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The justice minister today said jailed black leader Nelson Mandela definitely would be freed and migni De asKcu 10 oe a mediator between the government and the outlawed African National Congress. New Yorker kills tict< homeless person NEW YORK (AP) ? A man who was returning from the movies with his son beat to death a homeless man af- By ter an altercation on a sub- Sta way platform, police said. ] Transit Police say the un- Up identified homeless man en> started the fight Sunday night by harassing, spitting fec at and hitting Rodney Sum- mo ter, 39, and his 3-year-old tjs, son. v0( After the homeless man ( fell, Sumter banged the roc man's head on the concrete anc platform and kicked him in caj the head, causing his death, 0f W1UIC5SG5 idlU. pj-g FBI follows lead em on mail bombings T ENTERPRISE, Ala. (AP) X ? FBI agents investigating the mail-bombings that killed A a federal judge and a civil rights lawyer searched the salvage business and home of a man who lost an appeal before a panel that included ( the judge.* a 1 Robert Wayne O'Ferrell pic was questioned most of the oc< day Monday, and agents ? with bomb-sniffing dogs i searched his sprawling Enterprise junk warehouse, a ~ smaller junk shop and his * home in nearby New Brockton, about 75 miles from Birmingham. ? Lancaster, NAACP se to settle elections ^ LANCASTER (AP) ? is The city of Lancaster will tli end its discriminatory at- ai large election method fol- n< lowing the settlement of a NAAPP lau/iiiit II Lancaster administrator o Paul Paskoff said the city ir probably will hold elections for all six city council seats and the mayor's job this l< year. s Currently, one black and five whites sit on the city council in Lancaster, where blacks comprise 41 percent of the city's population of 10,000. fi In Monday's Gamecock, a tl picture of Morgan Maclach- S lan was incorrectly identified as Morgan Keegan. The s "amecock regrets the error. p Computer I A " ' ,?'*? ', || k Ibfc feii? James \ patrolman punches in a license number on th( teter. Cnvironmer TODD VENEZIA One iff Writer the en [n the 1980s, the American public woke effect, to what was happening to the C0!llS? dronment. . . rerms like acid rain, the Greenhouse ef- m whl1 t, the ozone layer and toxic wastes carbon ived beyond the laboratories of the scien- sphere ts and entered the average person's heatra :abulary. Consciousness and support were raised as way 11 k stars gave concerts for the rain forests our ^a< 1 the whales. But despite all the ecologi- causes enthusiasm, as we enter the last decade sai(*the century, we are still faced with the He ssintr nnestion of what to rio about the Greenl "Th< uronment. 1 n Mil would req o report all c College Press Services Congress this month will start seriously considering Dill that would force colleges to tell students, em>yees, applicants and their parents how many crimes ;urred on their campuses. Campus crime reports lot needed, police say y LUCY SOTO sslstant News Editor The data required under the Crime Awareness and ampus Security Act that Congress will consider this sssion is already present at USC, said Carl Stokes, tfiior vice president of Law Enforcement and Safety. "The data this legislation is trying to get is already lere on a voluntary basis. But if it's mandated, this going to cost; and the cost is going to be passed to le student paying tuition," Stokes said. "To mandate ly police department to publicate crime data is not xessary " Vice President of Student Affairs Dennis Pruilt said SC publishes a listing each year of the crimes that -cur on campus in an annual report of law enforcement and safety. Several other states have passed measures similiar ) the bill now in congress, and Pruitt said the meaurp m.iv hp. Prtstiv. "I saw that at the University of Pennsylvania, it's stimated to cost $120,000," he said. "If it's going to ost us $120,000, where is that money going to come 'om?" Stokes said a copy of every incident report is sent ) the State Law Enforcement Division where the intonation is verified and compiled. SLED then reports back to each agency and gives icm crime statistics for each month, according to tokes. Stokes also said, however, that crimes occurring on treets near campus are reported to the city police deartmenl who report the crimes to SLED. takes ovi By LYNN GIBSON Assitant News Editor g ^ Students with excessive ] violations may now be ir ately towed, thanks to the ] patrol's new hand-held co ticketing system. The new $26,788 Ca Ticket Tracks system is cap storing up to 15,000 lice : parking decal numbers ai paid for with parking fundi ing and Vehicle Registrati % rector Bill Baker said. "Now, if a patrolman pur a license number that has 01 ing fines or the parking de been reported stolen, the i be towed at that moment." Students with fines ov will still be notified as s possible, he added. Baker said the departm been looking for a compu tern for two years. 