Dear Readers and Supporters,
As this semester draws closer to completion and
warm weather finally begins to settle in. many of us
may forget or take for granted that we must continue
to work for the future of our organizations. NUMMO
NEWS and many other organizations, are now
beginning to make plans for the coming school year.
During the past year, the staff of NUMMO has
worked diligently to produce a quality publication
that addresses the needs and concerns of students
of color on this campus. While we have not always
succedded in achieving this goal, the effort and
sincerity has always been present.
Unfortunately, many of us cannot continue our
work here. While NUMMO is very important to us,
we must also begin to place academics and other
personal concerns into the forefront.
Forthose of us who have been involved in NUMMO
for a long time, leaving will be difficult. We hope,
and we are making a plea now. that you, the
members of our community, will begin to take an
active role in the support and continuation of this
vital news organization.
NUMMO is now accepting applications for
production work and nominations ofr .editorial
positions. The work is hard, no doubt, but the
rewards are many. The friendships made, the skills
attained, the knowledge shared and the satisfaction
of knowing that you are contributing to the growth of
your community are just a few of the rewards that we
have all been exposed to. It is time now for new
leadership, new ideas and new commitments to
guide this organization.
But it can't be done without you, without all of us
working together. This Apr.l 25th will mark the
tenth year anniversary of NUMMO, a remarkable
accomplishment in itself. Vet to reach our 20th year,
to grow and move forward will not be an easy task.
Right now we depend on the Collegian in order to
publish However, we are coming closer to our goal
of self-sufficiency and if we work together this goal
.and many more, more become reality. So please
come to our office in room 103 New Africa House,
attend our meetings on Monday's and Wednesday s
at 3:30, find out how you can become involved. Oh,
and by the way, work-study and non work-study
paid positions and academic credits are available.
Gospel Music Celebrates Dr. King
by Christopher Allen
Nummo Correspondnet
"We've come this far by Faith," was the theme last
week, as over one hundred people gathered at the
Campus Center Auditorium last Thursday to co-
mmemorate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. on the
1 7th anniversary of his brutal assassination.
Gospel music was the highlight of the evening, as
choirs from all over the area joined together to sing
the praises of God in honor of Martin Luther King
Week. The program began with a candlelight vigil
conducted by all the choirs. Awards were presented
to Amherst Junior High School students for a Martin
Luther King Essay contest and the music began.
UMass’ own Angelic Voices, conducted by Doris
Clemmons, made their debute performance and
received a warm welcolme from the crowd. The
Amherst Gospel choir, the Springfield Community
Choir and the Greater Bethlehem Choir from Newark,
N.J. also gave excellent performances. Soloist
Rhonda Jolly seemed to touch the core of many
hearts with her beautiful selections. As one member
of the audience was heard saying, "Praise God for
such wonderful singing."
The musical voices of soloist Precilia Clemmons
and the Genesis choir along with the words of
wisdom from guest speaker Dr. Brian Mosley, and
evangelist from the Greater Bethlehem Church in
New Jersey, made the evening complete. Special
thanks must go out to Doris Clemmons, CCEBMS
Advisor, who did an excellent job coordinating the
event and helping to make sure the Dream of Martin
Luther Kina lives on.
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NUMMO NEWS
Tuesday, April 9, 198f>
*
Members of the Universal Bodu Karate Academy
pose with master Abdul Mumeet S Sharif (middle photo by David Affonseca
of picture with black gue) at Nope gym.
New Self
Defense Class
A new style of Karate is being taught at the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst - The
Universal Budu System of Karate created by Abdul
Mumeet S. Sharif.
Abdul Mumeet S. Sharif, who is the only holder of a
tenth degree Red belt in this system, is the founder
of the Universal Budo Karate Academy. Sharif, a ,
proud Vietnam veteran and a Muslim, created this
system in 1 963 and it was recognized by the World
Professional Karate Academy in 1973.
Sharif said that he began the martial arts atthe age
of eight. He also added that self-defense is not new
to his family, "The art of self-defense has been
taught for many years in my family. I come from a
family of warriors," aid Sharif.
When he was asked what led him to teach karate
he replied, "It was the physical rehabilitation
program at Westover, Massachusetts that started
me teaching karate." At this program Sharif was
recovering physically from leg and knee surgery for
combat injuries he recieved in Vietman.
From his first school, which is located in
Springfield, Mass., the Universal Budo Karate
Academy had grown and expanded nationally. Sharif
said that he has personally taught over 1,000
students and over 3,000 students have been trained
under his system. He has also taught students from
several countries, and the Karate Academy has
schools from New York to California. However, rapid
expansion was not Sharif's first priority. "We kept it
small for a reason, to bring quality instruction to
students," he said. Also Sharif is now teaching for f
the town of Amherst whose students have evaluated
him most highly.
Sharif then emphasized that even though martial
arts schools are widespread in America, many of
them fail to provide quality instruction to students.
"We need morals and ethics in these schools," said
the Master of self-defense. His observations of
drinking and smoking in other martial arts schools
led him to that conclusion.
This attitude of speaking the truth to correct the
wrong is even displayed in his patriotism, "I don’t go
along with all that is advocated, but I do believe in
the U.S. Constitution and its defense," remarked
Sharif. He then added, "I have ancestors who died
for this country. We must stand up and live for truth.
I am against Communism and Nazism. We must
speak out against wrong against all nationalities."
Furthermore, he said that he is directly opposed to
the overthrow of the U.S. government because it is
the last existing democracy on the Earth in his
opinion.
Since leaving the military he has not carried a fire
arm. When he was asked why he chose not to, he
replied, "If you become familiar with your feet and
your hands that's all you need. We teach you how to
take weapons away from the aggressor." In fact, a
part of Universal Budo Karate Academy’s oath,
which is said at the opening and closing of class,
states that they do not carry and weapons, but will
use any the attacker has with them.
The Universal System is very rigorous, but the hard
work does pay off. One such person it has paid off for
is Dick Vita, who has studied under Sharif for seven
years. Vita will also be a head instructor for the
NorthEast Region.
In concluding, Sharif had a warning for those who
intend to join the Universal Budo Karate Academy
and intend to use karate negatively. "If we find out
that are a bully we will excomunicate you. OUr
main objective is to turn out descent human beings
for humanity."
The Brothers in Vietnam
by Rod Clare
Nummo Staff
It was "a war like no other we ever fought.. .If we
had listened to the vets when they came home, we
could have moved this country forward a hundred
years in human relations, "Wallace Terry, famed
author of Bloods, said in reference to the Vietnam
War in front of a capacity filled Student Union
Ballroom last Monday.
Bloods is Terry's critically acclaimed book on
Black soldiers in Vietnam and in it a sense of the
history of the Black man's struggle for recognition in
America can be seen. Terry's lecture also strived for
an integration of Blacks into the Ameri-
can mainstream. He started by recounting the
history of Black participation in all of America's wars
of which he has not received his due recognition.
Talking about his own growing up years, Terry said
that from the movies he saw it seeded "white
soldiers were invincible and Black soldiers were
invisible." When Terry was sent to Saigon to cover
the war as a TIME magazine correspondent he said
he "found Blacks were everywhere." Even though
Blacks made up a sisproportionately high number of
the fatalities, with the frontlines being cal — led
"soulville" at first. Blacks filled in all kinds of duties
in an integrated army and he felt that e-
equality between the races had finally come about.
Then a new breed of Black soldiers came along.
When the dr~ft was implemented to increase the
fighting forces. Black youths from the ghettos who
were knowledgeable on Malcolm X and Richard
Wright were coming into the armed forces. These
"Bloods" formed bonds of friendship that were very
strong. Stated Terry, "When they saw confederacy
flags or cross burnings they rebelled, held meetings,
dev-eloped their own handshakes, and even their
own flags."
"Nobody was as cool as the Bloods" said Terry.
With wonderment in his voice, he noted that the
Bloods wore black beads, black arm-bands, black
berets instead of helmets, and even black sunshades
while fighting in his jungle.
However even the coolest of the cool sometimes
needed a crutch to fall back on. Some took to
alcoholism, some to drug dependency, and others to
overeating. Being a Blood also meant facing death
quicker because units with Bloods were almost
always up on the front line as the coveted rear
assignments were few and far between for Blacks in
general. There was also additional pressure from the
Ndrth Vietnamese who stated that Blacks should go
back to the U.S. and fight for their rights instead of
killing off another people of color.
When the Bloods came back to the U.S. after their
tour of duty, Terry noted that either no one cared
about what happened to them or they were scorned
for participating in a war that Terry said "we had no
business being in."
Terry said regrettfully that it is just now that
veterans are getting the recognition that they de-
serve whether their cause was right or wrong. He
also stated that his book has been misunderstood
and that he wrote his book first as a human drama,
second as an American story and third as Black
history which noted the coming together of the two
races on the front races.
Tuesday. April 9. 1985
NUMMO NEWS
Page 3
The Truth About History
It was the Nile Valley specialist. Dr. Yosef ben-
Jochannan who delivered the keynote speech at the
Ancient African Civilizations Conference in March at
Chicago State University.
Much of Dr. Ben's speech dealt with the many
myths and distortions that exist in African history.
One such myth that he discussed was the one in
which the African Moses is credited of recieving the
Ten Commandments from the God Jehovah. He said
that the Ten Commandments are ten laws that have
been copied from the Forty-Two Negative Con-
fessions and have been subsequently credited to
Moses. These Forty-Two Negative Confessions can
be seen in the Tomb of Rameses the VI in the Valley
of the Kings in Ta-Merry, or what is commonly
known as Egypfc
From this Dr. Ben moved to the myth of European
Jews building the pyramids. He asked, "Which
German built a pyramid in Egypt? Which Pole?
Which Czechoslovakian? Which Russian built a
pyramid in Egypt? Adam and Eve was not mentioned
when the first pyramid was buiilt. Abraham was not
born when the last pryamid was built."
Dr. Ben then added that such information about the
Negative Confessions and African people building
the pyramids is not taught in colleges and uni-
versities, even those which have Black Studies
Programs. "I am not knocking down the Black
Studies Program. The intent was good, but it got
screwed up in the works. Certain people started
teaching there and universities were saying to
teachers, you teach Home Economics'. Well, in the
morning your teaching Black Studies," stated Dr.
Ben.
Not only was Dr Ben critical about the current state
of the Black Studies program, but he was also critical
of those Blacks who "begged" for a national holiday
for the late Dr. Martin Luther King. Dr. Ben said that
this act was "cowardly" and "dastardly" because, "it
bismirches the character of Dr. King." He added that,
"The Irish did not ask for a day, they took one. An
Italian got lost,, and the Italians took a day for a man
who got lost, and didn't have to go to Washington,
the British did not give George Washington and
O.B.E. for being polite to them; they gave it to those
who fought for Britian. No way does a society award
those who fought against it. I am so glad that
Malcolm did not suffer such a fate, to have a
president give him a day," expressed Dr. Ben.
Dr. Ben then asked some critical questions. "What
is it that Hitler did that Victoria didn’t do? What is it
that Hitler did that George Washington didn’t do? Is
it when you keep an African in slavery it isn't slavery
but when you keep a European in slavery it is
slavery?" asked Dr. Ben.
Adding to this he said that the reason why such
people as Alexander the Great and Catherine the
Great are called "Great" is that they killed mainly
Asians and Africans. However, if they had killed
mainly Europeans, as Hitler did, they would not be
called great at all, he added.
Dr. Ben ended his lecture in an extraordinary way. He
got all of the Black men to say: "Black woman, I love
you." Dr. Ben believes that the Black man has to
show more respect and love for the Black woman as
we did once in the ancient period of the Nile Valley.
SPORT TALK
by Julian Tynes
Nummo Staff
On Mon/Jay, April 1 5th, one of the best fights of the
last ten years will be held. "Marvelous" Marvin
Hagler will attempt to defend his undisputed
middleweight championship of the world against
Thomas "Hitman" Hearns. The possobilities of this
fight are so intriguing that many experts rate it dead
even. First a look at the fighters:
Hearns is taller, faster and younger. Hagler,
however, is stronger; a natural middleweight who
has never been knocked out. Hagler usually starts off
slow. Hearns comes out the "Hitman ", look ng for an
early KO. Hearns is supposed to be vunerable to
body punchesa, while Hagler stalks the body.
However, Hagler has never fought anyone with the
combination of size, speed, reach and power that
Hearns has, and will have to overcome these factors
to get to Hearns' body.
Hagler was tagged repeatedly with overhand rights
in his Roberto Duran fight (which he won by
decision). The overhand right os Thomas Hearns'
best punch. However, Hearns did not look im-
pessive against full middleweights like Murray
Sutherland. Hagler supporters say, "If Hearns
couldn't stop Sutherland how will he stop the
Marvelous one?" Hearns supporters point to his
outstanding 'ictory over Duran and Fred Huthchings
and say, "The Hitman is Back."
Well I'm not going to cop out and predict a draw. I
predict that Thomas Hearns will defeat Hagler to win
the Middleweight Championship of the world. Why?
One reason is Hearns is younger, faster and has a
longer reach. The other reason is that Hearns is a
master boxer. He defeated Pipino Cuevas, he was
beating Sugar Ray Leonard (out boxing him) until he
ran out of gas (from dehydration). He defeated
Wilfredo kBenitez with one hand (the other one was
broken) and he destroyed Roberto Duran.
The best fighter Hagler had fought is probably
Duran. Hearns had been in more of the big money
fights and will not let the pressure get to him.
Because of this Thomas Hearns should be the next
Middleweight Champion.
Tribute To Leadership
by Christopher Allen
Nummo Staff
For more than three years John Ruddock has been
an active member of the student senate and other
Third World organizations. "Effective time manage-
ment is necessary to maintain good standing with the
University. If people involve themselves in extra-
curricular activities, that experience will assist them
later in their carrers." Such were the words of John
Ruddock, J.R. as he is affectionally called, a 20 year
old senior here at UMass who frequents the Student
Union Buliding, especially the fourth floor where the
Senate office is located.
Being a native of New York, Ruddock attended
Public School until due to what was termed his
"disruptiveness in class" he was put through a test
which resulted in him being reffered out of the public
School to St. Anne's School, which is a small alter-
native private school for gifted children in Brooklyn
Heights, New York.
In 1980, after he had exhausted the resources
available, J.R. was transferred to Elizabeth Seeger
High School; a small high school in Greenwhich
Village, N.Y. where he completed his high school
education.
In high school he recieved an Intelligence Quotent
(I.Q.) of a162 rating and was declared a young genius.
Owing to his superb academic achievement, Rud-
dock was accepted at Syracuse University where he
has intended to have a double major in Enginnering
and Physics. However; after attending the summer
program at Syracuse and a visit to the UMass cam-
pus, he decided to make the University of
Massachuetts at Amherst his place of abode.
As Ruddock said, "Certain other factors which led
to my choice of UMass over Syracuse were the land
scope,theliberal atmosphere in the Pioneer Valley and,
ironically now, the ample financial aid packet that was
offered to me by this University."
Ever since his arrival here at the University in
September of 1981, Ruddock has never ceased work-
ing and getting involved with various organizations. In
1982 he became the pioneer, along with Patti O'Niel
and Olivia llano, of UHURU; a black organization of
Third World artists.
Among the many organizations on campus that
J.R. has been actively involved in are the Afriken-
American Students Society, the Duke Ellington Com-
mittee, Union Program Council, Students for Jesse
Jackson and the Student Government Association.,
including the Third World Caucus.
Ruddock has been more than simply involved with
the Third World Caucus. He is by far a dependable
'corner post' in the Caucus. As a good politician
knows the 'tactics' of reaching the masses Ruddock
has done likewise. He started WZZZ a small 1 watt
radio station in Southwest, from where he was able to
entertain and inform the public with the assistenace of
the Black Mass Communications Project and
W.M.U.A.
Freetime, sparetime or leisuretime for J.R. is
something he has not yet experienced. Recently as a
result of a success and proven leadership and ability to
bring diverse groups together. Ruddock was elected
speaker of the Undergraduate Student Senate.
To the masses of students at UMass Ruddock en-
courages them to become involved in the resources
that are available to them, especially Third World
students.
* * * NUMMO STAFF • * •
Segun C. Eubanks
Editor In Chief
Marilyn G. Bou
Managing Editor
Administrative Assistant
Judie Russ
Typesetter
Lisa Vlega
Business Manager
David L. Walker
Photo Editor
Julian tynes
SportsEditor
Rod Clare
International Reporter
Christopher Williams
Researcher
* * • i
Contributors • * •
Ed Cohen
Photographer
David A. Affonseca
Photographer
Dwayne E. Deed
Photographer
Yvonne Mendez
Layout
Christopher Allen
Correspondent
David G. DuBois
Faculty Advisor
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NUMMO NEWS
Tuesday, April 9, 1985
Announcements Announcements
"The Far World Comes Near"
WEST INDIAN THEATER STAGED AT
UMASS
The New WORLD Theater at the
University of Masschusetts at Amherst
will close its spring season with a pro-
duction of "Moon on a Rainbow Shawl"
on April 11-13 and April 18-20 at 8:00p.m.
each evening in Hampden Theater.
Set in Trinidad, this internationally ac-
claimed play by Errol John is a powerful
portrayal of Carribean culture. A
humorous and bitter sense of life
permeates the themes of kinship,
rebellion, robbery, pregnancy, prostitu-
tion, and love. A classic of West Indian
theater, "Moon on a Rainbow Shawl" is
directed by Dian Mandle.
Tickets may be reserved in advance at
the Fine Arts Center Box Office by call-
ing 545-2511 or may be purchased at the
door the night of the each performance.
Ticket prices are $4.00 for the general
public and $2.00 for students.
GRANDOPENINGI GRAND OPENING!
Yvonne's CARIBBEANA
The Pioneer Valley's Only Carribean
restaurant
*featuring multi-cultural cuisine*
Carribean
African
East Indian
Chinese
American
Sundays-lnternational Brunch-Jazz
Hours:
Monday-Thursday 11:00a.m. -9:00p.m.
Friday-Saturday 9:00a.m. -1:00a.m.
Sunday 10:00a.m. -9:00p.m.
206 Russel Street
(Route 9)
Hadley, Massachusetts
Next to Soda City
-ON BUS LINE-
The Third World Woman's Program
at the Everywoman's Center will
be sponsoring:
Latin Woman's Issues Group. This group
will meet for eight weeks, on Tuesday
evenings from April 14-25 and Sunday
evenings from May 2-16, 1985,7-9p.m.
Asian Women's Issues Group. This
group will meet on Tuesdays and Sun-
days from April 2-21, 1985, and will be
facilitated by Chong Yu.
Black Woman's Issues Group. This
group will meet beginning March 27
through May 8, 1985, on Wednesdays
from 7-9p.m. and will be facilitated by
Renata L. Nero.
Third World Lesbian Issues Group. This
group will meet Monday evenings from
March 25-May 13, 1985 and will be
facilitated by Anita (Nancy) Pleasant,
from 7-9p.m.
The groups will meet at the
Everywoman's Center.Wilder Hall 2nd
floor. Pre-registration is required for
group and childcare. To sign up and for’
more information feel free to call Third
World Women's Program at 545-0883. No
fee required.
NUMMO
A photographic exhibition based on the
work of Joel Halpern, a professor of an-
thropology at the University of
Massachusetts, and Sam Pettengill. a
University of Massachusetts student,
will be shown from April 4-15 at the
Wheeler Gallery, located in Wheeler
House, at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst.
"The Far World Comes Near" focuses
on the two worlds of the Loation people,
the worlds of Before and After. The
world of Before is that of the Kingdom
of Laos before 1975, as photographed by
Joel Halpern before the most recent war
in Indochina. These photographs from
the old country touch on religous life in
the royal capital of Luang Prabang, as
well as aspects of village life. As a
counterpoint, the world of After, as
presented by Sam Pettengill, depicts the
Laotian people in New England as new
Americans. These photographs depict
the parallel processes of intergration in-
to American life, and the simulataneous
maintenance of valued traditions on the
part of New England's newest ethnic
group.
Wheeler Gallery is open: Sunday -
Thursday 7:00p.m. and Tuesday EtThurs-
day 12:30 - 2:30p.m.
CRISIS IN SOUTH AFRICA
The Failure of "Constructive Engage-
ment"
April 8. 1985
8:00p.m.
Johnson Chapel
Amherst College
by Randell Robinson
Mr. Robinson is Executive Director of
TransAfrica, a black foreign policy lobby
in Washington, D.C. He has been the
chief organizer of the recent nation-wide
protests against aparthied in South
Africa.
UMOJA GREEK STEP SHOW II AND
PARTYI
April 20th. 1985
Step Show starts at 8:00p.m. in the Cam-
pus Center Auditorium., UMASS,
Amherst.
1st Place Prize $400.00
For Frats and Sororities
THE PARTYI!
