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NATIONWIDE
Economy tail as robust at previously thought
NEW YORK (AP) ? Economic news was mostly
grim this week. Consumer confidence fell for the
fourth straight month, the dollar hit an all-time
low, worker wages are creeping up only slightly
and interest rates are rising.
Taken together, the news suggested that the
economy, which had been thought to be growing at
the healthiest clip since the 1990-91 recession,
isn't necessarily as robust as forecasters believed.
The freshest signals on the economy's direction
came from the Conference Board, a New Yorkbased
research group. It found consumer confidence
dropped in October for the fourth straight
month.
Consumers who lack confidence in the economy
spend less and borrow less. That means merchants
sell less, factories cut back on output and
employers eliminate jobs. Consumers account for
two-thirds of the nation's economic activity.
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largely to rising fear there will be fewer jobs in the
months ahead. Consumers also scaled back plans
to buy cars, appliances and homes.
The results came against not only a backdrop
of anxiety over jobs, but a steady rise in interest
rates that began early this year when the Federal
Reserve reversed a five-year era of lower rates.
TODAY
Today is Wednesday, Oct. 26, the 299th day
of 1994. There are 66 days left in the year.
Today's highlight is history:
On Oct 26,1881, the Gunfight at the OK Corral
took place in Tombstone, Ariz., as Wyatt Earp,
his two brothers and "Doc" Holliday shot it out
with Ike Clanton's gang. Three members of Clanton's
gang were killed; Earp's brothers were wounded.
On this date:
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ui xuxxi, uie cine v^tuitu upenea in upsiaie iNew
York, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River.
In 1942, the UJ3. ship Hornet was sunk in the
Battle of Santa Cruz Islands during World War
n.
In 1949, President Truman signed a measure
raising the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an
hour.
In 1957, the Soviet Union announced that defense
minister Marshal Georgi Zhukov had been
relieved of his duties.
In 1958, Pan American Airways flew its first
Boeing 707 jetliner from New York to Paris. The
trip took eight hours and 41 minutes.
In 1967, the Shah of Iran crowned himself and
his Queen after 26 years on the Peacock Throne.
In 1972, national security adviser Henry
Kissinger declared, "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam.
NUTfcBUUil
Leadership Conference accepting proposals
The Office of Leadership Training Programs is
now accepting programs proposals for the 1995
Student Leadership Training Conference.
The 9th annual conference will be held Saturday,
Feb. 4,1995 and the theme is ~Student
Leaders: Risk-Takers and Role Models." This concentrated
one-day event provides an opportunity
for new and established campus leaders to enhance
their leadership skill development as well
as their personal growth. More than 400 students
from southeastern schools attended the 1994 conference.
The 1994 conference featured over 30 development
workshops focusing on leadership development,
organizational skills, diversity issues and
successful leadership programming. Proposals
are open to faculty, staff and students. Student
presenters must have the cooperation from a faculty
or staff member.
Program proposals may be obtained at the
Campus Activities Center in the Russell House
University Union and are due by Nov. 11.
For more information, contact Michelle Jerome
at 777-5780 or by e-mail at
T230683@univ8cvm.c8dscarolina.edu
Menu offering qualifying test
Mensa will be offering a qualifying test Saturday,
Nov. 5. Anyone interested should call Mac
James at (803) 782-8776.
Mensa is an international organization with
only one membership requirement: a score higher
that 98 percent of the general population on a
standardized IQ test. The name stands for round
table society, where race, color, creed, national
origin, age, politics and educational or social
background are irrelevant.
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Physics TAs
MAI UMUNOZ Staff Writer
Teaching assistants in the physics department
to jeopardize the academic welfare of their stude
holding grades, but they refuse to release gradei
are some specific changes at the college and univi
Nearly two weeks ago, TAs circulated a memo
department and to the students stating that all
would still be conducting labs and tests, they w
lease grades until changes are made concerning tl
According to graduate TA Ashley Abbott, th
have not been raised in the past five years.
