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MARKPIRAS Staff Writer
As the President was addressing
Congress with the State of the Union
Address Tuesday night, the verdict for
0. J. Simpson's civil trial came back.
finding Simpson liable on all counts.
"When you break into the President's
speech about the next 50 years for the
0. J. verdict, thafs incredible," Criminal
Justice Professor Gene Stephens said.
The President's speech continued
despite the verdict.
Betty Glad, professor of government
and international studies, gave her
impressions of Clinton's speech.
"I thought it was very well-delivered,"
Glad said. "He was doing exactly what
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by Sen. Matthew Richardson. The senators
passed the bill by a majority vote.
Jo other business, Sen. Michele
Marinku?ic announced student government
surveys will be distributed in Preston
and to the Frata-nity and Sorority Council.
The surveys ask students to evaluate
the performance of student government
and to give their opinions on various issues
such as recyding and academic advisement
"We want to get the opinions of
different students about how they feel
student government is doing," Marinkovic
said.
Sen. Susanne Newman reported the
Tunnel Beautification Committee has
contacted a professional muralist. The
muralist will look at the tunnel and tell
the committee what steps they need to
take. Newman also reported design ideas
are still needed. The committee also needs
volunteers and additional funds for the
project.
Also, Sen. Michael Ladd was sworn
in by Pro Tem Gene Willis. Ladd was
approved for Senate membership by the
senators at the Jan. 22 meeting.
The Gamecock was unable to obtain
the list of senators who were absent from
Wednesday's meeting.
National Ac
ROSALIND HARVEY Staff Writer
The faculty parking lot on Pendleton
Street beside the Business Administration
building has become federal domain.
Federal funds are being used to build
the National Advocacy Center, which
will be used to train federal attorneys,
on the spot once occupied by professors' '
automobiles.
A $30.5 million budget has been set 1
for the construction of the center by the
Department of Justice, according to Bond 1
Nickles of USCs Marketing and Media '
Relations. All of this money will come J
from the federal government.
The 260,000-square-foot building
currently has little connection with the <
university, Nickles said. I
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I expected, trying to find nan-controversial
issues. His focus was on the balanced
budget, education, reform of the election
process and bipartisanship."
"He didn't hit too many topics," Glad
said. "He wanted to show he could take
an active role."
Dr. John Cavanaugh, research
associate at the Institute of Public Affairs,
had a different take on things.
"From a politicalcommunications
standpoint, [Clinton]'s a very powerful
orator, but he is undisciplined, and has
a tendency to crowd his agenda with too
many items," Cavanaugh said. "The
initiatives in his speech meandered from
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eating the Clinton's proposal
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ducking the issue,"
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much the proposed
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will cost."
Glad said she had
nixed feelings about "moving NATO
guarantees to eastern Europe.
Pharmacy graduate
student Karen Martin
takes her dog, a
bloodhound named
Suzy, for a stroll
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udents," said Russ McKinney, director |
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"He also said that all Latin America
is democratic except one country. That
was a cheap applause line. I'm not sure
how democratic all those countries are,"
she said
Cavanaugh said he felt an unrealistic
goal of Clinton's speech was "the fairly
lofty goal to link all classrooms to the
Internet. It's overly optimistic to get all
the structural problems resolved in the
classroom and still get them hooked into
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"I think this was an attempt to turn
the poetic themes of the inaugural address
into the prose of proposals," Cavanaugh
said.
"He's got a lemon?the public's in a
conservative mood?and he's trying to
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KRISTIN RICHARDSON Staff Writer
Many current events are flashpoints
along a line delineated by race, according
to award-winning author Dr. Micheal
Eric Dyson, considered one of the nation's
most distinguished and public ???
intellectuals. [ TW^
Dyson spoke last night in uJjLK*.,
the Russell House Ballroom as IP
part of Multicultural Student
Affair's celebration of Black | iVifAT
History Month. j
Thomas Rivers, coordinator
of Multicultural Student Affairs,
described Dyson as "one of the
leading intellectual men in
African-American culture today.
"He speaks in a stimulating way
which helps students to perceive ideas,"
he said. "This is important because he
knows the facts and he really relates to
the students" Rivers said.
Walter W. Jackson, director of
Multicultural Student Affairs, began
the program by providing a brief
background about the beginning of black
history month.
Following Jackson was a special
presentation from Larry Jordan, the
Postmaster of Columbia. He spoke about
1978, the year the "postal service began
to recognize and honor black historians
and black history.
"These stamps bring to our
consciousness the people that we may
not know anything about," Jordan said.
He then presented the Office of
Multicultural Student Affairs an enlarged
photo of the stamp of Benjamin Oliver
Davis, which symbolizes the elimination
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make lemonade out of it," Glad said.
"The address was overshadowed
nationally by the Simpson verdict and
locally by the Gamecock basketball team,"
-Cavanaugh said.
Not everyone was following the
President's speech as closely as the
Simpson verdict, especially students.
Criminal Justice Professor Geoffrey
Alpert said, "It's very interesting the
verdict came out the same time as the
President's speech and a great upset in
Gamecock basketball, reducing the effect
it will have in Columbia."
Although Simpson was found
responsible in the deaths of Ron Goldman
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rent events
of segregation in the military.
Dr. James Miller, director of the
African-American Studies Program and
a professor at USC, introduced the author
and said the program was ua special
occasion because it was an opportunity
Sto be with an old friend and
After thanking
Miller, Dyson, director of the
Institute of African-American
Research at the University of
North Carolina, began his
u&mspeech about black history and
race relations today in
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Rules. Navigating the Color
Line.
Dyson described his book as "different
flashpoints along the projectoiy of race."
Dyson discussed the different
spectacles grounding our perception of
race, and used examples such as the 0 J.
Simpson trial to make sure the audience
was clear about the point he was trying
to make.
"It revealed the racial division," he
said, "between Americans of AfricanAmerican
decent and Americans of
European decent." What Dyson said he
wanted to emphasize in his book is that
"we have been taken back because of
bigotries, blindness, and biases".
Dyson continued with a reference to
the hip-hop culture that he feels society
should except and not reject. He spoke
on the idea that rap and other hip-hop
forms of music contain nothing but
violence and vulgarity.
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