The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, March 01, 1976, Image 1
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.
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? .... 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
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'd this tranquil scene of stude
where they parked their ca
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"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
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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."