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Sf * * * ' ~ * tT 4 ? * i . ~ ;V: 4 r'), ^ s. v ; .KSt,v % v * /- ".*,: MMN Slinky Sunday Alicia Higgnbotham, 4, of Atlanta, watches intently as its way down the steep steps of Longstreet Theater Sund Greeks not fu By SARA CRUTCHLEY Staff writer Two years after the merging of the governing councils of USC's black and white greek organizations, sororities and fraternities appear to be only marginally closer, greek leaders said. In 1986, the campus chapters of the National PanHellenic Council, the National Pan-Hellenic Association and the National Interfraternity Conference were merged into what is now the Fraternity Council and Sorority Council. Student Life Dean Jerry Brewer said the decision to I, combine the governments of the predominantly black NPHC and NPHA and the predominantly white NIC fraternities and sororities was made to consolidate the system. "We didn't call it integration," Brewer said. "But it was very foolish having a black greek system and a separate white system so similar that the only reason to keep them apart was race." The systems were merged because the greek organizations were becoming too polarized, he said. "The USC says that you should not be separate, (that) race is not a factor," he said. But he admitted that the benefits of merging the three organizations ? ostensibly to encourage more interaction between white and black greek organizations ? have been slow in coming. The effects of the merger will probably not emerge for several years, he said. Only one of the campus' white fraternities has a black member; none of the black fraternities have a white member, Fraternity Council President Luke Byars said. Statistics on campus sororities could not be obtained by press time. 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"The loss has occurred ent working ages, and that pattern is repeati: other Eastern European nations." - , *. v ? V ' * Carlson, who spent the last year in Bu( ? v " . Fulbright research fellow at the I v:;- Academy of Science's Sociology Institute -J.T. >' '' the death rate increases, which have occui wor^^n8 class, are strange. Ifcw''**'" "The white-collar workers, bur ' managers ? these groups do not show th crease ln death rates. It is the manual ]both manufacturing and in agriculture * dying at an increased rate." t' - The rise in the number of deaths per f - among manual laborers ranges from an ii 150 percent in the 35-39 age group to r -4 percent among those 45-49 years old, \ *^*A parable increases at other ages. yT-v^X? C-T In contrast, Western European n< similar size reveal no changes or even d j% ' ? >; w, J adult death rates in the same last quarto I# J*^ In his research to determine the major ||?'"*' death, Carlson said he found some as statistics. Among Hungarian men aged K** , r the number of deaths from heart disease III {$4?^ suicide and various forms of acciden almost doubled between 1965 and 1985. During the same period, Carlson also d ~ ? a more than sixfold increase in deaths * rhosis, bronchitis, emphysema and asthm; SAULS/The Gamecock tw0 show what Carlson calls a phenor crease in drinking and smoking. "Again," Carlson said, "I was struc her slinky makes significance of age and occupation. Th ay. death from heart disease and stroke, for actually declined among men between 6 11 v intparnt^rl -"V AAAI/VoA uivu Byars said the merger "has improved communication greatly." He said he sees things starting to change a little as some blacks begin to join NIC fraternities, an event he said was unlikely before the merger. "Now it is something that could happen, as opposed to a few years ago when it would not have been possible," he said. Sheila King, president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, said she also feels that communications have been improved. But Todd Allen of Alpha Phi Alpha said he does not see any real improvement in communications among the groups in the two years since their councils merged. He said therp,was "probably not" any way that the situation could be rectified, and he does not see the system becoming totally integrated until the next century. At the same time, he said, if a white person tried to pledge for APA, the person would be treated in the same way as any other pledge. Eddie Goode, president of Pi Kappa Alpha, believes cases of integration are limited. People prefer to stay within more familiar surroundings, he said. Greek Life Coordinator Rick Gant endorsed this view. The greek system's primary role is a supportive one, he said. People often find it easier to remain among people of their own culture and tend to stay within groups dominated by their own race, he said. Whatever progress is made toward integration, the need for independent organizations of black greeks still exist, King said. "We tend to get lost in the shuffle because of our fewer numbers," she said. m? DONT muvn me s ig List OUT. ' ? Ambrose '? I; 1 (2(zi d : I pQis ? Gilpin ?; | yS^~ VWVWVWA | For Mom / / ? i ?ad ii'ifS $20 1 ^ M | X3 _ __ # ? FOR INFORMATION: C pon.