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Q EJ? i MS i Wm ipa9es i :ewp H Wednesday j P^F ! f ^/|1 11^^(1^11 J _ | ^ J cloudy : ffl| I I II I III 1% : End of an era : Comics Low* 56 iShCtat \L/VH a V V V Vlli e?dsMOn'ana,S r9ti,emem e"dS 'B0S'"- j spons 8 low 56 . gfeatno^ : ; Page8 f i Pa9?8 : c f/cr ions 1 i Classifieds..10 * Serving USC since 1908 NEWS BR I E F S I NATIONWIDE L OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)?Unidentified in death even by sex, the baby who was carried from the smok- 2 ing ruins of the federal building in a photograph dis- ^ played on front pages around the world ended up as just another of the bombing's victims. h The child was pronounced dead by emergency a medical technicians, said firefighter Chris Fields, ^ whose attempt to rescue the baby was captured by an amateur photographer and transmitted world- a wide by The Associated Press. el I ne pnotographer, bank clerk (Jharles Sorter 1V, figured when he first heard the explosion that dek molition crews were tearing down a building and a he'd have a chance to snap some neat amateur photos with his camera. Instead, five minutes later, he came upon a po- ^ liceman carrying a baby up from the smoking ruins of a federal building ravaged by a car bomb explosion. The child was believed to have been in a government day care center on the second floor of the building. Neither the center's operator nor a worker could identify the child from the photos. Fields estimated the child was 6 months to 9 A months old, but said he couldn't tell if the baby was G a boy or a girl. yj b TODAY w t( Today is Friday, April 21, the 111th day of 1995. There are 254 days left in the year. t{ Today's highlight in history: A 1 On April 21,1918, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the "Red Baron," was killed in action dur- w ing World War I. 81 On this date: In 1649, the Maryland Toleration Act, which provided for freedom of worship for all Christians, was passed by the Maryland assembly. ^ In 1789, John Adams was sworn in as the first vice president of the United States. P In 1836, an army of Texans led by Sam Houston ^ defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto, assuring the ^ independence of Texas. In 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, ^ better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Conn. In 1940, the quiz show that asked the "$64 question," "Take It or Leave It," premiered on CBS Ra- ^ dio. R In 1955, the Jerome Lawrence-Robert Lee play "Inherit the Wind," loosely based on the Scopes trial of 1925, opened at the National Theatre in New York. " In 1960, Brazil inaugurated its new capital, Brasil- 0 ia, transferring the seat of national government from Rio de Janeiro. In 1972, Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke explored the surface of the moon. In 1975, South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned after 10 years in office. In 1977, the musical play "Annie," based on the "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip, opened on Broadway. w In 1992, Robert Alton Harris became the first ^ person executed by the state of California in 25 years as he was put to death in the gas chamber for the " 1978 murder of two teen-age boys. Ten years ago, The president-elect of Brazil, Tan- j? credo de Almeida Neves, died after an illness that had prevented his swearing-in the previous month as the country's first civilian president in two decades. *? Five years ago: Pope John Paul II was greeted by hundreds of thousands of people as he visited Czechoslovakia to help celebrate the nation's peace- P* ful overthrow of Communism. ^ One year ago: The U.S. House of Representatives nc passed a $28 billion "Get tough on crime" bill by a n< vote of 285-141. Today's Birthdays: Former California Gov. Ed- P( mund G. "Pat" Brown is 90. Actor Anthony Quinn to is 80. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is 69. Actress-comedian-writer Elaine May is 63. Actor Charles Grodin is 60. Former Sen. David Boren (D-Okla.) is 54. f? in NOTEBOOK Hi n: Homeless awareness project today of "Sleep in the Streets," a homeless awareness project, will be at 6 p.m. today in front of the Russell ^ House. .J. The first 300 students to come will be allowed to ^ participate. Food will by donated by a local Burger , King. Other sponsors include City Year Columbia, Palmetto Project, Russell House Union, S.C Denai+mprt rtf TTrlnr-ofinn S f! ETV and thf> flflvpmnr'a Office for Volunteerism. MS volleyball benefit Sunday The Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity will be the host Sunday of its annual spring Sorority Volleyball Tour- D? nament to benefit the Multiple Sclerosis Society. The event, sponsored by Addam's University Book- - o1 store, will be at the Blatt P.E. Center's volleyball tc courts from noon to 4 p.m. ei There will be a raffle for prizes and trophies for C the winners of the tournament. The money will go to research and support services for more than 2,000 T people within the state who are suffering from the M disease. ol r< Correction ti Graduation for engineering majors will be May 12, and English majors will be graduated with hu- r< manities majors May 13. The Gamecock reported 'c otherwise in Wednesday's "Measuring Up" article. * Annual Aw UCY ARNOLD Staff Writer USCs Annual Awards Day ceremony hor 00 undergraduate and graduate student le Horseshoe. Awards Day was sponsored by Omicro onor society, the Division of Students Affe nd Awards Commission, Student Gover ISC Educational Foundation. USC's two most prestigious undergrade warded at the ceremony. The Steven N. I