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HOUSTON ? Two men found having sex in a private home pleaded no contest Friday to sodomy charges, signaling a legal challenge to the 119year-old Texas law that bars gay intercourse. John Geddes Lawrence, 55, and Tyrone Garner, 31, were arrested for engaging in homosexual conduct on Sept. 17 when deputies ? responding to a , false report of an armed intruder ? found them having consensual sex in Lawrence's apartment. Justice of the Peace Mike Parrott fined them $125 each. The men, who want to keep the case alive to fight the law, appealed the fine and posted appeal bonds of $332.50 ( 1 M Writers, P Stop by the 3rd floor of Russe rf U.S.MAKINECC Every year the Ma toys to underprivileged c otherwise not receive a p If you or your org help us help the families the "Toys for Tots" prog Silvers or Sgt. Magwood 1 < i '. ' * * s % Computer science freshman Mage his sleeping bag on the Russell H Hunger and Homelessness Awarer as part of an assignment for his Un dents participated in the event by s from 8 p.m. Thursday to 7 a.m. Fri< Men plead : to sodomy < ASSOCIATED PRESS < 1 ' Nv >:: ERIN REED News Editor d Hassan does some work on [ouse patio Thursday night for less Week. Hassan participated iversity 101 class. About 20 stu?pending the night on the patio lay. NKPS RESERVE3}] irines help distribute hildren who would resent for Christmas, anization would like to of our community with ram please call Sgt. at (803) 783*0953. J Business proposei of state o ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 ! Business leaders advising the state i Higher Education Commission plan to suggest merging some of the state's col- ] leges and eliminating other programs | statewide. The commission's Business Advisory Committee also plans to recommend the creation of a central strategy-making body for higher education. "We have to be more focused... and, maybe, we're trylgch'?Jd?r "If they wan mittee chairman Save monev, G Larry Wii wouldn't CVi son, founder of Policy Manage- think OI COE ment Systems these SChoa Sen. Pbil What we see is not enough quality and not enough focus." The business committee planned to present its recommendations to the commission in December, but that has not been set up yet, commission spokesman Charlie FitzSimons said. < The advisory committee is made of manufacturing, publishing and fi- i nancial executives. The recommendation to merge institutions might become the most controversial. The committee wants to move all two-year colleges under a single technical education/community college board, and merge neighboring two-year institutions. The state has 16 technical colleges , and five two-year University of South Carolina regional campuses. The plan would only affect four schools: University of South CarolinaBeaufort and The Technical College of 7'%m no contest charges jach, moving the case to state district court. "I hope that the law changes," Garner said. "I feel like my civil rights were violated, and I wasn't doing anything wrong." The sodomy law makes homosexual oral and anal sex a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $500. Although on the books for more than a century, the law is rarely enforced. Gay activists have worked unsuccessfully for years to overturn the statute. Of the 19 states that have a sodomy statute barring consensual anal or oral sex, Texas is one of five that specifically targets same-sex partners. The other four are Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, according to Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc. of New York. D hotographers and Graphic Artists II House or call 777-3888 today! w oiuui/iiid ait iiwt guai game, only the right to a tic are available. Remember, the gc your ticket as soon as you ca Handicapped or dis ^assistance by South Carolina i Kentucky Florida Special distribution of stud Nov. 30 and Tuesday Dec, Distribution will be in Roor Student tickets will also be ; Coliseum Ticket Office from 9 a.m. until halftime of' $12.00 for the SEC game conference games. Valid distribution or at the C A Cfurlarifr ora nrvt mint Dec. 5, 1998 thi Gai Clemson East Carolina Check out the newly des Online. The Gamecock Oi campus news, entertaim along with an interactive www.gameci Take our die Stitfgaijy For Games P The Wini leaders merging olleges the Lowcountiy, and the University of South Carolina-Sumter and Central Carolina Technical College. That particular proposal has been made and shot down before about the Sumter school, said Sen. Phil Leventis, D-Sumter. "If they wanted to save money, they wouldn't even think of combining these schools," he said. "Instead of having the best of either, you'd have a mediocre version of both." The committee also ^ wants to eliminate redundant programs > they across institutions and ^ programs that don't , . . have national accredElDining itation or won't seek Is," it within three years. Leventis . Other recommen_ ? ? dations from the comD-Sumter ... . , , , , mittee mclude matching the educational system's programs to the state's em piuymeiit necua <uiu iiiipiuvmg uic suite funding process. South Carolina's seven fastest-growing occupations are in health care and computer technology. However, its top bachelor's degreeconferring disciplines are business, education and social sciences. Also, all state money for higher education in 1999 will be disbursed based on performance-funding scores. Critics complain the system rewards progress, not accomplishment. Schools that already do well can't improve their rankings or the amount of money they get. Meanwhile, low-performing schools can perform better because they have so much progress to make, critics say. CC0tL( signed The Gamecock itline