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NATIONWIDE
LOS ANGELES (AP)?On the day he was supposed
to surrender to murder charges, 0 J. Simpson called
his first wife and told her he was framed and was
going to kill himself, prosecutors say.
That brought an impassioned plea from his son, Jason,
who grabbed the phone and "told his father not
to kill himself and that everyone needed him," according
to court papers released Tuesday.
Prosecutors also claimed for the first time that Simpson
hit his first wife ? contradicting Marquerite
Simpson Thomas' own comments to police in which
she denied being abused.
The allegations were filed in an effort to force
Mrs. Thomas to testify at SimDSon's trial. She is re
sisting a prosecution subpoena, claiming it was improperly
served at her Fullerton apartment. A hearing
is set for next week.
Opening statements in the double-murder case
could begin as early as Thursday. Judge Lance Ito
also is expected to rule on whether prosecutors can
introduce evidence of domestic violence during the
trial.
GROZNY, Russia (AP) ? While their troops fight,
Russian and Chechen officials have taken tentative
steps toward a cease-fire in the five-week-old war
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on Russia's future as a multiethnic federation.
Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin met with
two envoys from Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev
in Moscow on Tuesday, a day after making a
televised appeal for immediate talks and an end to
the bloodshed.
The Chechen officials said the two sides agreed
to stop using heavy artillery by this evening, in a
first step toward a full cease-fire. The Russians have
been bombarding Grozny with rocket and artillery
fire for days.
TODAY
Today is Thursday, Jan. 19th, the 19th day of
1995. There are 346 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 19,1807, Robert E. Lee, the commander-in-chief
of the Confederate armies, was born in
Stratford, Va.
On this date:
In 1736, James Watt, inventor of the steam engine,
was born in Scotland.
In 1809, author Edgar Allan Poe was born in
Boston.
In 1853, Verdi's opera "II Trovatore" premiered
in Rome.
In 1861, Georgia seceded from the Union.
In 1937, millionaire Howard Hughes set a transcontinental
air record by flying his monoplane from Los
Angeles to Newark, N.J., in seven hours, 28 minutes
and 25 seconds.
In 1944, the federal government relinquished
control of the nation's railroads following settlement
of a wage dispute.
In 1955, a presidential news conference was
filmed for television for the first time, with the permission
of President Eisenhower.
In 1966, Indira Gandhi was elected prime minister
of India.
In 1970, President Nixon nominated G. Harrold
Carswell to the U.S. Supreme Court; however, the
nomination was defeated because of controversy
over Carswell's past racial views.
In 1977, in one of his last acts of office, President
Ford pardoned Iva Toguri D'Aquino, an American
who'd made wartime broadcasts for Japan.
In 1979, fonner Attorney General John N. Mitchell
was released on parole after serving 19 months at
a federal prison in Alabama.
NOTEBOOK
AT&T reduces instate rates
AT&T announced that the prices of in-state longdistance
phone calls have been lowered as a result
of a S.C. Public Service decision to reduce access
charges AT&T pays to Southern Bell.
This marks the ninth time AT&T has reduced its
in-state long- distance prices in South Carolina since
1984.
A 10-minute, direct-dialed AT&T call from Columbia
to Charleston or Greenville during night/weekend
hours is reduced from $1.90 to $1.80. A similar
call from Greenville to Charleston will be 10-percent
lower, moving from $2 to $1.80.
USC authors featured in workshop
The USC Thomas Cooper Society will hold "Writers
on Main Street," a daylong program featuring
USC authors discussing their published works Wed.,
Jan. 25, in the NationsBank building at 1901 Main
St.
At 10 a.m., area high school students and Thomas
Cooper Society members will participate in creative
writing workshops. The general public, students
and society members are invited to near the authors
speak from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. Box lunches will be
sold.
Workshop participants and lunchtime readers
will be: Ronald Baughman, director of graduate studies
and professor in USCs department of media arts;
Libby Bernardin, instructor of English in USC's College
of Applied Professional Sciences; Claudia Brinson,
senior writer at The State newspaper, Kwame.
Dawes, chairman of the Division of Arts and Letters
at USC Sumter; Robert Lamb, director of periodicals
at USCs University Publications; and David
Miller, lecturer in English and creative writing at
USC
For more information, contact Richard Layman
at 771-4642.
Parking clo
WENDY HUDSON News Editor
Effective immediately, students will no
longer be allowed to park in the Carolina Plaza.
Students had been allowed to park in the
Plaza when they purchased a $20 parking decal.
Now, students will have to park in one of
the perimeter student lots.
The lot change was made because of faculty
and staff concerns. About 75 more faculty
and employees from the music school will
join the 300 staff who work in the Plaza when
the school moves into its new building this
spring.
"The parking committee met in the fall last
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mittee," said Bill Baker, director of Parking
and Vehicle Registration. "There was a request
made by the employees of the Carolina
Plaza and the music school faculty because
of concerns about parking."
