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USC rule: By JENNIFER FULLER Carolina! Editor Imagine being at a school with a midnight curfew and not being allowed to go anywhere avt night without an escort. Your room is subject to inspection and you must get permission to leave the campus. No, it's not a military academy or a religious college. This is how USC women lived 25 years ago. These rules and others were outlined in the 1966-67 Carolina Coed Code, a manual for on-campus women students. The Coed Code was assembled by the Association of Women Students to "insure the safety and welfare of e ach woman student and to guide her in main laming a mgii sianuaiu 01 conuuci. The Coed Code reg ulated virtuJunior hig By The Associated Press Two junior high school students in Lorain, Ohio, charged with plotting to kill a teacher: may have felt pressured to try because classmates were betting on whether they would do it, police and school officials said Friday. A school official thwarted the plan minutes before it was to be carried out. "It's a bizarre case," said police Capt. Cel Rivera. "They say to this day they were going to kill her." The two girls are 12 and 13. Rivera said the 13-year-old, who allegedly planned to stab the English teacher while her 12-yearold friend restrained the teacher, told him she had no choice but to make good on the threat. "She felt she had tr> do if because the other kids had put her on the spot," Rivera said. i ii life! (^jaHHjKSSSS BBt^ s It** Ml HI tit Po k Com m f--: | i Jr > \ e r s pt ||| I ] I Reme i h Ih s less stric ally every aspect of student behavior, from attire to keeping rooms clean. Men weren't allowed to visit women's halls if they had on shorts. There was a daily schedule for lobby visitation in male halls, and women had to wear "school clothes or afternoon dresses." According to the Coed Code, "Carolina women are expected to dress appropriately and neatly at till times." Women were prohibited from wearing shorts or slacks on campus or in town. Hair rollers were banned from the lobby, and if a student was going to the sun deck, she had to wear a coat over her bathing suit. nnu ~ n?J n?i _?- . i - ? ? i iic va>cu c.oue s ruies exienueu past campus boundaries. If a student wanted to attend a houseparty, h students By Wednesday, their classmates had bet about $200 on the outcome, authorities said. Henry Harsar, principal of 700student Irving Junior High School in this blue-collar city about 30 miles west of Cleveland, said the alleged plot might have been classroom bragging that got out of hand. "It could have been me," he said. Names of the girls and the 46year-old teacher were not released. Police and Harsar refused a reporter's request to interview the three. Rivera said the girls hatched the plot Tuesday after the teacher scolded the 13-year-old for not paying attention in class. Pnlirp c;ii?t thp 1 ^-vpar-rUrl ?r?lrl ( them she wanted to kill the teacher because the teacher yelled at her. The other girl said she didn't like the teacher because "she sends me '"VI1' yy 'iiy^'ii v wiyjjw^ st m The Ab 1993 Ga rtrait Sitti e by the Russei *fPictun an G ?mber to sier :t than 25 her parents had to give written pe mission to the Residence Ha Director detailing where the p;ir was, how long the student wou be gone and the names of the cha erons. First-semester freshmen couldn go away on die weekends for tl first three weeks of school. If i upperclassman wanted to spend tl weekend off campus, her weeker hostess had to contact the student hostess, or resident advisor, to 1 signed out. The student eould t spot-checked by her hostess durir the weekend. According to the Coed Cod< "Women of Carolina are nt allowed to stay in motels or hote in the Columbia area." Wome were also prohibited from stayin : plot to k to the office all the time." Polk said the girls planned to stab Ui teacher when the bell ending the 11 House betw zs art quict^ id optn to a raduates an i up for an a Grand Marl: A phc M( uestions? Cc ' V ^ V ^ ^ -sr-Trr. ir^...^ ^ .s"ZZZL class rang. Assistant Principal Jacquelin Greenhill discovered the allege plot when she questioned a studei who was sobbing in a hall. The student told Greenhill " teacher is going to get hurt" an described the plan. Greenhill went to the classrooi about 10 minutes before the clai ended and ordered the 13-year-ol to her office. A 12-inch knife wa found in the girl's book bag an police were called. Soon aftei police questioned the 12-year-old. The youths were being held in juvenile detention center Fridaj awaiting a juvenile court hearim No date was set. Authorities hadn't decide whether to seek to try the girls a {-Mr) Everyon l-$LOver 29,000 p< p?'Jreading The C I Jl Join the cool o ' > '' ullii jKJyJ , T V lb ' i':> I* :;i yj?!