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State and Local
^Program depicts racism in ’80s
as worse than ’60s oppressions
By Elisa Hutchins him i ; Qf the more tha n 300 studei
Staff Writer
$1
e® J ac °b Holdt’s “American Pic-
JBres,” a multi-media show Monday
jMat showed oppressed blacks in the
jBnited States in both slides and film,
met with emotion from many who
df attended the program’s first show-
Mg on the Texas A&M campus.
I The program is shown at U.S. col
li ijleges and Holdt, a Dane who came to
t t ^Ainerica in the 1970s and hitchhiked
.Aout 118,000 miles all over the
JAuntry, said his pictures are proof
ec 'that racism is not getting better, but
'' worse.
nn An A&M black professor who
iMked that her name not be used said
/ i»is really sad that a foreigner has to
r r cbme here to make people realize
that bigotry is present even in the
Bryan-College Station area.
*"■ “When is the University going to
®Aake an effort to change things?”
mAe asked. “People here are back-
leward; I have belligerent students in
np mv class who need to accept that rac-
is on this campus.”
I The professor’s main dis-
Areement with the presentation was
T£ Holdt’s portrayal of blacks in a pov-
rfrCi y-stricken environment and rich
Ahite people on plantations.
■ Holdt displayed picture after pic-
gire of black Southern sharecrop-
“i jkrs living in shacks and materiahs-
m tk white home-owners.
^ Carol Schmidt, double majoring
English and anthropology, agreed
with the professor.
Photo by Sam B. Myers
Jacob Holdt, presenter of “American Pictures”
“To some degree, he’s leaving out
the middle class, both black and
white,” she said. “He only focuses on
the extremes, but maybe it’s just for
the emotional response from the au
dience.”
Holdt, who has presented his
show in schools such as Harvard and
Berkeley, said he was warned by
other people in Texas about the con-
serative nature of A&M.
“College students are still reacha
ble as far as changing any rascist
thoughts they may have grown up
with,” Holdt said.
students
who showed up, Holdt said it was
one of the smallest groups he’s had
in a long time. He also said he hoped
to instill the sense of responsibility in
wealthy whites that they should have
toward the poverty-stricken.
Holdt took pictures and recorded
speakers at a 1983 Ku Klux Klan
meeting in the South. He sneaked
into the meeting by covering himself
with a white sheet.
“The Klan is here when the law
becomes inoperable,” a Klan leader
shouted. “We didn’t need to spend
millions of dollars trying to find
Martin Luther King’s assassinator,
because he was not an important fig
ure. He was only a nigger.”
Holdt said rascism is worse in the
’80s than it was in the ’60s. “Loui
siana plantation owners only pay
black workers $3,000 a year to cut
sugarcane,” he said. “The landlord
owns the only store where prices are
30 percent higher than regular
prices. Blacks are in debt to the land
lord and see no way out.”
He said the government should
work toward a national free health
care plan and try to reach and edu
cate the underclass.
“By the end of the century, half
the population will be black or His
panic,” Holdt said. “There are pres
ently 22 million people living in pov
erty and if we don’t do something to
reach them, and about rascism, we’ll
lose half of our possible sources for
knowledge.”
Faculty Senate passes
document regarding
academic honesty
By Cindy Milton
Staff Writer
The Faculty Senate, during
Monday’s meeting, approved a
document on academic honesty
that has been revised several
times since its introduction in
March 1986 by Dean of Faculties
Clinton Phillips.
The purpose of the policy on
academic honesty, the document
suggests, is to acknowledge and
recognize an individual’s contri
butions to works of authorship
and experimental observations in
the University.
The document states, “in all ac
tivities of the University, it is es
sential that term papers, reports,
results of laboratory experiments,
data presentations ana analyses,
studio and design work, journal
articles, examinations, research
reports, books and other intellec
tual efforts presented by any indi
vidual or team be the honest work
of the individual or group.”
The document defines aca
demic dishonesty — especially
E lagiarism and cheating — for
oth students and faculty and it
suggests sanctions when academic
dishonesty is identified.
The policy, introduced Mon
day by Dr. Walter Buenger of the
Executive Committee of the Sen
ate, was discussed for nearly an
hour before the Senate approved
its revisions.
Sen. Mark Busby encouraged
the document’s passage and dis
suaded long discussion of the pol
icy.
“The document needs to get
out there for students,” he said.
“It’s important that they see this.”
Implementation of the policy
would affect students who use
term papers and reports bought
from other students or compa
nies and used for credit, he said.
The approved policy, which in
cludes the Senate’s final wording
revision, will be sent to the ad
ministration for final approval.
Dr. Edward Funkhouser,
chairman of the Senate’s plan
ning committee, later introduced
a resolution on study lounges.
The resolution recommends that
more adequate study facilities be
provided to students.
Funkhouser said the commit
tee found Sterling C. Evans Li
brary to have inadequate study
space for students. He suggested
that other places for studying
should be made available.
The resolution was approved
and will be sent to the administra
tion for future action, including
the possibility of opening several
classrooms during the evenings
for students to use as study facili
ties.
ecture series aims to build awareness of AIDS among A&M students
By Doug Driskell
Staff Writer
The E.L. Miller Lecture Series “AIDS:
/hy Should I Care?” is designed to build
vareness of AIDS among the student body
at Texas A&M, a representative of MSC Po-
■tical Forum said at the MSC Council meet
ing Monday night.
This program personally was endorsed
v President Frank E. Vandiver with a
$2,500 donation from the president’s of
fice, said Tim Fitzgibbon, chairman of MSC
Political Forum.
Promotion for this lecture series has sup
port from a non-campus group, Fitzgibbon
said.
“To help us promote the program, Bra
zos County Planned Parenthood donated
2,000 condoms, with brochures explaining
how to use them,” he said.
“We have put together an advertising
packet with a schedule of the program and
a condom,” he said.
The symposium will be on Nov. 18 and
will consist of lectures in the morning and
afternoon on different aspects of AIDS, or
acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and
will conclude with a panel discussion in
Rudder Theater, he said.
In other actions:
• The purpose of presidential candidate
Michael Dukakis’ scheduled Friday visit was
questioned by Duke Dukobs, an adviser to
the council.
This resulted in an explanation of the
purpose of MSC Political Forum by MSC
Director Jim Reynolds.
Political forum brings speakers to cam
pus to lecture on topics that have educatio
nal value, he said.
Once the candidate leaves the audito
rium, political forum does not have much
of a say on what the candidate does, he said.
Fitzgibbon said, “We want a speech to be
an educational experience whenever a can
didate visits A&M. If the candidate wants to
do something political we turn it over to a
student political organization or we dis
courage tne candidate.”
• The selection process for the Fall
Leadership Committee was moved from
April to November. This was to give the
new members more time to plan the Fall
Leadership Conference next fall..
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