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daily nebraskan
monday, October 22,1979
Big Eight council passes Pan-Africanism proposal
By Patti Gallagher
Pan-Africanism was the unifying idea in a Big-Eight
council on black student government this weekend at
UNL. The resolution to adopt the idea of Pan-Africanism,
proposed by the UNL delegation, Afrikan Peoples Union
(APU), was both the opening and closing topic of
discussion. It was not passed. '
Pan Africanism is a general term referring to black
people from all nations of the world, ' and their
unification.
. Other resolutions discussed included initiating "a
diverse membership" in to. all Big Eight black student
groups, improving the procedures of their councils, and
recruiting black high school students, to their groups.
The council was made up of six of the Big Eight
schools, with each school sending a three member
delegation to represent its individual black student group.
According to Roshan Magnus, of Oklahoma University
national chairman of the council, this weekend's council
was for "the purpose of bettering our conditions as black
students on predominately white campuses."
Pan-Africanism, according to Doreen Charles, chairman
of UNL's APU, is a term referring to "unification and
individualism of all black people." . .
Charles said Pan -Africanism is the thrust for bringing
together all black people through the entire world, not
just American blacks.
Tf Pan-Africanism were passed as a resolution, it would
become law to fight for the causes that Pan-Africanism
advocates.
The Oklahoma delegation expressed much the same in
support of Pan-Africanism. "When you got more people,
you got more power," one OU student said.
Hubert Brown, parliamentarian for the council from
UNL took the opposite view in adopting the Pan-African
resolution. Although he said he was not against the idea of
world unity for blacks, he said he was opposed to the
term "Pan-Africanism."
"We can't organize on race, alone," he said, inferring
that the resolution was fighting for vague causes, defined
only be a common skin color, "but on organizational
purposes."
"In actions, more jthan anything else, we identify who
and what we are." Brown said.
However, a UNL student present at the council, who
spoke as the UNL's representative on Pan-Africanism said
the Big Eight needed to adopt Pan-Africanism because
blacks are severed in the Midwest.
Hodari Sababii compared the Midwest black student
situation with that of coastal campuses, which tend to
include more nationalities of blacks in their local efforts.
Sababu said that Pan-Africanism would serve as a
"removal of discrimination against any black."
A student from Emporia State University in Kansas,
supported Brown's ideas. Joseph Gilkey, Jr., also said he
"loves the ideas of Pan-Africanism, but the name is going
to kill you."
Gilkey said "The administration is ruling. They control
control." He referred to the white man as the
administration who make the decisions that affect the
black students on their campuses.
Gilkey said that the label of Pan-Africanism will serve
to separate the unity that has been fought for, and that
the other people, referring to the white man, "don't
understand the word."
He received an ovation from the council when he
concluded his plea not to pass the NU resolution.
Charles responded that failing the resolution just
because "the white folks won't like it," would be wrong.
"Another resolution proposed by NU included the term
"diversed membership." According to Charles, the author
of the resolution, many international black students are
excluded from their own school's organizations, and these
.organizations should adopt a more world wide
membership.
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She said this diversed membership has "greatly
increased the effectiveness of our organizations," in the
case of NlTs black student government groups.
Charles said that NU has made its efforts at uniting all
nationalities of blacks in changing the name of the UNL
black student group from Afro-American Collegiate Union
to Afrikan Peoples Union, and including more black
students from different nations in their programs.
A resolution proposed by the University of Oklahoma
dealt with recruiting black high school students to their
own campus organizations. This proposal received some
debate on how actual recruitment could be accomplished
and how to adopt it throughout the Big-Eight.
Arms race topic
The coordinator of the Rocky Flats action group
involved in support for nuclear disarmament, will be
speaking on "Human Costs of the Arms Race" 7:30
pjn. Tuesday in the Nebraska Union Ballroom.
Pam Solo has worked for seven years on peace
and justice issues and is currently the coordinator of
the Rocky Flats project for the American Friends
Service Committee and the Fellowship of Reconcili
ation. Solo recently returned from a 2-week visit to the
Soviet Union discussing with Soviet groups the arms
race and the conversion of military industry to
peace time usage.
Admission is free.
Public input needed
in industry-architect
Henry , Sanoff, professor of architecture at North
" Carolina State University spoke at the Sheldon Art
Gallery Auditorium Thursday as part of the College of
Architecture's Hyde Speakers scries.
SanofPs lecture titled "Social Architecture: A New
Delivery System" dealt with the broader theme of the
Hyde Speakers Series which is "Professional
Accountability: Responsiveness to Human Environment
Futures."
. "People who are affected by design decisions should be
' involved with the design decisions," Sanoff said." '
People who use the environment have a different
expertise than the architect who designs, Sanoff said,
adding . the problems how to integrate these experts.
Sanoff maintains it is essential for people to
understand the value of their environment, which is why
he believes "public education (about architecture) is a
primary concern for the industry." '
Architects no longer should be associated with the
blueprint but with diagnostic ability, he said.
Sanoff told the architecture students, "No one is really
held accountable for the physical environment. If in fact,
architects were to become accountable for their actions
this would insure a higher quality of environment. ;
Sanoff also gave a slide presenation describing various
community projects he has taken part in. One project
involved a small town in North Carolina named
Murfrecsburo. The project was, designed to develop a
..process to train people to solve community problems,
Sanoff explained. 5 ; i
Members jn the community were actively involved
since they decided the particular goals of the town and
the strategies to attain those goals. He said the
community's citizens were encouraged to take specific
walks in order to notice the character of the area affected
,and the accesibility. In this way, Sanoff said, "Residents
themselves used the site plans to point out the serious
problems."
Sanoff has taught at North Carolina State since 1966.
' His latest book "Designing With Citizen Participation"
deals with citizen participation in the design process and
community development.
He has written and practiced extensively in his
profession and is best known for his concern with design
methods and processes, and architectural programming.
SanofPs recent work, "Design Games" was. the focus of a
mini-course workshop conducted through trie Department
of Architecture on Friday.
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