-.. -y- y. ^ ^ / y ^ -- ^ ^ ^ / " > S""?^2Z2. >QH 'solute Fi met & B1 ines is SI ARTING een 9am and 7p: : absoCuteCy fi CC students! d Seniors: ppointment ii ;et Place. j >tographer is M ^ - from yam r< jnday throuc BE THEF ill Student Mec ^ ^ V J > S .J . S J J >-S S rr-y> ; y j .^ZL i ie whose son attends Irving. She said d he hadn't known anything about it the alleged plot. Michael Taylor, 32, who attenda ed Irving, recently moved near the" d school but kept his sons in schools near their old home. He said the rt alleged murder plot would make ;s him reconsider plans to have his d sons attend Irving next year, is "It makes you wonder what socid ety's coming to," Taylor said, r, Greenhill said staff members and counselors met individually with a students who sought guidance. /, "If students are in a spot where they're crying, you want to go up to them and tell them, d 'Everything's going to be all is right,"' said Greenhill. Sjj e's doing it! rfe iople are doing ikJS?iji jamecock that is\ nes and do it too! 11^ "J 13 < U\>. tW'JV - "! : 'i'VJ 1-' ^ - mn/iU VMtv >ff? 1! " i ?Oll?(l' D! nal Week i lack Yearb years ago r- overnight in a single woman's 11 apartment. ty Seniors who were 21 years old Id and "in good academic and social p- standing" could request permission to move oil campus, if they had i't Uieir parents' permission. Off-camle pus women were expected to be in members of the Town Girls' le Association and responsible for folid lowing the rules set up for other 's women students. >e "Those rules eliminated all the )e opportunities to mature that are tg supposed to come with being in college," said Patterson Hall resie, dent advisor Dionne Ray. )t "There's a difference between Is guiding and conuolling," Ray said, n "I diink those rules were control's ling." ill teacher :e adults. le "The kids are getting out of conir trol, skipping school and stuff like that," said Darlene Smith. 3S. Brown Coliseu By ME LINDA WALDROP Assistant Carolina? Editor Bobby Brown brought Ji high-energy show to t Coliseum this past Thurscfa exciting many concert-goers a leaving them with a last it impression. Joining Brown 'were openi acts TLC, Shabba Ranks, a Mary J. Blige. Many people sr they were impressed wi Brown's performance, whi reaction to the other acts w mixed. "Everybody save a so, for ook NOW!! m right now! 'M, i front of th ; schedule 3 7pm jh Friday. ?EM! iia at 777-38 show." senior Mimi Zimmerm said. *T especially liked Bob Brown." Zimmerman was pleased I many aspects of Brown's .sho She especially enjoyed t dancers, the many cosiun changes. and the different s< Brown used. She was also hap with the way Brown mixed c and new songs, she said. "'It was definitely worth t money," Zimmerman said. Sophomore Tammy Butl also liked the concert, althou; she was surprised the conct (-I '?T-.w - -Tf irr excites S;'" v 1 "" ;/vi m crowd was not sold out She described ihe show as "upbeat" and "e nerds getic" he "She has a lot of talent," lyi Butler said of Blige's perforod mance. She was not as impressed ng with TLC, whose voices she felt were not as strong as Blige's, or ng Shabba Ranks, whose lyrics she nd described as too "explicit" for tid her tastes. th Butler expressed a desire to see Brown aud Blige again. "I 2$ would appreciate them doing a concert logetncr. >(j Junior Hope Epps also enjoyed 'm Bilge's performance. She was b pleased with the way Brown y combined old and new songs. . ( 'It made me see how old, I am y now compared to when he start ed," Epps said. F* 21 Ik ? ** 2'" '.x>> In HI n * Hi ie H ^ Hi . \ H \ i a IS ^ >d Hi is ^ s s >j L ' ? :k 4 Hm 1 1,1 jl ^,,.,^,,,^,,,^.^'lBlBlffi1 ffey oupuoiuoie /\iestua ivuuuieion described the concert as "pretty good." She and her friends were PJJ also Biigc fans and enjoyed her 'lci performance. Middleton appreciated the comedian that appeared be between acts to relieve the wait. Middleton also tod a particular er memory that stuck with her from jj* the concert: "Bobby Brown and 'ft the heart-shaped bed!" HiVi l if so... I Write a short description M of him or her and send it I to The Gametotk attn. V Features Editor at: M P.O. Box 85131, U.S.C., Columbia, SC 29208. I J -_C' g n 5j I51ej| ? I;fg3vI& j.r^IsP "Vjri! ""