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9 Volume 90, Number 52 University of South Carolina Friday, January 23,1998
Alternative
Spring Break
sign-up begins
The Office of Community
Service Programs is signing
^ up students interested in
^ participating in 1998 Alternative
Spring Break. This
year students will travel to
Rural Retreat, Va., to assist
residents. The cost is $125.
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777-6688.
Garnet Circle
now accepting
* applications
* Garnet Circle applications
are available at the Alumni
House and the Russell House
information desk. Applications
are due at 4 p.m. Feb.. 6.
For more information call
777-4111.
Sullivan Award
nominations
now accepted
Mnminnfinna fnr the Alcror
non Sydney Sullivan Award,
an honor presented annually
to one male and one female
member of the senior class,
are now being accepted.
? Forms should be returned to
the Office of Student and
Alumni Services, Russell
House 112, by 5 p.m. Feb. 12.
For more information contact
Woody Carothers, 777-4172.
'Wines' to aid
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"Wines of the World," a wine
tasting, will be 7 p.m. Tuesday
at Ava D's Gourmet
Cade, Ashland Park Plaza on
St. Andrews Road. The cost
is $25.95 per person and proceeds
benefit "Yemassee," a
literary magazine published
by USC's English department.
For reservations call
_ 772-0093 by Saturday. For
W more information call Ivan
Young at 777-2034.
Women's
Studies to hold
lecture
The Department of Women's
Studies will be holding a lecture
by Carol McGinnis Kay
^ and Lee Jane Kaufman with
Patricia Gilmartin about the
writing of the book, "G is for
Grafton," 3:30 p.m. Wednes
day at Gambrell Hall, room
151.
Women's
Mentoring
_ meeting set
USC Office of Women's Student
Services will hold the
first meeting of the Women's
Mentoring Network Wednesday.
For more information
coniact raiui i umtuuu or
Margaret Foster at 777-6688.
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WASHINGTON ? Independent Coun- ^
sel Kenneth Starr defended his latest investigation
Thursday as President Clin- ^
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authority to investigate the president's
alleged relationship with a former intern.
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Clinton's latest political crisis sent fa
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Governor's State
of the State
Address focuses
on car taxes,
and repeat sex
staff writer RUTH NETTIES
Governor David Beasley delivered
his fourth State of the State address
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to an enthusiastic audience who was
excited to hear him announcel998 as
the "threshold of a great transition*
After bang introduced by lieutenant
Governor Bob Peeler, Governor Beasley
introduced his wife and then Earle Morris,
a man who has been involved in
South Carolina politics since the age of
21
In 1976, he was elected Comptroller
General and has dutifully served
South Carolina in that respect for six
terms but has announced that he will
not run again.
Beasle/s main focus points were
all spoken of as they relate to the families
of the state, something he has emphasized
since he was elected.
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year's address by asserting,'Taxes on
cars and trucks are to be declared dead,
buried, and never ever to be revived
again in South Carolina."
Democratic Party Chairman Ronnie
Maxwell responded by saying, The
Democrats want to eliminate this costly
burden and.. .we have offered a concrete
solution on how to pay for it."
He went on to say that Beasley is
counting on an unstable method of making
up for the lost revenue and suggested
video poker as the solution, an
issue that the governor spoke against
at length.
Beasley gave many examples of the
problems video poker has caused such
as Joy Baker, a baby who died in a hot
car while her mother played video poker.
He read a heart-wrenching letter
from a child in Lancaster whose father
cannot quit playing video poker, and in
the letter she begged the governor to
help.
Beasley firmly stated this issue could
be addressed with one question that he
answered himself, "Does tl^face of video
poker represent the goodness, decency,
and honor of the state that we know so
well? The answer, my friends, is no!"
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when Beasley suggested, "Maybe we
should ban it tonight."
On crime, Beasley was proud of the
state's improvements.
He assured the people of South Carolina
that the law has come to mean
something again.
Inmates in South Carolina are no
longer living a better life than some of
the residents.
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punishment ? impeachment ? as
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Never in more than 200 years of U.S.
story has a president been removed
am office for the "treason, bribery or
her high crimes and misdemeanors"
felled out in the U.S. Constitution as
asons for impeachment. But two came
ise.
In 1974 President Richard Nixon
tose to resign in disgrace rather than
ce impeachment for his role in the cov-up
of the break-in at Democratic parfnmcpi
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He also asked the legislature to
pass a bill to support the Supreme
Court's decision that offenders of sexual
crimes, if determined to be unfit
to return to society, may be returned
to prison after their sentences have
expired.
On this issue, if no other, there
was bipartisan agreement. "Governor,
Democrats agree with you,"
Maxwell said. "For the heinous
crimes that they have committed,
these felons should be sentenced to
life in prison without parole."
Beasley was optimistic on the successes
and outlook of education in
South Carolina.