# J H lonated J | ^ tion. 'Mo % with one. ? ???? MINIMUM < 0 With EVERY donation Blood. Programs avail f< simple blood test is all tl a if you qualify. Special 0 students. 3 09 %? $20* Co'u ? ! ; air pollution ami i in Eastern-bloc of Eastern "Unlike people in Western natries and a tions who are drinking more wine and beer, the Eastern Europeans :ommunist , . . . , . , idiiy since are drinking very high proof hard list Eiwood quor, three times more than they 1 have lost did 25 years ago. Hungarians, for )ectancy," example, drink a fruit brandy called rely in the paijnka that is 120 to 180 proof. : ngitse m many them drink it first iapest as a thing in the morning, as well as dur- 1 ^sakTthat in? the da> and after work." rred solely Elwood Carlson < sociologist 1 eaucrats, e same in- ??????????laborers, years old at the same time that it was nearly doubl- 1 ;, who are ing for working age men." ? Although Carlson and his fellow researchers are ( thousand unable to point precisely to what is causing the proncrease of blem, they have identified some important physical 5 learly 300 and sociological elements that may be 1 vith com- contributing. - * "Unlike people in Western nations who are 1 itions of drinking more wine and beer, the Eastern Euroeclines in peans are drinking very high proof hard liquor, r century. three times more than they did 25 years ago. 1 causes of Hungarians, for example, drink a fruit brandy call- ? itonishing ed Palinka that is 120 to 180 proof. And many of I 30 to 59, them drink it first thing in the morning, as well as I e, stroke, during the day and after work. tal death "Smoking has jumped tremendously all across i Eastern Europe and that, combined with the high iscovered level of air and water pollution and heavy use of e from cir- pesticides and fertilizers in agriculture, contributes F a, the last to many health problems." f nenal in- "Then there are the social intangibles," he said. "During these same decades, local communities i k by the have broken up. Many people were moved out of c e rate of their original towns, and many kinds of voluntary t example, groups were dissolved and suppressed. a 0 and 84 "Now there is the family and there is the state, I Vandal splashes, over fraternity he assault and a vandalism of a fraternity lounge and were involved in a car Nj| police that she was assaulted bv two juvenile males at the Benson School University Police were inv around 12:10 p.m. Friday. a car chase at 1:30 a.m. S? According to police, two juveniles The driver of the vehicle, wl were going through desks at the reported stolen from Natio school when they were observed by a Rental agency, failed to stc staff member. The staff member pur- traffic light at the corner of 1 sued them and managed to catch one. G? ne streets, who then kicked her. Universe he vehicle and its three ot Police apprehended and ident: th :n failed to stop for the Ui the juveniles, but they were rele jd Police car. The car was pui after the victim refused to press Cayce, where the subjects e> charges. vehicle and ran from the off Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity The vehicle was towed members reported Friday that their University Police impound 1 lounge was vandalized. The car also had a stolen licen unknown vandal splashed green and from another vehicle which h black paint on the walls, three sofas turned over to the Columbia and the pool table. Other crimes investigated i The fraternity had just repainted A woman reported h its lounge, which was locked, said a cle stolen from the parking fraternity member Svho did not want Williams-Brice Stadium S to be identified. evening. The woman, not VWII HclpWillVxf.' i + Iwusc EXCUSES DON'T SAVE IMS. I flMVTn BLOOD DOES KTIIT1 tr - : >aeK:3a?t;?s<. mmm TIG i?tmai. ift I FOR 1 i I N ZX | The STUDENT GC k\ \ j^0>X'en<! 