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THE COMPASS
Thursday, March 1, 1990
MALULU
continued from page 1
Paul said he wanted to go to college
“because I will be improved.”
Paul’s home, Namibia, was a for
mer German colony, until 1915, when
South African troops, acting on Brit
ish orders, took over thenearly 319,000
square mile area. For this reason Paul
speaks fluent German.
His home’s natural resources in
clude uranium, copper and the ever
precious diamond.
“My father is an electrician in the
Consolidated Diamond Mine,” Paul
says proudly.
Namibia’s vast mineral resources
are why South Africa is determined to
retain control of Namibia, according
to a book on the country,r/je Workers
of Namibia. But that, too, is changing.
As a result of a tri-lateral agree
ment between South Africa, Angola
and Cuba, Paul’s country will be an
“independent nation," according to
South African Embassy spokesman
Patrick Evans in the District of Co
lumbia. Under the agreement, Cuba
will remove its forces from Angola
while South African troops will pull
out of Namibia as early as March,
NOTES
continued from page 5
rights, economics, social and political
justice. He has no toleration for com
munism and is a firm believer that
communist expansion on a global front
must be stopped.
Dr. Ju sees a continuous conflict
between America’s financial and
military aid to support foreign dicta
torships and the popular will of the
people who the dictators have pledged
to support. This conflict has led to
confrontation and rebellion in numer
ous third world countries with South
Korea as a prime example. The popu
lar will seeking freedom and justice
vs. dictators supported by American
dollars. Into this void steps angry anti-
American advocates who began to
sow the seeds for a communist take
over.
Dr. Ju seems to believe that Sena
tor Edward M. Kennedy, heir appar
ent to his brother Jack's "New Fron
tier," continues to be the American
Evans said. Namibia will then be under
United Nations control, having “a
multi-party democracy with a one
person-one vote structure.”
Paul agrees with his country’s
drastic governmental overhaul.
“The new government is for every
body to have rights, “says Paul, “to go
wherever you like because before we
couldn’t.”
The areas to which Paul refers are
called “homelands,” zones of land
where the twelve ethnic groups of
Namibians are supposed to live. For
example, since Paul is an Ovambo, he
is to live in that district, and if he
wants to work in a white zone he is
required to have a permit or a pass to
do so. If he does work in that area he
cannot be in that area for longer than
72 hours without permission.
“Even if you go into another black
homeland you are questioned why
you’re there,” Paul said.
He believes the government’s for
mer policy towards blacks was unfair
because what the people needed was
“freedom to be equal.” Freedom to
Paul is “freedom from threats, free
dom to have a good job, proper hous
ing, facilities, and higher education.”
Namibia’s movement for Paul’s
freedoms began in 1960 with the for-
Messiash for liberty, freedom and a
truly democrate South Korea.
Margaret McKoy, a senior major
ing in Psychology, will present a paper
at the Eighteenth Annual Alpha Kappa
Delta Sociological Research Sympo
sium, which meets from February 22
to 24 in Greenville, N.C. McKoy’s
paper, “African-American Anomalous
Experiences and Folklore” is a con
densed version of her senior honors
thesis, which she wrote under the di
rection of Dr. James McClenon.
McKoy has been participating in
Dr. McClenon’s fo^lore research
project and in Dorothy Redford ’ s oral
history seminar. Her paper analyzes
African-American anomalous expe
riences such as rootlore narratives and
apparitional experiences. She evalu
ated two theories within the study of
folklore and found that each are appli
cable to various aspects of her evi
dence. Her findings are important
within the study of the sociology and
folklore. Dr. McClenon will be taking
some students to attend.
mation of the Southwest Africa
People’s Organization (SWAPO), an
armed liberation group similar to
Nelson Mandela’s African National
Congress.
“My uncle was involved in the
political movement,” Paul said in a
quiet voice. “He was jailed for six
months in 1977 because he was a
member of SWAPO. After he was
released, they caught him again, and
beat him to death in May of 1978.
That’s the surprising thing that people
die for standing up for their rights.
When Europeans came, they came
with a Bible in one hand and a gun in
the other. They gave us the Bible and
nothing else.”
Although Paul only studied Eng
lish for six months his message about
his people and apartheid comes
through despite his accent.
‘Ovambos are hard workers but
have very low wages,” he says. “ They
receive 25 cents an hour in some places
and that’s considered a high wage, for
an 8-hour day.”
