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__Carolina News_ Keyes from page A1 the income tax. “We’ve been enslaved by the income tax system so long and brainwashed so long, we think it’s normal,” Keyes said. Keyes supports replacing the system with excise taxes and taniffs. He also emphasized Jus opposition to abortion. “What we’re doing to children sleep ing in the womb is as wicked as what we did to slaves,” Keyes said. Keyes also opposed what he said was an “assault” on the Second Amend ment. “Disarm the people, and you have set them up for renewed oppression,” he said He also said the reason for the push for gun control is because Americans don’t have control of themselves. “Wfe are doing it because we are afraid of ourselves,” Keyes said Keyes also said prosperity isn’t an in dicator of liberty. “Prosperity does not require freedom,” he said. “You’d probably still have a job, you’d still have the prospect of some ca reer.” Keyes described moral leadership in the early days of the United States, saying that the struggles within the fathers about supporting liberty and holding slaves was a sign of a moral conscience. “We’ve had the moral leadership of the United States from the start of this country,” Keyes said. After recounting the founders’ struggles with slavery, he contrasted that to what he said was today’s attitude. “When we want to get away with do ing what’s wrong, we say it’s not wrong,” Keyes said Keyes also argued that African-Amer icans are worse off today than at the start of the civil rights movement. He said 60 percent of black children lived in two-par ent homes under slavery, as opposed to 45 *i__ \/_t ___J _ percent today. He also decried numbers showing thi 10 to 12 percent of Americans who an black account for 40 to 45 percent o the abortions in America. “People are actually marching dowi that road of death by their own power, Keyes said. Keyes said South Carolina couli change the political landscape when i holds its GOP primary Feb. 19. “On the 19th day of this month people in South Carolina... could over turn the existing order in the Republicai Party,” Keyes said. However, Keyes said after the even that, win or lose, the campaign would gi on. “This is a grass-roots effort,” Keye said. “Wfe’re really going to carry this mes sage as long as there are grass-roots peo pie willling to carry it.” News Editor Clayton Kale contribute to this article. SHARE from page A1 phasized abstinence as the only sure way to prevent STDs, as well as teaching stu dents how to protect themselves, ii they decide to become sexually active. The Sinators, a student band, played Wednesday —nicknamed Hump Day— and offered tips on sexual responsibility, students could visit several booths to leam more about STD symptoms, transmission and prevention. One booth, called“101 Whys to Make Love Without Doing It,” listed the ways people can express love without ac tually engaging in sexual activities. Sug gestions included hugging or sending flow ers. Another booth, “Is 20 Seconds Wbrth UK/ l\U)l U1 1UU1 L/Uv . JUC/JOVU U1UI UU safe sexual activity can have adverse ef fects that could last a lifetime. It taught how to properly put on and take off a con - dom. “Lower your risk; Aim for safety” was an aspect of Hump Day that focused on how to lower one’s risk of STDs but still be sexually active. “Who wants to live past 24?” was an activity that taught students how to iden tify symptoms of STDs and understand what happens when you contract certain STDs. Many of the booths upheld the im portance of safe sex and the seriousness of transmitting diseases like chlamydia, gonorrhea, trichomoniasis, human papil loma virus and genital herpes. These dis eases can cause infertility or other com plications but can be prevented by engaging in safe sex or abstinence. In addition to giving STD informa uv/ii) ouiiiv wa uiv uuuviw muu v ' iv*w« male and female condoms. Female condoms, still fairly new to the market, are soft, loose-fitting pouch es that the woman can wear internally during sex. They can be used to help pro tect a woman and her partner if latex con doms are unwanted or unavailable. “If the guy does not want to wear a condom, the woman should know that she has the option to wear one,” said jour nalism sophomore Martha Wight, a mem ber of the Women Students’ Association. SHARE is an organization devoted to stressing communication of personal thoughts and feelings to one’s partner, honoring and supporting the choice to ab stain from sexual activities, working to achieve consensual, healthy relationships, and encouraging people to be non-ma nipulative by only practicing safe and mu tually consensual sexual behaviors. Regina Ragg, a Hump Day organizer, said “I feel our event was successful and got the right message across to USC stu dents. We are not promoting sex, but pro moting healthy choices, such as absti nence. Wednesday was the first Hump Day. SHARE plans to hold the event again next year. For more information about STD pre vention or sexual health, visit the Sexu al Assault Services office, behind the Thomson Student Health Center, or call the office at 777-7619. : Church arsons decline for third straight year by David Ho I Associated Press Washington — Attacks against church es declined for a third straight year, fol lowing a surge in arson in 1996, a committee looking into the problem said Thursday. More than 100 churches were ’ burned or were the taigets of bombing attempts last year, compared with near ly 300 three years earlier. The sharp rise ’ in attacks in 1996, particularly against black churches in the South, prompted the formation of the National Church Arson Task Force, matte up of federal y and state law enforcement agencies. “While these types of cases are often times difficult to investigate and prosecute, our cooperative efforts have 1 broughttremendous success,” said Bill Lann Lee, the acting assistant attorney general and co-chairman of the group. During its three-year investigation, the committee looked into more than 800 arsons, bombings or attempted bombings that happened between Jan uary 1995 and October 1999. Federal, state and local law enforcement agen cies made 364 arrests and obtained 267 convictions, according to the group’s third report to President Clinton. Among those arrested was Jay Scott Ballinger, who has been charged in sev eral federal courts for allegedly burning 33 churches in California, Georgia, In diana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, South Carolina and Tennessee since 1994. Ballinger, who has been in federal cus tody since his arrest in February 1999, feces a minimum of 90 years in prison if convicted on all charges. He is to stand trial in Indiana on June 19. Ballinger’s indictments represent the largest number of fires linked to a single person during the investigation, the report said. Senate From page A1 housand dollars will be cut. “This money will have to come from ;omewhere,” she said. Ballentine also said she thought the impose of the Finance Committee was ' o use the funds of the students to the ‘best of our ability.” “A national convention that one per lon goes to isn’t the best of our ability to ne,” Ballentine said. She also took issue with the idea of ising money currently in the New Clubs 7und to make up the difference, saying hat money was also there to make sure >G doesn’t ever run a deficit. “We can’t spend ourselves in a hole,” Ballentine said. The bill passed 27-11, one vote more han the two-thirds majority needed. Sen. Patrick Gearman abstained. The Sinators rock Greene St. Tab Henderson The Gamecock The Sinators (from left) James Touzel, Ronnie Cleland and Joanna Malcolm (unpictured, Jeremy Touzel) played on Greene Street for Sexual Responsibility Week. Things you know and love. Plus things you'd love to try! 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