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See page 7 Classifi ed............... 8 dailygamecock.com THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2008 VOL. 101, NO. 123 ● SINCE 1908 Workshop fosters talk on tough issue year visual communications people to talk and “come Conner said she Saturday events student and an assistant of out” to. thinks the average The Carolina Service the committee, said the Jennifer Conner, a first- person is not aware of will focus on sexual Carolina Service Council year pre-international sexual discrimination Council orientation education wanted to present an business and economics in daily life and feels important issue to a diverse student and member of the the workshop will aid in will sponsor the Sexual Orientation Discrimination audience. social programs committee, mending the issue. Workshop tomorrow in the Russell House Omicron “The Carolina Service said certain groups on “It’s going to be an Haley Dreis STAFF WRITER Council did a measles campus have been helpful interesting workshop Delta Kappa Room from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. workshop la s t and supportive of the because the semesters, workshop. average person TThehe WWorkshoporkshop wwillill iincludenclude A sexual orientation so we were “We went to the doesn’t know that llecturesectures from:from: discrimination workshop, trying to Office of certain words sponsored by the Carolina come up are offensive [or Ryan Wilson, the former president of BGLSA Service Council, will be with a new discriminatory] Clint Neal, the co-director of SafeZone tomorrow to educate and idea and toward specific encourage discussion about a new issue orientations,” Laura Gambone, professor of women’s studies the issue. that needed to Conner said. “If people Leon Th omas, associate director of Multicultural According to Carolina be addressed,” really do support the Aff airs Service Council, “the Rumsey said. gay community, they purpose of the workshop is “We are trying should come out and to encourage the education to reach out show support.” OOtherther eevents:vents: and understanding of to a wider Muedder said similarities and differences audience.” the issue of Group discussions among people of all different Safe Ally heterocentrism, SafeZone Ally training sexual orientations.” Zone, a program the presumption Free lunch provided by Moe’s Carole Muedder, a fourth- committed that everyone is year international studies to fighting heterosexual or student and the director homophobia and that heterosexuals TToo RRSVPSVP fforor tthehe eevent,vent, vvisitisit tthehe WWebeb ssiteite of the social programs heterosexism, are naturally wwww.sa.sc.edu/communityservice/sexualww.sa.sc.edu/communityservice/sexual committee for Carolina will be hosting superior to Service Council, said she a two-hour homosexuals oorientreg.asprientreg.asp thinks sexual orientation training and bisexuals, discrimination is a hot topic session is an issue that Multicultural open students’ minds and for the gay community. at USC. exploring many people are Student Affairs and transcend barriers within “They should really be “We want to educate the the facts and not aware of. asked them what one the USC community and open to come and not feel public, especially in S.C. It myths about “There issue they would like to beyond. one way or the other,” tends to be tenser around gay, lesbian, are many examples of see, and they told us [the “Society is very Conner said. “We’re open that topic more than others,” bisexual, transgender and [heterocentrism] in society, topic of sexual orientation heterocentrist, and we to everyone’s opinion. It’s Muedder said. “It will be questioning, or GLBTQ, like Valentine’s cards that discrimination] hasn’t been need to get out of these really going to be benefi cial important because students issues. read ‘from him to her’ done on a large scale,” sociological barriers,” and we would appreciate can learn about the laws Participants will receive or assuming marriage Conner said. “Safe Zone, Muedder said. everyone’s support.” and regulations of S.C. and skills training to become is between a man and a BGLSA and Multicultural Conner said she hopes USC surrounding the topic Safe Zone Allies and will woman,” Muedder said. Affairs have helped, shared students will come out to of sexual orientation.” earn a certificate to show Muedder said she and showed interest in the the workshop with open Comments on this story? E-mail Carolyn Rumsey, a second- that recipients are safe hopes the workshop will workshop.” minds and will show support [email protected] Children’s fates remain undecided Sailing Classes to lay the foundation Large-scale hearings for documents to be following polygamous sect admitted. One witness, a state trooper, was cross- Can Sailing classes are now available raid begin with chaos examined by dozens of I have a attorneys, each of them universal, ‘Yes, for credit for the fall sessions one asking the same question on Judge’?” she Michelle Roberts behalf of a child or parent. said. Th e Associated Press and two. Capt. Brian Adams, a As the afternoon dragged In both SAN ANGELO, Texas — A on, no decisions had been buildings, the sailing instructor, will teach the court hearing to decide the made on the fate of any of hundreds of fate of the 416 children swept the youngsters. lawyers stood class daily at Lake Murray for this up in a raid on a West Texas Texas District Judge and responded polygamist sect descended Barbara Walther struggled in unison: “Yes, physically active class. However, into farce Thursday, with to keep order as she faced Judge.” hundreds of lawyers in two 100 lawyers in her 80-year- But she added to packed buildings shouting old Tom Green County the chaos as well. registration will not be available three objections and the judge courtroom and several Walther refused to put girls, two 17-year-olds and struggling to maintain hundred more participating medical records and other until July due to a course number one 18-year-old. order. over a grainy video feed evidence in electronic form, Department of Public The case — clearly one of from an ornate City Hall which could be e-mailed change. Safety Sgt. Danny Crawford the biggest, most convoluted auditorium two blocks away. among the lawyers, because testifi ed to DPS’s discovery child-custody hearings in The hearing disintegrated it contained personal For more information, e-mail of a church bishop’s records U.S. history — presented quickly into a barrage information. A courier had taken from a safe at the ranch an extraordinary spectacle: of shouted objections and to run from the courthouse the instructor at that listed about 38 families, big-city lawyers in suits and attempts to file motions, to the auditorium delivering some of them polygamous mothers in 19th-century, with lawyers for the children one document at a time. adams26@mailbox. and some that included wives pioneer-style dresses, all objecting to objections made “We’re going to handle 16 or 17 years old. But under packed into a courtroom by the parents’ attorneys. this the best we can, one sc.edu, or contact repeated cross-examination, and a nearby auditorium When client at Crawford acknowledged connected by video. the judge a time,” the physical the records contained no At issue was an attempt sustained Walther evidence of sexual abuse. by the state of Texas to strip an objection said. education State officials asked the the parents of custody and to the “ Little We’re going to judge for permission to place the children in foster prolonged evidence department at conduct genetic testing homes because of evidence questioning had been handle this the on the children and adults they were being physically of the state admitted 777-3239. because of diffi culty sorting and sexually abused by the trooper, by mid- best we can, one out the sect’s tangled family — Compiled Fundamentalist Church of the lawyers afternoon. relationships and matching Jesus Christ of Latter Day cheered. The first client at a time. youngsters with their by Liz Segrist Saints, a renegade Mormon Upon attempt parents. The judge did not splinter group suspected of another to admit Texas District Judge Barbara immediately rule. forcing underage girls into objection ” evidence Walther Amid the shouting and marriage with older men. about the resulted in chaos among the lawyers, As many feared, the proper an hour- who came from around Texas proceedings turned into admission long recess to represent the children something of a circus — and of medical while all the and parents free of charge, a painfully slow one. records of the children, the lawyers examined it. The rest dozens of mothers sat timidly By mid-afternoon, judge threw up her hands. of the morning was spent in in their long cotton dresses, only two witnesses had “I assume most of you want arguments about whether to testified, and both only to make the same objection.