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Thursday, November 19, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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Mandela movie stirs debate
Professor, students discuss apartheid after free showing
By DAVID STEWART
Special to the Kansan
About 50 people last night attended a free showing and discussion of the HBO movie "Mandela" at Dyche Auditorium.
The movie chroniced the activities of black South African activist Nelson Mandela and his wife, Winnie, beginning with the formal introduction of apartheid in 1948.
HBO sent a copy of the movie, which stars Danny Glover as Nelson Mandela, last week to Arthur Drayton, professor of African-American studies. They requested that he show the film for free and hold a discussion afterward so HBO could gauge the audience's reaction.
But after the film, discussion strayed from comments on the film itself and became a talk about South Afri
can political theory.
Drayton said he hadn't considered yet what he would tell HBO. "I had hoped that if the discussion covered the film, I would be able to summarize it to them," he said. "But it didn't. It did start conversation, though. We'll use the film in the future."
Most discussed whether South African blacks are organized and focused enough to realize Mandela's goal of creating a completely non-racist state in South Africa.
Maurice Gama, Tanzania graduate student, said they were not. "No one has really suggested an alternative government," he said. Blacks are too divided among themselves, he said, for them to come up with a workable government that could run the country.
Drayton disagreed. He said aboli-
tions of aparthied was the main goal. It's only natural that groups forced to bear the pressures of remaining underground are bound to divide and disagree among themselves, he said.
Drayton tried to spark some conversation about the movie itself by mentioning that Winnie Mandea had objected to it.
Some thought that perhaps Willa Mandela had objected to the "Hollywoodizing" of her private life. The film contained several dramatic scenes featuring private moments between Nelson and Winnie.
Also, Drayton thought the film did not portray correctly the person Winnie is today. "It tries to show you how Winnie Mandela was transformed into a leader and a woman of strength, but we never see the transformed Winnie."
Proposed mall site faces protest
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG
Parents and recreational athletes said Clinton Parkway was not the place for a suburban mall at last night's fifth public hearing in front of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission.
Warmack and Co., a Fort Smith, Ark., developer argued a week ago that its 75-acre site at Clinton Parkway and Wakarau Drive would not affect surrounding properties.
But Douglas County residents argued that the Clinton Parkway fitness course, which extends 4 miles from Iowa Street to the Clinton Dam Road, and the Rain树 Montessori School, 4545 W. Clinton Parkway,
would be permanently damaged by such a development in their midst.
Nancy O'Connor, of Baldwin City, presented a survey that she said showed that an bicycle of 30 people run, bike or walk on the course an hour. And most used the course three or more times a week. Some even traveled from surrounding areas to use it, she said.
"Clearly there is a leakage into the community just to run on our roads," O'Connor said in answer to Warmack's contention that Lawrence loses retail sales to surrounding cities because it doesn't have a shopping mall.
Paul Schumaker, associate professor of political science, was one of
several witnesses concerned that Raintree Montessori School would be hurt by a mail.
"It's important that Lawrence kids have the opportunity to grow up in the best educational environment." Schumaker said.
Public hearing on all three proposed sites will continue at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 2 at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
The others are the Jacobs, Visconsi and Jacobs site at Iowa Street and Armstrong Road and the Collister site at Highway 40 and Wakarusa Drive. JVJ is a Cleveland developer, and Ed Collier is a Lawrence attorney representing several land owners.
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