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Serving ttie University of Texas at San Antonio Community
Volunn^e 7, No. 15 October 30, 1986
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UT Aostia profeaaor q>p<rfnted by  Preaidmt RMgan to board of NatkMial Graduate Fellowa Program.
H. Eugene Dou^^s, a former U.S. Ambassadcn- who ia a 1986-87 faculty member at The University of Texas at AusUn, recently was anointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve on the 12-member Fellowship Board of the National Graduate Fellows Prc^am.
That board deals with policy issues and the management of funds made avaUable under the National Graduate FeUows Prograir, which was created to attract - through finandal awards — more graduate students Into the arts, humanities and social sciences. Tlie pn^am functions undw the U.S. Department of Educati<m.
Ambassador Douglas will fill an unexpired board term endinir in July 1989.
An authority on international, poUtical, economic and tachnoiogical matters, he has served on the board of directora of the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce.
At UT Austin. Ambassador Dou^s holds the $1 million C. B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair in U.S.-Mexico Relations No. 1 in the Colley of Liberal Arts. He is fulfilling his appointment in UT Austin's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, where he is co-directing with Prof. John Gronouski a policy research project en¬ titled "ITi* Rde of High Technology ia the Development Proceaa fur Developing Nations."
Endowments totaling $50,640 accepted by Board of Regents for UT Austin Geology Etept.
DALLAS, Texas (^1.)—Two endowments in the Department of Gecriogical Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin w«« established by the UT System Board of Regents Thursday and Fri¬ day (Oct. 9-10).
The R^ents accented t&0.640 raised by members of the Geology Foundation advisory council to establish the Geology Foundation Advisory Council Special Maintenance Fund with (32,140 and the Geology Poundaticm Advisory Council Special Operations Fund with <18,60p. Income from (^hose endo^ff)ep,t8 lyiU Iw Ximd ftur ^e maintenance of existing equ^m<int and ttie purchase '1^ thA ifi*/..' equipment as needed by the Qepartment of Oaoloirical Sciancea. ""'
Ehwollments at UTSA up 2.2% from 1865
Enrolhnent totals edged up 2.2 percent at The University (4 Tfficas at San Antonio this year when 12,413 students registeied fbf graduate and undergraduate daaeea.
Last year's enrollment totaled 12,137.
This year's total shows 10,948 undergraduate studenta are enrdl- ed, while graduate students number 1,466.
Dr. John Brown, Director of Acfanissions and Register, attributea the rise of several facttnrs:
the advent of on-campus housing at UTSA, attracting both local and out-of-city students.
the new student center which brings new opportunitiee for atn-. dent activities on the campus.
¦reputation for quality degree programs.
-ttw success UT^A graduates have experienced in securing jobs.
-smaller increase in tuition this year tlian last year.
"The future looks bright for students graduating from UTSA and 1 think new students want to be a part of that," Brown condudad.
Wwkshop for  San Antonio writers
St. Mary'; University will sponsor the first annual Brottier An- tiKUiy Frederick Workshop for San Antonio Writers No. 1.
Proceeds from the workshop will benefit a scholarship established at St. Mary's for English students studying American literature. The scholarsliip memorializes a long-time English professor at the university.
Panels of professional journalists and writers of poetry, fiction, drama and screenplays will discuss writing and present selection of their own work. Speakers include poets Jesus Cardona, Art Munos, Joae Montalvo and Don Hurd; poet and dramatist Olg^ Davia; Rafael Castillo, fiction writer and editor of Vlaztlan. a Chicano arta publication; journalists Claude Stanush, Bryce Milligan and Bob Richmond: and the Rev. Louis Reile. fiction writer and film critic.
St. Mary's faculty members Karen Narvarte and Dr. Rose Marte Cutting will address breaking into print—how to find a market and submit writing for the first time — and desk top pubiiaiiing. Direc¬ tor of St. Mary's academic library, Palmer Hall, sp«iks on getting a Uterary agent.
The workshop is from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Alkek Buaineea Bldg. The $25 workshop fee includes lunch. Partidpants may call 436-3107 for reservations and register at the door.
Advertising fellowship established at UT Austin
DALLAS, Texas (Spl.)—The University of Texaa Systam Board of Regents accepted contributions and matching certificates in ex¬ cess of S12,000 to estabUsh tha Ray Hall Advertising Fellowsliip fai |ttie Department of Advertising and College of Communication at UT Auatin here Thursday and Friday (Oct. 9-10).
Funding for the feUowdliip was contributed by various donors, in¬ duding the Austin Alliance of Advertising Agem^ Prindpals Inc.
Hie fellowsliip is to be awarded annually to a gritfhiate student hi ttie D^artment of Advotising ip UT Austin.
Tlie late Mr. Hall was vice minKl^ot and general manager of Mak>ne/Hall Advertising from 1964 to 1986 and praaidant of Rigr Hall Advertising from 1973 to 1984.
South African battlefront reached f!FTSA
By Aaron Adams
Students of UTSA were given a chance to come face to face with the sodal/political struggle in South Africa last Thursday.
Susan Mnumzana, South African and member of the African National Congress (ANC), was on campus on October 23 to give a presentation and to lead a question and answer ses¬ sion.
