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Forecast : Index ?yn. . : Head over, hooves : News 1 Bf Today if \ Carolina Roadtrip travels to Camden for the ' EJ sr! I w?r fXritiwrnrb i I? BPaTsnunny j j % I I || I I II |\ j Best of the rest High 63 J B B { Colunrfnist Larry Williams sets a UCLA, Low 46 Suporfroak ; UNC clash for NCAA title. I Sports 7 \ n 4 ' 1 Page 7 ^ c nvr . 1Qns 1 Classifieds....8 Serving USC since 1908 NEWS BRIEFS NATIONWIDE NEW YORK (AP) ? The first federal judge to rule on the Clinton administration's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military declared it unconstitutional Thursday. U.S. District Judge Eugene Nickerson's ruling barred the Pentagon from discharging six homosexuals. Though it applies only to the six, it represents the first step in a process that could lead to a Supreme Court ruling on the policy. Nickereon said the polity is "nothing short of Orwellian" because it equates sexual orientation with misconduct. "To presume from a person's status that he or she will commit undesirable acts is an extreme measure," he wrote. "Hitler taught the world what could happen when the government began to target peo pie not for what they had done but because of their status." Lawyers for the plaintiffs welcomed the ruling but cautioned that it doesn't prevent the Pentagon from taking action against other gays. "We don't want people to read the paper and think they can come out tomorrow," said Beatrice Dohrn, legal director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, which helped represent the plaintiffs. Justice Department spokesman Carl Stem said the government will appeal. TODAY Today is Friday, March 31, the 90th day of 1995. There are 275 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in Mstory: Fifty years ago, on March 31,1945, the Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie" had its Broadway premiere with Laurette Taylor as Amanda Wingfield, Eddie Dowling as Tom, Julie Haydon as Laura and Anthony Ross as Jim, the Gentleman Caller. On this date: In 1889, French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its completion. In 1917, the United States took possession of the Virgin Islands, which it had purchased from Denmark. In 1923, the first U.S. dance marathon, held in New York City, ended with Alma Cummings setting a world record of 27 hours on her feet. In 1933, Congress authorized the Civilian Conservation Corps. In 1943, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical play "Oklahoma!" opened on Broadway. In 1949, Newfoundland entered confederation as Canada's 10th province. In 1968, President Johnson stunned the countiy by announcing he would not run for another term of office. In 1976, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that coma patient Karen Anne Quinlan could be disconnected from her respirator. (Quinlan remained comatose but survived until 1985.) In 1987, the judge in the "Baby M" case in Hackensack, N.J., awarded custody of the girl born under a surrogate-motherhood contract to her father, William Stern, instead of the surrogate, Mary Beth Whitehead. Ten years ago: El Salvador's Christian Democratic Party, led by President Jose Napoleon Duarte, won a majority of seats in legislative elections. Five years ago: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev warned the defiant Baltic republic of Lithuania to annul its declaration of independence or face "grave consequences." Hundreds of people were injured when rioting erupted in London over Britain's so-called "poll tax." One year ago: The PLO and Israel agreed to resume talks on Palestinian autonomy, more than a month after the Hebron mosque massacre. NOTEBOOK Women's Tun Run" to be April 29 The first annual "Moving Celebration," a five kilometer women's run/walk in Columbia's Shandon neighborhood, is scheduled for Saturday, April 29. The event will benefit The Women's Shelter and The Children's Law Center. The entry fee is $10 for women registered before April 22 and $15 for those registering later. Women of all ages are invited to participate. For more information, Norm Ferris at 799-IRUN. Business Blood Drive to be Thursday, April 6 A blood drive will be Thursday, April 6, on the eighth floor of the William Close Building from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event is jointly sponsored by The Masters of International Business Studies and Masters of Business Administration programs of the College of Business Administration. Volunteers needed for elderly, children t : l /?* i_. \jt r* * *uc j^exingion i^ouniy meuuu nccuui vsciiuh 1a seeking volunteers to work with elderly clients and assist with other programs. Volunteers are need to make visits, make phone calls on a weekly basis and send cards on special occasions. Volunteers also are needed to assist office staff with general duties; plan and instruct arts and crafts; assist in the child and adolescent program as mentors, camp assistants and tutors; and assist in the preparation of noon meals for a day program. For more information, contact Sue Perry at 3565070. BA building abi ANNE PAGE Staff Writer "and the third flo The second of five phases of asbestos abate- department." ment and renovation of the William H. Close The accounti building is beginning on schedule, according temporarily shar to Dean Kress, assistant to the dean of the undergraduate i College of Business Administration. uled to return to "The first phase took 90 days, and we ex- transition should pect the second phase should take about the three days. same," Kress said. Also, during tl The total $5.6 million project is expected the copy center > to be completed in February of 1996 and in- the second floor, volves the replacement of carpeting, wall cov- The second p] erings, light fixtures and air conditioning and elude renovation heating systems, in addition to the asbestos Kress said. The f abatement. for abatement ne Kress said construction on the second and partment, previoi third floors planned as the first phase of the temporarily mov project was completed this week. vated second floor "The second floor is now the home of the ness division on undergraduate advisement office," Kress said, porarily moved to 5?