rship Award, which honors significant cor mior, was presented to Ben Martin of Go The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award nd a female student for their "influence f silence in maintaining the high ideals of li ual qualities and generous service to oth > the Southern Society of New York, which { Cassie Sturkie of Clemson and Brian C Death to! ?ociated Press KLAHOMA CITY ? As the rubble slowly ielded more dead, the FBI struck back swiftr Thursday and issued arrest warrants for vo men suspected of renting the truck that lew apart the federal building with a half>n of home-brewed explosives. The death toll rose to 52, making the atfVl A in TT C ?viv tuc ucauiicot uumuiug ill vj.?j. lustuij. bout 150 people remain unaccounted for. FBI Agent Weldon Kennedy said arrest 'arrants have been issued for two white men ispected of using aliases to rent the truck sed in the bombing Wednesday morning at le Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The len's identities were not known, he said. Investigators said the truck was rented pril 17, packed with fuel-and-fertilizer exlosives and parked outside the office buildig, where the blast tore away half the struclre and blew a crater eight feet deep and D feet across. In London, a third man, a Jordanianmerican described by U.S. officials as a posble witness in the attack, was flown back ?the United States for questioning Thursay. Italian officials said his bags, seized in ome, contained possible bomb-making tools. Rescue teams crawling through the nine;ory hulk briefly suspended their work so lat the shattered columns could be reinrced with steel and concrete. Gov. Frank Keating reported a firefight told him: "You find out whoever did this. 11 I've found in here are a baby's finger and i American flap." o An axle thought to have come from the jhicle was found about two blocks away, lid a police source who spoke on condition ' anonymity. Major auto parts are marked ith an ID number to thwart thieves. Two jars ago, the vehicle ID number on a piece ' axle enabled investigators to break the rorld Trade Center bombing case. A federal law enforcement official, deanding anonymity, said investigators bejve the truck was rented in Kansas and are lecking fertilizer dealers in that state to try trace the fertilizer used in the bomb. Dave Russell, a Ryder Truck Rental of-ial, said the FBI had contacted his commy about a truck rented from Elliott's Body iop in Junction City, Kan., about 270 miles >rth of Oklahoma City. Russell said he could 3t comment further. The FBI issued sketches of the two susjcts after sending an artist to Junction City i talk to witnesses. In Washington. Attorney General Janet eno announced a $2 million reward for inrmation leading to arrests in the case. Up until Wednesday, the deadliest bombig in U.S. histoiy was in 1927, when a man arful he couldn't pay his property taxes led a school near Lansing, Mich., with dyimite and blew it up. Forty-five people, 38 'them children, were killed. Worried friends and relatives of the missig gathered at St. Luke United Methodist hurch, where the Red Cross posted a vicms list. Clutching photographs of the missig, some stayed to eat, talk to counselors or eep. 'It's just not knowing," said Carl Johniazardous rr IARTHA HOTOP Staff Writer Cardboard tombstones with the names r extinct animals and a new time capsule ) be buried in front of the Thomas Coop r liiDrary were part oi usus uartn L>ay elebration. The celebration began about 11 a.m. hursday when Katrina Nylund from the fatural Guard spoke about the dangers f the Savannah River Site. Hie state has jcently proposed starting a new producon reactor to create tritium at the facility. The release of tritium into the envimment has resulted in genetic defects in >cal animals, she said. Nylund said there is currently enough ards Day ho son, both seniors, received th lored more than Other awards presented i ts Thursday on Pel Award and the Mortar Boe The Rempel Award is given n Delta Kappa faculty member who has pre lirs, the Honors students. USC President Jol nment and the this year. The Mortar Board Womai ate honors were sented by the Mortar Board ] Swanger Lead- chor Carolyn Sawyer, ltributions by a The recipients of Fulbrigh ose Creek. Scholarship and Barry M. C s honor a male were recognized. Charles Stai or the good, ex- Jennifer Morrison have bee ving, their spir- study in a foreign country. iers," according Steven Burritt is the secon< jives the award, arship from USC. Robyn Kel omer of Ander- ners of the Goldwater Schola II continue ' m ppS The flag In front of the Strom Thurmond I files at half-mast Thursday at the reque the Oklahoma City bombing victims. son, 44, awaiting word of his mother, who worked in the federal building. "I hope she's \t alive. But if she's still in the building, there's s; not much hope left." The dead included at least 12 children, n Two toddlers were burned beyond recogni- ji tion, and one was decapitated; the bodies of ol others were mangled. ff One rescuer's tale a Bodies were buried so deeply under the h rubble that John Brozek was looking for any e sign whatsoever of a human being. He found it in thick sheets of insulation T from third-floor ceilings that collapsed to ft ground level when the bomb went off. laterial topic o tritium to last until 2016 and that a new c; production reactor doesn't need to be built. "It's Sen. Strom Thurmond's last dying n wish to see a reactor built in South Car- a olina," she said. it Nylund's speech stressed that it's future d generations that will have to live with the E clangers or the reactor. Throughout the