The Pendulum
Volume XIII, No. 18
Thursday, February 26, 1987
Refugees’
aptivist
to visit
Elon College’s special three-
part series “Two Hundred Years
with the United States Constitu-
^ don” will conclude on Monday
with a speech by Dr. Renny
Go^en, activist for Central
:an refugees. Her speech,
[entitled “United States Immigra-
Policy and Central
_ cans: Asylum Denied,”
ill be presented at 7:30 p.m. in
y Auditorium.
)lden has traveled extensively
El Salvador and Guatemala and
ithored the book Sanctuary:
If f^ew Underground Raiload.
l|hf is currently a professor in
le ^rime and social justice
lent at Northeastern II-
Hs University, specializing in
as of women and crime and
ID: and the criminal justice
tep. Crane
jeaks here
1^ Philip M. Crane, R-Ill.,
ic the leading conservatives
pe U.S. House of Represen-
p and former presidential
fine, will speak in Whitley
Itcrmm at 7:30 p.m. today,
e's appearance is a part of
' of lectures on the cam-
Jelebrating the 200th anniver-
^ jof the U.S. Constitution.
|it is a member of the Com-
on on the Bicentennial of the
I Constitution.
||A former college faculty
Crane earned a Ph.D.
ptory from Indiana Univer
se is married and the father
ght children.
'The Gilded Age”
Col. Bcriah SeUen (Philip
Goodwin, center) mesmerizes
the citizens of Stone’s Landing,
Missouri with his tall tales and
big plans. The Acting Com
pany’s production of The Gild
ed Age is baaed upon the
Mark Twain/ Charies Dudley
Warner novel and has been
adapted for the stage by Con
stance Congdon. Directed by
Mark Lamos, The Gilded Age is
co-produced by Hartford Stage
Company and will play to over
25 cities on The Acting Com
pany’s 1986-87 national tour.
The Acting Company is the
touring arm of the John F. Ken
nedy Center. The play was per
formed in Elon’s Alumni Gym
on Tuesday, Feb. 17. See review
on page 4.
Civil rights leader speaks at Elon
By Michele Lashley
Editor
Dr. Mary Francis Berry, pro
fessor of history and law at
Howard University and a
member of the U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights, spoke in Whitley
Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
Monday.
The topic of Berry’s speech
was “Affirimative Action vs.
Reverse Discrimination.” She
said that Affirmative Action is
“one of the most confusing con
cepts. You are looking a a pro
cedure that appears to be neutral
on the surface, but underneath it
has racial and sexual discrimina
tion and is also based on merit
standards.” Berry also said that
Affirmative Action “is a conser
vative remedy to discrimation
problems. ’ ’
Berry said that at first she ac
cepted the idea of merit and “that
tests were the best way to
measure merit.” However, after
seeing that test scores were not
being used as they should by cer
tain institutions, she no longer
believes this.
“The National Association of
Manufacturers supports Affir
mative Action because it is a
much more rational approach,”
explained Berry. “It’s better than
having radicals in your office say
ing that they’re not going to buy
your products if you don’t hire a
certain group of people,” she
added.
Berry also discussed the pro
blems that are ever present in the
U.S. government. She said that in
order for these problems to be
solved, the public needs to vote
for the right people, run for of
fice, hold people for whom we
vote accountable, form pressure
groups and/or do something in
the community “like teaching so
meone how to read.”
Berry concluded by saying that
Dr. Mary Berry
“we must pay in our time for the
Constitution to be more than just
words on paper or on the back of
a cereal box and bring true
freedom and justice to our land. ’ ’