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The WUSC-FM 90.5 fact-finding
committee wanted to close their Thursday
evening meeting, scheduled to be held
at chairman David Halter's house, to the
public.
Haller said the meeting, which was
to be held at 8 p.m., should be a closed
session, citing his interpretation of the
Family Educational and Rights and
Privacy Act of 1974 and concerns about
the possibility of civil suits.
"We're committed to having this as
fair as possible. A lot of things have been
said in the last couple of weeks in the
press, whether responsible or not, whether
those have been Mowed up or not, which
may or may not be true," Haller said.
"That gives rise to civil action for
slander and libel," he said. "I know what
Fm talking about. Fve spent a year and
a half in law school."
Haller said, "My understanding of
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Morton, associate professor at the
College of Criminal Justice, said the first
week of her Maymester course, Women,
Girls and Criminal Justice, will
concentrate on delinquent girls and will
involve observations of programs both
at the Department of Juvenile Justice
in Columbia and the new site girls will
be transferred to in Greenwood.
The second week of the course will
focus on adult female offenders and will
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The third week will involve the role
of women professionals in criminal justice
and will involve interaction with women
who are currently working in the fields
of police, courts and corrections.
"It will give them (students) the
opportunity to examine in-depth these
three areas of concern that are not covered
in a traditional curriculum in any depth,"
Morton said. "Through the concentrated
interaction with graduates and
undergraduates, I think the students
will be able to learn from each other."
The Faculty Senate Curricula and
Courses Committee approves new or
, experimental undergraduate courses
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the sense and the puipose behind FERPA
is to protect students and what they do
in college. That includes what I would
consider taking facts, some of which you
don't have access to, and applying them
and other facts, some of which you do
have access to, to university policy. And
that may take number one, open
discussion of the application of facts to
policy and number two, whether or not
that should be followed up and to me,
that right has not been waived by anyone."
All of Monday's and most of Tuesday's
interviews of former WUSC executive
board members and administrators
involved were closed to the public. Other
interviews were opened by the students
and administrators who were interviewed
based on their rights as described in The
Freedom of Information Act:
"Discussion of employment,
appointment, compensation, promotion,
demotion, discipline or release of an
employee, a student, or a person regulated
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Dr. Caroline Eastman, chairwoman
of the committee said, "We considered
in our last meeting a number of courses
which people are planning to offer during
Maymester. My general impression is
that, for the most part, these are special
interest courses ? topics that are not
offered during the regular semesters."
A number of courses are being offered
for Maymester that already exist as
courses and don't come before the
tummiticu.
"Of the ones we saw, my impression
was that a number of them have to do
with various aspects of the Internet,"
Eastman said.
The idea to have an official May
session for students came from the
Provost's office.
"The Provost and I were talking
about a way to enhance educational
possibilities for students who, perhaps
for financial reasons, had a need to speed
up their college careers," Associate Provost
Eton Greiner said. "We knew we had veiy
little opportunity at this university for
what you and I would call truly innovative
courses ? courses that do not require a
full semester's work but might be
attractive to students over an intensive
three-week study."
Greiner said a task force was set up
to see if the university should have a
May session and to find out what other
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Interviews that were open include
those with Student Media Director Chi
Carroll, former WUSC Programs Direct
Matt Horgan and Assistant Director
Student Life Patti Tomanio. Othe
sessions that were open to the publ
included the re-questioning of form*
Promotions Director Kerry Mitche]
former Music Director Eric Greenwoc
and part of the re-questioning of Tre
Lofton, former station manager.
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evaluate it after this year to see wh;
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vandalize property."
Michael Phillips, president of Alpha
Phi Alpha, the fraternity that was
scheduled to use the ballroom the night
of the first attempted arson, agrees that
there may not be a connection.
"I don't know what the connection
is," Phillips said. "I don't think it has
anything to do with our fraternity."
However, Phi Beta Sigma president
Nate Cropp disagrees.
The fraternity was scheduled to host
a dance Friday night, with the proceeds
benefiting the Boys and Girls Clubs.
Cropp said black fraternities and sororities
frequently use the Ballroom for fundmses
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Investigators continue to gather
information in last weekend's second
attempted arson in the Russell House
and are searching for more answers to
the incident.
"Back in November, we didn't think
it would happen again, but it did," said
Carl Stokes, director of law enforcement
and safety. "We have no idea why."
Stokes said he doesn't yet see any
connection between this incident and the
one in November and that the incidents
are perhaps random vandalism.
"We are still interviewing people who
may have seen something," he said. "It
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weekly, which means that our reputatioi
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"To be honest, I think it is racially
motivated," Cropp said. "Someone doesn't
want us to use the Ballroom."
Cropp said he and his fraternity were
disappointed they were unable to use
the Ballroom or any on-campus facility.
A conference was held in the Ballroom
the next morning with no inconveniences
to the sponsoring group, he said. Phi
Beta Sigma had to move their dance off
campus to Pug's in Five Points.
"We were very disappointed in Student
Life that they didn't accommodate us,"
Cropp said. "We could have used the
gym, Hamilton Armory or some places
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Director of Student Life Jerry Brewer
said he didn't think there were other
locations on campus that could have been
used.
"To open a facility like the Coliseum
takes a great deal of staff," Brewer said.
"The Armory is an academic facility, and
the P.E. Center is usually scheduled for
P.E. Center activities."
Cropp said he understood that USCPD
was concerned for the safety of the
fraternity members in case the incident
was something more serious.
"They were doing the best they could.
They didn't want us to be on campus in
case something else happened," Cropp
said. "Truly, I didn't think it was that
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widely known ? kind of like they've (th
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doing to get ideas about how to set it up
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i to play top 40 music, being that it is a
1 nan-commercial station. Local commercial
c stations pay taxes to enable them to air
c top 40 music. DJs since Monday have
f rampantly been airing music that defies
3 the station's mission statement in the
r form of top 40, not educational music."
y Greenwood told the committee that
t members of the executive board of the
s station were elected,
r When the committee asked if station
^ managers at WUSC have ultimate
3 authority to dismiss board members,
3 Greenwood said, "No, because it does
not state that in our constitution. It states
I that if the station manager has a problem
3 with anyone on the executive board, he
d can bring those charges to the executive
i board, and they can vote on whether
3 that person is dismissed."
i The committee will meet at 10 a.m.
i today and will meet with the Senate
' Wednesday to report their findings.
I
^ case
estigation
* serious, but I understand their efforts.
We just felt we could have been
accommodated more."
Brewer said his office tries to work
with student organizations as much as
possible.
"That's our business, scheduling
groups," he said. "It is unfortunate what
happened, but what do you do in a
situation like this?
"We go out of our way for students,
but issues of safety are very weighty.
What if we had rescheduled the event
(on campus) and something had
happened? That's a tough call," Brewer
said.
Cropp said more than 500 people
attended the Phi Beta Sigma dance and
$625 was raised for the Boys and Girls
Clubs. Some fraternity members stood
outside the Russell House to let people
know the dance had been moved off
campus.
If we had had the event in the Russell
House, it (the money raised) would have
been more." he said.
Anyone with information regarding
either arson attempt should contact the
Office of Law Enforcement and Safety
at 777-8400 or the USCPD at 7774215.
Stokes said he encourages anyone with
information to come forward or leave the
information anonymously on voice mail
for either number.
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