Mnumzana was a student of law at the University of the North in St. Petersburg until she was expelled for her political views and outspokeness in 1973. She taught Afrikaans and English in Soweto for the following three years until she joined the ANC and fled South Africa. Since that time, she has devoted much of her time to lecture tours in Europe and, recently, the United States.
During her speech, Mnumzana stressed that there are no parallels which can be drawn bet¬ ween the struggle fc- civil rights in the United States and the fight for political recognition in South Africa. In the United States, all people are guaranteed, by the con¬ stitution, basic, unalienable rights. Under the Apartheid system, blacks are denied any rights.
She also stressed the exploita- tkm of tlie blacks in South Africa. All atde-bodied men are required by necessity, to leave the small sections of useless land appor¬ tioned them by the current regime so as to work at various hard labor sites such as coal . mines. These men must leave all "superflous appendages" such as
wives and children behind.
According to Mnumzana, they are only allowed to visit their families once a year in December and then only for two weeks. Un¬ til this time, they are treated like migrSnt workers and forced to tive in guarded, single sex dor¬ mitories.
Mnumzana directed most of her speech toward tbe effect.s of the Pretoria regime upon the lives of black women.
She reports that a few women are able to leave the black ghetto areas illegally to seek employment with a prosperous wtiite family. If they are able to find work, they must leave their ctiildren in the ghetto areas.
By law, it becomes the respon sibility of the white employer to assure that the black women under liis or her employ do not l>ecome pregnant. "Thus many black women, under the guise of planned parenthood, have been sterilized without their knowledge.
When asked what the in¬ dividual might do to aid the plight of the black South Africans, Mnumzana replied that urging universities and corpor¬ ations to divest themselves of South African interests is a beginning as is the application of. individual pressure to elected of- ticiais in this country.
She also stressed the necessity of foreign aid to the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College in Tanzania. This school, set up by the ANC. is in ile.iperate need ol tiooks, equipmett, money and volunteers.
Suzan Mnum/ana speaks lo a slanding-room Kiva.
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Former Afghanistan official speaks out against Soviet deception
by Hod Power Staff Writer
For 63 years prior to the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan the Soviet's themselves declared Afghanistan a model for peaceful coexistence with the U.S.S.R. So, why the invasion and nearly seven years of atrocity ridden .iiiliLary occupation?
A former high official in the Afghan government, Abdul Shams, spoke in the Kiva at UT¬ SA last Monday about the Afghan experience and urged Americans to stop helping the Soviets in their agression. Shams
policies which aid the Soviet ex¬ pansionism. Shams appearance at UTSA was sponsored by Students for Fundamental Change.
In an interview prior to nis lec¬ ture Shams described peaceful relations and treaties which were used to plan the invasion years in advance of its actual occurrence. The U.S.S.R. gained significant rights to minerals and other natural resources in Afghanistan by treaty and provided economic aid to Afghanistan in return. Some Afghan students were educated in the Soviet Union, later to return and help the Soviets   undermine   the   Afghan
was imprisoned and came within minutes of execution following government, the invasion. He now travels the "Afghanistan is an example of U.S. and lectures to bring to an Soviet deception for the purpose end   to   trade   and   diplomatic of taking over less powerful coun
hefort' the invasion, relations were officially upgraded from a level of friendship to a level of brotherhood. Their plan, he con¬ tinued, is lo bring all of Kastern Kurope and Asia under their con¬ trol.
.So  how are the Soviets being assisted by the U.S.'.' Mr. Shams says   we   are   helping   them   in several    ways.    First,    economic' support    in    the    nature    ot lechnoh gy    and    industrial development provides the Soviets with  material for their military. He gives evidence that personnel carriers   and    trucks^  used    in Afghanistan were manulactured al the Kama River Plant—a plant built by an American corporation. In    addition,    grain    sales    and transfers   of   technology   permit them to apply more resources to
Tom Danlei»-D (left) debates incumbant K.T. Patrick-R. The young Democrats Mecha, and the Collegiate RepubikaM sponsored Ihe debale which was held on Wednesday, Oct. 22 in the HB Building.
their expansion effort. Second, the major niedias have yielded to pressure not to report extensively on whal is ocurring in Afghanistan.
"If one person is killed in South Africa il is reported nationally, but when se\ eral hundred are kill¬ ed in Afghanistan by Soviet troops there is minor mention of it. " he said. Shams believes that with comprehensive reporting, economic policies that don't help finance the Soviets, and equiji- ment for the Afghan freedom fighters, the So\ iets could be in¬ duced to withdraw from Afganistan within six monlhs. .Mr. Shams urges Americans lo contact their congressmen and persuade I hi'ni to change the U.S. economic policies toward the Ll.S.S.li.
Avant awards
'Pri-Corp Inlernational has just announced the estal)lishment of the. AV.ANI Achievement Awards for junior and senior ac¬ counting sludenls. These awards are being made a\ailable lo en¬ courage and promote the success of students studying to enter lh<' field of accounting.
The AVANT Achievement Awards consist of five AVANT Systems and five cash scholar¬ ships awarded each semester. Junior and senior accounting students will be in\ ited to author the correct and incorrect answer explanations to four randomly chose multiple choice questions from previous CPA exams.
FOR FURTHER INFOitMA- TION CONTACT: JOY RICHTERKESSING. AVANT Achievement Awards, P.O. Box 22509, Kansas City, Mo., 64113 l-800-225-0,'i.'S1