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I^NSW^Qoni rig is topic Check out the Basebal team J ^m) 37 '' ^ Serving the Carolina Community since 1908 ^ Volume 90, Number 59 University of South Carolina Monday, February 9,1998 Carolina for Kids to meet Carolina for Kids will meet at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Russell House Theater. For more information, call 7778402. Condom, Care grams for sale SHARE will be selling Condomgrams and Caregrams from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday in front of Russell House. ? SCSL accepting new members South Carolina Student Legislature is accepting new members. A meeting will be held at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in<Jambrell room 201. Contact Elizabeth Hatched at ann aaai e r ?1 ? ikjo-vsj^i ior lniormauon. 9 RA forms due Friday Applications for resident advisers positions are due Feb. 13. Applications can be picked up in the Residence Education Office, located between Douglas and LaBorde residence halls. Call 7772481 for more information. 'Game of Life' played in RH "Hidden Realities of Our World: The Game of Life" will be played at 6 p.m. Feb. 17 at Russell House Ballroom. This program is interactive and players encounter prejudices 0 and stereotypes. CP commish applications available Commissioner applications are available for CP in Russell House room 235 and are _ due by 3 p.m. Feb. 16. For 9 more information, call 7777130. NAACP contest forms ready The NAACP is sponsoring an oratorical contest Feb. 26. The subject is: "What African-American Pioneer is ^ Inspirational to You and W Why?" Applications are due Feb. 19 and are available in Office of Multicultural Student Affairs. A~q q ! Golden Key Monday National Honor pv Society, 6 p.m., V. y every first MonX Iday of the A |i' 7" month, RH309. "Into the Streets," 7 p.m., every other Monday, RH 302. q > "The Connectuesday tion I Need to r\ Grow," 3 p.m., VJ_ Feb. 10, Coun\ Iseling and Hu' ^ man Development Center. ^ Appreciating Self, 2 p.m., Feb. 17, Counseling and HuW man Development Center. ^ The World Tae Kwon Do Club, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., Bookor TP WaoViinrrtnn rivm v* A flMHIUil^VVU J . Students Allied for a Greener Earth, 8 p.m., Russell House 303. Palm Campus prayer meeting, 12:30 p.m., PALM Center. Fellowship of Christian Ath letes prayer meeting, 7 a.m., Rutledge Chapel. Fencing Club meeting, 7p.m. to9 p.m., Blatt 308. ^ Religioi asst. features editor KRISTIN FREESTATE They're here, and they're RAD. Religious Awareness Days, a series of programs and activities designed to celebrate religion on campus, began Feb. 3 with "Spirituality in Higher Education?Does it Have a Race?", a sem mar and discussion held m Preston Residential College and will continue through Feb. 15. Monday, faculty, staff and students discuss personal views on prayer and spiritual life during the President's Interfaith Breakfast, the first of several RAD events scheduled for the week. "Religious Awareness Days are a time for the Carolina community to appreciate the religious diversity on campus and to come to a greater appreciation of what religion means," said Tom Wall, chairman of the Carolina Chaplains Association. "This is about looking at religion oiiu CAjjiuiiLig apu iiumiijr in wcxya we wouldn't norm ally." Lata- this week, events such as midday prayer times, a student coffee house designed to foster an informal discussion of spirituality and religion and movies about Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. will be held to further this goal. This is the second year that Religious Awareness Days have been recognized on campus. Last year, after a few years of discussion between President John Palms and the Chaplains Association, RAD began in what Wall termed a "natural re-emergence " "Things came together from preplanned events and other ideas we had that would help to make a strong program to showcase religion. You sort of sensed it was right to happen," Wall said. Wall believes Religious Awareness FIpivq aro a nneifive avmntnm nf movement within USC, indicating that a public, state university is not threatened by the idea of religion. Still, Wall stressed, "This isn't about converting people, but about celebrating the diversity of religion...to get people to experience something beyond themselves." Wall said RAD does not have one specific focus, but rather offers a variety of themes and shows how these themes are interconnected. Black January 31 Larceny of Bicycle Parts, Columbia Hall. An anonymous call was received concerning three subjects at the above location stealing bicycle parts. The responding officer observed the three subjects fleeing from the area. One sub ject was caught and then gave a voluntary confession. The stolen parts were recovered. February 1 Disorderly Conduct, 1400 Greene Street. Officer on routine patrol observed is divers ^mmm ..v '*<-. ife- 'fll PALM Campus Ministries opened their i of many religious groups that has even lighting the diversity of these groups th History Month and the anniversary of r~ the deaths of nonviolent figures Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. influenced the selection of programs, as did general interest and the differ- * ent religions represented on campus. * "We try to be broad enough for there * to be something for everyone," Wall said. In keeping with the use of multiple * themes, a variety of on-campus orga- j nizations are co-sponsoring RAD, in eluding those Wall believes wouldn't normally be associated with religion. ^ These organizations include the Car- p olina Chaplains Association, the Office ^ of the President, Student and Alumni p Services, the Religious Studies Department, the Office of Multicultural V Affairs, the African American Stu- > dent