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Show The Thunderbird Wednesday, January 4, 1984 Page 3 Film begins Convocation series Winter quarter Convocation programs begin Jan. at SUSC with a showing of Citizen, a documentary film produced by Mike Farrell, of the television series M ASH. Farrell will be in Cedar City the following week, Wednesday to address a Chamber of Commerce 5 co-st- banquet and Thursday as SUSCs Convocation speaker. Convocation programs begin at 1 1 a m. on Thursdays in the SUSC Auditorium. They are free to the public. Citizen chronicles the career of political activist and former New York Congressman Allard K Lowenstein who was assasmated in 1980. The film traces Lowensteins life from his formative childhood influences to the political causes that motivated his adult life. It includes his lifelong involvement with human rights issues, his efforts in the early 1960s in the South in voter registration campaigns and other civil rights struggles, his opposition to U.S. involvement in Vietnam, his 1968 election to Congress, and his work with Ambassador Andrew Young and the Human Rights Commission at the United X Nations. Farrell, best known for his role as B J. Hunnicutt MASH, had been working with Lowenstein on a film adaptation of his book, Brutal Mandate, when Lowenstein was murdered. Farrell served as the executive producer for the subsequent documentary in Nicholas Kimaiyo is back in the swing of his athletic life after acquittal on rape charge. Freed Kimaiyo sore by - trank Petty moved this summer from his post as chair of SUSCs Institutional Council to a seat on the State Board of Regents. Petty calls for student activism (continued from page 1) Q. What can be done to remedy the problems of funding 7 A. Students have got to get busy in the next few days and get their parents, friends and relatives to make contact with the legislature, telling them what they want. They need to participate. If Utahns are interested in having better education, both in higher education and K through 12, they have got to pay for it. If the people are not willing to demand that the legislature pay for it then weve got to take a backseat and be second or third best in education. I feel that sales tax is a good way to raise money. I wouldnt be opposed to an increase m sales tax. I wouldnt be opposed to an increase m income tax. I dont go along with these people that say those who have got the big families should pay more money to educate them. I should not pay less dont have any children going to school. A student who graduates from higher education benefits every one of us. If people look at it selfishly they are going to defeat the whole purpose of improving higher education. because I Q. What changes have you seen in education over the last few years 7 I think we have seen a deterioration of our education. Weve seen some fine faculty leave SUSC. All of the institutions m the state have seen this same thing. They are going into private industry or they are going into big business. They are making more money there than they can A. teaching school. I feel that we must do something to maintain the excellence in the professional people we have got here. I do feel that we have got to be very careful about productivity. I think the teachers have got to be willing to continue to take good student loads and a good number of classes each day. We have maintained the excellence we have through greater productivity among the faculty and staff. And thats the big reason we have survived. They have given their all. Q. What kind of increase do you see as being needed to support our education system7 A. Well, each of the institutions submitted a budget of what they felt they would like to have in order to bring education in their institution up to what they wanted. Then the regents working with each of the institutions came up with what they could get by with comfortably mainly giving salary and cost of living increases that are long past due and not putting too much into capital facilities such as buildings. We felt that we had to have around $50 million. Between the regents and the Star Board of Education, we have asked the legislature for an additional $150 million above what we have had in the past. We actually have more students at SUSC and at most institutions in ti.e state than they have oeen funded for. All of the institutions have been taking in more students, but they have been tightening their belts and those students have been taken care of. Kent Johnson Nicholas Kimaiyo was a familiar figure at SUSC. The morning and afternoon jaunts of this lanky runner from Kenya had become part of the daily campus pace. But that ended on the first day of fall quarter classes when he was arrested and charged with rape. Kimaiyo was arrested by the Cedar City Police on Sept. 26, 1983 near the War Memorial Fieldhouse. His bail was set at $10,000, he was booked into the Iron County Jail where he remained incarcerated until he was acquitted of the rape charge on Dec. 8. During his trial in Fifth District Court, which began on Dec. 7, Kimaiyo testified in his own defense. The jury deliberated for thr'e hours before returning ' the verdict of not guilty. Looking back on the trial Kimaiyo said he wasnt worried about its outcome. I had nothing to worry about because I hadnt done anything wrong I feel sore about what the people did to me because they know I did nothing wrong, he says. Im religious, I follow the Ten Commandments. I feel sore with those people. Kimaiyo was charged in the alleged rape of an student following a dance on Sept. 25. The coed told police that Kimaiyo had invited her to his room where he forced himself upon her. Kimaiyo says he still believes he was charged with the crime because of his race, because Im different, Im black. In Kenya there is not this color thing between the races. Its normal for black and white people to be together. We all follow the Bible. We all treat each other like brothers and two-ma- n sisters. We look at people totally differently. Kimaiyo does not intend to leave SUSC because of what has happened and he says he looks to the future. Im not going back, Im still going ahead. Theres nothing here to bother me. But he says he does plan to leave Utah when he completes college in about two years. He savs his two and a half months of confinement was hard for him but the people he met while m jail helped to make it easier. I had some friends in there. I had a lot of friends because they knew it (the case against Kimaiyo) was nonsense." During his stay m jail, a difficulty for Kimaiyo was working out. He has been a member of the SUSC track team and he says he runs five miles a day. While in jail he had to confine his workouts butterfly training and calesthenics to his jail cell. The morning after his acquittal, his daily workouts once again rejoined the campus pace. -- |
