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The Gamecock
Founded 1908 ' __ Wednesday
Volume 78, No. 45 _ University of South Carolina November 20, 1985
Reporter
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By JULIET NADER
Assistant news editor
U.S. involvement in the apartheid
conflict should be abolished
completely, said a former
reporter from South Africa in an
address to the Young
Republicans yesterday.
"If left alone, they (South
^ Africans) may be able to sort out
problems. It may be slower, but
they will eventually solve the problem
on their own," said Robert
Slimp, who recently returned
from South Africa.
He said the conflict is a crisis
of confidence. He thinks white
people are intimidated by the
violence of the blacks.
Revision of
siowlv with
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By STEPHEN C. GUILFOYLE
Staff writer
Despite poor attendance at the f
the Constitutional Task Force app
Government President Kelvin Si
work on a possible revision of the
The task force, chaired by Dc
sists of Student Sens. Jim Bersh s
man; SG Attorney General Mosc
Dean for Student Life Jerry Br
Rob Chiles; SG Chief Justice Ed\
faculty representative William Kr
The first meeting was basically
one. At the second meeting, Nov
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By SANDY LANG
Staff writer
The development and eventual
ment of star wars by the United Si
debated Monday night by two
political organizations.
The College Republicans spoke
of the Strategic Defense Initial
while the Alliance for Peace opp
"The effectiveness of SDI
theoretical because it is not ;
gfe operational, but SDI shows clet
tial for insuring national securil
Don Weaver of the College Repi
Ronald Palmer, who spoke
Alliance for Peace, said the SDI
not safe because SDI is a 95 perc<
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the city, >s the holiday Hgh
have found thair places amor
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going to cause the election of
white supremecists, and if the
whites had real confidence they
would not make trouble.
"The early settlers treated their
blacks generally quite well."
They introduced modern
medicine and helped cure malaria
and the tsetse fly, and in turn
''the black population
skyrocketed," Slimp said.
At this time the Europeans
were settling in South Africa.
i ui; i:uiu^ain uiu a icinuic
job because they carved out lines
on maps. They cut through tribal
lines and put two hostile tribes
together. We're talking about ten
SG Constit
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thought shoul
task force.
irst two meetings, In this lett<
ointed by Student simply revise
troble has begun result being "<
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nald Wood, con- come up with
md Brcnda Spear:s
Boyd; Assistant Chiles sug
ewer; SG adviser documents, w
vin Fountain; and the committee
eml. Christmas bre
an organizational Chiles said 1
.13, each member ad in The Gan
[lining what Chiles be held for
iate develo)
tive system "and statis
what will happen whe
I deploy- percent of the warheat
tates was "I don't think it
student debate percentages,"
should look at the al
; in favor SDI, we are left wit
live plan Destruction."
>osed it. Weaver said when '
is only we should "consider
yet fully nuclear winter as show
\r poten- fects of nuclear war."
ty," said "I would sleep mucl
ublicans. that at least mankin
for the Weaver said.
system is "I find it ironic," V
jnt effec- the very people who i
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Africa:
Ivement
major trioai groups, eacn witn
their own eulture and religion.
The tribes are as different from
each other as the nations in
Europe are different," Slimp
said.
He said there was no majority
rule since the tribes were so
different,
Slimp said he thought apartheid
was a greatly
misunderstood word. He said he
did not beleive in or support
apartheid, and he thinks we
should understand what we are
against. "Apartheid means world
or separate development." He
said the word implies an attempt
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task force
d be the goals and procedures of the
ir, Chiles said the committee could
the current constitution, witn tne
an improved but still mediocre goverit."
He said the task force should
a new, stronger constitution.
gested a survey of comparable
hich should take a month, and said
; should have a completed draft by
ak.
that the draft should be printed as an
lecock and that an open forum should
students to voice their opinions.
pment, deplc
tistics do not show now arguing ag
:n the four to five could indeed pr
is do hit." Weaver and F
is constructive to feet the implemi
Weaver said. "We would have on
ternative. Without The Soviets I
h Mutual Assured SDI program o
Weaver.
we think of MAD, If the Soviets
the horrors of a and the U.S. di<
n in films on the ef- could threaten
would have no
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d had a chance," "SDI is only
as a bargaining
/eaver added, "that also said he wc
argue for peace are States "move a
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A ray of hope
A few rays of sunlight gleam throi
lyment of Si
ainst the one system that which h<
eserve our world." for coop
aimer disagreed on the ef- instead,
entation of the SDI system The I
U.S.-Soviet relations. should s
lave begun working on an SDI, ac
if their own, according to Cam Cr
get the s
completed an SDI system can't us<
j not have one, the Soviets "Also
any country, and "we both sid
way to stop them," said it adds t
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effective with the Soviets said the
5 chip," said Palmer, who volved \
>uld like to see the United said. "1i
way from this competition na worl
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JOE MURPHEY/The Gamecock
jgh the columns of Preston dorm.
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tar wars
is dominated our lives," and try
>eration between the two nations
Soviets and the United States
hare technological advances like
cording to College Republican
awford. "Even if the Soviets do
ystem, it's totally defensive. They
e it against us."
i," co-member Weaver said, "If
es know what each other is doing
o stability."
Riley of the Alliance for Peace
re are technological problems in
vitn but. you can t test it, nc
fou don't know whether it's gonc."
SG official
approves
integration
of greeks
By LYNN CUSICK
Staff writer
After more than a dccade. the
greeks' governing system at USC
will be racially integrated oncc
again.
The merger of the black and
white councils will be completed
by fall 1986, according to Student
Government President Kelvin
Stroble.
The separaton between blacks
and whites came more than 10
years ago, Stroble said. Originally,
the councils were mixed, but
black greeks didn't feel their
needs were being met, so they
branched off into a separate
body.
Black greeks are afraid of losing
their national affiliation
through a merger, according to
r\mr* vuhitn nmnV c cn \t
they fear the change will result in
a loss of individuality, but Stroble
dismisses these fears as "emotional
reactions."
"People always fear what they
don't understand," he said.
Stroble, also a member of
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, supports
the merger and feels all conflicts
will be counterbalanced by
positive results.
' You have everything in the
world to gain and nothing to
lose," he said.
Stroble feels the merger will get
rid r?f manv micrnnrcnlinnc holH
by both groups.
"My hope is that whites will
join in black greek activities and
blacks will join in white greek
activities."
Stroble believes the present
system involves more than just
separate governing councils for
all greeks.
Stroble hopes this merger will
lead to the integration of fraternities
and sororities in general.
"It's a step in the right direction.
It will set an example at the
top for the rest of the system," he
said.
"How can we support Africa
against apartheid when we have
our own housecleaning to do?"
he said.
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