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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."
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;ii-i jhosted a
. iHjL: | - forum desij
|: noranccs th
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ji said Anthc
:,-'*/< , 7 : ".B| I j of the frate
.i : I The frat
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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.