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2 PATEBOOK Guide to Weekly Me The Women Students' Association and Women's Student Services are sponsoring an empowerment fair Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in the Russell House Ballroom B. An information session on the Goldwater Scholarship for sophomores and juniors majoring in mathematics, natural sciences and engi neenng will be held today at 4 p.m. in the Gressette Room (3rd floor, Harper College). An information session on the NSEP Undergraduate Scholarships and Graduate Fellowships for study abroad will be held Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Gressette Room (3rd floor, Harper College). Beta Alpha Psi will have a social Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. followed by a 6 p.m. meeting on ethics with Ernst & Young. Mondays Living Off Campus and Learning (LOCAL), 2:30 p m., RH 307. For more information, call the Off-Campus Student Services in RH 209 at 777-4174. OXFAM Carolina, planning meeting for hunger awareness events, 4 p.m., PALM Center, 728 Pickens St. Sorority Council, 5 p.m., RH Theater. PALM Campus Minisby, "Body 6 Souf meal and program, 5:30 p.m, PALM center. Campus Rape Awareness, 7 p.m., RH 332. Students for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, today, 7 p.m., RH 305. CPU Cultural Arts Committee, 7 p.m., CPU Conference Room. CPU Cinematic Arts Committee, 7 p.m., RH 203. CPU Publicity Committee, 7:30 p.m., RH 201. Tuesdays Student Ad Federation, 4 pm., Coliseum 4027. Carolina for KIDS, 6 p.m., RH 302. Dinner and program, 6 p.m., Presbyterian Student Center, 1702 Greene St. Carolina Cares, 7 pm., RH 204. Student Psychology Association, 7 p.m., Barnwell Conference Room. >e tings Homecoming Commission, 7:15 p.m., RH 307. USC Model United Nations Club, 8:30 p.m., Gambrell 201. SAGE (Students Acting for a Greener Earth), an environmental action group, 8 p.m., RH 302. Campus Coalition for Literacy, every other Tuesday, 8:30 p.m., RH 202. For more information, call 777-8402. Wwkiesdays Academic Success Drop-in, 12:1012:50 p.m., RH 306, Wednesday topic: Stress Break I. Workshop on memory and concentration through hypnosis with Dr. Judy Small, 2-3 p.m., Counseling and Human Development Center. Call 777-5223 for more information. Living Off Campus and Learning (LOCAL), 2:30 pan., RH 307. Call the Off-Campus Student Services in RH 209 at 777-4174. PALM Campus Ministry, 5:30 p.m., dinner and program, PALM Center. Student Government Senate, 5 p.m., RH Theater. Women Students' Association, C ^ m T3U OA1 U p.111., 1VL1 Bible Study, 7 p.m., Presbyterian Student Center, 1702 Greene St. CPU Golden Spur Committee, 7:30 p.m., CPU Conference Room. CPU Special Programs Committee, 8 p.m., RH 201. CPU Contemporary Sounds Committee, 8:30 p.m., RH 306. College Republicans, 7:30 pan., Gambrell 151. Call Larry Drakeford at 544-3501 or Vernon Davenport at 796-7402 for more information. Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Association, 8 p.m., BA 303. Fellowship of Christian Athletes, 9 p.m., Roost lobby. Call J.J. Gentry at 256-8067 for more information. Special praise and worship night. Thursdays "Heart to Heart," 7 p.m., Baptist Student Union, 700 Pickens St. CPU Ideas & Issues Committee, 7:30 pin., CPU Conference Room. Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, 8 p.m., RH 303. For more information, call Richard Grinnan at 256-1211. INI Th? Ganwcock MondayTo HOMECOMING continued from page 1 * The first Street Jam Dance Party, organized by Jenny Wu, took place in fronl of the Russell House Friday night and featured Big DM DJ |K Curtis Wilson. Co-sponsored bj Alpha Phi Al- uS|!S pha, the Street Jam took the place of traditional Homecoming dances. "Homecoming is a time to urite the USC of yflppSI the past with the USC of the present with the USC of the future, and I was ina central position as commissioner to see how lie spirit of the alumni helps the spirit of the stidents who rep- ^Sj resent the best of USC and who inspire the fu- K tuna nf +Vna anlinnl n Malann aairl WJ bui v vi viuo ovuvvi^ iiviwii uuiu. ^fpn Junior Angela Purvis summed up the senti- s ments of many students by adding something was missing from the parade, The parade and Homecoming was great and everybody was having fun, but where was the football team?" | _ .. CUBA continued from page 1 academically, mit suicide. They've learned to ive with- men- Universit out. Therefore, they're going tc survive, prominent wome The absence of consumer goods is not partment heads, going to destroy Cuba," Ruiz said. "Women have Ruiz said he is very impressed with changes in Cuba, bi; the advances women have mace in Cu- mo is dead," he sai ba. Ruiz said he ha "Cuba has the third highest divorce racial integration i rate in the third world and more single "I like this. I lil mothers except for two other countries he said, in the third world," Ruiz said. "Women Looking toward have liberated themselves because of Ruiz said he belie day care, free school, jobs, free health not want to return care." isted before Castrc Ruiz said 70 percent of the students "The great ma; at the University of Havana are female to go back to pre-1! NAFTA continued from page 1 rac^ "It was a plea for social justice and a rejection of _ the economy," he said. "In some ways, Chiapas is one ., of the most powerful states [in Mexico]." 