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_ ^ 1 SouthtaCaro 1 iniana>?Li brary Horseahoe f n ? Musuem to open p. 3 ^ 9 IHOIlClRy Playing the part p. 10 V ?(l mvk mi Ik February 20, 1984 Men, women win p. 13 H University of South Carolina Black and (Editor's note: The following is the first of a series on greek activities at (JSC.) By Susan Muir Interaction * between black and white greeks at USC has leaders of their three governing bodies optimistic about further cooperation, yet they are aware that the differences among the systems may slow further integration. tu ~ n ii-.il?' - ? mc ran nciienit: council, me governing body for the eight black fraternities and sororities, the Interfraternity Council, representing the white fraternities, and the Panhellenic Association, governing the white sororities, worked together on the same service project for the first time this past year, said Julie Buseh, coordinator of Greek Activities. Bates House ^ .;? V jflBMNM The day after P,? A fire started in this Bates House room Saturday r stereo short-circuited causing $10,000 in damage tc Marine pullout By David Hill The recent near collapse of the Lebanese government, the desertion of many Moslem soldiers from the nation's army and the associated escalation of fighting into all-out civil war have led to not only the withdrawal of American Marines from Beirut, but appear to have prompted an end to significant American involvement in Lebanon. While the withdrawal of Marines to Navy ships off the Lebanese coast may please many people in the United States, the overall situation there has been called the most serious defeat for U.S. foreign policy since the Iranian crisis five years ago. The at mosphere in Washington has been described as like that during the fall of the South Vietnamese government and like the last days of the Shah of Iran. That dour feeling is justified, according to Kenneth Perkins, a USC professor who teaches courses in Middle East history. He said as the situation for Lebanese president Amin Gemayel gets worse, so it does for the United States. "ANY (iOVKRNMKNT that replaces the white gr This spring, as a result of the past year council officers working together on coo dinating black and white activities, Gre< Week for both groups will be held at tl camp timp THE COOPERATION between the tw groups is encouraging to Student Affairs ai ministrators who have wanted further coi tact between the two groups, but the initii contact must be made by the students, th< said. The first major cooperative effort betwee the three councils came last year when all th groups adopted the same judicial procedure Busch said. This means the groups' separai judicial and tribunalcouncils use the same aj peals process, she said. Another step in the integrating process wj fire heavily i By David Hill and Tracy Mi) rA fire caused by a short damaged a Bates dorm roor No one was injured, but t Assistant Fire Chief Maui Department. The room suffered an esti a^out 510,000 damage THREE PUMPER truck -jiwl 12:01 a.m. alarm, he S? i TV"\P ctArPA u/oc rvn o cKnlf , * 11V aivi vv/ ?T UO V/II CI 011W1 1 said William Pace, hall ad\ ' l*ie stereo area was engulf roomSecond floor hall adviso someone called to report a "I went up to the third I PVfi*' anH (hp u/hnlp rnnm wuc fi breathe. We tried to put the . it was just too smoky. bp? "BILL AND I then wen ' - get everyone out." Face said he got a call 01 fire. "I thought my guys ha< die or something." When 1 smoke and gas from burnir "I got about halfway in i was still in there." Most of the hall's residen ^ut a res'^ent was asleeP i11 THE RESIDENT, Alan H hall advisor unlocked the stood up and my room \s smoke all over the place." to by Joseph Gwnett When Pace first entered . there was no way 1 could norning when a . . ,,, . , . , ? paratus or a towel to shie i the hall. H serious defea present government in Lebanon by definitio will definitely not be pro-Western," Perkin said. And that would be a change. Though th United States has not historically had a larg interest in Lebanon, with most of its involv< ment coming since the 1975-76 Civil Wai other Western nations have, particular! France, he said. France held a mandate ovt the country following World War I and had military presence there until 1946. And, Perkins said, Lebanese Christiar such as Gemayel have traditionally looked t the West for support. The Maronites, Catholic sect with French ties, have bee friendly with Israel, Perkins said, a fact th; _ r _ i- - i r. - a! i. - a a oi course nas causeu iricuon oeiween uici and the country's Moslems. "The whole historical problem c Lebanon is that it is a country that is mac up of different religious constituency groui ings," Perkins said. When the nation won i independence in 1943, a power-sharir system was set up to distribute control of tl government among the various religioi groups, he explained. eeks work 1 's giving football tickets in greek block seating r- section to black greeks. ik "One big step in the right direction was tie block SfatiflO " CUtH Pnu Rrnnm OMtVi IXV/J JL-JI UVT1I, I All Hcllenic Council Greek Week chairman. 