4 Page 2 -The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 18, 1985 U.S. holds parapsychology post EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) - An It is believed to be the world's only proselytizer," he said. "I will not be a Koestler was one of the 20th cen- American scientist will fill Britain's professorial chair in parapsychology person attempting to convert in- tury's influential thinkers. He was an first professorial chair in parap- except for the University of Utrecht in dividuals from one view to another. I atheist, but wrote in his suicide note sychology - the study of levitation, the Netherlands. will rather be viewing myself as an that he had "timid hopes for a deper- telepathy, extrasensory perception MORRIS, WHO formally assumes investigator." sonalized after-life beyond due con- and things that go bump in the night. his new assignment Dec. 1, discussed "IN THE PAST, I've sometimes fines of space, time and matter, and Dr. Robert Morris said yesterday his plans at a news conference at the referred to myself as someone whose beyond limits of our comprehension." he will expose fraud where he finds it, University of Edinburgh's Depar- job as a parapsychologist is to (try to) His bequest stipulated that parap- and approach his job with such scien- sychology should be understood to be tific rigor that he might make it the scientific study of "paranormal disappear. 'In the past I've sometimes referred to phenomena, in particular, the MORRIS, 42, has been a senior capacity attributed to some in- research scientist at the School of myself as someone whose job as a parap- dividuals to interact with their en- Computer and Information Science at sychologist is to (try to) make my job vironment by means other than the Syracuse University in New York. He recognized sensory and motor chan- triumphed over about 30 candidates to disappear. nels." become the first Koestler professor of - Prof. Robert Morris The general field, however, ranges parapsychology at the 402-year-old from levitating tables, poltergeists, University of Edinburgh. spoon-bending and mind-reading to The position was established with a tment of Psychology, where his make my job disappear." such bizarre coincidences as a bequest of 500,000 pounds (now worth research unit will be based. He is president of the Parap- relative sensing a loved one's distress $665,000) from Arthur Koestler, the He said he regards parapsychology sychological Association and has done Morris said a major object of his novelist, critic and explorer of the as a legitimate area of research, but extensive research into psychokinesis, research will be to separate psychic supernatural who committed suicide "not as a belief system." the purported ability of some minds to phenomena from coincidence or with his wife in 1983. "I will- not view myself as a influence events or physical objects. fraud.' is divestment more symbolic than effective (Continued from Page 1) wildcat strikes. The changes were a response by the government to try to prevent future unrest, Wilson said. WILSON NOTES that Rev. Leonard Sullivan, author of the Sullivan Prin- ciples, recently said that the guidelines are not bringing about change. Wilson, like Sullivan, favors economic sanctions against South Africa. Barbara Ransby, leader of Free South Africa Coordinating Committee - a campus pro-divestment group - is also skeptical about the principles. "I THINK what changes there have been are cosmetic changes," she said. "The pressure the government really understands is economic pressure, and these companies saying that they're not going to leave makes the South African government feel pretty safe," she said. "Given the nature of corporations, they're not here to press for any changes," Ransby said. "They don't want to make waves, they want to make profits. That's why they're there. They went there precisely because the South African gover- nment has created such a repressive atmosphere that black workers are easily exploitable and provided a very cheap and well controlled work force. Why should they be agents of change?" STILL, Roach has argued that divestment will not provide a solution to apartheid. "The argument that divestment is an effective remedy is one that I can- not support as a matter of logic," Roach said at the April 1983 regents meeting. "In the first place ... when we buy stock, we buy in what is known as a secondary market. We don't buy Ford stock from the Motor Motor Company. When we buy Ford stock they don't get a dime ... And indeed, if we sell our Ford stock, we sell it not to that company, but we sell it to somebody who wants to buy our Ford stock." Indeed the effect of divestment is limited, said Chris Coons, a research assistant for the Washington-based Investment Responsibility Center. "It's mainly symbolic." If enough institutions divested, they may succeed in driving down the value of stock. Realistically, he said, it is impossible beause the divestmen- ts must happen over a very short period of time. And there's only a cer- tain amount of stock that can be sold in the course of a day. "AS FAR as the major cor- porations, like GM, there's always going to be people willing to buy their stock," he said. Wilson agrees that the effect of divestment is limited. "You can't say positive change will come only beause of it (divestment). Morally though; it's important to do it. The U.S. should take a stance on op- pression anywhere," he said. However divestment could have an effect if combined with other measures such as boycotting the Kruggerand and taking away landing rights of South African airlines, Wilson said. "OUTSIDE pressure should be ap- plied as much as possible," but ultimately, the direction of change - its intensity and its velocity - depen- ds on what the South Africans do. What the white South Africans are willing to concede, and what the black South Africans are willing to do. Either way, it's going to be very messy," he said. Boycotts, such as the one or- chestrated by the University of California student government, could be more effective than divestment, Coons said. There, students refused to buy per- sonal computers from IBM. The protest cost the company millions of dollars, Coons said. Regent Paul Brown (D-Petosky)has offered another proposal for ridding South Africa of apartheid. INSTEAD of divesting, institutions like the University should keep itsj shares in the companies and apply pressure as shareholders for the cor- porations to pull out of South Africa, Brown suggested. Critics however, say