Starts at 10:00p.m. until 7 in the Student
Union Ballroom
Admission: is $4.00 for each event
Greeks get 1 dollar off Step Show
only
People from Step pay $2.00 for Par-
ty
Both events Non-Greeks
$6.0O-Greeks $5.00
For More Info Contact:
James Lewis (413)737-1077
Richard Harrigan 1-Phi-Theta 546-5668
Nigel Lewis 1-Phi-Theta 546-7597
John Johnson 1-Phi-Theta 546-6777
Roscoe Robinson Phi-Beta-Siqma
546-6811
Nady Pierre KAY 546-7555
Donna Edmond AKA 584-2700
Ext. 4573
Directions:
From Boston: Take the Mass. Pike West
to 91 North to Exit 19. Make a right.
From Conn: Take 91 North to Exit 19,
make a right turn. Follow signs to
UMASS.
Conference For Mli.norities Interested In
Law
Western New England College School
of Law will present its spring "Minority
Law Day" Saturday April 13, 1985 from
9:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. in the S.Prestley
Blake Law Center.
The twice-yearly conference is design-
ed to provide information to members of
minority groups who are interested in
studying law. Admission is free, and pre-
registration is recommended.
Among the guest speakers will be the
Hon. Reginald Matthews, acting justice
of the Supreme Court of the state of
New York and supervising judge of the
Bronx Family Court: and Beverly J.
Hayes, assistant attorney general. Com-
monwealth of Massachusetts.
Workshops, lectures, and panel
discussions will address such topics as
"How to Choose a Law School", "The
Concerns of Nontraditinal Students",
and "What Do Lawyers Do?". There will
also be a mock law class.
An afternoon panel discussion will
feature Judge Matthews and minority
attorneys. They will discuss the practice
of law, the skills that law school
teaches, the problems of placement, and
the need for minority lawyers.
The day will end with a reception for
the participants. For more information,
or to pre-register for "Minority Law
Day.''callthe Law School Admissions Of-
fice at 1413) 782-3111.ext.406.
Western New England College School
of Law, serving 860 law students each
year, is the only Massachusetts law
school outside of Greater Boston, it is
located on the campus of Western New
England College, 1215 Wilbraham Road
in Springfield.
Pledgees of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc.
painting the walls of the New Africa House Library.
The fraternity did this as a community service.
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Tuesday, April 23,1985
Volume 13 Issue 19
A TRIBUTE TO A LEADER
by Marilyn G. Bou
Nummo Staff
The prinicipal leader of the Non-Violent Civil
Rights Movement in America was honored in a re-
dedication ceremony of the center named after him
in Orchard Hill at the University of
Massachusetts/Amherst.
Ernest Allen, professor of Afro-American studies
said although he praises King for developing the
world-wide respect gained through the non
violence. Allen said, "to be a true believer you must
be able to withstand someone sticking a lit
cigarette in your neck and not reating violenlty."
Allen pointed out that during the period of when
the Civil Rights Movement was most active, the
U.S. was trying to demostrate to the world what a
democratic nation it was. Allen said. Yet. he
continued, the media world-wide was showing
people get-
ting bitten by dogs, hosed down by firemen and
clubbed while being carried away by police.
"Students played a vital role in the Civil Rights
Movement. Youths by nature is impetous. Too
many people from my generation Allen said, "have
mellowed out, perhaps as you get older you mellow
out."
Students made and recieved great strides as
members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee(SNCC) and the Southern Christian
Leadership Conferecne (SCLC). as they engaged in
sit-ins and other non-violent acts.
"How could you go into a segregated restaurant
before had a job good enough to pay for it," Allen
said.
Allen in finishing his speech said, "Let us honor
King not only by reading his works, but by practic-
ing the kind of life he attempted to live, in keeping
with the struggle."
The program also included a film of the March on
Washington. It featured footage of crowds of
people gathered peacefully in protest of the segra -
gationist laws still practiced around the country
during the sixties. It highlighted King's "I Have a
Dream"speech.
Consequently, the march was influential in the
passage of the 1 964 Civil Rights Act. "One would
like to say Dr. King’s work is over, but in fact we
have gone to before the sixties. Our work is not
done,” said Allen.
A discussion was held in which the audience
expressed their reactions to the film. Alberto
Valdes, a crescent for the fraternity of Phi Beta
Sigma. said, "We should study people who made
history, study those around us. We tend to^
segregate ourselves; By our majors, our Ian-’
guages. and our skin colors. King made history by
making people go past that and it is our responsi-
bility to keep the lines of communication open
between our peoples. UNITY! Look into it!"
A portrait was dedicated to the Martin Luther
King J r. Center painted by Robert Lynch. Lynch, an
art major is the first black recepient of a four year
scholarship at UMass.
"I wanted to do this (the portrait) a long time ago.
It was an honor for me to do it," Lynch said.
Rudolph F. Miller, a legal studies major, and
Roscoe F. Robinson, president of Phi Beta Sigma,
Inc., UMass/Amherst chapter said "We feel we
have something to do here and a positive force with
which to do it with. Between us, we can move a
mountain."
"Unification is a problem here with the students
of color," they continued,"a goal of ours is to unify
primarily students of color."
The Afro-Latin Musical Experience
by Dan Lewis
Nummo Staff
The annual Jazz All Stars concert was held in the
Fine Arts Center concert hall last Sunday. The
concert opened the Fourteenth Annual Black
Musicians Conference which will run throughout
the year. The conference will feature several
concerts, workshops and recitals including, "The
Bright Moments Festival" and Jazz in July"
workshops.
The Jazz All Stars performance featured
percussionists Mongo Santamaria, Max Roach
and Tito Puente. Tito Puente, referred to as the
King of Latin music, is a pioneer of Latin Jazz. He is
credited with over 120 recordings with his
orchestra and was the recipient of two Grammy
Awards in 1978 and 1983.
Max Roach is considered by many to be one of the
greatest drummers of jazz history. Roach is a
member of the University's Department of Music
and Dance faculty. Roach came to prominence as
a Bebop drummer for Charlie Parker. He later made
award winning recordings with Thelonius Monk,
Dizzy Gillespie. Bud Powell and many others.
Roach's style has influenced several jazz per-
cussionists.
Mongo Santamaria has maintianed an
international reputation as one of the worlds
foremost innovators in Latin percussion. A native
of Cuba, Santamaria has recieved international
reviews and prominent recognition for his ap-
pearances at New York's Lincoln Center, Town
Hall and Madison Square Garden, to name a few.
Santamaria's major instruments are the conga
drums.
The concert was just the beginning of a week of
Afro-Latin entertainment and cultural activities.
On Monday Tito Puente held a workshop in the
Fine Arts Center and the Augusta Savage Gallery in
the New Africa House featured the opening of "The
Movement of Music: A Collective Experience",
the opening included a reception and concert by
Samba Space. The ensemble featured Joe Platz.
Rich Downs, Liz Tiley, John Weeks and Geseles
L'ltalien.
Tonight the Hampden Gallery features the
opening of "Children of Darkness" by Rafael
Morales. Also tonight in the Cape Cod Lounge.
Student Union, four perspectives of Afro-Latin
music can be heard at a panel discussion. The
panel includes Tito Puente. John Storm Roberts,
Marta Moreno Bornell and Enrique Fernandez. The
concert will begin at 7:00pm, admission is free.
On Wednesday and Thursday two films will be
presented on campus free of charge. Wednesday
"Sugar Cane Alley" will be shown at 7:00pm in j
Thompson Hall room 104. "When the Mountain
Trembles" will be shown, in cooperation with
Ahora Caribbean week, on Thursday at the
Campus Center, room 1 64. The film will be shown
at 6:00 and 9:00 pm.
On Friday Pablo Landrum will hold a vocal and
percussion workshop at the Fine Arts Center in the
music wing, room 44. The workshop will begin at
11:15 am. The week's activities will end on Friday
night with the 8th annual Solos and Duos concert.
Pablo Landrum and Theresa Folks-Pliar will per-
form in the Cape Cod Lounge of the Student Union
at 8:00 pm.
kEach of the Art exhibihits will remain open
through the week. Here are the galleries opening
and closing times:
Augusta Savage Memorial Gallery, first floor of
New Africa House - Mon. thru Fri., 10am to 4pm.
Hampden Gallery. Hampden Commons, South-
west - Mon. thru Fri., 8am to 4pm.
The Annual Black Musicians Conference is a
project of the Fine Arts Center, along with many (
other campus wide organizations the FAC has
worked very hard to bring both Latin and African ,
cultural events to the University. Your attendance ,
will be appreciated at all these events. *
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NUMMO NEWS
Tuesday, April 23, 1985
s Eddie Murphy Hits Mass.
He's funny but controversial
by Christopher Allen
Nummo Staff
In the first of two shows at Brandeis University
n Wednesday night, comedian Eddie Murphy
oved that he is really two people. One is a man
whose schizophrenic closet of personalities is so
raordinarily varied and well-timed as to defy
mparison.
The second is a schoolboy who thinks bodily
functions and things you do in the bathroom are
just about the funniest thing going. The combo
provided enough to entertain and offend everyone.
Murphy has never avoided contrversy and he
dealt with the picket line of students outside the
school's Shapiro Gymnasium who were protesting
his jokes about AIDS and homosexuality.
"I was in another state when I read this
controversy,” Murphy told a crowd of about 2,000
people. "I expected to come here and be sur-
rounded by 2,000 faggots.”
Protesters posters read 'Eddie Murphy: Reagan
Court Jester,' 'Eddies Ignorance and Insensi-
tivity Harm Everybody,' and 'Say No to Sexism.'
Murphy strode confidently on stage and
declared, "People don't understand my comedy. I
make jokes at everybody. I'm not anti-anything.
I'm just pro-humor. I never say anything bad about
faggots, I just think they.re funny people."
M urphy laughed at comments from members of a
Brandeis University Lesbian and Gay Coalition
who asked him to turn over his $60,000 fee to the
Boston Aids Action Committee.
"Ha," the 24 year old comedian taunted, besides,
it's 50,000."
After Murphy explained to the audience about his
personality, the show was a wild impressionistic
roller-coaster ride of humorous attacks on
anything from personal hygiene to famous
personalities, such as Mr. T.("The man does not
look stable. Anybody who would cut his hair like
that would cut your hair like that.") and boxer Leon
Spinks advertising candy ("Peppermint Patties is
the most goodiest.") were sidesplitters.
Even when he attacked the tougher subjects of
venereal disease, oral sex and masturbation ("It's
natural, free, American and here for you.") his wild
irreverence and schoolboy fervor made the jokes
seem to be taken no more seriously than locker
room kidding.
Members of the school's programming board,
who arranged for Murphy's visit, said in a
statement released prior to his appearance , that
the University is "an open community, and
certainly anyone within the community is free to
make a personal statement."
There's no question about it. Eddie Murphy can
be offensive. But, if truth be told, life is offensive
and anyone who can make you laugh and rid your
mind of disease, hunger and strife for even just a
few minutes, we can,t do without.
Murphy also appeared at the Springfield Civic
Center on Thursday night.
Jamacians Skeptical Elections Near
But inside the ghettos old hostilities are quickly
rekindled. After a snap election was called b Seaga
in 1983 while at a peak in popularity after his
strong support for the United States-led invasion
by Christopher Allen
Nummo Staff
Five years after the last of three bitter national
elections ripped through the slums, spewing gang
warfare and gunfire between militant followers of
socialist Prime Minister Michael Manley and
conservative challenger Edward Seaga these rival
communities are still fiercely loyal to their
respective heroes.
As the prospect of a new electoral contest looms
again, with Manley promising a summer challenge
to now Prime Minister Edward Seaga, some
Jamaicans worry that the urban violence could
flare again in these gritty party strongholds.
From the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP), Hyacinth
Bloyd, a community worker in Tivoli Gardens, a
section of western Kingston, asserted, 'We are all
united here because of Mr Eddie. He turned this
area from a slum to a monument. The other party
tried to break our spirit, but people here rejected
them totally, and we always will.'
Tivoli Gardens, the low income development, was
built 20 years ago with the help of Edwward Seaga
who has ever since represented this area in
Parliament.
Portia Simpson, one of Manley's top aides
said,"until our party comes back in power, we will
do everything in our power to keep that spirit alive.
Our people are being victimized by the present
government, and they know Michael would never
let them suffer like this."
In many ways the two communities exemplify
the powerful patronage system that has dominated
Jamaican politics since the island's two major
parties were founded in the 1940s. While Manley
is seen as an idealistic social reformer and Seaga
as a business like elitist, both men have built
equally strong followings among Kingston's poor
residents.
In the past several years, the rivalry between
these two communities has been largely confined
to verbal inuendo and snipping: "Manley is a
communist," "Seaga rewards certain neighbor-
hoods with jobs and garbage collection, a person
isn't safe if he wanders into the opposition's turf."
In middle class communities analysts say
Jamaicans disillusioned with extremist and
personality cult politics are turning away from the
two traditional parties in record numbers: a recei.t
poll showed 35 percent of the voters 'undecided' in
a hypothetical contest between Manley and
Seaga.
Professor Michael Thelwell of the Afro-American
Studies Department does not think ther will be an
election before 1988 because of the Prime
Minister Seaga's determination to remain in
power.
In 1980, Jamaica turned to Mr. Seaga a Harvard
educated sociologist to restore calm and economic
vitality. Mr. Seaga's Jamaican Labor Party won 51
of the 60 seats in Parliament. As one of the first
official acts Mr. Seaga broke diplomatic relations
with Cuba. He has become one of the Reagan
Administration's closest allies.
of Grenada, "Bogus Government" slogans ap-
peared instantly throughout the west side. With
deep personal and party loyalties dividing most
poor voters the two leaders, few people believed
Jamaica will soon see a return to it's traditional
quiet transfer of electoral power.
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* * * NUMMO STAFF * * *
Segun C. Eubanks
Marilyn G. Bou
David Moore
[Sorter
David L. Walker
Rod Clare
Editor In Chief
Managing Editor
Administrative Assistant
Typesetter
Photo Editor
International Reporter
Contributors
Ed Cohen
Yvonne Mendez
Christopher Allen
David G. DuBois
★
Photographer
Layout
Correspondent
Faculty Advisor
Address all letters to the Editor to: Nummo News,
New Africa House Room 103
In conjuction with this year's Black Musicians
Conference, a documentary entitled "The 13th
Annual Black Musicians Conference: A Tribute to
Mary Lou Williams" will be shown by the Union
Video Center this Tues-Thurs.. April 22-24 from 1
to 2 pm.
The program can be seen on the television sets
outside the Hatch, and next to the mini-store in the
Student Union building.
Tuesday, April 23, 1985
NUMMO NEWS
Sigma Gamma Rho, a participating aorority of the Umoja Greek Step Show on Saturday
Umoja Graak Stap Show doing their step at the Apri| 20th a, UMass/Amherst.
Letters to the Editor
I am white. Today, April 8, 1985, I read Nummo
News for the first time I was tired of seeing it in
the trash and hearing racist jokes about it and not
knowing exactly what it was. I wanted to be a little
more aware of what is going on. I was surprised
because an article directly related to me. I was
also disgusted when I read it. It was the article
with the headline "The Whitmore Sit-in: Two
Perspectives." I would like to address both views.
I assume the first student was Black. The first
statement was that "Th* si»-in. .was not our bat-
tle." To put it simply, it was every students battle
against the administration totally disregarding
student input. You could have come to the sit-in
and stated how you felt. Was staying away your
revenge? If you want "liberal" white students to
work with you, then why don't you make an effort
to work with them? Why don't you educate us
about what needs to be changed and how to do it?
Afterall, like you stated, you are the ones "who
vitally understand the concept and the need for
change." I invite you to educate me, to give me
your input, to help me work with you for a change
for the better.
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Each year the CCEBMS PrograrSn
sponsors, as part of the Family Da'dy-
activity, the honoring of a student who
has made the greatest service contribu-
tion to the Third World community.
This award, the Shirley Graham DuBois
Service to Community Award, is one in
which students nominate and elect
candidates. This is an important award,
as the recipient is chosen by his/her
peers.
All CCEBMS students are eligible.
The winner will recieve an engr-
plaque to be presented at C.CE
Family Day.
Ballots can be picked up in roo
New Africa House. Return .compld
forms to the same place by Friday Ap
26, 1985.
I also, in turn, must assume the second view
written by a white student. You were just as ba
don't think the Third World was letting me do thei
work for them. We must ail do our work together
Why must it be known that they "blew it?"
According to them WE "blew it!" We are both
working, why can't we work together?
I think both letters were a big mistake. They just
pointed fingers at the other group. Let's learn from
these letters and past mistakes, no matter whose
fault, that is not important. What is important, that
we work together. Everyone should ask not only
themselves but of others, "What can I do to help?"
That is what I am doing with this letter, taking the
first step. Will someone tell me what I can do to
help?
Frank E. Bowrys III
Learning Civil Rights Firsthand
Students in two Afro-Am classes, studying
political science and the Civil Rights Movement
with professors Strickland and Thelwell respect-
ively, met together to hear firsthand about the
experiences of one white volunteer in the 1964
Mississippi Freedom Summer. That year, when
most of the students in the classes were less than
five years old, Alan Schiffman and approximately
800 other Black and white volunteers went to
Mississippi to work for the council of Federated
Organizations (COFO). They worked on voter
registration, organizing the Mississippi Freedom
Democratic Party, providing health care (often the
first that people had had), and teaching in Freedom
Schools.
Schiffman arrived in Nashoba County, Mississ-
ippi in August, just after the bodies of Schwerner,
Chaney, and Goodman, murdered by the local
Sheriff, were found after having been missing for
six weeks. On that note began what Schiffman
describes as "the most incredible and intense
learning experience of my life." He was at the time
a graduate student in philosophy at Princeton, a
highly educated product of America." And yet, he
knew nothing of Black culture or history, because,
in America these are systematically and inten-
tionally not taught.
While in Nashoba County. Sc hiffman spent most
of his time talking with people, trying to get them
attempt to register to vote and to be active in the
MFDP, and teaching math and French in the
Freedom School. Ath same time, Schiffman was
exposed to a wholly new framework for under-
standing the world. Schiffman and many other
volunteers were learning about the importance of
the church, of music, and of collectivity in the
Black community. And they were learning that dirt
poor, often illiterate rural Blacks had sophisticated
techniques of social organization, political anal-
ysis, decision making, and communication, to
which they had never before been exposed. It was
in Mississippi that they were firsrt exposed to
"radically democratic" organizing. While the-
volunteers brought and taught certain skills useful
in dealing with the white Mississippi power-
structure, they learned by experience that "ordi-
nary people carry within there own traditions that
which is needed to free thenselves. and to develop
a better life for themselves." Because of this.
Professor Thelwell emphasized, the goal of vol-
unteers was. "to organize ourselves out of a job."
When asked about the results of Freedom
Summer 64, Schiffman cited four main areas of
accomplishment: (1) empowerment of local Black
leaders and power structure, (2) media attention
temporarily reduced white violence, (3) emotional
and intellectual impact on the volunteers them-
selves, and (4) connections were made and
networks established which are still in use today in
the protracted struggle for a truely democratic
society.
Many volunteers had gone to Mississippi
thinking of problems there as isolated, as not
representative of America in general. But there
they came to see that the "struggle for social
justice... would ultimately direct itself to the forms
of power in the United States." Although he has
maintained contact with some of his comrades
from those days, including professors Strickland
and Thelwell, Schiffman has not visited Nashoba
County in many years. However, "Bloody
Nashoba" as it was nicknamed during Movement
days, remains in the news. In 1 980, it was chosen
as the sight for Ronald Reagan's Presidential
campaign kick-off. Reagan has clearly learned
something about the importance of "Bloody
Nashoba". and so should we.
Kathryn Courtland Millis
NTJMMO
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Editor’s note:
The following is an excerpt and reprinting of respec-
tive articles of the first NUMMO newspaper. Many of
our brothers and sisters undertook all obstacles plac-
ed in front of them and overcame them. It is now our
responsibility to respect our history ; therefore the
struggle undertaken to attain NUMMO must never be
forgotten,
Why and how NUMMO NEWS came to be it Is
best said in the words of the founders.
"...A Black organization calling itself CORE,
launched an investigation of the existing white
media organizations on campus and discovered
that they were operating with no Black student
input Into their respective staffs. Core then pro-
tested and led a 1960's styled sit-in at the white
student newspaper (the Dally Collegian) In order
to force this organization to utilize edequate
Black representation on it's staff. The result of
this action created two positions on the Editorial
Board of the Collegian. Brother Rudy Jones
became the first Black Affairs Editor in the
history of the Collegian and Vangle Brookfield
worked as Assistant Black Affairs Editor.
This move contributed to the growth of BNS
and provided the group with publication
privileges to which they had formely no access.
