0 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 9, 1989 Author of Bloods to speak on BY DONNA IADIPAOLO [Hanoi Helen] was saying, "Soul brothers, go home. Whitey raping your mother and your daughters, burning down your home. What you over here for? This is not your war. The war is a trick of the Capitalist empire to get rid of the Blacks." I really thought -I really started be- lieving it, because it was too many Blacks than there should be in infantry. - Richard J. Ford III, 25th Infantry Division, excerped from Bloods. While some avoided ~onnecting the Viet- nam War and the Civil Rights movement, others, like author Wallace Terry, pursued it. In 1967, Terry, then a Time magazine cor- respondent, flew to Saigon to investigate the role of Black soldiers by interviewing men such as Ford. After spending two years talking with sailors, fliers, Marines, and commanding officers, Terry uncovered the racial horrors of America's longest war. His findings produced a compelling book - and so many memories that for five years he needed sedatives to sleep at night. Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans - is the powerful re- sult of Terry's dedication. Terry will discuss his book tonight at the Residential College Auditorium. The testimonies within his novel go be- yond the mere heading of "old war stories." Bloods, while remaining sensitive to the veterans' emotional dilemmas, presents a crit- ical analysis of a war that affected millions. Vietnam As Terry states in his foreword: "those for whom the war had a devastating impact, and those for whom the war was basically an op- portunity to advance in a career dedicated to protecting American interests." The novel presents the accounts of Black men involved in a war which inflicted pain on the Vietnamese villagers, as well as U.S. soldiers themselves. Yet it was these same soldiers which Terry presents who chose not to overlook the painful discrimination, cross-burnings, and Confederate flags by their "white comrades." "They called for unity among Black broth- ers on the battlefield to protest these indigni- ties and provide mutual support," writes Terry. "And they called themselves 'Bloods"' In the post-Vietnam era, Terry points out, unemployment among Black veterans is more than double the rate of white veterans. Almost 60,000 Americans died in the war, and 223 million don't know why, according to Terry. Is there anything to be learned from their sacrifice? Did any good come out of Vietnam? Can we believe movies like Rambo, Apoca- lypse Now, and The Deer Hunter? Will Nicaragua become another Vietnam? South Africa? Lebanon? Terry will discuss the answers to these questions tonight at 7 p.m. at the RC Aud., in his lecture and slide show "BLOODS: The American Experience in Vietnam". Admission is free. DiCK SwanSUnDIUd "Fast Eddie" Wright, Wallace Terry the author of Bloods, and Steve Howard before a Cobra helicopter at Bien Hoa. Airbase, South Vietnam, 1969. Dean continued from Page 1 is to prepare for what's beyond a student's four year experience," she laid. "We live in a country where racism is at the heart of a lot of what we do. To have students not intellectually take a look at that is to be remiss in our responsibility," Royster said. "Eunice has an unusually keen sense of the whole experience of students," said Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Charles Vest. "She is concerned with how to tie academics with the rest of a person's life." As an undergraduate in the early 1970s, Royster was involved in the Black Action Movement and worked in residential housing government activities. Royster served as a Resi- dent Advisor at Bursley, and later went on to be Resident Director. "When I attended U-M, faculty involvement, a sense of community and being active in student govern- ment was important," Royster said. "Students don't need the kind of environment where they have to stand in long CRISP lines, or feel like they are a number," she said. "We have to do a lot of listening about the student experience and find out what's working and what's not." Royster does not want the Uni- versity to run "like it exists, to do major research," but to allow each student to excel academically. RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS