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Carolina Carnival will J Quote of the day feature a festival of fun I qyyinpApl/g Hr*!/' KllllrlnriC^ fn jlo 'I think I'll move to Australia where and games in front of the I vXitlllCvUVlv^ Hlvli lJllllUUUd the politics revolves around Koala Russell House I see sports, page i hears.'- Mary Anne I Wednesday. See Features, page 4 ' See ,C0,UmniS, page The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty Years of Collegiate Journalism \ 10II ci .t\ Volume 81, No. 24 University of South Carolina September 26, 1988 use BRIEFS Graduate wins fellowship Christopher Gowdy, a graduate student in the College of Business Administration, has been awarded the J. Willis Cantey Memorial Fellowship. The fellowship, which carries a $2,000 stipend and a graduate assistantship, was established in memory of Cantey, a founding member of the USCBusiness Partnership Foundation. Myers new museum director Lynn Robertson Myers has been appointed director of the McKissick Museum. Myers, a museum employee since 1978, succeeds George Terry, who earlier this year was appointed associate vice president for Libraries and Collections. STATE BRIEFS -?- i Teens taint grandma's tea GREENVILLE (AP) ? Two Greenville County teenagers have been ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation after they were convicted of putting peroxide in their grandmother's mint tea, officials say. The 15-year-old girl and her 14-year-old brother were found guilty Thursday in Greenville County Family Court on a charge Of tamnprino Tlio r vi " IVll lV/UUi X XIV grandmother has since recovered. The boy said he and his sister decided to taint the 63-year-old woman's tea because she tried to embarrass them in public and often said things about their dead mother. GOP wants bigger juries The state Republican Party is pushing for November passage of a constitutional amendment that" would require all people 18 and older with driver's licenses to be eligible for jury duty. The amendment would do away with requirements that jurors be qualified electors and leave qualifications up to the General Assembly. SAT scores rise 6 points South Carolina's average scores in the Scholastic Aptitude Test still rank last among all states, but the state's high school students improved their scores while the national average dropped, according to the College Board. South Carolina scores in 1987-88 rose six points over the previous year, one of the highest gains in the country. USA BRIEFS Import bill 'veto-proof* WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Reagan's threatened veto of tighter curbs on textile, apparel and shoe imports would be hard iu uvtuiut, say lawmaivcia wnu nonetheless are hoping to make the bill law. "It will be tough, but I think we have a good chance," Rep. Butler Derrick, D-S.C., said Friday after the House approved the bill 248-150, enough to send the bill to Reagan's desk but far short of a veto-proof margin. Navy convicts instructor PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) ? A Navy rescue-swimming instructor was convicted of negligent homicide and sentenced to 90 days in jail in the drowning of a panicstricken recruit whom he forced under water while other recruits sang the national anthem. A five-officer panel on Friday sentenced Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Combe, 28, of Tempe, Ariz., after finding him guilty of the lesser charge of negligent homicide and conspiracy to com mit battery in the March 2 death of Airman Recruit Lee Mirecki. Combe also was reduced one rank to petty officer third class and reprimanded. INDEX Viewpoint 3 Features 4 Comics 5 Datebook 6 Sports 7 Classifieds 8 GOT A NEWS TIP? CALL 777-7726 State i fail to iTsr < ~ ~ ^ i By JONATHON LOBER Staff writer USC would have received $ this school year if the Commis: Cutting Edge program had bet legislature. The legislature gave USC $ funds for 1988-89 ? $8 millio had hoped for. The Cutting Edge Prograr fund, hopes to compete more ducts at a national level. It also admission standards. John Smalls, CHE's associa cial affairs, said full funding legislators refused to raise tax election year may have contri tance, he said. "We suggested revenue enht the program, mainly taxes, 1 propriate to raise taxes," Sm,' formula funding was not achit Full-formula funding occur proves 100 percent of the fun which uses a mathematical foi money to request for each uni "The formula figures into tl said. "You end up having rej deferred. The university can't? higher salaries, and it can't af: "You also don't have mon See m i a i anumi By MARY PEARSON Assistant news editor When rock'n'roll shows en Five Points bars on Thursday, F and Saturday nights, some stui have to depend on their own twt to get back to campus safely. But this weekend all that may changed because of a shuttle sy that began operation, organizers, the Fraternity and Sc ty councils, said that despite the of monetary support from Sti Government and obstacles fron Law Enforcement and Safety sion, the first week of the proj was a success. *Vr " 'M Ir Bi'" Kr I Fowr eyelids are gei Hypnotist James Mapes entra in the Russell House Ballroom 1 by Carolina Program Union. funds !*1 meet joals * < 9 million in research funds sion on Higher Education's ;n fully funded by the state 11 million in Cutting Edge n less than the commission ti, through an investment vigorously in research proi seeks to strengthen college te commissioner for finan* wasn't possible because es. The fact that this is an buted to legislators' relucmcements in order to fund >ut they felt it was inap- | ills said. As a result, fulls when the legislature ap- g f ds requested by the CHE, mula to decide how much le physical plant," Denton 3airs to the physical plant ifford to pay its professors r> i Pnrd 35 manv pnmnnfprc ey for research."