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Letters to the Editor
Apartheid in Southern Africa . . .
By Paul P. Mebe
In the past, Mother Africa lay helplessly dissected by the Euro-
pean continent, and Africa suffered the deep wounds made by the
vicious surgery. The twentieth century winds of freedom (Uhuru)
stirred the continent, and northern Africa convalesced and shook
off the imperialists. Unfortunately, however, Southern Africa still
lies bleeding, struggling for survival.
The European settlers are waging a socio-economical war on the
innoncent Africans, in theirpolicy of Apartheid. African advance-
ment on merit in socio-economical status is retarded and thwarted,
because on the other hand, white skin color is a guarantee to
privileged life and a criterion to advancement in all spheres of
life. This disease of apartheid, originally from South Africa, has
slowly but surely spread to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
About 85% of the educated Africans made it through church
schools because the government does the least in this part. There
are extremely limited educational chances in Rhodesia for the Af-
rican. It is a "bottle-neck" type of education.
Wages of apartheid make living for most of the Africans almost
impossible. A recent commission on wage structure in South Afri-
ca (ref. "The Guardian Weekly" of March 24, 1973) has exposed
the ridiculous wages paid to African employees. The report states
that they are paid between $10—$ 15 per week, and this is below
the poverty datum line.
As a matter of fact, many farmers and miners would rather choose
to employ many hundreds of Africans and pay them a starvation
wage rather than use a machine which is more costly to them.
This report indicates that foreign firms or investments are in dis-
graceful colaboration with the system of racist-exploitation. With
the high cost of living, the poor people are forced to live on cheap
mealie meal (100% carbohydrate) and as a result suffer diseases
caused by malnutrition. On the other side of the spectrum the
Europeans (4% of population) are surrounded by all forms of lux-
urious life which is the result of unprecendented exploitation.
Africans have no representation in the government because the
fascist illegal regime has caiculatedly based the voting qualifica-
tions on high income and property. Since the government refuses
to hear the African grievances, the Africans have engaged in armed
conflict with the racist government, in collaboration with the rest
of Africa and foreign sympathizers to enable the Africans in South-
ern Africa to exercise their right to self-determination and
independence.
Forsomediabolical reasons the vices of the status quo are main-
tained in the name of "Western civilization and Christianity." In
the final analysis, these wanton acts of oppression and aggression
underline the grave threat which the current crisis in Southern
Africa poses to international peace and security.
LONE
STAR
LUTHERAN
Editor Ernie Loeffler
Asst. Ed. Mary Cronkhite
News Ed. Carrol Nowlin
Feature Ed. Cynthia Brantley
Sports Ed. Tom Sedlarek
Business Mgr. Bob Babcock Sandy Stalnaker
Photographers Chip Bouzard, Chris Fredericks
Typists Lael Cordes, Marty Land, Judy Stall, Becky Wilcox
Reporters Genevieve Schwab, James Werchan, Vander Phelps,
Carol Stroebcl, Bobby Willman, Cecilia Brown.Gary Bethel
Billy Dixor., Bernard Sanchez, BuzzVizza. Stephen Dott
Advisor Allan Ramsey
“1 may disagree with what you say, hui 1
will defend to the death your right to say it. ”
Voltaire
Dear Editor:
In our recent letter we made no attempt to suppress freedom of
speech, Bill Friedrich's claims to the contrary. It seems, however,
that Denny Baumbach does not approve of our exercising our right
to criticize, and since his letter was considerably longer than ours,
and thus must have taken longer to type, if not to compose, it ap-
pears that he, too, has time to write his own column.
In our letter there was also no mention of "the flag and mother-
hood." Although we may be guilty of a certain amount of pride in
America, we are by no means such "rednecks" as Bill Friedrich de-
picts us. If we were so totally close-minded, we would not have
expressed the desire to hear some of his political philosophy, whe-
ther we agree with it or not. We assume that an upperclassman—
especially one who has been elevated to the position of Student
Association President—has SOME sort of ideology, although we do
not expect him to be able to solve the problems of the world. As
for the "cheap criticism" that Mr. Baumbach reads "week after
week, " it appears that we are not the only dissatisfied ones. And
since the media IS a good means of reaching people, why can't
Mr. Friedrich air some of his ideas as well as his gripes. Or does
he intend to just "make dissatisfied squawkings" and wait for some-
body else to come up with constructive ideas? Ideas lead to sol-
utions, and things have to start somewhere.
Sincerely,
The Freshmen Damsels
Dear Editor: .
By denigrating "the damsels" criticism of him, Bill Friedrich
simultaneously validated it-because, as he quoted, there is just-
ification for speaking something if it incites a spirited response.
Tom Winckler
BllSeS Und parking • • • By Ernie Loeffler, Editor
In addition to an outlay of approximately $80,000 for an indoor
swimming facility, which many students have clearly indicated to
be one of the most pressing physical plant needs at the present time,
the administration should give grave consideration to spending some
of the money already collected for "The Challenge of the 70's" for
two new buses and expansion of the Moody Science faculty parking
lot.
By acquiring two new buses, the college would save money in
the long-run. "The Great White Swan" and other collected heaps,
which the college tries to keep operational, break down so often
that the lessened bills for parts and man-hours spent on repair would
help to pay for the new buses. The old buses could be sold for
scrap metal and thus help pay for their successors.
And when the new swimming facility is built, there will be less
need for "forced bussing." Two buses will therefore be sufficient.
Although it is hard to imagine that TLC could have a traffic pro-
blem, something similar to this occurs at the corner of Fritz and
Feller by Moody Science Hall. Due to the lack of a student park-
ing lot on this perimeter of the campus, the streets are virtually
clogged with parked cars. Sometimes it is impossible for two cars
to pass each other during the morning peak.
This problem could be quickly solved if the faculty parking lot
was extended toward Court Street. Although administrators might
feel that off-campus students should park in the lot behind the Stu-
dent Center, it seems rather absurd that an off-campus student,
who might have all his classes in Moody, should not be able to park
in the vicinity of the building.
Although this is not very ecology-minded, what we need is a little
more asphalt. Reparation for this added asphalt will be made when
the library-Old Main parking lot is torn up and transformed into a
mall.
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