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Volume XCVIII, Number 67
University of Southern California
Thursday, April 25, 1985
400 rally in peace against apartheid policies
USC demonstration part of nationwide wave of protest
By Carol Ann Coates
Assistant City Editor
Amid chants and pleas to free South Africa, a coalition of about 400 USC students became part of the national Free South Africa movement Wednesday during an orderly rally protesting the policy of apartheid in front of Tommy Trojan.
USC joined other colleges and universities across the country — including UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara and UCLA — in participating in protests, rallies and sit-ins denouncing the racist policies in South Africa.
"We are not alone," said Bernard Walker, president of the Black Student Union. The protest was organized because "we do believe in the human condition," Walker said.
David Jefferson, newly-elected Student Senate undergraduate speaker, and Nancy Calle, past chairwoman of the senate's Student Affairs Research Action Unit, addressed the crowd on the "violations of basic human rights" in South Africa.
"People are being treated as slaves and not as human beings," Jefferson said. In unison, Jefferson and Calle asked the crowd to "help us free South Africa."
Walker then took the stage again and led the crowd in the first of several chants. 'Tree the people; Free the land; Free all South Africans," the crowd chanted.
The first of the featured speakers was Fred Williams, organizer of the Los Angeles Youth Outreach. Williams
DT photos by Julie Seidel
taught the crowd his own chant, "Down with apartheid, Up with justice."
Williams said the students in South Africa "cannot experience a gathering" like this one. "They have no idea of what it means to go to school," he added.
But it was Jackie Goldberg, a Los Angeles Board of Education member, who grabbed the crowd's attention — and raised the momentum of the rally — when she forcefully said "If we do not speak out, we won't be able to affect history . . . only be affected by it."
Goldberg chose to speak at USC's rally rather than other rallies held today because 'Teople don't expect you to be here, but you are anyway."
These rallies are the last chance for a non-violent solution to the apartheid problem, she said, adding that the university — along with corporations such as General Motors and Bank of America — "are the perpetrators of a violent overthrow."
"South Africa is an abomination among nations," she said.
Goldberg, who attended USC for one year before transferring to UC Berkeley, said she remembers when Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1965 in South Africa for being the leader of the government's opposition movement and echoed a statement he made after his arrest.
"Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. We will return," Goldberg said.
Walker again led the protes-
tors in chants such as "Free South Africa;" "They say invest, We say divest;" and "Botha, Botha, you can't hide, We charge you with genocide."
"We will prevail because we are on the right side of justice," he said.
Mark Kann, professor of political science, talked of the racial oppression in South Africa and "the iron fist of military force."
Kann asked "how seriously can we take the ideal" of higher education and the desire for equal opportunity when a white supremacist government is being supported.
"The promise of higher education is linked to the promise of democracy," Kann said.
Following in the footsteps of UC Berkeley students who renamed their most prominent campus building after a South African martyr. Walker changed the name of Bovard Administration Building to Bishop Desmond Tutu Hall — in honor of the Nobel Peace Prize winner.
The BSU had asked the university to present Tutu with an honorary degree at the commencement ceremonies on May 10 — since he will be in Los Angeles at the Ambassador Hotel
— but the university declined, Walker said.
Los Angeles Councilman Robert Farrell spoke the longest of the invited speakers and asked students "to take a stand, to be in alignment with the people in South Africa."
"When will students at USC wake up to the fact that they live in a magnificent urban area?" Farrell asked. He said he was glad to see the visions of the USC students aligned with the visions of the people in the district.
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Recent city ordinance prohibits smoking on majority of campus
By Charisse Jones
Staff Writer
A university-wide non-smoking policy was implemented April 15, prohibiting smoking in all "common areas," such as hallways and stairwells, and in at least 75 percent of all cafeterias and restaurants, as a result of a dty ordinance passed last October.
The campus ordinance does not allow smoking in waiting rooms, reception areas, lobbies, restrooms, lounges and all similar areas designated as "common" to the public.
Smoking is also prohibited in at least two-thirds of the seating and floor areas of all cafeterias and restaurants, and prohibited altogether in libraries.
The Los Angeles city ordinance — which calls for a 75 percent non-smoking area in employee lunchrooms and lounges, but exempts certain areas of restaurants and bars — created interpretation problems for the university because Commons can be considered either an employee lunchroom
or a restaurant. When the smoking policy was being drafted a few months ago, Barbara Flick, assistant general counsel, said the office of senior vice-president Jon Strauss would have to decide how to apply the policy.
Strauss said Commons comes under the nonsmoking ordinance whether it is considered an employee lunchroom or a restaurant and the only question to be addressed is whether too little nonsmoking space has been established.
'To my understanding, it is supposed to be at least 50 percent for non-smokers and I don't believe it (Commons) is," he said.
Other provisions of the campus ordinance are:
—	Any area where a fire hazard may exist can be designated non-smoking;
—	No smoking in all theaters and other facilities meant for the showing of films, plays, musicals and similar productions;
—	And no smoking in all health facilities not al-
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