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Simpson trial starts today
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The O. J. Simpson murder
trial formally begins today amid all the anticipation
and hoopla appropriate for a case that
has attracted worldwide attention. And hardly
anyone will see a thing.
The jury selection process will be conducted
outside the courtroom pool camera's eye as the
judge tries to protect potential jurors from the
media glare.
For the next month or more, news from the
case will be dominated by the tedious yet critical
task of finding 12 minds unpolluted by pretrial
publicity and Simpson's fame.
"We've been through so much," said Robert
Pugsley, professor at Southwestern University
Law School, "that by the time the 'actual' trial
starts, with opening statements and both sides
presenting their cases, it will seem like double
jeopardy."
IRA thugs beat up teens
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and several other teen-agers lie in a west Belfast
hospital, their limbs slashed and shattered by the
nail-spiked cudgels and iron bars of IRA men.
The Irish Republican Army has called a ceasefire
against British forces, but in Roman Catholic
neighborhoods, its punishment squads continue
' to bludgeon men and boys implicated in "antiso-.
rial behavior."
Activists who support those beaten or forced
into exile want American officials to raise the is
sue witn uerry Adams, leader or tne lka s allied
Sinn Fein political party, who began a visit to the
United States on Saturday.
"They think in America that the IRA only
shoots at army and police, but look what they do
to their own people," said Ann Smyth, 39, the
mother of Gavin and five other boys. "Their gangs
are still beating up anyone they like. It makes a
laughingstock of the cease-fire."
TODAY
Today in History
Today is Monday, Sept. 26, the 269th day of
the year. There are 96 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Sept. 26,1789, Thomas Jefferson was apJ
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Jay the first Chief Justice of the United States,
Samuel Osgood the first Postmaster-General, and
Edmund Jennings Randolph the first Attorney
General.
On this date:
In 1777, British troops occupied Philadelphia
during the American Revolution.
In 1892, John Philip Sousa and his newly
formed band performed publicly for the first time
at the Stillman Music Hall in Plainfield, N.J.
In 1918, the Meuse-Argonne offensive against
the Germans began during World War I.
In 1950, United Nations troops in the Korean
Conflict recaptured the South Korean capital
of Seoul from the North Koreans.
In 1960, the first of four televised debates between
presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon
and John F. Kennedy took place in Chicago.
In 1969, the family comedy series 'The Brady
Bunch" premiered on ABC.
1980, the Cuban government abruptly closed
Mariel Harbor, ending the "freedom flotilla" boatlift
of Cuban refugees that began the previous April.
In 1986, William H. Rehnquist was sworn in
as the 16th chief iustice of the United States, while
Antonin Scalia joined the Supreme Court as its
103rd member.
In 1991, four men and four women began a
two-year stay inside a sealed-off structure in Oracle,
Ariz., called Biosphere 2, a project intended
to develop technology for future space colonies.
One year ago: Eight people emerged from the
glass dome of Biosphere 2 in the Arizona desert
after being sealed inside for two years in an experiment
dogged by setbacks and controversy.
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Correction
In the Sept. 23 issue of the Gamecock, student
senator Ralph Wilson was the proponent of the
Minority Affairs Committee amendment for the
restructuring of Freshman Council.
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ANNE PAGE Staff writer
ERIN GALLOWAY Assistant News Editor
Two gunshots were fired on Greene Street
after a Delta Sigma Theta-sponsored dance
at the Russell House early Sunday morning,
and three suspects have been arrested, according
to USC spokeswoman Debra Allen.
"At approximately 1:10 to 1:15 a.m., several
fights broke out in front of the Russell
House. USCPD were on the scene and at
tempted to break them up," Allen said.
The police investigated after they heard
several gunshots fired.
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Housing offer
DORA DEVERA Staff Writer ,
For less than $20 a night, USC visitors car
stay on campus in the new guest rooms in the
Towers.
The rooms on the sixth and seventh floors
of Laborde are available for alumni, studenl
and faculty guests and visiting graduate students.
