Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r n The play The Great TTO/^ 11? a. a a i "Whenever I approach a role, there (f\ White Hope examines rac- I I.Wf flPl I I I A A always has to be a place where 1 can ism during the reign of ? "11 identify with her humanity and basiboxing champ Jack eally l?ve them." ? ? Glenn s-s Johnson. See Carolina Life, page 4 ^ ^ Close, actress See "Glenn," page 5 The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism .VIoncUly Volume 82, No. 34 University of South Carolina ' November 6, 1989 Indian sum ' V-* S|p||p. $ ijyi Hotel, Restaurant and Toui morning. Private ch By The Associated Press HPcnxnm TC A ui??I, I??, t n uiaw?v iaw sion to a private club because of day he is considering filing a bill crimination by private clubs with Rep. Ennis Fant, D-Greenville, female companion were denied night to the club. When asked \ told the club was private and th< blacks entrance if they wished. Fant said he asked the state Control Commission, the NAAC General's Office to look into the satisfaction, he said he would file Assembly to outlaw racial discr clubs with liquor licenses. "This kind of thing simply can on because it's nothing but a cli vate' just to try to hide its racial t Fant said he does not think lej Post-Hui draws im By The Associated Press As much as $2 million in dupl cate food stamps may have bee given to people who did not qua ify following Hurricane Hugo, an state and federal officials say the want the wrongfully received ai back. Federal law prohibits anyon from getting two allotments < food stamps per month, but th volume of work placed on goven ment employees after Hurricar Hugo struck Sept. 21 allowed th; to happen in some cases, officia say. According to the U.S. Depar ment of Agriculture, the $2 millic figure could change after moi investigation. The state Department of Soci; For the record In the Friday, Nov. 3 editio photograph incorrectly identifie was actually sponsored and pu ment, though Columbia Hall r Gamecock regrets this error. mer Sunday : ' 'st: V:: '' ^ :;? i M V1^ !%i i |pj ' .; J SSl rism sophomore Debbie Delissa and electrical ei ib in Greenvill< maker denied admis- "This kind of thi his race said Thurs- ? . , outlawing racial dis- allowed to go ^ on state liquor licenses. but H club Calling i said he and a black try to hide its racia entrance Wednesday vhy, he said he was ; owners could deny Alcoholic Beverage and the Attorney to revoke the club's liquo matter. If he gets no it takes, I'll file that a bill in the General hesitation." imination by private The club, Elite Single profit organization in 19! not be allowed to go Diane Olson to "provide lb calling itself $pri- tivities for single people,' >igotry," he said. of State's office, pslation is necessary Reece said Thursday si *o food stami vestigation fro Services, which is looking into the Dou i- problem as part of an investigation occurr ;n of post-Hugo food stamp fraud, cause \ 1- wrote letters warning regular food stamp id coupon recipients to return extra stamps >y booklets by Oct. 31 or face their C id prosecution. cials sa Qnmp Tvnnl#* houo Hnnfl thot Hut Put w/vyinv p\. wpiv hut v uvyuv uiut, uui uul ie DSS officials haven't determined work li )f how many. milliori ie Social workers say it will be stamps i- tough for some people to give the were i ie allotments back. Brenda Allen, a stop al at caseworker for the Salvation Army pients Is in the Pee Dee, said many people mailed need everything they can get be- stamps t- cause they lost so much during the The >n storm. more v re "It will take a lot to replenish all ties thj that," she said. "I'm sure they'll vate cc al have a hard time. It will hurt." rectly Local emerge tors we allotme Thoi n of The Gamecock, the cutline of a Calhou d the picture. The masquerade party ter> Fa t on by Capstone dormitory govern- burg, I esidents were invited to attend. The ? .. \ i JSLJ** ,%* %>$, * v .J^%%swissA % * M ^ '' "*?* M * jfl|| pj| ^ ,'' vv./|F^"? ^'"\^V |?|f| v ngineer senior Donna Bethea study and talk i accused of d ???? panjon admissj, ing simply cannot be an?T^h*tesJh?l , ... ... If the black because it's nothing not going to ^ tself 'private' just to "A singles ci ll bigotry." successful," sh< Rep. Ennis Fant 1 ^ !