The Carolinian [March 6, 1986]

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Thursday, March 6, 1986 ■The Student Voice of UNCG " Volume LXV, Number Mca3i
Senate alters bylaws;
Election rules noted
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Muslim black activist talks
By FIRDOUS BAMJI
When H. Rap Brown, now
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin said,
"He will not change the condition
of people until they change that
which is within themselves"
three consecutive time* Thurs-day
night in his speech on the
campus of UNCG. he was not
referring to the local dietician.
No, the black rights activist of
the 60's and early 70s, the man
who led the SNCC and chang
ed its name to the Student
National Coordinating Commit-tee,
the oratorical genius who
shouted "If America don't come
around, we going to burn it down
brother" from the hood of a
Buick Sedan in Cambridge,
Maryland (and was accused of in-citing
a riot), was referring to the
Islamic God, Allah. In fact, his en-tire
speech centered around Ui
Islamic religior 'islam is real",
he said, n u there is too
much em| h; "'s on developing
the mind r'th ■ 1'ian the spirit in
America. Ac -oi jing to Brown,
this has had a catastrophic
aftermath: "Everything is built
on frivolity and foolishness." He
said that the college students of
today are exerting all of their
energy "to be a part of
something in decline": American
Society. 'The whole thing is cor-rupt,"
he said, bringing his hands
together and gliding them away
from each other to iwi|il—iau the
extent of the corruption. "It
doesn't matter who is Presi-dent,"
he said, since the consti-tution
is in itself an inadequate
document. "You'll find no s-mendmenu
to the Koran," he
said and constantly emphasized
his belief that the Islamic doc-trine
is the true way of life. He
said he could find nothing that he
could doubt or question, in the
doctrine. He no longer believes
that race is the main bond tying
men together, but rather
religion. "Peoplehood is deter-mined
by belief," he said. He
then went on to explain each of
the 6 Pillars of Islam. "I thought
I was right in the 60's, he said,
but "when a man becomes a
muslim, what's behind him is
behind him." Perhaps, but one
thing that is definitely not behind
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, is his
ability to 'rap' and captivate au-diences
with his brilliantly
manifested gift for rhetoric.
By DONNA BEA8LEY
Twenty out of thirty senators
were present at Tuesday's Stu-dent
Government senate
meeting. Harold Lily was sworn
in as a new senator representing
the School of Business and
Economics.
SG president Mike Stewart an-nounced
that student discount
cards will be available beginning
in April and that basic distribu-tion
will take place during
registration. "The cards will be
delivered to Student Govern-ment
and it will be up to us to
work out distribution," Stewart
said.
Fourty-two Greensboro mer-chants
will be participating, in-cluding
Hong Kong House,
School Kids Records, New York
Pizza, Carolina Eye Care, Chi
Chi's, and Midas Mufflers.
"Local merchants are named on
the card," according to Stewart,
but it can be used nationwide by
calling a toll-free number to find
out which businesses across the
country are involved.
David Brown presented a
special report on an academic
planning process committee. A
faculty task force, deans council
and a student council, of which
Brown is a member, is currently
appraising the advising system.
"I think there's a large feeling
that the process is not doing as
good as it can do as far as being
a tool to students," Brown com-mented.
The groups seek to
determine and evaluate
"enhancers and obstacles" to
student life, which even include
waiting in long lines at the
cashier's office.
Stewart conveyed Assistant
Dean of Students Betina
Shuford's request for a transfer
of funds left over from Black
History Month to the cost of
booking the Harlem Boys Choir.
Originally planned for February,
EUC Council wants to sponsor
the Choir's visit in March but
lacks sufficient funds. The senate
voted in favor of the transfer.
In old business, the bylaws of
the appropriations committee as
well aa classification of organiza-tions
were approved. These are
realignmenU of former bylaws of
various SG committees in accor-dance
with the new SG
constitution.
The last but most pressing
topic on Tuesday night's agenda
was consideration of the bylaw
proposals for the upcoming SG
elections. The bylaws are a set of
procedural guidelines for cam-paigning
written by the Elec-tions
Board which supervises all
elections. After four rounds of
debate the senate voted to accept
the legislation with some
During campaigns, the senate
approved, if a student organizi
tion invites one candidate to ap-pear
at a meeting, it is not re-quired
to invite all candidates for
the same position to appear. The
former regulation guaranteed
notification to all parties if one
candidate was to speak before an
organization. Organizations still
must give equal opportunity to
candidates.
Democratic candidates appear in campus forum
By DANIEL 0. JACKSON
On Thursday, Feb. 27, the
University Democrats sponsored
a Candidates' forum for eight of
the ten who have filed to run for
the Democratic nomination to
the U.S. Senate. Their goal is the
•eat being vacated by an ailing
Sen. John East.
Graham City Councilman Walt
Atkins, s self-proclaimed conser-vative
Democrat, believed
runaway government spending
was the number one issue. He is,
however; opposed to the Gramm-
Rudman bill. Atkins likened the
bill to a game of Pin-the-Tail-on-the
Donkey," you don't know
where you are going to do the
damage," said Atkins.
An obviously business oriented
Bill Belk, eldest grandson of the
founder of the retail chain, cited
the economy as related to the
global market for his major con-cern.
Belk supported the
Gramm-Rudman bill as at least
an attempt to reduce our deficit.
