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Jack Dunn Editor in Chief C. E. Holman Managing/Viewpoints Editor Jay King Copy Desk Chief/Photo Editor Ann wincnen News Editor Desaree Hollins Carolina! Editor Andy Borgeit Sports Editor Sean McGuinness Graphics Editor Keith Jones Darkroom Technician Paul Jon P arfnnnlct Jim McKellar Student Media Coordinator Laura Day Production Manager Jim Green Assistant Production Manager Shannon Wadford Production Assistant Rpnpp dihcr*n 1WUVV VJ1UOUI1 Advertising Manager Erik Collins Faculty Advisor The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published weekly during both summer sessions. with the exception of university holidays and examination periods. wpuuuns eApresseu 111 1 lie Gamecock are those of the editors or author and not those of the University of South Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Communications is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Student Media Department is the parent organization of The Gamecock. The Gamecock is a registered student organization of the University of South Carolina and is partially funded by student activities fees. The Gamecock P.O.Box 85131 University of South Carolina Columbia. SC 29208 NEWSROOM 777-7726 ADVERTISING 777-4249 TSnf Holoca Museum visit ii iiv Miisirv cai nivinMCfcrv Staff Writer This is the story of Helene Melanie Lebel, a 19-year-old girl, who was one of 9,772 people gassed to death in 1940 at the Brandenburg "Euthanasia" center in Germany. Helene was Jewish. Her story can be seen in The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, built to commemorate her life and the other 11 million men, women and children who died during the Holocaust between 1939 and 1945. Of the 11 million killed, 6 million were Jewish and 5 million were homosexuals, Jehovah s Witnesses, Gypsies, Americans, Catholics, mentally and physically disabled, and various other groups. One and one-half million of the people killed were children. That is the equivalent to a whole school disappearing every day for eight years. The Holocaust Memorial Museum, which rests on 1.9 acres of land donated by the federal government, was established by an act of Congress in 1980. It is about 400 unr flf f r r\ rr? t b n W / nrUin it 1 rvr* yaiuo nwiu niv* YY ddiiiu^UHi Monument and was built with $168 million in private funds. The building is a marvel, not only for its content, but for the architecture. James I. Freed, an architect from Pie Cobb Freed & Partners, has created an atmosphere that touches <ill the senses and fills visitors with discomfort. Floor textures are varied to create a feel of uneasiness. Dark lighting and shadows create a mood of the times, and throughout the museum strange burning smells are in the air, r/,irkiIifi .1 ,,f llv,. ? k..I IVIIUIIUIII^ VlOUV/1.1 v/l UIVMt UU11ILU in German ovens. Nora Bell will resign as head of USC's Center for Bioethics the first week of July to accept the position of dean of the College of Humanities ana social sciences at the University of North Texas. A false alarm caused by a chemical smell in the Coker Building Thursday forced an evacuation of the building. Professor Duane Yoch was doing an experiment in Rm. 503 of die Biology Department with dimethyl sulfide when the smell leaked out into the building through the hood ventilating system. The smell was detected in the hall and someone set off the alarm system ED '! last Men ivokes painful nacn visitor is given an lueniiucation card before entering the permanent exhibition. The card matches the visitor to a Holocaust victim of the same age and gender as the visitor, and is updated at various points through the exhibition. Upon entering the building, I received an ID card of a girl between the ages of 18-25. It was Helene. Walking through the five story building with that card was like looking at the displays through her eves. As a Jewish sirl seeins the museum for the first time, I was told the story of the Holocaust. The museum is divided into three sections: one part tells of The Assault, 1933-39, another of The Holocaust Years, 1940-44, and one is called Bearing Witness, 1945present. The Assault highlights Hitler's and the anti-Semitic Nazi's rise to power. During this time period, Jewish professors were hounded rrom universities, uociors rrom nospitals and scientists from laboratories. It also showed how the Nazis determined whether a person was Jewish by examining die eye color, hair color, skull size and nose size. The fourth floor shows a vivid portrayal of the 1933 state-sponsored book-burning of well-known and respected authors, such as John Steinbeck and other authors familiar to