"All other colleges in the department have beer
nual raises except the Dhvsics department." she sni
promised a small raise, but then tuition went upi
happened."
Abbott said the stipend for physics TAs at thi
is almost 50 percent below the mean for southeai
stipends, 25 percent below the next lowest depa
below the single-person poverty level.
Abbott said the College of Science and Math*
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Sex crimes topic
TAMAWA LAW Staff Writer
Alice Vachss, author of "Sex Crimes" and
former Queens, N.Y., district attorney, was
the keynote speaker at a panel discussion on
sex crimes in the Russell House Theater Monday.
The discussion was on the low prosecution
rates of sex crimes and the difficulties of prosecuting
sexual assault cases.
The panel included 5th Circuit Solicitor
Dick Harpootlian, S.C. Representative Gilda
Cobb-Hunter, Victims Assistant Officer Jackie
Brothers. Sheriff Lee Foster of Newberrv
and Investigator for Lexington County Scott
Frier. WIS co-anchor Carolyn Sawyer moderated
the panel.
Vachss spoke on her 10 years experience
as a Queens district attorney specializing in
sex crimes. She took cases she said no one else
wanted to take.
"Somebody else in the office didn't want
these cases, and for the most part, it was something
about the victim. Whether it was a teenager
or the victim was inarticulate or the victim
was the wrong race or social class or educational
background or angry, too angry for what
we think of rape victims," she said.
Vachss was fired from her job because of
her outspokenness on how sex offenders were
not getting the punishment they deserved and
has since dedicated her time to fighting for
rape victims.
"We seem to have this standard for rape
victims, and we seem willing to apply the most
virulent of prejudices against them that we
would be embarrassed to even express against
any other class of citizens in this country", she
said.
Vachss also said victims, if given the chance,
do want to go to court, and we must give vieMcGuira
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GREQ RtCKABAUQH Staff Writer
The stickers are being printed, the fliers are being
made, and students are pulling out their green
clothing in preparation for the USC-Tennessee game
Saturday.
No, ifs not an early St. Patrick's Day celebration
but a serious attempt to rename the Coliseum for
the late USC basketball coach Frank McGuire, who
was Irish.
"I just think it would be a good idea to name it after
him, and I like green," said freshman Reagan
Dunaway, who will don her green clothing Saturday
in support of the renaming effort.
Board of trustees members contacted this week
said a show of support Saturday by students and
alumni could possibly motivate the board into taking
quicker action on the issue. The board holds the
authority to rename the Coliseum.
The S.C. Bookstore is printing 5,000 stickers with
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and nothing Science and Mathematics, there sho
given to TAs considering they are so f
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stern school The TAs also believe it is unfair for
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"I think this is a blatantly unfair si
smatics has Koltko. "We've even had TAs quit in th
ter because they couldn't afford to lose
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panel discussion sponsored by the Rape Crlsl
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of Rape Crisis Net
84% of rapes each year are never
62% of reported rape cases never
of an individual for the crime.
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tried and imprisoned.
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The panelists were asked if they thought C<
there was such thing as a bad victim. then
The panelists said they believed there are "I
no bad victims, but said that when there is no solici
easy case with crucial evidence, convincing a in th
jury can be difficult. areb
"Victims can make mistakes, like not re- same
porting it, then gathering physical evidence is victii
impossible," Harpootlian said. time
Frier pointed out that when working with porte
victims, he tries to help them as much as pos- tims,
sible. pens
"It is my responsibility to aid the victim in
orters urge
;reen Saturday
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are also working 01
fliers to post at tb
game in support o
the effort.
Students gav<
mixed reactions to their support on wearing the stick
er or green clothing to the game.
"Thaf s kind of ridiculous," said freshman Marl
Emerson. "Dressing up to support something sound
kind of stupid to me."