* I wm^f^^^tr CHUCK CMtFFITH The Gamecock Father Raymond Brown '... -,ai KEISA MdLWAIN Staff jj []^LtL|PI? Father Raymond B SB R^wirjVra > Distinguished Profes I |tRQWN of Biblical Studies at || j DjT I logical Seminary in Ne ? Iliri^lJ at Belk Auditorium 1 A Phi Beta Kappa, Father * ather crown re Brown earned the Ph.D. 'm but is far from it," Pi Semitic Languages from Moeser said. "A New Johns Hopkins, tne Doctorate Review describes hi in Theology from St Mary's. tremendous learning He holds 24 honorary Brown taught at de9re0S : v - logical Seminary for i , ^ bis retirement in June Tne author Of 25 books on ; ordained as a Roman < the Bible and a tervtime m . in 1953. He earned hi wkmer of book awercte, F^hef' Semitic languages froi Brown has beencaliedby ^ kins University, his ^logyfromStMa, tihfll and Umversity and a cred scripture from t r - ,, Biblical Commission. I tthKSL 24 honorary doctors on the Roman Pontifical ?nbmh andGla^ Biblical Commission, an inburgh and Glasgow appointment, Pope Paul VI Uppsala in Sweden gJjjort vain in Belgium. "I remember aski Hill to speak Monda TWA MORGAN Asst. News Editor written cue cards anc Anita Hill will be speaking to the ber discretion. Carolina Community at the Russell USC's Ideas and Is House Ballroom at 7:30 run. Mondav tee of the Carolina I April 3. ' Union is responsible fc Hill will address the audience with to USC. the program "Race and Gender Issues "We, as a board, th in the *90sThe topic of the address tant to bring nationally will be: "Creating Awareness on Cam- ers who will challenge pus: Sexual Harrassment and Social the audience and ma Change Greatly Impacting Society." cussion on campus," Admission for USC students with Brown, president of C an USC ID will be $2, $5 for USC fac- Brown said they h ulty and other students and $10 for lot of reactions to hav rrnnnrnl o/^mioaiAn TTQP gviivi ai auiiiiooiuu. at uuv* Hill will field questions using pre- "From the momenl National surveys b; BOB WERTZ Staff Writer A national study supporting the claim that one in six women are raped while in college is the foundation of Campus Rape Awareness' l-in-6 Day. The event, held March 22, is based on a study conducted in 1988 and published in Ms. magazine, according to Eileen Korpita, director of the Office of Sexual Assault Services. Hie study asked more than 6,000 students from more 1 than 32 college campuses across the nation. It is the largest * survey of its kind ever conducted. One out of every six col- 1 lege-aged women responded that they had been raped. ' Other surveys that have been conducted support this statistic. Sexual Assault on Campus, a report released in 1993, ( estimated that a female college student has a 25 percent risk of being raped. Hie National Victim Center in Washington, 1 D.C. and the Crime Victim Research and Treatment Cen- '' ter in Charleston report that a forcible rape occurs about every 1.3 minutes. 1 According to the 1993 FBI Uniform Crime Report, South itement runninj or will house the accounting ing April 17, Kress said. 'The move wait well," said Geor ng department, which has an administrative assistant in th< ed the eighth floor with the department. "You move when you idvisement office, is sched- Everyone is adjusting, and every the third floor Monday. The py." . be completed within two or Dance said they were initial] would return to the fourth floor soi he first phase of renovations, ing the summer. According to Kresf vas permanently moved to month time frame is still antici move of the economics departme hase of construction will in- involved situating staff and facull of the fourth and fifth floors, in 43 cubicles. Desks and shelves ourth floor will be prepared ously furnished department office sxt week. The economics de- put in storage until the fourth fli usly on the fourth floor, was tions are complete, ed to the to the newly reno- "One of the unfortunate thing Tuesday. The graduate busi- - are not able to provide private offic the fifth floor will be tern- people," Kress said, adding that t the eighth floor of the build- ing department is also having to i S Higher s O eas LUC Learning s y J menl America's world- lawsi renowned biblical ^ scholar visits USC. . s' Sout beinj apri Writer Hope about his honorary degrees," If irown Auburn Brown said. "He had 39 honorary that sor Emeritus degrees; I have a long way to go be- fecti< Union Theo- ^ore * reac^ Mr. Hope's achieve- tifics w York, spoke men^3- T1 ^hursday Brown talked about the changes tend tired in 1990 ^as 8een Roman Catholic pubij rovost James religion and the Bible. thec r York Times "*n 1940s and early A m as having 1950s, the Old Testament began to tests ? taKe a modern approacn. lneiNew ?