PROTESTERS DEMAND DIVESTMENT S. Africa debated at WMU The Michigan Daily-Sunday, October 21, 1979-Page 3 By STEVE HOOK can't discuss a th It's a familiar scenario - irate students being arrested hour for that mat by . police for disrupting a meeting of University ad- dialogue. They did ministrators, while demanding their University divest its According to holdings in South Africa. Africa issue at WA But the location isn't Ann Arbor in this case - it's volving interested Kalamazoo,, at Western Michigan University (WMU). In- . While decidin stead of the University Board of Regents, it's the WMU ad hoc committee, Board of Trustees that is the target of student anger. policy "statement FOR 18 MONTHS, the issue of South African divestment ports political act has, steamrolled into a key political issue at WMt. On rights." Friday, 11 people were arrested for trying to prevent the The statemen WMU Trustees from ending their meeting without hearing University is sup their case. structive changes .They've made their views known to us on four oc- country or abroad casions," said Charles Ludlow, WMU Trustee. "We've given TRUSTEE Ll them an answer. At some point, this will all have to stop." university realizes Among those arrested Friday was Donald Kooney, an it disagrees that assistant professor in his third year at WMU. Kooney is case. among several other staff members, students, local "Divestiture chaplains and Kalamazoo citizens chosen by WMU President plishes nothing. It John Bernhard last spring to study the South Africa issue. Africa policy, Li Last April, the "Ad Hoc" committee unanimously recom- Sullivan Principle mended that the University.divest its South African holdings. According to CONTACTED at his home yesterday morning, the 42- get involved in sp year-old Kooney expressed doubts that the WMU Board of help run the Univ Trustees have adequately -heard their case. "We were the world. For us allowed 15 minutes to discuss this issue," Kooney said. "You be a mistake." FI, ing like South Africa in 15 minutes, or an ter. There was no response, there was no dn't listen to us - they just tolerated us." Kooney, the best way to handle the South 'MU would be a series of open meetings in- persons from all over the campus. g not to accept the recommendation by the ,the WMU Trustees voted in July to adopt a t," a declaration that the University sup- ion which "fosters. . . respect for human t also says: "In external relationships, the portive of those activities that seek con- in the development of human rights in this ." UDLOW explained yesterday that the s that "apartheid is clearly a real evil," but divestment is the correct remedy in this SUNDAY FILMS UAC/Mediatrics-All About Eve, Union Assembly Hall, 7,9:30 p.m. Cinema Guild-Pandora's Box(foreign with subtitles), Old Arch Aud., 7, 9:05p.m. Cinema I-Red Desert (foreign with subtitles), Aud. A, Angell, 7, 9:10 p.m. PERFORMANCES UAC-The New Musket Co., "In the Boom Boom Room," 'es. Coll. Aud., East Quad,2,8 p.m. . U-M School of Music-Cellist Samual Mayes, works by Frescobaldi, Beethoven, Chardon, and Schostakovich; School of Music's Recital Hall, 2 p.m. Flute Guildof'Ann Arbor-performance by members of the Guild; Cady Room, Stearns Bldg., (North Campus), 2:15 p.m. Nineteenth Annual Conference on Organ Music(Oct. 21-24)-organ recital by William Albright, associate professor of music, works by Peck, Albright, and Curtis Smith; Hill Aud., 8:30 p.m. PTP-Guest Artist Seroes, "Idiot's Delight.," Power Center, 8 p.m. Benefit for Wildflour Community Bakery Co-op-Prismatic and the Blue Front Persuaders, beer and food, Ann Arbor Armory, corner of Fifth and' Ann Sts., 8:30 p.m. The Ark-The Gemini, 1421 Hill St., 9 p.m. SPEAKERS Campus Chapel-Dr. Robert DeVries, political science at Calvin College; "Nuclear Arms and the Salt II Treaty;" Campus Chapel, 1236 Washtenaw Court, 7 p.m. MEETINGS Hiking Club-meet at Rackahm N.W. Entry on E. Huron, 1:30 p.m. Gay Disdussion Group, Guild House, 802 Monroe, 6 p.m. American Civil Liberties Union of Washtenaw County-regular monthly executive board meeting, First Unitarian Church, 7:30 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS Anti-nuclear rally-march from Riverfront Park in downtown Lansing to capitol steps, 1 p.m.; speakers and musicians till 5 p.m.; Holly Near bebefit concert in Civic