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NEWS BRIEFS
NATIONWIDE
WASHINGTON (AP) ? In politically charged debate,
Democrats blocked passage Thursday of a balanced-budget
constitutional amendment at the heart
of the Republicans' Contract With America. GOP
lawmakers, however, predicted approval of a fallback
measure designed to outlaw deficit spending.
"No question," said Rep. John Boehner, No. 4 in
the House GOP hierarchy, as the new Republican
majority confronted the first major test of its ability
to enact a program of smaller government and
less taxes.
With the last balanced budget a quarter-centuxy
in the past and the federal debt nearing $4.7 trillion,
Republicans said a constitutional amendment
banning red ink was the only way to get spending
under control.
Democrats replied that the GOPs proposal would
lead to devastating cuts in politically popular social
programs, Medicare and Social Security among them.
"This amendment will put a noose around the
necks of senior citizens," charged Rep. Charles
Schujner, D-N.Y.
In the first test of a long day of debate, the House
voted 253-173 ? 31 short of the two-thirds necessary
for approval ? on a proposal backed by Speaker
Newt Gingrich and most Republicans. It called
for a balanced budget starting in 2002, unless threefifths
of both houses agree to permit a deficit and to
raise the nation's debt limit. In addition, it required
three-fifths majorities of both houses to raise taxes.
Democrats overwhelmingly balked at that final
provision, and while 220 of230 Republicans voted
for the measure, it drew the support of only 33 Democrats,
dooming it to defeat "The problem's not on
the Republican side," said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas.
TODAY
Today is Friday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 1995.
There are 338 days left in the year.
Today's highlight in history:
Fifty years ago, on Jan. 27,1945, during World
War II, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp
of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland.
On this date:
In 1880, Thomas Edison received a patent for
Ilia plprtrir inranH parent lanrn
In 1943, the first all-American air raid against
Germany during World War II took place as some
50 bombers struck Wilhelmshaven.
In 1944, during World War II, the Soviet Union
announced the end of the deadly German siege of
Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two
years.
In 1967, astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward
White and Roger Chaffee died in a flash fire
during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft at
Cape Kennedy, Fla.
In 1967, representatives from more than 60 nations
signed a treaty banning the oibiting of nuclear
weapons.
In 1973, the Vietnam peace accords were signed
in Paris, formally bringing to an end the longest foreign
war in U.S. history.
In 1977, the Vatican reaffirmed the Roman
Catholic Church's ban on female priests.
In 1981, President Reagan greeted the 52 former
American hostages released by Iran, telling
them during a visit to the White House: "Welcome
home."
In 1988, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously
approved the nomination of Judge Anthony
Kennedy to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Sexual assai
ANNE PAGE Staff Writer ti
Only Little Rock, Ark., surpassed Co- P'
lumbia in the number of rapes reported in
1993 among similarly sized U.S. cities, ac- w
cording to the Uniform Crime Report released a!
by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in De- n
cember. ^
Some experts attribute the relatively high
occurrence of rape in Columbia to the num- w
ber of college campuses in the area, while oth- m
ers speculate the rates result from increased
reporting because of education and victim ad- n
vocacy programs, said Eileen Korpita, pro- w
gram director of Sexual Assault Services at
USC. dl
Korpita said the rapes reported in the ir
metropolitan Columbia area typically vary ^
from rapes occurring on campus. 01
"A high majority of the rapes we have on
campus are acquaintance situations where tc
alcohol is frequently involved," she said, ^
"whereas metropolitan areas probably expe- al
rience more stranger rape and incest." P|
The number of rapes reported to USCPD ^
has been two or fewer annually since 1991.
Since its inception in 1993, the USC Office of s'
Sexual Assault Services has recorded statiss;
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TINA MORGAN Asst. News Editor
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the
liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz
in Poland.
"It happens to have been the one where
most of the people were killed. It is where
the skill of mass killing reached its zenith,"
said Rabbi Marcus of the Tree of Life Congregation
in Columbia.
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strument of terror and extermination of the
Poles in World War II. In time, the Nazis also
began to import citizens into the camp
from such countries as Germany, Austria
and Russia.
Before the Soviet army liberated the camp
Jan. 27,1945,1.5 million people died at
Auschwitz, 90 percent of whom were Jews.
Prisoners at the camp were condemned
to isolation and extermination by hunger,
exhausting work, cruel experiments or a
quick death as the result of individual or
mass executions.
"The anniversary of Auschwitz recalls
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the Nazis made to exterminate Jews and
Gypsies and curtail freedom of speech and
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lilt increas
cs on the number of sexual assaults reortedly
experienced by USC students.
According to Korpita, 31 sexual assaults
ere reported between the summer of 1993
lid spring of 1994. Sixteen of these occurjnces
were reported rape. During the same
jar, the university recognized nine accounts
f sexual assault, and one attempted rape
as reported to the university police departlent.
Last semester, 24 sexual assaults were
sported to Sexual Assault Services, 14 ol
iuuii were i epui leu a? i apes.
Korpita said some of the reports made
uring each of these periods were regarding
istances that occurred in the past, and the
ictims had since decided to come forward
it of a need for counseling.
Sexual Assault Services teaches students
> be aware of acquaintance rape. To lessen
le risk of date rape, students are encour^ed
to go out in groups and tell friends their
[ans before going out. Students also are adsed
to be dear about sexual boundaries with
leir dates and to be particularly careful in
tuations involving alcohol.