"Its purpose is to provide short-term hous
ing for visitors," Gene Luna, director of Hou&
ing and Residential Services, said.
Responding to requests for non-student oncampus
housing, the Capstone Conference Cen
ter and housing services devised the guesthousing
plan and renovated the rooms during
the summer months.
The guest rooms are providing a necessary
service, Luna said.
Guests were designated 70 beds, and dur
ing Parents' Weekend only two guest room:
were left vacant.
"I didn't know that it would fill up," Lun?
said.
About 20 members of the City Year servia
corps are currently staying at Laborde, ac
cording to Danielle Williams, graduate assis
tant at the Capstone Conference Center.
During October and November, a team o
Russian athletes will take up residence on th<
guest floors.
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parents want to share a room, they are usual
9-23-94 Malicious Injury to Persona
Property, Blossom Street Garage
A complainant reported an unknown per
son tampered with her license plate, makin,
the characters unreadable.
9-23-94 Burglary, Petit Larceny, Resist
ing Arrest
A complainant told USCPD he observe!
the subject enter a residence and leave wit!
several pieces of clothing. The subject initial!
resisted arrest but was taken in custody an
transported to Richland County Detentioi
Center.
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U-ZZ-U4 Larceny 01 jdooks, i nomas L/Oop
er Library
A victim told police he placed his book
on the hallway floor and left to use the re
stroom. When the student returned, his book
were missing. Estimated value: $104.
9-22-94 Malicious Injury to Real Prop
erty
A Woodrow Hall resident reported a van
dalized window pane.
9-22-94 Malicious Injury to Real Prop
erty, Woodrow Hall
A complainant reported hearing glas
breaking and sounds of a struggle. The res;
dents told officers that while they wer
red Saturda1
t
"At aooroximatelv 1:10 to 1:15 a.
of the Russell House. USCPD w<
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USC Spokesw
Tisdale and Dandelo R. Shull were arrested
along with USC student Thomas Dockery. Tisdale
was charged with carrying a weapon near
a public building or college and disorderly conduct.
Shull was charged with disorderly conduct.
Dockery was charged with disorderly
conduct and a minor in possession of alcohol.
KIM TRUETT The Gamecock
holds a kitten at the Pets Inc. table
iccall U/iM?a natln FriHav
s guest rooms
ly placed on the sixth floor, but all female guesl
must use the bathroom on the seventh floo:
All the guest rooms feature some amen
J ties available at most hotels, including be
linens, towels, ice buckets and alarm clock;
Luna said the rooms were repainted an
refurnished on a budget between $8,000 an
$9,000. Guests are charge $18 per person, p<
night in a single room, or $12 per person pe
night in a double room.
"All of the funds that are earned this wa
are reinvested into the residence halls," Lun
said.
Reservations for the rooms can be made b
, students, faculty and staff at Capstone Coi
ference Center.
j Guests must follow a visitation policy sin
ilar to the one for Laborde's full-time resident
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5 de, said.
For example, a female student may visi
! her boyfriend who is staying in a guest roon
but she must be escorted by him at all times
; and she must leave the room by 2 a.m. Sti
dents who visit parents in the guest rooms ma
be exempt from some of the visitation rules
Guests are provided a key and key chai
f to show thev are not Laborde residents. The
i are also given a 15-minute permit to park i
the drop-off zone on Sumter Street in front <
1 the dorm to unload luggage. During their sta;
f guests may park at the Computer Services lc
- by purchasing a parking pass for $2 per da;
1 wrestling, one of the men put his hand through
a window. The man had a cut on his right
hand but refused offers of medical treatment
g Estimated value: $40.
9-21-94 Strong-Armed Robbery, RusseU
> House
A victim notified police that while he was
i at the Russell House near the ATMs, he was
h approached
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pects wear- I
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who
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suspects who left on foot,
s 9-21-94 Larceny, Physical Science Building
s A blue, leather purse and wallet includ
ing keys and credit cards were reported stolen
>- Estimated value: $85.