'This is the computer a after the system is totally mented, it will save the dep money," he said. With handwritten tickets, partment has to staff a f data-entry operator to typ information into a cor whereas all the new sys Netties/The Gamecock quires is transfering the ha 3 new computer computer data to a p< computer. ital issues of the biggest controversies about nents," vironment concerns the Greenhouse feet, USC biology professor David Lin- respons lid. As I Greenhouse effect is a phenomenon creases ch the world temperature increases as he said i dioxide collects in the upper atmo- vegetal letting sunlight in but not letting the as the idiate back out. value, ause the burning of fossil fuels is the "Thi 1 which carbon dioxide is produced, trovers stories and automobiles are the main believe of the Greenhouse effect, Lincoln warmii there h has been conducting a study of the sure o touse effect on plant life. been a e Greenhouse effect has two compo- temper [uire colleges ampus crime While many administrators oppose the bill it could make their school look bad, a group lege security experts resolved Jan. 12 to oppo cause it would be unenforceable. "We're not in favor of the law because it's liceable," said Jan Sherrill of the Center for tl and Prevention of Campus Violence (CSPCV concluded its annual conference Jan. 11. Major support for the bill comes from stud rents and faculty members who say they need about local crimes in order to protect themseb them. Currently, only 352 of the 3,200-some V | four-year colleges in the country bother t crimes to the Federal Bureau of Investigatioi tracks criminal activities. The quality of the statistics, moreover, is While one school may report a crime comn what is legally a city-owned curb, another scl decide not to report it as a "campus" crime quently, the former college, appearing to be a ous sinkhole, may have a harder time recrui dents and faculty members than the latter on rnmpc r>ff looking like a relatively pacific learning. The result, students and experts seem to a^ highly unrealistic image of leafy, safe cam which residents feel so secure that they dc basic security precautions. "It's easy to get a false sense of security pus," University of Wyoming student Amy I "Students, especially freshmen, think nothing happen to them." "Students often have a false sense of sec college and university campuses," said Rep. I dling, R-Pa., who in September introduced th bill that would require schools to tell the pub the crimes committed in their communities. "It's interesting that students do things on that they would never do at home," said Shen CSPCV, which is based at Towson State Unh Maryland. "You would never prop your front door See Campus crime er ticket "Sometimes I gi parking over 200 tickets a day nmedi- jt depends on what ai you work." ' p USC Patroln irdinal >able of The department waits three < mse or before downloading the infoi id was tion to USC's mainframe comp }, Park- because that's the deadline for ion Di- charges, Baker said. The new system will elimi iches in one data-entry operator, t jtstand- $12,500 yearly salary, from cal has parking staff. This will save car can department time and money s the data-entry operator can't er $50 ways read the patrolmen's h; ;oon as writing, he said. Parking Enforcement Supen ent had Jerry Luthren explained that ter sys- system uses a touch screen. patrolman begins the ticketing ge, and cess by punching in either imple- license or decal number. They lartment continue by picking the m color and violation of the car , the de- the computer prints the ticket, ull-time The system is being phaset e ticket with two patrolmen using the ( nputer, puters now and one additional tern re- rolman using one until all md-held parking patrolmen have them. srsonal See Parking pa< rraf rvn ki; gvl puuu said Lincoln. "It has a climatic ef- I and it also effects vegetative ;es. ;he amount of carbon dioxide in, the amount of vegetation increases, . This has been seen in the effects on )les in Greenhouses. Unfortunately, vegetables grew, they lost nutritional s is a matter of intense current con- | y," Lincoln said. "Many scientists i that there has been some global ig. One of the problems . . .is that as never been a comprehensive mea- F f global temperature nor has there \ complete history of what the global atures have been. MgHtaPI I is m because I of colse it benot pole Study ), which ents, pato know pr* wo- and 0 report ^ Jfl n, which uneven, litted on 100I may Conse1 dangerting stue, which oasis of puses in >n't take ^ersity in The Thinker, Pai open for L . Midlands Tech insTiic library. i page 2 L__ writing ve PARKING CITATION I rea The The University I ii cr r?f *sr?n h fnrnlinn I I UJt 1 nan I ? 1 Jays CITATION #489384 ina- LJ'iiNSE: 9GOKC702 SC >uter L'r i AL: 90S 4136 Of:!! I CLE! BRl.'I TOY 20 n^lc "the The APPEAL DATE: / / prothe OFFICER: P94 fODAYS DATE: 01/15/99 "and I1??I PAYABLE AT PARKING AND VEHICLE REGISTRATION SERVICES, PENDLETON 1 in, STREET GARAGE OR MAIL IMMEDIATELY IN ENVELOPE PROVIDED. PLEASE ,OHl- DO NOT SEND CASH THROUGH THE MAIL. patfive Journalism junior Elizabeth Fox's new computerized park 9e ^ ,My ic notice w "The only question is: has it already hap ened? That is the argument driving the vhole issue," he said. See Environment page 2 Renee Meyer/The Gamecock rt Two tor Jim Kelieher studies outside the