\ Union Theo- Testament hadn't developed the the 1 20 years until changes yet," Brown said. repoi 1990 He was After he got the professorship at one( Catholic priest Union, he began to teach a wider l s doctorate in variety ?f students. He came into som< m Johns Hop- contact with African American stu- an(j doctorate in dents 38 wel1 38 women. ys Seminary W3S a^e to ^eam fr?m my e*license in sa- posure to a different kind of student he Pontifical body "hesaid .je has earned He is the author of 25 books dealites. He also *n? with the Bible and a winner of ates from Ed- numerous book awards. f |n Scotland His latest book, "The Death of and the Lou- the Messiah," was on the cover of Newsweek. According to Moeser, ng Mr. (Bob) the issue sold more than a million copies. y In RH Ballroom 1 I answer them that we were bringing Anita Hill, our phones have been ringing off the hook," 'sues Commit- he said rogramming jjiH is one of several nationally>r nnging 1 recogized figures to appear at USC link it's impor- recent years. The Ideas and Issues P r known speak- Committee is also responsible for W and stimulate bringing former hostage Terry An- 1 y provoke dis- derson, author Kurt Vonnegut, Hensaid Stephen ry Kissinger and the MTV Spoken ave received a Word Tour featunng Arrested Deing Hill speak velopment to the university. The event is costing CPU $11,000, t we announce a "medium" price according to Brown. ? ack up i-in-6 will t t 'People need to get over the disillusion ? that rape Is something that occurs In the t bushes and not in the dorm room.' } lampus Hape Awareness President beri Martin Carolina ranks eighth in the nation for number of rapes. The same report ranks Columbia second in the nation for total number of rapes among cities with populations between 400,000 and 600,000. No study has been conducted, however, on whether the me in six statistic holds true for USC. "We haven't done the same kind of research on this campus, however, all the research has indicated the same. They're all in the same ballpark," Korpita said. Campus Rape Awareness President Ben Martin agreed that the one in six statistic may not hold true for USC. "There is no way we can be certain about this statistic on j % on schedule If there are matters that need to be addressed gene Dance, in a private area, we can provide that." i economics Dance said even though the economics de- : i are told to. partment cubicles have been numbered, some rone is hap- students are still confused by the set up. We are also right next to the undergraduate ly told they division," Dance said," so undergraduate stunetime dur- dents come in, but we just point them in the i, this three- right direction." pated. The "It hasn't been as bad as it could have been," nt Tuesday Kress said. "We've had incredible cooperation y members from students, faculty and staff." that previ- Questions regarding air quality in the builds have been ing were raised by staff members in January, oor renova- "While abatement work is going on, an independent contractor conducts air monitors is that we ing to make sure there is no asbestos above :es for these an accepted level, and we've had no problem he account- with that," Kress said. "It is a continual monise cubicles, itoring process." i.C. HIV testing iot anonymous i recognition of April being national STD month, } Gamecock begins an occasional series of ar3S examining the issues surrounding the dises. Y ARNOLD Staff Writer ver 45,000 people were tested for HIV infections at South Una county health departments in 1994, and the results of iQP* naanlft utUa faoIa/I rwfiifiira utaha ?v*r\a??fa/^ Ia fkn Flar*ont 00 pcupic TT11V LCOl^Vl *C TTCIC ICpUl IU tllC 1/CpOJL C~ t of Health and Environmental Control as required by state tate health departments, including the Thomson Student Ith Center, must report the names of people with HIV to ?. tate health care facilities do not offer anonymous testing in h Carolina. In an anonymous testing situation, the person 1 tested is not required to give a name. Planned Parenthood, vate organization, does offer anonymous testing for $35. a person tests positive to the HIV virus in South Carolina, person is required to identify all individuals to whom the in?n may have been passed. This process is called partner noition. i he records of minors may be released to a school superinent and a school health care professional if the child attends ic school. They may also be released if there is suspicion that :hild acquired the HIV virus as a result of abuse, t USC, confidential HIV testing is offered. In 1994,254 HIV ; were given. There were no positive tests. Ve have to comply with the law," said Bill Hill, director of rhomson Student Health Center. "Positive results must be , rted. If if s a negative test, if s completely anonymous and no ;ven Knows you had the test. ack of total confidential testing in South Carolina may cause ; people to go to other states for HIV testing. Both Georgia Virginia offer anonymous testing, as do some counties in , TESTING page 2 1 &AI3. | I I Confidential |f ^ \ IB Anonymous V \ HI County by county ETHAN MYERSON / The Gamecock 19 ^ le rapeu siausuu his campus. We are not suggesting that one in six women it USC get raped, but that is the nationally accepted staistic for colleges," Martin said. One reason the statistic may sound improportionately ligh is that 80 percent of all rapes are acquaintance rapes, ind the FBI estimates that 99 percent of all acquaintance apes go unreported, Korpita said. "Many victims believe no one will believe them. They may eel like they're at fault because they should have seen it ?ming. Very frequently, victims blame themselves," Korrita said. Many people seem to disregard the reality of acquainance rape, Martin said. "People need to get over the disillusion that rape is somehing that occurs in the bushes and not in the dorm room," Martin said. "A victim is real whether or not it happens in the dark aley or not," Korpita said. "Any forced intercourse is a rape."