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15 " v . I Bears, is more than valuable I I 1? nat'ona' advertiser8? Pa90 . . | g , , , .... I 7. Upsets abound in the semifinals of the intramural football I | playoffs as the two top teams are defeated, page 9. , The Gamecock Founded 1908 Wednesday Volume 78, No. 39 University of South Carolina November 6. 1985 University life * for South Afr By CARL DAWSON Staff writer When Sipho Vilakazi left South Africa less than a year ago to attend USC, he had no idea how to react to a place where racial integration, rather than separation, is a way of life. "I remember the first day I went to class. Everybody was white, and I happened to be the only black person. I thought I was lost to such an extent that I was nearly tempted to tell my sponsor to send ? me a ticket back because 1 don't belong to this place," he said. Vilakazi said professors and classmates helped u: -j!?^ ? - iiiiu aujusi 10 an environment tree trom apartheid, South Africa's racial segregation policy that keeps 25 million voteless blacks under the control of five million whites. "It's something you get used to unless you go out of the country," he said. "But if you live there you just know your place and that's it. You tend to accept everything that's done to you. It's kind of mental torture because at times, when you are alone thinking, you feel like resenting it, but unfortunateA ly you were born in this thing and you don't know how to dismantle it." The 29-year-old is an elementary education graduate student and the only South African at use. "The way of life here is quite different from home," he said. "I've seen something that is hidden from us at home. We are told not to mix with people of other races because there are problems. Whereas when I came here, I saw people mixing together, and I believe it can happen in South Africa." However, his experience in America hasn't been 4$ free from discrimination. "I once experienced discrimination here," he said. "1 was just walking down the street, I won't USC group | CAVE plans first Slain s # fund-raisers father to fight MS t0 U5*C By SANDY LANG By JOAW M. PRIWCE Sta!f writer Staff writer Ray Rossi, s Students Against Multiple Against Violent < Sclerosis (SAMS) formed this night's meeting year as a campus offshoot of Association, the National Multiple Sclerosis Rossi said CA' Society. It is a program of Charleston les dedicated to fighting a disease series of viole _ uioi i'i imainy auccis young shooting of Gr< adults. sparked its begin Ted Cox, the (JSC chairman of SAMS, became involved Grego purchas when a fraternity brother sug- local newspaper, gested he apply for the posi- crimes and askinj tion. Cox was among 150 cam- this trend, pus chairmen appearing on a recent "Good Morning WITHIN ONE America" episode filmed in signatures of met Miami. between 40,000 i February 1086 is "Bust members. MS" month, and SAMS will Rossi said CAV organize fund raisers 0 throughout the month. Feb. 1 I I m is me rvicivun rariy ior i | j.1 ui j j f j | j 1j several events. A "Heart of ""J# Rock 'n' Roll" media event is scheduled for Valentine's Day, By JIM NEWMAN and a "Rock Alike" event will Science writer take place March 1. Students Most of us ai dressed like rock performers nuisance to those will compete in a lip-sync of 20th century i contest. equally threatenin Some may ask, In addition to fund raising, could it produce? SAMS promotes education glance back and and awareness of multiple brightly lit buildir sclerosis. MS, a major But evidence o neurological disease, strikes above, perhaps si A young adults between 18-34, yellowish-orange when families and careers are astronomers prefe beginning. Skyglow is a f More than 200 cases, which populated metrop have no known cause or cure, areas of the North are diagnosed every week. For this reason More than two million DeoDle c?r.. ? jiiuiuviiid iv/i aval worldwide have MS. southwestern Unit The fund raising campuses portantly, dark sk USC will compete with in- But now even i elude: Clemson, the Upiversi- observing, are thr ty of Georgia, the University The Mount Pal< of Florida, Auburn Universi- 90 miles southeas ty, the University of Alabama became fully oper P and the University of of urbanization Mississippi. populated. And now, for tfr ! 