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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE MONDAY. MARCH 1, 1986 tiudtemite VOL. 95 NO. 100 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH -- plan to build a sfoaimitvtowin) by Donn Walker was made up, though he would welcome Staff writer the opportunity for dialogue. think (Peterson's) intentions are good," Hammond said, "but I don't think he realizes the futility of the Sullivan I The University of Utah's newest building has some company. What was once a lawn sporting a single wooden shanty became a lawn sporting two wooden shanties Friday, as an army of students protesting the U.'s South African investments turned out to erect a second structure on the lawn northwest of Orson Spencer Hall. And they vowed to keep building more shanties until U. administrators divest from companies doing business in South Principles. They aren't working." That attitude isn't shared by Lara Stein or Camilla Hutton. The two women both U. ballet majors from Johannesburg, South Africa are adamantly opposed to apartheid and want to see it abolished. Both would eventually like to see a NX'cstern-styl- Africa. "This is a shantvtown now,' said Spence Hammond, one of the organizers of the protest and a member of University of ki'r v Utah Students Against Apartheid. "(U. President) Chase (Peterson) gave us no choice. He said the idea of the protest was great, but we'd have to wait them out." So Hammond and the others in the group decided to take Peterson at his word. They would wait him out, all the while sprinkling campus lawns with more shanties. Joe Stedich, a student protester, said the group plans to build one shanty a week until school officials agree to divestiture. Hammond said the group will try hard to build one shanty regularly but said other obligations might interfere. "We've all got other responsibilities. Some of us have to do other things over spring break, like make money and support ourselves. No one should have to shirk those responsibilities to keep an active presence here," said Hammond, who was elected to the AS UU Assembly Thursday night. Judging from the response of school administrators to the issue of South African investments, Hammond and his group may be in for a long vigil. The U.'s Institutional Council passed a resolution earlier this month opposing apartheid but allowing investment to continue in companies rated as making Gramm-Rudma- n Staff writer Due to recent cuts in financial aid, a federal representative was unable to attend the Western Regional Convention of the College Board. And such actions could become increasingly common if the Gramm-Rudma- n Deficit Reduction Act is upheld. Dan Lau, federal spokesman for financial aid, was "unable to travel due to budget constraints," said Carl Buck, University of Utah financial aids director. This limited communication between federal and regional financial aid officials at the convention, he said. At the convention, an "inordinate" amount of student aid verification requirements, which would have slowed the student application process, were deleted, he said. There was not, however, an agreement reached on how to deal w ith on the adverse effects of Gramm-Rudma- n higher education. Gramm-Rudman- 's first round of cuts became effective March 1 even though the act's constitutionality will be te'sted in the U.S. Supreme Court next month. The act was ruled unconstitutional in one-ma- n, one-vot- e democracy in their country. However, both also believe divestiture will hurt South African blacks. And above all, they say, any change in South Africa must come about peacefully. Divestiture will do nothing to achieve such an end, Hutton and Stein say. The two women were among five other South African students w ho vandalized the first shanty last Monday night, tearing the cardboard walls from the wood frame. They said their point was made and they have no intention of vandalizing the second shanty. Stein said one of the reasons she took such an action was because most of the students behind the protest don't really care about apartheid or divestiture but only want a cross to bear. "Just to construct a shanty for the sake of constructing something, that's ridiculous. These people arc doing this just to stir things up on campus." Both women also believe that the students, and most Americans, are 1 JinmKlc pho hv Sii'vr titillin University of Utah Students Against Apartheid say they will build another shanty each week until administrators agree to divest in South Africa. The second shanty was built on campus Friday. progress under the Sullivan Principles, which call for equality and respect for human rights in the workplace. The school has just over 52 million invested in companies doing business in South Africa. Peterson has been unavailable for comment throughout the week. However, Act ignores results of cuts by Dee Naquin e, February after a panel of three federal judges determined a key provision breached the principle that legislative and executive powers be kept separate. Usually when financial aid cuts are proposed, directors of affected schools are consulted, Buck said. But Gramm-Rudma- n focuses on the national budget instead of the education budget. And no one is sure how Utah will be affected. According to the Deseret News, costs could run as high as S70 million in lost federal funds and programs. Buck said he doesn't disagree with the need for deficit reduction, but it "could be counterproductive to make sweeping reductions without assessing results." It would be more workable to slowly increase the reductions, he said, and then those who will be affected can plan financial needs carefully. Despite higher education's budget loss this year of S263 million, there will not be an immediately noticeable impact at the is upheld U., he said. If Gramm-Rudma- n in the Supreme Court, the SI 1.7 billion federal budget cuts will more than triple in the next fiscal year. The act sets up a series of targets for continued on page four university spokesmen have said several times that the Institutional Council's decision made the matter final. The president did visit the site of the first shanty Tuesday, Hammond said. Peterson told the students that while he admired them for taking a stand, his mind uninformed as to w hat is really going on in their homeland. "If just three people here truly knew about the situation in South Africa, I'd be surprised," Stein said Friday, standing just 10 feet away from where her were driving nails into the wood frame of the second shanty. "Americans arc really ignorant to this whole thing. Before fighting for a cause, you should know exactly w hat cause you're fighting for." fellow-student- Assembly candidate angry: says disqualification unfair; files suit against registrar University by Drew Staffanson Staff writer A former ASUU Assembly candidate, who was disqualified the night of the final election, is filing a suit against the election registrar. Thursday night, ASUU Election Registrar John Fackler disqualified social and behavioral science candidate Mark Holding. When Holding's candidacy application was first received by the Election Committee, it was discovered that his grade point average was below the candidate eligibility requirement. He had some grade reviews pending, however, so Fackler allowed him to run. "He was only running by my special permission in the first place," Fackler said. Then Thursday Fackler discovered that Holding's student activity card had been run through the computerized card validation machine at two polling places during the final election. The printout showed that Holding voted Tuesday in the Marriott Library. His card was then run through the machine and came up invalid at the Bookstore poll Thursday. Although Holding was not allowed to vote a second time, Fackler disqualified him on the assumption that he tried to cheat. The decision was of particular import because Holding garnered 117 votes, placing second in the race for five seats. Lehi (Ace) Machovaoski, who took sixth among the candidates, was therefore declared a winner. , Holding told the Chronicle he ran his card through the machine a second time to perform his own test of the system. His statement was repeated in the complaint he filed with the ASUU Supreme Court. "I was told that students were able to vote more than once," it stated. "I was concerned that if this were true it would have an important effect on the outcome of the final elections. Therefore, I went to the polls and asked to have my student ID run through the computer again. Conse- quently, the function was not allowed." Judges who manned the bookstore poll told the Chronicle they do not recall anyone continued on page three Non-Prof- it Org. U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 1529 Salt Lake City, UT s |
