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St. Patrick’s Day festivals conflict
“We definitely did not know that they were planning
to have their festival on March 15. We did not set
out to compete head to head.”
CATHLEEN CLEARY
CHAIRWOMAN OF THE ST. PATRICK'S CHARITY CELEBRATION COMMITTEE
Stadium event
split from Five
Points festival
BY MICHAEL LAFORGIA
THE (iAMECOCK
Although two St. Patrick’s Day
festivals are planned for March 15,
the official 21st annual celebra
tion, usually held in Five Points,
will be in Capital City Stadium,
said Cathleen Cleary, chairwom
an of the St. Patrick’s Charity
Celebration Committee.
That the two festivals are slat
ed to occur on the same day came
as a surprise to the Celebration
Committee.
“We definitely did not know
that they were planning to have
their festival on March 15,” Cleary
said. “We did not set out to com
pete head to head.”
Cleary said the relocation
comes after a disagreement be
tween the Celebration Committee
and the Five Points Association,
which recently sought more con
trol over the event than the com
mittee was willing to relinquish.
“We’re a legal corporation that
made a decision to move. We have
the history; we have the legal
stance; we have the logos; all of
that is part of the corporation,”
Cleary said. “We’re hoping that
we can move our festival without
too much outside pressure.”
The Five Points Association
could not be reached for com
ment.
According to the Celebration
Committee, the Five Points
Association has always received
a share of the festival’s revenue
for use in city projects.
“There’s definitely money to be
made,” Cleary said, and the bulk
of the festival’s proceeds is annu
ally distributed among several lo
cal charities.
But when the association re
cently tried to get more power to
decide how much money it would
receive, the Celebration
Committee split with its former
partner, despite criticism from the
Five Points Association and local
businesses. The City Council has
♦ FESTIVALS, SEE PAGE 4
New York
* works for
missing
students
Mayor gives out
guide to help
investigations
BY ALLYSON BIRD
Til K liAMKCOCK
Between Oct. 31 and Nov. 9,
two college students and a 21
year-old from Minnesota and an
other college student from
*0 Wisconsin were reported miss
ing.
As a result, on Nov. 20, New
York Gov. George E. Pataki an
nounced that “Missing College
Student Cases: An Investigative
Guide” will be distributed to all
public and private colleges and
universities in New York.
According to a news release
from the governor’s office, the
“Investigative Guide” provides
“model guidelines for colleges
and universities throughout the
state to facilitate a swift and ef
ficient investigation of violent
crimes and reports of missing
persons, as well as reassure stu
dents’ families that appropriate
^ investigative actions are being
taken.”
The guide outlines proce
dures for compiling informa
tion; evaluating the situations
of the particular students; pro
viding information to the police,
the community and the media;
working with the families of the
missing people; and coordinat
ing efforts.
This action is not Pataki’s first;
he signed into law the Campus
Safety Act in 1999 after Suzanne
Lyall disappeared from the State
University of New York at
Albany the previous year.
Because of this act, colleges and
universities are required to have
a plan for prompt investigation
^ of missing students and violent
* crimes.
“The Investigative Guide” was
created in collaboration with
Lyall’s parents and the Center for
Hope, an organization that helps
families with missing loved ones.
The goal of the publication is to
prepare institutions before a cri
sis arises.
Whether the guide will expe
dite investigations and save lives
depends on individual institu
tions and their level of activity in
addressing such crimes.
USC had eight cases of aggra
vated assault in 1998 — six fewer
than at the State University of
New York at Albany, where Lyall
attended school, and five more
than Columbia University, in
New York City.
The New York State Division
of Criminal Justice Services’
% Web site says: “If the statistics
appear to be higher than other
institutions’, they may indicate
that there is more crime on your
campus. Or conversely, they
may indicate that your school is
very aggressive in the reporting
and investigation of criminal ac
tivity.”
Nonetheless, USC spokesman
Russ McKinney does not recall
♦ MISSING, SEE PAGE 4
(\
Locals meet to support AIDS Day
PHOTO BY MORGAN FORD/THE GAMECOCK
Third-year biology student Tina Deblyn helps piece together part of the quilt made In honor of World AIDS Day.