The following year Brother Sherwood Thomp-
son with the help of Assistant Black Affairs
Editors Cal Wltworth and Sandra Jackson work-
ed constantly, bringing to tha Campus Important
news from local, national and International
scenes.
As popularity and demand developed, the
Editors and staff of BNS ware faced with tha
challenga of providing more complete news
coverage to Black people on campus and sur-
rounding areas. With this demand the creation of
Nummo Newspaper came Into being.
Nummo News is the first Black student weekly
newspaper published at the University of
Massachuetts. Nummo News operates a news
and information medium providing local, na-
tional, and international and cultural informa-
tion. This publication is the basic core, which
records and communicates to Black people, the
essence of protracted struggle, in which we are
engaged.
At the present, the destiny and future of the
NUMMO newspaper and the Black News Service
rests on the shoulders of every concerned Black
person here in Amherst and surrounding areas.
The present situation demands that Black people
step forward and assume the responsibilities of
operating and controlling the voice of the Black
community - NUMMO NEWSpaper.
The Black newspaper has always been in the
march for Justice for the Black race. It corrects
the wrongs and Interprets the direction of the
movement. Although, beceuse Black people fall
to assume full responsibility for making it work,
the Black press suffers the plague of lack of staff
workers and lack of community financial sup-
port. It is that same old blues, we kill our own
creations by falling to support them.
The systematic exclusion of oppressed people,
particulary Black people, from the media Is well
documented. All one has to do Is Just turn the
redlo or television, or read the verious
newspapers and magazines to further substan-
tiate this point.
It is also a fact that the media is one of the
founding pillars of modern civilization, then it Is
imperative that all Black people fully participate
in every aspect of the media.
The realization that we can not allow others to
distort the Imagery of Black people. We can not
continue to look up to others for our vital source
of Information. If we do. we will certainly be mis-
informed and highly mls-educated. We must
maintain a network for communicating our Ideas
and racording daily-waekly naws and Informa-
tion, that affects our lives. A person who does
not know, lives in darkness and a person who
has bean told lies lives a Ufa of make-believe.
NUMMO NEWSpaper, in order to survive must
receive the entire Black community's support in
ther form of staff-workers and community finan-
cial support. By taking an involved attitude
about NUMMMO, we can work energetically
towards building a more cohesive Black Com-
munity.
NUMMO serves to stimulate education and
promote self-determination to tha entire Black
community. One person can not be held respon-
sible for the work that the entire community
must do. It Is going to take an involved majority,
dedicated and serious-minded for us to bring
about a consistent and productive Black
newspaper.
Let us pull our resources together, combine ef-
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Introduction to W.E.B. DuBois as a Historian; A Reassessment.
Almost a decade ago (NUMMO NEWS October
12. 1976) I wrote an essay in an attempt to
introduce a portion of the writings of W.E.B.
DuBois to a new generation of UMass students.
Since that time DuBois' stature has not
diminished, but neither has
there been the widespread dissemination of the
details of his achievements that one would have
anticipated and desired. For that reason I am
offering the essay - with minor revisions once
again in the hope that W.E.B. DuBois can be
removed from that category of scholars who are
much admired, but very much unread.
During thid year of the bicentennial when
virtually every aspect of American life and history is
being assessed and reassessed, it was to be
expected that the Afro-American experience
would receive some attention. Unfortunately, the
kind of attention given the Black experience often
has been as trivial and silly as that given to the
entirety of the American experience. Of the
numerous Black figures not being discussed in the
rush to glorify the Black inventors of ice cream
, the potato chip and the stop light, W.E.B. DuBois
is surely the most prominent.
By and reasonable criteria. Dr. Dubois is surely one
of the greatest scholars and thinkers ever born in the
in the United States, and to discuss the events of a
two hundred-year period without acknowledging the
stature of a man who lived and worked for almost one
hundred of those years is ludicrous.
An equally compelling reason for taking a second
look at the life and workk of Dr. Dubois is a bit more
complex. We are all aware of tghe large amount of
scholarly attention now focukssed on the history and
culture of Afro-Americans as a result of the Civil
Rights Movement, the resukrgence of Black na-
tionalism in the 1960's, and the rise of Black Studies
courses, programs and departments. What is not as
obvious is the existence of a ratgher pervasive ig-
norance of the content of the work of such peoneer-
ing Black schkolars as DuBois, Carter G. Woodson,
A. A. Taylor, Charles Wesley, etc., and the often too
easy dismissal of thkeir work with patronizing and
condescending remarks about "special pleading,"
lack kof sophistication," etc. A careful reading and
re-reading of the historical writing of Dr. DuBois
should held to dispel such notions. The purpose then
of this brief essay is to bring to your attention the
significance of DuBois' approach to the study of
khistory with the hope that students and just beginn-
ing to work in the area of the Afro-American ex-
perience will be more aware that they are not alwayks
plowing virfgln soil or sailing completely unchkarted
seas. A number of pioneering Black scholars, working
under extremely difficult conditions-heavy teaching,
heavy loads, scant financial or institutional support,
lack kof excess to libraries and archives, and the
general perils of a Jim Crow existence-have gone
before.
W.E.B. DuBois was one of the best of these. By
1976, and certainly by 1985, the basic outline of
DuBois' life should be part of ktghe common
knowledge of every American. But taking no chances
let me sumkmarize it briefly. William Edward
Burghardt DuBois was born in Great Barrington,
‘Massachusetts, on February 23, 1868, and died in Ac-
cra, Ghana, on August 27, 1863. He studied at Fisk
University [B. A. ,1888] and Harvard University [B.A.,
1890; PhD. in History, 1895]. He taught at Wilber-
force University [1894-96] and at Atlanta University
[1897-1910; 1934-1944]. Dr. DuBois was a founding
member of the Niagara Movement [1905-1909] and
the N.A.A.C.P. from 1910-1934 as editor of The Crisis
and director of publicity and research, and from
1944-1948 as director of special research. He par-
ticipated in the First Pan-African Conference in 1900,
the First Universal Races Congress in 1911, and spon-
sored Pan-African Congresses in 1919, 1921, 192a3,
and 1927. He served as honorary chairman of the
1945 Congress.
From 1948 to 1961 DuBois was active in various
organizations of the American left: Council of African
Affairs, Peace Information Center, Communist Party.
In 1950 he ran as the U.S. Senate can didate of the
American Labor Party in New York. In 1961 he left the
U.S. to take up residence and citizenship in
Nkrumah's Ghana. As a writer. Dr. DuBois was a
poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, journalist, and
sociologist es well ss an historian.
He wrote twenty-one books, edited fifteen publish-
ed over 100 essays end articles. The Souls of 8 lack
Folk: Essays and Sketches (1903] places him in the
front rank of American essayists. The Philadelphia
Negro: A Social Study [1899], a pioneering investiga-
tion, secures DuBois' reputation as a first-rate
sociologist. To assess the entire corpus of DuBois's
writing is a task far beyond the scope of this piece.
The focus here will be on what DuBois has con-
tributed to the study of Afro-American history.
W.E.B. DuBois's historical writing possess three
characterisitics that coincide with the "new" trends in
Afro-American history. First, Dr. DuBois wrote from
an Afrocentric point of view with a Pan-African scope.
Dr. DuBois, throughout his life, never failed to
acknowledge the significant influence of Africa on the
history and lives of Afro-Americans, on the develop-
ment of western civilization and the New World,
especially the United States, and on the general un-
folding of the history of mankind. From the Suppres-
sion of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of
America 1638 to 1870 [1896] to The World and Africa
[1947] and in virtually every major work in between
Africa had an important place in DuBois' analyses.
Dr. DuBois wrote three general histories of Africa and
the African Diaspora, The Negro [1915]; Black Folk:
Then and Now [1339]; and The World and Africa,
which have yet to be superceded in the era of the
specialized monograph and the predominance of na-
tionalism among historians. DuBois routinely thought
in the comparative crosscultural and diaspora terms
that are not seen as essential to understanding the
Afro-American experience.
The Negro, a volume in the Home University Library
of Modern knowledge, is a brief, but still useful,
survey of the existing state of knowlege about
Africans and peoples of African descent. It begins
with geography and demography, moves swiftly
through ancient Egypt and Ethiopia to the now well
known kingdoms of the Congo, Niger River and
western Sudan. East Africa, Zimbabwe and southern
Africa also receive attention. A relatively lengthy
chapter on African culture [in the anthopological
sense] is followed by chapters on the slave trade and
the settling of the West Indies and Latin America. The
longest chapter is that on "The Negro in the United
States." The concluding chapter discusses the con-
temporary situation of Blacks in the world in which he
anticipates several of Lenin's views on the nature of
imperialism and the "labor aristrocracy."
It was a necessary and pioneering synthesis from
the Afro-American point of view. If it were written to-
day that description would still apply. Black Folk:
Then and Nov/: An Essay in the History and
Sociology of the Negro Race and The World and
Africa are more extensive and refined treatments of
the ideas outlined in the Negro. Black Folk: Then and
Now follows the general format of the Negro but
devotes greater attention to the effects of colonialism
on contemporary Africa.
As in The Negro, DuBois apologizes for the lack of
firm supporting data for some of his conclusions,
while still asserting the need for the work of
synthesis that he is attempting. World War II and
the subseauent upsurge in anticolonial movements
provoked DuBois to once again write on Africa.
The World and Africa, devoted entirely to the
history and comtemporary events on the continent,
is vigorously anticolonial in intent.
The work of the post- 1945 and
post-independence historians of Africa has
resulted in the revision, expansion, and refining of
many of Dubois' specific conclusions. However, no
one has stepped forward to take on the task of
writing a concise yet wide-ranging synthesis of
Africa and the African Diaspora.
A second Characteristic of Dr. DuBois
historiography is that it is genuinely
interdisciplinary. DuBois never accepted the
division of the study of human groups and societies
into separate disciplines. As a student and
throughout his life,
he read and studied widely. All of his works were
informed both by his sense of the historical process
and by a concern for the cultural dimension. The
essays in The Souls of Black Folk (1903) are
perhaps the best introduction to his process. The
Philadelphia Negro, a sociological study,
has a iengthly section on the history of Blacks in
Philadelphia from the colonial period through the
19th century. DuBois is careful to pay some
attention to the historical context of each
institution or practice such as churches, schools,
and businesses
that he discusses. The same is true of most the
Atlanta University Publications. The Negro and
Black Folk: Then and Now of course deal
extensively with African culture
The most interesing blend of historical, economic
and cultural analysis is in The Gift of Black Folk:
The Negroes in the Making of America (1924).
The Gift of Black Folk is an exciting treatment of
what black people meant to the development of
American civilization.
The now well known facts concerning Blacks as
explorers, workers and soldiers are summarized.
Perhaps of greater interest to us today are DuBois'
discussions of the influence of Blacks on U.S.
political thought and institutions, on popular
culture especifically music, and on religious
thought and
practices. The chapter on Reconstruction
anticipates the conclusion of Black
reconstruction in America (1935). DuBois shows
that Blacks and the white treatment of Blacks was
much more pervasive than previous, and most
subsequent, scholars have been willing to admit.
The book is not a history
in the strict academic sense , but a series of essays
in response to the general question: "Who made
America"? DuBois effort to assess the history of
Blacks in America is written as fiction:
The Black Flame: A Trilogy (1957, 1959, 1961).
The ordeal of Mar.sart (1957), Mansart Builds A
School (1959), and Worlds of Color (1961) which
are the life of Manual Mansart (DuBois?) are a
combination of literature, autobiography and
historical commentary on the role of Blacks in the
U.S. and the world from 1876 to 1956.
DuBois'use of rather unique combination of
literary form.e.g. novels and assays to present his
ideas has been used
as a justification for not taking him seriously as an
historian. But those who would look to works such
as William Styron's Confessions of Nat Turner for
truths about slavery would be on much firmer
ground using The Gift of Black Folk and The Black
Flame
Flame and the essays in The Souls of Black Folk
and Darkwater: Voices From Within The Veil
(1921) as guides to an understanding of American
Society.
A final characteristic of Dr. DuBois'
historiography is that he offers ideas on a number
of historical problems that still deserve attention. I
have mentioned The Gift of Black Folk and its
challenging thesis on the influence of Blacks on
American Civilization. But it is Black
Reconstruction in America (1935) that contains a
wealth of forward looking insights. The basic
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Monday, April 29.1906
Continued from page 2
thesis of Eric Williams' Capitalism and Slavery is
that(p. 5) many of the conclusions of the new work
on slavery by such scholars as Kenneth Stampp,
Eugene Genovese, John Blassingame and George
Rawick are there. DuBois saw that in contrast to
the West Indies in the U.S. south "it paid to
conserve the slave and let him multiply (p. 4). He
anticipates Genovese' discussions of the
psychological effects of slavery and made the
same comparisons
with the conditions of northern workers. DuBois'
chapter on "The Planter" is as insightful a
discussion of the nature of planter hegemony as
can be found in Genovese and has yet to be given
the credit due it. DuBois conclusions (if not his
terminology) of the role Blacks during the Civil War
and Reconstruction have held up far better than
those of his racist contemporaries.
His conclusions as to be the reasons for the failure
of Reconstrucction are sound. The conclusions
concerning the "Counter-Revolution of Property"
and "Black Toward Slavery" have not been
repudiated, nor have been those on “The
Propaganda of History" which should be required
reading for all students of American as well as
Afro-American history.
In calling -for a reassessment and
re-reading of DuBois, I am not suggesting that he
be read as the last word on any particular subject.
DuBois himself addressed the same problem e.g.
Africa, Reconstruction, etc. at different times, in
different ways. DuBois' historical writings are not
the last words, but often the first, and always
interesting and profound.
John H.
W.E.B. DuBois
Afro-American
Bracey, Jr.,
Department of
Studies
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Lesbian As A Political Choice
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operative Black Cultural Center
They further authorized
students to develop a governing
committee lliat will lx* respon-
sible lor the administrative
ivsponsibililies ol the building s
operation
The Steering Committee was
lormed and the Center began to
lunclion servicing the com-
munity The lirst coordinator.
Vinos Mow was selected im-
mediately following this ap-
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formation fhis publication is the
basic core, which records and
communicates to Black people,
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engaged
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Vol. 4,
Craemen Gathers- Example of the U.S. System of Justice,
'I Don't Have Time To Be Angry'
By W. J. WHEELER
Nummo News Staff
Bill Hampton, surviving brother
of late Chicago Black Panther Party
leader Fred Hampton (who was
killed by Chicago Police 4 a.m. on
December 4, 1969) is presently
touring the U.S. to organize
support to reopen his brother's
case. U.S. District Court Judge
Joseph Sam Perry, who after
previously acquitting the F.B.I. and
other agencies of invotyement in
the case, ordered a hung jury to
acquit the seven policemen who
look part in the raid on Fred
Hampton's apartment at 2237 West
Monrbe St on Chicago's West
Side.
Bill Hamp'on
Bill Hampton spoke briefly before
showing the film "The Murder of
Fred Hampton” in C.C. ,163 at the
University of Massachusetts at
Amherst. After the film presen-
tation Mr. Hampton answered
questions and elaborated on the
case. He stated that his brother's
bodyguard WiHiam O'Neil was on
the payroll of the F.B.I. as an in-
formant. He stated that this was
not known at the time of the trial
but was later discovered in
documents during testimony in the
trial. William O'Neil according to
Bill Hampton received $30,000 to
watch the activities of Fred and the
E
Party and, that thats why it was later
proven that Fred was asleep during
the nid. O'Neil had evidehtty put
somethinng into Fred's food, and
even O'Neil admitted that Fred
Hampton didn't use drugs and that
he was paid to drug Chairman Fred
so that Fred would not be able to
defend himself during the raid.
The trial which was in Federal
Court for the past eighteen months
is over, the judge threw out. Bill
Hampton is presently appealing the
judges directed verdict. He feels
that the judge did not have the right
to give the jury a directed verdict
when the jury was in a deadlock
Vukani ikcub/'ne
I.ui5imo i ws 3tp f f
Craeman Gethers was back in
Amherst (Thurs.) for the first time
in over 2 Vi years. He spent the day
talking to students about his case. I
would like to make people aware of
the situation. "All I want is a
chance to present all the evidence,
and I haven't even been given that
right yet. Only bits and pieces of the
evidence has been presented in
court so far.
Craeman Gethers has had two
years taken from his life. According
to Craeman all he wants to do is
"put tne facts up front. What
happened to Craeman can be a
lesson on how this system works.
This situation can happen to
anyone. When asked about his
feelings on still being in jail while his
co-defendant Earl Brown was out
on parole Craeman said, "I don't
think it's fair, how can the same
crime weigh more heavily on one
than on the other. I don't feel that
IF THERE
IS NO
STRUGGLE
THERE IS
NO
PROGRESS!
and that it should have been
declared a mistrial and they should
have been granted a new trial. Bill
stated that he is in the process of
appealing the judge's decision now
and that he expects motions on the
trial to start within the next six
months or a year. The actual work
won't begin until November or
December.
He stated that although it came
out in the trial that the F B I. had
admitted to writing false letters to
cause disruptions between different
black organizations and had tried to
cause conflicts between the
Panthers and the Muslims, people
might ask if all this evidence came
out well, why didn't anything
happen?
Why didn't the judge just convict
the perpetrators of the charges
leveled against them? The people
must remember how corrupt it is
and this was the type of judge that
didn't want people to be bucking
the federal system. In his opinion it
was just to say OK, well we know
the evidence, we know the F.B.I.
did this but we are not going to do
anything because the F.B.I. is
suppose to do those type of things,
and that in this Great America if the
Panthers and other groups are
subversive, the F.B.I. is suppose to
spy on them.
So this was the attitude that was
built around the judges attitude and
the trial. There are twenty eight
detpn dents named in Bill Hamp-
ton's suit two of them are F.B.I.
agents. Bill Hampton stated his
main objectives are to prove.
Number one that the Civil Rights
were violated. Number two. that
they used too much force upon
entering Fred's apartment Number
three, obstruction of justice.
my back is to the wall even though I
know it's completely unfair for me
to be in prison." Despite the in-
justice that has led to two years
being taken from his life Craeman
Gethers does not seem bitter. ”1
have oo time for anger. I have to
concentrate on the situation at
hand and deal with it accordingly
My case is not unusual. It's been
going on since the beginning of
time."
Craeman described his case as
being "in a state of limbo," at the
present time. He has not been able
to do what he wants in his pursuit
to clear his name - put the facts
up front. Right now his defense
fund is in urgent need for money. "I
do have an urgent need for money.
We are just about broke. Money
will make the difference." $1,000
dollars has already been spent on
his defense.
Joan Little Up
For Parole
Again, Decision
Due Nov. 15
RALEIGH, N.C. \UPI\ - Joan
Little, acquitted two years ago of a
murder charge in a widely
publicized trial, became eligible for
parole on a breaking and entering
conviction Friday and state paroles
officials began work on her case.
Luther Mitchell, the case analyst
for the paroles commission han-
dling her case, said she had been
told to anticipate a decision by
about Nov. 15. The decision will be
made by the commission.
It was her second attempt at
parole. A bid for freedom was
rejected late last year, reportedly for
a violation of rules at women's
correctional center in Raleigh
where she is serving her term.
Miss Little, 23, has been working
for a Raleigh dentist under a work-
release program since the spring.
She was acquitted in August,
1975, of a murder charge in the
death of Beaufort County jailer
Clarence Alligood.
She testified she was fending off
a sexual attack at the jail where she
was awaiting an appeal of a 1974
breaking and entering conviction.
She has served 26 months of her
7-to 10-year sentence for a breaking
and entering in Beaufort County.
Most of the time has been spent
at the women's facility in Raleigh.
Mitchell said the parole in-
vestigation would ''mainly be
concerned with her proposed kind
of employment plan and
residence."
She told parole officials, he said,
that she plans to continue working
for dentist David P. Lane, who gave
her a job when it appeared no one
wanted to hire her.
She also told officials she plans
to Hve in the Raleigh area if she -s
freed and will buy a house.
Monday. 23,1386 p,a, 7
NUMMO NEWS PAGE 1
Supplements the Collegian MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1978
Was Martin Luther King Jr.
A Capitalist?
