KU investments called improper
Thursday, March 27.1980
By JUDITH LYNN HOWARD
STAFF REPRESENT
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas Endowment Association is aware that its investments in South Africa are "improper", an exiled South African journalist said last night.
The journalist, Damisani S. K. Sumalu, spoke informally to 50 people at the 'South Africa Night' sponsored by the KU Committee on South Africa.
"By the association's own statement, it is acting improperly in South Africa," he said after his speech.
KUMALO WAS referring to a statement by the Endowment Association that its policy on divesment remained unchanged.
The statement was made in response to the KU Committee on South Africa's request to meet with Endowment Association president Todd Seymour today to discuss divestiture of Endowment Association interests in American companies in South Africa.
Seymour said yesterday that it was uncertain whether he would meet with the committee.
The committee claims in its reports, which said that Endowment Association
in investments in South Africa totaled **6.4 million** according to 1978 fiscal figures, that divestiture would not be financially harmful to the Endowment Association.
The statement said the Endowment Association guaranteed the right for all donors to direct or request divestment of investments in American companies in South Africa.
THE STATEMENT SAID "if anyone feels that the association is not acting properly under its legal responsibility, then such person must go to the court for a judgment ordering the Endowment Association to divest itself of all of their companies doing business in South Africa.
Kumalo said that the Endowment Association's assertion that all donors had the right to direct their contribution was saying too much responsibility on the donor.
As a university that believes in freedom, he said, it is incongruous that it would train students with "blood money."
He said the Endowment Association's statement that, under Kansas law, it was not permitted to make investments based upon political or economic issues, was a
IN HIS SPEECH, Kumalo described how investments in South Africa by American companies were integral parts of anthem.
smoke screen for improper action in South Africa.
"The U.S. corporations are supporting the South African government—period," he said
Kumalo said that South African blacks were not fighting for equality with South African whites.
"We are not fighting for the right to white toilets, buses. We are fighting for the power, the right to rule ourselves." he said.
Kumalo said that American companies could not use the pretext of hurting black employees to avoid pulling out of South Africa.
"Pays is not the issue. The issue is what the company does in controlling the movements of the black population in South Africa," he said.
Kumalo described how apartheid began. The Africanans, originally called the Dutch people, were among the first to migrate to Africa in 1662. There were feuds with African nations, such as the Zulus, over their lands.
gained control of South Africa through minority rule in a white election in 1948, apartheid was institutionalized in South Africa.
Before World War II, the Africanans sent their sons to German and Italian schools where they learned about Nazism and the future leaders of South Africa, he said.
HE SAID THAT after the Afrikaners
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In the early 50s, he said, blacks began organizing to pursue equality in South Africa.
Kumalo became a journalist in 1965 and became involved in various organizations, such as the Black Consciousness Movement. He founded the Union of Black Journalists.
THE BLACK CONSCIUSNESS Movement was banned in South Africa in October 1977. Kumufo lied South Africa in June of that year, he said.
As a cub reporter, his editor told him that covering news on blacks victimized by apartheid was no longer news.
Kumalo asked, "Why concentrate on South Africa when there are so many corvork countries around the world?"
"The prime reason is that South Africa is the only country on earth that practices legalized and institutionalized racism."
Bill redirects law fee
By JON BLONGEWICZ Staff Reporter
A bill before the Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee could bring $60,000 to the University of Kansas School of Law.
The bill, introduced March 19 as a committee bill, was supported by State Senator Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence, and Senator R-Wichita, Wint Winter, R-Ottawa.
The bill would channel a $50 per semester fee, which law students must pay in addition to in-state fees, directly to the University and Hess are RU Law school graduates.
THE $ 50 FEE was added to law school tuition in the mid-1960s to subsidize faculty salary increases. This year law students challenged the $ 50 fee, saying money was not being used for faculty salaries or for any other law school expenses.
The additional $50 goes into the University's general fee fund. But the proposed bill would require by law that students be used exclusively by the law school.
THE BILL differs from the Budget-
ary Committee's request to the KU
administration late last semester.
The committee had asked for, and had tentatively received, approval from KU officials to eliminate the $50 fee.
Rosie O'Leary, Prairie Vulture inn- students. They originally had asked that the money be rechanneled into the law students were told that they would be more successful if they asked to have the additional tuition eliminated. O'Leary
Rich Green, an aide for Winter, said the fee was not eliminated because state senators believed that the $50 fee could benefit the law school.
"When the $40 differential was initiated in 1965, I believe, it was made with the express purpose of benefiting the law school above and beyond the law campus. Green said, "This bill is an attempt to have the spirit of the original idea maintained."
GREEN SAID he was hopeful that the bill would be passed. The bill is to be discussed in the committee tomorrow, but it is on an agenda with five other bills concerning Regents schools. Green said the commission would have time to discuss the bill.
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