'different' ican student mention the place, and some people came out. 1 guess they were drunk, and they started shouting at us. 1 was walking with my friend and they said, 'What do thr Iliooprc mini hnrn ' I -I-.1 _r ...ccv.u .TUUl HVIV. >1 IVilllllUCU II1C (JI my situation back home." Apartheid influences every sphere of a black person's life in South Africa, Vilakazi said. "It starts before one is born. It determines the hospital where you are going to be born. It deter- ! mines the school you are going to attend. It determines the type of job you are going to have, the type of residential area where you are going to live, the type of hospital you will attend when you are sick, and eventually the place you are going to be buried when you die," he said. Despite this, he plans to return home. "Running away from home won't solve problems, so I guess it's my duty to go back and do whatever I can." he said. "I chn<;p iMrhino innn - e .v/..e ago. I feel I can do a lot with kids rather than talking to older people. I think kids are still fresh and can accept new ideas. These are the kids who are directly confronting apartheid now." Apartheid should be abolished and all South Africans should be given voting rights. South African President Peter Botha is not promising the reforms blacks expect from him and pressure from Botha's conservative party may be what is keeping him from acting, Vilakazi said. "I foresee violence to continue because Botha seems not to be moving very fast, and of course the Reagan administration is not pressuring enough," he said. President Reagan is more interested in the profits coming out of South Africa than the human rights issues, he said. Divestment is one form of interna* tional pressure. See "Student," page 2. \A/antQ ctrnnnor r ivumg Uil Ullljl/I |J tlirlant'c violent offender. His lUUdll. a "Bobbi" Lynn Rossi, a was kidnapped, raped sneaks fa?of hw. "Now they usually i sentence. They are soon ) qrOUD second, usually worse, < ROSSI SAID CAVE fcr sentences for repeat tate president of Citizens crimes. Crime (CAVE), spoke at last of USC's Criminal Justice ' m l'rec* hearin impact longer senteno VE was started by Jim Grego prison system. I jus s than two years ago when a alternative." nt crimes, including the ;go's 21-year-old daughter, He said the way the s ning. cent of all repeat offem will be released. ed an advertisement in his He used Amanda W; listing the recent violent an example of what CA g for public support to stop ed with." HE TOLD of Walk< . one week Grego had 5,000 found guilty and senter nbership. Today CAVE has two for kidnapping (W and 50,000 South Carolina child), two for rape at firearm. rE's main target is the repeat What CAVE opposed pollution interfe e familiar with "air nollnrion " a who live in or near large cities. But with the advent { growth and advancement, what some think is an f g man-made danger has sprung up: light pollution. "What is light pollution, and what possible harm t " Just take a drive a fe\y miles north of Columbia, 1 you will have the answer. The city, with its tall, ?gs and towers, may or may not be visible. ? f their presence would be unmistakable. Directly f nothering a large part of the sky, would linger a t glow, skyglow as amateur and professional :r to call it. ii amiliar sight to anyone living in a fairly heavily > tolitan region. It is virtually inescapable in large east, such as those near New York City and Boston. u , astronomers earlier this century placed their in- a ining the cosmos on isolated mountain peaks of the p ed States, enjoying the typically clear, and more im- tl ies. these regions, once the bastions for astronomical si eatened. a Dinar 200-inch reflecting telescope, located roughly w t of Los Angeles, seemed ideally placed when it S ational in the 1930s. No one foresaw the explosion a in surrounding areas that were once scantly b 1( ie professionals at least, it's far too late to just pack tl :I9 ill liiiiiipEfifc Ij..- I 1;; In the dark A blackout at Thomas Cooper library Michael Coggins, who kept studying hit al| lenalties for i daughter, Barbara the judge sent i USC nursing junior, maximum tern and murdered in the years) concurrc Accordiog tc have all too short a case may be 01 i released to commit a less. :rime," he said. This and ot wants longer and stif-. organization t offenders of violent clause in a bill Gov. Dick Rilt O ahni 11 nonn?i?.a 0 muvui iiiv iw^aiivc IN THE clat es will have on the imum sentence t can't accept the violent offense third offense. CAVE is al ystem is now, 90 per- five-year term tiers of violent crimes firearm. alker's recent case as "We want t VE "is most concern- even if they get they will be in said Rossi. ;r's assailant, a man Rossi said C iced for five charges: aware of the ci alker and her infant the nation, nd one for use of a "it s not got I in this case was that fenders won't < res with st ip the telescope and search for a new sii "We have control over some lights ar grounds," said Dr. John Safko, directt jram. "But there is still the problem wii Of course, it is possible to work aroui ent. For example, the bothersome glare ights is rather easy to filter with the api But sodium vapor lights, specifically tre quite another matter. This type is e: >ossible, to filter. It appears that many ional mercury vapor version with this n "Low pressure sodium, which, of all t ng to astronomers since it consists mail 'ou can filter that," Safko said. What numerous city governments hav se of low pressure sodium lighting woi nd yet look the about