^e t0?see D-Greenville ne^s onf- ,, More than 51 4l_ _I i_ _i 10 ine ciuD, sne The federal < r license, "but if that's what vate clubs fror bill without a second's color, race, nat applies to publi s, was chartered as a non- But Fant sail 82 by Elizabeth Reece and because it advt recreational, fellowship ac- "But if you go ' according to the Secretary mission," he sai Mark Dillard le denied Fant and his com- eral's office, sa i fraud mDSS * ble food stamp allotments ed in many instances be>eople who regularly receive s picked up emergency , making them ineligible for ctober allotment, DSS offithe storm's timing and the r\oH invrvlvAH in iocninnr CAO L/UU HlfUlTVU All lOOUUIg i worth of emergency food meant some DSS offices 9H mable to cross check and 1 payments to regular recibefore the stamps were , officials say. Emergency were issued in 23 counties, problem was apparently widespread in about 10 counit have contracted with pri- wH . ^ >mpanies to mail stamps dito clients, officials said, offices were handling ncy stamps, while contracts preparing to mail regular tnts. ;e counties were Berkeley, n, Chester, Dillon, Dorcheslirfield, Florence, Orangelichland and Williamsburg. Hcr . Columbia See STAMPS page 2 Pi By LIP Staff W A U ceived bring t single 1 A. J< Mass C for "th Jewli a c( Develo IPw1 receive *jfl he had Vk The -- ly1 ^(j| BBMBB and Or Educati Proje i - Jf given 1 WIN U I I I The Gamecock purpOSC on The Horseshoe Sunday "So 1 ful. I c time." enying admissi an because she does not believe blacks to clarii lid mix in singles lounges. Comrni; : guys come in here then my girls are vate lice nee with them," Reece said. State ub must be all white or all black to be ited by e added. "I'm not prejudiced because Amend] a singles club for blacks; Greenville Nich< mission 00 members pay $25 a year to belong but he ( said. Rayn 2ivil Rights Act of 1964 exempts pri- commit n its ban on discrimination based on ation fc ional origin, religion or sex. The ban will hel c places such as restaurants and hotels. Elite Si 1 the Elite Singles club is not private This jrtises and encourages people to join, liquor 1 there and are black you are denied ad- claimed id. - blacks. , spokesman for the state attorney gen- restaura id state legislation would be necessary ciminati !Br catch resident Mark Passerini tosses a frisbee with hi oject receives itional award ?>A KENNEDY riter niversity of South Carolina professor has renational recopnirinn fnr rrestUno a nrncrram tn a c ~ he faculty in contact with freshmen through ectures in University 101 classees. jrome Jewler of the College of Journalism and Communications received one of four rewards 5 best idea in faculty development." er submitted his program, Project. Brainstorm, inference of Professional and Organizational pment Network held Oct 6-8 in Georgia. He d a telephone call two weeks later telling him won one of the awards. competition was sponsored by the Professional ganizational Development Network in Higher Ion. xt Brainstorm is made up of individual lectures jy different instructors covering a variety of ;r created Project Brainstorm four years ago. were sent to members of the faculty inviting i speak on topics in their department, an idea I had. I wanted to get the faculty more h with the freshmen and the University 101 " Jewler said. le past four years, Project Brainstorm has Lectures are now offered on AIDS, biofeedle study of foreign languages, medical careers, i, nursing, medical ethics, computers, the biol1/1 0/ V/"?-i 01 tu/Vflr nn/1 *V* u, Juviai wuiiv. anu many UIUW IU{J1U2I. Dvers just about everything," Jewler said. "We ng to make critical thinkers out of the students, hoping it will motivate them to think about hey have never thought of before." ii expects the program to make the University jrse more enjoyable and benificial for the stuIt isn't the major focus of the course," he said, way to introduce the students to the value and ! of college. far, Project Brainstorm has been very successan see the program lasting for a very long on to blacks Ey whether a state agency, such as the ABC ?sion, has the authority to revoke a club's primse because of racial discrimination, authority over private clubs is currently limthe freedom of assembly clause in the First ment, Dillard said. alas Sipe, executive director of the ABC Com, said he has received a complaint from Fant, leclined to discuss it. lond Martin, chairman of the political action tee of the local chapter of the National Associir the Advancement of Colored People, said he p initiate an investigation of the incident at the ncles club. past month, the ABC Commission revoked the license of a North Augusta restaurant which I private club status and denied admission to TTie commission found that the Buffalo Room nt was a public place and said its owners dised against minorities. Hp *>v "... <'' 1 .t' ' ^ * ndR I. * ?v3 i K. , ' - " WIN OTTfThe Gamecock is children on The Horseshoe Sunday.