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Volume 84, No. 72 University of South Carolina Wednesday, March 18, 1992
An explosion Tuesday destroyed
the Israeli Embassy in
central Buenos Aires, Argentina
killing at least three people
and iniurine 60 others, ac
r jo
cording to the Argentine
government.
The mid-afternoon blast reduced
the four-story embassy
to a one-story pile of rubble.
The blast was heard more
than three miles away.
A 21-year-old woman who
witnessed the explosion was
quoted by the government
news agency Telam as saying
the bomb was believed to
have been planted in a car in
front of the embassy.
Supporters of an Irish
gay group, barred from
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Day parade, staged their own
peaceful mini-march of more
than 1,000 people Tuesday before
the Catholic-sponsored
procession began up Fifth Avenue
in New York City.
"We're here, we're queer,
we're Irish, get used to it!"
chanted the marchers as they
approached the parade's reviewing
stand, where parade
officials had turned their
backs on the group last year.
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The Myrtle Beach Air
Force Base could become a
second runway for the local
jetport and could be developed
into a theme park, industrial
park or air and space
museum.
The 4,000-acre military
base, which is scheduled to
close in March 1993, also
could be used by a college or
developed into a retirement
village, said EDAW Inc., a
planning company hired to
work on t h p ha c o
development.
The USC debate team
won the 1992 Southeast CrossExamination
Debate Association
competition for the second
year. The debate was
held Feb. 21-23 at the University
of Monevallo in Alabama.
USC also captured five individual
speaker awards,
more than any other school in
the conference.
Tom Randklev, Dee Walker
and Leigh Jeter received
awards, as well as Jason Hartwig
and Jason Boan, who tied
for top speaker.
Firefigt
By J.T. WAGENHEIM
Staff Writer
The Columbia Fire Department C
responded to a potentially hazard- P
ous chemistry experiment Monday e
afternoon in the Thomas F. Jones fj
Physical Science Building on Main ^
Street.
The building was evacuated for 1
nearly an hour. No explosion S
occurred and no injuries or fatalities
were reported.
USC chemistry professor Jim n
Tour said he saw smoke and vapors
emitting from a flask in which f(
nitric and sulfuric acids were n
mixed. The experiment was conducted
in Tour's sixth floor re- r,
search laboratory. c
As soon as Tour noticed the
vapors, he realized the potential \\
dangers of the situation. An explo- L|
sion could have occurred, he said. a
"Safety is my primary concern. v
If I think there is a one-in- f,
thousand chance the reaction may
cause an explosion, I am going to e
take precautionary measures to c
prevent it," Tour said.
Tour ordered students to leave
the chemistry lab and immediately j.
notified Muthukrishna Raja, USC's
hazardous waste manager. s
"We realized there could have
been an explosion, evacuated the n
entire building and notified the g
Columbia Fire Department for s
back-up in stabilizing the situa- n
tion," Raja said.
Tour said the experiment was a a
basic, documented procedure to p
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President John Palms has
had his share of accomplishments
and criticism during his
first year at USC.
Environmer
By MELISSA TENNEN
Staff Writer |
A march and a unique rally to
protest the devastation of the environment
in South Carolina will be
held for the first time this
weekend.
The Citizen's March for a <
Healthy Environment is a new out- I
let for concerned people in the :
state to urge action for protecting <
uiv vuv livjiiniciii, eveiu coordinator
Tim Crenshaw said. ;
The march will begin at 11 a.m.
Saturday on the corner of Richland <
and Main streets and will cover se- i
ven blocks before reaching the
State House. The rally will begin <
after the march.
The rally makes the event one I
of the first of its kind in the nation. I
At the rally, anyone will have the 1
opportunity to speak about the en- I
vironment for about two minutes. i
The rally will highlight com- I
ments from anyone who wants to J
speak instead of featuring the opin- i
ions of only one guest speaker,
Crenshaw said. <
There has been a lack of con- 5
iters pr
"We realized there
ould have been an exlosion,
evacuated the
ntire building and notiied
the Columbia Fire
)epartment for. back-up
n stabilizing the
ituation."