modern college students as required reading. In the descent through the buildins, I reached the most horrify ins floor. The things I saw were depressing, disgusting and morbid. The Jewish people were taken from Uieir homes and shipped to ghettos and eventually to concentration camps. The dark, dirty cobblestone floor and musty smell made me feel as if I were in the ghetto myself. But even in die midst of destruc and called the fire department. But Yoch said the biology department never deals with lethal chemicals and that there had been no danger at any time. Some steps in USC's financial planning have had to be delayed until the South Carolina government can make their final decision on the state budget. President John Palms postponed an announcement of his conclusions on the Future Committee. The legislature re-convened in a special session Monday and adopted the conference reports on the budget and reconstruction. These were ratified yesterday and 5rJ- STA ; n. - k-* jwwtJ ? lorial Mi -i ?vi ^ /v /\ n /\ uiiagcd ui liiiici t c Courtesy of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum t Helene Melanie Lebel died in the Brandenburg "Euthanasia" i center in 1940. s 2 tion, the courage of the Jewish peo- ^ pie was evident. They maintained their spiritual life, education, and N community stature. f The Jews were shipped from the ' ghettos to the camps by rail cars. ( Each car held between 100 to 150 1 people at one time. 1 walked c through one such wooden, dark and dusty car with five or six other visi- t tors of the museum and 1 fell almost 1 claustrophobic. How could more ; than 100 human beings live in these t conditions for three weeks? t In the camps the Jews were | stripped of their identity and beeame a number which was tat- t tooed to their forearm. In addition, j their heads were shaved and they ^ were given uniforms to wear. The " scratchy, filthy-looking uniforms were striped, with a yellow star of David patch placed on the breast pocket. People slept on wooden bunks N which had no sheets and pillows. 1 sometimes ten or fifteen in one rack. They survived on stale bread 1 mixed with saw dust, water and sent to Gov. Carroll Campbell, c Lawmakers will meet again June 25 t to take the final steps. a ( The LJSC Board of Trustees will hold their regular meeting Thursday <j at 2:30 p.m. in the Carolina room of t Capstone, but they will only be able to take housekeeping action to keep . the university running until they can s set up a special fiscal session in s July. c 'I USC is lending its name and [ endorsement, hut no money, to the <_ lid Robinson Co., to develop a [ northern Richland County golf e iseum s inhumanity imilar forms of nourishment. Some camps were work camps; nncrs were strictly ueam camps. Auschwitz, the biggest and most veil known death camp, was home o the gas chambers and crematoria ? the ovens. The victims were ured into the gas chambers, which vere disguised as public baths for he purpose of disinfection. I walked past real items of the >eople who died at Auschwitz everything including hairbrushes, oothbrushes, kitchen utensils, rlothing, children's toys, and suiteases. a room mai particuuuiy loucneu nc held nothing but shoes ? 4,000 hoes in all sizes, from child to idull, collected from victims at vlajdanek Prison Camp. The final floor of the exhibition vhich was called Bearing Witness, ocused on the liberation and testinony of survivors. They told stories >f meaningless death and stories of xmds that had formed in die name >f survival. 1 walked from the dark and drab exhibit toward a burst of light, the lall of Retneinberance. The hall is 1 sanctuary filled with thousands of "liekering lights and a huge flame, o commemorate the lives that were ost. I lit a candle for llelene. The canlie was also for the doctors, awyers, artists, musicians, shopkeepers and all of those who died vho were just like me. 1 left the museum feeling pride or my people. The museum ensures hat the horrors of the Holocaust vill never he forgotten. I also realzed that if my ancestors had not ieitled in America, my family might tot he in existence today. 1 am luckier than I Iclene was. ourse and country eluh. USC has urned over mailing lists from its ilumni associalion and Gamecock ^ 1 ub for use by the developer. In eturn, USC's golf team will use the ourse as their home base for pracice and intercollegiate matches. Dr. Laura Woliver. USG profesor of government and international tudies, has just published a book milled "From Outrage To Action: I'he Politics of Grass-roots dissent." The book examines the lynamics of grass-rixils mobilizaion by citizens in response to :vents they consider unjust.