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VOL. LXVII NO. 39 The University of South Carolina Columbia, S.C. MONDAY. MARCH i iotr Danci Black i By Mary Louise Young "The basic purpose of Bla recognize the contributions black Americans," according Week chairman. . Seventh Annual Black Wet 28 when attorney Matthew P Black American Law Studer end Saturday at the Sever featuring the band Ujima fr By sponsoring Black Week, American Students hopes 44t< what the organization is am Nelson said. An Afro-American churcl Rutledge Chapel Sunday, anc the association's gospel choii concert. Activities scheduled for the include a talent show today Washinctnn AuHitr?riiirr> A ? i People Have a Role in the Bic at 4 p.m. Tuesday in room 307 SUA ho The deadline to file fnr oar Student Government Assoc was last Thursday afternoor Elections are to be held Ma vice president, secretary, t Any run-off elections will be Candidates for student gov Bob Knudson, Weaver Gravs( Wilsford. The three pers< president are Gerald T. Mose Frank Shealy. Sandra Bell is running as ? for secretary and Rex Gale candidates for SGA treasure Iui tys senate seats to be fi candidate running for senator Witch By Cynthia Connolly "AfPomnanioH hv . WJ IV/UUO ( assorted snakes, they rob gr, up live babies for saltless cauldrons. After gluttonous frenzied dancing, they cop f I On the in --The Gamecock's about town" are at it Part one of this barhopping guide revie\ within walking distance USC campus. Part two v with drinking establis | which must be reached I See part one of Chuck ? and Hilly Cox's story o I six. e to high : Week p In addition professor of p ck Week this year is to tentatively sch and achievements of the law center ; to Gloria Nelson, Black Other events Contest at 8 p. ik activities began Feb. Room. The D< erry was honored at the sponsoring Bit its' Ball. Activities will nesdayandat? ith Annual Black Ball Hall, om Richmond. Va Tonfohvoiv c the Association of Afro- Students' Perf d expose the campus to and dancing \ i to what it is doing," March 5 at 5 p. O'Jays will per i service was held at The final day 1 "The Touch of Faith," in the Russel r, presented an evening Alliance of Bla leave ai iu a. > remainder of the week African villag at 8 p.m. at Booker T. ceremony. The seminar on "Do Black p.m. at the Sh entennial?" will be held Except for tl Russell House. Black Week act pefuls anm ididacy in the upcoming seats, no cant iation (SGA) elections seats four and ] i. Capstone sena rch 8 for SGA president, seats eight, nir reasurer and senators. and Social S( i held March 11. Married Housi ^eminent president are nursing deparl )n, Jim Stuart and Dave Senate seat; >ns running for vice running includ ley, Micnene orout and plex, two seat: the McBryde in unopposed candidate Thornwell and and David Payne are contested seatj r. the College of lied, 36 seats have one Engineering a . In the following senate Math. ICS 11U I JLX great goaty devil wh notoriously cold and and cats and insists on backside kisi aves ana dice According to Engli: casseroles in Matalene, this popular feasting and ture of witchcraft was ulate with a widespread prosecution - called witches through) the European witch era of who witches really myth of witchcraft grev Matalene in hpr snp t* Witches," sponsored \ business administrate ,, Woman's Studies Comr 'y1.011 To explain the pheno a8a,rJ- Matalene outlined the ycar s which the accusations VSf thS definition of a witch co Hdl the persecutors, the pei hmenK rouuneiy tortured or Methods for extracting rvr wor accused were often r J evils attributed to then P One typical case ci concerned the trial of French woman who w? i ' and burned for her alk light lans , Dr. Alvin Poussaint, associa >sychiatry at Harvard University, leduled to speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday , include the Mr. and Miss Black US m. Wednesday at Capstone's Campi apartment of Theatre and Speech les for Mr. Charlie at 8:15 p.m. Wei \p.m. Thursday and Friday at Draytc scheduled for Thursday is the