'o HE SAID a major obstacle in getting the J- white and black groups to work together is i- getting the whites to realize the blacks are al part of the greek system, too. :y "A lot of them (white greeks) believe we're not greeks. There needs to be more dealings n between the blacks and the whites so they can le understand us and we can understand them s, as well." Tl.n Wl??1. 1-- I 1 " iv t "t umtK giccK* nau never asKea ior greek > block seating before this past semester, Busch said. IFC had been distributing tickets is to white fraternities and sororites, and had damages third <son _______ circuit in a stereo system heavily he dorm had to be evacuated, said iniated $1,500 in damages, and the s and a ladder truck responded to . V, above a bed and near the window, isor for the affected hall. He said ed in flames when he entered the jUr :***: v M r Daryl Patton was on duty when Jgr \ J fire. ^ ^ floor, got the door to 305A open, ill of smoke. It was really hard to fire out with fire extinguishers but I t around and banged on doors to k'er the intercom system about the J i been screwing around with a can- , le got to the wing the fire was in, ft lg plastic was "unreal," he said. ' and really worried that someone its were out at the time, Pace said, , i an adjoining room. V ? 7 ^ Marchese, said Pace and another : ;v;' door to his room to get him. "I 'as filled with smoke. There was the hall, "the gas was so bad that Gutted get around without breathing ap- . , . :ld the smoke. A short circuit in See "Fire," pe?e 5 ,lon of Ba,es Hou it for U.S. foreig " news analysis ie THE SYSTEM provided for a six-to-five ;e ratio of Christians to Moslems in an effort to ;- reflect the mix in the population. Also, cer r, tain executive offices were to be held by a y member of a particular sect. ir But, Perkins said, the population had a changed. The system was based on a 1932 census, and one has not been taken since, is The proportional system no longer reflects o reality in Lebanon, as Moslem groups are a now the majority, Perkins said. in The largest group is the Shiite Moslems, it lit-* 'ilimit rw?rnftit r?f t Vw? nfilinn m When a minority in the early years of Greater Lebanon, they were cast down to the bottom >f of the Lebanese "totem pole," but still feel le they are being treated as outcasts, Perkins p- said. Shiites have power in other Moslem nats tions, particularly Iran, and they arc very lg organized within Lebanon. They are also the le most anti-government too, since they sec .is Gemayel as being very cooperative with the United States and Israel, he said. together assumed they had ownership of the seats, she said. "IFC thought they were in charge," Dennis Pruitt, dean of Student Affairs, said. me A.tnietic Department was under the assumption that all greek organizations were getting tickets through IFC," Pruitt said. "There was nothing racial about it; IFC was just concerned about losing tickets, they didn't care who they were losing them too." "THE AGREEMENT (between the groups for block seating) was satisfactory for all parties concerned," Pruitt said. The common elements among the three groups makes Pruitt and the leaders of the three groups confident that further cooperation will occur, but replacing the current Soe "Greeks," page 4 { floor room rf. BtyHHw^KpKBr A y" t' jntfofri i1?- v-r_ Est ^s#:y BSE' ^r*^tar , ;.-./ >' Photo by Joseph Garnett this stereo started the fire that caused the evacua se. n policy The restructuring, to some extent, must reflect the population reality, that is the Shiites dominate, Perkins said. THKRE IS no denying that Lebanon is a nation in which religion is a force in deter mining its late, but it is not religion for religion's sake that prolongs the strife. Religious groupings largely determine enemies and allies, although the issues are economic and political, not religious, Perkins said. "It seems to me that...the whole idea of proportionalization of the representation into religious sects must be scrapped," Perkins .mivi . But, he added, that may prove to be difficult since the combatants and Lebanon as a whole have always thought of themselves in those terms, he said. As American influence diminishes, other nations may step into Lebanon. Syria has, in the opinions of many analysts, sought in fluence in its smaller neighbor. Many Syrians have never thought of Lebanon as separate See "Lebanon," page 6