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teIas, " Mr. Hayes said.
he didn't belong in the building.
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tially ked the student to leave and
later sought help from the resident,
who pushed the tudent at one point.
The Black student showed proper
, identification and should have been
left alone, Bernier said.
"This has been a very serlo
and disturbing event," Bernier d.
"The Afro-American tudcnt was
embarrassed and humiliated in front
of his classmatcs •... Any part that
racial bi played in these even is
deplorable and any part !ada! bi
played diminishes, all of us. "
Clagctte, a member of the Stu
dent National Medical As ociation,
aid hi group wants Pitt to tart an
educational program to increase cul
tural awarcn and ensitivity of ad
ministrators, faculty, taff and
students.
A white medical re ident and a
receptionist at the cbool's Center
for Emergency Medicine were
reprimanded for trying to force the
student to leave the center.
Dr. George Bernier, dean of
Pitt' medical school, said the medi
cal student was heading to class
when the white receptionist told him
P URG (AI') • Blae medi-
cal students at the University of Pit
tsburgh are calling for change to
combat racism at the school. lbcy
say a erie of racist 'incidents
climaxed recently when a black stu
dent was nearly thrown out of a
building while trying to attend class.
"We demand the mutual respect
that we de erve not only as human
beings but future physicians who
will be making outstanding contribu
tions to this society," said Vaughn
Clagette, 25, a third-year medical
student.
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Minority scholarship PQlicy opposed
• WASIIINGTO (AP) - The u.s.
Commission on Civil Rights urged
the Bush administration recently to
reconsider its ban on race-specific
scholarships, saying its policy sig
nals a retreat from equal opportunity.
advantaged individuals that the
federal government will not work
earnestly to meet their reasonable
needs," the letter said.
Commission Chairman Arthur A.
Fletcher wrote the letter to the
Education Department's assistant
secretary for civil rights, Michael L
Williams. He said the
administration's draft policy "sends
a message, intentional or not, that the
federal government is retreating
from the vigorous and aggressive
pursuit of equal educational oppor
tunity for minorities."
The letter was dated Monday, the
department's deadline for public
comment on its proposed ban on
scholarships awarded solely to mem
bers of a particular. race. The letter
'was released Tuesday.
The proposed rule sets three COD
ditions under which colleges and .
universities receiving federal funds
may make race a consideration in
awarding financial aid, including
loans and graduate fellowships. They
arc financial need, a need to create
campus diversity and to remedy dis
crimination. 1bc commission said
the policy would narrowly restrict
the lati,tude of colleges and univer
sities to award scholarship to •
achieve diversity.
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The commission said in a letter
to Bush's Department of Education
that the policy "is inconsistent with
prior interpretations of the depart
ment and runs counter to well-estab
lished formulations for affirmative
action."
"The Department's policy may
be seen as a distressing signal to stu
dents, to minority groups, and to dis-
Many Black Americans develop additional skills in their profession
,by serving as United States Peace Corps volunteers. Donnie
Campbell taught in Rock Hill, South Carolina before going to Kenya
to teach argiculture.
Publisher:
Char1es D. Kelly
Editor: '
Theresa Kelly
VIOLE
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Man glng Editor:
WandaF. Roquemore
QUE TIO'N 4: Who are the victims of this apartheid violence?
A campaJ.gn 1n1t1at.cd by The Africa. Fund,
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
�s��: The image of mindless whole5alc tribal viol nc i
a lie. The violence is very s�stematic. The minority regime has
targeted people on the cutting edge 0: the freedo� struggle:
labor, church, and civic leaders. There are also military style
massacres of innocent people but there is a consistent patt rn at
core activists being killed. Many of them were involved in
township level negotiations to try and stop the violence.
Contrlbutora:
Bernice Brown
Salama Gordon
Mary Golliday,
Allison Jones
Flodean Riggs
Leah Samuel
Nathaniel Scott
Ron Seigel
Carolyn Warfield
Vera White
��S1rI()l 1: How many people have died so far as a result of
the political violence in south Africa?
ANSW R: !iore than 11,000 people have been killed as a
result of the violence in South Africa since 1984, over half this
number since Nelson Mandela was release� from prison in 1990.
Q�S1lI()N 5: How is the U.S. government involved in this
violence?
QUESTIO: T 2: Who is responsible f o r the violence?
i\!J �Il: The Bush Administration has sent Inkatha more than
two million U.S. dollars. We mU5t stop George Bush from using
our tax dollars to fund Inkatha killers.
A S VER: The regime of F. W. De Klerk is responsible for much
of the violence. In the two years since Nelson Mandela walked out
of prison the security �orces have directly killed at least 421
people an� injured over 4,000, according to statistics from the
Human Rights Commission. Hit squads have killed many more. In
January 1992, the Johannesburg Weekly tl2il produced army
documents detailing the military's efforts to establish, finance
and run covert hit squads that targeted local leaders and
organizations sympathetic to the ANC. One report to the army
General Staff set out how "cultural organizations" were used to
"create conflict" between the ANC and other black groups.
According to the Human Rights Commission, black vigilante gangs
have accounted for an estimated 5,471 deaths since the middle of
1990. The CornMissio reports 53 assassinations of political
organizers in 1991. The government has never fully investigated
the hit squads and the department that ran these hit squads was
still listed as receiving funds in the 1991 budget document.
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What can I as an individual do to help stop the political
violence in South Africa?
Production Manager:
Kascene Barks
FirSt, demand that Pretoria end the violence by flooding the
apartheid ambassador in Washington with calls, faxes and
letters.
Production:
KaJ Andrich
Anita Iroha
Ambassador Harry Schwarz
Embassy of South Africa
3051 Massachusetts Ave. N. W.
Washington D.C. 20008 Tel. (202) 232-4400
Second, Write and demand the U.S. stop the funding of
Inkatha killers. "
President George B u h
The White House
Washington D. C. 20500
Third, during the week of March 28 to April 4, hold a
candlelight vigil at your church, school, or
a Federal Buildi�g, S.A. Consulate, and strike a ligbt for
peaceful change m South Africa.
Account Executlv
Earlene Tolliver
�UESTIO! T 3: Isn I t it true that Blacks are killing Blacks?
rketlng executive:
AMnClemons
�S�It: For over 40 years the policy of 'apartheid has been
to do everything to keep B,lack South Africans firmly oppressed.
This has included assault, 'torture, and murder. The minority
gov rnment has also worked to incite blacks to fight each other.
It cr ated and continues to finance ten tribally based homelands,
including the KwaZulu hom land operated by Gatsha Buth 1 zi.
Buth lezi formed Inkatha, a movement he uses to run th KwaZulu
hom land for the Pr toria regime. Inkatha and Pretoria's police
are r sponsible for more deaths than anyon else. Because Inkatha
is an organization of Black South Atric ns, the killings are
dismissed as incidents of "Black on Black violence", but Inkatha
in fact is a 001 of the Government .
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