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Volume 79, No. 69 University of South Carolina March 27, 1987
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Drink Small plays blues guitar on the Russell
Services in MeKissick Museum.
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& By MARY PEARSON
Senior reporter
At midnight on F;cb. 15, 1985, Jeremy
Levin lowered himself to the ground from the
balcony of the house in Lebanon's Bika
Valley, where lie had been held captivc for
almost a year, and ran for freedom down a
mountainside.
The former Cable News Network Middle
Last bureau chief and his wife. Sis Levin,
spoke to about 2(X) people in the Nursing
Building auditorium Wednesday about his cx^
periences as a hostage in Beirut.
9 Mrs. Levin discussed her life in Lebanon
with her husband, wheri* slwlliinis. niviirrpH
almost daily. She told of the American
government's inability to respond to the
hostage situation.
"In my diary I wrote an urgent letter to
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News reporter ' \
USC students looking for off
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check with Off Campus Student
Services for help in seeking a new
home.
About 71 percent of USC /*t
students live off campus, said **?
Rosemary Broadway, OCSS
"Housing is plentiful in the* ^ HyS
Columbia area. Some students
i?| think it's too expensive to move VBgl
off campus, but they're only
hearing one side of the story."
Broadwav said OCSS does nnt JBw.
find housing for students, but
gives basic costs and provides information
on where housing is
available. She said approximately
5,000 students come to the office
every year, but many arc still not
aware of the service.
The cr e also helps students .'
with academic problems or refers r'
them to appropriate offices on
H campus if they have a problem.
"We're here to make it easy Sgg?|?|
for them," Broadway said.
Broadway spoke at the Student
Senate meeting Wednesday about I
a proposal to move the office to
the third floor of the Russell
House. There is an off-campus ?
student lounge 011 this floor, and
many students frequently visit the
building, she said. I
If the move is approved,
Broadway said the office would Michael
probably be used by more 'his female
^ students.
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President Reagan, " she said. "I explained to
hint that I thought he needed to know that our
role there was not understood by the i
Lebanese at all." i
Her husband's kidnapping was the direct
result of Lebanon's outrage against the
United States, Mis. Levin said.
"On March 7, 1984, when 1 was nabbed 1
from a West Beirut street at gunpoint, the en- ;
tire astonishing, horrifying, sickening ;
Lebanon hostage-taking chapter in our nation's
history was ahead," Levin said after his i
wile's specch. "For a time, we were known as
the forgotten hostages."
His lecture centered on his experiences during
captivity, the Reagan administration's ac- I
tions and the Iran-Contra affair.
During his captivity, he spent most of his
time alone in a room chained to a radiator, |
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Levin said. He was held hostage for two months
before he learned of the terrorists'
demands that Iraq-based Arab fundamentalist
extremists imprisoned in Kuwait for
bombing French and U.S. embassies there be
released or he would be killed.
Realizing the government could not help
him, Levin said he decided to free himself. He
at tempted this many times before he finally
succeeded in February. After his escape,
L.cvin learned of his wife's many futile attempts
to free him.
"Unlike the imprisonment of the American
hostages in Iran, the captivity of the five of us
kidnapped in Lebanon up to that time had
been hardly reported," Levin said.
The White House should have pursued oplions
other than selling arms to Iran for the
possible release of the hostages, he said.
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aimed at
SPl Prevention Wt
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PSfe By BRKNDA BIYIH
mRkHH Assistant news editor
Faculty members from the S
|m8 Health have organized a project ?
M motion of interdisciplinary AIDS r
getting USC more involved in All
hsjfiqi Carolina aiijs Kcsearch & Iiduc
ijgHW?3 been started because several faculi
been interested in the subject of i
time, said Dr. Francisco Sy, assoc
epidemiology and CARE director.
Other goals include promoting
of educational strategies for prevei
W ill of AIDS as well as serving as a rt
current developments in AIDS.
Sy said it is important other par
get involved, To help promote part
is sponsoring AIDS Prevention V
The week will include a series of
displays and a film.
II he Student Public Health Assot
national Health Committee and tl
dent Alumni Services are also spoil
"Right now, there are 114 AID
Carolina," Sy said. He said educa
stopping the sp *ad of the disease.
Sy, who tcp es a course about s
ted disea ' working on orga
awarene co' ;se called "AIDS: <
tives an ? Pre >lems."
The < ours? to be offered next fa
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in two. he irst half will concentrs
ding the virus, Sy said. The
s of be class discus >n and panels debi
There will ie good participate
J Sy said. The c ursc is open to all ?
