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Beyond situatioi ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - The horrifying images are the same: burned corpses from overrun villages, women and babies caught in the slaughter, tens of thousands of hungry refugees exposed to the coming winter. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is once again behind the Serb war, this time with ethnip Albanians in Kosovo, but the situation is far different from fighting Serb forces led in Bosnia, shocking the world with "ethnic cleansing" and 200,000 deaths. For one thing, the Kosovo province of Serbia is in Milosevic's territory, which makes it politically tougher for NATO to carry out threatened airstrikes if he does not halt his aggression and negotiate peace with secessionists. Yugoslavia did not invite international intervention ? something Bosnia did in the early 1990s ? and some European members of NATO are balking at violating a sovereign state. * Also, unlike with the Bosnian government that fought Milosevic's Serb comrades, the United States and its European allies do not back the Kosovo Liberation Army, which also is accused of atrocities and has no official standing to negotiate. Administration wo\ FACULTY continued from page 1 ford commended the university's efforts to recruit African-American professors but said that retention was not getting the same attention. vriac qucstiuiicu aumc ui i igiuiu 3 ^ comments in a memo Pigford sent to other black faculty upon her resignation. "I am sad to see Dr. Pigford leave, but at the same time, I take exception to the fact that [she] stated that there is not a plan for diversity here," Gist said. Gist applauded Pigford's AfricanAmerican Professors Program, which was uesignea m an effort to recruit more blacks into the teaching ranks. He said the university will continue to "give 100 percent to this program." I Concerned He V II J Been ( civilian ] is mrtira The guerrilla group is leading the battle for an independent Kosovo that Western nations do not support because they fear it could spur nationalists seeking a "greater Albania" and cause further turmoil in the Balkans. Then there is Milosevic himself. While still a force in the region, he is less politically powerful now as president of the smaller Yugoslav federation than he was as leader of Serbia and its military campaign for greater turf. Nonetheless, he remains a wily opponent. "He learned the lessons of Bosnia much better than we did," said Robert Kagan, a foreign policy specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "We seemed to have not learned much about how to deal with Milosevic," who has "demonstrated a keen sense of when repeated threats of force will become real." "He's what I would call a bully-coward," Kagan added. "He's very aggressive until confronted with real force." In the case of Bosnia, the multi-ethnic government asked for intervention to halt Serb attacks and NATO carried out broad airstrikes for about a month, starting in August 1995 ? but only after two-and-a-half years of empty threats. VI rV ffit f Klllg UUllll UlULK IULU Gist said he is not alarmed when a faculty member leaves for a better opportunity. "I don't know why Dr. Pigford decided to leave USC," Gist said. "She said it was a personal and private decision; I think we should leave it at that." Provost Jerry Odom recently met with African-American junior faculty to discuss their feelings about the university and ways to enhance their professional life in such a way that will help the university retain them. Gist said both Odom and President John Palms are very receptive and conscious of the need to support faculty members when they come in, and that the tenure and promotional system at USC are not discriminatory. About Sexu< althy Sexuali nnn^ "Peers Sharing Information To Foster A Healthy Community I0IN S.H.A.R. me A Peer Facili horrors, ist signi? NATO warplanes hit Serb military targets hard after earlier pinprick strikes simply emboldened Milosevic and failed to get the Bosnian Serbs to pull their big guns away from Sarajevo, the besieged Bosnian capital. NATO's military attack ? the first from the Cold War-era alliance formed to counter the former Soviet Union ? resulted in a cease-fire in Bosnia and brought the parties to the peace table with U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who brokered the Dayton peace accords that were sealed in Paris in December 1995. The agreement split Bosnia and created a power-sharing central government between the original Bosnian government and Croatia ? which both had broken from Yugoslavia ? and the Bosnian Serbs, who were represented in the peace talks by Milosevic. In Kosovo, it is just the Serb army and police against the ethnic Albaniand who comprise 90 percent of the population of 2 million in the province which Milosevic stripped of autonomy in 1989. Serbia and Montenegro make up whaf s left of Yugoslavia. Holbrooke returned to the region last week to press Milosevic with a delayed autonomy plan for Kosovo. NATO, meanwhile, geared up for possible airstrikes if the Yugoslav does not meet Ity to address issues "We have got to get away with making race an issue on everything," Gist said. "When an outstanding white professor leaves the university, The Gamecock doesn't write about that." Despite the loss of four AfricanAmerican professors in the past year, Gist noted five tenure-track black faculty were hired between September 1997 and September 1998. Four tenure-track black faculty were hired the year before. Gist still acknowledges a problem exists, and his office has proposed a c ? I11CIIMII illM nVALClil 1UI 11CW UiatA piufessors. "I don't have all the answers, [but] we are exploring every possible option," he said. d Assault ? ty? / o > 5 * * ;?? E. tator! BJljDImiS 1 <r Balkan icantly U.N. demands to withdraw his forces, open the region to humanitarian agencies and negotiate peace with the ethnic Albanians. Ivo Daalder, who worked at the White House's National Security Coun cii trom 1995 to 1991, said the only longterm solution to peace is a Balkans without Milosevic. "He has remained in power because we give him power," said Daalder, who complains the Clinton administration hasn't supported Milosevic's political opponents. "The two parties in this conflict will not agree politically to solve it no matter what rabbit Holbrooke pulls out of his hat in Belgrade. This is a civil war, a real war with two sides." Milosevic says he is fighting to retain Yugoslavia's border integrity, but he also is battling for his political life; a new reformist government in Montenegro has been tilting toward the West and could conceivably split from Yugoslavia, killing the federation. "He whipped up the whole situation in Kosovo so he could maintain his power base and destabilize Montenegro," where many refugees have fled, said Michael Salla, an international affairs specialist at American University in Washington. "He's playing a really clever game." CEJMBnEJBQR3T mVtA damanA/ilr auo \7(uuo^vv>n. needs crime reporters. 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Now that all of the connection problems are being corrected, Computer Services has to deal with many other bugs in the miles of fiber optic cable running underneath the campus. -One thing that can cause disruption in the vast USC network is people flooding the network with useless emails and the like. Slow access is an ongoing problem, but steps are being taken to resolve this. People are monitoring problematic areas of the network to see what is causing the disruption. They can then focus their attention on those specific areas to get them up and running once again. Many students question what their $50 technology fee is being used for. 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Another idea in the works is to have the names and e-mail addresses of everyone in a particular course available to anyone taking that course. This will help students get better acquainted with the other members of their class and will also get them past the problem of working around professors' office hours. To help students more in setting up their computers, one plan is to have tutorials on the Gamecock movie channel. This will allow students to fix many problems with their computers without having to make an appointment to see Computer Services. Yarbrough is certainly in favor of this plan. 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