1 in the Russell He m \ Girl rriend ? ?.| 1 I 9 AM - 5 PSA'S fJ=) I 9 AM / I All University f< | mit computer s 'IKE | Students who re !t. l Box 352 | disqualified. Villiston, S.C. 29853 -?on,rft?-44'*r S A list will be do [30 receiving th !===^^ by 3:00 PAA Tu< ^20 PA(0 Government wi . Plasma & Whole halls. or all blood types. A Tickets will be : lat is needed to see students on bonus program for 9:00 AAA to 4:00 House. Students must \ toxicals. Inc. submitting scan Jdleburg Dr. Suite 105 tickets, mbia, S.C. 29204 There will be r 254-6537 early. ======^ TICKETS WIH :mg causes life span with almost nothing in between. The only exception is the church, but that's all they have." With such staggering mortality rates presumably due to rapid increases in smoking and alcohol com sumption, it would seem that the governments of these Eastern European countries would want to make every effort to curb these unfavorable trends, but such is not the case, Carlson said. "You can't pass laws against behavior," he said. "Look what prohibition did to us." Carlson does concede that stiffer penalties against those found driving under the influence have helDed to decreasf1 alrr?hnI-rHat*?rl a^ridpntc and deaths. But people are still drinking the same amount of alcohol or more, and the results con:inue to have adverse effects on the population. "The government doesn't believe there is a drinking problem because they probably have one, :hemselves," Carlson said. Women have not been immune to the giant icythe of death, either, he said. During the 1970s, he mortality rates of women began to rise also, and although they have not reached the same levels )f men, they are following the same track. Carlson, whose studies were concerned ipecifically with the labor force in Hungary, said he purpose of his research was to precipitate government policy changes that would bring a halt o the growing mortality problem. Whether his work will fall -^n deaf ears in -lungary and other countries in which he has gathered statistcs, such as Poland, Czechoslavakia^ lomania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Jnion remains to be seen. On his departure from Hungary, Carlson ronically encountered one of his own statistics. "As my train left Budapest, it suddenly made an :mergency stop," he said. "While we were stop>ed, we learned that a man had thrown himself in font of our train and was killed. "This is actually a Hungarian form of suicide, kbout 100 years ago, a Hungarian poet, in a fit of lespair, threw himself under a train. In some mor>id way, his death captured the Hungarian imigination. Ever since, it has been a peculiar kind of iungarian trademark." spills paint v /% m *** 1 /% m fuse luunge llfffPf student, parked her car at 9 p.m., MM an<^ when she returned at midnight, her car was gone. A woman reported Friday that her car was broken into at the parking lot at Williams-Brice. Her wallet and other items were taken. Als6, University Police arolved in rested two students at 12:30 a.m. iturday. Thursday at 1200 Blossom St. lich was The male student was charged with I nal Car disorderly conduct, and the female ?p for a student was charged with public Bull and drunkenness. Both students were transported to the Richland County xupants Detention Center, niversity Also on Thursday, a student rsued to reported his car broken into while it uted the was parked in the Pendleton Street icer. Garage. Several items were taken, to the A female student reported a lot. The burglary of her unlocked dorm room se plate Friday. An unknown person entered tad been the room in Wade Hampton and Police, took several items, nclude: On Friday, a student er vehi- reported his car stereo stolen from lot of his car, which was parked on the aturday seventh level of the Blossom Street a USC garage. C Ml awesome r |t| alternative 90.5 ENT FOOTBALL KET LOTTERY CLEMSON GAME OV. 19, 1988 )VERNMENT will have a table 5use Lobby Ned. & Thurs. Oct. 19, 20 3 PM Friday Oct. 21 3e-paying students may subcan sheet to be processed, gister more than once will be i r .i .i i *ii stea OT me sTuaents wno win e opportunity to buy tickets 3sday,0ct 25 in the Student ndow and various residence sold ONLY to those selected Thursday Oct. 27 from PM in the lobby in the Russell Dresent validated I.D. when sheet and when picking up io advantage to registering . COST $18.00 CASH ONLY