celebration, there was o an emphasis on how students need to take I an active approach regarding the envi- o ronment. Speakers stressed that simple p actions made today will affect future generations. c "You, as an individual, make an impact ti every day by the choices you make and the a products you buy," said Chris Thomas, re4* nors over 2 ie awards. for degrees ncluded the Richard A. Rem- There w ird Woman of the Year Award, awards cere by Student Government to a presentatioi >vided outstanding service to "Over the in Palms received the award to the ceren for it to lasl i of the Year Award was pre- Governmen Honor Society to WIS-TV an- "So this ucational fo it Grants, the Harry Truman emony, and Joldwater Scholarships also ty meeting.1 iford Hall, Melinda Scott and Only stui n given Fulbright Grants to were includ "To redu< i winner of the Truman Schol- had written lly and Jennifer Wu are win- day coordim rships for students preparing still actually >s to rise \ I JAMIE CLARK The Gamecock Federal Building on Assembly Street >st of President Clinton In honor of The only way to find a body is the insuition. It's red. Its soaked with blood," Brozek aid. Shining his flashlight through dark tunels of contorted metal, concrete beams and unbled office furniture, he followed the trails f the once-yellow insulation. Wearing fatigues, a hard hat and a surical face mask to keep out the dust, Brozek, sergeant at Tinker Air Force Base, joined nnrlrarla nf aoarr-Viora in ovnlnrinrr very accessible corner, crevice and closet. From 7 p.m. Wednesday until 3 a.m. burs day, Brozek crawled through a former jderal building that one doctor now described BOMBING page 2 if Earth Day ycling coordinator at USC. Thomas talked to students about the iew time capsule, which will be buried in few days. The capsule will contain 20 ;ems symbolic of the Earth's situation toay, including a $1 bill, a condom and an Icomug. Thomas said the condom is the symbol f zero growth in the world's population, t's expected that by 2050, many regions f the world will be near their carrying capacity. The shift from an individualistic conern about the world to one focusing on he needs of the entire world was supported it the celebration. EARTH DAY page 2 00 students in math, natural sciences or engineering, ere some changes made in the format of the mony this year to cut down on the length of the as. 1 years, more and more awards have been added lony, and two-and-a-half hours is just too long said Woody Carothers, adviser to Student t. i.T_ _ i _ !iii_ _i i l year, me awaras win De spread oui. oome eaundation awards will be given at another cerfaculty awards will be given at the last faculient awards and awards presented by students ed in the ceremony. :e time, two emcees read what the departments up about awards," said Teresa Wilson, awards itor for ODK. The people from the departments V gave the awards." Of Church and State RELIGIOUS CULTS ON CAMPUS Leaving the fold This is the second in a three-part series about religious cults. Carolina student Adam Katzman left the Columbia Church of Christ after his parents became concerned and brought in exit counselors. ERIN GALLOWAY News Editor At the beginning of the fall 1994 semester, USC freshman Adam Katzman was playing volleyball near the sand pits by Bates. After the game, another player invited Adam to a Bible study. "I said, 'OK, I'll go,' and so I went, and it was pretty fun," Adam said. "They were all nice. They were all friends with you even though you just met them." Next, the group invited Adam to attend a church service at the Columbia Church of Christ. "Then I started going more and more, and soon...on Mondays I went to Bible study and Wednesday and Sunday to church," he said. "Friday night, they had a college night." Adam had mentioned the Bible studies to his parents, Seth and Kathy Katzman of Allentown, Pa. They were glad he was finding friends, Kathy said, but curious that most members of the group were graduate students. "When he first started talking about his friends at school, we were concerned because they were all older," she said. "Isn't it sort of strange that they'd be hanging around a younger person? We felt that normally when you start school, you meet other freshmen and hang around with them." When Adam told his parents he was going to be baptized into the Columbia Church of Christ, they became more concerned and wanted more information about the group. "He just suddenly called and told us that he wanted to convert his religion and he was going to be baptized, which obviously shocked us," Kathy said. "He was making a life-changing decision in a very short time." "They said I sounded programmed and that four weeks was not enough time to change your religion," said Adam, describing how his parents felt when he told them about the upcoming baptism. Adam, however, agreed not to be baptized until after he went home for fall break, but he said the church discouraged him from wait ing. Meanwhile, Adam's parents were trying to find out more about the church. "We contacted our rabbi and asked him if he would meet with us," Kathy said. "He said CULT page 2 Governor, chemist chosen to speak at graduation Staff Reports Gov. David Beasley and celebrated chemist Carl Djerassi will deliver separate commencement addresses at USC. Beasley will address the 3 p.m. May 12 commencement and receive an honorary doctor of laws degree from the university. Djerassi, a chemist and prolific writer of both scientific works and popular literature and poetry, will deliver the 10:30 a.m. May 13 commencement address and receive an honorary SPEAKERS page J! x ??