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2The Daily Tar HeelMonday, February 17, 1992 Creator of Ewanzaa addresses slavery, By Howard Thompson Staff Writer "Come on down to the front," urged Muuluna Karenga to a crowd of 100 scattered around the Union auditorium. "Let's have a nice talk." Karenga, professor and chairman of Black Studies at California State Uni versity at Long Beach, spoke Thursday night about African legacy and history. Noted as the creator of the black holiday Kwanzaa, Karenga also serves as executive director of the Institute of Pan-African Studies and has lectured on black life and history on many U.S. college campuses as well as abroad. He has written several books, including "An Introduction to Black Studies," which is used as the text for the African and Afro-American studies 60 course. :. The lecture Thursday, sponsored by the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Cen ter and Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, was titled "Meaning and Mission in African History: Culture, Struggle and Achieve ment." After a short introduction by Arnie Epps, president of the Black Student Movement, the microphone was turned over to Karenga, who decided he did not need it. He then launched into his dynamic and structured monologue, periodically pausing to ask for response from the audience. "Everyone must ask themselves three questions," he began. "Who am I? Am I really who I am? And am I all I ought to be?"The first enables one to accept a Celebrate safely: Condom . . rViiincolnrc cliniiitpH that nhnllt Iflfl By Sonja Post Staff Writer Raised eyebrows and tiny chuckles were common fare when students heard about National Condom Week, or bet ter yet, when they received a condomgram on Valentine's Day. Volunteers from the Health Educa tion Division of Student Health Service and Carotina AIDS Resource Ensemble will be selling T-shirts, giving away condoms and sponsoring a dating game this week to promote student awareness of condoms. Condom awareness began Feb. 6 and Feb. 7 in the Pit. Contraceptive Health Education Counselors from Student Health and volunteers from CARE asked students to send condoms to friends or lovers on Valentine's Day. Students were surprised and humored (by condomgrams. . "I had ho idea this was going on," commented Ibrez Bandukwala, a junior from Raleigh. "That's a very innovative way to get a necessary message across. It's not irresponsible, since there's an educational pamphlet included." "They're free," said Raquel Bushnell, a senior from Gastonia. "I can think of a zillion other things I can buy." "Humor is part of it," said Paula Hall, a junior from King and a CHEC counse lor. "It's like a big joke students stop and want to know what it's about. I don 't care if people laugh, as long as it's bringing awareness." Mm& or ye3 We'll make Sure you Make It. 10 Students Per class 40 hours of live instruction . live tutorial available at no extra charge national 800 telephone helpline 6 diagnosticpractice exams constantly updated courses and materials RALEIGH 3344 Hillsborough 832-9400 position in the forward flow of history, he explained. The second is a question of authenticity and the final of moral and social obligation. Within this framework, Karenga pro ceeded to outline major phases and ac complishments in black history. He quoted freely from Marcus Garvay, Malcolm X, Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and other black historical fig ures to support his premises of African achievement, community and destiny. The first period of black history he covered was the classical period, spe cifically the Nile Valley civilization of Egypt. He singled out Egypt because of its antiquity, authenticity and availabil ity of texts. Egyptian civilization, Karenga said, embodied the scientific and aesthetic genius, social justice and ethical back bone of African culture. "Egypt is the only country in history that has had to defend its geography," Karenga added. "European history has taken Africa from Egypt, Egypt from Africa and the Africans out of history." This historical falsification, he said, was due to one aspect of racism. Karenga defined racism in several different ways. "Racism is the act of taking an attitude and turning it into policy," he said. He also identified it as "denial, deformation and domination of history" and "taking white history and equating it with human history." The second phase of black history Karenga addressed was the holocaust of enslavement. "Slavery is an onto- Counselors estimated that about 100 people came by to send condomgrams, and women outnumbered men four to one. . If receiving a condom on Valentine's Day, with or without the roses, didn't raise student awareness, then perhaps the Sexual Knowledge Mixer of the Millennium will. The event, in the format of the dating game, will pit vol unteers from student organizations against each other at 7:30 p.m. Wednes day in