On the hundredth birthday of Dr. educated Negro who is not really He will be with us when we go to
W.E.B. Dubois February 23, 1968, part of us, and the angry militant Washington in April to demand our
Freedomways Magazine sponsored who fails to organize us having right to life, liberty and the pursuit
an international Cultural Evening at nothing in common with Dr. of happiness. We have to go to
Carnegie Hall in New York City. The Dubois. He exemplified black Washington because they have
Centennial Address that evening power achievement and he declared an armistice in the war on
was delivered by Dr. Martin Luther organized black power in action. It poverty while squandering billions
King Jr. This particular speech I was no abstract slogan to him.” to expand a senseless, cruel, unjust
think was one of his best ones Further on Dr. King continues to war in Vietnam.”
before his assassination and this praise Brother Dubois. It is highly difficult to think that in
speech alone was highly respon- "We cannot talk of Dr. Dubois a psychotic fit khat Dr. Martin
sible for the assassination of Dr. without recognizing that he was a Luther King supported Capitalism
Martin Luther King Jr. because he radical all of his life. Some people and hated progressive thinkers who
was in full agreement with what Dr. would like to ignore the fact that he fought for protection of the op-
Dubois finally did in his life. was a Communist in his later years, pressed. I think that Martin Luther
I will not attempt to give the full It is worth nothing that Abraham King was a man that gave
text of this speech, but only Lincoln warmly welcomed the everything he had to the masses of
highlight key points that he made support of Karl Marx during the all people around the world. Dr.
about Dr. W.E.B. Dubois, whom Civil War and corresponded with King was warned by the likes of the
Dr. King loved. The two great him freely... It is time to cease then Rev. Andrew Young to not
intellectuals of our time have given muting the fact that Dr. Dubois was speak out against the war in
people of color a high standard to a genius and chose to be a Com- Vietnam. There were young ec-
live by; it would be well that whites munist Our irrational obessive tivists who asked Dr. King to speak
as well as people of color emulate anticommunism has led us into too out against the war and hs did.
these two unselfish Africans. Dr. many quagmires to be retained as if Myself and others who are still
Martin Luther King Jr. did not make it were a mode of scientific around who participated in that
a mystique out of being of African thinking." period of history owe something to
descent. Dr. Dubois felt the same Brother Martin stated further the masses of people. I would have
way as Brother Martin. History "Negroes have heavy tasks today, probably not be here at U of Mass
taught both men of vision that it is We were partially liberated and had it not been for the efforts of
not enough to be angry at one's then re-enslaved. We have to fight this man. He continued to deal with
oppressor even if he has your own again on old battlefields but our our concrete struggle both here and
pigmentation rather than the confidence is greater, our vision Is abroad and he did not have a liberal
general oppressors' skfh clear, and our ultimate victory surer tongue. He was not afraid to
pigmentation. These two men will because of the contributions a criticize incorrect behavior. He
knew that the supreme task sincere militant, passionate black giant left continues the following. "We will
people have is lo organize, and behind him.” Dr. King used this go there, we will demand to be
unite people so*' that their anger speech as an organizing tool for the heard, and we will stay until the
becomes a transforming force. Poor Peoples March on administration responds. If this
Brother Martin stated the Washington D.C. in 1967. This can means forcible repression jf our
following about Dubois: "This life be illustrated by the following. "Dr. movement, we will confic i it, for
style of Dr. Dubois is the most Dubois has left us but he has not we will embrace it for that is what
important quality this generation of died. The spirit of freedom is not
. . Negroes-. . to* .era u kale. .Tbe .buried va.the grave o» .uie» valiant <£odUdu«Uj& 2.
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NUMMO NEWS
Monday, April 29.1986
As the end of the 1984-85 year comes to a close we
here at the Augusta Savage Memorial Galllery would
like to thank our many supporters and give you a peek
at our 1984-85 program
We would like to thank the University Arts Council,
The W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American
Studies, Dean Murray D. Duffey.The Five-College
Black Studies Executive Committe. Ms. Yadira
Betances of Black Affairs, the entire staff of NUMMO
News, Residential East and last, but most certainly not
least, the over 3,500 patrons that have passed through
our doors this past year.
A preview of just some of our upcoming exhibits
next year, is the long overdue return of AFRI-COBA
[Chicago's Bad Artist]; a Cape Verdean and Nigerian
exhibit; and in conjunction with Native American
| Awareness Month, the A.S.M.G will exhibit Native
Of course,
American Art. Of course, we are planning a full
schedule of exhibits and activities in February of 1986
for Black History Month.
It has been our privilege and pleasure to serve you,
and in many ways, to be served by you over the past
year. And we are looking forward to seeing you again
next year. We wish you a pleasant, peaceful, and pro-
ductive summer.
With sincere gratitude.
essence is spiritual;
The staff of the August Savage |
Memorial Gallery
ts how i feel while
meaning
Prof. J.V.O Richards, Director
Prof. Dovi Afesi, Acting Director
Ms. Marilyn E, Intern Curator
Ms. Rosalind Coleman, Principal Investigator
Ms. Shanee Epstein, Volunteer Aide
Mr. Sidonio Ferreiro, Guard
Mr. Rui Pereira, Guard
their ‘mages ! do not make "Art” rather
i am participating in
ntuai
photos by: Marilyn E, Buck Stewart & Gallery file
Monday, April 29,1966 Page 10
Nummo News April 9, 1979
Students Unite Against Apartheid
/in't h
jjmn' Us ^
On 6aiurday April 7, 1979 approximately
two hundred people braved strong winds to
march in memory of Martin Luther King
and to protest U.S. involvement in apar-
thied South Africa. The march began at
New Africa House with speeches by Mike
Thelwell, Rev. Gil Caldwell and Queen
Mother Moore, who told us that her sixty
three years of consistent struggle should
qualify her for the Guiness Book of
Records.
The marchers, led by a police escort,
proceeded South West via Massachusetts
Avenue chantfng and singing freedom
songs about South Africa. Upon reaching
South West the marchers encouraged
people -'out of the dorms and into the
streets" to which a number of people
responded by joining the march.
In South West there was a minute of
silence in me'mory of Seta Rampersad and
Jose Pontes, two students what were
found deed, Jose being found in
Washington Tower. We then marched out
of South West in silence to protest their
deaths.
The march continued back up Mass. Ave.
to North Pleasant Street into town, where
other people joined in and began chanting
along with the people.
We continued to Amherst College, one of
the elitist colleges that has refused to divest
corporations that do business in the land of
aparthied. The marchers chanted "Botha's
army shoots to kill, while Amherst College
foots the bill" to remind the perplexed
students looking out of dorm windows that
their trustees are supporting the most
brutal regime on the planet.
The march ended on the town commons
where there was a rally featuring many
knowledgeable people of the role of
students in demanding the downfall of
apartheid. We were met by Queen Mother
Moore, who stated that she was so proud
to see both black and white students
marching against aparthied. She told the
people that the "man" hates to see black
and white people united around certain
principles. South Africa being one of them.
She further stated that the "man" will use
black against white and white against black
to ensure that there is no unity between the
two races. We must not allow the 'man' to
get in betvjeen us and destroy our unity,
we are more mature than that, she
reminded the crowd. Her eloquent and
effervesent speech endeared her to the
, crowd. Let us hope .that her words of
wisdom will be seriopsly thought about.
'Next at the podium was sister Jamila
Gatson from the Third World Women s
Task Force. She reiterated the story of the
tragic deeth of Seta and the hard work the
Task Force and attorney Ozelle Hudson had
done to bring to justice the people
responsible for Seta's deeth. It'was a
speech that clearly showed the con-
tradiction in treatment provided the Third
World community before the court system
and media in this valley. Very strange how
Earl Brown and Craeman Gefhers were
robbed ofpheir youth while Jimmy 'the
fyeek', Brian Pitier and Carol Newton ere
running Ground free. How strange that Earl
a«d Craeman ’« fa'ces were 'plastered' all
over the media, while little attention was
paid to the negligent three. The three who
could not remember the time of Seta's
death or the event* of Seotemher 13th and
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Prof. Johnetta Cole
Queen Mother Moore
N U M M
OCTOBER 1, 1900
Jjj Semoj Lycurgus
* Equal
^ The Five College system in the Pioneer
• Valley is on educational center of a high
H caliber. As a member of the five college
O community, one has a very distinct op-
21 portunity to examine the goals of
Amerikan society as ti is reflected in o
cooperative of educational institutions -
the Five College System. In this system the
societal values expressed also include
various forms of oppression. This op-
pression is felt no more in its direct effect,
than it is felt by Afrikon-Amerikan and
members of other minorities. For these
people the experience of being part of
these institutions con and often is one of
being caught in the machinery or totally
rejected by o system that pretends to want
them In many wavs tne system is a
monster, a monster wnich is relentless is its
effort to oppress and divide Afrikon-
Amerikans. oil other minorities, and all
people -in a more generol sense- from
each other.
Since the late sixties drive to increase the
enrollment of Amerikan minorities
{particularly Afrikon-Amerikans) into the
rive college system, some progress hos
been made. However, a good port of that
progress mode has been lost, and this is
most apparent in the percentages of
enrollment which has been decreasing
yearly for Afrikon-Amerikans. Another
area of decline has been in the number of
minority faculty and with it staff support for
minority students has also declined. Over
the decode of the seventies the tern "Equal
Opportunity" has gained greater em-
phasis Unfortunately, the pathways to
reaching that opportunity for minorities
hove been cut off in the process.
Whenever I entertain the ideo of being an
Afrikan-Amerikan student within the five-
college system in this valley, I think first of
being proud of my "blackness" I think of
the sacrifices that it took from me os an
individual and my people collectively to
moke this opportunity possible I am
grateful. However, I also think about
teelmg stranded and isolated in this
coilege-onented, but very "white"
community In this community an Afrikan-
Amerikon must struggle for the very
momtainance of their own "selfhood"
Scanning the pages of the Collegian for the
academic yeor of 1968-69, it is not very
! difficult to see that my verr thoughts are a
'eriecl'cn of those shored by the students
I vnc >cox over c dorm coiled Mills House -
j which has since been known as New
Afriko House
, Difficulty :s o fact of life m the valley of
I the five-college system A central and most
common difficulty has been m inability
and near impossibility for minorities m
generol to gam recognition. This is a
problem which is shared by students, staff,
ond faculty. Recognition os a community is
no different, and equal recognition in-
dividually or as a community has never
happened and indeed appears a long woy
into the future. How can minorities expect
equal opportunity without equol
recognition? The difficulty which attaining
"equal recognition" proposes is further
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JUSTICE or JUST US?
*«lrl Baraka Arrested
Amir. Boroka (leRo. Jones) is currently
Assistant Professor of Africonan Studies ot
the Slate University of New York (SUNY)
Stony Brook. N Y He is also leaching ot
Columb.o University. N Y He is married
to Amina Baroka and they hove five
children For more than 20 yeors Amiri
Borako has been a leading Black poet and
playwright He was a leading force m the
Black Cultural Arts Movement during the
I960's - he founded the Black Pep'etoire
Theatre m Harlem. N Y., and began to
lelme and create Block drama ond
terature. earning the title of "Father of
the Block Arts Movements." His play
"Dutchman" won the "O’oie in 1963 ond
he is the author of numerous other plays,
books ond critical essays «uch os Blues
People, Dutchman ond the Slave, Home;
Social Essays, Motion of History, Block
Music; and Black Fire An Anthology of
Afro-American Writing His newest books,
published in October 1979. areSelecled
Poetry of Amin Baraka--leRoi Jones and
Selected Plays ond Prose of Amiri Baraka -
LeRoi Jones Amiri Borako has also been a
eadmg community orqamzer and
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Racism in Georgia
On the 5, November 1979, Richard
Lomax, of Springfield and Perry Owens
were arrested for alledgedly robbing a
Blairsville Georgio store. The cir-
cumstances surrounding their situation
costs a shadow of extreme doubt on the
validity of the charges levied against
Lomax and Owens. In a letter written to
Keith Johnson of the Block Mass Com-
munications Project, Lomox explains their
olight:
Sept. 10. 1980
Dear Mr. Johnson.
I hope this letter finds you in the best of
health and doing well My name is Richard
W. Lomax, and I am o resident of
Springfield Mass., ond was once a student
at UMASS in Boston Miss Cindi Jones of
the Advocate informed me that she has
been in contact with the Black Mass
Communications Project concerning o
present struggle me ond a friend of mine
Mr. Perry D. Owens are facing, and that
they hove taken an interest in our plight
and may be able to help us in raising a
much needed defense fund.
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Greg Tarpinian
KKK:
The Klu Klux Klan is the most well
orgomzed and vicious "hate group" in the
United States In the current period of
economic and social crisis it is ex-
periencing a resurgence which threatens
Blacks, Jews, Hispanics. Cotholics, the
lobor movement, and all progressive
minded people. It threatens the very
existence of these people and groups in on
immediately physical sense, because the
Klan advocates their octual destruction. We
need only look at the recent events in
Greensboro, North Carolina; Decatur,
Alabama; Sylocougo, Alabama; Carbon
Hill, Alabama; and Tupelo. Mississippi In
eoch of these places innocent people,
Black and white, were physically attocked
and in several cases murdered in cold
blood. The potential exists for this type of
brutality to continue on a lorger scale in
the South os well as the North, East and
West, if people do not organize to combat
its influence.
The Klan represents more than a back-
ward-minded "fringe" group in the sense
described above. It reflects a current in
society which would like to roll back the
gains in civil rights, socioJ welfare
programs, the lobor movement, ond other
progressive couses which have benefited
all people, white ond Black This trend is
being funded and mounted by some of the
richest and most powerful people in this
country If Successful this right-wing
movement will hove a devastating impact
on the lives of the working people, and
especially the nationally and rociolly
oppressed peoples
Therefore, although the Klan directs its
most immediate attacks on Blacks, Jews,
and all progressive-mmded people, its
influence is part-and-parcel of the generol
attack on the multi-racial, multi-nofionol
working class. Ronald Reagan, although
not himself o member cf the klan, is to be
placed within this general trend to roll
bock the standard of living and quality of
life for the masses of people in this
country. It is no coincidence then that one
leader of the Klan wos quoted os soying
that Ronald Reagan's progrom, and the
plolform of the Republican Parly, could
hove been copied from o Klan pamphlet!
In order to fight the influence of the Klan.
ond the right-wing trend in this country, a
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LERONE BENNETT SPEAKS AT
DUBOIS DEDICATION
On 19 Friday ond 20 Saturday, September,
at the University of Massachusetts in
Amhers, leh papers of Dr William Edward
Burghordt DuBois were dedicated ot the
world At the conclusion of the two day
ceremonies. Dr Lerone Bennett Jr.
delivered the keynote address. Bennett,
senior member of the editorial board of
EBONY magazine spoke to a crowd of
nearly 300 at the Campus Center
auditorium
NUMMO presents that speech in its en-
tirety.
To my good brother and friend Mike
Inelwell, thank you so much, brother.
Chancellor Koffler, friends, students and
disciples of W.E B DuBois as long os I can
remember, I hove lived within the
gravototionol field of Dr DuBois's genious
and it is an enormous honor for me to
salute him here in Massachusetts ond if
seems to me that this is a day of jubilee for
'Massachussetts and America, o day of
jubilee not only for scholars but also for
peasants in Soutn East Asia and workers in
Bolivia and poor black people in Roxbury
and poor white people in the Appalachio.
This is the day anticipated by the poet
who said no barrier is fatal. This is the day
anticipated by the philosopher who said
the maximum hope is always close to the
moximum danger. I would like to begin my
brief remarks by expressing
congratulations to Micheal Thelwell, the
Afro American Studies Department, Dr
Bromery, Mrs Emerson, Dr Aptheker, who
served and worked with Dr. DuBois so
long, and that great soul, Shirley Graham
DuBois and all those living and dead who
had the decency and the courage to
recognize that truth by making it possible
for the United States of America to make
this small down payment on the massive
debt that this country owes William Edward
Burghardt DuBois.
The first point I wont to moke here today
tr that this is no ordinary dedication, but
W.E.B. DuBois wos no ordinary man. One
of the greotest minds of the twentieth
century , one of the greatest activists and
seers of the twentieth century, DuBois wos
also one of the most maligned ond
misunderstood men of the twentieth
century. Because he refused to bite his
tongue, because he demanded light and
oir for all the peoples of the world,
because he demanded full and total and
immediate equality for black people ond
poor white people, he was harrassed and
persecuted and arrested. A massive at-
tempt wos made to write him out of
history. We cannot be true to W.E.B.
DuBois.or to the DuBois collection, or to
ourselves, if we do not begin this day by
remembering with shame the t: of
W.E.B. DuBois. if we cannot be true to ruth
f ¥ we do not end this day by remembering
with |oy the triumph of W E B DuBois. For
he rose above his persecutors like an eagle
in the air.
When historians come a hundred years
from todoy to set down names of men in
our time who served freedom ond peace
and truth the name of W.E.B DuBois will
be at or near the top. We come here today
to say in so many words that dreams
cannot be assassinated and men the size of
mountains connot be hidden. Thaf-
statement mufl be taken literally for Dr.
DuBois was a mountain no black person
nor white person, for ‘hatmatler.can
ignore It can be said in fact that no onecan
understand Massachusetts of the United
States of America without some un-
derstanding of the man who turns ond
twists and challenges and dreams in the
papers collected here An in-
lellectuolgiant, the most Catholic and
ecumenical thinker produced this side of
the seas.
An activist, a seer, o prophet. Dr.
DuBois discovered the shores beyond the
West He was perhaps the first black to say
with all his heart and all his soul that the
world did not belong to white people. He
wos perhaps the first black to say inomtion
to civilize it, to negritude the African
personality, protest Africa for the
Africans, for Africa the sociology of the
slums, the souls of black folks, the souls of
while folks the sorrow songs all this ond
more can be found in the world view of Dr.
DuBois. There will be no peace, no love,
no ioy,no salvation by this guilty land, until
it climbs to the high ground stoked out of
these papers by this traveler to the dark.
Perhaps it should be said here that this
great spirit was a world soul and he
belonged, ond belongs to the world and to
the ages. We who live within the vail, to
use his phrase, knew him within his
vailness. I speak here todoy from behind
the vail. The vail that shaped and molded
him and made him what he was, a black
man, who saw further than almost all of his
contemporaries, not as they soy despite his
color, but because of it. He tells us today
from the grave that the darkness is light
enough and thot in the willow in which we
live the darkness he reflects is about the
only light we have left. We say that here
without reserve or apology and we say
further that there is a parable here.
One hundred and twelve years ago j
black boy was born in this state b> a
golden river. In the shodow of two great
fields that black boy, born In a white
fire,rose to the heights by the sheer
toughness of spirit met ond defeated his
adversaries on their own ground and never
forgot the poor and the defenseless.
Ninety-three years later thot fighter and
hunter of truth wos practically hounoed out
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Monday, April 21,1986 Page 12
Mother of Slain Atlanta
Child Speaks on Campus
Carmille Bell, mother of the fourth slam
child in Atlanta, Yusef Bell, spoke to a
concerned crowd of some 250 people
Wednesday night at the SBA auditorium
Bell, a chairperson tor the support group
called the Committee to Stop Children's
Murders in Atlanta told how the Atlanta
poll- e and other 'lanonal officials did not
bi -e involved in investigations until
nearly 15 children were missing, or
murdered.
Bell exclaims that the childrens murders
starting in 1979, did not receive proper
news coverage. At this time 6 children
were found murdered or missing One of
which was found strangled, raped and tier!
to a tree.
"Still each one of these was played as
isolated incidences" said Bell The general
feeling at that time was "sure is a shame
these bad things happen Atlanta’s a
wonderful city and nothing unusual is
going on "
Shortly after the 6th death, the support
group was formed Every attempt to
discourage and discredit the group was
made by local officials Later after a few
more deaths occurred the group went to the
Public Safety Committee ui the City
council at Atlanta City Hall to ask lor help.
At this time the death toll rose to 11
children dead or missing. A task force
consisting of one sargent, and four in-
vestigators was formed. Days later,
Clifford Jones of Cleveland who was
visiting his grandmother in Atlanta was
killed and thrown away besides dumpster.
Duong the period that Clifford Jones was
> ill'll his hometown Cleveland paper
pi ii il« I the story A Black Shrmers con-
vt iitiun being held in Cleveland helped to
iii.iki: the people realize that something
umiMi.il was happening in Atlanta. It was
not until the media told the story nationally
di.it the task force grew from 5 in-
vi shyators to 17.
'It's a little bit heart breaking to Atlanta
mothers to know that Atlanta children were
nut important to make thjt jump, said
Bell. During a period when things were
very frightening, one of our tv stations ran
a story about a guerrilla warfare camp back
to back with the story of the missing and
murdered children in Atlanta. Almost as if
they were trying to create a picture of a
racial situation, where maybe there was or
maybe there was not a racial situation."
It was not until a boiler in the Boying
Homs daycare center in Atlanta exploded,
that people thought the incidents were
truly connected. At this time 15 children
were dead or missing That is when
national tv acknowledges the real issue
Bell spoke of smoke screens" officials
were using to hide the real issue such as
did he always hang out on that corner or
why don't their parents take care of them."
The real issue said Bell is Children are
being killed, the killer has not been caught
and there are children missing. Where are
they*"
Philip Jennings
Nummo Staff
Atlanta Self-defense Patrols
Attacked by Police
By Bob Bruton
ATLANTA, March 24--"Why the hell aren't
the cops out looking for whoever is killing
our kids instead of hassling us for protecting
our neighborhood.?"
