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I. 11111 ii inn iiiinii.. ^ -- - ' ' MW ^ ! ' : A ^ x :.,: ,;l : ^ , ...... , |".V" |l '!!! !^?!!!! ! !-! ! !!-j! | Tennis coach gets national honour I 1 befchin9 and orderin9 Film depicts true-life story of townpag^j | The Gamecock Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Volume 82, No. 55 The University of South Carolina Friday, February 2, 1990 BRIEFLY IN THE NEWS 60 Lebanese killed as Christians fisht BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) ? Rival Christian forces fought from house to house under raining shells Thursday in a showdown for mastery of Lebanon's Christian enclave. Police said at least 60 people had been killed and 150 wounded. Hundreds of thousands of civilians huddled in basements and bomb shelters with dwindling water supplies as troops loyal to renegade Gen. Michel Aoun fought for a third day with militiamen of the Lebanese Forces. S. African leader talks with Mandela CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ? F.W. de Klerk, facing the most crucial period of his presidency, invited Nelson Mandela for a talk Thursday on how to clear the way for the black leader's release from prison. The meeting ? the second between South Africa's two most influential political leaders ? came a day before de Klerk addressed the opening session of Parliament. VMI must admit women, court says WASHINGTON (AP) ? j The Justice Department says Virginia Military Institute's men-only admissions policy constitutes sex discrimination and it has threatened to sue the state unless assurances are made that women will be admitted to the school. The department has given Gov. L. Douglas Wilder and T L O ' TTT jusepn opivey m, presiueiu of the VMI board of visitors, until Feb. 20 to express an intent to end the single-sex policy or face a lawsuit in U.S. District Court. Activist denounces i DOE announcement AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) ? I An environmental activist criticized a Department of Energy announcement that a "tiger team" reviewing environment, safety, health and management issues at the Savannah River Site won't be looking at what's going on inside the nuclear reactors. The director of the team of about 60 scientists and other professionals selected by the Energy Department secretary said the team would dupli_.i : uiic uuici views auwu^ u^ing done in preparation for restarting the idled reactors. In Wednesday's Gamecock, the senior job placement article should have mentioned that eligibility to participate begins the first semester of senior status and continues through one semester past graduation. We regret the error. Today, mostly cloudy with highs in the mid 70s and winds south at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight, mostly cloudy with lows in the mid 50s. Saturday, cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers and highs in the lower 70s. $500 tuitioi From staff reports USC has not considered any plans to raise next year's tuition by $500, Provost Arthur Smith said Thursday. The Gamecock reported Wednesday that a $500 increase in tuition might be possible for the next academic year as discussed during a Board of Trustees committee meeting last week. Prior to answering a question about USC funding at the Jan. 22 meeting of the ad hoc committee on fiscal policy, there had been no discussion of increasing tuition, Smith said. "There were two hyphothectical questions: if the Legislature doesn't approve all the funding, and if we wanted to raise -. , Jj? , \ f 1^B|^V ^yjflH \* ^HHfa M Speaker Asa Hilliard discusses African L)SC's Black History Month Wednesday r CHE to helf By LUCY SOTO Assistant News Editor The Higher Education Commission agreed to assist USC in identifying a little more I million funds to help match a $2.75 millic grant for a manufacturing technology center. One of the sources for the state money w out $150,000 in Cutting Edge funds, which designated for research initiatives in higher c The university will provide about $1.2 millic match. "Increasingly when the federal governm W^vnutv 1VC to discrimim By CHRIS SILVESTRI ^ Staff Writer specif> Student Senate ratified an organi amendment restricting the alloca- ceives tion of student activity fee funds The Wednesday at a meeting in the be sigi Russell House Theater. Preside The amendment stipulates that and 1 any organization basing their Holder membership on race, sex, age, re- "Thi ligion, creed, handicap, disability, fratern veteran status, national origin or that al ancestry is not eligible to receive fr?m r any student activity fee funds. "Just b "It's basically just equal oppor- tion wi tunity," Senate Finance Committee student Chairman Rajan Shah said. "That's Stud what it's all about. We took the amend words right out of the equal oppor- existin tunity clause." next a< n increase r another $10 million. If we wanted to clo: that gap entirely through tuition, how muc of a tuition raise are we looking at," Smil j saiu. "Neither the president, nor I, nor Vic President (in charge of Business and F nance) Denton had had any discussion or I don't believe any of us would even tx lieve it politically possible or desireable to raise tuition by, I think that would be, i excess of 20 percent in one year," he said. Even if a $500 tuition increase was proj osed, it probably wouldn't be approved b the Board of Trustees, he said. Commissioner of Higher Education Fre Sheheen said he doesn't believe anyon would believe a $500 increase is realistic. "I can't imagine anyone proposing a 2 ^ A > 5 ^ ] ^ Jpl ^ p Terry Bryant/The Gamecock al history for the opening ceremony of light. n ) get new cei substantial federal grants, it expec the facility, and not just the un I Tuesday etching funds," USC Pr than $1.1 sa^>n federal According to the Business anc of the commission, the university ill be ab- tunity to house the Southeastern are funds n?l?gy Center in Columbia in 