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SALC OPPOSES'U's INVESTMENTS:
Hospital, med school plan unit
South African teach-in planned
By PAUL SHAPIRO
The Southern African Liberation
Committee (SALC) initiated a cam-
paign Monday night aimed at encour-
aging the University to drop its invest-
ments in South Africa.
SALC leader Marty Fries told the
group of 35, "The University Regents
have been amply informed on the atroc-
ities happening daily under the South
African regime, and they are aware
that they have over $40 million invested
there. Yet they continue to reap profits
of discriminatory investments."
THE UNIVERSITY owns $43 million
of stock in more than 30 corporations
which operate or have affiliates in
South Africa.
SALC agreed to organize a teach-in
this year and continue protesting to
University Regents.
Members of the mostly student or-
ganization, some of whom appeared at
the May Regents meeting to lodge pro-
tests against the University's invest-
ments, are part of a larger corps of stu-
dents nationally who have been calling
for disinvestment of South African re-
lated stocks.
LAST MAY students demonstrated at
Stanford, Princeton, Rutgers, and the
Universities of Wisconsin and Minne-
sota, protesting their schools' invest-
ments in companies doing business
with South Africa.
The demonstrations resulted in the
arrest of 294 students at Stanford and a
state attorney general's ruling that new
investments in South African cor-
porations by the University of Wiscon-
sin were in violation of a state law that
prohibits discrimination on the basis of
race.
For the most part, Regents here have
expressed opposition to divesting the
University's South African interests in
corporations which include General
Motors, Mobil, Ford, ITT, Firestone,
Goodyear and IBM.
By BRIAN BLANCHARD
TheBUniversity Hospital and the,
Medical School, in an effort to
consolidate health care programs,
will ask the Regents to bless the birth
of a new office tomorrow.
But, unlike most bureaucratic
babies, the proposed office and
accompanying committee requested
in a report by a combined Medical
School/Hospital task force, won't
gobble up any extra money.
FUNDS for the modest organiza-
tion, which has no formal name,
would be transferred from the Medi-
cal School's existing Office of Allied
Health Education. They will be used
to eliminate overlapping jurisdic-
tions in certain health care fields.
"For many, many years there has
been activity" leading up to the
consolidation proposal, according to
Marjorie Becker, assistant director
of the hospital.
The "management scheme", as
Becker describes it, would affect
only the 370 students in the so-called
"allied health" programs - those
programs outside the professional
schools of medicine, nursing, dentis-
try, pharmacy and public health.
"Allied health" includes such unitsi,
as Physical Therapy, Medical Tech-
nology, and Social Work in Health
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PROJECT OUTREACH
Psych. credit for Community Involvement
MASS MEETING
Wed. Sept. 14 7:30 p.m.
Hill Auditorium
S. African prof's
welcome uncertain
Care.
JUST HOW the reorganization
would touch those students is not
clear. The report charges the "cen-
tralized unit" with "administrative,
fiscal, and programmatic responsi-
bilities." But Charles Votaw, asso-
ciate dean for curriculum at the
Medical School, said he isn't sure
what changes will be made.
"I can say that there are no
s p e c if i c recommendations for
changes to occur immediately,"
explained Votaw, who chaired the
task force with Becker.
Some degree of change, however,
would be "very likely" under the
proposal, according to Thomas De-!
Kornfeld, -former director of the
Allied Health Education Office.
FOR INSTANCE, someone will
have to be assigned to the new double
role of Allied Health Professions
Education head and Assistant Dean
for Allied Health.
Reasons for creating the new
office, listed in the task force report,
include "scarce teaching and clinical
resources," lack of responsibility for
current programs, and "uneven qua-
lity among programs and students."
The Regents are expected to
discuss the proposed office at their
monthly meeting tomorrow at 1:30
p.m. in the Regents' Room of the
Administration Building.
By MICHAEL YELLIN
University of South Africa Prof.
Lourens Praetorius is not welcome
here - at least not by the Univer.
sity's African Students Association.
Talk of the political science profes-
sor's alleged expense-paid visit to the
University has sparked criticism
from some of the association's
members.
Praetorius had planned to visit the
University, but added: "I hope the
University is not closed to anybody."
Director of the International Cen-
ter, Jon Heise, said a decision will be
made by 10 a.m. this morning
whether the professor will be wel-
comhed to the University by the center
or turned away to avoid ,conflict.
between students and administra-
tors.
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