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Tenure supporters continue sit-in
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP)- Fifty university
students described by a police chief as "nice people"
occupied their chancellor's office for a second day
yesterday in support of a teacher who was denied
tenure.
Students began the peaceful sit-in Wednesday at
the five-story McHenry Library on the University of
California-Santa Cruz campus.
University Police Chief Gene Stone, who called the
students "nice people with a just cause," said there
were no immediate plans to evict or arrest the
demonstrators, "but there becomes a point when
enough is enough."
Said Harper Moller, a 24-year-old community
studies major, "This could go on for days."
The protest erupted after the office of Chancellor
Robert Sinsheimer announced tenure would be
denied to Nancy Shaw, an assistant professor of
community studies with eight years' seniority at the
university. The actions will force her to leave the
university next year.
Ms. Shaw said she supported the demonstration but
had nothing to do with its organization.
Students contend Ms. Shaw was a victim of campus
politics, and are demanding she be given tenure.
School officials said her work does not warrant
tenure.
The demonstrators brought sleeping bags and food
and sat in a circle in the chancellor's office singing
protest songs from the 1960s, Ms. Moller said.
"We're turning it into a good time," she added.
"But we really do mean business."
Office workers had abandoned the office and
removed typewriters and other equipment, she said.
-Ms. Moller said the demonstrators were receiving
support from the community and other faculty mem-
bers, adding "We have a lot of bagels and coffee and
orange juice and that stuff."
Students raise funds for African program
By FANNIE WEINSTEIN
"When I'd tell people I was raising
money to go to Africa, they'd flip out,"
LSA junior Art Caplan laughs, but that
is exactly what he and 400 other studen-
ts nationwide are doing this year to par-
ticipate in a student exchange program
run by Operation Crossroads Africa,
Inc.
Crossroads, a non-profit, non-
governmental organization similar to
the Peace Corps, has sent more than
6,000 students to rural communities in
Africa and the Caribbean in the last 25
years.
TO PARTICIPATE in the eight-week
program, students must contribute
$2,600 for living and traveling expenses.
Crossroads runs a year-round fund-
raising campaign to offset additional
costs.
In addition, students are required to
share their experience in Africa with all
contributors through either a written
article, a seminar or a slide presen-
tation.
Caplan, who is majoring in inter-
national economics and com-
munications, said he first heard about
Crossroads from a friend who spent
time in Ghana during Peace Corps ser-
vice.
"AFRICA IS something that was a
challenge. I just want to see and feel
what underdevelopment is," said
Caplan, who will be doing construction
work in Sudan.
Caplan has raised more than $3,300
for the program. He received $700 in
donations from family members and
friends, and the remainder in special
contributions from the University's Of-
fice of Student Affairs, the LSA college,
and several area clubs.
Caplan is one of three University
students who will be participating in
Crossroads this summer.
PAMELA LOBDELL, who graduated
from the University last December,
already has sponsored a raffle and a 30-
mile Run-Walkathon in her efforts to
earn money for Crossroads.
Lobdell, who has collected $700 so far,
hopes to raise more money through a
June 5 race she has organized and a
benefit the following evening at Joe's
Star Lounge.
The 10,000 meter run and a 1.5 mile
Fun Run will start and finish in Gallup
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Doily Photo by DEBORAH LEN
PAMELA LOBDELL discusses fundraising efforts she hopes will enable her
to participate in Operation Crossroads, Africa's student exchange program
in the Ivory Coast this summer.
Outspoken preacher fights racism
B The Associated Press
JOHANNESBERG, South
Africa-The Rev. Beyers Naude, the
highest-placed Afrikaner churchman to
rebel against South Africa's white-
supremist system, remains an influen-
tial apartheid critic more than four
years after being banned by the gover-
nment.
Confined by the banning order to a.
sort of a house arrest and a limit of con-
tact with one person at a time, relatives
included, Naude's datebook, never-
theless, is full of appointments.
The 67-year-old former leader of the
dominant Dutch Reformed Church in
the populous southern region of the
Transvaal Province may not be quoted
in the public media or leave the Johan-
nesburg area without special per-
mission.
BUT HE SPENDS four hours a day
meeting with churchmen and ordinary
people who have problems reconciling
themselves with apartheid laws rigidly
separating the races. He tries to keep
his afternoons open for suprise visitors,
including foreign theologians and jour-
nalists who prefer to visit unannounced.
One such recent visitor said Naude
still believes the church he once served,
whose membership includes nearly
every important member of the gover-
ning National Party, faces "a crisis
S. Africa.'s Reverend Naude,
though banned, remains active
situation because white Afrikaners
believe so deeply that blacks are bar-
barians."
This visitor said Naude holds that
"blacks should have the right to take
part in the government of their
domicile and to own land. And that
ultimately the majority of the people of
South Africa will insist on a one-man,
one-vote system."
THIS IS HERESY for a man with
Naude's flawless Afrikaner creden-
tials. His father, a Dutch Reform
minister himself, helped found the
secret Broederbond Afrikaner
Brotherhood which aided the Dutch-
descended Afrikaans-speaking whites
to gain control of the government
through the National Party in 1940.
The son holds a masters degree from
Stellenbosch, the most prestigious
Afrikaans-language university, and .
later was elected moderator of the
church for southern Transvaal.
Naude initially accepted the church's
claim that the Bible justified apartheid.
But after the 1960 Sharpeville incident,
when police shot and killed 69 blacks
during a demonstration, Naude
revolted. He joined a number of church
leaders in supporting resoJutions
demanding that blacks be allowed to
vote and own land.
HE FORMED THE ecumenical
Christian Institute, whose goals in-
cluded church pressure for rights for
blacks. Naude was not re-elected chur-
ch moderator and in 1963, after 23 years
as an ordained minister, his status was
withdrawn.
Naude joined the Dutch Reformed
Church in Africa, a branch for blacks,
and preached in Alexandra, a small
black enclave in Johannesburg. He met
more and more black militants after
deciding the only solution to South
Africa's problems would come through
black pressure for change.
In the charged atmosphere following
the 1976 riots in the black township of
Soeto, Naude and his institute were
seen as subversive. The institute and 17
black activist groups were banned Oct.
19, 1977, and Naude was banned in-
dividually.
HIS TWO DECADES of championing
the rights of blacks had made him a
saint to many of the country's black
majority. Dr. Allan Boesak, a.leader of
the Dutch Church for coloreds (mixed
race people) calls Naude "one of the
greatest South Africans ever."
But to some of his former friends,
Naude is a traitor. Naude began
receiving threatening phone calls and
occasional visits by the Security Police.
He was briefly jailed for refusing to
testify before a commission in-
vestigating the Christian Institute.
Police have noted Naude's continuing
anti-apartheid work and late last
November they searched his house for
six hours and found three banned
books. Later he was asked to sign a
statement admitting he had been
preaching to a small group of black
servants, a violation of his banning or-
der.
NO PROSECUTIONS resulted, but a
friend was brought to court on
terrorism charges.
So Naude lives one day at a time,
beginning each day with Canadian Air
Force exercises at 6 a.m. He has little
chance for other exercise, which might
be considered interaction with more
than one person.
He was reported as being amused by
a recent Law Journal article on
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