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w The Pendulum Early Valentine's gift fty-month old Jennifer WiUiamson of Burlington isn’t too young Ijoy Valentine’s Day. Her mother, Jean Williamson, hands her ply purchased Valentine’s balloon while the two were shoppmg ply Hill Mall last weekend. siuart white Thursday, February 13, 1986 Volume XII, No. 17 Apartheid Major issue to be examined in South Africa symposium By Frank Isley News Editor Beginning with The Island, a play by Athol Fugard, on Feb 16, Elon College will present a sym posium on South Africa, which college Chaplain Richard McBride hopes will “help us get a clearer picture of a confusing part of the world.” “It is a good opportunity to improve what we know about South Africa,” said Bob Anderson, assistant to the president at Elon College. Anderson, who holds a graduate degree in African studies, has travelled to South Africa in 1976 and in 1977. He said that although one may be able to unders tand why South African whites developed apartheid, it is still intolerable. “It is probably one of the top human rights issues today,” said Anderson. “On paper, South Africa is an ally of the United States,” Anderson said. “The U.S. could play a pretty constructive role if it wanted to in the change that is inevitable.” McBride said that while he is at Elon he hopes to see a number of global education symposia held, such as this one and the teach-in on South America last fall. “They are ‘citizen education,’ McBfide said, “encouraging us to get involved and not just leave important issues up to the leaders.” The play, at 7:30 Sunday night, portrays the lives of two political prisoners at Robben Island, a max imum security prison off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa and will set the issues for the ^^At'lp^m' Monday. Duke Kent-Brown, consul for nress and information. South African Consulate- General, New York, will speak on “South Africa s Future-The Government’s View.” At 4 p.m. that same day, “America’s Role in South Africa’s Future” will be discussed by William “Jake” Jacobsen, a member of both the Senior Foreign Service and the U.S. State Depart ment’s Working Group on South Africa. At 7:30 p.m. Monday, Anderson will examine the historical origions of the current problems. He will also dicuss the reluctance of the white South Africans to abandon apartheid and what some of the long range repercussions will be. “On Tuesday, voices calling for reforms and real change will be heard,” said McBride., At 9:30 a.m. a chapel talk, “The Churches Divid ed Voice in South Africa,” will be presented by Dr. Kay-Robert Volkwijn, a South African ex-patriot. Tuesday at 2 p.m., Desiree Volkwijn will discuss how educational institutions could be power for liberation instead of tools for apartheid. In what is expected to be the most impassioned discussion of the symposium, Motlalepula Chabaku, a native of Soweto, South Africa who recently has been granted political assylum in the United States, will speak on “The Death and Rebirth of South Africa” at 4 p.m. Tuesday. At 7:30 p.m.. Dr. Absolom Vilakazi will wrap- up the symposium with “Options for South Africa s Future,” a discussion of the possibilities of racial injustice in South Africa from the perspective of a native of the country. Vilakazi will be on hand throughout the three days of the symposium serving as “scholar in residence” and lecturing to classes and groups. The symposium is being sponsored by the Liberal Arts Forum, Black Cultural Society, the Chaplain’s Office and Phi Alpha Theta (the history honor society). niu Mail last weeKena. " future-1 ne uoveniiucin ^ ^ lamance DA appeals former student s sentence ! . . . 14-vear mandatory sentence in in prison, a four and one-half brmer Elon student Arthur R. ffin was sentenced last week f 0 years in prison for his con- Pon last fall of severely |>ng a 76-year-old Elon Col- woman. But Alamance rict Attorney. George E. Hunt ppealing the sentence on the [inds that it is not harsh If Alamance Superior Court Judge Robert Farmer’s decision is upheld, “the integrity of the judicial system suffered. Hunt ^"^Griffin had been convicted on Oct 30 on two charges, first- degree burglary and assault on a handicapped dangerous weapon, in the May , 1985, beating of Mrs. Celia Hodge, who lives about a block from the campus. Judge Farmer delayed senten cing pending the completion of psychiatric testing of Griffin by doctors in Raleigh. In announcing his sentence last week, Farmer reduced the burglary charge—which carries a 14-year mandatory sentence in the state of North Carolina—to a misdemeanor breaking and enter ing. The judge also threw out the conviction for “felonious assault,” contending that because no such crime existed in North Carolina law the indictment was “defective.” Farmer gave Griffin two years in prison, a four and one-half year suspended sentence and five years’ probation. Because Fanner credited Griffin’s confinement in Raleigh’s Central Prison’s Men tal Health Ward for psychiatric observation toward the two-year sentence, Griffin will be eligible for parole in two months, accor ding to his attorney. Sunburns West Elon student creates art by sunlight p. 4 Too commercialized? Valentine’s Day has always been time of giving p. 8
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