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. " ? ~1 - _______________ __ * Vo|p3ymaJL I Bands battle in ballroom page4 Quoteo,theDay j I earn Wins 'The claim that we have had 25 on the road USC prepares for Salukis p?oe7 co^o^s^ 1 ?' Sports page 1- 1 Viewpoint page 3 The Gamecock Eighty-two Years oj Collegiate Journalism I Volume 83, No. 36 The University of South Carolina Friday, November 9, 1990 IbNefly' Jin the news;} Hussein dismisses military chiet ot stall NICOSIA, Cyprus ? Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has dismissed his military chief of staff and replaced him with the commander of the elite Republican Guards, the Iraqi army newspaper al-Qadissiya reported Thursday. Western analysts with knowledge of Iraq's military machine said the surprise dismissal of Lt. Gen. Nizar al-Khazraji could inrtiratf* r\nnr?citir\n tr? strategy of holding onto conquered Kuwait in the face of the growing U.S.-led multinational force and U.N.-imposed sanctions. The sacking of Khazraji, a hero of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, came amid mounting U.S. and British warnings that they may use force to dislodge the Iraqis from Kuwait if necessary. Universal Studios fire worries filmmakers UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. ? The fire that destroyed beloved movie sets at Universal Studios sent Steven Spielberg and other filmmakers at one ol Hollywood's plushest mogul complexes scurrying to save precious scrinLs. On Wednesday police arrestee] a security guard on suspicion ol torching the studio and tourist attraction. Destroyed sets includec those for "Dick Tracy," the "Back to the Future" films anc an unfinished Sylvester Stallone movie, "Oscar." The blaze on the back lol Tuesday night came within several hundred yards of the Amblir Entertainment complex, i sprawling and luxurious Sante Fe-style adobe showpiece where Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis anc other directors work. Police bump, grind for jurors during trial With pulsating pelvises, twe police officers wrapped their leg! around a microphone stand, go down on all fours and shool their rears in hopes of persuadinj a jury that a nude dancer violate! obscenity laws. The performance Wednesda; was intended to mimic the danc ing of nude women in the Chip penDolls nightclub. The Colum ?_ ? CCL l. 1 rr J Dia uinccis uupeu 10 onena jui ors, but instead made them smil and drew laughter from coui troom spectators. The jury was expected to de liberate on the case Thursday. The trial of ChippenDoll dancer Jennie Davis, 24, was e> pected to establish the county' standards of obscenity. Thre other dancers are to go on trial; a later date. Police credit boy, 11, with catching suspec JACKSON, Miss. ? Georgi authorities said 11-year-old Joh Corcoran helped lead lawmen i a suspect wanted in a string ( child molestations from Missi: sippi to South Carolina. Kenneth Robert Stanton i charged with fondling 13 girls i South Carolina, Mississippi, AU bama and Georgia. He is a su: pect in other incidents in Ker tucky and Ohio. Complied from wire reports Parking Committee want armed gates for i By GORDON MANTLER Staff Writer The University Parking Committee met Thursday, deciding to dramatically increase towing of vehicles on campus and recommending armed gates at two faculty lots. History professor and committee chairman Peter Becker said the current regulations are not being adequately enforced. "It is worst than ever before," Becker : ' r ^ ? ' ' ^a.-vj?; 1 I Major Mock poses with potential Marine f | : Interested s ; get taste of : in four-seal i Rare opportunity ^" tv n? promotes joining i me dell Vz 1 By ELIZABETH FOX the wh( Assistant News Editor Lcader; Maybe it was the once-in-a- was thr lifetime chance to be crowded in The } a tiny twin-engine airplane with freshm a bunch of Marines and potential njors 1 Marine candidates. learn ti Or maybe it was just the for tim I chance to get my first taste of gradual j flying- , ticipani I can't decide why I jumped at ancj ha / the chance to fly in a four-seater Up w5en the only other flying ex- h 103 - perience I had was over the wing Owens of a Piedmont going to New see m York- . couldn e Wednesday morning, photo grapher Eric Glenn and I arrived s Former Mooni s By TONIA MALLETT e Staff Writer A former Moonie spoke on the dangers of cults and on combatting cult mind con , trol at Russell House Wednesday night. * Steve Hassan, author of Combatting Cult Mind Control, was a member of the Reia verend Sun Yung Moon organization and ,n his Unification Church for two years, o In the lecture sponsored by the Carolina )f Program Union, Hassan said he was first 5- introduced to the organization during his junior year in college when he was approached by three woman who were a part s of the One World Crusade, n "I asked them if it was a religious orgai nization, and they said no," he said, s- A cult is usually a small circle of people i- united by devotion to some artistic or intellectual program, tendency or figure, Hassan said. ? "What I am here to share with you is not ; problei s more towing, 15 l r i I ? two lacuny iuls a said. "It is high time we enforce our own By regulations." Sfc Carl Stokes, senior vice president for Law Enforcement and Safety, said "Fines to are the only means of enforcing right now, 5^ and the fines are not stopping them (stu- pr( dents) from parking illegally." stu Many alternatives were discussed, including more enforced towing, armed gates, fic to See PARKING page 2 v< JM J: |M||i J WKm.