The Michigan Daily-Sunday, February 13, 1983-Page 5 Black activists 'continue con erence (Continued from Page 1) li eration and unification of Africa un- der scientific socialism." He said that the only way for blacks to help themselves today is to organize. "Many of the problems we face, we face because we are disorganized. As an organizer, I subscribe to the view that bad organization is better than no organization at all." Toure was alone among the panelists who spoke yesterday in suggesting violence as a possible means for social ,change. THE NON-VIOLENT stance was based on "truth and love," said Diane Nash Bevel, a founding member of the SNCC and presently an activist for tenants' rights. "We really took those principles seriously and that's very unusual for our culture." TFhe lack of honesty in American society, she said, means that while, "in 1the natural sciences, we in this society are in the space age, in the social scien- ces, we are in prehistoric times." Bevel took exception to what she saw as -misrepresentation of history, saying, "Books and the media treat the civil rights movement as 'Martin Luther King's movement' .. . It was in fact a people's movement." )IF YOU BELIEVE that it was King's movement," she warned the audience, "young people are likely to say I wish we had a Martin Luther King today'" rather than organizing for themselves. Before the speeches, Bettye Fikes, a veteran of the Selma, Ala., marches moved the audience of more than 300 students, faculty, and community members with her renditions of several songs from various eras of the black 1 tradition which had been revived during the civil rights period. The conference, which is being spon- sored by the Center for Afro-American and African -Studies and the Black Students' Union, will conclude today at Markley Dormitory with a 10:30 a.m. discussion and 2:30 p.m. lecture by Robert Weaver a secretary of Housing and Urban: Development during the Johnson administration. OLD TIMES by Harold Pinter Directed by Richard Burgwin January 26-30 February 16-19 February 20 8 p.m. 8 p.m. 2 p.m. New Trueblood Arena Frieze building Ann Arbor Tickets: PTP ticket office Michigan League 764-0450 Michigan Ensemble Theatre ITS NOT TOO LATE! ORDER YOUR 1983 1111/ ItIIZld IINS ANSr AP Photo A workman in Washington begins the task of clearing the way to the Lincoln Memorial yesterday, as the East Coast digs its way out after Friday's blizzards. Storms bury East Coast TODAY AND From AP and UPI A record-breaking blizzard dumping up to 3 feet of snow paralyzed the Nor- theast before moving out to sea yester- day, as police arrested looters and crews struggled to reopen airports and free thousands stranded on highways. The storm was blamed for 31 deaths, including 24 killed when a ship sank in the rough seas off Virginia., In New York, the blizzard made the Lincoln Tunnel seem like a giant air- raid shelter, except that the refugees inside wanted out. It took them all night to escape. The blaring horns of the trapped cars blurred into what sounded like a war- ning siren in the tube, which runs un- derneath the Hudson River and links Manhattan to New Jersey. THE AUTOS, BUSES, and trucks were jammed to a standstill in the two New Jersey-bound lanes all night long, stranding thousands of people. While most people kept calm, long lines prompted short fuses. On the Weehawken side of the tunnel, motorists left vehicles in the tube to join long lines for telephones, coffee and one bathroom in a workmen's area. During the height of the storm, people waited up to seven hours to get to the entrance of the tunnel in Manhattan and another five hours to drive through it. Many abandoned their vehicles in the tunnel and on its ramps. ABANDONED vehicles were a problem along the East Coast from North Carolina to New England. "They just abandoned cars and trac- tor trailers everywhere," said Craig Gay of West Virginia's Berkeley County Department of Highways in the eastern Panhandle, where snow measured at 32 inches before the storm blew itself out at 2 a.m. "I've never seen so much snow." In at least two Eastern cities, looting was reported. LOOTERS TOOK advantage of crip- pled police patrol in Washington, D.C., buried under 2 feet of snow, but officers managed to arrest six suspects. In New York, two police officers held at bay 100 suspected looters while extra police officers struggled through snowbound streets to aid them. Fifty were arrested. Thousands were stranded in refuge shelters - including 8,000 at New York's Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports, which were not ex- pected to be opened until today. Hotels were full and turning away