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SpOflight Dream opened Friday night with a wonderful and delightful choreography. The Gamecock basketball teams opened the season Friday night with mixed results: The men The Gamecock Founded 1908 Monday Volume 78, No. 47 University of South Carolina ox iqqc USC soccer > nips Tigers in playoffs By TONY THOMPSON Staff writer CLEMSON ? USC's soccer team advanced to the third round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association playoffs by virtue of its first-ever victory over t Clemson. * The Gamecocks' win over the defending national champion Tigers was decided on a shootout after the two teams had battled to a scoreless draw after 90 minutes of regulation play and 20 minutes of overtime. Gamecock forward Ami Am. thorsson made good on USC's fifth and final penalty shot to give Carolina the win after Tiger midfielder J.R. Fenton missed wide to the right with Clemson's ^ first kick. Fenton's miss proved to be decisive as each remaining kick for both teams was good. As Arnthorsson's kick sailed into the left corner of the net, he was Sm "Soccer," page 4. DaIiaa ruiiue uiaiy I Fran Wirt R?p*rts A former USC graduate studei current Clemsori University profess charged with two counts of murder day in Columbia for the deaths general counsel and an internal a for the state Department of Services. Robert L. Baker, 47, an associai fessor of accounting since June 1 Clemson, was charged with the sh said Gary Watts, a deputy Ri 1 ^ \_uumy coroncr. Batcer was sent New rules by faculty get tough on grades By MARIA FRATUS Staff writar A harsher suspension policy passed by the faculty senate has been implemented at all USC campuses this semester. Students whose grade point deficit is greater than 24, will be suspended for the next major semester and the summer, according to USC Registrar T. Luther Guntcr. GPD is calculated bv multinlv ing the number of grade point hours attempted by two and subtracting the number of grade point hours earned. "In the other system, if a student blew the fall (semester) and blew the spring (semester), he would be in such a bad hole, he couldn't get himself out," Gunter said. Students' records will be reviewed at the end of each fall and spring semester. Under the previous policy, students could go to summer school to lower their QPD if it was above 24 at the end of the previous term, but now they can't, according to Ounter. Credit hours earned at other institutions while students are on suspension may not be applied to a degree at (JSC or used for lowering their GPD. At the suspension's end, students may apply for readmission, but it is not guaranteed, Gunter said. Students also are not guaranteed their preferred college if readmitted and may be forced to change their major. IPUM." i . =_; HgH ^kMBSam is. 1 Ifc^ S^KiSpi ?<4? -^f H m ok,, jg?. _jt If KjV I m Mm I IK^ Now what? ICIemson coach Danny Ford discusses an unsportsmanlike conduct call i story, page 6. e Clemson professor wit! South Carolina .State Hospital for a neighbors repc it and psychiatric examination, authorities said. scrcams, Watt: or was Watts identified the victims, who were Officers fou yestcr- found shot to death early yesterday, as at- yard, and Bak of the torney Stanley H. Kohn, 54, and Rosalind about 10 minu luditor Allen Baker, 25, of West Columbia, who half mile away Social was Baker's estranged wife. Both were said. A .38-cali shot twice, once each in the head and been used in th te pro- chest, in the front yard of the duplex car, he said. 984 at where Kohn lived. "It apparent lyings, Police went to Kohn's home near the tion," Watts chland Veterans Administration Hospital in Robert Baker1 to the southeast Columbia about 1 a.m. after separated a ^ *w^p* : f?sn5S^Ss^BBBHB^^9HSl '*? -"??^> fl/L 11 ! I n Hi 25yS5js|2^fi8|B* ' ^bb^SsS^BBk^^BSSS^e^^bGBBB BeISbb. r iff nff W M Js?^Bi HB ^ySEBgSS | ~ |j|i:\ J j)K ^ UI f?-l. ? i J|' ?, M > mm m)W. I y I I -" ? ~ "-rVf ~--r \ . Ha * Bob Procopio, an engineering freshmen, atadtoa far kit nut dan ontskle GantbreJI Hell while Howard McDill, a payaMefn frariiwaa, Seeks oa Thursday. with referee in Seturday's game, whii i two counts >rtcd hearing gunshoU-aud montl 5 said. Kol nd the victims dead in the from er was taken into custody waitir tes later in his car about a autho at a service station, Watts iber pistol believed to have Bak e slayings was found in the from 1 profes tly was a domestic situa- aClen said. "Rosalind Baker is Baker s wife. They had been torate little more than three averag South C? began Siq historian From Staff Reports While one South Carolinian is credited with starting the national Thanksgiving holiday, another almost won his fight against the day's establishment, a USC historian said. "The Pilgrims' thanksgivings with the Indians that everyone thinks of were local traditions," historian George Rogers said. "They were generally given to offer thanks for a successful ocean crossing, a good harvest and good weather. "But the first national Thanksgiving was not offered for these pious reasons. It was offered for victory in war." The man who declared the first national Thanksgiving was Henry Laurens, one of South Carolina's leading patriots. Laurens was instrumental in organizing South