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-e Students r staff writer CLAYTON KALE deft dec! T? n Awnl nnmnnirm ^11 a/4 iu a guuciiiabuiiai uuiipaigii liucu with controversy over issues such as rat the video poker and education, the de- Hot bate over the confederate flag has al- reir most become a forgotten one. but Almost, but not quite. the The flag, which still flies atop the Statehouse, has separated South Car- a fa olinians for many years. ers1 Some voters begrudge Gov. Son David Beasley for his 1996 efforts to proi remove the flag from the Statehouse dome. ( issu In December 1996, Beasley made ers. a statewide televised address calling for the removal of the Confederate flag the to a monument on the Statehouse are grounds. After the push to revive the en ( Southern Black burnings remai COLLEGE PRESS EXCHANGE attei Chu WASHINGTON? The team of federal j0ai investigators charged with probing a the ] spate of fires at black churches declared thin itself a success Thursday, announcing burr that church arsons have dropped from to th 297 in 1996 to 114 so far this year. * The Church Arson Task Force also a na announced that after two years of work, form it will become a permanent part of the sajd Justice Departments civil rights division, som ready to respond instantly to any future wjth church arson. said But as Justice and Treasury I Department officials congratulated SUSp themselves on 235 convictions of those blaz< charged with the church fires, it was " clear that no comprehensive explanation rpligi is likely to be found for the wave of stor arson that exploded two years ago and Lee ] shocked the nation. divis Rather, the church burnings, which The have disproportionately targeted black but i churches in the South, seem destined pred to remain a mysterious, troubling episode j in American history. wer< ut> ?. r. j i m just as comusea as anyone netw about this one," said Niathan Allen, out. who heads the church rebuilding evide program of the Congress of National lee. BlackChurches. "Usually when there J is a flourishing economy you don't have case these issues." ofth The blazes came to the public's four attention in 1996, when the number blac] of reported church arsons soared from Susp 51 to 297, with 119 of them at African- buri American houses of worship. To some, chur the phenomenon was reminiscent of c the attacks on many black institutions for n in the South during the 1950s and inert 1960s. ?] Responding to complaints from wbit black pastors, President Clinton ordered 0ppc the creation of the special task force to yOU investigate the fires and bombings, gcap spearheaded by the Justice and Treasury ?The Departments. blacl The group reported Thursday that, Q with the help of local and state police, few c it had made 308 arrests and 235 that convictions. more Those may seem like small numbers, expe considering that 607 churches have a been left in ashes over the past four glad years. But officials pointed out they are i have achieved more than twice the g0ve usual arrest rate for arson, which is a "< particularly ainicuit cnme to solve the s because the evidence is incinerated. "We j Church leaders have praised the This task force's record. resp( "We really appreciate the aggressive Offshore woi reachers settl sexual harras ASSOCIATED PRESS Afr NEW ORLEANS ? A man who Qni said he was sexually assaulted, battered acr and threatened with rape by two Qrj supervisors on an offshore rig reached a settlement in his sexual harassment lawsuit against his former employer. Joseph "Jody" Oncale's lawsuit had SUP been scheduled for trial in U.S. District SUP Court on Monday, nearly eight months hai after the Supreme Court ruled that it Bra could proceed to trial. one A judge dismissed the suit Oncale filed in 1994, and a federal appeals court 3 q , upheld the ruling, saying the civil rights q^, law used to prosecute on-the-job ami harassment cannot apply to people of ., r r the same sex. But the Supreme Court ruled March 4 that on-the-job torment can be illegal 1 sexual harassment, even when the har offender and victim are the same sex. on t Oncale and Sundowner Offshore He: Services Inc. agreed not to disclose terms har; of the settlement which was reached ' Wednesday before Magistrate Lance eact to e] jated 1994 Heritage Act, Beasley lared the issue dead. As a state representative, democic gubernatorial candidate Jim iges supported Beasley's push to love the flag from the Statehouse said he will not attempt to remove flair if elerfpH o ? ? Hodges has presented himself as vorable candidate for, pro-flag votsvho have lost confidence in Beasley. oe voters do not believe Hodges' fessed neutrahty on the issue. Freshman Ryan Zitzke believes the ie is not seriovis enough to sway vot"I personally don't care [about flag issue]," said Zitzke. "There bigger issues that need to be tak:are of first." church ns mystery ation on the part of the National rch Arson Task Force," said Rev. 1 Campbell, general secretary of National Council of Churches. "I k the decline in the number of lings of black churches is related ie arrests. Up until the local stories became tional story, and the task force was ed, and the churches stood up and no, burning black churches was ething people felt they could do tout being punished," Campbell t now seems clear, as many ected, that a sizable portionPf the 3S were racially motivated. We know that racial motives and ious motives have been part of this y from the beginning," said Bill acting chief of the civil rights ion, who co-chaired the task force, motives range all across the board, racial motives and hate crimes ominate too much." nitial suspicion that the