Milton Croom said, defense is
his number one concern, sad not
suprisingly supports the
Strategic Defense Initiative.
Croom also stated that the role
of government in education
should, concenlfttt PP BrOTHM
aimed at raising quality in
teaching.
According to Charlotte
business woman Katherine
Harper the National Debt should
be the primary issue. Harper said
state taxes will ultimately have
to be increased to compensate
for future cuts in federal
programs.
Clinton Moore, a retired textile
worker who is running for the
nomination in order to bring at-tention
to the plight of North
Carolina's textile industry,
named jobs the number one
issue, and called for import ceil-ings
on textiles.
Thomas "Fountain" Odom
asserted "protection" is para-mount.
Protection of the
economy, environment, educa-tion,
jobs and the high quality of
life.
Several senators spoke in favor
of altering a regulation forbid-ding
campaigners from harming
the opponents' previously posted
campaign materials. The posters,
it was decided, can be taken
down if they are placed illegally.
Matt Mauney pointed out that as
an EUC employee it is his job to
remove wrongfully posted
material. If he were running for
office the former regulation
would conflict with his duties.
The Elections Board states that
posters and campaign materials
are forbidden on doors, glass,
windows, paints, poles and trees.
In addition to regulations on
where material can be placed,
Stewart discussed the campaign
time limit. He said that after
speaking to Vice Chancellor
Allen, he was satisfied that
limiting campaign time does not
violate the First Amendment of
the Constitution. Under present
laws, if the candidate begins to
campaign early, "it would lead to
his or her disqualification,"
stated Stewart. Candidates will
begin their campaigns on the
Monday following Spriag Busk
Stewart, author of the legisla-tion,
also explained that
Residence Life had mandated
that there will be no solicitation
in the dorms, and that includes
student campaigning. Stewart
reiterated the regulation which
prohibits ticket campaigning or
voting. He said that evidence
from another university proved
that this practice is damaging to
student governments.
Betty Wallace tagged
unemployment as her major con-cern,
while supporting a more ac-tive
role of government in educa-tion.
Former Governor Terry San-ford
used a bit of trivia to remind
the audience of his lengthy
career in the political arena, "I
sponsored the bill that changed
the North Carolina Women's
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Cambodian student remembers
By BETH SPEARS
Special to The Carolinian
"I wanted to die. I didn't want
to live anymore. I wished one of
them would kill me." That's how
Manirath Keo, 11 at the time, felt
as a Communist prisoner in
Cambodia.
Manirath. now a junior at
UNCG, waa born in Phnom
Penh, Cambodia, in 1965. She
lived with her parents, her
grandparents and four brothers
and sisters.
In 1975, after five years of civil
war, the Communist guerilla
leader, Pol Pot, assumed all
power. His followers became ex-tremely
hostile to the Viet-namese.
In 1979, a new constitu-tion
installed Khieu Samphan, a
former guerilla •leader, into the
office of President.' Pol Pot was
named Prime Minister and con-tinued
to rule the country. In
1979, border disputes with Viet
nam led to the overthrow of the
Pol Pot regime, and it was
replaced by a pro-Vietnamese
government.
Manirath remembers watching
Pol Pot and Kheiu Samphan
march with their soldiers into
Phnom Penh in April of 1976.
Two months later, she and her
family were driven from their
home. 'The soldiers had a big
bag that we had to put all our
jewelry in...everything," she
said. They gave each person two
suits of black clothes and sent
them out of the city.
"They took us to a village
where we had to build huta to live
in," Manirath said. 'Then they
broke us up into groups of 10 to
20 families."
Manirath's father left soon
after their arrival. The soldiers
were killing all of the educated
people, and because he was a
university professor, he was forc-ed
to flee or be killed. They never
saw him again. However,
Manirath has faith that he is still
alive. "I just know it," she said.
The family was awakened one
night by soldiers who had come
to take their Manirath's grand-father
away. The soldiers in-sisted
that he would be safe with
them. They threatened to kill the
whole family if anyone tried to
interfere. The soldiers took her
grandfather, and half an hour
later there was a gunshot, and
Manirath realized that her
grandfather had been murdered.
" He was shot because he waa a
cop," she said.
In 1976, soldiers came back to
get all the older children to work
in camps. "My mom didn't want
us to go. She wanted us to play
sick so we could stay." They took
Manirath, who was ten years old,
and ner sister, who was eight, to
different camps.
Manirath was taken to a camp
in the mountains where she was
forced to work daily with only
two hours of sleep. The children
had to climb the mountains to get
buckets of dirt so they could build
dams for the rice fields. The rice
was not grown to feed the
children but was given to the
Chinese as payment for the
weapons they gave to the Com-munists.
"In order to pay the
Chinese, they had to work my
people to death," Manirath said.
One clear memory is that of
the death of Manirath's close
friend. "Early one morning all of
the children went off to work. My
friend and I were in that group.
My friend was sick, but they
wouldn't let her stay in camp. As
soon as we got to the place of
work, my friend dropped dead.
She was ten years old."
The children in the camp
weren't allowed to talk, sing or
touch anything that "belonged to
the Communists." One evening,
during a break, one of the girls
in Manirath's group saw an
orange tree and climbed it to pick
some of the oranges. "As she
reached for one,"Manirath said,
"a Communist bullet cut her
down, and a hail of automatic ri-fle
fire and M-78 grenades tore
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