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The Welsh learners also became active in UCMC (NUS Wales), which had been established some four or five years earlier, and elected Mick Antoniw, a Cardiff Law student of Ukranian descent, as its Chairman, at a Conference held in Bangor that Easter. Most importantly, it managed to contain the widening cracks on university expansion, bilingualism and Welsh-medium education in Bangor from spreading along a fault-line to Aberystwyth and Carmarthen.
This was exacerbated by the College authorities’ continuing refusal to implement a full bilingual policy for documents and signs throughout its administration and buildings, a policy which had already fully implemented by the Student Union under Anne Beynon’s leadership. The Court was split three ways on this.
As long as we remained ‘persons unknown’, they advised us, it would be difficult to enforce the writ, except through forced entry and repossession.
Mr Griffiths and Mr Orwig agree with the leaders of the ‘Undeb Cymraeg’ , who recently stated on TV that they believe that it is only this intellectual élite of university students and other literary figures which can save the Welsh language.
We agree that the College is at present far too large, but the way to counter this is not to cut its size…but to broaden its functions and change its nature, into a College whose prime commitment is to meet the needs of the local community.
Our policy of ‘no expansion’ is thus a means to these ends, the destruction of a binary system and of University élitism and an end to an education system dependent on ‘paper qualifications’. The parallel campaign for Welsh language rights had already led to the setting up of an autonomous union of Welsh-speaking students in Aberystwyth, within an ‘Urdd’ or ‘Guild’ of students.
By the autumn of 1976, however, the Welsh-speaking students in Bangor had become alienated by the College’s intransigence over the bilingual policy and through the growth of a hard-line element of nationalists in a group called ‘Adfer’ (‘Reinstate’) which had broken away from the Welsh Nationalist Party’s support for an independent, bilingual Wales, and were advocating language and immigration controls for Gwynedd (the three ‘shires’ of Caernarfon, Anglesey & Merioneth).
However, it became increasingly apparent that UMCB was set on a course of linguistic apartheid. Much of the nativity we know so well isn’t true to the Bible - does it matter? He is married to Renita E. (Williams) Stimage of Detroit, Michigan. When the barricades were breached they then moved into the nearby hall, Neuadd Powys. The last I saw of it was with him in hot pursuit, and I had no idea that it had been retrieved until recently, when Leighton produced it for a talk at the National Eisteddfod.
A simple but vaguely-worded motion calling for ‘all peaceful actions’ to reinstate the four expelled students was proposed by the Union’s Palestinian Deputy-President, Mohammed Abu-Koash. It was supported, with reservations clearly aired, by an overwhelming majority of those present, which meant that, had the votes of the otherwise ‘occupied’ Cymric been taken into account, two-thirds of the College’s students were unmistakably behind some form of concerted and coordinated non-violent direct action.
The place of the Welsh language in higher and further education in Wales can only be found in terms of a more comprehensive system. I remember well the sombre mood which attended that meeting in his office, even though I could understand only a little of the content of the discussion. We explore why the nativity still matters. It looks at it from the lofty position of an intellectual élite who refuse to descend from their pedestal to ask the ordinary people in the College, the ‘werin’, what they want.
Pastor Stimage was licensed and preached his first sermon December 13, 1987 entitled, "Questioning God's Authority," taken from Romans chapter 13. However, in the short-term we can prevent the College from losing altogether its Welsh character by adopting a realistic policy of ‘no further expansion’, while rejecting the recipe for disaster which (some) would have us follow.