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Lawmakers’ acts
ripple across state
By Pete lacobelli
The Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South
Carolina Legislature’s efforts to re
move the Confederate flag from the
Statehouse dome may not satisfy
the NAACP, but they are apparent
ly good enough for the Southern
Conference and the NCAA.
Commissioner Alfred White,
whose 12-team league includes
four South Carolina schools, had
said the Southern Conference
would not hold championships in
the state until the flag came down.
“That is happening,” White said
Thursday. “The feeling among our
chief executives is that the [state’s!
action seems reasonable.”
The NCAA, which last month
said it would not bring future
championships to South Carolina
as long as the flag flew, released a
short statement.
“The focus of the NCAA Execu
tive Committee was the flag’s pres
ence above the dome of the State
house,” it said, “and we are
pleased that the governor and state
Legislature have been able to reach
agreement on the matter.”
NCAA spokesman Wally Renfro
said the governing body would not
answer questions about the flag.
The South Carolina House on
Thursday gave final approval to a
bill removing the flag from the
dome and placing a similar one at
a monument to Confederate sol
diers on Statehouse grounds. The
Senate passed a similar bill in
April.
The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple said its tourism boycott of the
state will continue because the
flag will be too prominent at the
new location.
Supporters say the-flag repre
sents Southern heritage. Oppo
nents says it’s a symbol of hatred
and slavery.
South Carolina’s sports scene
has faced constant scrutiny since
the NAACP’s boycott began Jan. 1.
The New York Knicks pulled
out of a pre-playpffs training camp
in Charleston; USA Track and
Field condemned the flag before
the women’s Olympic marathon
trials in February; tennis star Sere
na Williams withdrew from the
Family Circle Cup tournament in
Hilton Head; and the NCAA said if
the flag was not down by mid-Au
gust, it would remove the 2002
men’s basketball regional from
Greenville’s Bi-Lo Center.
“It has been a stressful time. I
think you can say we can breathe
a little easier,” said White, who
negotiated with the NAACP be
fore deciding to keep the league’s
men’s basketball tournament at
the Bi-Lo in March.
South Carolina athletics director
Mike McGee said he was pleased
with Thursday’s 62-48 House vote.
The two chambers must now
iron out any differences. Gov. Jim
Hodges has said he would sign any
bill that brings down the flag.
number of alcoholic drinks per week
MYTH
REALITY
Students can party all the time
and still get good grades.
The more students drink
the lower their grades.
6.1 beers
average number of drinks
per week by academic performance
*
9.0 beers
GR
0DE
Based on a national survey of nearly 37,000 students at sixty-six
New View 2000
four-year colleges and universities. Source: CORE Institute, 1996.
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