Association, Human Resources, C Special Events, Carolina Productions, > Partners in Dialogue and the NAACP. E a fight in front of the Russell House. All three subjects were arrested. Criminal Sexual Conduct, Patterson l Hall. Victim said that the subject had / forcibly removed her clothing and en- * gaged in nonconsensual sexual intercourse with her. EMS was called, and the victim was transported to the Richland Memorial Hospital Emergency Room. Investigation continues. February 2 ^ Breach erf Trust, Earth, Water and Sci- ^ ence Building. Victim said that he al ity celel R^<<^vx^ ^^pjp '' . ^^1 BTA^ % TO X ^ ' ; /X'i*/; ^V' ' ^ jmJ> ^^^Ifl^^^EeaFrc^rar' $ %&T^y j&$ : :^S>: veekly 5:30 p.m. service Sunday wit] ts regularly across campus. Rellgiou rough different USC events. oday Tlx Interfaith Breakfast, 7:30 a.m., J IHUU Ballroom Go! Midday Prayer, 12:30 p.m., RHUU "i lolden Key Room Coffee House, 7 p.m., Golden Spur ^ uesday Go Midday Prayer, 12:30 p.m., RHUU C lolden Key Room Pre Dr. Robert Franklin speaking, 4 .m. "Eyes on the Prize: MLK, Jr.," 6 f .m., KHUU Theater P n Wednesday Sui Midday Prayer, 12:30 p.m., RHUU f rolden Key Room P n "Say Amen Everybody," 8 p.m., IHTTTT Thpntpr ^jjscpd^ J; t\cr1iivie i ? r3l 0rj^ * com[riled by MATT MYERS ? ved the subject to use his chemistry 01 ok last semester and has not been able " C< brated : J SUSAN MEYERS Photo Editor It two hymns. PALM is Just one s Awareness Days will be spotirsday lidday Prayer, 12:30 p.m., RHUU Iden Key room Gandhi," 8 p.m., RHUU Theater day lidday Prayer, 12:30 p.m., RHUU Iden Key Room lhaplains Luncheon, 12:30 p.m., jsbyterian Student Center turday 'artners in Dialogue, 2 p.m. to 8 i., Gambrell Hall nday 'artners in Dialogue, 2 p.m. to 8 i., Gambrell Hall I ) get it back from the subject. Estimated alue: $30. [arassment, Gambrell Computer Lab. ictim said that unknown person(s) are snding him harassing e-mail. Investiation continues. ebruary 3 [arassinent, Patterson. Victim said hat after she broke up with her oyfriend, he has been calling continuasly and waits outside of Patterson for er to come out. When responding offiir arrived on the scene, the subject left. Summit explores date rape drug dangers college press EXCHANGE SFKUNUFIJKLD, ILL ? Their arms feel like jelly. Their legs feel like they're filled with sand. Sometimes there are brief moments of consciousness, flashes of horrified awareness. But for the most part, victims of date rape drugs can't remember the attack or their attackers. Nor can they ever forget. In a growing number of rape cases reported on college campuses, the weapon used to overpower victims is drugs, such as Rohypnol or GHB (gammahydroxybutyrate). When hidden in a drink, the odorless, tasteless drugs are often undetectable. The drugs make victims not only powerless to resist a sexual assault, but incapable of remembering what has happened to them. "One of our victims said, 'I'd rather have the nightmare,'" said Gail Abarbanel, director of the rape treatment center at Qonf o Mftnino.TTPT A in rom orVo of am uaiiia luuiiiva-^vurx, 111 icmaiivo at ail emergency campus summit on date rape drugs, held Jan. 26 in Springfield, 111. Hundreds of educators, counselors and law officials gathered at the one-day summit to share information orrthe drugs and ways to combat their use. Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan called the statewide meeting after three men from DeKalb, 111., home of Northern Illinois University, were J* 1. J * TV 1 _1 /? _1 1 lnaiciea in Liecemoer on cnarges 01 dealing GHB. In a separate case, two Chicago-area men were charged in January with possession of GHB after more than six gallons of the drug was found in their home. GHB is a powerful synthetic drug once widely promoted for body building. The drug, often home-brewed, can cause dizzi- v ness, drowsiness, vomiting, seizures and memory loss. Rohypnol, available as an over-the-counter sedative in other countries, can cause drowsiness, confusion, impaired motor skills and unconsciousness. Both drugs, when mixed with alcohol or other drugs, can cause death. Some students ingest the drugs themselves to get a quick high. Others use them as a means of incapacitating their victims. "They're very dangerous to consume, and they're very dangerous when used as weapons against women," Ryan said. Law enforcement officials are alarmed at the ease at which the drugs are available. Recipes for GHB, for instance, are scattered over the Internet, according to Illinois State Police Director Terry Gainer. "Is it a little insulting that we have to have a summit on date rape drugs, that somehow the college student who sits in a philosophy class on Thursday is dropping a drug into our daughters' drinks on Friday?" Gainer said. Unlike other drugs, GHB is easily formed bv mixing together household mud ucts and a chemical sold at photography stores. The drug is linked to a growing number of rapes and robberies. In Chicago, police investigate GHB-related crimes weekly, Gainer said. "There are strong laws on the books that will help us prosecute and lock these individuals up," he said. Under federal law, the penalty for possession of Rohypnol is now the same as other controlled substances such as co caine, LSD and heroine. The maximum punishment is a 20-year prison sentence. Thafs not the case for GHB. While it DRUG page three !?? ? u.. i-i.- j i lie rvaa latex tancu uy II1C U111GCI fclllU advised to cease contact with the victim. February 4 Assistance Rendered, Grand Market Place. An officer was dispatched to the GMP in regard to a person who was ill. Upon arrival, the officer observed the victim lying motionless on his back. When the victim came to, he claimed he had choked on some food. Background check reveals that the victim has a history of mental problems. I