"Women do need to be careful," Korpita
lid. "This university is located in a metro
titration camp In Poland, where 1.5 n
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crematoria, gas chambers and crematio
pits. Pyres, the special unloading platfon
where deportees were selected for executio
and a pond of human ashes can be foun
there today.
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crime in a metropolitan area." ^li
Sexual Assault Services opened in the ^
spring of 1993 and was largely the product
t of a grassroots student effort, Korpita said. ^
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ihappy about how the university was han
ng sexual assault, she said. Last semeswe
did close to 100 presentations on risk
duction. We are trying to educate people in
number of ways."
Students
protest
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Law school students against
grade normalization policy that
would affect fall grades.
LESLIE COLEMAN Staff Writer
The Student Bar Association (SBA)
held a forum Thursday for law students
to voice their opinions on the newly adopted
grade normalization policy for firstthroueh-third-vear
students.
SRA President Bob Masella and a majority
of students are appealing the policy,
which faculty members voted on last
spring and which was put into effect ill
the fall. There are some loose ends to the
policy, such as determining an appropriate
grading curve, that must still be
decided by the faculty Curriculum Committee.
In March, law professors voted 10-6
for the grade normalization policy. At
the time, it was noted that a majority of
the faculty wasn't present. Another vote
was taken at a December meeting, resulting
in a 15-13 vote in favor of grade
normalization. This was a majority of
the faculty present but not a majority of
the entire faculty.
One student asked, "Why wasn't the
policy's validity voted on before last fall,
being the first semester it's being implemented?"
Another student suggested
that the policy not affect students who
entered the School of Law before grade
normalization became a rule for all classes.
At the SBA forum, Masella told students
that "what we need to consider is
the vocal minority versus the silent majority,
and if we don't like this, we've got
to fight it."
The SBA invited law school Dean John
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grade normalization to the forum.
Montgomery said it's in the students'
best interest of fairness to have grade
normalization. He said students in their
second and third years choose classes for
different reasons, and some students
may be in classes with easier or harder
grading scales than others.
The students' primary concern was
mai no mauer wny tney cnose a class,
they should receive grades based on merit.
Once grades are put into a normalization
curve, some students are subject
to receive lower grades than they earned,
thereby lowering their GPAs.
Montgomery assured the students
that employers are more interested in
class ranking rather than GPA. However,
the State Supreme Court hires solely
based on GPA of 3.0 or higher, Masella
said.
Previously, there was a mandatory
grade normalization rule applied only to
first-year students to assure fairness in
grading in their assigned sections. How
ever, students are rebelling against the
new grading normalization because firstyear
students at USC have the secondlowest
curve in the Southeast, already
putting them at a disadvantage.
Students feel the new policy for grade
fairness \ isn't been implemented in a
fair way.
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alternative acts
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ad time. Everyone I talked to had a real good time."
to According to Stokes, the USCPD didn't make
any arrests. Bolin said the majority of arrests
in were for merchandising violations in the parki
a ing lots.
n- Three law enforcement divisions were present:
the Richland County Sheriffs Departad
ment contributed a narcotics squad, the Coht
lumbia Police Department had uniformed ofen
ficers present to work with security and crowd
re control, and the USCPD had officers checking
re for safety.
"They informed us before that they would
n- be coming and be there to set up security,"
Stokes said. "We worked closely with them on
10 all things."
il, Successfully bringing Nine Inch Nails will
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way to other
ias had problems elsewhere. With those kii
f things, we know how to set up and how
tandle the crowd."
Bolin visited a Nine Inch Nails concert
Vinston Salem, N.C., before talking with
iromoter about bringing the group to Colui
iia.
"I had to go see it first," Bolin said. "I hi
o go experience it, spend the day and the nig
fter the show. The first thing I had to do whi
came back was start some sort of dialog he
nth the university, city, law enforcement, fi
larshal and do soma oonaanana hnildine
Bolin started talks with Cellar Door Co
erts to book the group.
"We had to find a real good promoter wl
ras willing to gamble," Bolin said. "As usuj
Columbia responded exactly like we thoug]
ley would. Overall, it ^as a real successf
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WENDY HUDSON News Editor Y
The Coliseum's first alternative concert went ?
well, with few arrests and no disturbances,
said the Coliseum director and USC's law en- ..
forcement director. ^
The Nine Inch Nails concert Wednesday ?
night went as well as the Coliseum staff had
hoped, said John Bolin, director of Coliseum
operations.
"I think everyone worked hard to make it ^
safe," Bolin said. "No one got hurt, and nobody
got arrested for anything inside the building. v
Everyone was trying real hard to make it work." D
Adequate planning was responsible for the
orderliness of the event, said Carl Stokes, di- c
rector of Law Enforcement and Safety.
"We needed to know how many people were ^
coming," Stokes said. "The age of the crowd j
tells us something, and whether the band
fice at 777- 0958.
Omicron Delta Kappa accepting applications
Omicron Delta Kappa, a national honor society,
is currently accepting applications.
Qualifications for the society include a minimum
of 60 undergraduate hours and a minimum grade
point ratio of 3.0. Qualifications also include excelling
as a leader in one or more of the following
fields: scholarship; athletics; social, service and religious
activities and campus government; journalism,
speech and the mass media; or creative and
performing arts.
Information sheets and application forms are
available at the Russell House Information Desk,
in the Campus Activities Center, the SG Office and
Russell House 112.
Clarification
Some readers have expressed confusion over the
sports story "Something Like a War..." in the Jan.
26 issue of The Gamecock. The story was intended
to be commentary, and the events described did not
actually occur.
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