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Tuesday, November 2,1993
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Elzie Returns to Active Duty After Temporary Relief Granted
BY BRAD WILLIAMS
STAFF WRITER
A Washington Federal District Court
issued a temporary restraining order that
prohibits the U.S. Department of Defense
from discharging gay Marine Sgt. Justin
Elzie Monday, following a month of con
flicting court rulings and controversy on
the matter.
“I am thrilled,” Elzie said in a press
release. “I feel that my professionalism
and patriotism as a Marine have been vin
dicated, and I hope that the judge’s order
will be extended on a more permanent
STATE & NATIONAL
basis - not only for my benefit but for the
benefit of others like me who serve their
nation with pride, honor and distinction.”
The Defense Department attempted to
place Elzie on stand-by reserve after a
Friday Supreme Court ruling stated that a
decision by Calif. Federal District Court
Judge Terry Hatter did not apply to the
entire military.
The decision would have made discrimi
nation against military personnel based on
their sexual orientation unconstitutional.
“The Supreme Court ruled on a technical
procedure issue,” said Dixon Osbum, co
director of the Service Members Legal
Defense Network. “Hatter’s order was too
broad and didn’t have the constitutional
authority to place over every service mem
ber.”
Elzie was placed on stand-by reserve
Sept. 1, returned to active duty on Oct. 20
and put back on inactive duty Friday.
Osbum said the U.S. Defense Depart
ment gave the names of the military pen
sonnel that would be discharged in a brief
filed with the Supreme Court Friday.
“The Defense Department stands ready
to discharge 150 people,” Osbum said.
“We will file a (request by the) Freedom of
Information Act to get these names public.
From an organizational standpoint, Ser
vice Members Legal Defense Network
urges commanders not to take the Su
preme Court decision as an excuse to go
after gay service members.”
Doug Ferguson, co-chairman of Or
ange Lesbian and Gay Association, said
he was pleased with the court’s decision to
put Elzie back on active duty.
“1 just can’t speak too highly of Justin’s
character,” Ferguson said. “I’m not sur
prised that the court felt it would be a loss
to the Marine Corps.”
But Ferguson said he thought the con
troversy surrounding Elzie’s case could
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impair Elzie’s ability to do his job. “This
has got to disrupt his ability to perform his
duties,” he said.
Janet Parshall, spokeswoman for Con
cerned Women of America, a Washing
ton-based organization that supports
women’s issues, said the Calif, ruling was
a result of the “politicization of the judicial
system.”
“The decision by Hatter was purposely
vague,” shesaid. “I’m not surprised by the
ruling, but will it have a broad ramifica
tion? No.”
Parshall said she believed the courts
were hearing the cases because Clinton
could not fulfill his campaign promise of
ending the ban on gays in the military
through legislation. “ Our feeling at large is
President Clinton spent too much time
listening to political pundits.... America is
much bigger than Harvard University.”
HALLOWEEN
FROM PAGE 3
ties and ‘Rodney King,”’ he said.
The student took down the car’s license
plate number and reported the incident to
University Police, who still are investigat
ing the incident.
After being treated for bruises and a
headache at the Student Health Service,
the student went back out to Franklin Street
with some friends.
“If I had stayed home, they would have
won,” he said. “I wanted to go out and
have a good time.”
PRICE
FROM PAGE 3
tions to move manufacturing plants to Third
World countries in orderto take advantage
of cheaper labor costs.
Price also said he thought the group’s
call for a renegotiated NAFTA was unreal
istic. If NAFTA is defeated now, it would
be almost impossible to get Canadian and
Mexican governments back to the bargain
ing table, he said.
“I do not have the confidence that you
do that renegotiating would be a piece of
cake,” he said. “If NAFTA goes down, I
think the Canadians are off the reserva
tion.”
Price added that he did not think
NAFTA was flawless. “I’m not saying this
is a perfect agreement l’ve never said
that,” he said. “Whatever I do, I’ll have
misgivings about it.”
Members of the group said they were
disturbed that Price had “blithely dis
missed” concerns about capital flight to
Mexico and the agreement’s lack of en
forcement powers, adding that they per
ceived NAFTA as several issues combined
instead of just a matter of economics.
FINES
FROM PAGE 3
several occasions ohhe problems and im
plications.
Wes Lawton, who lives in a nearby
subdivision, said the air pollution had not
affected his family, but there had been
problems over the years with noise and
with emissions from the nearby ash house.
Every time plant workers load the ash
on the trucks, ash is released into the neigh
borhood, Lawton said.
The ash is high in sulfur, he said. “The
plant has recently started to monitor for it,
but it will be a couple more months before
we’ll have hard evidence. It is only theory
now.”
Lawton said he was concerned that a
state university was fined by the state.
“It is a little bit strange that the state has
fined the University,” he said. “They are
really just putting money from one pocket
to another.”
Schuster said the fines placed on the
University were separate from funds allot
ted to support the University.
“It’s all within the state but there are
different entities within it,” he said.
Darcee Killpack, a member of the en
ergy-conservation committee of the Stu
dent Environmental Action Coalition, said
fines were an effective way to force the
plant to comply with air-quality standards.
“I think it is a good idea they are fining
them, ” she said. “The only way to get them
to change is through money.
“This whole thing makes the University
look bad in the eyes of the state.”
EDGERTON
FROM PAGE 3
close to morning.”
After Bird’s performance, Brian Britt, a
senior from LaGrange, performed from
the book “Killer Diller.” Britt portrayed
Wesley, a young man trying to understand
his relationship with God and women,
intent on finding a connection between the
two.
Wesley can’t help the fact that he has
sexual fantasies about women he sees.
While he is walking to church, he sees a
"big” woman and can't help but think
about her and how she would look naked.
“It’s weird that I should think about some
one so fat,” Wesley says.
Next, Trenton McDevitt, a senior from
Asheville, portrayed Wesley later in life.
Wesley contemplates religion and cites the
biblical David as an example that God
really doesn’t mind people sleeping around.
An excerpt from “The Floatplane Note
books told the story of two boys, Meredith
andMark, portrayed by Christopher Trevor
Abernathy and Richard Patten, and their
friendship with each other.
Mark tries to be a good boy and do
exactly what his mother tells him. He de
cides to give his soul to the Lord and in
doing so realizes how much the church is a
part of him. “I close my eyes, and I feel the
church around me," Mark says. “It feels
good, like I’m where I'm supposed to be.”
After the performances, Edgerton, who
B ave a reading, praised the portrayals.
I m almost overcome with this perfor
mance.”