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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
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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<
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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
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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
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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<
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the capability that the Enterprise had and
faster-than-light spacecraft yet," Rayman s?
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fleeted in 'Star Trek' and is what well be do
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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."
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it, McNally said, the library
1 ready to close when a lind
a homeless man asleep
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arian awoke him and asked
}, and "he was kind and cond
promptly left." 1
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i right to be in the public
:Nally said.
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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. "I'd be afraid maybe they'd
rob me, and I'd feel safer during the
day than at night... but if there's a
problem, it should be looked into."
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