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Volume 84, No. 44 University of South Carolina Monday, November 25, 1991
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cocks Saturday, 41-24.
Merchai
Five Points festival
is under scrutiny
By J.T. WAGENHEIM
Staff Writer
The Five Points Merchants Association said
Thursday they are being singled out by Columbia
Police Chief Charles Austin for the underage
drinking problem, especially after this
year's Halloween celebration.
Merchants also seemed agitated at The State
wnen tney ran a story witn tne neaanne "Alcohol
soaked Halloween festival, chief says."
They felt the story in The State following the
festivities was "too one-sided."
Austin wrote a memo to City Manager Miles
Hadley which addressed the problems of having
alcohol at such nighttime activities. Austin contended
that "festival organizers were intoxicated,"
and that "young people drank freely in
the streets."
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In the World...
British Conservative party members
launched a scathing counterattack
against former Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher on Saturday after she criticized
Prime Minister John Major's government's
stand on Europe.
Former Cabinet member Norman Fowler,
a close political ally of Major's, declared
that Thatcher's remarks could cost
the Tories the next national election.
Prince Norodom Sihanouk of
Cambodia announced Saturday that his
royalist party would form a coalition government
with the current Vietnamesebacked
Cambodian regime, a move that
would solidify the former monarch's authority
at the expense of Khmer Rouge.
1 Saturday's announcement was not a
complete surprise, but it did heighten concern
that a month-old United Nations
peace treaty for Cambodia could be in danger
of unraveling.
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nators were intoxicated during any part of the dent whic
celebration. parently d
"The organizers of the festival were not Austin
drunk. They were acting responsibly. If anyone night of tl
was drunk, I would like to know who," said Mercht
Joseph Azar, festival organizer. Burts said
Austin also addressed other events which he gardless.'
felt made the Halloween festival a safety disas- what they
ter. He said "people urinated and defecated in Mercha
yards, and properties were abused." underage
He also said a complaint was made to the po- port from
lice department about a young man and woman cation anc
"making love" in the backyard of an elderly cess to th(
couple's home. J Anothe
"I have to look beyond the festivities and into , .
the publics' safety. I have no ill will against
anyone. But these residents do go through a lot Mercha
of aggravation," he said. tin cited <
Austin also recognized that twelve off-dutv *n the stre
officers were required to oversee the party celebn
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which amounted in 108 hours in overtime pay. P
City Councilman Jim Papadea said to The air"
State immediately after the festival that he saw "h is ur
underage drinking in the street and one car acci- rection," s;
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balloons filled with $6,500 in $100 bills as Horry C<
part of an unsuccessful effort to smuggle of takir
$60,000 out of New York's Kennedy Air- Saturday
port, officials said Friday. Jurors
Vivien Mensah, 29, a resident alien liv- secretly r
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nabbed on charges of using body cavities mant Ro:
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involuntarily, accused a radio station of paper ref
discrimination for canceling a live inter- As ma
view with him. pected to
Adam Seligman of Berkeley, Calif., said at Charle
he was supposed to appear on WRTA in sources t
Altoona Wednesday morning, but disc leston.
jockey Charlie Weston backed out of the Charlestc
interview after he had an outburst at an in- they won
terview before ?he meeting. missiles.
Racial in
on rise at
By The Associated Press
Racial intolerance is growing more acceptable on
American college campuses, say Jewish and black experts
on the subject who read the warning signs in
college newspapers.
An increasing number of campus incidents of racist
violence, both physical and verbal, is one indicator of *
the climate of intolerance, said Michael Nelson, national
college coordinator for the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People.
"Over the course of the last few years, the unofficial
license to become more racist on campus has
been issued," Nelson said.
This past year alone, he said, local NAACP chapters
have become involved in disputes alleging racism
in student newspaper articles and editorials at such in^
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of South Carolina and Georgetown in Washington,
D.C.
At USC, a son of a state senator produced a football
flier every week called "Gamecock Fever" with a
character called "Cockwheat." A student senator, who
was also a member of the NAACP, took offense to
the character.
Tige Watts, news editor of USC's student newspaper,
The Gamecock, said some of the staff wrote
columns defending the character. The columns
touched off debate in letters to the editor.
Experts say examples of racial intolerance appear in
recent ads in the newspapers suggesting the Holocaust
was fabricated, and increasing hate messages in student
articles and even classified ads aimed at
minorities.
"We see a very disturbing trend evolving here,"
said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. "Bigotry has
come out in the open. Using code words like freedom
of expression, they're trying to buy their way into
legitimacy."
A full-page ad claiming the Nazis didn't intend to
exterminate the Jews and calling the accepted figure
of 6 million Jewish deaths during World War II "an
irreSDOnsihle exaPPP.ratinn" has run rprpnflv in stiirtpnf
newspapers at Cornell, Duke, Michigan and Northwestern
universities.
drinking p
h occurred because the driver was aprunk.
said no DUI charges were made the
le festival.
tnts Association President Richard
I, "young people are going to drink re
rhey are young, rambunctious and do
want to do."
nts maintained they do not condone
drinking and do not get enough sup*
police when it comes to false identifi1
other attempts by minors to gain ac
;ir establishments.
r merchant added, "I am doing my
can't the police do theirs?" ? .g
nts also said the problems which Ausdealing
with public drunkeness, litter
sets and mass chaos are a result from itions
and events such as Gamecock Criminal justice J
lilgating and the South Carolina State psychology senic
evening. The Fi
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junty Democrat, was found guilty iv8 thanks )or.
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; colleges
The ads were bought by Bradley Smith of Visalia,
Calif., on behalf of the Committee for Open Debate of
the Holocaust. Smith is affiliated with the Institute for
Historical Review, an organization dedicated to proving
Adolf Hitler's slaughter of Jews never occurred.
Other schools rejected the ad, including the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Rutgers,
Wisconsin, Georgetown and the University of California
at Los Angeles and at Berkeley.
But getting such ads into college newspapers is akin
to David Duke's ability to gather national support for
his unsuccessful bid for Louisiana governor, Cooper
said.
"As long as he was wearing the hood, he couldn't
move forward in American society, so he put on the
three-piece suit," Cooper said of the former Ku Klux
Klan leader. "The bigots have learned the tricks of the
trade and are masking that bigotry behind middle-ofthe-road
political rhetoric."
At Plymouth State College in New Hampshire,
three editors of the student newspaper were put on
probation this month after placing a classified ad for
"three horny men" looking to "tag-team (a) young
Afro-American virgin."
The campus newspaper at the University of Cincinnati
ran an ad offering a free pass to "Strictly Business,"
a movie with a mostly black cast, to anyone
who would yell "ooga booga" at the newspaper's receptionist.
Black students protested.
For their part, student journalists defend their editorial
judgment.
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ad was-lies," said Neeraj Khemlani, editor-in-chief of
the Cornell Daily Sun, which on Nov. 18 ran the ad
challenging the Holocaust But, he said, "We're not
going to protect our readers from offensive ideas."
Khemlani is right, said Robert Peck, legislative
counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union.
"The principle of freedom of speech has been not to
restrict expression on the basis of its content," Peck
said. "Newspapers refusing ads because they don't
like the ideas he's expressing are turning their back on
First Amendment principles."
The best response to offensive speech is to counter
it, and many student papers have done that, Peck said.
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senior Brad Bannon received a friendly pat from
ir Michelle Moore at Group Therapy one Thursday
ve Points Merchants Association recently comjmbia
Police Chief Charles Austin is singling out
for the underage drinking problem.
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