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SALA meeting
to be held
Students Associated for
Latin America will have a
meeting at 7 p.m. on Jan. 22
in Russell House r6om 205.
Meetings are held every other
Thursday.
Leukemia
Society needs
runners
The Leukemia Society is recruiting
runners and walkers
of all abilities to participate
in the Mayor's Midnight Sun
Marathon in Anchorage,
Alaska or the Rock *N Rbll
Marathon in San Diego in
June. An informational meeting
will be held at 6 p.m. on
Jan. 22 at the Sheraton at
2100 Bush River Road. For
more information, call 7494299.
Zen, Taoism
lectures set
Philosopher and Taiwan native
Dr. Kwang-ming Wu will
give lectures about the Asian
teachings of Zen and Taoism
at 4 p.m. Jan. 25 and 26 in
Gambrell Hall, room 151. For
more information, call Dr.
Hal French at 777-2178.
Celebrate
Israel's 50th
anniversary
Columbia Jewish Federation,
in cooperation with
McKissick Museum, will exhibit
"For God's Eyes: Plates
and Vases" Jan. 25 through
Feb. 22 at McKissick Museum,
with a reception from
5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Jan. 25.
Bass fishing
course offered
USC's division of continuing
education is offering a bass
fishing course from 8 a.m. to
_ 4 p.m. Jan. 24 and 7 a.m. to
2:30 p.m. Jan. 25. The course
costs $89. To register call
Joan Kirkpatrick at 7779444.
Fencing holds
tournament
for charity
The USC Fencing Club will
hold the 2nd annual Cyrano
Challenge Charity tournament
10 a.m. Jan. 31 at Blatt
P.E. Center 308. All proceeds
will be donated to Sandhills
Academy, a school for the
learning disabled. For more
information call Nicole Moen
at 798-6211.
7T]> Golden Key
mondav National Honor
Society, RH
IvJ w room 309, 6
1 \ 1 p.m., every first
I'-' w Monday of the
month.
"Into the Streets", RH room
302, 7 p.m., every other Monday.
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TUESDAY Tae Kwon Do
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V [Gym, 7:30-9
^ Students Allied for a Greener
Earth, Calcott 312,7:30 p.m.
Palm Campus prayer meeting,
PALM Center, 12:30 p.m.
^ Fellowship of Christian Athletes
prayer meeting, Rutledge
Chapel, 7 a.m.
Fencing Club meeting, Blatt
308,7-9 p.m.
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So let freedom ring from
the hilltops of New HampSk*Let
freedo ring fro the
mighty mountains of New
York
Let freedom ring from the
heightening Alleghenies of
Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the
snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from
the curvaceous slopes of California,
But not only that, let
freedom ring from Stone
Mountain of Georgia,
Let freedom ring from
every hill and molehill of Mississippi
and every mountainside.
When we let freedom ring,
when m let U ling fivm every
tenement and every hamlet,
from every state and every city,
we will he able to speed up
that day when all of God's
children, black men and white
men, Jews and Gentiles, Prates
tants and Catholics, will be
able to join hands and sing in
the words of the old spiritual,
*Free at last, free at last
Thank God Almighty, we are
free at last *
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news editorsARA LADENHHM
Martin Luther King Day means a lot oi
very different things to a lot of very different
people.
For some it means that we need to observe
his memory and attend mock rallies
of his famous march on Washington and attend
seminars and breakfasts in his memory.*
For most people and in most places his
memory is observed through a day off from
work, school and the everyday norms of life.
When Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot
on April 4,1968 people around the world
mourned the loss of a great humanitarian
and equal rights demagogue.
His relentless pursuit for African-American
equality resulted in a national holiday
that was decreed in November of 1983 by
then President Ronald Reagan.
The national holiday was to be celebrated
the third Monday of January, and is only the
second national figure, behind George Washington,
to have a holiday recognized on his
birthday.
It took 15 years and the most aggressive
lobbying campaign in American history to
establish Martin Luther King Day.
January 10
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with no headlights. Upon approaching vehicl*
ficer noticed strong odor of alcohol. Subject
unable to complete field sobriety tests.
Larceny of Day Planner, Blatt P.E. Center,
tim stated that unknown person(s) removed
day planner, which was placed on a courtside be
Estimated value: $40.
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Domestic Dispute, Carolina Gardens. C
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is offering a "one-shot" at a local
homeless shelter today. Participants will
read children's stories to kids and help them
with homework. The hours are 2 to 5 p.m.
and transportation will be provided. For
more information, call 777-6688.
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Four days after King was assassinated,
| Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan), submitted
legislature to Congress calling for a King
holiday.
With support of King counterpart and
peer, Joseph Lowery, of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, Congress was
finally swayed and Reagan was persuaded
to sign the legislation. The holiday almost
did not come to be thanks to efforts made bv
Senator Jesse Helms (R-North Carolina).
His aggressive campaign against King
was filled with insinuations and slurs against
King's character.
The most notable reference Helms made
towards King was his insistence that King
was a communist.
Across America, post offices, federal offices,
banks and schools will be closed today
in remembrance of the man who "let freedom
ring" for so many.
The University of South Carolina will
not be closed.
This subject has been debated heavily
throughout the fall semester, with Student
Body President Jamel Franklin and the Student
Government lobbying to have the holiday
observed if not for this semester, then
for next spring.
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No Taillights and Disregard
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The Black Law School Students Association
celebration will be held at 3 p.m. in
the USC Law School Auditorium.