Africa ormance at Currell College. Singir vill be featured at the Greek Sho m. on the Russell House patio, and th form at 8 p.m. at the coliseum. of Black Week will begin at 9:30 a.n 1 Theatre with the South Carolin ck Students Conference. Students wi m. on a trip to Yoruba Village, a ;e near Beaufort, for a speci; Seventh Annual Black Ball is at 9:? eraton Columbia Inn. le talent show and the annual danc< ivities are free and open to the publi< ounced didates are running: Roost senato five from the College of Education, 01 te seat; seat two for Columbia Hal le, 10 and 11 for College of Humaniti< nences; seats two and three fm ng; and seats one and two from tl tment. s in which more than one candidate e three seats from the Towers Cor 3 from South Building, one seat fro) Quadrangle, one seat from Maxc one seat from the Horseshoe. Oth< 3 include positions from Bates Hous the General Studies, the College i nd the Department of Science ar ?ally wa iose privates are devil. The clammy and who confessed to ses." after being sh Prof. Carolyn rack. 13th century pic- Another ii responsible for the confession 1 of thousands of so- naked and p out Europe during on the body. 7P An ovnloniliAM -?1 ' * 1 ? .... indicated m< were and how the Those acc / was presented by poorer and o ech "Woman as average ag< Vednesday in the Matalene, v n building by the age. In shor nittee. s welfare. "Bi meron of witched, members in I socio 1 context in convenient ! were made.."The deaths, illr mne pntirnln ff"*" 1 ...v^ viuukij m win curences, sn secuted who were because of i the witnesses." events beyoi confessions from And "if evi nore cruel than the thought to b< 1, she said. "finding hei ted, by Matalene refreshing." an old illiterate Matalene ( is tried, strangled of Reverend >ged pact with the Treatise of W B^ir j HhHHRJP I . ; te | Wmmm * I d- |. : , ?n ! ' v -. n | ;. : :.',, g iP-JL^i ggjp aBHSHBL - 11 BBSaLlr !T n rtSy ^ HBjK&gPBMr tO gja***" |EMp ^ ns[rw HHnP' ie ggS^BBrPWHW^^^^ of From Capstone the rovinj 'd this tranquil scene of stude where they parked their ca irt-nos "witch," Suzzane Gaundry, i her pact with the devil only stretched across the torture lfallible method of getting a was "stripping the woman oking a needle into any moles "Insensitivity to such probing e mark of a witch. :used were usually weaker, lder than their accusers. The j of a witch, according to vas between 50 and 70 years of t they should have been on .A I ! At * - u utMng ine more vuineraDle .heir community they became scapegoats used to explain lesses or malevolent oce said. Witches were created * frustrated need to explain id the community's control." 1 is personified, as it was ? in a witch," said Matalene, and hanging her is most quoted the 15th century logic I Alexander Roberts in his 'itchcraft to explain why most mi iTzZSTMMtcf * ? *"**? i "v a f a L i rr1^^ M \ ^*i3gm&> Li '* Photo by Ji'-i Trumnn I eye of the Gamecock's camera v (pi'ir^s nts on the crosswalk trying to rem briber rs. ed hags witches were women: "Their complexion (sic) is softer and hence more easily received the impression of the I)ov il (sic)." More likely, Matalene said, is that mo-r old women accused of witchcraft wer^ social outcasts who had outlived the r biological usefulness to society, beinv, postmenopausal and beyond the childhonrino oon Hiifinrt ? ' " ?L '1? uvu> "ft*--- *-??? n?B ci mill' wneii IfU' average life expectancy was 30 years, Matalene concluded, most witches "could be thought guilty of something just for being alive." The study of witchcraft, including the accusations, the confessions anH th*? communities in which it thrived reveals a "malignant construct created out of powerlessness and frustration to torture the powerless and the frustrated." she said. vunocvjuuiiuy, maiaient* sain, me modern trend of re-establishing a witch cult that never existed and the attempts by I some feminists to romanticize witches as "social rebels" is ridiculous because "whatever witches might have been, one thing is certain; they always lost."