it YOUR FIRST STEP TOWARD SUCCESS IS THE ONE YOU COULD TAKE THIS SUMMER. Army ROTC Camp Challenge. It's exciting and it maybe your last opportunityto grad- uate with an Army Officer's commission. ARMY ROTC THE SMARTEST COLLEGE COURSE YOU CAN TAKE. Find Cu; ore. Call Captain O'Rourke. Visit 131 North Hall or Call 764-2400. WiNTER r4FEST '89 r February 912 F. An Abor-The heart of te At4Y Take The Chill Out Of Winter - Winter Fest Schedule - Thursday, February 9 6PM Performing Art Potluck (Young Peoples Theater), @Civic Theatre, $, 996-3888 8PM "On the Verge or the Geography of Yearning", @Performance Network, $,663-0681 Woyzek, @ Civic Theatre, $, 662-9405 A Night in Venice (Comic Opera Guild), @Michigan Theater, $, 668-8397 Lovers & Clowns (Papagena Opera Company), @ Kerrytown Concert House, $, 769-7464 Osipov Balalaika Orchestra (University Musical Society), @ HilI Auditorium, $, 764-2538 Friday, February 10 11AM-3PM "Art of Baroque Dance" Rehearsal (Ars Musica), 1st Congregational Church 4:30PM Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, NBD Lobby Ron Brooks @ 1st of America SPM Art Gallery Evening until 9PM 6PM Ron Brooks Trio, Gallery Von Glahn Performing Art Potluck (Young Peoples Theatre),@ Civic Theatre, $, 996-3888 7PM Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Ensemble , @ Le Minotature Gallery Oser/Moore Vocalists, @ King's Keyboard House 8PM Chamber Concert, @ Museum of art, $, 668-8397 Modem Jazz Quartet (Eclipse Jazz, Ofc. of Major Events), @ Power Center,$,763-TKTS Art of Baroque Dance (Ars Musica),@ 1st Congregational Church, $, "On the Verge or the Geography of Yearning", @ Performance Network, $,663-0681 Woyzek, @ Civic Theatre, $, 662-9405 Our Town (St. Andrews Players), 0 St Andrew's Episcopal Church, $ ,663-0518 A Night In Venice (Comic Opera Guild), @Michigan Theater, $, 668-8397 Lovers & Clowns (Papagena Opera Company), @Kerrytown Concert House,$,769-7464 Oriana, @ Selo/Shevel Gallery 'Mr. B." 0Nali's Ann Arbor Symphony @ Art Association On-going free festival events "Best of Guild" Art Show, Main St. store windows, Thur-Sun Ice Skating, Ann Arbor Figure Skating Club, Detroit Edison parking lot, Thur-Sun Snow Sculpting, works in progress Thur-Fri, Viewing Sat-Sun, Main & Liberty Sts. Shopping 'til 9 p.m. Thur-Sat, 'til 5 p.m. Sun, on Main St., State Sts., & Kerrytown ext. hrs. Winter Fest Warm-Up Tent opens Fri., Corner of Main & William, refreshments available FOR MORE INFORMATION call the Washtenaw Council for the Arts: 996-2777 or The Ann Arbor Convention and Visitors Bureau: 995-7281 $ indicates ticket required for that event. All other events FREE. Be A WINTER IFEST '89 Winner! Take this coupon to Winter t Fest '89. Attend one ticketed t FBI Continued from Page 1 The federal court ruling resulted from a class action lawsuit filed by Bernardo Perez, a former high-rank- ing agent at the FBI. Of the 440 Hispanic agents in the. FBI, 370 had discriminatory com- plaints which resulted in the court ruling last August. The ruling found the FBI was discriminating against Hispanic agents in the assignment and promotion areas. "(We as) the number two law school in the nation have to take re- sponsibility," said Kevin McClana- han, a BLSA member. "Yale has banned FBI recruiting also." Last Fall, many student groups protested an impending recruiting visit by the FBI, and the Bureau ended up cancelling the planned visit. The FBI will only be allowed to recruit again after their year suspen- sion and a submition of a letter of- fice of to the placement office, out- lining the remedial steps taken by the Bureau. The current Law School policy does not include suspending organi- zations from recruiting unless the discrimination occurs within the Law School. But McClanahan said the decision to bar the FBI from recruiting on campus resulted from the judicial decision, not discrimination against a law student. