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By ERIK DALE FLIPPO
Staff Writer
Economic development in African
nations has been stunted by past
domination of European colonial
powers, and it needs substantial
foreign aid to make a full recovery,
the Mozambiquan ambassador to the
United States said Thursday.
"The intervention of colonial forces
interrupted the normal course in the
development of African society,"
Ambassador Valeriano Ferrao told
about 75 people in Hamilton Hall.
The speech, co-sponsored by the
African Students Association and
Association of International Stu
dents, was part of the annual week
long International Festival ending
Feb. 18.
; The Europeans arrested the social
development of African nations so
they could exploit the continent for
their own benefit, Ferrao said.
; "The economies built by the colon
ials were distorted," he said. "Little
industry was introduced by colonial
authorities."
; Such development would have
caused undesired competition with
the established industries in Europe,
he said.
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tickets and everything."
The candidates also responded to
an audience question asking what
they would do to get lower-level
student seating at the Smith Center
if bleachers are not installed.
Frye said it is likely bleachers will
be installed in the Smith Center, but
if that were to fall through she said
she would consider boycotting a game
to force the athletic department to
face the issue.
: "The last thing the athletic depart
ment wants is 40,000 parents angry
that their students can't have decent
seats in the Dean Dome," she said.
;Saldi also said pushing for
bleachers was the most important
thing. But if that doesnt work, she
said she would try to get 1 8-inch seats
installed, rather than the current 21
inch seats, to make room for more
seats. "If we had 18-inch seats, it
would create more seats and it would
not take away from the beauty of the
Smith Center," she said.
D'Arruda said Carolina Fever
members should alternate between
sitting in the upper level and the lower
level, creating 100 to 150 more seats.
He also suggested allowing students
to: sit in alumni seats when the seats
are empty. "If their seats are left
empty, why don't students sit in
them?" he asked. "If they come and
shbw their ticket stubs, well leave."
Frye said students are already
allowed to sit in vacant alumni seats.
David Smith and Liz Jackson, the
RH A president candidates, addressed
the issues of RHA expansion and
making the RHA president a member
of the UNC housing department's
central staff. ,
More people need to work for
RHA if it can realize its goals and
full potential, Smith said. "IVe seen
us do good things, but IVe seen us
not do what we're capable of," he
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The colonial powers kept African
people from becoming educated, a
fact reflected in the pre-revolution 93
percent illiteracy rate in Mozam
bique. Even those considered literate
only received an "elementary educa
tion," he said.
Ferrao joined the FRELIMO
said. "Let's get more representation
and more ideas into the RHA pres
ident's hands."
RHA needs more personnel, but
it also needs its current personnel to
be more effective to accomplish goals,
Jackson said. "Make those people
more effective, and once that
happens, if you decide to branch out
and decide you need more people,
then you can go out and do it," she
said. "But I don't think the way to
do it is to jump in and bring a whole
ton of people with you because you're
all going to drown."
The candidates also disagreed on
the viability of getting the RHA
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resistance movement in 1963, which
fought to gain Mozambique's inde
pendence from Portugal. The move
ment prevailed in 1975 and set up a
Marxist state under President
Samora Moises Machel.
Ferrao has served in various offices
in the Mozambique government since
1976. In 1983, he was appointed
ambassador to the United States and
Canada.
Poor education opportunities
proved a difficult obstacle to over
come when African countries, includ
ing Mozambique, became independ
ent nations in the 1960s and 70s.
"There are no schools in war," he
said. "You cannot train to become
prime ministers."
Instead, the new government offi
cials had to learn by doing, and that
took time.
"You need technicians, managers
trained, qualified people and
you don't have them," ferrao said.
"We made mistakes," he said. "And
mistakes cost." They took their toll
in lost opportunities, money, even
human lives.
Though internal problems play a
role, African nations' economic woes
can be traced to many external factors
president on the central staff of the
housing department.
Smith compared the president's
possible role on the staff to the
student body president's role on the
UNC Board of Trustees.
"It's unrealistic to not expect the
RHA president to have the right to
represent students to the housing
department," he said. "If RHA was
on the central staff we could make
an active contribution to decision
making."
Jackson said she did not think the
president would be allowed on the
staff. "An area director I talked to
said it would be a cold day in hell
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Some restrictions may apply. For complete
beyond their direct control, he said.
Uncontrollable natural disasters
have wreaked havoc with Africa's
unstable economies, Ferrao said.
"A drought in the Midwest (of the
United States) would not be a total
disaster," he said. The U.S. economy
is so big, it could absorb the problem
with minimal effect.
But in Africa, such a drought
would just as easily mean a famine,
he said.
Another problem for Africa stems
from trade relations.
"We all produce more or less the
same products mostly raw mate
rials and they are exported to the
same places" like the United States
and the European Economic Com
munity (EEC), he said.
"But the prices are not controlled
by us," he said. They are controlled
by commodities exchanges in places
like London, Chicago and Tokyo.
Because of the colonial legacy and
external forces acting on their econ
omies, countries like Mozambique
are in dire need of increased economic
support from the United States and
the EEC if they stand any chance of
competing in today's complex econ
omy, Ferrao said.
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before that would happen," she said.
Wayne Kuncl, director of the housing
department, also told her it wouldn't
work, Jackson said. "The RHA
president needs to work with Kuncl;
but the place to do it is not in the
central staff."
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By LAURA TAYLOR
Staff Writer
The Animal Protection Society
(APS) of Orange County plans to
build North Carolina's first animal
sanctuary.
"It will be a project that will be
developed in stages," said Pat
Sanford, APS executive director.
The sanctuary will house eight
programs to give service and
protection to animals, she said.
"Most wildlife we get has been
impacted by society. We usually
don't find animals that have gotten
into trouble in nature by them
selves," Sanford said.
Cathey Noel, APS boajd
member, said once a desirable
location and legal permits were
acquired, construction of a board
ing kennel for cats and dogs would
begin.
The kennel will provide money
for the APS to fund the other
seven programs in the sanctuary,
she said.
"APS will own it (the kennel)
outright," Noel said. "It will be a
profitable organization with all
money returned to APS."
A wildlife center will treat
mammals and songbirds who have
.been orphaned or injured so they
can be re-released into their
natural habitats, Sanford said.
Functions of the adoption cen
ter will include taking animals in
that are homeless and unwanted,
she said. The protection society
will look for people to adopt these
animals.
The sanctuary's hearing ear dog
program will train dogs to serve
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the needs of deaf residents of
Orange County, Sanford said.
Large holding facilities will
house stray farm animals such as
horses and cattle, she said.
APS also plans to include a
raptor center as another part of
the animal sanctuary. Injured
owls, hawks and other birds of
prey will be rehabilitated at the
facility to survive in the wild.
Linda Kay, an area raptor re
habilitator who runs a private
facility for injured birds of prey,
will head the center. "It will be
completely sectioned off," she
said. "The birds will need lots of
room to recover."
Housing the birds will be a
major concern at the new raptor
facility, Kay said. It is important
that the birds don't injure them
selves but recover properly.
Rehabilitators will evaluate a
bird's hunting skills before it is
released. Kay said the raptor
center would not be in the "zoo
business" but would seek to
rehabilitate birds to succeed in
their natural habitats.
Sanford said APS would house
a humane educational resource
center and an obedience center in
the same building. The resource
center will have information for
anyone with particular animal
concerns, she said.
Barbara Long, Orange County
Animal Shelter manager and APS
obedience program instructor,
said teaching techniques involved
positive reinforcement. "Verbal
and physical praise are used (as
rewards)."
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