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’60s civil-rights movement made minister ‘conscious of injustice’ BY WENDY JEFFCOAT THE GAMECOCK A USC professor spoke about his experience in the 1960s civil rights movement in a lecture Wednesday night at the Thomas Moore Chapel. Carl Evans, a religious studies professor and ordained United Methodist minister, said his expe rience in Selma, Ala., in 1965 made him more aware of the privilege he had because of the color of his skin, while others struggled for the basic right to vote. “I think it made me more con scious of injustice,” Evans said. “And more passionate to work for justice in other arenas besides Selma ... to include justice for women, gays and lesbians, for the poor, economically disadvan taged.” Nearly 30 people gathered in the chapel to hear Evans’ personal ac count of the real dangers of the movement. He was part of the Ministers’ March that took place March 9,1965; he marched with Martin Luther King Jr. that day and saw the strength with which everyone marched. He also saw the violence and the “sea” of police officers who waited, ready to oppose the marchers. Evans told the group of a close encounter he had when he, three other young white men and a young black man left the Selma Montgomery March and headed back to Selma on Highway 80. . Evans said a car with bright lights on followed them closely and that he later learned the Ku Klux Klan had been patrolling the high way that evening. On March 25, 1965, the same day Evans had his close call with the KKK, a white housewife was murdered as she and a young black male, taking protesters back to Selma after the march, traveled on Highway 80. “The struggle for something as basic as the franchise (right to vote) was earned through a long, difficult struggle,” Evans said. “And that must not be forgotten.” Students who attended the lec ture said they enjoyed the oppor tunity to hear first hand what happened during the civil-rights movement. “I thought it was a wonderful experience,” said Erin Burfield, a fourth-year psychology student from Fort Mill. “It’s really good to get a personal perspective on the civil-rights era because it brings the message home.” Stephanie Lareau, a second year chemical engineering student “I was surprised that a professor at this school had first hand accounts of the civil-rights movement. And it gave me a much clearer perspective of the dangers involved in participating in the movement.” STEPHANIE LAREAU SECOND-YEAR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING STUDENT from Charlotte, agreed. “I was surprised that a profes sor at this school had first-hand ac counts of the civil-rights move ment,” she said. “And it gave me a much clearer perspective of the dangers involved in participating in the movement.” Gaurav Scroff, the pastoral as sociate at the St. Thomas More Catholic Church, said the Christian community needs to get past being content with the way things are and work to make things better. “The Christian community — we get complacent with the way things are,” he said. “We have to constantly work to change the way things are in society, to make things more in line with the Gospel, with the word of Jesus Christ.” * Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com BRIEFLY 'Sorensen will visit the GMPfor lunch President Andrew Sorensen will be in the Grand Marketplace for lunch-Monday from noon to 1 p.m. Students are invited to stop by, and say hello and talk with him. USC chooses new athletics delegate USC has chosen its new facul ty athletics representative to the j Southeastern Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Russ Pate, a former chairman of the Exercise Science Department at the Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health, is the school’s associate dean for re search. Pate said he was “honored to - have been asked by Dr. Sorensen to serve in this important role.” Horton CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ory that I recall such a tragedy happening this way,” Luna said. “The university remains con cerned about all students’ safety.” He urged stu dents to “use common sense and caution” in all they do, both on campus and' in the world. While Luna encourages stu dents to be aware of possible prob lems around them, he said that since the accident, USC has done its part to make sure the campus and residence halls are safe. “Obviously, as a result of this tragic accident, we wanted to check and make sure that our windows were operating proper ly within the building codes,” Luna said. He said that after they were inspected by the proper offi cials, the windows were deemed fit within the specific guidelines of the building codes. Despite this, Luna said stu dents should be continuously aware of safety and security is sues in the residence halls and throughout campus. “No safety pro gram is infallible,” Luna said. “We en courage students to maintain a safe en vironment. We want to hear from students about safety and security problems.” McKinney agreed that safety is an issue for everyone. “Safety is one of those things you think about every day,” he said. “The university has been evaluating safety issues in light of that.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Since the accident, Housing has checked windows on campus and found them to fit the building codes. Iraq CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 with President Bush, said he would wait to determine Iraq’s in tentions and whether the letter’s language “is an indication that they are going to play games.” Bush, who has threatened a war against Iraq if it fails to comply with the inspectors, wouldn’t com ment on the letter. But he again warned that he had “zero toler ance” for any Iraqi attempts to hide weapons of mass destruction and said a coalition of nations is ready to force Saddam to disarm. The letter from Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri, which noted that Iraq’s agreement comes dur ing the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, called the U.S.-British coalition a “gang of evil” and said the Bush administration had in spired “the hatred of the peoples of the world.” Some diplomats said the fiery language might have been aimed at Arab audiences, who oppose U.S. military action. Iraqi U.N. Ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri, who an nounced the government’s accep tance of the resolution, appeared to be speaking to an international audience when he said his gov ernment had chosen “the path of peace” and its acceptance had “no conditions, no reservations.” The Iraqi newspaper Babil, owned by Saddam’s eldest son, Odai, however, warned Thursday that Baghdad’s crisis with the United States “is not over yet and may have just started.” It called on Security Council members France, Russia and China to sup port Iraq. The resolution, adopted unan imously last Friday by the Security Council, gives Iraq “a fi nal opportunity” to eliminate its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the long-range mis siles to deliver them. It gives in spectors the right to go anywhere, anytime, and warns Iraq that it will face “serious consequences” if it fails to cooperate. Iraq’s cooperation will face its next test with the arrival of the advance team, led by chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix, who is in charge of biological and chemi cal inspections, and Mohamed ElBaradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is in charge of nuclear inspections. Ewen Buchanan, Blix’s spokesman, said the team would be reopening the office used by inspectors before they left in December 1998, installing new computers, getting the old labo ratory up and running, arrang ing secure communications, get ting vehicles, and preparing for the arrival of helicopters. Within a few weeks after in spections resume, the United Nations intends to have 80 to 100 inspectors in Baghdad, plus a backup team of interpreters, medics, logistics and communi cations experts, laboratory per sonnel and helicopter crews, Buchanan said. The inspectors are required to report to the Security Council 60 days after resuming work. But if Iraq fails to cooperate, the reso lution orders inspectors to imme diately notify the council, which will discuss possible action. By Dec. 8, Iraq must declare all its chemical, biological and nu clear programs. Any omissions or false reports count as a black mark under the resolution. In the letter, Sabri accused Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair of fabricating “the biggest and most wicked slander against-Iraq” by claiming that it had or was on its way to produc ing nuclear weapons and had al ready produced biological and chemical weapons. 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