the same. The onl; iressure lights would be the lack of cert he filtering process. Some cities such as Tucson, Arizons hields on street lights to direct more of nd not the sky. "This is similar to th< 'hich are shielded and the light goes d !J ??n..A * * <u*u suiu. dui proiessionaj astronc Iready dead. There are still things that ut what tends to happen is that the gene ;ss and less aware that there's anything ley never see it." Xk It: ] Fral i. : ; V | : X I, k i has I to r til; h- = IIS i tens ffl-ir Ui5 .. jjj- iill filln i; ByYVETTEL |j:|; j; Staff writer Hl i !i :;! r Omega ;ii-i jhosted a . iHjL: | - forum desij |: noranccs th _ ~ i! (greeks) ha' ji said Anthc :,-'*/< , 7 : ".B| I j of the frate .i : I The frat ^ :'-7; " -Hi. fr suspension conduct cc day's progr Greek Affa Accordin fraternity it of the idea, Affairs ri about "m black frater The frat forum to misconcepti ter student viding a n Gadsden sa JOE MURPHEY/Th* Gcmacock Moderat< fraternity s yesterday didn't fate freshman consultant pebra by a window. program from a mix black greek: *. XX _ _ J events held jnenuers recent pro] enced the man to serve five racially d is (the longest one being 30 greek systen :ntly instead of consecutively. Porter st > Rossi, the guilty man in this troversy dif Jt on parole in seven years or purpose of Black grc concern abc her cases have prompted the *y 'f such a o initiate a repeat offender's place. , which is now in the hands of "The Pi jy, according to Rossi. has taken ai the merger, ise, CAVE is asking for a max- Delta Sigr wunout parole tor the second memocr. and life without parole for the Alpha P member Jai so pushing for a mandatory merger wou for any crime involving a "if we area! to maintain "White o remind first offenders that are interest* out in five years the first time, identity of there 15 years the next time," well as our \ Inter-Frateri AVE wants all citizens to be dent Kevin I rime problem in the state and Branding fraternities a sion the whi ng to go away. The violent of- to better uni amateurs can do in the city, Despite this, ral populace simply becomes was good co up in the sky simply because first time" a has been pre ',Sdppcar- Sigma Ch m Cliff O'Neal argazing ^ you wouldn' "My frat c' and non-ha2 ?u u . pledges kno\ al0ry?nthe Delta Upsi: h , r ls"?rmy pr?- Keith said. rt .hi yh.B make me d, nd this problem, to some ex- wan, ,0 d emitted from mercury vapor part jt .. propriate equipment. An uni(j high pressure sodium lights, mcmber sak xtremely difficult, if not im- i j.j gci uianueu cities are replacing the tradi- thejr fratern ew form of illumination. Student G he lights, is the least damag- ancj Alpha ] lly of one (spectral) line and member Kel University o e failed to realize is that the a hazing pc ild be substantially cheaper, common grc i major difference from high He def :ain wavelengths that hinder "anything tl sonal embar ?, have installed downward the glare toward the ground As far as v c lights, say, in Five Points cd educatio own to where it's needed," "Something >my within urban areas k but nr?t ac r ternity forum educe iions ATORRE Psi Phi fraternity Phil Donohue-style jned "to dispel the igat the black and white e about each other," iny Porter, president rnity. ernity, which is on for violating USC IHP<: nro9ni7/>fl Cun am with the Office of irs. g to Darrell Gadsden, lember and originator , the Office of Greek ;ceived complaints isconceptions about nities." ernity organized the "clear up a lot of ons and create a betenvironment by prolore unified front," id. :d by Omega Psi Phi tlumnus and business Moses Clarkson, the incited controversy ed crowd. White and s explained traditional in their organizations, ence had the oppor >ice concerns aoout a posal to merge the ivided, three-tiered ri into two entities, lid the merger confused the educational the program. :ek leaders expressed >ut losing their identimerger were to take an-Hellenic Council i opposing stand" to , said Felicia Rhue, n q ThAto MM i Iivia 3UI Ul liy hi Alpha fraternity nes Cooper said the Id be beneficial only Die as an organization autonomy." , greek organizations jd in protecting the our organizations as >lack organizations," nity Council PresiUall said. within the black vas a topic of discuste greeks were trying aerstand. ii fraternity member I raised the issue that e to get in (a fraternike you do something t do otherwise." ernity is non-secret :ing. Everybody who vs what is expected," Ion member Doug "If they're going to 3 something I don't I don't want to be a lentified audience 1 "the reason people is to show pride in ity or sorority." overnment President Phi Alpha fraternity vin Stroble said, "the f South Carolina has >licy that gives us a )und." incd hazing as hat may be of a perrassment." /hat was accomplishnally, Porter said, was accomplished, nuch as I wanted." Porter thought "it nsidering it was the program of its kind sented on campus.