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By PHILIP LEVY GRANTING MANDELA the degree
As tensions in South Africa and forcing the University to divest its
heightened this week with the unex- remaining $50,000 in investments in
pected crackdown on political op- companies that do business with
ponents of apartheid, a leader of the South Africa are FSACC's two main
Free South Africa Coordinating goals.
Committee (FSACC) said the group The University has divested 99 per-
plans more militant action against the cent of $50 million in investments it
University's South Africa policies. held in 1983. The remaining invest-
FSACC member Hector Delgado ments were kept to challenge a state
said a sit-in that interupted a meeting law requiring all state schools to
of the University's Board of Regents divest. The law, University officials,
last April "was the first of what I violates their constitutional autonomy
suspect will be many interuptions in from the state.
the coming year" Onlookers and speakers at the rally
DELGADO and other FSACC mem- Monday leveled criticism at the
bers spoke to about 200 local residents University for its stances on South
Monday who commemorated by Can- Africa. State Rep. Perry Bullard (D-
die-light on the Diag the tenth an- Ann Arbor), an onlooker, charac-
niversary of the Soweto uprising in terized the University's refusal to
South Africa. completely divest and grant Mandela
The sit-in Delgado spoke of was part the degree as "the arrogance of
of FSACC's efforts to pressure the elitism."
University to grant jailed South BULLARD said the University
Africa activist Nelson Mandela an takes the attitude that, "it's not our
honorary degree. The regents responsibility what happens because
refused because of a regental by-law we're the best. The best is above
which prohibits giving honorary morality."
degrees to those who cannot accept University President Harold
the honor in person. Shapiro, however, joined ten other
'he regents instead ordered a university presidents this week i
Uni eroity omm tee to rev ow th. denouncing the state of emergency
Daily Photo by ANDI SCHREIBER
Peter Afflick, a mechanical engineering graduate student, holds a candle ii rememhrance of the blacks killed
10 years ago in Soweto, a South African oship. He was one of around it people to atteid onday ighls gil
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reviewed a decision previously made
by First Assistant County Prosecutor
Robert Cooper.
MEMBERS of the Free South
Africa Coordinating Committee
protested the' prosecutor's decision
yesterday in front of the Washtenqw
County Courthouse. They carried
signs reading, for example, "the
county prosecutor loves racism and
hates peace" and distributed leaflets
to people coming out of the cour-
thouse. County Prosecutor William
Delhey's office is located in the.
courthouse.
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seriously as ary other acts of they then hroughl in receipts troi
malicious destruction. " Picketers area lumheryards which Shubrin
also complained that the decision not called "highly suspicious"
to prosecute had not been explained
by the prosecutor's office. He also said the case was hurt by
ANN ARBOR POLICE Detective FSACC leader Barbara Ransby's
Michael Schubring, who investigated statement to the police that '"there ByAYM5DL
the attack on the shanty, said a was no damage." By AMY MINDELL
proecutork musthe ha tat ws dmg.Residents of University Terrace, a report of possible areas for parking
prosecutor must hostile to prove that Ransby could not be reached for a University-owned apartment com- structures. The report is scheduled tc
a suspect willfully damaged a response to Schubring's comments. plex, are continuing their struggle to be completed in the next few weeks.
building, and be able to put a dollar keep their parking spaces intact and OFFICIALS can't say when 'U
value on the damage. Schubring said SCHUBRING said a more serious the buildings from being torn-down. Terrace will be demolished, but the
FSACC members were unable to attack might have made it easier A master plan for expansion of the Medical Campus Planning repor
to prosecute the suspect. Security of- new University Hospital, which sits states, "medical use (of land) mus
ficiers said they saw three people rip- beside 'U' Terrace, says the apar- take precedence over marrie
ping several boards off the shanty tment buildings are a prime area for a housing accomodations."
PA S ' Ntbefore the one was apprehended. parking structure. The University's 'U' Terrace residents are concerned
The suspect was the only person Board of Regents approved the plan in about finding housing if the buildings
Tesaughtasouthen aytpckson 1980. are removed, because the vacancy
teshanhtnCapu euritaoffcs BUT 'U' Terrace residents, most of rate in Ann Arbor is .7 percent.
the shanty. Campus security officers whom are married graduate students, Affordable housing is also hard t
ly is in great arieratackntheameeveninfer an contend that the University shouldn't find - a one-bedroom apartment at
tear down the buildings because the U Terrace is about $250 per month
"e the good news cording to Pifer, the suspect had been complex is affordable, comfortable including utilities. In the city, the
drinking before he was caught. The and close to the campus. same dwelling can run from $350 to
suspect, questioned by security of- Residents speak of the "com- $450 per month, according to Julia
ficers, was then turned over to police munity" feeling in the complex, Goode of the Ann Arbor Tennants
have no power of arrestr where they often have picnics, par- Union.
h o r rties, and share a garden in the cour- Residents picketed the opening of
FSACC members questioned tyard. the new Hospital to protest the tran-
Delhey's motive in not prosecuting Hospital administrators, however, sfer of their parking spaces to hospital
the suspect. "He's not doing anything Say there is a parking "emergency" parking, but later learned the
to prevent racist attacks," said mem- on the Medical Campus. Plans for a buildings would probably be
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