Baker said about 140 spaces were affected.
The area was not sectioned off into separate
student and faculty lots. "There are about
200 spaces and about 375 employees between
the Plaza and the School of Music," Baker said.
Students' parking in the Plaza lot was causMpH
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Senior Chris Hapeshls drinks In Five I
New law
Five Points bar owners report lit
ness with open container restrictio
MATT PRUITT Staff Writer
The infamous "open-container law" has 1
two weeks, with little or no adverse effects c
ments or those who attend them.
The law, which has been effective since Js
tainers of alcoholic beverages in the five Po
the day, seven days a week. No additional o
the area, but those officers already assigned
sponsible for enforcing the law, according tc
Mark Spires. The penalty for violating the
court assessment, making the total fine abo
Spires said he felt the law would make th
to go and socialize."
"We're hoping it will curtail the fighting tl
and on the sidewalks down there," Spires s
drinking to inside the clubs, then the mana
keep an eye on things. It will hopefully keep
side the clubs and having a free-for-all in th
"The law also keeps beer bottles from b<
streets," he said.
Managers and employees of Five Points e
I
Hate crimes may
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) ? Hate they w:
crimes that included racial slurs spokesmi
written at a Citadel barracks and has zero
a rural high school and vandalism tivity."
in Ravenel likely were related to In D<
animosity about Martin Luther andaCc
King Day, a researcher said onthedc
Wednesday. Ridgevil
"There's a strong resentment was disci
among some whites to the Martin by the ti
Luther King holiday," said Marvin day.
Dulaney, director of the Avery Re- In th
search Center for African-American munity
History and Culture at the College and swa
of Charleston. paint of
Authorities don't believe the in- black mi
cidents are related, except that they Somt
all occurred in conjunction with the storage
King holiday. Curtis h
The words "die ni'gr," were black, ai
scrawled next to the barracks room of two ve
door of a black Citadel cadet on Mon- couple n
day after the military college's Mar- Somi
tin Luther King Banqyet. sentmer
"We don't know Who wrote that Tve
particular racial slur on the wall, but say the
ses Carolin
ing a shortage of faculty and staff spaces, said
Rod Rowenfeldt, finance professor and chair
of the parking committee.
"There weren't sufficient places for parking,"
said Rowenfeldt. "A lot of cars were being
left there overnight. By early morning,
there were not parking places available. Many
students would leave their car there for the
week."
Brad Holt, SG chief of staff, was one student
who would leave his car parked at the
Plaza during the week. He feels the decision
was made without enough student input.
"To me, when they change a lot like the
Plaza, especially a student lot, they should
make the extra effort to contact several stu
dents to get some input as to whether or not
it is a good idea," Holt said.
"I feel like they are pushing students farther
and farther to the periphery of campus
to the point we are almost being forced to move
to the garages."
Rowenfeldt said the student representative
to the parking committee attended the
meeting and student issues were brought up.
"There were concerns about what would
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in. 2, prohibits open con- Cuny Vemer, an
ints area at any point of have ^ seen yet> ?
fficers will be patrolling the bar must guarf ?
to hive Points will be re- , .
. Columbia police officer phj| Breazeale of
law is a $50 fine plus a . , TX. . ,
ut $76 tendance. His estab
e area "a friendlier place unl;il they |Lave finii
make an effort to r<
lat goes on in the' streets Pretty muc^
;aid. "If we can limit the ed when y?u make *
igement of the clubs can Breazeale said,
people from coming out- As for the studen
ie streets. but are not botherec
sing broken all over the "I know a lot of s
cities that didn't ha
istablishments report no doesn't bother me tl
be related to MI
ill be expelled," college day is white gu
an Rick Mil said. 'The Citadel white Americar
tolerance for racial insensi- guilty for oppre
laney said.
jrchester County, racial slurs ?jt>g t a wj.
federate flag were scrawled ^ sAmeri
>ors and a wall at Harleyville- ,, ,
le High School.Thegraffiti though we
avered Monday and ranoved ere ab,e to oven
ime classes resumed Tues- kad a move
try that brought
le Charleston County com- and everyone si
of Ravenel, racial epithets that."
stika were scratched into the Dulaney sai
a pickup truck owned by a m0re such incid
an- History Month in
sone also burned a lock on a generally hate cr
shed owned by state Rep. state Law Er
labinett, D-Ravenel, who is , TT
id smashed the windshields S^? e^aan
ihicles at the home of ablack were 30 SUch cn
extdoor. mg 1993, the lasi
5 whites harbor a strong re- ures are av&ilab]
it about the holiday, "I don't thinl
even had people call me aiid in this state, but
Martin Luther King Holi- doesn't happen,"
to students
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happen to student parking," Rowenfeldt said.