arsons 3 the work of a well-organized rork of racists has not been borne "Right now, we have found no :nce of a national conspiracy," said t is evident, too, that this is not a of racism alone. About two-thirds e churches targeted in the past years did not have predominantly k congregations. And of the 106 iects who have been arrested for ling down African-American ches, 37 are black. Jhurch leaders continue to grope iasons why these particular crimes ;ased dramatically in 1996. [f s a combination of poverty in the ;e community and a felt lack of irtunity among poor whites and ng white men falling into a egoating pattern," Campbell said. iy know that when you hurt the k church, you hurt the people." >fficials speculated that when a hunch blazes seized public attention, spurred copycat crimes and led churches to report the arsons they L ItlitCU. Jlen, of the Congress of National k Churches, noted that the fires still occurring, and said the rnment's efforts must continue. Communities are still experiencing tress and the trauma," Allen said, iust have to keep moving forward, is not the time to relinquish our msibilities." *ker ement in sment suit ick after two mediation sessions. It's been so long. Fm glad it's over," cale said from his home, which is oss Lake Pontchartrain from New eans. He now works on an offshore for another company. Oncale, 27, accused his direct ervisor, John Lyons, and a second ervisor, Danny Pippen, of sexually assing him in 1991. Co-worker ndon Johnson was also accused in of the alleged incidents. Africk's order gives the defendants lays to deliver money to Oncale. ale said he was not seeking a specific ount of money, but wanted to be ipensated for being run off the job in 1. Oncale said he reported the assment to the highest supervisor he rig twice, but nothing was done, said he quit because he feared the assment would escalate to rape, rhe defendants portrayed their kict as hazing or lockerroom horseplay. lection's fla Freshman Wes Church believes "I differently. tary "It is a big enough issue to sway above voters because people who want to keep Chur the flag are too stubborn to move past f]ag f] this issiip anrl nrMrpss mnro imnnrtant .1 . ?.?r tnat; issues, that can better the state," ^eve Church said. Barg Many people believe the state ^ should be proud of its history of seraisec cession. "I don't see it as a racial issue," iu- e w< "Prnp nior Amy Norris said. "I see it as a historical issue. I don't think the flag belongs in a museum."" shoul Citizens in favor of removing the house flag from, the Statehouse don't think a plat it is a matter of being proud of histo- H ry. take 1 Clemson stuc kicked out o: for posing in HapyvMiEU rncas spru posil CLEMSON ? See what a little j picture can do. Trao Clemson student Mary Elizabeth ed to Haselden was thrown out of her soror- on a ity after posing in Playboy's "Girls ly co of the ACC" feature. 1 Haselden, one of two Clemson engii women in the November issue, was petit expelled from the university's Zeta enjoj Tau Alpha chapter for not upholding becoi the sorority's standards. 1 Haselden, from Lexington, did not kers immediately return a message left at ' her old sorority number. P.? The Zeta Tau Alpha national pres- 0 ident Alice Mathews says each chap- g a ^ ter sets their own rules of conduct. , "Obviously they felt at that time she was not upholding those standards j and that is what led to that decision," ^ Mathews said. f-hinl Mathews said Zeta Tau Alpha sup- tyty ports the chapter's action. neve "We regret that this young ?] woman's actions led the chapter to was j feel they must remove her member- C ship," Mathews said. trol ( Chapter members were warned inter when Playboy came to campus last duct< Deep Space 1 mission ci PEEP SPACE continued from page 1 of xenon gas to run the engine, reducing tb quently, the cost of the mission. Here's how the solar-powered ion engine Xenon gas is bombarded by electrons. The toward high-voltage grids and spewed into 62,000 mph. This glowing blue stream of x gentle yet constant acceleration for months, "In 'Star Trek,' they refer to ion propul the capability that the Enterprise had and faster-than-light spacecraft yet," Rayman s? nut ne aaaea: it s Deen known lor a ion to provide very, very high velocity, and that fleeted in 'Star Trek' and is what well be do The $152 million mission is supposed t( continue until 2001 with one or two comet e nautics and Space Administration supplies i Deep Space 2, the next New Millennium Januaiy. Two small soil-penetrating probes w Polar Lander and shot into the planet's sout ^l?jw Ng pz? ALUVUb bL 6 disposable lenses per pack Cun V prescription required Not valid on previoi \ sent valid USC student ID No othei \ Expires 10/31/96 ( Eye Exams on Location by Indepei FOItlNE ; VISION CENTERS ic issue Hon ? time fever is it in order for the milistandard of any country to fly DEBATE ; the capitol of a separate state," nV* oairl V\o 4-4-1 r* Oil Ul6 1 ui ocuu. xxiu vuuicuciaic uaiuu u .. , attention t< lying over our state capitol is just tothe rnd has no place up there. I be- Carolina c< it's time to move the Stars and public educ " Inglis s be confederate flag issue was the lottery 1 during a debate Saturday night P00.r wa^ t( ien senatorial candidates Dem. cation systc st F. Hollings and Bob Inglis. should b^n iglis said the confederate flag house, and d be removed from atop the state place of ""si !, and he added that it belongs in Hollings :e of "suitable memorial." the flag do\ ollings claimed that he said to During the flag down "long ago." date was gi1 00 mentonne candidate*! 