The Hallelujah Singers will perform at
6:30 p.m. at the Koger Center. For more information
call the USC Office of Equal Opportunity
Programs, 777-3854.
its on King
The red tape proved too thick for this semester
and SG is planning to continue its
efforts to have the King holiday memorialized
with cancelled classes at USC in the
near future.
For USC students, Martin Luther King
can be represented in many Ways. Sophomore
LaKeya Nesbit feels the day should be
observed with cancelled classes because "it
is an [American] ritual that we celebrate
birthdays of significant people."
Sophomore Anya Latimore believes that
King Day should be observed, but not necessarily
with cancelled classes.
"Dr. King fought for blacks to go to school
with whites and this means that in order to
get the most out of our education we need to
go to class to further Dr. King's point," she
said.
While the subject of whether or not classes
should be cancelled will come up for many
years in the future, the most important thing
to remember in observing Dr. King's birthday
is the message that went with his words
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ATLANTA? Senior Grant
Wistrom is realistic.
Being a football player at the
University of Nebraska is a timeconsuming
endeavor ? exhausting
more than 33 hours a
week, by Wistrom's estimation
? and doesn't leave much
time for outside employment.
Fact is, he wouldn't have
worked even if the NCAA had
let him.
That being said, Wistrom has
a problem with an NCAA hierarchy
that is spinning its wheels
and still forbids Division I athletes
on hill scholarships to secure
part-time employment during
the academic year.
"I don't think anybody should
. deny you the right to find a job,"
said Wistrom, who was honored
at this year's NCAA convention
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student-athletes.
"That's ridiculous."
And the debate inches along.
- The ramifications of last
year's Proposal 62, which pits
the rights of student-athletes
against the legislative nightmares
of athletic administration,
were discussed again Monday
by NCAA delegates and a
high-ranking administrative
body.
"Philosophically, it's a good
rule," Big 12 commissioner Steve
Hatched said. "But trying to get
it implemented is just overwhelming.
"We're going to have a mess
on our hands."
Proposal 62, called "Financial
aid ? Division I Employ
ment earnings, nasiouoweaa
circuitous route since being presented
to the NCAA membership
at last year's convention.
In January 1997, the NCAA's
300-plus Division I schools narrowly
passed Prop 62, which
would have allowed Division I
athletes on fvdl-ride scholarships
to hold part-time jobs, a right
Divisions II and III athletes ?
as well as Division I athletes on
partial scholarships ? already
have.
The full-ride athletes could
earn only enough money to cover
the gap between their scholarship
amount and the school's
"cost of attendance." That figure
changes from school to school
and could range from a low fourdigit
amount to $4,000 or more.
The big-time Division I-A
schools opposed the rule 61-51.
But enough smaller Division I
schools swung the total vote to
169-150 for the proposition.
The aftershocks were almost
immediate.
Big-time power schools argued
that monitoring each
athlete's income would be a legislative
nightmare. Schools in
areas with more job opportunities
would have immediate recruiting
advantages over smaller,
more rural schools. Athletes,
many of whom spend grueling
Wistrom-like hours dedicated to
their sports, would sacrifice their
academic habits.
And perhaps the biggest fear
was that overzealous boosters,
whom universities had worked
so hard to detach from athletic
departments, were now being
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invited back. Heck, athletic department
personnel and boosters
would even be allowed to help
athletes secure jobs.
So the NCAA spin control
took over.
The Board of Directors?the
final authority on legislative issues
in Division I ? approved a
one-year moratorium of the rule,
which was supposed to take effect
Aug. 1,1997.
"For it to be delayed the way
it was," said Meredith Willard,
a University of Alabama gymnast
and member of the NCAA
Student Athlete Advisory Committee,
"that was extremely disappointing."
The NCAA Management
Council, a rung below the Board
of Directors, eventually appointed
a subcommittee to explore
the issue more thoroughly.
Its proposal includes a $2,000
cap on earnings.
Monday, a new batch of questions
came up during an open
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bejimited to on-campus
jobs only? With many companies
only giving out paychecks twice
a month, will athletic departments
have to conduct day-today
monitoring to ensure no one
exceeds the cap? How will tips
be monitored?
The Management Council,
though, unanimously approved
the subcommittee's proposal,
which now will be sent back to
the membership for a 60-day review
and comment period.
Under the current format,
the rule wouldn't apply to
first-year transfers or freshmen,
and the full-ride athletes couldn't
work for the school's athletic department.
The revised details could be
made final by the Board of Directors
in April.
No matter what happens between
now and then, remember
this: The students won a major
victory last year when Prop 62
initially passed. Even though it
has been delayed, the rule is in
the books. Getting it "erased"
would take an even more intricate
and time- consuming
process.
"It was the will of the membership
to have a program," said
Stanford athletic director Ted
Leland, chair of the subcommittee
that explored the issue.
"Those of us who were opposed
finally said, *We better jump in
the boat here.'
"The rights of the students
overshadow the pragmatic problems."
Still, opposition is strong.
Monday, Leland held up a stack
of letters, many of them outlining
various concerns, that came
from the membership.
When Willard was asked
whether she is unequivocally
convinced that, come Aug. 1, Division
I athletes will be allowed
to work, she stared straight
ahead and paused.
"Excellent question," she
said. "They better."
fficer. A second officer on the
disarmed the subject. After a
the subject was taken into cus
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building . Victim was translospital
for medical treatment,
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