> fl9| candidates Jeff Blackwell, Andrew Culbreath, T tudents ifflNjj flying J J5 :;-^ ? A 'Afr%nt/%* Coirrannt U/nn -i mujivi jugi/aiu n viiilentine, who ran through )le spiel about the Platoon s Class. By the time he ough, I felt like joining. PLC is a program for en, sophomores and seo give them a chance to 3 fly while training them e in the Marines after they H wmM te. Or, if they choose, par- ?JP ? is can take a civilian job ^ I ive the Marines as back6 hours. We arrived at I By| Field Airport. All I could ;re tiny airplanes that we 9 't possibly be flying in. This view of pa See MARINES page 2 from the four-seal e warns about d to make you angry about religion or to put tl you off to unorthodox groups at all, but a rather, I hope to generate a consumer s awareness allowing you to realize that c groups like this operate," Hassan said. a Destructive cults use total manipulation to get into the minds of their followers. tl Their practices are used to keep followers I dependent and obedient to the leader and to ( the doctrine, Hassan said. What the group does, not its unortho- ii doxed beliefs, makes it destructive, he said. (j "What I'm talking about essentially is a j pyramid-shaped organization with someone s or a certain group of people at the top that's absolute power or absolute authority," he i said. 2 The members of the lower levels are ex- i pected to be obedient to the higher level. Certain criteria are used to gain mind con- j trol and keep a person imprisoned. c "The technology of our understanding of j n resur >tudent violatic is much as $20 TIGE WATTS aff Writer USC student parking violators will have pay more for their tickets next semester cause of a set of increases, which was Dposed over the summer and received no ident input. The increases were proposed by the Ofe of Business and Financing, according Bill Baker of the Office of Parking and ihicle Registration. Eric Glenn/The G homas Brown and Patrick Davis. f ohm , < i ' -Yllll * * ajf[Jp : *' ?* >*? #: ? ** * - >* Mm 11 iilMi Hn ? lli1" 1 ""HWlro ? ? * - -* - M mm J? * *? *** *>* *- <* j?S .:>; ww i^|" ^^Hr'r' KyZJ^PV^II^^^^^^Kpr*> ~ H fit n mm*? * < n * tui sHis np ? gn^y l <i ' : 1H| %W|BP1 > Buflm Eric Glenn/The d \~l - r i ir^rs ~ t. .~>U:^ >>ior> oh>r%4 OAA I H OT UOU ctlIU OUiuniuia wao onwi cuu t, twin-engine airplane. angers of cult ie human mind and about group dynamics nd about communications has gotten to uch a level people are able to manipulate ither people with out their conscious wareness," Hassan said. While in the organization, Hassan liought that lying was the right thing to do. t was a way to trick people into following 5od. "It was a kind of reversal of Satan trickne Adam and Eve to fall away from God. I lidn't think I was lying. I was helping savng people and bringing them to God," he aid. Cults do not just go out after a certain and of person, he said. "Anyone is vulnertble during a transitional phase in their ife." "I'm not just talking about religious jroups," Hassan said. "I have in fact jounseled people that have been involved n political cults, commercial cults, psy faces >ns to increase ' next semester 'The next step was for the parking committee to make a recommendation to President Holderman. Holderman recommended it and the Board of Trustees passed the violation increases," Baker said. All of these steps were completed with no student representation. The increases were proposed during the summer, when most prominent student leaders are not enrolled. See TICKETS page 2 Students ' to focus | on racism By JEFF WILSON IkH Editor in Chief More than 150 student leaders from colleges and universities around the country are at USC this I weekend to discuss the issue of racism on college campuses. The conference, sponsored by the NAACP, is being held at USC because of USC's active campus chapter of the organization. "We're the best," said Student Government President Stephen Benjamin, who is the former president of the USC chapter of the amecock NAACP. "We have a very active campus chapter that was selected best college chapter at the national I convention. I think USC is an ideal place to have the conference. We're a large university, in a captial city, in the deep South." The three-day conference, entitled "Stop the Madness: Ending Racism on College Campuses," features speakers from around the .U /-? rli roiiooin fY ctrotP IIUUUU y W1IU ailr UlDVUSiIlllg ouuw gies for ending campus racism. Benjamin said he believes the conference is going to build momentum for the rally against racism that began at USC Thursday, and he thinks USC is taking a proactive role in dealing with racial issues. "It would be foolish to say there is no racism at USC. I have heard of and experienced racism here," Benjamin said. "But I don't think the racial tension at USC is a bad as other colleges and universities." SUSC NAACP President Troy Brockington agreed that the racial climate at USC was not as tense as some other schools around the state and the country. Statistics from the NAACP national headquarters indicate that more than 300 racial incidents on jamecock college campuses were reported in feet up *989. At Brown University in Providence, Rsl., dormitory elevator See RACISM page 2 mind control chotherapy cults, martial arts cults, smoking sensations, clinics that were functioning like cults, and I've actually counseled people involved in one-on-one relationships." Many people are manipulated and don't even know it, he said. "They view their manipulates as friends as opposed to the process of brainwashing when the manipulators are looked upon as the enemy." "You don't realize that the information you're telling these new friends is in fact turned around and used as a stratergy for recruiting you into the organization," he said. It wasn't until Hassan was involved in a near-fatal car accident that he began to reevaluate his involvement in the organization. He spent two weeks in the hopital and received counceling from former group members. * See CULTS page 2