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Volume XCIV, Number 22
University of Southern California
Writer speaks out
Wednesday, October 5, 1983
By Jeffrey Tylicki
Assistant Qty Editor
"The future of Latin American countries belongs to them, not the White House/' said Jacobo Timerman, veteran journalist tortured by the Argentine military, to an over-capacity crowd Tuesday night in Hancock Auditorium The former Argentine publisher, imprisoned and tortured for 30 months by his country's ruling military junta, received two standing ovations during his speech that capped the program of "The Day of the Imprisoned Writer" symposium. The 60-year-old, Ukran-ian-bom Timerman was the School of Journalism's Otis Chandler Distinguished Lecturer for this year.
United States and Israeli military establishment received sharp criticism from Timerman, a Jew and Israeli citizen. He said the Reagan administration will eventually lose in Central America, and should support what the people of those nations want to do. But
he praised the American press for its coverage of the Central American situation.
He said Israel's intent to dominate the Middle East is wrong. The bloodshed and violence caused by the Begin government is destroying the essence of Judaism, Timerman asserted.
"It destroys one's heart to see people who suffered for so many years to create a beautiful state now destroying that state," Timerman said. "But a new generation now growing up in Israel wiD liberate the Jewish people from the idea of living in a military ghetto."
Timerman drew the greatest applause during his answer to a question on the pledges of the Palestine Liberation Organization to drive the Israelis into the sea. He called on Israel to accept the Palestinians as a people. Theyneed to give understanding, freedom, and an independent state, he said.
"If Israel can have friendly relations
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with Germany and the German people and we know that both the German leaders and people carried out the killings, then they can have peace with the Palestinians," Timerman said. "There is no reason to suppress (the Palestinians) just because they have no understanding of political reality."
In order to escape persecution, Timerman's family emigrated to Argentina from the Ukraine in 1928. He became a leading journalist there and assumed control of the Buenos Aires-based La Opinion daily in 1971. Although he initially supported the military regime which took control of the government in the mid-ZD's, his paper became highly critical of the many political prisoners held by the regime and the strange disappearances of thousands of Argentine citizens.
In the spring of 1977, he was arrested by the government, and held for 30
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Research papers: risky business
By Douglas Lytle
Investigations Writer
As the deadline for the term paper approaches, Johnny begins to panic. His thoughts-become fragmented, and his pulse rate shoots up. Johnny's desperate. What to do? Old Man Hardacre never accepts papers beyond the deadline, and now Johnny finds himself trapped. "If I fail this class," Johnny worries, "I'll be kicked out, or worse. I'll have to transfer to UCLA!" What can Johnny do?
Why not purchase that term paper?
The next morning, Johnny visits Research Assistance, a business designed especially for those individuals wishing to ease the difficulty of writing that dreaded term paper.
Johnny tells the nice person at the desk what school he's from and what kind of "research" he needs. After being given a fat catalogue filled with all kinds of "research", Johnny nervously thumbs through the pages until he finds what he wants.
Ah ha! Johnny's in luck, as Research Assistance has just what Johnny needs-a 12-page term report on "Ethics in the Classroom." Johnny clasps his hands with joy and requests the paper hurriedly. After shelling out $60 dollars in cash, and signing a form that says he will use the report only for "research," Johnny drives home, pleased that he's finished his report with plenty of time to spare. Now, after he finds a friend to type the paper, Johnny's ready for Old Man Hardacre. Almost too good to be true. Or is it?
A widespread practice
The idea of saving term papers and tests is not a new one. For years professional fraternities like Sigma Phi Delta, the engineering fraternity, have been keeping files of old class material crucial to their fields. But the notion of businesses created especially to provide term papers for the lazy student is generally a little known fact to many people.
There are a number of such organizations around the United States, most offering catalogues full of term papers that are extensively researched and footnoted. Advertisements for "paper mills" can be found in college-oriented publications such as Rolling Stone, National Lampoon, the Record, Hustler and The Row Run.
Earlier this year, many students at the university found small cards stuck on their cars from a business located in West Los Angeles called Research Assistance. Established in 1969, Research Assistance has a catalogue of over 14,000 term papers, all written by a staff of professional writers.
There is almost no subject that cannot be researched and written by Research Assistance. From Plato to Prostitution, Fitzgerald to Firefighting, Research Assistance covers a staggering amount of academic
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Reagan calls secrecy oath for officials
By Jeffrey Tylicki
Assistant City Editor
The Reagan Administration has been making concentrated efforts to stifle public debate on national issues by changing the Freedom of Information Act and the requiring government employees to take secrecy oaths, contended a panel of legal experts at the second discussion for yesterday's "Day of the Imprisoned Writer" symposium.
Discussion spotlighted on the ways the United States government has exercised forms or censorship and questioned the constitutionality of these acts.
Heading the afternoon session were Frank Snepp, a former agent for the Central Intelligence Agency and author of the book "Decen-t Interval;" Ramona Ripston, director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California; and Paul Selvin, an attorney who deals with First Amendment cases. Playwright and free speech activist Donald Freed moderated the discussion.
The major theme of the panel was to expose what it said has been a dramatic shift to "closed government" since the Reagan Administration took office. Ripston cited many cases which occurred in the last three years, such as the Los Angeles Police Department spying investigations, which show the government is trying to "chill people” from exercising their First Amendment rights.
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Symposium on captive journalists
By Steffannie Fedunak
Staff Writer
In commemoration of thousands of writers and journalists who are victims of censorship and suppression, a panel of writers, themselves once imprisoned, said prison bars cannot prevent people from believing in liberation or human rights.
"They (ideas) cannot be killed, nor can they be imprisoned. This is one of the moving aspects of imprisoned writers. They can invent. They can create, even if they are not allowed to publish. And one day, the thoughts and experiences, and visions that were bom inside the prison bars may become some of the most precious gifts of humanity," said Mortimer Arias, one of five writers who spoke at Tuesday's first "Day of the Imprisoned Writer" symposium.
Arias, a former Methodist Bishop once exiled in Bolivia for his writings on liberation theology, said imprisoned writers must never be forgotten.
"On this day of imprisoned writers, we cannot forget the hundreds, the thousands of prisoners of conscious, the writers and thinkers who are held in physical captivity," said Arias.
Tuesday's event was sponsored by Poets, Essayists, and Novelists (PEN), a worldwide organization concerned with writers who are imprisoned, censored or harrassed by their governments for what they write. The program was presented in cooperation with the school of journalism and the center for humanities. Through a network of centers in 84 countries, PEN works to stop this suppression.
"One of the purposes of higher education is to make clear to students the way the freedoms of expression touches every other freedom— movement, religion, assembly, the freedoms we take to be distinctive of American life and which we take for granted," said Ronald Gottesman, director of the Center for Humanities, in explaining the purpose of the symposium.
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