Volume 28
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Volume 7
Japanese Writers
to Visit
Gozo Yoshimasu
St. Andrews Press
Press Release
Three leading Japanese
writers will visit St. Andrews
during Spring term of 1990.
On Wednesday, March
14, Gozo Yoshimasu, au
thor of "Osiris, God of
Stone," the first St. Andrews
Press book of the new dec
ade, will read from the work
accompanied in music and
dance by his Brazilian wife,
Marilia. Each has performed
on four continents and has
visited St. Andrews several
times in the past few years.
The night prior to the St.
Andrews performance, they
will be honored at Japan
Society in New York. The
reading will be at 8:00pm.
Soichi Furuta, whose St.
Andrews Press book has
been nominated for a Pulit
zer Prize, will join the St. An
drews Bmnnenburgers of
1989 in a special Writers'
Forum on Tuesday, April 3.
Fuaita is Adjunct professor
of Literature for the college.
On April 12, Hiroaki Sato,
Vice President of Jetro-NY,
author of "That First Time"
(nominated for the William
Carlos Wiliams Prize), will
read at Writers' Forum along
with Marty Silverthorne.
Sato is Gozo's translator
and won a recent PEN trans
lation award for "The Coun
try of Eight Islands."
All three authors have
books from St. Andrews
Press under consideration
for the National Book Award
of the Before Columbus
Foundation of Berkely and
Seattle.
Honor Code Reviewed
By Pam Whitfield
Contributing
Tuesday's Open Call to
discuss the Honor Code and
its future was a success ac
cording to those students
and faculty members in at-
lendance. Previous prob-
lefTis and insonsistencies in
the judiiciai system were
examined with an eye to
ward making it more effec-
-'•s and accessible for
t^ents and faculty. Orre sug-
Qestion made by Professor
Shelby French and mem-
bers of the Student, Life
committee, who have gath
ered extensive information
on other college systems, is
to divide the Honor Code
into two areas of jurisdiction:
the Academic Honor Code
and a Code of Conduct, with
specific channels to follow
for each case. The prelimi
nary goals for revision of the
judicial system are to
streamline and renew it so
tiiat it operates more quickly
and efficiently, '.o consoi'-
date the information and
make it available to the
campus community, and to
instill faith and credibility in a
new and improved system.
With the encouragement
of the Student Life Commit
tee, eight students one
spearheading the long-
range effort to plan an Honor
Code Systemforthe College
in the future. Betsy Tate,
Kathleen Franklin, Pam
Whitfield, Susan yeaman,
Marian Scholz, Jason Rich,
Jo Frost, and Lane Moore
invite aii interested persons
p tend p'e'ifP'’'!a"y
ings to work on revisions, to
be held Sunday evenings at
10 p.m. in the SGA Confer
ence Room-.
Mandela: Symbol
of Liberation
By Bobby Musengwa
Contributing
When Nelson Rolihlahia
Mandela walked out of
prison on Feb. 11, Hendrik
F, Verwoed, the late Pre
mier of South Africa who
jailed Mr. Mandela, probably
rolled over in his grave.
Verwoed is regarded as the
chief architect of apartheid.
Most of the hated apartheid
laws which still grip the black
people of South Africa were
enacted during his tenure.
By jailing Mandela, Venwoed
had no idea he was creating
a monumental rallying sym
bol which the op-
pressedpeople of South Af
rica would use to crush
apartheid.
After twenty-seven years
in the South African prison,
Mandela emerged with the
full dignity of a heroic states
man. His values remain
untarnished, and his convic
tions intact. The world
watched as he walked hand-
in-hand with his wife, Win
nie, and saluted the familiar
f ist-sign as when he was first
imprisoned.
The mood of jubilation was
contagious. Not only could
the world begin to under
stand the hope infused by
Mandela's release, but it
could now invision a negoti
ated settlement in the South
African conflict. For the
oppressed people in South
Africa, this hope was pres
ent even in the darkest hours
of repression. Mandela's
release was one of the many
goals which would manifest
this hope. The capitulation
of i.ho South African regime
;n t‘-;e face cf cjnsrr"t cnai-
lenges, from within and with
out, clearly marked the turn
ing point in the struggle for
liberation in South Africa. In
the past such expressions of
hope, as seen through the
tiny cracks in the wall of
apartheid, would have been
dismissed as empty rheto
ric. Today there are still
many skeptics who dismiss
the idea of an ultimate de
mise of the apartheid regime
in South Africa. They see
chaos in black government.
When F.W. de Kleri, the
South African President who
released Mandela, meets
with his brother ev
ery week, he hears him
harping the ultimate demise
of apartheid. The
President's brother, Willem,
is one of the liberal whites
who formed the famed
Democratic Party to oppose
apartheid. Willem voted
against his brother in the last
elections. Willem wanted
the release of Mandela. The
true test, now, of the prag
matist President of South
Africa is whether he will be
able to push forth for the
retention of apartheid in
another form during the
planned negotiations. Man
dela and the African Na
tional Congress will be com
ing to the negotiation table
with clear goals: 1) The with
drawal of troops from black
townships; 2) lift the state of
emergency; 3) release all
political prisoners.
These goals were set forth
in the Mandela Peace Plan
which he wrote while still in
jail. This was a ten-point
document that stated that
what deKlerk should do if he
wanted to see stability and
peace in South Africa. It was
to no^ern-
ment on ijfco. 2o, 19a9. The
changes in South Africa fol
lowing the new year were a
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