University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 28, 1987
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Speaker to discuss Philippine turmoil
By TIM HAMILTON
Staff writer
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The founder and coordinator of Synapses, a Chicago organization that draws attention to domestic and international issues of economic justice, is scheduled to give a speech at 7tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Friesen returned in March from her last trip, during which she said she talked with Filipinos, ranging from Gen. Fidel Ramos to peasants, about the past year under the leadership of President Corazon Aquino.
"Congress is in the process of voting the Philippines more money than they ever have. This will give the people the chance to make up their minds about what they want their government to be involved in."
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Wendell Wiebe-Powell, coordinator of the event, said that founder Dorothy Friesen's speech would concentrate on the state of affairs in the Philippines and specifically the U.S. military in that nation's political turmoil. The speech is titled "The Philippines: 14 Months after Marcos."
"She has traveled extensively in the Philippines and has talked with diverse groups of people." Wiebe-Powell said.
Wiebe-Powell added that Friesen
had made documentaries on the Philippines that were widely used in the United States and Southeast Asia.
Friesen has returned to the Philippines many times since she worked there for the Mennonite Central Committee from 1977 to 1979. She has taught international economics and justice courses at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, and at the Urban Life Center in Chicago.
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While Friesen lived in the Philippines, she researched Filipino agriculture and documented human experiences of the Ferdinand Marcos regime.
Friesen said she was concerned with the increase in armed civilian vigilante groups and with the contrast between the two administra-
Since 1979, she has returned six times to talk with Filipinos and to observe the changes that had occurred during the transition between governments.
She said she was concerned with the role of the U.S. military in the increasing militarization of the civilians.
"Part of the times I've gone, I was more of a journalist." Friesen said.
"In some of the major provincial cities, there seems to be a plan to arm civilians to fight the national communist insurgency," she said.
Friesen said she organized Synapses because of the role the United States played in the affairs of foreign countries.
"There's enough evidence to warrant having a congressional hearing into the role that the U.S. is playing in what is going on now," she said.
"The reason we created it was because our experiences in the Philippines and Southeast Asia showed us that a lot of problems there stemmed from the U.S." Friesen said. "We decided that our best contribution was to deal with the problems from this country. Certainly, there are a lot of problems which the Filipinos made and will take Filipino solutions."
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GradEx, associate dean meet discuss constitution overhaul
By TIM HAMILTON
Staff writer
The Graduate Executive Committee met last night with George Woodyard, associate dean of the graduate school, to discuss the proposed overhaul of the Graduate Student Council constitution.
Woodyard told GradEx that he had no problems with the constitution or the creation of a Graduate Representative Assembly.
But Woodyard expressed concern about the relationship between GradEx and the graduate school under the revamped校庭
He said the constitution paid a conspicuous lack of attention to the relationship between GradEx and the school.
John Richards, GradEx executive co-coordinator, said GradEx had no intention of changing its relationship with the school. Richards said that no mention was given the issue in the overhaul because GradEx wanted to continue traditional relations with the school.
David Hardy, GradEx member,
said the problems GradEx had
experienced this year with its former
coordinator indicated that some
changes needed to be made regarding
the coordinator's position.
In other action, Michael Foubert, GradEx executive co-coordinator, said the comprotiler's office would refund in GTAs' May paychecks money withheld from their March paychecks as taxes on GTA fee
remissions.
Hardy suggested that GradEx send a letter to the University condemning the recent decision to charge students to maintain a transcript beginning next fall.
"There are only two things you get when you leave the University: a piece of paper saying you were here and a piece of paper saying what you did here." Hardy said. "To charge students for that is ridiculous."
GradEx also approved the budgets for 18 graduate student organizations, which totaled $16,908.
GradEx will meet next week with Frances Horowitz, of the graduate school, to discuss issues including overhaul of the current constitution.
Posters protesting aid to the contras covered sidewalks on campus yesterday morning.
Posters protest draft, contra aid
A large number of yellow and white posters were adhered with strong poster glue to sidewalks and walkways off Jayhawk Boulevard, probably after midnight yesterday. Most of the posters said, "Nicaragua Vietnam. Get the facts or get drafted."
By a Kansan reporter
Bob Porter, director of physical plant maintenance, said a facilities planning employee spent several hours yesterday trying to remove the posters.
KU police Sgt. John Brothers said that nobody had complained about the incident as of yesterday after arresting KU police were not investigating it.
Brothers said that gluing posters to sidewalks would be classified as a
handbill violation under the Lawrence anti-litter ordinance act Such a violation is punishable by up to six months imprisonment and a $500 fine.
Kate Barron, president of the Latin American Solidarity, said her organization had nothing to do with the posters, although her group opposed aid to the contras.
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