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- WUSC-FM begins its "These supporters, not so much out of annual "Moolah For ignorance really, but more out of wusc-FM ?.* ,od,y june Raines directs his 500th win aliernative9o.!> at 1U a.m. erf >>?jeff Shrewsbury, columnist See Features, page 3 See Sports, page 6 See "North," page 3 The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Friday Volume 81, No. 77 University of South Carolina March 31, 1989 4k. Lack of av Safety Committee plans to make campus safe By D. R. HAYNES Staff writer Lack of awareness on the part of students and parents could be contributing to crime on campus, a university official said. With vandalism and theft being major crime problems at USC, the Safety Committee plans to take needed steps to make the campus safe, said Richard Conant, committee chairman. Crimes such as muggings, assaults and rapes occur less frequently, but get more publicity because they are more serious crimes, he said. Students are not convinced they can be victims of crime, nor do they show up for crime prevention seminars, Conant said. "We don't think something is going to happen negatively to us, and we don't take proper precautions," he said. "When you get into an area where there is less traffic ? vehicular or pedestrian ? in less light, those are the highrisk areas," Conant said. Areas most prone to crime are parking areas, trees, bushes and other dark places, he said. Statistically, crime is down, but a few notorious in TRACY HC To dive for Major John DeFede talks with Jill Hudson of Army R( performed a diving exercise Thursday. Turnout for S.C pleases Presidei By ROBERT THOMAS Director of Specie Staff writer Seibert, a financ Student Government leaders were estimated more tha pleased with the turnout at Wednes- visited the S.G. of; day's open house and are planning than 175 S.G. unive another such event for the fall, S.G. applications were gi President Marie-Louise Ramsdale the event, said. The nearly 30 comr "We had a steady stream of people have two to five mei all day," Ramsdale, a Soviet studies deal with such subjo senior, said. "The staff enjoyed planning, student-fa^ themselves, and a lot of people stop- parking and religious ped by just to say 'hello,' which is "Our committee a really good." coming in at a good r The open house was an effort by said, the new administration to promote "I was happy to unity and interaction with Carolina freshmen there," Seil students, Ramsdale said. Ramsdale said the "We want the students to come in will not only be gea and tell us what is on their minds," USC students but al said S.G. Co-director of Institutional freshman class and tn Affairs Chuck Denton, a journalism Freshman interna and international relations major Michael Watei sophomore. event to show his s "The whole idea behind it was to university's Ecolog get more student involvement report on visitation, because Student Government cannot "I just wanted to vc work without the students' input," on a few things," Denton said. "There is nothing r rareness he cidents happen, and it appears crime is worse, Conar said. Crime can easily happen where there is fairly free visits tion on campus, Conant said. A campus located in th downtown area of a city is subjected to more crimina acitivitv. he caiH "Here we are in the heart of a reasonable sized city. Therefore, you may have some durative problems of con :entration of people, of traffic flow, of pedestrian traffic and you can't be aware of who, exactly, everybody is,' Conant said. USC security has expanded, training has been moder nized and upgraded, and seminars have been added, bu crime will continue, Conant said. "You just can't protect everybody everytime," he said Poor student participation in Project ID is one concern of the Safety Committee, Conant said. Under the system, university police will engrave a student's name and ID number into valuable property free of charge. Project ID makes identified property less likely to be stolen if the thief is a professional and stolen property easier to retrace, he said. "I bet not 10 percent of the students have done that," Conant said. Another plan to combat campus crime is to make parents aware, Conant said. "We are going to try to hit parents of incoming ~ Women's Histor) Politics c Editor's note: This is the third install\ tinuing series of articles about Wot k Month. By SUSAN BUCHANAN Staff writer I?" "... there are no real difference, K M sexes. Seeming disparities in mental t tional makeup, attitudes and even r, skills are merely the product of cent dominance ..." U.S. News and World Report, Augu After the 19th amendment to the |r; was ratified in 1920, feminists turnec from fighting for political rights to j i equality with men. Many began re-evaluating their ro when they found themselves caught standard of assuming traditional rol L and wife as well as in the workplace. Results came in the form of drast society. Divorce rates rose sharply, began waiting until their careers were they began having children. Sexism, or the exploitation and di k one sex by the other ? specifically < men ? continues to exist. Why is it tl to be hired over women, or even paid same quality of work? w me oppressed majority Carol Whitehurst, in her book, America: The Oppressed Majority, four major institutional structures op limiting the achievement and psychof ment of women are the family and ir education, occupation and politics. wiE/The Gamecock Whitehurst writes, "The family is n the expense of the woman. Because recognition of the value of their labor )TC. The group jeft wjtj1 p0 sense 0f value as a group j. open house it Ramsdale il Projects Britt reaching out to the students." e sophomore, "Our objective was to get the n 200 