This statement by Dovie Newell was the
burning question on everyone's mind Sun-
day night as over 50 supporters and
members of the recently formed
Techwood/ Clark Howell Homes armed self-
defense patrols jammed the hallways of the
Atlanta city jail protesting the arrests and
police harassment of the self-defense patrol.
The patrols, formed last week to defend
the Techwood area from racist attacks, was
organized as a result of the frustration and
anger felt in the Black community over the
failure of the Atlanta police to stop the conti
nuing murders of Black children here.
Twenty-two Black Atlanta children have
been killed in the last 21 months. Two Black
youths. Timothy Hill and Jojo Bell, are still
missing.
Rally hits cops
The Sunday night rally at the jail demand-
ed the release of Modibo Kadalie. a patrol
organizer who was arrested earlier in the
day. Five patrol organizers have been ar-
rested in the last five days on a series of
trumped-up charge ; aimed at disrupting the
community patrols. (All those arrested are
2 Added to List of
Victims in Atlanta
The names of Timothy Hill, age 13, and Ed-
die Lamar Duncan, age 21, have been added
to the list of unsolved murders in Atlanta.
The inclusion of the two latest victims rises
the count of the missing and murdered to 24.
Initially these two victims' names were not
9*v«r» to the special task force designed
specifically to the murders because of the
runaway history of one, and the adult age of
the other were not thought to be related.
The authorities had previously declined to
place Hill's name on the task force list
because of his history as a runaway and
because assertions were made by some that
they had seen him alive. Eddie Duncan was
also added to the list after his body was
discovered Tuesday night in the Chat-
tahoochee River about fourmiles from where
Hill's body was discovered the previous day.
Originally, his death was not thought to be
related because of his adult age, but was
later added because the autopsy shows his
cause of death to be similar to the children's
deaths.
Timothy Hill: was the eighth black child's
body discovered in Southwest Fulton Coun-
ty since the series of puzzling murders
began. A police issued a statement saying
that Hill's death indeed ''fit the general pat-
tern" of the deaths of the other black youths
in the special force's case.
The tour of the Special Task Force's head-
quarters disclosed walls filled with graphic
charting, measuring and tracing patterns of
such information as the ages of the victims,
the month and the year they were last seen,
the day they were last seen, the
meteorological conditions on the dates of
disappearances, phases of the moon on
these dates, information and organizational
flow charts, maps of the city showing pat
terns of abductions arid distances between
discovered bodies.
There were also numerous composite
sketches of suspects as seen and sent to the
task force by psychics from all over the
country and abroad.
Lee P. Brown, Atlanta's Public Safety
Commissioner said that the task force was
equipped with "the most sophisticated com-
puter system in the world for a criminal in-
vestigation."
It is believed by Mr. Brown that one per-
son is not responsible for all the killings, and
while more information is gained daily the
force is still unable to make any arrests in any
of the murders.
By Gus Martins Nummo Staff
now free on bond.)
Following ichants of. "The cops and the
Klan work hand in hand." rally speakers
demanded an end to the "racist harassment
of the self-defense patrols " Speakers
pointed out the racist history of the police
department and blasted "the government
authorities (who) have stood by and done
nothing when the Klan and Nazis walk the
streets (brandishing loaded shotguns and
automatic rifles.) But when the Black com-
munity tries to defend itself the cops occupy
our community and throw us in jail."
Although many of the residents of
Techwood have complained to the city ad-
ministration that the police don't respond
when called, now that they have decided to
protect themselves the police havew virtually
occupied the Black community. Ov er 60
cops were assigned to the Techwood area
this past week end when the patrols began.
Even though none of the murdered and
missing children have been from Techwood,
Israel Green, president of the
Techwood/ Clark Howell Tenants Associa-
tion, stated Friday. "We want to make sure
that none of our children gets snatched
because the police sure aren't protecting
Wide support
The big business press and the police
claim that almost no support exists for these
self defense patrols. But letters and phone
calls of support have come in from
throughout the U.S. asnd also from Canada,
England, Spam and Sweden. A delegation
from the Soviet Union visited Techwood last
Friday and presented a Soviet made lamp
to the community as symbolic of their
solidarity in the struggle.
In the Techwood area itself, support is
growing a§ shown last Saturday when nearly
K)0 angry residents and supporters protesting
the arrest of Jerome Gibbson one of the
patrols surrounded a police car and refused
to release it. This action forced the police to
return Gibbs within half an hour, issuing only
a written citation for carrying a pistol without
a permit.
A coverup?
The call for armed self-defense of the
Black community in the face of increasing
racist attacks has struck a responsive chord
here. More people are asking, "What is the
role of the cops in this tragic series of racist
attacks?"
Is the killer a cop? Is it the work of the Ku
Klux Klan? Is there an officially sanctioned
coverup of whoever the killer is ?
And why is it that the Atlanta police can
mount what they call "the most massive in-
vestigative effort in the history of this city”,
can bring in the Georgia Bureau of Investiga
lion and <he Federal Bureau of Investigation;
can offer a $100,000 reward for information
leading to the arrest of whoever is responsi-
ble; and the cops and city administration can
drag out the largest array of psychics, seers,
"topnotch" investigators from five major
U.S. cities, and hundreds of bounty hunters-
-and yet the first arrests connected with the
racist murders are residents of the Black
community attempting to protect their
children?
These are the questions that are being ask-
ed more frequently- -and they must be
answered. It will be in the struggle against
the racist attacks, for self-defense and self-
determination for oppressed peoples, and for
a society that doesn't allow murderous and
fascist groups like the KKK and Nazis to ex-
ist. that these questions will be answered.
The Center for Racial Studies is offering a
16 hour weekend colloquium on Racism -
April 11-12. The Colloquium will be offered
in a series of workshops with a variety of
topics. It will take placf Hamden Commons
in the Southwest Area. Those who do not
wish to take the colloquium for credit are
also welcome. For further information
please 5-0472.
Title: COLLOQUIUM ON RACISM
Monday, April 29,1966 Page 13
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NEWS
Monday_April 12, 1982
VOLUME 10 ISSUE 50
NUMMO NEWS' only connection with
the Coljegian is for distribution.
Whatever Happened To
Martin Luther King ?
In The Interest Of
Peace Part I
Remembering Martin, which is to say
remembering the history that has made us what
we are, has never been more important than now.
For we must pose Martin's effort to go forward
■and by Martin we mean that whole host of known
and unknown strugglers both living and dead who
sacrificed for the cause - with the reactionary
drive to go backward so aptly symbolized by the
present administration. We must pose Martin's
dream of life and justice and freedom against the
Reagan-Haig nightmare of death, injustice and
nuclear madness. For in the final analysis it is on-
ly through us that Martin’s dream can be kept
alive; it is only through us that the dream can
come true.
Like, most of the campus it seems, NUMMO let
the assassination date of Martin Luther King, Jr.
slip by unnoticed. Perhaps it was the first beguil-
ing days of Spring, perhaps we have become too
accustomed to relying upon others to jog our
memories and remind us of those things that
shoul be important in our lives, perhaps we were
too caught up in our private universes For, April
4th has come and gone and we blew it. We
apologize.
There is, however, a lesson involved in this lapse
of memory It should remind us of how easily
yesterday's sacrifice becomes today's forgotten
memory; how the most significant things in our
history fade out of our awareness under the
pressure of everyday life; how each of us must
become the guardian of our history and hold its
flame aloft if its light is not to flicker and dim and
go out.
by Johnnetta B. Cole
Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education and
Professor of Anthropology
At this moment in history when all Black Americans
ore experiencing heightened racism and economic
hardships, and when Black students face an attack
upon educational opportunities gained over recent
years, why concern ourselves with the war games of
gorwn men, debates over whether or not there can be
a limited nuclear war, and the U S. government's plan
to spend an unprecedented $1 .5 trillion on the military
over the next five years? There are two definitive
responses: one which addresses our survival in a literal
sense, the other which speaks to the quality of our
lives. The weapons available to those who dare
engage in the insanity of a nuclear arms race cannot
be progrmmed to destroy according to a "color
code." Nuclear war is an issue for all of us, for it is the
survival of all of us - and future of humankind -- that
is at stake. America cannot have guns (and nuclear
bombs) in the quantiliy being called for and sufficient
butter for all of its people - and Black Americans have
a disproportionate need for the butter of life, that is
food, jobs, decent housing, medical care and educa-
tion.
Several key points are inherent in this response. Let
us make them explicit through responses to six addi-
tional questions.
WHAT IS THE LIKELIHOOD OF A NUCLEAR WAR?
The United States now has enough nuclear arms to
destroy every major Soviet city some 40 times over,
and the Soviet Union can do the same to us 19 times
While the U.S. and the U.S.S R are the nations with
the largest number of nuclear weapons, they are not
the only ones. The United Kingdom, France, China
6nd India also have nuclear arsenals, and it is possible
that Israel and South Africa also have such arsenals It
is also possible that other nations are in the process of
developing nuclear arms Global military expenses
now amount to about 500 billion dollars a year, and
thus the world is placed on the kind of powder keg
that has the potential of destroying humankind; and if
such a total end were avoided, nuclear weapons could
cause irreversible adverse effects on the environment
and the ecological system while causing widespread
sickness and death.
The United States and the Soviet Union have
developed nuclear weapons which have a combined
explosive power equivalent to a million Hiroshima
A-bombs. The United States has 31 Poseideo sub-
marines: just one of them can deliver more explosive
power than was detonated in all of Europe and Japan
in World War II. The horrifying facts are that in 1945,
the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in
Japan, thus using the most terrible weapons that had
ever been invented. Today, with weapons which are
far more destructive, and with an arms race that
moves towards more and more overkill possibilities,
there is a clear danger that they will be used. Once
such weapons are in place, the pressure to use them,
especially in a crisis, is intense each side moves
towards the button as it fears that if it does not push
it, its missiles will be destroyed before it can attack.
The U S considered using nuclear weapons in Korea,
in Vietnam, and on at least five other occasions. There
are severe crises in the Middle East, in southern
Africa, in Central America, in Europe and in Asia - it is
indeed possible that one of these crises can escalate
to the point where a nuclear armed nation dares to use
nuclear weapons. In addition, we must understand
that nuclear weapons are complicated instruments,
and thus they involve the risks of accidents.
In the 18 months prior to October 1979, for exam-
ple, the American missile warning system falsely
reported 151 indications of a Soviet attack. Four of
these reports resulted in orders to our nuclear forces
to increase their state of alert - that is. to prepare for
retaliation. According to the New York Times, one of
the most serious of these fase alarms, on November 9,
1979, was caused by a "computer error." Six minutes
went by before the error was discovered. Nine
minutes more and our missiles would have been laur
ched ("Lend A Hand to Halt the Arms Rac*."
Western Mass. Coalition for a Nuclear Weajon
Freeze) Continued on page S
VOLUME 12 ISSUE 1
Monday, September 19. 19S3
Young, Gifted, and Black: John Wright Jr.
This summer many of us lost a
very close companion. John Coleman
Wright, Jr. departed this life on
August 1 , 1983. This issue of
NUMMO NEWS is dedicated in memory of
this beautiful brother.
At the time of passing John was
a Senior here at the University,
Department of Political Science.
During his time at UMASS his
accomplishments were many. Perhaps
most remembered for his athletic
achievements, John was awarded the
Most -Valuable Player Award for
Track and Field for two consecutive
years, and he held a number of
school and state records in the
hurdles. He also made the 1983
UMASS Football^ team^
Th£re w^s' much' more to John ’CJrigKt '
than just his amazing athletic
abilities. John was indeed a leader
and a doer in his community. Along
with being involved with social
activities on campus he was a •
Resident Assistant in tne Kennedy
dormitory and -Photo Editor of NUMMO
NEWS. John's committment to the
growth of our community and his
willingness to help whenever possible
are qualities that we all admire and
respect very much.
Even more important, John was
academically successful. Even with
running track, being involved in
social and political activities, and
always being there when somebody
needed to talk, John always found time
Dhoto bv Ed Cohen
to study and to stay on top of his
academics. John set an excellent example
of strength and determination for his
oeers. In his short life he was a
very successful Lian.
What we most admired about Joi^n is
that he was c wirr, co-.oass'iyona te
human bein'; "ho touched the/ liver of
•ill boo-1* <:h o knew him and loved him. •
i^s soon ns. you shook his hand you
'ere his friend and he would go to bgt
for you. He had a kind heart and a
friendly, humble disposition. John was
a great asset to hi£ community and
his friends here at UMASS.
To you, John, we say this:
As Photo Editor of NUMMO, your
artistic creativity was soothing
. . 59 9Ur eye-S -JEUl? souls. ,is an .
athlete, the way you glided over
the hurdle and passed the finish
line make us all T®el like the
winner you were. And as a human
being, you showed us the true
meaning of friendshio.
To your beautiful family
parents Carol and John, Sr.,
brothers Gregory and Marlon, and
all of your aunts, uncles, and
cousins, we wend our resnect and
sympathy , and wish them all of the
joy and happiness the world has
to offer.
John, although you are no longer
with us in a physical sense, you will
always live in our hearts and minis.
Je will meet you again in a better
place, ./e love you and we miss you.
WELCOME
NUMMO NEWS is an independent Third World
newspaper distributed on Mondays with the COL-
LEGIAN. With the beginning of the new school year
NUMMO asks interested Third World reporters
photographers and artists, as well as graphics and
layout technicians, to help to continue to spread "the
magic power of the spoken and written
word. NUMMO began in 1975 in response to the
area media's inadequate coverage of issues and con-
cerns to people of color. As the largest Third World
newspaper in the Five College area, NUMMO creates
a supportive informational network by focussing on
csmpus, local, national and international news
With this goal in mind, NUMMO extends an invita-
tion to students to join us in the coliective effort of
production. All staff members attend meetings twice
weekly IMondays and Wednesdays, 4pml and attend
scheduled weekend production in the Campus Center
Graphics Room. Through these activities students
contribute their talents, develop their interests and
become involved in all aspects of the paper.
Take an active stance toward your education, and
in the community, by participating in and com-
municating cultural, political and social affairs. All op-
tions are open, so come to our next staff meeting,
Monday, September 19, 4 pm. at the NUMMO NEWS
office, 103 New Africa House.
20tn Anniversary of MLK’s March on Washington
Monday. April 29.1986 Papa 16
March 5, , 1994
Volume 12, Issue 17
Jackson Still in the Race
Massacusetts Next
by Marilyn G. Bou
Sequn Eubanks
Jesse Jackson finished in fourth place in the New
Hampshire primary. The unexpected turnout of Hart
proved that while many people are either basking over
the victory of Gary Hart or the loss of Walter Mondale
many are losing sight of the impressive standing made
by the Rev. Jesse Jackson. In being victorious over
such Democratic hopefuls George McGovern, Reuben
Askew, Allan Cranston, Etc. Jackson hasd shown his
ever growing liklihood at becoming the next
Democratic National candidate for President. While
Hart's winning in New Hampshire has definitly dealt a
devasting blow to Mondale and his campaign it has
again proven the unpredictability of the primary pro-
cess. Hart has demonstrated to us all how feasible it is
for a longshot to come from behind and conquer
With this thought in mind one can easily understand
the massive attempts by Jackson supporters across
the state to re-create this turnover scenario in
Jackson's favor in the remaining primaries. With the
upcoming "Super Tuetdey" primaries, efforts are
undervyay to educate all registered voters on the sen-
sitive issues which will determine their future.
Next Tuesday, March 13th. is the Massachusetts
Democratic primaries. As has historically been the
case the results of the Massachusetts primary has
had enormous effects on the campaigns of can-
didates. This means that we, as student, have a real
opportunity to effect the outcome of the democratic
rate for the presidency. Here at UMass the registra-
tion campaign has been enormously successful:
registering1 over 3.000 new voters. UMass student,
have potential voting power more than ever before.
continued on page 3
PH YLISS HYMAN, ROY AYERS:
by Segun Eubanks
When I returned from the Phyliss Hyman, Roy
Ayers concert Friday night, a friend asked me, How
was the concert?” I just smiled and said, "You had to
be therel” That is why it is so difficult to describe to
those who did not make it, what turned out to be one
of the best Black musicai onteiiainment performances
to hit the valley in years.
Phylli* Hyman and Roy Ayers performed March 2,
1984 at John M Greene Hall, Smith College com-
pliments of the Black Students Alliances at Smith.
What I expected to be just another concert, turned
out to be two excellent performances which consisted
of comedy, theater, commercials, poetry, message,
audience participation, and of course dynamite music.
Roy Ayers opened the show, and gave the audience
what he called, "a total music perspective.” He played
jazz, soul, R + B and funk, many times in combination
all added to good sound. He even played a coun-
try/westem tune. Ayers' said, "there's always a
message in my music. Part of this message is referred
to in title of his latest album, "Lots of love”, which he
sold himseff at the concert. "That's right, I'll sell my
own album. Just five bucksl You won't find it cheaper
anywhere elsal”
By the way, many people may not be aware that
aside from being an excellent musician, composer,
and singer Roy Ayers is also quite a comedian. The
audience spent almost as much time laughing as tapp-
ing their feet and clapping their hands to the music.
Ayers' jokes, skits, and down-to-earth nature, made it
easy for him to recieve a very enthusiatic response
from the audience. Besides, as Roy put it, ' I don t like
dull, tired crowdsl”
The instrument which Roy Ayers plays is called a
Deagan Vlbraharp or the "Vibes”, and he plays it
beautifully. The Roy Ayers' band was also extremely
talented as Ayers had no qualms about mentioning,
"my band is badl” Particularly outstanding were
drummer Dukejue Perdue, who could do more with
his feet than many drummers can do with their hands,
and Saundra Matthews, whose voice range and jazz
style can be compared to only one other female
vocalist - PhyUas Hyman.
More Than a Concert
The phenominal Phyliss Hyman, Friday
at Smith College . photo by Ed Cohtn
After his performance, Ayera went to the lobby to
sign autographs. As he said to one fan, "I like to be
close to the people ”
What ie often the case at concerts is that when the
opening group is really good the main group is very
dissappointing. However, Phyliss Hyman killed this
theory with a startling display of showmanship and
talent. Phyliss stole the show with just three musi-
cians, (although very talented) and no backgroup
singers. Like Roy Ayers, Hyman apent a lot of time
talking to the audience. She was so confident and
relaxed on stage that there were times when I felt she
was only talking to me. One of my friends put it very
well when she said "Phyliss was raw, even braten yet
she was very much a lady."
Hyman's strong jeiz influence and style came
through in all of her ballets, even the more up tempo
R + B numvera. She used the "seating" style of sing-
ing often, something done very rarely in popular music
and done well even more rarely. At one point, Hyman
even whistled part of a song and sounded like a finely
tuned instrument.
Phyliss Hyman talked to the audience about how
she began her career, her experiences in the Broad-
way production "Sophislcated Ladies," her love life,
end even the commercial jingles she sings for
televison. Like Roy Ayers, she was very funny and
proved to be not only a brilliant singer and song writer
but a very capable entertainer.
Anyway, like I said, "You had to be there." Ayers
and Hyman complimented each other so well with
Ayers bringing the audience to their feet and Hynman
mellowing them out and bringing it home. Both artists
even took the time iout to acknowledge outstanding
author James Baldwin, who recieved a standing ova-
tion (as did the two featured performers).
The only negative aspect I found was when Phuisa
Hyman began singing her commercial jingles end it
became allghty borin g. This was very easy to overtook
as the performances of these two great arris's, their
music, telent, creativity, and message made this con-
cert one of the most memorable and successful shows
the valley has or will ever a ee.
Monday, April 29,1986 Paga 16
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Volume 13 Issue 17
Monday, April 8,1986
Black Greeks:
A Look At Their Effect On Our Community
by S«gun Eubank*
and Rod Clara
Nummo Staff
Editor's Note: Over the past couple of years
traditionally Black fraternities and sororities have
grown tremendously in our community. Three years
ago there were no Black frets or sororities on
campus. Today there are at least four fraternities
and one sorority either established or in the process
of being established.
These new organizations are effecting our
community in many different ways. Some people
say that they are the best thing that could happen in
our community because of the strive toward aca-
demic achievement, while others believe the rep-
resent divisiveness and elitism.
NUMMO NEWS interviewed four brothers
(brothers in the community sense, not neccessarily
fraternity sense) who are either members of a
fraternity, pledging a fraternity or attempting to
initiate a new chapter, to find what their views are
on the effect of frets in the Black community.
This is part one of a four part series on fraternities
and sororities. In the near future NUMMO will
interview sisters involved in sororities, members of
the community who are opposed to Black Greek
organizations and Black students and administra-
tors who will attempt to analyze the over-all effect
that the organizations are having on our community.
The following four men met with reporters from
NUMMO NEWS to give their views on Black
Fraternities:
Crescent (pledgee) of Phi Beta Sigma, Charles
Anthony Sheffield.
