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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 (
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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,
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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
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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.
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That particular proposal has been
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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."
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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.
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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."
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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~]
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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
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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
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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.
"It was horrible," says Joe
Kozenczak, the former chief of detectives
in suburban Des Plaines, whose
investigation of a missing boy first
brought police to Gac/s door. "It was
' a nightmare that has never gone away."
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