Center later in evening; for bus tickets contact PIRGIM of- fice, 4106 Union (662-6597). NASCO Institute -"79-Co-op Training for the '80's": workshops on Starting Co-ops, Co-ops for Elders, The Co-op Bank, Food and Housing Co- ops, Michigan Union; open house at the People's Warehouse, 727 W. Ellswor- th Road, Bldg. 15, afternoon. Society of Amateur Cinematographers-24th annual convention Oct. 19-21: amateur films, speakers, meals, door prizes, registration is $34.50; Plymouth Hilton Inn, Plymouth, Michigan. Hillel-Jewish Joggers fun runs, 10:30 a.m.; Israeli dancing 1-3 Hillel, 1429 Hill St., 1-3 p.m. Hillel-Deli with Danny Siegel, author-poet, Hillel, 6 p.m. MONDAY FILMS Cinema Guild-Red Beard (foreign with subtitles), 8 p.m., Old Arch. Aud. PERFORMANCES Musical Society-Waverly Consort, 8 p.m., Power Center. Music School-Faculty organ recital, 8:30 pm., First Baptist Church. SPEAKERS School of Music-Prof. Marilyn Mason, "The Mature Bach: His Canonis Variations' ", 3 p.m., Hill Auditorium. Education School/Developmental Psychology-Robert Knights, Carleton Univ., "Neuropsychological Testing in Children with Learning Problems," 4 p.m., Schorling Aud. Law School-Guido Calabresi, "Nonsense on Stilts? The New Law and Economics Twenty Years Later," 4 p.m., 120 Hutchins. Center for Near Eastern, N. African Studies-Dr. Tajeddine Baddou, "North African Sociology Today," 4 p.m., 200 Lane Hall. Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics-Prof. R. Muki, UCLA, "Far-Field Asymptotics and Finite Element Methods in Elastostatics," 4 p.m., 229 W. Eng. Dance Dept.-Gus Solomons, lecture-demonstration, 8 p.m., Studio Theater, Dance Department. MISCELLANEOUS Michigan Economic Society-Pumpkin sale, Fishbowl and Angell Hall. Filmvideo Program-Filmvideo get-together, 4 p.m., Kuenzel Room of the Michigan Union. D,,kln I ihra r-hrea making dmnstratinn by Laura Schneck. from is only symbolic," he said. "It accom- is not real." Referring to the present South udlow said "as long as they follow the s, we will hold the stock." Ludlow, it is not the duty of the trustees to pecific political issues. "Our purpose is to ersity," he said, "not to solve problems of to become embroiled in these issues would Murderer set to die tomorrow Prom AP and UPI CARSON CITY, Nev.-The Nevada Supreme Court refused yesterday to block the execution of convicted killer Jesse Bishop. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said it would appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. At midnight tonight, state prison of- ficials expect to strap Bishop into the metal chair of a sterile white gas chamber that hasn't been used in 18 years. At 12:01 a.m., eastern daylight time, Bishop is scheduled to be executed. THlE ACLU ASKED the Nevada court to order a delay of Monday's scheduled execution until questioning about the constitutionality of the state's capital punishment law were settled. ACLU lawyer Rollie Rogers, arguing on behalf of 11 Nevada taxpayers, told the court the execution of Bishop would be an unconstitutional expenditure of taxpayers' money. The case was brought onbehalf of the taxpayers because Bishop has refused to allow appeals to be brought in his name. ROGERS ARGUED the sentencing court which ordered Bishop's death by lethal gas did not hear mitigating cir- cumstances in the case as required by U.S. Supreme Court decisions. He contended that the Nevada Supreme Court had a duty to require that mitigating circumstances be aired. But Chief Justice John Mowbray said, after a half hour of arguments and 10- minute closed door debate by the court, that the appeal was dismissed. Mowbray told the ACLU it had no standing to bring the case before the Nevada Supreme Court. Nevada Attorney General Dick Bryan opposed the ACLU.petition, as he did an unsuccessful ACLU appeal earlier Saturday before Clark County District Judge James Brennan. Bishop, 46, was convicted of killing a newlywed, David Ballard of Baltimore, during a Las Vegas casino holdup in December 1977. Bishop flatly refused to appeal his Clark County-District Court conviction and opposed all efforts by others to appeal on his behalf. Second Chance's Hospitality and Student Night for info call 994 5350 The University of Michigan Department of THEATRE & DRAMA presents. 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