Protest
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While he taught at Cornell University in the ear
ly 1960s. Olum said he worked for divestiture of
higher education funds invested in South Africa, but
was told that American companies were working for
positive changes. This argument still is used today,
he said.
‘‘Don't believe it,” Olum said. "Twenty-five
years have passed and nothing has changed except it
is worse now than it ever was.”
Americans need to “let the people of the world
know that its behavior and mistreatment has put the
government of South Africa outside the pale of
civilized nations,” Olum said.
‘You can’t end oppression with
apathy... I think it will grow. *
7 — Leslie Shaheen
Author Ken Kesey said the problem of racial
segregation goes beyond South Africa. President
Ronald Reagan’s administration is supporting brutal
regimes around the world and is reviving a policy of
racism. »
“There are only two sides," Kesey said. “The
hurt and the hurters. I hate to see us on the wrong
side.”
Students need to send a clear message to
Washington and Salem, he dontinued. The
Legislature must divest all state funds in South
Africa, and the United States must stop sending
military and economic aid to South Africa, he said.
Following chants of “Boycott South Africa, not
Nicaragua.” South African resident Tony Morrison
said his country’s government is the most brutally
oppressive regime since Adolph Hitler’s Third
Reich. The white minority government will not
change unless other governments from around the
world force that change, said Morrison, a University
student.
“Opposition starts on this campus,” Morrison
said. “It starts here, and it starts now.”
Sharon Claeyssens, the final speaker, said that
besides being paid less than one-fourth of what
whites are paid, black South Africans are dying from
hunger and lack of medical care. Although there is
one doctor for every 100 white citizens in South
Africa, there is only one doctor for every 93,000
black citizens, Claeyssens said.
“Profit knows no humanity,” she said. “I say
change the dartin system.”
Other speakers included Costas Christ, the
Emerald’s editorial editor, who was later arrested.
After the conclusion of the rally, several hun
dred protesters marcheddown 13th Avenue, halting
traffic and chanting, “Free South Africa.” On
reaching the Federal Building the marchers’ mass
stretched for three blocks.
Protesters entered the south entrance of the
Federal Building and exited through a nearby door.
After circling the building, protesters sat on the floor
near the Internal Revenue Service office, and under a
portrait of President Reagan.
The IRS office, which was scheduled to close at
4:30 p.m., had been locked by 4 p.m.
Soon after the sit-in began, Christ, who spoke at
the rally, announced that some of the protesters
planned to stay for at least two hours — one hour
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after the building was scheduled to close.
‘‘Stay with us,” Christ said. ‘‘We want to make
sure our message is heard.”
While 40 protesters continued to march outside
of the building, about 250 people sat inside. ‘‘Down
with apartheid, up with morality,” they chanted.
Among the protesters were about 25 high school
and junior high school students. After joining the
sit-in, they met outside the building to discuss what
to do if they were arrested.
“Young people are becoming more and more
*Profit knows no humanity...1
say change the damn system. *
Sharon Claeyssens
aware,” said Wendy Dasso, a South Eugene High
School student. “We are really going to be working
hard for this.”
Nine or 10 high school students were among
those removed from the building by police. They
were the last protesters to be taken from the
building.
Organizers of the protest say this is only ihe first
stage of a much larger movement. Protests will be
continued until there is support for a boycott of
classes, as has been done at several other univer
sities across the nation, said Leslie Shaheen, a pro
test organizer.
“You can’t end oppression with apathy,”
Shaheen said. “I think it will grow.”
Many of the 300 people who attended the anti-apartheid rally Wednesday in the EMU Courtyard (right) continued the pro
test downtown at the Federal Building (above) with chants of “Down with apartheid, up with morality."
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