Sophomore Marsha White disagrees. She said i
she decides to attendee game, she will wear green
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redibility as much as I can," he said.
ibb-Hunter said the system does believ
s are bad victims.
do not think there are bad victims. Thi
tor, the law enforcement people, judgei
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is those cases do not go to court."
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Diversity Week "94 conti
Afternoon With Dori Sande
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At 9 p.m. in the Russell I
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h Wedding Banquet" will run
h p.m., in the Russeil House
Other activities this afternc
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lost of the faculty supports the TAs actions, se\
n that a faculty member threatened every pel
in the situation with termination of his or he
s of concern to the TAs because they are not a
outside employment without permission fror
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i basically threatened us with termination if w
ase the grades," said TA Michael Bleiweiss. "H
lewhere around $730 to stop striking."
aid Farach was adamant about pointing out hot
Koltko's salary was to each TA he threatened
figured it might upset us and turn us agains
uld not comment on the situation.
lere is only one TA who is openly opposed to th
vho are reacting do not want it to be said tha
ing.
i the fact that people are accusing us of coercioi
i is after two years," Koltko said. This is not i
ke. It is only a grade strike for right now, unti
le real thing."
1 Race drives
majority of
bate crimes
ANNE PAGE Staff Writer
While most hate crimes are racially-motivated,
victims are also targeted
according to religion, sexual orientation
and ethnicity, according to speakers at
a forum on hate crime Monday.
A panel of professors, law enforcement
professionals and minority groups
members discussed hate crime in a College
of Criminal Justice-sponsored forum,
"When Hate Turns to Crime."
Assistant Dean of the College of
Criminal Justice and panel moderator
Danny Baker said federal legislation in
1990 created the Hate Crimes Statistics
Act that mandated the annual reporting
of hate crimes. The.first report,
c published in 1993, showed 60 percent
S of all hate crimes in the previous year
r. were racially-motivated, followed by
crimes where victims were targeted according
to religion, sexual orientation
or ethnicity.
According to USC Law Enforcement
I and Safety Investigator Michael Couick,
v beginning to gather data on hate-motivatbd
cnmes is just the first step. Couick
said South Carolina is one of only three
states with no legislation specifically
designed to handle hate crimes. While
a crime may be classified as assault and
battery of a high and aggravated nature,
Couick said, it will not be prosecuted
specifically as a hate crime. According
to Couick, USC Law Enforcement
and Safety, unlike municipal police
departments, has the special opportunity
to deal with bias crimes through
Student Affairs.
Hate crimes are committed primarily
by more than one perpetrator to maintain
the presumed superiority of one
group over another, College of Criminal
Justice professor Andrew J. Chishom
said. He warned that hate may not always
be an obvious motive.
"As we examine the statistical realities
relating to hate crime, we have to
also consider that hate can be an incognito
process as well," Chishom said.
Marsha Brown, Assistant Director
e of the Columbia Jewish Community
Center, said hate crimes do not necesi
sarily have to be violent and personal
* in nature. Brown told of the defacing of
i a Jewish-owned business in Columbia
i less than a year ago.
i "You cannot always regulate thought,
i but you can regulate behavior," Brown
said, emphasizing the importance of the
legal system in the prevention of hate
crimes.
Panelist and Bisexual, Gay and Les
Jbian Asaoaation member Catherine FTyHATE
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nues this week, starting with "An
rs." "Afternoon," sponsored by the
lub, will take place at 4 p.m. in the |
rhe event will present Sanders,
lestions about her new book,
House Theater, the Carolina
"Last of the Mohicans." "The
from Thursday - Saturday at 9|f
Theater.
?n and Friday are as follows:
ia Community: The University and
al Assault on Campus: today from
3 Theater.
ay from 7-8:30 p.m.. Horseshoe.
Diversity Within the Gav
p.m., Russell Hou$e Room 203.
se, Topic: Holy War?i Mixing
.m., Friday, Russell House 3rd
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