Annual event is
meant to foster
unity, awareness
BY ALEXIS STRATTON
THE GAMECOCK
USC students and faculty gathered
with Columbia residents Monday
night at the State House steps to cel
ebrate life and unite in support of
World AIDS Day.
They congregated for the pro
gram “Live and Let Live: Fight
Stigma and Discrimination,” a can
dlelight event featuring a variety of
speakers and performers, including
Columbia Mayor Bob Coble, faith
representatives from various
churches and denominations, and _
AIDS victims.
“This day is for you and to all of
those you have loved and those you
remember,” said Andrenette
Hudley, co-chairwoman of the
Midlands HIV Prevention Collab
oration. “We must never forget the
contributions of those who have
gone before us. They are the heroes
of the war.”
Donald Wood, co-chairman of the
Midlands group, also spoke.
“The HIV virus and the AIDS epi
demic does not discriminate. It does
not care whether you are black,
white, Hispanic or whatever. It
doesn’t care whether you are gay,
♦ WORLD AIDS DAY, SEE PAGE S
Showing off her kicks and chops
A USC student competes in Spain at her first World Karate Championships appearance
BY KIMBERLY HUNT
THE (XAMECOCK
A USC student took her first
trip to Spain by competing in the
16th World Karate Championships
Nov. 21 to 24 in Madrid.
Third-year mechanical engi
neering student Elizabeth Irish
was one of three women on the
United States’ fighting team.
Irish and her team made it
through rounds one and two with
a pass and a victory over Tunisia.
In round three, Japan defeated
the three-woman fighting team.
“It was my first World
Championships,” Irish said. “I
got a lot of experience out of it.”
In the team fighting category, a
hit to the head is worth three
points, a blow to the body worth
two and a punch worth one point.
Individuals from each team go up
to fight one on one, and the first
competitor to earn eight points
wins.
The U.S. team spent about 12
hours a day at the tournament,
competing and rooting on team
mates. The team competed
against 60 to 70 other countries.
Whenever a competitor was in
the lead against a fighter from
Spain, the crowd of 8,000 people
booed the competitor.
“In Spain, the crowd boos by
whistling,” Irish said. “It was a
packed house, and the sound was
deafening.”
The teammates’ cheering must
have helped, though. The U.S.
team walked away with two gold
medals in individuals. One of
them went to the first woman to
ever win a gold at the World
Karate Championships.
“It was my first World
Championships. I got a
lot of experience out of
it.”
ELIZABETH IRISH
THIRD-YEAR MECHANICAL-ENGINEERING
STUDENT
“The U.S. had not won gold for
22 years,” Irish said. “We were
wondering if they would be able
to find our national anthem for
the flag ceremony because they
hadn’t used it in so long.”
Overall, France placed first in
the medal count and the United
States fifth. This year’s U.S. team
had 11 members, two of them, in
cluding Irish, from Columbia.
The night after competition
ends, all the countries are invit
ed to eat dinner together.
“The pressure is off because
it’s after competition,” Irish said.
“It was lots of fun. I ran into peo
ple I already knew from Canada
and met others from different
countries.”
Irish, who earned her black
belt six years ago, was nervous at
the try-outs to make the U.S. team
that traveled to Spain.
“I’ve been out for two years
with a broken vertebra, and the
trials was my first competition
since,” Irish said.
In the beginning of September,
the national team assembled in
Lake Placid, N.Y., to train to
gether for a week. They practiced
six hours a day at full speed.
Irish also trained in Pittsburgh
and Seattle right before the plane
ride to Madrid.
“We’re really proud of her,”
Irish’s coach Ridgely Abele said.
“She’s worked so hard going from
Lake Placid to Seattle training.”
One week before competition,
Irish said she “lightened up” her
workout by doing only weights,
karate and aerobics for two hours
twice a day.
Irish missed five weeks of
♦KARATE, SEE PAGE 4
Serving their final terms
Sens. Strom
Thurmond (R-S.C.),
left, and Jesse
Helms (R-N.C.)
wait in the U.S.
Capitol before a
vote. Their careers
In the Senate are
winding down; this
past term was the
last for both the
senators.
Thurmond will turn
100 years old
tomorrow.
PHOTO BY CHUCK
KENNEDY/KRT CAMPUS
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