“People have been fighting for a
longtime to break apartheid,” he con
tinued. “Mandela is free and that’s a
sign of improvement, but it depends
on the people. It’s okay to negotiate
peacefully, but when people declare
Department of Geosciences
One of the two students from
Namibia, Paul Malulu (Southwest
Africa) joined ECSU last month on a
United Nations fellowship. Namibia
is a newly independent country, which
was formally called South-West Af
rica and was occupied by South Af
rica.
The U.S. Geological Survey has
offered a four-week training program
this summer for up to eight ECSU
teacher education students. USGS will
provide all normal expenses for the
students.
Dr. William Porter, Assistant Pro
fessor in geosciences, presented a
paper on micro-computing at the first
National Conference on Computing
at Minority Institutions in December,
1989 at Washington, D.C.
Dept, of Physical Education
By C. Cullipher Hanchuck
ECSU Senior Carol Modecki has
won the June P. GaUoway Award, a
“When Europeans came, they came
with a Bible in one hand and a gun in the
other. They gave us the Bible and nothing
else.”
Paulus Malulu
war on each others’ race, violence
will be there. A government must
have blacks and whites equal.”
Even though Paul plans to do
undergraduate and graduate work in
the geosciences and electronics, he
plans to someday return to Namibia
and "contribute to my home country."
Paul said he misses his brothers,
sisters and parents back home in
Namibia. In the land of Big Macs, he
also admits to an occasional craving
for the traditional African food
“oshithima”—a boiled water and
maize mixture usually eaten with meat
or curdled milk.
Until he does return, he says he’ll
continue watching basketball, a sport
which he’s never played, and develop
his interest in gymnastics because its
dance scholarship sponsored by the
North Carolina Alliance for Health,
Physical Education, Recreation.
The honor and accompanying
scholarship money were awarded to
Modecki for her outstanding academic
service and leadership achievements
at a ceremony at the General Session
of the North Carolina Alliance for
Health, Physical Eduction, Recrea
tion and Dance Convention on Thurs
day, November 30th, in Greensboro.
“Carol Modecki does an excellent
job of juggling private sector respon
sibilities while making great strides
toward becoming an outstanding pro
fessional educator,” wrote Coach
Debbie Lynch.
Modecki also recieved a congratu
latory note from Dr. Jimmy R. Jen
kins, Chancellor of Elizabeth City
State University.
“I felt very excited and also re
lieved to know I would have addi
tional monies to cover educational
expenses,” Modecki said, after reciev-
ing the award.
There were only two awards given
f
Photo by Richsrd Mclntirs
United Nations Fellowship student Paulus Malulu takes time to study
and ponder on his experiences in America.
“so good for health.” He will strive to
play the guitar. In addition, Paul says
he really wants to go to Arizona, “be
cause I’ve read it has a landscape that
would be good for geology students to
study.
“I want to experience America and
by N.C.A.H.P.E.R.D in the state of
North Carolina per year. Only out
standing majors in the diciplines of
health, recreation, physical education
and dance receive this award.
Modecki has also been nominated
for Outstanding Physical Education
Majors of the Year Award for 1990,
sponsored by the National Associa
tion for Sport and Physical Education.
Modecki, who communtes to
ECSU from Kill Devil Hills, is a
physical education major. She has
worked with the Department of Social
Services in Dare County for three
years, working with the elderly and
disabled adults. She has worked in
summer camps for the physically
disabled in Pittsburg, Penn, and Ken
tucky. She received an Associates
Degree from Eastern Kentucky Uni
versity in Theraputic Recreation and
Supervision Leadership.
She has previously won the Lois
Capland Human Relations Award
from the Pennsylvania Association
for Retarded Citizens for her work
with the mentally handicapped.
all things American.”
When asked if he would ever be
come an American or apply for citi
zenship his eyes widened and he re
plied sternly, “I could never do that'
that would make me a traitor.”
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tered difficulty teaching. That student*
said Roberts, “refused to take advan-'
tage of the plan, preferring to work out
the problem within the school.” -n
One ECSU teacher educationi
major, Sue Emmert, said she had
mixed feelings about the program.
“I don’t think this plan is good
because it allows a person to have a
job and then run the risk of being fired,
In another way, however, the plan is
good because it may act as a deterreni
for a prospective teacher, making the
student try even harder.”
Ethel Sutton, a fifth grade teacher
H.L. Trigg Elementary School in
Elizabeth City, said she was in favor
of the plan.
“The prospective teacher should
return to ECSU to improve his or het
weaknesses,” she said. “They will be
working with children for thirty or
more years, and they will need to be
experts in their chosen fields.”
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