includes sports, ment and viewpoints. i section. ock.sc.edu jital word. ? blfllllll layed During ter Break ru Jan. 11, 1999 nes Wed., Dec. 16 r* t?v -i rv bat., uec. iy >t. Tue., Dec. 29 Tue., Jan. 5 Wed., Jan. 13 lent tickets will be Monday, , 1 from 9 a.m. until 4p.m. n 205 of the Russell House, available on game day at the Student Ticket window the game. Validation will cost s and $10.00 cash for nonations will be available at 'oliseum on game night. anteed a student ticket to each :ket as long as student tickets >od seats go early, so get in. abled students can get calling 777-6742. TIPS still convenier VIP continuedfrom page 1 the phone. Now that both options are available online, some students might question why TIPS is still an option. "I don't think we should keep HPS," freshman Willie Nunez said. "By using the phone, having people sitting there listening to recordings isn't going to help. Actually seeing and reading it on the computer is going to be better." "I still think we should keep TIPS, [because] some people may not have access to a computer," said nursing freshman Dora McCutchen. Some students might use TIPS as a quick reference, especially around the end of the semester. Computer access, however, isn't as easy as some might believe. "We had people calling TIPS all through the night during last grading period," Bayer said. "You could be at Five Points and wondering what you made in that history course." Police to un< U* r in multiple ^ ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO ? Police were only looking for one missing boy on the winter day in 1978 when they went to John Wayne Gacy's house. "But there were bodies under the garage floor, bodies under the concrete, bodies under the basement," prosecutor Colin Simpson recalls. Investigators have long suspected that not all of the unrepentant serial killer's victims were found. Prompted by new evidence, police plan to begin digging today outside a brick apartment building where Gacy's mother once lived on Chicago's Northwest Side. Ground-penetrating radar suggests something's under a blacktopped parking lot ? possibly a rib cage, tennis shoes, a body, maybe several bodies. There's no certainty, but experts say that what police find could add to the toll of 33 known victims of the amateur clown and building contractor. And that could be important to families who have never learned the fate of boys missing at the time. When the 33 bodies were unearthed, worried parents sent in hundreds oi sets of dental records from across the nation to see if they matched any of the remains, said Dr. Edward Pavlik, a lorensic dentist wno is cniei ot torensic sciences for the Cook County Sheriffs Office. "There were a couple of families who kept sending their records in hopes that they could put closure to their family affair," Pavlik said. DNA, a tool that wasn't available in 1978, might also be used to identify new bodies if any usable samples can be recovered from the remains. Interest in the site outside the apartment house began when private investigator Bill Dorsch, a former city policeman, told officials of the Chica~] We'll get take yo? the trip. I there 01 make yoi when y Shop Your i well, just at ^ Mercury 2pc. ^^^V.998 * f%? >.* Sony Disrmon witk Cor Wt(?DE307Cm..._$ 89.95 Fossil ? Men's Watdi / Blue Dial ^ Brareiet yjjfp'l' $59.99 J Optimum Nutrition 100% Whey Prolien ""UJB Drink 5lbs S| $19.99 { i - it information source There are no plans to get rid of TIPS. Many students are using the Internet to complete spring registration. Registration began Nov. 16, and, by the end of the day, 46 percent of transactions were completed over the web. A transaction is when a student requests a course. Even if a course is delet ed ll it is selected, it will still count as a transaction. VIP is funded by the student technology fee. In the academic year Vl-W, the technology fee was $35, according to the Undergraduate Bulletin. The fee was increased by $15 for '98-'99. In the future, administrators hope to upgrade VIP. They would like to integrate the schedule into registration so as to eliminate the schedule book. They would also like to be able to update the transactions more quickly. Students can access VIP at http://www.vip.sc.edu ?arth victims }acy murders go-based Better Government Association that he recalled once seeing Gacy in a nearby alley at 3 a.m. carrying a dirty shovel. Dorsch said that after Gacy was arrested three years later, he called the Cook County Sheriffs Office, but the information he gave went nowhere. The association, a privately financed civic group, rented the radar, used it to examine the small parking lot and took the resulting picture to police. "I don't think that there is any al tenmuve, uuw tiiaw uus imumuiuuii has come up, but to unearth these things and find out what they are," says former Gacy prosecutor Terry Sullivan. For six years beginning in 1972, Gacy lured young men and boys to his home for sex, then tortured and strangled them. The bodies of 27 were found in the dank, malodorous crawl space under his house. Two more were dug out of his back yard and four others were fished out of the nearby Des Plaines River. Gacy spent much of his 14 years in prison painting pictures of Snow White and fee Seven Dwarfs, and of fellow serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. In 1994, after savoring a last cigar, the man described by police and prosecutors as wholly without a conscience died in the execution chamber at Stateville Correctional Center near Joliet. JCiVen veteran nomiciae investigators were shaken by the bodies, mainly reduced to skeletons by decomposition and the lye Gacy used to kill the odor. 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