Muthukrishna Raja
iade up ol giant molecules.
"We've run this experiment beDre
without any hazardous occurences,"
Tour said.
Raja said the chemicals appaently
overheated and got out of
ontrol.
"When two highly reactive acids
ke the ones used here are mixed,
le experimenter has to heat them
t a very low temperature to start I
/ith and slowly increase the heat
rom there," Raja said.
Tour said the magnitude of the |
xplosion that could have resulted ]
annot be estimated.
Columbia firefighters, dressed in
azardous waste gear, poured the
lixture over ice to cool and stabille
it, Captain Tony Bedenbaugh
f the Columbia Fire Department
aid.
"This was just a precautionary
leasure to prevent anything from
etting out of hand. It is a stable
ituation and everything is okay
ow," Bedenbaugh said.
"We will try this experiment
gain but on a smaller scale that
oses no threat to anyone," Tour
aid. 1
Palms' f
iy TIGE WATTS
Managing Editor
USC President John Palms' first yet
dent has been anything but tranquil.
In Palms' first year, USC has been
audget cuts, another scandal involvii
JSC President James Holderman, ai
;tratiye reorganization and criticism
phasing the Carolina Plaza Hotel.
One faculty member, who asked no
liiea, saiu, 11 raims uiun i nave giaj
Fore he came here, he would have
low."
Palms, who came to USC claiming
lead the institution in a new direction,
pleased with some things that wer
plished during his first year, but not c
satisfied.
"There's still more to accomplish tl
Lo. I feel very positive about the new
USC is taking," Palms said.
Palms has helped reshape the Cai
search and Development Foundation
foundations, one for research and the
development.
He has also closed down USC's W
Office, which was used for acquirinj
grants, opened files on Holdermai
ital rally to
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;ern for the environment by big
lusinesses in the past, Crenshaw
said, and he hopes the march will
jraw attention to the problem.
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iccidental. South Carolina has always
been lenient on big businesses
and never enforced regulations,"
he said.
Coordinators of the march have
several basic aims:
to send a message to politicians
.hat the citizens are displeased
with current legislative trends,
to display public concern by unting
all environmental issues, and
to send a warning to big businesses
to cease careless dumping
tnd stripping the environment. ? .
"I feel like we are on the brink
)f environmental disaster. This
state promotes an insane economic
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blow for buying the (
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have said all along tha
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base where they try to encourage
businesses to come into the state
and destroy basic economic resour
ces," Crenshaw said.
For example, South Carolina's
air pollution problem is reported as
being second only to Los Angeles,
Calif, in the nation, he said.
"This grass roots movement is
expected to make the politicians
pay attention to us," Anna Mulcahey,
a coordinator of the march,
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au iu.
Coordinators encourage concerned
people to bring signs, experiences
and banners.
Students are particularly encouraged
to come because they are the
ones who will inherit the the
clean-up bills, Crenshaw said.
"College students lend to be
very insulated until they get out
into the world," he said.
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of hurdles
academic services, two areas hit by this past
a year's budget cuts.
Despite harsh criticism, especially from the
Commission on Higher Education, USC was
able to purchase the hotel earlier this semester.
The brunt of the criticism over the hotel
y purchase came after administrators said USC
had to slash its budgets because of a tight ecoit
nomic year.
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believed USC and Palms were talking out of
I both sides of their mouths.
"The budget situation was a very serious one
0 this year. We couldn't do anything about some
of the reductions we had to take," Palms said.
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going to hurt us the next few years. We put off
j buying equipment, and now that money is
gone," he added.
Palms said the budget remains a question this
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"There's no other place to cut except for the
personnel. We don't want to raise tuition more
r than the rate of inflation, but even with a modIs
est tuition increase, there still won't be enough
money," he said.
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