travelers. THE STORM WAS described as the region's "worst in 40 years" by the National Weather Service. The storm brought tragedy to at least 24 men yesterday, when a ship loaded with 12,000 tons of coal capsized in a gale 30 miles off the Virginia coast. Only three of the 36 crewmen were known to have survived. By yesterday afternoon 24 bodies had been recovered and nine other crewmen were missing and believed "to be deceased." "INITIALLY THE shock was just seeing body, body, body," said Lt. J.G. Thomas Blisard, 33, one of the helicop- ter rescue pilots sent to the scene of the sinking 605-foot collier Marine Electric. "Some of the bodies were really hard to spot because the life jackets and bodies were covered with oil," said Blisard. He said the copters skimmed as' low as 15 feet above the whitecaps trying to determine whether any of the men were alive, but found none, apart from the initial three. Some crew members apparently managed to get into life boats but most died when they were plunged into 37- degree waters with only their life preservers. One of the three survivors said the ship began taking on water through its forward hatches, which appeared to be defective and this may have caused the ship to flip upside down. SQ'J s, 0 UNTIL FEB. 14, 1983 --- -- - = --- ------------- Please reserve my copy of the $15.00. I will pick it up in April. please add $2.00.) 1983 ENSIAN, at the price of (To have the ENSIAN mailed; Name Ann Arbor Address Mailing Address HURRY-RESERVE YOUR COPY NOW/ 'U inactive on investment policy (Continued from Page 1) adherence to a set of guidelines for con- duct known as the Sullivan Principles. Those principles, which the Regents endorsed in their 1978 resolution, call for equal pay and advancement -oppor- tunities regardless of race; progress toward desegregation of the work- place; and improved quality of life for black employees in the country. HERBERT LAST wrote Carnation for information in August, 1982 and has since spoken with company executives by phone. But Herbert last week, declined to comment on these discussions. He said that he had been waiting for possible changes in Car- nation policy last summer regarding elease of information, but no changes have occurred. Like Carnation, INA Corp. has not responded to University requests for in- formation regarding that firm's poor rating in the rating service's report. INA has not returned a questionnaire sent in August which asks for infor- mation on the number of employees broken down by race, wage levels, also broken down by race, and the number f (llacks in supervisory positions. MOTOROLA, INC., which also received a poor rating from Little, gained Herbert's approval last fall when the firm provided the breakdown the University asked for. But the com- paiy refuses to give the University a copy of the report they filed with Little, and it also refuses on-site visits by a second monitoring agency - the In- vestor Responsibility Research Center which regularly reports on company * r bgress. Herbert complimented Motorola in a November letter for "making substan- tial efforts at becoming a positive force for change in South Africa," although. he said last week that more information still is needed for future evaluations. A fourth company, ITT Corp., has received mixed ratings for its several South African subsidiaries. In a recent response to the University, the com- pany only sent information regarding its best-rated operation. THE COMPANY assured the Univer- sity that all its units were making progress in the areas in question, but said the smaller units did not have the time or resources to answer the inquiry. Herbert said the University still is trying to obtain information on why the company's other operations were rated poorly. Early last year, the University bought stocks of Dunn and Bradstreet Corp. without realizing that the com- pany was involved in South Africa and had not signed the Sullivan Principles. "That may have been an oversight," Herbert said. He has since inquired as to the company's South Africa policies, but he says he has not received a satisfactory response. i\ iT DON'T GET FROSTBITE ON YOUR WAY TO CLASS! University Towers is now renting for fall and winter 1983-84 with the best location on campus! :{'"i:" .::: }i:i fi.;iX{:ti;:;:'i,:j?{::4 v {r1': 4ti{::tii 4: '} + ..;{y::::.v:. .; vim{:} .. J: ...{: v yL "yy ry";'i' ;ri.: i... ......................::. ::. :::.; ":::::::::"::::... ........ ..r.. ..... .....,. . ."{:yiiii. :: r:"i:tiv: ::.iv: :v.:.."" v... $.iil ::...:. _. vv :....:. :. .. .. s_....__<. 3. .r..vv ...........:;t ..... __w_ . 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