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              The MAROON Vol. 63, No. 10 Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 November 2,1984 Haley to speak Nov. 9 without SGA's funding By Sharon Wade The Black Student Union will sponsor an on-campus appearance by Roots author Alex Haley, Nov. 9. The union obtained funding from three campus organizations following refusal to accept stipulations for Student Government Association funding. Dennis Joseph, president of the Black Student Union, said the BSU's denial of the SGA's offer nearly jeopardized Haley's appearance. After refusing SGA funding, the BSU received $5,000 from the Biever Memorial Guest Lecture Series, $1,500 from the Loyola Union, and $100 from the Institute of Human Relations to cover the estimated $6,600 needed for the event. This amount includes Haley's $5,500 honorarium, transportation, hotel fee, a pre-speech dinner, reception and miscellaneous costs. According to a previous article in The Maroon, the BSU requested that the SGA allocate $4,000 to co-sponsor the event. The resolution was sent to committee because several details were vague and alternative funding sources were needed. Joseph said the SGA did not clarify what other funding sources were available to the BSU, adding that availablity of funds from other organizations was irrelevant and should not have had a bearing on their request. According to Joseph, the committee did not research the BSU's proposal, offered no negotiations and reached a decision before going into its Oct. 9 meeting. "Everything was decided without our input and before the meeting commenced. They had already decided exactly what the BSU would recieve before going into the meeting — before analyzing the data, before giving us the chance to speak on our behalf," Joseph said. "One response was, 'you don't expect us [the SGA] to give the BSU all of our money,' " Joseph added. The Biever Lecture Series agreed to allocate at least $2,000 toward the event, and it was announced Haley would reduce his $6,000 honorarium to $5,500. The BSU planned to raise $500 for the event. "We told them the SGA is not the manipulative organization they hope it to be,99 — Joseph After receiving this information, the SGA committee recommended that congress allocate $2,200 of the original $4,000 requested for the event based on the following criteria: • Equal billing be given to the SGA, the union, the Biever Memorial Guest Lecture Series and the BSU • The BSU charge students $2, faculty and staff $3, and the general public $5 to raise $800 • No more than $40 worth of complimentary tickets be issued • All tickets be distributed only from a central location in the Danna Center in cooperation with the Loyola Union Pumpkin Picassos Scott Shea and Tom Rayer immortalize Joseph K. Kavanaugh, vice president for Student Affairs, in a pumpkin portraiture. The Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Council sponsored the pumpkin carving contest to raise money for the March of Dimes. -Photo by Darltnt Pierce Abuse prompted killing, Sikh says By Rene Sanchez Anything can happen when people's human rights are suppressed, according to Dr. Jasjit Walia, professor of chemistry. Tuesday night, something did. Indira Gandhi, India's prime minister, was assassinated, reportedly by three of her personal guards who were members of India's Sikh religious sect. Walia is a member of the Sikh religion and the president of the Sikh Society of the South, Inc. "When you suppress so much, so much repression of human rights, there's always a possibility of backfiring," he emphasized.Watfa said Sikhs are "deeply DC!%»• v \ wounded" by the June desecration of the Golden Temple and 37 other holy Sikh shrines in India as well as the massacre of innocent Sikhs by Indira Gandhi's government troops. These actions, along with a history of mistreatment, probably caused the assassination, according to Walia. "If your very human rights are being denied, you have to defend," Walia said. Still, he said such an act is not justified. "My reaction is one of sadness for the simple reason that the Sikh religion does not believe in any killing of any kind," Walia said. Indira Gandhi was an excellent leader who did help India, according to Walia, adding, however, that at times she was very vicious. "If you did not agree with her, that was the end for you," Walia said. "My only regret is she did not sit down with the Sikh leaders in a sincere effort to solve the problems." Instead, Gandhi chose to solve the political problems with military force, he said, pointing out the June temple attacks. Walia said thousands of innocent Sikh women, children and elderly were massacred at the same time the temples were descecrated. He said that in the past few months, Sikhs have not been able to express their views openly, to worship freely or to congregate. Many Sikh youths have been arrested without due process of law, and Sikhs feel they have been mistreated for demanding justice, he said. , "Their demands ate very reasonable," Walia said of the Sikhs. "They must have been very frustated and deeply hurt; only then they would have carried out such an act." The Sikh religion fights for righteous causes, according to Walia. "We do not advocate attack either by our tongue, or by words or by weapons. We only defend, which is the only fair thing to do. We defend the cause of righteousness. The truth. The justice," he said. Walia said the assassination of Gandhi and the massacre of Sikhs in June could have been avoided, but every time judicious diplomacy was initiated, she would put a stop to it. "She had carried on these military maneuvers for so long against the See Haley /page 2 See Gandhi/page 4