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Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Friday
Volume 81, No. 77 University of South Carolina March 31, 1989
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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
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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
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Editor's note: This is the third install\
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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
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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."
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