the Union Cabaret. "We want to educate students about the different options they can exercise in leading a healthy lifestyle," said DeVetta Holman, assistant director at the Health Education Division of Stu dent Health Service. "The week will elevate student's knowledge about unintended preg nancy, sexually transmitteddiseases and AIDS," Holman said. "But it's not a one-shot deal. It is incumbent on us to keep students educationally aw;w all year." CHEC counselors are available turee to four days a week all year to host programs in the residence halls. The programs include information on AIDS, STDs, human sexuality and relation ships. Awareness is encouraged not only on campus, but also when students leave. Any student who participates in Condom Week by sending a condomgram or attending thedating game will receive a redeemable coupon to submit at Stu- 1DUCATI0NAL GROUP THE i Test preparation Graduate School selection Application assistance St. 306 Maulana Karenga speaks Thursday logical state; enslavement is a social condition," he explained. "Slavery makes it sound like com- mercial trade," he added. "Calling en- week promotes awareness I " ' """""" '' -"".JO1 "fc-'T 13 L."S ..." Condomgram sales in the Pit kick dent Health for a free Spring Break survival kit. Condoms are also avail able at reduced cost in Student Health's Pharmacy. Condom Week was started in 1978 by students at the University of Califor nia at Berkeley. They intentionally planned the week around Valentine's Day to increase general awareness of the week. Now 350 colleges and uni versities participate each year. Their thrust is to educate students about AIDS and STDs. Chapel Hill w. franklin St 932-9400 lU'iniiawuniii vuuuuuiu ' DTHJonAlkeson night in the Student Union auditorium slavement trade is like telling a Jew their holocaust during World War II was just political expediency." Karenga said through enslavement, DTKGrant Halvenon off National Condom Week Duke University and N.C. State Uni versity are sponsoring programs throughout the week as well. Lisa Bar ber, a health educator at Duke's Student Health, said Peer Information Service for Counseling and Education on Sexu ality, a student organization, sold condoms and a kiss for $1. The pack age, delivered on Valentine's Day, in cluded a condom, a safer sex and STD brochure, coupons for student health and a Hershey's kiss. Linda Attarian, a health educator at N.C. State University, said they were sponsoring a program called Healthy Relationships Week. It includes safer sex stations, a condom creation contest co-sponsored by Alpha Omega Epsilon sorority and aparty on Wednesday night. Although you may not have planned for a condom to creep into your Valentine's Day, if received, perhaps it was a healthy dose of reality along with the romance. IT COVERS MICHAEL BETTER THAN ANY TEAM IN THE NBA. "Jordan is more than a basketball legend ...sheds new light on a man whose athletic skills have captured our imagination. -Bill Bradley1, U.S. Senator and former star of the New York Knicks "Fluid, smart, and fun to read, this rich portrait of, Michael Jordan is also M a perceptive look at the game that made him fly? -Robert Lipsyte, New York Times sportswriter "Features above-the-basket writing, executed with grace, skill, and imagination." -Mike Lupica, columnist, New York Daily News "If you think Michael Jordan is only a sweetheart with a gift for basketball, think again.. ..This book shows Jordan cold ferocity both on-court and at the Cash register." -Dave Kindred, author of Theisman and former columnist for the Atlanta Journal & Constitution Mil TO THE RISE OF MICHAEL JORDAN byjiM naughton racism, civil rights; "Europeans lifted Africans out of his tory and made a footnote in theirs." He also said the holocaust gave evi dence to African durability and adapt ability. The third phase was the reaffirma tion of the '60s, the "paradigm of hu man liberation," Karenga said. "The '60s were a turning point that intro duced freedom that Washington and Jefferson could not imagine." The liberation and organization of the period, he said, was a modem ex pression of knowledge for service, re sulting in humanity being cultivated instead of denied. "Affirmative action is not quotas but a social correction for hundreds of years." He finished with a call for continued struggle and liberation. 