students students more aware of some of the fice, and more issues," Seibert said. "A lot of rsity committee students came in and did not undersven out during tand the Senate phone drive." nittees generally The phone drive is an S.G. effort nbers each and to protest any rise in USC tuition by cts as academic encouraging students to call their culty relations, state senator, Ramsdale said, matters. Out-of-state students with conipplications are cerns about tuition were directed to ate," Ramsdale the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Ramsdale said, see a lot of Seibert said one student came into :>ert said. the office suggesting students should fall open house have the option of having two stuired to current dent IDs rather than one with both so to the new the meal card and cash card on one tnsfer students. magnetic strip, tional studies s attended the By having meal and cash accounts upport of the on separate student IDs, the chance y Committee of someone using a student's cash card without permission would be >ice my opinion avoided, Seibert said. Waters said. The open house cost S.G. $175, tegative about Ramsdale said. Ips crime, o ^ r " students harder through publications," he said. In addition, USC housing will be furnishing literature on campus safety, Conant said. "Parents might pay more attention than the students . . . because they have much more to think about as new students, and it's bewildering," Conant v Month an hinder equali ment in a connen's History "The family is maintained at tt no recognition of the value of the :bb~n1. va,ue as a at al1-" nany physical uries of male st '88 Constitution 1 their efforts gaining social She bases her conclusion on the traditional ual division of labor. icb in society jrnuiamitn Firestone, feminist movement in a double tivist, believes that the heart of female oppres es of mother is the responsibility to bear children. Firestone < eludes that societal pressures force women to ic changes in in the home and raise children, and women Whitehurst said numerous studies show stable before married women are more anxious and depre: than married men. omination of In school, boys and girls are taught to conti 3f women by traditional roles, helping to maintain sexistr lat men seem American society, more for the 4 Traditional' roles Textbooks generally portray boys as indep Women In dent and competent, while girls are shown believes the passive and nonachieving. pressing and Along with other school practices, this stereot ogical fulfill- ing exerts a powerful and limiting influence istitutions of defining specific attitudes, actions and opp tunities appropriate for boys and girls. The pr naintained at tice was outlawed in the Civil Rights Act, there is no socialization of sex roles continues. , women are In 1923, the National Woman's Party propo at all." the Equal Rights Amendment to outlaw sexist h w if ' i f frrmWIP ^n?Si?^lP JliSliii '*$ ImwHHHB Student Government President Marie-Louise Ramsdale, Ja printout at the S.G. open house Wednesday. ifficial says said. Parents become more paranoid and know things can happen, he said. "You don't want to scare people to death, but you have got to wake people up," Conant said. Making orientation more dramatic to get students to realize they can become victims is another way of educating them on crime, he said. Safety Week is another avenue for improving safety on campus, Conant said. "Having been involved with law enforcement/crime prevention, one of the major aspects we really have to cover is educating the populace," Conant said. Police do have the authority to ask suspicious people for identification, but they can't stop everybody, Conant said. Having security stop everyone would be fascist-like, and nobody would like that, he said. Conant, in addition to being a USC music professor and director, practices law enforcement as a hobby. He was the first civilian president of the State Association of Crime Prevention Officers. He also served as the president of the Sheriff's Trained Organized Patrol in Richland County, working with the sheriff's department and the police department. Conant serves as a reserve deputy with the Lexington County Sheriff Department and has a SLED commission. In previous work he has been involved in stake-outs, drug busts and patrols. "1 do law enforcement, you might say, as a hobby, as a public service, as a kind of interest-thing of mine," Conant said. ty, author says ie expense of the woman. Because there is iir labor, women are left with no sense of Carol Whitehurst, author sex- such as restrictions on the types of jobs a woman may hold. This controversial amendment said, ac- "Equality of rights under the law shall not be sion denied or abridged by the United States or any :on- state on account of sex." stay After several years, members of Congress debated and passed the ERA in 1972. By the that deadline of 1982, only 35 of the necessary 38 states 5sed had ratified the amendment, so it never took effect. nue t in ERA opposed Opposition to the ERA argued that the Constitution already guaranteed equal rights, and if passed, >en- it would abolish the right of a wife to be supported as by her husband. The women's movement has slowed in recent yp- years, largely because of successes already achieved by by the struggle. The movement raised awareness or- and effectively made legal and political changes, ac- Whitehurst writes, "Despite differences in goals, yet techniques, theoretical views, organization and operational styles, all members of the movement sed have found themselves to be united on the simple iws goals of liberation and freedom from oppression." \ * '' i$'v x TRACY HOWIE/The Gamecock mes Smith and two S.G. senators look at a computer