this would take too much time. So far, 15 colleges and universities have sold all or part of South Africa- related investments, Coons said. This protest accounts for a disinvestment of over $200 million in stocks. A DOZEN more schools currently reviewing their investments, he said. Among the schools who have divested are Michigan State Univer- sity, who sold all $8 million of their South Africa-related investments, the University of Wisconsin, who sold all $9 million worth of investments, and last month, the Board of Trustees at Columbia University voted to divest all $39 million in investments. Columbia's divestiture comes after students staged a two-week sit-in of the university's main academic and administrative building, Hamilton Hall. Anti-apartheid activists are predic- ting that protests similar to that one will be commonplace on college cam- puses again this year. IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS W. German secretary defects BONN, West Germany - A secretary in Chancellor Helmut Kohl's of- fice has fled to Communist East Germany in the first spy case to hit the nation's highest office since a 1974 scandal toppled Willy Brandt, officials said yesterday. The defection marked the latest in a drumfire of espionage incidents that began rocking Kohl's conservative coalition government last month. The scandal earlier touched the president's office and shook up Bonn's spy system. West German radio, citing Bonn security sources, said the latest defec- tor, Herta-Astrid Willner, may have had access to secret information about Star Wars and about a French-led high-technology project. Star Wars is the term by which the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, a space-based defense system against nuclear missiles, is commonly known. Government officials said the 45-year-old secretary, who had worked in the chancellor's office for nearly 12 years, had no access to material about the two projects. Mrs. Willner fled to East Germany with her husband, Herbert. Chief federal prosecutor Kurt Rebmann said both were under investigation on suspicion of spying. Former Thai officials arrested BANGKOK, Thailand - Four former top military officers were arrested yesterday and charged with treason, a capital offense, by authorities investigating last week's failed coup. The four include Kriangsak Chomanand, a former prime minister who now leads one of four parties in the coalition government, said National Police Chief Narong Mahanonda. Kriangsak is also a former supreme commander of the armed forces. Allegations of Kriangsak's involvement forced Ob Vasuratna, the deputy leader of Kriangsak's National Democratic Party, to resign as in- dustry minister yesterday. Ob's two deputies and party colleagues, Prayote Neungchamnong and Wongse Polnikorn, also offered their resignations. Narong, who heads a special team investigating the Sept. 9 coup attem- pt, said the three others charged with treason were Krasae Intharatna, former deputy supreme commander; Serm Nanakorn, former armed forces supreme commander; and Yod Thephasadin, former deputy army commander in chief. S. African students protest JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Police firing shotguns, rubber bullets and tear gas clashed yesterday with one group of students boycot- ting classes near Johannesburg and with another demanding the reopening of hundreds of schools around Cape Town. Mixed-race youths burned barricades of tires in Cape Town's Athlone township and blocked roads with hijacked buses. Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas and arrested about 176 people - including parents, teachers and the school principal - to break up the protests. A woman, who asked not to be named, said she saw a youth identified as Mark Chondo, 17, shot in the back by police. . "He waited for me while I went into a shop," she said. "As I came out, I saw him running away and suddenly there was a bang and the shirt on his back went red. Blast injures 30 in Lebanon BEIRUT, Lebanon - A suicide bomber crashed an explosive-laden car into a Christian militia position in Israel's "security zone" in south Lebanon yesterday, killing and wounding 30 militiamen, Lebanon's state- run television station reported. It said the attack was carried out at 3:15 p.m. against a South Lebanon Army militia base in Tellet Alman between the Villages of Qaqayet el- Jisr and Taibe in South-Lebanon, the broadcast said. The alleged suicide car-bombing was the ninth against targets in the so- called "security zone" created by Israel in June after it withdrew the bulk of its troops from the South ending a three-year occupation. There was no immediate comment from Israel on the reported bom- bing. The Beirut television station said the attack was claimed by a Libyan-backed leftist Moslem group called the Arab Socialist Union - the Nasserite Organization. The broadcast said the car was packed with 660 pounds of explosives when it rammed into the Tellet Alman post, about 5 miles north of the Israeli border. The television station reported the bombing along with a 30-second pre- recorded videotape interview with the suicide bomber. The young bomber, who identified himself as Mohammed Awad Masri, was dressed in camouflage militia fatigues and flashed the "V" for vic- tory sign as he appeared on the screen. Senate passes immigration bill WASHINGTON - The Senate, reversing itself on an immigration bill amendment, voted 51-44 yesterday to allow 350,000 foreigners to enter the country as temporary farm laborers. The seasonal workers provision was the last major immigration issue preventing a vote on the bill, which is designed to drastically reduce the numer of illegal aliens entering the country. But chief sponsor Alan K. Simpson, (R-Wyo.), delayed final action until today, in hopes of preventing a move to attach an unrelated Social Security provision to the legislation. The overall measure would strive to slow illegal immigration by providing $16.7 million over two years to improve border enforcement, as well as im- posing severe fines against employers knowingly hiring undocumented workers. Within three years of enactment, the bill also would grant amnesty to thousands of illegal immigrants who arrived in the United States before Jan. 1, 1980. Only last week, the Senate had voted 50-48 to table - in effect kill - a seasonal workers provision that did not include a limitation on the number of foreigners to be admitted to pick perishable fruits and vegetables. 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