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jackson Speaks With Spirit - by Russom Mesfun and Meakin Armstrong Hundreds of students, members of the press, and local citizens, stuffed themselves into UMass!Boston's Large Science Auditorium last Thursday, April 4, to listen to jesse jackson give a lecture on the Future of the Democratic Party. jackson, who arrived slightly late, greeted the audience calmly as it roared and clapped enthusiastically. He told a gathering of more than 500 peo- ple that being a student and not having a Voter Registration card is 'a contradiction and an insult to democracy. He appealed to UMass! Boston administration officials to assume part of their responsibility to liberate society, by maintaining a voter registration of- ficial on campus. jackson said it was because of the Voting Rights Act that Americans have been able to progress toward the abolition of 'Legal Apar- theid in this country. He pledged that both he and his organization, the Rainbow Coali- tion, would be working for the enforcement of the Voting Rights Act in all fifty states. He also added that he will work to oppose the Simpson-Mazolli bill, and to pressure South Africa into ridding itself of its apartheid system. jackson who had just come from an anti- apartheid rally at Harvard cited the lack of ef- fect that the Reagan administration's South African policy was having. The Rainbow Coalition, he said, is calling for an end to Reagan's 'constructive engagement. He equated South Africa's apartheid system with that of the Aryan supremacy ideal that led to the Nazi State. uEverybody who was against The Third Reich in 1935 must be against the Fourth Reich in 1985, he said. He and the Rainbow Coalition will also seek to cut the U.S. military budget without cutting defense, and Rto revise the tax structure so that those who make the most pay the most. In addition, jackson believes that an agricultural policy should be developed to save the family farm. jackson spoke just under an hour, and was often interrupted with standing ovations and chants of iijesse, jesse. A press conference followed, with most of the questions pertain- ing to South Africa. 1 This article originally appeared in The Mass Media. - Ed. j
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'l'llE I 'ILLIAN JUINER CENHIEII At no other time in modern American history has the American public and political system been in such turmoil and division as during the Vietnam War period. The effects of Vietnam still reverberate through society, and remain firmly planted in the minds of the peace seeking world at X 1 V. 'VX l w B Dk. L. to Ft.: Patrick Englehart, T. Michael Sullivan, Frank Boback, Julia Perez, Marc Noel, Mary Shienfelt, Kate White, PaulAtwood. population. The William Joiner Center at UMB is tightly focused around studying the effects Vietnam had on veterans, civilian and the world's societies, as well as the effects of war in general, and using these issues to better relate to the world peace effort. The center was named after Vietnam veteran William Joiner who was the University's Director of Veterans' Affairs until his untimely death at age thirty-eight of cancer, possibly related to his military service. Since its beginnings in 1982 the Joiner Center has had as its mission to support the thousands of Boston area veterans,and those already enrolled at Ullvlass, who make-up one tenth of the student body, in pursuing higher educa- tion with college preparatory courses, counseling and tutorial services, as well as developing and offering courses related to issues of war and its effects. With the study of war and its ramifications as its primary objective, the center offers related courses through the History, American Studies, Political Science and English Departments, as well as at CPCS. The center also supports original research, is developing courses in special war-related topics and holds lectures, Colloquia and conference related to war and social consequences. Recently the center received Massachusetts legislative funding to purchase the film archives from WGBH of its na- tionally acclaimed series: Vietnam: A Television History. The some 500 hours of film and the 50 volumes of documents and writings have propelled the center, and the University, into the forefront of Vietnam studies nationally. The collection will be stored at the new state Archives building which is due to be dedicated in the fall of 1985, and is located next to the Harbor Campus. This year the center has been busy not only with its regular day-to-day activities, but has also co-sponsored a semester long series on Central America lwith its many parallels to Vietnaml, an Agent Orange Symposium, a teleconference on nuclear issues, and a speech by a retired Marine Colonel against nuclear proliferation. In its somewhat short existence the Joiner Center has helped bring considerable notoriety to UMB because it is the first such center focusing its activities on the war in Vietnam, which for many of us is an all too recent memory, and for veterans it is a memory that they will never escape from. For those veterans the center is a way to overcome and make use of their Vietnam experience in an intellectual and creative manner to find an inner peace and do work in the direction of world peace.
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