9-21-94 Non-Suspicious Vehicle Fire
i- Bates Cafeteria Loading Zone
A USC Transportation Services van dri
- ver was alerted his van was on fire by an on
looker. USCPD and Columbia Fire Depart
s ment officers responded and distinguished
i- the flaming vehicle. ,
e 9-21-94 Larceny of Books and Book Bag
y night at Rusi
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ere on the scene and attended to
them up " the
/oman Debra Allen
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Eyewitnesses said a crowd of approximately i
50 dance attendees fled Greene Street when
two shots were fired.
According to one eyewitness, the group ac- pro:
companying the shooting suspect pulled up to - left
the crowd in what appeared to be a red Volkswagon
Jetta and a gray four-door car. After
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Tissue cutback
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USC housing has stopped giving toilet paper
to its apartment-style residents. com
Depending on who you ask, residents are two
raising a stink about it. h?u
Susan Simpson, Horseshoe resident hall
director, has received complaints after many deci
residents used their last roll and didn't find any]
more waiting by their door. ing.
"I don't think it is hard to add toilet paper ]
to a groceiy list, but if students are upset about mer
it, it's important to me," Simpson said about 0n I
the change.
. Angry residents point to higher housing
fees accompanied by shrinking services. <
"They raise our tuition every semester. I g
don't see why they can't give us toilet pa- ^
per,"Nimisha Sangani, a resident of HarperElliot,
said. "Next semester, they may say you
have to pay for water." " f
Patterson gets it, why shouldn t wer Mz- xt ^
abeth Edwards, Pinckney-Legare resident and
Horseshoe government senator, asked. resi
A Horseshoe resident said, "I pay enough the
to live here, I feel I deserve one service."
Housing officials are scraping to provide Felt
explanations, but answers are varied. ly.
It's to save money, Facilities Coordinator
Bob Holdeman said. Bates West toilet paper bee
distribution was cut out last year, saving $2,000,
while they hope to save between $8,000 and we
$10,000 this year by cutting apartment-style jet>?
benefits.
Not so, according to Gene Luna, director
of Housing and Residential Services. Hous- *?ee
intr has navar nmvidad it tn pradnata and fam
ily housing, and they are not sure private apart- P ments
need it. Luna said they often find rolls'
stock-piled, thrown out or used at football *ior
games. add
Resident Life Director Linda Newman explained,
"If s just another effort by the facili- for i
ties department to be good stewards of the ern:
More women
ts
r. STEPHANIE SONNENFELD Staff Writer gr
More and more women from all racial a<J
and ethnic groups are taking the Graduate U?
?j Record Examinations General Test (GRE),
^ accounting for the dramatic increase of U.S. fu
;r citizens taking the GRE in the past decade. *n
!r According to an Educational Testing Service
(ETS) report, the number of males tak- se
y ing the GRE rose 77 percent since 1983, while P?
a the number of females rose 112 percent. This ^
is just one of the findings presented in "Trends or
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aminees by Sex and Ethnicity," written by in
ETS research scientist Jerilee Grandy. w<
Also included within the report are sta- ps
tistics regarding ethnic differences in the fe:
numbers and percentages of test takers, in- th
it tended graduate fields of study, highest de- gr
grees planned and undergraduate institu- G]
3, tions attended. ca
i- "This report should be a valuable addi- m
y tion to information available to policymak3
ers and scholars of graduate education," Char- wi
n lotte Kuh, executive director of GRE, said. ye
J "It describes the growing diversity of Amer- qv
ican applicants to graduate school and the ze
change in choices among types of graduate id
programs. Much available data concerns the
^ outputs of graduate education?that is, de- cj;
i USC Bookstore vale
; A student reported while he was shop- 9-19
ping his black Eddie Bauer book bag was re- Wes
mnvoH frnm sfrnrncro r*nJ-\ir>loa in tVio frnnt nf i
I the store. Estimated value of bag and con- pros
tents: $140. The
! 9-21-94 Larceny of Bicycle Tire, Pendle- ask,
i ton Street Garage resj
^^WOm^an re" subj
^ was secured by a Ubolt
lock to a hand rail. Estimated me[
value: $75.
