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WHAT'SUF Guide to Arts & E BALLET The Columbia City Ballet presents "Ihe Nutcracker," directed by William Starett and accompanied for the first time by the full 50-plus membra- South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Smith. The show runs at 8 p.m. until Sunday, and tickets are $8 and $10 for children and students, $16.50 and $18.50 for adults and $5 for balcony, on sale now. CONCERTS The Benedict College Concert Choir presents "A Special Kind of Christmas" featuring Yuletide Music by contemporary com nosers at 7 n.m. Sunday in the Atisdel Chapel on Benedict's Campus. The performance is free. Shades of Gray presented by Snowden Productions End of Semester celebration, live at the Golden Spur, Thursday at 9 p.m. Admission is free. CONFERENCE The Office of Leadership Training Programs at USC will host the Ninth Annual Studnet Leadership Training Conference on Saturday, Feb. 4, 1995 at the Columbia Campus. The cost for the conference is $15 for USC Columbia students. Priority registration ends Jan. 13,1995 and for all other registrants is Jan. 27, 1995. CONTESTS The annual USC Alumni Association Art Competition is open to the public. All works must capture the spirit of USC. The deadline for the competition is Oct 31,1995. For more information call the USC Alumni Association at 777-4111. HOLIDAY CELEBRATIONS The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Columbia will hold a Holiday Cafe with music, food, drama, comedy and dancing featuring performances by Gloria Talcove-Woodward, Jessica Slotkin, Pat and Don Mohr, Jon Ustaine, The Play Readers, Brian Cassedy and others, 7 p.m. Friday. Call 799-0845 for more information. i I The! For a limited time, I microprocessor, 8M price anywhere. Th it will sprint circles; supplies last, you ca a price so low we ca hurry to the Univer: Monitor and keyboart ntertainment Give your Northern friends a touch of Southern heritage for Christmas with a book about the South from the University of South Carolina's institute for Southern Studies. From 5:30-7 p.m. today the Institute will hold a holiday book festival at the South Caroliniana library on USCs Horseshoe. For more information call 777-2340. MOVIES Nickelodeon Theatre will feature Films through Dec. 14 by Ingmar Bergman. Showtimes are at 7 and 9 p.m. Admission is $3.50 for members of the Columbia Film Society, $4.50 for students and senior citizens and $5.50 for non-members. MUSEUMS / GALLERIES McKissick Museum The work of USC graduate art students will be on display until Dec. 18. The Annual MFA Exhibit" will feature works by Vicky Heapee, Bingjian Zhang and Shinli Zhou, who are all working towards a master of fine arts degree. Columbia Museum of Art "Richard Estes: The Complete Prints" will run through Dec. 11. Admission is free. PLANETARIUM "Season of Light" at the Gibbes Planetarium is open. The show begins with the winter solstice and examines how ancient cultures celebrated this dark time with their warmest and brightest holidays of the year. TELEVISION "The Eagles in Spotlight" is a reunion concert at 858 pm. Friday on SCETV. THEATER Drayton Hall USC Theatre presents "The Christmas Candle" Wednesday through Sunday at Drayton Hall. Tickets are $10 for adults. Curtain time is 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday. Town Theatre "Lend Me a Tenor" will run through Dec. 17. Tickets are $8 for students. > JPWP"1" :|pr WW ????'"n '!>niii!'<j|ic??i,|ii?'^,r fl )y an Apple Power Macintosh B of RAM and a 500MB Hard I is is a deal you don't want to iround most workstation clas, in have it for the price better n't even print it in this ad. To I sity Bookstore or call: The Computer 777-7917 1 sold separately. Limit one per customt " pr y, ^0 . USC community recc WOLFGANG KARG Staff Writer On Dec. 8 the international community of USC will celebrate International Human Rights Day. But a look at the news headlines these days is sufficient enough to show there will not be much to celebrate because of human rights abuses that occur on a daily basis. "The general response of students here is apathy?they don't care," Paul Cantrell, group coordinator of USC's Amnesty International group and Sociology junior, said. The protection granted by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international covenants that have been created as a consequence of the Holocaust would already be sufficient if other countries would be willing to implement them progressively, GINT profpssnr TV Mflffllip Ttnnfrnan aoirl But "it took a 100 years to implement the ethnic standards and morality of the U.S. constitution," Kaufman said. "The U.S. should be a leader in this," Kaufman said, criticizing that the nation still does not verify other important international covenants. I B 8100/80 with and 80MHz PowerPC )rive for $1,000 off the already best miss. It's faster than any Pentium, p An onmnim r\*r\ A ?fU J/% 3 llldUllIlCS UI1 Ldllipua, <111U, W1111C than some lower end PowerMacs: ake advantage of this special offer, Desk r ?r. Offer good only while supplies last. Jsgap \ )gnizes International Hi Blaming the United Nations organi- a zation for the lack of international recog- w nition for human rights is the wrong way d to solve the problem, Kaufman said. b "The scapegoating of the U.N. is a way to evade our own culpability," Kaufman si said. "The U.N. is a great organization R that is completely in control of the ma- v jor countries." d i GINT Professor Dr. N And these leading countries often ne- h gleet human rights issues when they fear economic setbacks in their trade with tl human rights-violating countries. c< But one doesn't have to go to Bosnia ri and Rwanda to be confronted with.hu- n man rights violations. "I don't have any gt doubts that there are political prisoners rc here in the U.S.," Kaufman said. w Law school professor Jane Aiken re- di ports about the case of Susan Rosenberg, n A I Liman Rights Day an member of an extremist minority group rho is serving a 53-year sentence in Floria for transporting weapons across state orders. Aiken noted the usual sentence for nch a crime is 18 months, suggesting Psenberg's sentence is politically motiated and violates human rights stanards. Several appeals by Rosenberg Wut^siix, gHkT latalie Kaufman ave been rejected. There are a whole lot of people like iat in our prisons," Aiken said. Ac>rding to Aiken and Kaufman, human ghts violations in the United States inge from the sexual discrimination of jys and lesbians to the restrictions on ^productive freedom to the inadequate orking conditions in mines and iniistries of the country. The punitive, not rehabilitative, pros I nidst daily violations ecution of pregnant drug-abusing woms is another obvious human rights viol; tion, Aiken said. Kaufman especially criticizes the e: ecution of juveniles in South Carolin; "I think that at some point peop have to say 1 don't accept thafKau man said. Quoting political provocateur Noa] Chomsky, Kaufman stresses the in portance of cross-border grass roots, noi government organizations for the futui implementation of human rights. These NGOs successfully put moi pressure on governments to respect hi man rights, despite the fact that th( rarely get any direct response. "It's hard to measure our success Cantrell of Amnesty said. But despite all setbacks, Kaufma als^ shows optimism about future in plementation of human rights. "There are only a very few peop] who epjoy violating other peoples' rights Kaufman said. In order to draw more public attei tion towards human rights violation the USC Amnesty International grou invites all students to a benefit concei with the bands Mira and The Dead Bej Saturday at Annie's on Rosewood Driv M