Crescent (pledgee) of Phi Beta Sigma. A. Anthony
Gee.
Potential pledgee of Omega Psi Phi, D. Anderson
Hooker.
Brother of lota Phi Theta. Richard Steward.
NUMMO: Why are you. personally, interested in
fraternities?
Sheffield: Personally I ws not interested in frat-
ernities, but when I met a very positive person
Roscoe Robinson, who was doing things to lay
ground for his fraternity (Phi Beta Sigma). I saw his
dedication. And also I had gone to Boston and had
met members of his fraternity who are all pro-
fessional people and they are striving for excellence.
I realized that this thing could be positive and I
realized also that the brotherhood that they were
pronouncing was truly there and it could help this
starving community.
Gee: I would just like to say that it's tough trying to
make it to the top and I don't think that anybody can
di it alone. You need other positive people behind
you, with you, in order to geop you reach your goal as
a person, as an individual, as anyone. Everybody
should set a goal for themselves, everybody should
pursue excellence, everybody should set them-
pursue excellence, everybody should strive for the
best. I believe fraternities can make this goal a little
easier, can provide a vehicle for this.
Hooker: I. personally, have been studying net-
working as a means of uplifting the community and
ways of providing services, as far as health services
are concerned, as far as social services are con-
cerned, providing social support networks. And just
looking at the entire networking concept you see
that fraternities and sororities are that networking
concept in action and it wouldn't make sense to not
be involved in some sense in that networking
process.
Steward: The reason I got involved in a fraternity is
because I wanted to feel some unity on campus. I'm
from an all white community and before college I
was not exposed to Black awareness. Black to-
getherness. I felt that by joining a fraternity it would
help me in a further understanding of the Black
community, our work and just to be part of the
community as one where I could interact and
understand the goals of the Black people on the
campus.
NUMMO: How are you (Black Fraternities) affecting
the community? Positively and negatively.
Steward: I feel that there is a positive effect of Black
fraternities on campus because it brings us together.
We are all going for a certain goal, the same goal, to
be unified. And now with different fraternities on
campus. Sigma s, Q s (Omega's) and other people
already on campus, we have to work together a lot
better so we can get that goal accomplished. If you
want to hold a function to get people aware of what’s
going on, financial aid for example, or if it's just a
question concerning Black History Month or what-
ever it might be. With a stronger group we can
accomplish the task alot easier than just by our-
selves.
Hooker: I realize that ther is both a positive and a
negative infuence of fraternities on campus. The
positive aspects are that you see organizationally,
people striving for excellence and striving to find
ways to impact their community. It's an attractive
force for those who might want to come to the
University. They see positive images and people
who are here who haven't quite developed an image
for themselves can also develop positive role
models, not only in the administration, but also
within the student body. On the negative side, and
this isn't necessarily something that has to be but at
present it has been, is that people from outside
usually recognize fraternities as cliques. And to a
certain extent they are cliques in that they separate
people who have achieved a certain level of
scholarship, a certain abHity to relate to themselves
and others, a certain way of carrying themselves.
The more positive people have found a way to strive
further so others look at that as something that is
separate of cliquish and it doesn't necessarily have
to be that way, but it does seem to have had some
kind of a schizematic effect, or providing some kind
of schizm on campus.
Gee: I just want to touch on what he (Hooker) said
about the clique. I Believe that this is a very negative
aspect of a fraternity. I believe no fraternity should
do that or should exemplify anything like that. I
believe that if you make it to your goal you shou'd
turn around and lift somebody else up to their g al.
You just can t turn around and say, "I reached my
goal and novyou reach yours the best way yu can." I
believe that the fraternities should act as a vehicle to
Continued on page 2
College Students Show New
Interest in Apartheid Protests
by Chris Allen
Recent protest against apartheid in South Africa -
especially the arrests of picketers at the country's em-
bassy in Washington are arousing renewed interests in
the issue among college students. One result is ex-
pected to be an increasee in efforts to persuade col-
leges to get rid of their invesments in companies that
do business in South Africa.
Demonstrations, forums, teach-ins and letter-
writing campaigns were among the plans for
February, March and April among such organizations
as the American Committee on Africa, the American
Friend Service Committee, Free South Africa, the
TransAfrica Forum and the United States Students
Association and it's affiliate, the Third World Student
Coalition.
Most of the students coordinators for those
organizations said they had received a growing
number of requests for information about how to start
and manage divesture camnpaigns on campuses.
Some campus protest have already taken place.
About 1,000 students, faculty members, and com-
munity activist staged a three hour demonstration on
the steps of the University of California at Berkley in
December . Thirty eight demonstrators were arrested.
Students have been trying to get the University of
Texas system to sell its stock in companies doing
business in South Africa, but the institution's board of
regents voted in December to keep the investments.
The increase in student interest in the issue can be
traced to the media coverage of Bishop Desmond
Tutu's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize, as well as the
demonstrations at the South African Embassy. Since
those protosts began last November, several hundred
people have beer arrested, including twenty-two
members of congress. TransAfrica officials estimate
than more than a thousand people have been arrested
in anti-apartheid demonstrations nationwide.
''On the first day of the demonstrations, about six
hundred students came to Washington by bus'',
Cecelie E. Counts, student coordinator for Tran-
sAfrica said. "But that number soon dropped 250 and
then lower, because it was exam time."
Although the embassy demonstrations have receiv-
ed a good deal of publicity, organizers pointed out
that the criticism of apartheid been continuing on
many campuses since the late-1960's.
"The unlikely coalitions may be the results of a link-
ing of other issues to the anti-apartheid movement,"
said the American Committtee on Africa student coor-
dinator, Joshua F. Nesson. One of the student na-
tional demonstrations planned for April 20, for exam-
ple, brought together students protesting unemploy-
ment,United States military involvement in Central
America, and racism in this country, as well as aphar-
theid in South Africa.
Since 1980, thirty United States companies have
sold their investments in South Africa, including
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, according to a recently
released survey by the Investor Responsibility
Research Center, a not for profit research center bas-
ed in Washington. However, eleven United States
companies began operating in the country since 1980,
according to the report.
The report listed two hundred and eighty-four
American companies operating in South Africa in-
cluding fifty-seven of Fortune Magazine's top one
hundred corporations. The companies total South
African investment at the end of 1983 was 2.3 billion
dollars.
Below is a summary of Apartheid protests in the
pest week...
About one hundred University of Iowa students
conducted a sit-in inside the University presidents of-
fice Wednesday and said they would not leave until
the school sells stock it holds in companies that do
business in South Africa.
The Iowa students marched from the rally to the
presidents office chanting, "U of I, you can't hide, you
are supporting apartheid.'
University President James Freedman who said
Tuesday the University would not divest, was in Ames
attending a State Board of Regents meeting. Sit-in
leaders met briefly with Phillip Jones, vice president
for student affairs, who repeated the University's posi-
tion that it would not take a "political stand" on apar-
theid, South Africa's system of racial separation.
"Those people will not leave the office until you
come to us to negotiate the demands,” student Gen-
nelle Rucker told Jones.
The University of Iowa holds 2.2 million dollars
worth of stock in forty-one companies believed to be
involved in South African commerce.
In Ithaca, New York sixty-three people were ar-
rested Wednesday for refusing to leave the ad-
ministration building at Cornell University, where
more than one thousand people have been arrested in
April
In Eugene, Oregon, police arrested twenty-nine
people on trespassing charges Wednesday night after
they marched downtown from the University of
Oregon campus, entered the Federal Building, and
allegedlly refused to leave.
At Harvard University, about two-hundred students
barricaded the door of a room where a South African
diplomat was speaking Thursday until a phalanx of
campus police led him through the chanting crowds.
Abe Hoopenstein, consul-general of the South
African consulate in New York was escorted to an un-
marked car about an hour after he was scheduled to
leave. There were no arrests.
Hoopenstein, who was at Harvard to participate in a
panel discussion on apartheid on Wednesday night,
has been asked to a private reception at noon Thurs-
day by the Conservative Club.
Students gathered at Lowell House dormitory, sur-
rounding the meeting room and barricading the door
pledging to keep Hoopenstein inside until midnight.
"We want to demonstrate the parallel with Black
South Africans who are imprisoned by officials, to
give him a taste of what it is like," junior Sara Jane
Holcombe said by telephgone interview from the dor-
mitory.
Black activist Angela Davis was among one-
hundred and twelve people arrested Thursday in a
California anti-apartheid protest, "I think that the
reverberations of these demonstrations are being
heard around the world," Ms. Davis, who teaches at
San Francisco State University, told three hundred
and fifty people at a sunrise rally Thursday at the
University of California Berkeley campus. "South
Africa is going to be free - divestment or not."
Ms. Davis and the others were arrested on charges
of obstructing access to the building, campus police
said.
Six labor union members protesting sales of the
South African Krugerrand at the Deak-Perera money
exchange office in Boston where South African coins
continued on page 4
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Visions of Women's
Struggle
Josefina Rodriguez
Family Committee
Chicago, Illinois
Personal Statement:
I have been for the past five years an active member
of the Family Committee in support of Puerto Rican
Prisoners of War and Political Prisoners. I have been a
guest speaker at various Universities in the United
States and Puerto Rico. I have participated in many
workshops, seminars and conferences addressing
the issues concerning the Independence Movement in
Puerto Rico and in specific conditions of confinement
of Puerto Rican Prisoners of War and Political
Prisoners.
Two Visions of the Women Struggle
First, the issue of women struggle is actually given
general consideration, as it applies with the same
force to all women. Historically the question of the
women has always been applied to all women and has
not been placed in its correct context: The need to
analyze it from a class perspective. Since it has not
been understood nor analyzed in this manner, many
differences and weakness have been brought to the
women's movement. In other words, the oppression
of the bourgeoise women is not equivalent to that of a
proletariat women. It is crucial that we analyze the
women question within the context of class struggle.
The women question cannot be dealt from a general
approach anymore because each women finds herself
in a different class structure, will have different in-
terests and a different vision of the objectives it wants
to achieve. The women movement takes on from the
beginnning two diametric opposite orientations.
On the one hand, women who are part of the
bourgeoise and petty bourgeoise are different from
proletariat women in their liberation aspirations ex-
clusively of the context of the social order they live. To
assume that they will be sought by equalizing the
rights of bourgeoise women to that of the bourgeois
men as the only definite solution goes against the
liberation of the proletariat women.
On the other hand from a revolutionary perspective,
the working women aspiration for liberaton differ
eradically from the previous mentioned.
August Bebel explains very well in his book Women
and Socialism that:
Supposing that the feminist borgeoise movement im-
posed all its equal rights with men , it would not be for
the abolition of slavery that is found in most mar-
riages, it would not be to stop material dependency
that women have with their husband.
The bourgeoise feminist movement is geared to the
attainment of higher levels of education, getting a
doctorate degree or getting scientific or administrative
positions. This will not alter the general sex roles in
society
In conjunction the feminist sex roles are impeded:
On one hand,it suffers under social dependency of
men, it eases some, but does not eliminate the formal
equalities of rights before the law and, in the other
hand through the economic dependency women
generally find themselves anbd in particular proletariat
women in the same position as the proletariat men.
What results is that all women without distinction to
their class base, as a dominated sex and prejudiced by
the masculine world.
continued on page 2
Monday, May 0. 1986
NUMMO NEWS =
Editorial Editorial Editorial
The following article is a reprint from an earlier
NUMMO issueINkrumah Lumumba Olinga, Volume 4,
Issue 2, September 12, 1977).
Question, do people who use the phrase Third
World really understand the origin and connotations it
denotes? This article is timely and important because
most people of color , progressive and non-
progressive, permit others to put them into a numerical
digit that negates being the first. It is serious and
dangerous for a people to continue to use Third World
without investigating its' origin.
Charles Deguale first used the phrase when he had
to give a report to the then European power block of
the world at that time. Deguale was apologizing for
losing the war to Brother Ho Chi Minh in North Viet-
nam. The great countries of the world at that time
were afraid of the outcome of people of color really
controlling their own destiny. Back in the early 1950 s
one could see the eventual fight between the Soviet
Union and The Republic of China. The struggles of
Mao Tse-Tung is a prime example of people of color
organizing among themselves to fight against the
powers of Europe.
People of color must realize their potential as op-
pressed people and become critical thinkers. A lot of
progressive people think the term Third World is ex-
ceptable because of Franz Fenon (The African
Psychiatrist who used the phrase in his two major
books: The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin
White Mask). People of color soon forgot this
brother's contradictions that he eventually admitted to
in the Wretched of the Earth. He did not support the
oppressed Africans in Algeria until he came to the
conclusion that there was a war going on between the
Oppressed and the Opressor, and then had to decide
like other Freedom Fighters who desire freedom from
the common oppressor who they will support, Brother
Franz came to his conclusion almost too late, he had
treated too many French soldiers for their emotional
problems from killing and emotionally defeating the
Africans.
People of color must begin to see that language is a
large part of their oppression. Today in the United
States and other parts of the world oppressed people
have not yet realized that they hold a balance of power
in the world today. People of color must refuse the
phrase Third World. Comments can be directed “
NUMMO NEWS 103 New Africe House. Amherst,
Massachusetts 01003.
This is a rebuttal to the "Slap in the Face" article
written by Joel Rabinowitz in the Collegian May 3,
1985. Neither the Third World Caucus, Scera nor the
majority of the other senators at the May 1st Senaate
meeting intended any harm when we voted to allow a
women to speak as a guest speaker who happens to
be a member of Palestinian Liberation Organization.
The Third World Caucus voted along with the other
senators to allow a speaker with a different perspec-
tive to be heard. This so called liberal campus should
allow people to speak from various backgrounds, just
like the world is run by people of various backgr-
ounds.
Joel, just because the Third World Caucus and
Scera were not on your side for one issue out of
many does not mean we have abandoned you or your
group and it also does not add up to total insensitivity.
The vote was not to defend the issue between the
Palestinian Liberation Organization and Israel, but to
defend freedom of speech on this Campus.
David D. Moore
Internal Coordinator, Third World Caucus
419 Crabtree
To Whom It May Concern:
As Caribbean students who recently saw the pro-
duction of "Moon on a Rainbow Shawl", we are
disturbed by the direction of the play. The cast
members did their best, but their performances where
hampered by poor directing.
Ms. Mandle did not have a clue about the Caribbean
life-style. Our people were portrayed as very sad and
destitute people. Any one who has a modicum of
knowledge of Caribbean Culture would have directed
this play differently.
No West Indians were casted although several audi-
tioned and one of them is a Theatre major at Smith
College. One character was even cut completly from
the play.
Was it that the director would have felt threatened
by the more knowledgeable West Indians being in the
cast and seeing their culture mis represented through
ignorance? We think so and we hope though that Ms.
Mandle does lots of research before she directs
another play and mis represents people's cultures
again. W.l. Students
To the Readers of Nummo News
NUMMO NEWS, a Third World newspaper, was
formed in 1972 as a result of the systematic exclusion
of oppressed people from the media in the United
States All one has to do is turn on the radio, televi-
sion or read a magazine to further substantiate this.
The need for NUMMO NEWS is a result of the
distortion of the imagery of Third World people, by
the nation's media.
However the system has effectively perversed the
nation's media to such an extent that a college cam-
pus is only one of the few sanctuaries where the
thoughts and perceptions of people from all over the
world can be viewed, for the good of all, without be-
ing tainted by the ignorance and corruption that
plagues much of the outside world. Today Third
World people are breaking away from the patterns of
yesteryear, an forming a philosophy of their own. This
philosophy comes from the souls of a people who
represent two thirds of the worlds population. NUM-
MO is one voice for millions of people who are deman-
ding economic, social and political equality. In
defense of this philosophy, NUMMO will not look to
others for information concerning ourselves; for if we
did, we would continue to be mis informed and highly
miseducated. L . .
Those who will read NUMMO will find that it is
designed to enrich the intellectual, cultural and socio-
political G©»ciou« of it's readers. For those who do not
understand, NUMMO is the pen with which the reader
can possibly burst the dark bubble of fantasy, which
he or she was brought up to believe. However, only
the reader can use what we provide to burst that bub-
ble. For those who nonchalantly discard NUMMO
they may later find their bubble burst... but by then, it
may not be with a pen.
The staff of NUMMO NEWS will provide for it s
readers news and news analysis from the viewpoints
and perspectives of Third World people living within,
and outside the United States.
EDITOR
continued from page 1
Through the course of cultural development in-
terested in eliminating the present state by changing
laws and present social and political order of institu-
tions. Majority of women are interested in transform-
ing the roots basis of social and state order in ex-
istence toward eliminating not only wage slavery of
the proletariat, but also sexual slavery tied broadly to
our conditions of property and profits.
Bourgeoise women do not understand the necessity
of this radical transformation. Influenced by their
privileged position they see the feminist proletariat
movement, more advanced, as dangerous aspirations
which they would combat. The class conflict which is
open between the capitalist and the workers and
which becomes more pronounce day by day to pasify
our relations, also exist within the feminist movement.
Without a doubt the advised sister have, a series of
points of contact in which she can direct the struggle,
that is the great proportion that the masculine world is
divided into class struggle, but instead has proceeded
separately and striking at the same time. This occurs
in all the ambits of equality of rights for women with
men, within the actual social and political order , this
is, the participation of the women in all grounds apt
for its energies and capacities for the total equality of
civil and political rights with the women. These areas
are very important and they will be seen with
amplification. Additionally the feminist proletariat
world is especially interested in challenging shoulder
to shoulder the masculine proletariat world through oil
its norms and institutions which protect the working
women from the physical and moral degeneration and
guarantees its faculties of motherhood and educator
of their children. The proletariat has together with the
asculine comrades of some class structure destroy
e struggle for the radical transformation of society
ith the end of establishing a situation that facilitates
jmplete economic and spiritual independence of
3th sexes through the corresponding social institu-
Dns. Therefore it is not about realizing equality of
□hts of men and women in the present social and
olitical order which what constitutes the objective of
te bourgeoise feminist movement, it is more to
liminate all barriers that make women dependent of
len and also dependent of one sex to the other. The
olution to the feminist question is the solution to the
iroblem of the racial order.
As this quote from August Babel, ''the true libera-
ion of the women will be obtained when we ac-
complish a complete change in the economic, social
,nd political system''. Nevertheless, this process must
jtart now. The task of conscience raising of the work-
ng women of her oppressed condition is the respon-
sibility of all concious men, including those that
although do not belong to the proletariat class
recognize that it is their vanguard and are willing to ex-
tent the limits of equality up to its last consequences.
Although the process of women liberation (which is
that process past and parcel of general struggle of the
working class toward socialism) will be principally in
the hands of the working women, because of its ex-
plotaited condition, she yet has the conscience of her
historical responsibility. It is for this reason, that it is
the task of men and women of conscience to point out
to these companeras the necessity to become invalue
in this process, that their task is to look for its place of
equality in society. Without a doubt, the only society
where there will be a posibility to reach a true eman-
cipation will be in a socialist society.
Women and Organizations
Departing from the first vision that is, in the first
place that women's organizations for the struggle is
necessary. Nevertheless, we do not believe that we
should organize ourselves apart from our companeros
and we then limit our struggle exclusively to the rights
of men. We should share this struggle with our com-
paneros, equal to equal and we should though
organizing that it not only be true to our feminist con-
dition, but also true to our exploited conditions. On
the other hand, the men should participate in the
struggle for the women, because men will not be free
if he keeps his equal in slavery and exploitation.
For that reason we understand the tasks inside our
left wing organizations, unions and other organiza-
tions that struggle should share all tasks equally bet-
ween men and women. The left organization has the
biggest responsibility, nor only to analyze the question
of the women, but also to implement a politic that in
its practice demonstrates as an example that men and
women can and will live under equality. The reason to
realize these tasks and bring forth positions of major
responsibilities should not be determined by the sex
but by the capacity demonstraded by the militants be
them men and women. Only working through this
basis we will star work towards reaching the liberation
and improvement of all human beings.
Josefina Rodriguez was the Keynote Speaker in the
Women in Resistance conference that was held this past
weekend at the University's Campus Center.
NUMMO NEWS
Monday. May 6. 1966
page 3
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Poetry
Corner
Black Heritage USA 22
Noted Black educator and social activist Mary
McLeod Bethune is honored and recognized as she
appears on a new twenty-two cents stamp. It is the
eighth stamp in the Black Heritage series which was
issued on March 5th 1985 in Washington, D.C.
Bethune was born in Mayesville, South Carolina,
in 1875, the 15th of 17 children born to former slaves.
Through the beneficence of a rural school teacher,
she was taken out of her family's cotton fields and
sent to Scottia Seminar in Concord, North Carolina ,
to receive an education.
In 1904, with only $1.50 in her pockets, but with
great hopes and dreams, she rented a rickety, two
story frame building and, with only five students, the
Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School
for Negro Girls was born. In 1923, the former grade
school was merged with Cookman Institute to
become Bethune-Cookman College with 600
students, 32 teachers and Mrs. Bethune as president.