9-20-94 Forgery, USC Coliseum jf
A victim said while going over his check- ^1
ing account he noted a check signed in hand- ' ar
writing other than his own, and did not re- i
call making out the check. The man later dis- nort
covered the check was used by a former a m
roommate to pay late fees to the University, stri
Amount of check: $10.25. neel
I 9-19-94 Larceny, USCBookstore and
A vender reported fc^V class rings were was
, stolen from a display tahe. Total estimated pita
feiMI
sell House
;ing their cars, the men approached the
vd, a fistfight began and shots were fired.
The same eyewitness asked an officer at
scene to help disperse the crowd while the
lights were occurring. The officer told her
icn.-up uiiii was on me way.
The incident, she said, may have stemmed
a a scuffle that occurred at the dance apidmately
an hour and a half before guests
the Russell House Ballroom.
Police locked the Greene Street gates afthe
incident.
causes stink
ley you all pay us."
Whatever the reasons, housing is trying to
pensate for recent complaints by offering
rolls to residents who request it at area
sing offices.
We continue to make it available, but we
ided our cleaning ladies won't deliver it
more," Luna said. "We prefer them cleann
Housing officials admit they hope apartlt-style
residents do not become dependent
JSC toilet paper.
Residents finding no toilet paper by their
r are turning to other methods.
"I know people who are taking it from othlaces,
like other dorms," Bates West resit
Janne Yee said.
fee lived at Wade Hampton last year, but
doesn't use USC's toilet paper, describing
3 "sandpaper."
While the issue draws snickers from many
dents, most would like to understand why
service was discontinued.
Tm not angry about it," resident Becky
iwicksaid. "But why? It seems kind of silHow
much can it save them?"
Holdeman said the housing budget has
n shrinking every year.
"We're trying to pinch money everywhere
can," Holdeman said. "We just figured,
\ tiy this."
Other cutbacks include not purchasing
ded equipment, overtime hours being reed
and a waiting period on hiring new emcees,
he said.
While students continue to voice opposii
to the change, Luna hopes students will
ress resident hall government.
"If students are upset, it is a viable issue
students to bring up at resident hall govment
meetings," he said.
taking GRE
ees. This data tell us more about the charteristics
of those who aspire to attend gradtte
school," Kuh said.
Other information in the report includes
ich findings that Asian-American females
eluded computer sciences among their top
re choices to study in graduate school, while
rvice-oriented fields like nursing, clinica]
lychology and social work continue to be
ghly selected by females regardless of racia]
ethnic groups.
The ethnic groups showing the greatesl
creases in female examinees since 1982
jre Asian-Americans (244 percent) and His
inics (236 percent). The number of whit<
male test takers rose 106 percent during
is time. Among all racial/ethnii
oups, more females than males took th<
RE in 1991-1992. Among African-Ameri
ins, there were nearly twice as many fe
ales as male test takers.
To obtain such information about wh<
as taking the GRE, the ETS included a sur
y of questions with the GRE. Some of thes<
lestions asked if the taker was a U.S. citi
in, their specific gender and racial/ethnii
entity and if the test taker had an inten
m to go to graduate school and in what spe
tic Held ot study,
le: $1,600.
>-94 Simple Assault and Battery, Bates
it
\ complainant reported a woman aptched
her and started causing problems,
subject reportedly became hostile when
ed to leave the room and swung at the
dent, grazing the side of her head. The
ect later returned to the room and threat1
the complainant. Individuals in the room
ltually forced the subject to leave again.
)-94 Larceny, Construction Site at
olina Plaza
Workers notified USCPD of stolen equiplt
including two portable radios, a drill
or, an electronic rolodex, a phone and a
e saw. Estimated value: $1,150.
f-94 Assault, Williams Brice Stadium
'king Lot
\ woman reported while walking in the
liwest corner of the stadium parking lot
etal bolt thrown by an unknown person
ick her in the right portion of her face,
t and chest. Stadium First Aid Explorers
EMS responded to the scene. The victim
transported t^Bichland Memorial Hos>
1 for treatment.