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Gov. risks losing votes for omitting poor, legislators say LANSING - Gov. James Blanchard didn't address the problems of low-income families in his State of the State address and risks losing the support of Black voters if he doesn't include them in his agenda, Black legislative leaders said yesterday. "We haven't heard a coordinated urban strategy designed to deal with education, designed to deal with the need for jobs besides minimum wage jobs, designed to move our kids into the economic mainstream of this society," said Senator Virgil Smith, Jr., (D-Detroit). Smith and other members of the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus said Blanchard's call for a review of civil rights laws was an inadequate response to the problem of Blacks. Smith said Blacks have voted 90 percent Democratic. "As to whether our loyalty is always being rewarded, I'm not sure that is the case, and the lack of a comprehensive urban strategy speaks to that concern," he said. Study finds women poorer SANTA MONICA, Calif. - The wage gap between women and men is rapidly narrowing, but an increasing percentage of the poor are women, according to a Rand Corporation study. Poverty was "sex neutral" in 1940, when more than 90 percent of all families included a husband and wife. But by 1980, 62 percent of poor adults were women, the study said. "With the rising incidence of unwed parenting and divorce, the friction of female-headed families rose and did so at an accelerated rate after 1960. By 1980, women headed almost one in seven families, almost 70 percent more than in 1960. The problem has reached epidemic proportions among Blacks, where now more than four out of every 10 families are headed by women," te authors said. The study, by economists James P. Smith and Michael Ward, surveyed wages and skill levels in American women since 1920. Antarctic holes may vent C02 NEW YORK - Mysterious holes that periodically form in the ice- covered Antarctic seas may serve as vents for excess heat and trapped gas, helping to shape the Earth's climate and influencing the "greenhouse ef- fect." These ice-free regions, some as large as France, were discovered in 1974, when scientists began examining new satellite images of Antarctica and the frozen ocean encircling it. Scientists don't know if the holes, called polynyas (pa-lean-yah), ex- isted before then or how frequently they develop in the vast ice cover. Some oceanographers believe the polynyas might vent carbon dioxide that comes from decaying fish and plants, and therefore, may have the same effect on the atmosphere as the burning of fossil fuels. Former Nazi soldier says German youth aren't guilty CHAM, West Germany - Former Nazi soldier Franz Schoenhuber, who leads a Republican Party that has surged in national polls, told more than 5,000 cheering supporters yesterday that young Germans bear no guilt for Hitler's extermination of 6 million Jews. Schoenhuber criticized the president of the nation's Jewish community and said the European Economic Community was detrimental to German farmers. "Today's young generation of Germans is no more guilty for Auschwitz than the sons and daughters of Americans who committed genocide at Hiroshima and Nagasaki," said Schoenhuber. Schoenhuber said one of his goals is unifying West Germany with the communist East and making Berlin the nation's capital again. A poll released last week by the Wickert Institute said the party, founded in 1983, would get 11.5 percent of the West Berlin vote if na- tional elections were held now. EXTRAS Newspaper obituary page informs man of his death MILWAUKEE, Wis. - Edwin Konopacki was scanning the obituary section of a newspaper when he found himself among the dear departed. "I called the funeral home and said, 'What gives? I may look dead but I'm alive,"' Konopacki said Tuesday. "I'm in good health, except I have to take three pills a day for my gout." He telephoned the publisher of Milwaukee's two daily newspapers, where the notice appeared Monday. The newspapers alerted the funeral home that had placed the death no- tice in the papers, and the investigation began. The case of mistaken identity started when a man collapsed on a street. A Medicare card and an insurance company letter addressed to Konopacki were found on the man, Konopacki said, adding that no expla- nation had been found for why he had the materials. A nephew and a woman who has known Konopacki for a number of years went to the hospital and identified the man as Konopacki. 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