In addition to her role as an educator, she was ap-
pointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to head
the Negro Division of the National Youth Administra-
tion, the highest goverment job then held by a Black
woman. In 1935, Mrs. Bethune founded the National
Council of Negro Women, forming a coalition of the
leading Black Women Organizations of her days.
by Jose R. Martinez
NASTY DREADS
by:
Makumba
I cried: Ja my dreads are gone
Echoes in my empty head
Repeated where are my beautiful dreads
Echoes that repeat again and again
Wat's up man
What did you do to your hair
You are not Jamaican
You are Puerto Rican
Puerto Ricans do not wear their hair like that
Nothing it's up man, only my hair
PuertoRikans
Jamaikans
Dominikans
Black amerikans
We are all Afrikans'
Echoes that repeated in my head
Everyone should let their hair into natty dreads
And maybe we all be Brothers and Sisters again
Echoes in my head that talk
about nasty, dirty dreads
Trying to bring us together again.
He Never Called Again
Oh baby you look so fine
I love you baby
You make love so nice
You make me feel so good and fine
In between the sheets you and I whisper sweet and
pretty things
Oh baby you make me feel so g-o-o-d
I love you baby
As the sun rises his pants also rise and he departs
He's leaving for good, she never thought he would
She never knew
She thought he was different, not like the others
It happens to other girls,
silly girls, not smart girls like me
She waits for his call
She leaves him a message and gets no answer
from him and none from her
ovary
Like him, it never calls
She weeps tears as clear as rain
She wishes to see the sight of blood
He bought me a hand made blouse and took
me to dinner
These were the prerequisites for getting me into bed
I fell for his game, I guess that I'm sick in the
head
Caught by a man or a boy pretending to be a
man
He's a kid, a silty macho kid
He cares not for me, but for himself, his lousy
self
He never called me again and so
I became another Black teenage mother.
By Christopher Williams
Announcements
Grammy Award winning vocalist
Roberta Flack will appear in concert at
the University of Massachusetts Fine
Arts Center Concert Hall on Saturday
May 11 at 8:CG pm. She replaces Ray
Charles who had to cancel his national
tour. Pre-season ticket buyers may ex-
change their tickets by contacting the
Fine Arts Center Box Office at 546-2511
UMass Vocal Jazz Ensemble Performs
The University of Massechusetts
Vocal Jazz Ensemble, under the direc-
tion of Horace Clarence Boyer, will per-
forma program of new and standard Jazz
compositions, accompanied by in-
strumental soloits, Frederick Tillis and
Nicholas La Fleur, on Monday, May 6.
1986. The concert will begin at 8:00 p.m.
In Bezanson Recital Hall, located in the
Fine Arts Center.
DOUDOU DIEN
UNESCO Liaison Officer for North
America
"The U.S. Withdrawal from UNESCO
Thursday, May 9, 1986. 7:30pm
311 New Africa House
University of Massachusetts
Sponsored by Five College Black
Studies
SUMMER JOBS AVAILABLE
Evening security workers/ushers
wanted for Bright Moments jazz Con-
certs on July 18. 25 and August 1st for
approx. 6-6 hours/shift (limited number
of additional hours also available).
UMass students returning in Fall
semester only. Work study preferred but
not required. Fine Arts is an ^AA/EO
employer. Description and applications
available at 207 Hasbrouck.
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UMass/Amherst, Me. 01002
(413) 646-2800
The last meeting of the Third World
Steering Committee will be held on
Thursday May 9. 1986 @ 4:00 pm in Room
311 New Africa House.
All Third World Organization leaders
and Third World students ere encourag-
ed to attend.
NUMMO is a Black student weekly newspaper
of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Our offices are located at 103 New Africa House.
(413)545-0061-02. .
Unsigned editorials represent the view of this
paper. They do not necessarily reflect the views of
the student body, faculty, or administration.
Signed editorials, columns, reviews, cartoons,
and letters represent the personal view of the
authors.
Frm the Editors of NUMMO
Theory, practice and struggle has been the
essence of this paper. We will be honored by the
level of consciousness raised.
•STAFF’
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Photo Editor David Walker
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Contributors:
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Rod Clare
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Julian Tynes
Christopher Williams
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NUMMO NEWS
Monday, May 6, 1966
continued from page 1
were sold, were arrested quietly on tresspasing
charges Thursday after they refused to leave. They
had spent the night in the exchange's lobby.
The six sang "We Shall Overcome" as they were
put into a police van.
Their action followed a rally of about two-hundred
people outside the office Wednesday.
Twenty seven UMass students were freed Thursday
from police lock-ups after a sit-in, all part of continu-
ing efforts to end college investment in companies do-
ing business in South Africa.
"Each day that investment continues is a black spot
on the University," said Matthew Shakespeare, 19,
one of the arrested students at the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst.
A total of thirty-three students were arrested after
they refused to leave the office of campus Treasurer
Robert Brand on Wednesday.
Don’t forget!
Read Nummo
News every
Monday!
Pag* 4
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Administrative Assistant
io Collegian!
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Commencement 1985
10:00 a.m., Saturday, May 25
! Tuesday, May 14, 1985
All Candidates
There is no Commencement rehearsal for degree
candidates. Candidates should assemble by school/
college at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium no later
than 9 a.m. graduation morning, May 25, 1985.
Signs will be posted indicating schools, and Com-
mencement Marshals will issue specific instructions
and distribute programs. Upon signal, candidates
will follow the Commencement Marshals to the as-
signed areas and be seated.
Candidates will receive diploma covers from the
deans of their school or college. Diplomas will be
mailed when all processing has been completed.
Please be sure the Registrar has your correct perma-
nent address.
Who is Eligible to Participate?
Undergraduate degree candidates who anticipate com-
pleting degree requirements by the end of the calen-
dar year 1985. Questions concerning academic stat-
us should be directed to the Records Office, 213
Whitmore, 545-0555.
Master degree candidates who have previously sub-
mitted the Degree Application Form by April 30,
1985 to the Office of Degree Requirements stating
the intention to complete all requirements. Ques-
tions concerning eligibility should be directed to the
Office of Graduate Degree Requirements, Room
A249, Lederle Graduate Research Center, 545-0024.
Doctoral degree candidates who have completed all
degree requirements by April 30, 1985. Questions
concerning eligibility should be directed to the Of-
fice of Graduate Degree Requirements. Room A249,
Lederle Graduate Research Center, 545-0024.
Faculty
Faculty and staff should assemble at the SOUTH
end of the stadium on the gravel between the Facili-
ties Building and the stadium wall. Faculty will be
part of the processional and will be seated immedi-
ately in front of the candidates from each school
and college.
Parents and Invited Guests/Plan to Arrive Early
— Space is Limited
Since the Commencement Exercises are open to the
public and guest seating is without reservation, par-
ents and friends should plan to arrive early to ensure
good seating.
Handicapped Seating
Viewing area for the handicapped will be located on
both sides of the stadium on the eastern and west-
ern walkways. Since seating is limited, it is re-
quested that only one person accompany the handi-
capped guest.
Invitations
There is no limit to the number of guests who may
attend the ceremony and tickets are not required.
Each student will receive a packet of six formal invi-
tations.
Caps, Gowns, and Hoods
Undergraduate and Master Degree Candidates
Caps, gowns, tassels, and invitations will be avail-
able at no charge (on presentation of an I.D. and an-
nouncement of the degree earned and the depart-
ment awarding it) at the Textbook Annex, May
6-May 24, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m, to 4 p in.
Schedule of Events Date Time Place
Stockbridge Commencement Fri.,May24. 1:30p.m. FAC Concert Hall
ROTC Commissioning Sat , May 25 8:00 a.m. FAC Concert Hall
1985 Commencement Ceremony Sal..May25 10a. m. -12 noon Warren McGuirk Alumni
Stadium
Recap: Commencement 85 is on Saturday. May 25. 10 a.m. Rain or Shine.
Stadium Plan
On Commencement Day, May 25, caps, gowns, and
tassels may be obtained after 8 a.m at the SOUTH-
WEST corner of Alumni Stadium.
Doctoral Degree Candidates
Doctoral caps, gowns, tassels, hoods and invitations
will be available only at the Office of Graduate De-
gree Requirements, Room A249, Lederle Graduate
Research Center, April 29-May 24, Monday through
Friday, 8:30 a m. through 5 p.m., upon clearance by
the Office of Degree Requirements. On Commence-
ment Day, caps, gowns, tassels, and hoods may be
obtained after 9 a.m at the NORTHWEST end of
the stadium (on the gravel area).
Doctoral candidates who plan to participate in the
Commencement ceremony must have a hood. Each
candidate's name will be announced over the stadi-
um sound system and two officers of the University
will drape the hood on the candidate's shoulders.
Doctoral hoods can be purchased only at the Office
of Graduate Degree Requirements, A249, Lederle
Graduate Research Center, at a cost of $30. (Five
College Doctoral Hoods will be available at $42.95.)
Doctoral hoods may be rented through the Universi-
ty Store at a cost of $10.
Rentals
Academic apparel for this year’s University Com-
mencement may be rented through the University
Store. All faculty members are urged to place their
orders as soon as possible. THE LAST DAY TO OR-
DER IS FRIDAY, MAY 17. Payment must be made
at the time of order and there will be no refunds if
apparel is not used. Academic apparel may also be
purchased. For further information about rentals or
purchases, please contact Connie Szelewicki at the
University Store, 545-2619.
Accommodations
Many area motels are already booked for the eve-
nings of May 24 and 25. A limited number of rooms
in University dormitories will he available for rela-
tives and their guests for the nights of May 24 and
25. Please contact the Conference Services Office,
918 Campus Center, (413) 545-3400, as soon as pos-
sible to request a form to register for dormitory
housing. These forms must be returned with full
payment to Conference Services no later than May
3, to guarantee your dormitory room reservation.
Food Services
Coffee, soft drinks, and donuts will be available at
rotundas on both sides of the stadium toward the
North
Commencement Ceremony Schedule
9 a.m. Robing for Commencement
Appropriate signs will be displayed.
Graduates should line up according to
their school or college.
9:30 a.m. Seating of Graduates
10 a.m. Procession starts
12 noon Ceremony ends
Parking
Parking at the stadium is extremely limited. Vehi-
cles will be directed to several parking lots located
nearby and shuttle buses will provide transportation
to the stadium Buses will return to the lots immedi-
ately following the ceremony.
Traffic Assistance
To aid the traffic flow at Commencement, radio sta-
tion WTTT-AM (1430) will broadcast traffic reports
throughout the morning. Please tune in as you ap-
proach Amherst for the best route to the ceremony.
General Information
Medical facilities will be located in the Facilities
Building at the south end of the stadium.
Public telephones will be located on the west side of
the Facilities Building.
Restrooms are located at both ends of the Facilities
Building at the south end of the stadium.
Viewing areas for those confined to wheelchairs will
be located on both sides of the stadium, on eastern
and western walkways.
For additional information, contact the Office of
University Relations, 390 Whitmore, 545-2560.
Please remember alcohol is not permitted in the
stadium.
RAIN DATE
There iS no alternative rain site. The ceremony will
be held outs.de regardless of the weather. The cere-
mony will be delayed a maximum of two hours in
t wn!h heavy ?"• and if ,hal decision is ™de
it will be announced on local radio stations that
morning.
Pag* 2
NUMMO NEWS
Tuesday. May 14 1*06
The policy of the Reagan Administration toward
Nicaragua is one of limited options. It is an either-or
approach. Toward Sandinistas, it is, as the
Nicaraguan foreign minister put it,"Drop dead or we
will kill you." And at home it is either military support
for the Contras or direct military intervention. This is a
very deceiving and dangerous policy, oppossing one
means having to accept the other option which is
essentially the same thing. It is in pursuit of this policy
that the administration has consistently ignored and
undermined the Contadora Peace process, the San-
dinistas' peace initiatives, and has put such totally
unacceptable demands with the Nicaraguan govern-
ment that in reality mean nothing but political suicide
and loss of total legitimacy for revolutionary leaders.
The administration's policy and rhetoric while mak-
ing its prophecies about Nicaragua self-fulfilling,
allows it to win over some democrats and place the
responsibility for Sandinistas' policies on those who
oppose its policies in the congress. The administra-
tion's policy and discourse enable it to present a com-
pletely distorted and reverse picture of ther situation in
Central America. A clear example of this came last
week when the administration claimed that the rejec-
tion of its military aid proposal to the Contra's in
House sent the wrong message to Nicaragua and sent
Daniel Ortega to Moscow "for further instructions and
more money to pursue disruptions among his
neighbors in Central America..." thereby justifying its
economic sanction against Nicaragua. This totally ig-
nores the immense pressures put on the Nicaraguan
economy by the U.S. covert war against Nicaragua,
namely 350 million dollars in trade deficit which forced
Ortega to turn to the Eastern bloc for economic aid.
To sum up, the administration's policy allows it to 1)
accuse the Sadinistas' of becoming a Soviet base in
Central America; 2) to alarm and intimidate its op-
ponents in the Congress; and 3) to claim that the
United States cannot afford to buy Nicaraguan coffee
and bananas thereby financing Nicaraguan subver-
sian in the area. And so the trend continues and the
tension escalates.
Peace activists and those who oppose the ad-
ministration's policy in Central America must treat it
with caution. For preventing military intervention
might prove a lot harder than preventing military aid to_
An open letter to the Third World Community:
Almost every week this semester you have seen
Nummo News in print. You may love Nummo, you
may hate Nummo, be; Nummo is the voice of our
people. If it seems weak or ineffective it is your fault.
So far the responsibility of Nummo has fallen on the
shoulders of a small band of people whose professions
are not necissarily journalism. WE, the Nummo staff
are trying our best, but we are overworked.
Nummo invite* talented and interested students I of
the 5-college community to come in and take leader-
ship roles. Nummo invites those who do not have
time for commitment to contribute as often as they
can. Contribute thoughts, essays, arts, reviews,
photographs, poems, and most of all, news.
We- need news correspndents from each of the 5
colleges. For instance, if something of interest is or
has happened at Smith or Mount Holyoke College, let
us know.
Nummo can be what you make it. Joining the
Nummo staff will redirect your energies, pushing
toward a higher conscious. Don't accept Nummo as it
is. Change it. DEVELOPS. Nummo is your paper, so
let us know what you the Third World community
wants from us. Help us get our news out. Academic
credits may be obtained through Nummo.
Thank you
Nummo
In the last two weeks Nicaragua has made national
headlines. President Reagan wants to send $14
million in aid to anti-goverment Military forces, in
Nicaragua. These forces commonly called the
"contras" have been called "The moral equals" of
the founding , fathers of the United States by
President Reagan, who says the contras are
fighting for freedom, fighting oppression against
overwhelming odds. These statements have
caused a lot of controversy nationally especially
the statement about the contras being "moral
equals". As much as I dissagree with Mr. Reagan
on many issues, I must admit his statement pf
"moral equals" is the most accurate statement the
Editorials
the Contras; The administration's policy is a potential
trap. Its aim, its effects and most important of all, its
narrow boundaries must be revealed and broken. In
this connection every other alternative must be ag-
gressively explored and articulated. The Contadora
peace process and Sandinistas peace initiatives must
be given extra publicity. Othewise the opposition will
be undermined and overwhelmed by the administra-
tion's propagand overtime.
Given the progressively hostile trend of the ad-
ministration's policies toward Nicaragua, direct
military intervention is a distinct possibility. Consider-
ing the nature of the administration and the military
preparations in this connection does not leave any
doubts about its intentions. It is an administration
which has regarded the Vietnam war as not only
moral but win-able. It is an administraion which is
determined to "do it right this time." It is an ad-
ministration which has vastly increased and improved
such units as the Army's new light infantry divisions,
82nd Airboume, Central Command, Rangers, and*
Special Forces Operation. These units are trained for
and specialized in intervention, counter-insurgency or
to use the military jargon, "low intensity warfare."
The Reagan Administration is committed to gun-
boat diplomacy and is eager to use force as the first
resort. Its rhetoric and policies toward revolutionary
movements in the Third World speak for themselves.
Any sign of tolerance or passivity among the
American people would be interpreted by the ad-
ministration as a green light for intervention. There is,
however, a great risk involved. In the Age of ther-
monuclear weapons and superpower rivalry the con-
sequences of any intervention are highly unpredic-
table and risky. That is why American people cannot
afford to leave their fate-and the fate of the whole
world for that matter-in the hands of an administra-
tion which is committed to bellicos behavior and
belligerent policies,
Rashid Sheedfar
President bas made in his five years in
administration. The contras are murderers,
terrorists and rapists. The founding fathers of this
country were murderers guilty of genocide, slave
holders, and rapists. How can I make this
statements? Look at the historical record. First
Genocide: People have remembered the slaughter
of six million Jews by the Nazi Germany, of 1.5
million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks. What
about the obliteration of a whole sub-continent of
peoples? I am talking about the American Natives.
This entire country was once populated by various
Native tribes, where are they now ? Most have
been murdered by "heroes" such as Lord Jefferev
Amherst), who in trading with the tribes gave
them smallpox infested blankets quaranteeijig
epidemics and death. Other American heroes
such as George Washington in the French and
Native American War, Daniel Boone veteran of
many Native wars, and Abraham Lincoln of the
Seminole wars in Florida led troops in battle in
■ successful attempts to kill this race of people and
steal their land. The Native American is now an
almost extinct people.
The second accusation. Slave Holders. George
Washington, " the father of our country” slave
holder general.
Owner of a large plantation full of slaves. Thomas
Jefferson the man who wrote the Declaration of
Independence, declaring "all men are created
equal" and stating the right to "life.liberty and the
pursuit of happiness” also a slave holder.
. Slave owner Patrick Henry who said "give me
liberty or give me death" did not think his slaves
deserved the same considerations. And finally
rapists, George Washington "the father of our
country" was also the father of many of the
children of his female slaves.
Thomas Jefferson also fathered
numerous offsprings of various female slaves.
If President Reagan really wants to help rebels
fighting for freedom, fighting oppression against
overwhelming odds. I know just where the $14
million can go. Send it to rebel troops fighting the
goverment of the Union of South Africa. There is
no doubt these people are fighting totalitarianism.
This is a country were a majority of the
people have no human rights what so
ever. There is no doubt of these
rebels motives, or of the evil of the South Afrikan
goverment and its policies. Congress wants to
— *send humanitarian aid somewhere, send it to
Ethiopia, millions are starving and much U.S. aid
has been snarled in red tape. Send the Aid! Some
people
will argue that there are people in this country who
are starving. Feed them too! We have the
resources. If we can spend millions to see how
many times some U.S. senator will vomit in outer
space, we can spend some money to put food in
peoples' stomach. If our President is sincere we
should examine these options. The money will be
well spent.
by Julian Tynes
We of Nummo hope all our readers have a produc-
tive and/or relaxing summer break, whether at work
or at play.
For the graduates especially: do not despair over
lacking concrete life plans. To have obtained a college
degree is, in itself, an outstanding achievement.
Remember, this struggle is one that was undertaken
for more reasons than just "making it." Also,
remember that you have much to contribute to the
community beyond your individual economic stan-
ding. Our advice, just worry about one thing at a
time.
For all our summer departees, whether returning in
the fall or not, please recognize that there is little
escape from the problems facing all but the most
"traditional" middle class students in the attempt to
complete an undergraduate education. Both the
minimum SAT requirements to affect all
Massachusetts public colleges and universities in 1987
and imposed on us by the Regents, and the outcries
against the inadequacies of out high schools, put forth
by the Board of Regents, and the outcries commis-
sioned of late, embody attacks on us as consumers of
higher education.
The argument that high schools across the nation
are not stringent enough, or do not promote high
standards as measured in quantitative terms through
standardized tests, etc., put the blame on students
who will be expected to submit to 'tougher' schooling,
even as our schools' budget cutting for the sake of
escalating military spending and widespread inequities
in our high schools will go unaddressed and the
students will then be expected to pay, unless we do
something about it.
This situation will affect not only our younger
brothers and sisters attempting to further their educa-
tions, but all of us who are to face this mentality in the
workplace and elsewhere. Blaming the victims of the
prevailing retrogressive policies is an old tactic to dif-
fuse the opposition.
We hope as you make ready to take off from
Amherst, that you take time to touch base with your
community, with other students and give thought to
these issues.
Get involved in something in your free time" Have
a good summer and we'll see you next fall.
Sound off i
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j Dean Murray M. Schwartz and the Humanities and
: Fine Arts Department, Chancellor Joseph D.
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Nummo apoligizes for this error.
Tuesdmj, May U. 1986
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DOWNTOWN
AMHERST
IS GOING ALL-OUT!