1 education. Clemson and 16 other technical )n for the participate in providing techi ent gives See Coi strict funds g: iting organiz, present codes (laws) do not reading, the ' any restrictions as to wnai voieu on next zations are eligible to re- "The amei tudent activity fee funds. whole new co< amendment needs only to replace the i led by Student Government Chairman of mt Marie-Louise Ramsdale mittee Gary ] JSC President James rent codes art man. mat as the o is definitely outlaws any wanted to ma ities, sororities or groups specify the ir low only blacks or whites tion toward e eceiving funds," Shah said, the executive < y virtue, any public institu- The existin ould not fund them through tee consists o ; activity fee funds." president and lent Senate also tabled an Government, ment that will replace the g executive codes for the iministration. After another tot realistic, >e percent increase in a single year," Sheheen :h said. th He said he is constantly in touch with committee members and the governor's :e staff on the subject of tuition increases, i- "They all indicate they will do the best they ? can to go above the state Budget and Cons' trol Board's report." ? Another source of controversy generated in by the article was President James Holderman's statement concerning the General > Assembly: " .... but there is not a com?y mitment on the part of the General Assembly for higher education." d Ad Hoc Committee Chair William Hubie bard, who sat next to Holderman during the meeting, said "I just don't remember Presi5 dent Holderman saying that in that context. Speaker says t not given enoi iy KEILA LEGREE Staff Writer "Good evening. Ho-tep." Those were the opening words said by Asa Milliard III during the 21st Observance of Slack History Month Opening Ceremonies at P p.m. Wednesday in the Russell House Sallroom. The theme for the USC's 21th annual Black history Month celebration is "Reclaiming our feritage, Through the Renewal of our Minds." Hilliard, a Fuller E. Calloway Professor of Jrban Studies at Georgia State University, poke elaborately on the lack of African hisory in the public schools, why a black history nonth is needed and also traced a brief history >f Black African people. "There were lots of pieces of our history hat have not been told. Most black people lon't have any idea where Africans exist. >ublic schools never told us where the rest of is are. The schools are deficient I had to beome educated after I graduated ? after I was chooled," Hilliard said. Hilliard said black history month is needed >ecause "we don't have a black history year." Hilliard's speech primarily centered around oliHn nraponfotiVvti in Ra >]iiub pvouiiauuii in win^ii no gavo a iiiiiuiy if black African people. He spoke of a time rame covering 3100 B.C. to about 1300 B.C. ti Kemet, the African name for Egypt. He ddressed the fact that most of the material we ave of Egypt is from Alexander the Great's me ? eliminating the idea that black African eople existed and prospered many years in ifrica before Alexander the Great. "I want to be able to show you who these ifricans were. I want to show you the kings nd queens who ruled Kemet during the deve)pmental period when they were a hi-tech eople, running things without any help from nybody outside," Hilliard said. For example, circumcision, many of the lath, astrological, philosophical, even theoiter ;ts the state receiving Jl iversity, to come up Jfl ovost Arthur Smith 1 Finance Committee r received the opporManufacturing Tech988 and, along with colleges in the state, jt tology information to nmission page 2 iven ^ ^ 4-1 ^ auuiis amendment will be week. ldment is a set of des and would totally B current ones," said the Judiciary Com- I \ jl Malphrus. "The cur- \ >n't in the same farther codes, and we ike some changes to itent of the constituxecutive officers and committee." g executive commitf the president, vice- ? treasurer of Student LrOVGi lip as well as members USc Maintenance \ light in the Russell Hoi See Senate page 2 officials say "But I do know President Holderman of course wants as much support for higher education as you can get from the General Assembly," he said. "And he's always looking for ways to try to make sure we get as much money as we can so that we don't have to raise tuition." Holderman was in Washington, D.C. Thursday and was unavailable for comment, USC spokesman Debra Allen said. Hubbard said there won't be any real discussion about tuition increases until the first part of June, after the General Assembly has approved the state's budget "All of that (the discussion at the meetSee History page 2 \1 an\r litetrvr\r /1UV1V IIIOIUIJ lgh attention jmHt logical ideas that people have today were established by the African people during the golden ages of Kemet; years before Pythagorean, Aristotle and others existed. Hilliard also briefly discussed the concept of a mental slave. The idea was incorporated into the introduction Hilliard wrote in 1976 for The Stolen Legacy. "A mental slave is a greater victim of bonJ A.I 1 _ M TT>lf 1 ? uage man a pnysicai siave, mmara saia. The program, sponsored by AFRO as a part of its black history month celebration, included Tjuan Dogan, chairman of the Speaker's Committee; Avery Brown; Heidi Brooks; Laura Haney, president of AFRO; Pam Martin and Lisa Ross of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.; and Kurt Walker, vice president of AFRO. 'Throughout the country, our people will be coming together to renew the ties that bind us together as African-Americans and to share our rich heritage with others. It seems very appropriate then, that we have with us an historian, because we can't know what we're doing if we don't know what has been done," said International studies freshman Heidi Brooks, giving the purpose of the program. See History page 2 miiiiiiiiii i:ir - -" I Teddy Lepp/The Gamecock Worker Carlton Waldrop repairs a broken ise parking lot Thursday.