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Walter Jackson, director of multicultural affa Conference over the weekend.Over 350 studer Student lea learn to thi MARTHA H0T0P News Editor manage JV/ttl UUI About 350 students and administrators advice o from the Southeast spent their Saturday success at the Russell House. Coni USC's 10th Annual Leadership withus< Conference brought student leaders from "I ga 12 schools to campus last weekend. Battling accompl ice and snow in some cases, the students up," Ires learned more about being successful leaders, can't [a The conference consisted of four sessions, think j during which students had the choice between sometl eight different workshops. Students, anywhe administrators and business leaders from Othi the community presented the workshops, with otl Each of the workshops focused on different Mar skills or situations leaders find themselves and Wa] in. Workshops ranged from "Big themus Commitments, So Little Time" to "The Colors of Chai of Leadership" and "Group Dynamics?Pooh direct r Style." confer? During the networking lunch, students Par listened to Patrick Combs, who embodied for vari this year's theme of "think big." Combs made new le? $80,000 a year working as a videoconferencing others 1996 SPRING BREAK East NOW is the time to make your Ocean Lodge M0 Oceanfront walk to Pavilion L ^ 604 North Ocean Blvd., Myrtle Beach, SC 29577 L ^ enr Across the street , *93 per person 806 South Oc Toll Free Reservations 1-800"/ 37-1580 Myrtle Beach, $70 0 Gr^' _ ^foxf V Directly 01 jSLc 1403 South Ocean Blvd., Myrtle jfljf tl Toll Free Reservations 1-800 1 iS $5 OF I Rc I Credit Card Orders ^ Call Us A. Q\>V 254-5330 Tuesday, February 6,1996 f ?*v$ i;? 1 Bp j^B P.; 1 TYSON PETTKJREW Th< lire, gave the opening address at the Student Leadership its from 12 schools attended the conference. mm ders M ~ ink 1)1^ ip% ^ ^ ir for Levi Strauss & Co., his first JsT re t of college. He ofFered the leaders iMij n how to reach their goals and find 'aronra rtorHrirtanta norcxvl fftov lofV 5ful information. gg^ ined insight and realized you can ish anything if you keep your goals tyson pettigrew Th? ihman Melissa Caignino said. "You ccomplish something] when you Patrick Combs gave studei rou can't. When you don't have advise on how to "think bit ling to shoot for, you won't get geveral yearg ire' .. ., m Jan Phillips, who recc ir participants established contacts undergraduate degree from US ier schools. a graduate degree from US ten Olsson, a soidiomore at Johnson attendedthefiret conference bat les, s^tes<Mrfnow co^onsor Now an assistant director of studei .cat A Chores Lrne with the College at East Tennessee State Univc leston; the co-sponsorship was a attended the conference while at esult of a contact made during the now attcn(Js it m advis()r nce- "I come because of the reput ticipants attended the conference ^ ^ ;tB leaderehip development ous reasons Some wanted to gain p,^ ^d. TWs is a regionally idership skills as freshmen, and conference" had attended the conference for er Specials ? , ,1 , r plans! 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Hessell averages 20 miles a day, sometimes walking with supporters. He stayed with members of the Carolina Peace Resource Center and members of the Quaker worship group in Columbia. The School of the Americas trains soldiers from Latin American countries in a separate training facility located in Fort Benning, Ga. It was started in 1946 in Panama and moved to Georgia in 1984 under the Panama Canal Treaty. Hessell, as a Witness for Peace volunteer, has e Gamecock documented human rights abuses in Central America Training for two years. Whenever there was an attack in which civilians were killed or injured, Hessell found someone who witnessed or survived the attacks. "Probably 95 percent of the attacks I documented were attacks by the U.S. supported Contras on Nicaraguan civilians, and many of the soldiers were L trained at the School of the Americas,'' Hessell said. "I met a woman, Rufina Amaya, who was the sole survivor of a massacre of 900 people in 1980 in F.l MnTnfo Ton nf fV>p 19. npnnlp imnliratpH in Hip ML mass murder by the United Nations were graduates of the school." Some graduates of the school are Manuel Noriega, former Panamanian president in jail in the United States, three officers in Peru convicted last year for the massacre of nine university students and a professor < and two of the three officers who assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero. Hessell and supporters are trying to pass Bill HR 2652, which would close the U.S. Army School of the 9 Gamecock Americas and establish an Academy for Democracy and Civil-Military Relations, it leaders The new school would improve civilian-military r relations and civilian control over military matters. Latin American and Caribbean civilians would be ;ive d an allowed to attend. Combat and lethal skills training IC in 1989 would not be offered, and every course and program C in 1991 would involve civilians, elected officials and 'k in 1986' representatives of human rights and other civic it activities organizations. rsitv she Bruce Pearson, USC English professor and member Tmr' anrt ?f Amnesty International, said he supports Hessell's ' walk and Bill HR 2652. ation USC "No Latin American country is threatened with Droerams " ^y kind of military action against it, and the armies successful actually function to oppress people within their countries," Pearson said. "This is being supported with our tax money, which is certainly a matter of question. Public Affairs Officer for the U.S. Army School of the Americas Major Gordon Martel said the school teaches more human rights than any other military institution in the world. Special Someone special day. 4 & ' Hearts Bouquet Vice I 5 1 Polar Bear Bouquet Vte ) + Tkx <5 HI Stud All Major nT, . . 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The only difference between the school and a regular military institution is the courses are taught in Spanish. Martel is not worried about the future of the school. He said the school is essential in maintaining democracy in Latin America. "Right now, 10 of the leaders in Latin America are graduates of the School of the Americas," Martel said. "Our graduates go on to serve honorably and faithfully in their countries, normally unheralded, normally unsung heroes, and those are the facts." Supporters of Bill HR 2652 will meet Greg Hessell at the gate of the School of the Americas at the end of his walk Feb. 21 for an Ash Wednesday vigil. i *^*v ent Media 'ersity of South Carolina imam, Classifieds Work! *\5affock wfc break - PER PERSON DEPENDING ON DESTINATION / BREAK DATES / LENGTH OF STAT 1-SOO-SIMCUASE TOLL r?C INFORMATION & PTSTPVATIONS Oil SURF OVER TO OUR WE* SITE AT: http://www.ninohase.oom