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              The MAROON Vol. 61, No. 12 Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 November 19, 1982 BSU gets 'Jungle King' removed By Germaine Age Staff Reporter Jungle King, a Taito video game once operating in the Wolf Den, was removed because it "reinforced stereotypes of black and African students," according to Michael Johnson, treasurer of the Black Student Union. According to the Loyola Student Handbook, "Loyola prohibits any action taken or situation created, whether on or off campus property, to produce unusual mental or physical discomfort, embarrassment, harassment or ridicule." Johnson said the game violated this policy. In a unanimous decision, the BSU voted Oct. 21 to make an effort to have the machine removed from campus, Johnson said. On Nov. 5, BSU President Darren J. Smith, Michael Johnson and BSU members Tracy Johnson and Keith Champagne sent a letter to Manny Cunard, director of Danra Center Student Activites, requesting the removal of the game. By Nov. 10, the game replaced. Cunard asked 10 people on campus, both students and staff, to evaluate the machine as to its racial bias. According to Cunard, "Although only two individuals felt the machine was specifically biased againbt blacks, there were » number of comments that did question the subtle statements made by the game." The Jungle King video game involves passing four tests. Appearing on the screen in the fourth test is a white man who must rescue a blond white woman from two jungle natives. Cunard also said that Taito should have done a better job of seeing that it did not manufacture a game that has such a potential of discrimination against blacks. "Some people may not feel that the Jungle King was a big issue, but others have sensitive feelings [about it]," Cunard said. Michael Johnson said that the video game stereotypes natives kidnapping white women and also makes fun of witch doctors in African tribes. To these tribes the witch doctor is very important and it is not fair to satirize other people's traditions, he said. Johnson said that the BSU conducted an informal survey of students' thoughts on the video game. The findings indicated that approximately half of the people surveyed thought the game discriminatory, according to Johnson. Johnson said a few white students who also attended the meeting pointed out many discriminatory points on the machine. One of the students pointed out how the machine could have a subconscious effect on the players. This subconscious effect reinforced stereotypes of black men to the players without them realizing it, the student said. Dr. Bobby Cummings, BSU adviser, agreed, saying that by playing the game a person's value system could be changed unconsciously. Johnson also said that the Student Government Association supported them in their effort to remove the video game. *'Jungle King"causes controversy. —Photo by Tom Harmeyer International lawyer provokes heated exchange By Steve Hoggard Staff Reporter International lawyer Abdeen Jabara spoke Monday at the Loyola School of Law, concentrating on such topics as the conditions in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the legalities of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and human rights' violations in Israel. The lecture ended in an argument between Jabara and several students in the audience. Jabara, a native of Lebanon and a member of the 1977 National Lawyer's Guild fact-finding mission to the Middle East, presented a two-hour lecture that listed human rights violations, including torture, committed against Palestinians by what Jabara called, "the illegal Israeli military regimes of the occupied territories of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem." The argument ensued during the question and answer period. The topic concerned the Palestine Liberation Organization which Jabara described as, "much more than a military organization, in also serving health, education and social functions." When asked if the PLO had gained a considerable amount of positive public The Maroon will not publish next week due to the Thanksgiving holidays. Our next, and final, issue of the semester will be published Dec. 3. opinion due to the greatly televised Beirut siege, Jabara replied that, "The heroism of the PLO in Beirut has finally grounded itself in U.S. public opinion." When a student in the audience asked whether Jabara would agree that "from its inception, the PLO has been a terrorist organization," Jabara demanded that the student, "recite one statute — municipal, state, national or international," that would define the term terrorist. The student responded in asking whether Jabara would term, "the killing of school children a terrorist act." Jabara refused to comment and went on to the next question. The next question posed by another student asked if Jabara would consider the "massacre of Olympic athletes or the bombing of airports or the bombing that killed my [the student's] best friend, heroic PLO actions." At that point Jabara began pointing his finger at the student and repeatedly said, "If you're going to ask a question, then ask a question." During the lecture he said that most of the more than 1,000 military ordinances handed down in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank violated provisions in the Geneva Convention. He went on to say that the convention stemmed mainly from the Nazi atrocities committed against the Jews during World War 11. Jabara claimed that the purpose of the majority of Israeli ordinances is to "ensure a continuing annexation of the three areas and to stop any threat of change or freedom of expression." He added, "The major bulk of the world's nations identify East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as occupied territories." Included in Jabara's list of infringements of Palestinian rights in the three areas were: no right of appeal after the verdict, renewable and summary detention of unaccused persons, the illegality of a meeting of more that 10 people intending to discuss politics and the expropriation of 50 to 60 percent of the land in these areas by the government. Also included in his list were: only one election has been held since 1967 and in this case the victorious mayor was confined to house arrest, the destruction of 20,000 homes since 1967 and the expulsion of over 2,000 Palestinians since the same date. From there Jabara went to the issue of the invasion of Lebanon. He stated that he had intended to discuss the legalities of the invasion but, "that would be an exercise in futility." He explained this futility as arising from the actions and attitudes of the Israelis who he termed, "international outlaws." Jabara added that from 7,000 to 10,000 prisoners are still being held in Lebanon and northern Israel. He stated that these people have not been given prisoner-of-war status and that the Israelis "repeatedly refuse to give lists of detainees and have only allowed three western journalists to see them." Jabara then said that Canadian and Norwegian doctors detained at the same camps had reported that Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners were beaten to death in their presence. Jabara concluded the lecture saying that, "The United States gives $3 billion a year to the Israeli state, or $7 million dollars a day, and it is in this way that the human rights' policy of the United States is conducted." Abdeen Jabara —Photo by Lisa Clark