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20-40% Off
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20% Off Bamboo Blinds
Lots of other Gift &- Jewelry
Bargains
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IS GOING ALL-OUT!
(Outdoors, that is!)
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annual Sidewalk Sale
and Community Fair.
The Collegian
wishes all
5-College Seniors
a Happy Graduation
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NUMMO NEWS Tueaday, May 14. t«B
BCP GRADUATION
Graduates 0f 1985
photo by Ed Cohen
by Speaker
On behalf of the University of Massachusetts Ad-
ministration, as the supervisor of the Bilingual Col-
legiate Program, I salute and congratulate all of you
for the beautiful act of tonight.
Congratulations are indeed in place to those who
recieved awards and prizes, especially the members of
the 1985 Graduating class.
I also want to extend our congratulations to all of
those who contributed in any way to make this, your
dream, come true.
We know that the last four years have not been
easy for you. They were not meant to be easy,
anyway. We are very familiar with the many obstacles
you had to overcome. We are also very aware of the
many sleepless nights, the struggle, the sacrifices!
We know that you had to fight against many
economic, personal and bureaucratic problems, pro-
blems that perhaps at times seemed impossible to
solve. But you solved them! You confronted many
monsters and enemies and you defeated every one of
them. Tonight we celebrate your victories and make
each individual victory, our victory!
I wish you luck. You will need it. What remains
ahead of us is not easy. But you have the talent and
know-how to make it easier for yourselves and others.
You have what it takes. You have demonstrated that
and we are your witnesses.
Remember that anyone of our victories is a victory
of the collective, a victory of our race, which ever that
race may be. Anyone one of your actions will be a
reflection on each other. Let's make sure that the
reflection is a positive one. Because the struggle con-
tinues.
Committee for the Collegiate Education
of Black and Minority Students
New Africa House
University of Massachusetts
Amherst
(413) 545-0031
Or. Saturday May 18th, 1985, the CCEBMS Program will be sponsoring its
annual Family Day Program . The purpose of this program is to invite
our students, their parents and friends, and members of the faculty
and staff at the University to come and share with us in the celebra-
tion of the accomplishments of CCEBMS students.
The Program will take place in the Campus Center Auditorium from
11:30 a. a. to 3:30 p.ra. We are asking you to take some time from your
busy schedule to come and participate in this program. A full
luncheon will be provided as part of the day's activities. This year
due to increasing costs, we are asking parents and friends for a
donation of $5.00 per family to help defray the costs of the program.
Please make your check payable to CCEBMS. For planning purposes we
would like to have your reservation response by May 9th. You may
respond by telephone or in writing by sending your letter to:
FAMILY DAY
c/o CCEBMS
218 New Africa House
University of Massachusetts
Amnc-rst, MA 01003
(413; 545-0031
You may submit your donation in advance or you may bring it with you
wneu >ou attend the program. We hope that you will make every effort
to attend this important program. Nothing is more inspiring for
scud eats than to have family and friends present when they are
renccniced for their achievements and contributions to the ’JMass
community .
man* you.
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Announcements
Paul W. Barrows
Ui rector
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The deadline for submitting applies-
tlons for positions in the Upward Bound
Summer Program is May 17. Specific
positions are one Residential Director, ¥
one Assistant Residential Director, $
Counselors/Tutors, Instructors. For fur- ¥
ther information, contact Edward Korza, ;f$:
Director at 546-0250.
The Commuter Area Government is
now hiring for the summerl The Com-
muters are the student run government
for off campus undergraduates. This Is
your chance to become Involved in an
active student group and gain hands-on
training on skills development. The com-
muters work on such issues as rent con-
trol. the Progressive and Summer Rim
series. Martin Luther King Week and
much more.
Positions are for 30 hours per week.
You wont get rich but you'll hrve a good
time. Youy must be a student next fall to
apply.
We are an equal Affirmative Action
Equal Opportunity Employer. Third
World, women, handicapped and non
-traditional students are encouraged to
apply. Apply at Commuters Area
Government 404 Student Union Mon-Fri
9-6pm.
Deadline for applications is Tuesday
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Tnuda;, M.y 14, 1986!
A generation
lost in space
with no time
This child of Vietnam, Watergate, and
the ’60s in general, has no romantic ideas
about America. I've seen people shot in the
head on television and a president quit
because he lied. Although I was young dur-
ing those events, they have served as a
kind of toilet training, in which the
possibility of such incidences seems quite
natural.
David McNair
Armed with my skepticism, surprised by
nothing, I attempt to make sense out of the
chaos I live in. I am a selfish, cynical
iconoclast so I decide not to keep pace with
the conservative march (besides, I can’t
kick my legs that high). And I don’t have
the energy to be an activist; by the time I
get up, have coffee, and contemplate my
own nothingness, I barely have the
strength to brush my teeth, never mind
blockading hallways, incapacitating busses,
and going to jail; even though it would
make me feel superior to those idle
Americans who do “nothing." But, being
an idle American, I think it would be too
confusing to feel superior to myself. Well,
you get the idea.
Still, I have a need to feel grounded to
something O.K., I tell myself, “believe in
America, it’s a great place." Then I find
out that Ed McMahon was voted one of the
10 most watched men in the world and that
our president believes no one remembers
World War II. I am not shocked because
my ideals have been shattered, my dreams
proven naive, but because I am not surpris-
ed at all by this nonsense. It seems my
toilet training has taught me to accept just
about anything. Consequently, this accep-
tance cultivates a profound disbelief. Even
worse, it is a disbelief that is not a reaction
to an alternative belief but rather a confir-
mation of what I was skeptical about to
begin with.
Could the world be too complicated for
beliefs? The arms race, mass media, cor-
porate competition; these are the
phenomenon that have cast an enormous
shadow of complexity over my life. I read a
newspaper, a popular magazine, watch
television for half an hour, and the informa-
tion I have to deal with is staggering. The
entire world rushes at me in a chaotic
assault: Reagan— again— adds new mean-
ing to the word contra-diction (new word?);
Nazis in Arkansas; mass graves in Cam-
bodia; yuppies, are "in”; Madonna begins
her “Virgin Tour”; and Croisanwich beats
Egg McMuffm 2 to 1. This pace gives me
the feeling that life is a long road and I
have stepped on to it from a moving car.
I suppose all new generations have felt
this sense of urgency, this feeling that the
world is a brutal sort of animal that will
swallow people who don’t find something
to hold on to or hide behind. But what
about those of us who have learned to ac-
cept chaos and as a result have grown into
hardened skeptics? What could possibly
shock us into taking a stand? And if
something did shock us, would we have the
backbone to confront it?
I used to think the freedom my genera-
tion enjoyed was unique; a chance to
develop our own ideas and plenty of time
and space to find ourselves. Yet for me,
that freedom has become like an enormous
inheritance from some distant relative; I
feel guilty because I haven’t earned it but I
would feel like an idiot if I gave it away. 1
wonder if freedom is a concept too abstract
to manage. Has it made me lazy and denied
me a feeling of passion toward life? Am 1
babbling away in this column because I am
bored? Who knows, maybe our generation
will be the first to create anarchy from a
reaction to boredom. Picture it: a crowd of
angry protesters shouting, “No, no, we
won’t yawn any longer!” Now, that might
surprise me.
David McNair is a Collegian columnist.
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Trying to fill a lonely emptiness
The late night phone calls still shatter
his universe. Not long ago, the familiar
ring from the kitchen phone changed his
world in ways he’s just beginning to com-
prehend.
“Is your mother home, son?” the dis-
tant voice queried.
"She’s not here right now,” the
17-year-old stammered. His mouth
quivered uncontrollably as he began to
realize who he was talking to. Now was
not the time to be home alone.
"It’s about your dad," the physician
said. “He had a relapse about 45 minutes
ago. We couldn’t save him.”
The instructor drones on as the young
man stares blankly out the window and
replays that short telephone conversa-
tion. It has become a familiar image to
him. Hardly a day passes when he doesn’t
think of that fateful April night. The trees
were just budding, the lawn needed clip-
ping and the robins were nesting in the
old elm tree. Suddenly, time had been
forced to stand still. The days came and
went but he no longer felt a part of them.
Only recently has the pain and denial sub-
sided. Accepting his father’s death was
now the difficult task.
He had stopped asking “Why me?” He
had known his 55-year-old father wasn't
in good health but Dad kept telling his son
that he was determined to see him
graduate.
Today he finds himself separate from
his peers in ways he cannot fully unders-
tand. He is asked to partake in a practical
joke. He shakes his head wearily, saying
he's outgrown such playful acts.
Later, alone in his room, he questions
the incident. Had he really outgrown such
mischievous behavior? Had he suddenly
been asked to grow up overnight? Death
does that to you. It strips away all the ex-
traneous behavior and cuts clear to the
marrow. He begins to wonder if his
childhood had been complete. Had it been
snatched away from him prematurely?
Had his boyish enthusiasm been buried
with his father?
He winces as he hears his friends talk
about father and son day at Fenway Park.
The old ballpark now holds only memories
of days gone by when the two of them
spent Saturday afternoons together sit-
ting down the left field lines and telling
stories about the Splendid Splinter, the
Boomer and Yaz.
College students carry extraordinary
burdens from tuition to grades to one’s
social life. Most students’ mental en-
durance is strained to the limit. That’s
why it felt so good to get a phone call from
home and hear Dad’s reassuring voice. It
enables us to retain our sanity and fonre
ahead.
Bob Kievra
He never had that option. When he feels
down he’s forced to pick himself up and
continue.
The days of little league practice with
Dad coaching third are gone. There won’t
be any more times when Dad will take the
day off and take his son fishing. He never
did get around to showing you that
favorite fishing hole that his dad had
shown him.
No, today the son's days are marked
with a quiet endurance. He finds himself
studying longer, working harder, all in an
effort to fill that uncomfortable emptiness
in his life. Friends keep having to remind
him to smile. His is a void he had no con-
trol over but one that he is forced to meet
the consequences of.
Some of his friends respect the forced
maturity he has undergone. His pro-
fessors tell him that his attitude is more
serious, one marked by greater deter-
mination.
As graduation approaches, he would
gladly trade that attitude and be able to
look around the crowded stadium and
catch a glimpse of his father.
Bob Kievra is a Collegian columnist.
Letters
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ToBBIWfr WICAQA6UA Clr&eG To US...
STPEC needs more
The functioning of a bureaucracy is such
that to engage a response from the ad-
ministrative organ of the University, the
student must activate its role and employ
those organs which are at its disposal. The
students of the STPEC Program wish,
therefore, to utilize this public forum as a
means of calling attention to their need for
a full-time staff assistant to maintain the
continuity and stability of a program
presently expanding at a rate few depart-
ments can claim.
The creation of a full-time staff assistant
position is an acknowledgement and a com-
mitment to the approximately 100 majors
engaged in the rigorous study of Social
Thought and Political Economy. We, as
students, feel it is also a responsibility basic
to our progress that this need is acted
upon.
The STPEC program is an inter-
disciplinary major which draws its cur-
riculum from both the University and the
Five College area. This administration
rightly calls attention to the tremendous
educational opportunities available within
the University community and cites the
STPEC program as an example of such op-
portunity.
The administration of the University can
proudly endorse STPEC because of its uni-
que nature as an undergraduate program;
however, it will have to guarantee the pro-
gram’s continuity. Such a guarantee can
only be realized by providing a full-time
staff position. The response given to the
students of STPEC by the administration
will be a direct reflection of the
University’s commitment to the oppor-
tunities it expouses for higher education.
undermine their capitalist private
SECTOR.,.
AND PROVIDE EXCUSES FOG THEIR
ECONOMIC FAILURES?
DA - A US. TRADE EMBARGO
\
Problem was budget cuts, not professor
Regina Ryan
Amherst
But why...?
I was disturbed by the Collegian article
of Tuesday, May 6, regarding the non-
renewal of Robert Cooley as a mathematics
instructor. The article, by its tone, sug-
gested that Bob Cooley was not re-hired
for personal reasons and portrayed Pro-
fessor Larry Mann, chairman of the
mathematics department, as yet another
insensitive bureaucrat. Neither idea could
be further from the truth.
The problem resides with $50,000 cut
from the departmental budget. Given that
the math department’s general operating
expenses are already trimmed to the bone,
this necessitates that any cuts be made
from personnel.
As for why Bob Cooley got cut, it has
nothing to do with personality or with his
superior teaching. Any outfit has to have a
priority system for laying off personnel,
should that be necessary. There are many
reasons for Bob Cooley’s low priority, not
the least of which is— by contract— that
non-tenured instructors must be layed off
before tenured ones.
Thus, Professor Mann was only doing
what he was absolutely forced to do. Those
who have objections should take up the
matter— of the $50,000 cut— with higher
authorities and/or the State Legislature,
not Professor Mann.
As for Larry Mann’s being described as
"insensitive,” this is absurd to all who
know him. I have had the privilege both of
being Larry Mann’s student and of wat-
ching him chair the math department. He is
not only extremely sensitive, he is efficient
and effective to boot. It is no fault of his
that he cannot please all the people, all the
time. Who can?
I feel that your reporter owes this fine
gentleman an apology.
Jerry Jungster
Amherst
Why was the speaker of the senate ar-
rested during the senate meeting last week
(a very public, and potentially embarrass-
ing situation) when he could have been ap-
prehended at the senate SCERA office all
that afternoon? It smells funny. Perhaps he
was arrested at this most inopportune time
because the administration seeks to in-
timidate the civicly minded student ac-
tivists on this campus. If perchance this is
the case, let us just tell them now: “It
won’t work, guys. We’re fired up and we
won’t take it no more!”
David C. Martin
Martha Nelson
David A. Weston
Marc Kenen
Beatrix Hoffman
Amherst
A teacher of learning
The Undergraduate Student Senate
passed a motion by acclamation at the
meeting Wednesday to demand the
reinstatement of Robert Cooley as a lec-
turer at the University of Massachusetts.
Cooley spoke briefly on his own behalf,
exposing facts about himself and the math
department. These include: that he is the
only full-time faculty member that
teaches more than one large lecture (four
to be exact), that he earns only two-thirds
of what a normal faculty member makes,
that he is the only teacher from the math
department who has won the Distinguish-
ed Teacher Award and has been
nominated for that award each semester
since being hired by the University.
The reasons for his being “let go” were
that a budget cut of $50,000 had to be
made and part of it was the elimlination of
calculus and pre-calculus courses he is
presently teaching. Therefore, they had
to let him go.
Since this time the courses have been
reinstated and Cooley has not.
As a concerned student I and the senate
by acclamation demand that Larry Mann
Chairman of the department of
mathematics and statistics, reinstate
Cooley as a visiting lecturer to UMass and
should be placed in the correct track for
tenure. The students who support Cooley
should have a voice in the
administration’s decision to cut one of the
University’s finest instructors, one who
has made learning conducive to all.
Denise F. Forbes
Southwest
_ , connected with the Collegian
Tuesday. May 14 1986 Volume 13 Issue 16 for the sole purpoee of
distribution
Media Held at Fault on U.S. Wi thdrawal From
Unesco
Misrepresentation by th*» media of the New World
Information Order [NWIO] contributed in a major way
to the Administration's ability to follow through on its
threat to withdraw from the United Nations Educa-
tional, Scientific and Cultural Organization
[UNESCO), Joseph Mehan, UNESCO's Information
Officer for the United States and Canada, told a small
audience at New Africa House Thursday evening.
Mehan appeared under the sponsorship of the Five
College Black Studies Executive Committee with the
cooperation of the Afro-American Studies Depart-
ment and the Journalism Studies Program, replacing
the earlier announced Doudou Diene, Director of
UNESCO's Liaison Office who was called to the Paris
headquarters of UNESCO nexpectedly.
Mehan, longtime journalist, NBC News producer
and writer of news documentaries, charged the U.S.
media with misinforming the American public about
the aims of the New World Information Order. The
media, he said, repeatedly and consistently alleged
the NWIO aimed at state control of the press, censor-
ship, licensing of journalists and imposing codes of
ethics on journalist. The facts are, Mehan pointed
out, that the NWIO does not embrace any of these ob-
jectiv es. He said that no official UNESCO document
exists or has existed advocating these objectives.
The NWlO's aims as clearly expressed in UNESCO
documents resolutions, press releases and
statements, are to provide communication capability
and to train personnel in developing countries where
these do not now exist, as a means toward correcting
the imbalance in the flow of news and information,
which currently strongly favors industrialized coun-
tries.
"Developing countries want the peoples of in-
dustrialized countries to have access to a wider variety
and scope of news and information about their coun-
tries than is now provided," Mehan said. They also
feel that their point of view on a wide range of matters
from questions of war and disarmanent to a pop music
and sports, are seldom made known to the public of
industrialized countries and should be. "It is to ad-
dress these and similar questions that the demand for
a NWIO arose," Mehan said.
Recalling the reasons given for the U.S. withdrawal
from UNESCO as over politicisation of UNESCO,
mismanagement and inefficiency in its activities and
budgetary excesses, Mehan answered each with con-
vincing clarity. He pointed out that as an organization
of states come together to achieve common goals,
UNESCO and the entire UN system is political by
nature. Further, he reminded his listeners that when
originally set up in 1945, and up until the mid-1950s
when the Soviet Union and Eastern European coun-
tries joined, UNESCO had been a purely Western
dominated agency so politicised that Western allies of
the U.S. complained because the U.S. was using
UNESCO as a propaganda mechanism in its political
debates with the USSR and the Eastern bloc coun-
tries.
"What has changed since those early years," said
Mehan, "is not the inherent political nature of
UNESCCO, but the fact that now some 70 per cent of
UNESCO's 160 members are developing countries and
the U.S. is no longer in a position to impose its
political positions."
On the charge of mismanagement and inefficiency,
with the implied criticism of UNESCO's director
General, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, the only African to
head a major United Nations Agency, Mehan pointed
out that the U.S. General Accounting Office report on
UNESCO ordered by Congress, while pointing to
areas for improvement, gave UNESCO high grades in
relation to other UN agencies and to international
bodies generally, and found no evidence of curruption
as had been alleged by the U.S. media.
On excessive budgetary expansion Mehan said that
the current UNESCO budget of $187 million annually,
representing only 7 per cent of the entire United Na-
tions budget, could hardly be considered excessive for
an international organization engaged in educational,
scientific and cultural activities, pointing out that a
single Bl bomber costs $250 million; Columbia Univer-
sity's annual budget is $500 million and the New York
City Police Departments annual budget is $1 billion.
Tutu Psyched at Protests
by Chris Alterr "™ 1 ”
South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, who began a
four day tour in California on Friday, said recently that
he was 'thrilled' with widespread demonstrations in
the United States against his country's system of
racial separation.
Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace Winner, also said that
he was pleased with recent changes !n South African
laws that ease some restrictions against Blacks, but
added that the only change that really mattered would
be dismantling of apartheid.
Tutu said he expects to raise $80,000 on his tour of
California Universities and Businesses to help him in
his work in South Africa.
"I am thrilled at what is happening in this country,"
he said, reffering to the calling of many demonstraions
calling for withdrawal of American investments in
South Africa. "It is giving the word to the Reagan ad-
ministration that the policies of South Africa are unac-
ceptable," the clergy man said.
Flack Feeds
the Flock
It was two hours of live nonstop entertaining music
as top female vocalist Roberta Flack appeared in con-
cert at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Fine
Arts Center Concert Hall on Saturday evening.
Hundreds packed the hall to experience the thrill of
the veteran. So versatile are her talents, so widerang-
ing her interests, that it is really no exaggeration to say
that Eoborta Flack could successfully pursue any
hosts of career options for her life.
Flack, a native of Great Valley, West Virginia is
clearly a renaissance woman of our age. The past
decade has witnessed the establishment of Roberta
Flack not only as a superstar, but as an international
culture heroine of the first degree. The release of her
first album on Atlatic in 1969 introduced an approach
that would come to be known as the Roberta Flack
signature. Time and time again, her unmistakable
voice has been matched to just the right song, per-
formed in that very special way... and the affect is
magical.
Ironically, Flack was a bit sexist when she dedicated
her song "I'm tha One" to the ladies in the house,
however she kept asking the audience for more as
thrice she said 'bye' and returned for encores. On
numerous occasions she engaged the audience the au-
dience in her acts which installed a feeling of unity.
Her band deserves some of the credit as the
members were with her every step of the way.
Her musical abilities go much deeper than merely
singing as she is a skilled producer, arranger,
songwriter, keyboardist, as well as being involved in
all facets of the music business. Yet she also manages
to be influentially involved in a number of other
projects-education, community/public service
charities and much more.
The stream of gold records, the Grammy awards,
the critical and public acclaim has all confirmed Ms.
Flacks' stature and influence.
Flack recently returned from a tour in England. She
replaced Ray Charles, who was scheduled to appear in
concert but cancelled. She moved on to New Hamp-
shire where she played last evening before returning
to New York.
by Chris Allen
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