'The battle is everywhere: schools, churches and in the home," he told the audience. "We need each other like we need the next breath." Afterward, in a short question-and-answer session and reception in the BCC, Karenga fielded questions about Hearings "Only 36 children in the day care are children of UNC students," committee member Andrew Cohen said. "Con gress is not supposed to appropriate funds which will benefit children of non-students. We should localize funds only to children of UNC students." Tyndall Harris, Victory Village trea surer, said the program budget reduc tion would hurt the center. "We only asked for 40 percent of the day care program budget," Harris said. "We made reductions so funds could be adequately appropriated to children of UNC students only." Phoenix The committee voted 4-3 with two abstentions to reduce the Phoenix's budget from $7,454.92 to $5,000. The committee said the Phoenix could generate more money on its own be cause a recent merger between adver tising staffs of the Daily Tar Heel and the weekly student newspaper elimi nated advertising competition. But Kevin Schwartz, DTH general manager, said the merger was a joint operating agreement, not an official corporate merger. "It's a relatively informal operating agreement that merges our business and advertising departments so we're not Campus Calendar MONDAY NOON: UNC Learning Skills Center will offer an exam preparation workshop in 104 Phillips Annex until 1 p.m. Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center pays trib ute to Alex Haley with the viewing of "Roots" daily until 2 p.m. in the BCC. 3 p.m. Campus Y Committee Coordinator and Executive Assistant applications are due today. Sign up for an interview in the Y office. 3:15 p.m. Introductory session on the basics of internships and experiential learning will be held in 306 Hanes. Sponsored by UCPPS. 4 p.m. Hillel presents "Remembrances of a Survi vor": Robert Clary of "Hogan's Heroes" will speak on his experiences in Buchenwald and the "new atmo sphere of hate" in Gerard. ConservationEnvironmental Careers Panel will be held in 210 Hanes. Sponsored by UCPPS. 6:30 p.m. Human Rights Week Committee will have an organizational meeting in the Campus Y Lounge. 7 p.m. Great Decisions will welcome Alec Guettel to speak on "Planet Earth: Dying Species, Disappear ing Habitats" in 100 Hamilton. 7:30 p.m. UNC Ballroom Dance Club will teach the rumba in 026 Woollen followed by open dancing at 8:30 p.m. Psychology Club will welcome Dr. Blackburn to speak on student mental health and will give tips on stress management in 1 12 Davie. Carolina Critic will meet in Suite C of the Union. Questions? Call Grant at 932-1567 or Jim at 933 3781. f 9 V v racism, curriculum, stereotypes and Clarence Thomas. ; He said he felt images created by the Thomas hearings, rap music and mov ies such as "Boyz N the Hood" perpetu ated the view of blacks as primarily sexual and pleasure-driven animals. He also touched on negative images trans mitted in the television series "Star Trek." "Why are the two blacks de formed?" Karenga asked. He also talked about the need for multicultural curriculum. "Eurocentric history portrays Africans as rel igiously , biologically and culturally inferior to Europeans. 'The only reason Africa is underde veloped is because its humanity and resources were used to make Europe overdeveloped," he added. Some in the audience mentioned they felt Karenga's methods encouraged di vision, a charge he brushed off. "I teach culture, not hostility," Karenga re sponded. "The source of conflict is not diversity." from page 1 out there fighting against each other, duplicating the exact same business pro cedure that each of us uses," Schwartz said. Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association The committee voted to recommend -that congress give the Carol ina Gay and Lesbian Association the full $4,097 re quested. Matthew Stewart, a CGLA supporter, said the committee questioned how the group would use the funds and acted fairly based on the responses. The com mittee does not make the final decision, though, and the CGLA expects a fight this weekend, he said. "I think that the Finance Committee made a very reasonable decision," he said. "I think they went about this the right way, and I can only hope that congress will be as civilized. Unfortu nately, I'm afraid that they won't be. We just have to be ready." Toronto Exchange Finance Committee members voted to cut all $2,100 requested for the Toronto Exchange program because members did not think the group in volved enough students. Richard Patten, one of the program 's coordinators, said he did not think the group received enough congressional support. "They ignored everything we said, and it seemed like they had llieif minds made up before we got in there." Sangam Sangam, the Indian student organi? zation, received a $7,785 reduction in its budget request. , One reason for the reduction was the committee's assertion that congressional funding of social events would be un constitutional. Sangam's social events include Culture Night, a welcome din ner for freshmen and an international conference. Rep. JenniferLloyd.Dist 27, attacked the constitutionality of student govern ment funding of social events. "There is no question about the value of these programs. But is it appropriate for congress to fund such a programs?" Sudevi Navalkar, Sangam president, said she wasn't surprised by the deci sion to reduce funding. 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