1 Hollings in i 1 p -f"\ j" sunglasses, Idll his hand. K ridiculous ( f_ _ .. _ ' _ "Looks to rr sorority therePictu. PlaYb?y Home ig that they could be expelled for HOMELE lg for the men's magazine, laselden calls herself Veronica radically, th ib in the magazine. She is seat- problems, pless near a white wicker chair "There a porch with her lower half part- McNally sai vered. lems the Ri he copy says she is a Clemson brary has.1 leering student who swims com- problem bee ively, craves Mexican food and they'reri fs the beach. Her ambition is to across the si me the next Sharon Stone. from the 0: he sorority has about 130 mem- Gospel Misi at Clemson. "They'v [ don't think a sorority has the wayS been to tell someone what to do," said respectful o le Planck, a 20-year-old sports facility and agement junior. "It's like Big students, her in a way. They are kind of said. "They < oiling them and it just seems a bathe in th< unfair." One nigl im Ciallella, an 18-year-old com- was getting science freshman, said he>doesn't brarian fou i Haselden defamed her sorori- on one of th posing for Playboy because she The librj r mentioned it. him to leave [ would never have known she operative, a in a sorority," he said. "They h llemson University has no con- they have i jver Haselden's posing since all library," Mc views and photo shoots were con- While h< sd off campus. to the librar Marketplac jsts $152 million S1 le size of the probe and, conse- I , I 5 lvoiutiiig luiio cucuiawii , space at a speed of more than enon ions is what provides the even years. sion as being even faster than NASA isn't quite ready to fly a 11C lid, smiling. 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Exp. 10/31/98 Ga\ Gol * Ma, ident Doctors of Optometry^ owntown Columbia stu* aylor at Pickens St 779-7783 II ings, Inglis f before Nove continued from page 1 ottery issue, Hollings called ) the $80 million that goes [ia lottery, saying that South Mil/1 iicn if Tflin mnnrnrl in J UiU UQb X V I (/lie J iU ation. aid he would vote against , calling it a "particularly > raise money for the eduv_ 79 im. aid the Confederate flag smoved from atop the Stateadded that it belongs in a litable memorial." claimed that he said to take m "long ago." the debate, each candi/en the opportunity to comgative ads from the other s party. One ad depicted i Hawaiian-style shirt, with a straw hat and a drink in tollings commented on the content of the ad, saying,: le like I was drunk in that re. I'll tell you that." 'less people freq SS continued from page 1 iough they've never had any ire some who come in here," id. "We don't have the probichland County Public LiThey have a big homeless ause teet "They have ; liver be here, as t S a right to be very public librar fthe Thoni ? university librarian J ion't ^ bathrooms and such." it, McNally said, the library 1 ready to close when a lind a homeless man asleep e couches. arian awoke him and asked }, and "he was kind and cond promptly left." 1 ave a right to be here, as 1 i right to be in the public :Nally said. ameless visitors have come y, the workers in the Grand :e cafeteria in the Russell ;hey've never seen anyone hey knew was homeless. :udents agreed they had mi II i . S E iC Student Processln How Color Printing i Hour Slide Processlnt W Processing irgements (Color or EH Icate Slides o Imaging tram Compu ?micron B HONOR STOi ou are an undergraduate or December and you are in one ha Epsilon Delta ha Lambda Delta ha Phi Sigma mni Scholars Association a Alpha Psi a Beta Beta mpus Judicial Board Delta Chi i Epsilon Kappa Nu mma Beta Phi mma Sigma Alpha 'den Key )pa Delta Epsilon ipa Tau Alpha ster of Public Administratis Student Association *<derforms can he picl lent Affairs, RH room If you have any ques\ ace off one final mber election One Hollings ad used children to criticize Inglis' support for cuts in educational spending. Inglis said the ad was done in poor taste. A recurring theme in the debate was Inglis1 reference to Hollings' "scare campaign." Inglis used Hollings' positions on social security and student loans to claim that fear is all he has left to sell to South Carolinians. Hollings said people should be afraid of Inglis, claiming that he has "devastated Social Security and the budget." He accused the congressman of treat ing the Social Security trust fund as a "slush fund." Hollings also accused Inglis of reducing grants and student loans. However, Inglis told The Gamecock he only voted to cut them for the least needy students and to increase them for the most needy ones. "The student loan business is part of the [Hollings] scare campaign... it is a matter of scaring students." Assistant news editors Brad Walters and KenleyYoung assisted with the article. <uent local libraries never seen any homeless persons dining there. However, many students said they had seen them on the perimeter of campus. Student Body Vice President Chris Dorsel started the "Second Serving" program on campus, which takes leftovers from four USC dining halls to the homeless at the . Oliver Gospel 1 right tO Mission. hey have Having worked . , with the homeless m txie at the mission, y." Dorsel said, "I've ias McNaUy ver seen of those people on or public services Qur campus.? Other students said they had seen homeless people hanging around bus stops and gas stations on the outskirts of campus, and some said panhandlers had stopped them on their way to class. Psychology freshman Carrie Dannelly said she's seen the homeless in downtown Columbia, but she said she might feel threatened if she saw them roaming around campus. "I'd probably feel a little frightened because of the connotations given," Dannelly said. 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