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tested for preparedness for first grade,
80 percent of whom passed.
Legislation was passed to require
four more credits for graduation from
high schools.
Every school in the state now has
access to the Internet, and for the
first time, the State of the State address
was available on the Internet.
And at last, South Carolina teachers
its Clint
ty headquarters in the Watergate offic
complex.
In 1868 President Andrew Johnso
was saved by one vote in the Senate a
ter the House approved articles of in
peachment against him over a disput
on the post-Civil War reconstruction <
the South.
House Judiciary Committee Chaii
man Henry Hyde, respected by both paj
ties as a thoughtful lawmaker, sai
Wednesday on CNN that impeachmer
could follow if Clinton were found to hav
urged a former White House intern to li
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Well over half of the budget this
year went to education in some way.
But the governor knows there is still
room for improvement and assures
South Carolinians that "reform must
start at the heart with the strong and
steady drumbeat of back to basics
learning."
Of most interest to USC students
were the Palmetto LIFE Scholarship
and the HOPE tax credit, both implemented
in the last year. In the
1997 State of the State address, the
governor announced his goal of
"putting a college education in the
reach of every young man and woman
in South Carolina."
The Palmetto LIFE Scholarship
was announced Dec. 11, and now high
school students with a B average and
an 1100 SAT score can get $2,000 for
any four-year school in South Carolina
or $1000 for a two year institution
that can be applied to any
expense for college.
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deep discomfort at the prospect of
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d campaigned for Clinton's impeachr
it for months, called the allegations
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and the South Carolina General
ddressed education reform.
With the HOPE tax credit, tuition
at a public school in South Carolina
can be free.
Secretary of Education Barbara
Nielsen is behind the governor's good
intentions towards education in South
Carolina.
"The single most important agenda
we have is education," she said.
"I'm very proud of what the educators
have done."
Campus political organizations
observed Beasley as he gave his final
State of the State address.
"College Republicans from around
the state attended the address" said
USC College Republican chairman
KimCoxe.
"We were all excited to hear the
governor's address."
Young Democrats President
Brandy Blackshear responded to the
address, "I would just like to see
Beasley carry through with some of
his plans."
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neth The president's legal problems
hese stemmed from allegations that he obwell
structed justice or suborned perjury by
ican encouraging a young woman, Monica
Lewinsky, to lie under oath about an alon
? leged affair. He has denied the charges.
,we Nixon, too, faced the charge of obstruction
of justice in his effort to pre
^ag vent a iun investigation or tne waternent
gate break-in. Article II, Section 4 of the
the ^.S. Constitution specifies the proce5e
to dures to" be used to remove the president,
next vice president or other officials from their
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SACRAMENTO, Ca. ? Defendant Theodore
Kaczynski officially pleaded guilty Thursday
to the deadly Unabomber attacks, escaping a
possible death sentence but accepting life in
prison without possibility of release.
"You wish to change your plea to guilty, is
that correct?" Kaczynski was asked in court by
federal Judge Garland Burrell, introducing a
plea deal between government prosecutors and
the defense. "Yes, your honor," Kaczynski replied.
Kaczynski's guilty plea covered 13 separate
counts stemming from bomb attacks in California
and New Jersey that killed three people,
and it effectively wrapped up the federal case
against the man accused of waging the Unabomber's
17-year campaign of terror.
In a series of questions, Burrell asked the
55-year-old former math professor if he was
sure he understood the results of his plea deal,
under which the government agreed to stop
seeking the death penalty in return for a sentence
of life behind bars without possibility of
release.
"Yes, your honor," Kaczynski answered to
each question before the courtroom, which ear
lier in the day had been packed with observers
waiting for opening arguments in the case.
Kaczynski also agreed to waive his right to
any future appeals in the case and to forfeit any
proceeds he might get through writing or selling
his story.
Federalist
Society
hosts USC
debate
news editor SARA LADENHEIM
Slavery. Abortion. Tobacco.
American policy has been affected by all of
these policies.
While legal jurisdiction has been determined
for the time being for at least two of these issues,
tobacco remains the one issue that has
yet to be established for legal precedence in the
United States.
Attorney Terry Richardson, a member of
the biggest plaintiffs' law firm in the nation,
Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson and Poole,
debated the pro side of the issue in "Should
South Carolina Settle? The Tobacco Debate."
Taking the con to this highly volatile issue
was attorney Robert Levy, a member of the
Washington, D.C., think tank CATO Institute.
CATO's stance on the issue is supported by
documented evidence.
"While the agreement may serve the politiral
interests of 39 at.tnrnevs ?xpneral and nad
the wallets of private contingency fee
lawyers, it is destructive to the health of a free
nation," Levy said.
Richardson, on the other hand, is fully in
support of collecting punitive damages from the
"drug delivery system that is killing over 400,000
Americans a year."
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