The document publicizes two actions to call for the removal of the McGoff name from the Festival Stage of the Wharton Performing Arts Center on the Michigan State University (MSU) campus because of John McGoff's connections to the South African government: (1) a presentation to the MSU Board of Trustees by Karrie Potter, Director of the Peace Education Center, and (2) picketing at all performances at the Festival Stage by the Southern African Liberation Committee (SALC). Also, people are asked to write to the trustees in protest of the McGoff name on the MSU campus. The document also describes the history of this campaign. SALC organized letters to members of Board to get this issue on their...
The document publicizes two actions to call for the removal of the McGoff name from the Festival Stage of the Wharton Performing Arts Center on the Michigan State University (MSU) campus because of John McGoff's connections to the South African government: (1) a presentation to the MSU Board of Trustees by Karrie Potter, Director of the Peace Education Center, and (2) picketing at all performances at the Festival Stage by the Southern African Liberation Committee (SALC). Also, people are asked to write to the trustees in protest of the McGoff name on the MSU campus. The document also describes the history of this campaign. SALC organized letters to members of Board to get this issue on their agenda and also urged discussion of criteria for future naming of campus buildings. John and Margaret McGoff are listed in Hansard, the official South African Parliament records, as having been "official guests" of the South African government and as "opinion formers" who could influence American opinion in favor of the apartheid South African government. The mailing says the South African government-named Erasmus Commission investigating a clandestine attempt to influence U.S. opinion in favor of apartheid by buying American newspapers, named John McGoff as the purchasing agent who received $11 million from the South African government for this project. The mailing includes schedule for SALC showings of the films FOLLOW THE YELLOWCAKE ROAD (about removal of Namibian uranium by clandestine means from Namibia to Britain and Holland), THE DISCARDED PEOPLE (which exposes the Bantustan policy), and THE SUN WILL RI5E (about young members of the African National Congress who are sentenced to death or life imprisonment in South Africa for their activities to end apartheid). The mailing mentions the Lands Committee of the Board of Trustees (and Trustees Sawyer, Dade, Fletcher, Lick), Emily Philips of SALC, Kgati Sathekge and the African National Congress (ANC), Dr. Lamont Wilson and the MSU Black Faculty and Administration Association, Frank Beeman, letters supporting a name change of the stage from State Representatives Lynn Jondahl and Virgil Smith, picket signs displayed at the trustees' meeting, constitution and laws of the white minority government, and Dr. Cecil Mackey.