Carolina forces in the Revolutionarv War. "Because of his success in this work, Laurens was sent to the Continental Congress in the summer of 1777, and four months later, on Nov. 1, he was elected president of Congress," Rogers said. i In October, just prior to the election, the battle of Saratoga took place. "Laurens thought that this great event was a good occasion to call upon the people of the land to give thanks (for the victory), and he did in a proclamation making Thursday, Dec. 18, 1777, the first national Thanksgiving Day." These holidays continued to be observed each year until the end JEM&r " _ " jHpfJ RAY GRONBERG/Tta Gamecock eh Carolina lo?t 24-17. St rtlitod of murder hs." . fin and Mrs. Baker were returning a party, and Baker apparently was ig for them or walked up on them, rities said. er was a graduate assistant at USC 1974 to 1977 and a visiting assistant sor for a year, said David Crockett, ison University spokesman. He said earned a masters degree and docat USC with a perfect 4.0 grade ;e. irolinian sliday, says of the war, in 1784. When George Washington was elected president in 1789, he repeated the custom and proclaimed his first Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, Nov. 26, of that year. Washington's proclamation was met with a great protest from his political enemies, and one of the loudest was Rep. Thomas 1 f* ^ " tucKer 01 south Carolina, who suggested that giving thanks to God for this new country, essentially a political experiment, was not a good idea. Washington was so intimidated by the uproar he did not declare another Thanksgiving until Feb. 19, 1795. "The Christian religion has a strong tradition of giving thanks for various blessings," Rogers said. "So what the Pilgrims did and what Henry Laurens did wasn't really anything unusual." Scattered Thanksgiving days were held on a local or national level after Washington's proclamation, but Abraham Lincoln was the first to establish it as a permanent national holiday. "In fact, Lincoln declared two tu ? I " 1 uuinvagivuigS 111 IOOJ, KOgerS said. "One was in April after the Battle of Gettysburg, and one was on the last Thursday in November." Though the holiday was somethimes changed to the fourth and even the third Thursday of the month, since 1863, the holiday has always been celebrated across the country in November. x ^ v/ ? ^niuv;i , L iJthJ Date rape said to be too often concealed 8y JULIET NADER Assistant news editor Although two USC women are receiving counseling because of date rape, a sizable percentage of other cases may have gone unreported, a USC official said. Danny Baker, USC assistant systems vice president for law en iorcemeni and satety, has begun an educational program to increase women's awareness of date rape, which he says may be a growing problem on college campuses nationwide. "We tend to view the rapist as a guy who hides in the bushes," Baker said. "These make up only 3 percent of the cases, but they receive the most notoriety." More than half the women raped in the United States know the man involved, Baker said. Many times women don't realize they have been raped, Baker said, but date rape is defined as occurring whenever a woman says no and a man proceeds to force her into intercourse. A woman should ask herself whether she was forced to do anything against her will, Baker said. "Accepting a date with a casual acqaintance is a usual occurrence on college campuses," Baker said, but he went on to offer several ideas as to why date rape occurs. "Men give love to get sex; women give sex to get love," Baker said, arguing that the female generally needs to defend why she doesn't want to have sex.. Baker said some males apply psychological pressure in the form of statements such as, "Well, it's our last chance," "But I really love you" and "You're so beautiful I can't help it." Comments from males on campuses nationwide, contained in informational brochures sent to Baker, include: "r.irlc nf??n ? ...U? .1 wuio uiivu oay iiu vvucil llicy want to have sex, but they're scared. I have to have three strikes before I figure I'm really out." "I get told no, and I keep going. I guess if someone said, 'Look, sorry, I thought I wanted to, but I changed my mind,' no way. I'd listen, but if we were lying on the bed, and she threw up her little hands up in front of her chest and said, 'No, please, no,' I probably would ignore it." "I guess it's hard to believe a _!_! -1 " gin wouiu reauy mina that much . . . after all, sex is fun, right?" Baker said he spoke to a group of USC men recently on how they define "No." "She ought to at least have to slap me a couple of times," one of the men said. "There is no set formula to prevent a rape," Baker said, suggesting that women trust their instincts. "You don't need a reason to say no." "Tell the guy, 'It's not that I don't like you; I just don't like the activity,"' Baker said, maintaining that the man won't take offense and get hostile. Baker said that if a student does get cornered in a date rape situation, she should think of an effective solution. "Throw a chair out of the window," he suggested. He also suggested planning ahead: Have a friend call you at your date's apartment, and have some secret codes set up thereby you can rescue each other, Baker said.