8 nte The state of Chiaoas has three hydroelectric plants and produces a great deal of lumber and coffee, Ruiz _. said. On the other hand, the large population of Chi- I apas is isolated from the rest of Mexico, he said. "If you look at election results in Chiapas, youH j?? ' find that PRI always wins in Chiapas. PRI has the ,0^? greatest wins in campesino municipalities," he said. , "The very areas of discontent in Chiapas are ones that .. return the highest voting percentage for PRI. These R ? were not honest election results. This is Mexican democ- f:1112 thei Perry visits Haiti again PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ? De- ments after his ai fense Secretary William Perry flew in- airport in the capi to Haiti on Saturday to see for himself The visit was Perry the progress Americans have made to- American troops si ward restoring elected rule by next week, ly three weeks ago "Significant progress has been made and brutalized nal toward that goal in the two weeks since Under an agre< my last visit," Perry told reporters mo- ed States that ave ctober 10, 1094 : women far surpass to go back to when bead y of Havana has very gated, hotels were segn n as deans and de- rants were segregated," In March, Ruiz met \ made tremendous at the University of He it its not that machis- who said free markets ar d. to Cuba's problems, s seen a great deal of Ruiz disagrees with 1 n Cuba as well. the idea that "these solul ce this a great deal," for people in the United ? for Cuba." Is the future of Cuba, "This is a terrible mi; ves most Cubans do Ruiz said he thinks th to the Cuba that ex- has been hostile to Cub ). the only country who w jority does not want the United States to int )58. They don't want as they have in other L at work." >RI is the political party in power in Mexico, tuiz said he believes Mexicans in Chiapas begai dng because they felt the election was a fraud [ think something is terribly wrong here," he said le also sees a tie between the development of NAF ind the underdevelopment of Latin America. It [NAFTA] is an interesting idea," Ruiz said, "bu i new idea, this idea of integrating colonies... A conomists who are for pouring money into rura lopment, I think the economists are dead wrong. According to Ruiz, the United States' policy toward ico has remained the same since 1982. Since ther ; said, the unemployment has doubled and half c vork force moonlights. to check on prog rcraft landed at the Gen. Raoul Cedras, leai ital, Port-au-Prince^ that overthrew elected I 's second since 20,000 tarted arriving near- Bert rand Anstide three in the impoverished step down by Oct. 15. One aonof7million. . . . . . e sment with the Unitr Anst.de is to return fr< rted an invasion, Lt. United States. Ep |jj Kappa Delta and their float, which & Parade Friday % afternoon. The :r: oarade kicked les were segre- countries. jgated, restau- "Cuba is not a threat to any one. Hiey Ruiz said. [the United States] don't want them to rith historians succeed," he said, ivana in Cuba believe strongly that the U.S. polen t the answer for Latin America is very distorted. . , It forgets Latin America's need for so;hose who have . , . ,. ? 0 u . i cial justice, Ruiz said, tions that work ' . , ' , ., . , _ , jfofos will work Ruiz teaches Mexican and Latin American histoiy at UC, San Diego. He stake " he said. ^ ^^n several books, including The le United States Great Rebellion and a textbook, The Tri,a because it is umphs and Tragedies of the Mexican ould not allow People. He spent a year working with erfere in Cuba the National Endowment for Humaniatin American ty. "These are places for cheap labor," he said. "They want to wash your car, sell you bubble gum. These are 1 men and women who do this because they don't have jobs or their jobs don't make them enough money," he L ( oaiu. Ruiz said he believes the only way to change the t current situation in Mexico is to change the structure of the economy. Ruiz teaches Mexican and Latin American histo? ry at UC,San Diego. He has written several books, in8 eluding The Great Rebellion and a textbook, The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Mexican People. He spent if a year working with the National Endowment for Humanity. ress Stop der of the coup Vesi dent Jean- I IV H years ago, is to e Cedras leaves, ^L|H 51 "I" >m exile in the