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Poland, Germany
sign border treaty
WARSAW, Poland ? The last
major dispute of World War II
was formally settled here Wednesday
as Poland and Germany
signed a treaty fixing their mutual
border on the Oder and
Neisse rivers.
The treaty affirms Poland's
right to 40,000 square miles of
land that was cut out of eastern
Germany.and awarded to Poland
after the war.
"The decision we are making
with the treaty signed today is no
easy one for us Germans, for any
of us, including myself," German
Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich
Genscher said.
Brain abnormality
tied to hypoeractivity
Researchers have for the first
time identified a brain abnormality
associated with hyperactivity,
the disorder that causes up to 5
percent of children to be restless,
inattentive and often disruptive in
the classroom.
Using a highly sensitive imaging
technique to observe the activity
of brain cells, psychiatrists
from the National Institute of
Mental Health found decreased
activity in the portions of the
brain that are involved in control
of attention and motor functions.
Boy injured with rod
in upgraded condition
TUSCON, Arizona ? A 8-yearold
boy impaled on a half-inchthick
steel rod was upgraded to
serious condition Wednesday,
just two days after the thick
spike punched through his heart
and destroyed one jugular vein in
his neck.
"This is one in a billion," said
Dr. Phillip Richemont, one of
three University Medical Center
surgeons who spent almost 2 and
a half hours Monday extracting
the section of steel reinforcing
rod from Justin Stiner's chest
vand neck.
Cop causes accident
due to brake failure
A Columbia police officer on
his way to a call Wednesday
morning slammed into a car at
South Harden Street and Rosewood
Drive when his brakes
locked, Chief Charles P. Austin
said.
Officer John Arnold was driv.ing
west on Rosewood at 11:08
\a.m. when he approached the intersection
and the traffic light
turned red, Austin said.
Arnold applied the brakes, but
they locked causing the patrol
car to collide with another car.
No injuries were reported.
Austin said the accident is being
investigated to determine if
the patrol car was operated in a
safe manner.
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In Monday's issue of The
Gamecock, Alpha Phi Alpha
Game Ball Run Chairman Jezreel
Sweat was misquoted. Sweat
said, "We believe that there isn't
a negative relationship between
black-letter greek organizations
and white-letter greek organizations.
We just believe that there
isn't one. It is stagnant, and
we're trying to create a positive
^>ne." The Gamecock regrets the
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Officials report i
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TIGE WATTS
Staff Writer
USC students will have to pay 4.8 pe
cent more a semester in housing fees ne
year in a proposal passed by the Stud?
Trustee Liaison Committee Thursday.
The Committe also approved a $12 ii
crease in health fees to improve the Thorn]
son Student Health Center.
Vice President of Business Affairs R
chard Wertz said the increase in housing
expected to compensate for housing expei
ditures increases.
'The increase is expected to cover the ii
creases in housing salaries and utilities. Vi
project that salaries for housing personn
will increase 3 percent. Health insurant
benefits will go up almost 10 percent, too
Wertz said. "The minimum wage increa:
will be finalized for next year, which w
be close to a 7.5-percent increase."
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By STEVE JOHNSON
Staff Writer
Several hundred students gathered in
Russell House Thursday for USC's f
Against Racism."
Director of Cultural Affairs for Student
Faith Lawrence opened the rally by we
crowd and stating the purposes of the rally
"The purposes of today's rally is to pr<
race relations between members of the
community, to encourage tolerance of t
cultures that are on this community and or
sity campus today, and to have members
versity community to make a statement
they feel about race relations on the univei
today and to make a statement about whal
sity can do to help (combat) racism," Lawi
Brian Black, Association of African-Ar
dents President, was the first of five spe;
dress the crowd.
"Racism is here and it is here on the U
and it will stay unless we no longer welcc
sence here," Black said. "We need to ere;
mechanism for reporting and responding tc
dents, but more than that, we have to
together. Black, green, white, yellow ?
matter, but we must come together ;
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Together we can abolish racism."
Eduardo Guevara, the president of the 1
Students Association, said, "Far more tha
needed to place racism where it belongs tory
books.
"The most important fact about this
what we are against, but what we are fo
said. "Be flexible, interactable, and most
be open to change. Let's work together
equal and just society."
Troy Brockington, National Association
vancement of Colored People president,
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Staff Writer J
Four bills were introduced in the
Student Senate Wednesday and all A
passed unanimously.
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bill supporting a proposal to con- a
struct one or more speed ramps
across Sumter Street between Devine
and Greene streets. Its purpose
is to slow traffic as well as
provide an adequate crosswalk for
pedestrians.
Student Government Vice President
Todd Weiss said, "We are
telling city officials that the University
of South Carolina Student
Senate likes the idea."
'The area right now is not safe,"
he said. "Two or three students
have already been hit there."
The University Safety Committee
and its chairman, Richard Conant,
have been working with city
officials on possible ways to lessen So
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r- jected to rise close to 10 percent,
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rise 8.5 percent,
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By MARCUS SESSION
Staff Writer
After having to stick a needle in
the heart of a live rat whose blood
sugar level was being manipulated,
H a nursins student alleeedlv with
I drew from the College of Nursing.
"She felt it unnecessary for the
rats to experience pain simply for
her to learn a procedure, which she
I felt that eventually through her
training, she would learn anyway,"
said Cathy Frisch, who is trying to
stop USC from dissecting and exf
perimenting on animals.
An Art Education graduate student,
Frisch is also the founder of
the Students for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals, a student organization
formed this semester.
"I finally decided six months
ago to become involved in animal
rights," she said. "The more I read,
the more I could see the injustices
of a lot of animal research."
Although SETA is opposed to
both experimenting on live animals
RI and dissection of dead ones, they
have decided for the moment to
concentrate on the elimination of
the practice of dissection.
"I mostly became interested in
dissection because it's such an accepted
practice in our schools,
such a needless and wasteful one."
Frisch said.
"Dissection would be the easiest
to stop in the beginning because
the only thing it really does is
teach about anatomy," Frisch said.
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the congestion on this stretch of
^ Sumter Street.
The type of ramp proposed is
t one similar to the ramp used at
was Georgia Tech. It is a wide, curbhose
high ramp used both as a speed
bump and a slightly elevated crossIwalk.
It will force cars to slow
down considerably.
The bill passed the senate
unanimously.
A bill denouncing racism was
introduced by Sen. Manish Shrivastava.
It also endorsed Thurs
day's "Rally Against Racism,"
where among others, Weiss and
is Student Government President Stephen
Benjamin spoke.
"This is a short straightforward
bill," Shrivastava said. The bill
passed quickly without any debate.
Finance Committee Chairman
Beth Biggerstaff introduced a fiiecock
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