4 Tuesday, November 2,1993 Gay Marine Sgt JUSTIN ELZIE SPELL IT 0U1 T ITTiTn There’s no lower price for a collect call' For long distance calls from public phones. You don’t have to be an Economics major to see that AT&T’s new 1 800-OPERATOR service is lower priced than anyone else’s standard operator service rates for long distance collect calls. Use it from any phone on or off campus. When you call, just spell it out. Dial 1 800-OPERATOR (1 800 673-7286). ART fending tariff effectiveness. © 1993 AUT. 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 uJljp Daily (Tar Ipi 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.”

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