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By TODD HINES
Asslslunt news edilor
Student Government Vice
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ricmuciu i\oueri ncan rappca lus
gavel for the last time Wednesday
to close the final meeting of the
1986-87 Student Senate after
senators breezed through a
number of bills and resolutions.
The main bill of the evening
created a committee to follow the
progress of a bill presented to
state legislators, adding a voting
student to the USC board of
trustees. The committee will include
five members appointed by
SG President Amy Houser and
five appointees of President-elect
Michael Hogue.
The committee will be known
as the Student Trustee Commition
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legislators and keep students informed
of the bill's status. After
the bill comes to vote in the
General Assembly, the committee
will disband.
In continuation of old
business, the Senate approved an
amendment to permanently
establish the Student Handbook
Committee.
This committee will publish an
undergraduate student handbook
sponsored by SG, making improvements
every year.
Lavcta Small, assistant vice
president of administration of
student affairs, spoke to the
Senate about the importance of a
different handbook than the one
now distributed by Student
A ffnirc
"It's one reference guide. You
don't have to go to six different
other ones or wonder where to
go. You will be responsible to
have one, and it will have a shelf
life," Small said.
Student Government will
publish the handbook next fall
for all undergraduate students.
Small said the cost may range
from $5,000 to $6,000 a year in
tarts A in*
research, s
?ek Sy said althoug
on campus, USC
yiyjl becoming involve
Y' I* "AIDS should
physicians," Sy s;
in knowing aboui
To get student
chool of Public Week," the proje
limed at the pro- student who writ
esearch as well as Deadline for cntr
)S awareness.
ation Project has
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MDS for a long
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the development humans for a d
ition and control against AIDS,
rsourcc group on One of the s
USC's School c
ts of the campus ing with the ex]
icipation, CARE or AZT, for six
Veek April 1-10. on six AIDS pa
seminars, poster Postic said th
cases except on
:iation, the Inter- taking the drug
ic Office of Stu- In Septembei
soring the event. Charles Bryan
S cases in South vestigators to e:
tion is the key in Dr. Francis^
epidemiology ai
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nizing an AIDS Postic agrees
Current Perspec- the virus; the dr
Postic said it
II, will be divided drug works, ant
He on understan- his cases. He ah
second half will that will kill the
ating the issue. have," he said.
n in the course," AZT costs $1
students.
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the future.
Small said there have been
handbooks in the past, but since
1981, no administration hase
continued to support their
publication.
In other business, the Senate:
unanimously approved a bill
and a resolution concerning the
Golden Spur.
The bill establishes a standing
committee of five members to
work with the facility's development
by working with officials
and ensuring it will be used
primarily as a non-alcoholic
nightclub/lounge for students.
The resolution defends the proposal
of the Non-Alcoholic
iNigntciub/Lounge Committee to
keep the Spur for students use
and not as a meeting space for
administrators in the back, which
was proposed last week.
supported the relocation of
the Off Campus Student Services
Office to the third floor of the
Russell House.
Rosemary Broadway, coordinator
of Off Campus Student
Services, has recommended the
area since most off-campus
students frequent the Russell
House regularly and the present
location under the Towers lobby
is out of their way.
amended the election codes
of the constitution to prohibit SG
candidates from using an alias on
election ballots.
passed a bill presented by
Sen. James Franklin requiring
senators to undergo a parliamentary
procedure program every
semester besides standard
orientation.
"It's really bad that senators
arc not using correct parliamentary
procedure, don't know what
they're doing here, and they expect
to be respected by their colleagues.
This bill is an attempt to
do something about that," he
said.
$ project
awareness
;h no AIDS case has been reported
' should not wait for one before
d in the issue.
not be just the responsiblity of
aid. "Everyone should be involved
t AIDS."
s involved in "AIDS Prevention
ct is offering a $100 award for the
es the best slogan for the event,
ics is April 8.
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orks with AIDS drug
LYTH
i>r
doing some preliminary tests on
rug showing promise in the fight
dentists is Dr. Bosko Postic of
>f Medicine, who has been workperimentai
drug, dideoxycytidine
months. Postic has tried the drug
tients.
ic drug tested positively in all the
e, when the patient had to stop
because of bad side effects.
1986, Postic and colleague Dr.
registered to be national inicperiment
with AZT.
:o Sy, associate professor of
t USC, said while AZT prolongs
kill the virus.
. "There is no drug that can cure#
ug can only suppress it," he said/
is still not known how well the
1 he will have to wait and see with
?o said he does not foresee a drug
; virus. AZT "is the best deal we
0,000 a year per patient, Sy said.
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