"Now, theyAvill have to move to the outlying
^ areas and use the Carolina Shuttle."
Safety becomes an issue when student park
in the outlying areas, Holt said.
"It is bad enough to walk to the Plaza from
JAMES PONCE The Gamecoi
ilch went Into effect Jan. 2.
vchanges
e new law.
aanager of Poor Richard's, said business has m
aw. The only problem he foresees is with his ou
lowever, are legal under the law.
ictus as a bar." said Dreesen. If someone's stani
I and the police arrest them, it affects them n<
employee of Jungle Jim's, said no adverse effeci
ind she doesn't foresee any until the spring, whe
igainst overspill onto the sidewalk from the pari
Elbow Room said he has seen no decline in a
lishment does not allow patrons to leave the b;
shed their beverage, and the bouncers general
smind people of the new law before they leav
the same. Sometimes people get a little irrita
;hem finish their beer before they leave the bar
ts, many have expressed discontent with the la
1 enough to stay home on the weekends,
tudents don't like it, but we were one of the fe
ve a law like it," said senior Ben Reed. "It real
lat much."
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is are made to feel
ssing blacks," DuMAn
PRUrrr Staff Writ*
lite guilt day, but a The Student Senafc
cans celebrate, that codes and voted againi
had nroblems. we dav. Two amendments
;ome them," he said. by the Judiciary Comr
mentinthiscoun- . The amendment tc
ing on food and travel
ou'?he best ln us bill, authored by Chai
lould feel a part of and Sen. John Martir
sponsible for their own
d there tend to be loss of funds to be alio
ents during Black Strong opposition 1
February, although eventual failure of th(
, , j gued that the law res
noes have declined. tan( fanctionSi partin
lforcement Division by a vote of 14 to 13.
h Munn said there A bill proposing ar
mes statewide dur- companied by much d
t year for which fig- era' sPec^lc c?des, rev
I A clause to change th
,. ,, into four separate bill
i its a big problem Two amendments I
thafs not to say it a new Senate committ
he said. week and be subject ti
-=E- btuaents can no longer parK at
Carolina Plaza. The $20 parking
decal can now be used at the
haley following locations.
? = Carolina Plaza
= Student Parking
Ryan Sims/ The Gamecock
the Horseshoe, but to have to walk to the Coliseum
or the Bates parking lot or any of the
gravel pits is twice as bad, in my mind," Holt said.
"Even if they were right to close the lot, I felt
there wasn't good communication," Holt said.
-i Admissions
considering
electronic
application ;
KEISA MCM.WAIN Staff Writer "
The Office of Admissions, along with i:
I the computer center, is working on an
electronic application that (fan be used ^
by students applying to the university, i
"We're finding that more students '1
use computers," said Terry Davis direc- 1
tor of admissions. "Ifs not the only method c
of applying but another way of filling out '
the form."
The electronic application enables 1
the student to input data directly from 1
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a computer.
"For the student with access to a com
puter, the electronic application is easi- 1
_J er than hand writing the application or *
:k using the typewriter," Davis said. "For r
us (Office of Admissions) this method is 3
timesaving, and there is less chance of 1
data entry error."
The electronic application is still in
the works. The computer center is help- }
ing the Office of Admissions develop the
application.
"We won't be using the electronic application
for Fall *95 because ifs not ready," Davis
said. "We already have the bulk
.j. of applications here for the fall semesit
ter"
The USC electronic application will
ts be based off of the Georgia Tech model.
n "We looked at other models includ- "
^ mg one tnat used disKettes ancl another
which set up a program between a col- 1
t lege and a high school," she said. "We e
ar liked the Georgia model the best because !
. students are able to enter data directly J
e from the computer."
^ Davis also mentioned some possible fl
.? negatives to the electronic application. V
If it were the sole application, students
applying to USC would have to 1
have access to a computer," she said. "Another
negative would be students ap- '
. plying by electronic application but not1
having brochures or reference materials
about the university." ,
e postpones
)n code vote j
* 1
e postponed an amendment to change the electioni
jt an amendment to the finance codes on Wednes-1
i to the legislative codes had not yet been approved I
aittee and will have to be voted on next week. A
> the finance codes would have restricted spend-?
! to 10 percent of an organization's funding. The?
irman of the Finance Committee William Blitch?
i, was intended to make organizations more re-?
i fundraising and to ease the burden of a $140,00C?
icated. ?
from Sen. Bernstein of the law school led to th^
i bill, after a very lengthy debate. Bernstein artricted
some organizations from hosting imporllarly
in the School of Law. The bill was rejectee
1 amendment to the election codes was also ac
ebate. The bill proposed to make changes in sev
vording some, adding some and deleting others;
e voting hours was also present. It was divided
s to be voted on separately next Wednesday.
x> the legislative codes, one of which could creafc
ee, will come out of the Judiciary Committee nexi
o a vote.