*' usc Alrfol who are still p T^TTvrrirxTo ? an honor and FUNDING page 2 s has 'su About 98 people used the fre transportation, said Marie Louis d at Ramsdale, Sorority Council servic riday chairwoman. dents "If one person uses the shuttle t< ) feet get back to campus safely on thi weekend, I think we have done ; have great deal," said Ramsdale, a Sovie stem studies junior. The On Thursday night, 46 student ?rori- took the vans home, Ramsdale said lack On Friday night, 37 people rode th< ident vans, and Saturday, 15 students tool i the advantage of the service. Divi- The two vans, which were rentec ?ram from the Transportation Servic< motor pool, ran from 1U p.m. to 2:M ? "i\ ft ft <<$ 1 ^ wk vU ' i ^hp/ . , LIBBY RUCKER/1 he Gamecock tting heavy . . . nces his audience during his performance fhursday night. The show was sponsored Hp M I" rrj HHHH c a f s ^ wring ce Reserved Officers Training Corps cadets risoners of war or missing in action in Vietn service organization of the Airforce ROTC ccessful' e a.m. each night, making three stops e on Harden Street to pick up students, e The stops were at Eckerd Drugs, Food Lion and Circle K. 3 "We had one female student who e rode this weekend, who, if we hadn't a been there, would have walked home t alpne," said Harry Sharp, a computer science graduate, who spent s most of his Friday and Saturday nights as a volunteer driver. ; "She was almost in tears when she l got in the van, and she was really glad we were there," Sharp said. 1 Sharp, who is a member of the Stu; dent Senate, said he felt the service ) was needed and that he would vote Author dis EDITOR'S NOTE: Author and activ will speak Oct. 5 at 7:30 p.m. in th Ballroom. Admission is free. The even, CPU and Open Door Health and Wellr By HAL MILLARD News editor Something was burning inside John I The heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice Robbins was groomed to take over ai footsteps of his father, Irv Robbins. were spent learning every facet of the bu was set and simple. He would be a rich i the pursuit of the American dream and was driven bv the profit motive tha Robbins the world's largest manufactur But his heart wasn't in it. Something was out there for him, he thought. By th the University of California at Berke leading radical hot-bed of his era, t crystallize. He became interested in the C ment and the anti-war movement. In 1968, he made the fateful decision he didn't want the business. Soon after there were things going on in the Disneyland-like youth had kept hidden 1 Years of meditation and soul searchin] off the British Columbia coast with his w sonal studies at Berkeley and his knov processed-food industry such as Baskin led Robbins to where he is today ? one critics and muckrakers of the food indu blems it causes. His first book Diet For A New Americ past October and nominated for a Pi amines the food industry, namely the me industries. It proposes alternatives to our which he says contributes not only to poc to the rape of precious land and res necessary cruelty to animals. "Our health is being cheapened and s< ship to nature," he said during a telephoi the The Gamecock from his home ir California. "I made a choice for conscience and ini "I walked away from the assumption economic growth is OK and that we're si the right to exploit other animals and c wanted to live in harmonv. I could have h dream, but my conscience told me t American dream which is to conserve nat it. "I learned a lot of things. 1 learned the : bph r i k jpk'- - bp bp ml w Jl | IElI Wffi' gather on the steps of the State House am. The candlelight vigil is sponsored 01 ) and Angel Flight. first we for funds to be appropriated to the service if the bill was introduced in the Student Senate. The senate Wednesday passed a resolution supporting the plan, but did not vote to appropriate funds because of a lack of support from Law Enforcement and Safety Division Senior Vice President Carl Stokes and questions of liability. Stokes refused to allow reserve officers on the shuttles to provide security and to release the list of qualified drivers, because he said the project was out of the campus police jurisdiction and may present a conflict of interest for officers to escort icusses fooi ist John Robbins ???? e Russell House a Another t is sponsored by ... ... less Program. chickens llkl mother hen i feed them dn bobbins. : cream dynasty, SO they Can t nd follow in the School vacations siness; everything ______________ nan ensconced in a man whose life system, dairy and it made Baskin- dream," he said, er of ice cream. What pains Rc ; more important motive that drives e time he entered as land and grain, ley in 1965, the plosive proliferate hings started to cruelty animals exj 'ivil Rights move- tuous lives spent t< "Up until aboui to tell his father most people think that he realized their food comes world that his farms or 'pharmac from him. norm," he said. % on a tiny island "Animals are I ife, Deo, his per- outrageous conditi< fledge of how a that keep the anim -Robbins works, and be profitable. 1 : of the foremost duct," he said. stry and the pro- Advertising and opinions about die a, published this majority of people llitzer prize, ex- "Those cute F at, dairy and egg chickens are in 'chi meat-based diet, it is," Robbins saic >r health but also chickens like a moi :ources and un- cut their beaks off, fined so they can' 3 is our relation- grotesque lie and gi le interview with The meat, dairy i Ben Lomond, towards food, he st "Those four fooc ' ? i ? legnty, nesaia. yuu wcic m scuuui that continued were told that is v jperior and have healthy. Its industri )ur ecosystem. I Robbins makes g ad the American misread him. He c here is another become vegetarians :ure, not destroy products for good. just decrease anim; meat production their lives, he said. ( iBk i ! ? jfl ?pL M^jlBWBk ^ * *j i.jy i k ? #- *mm* f f ' *? t?*> iii AMY ESTINGOY/The Gamecock Thursday to remember U.S. soldiers ice a year by the Arnold Air Society, :ekend intoxicated students. But despite these obstacles, the Fraternity and Sorority councils went ahead with their plans for the weekend, Ramsdale said. "We were very disappointed with the lack of support from the Law and Enforcement Division," Ramsdale said. During the weekend, the councils met with obstacles as well. "We had a van breakdown, and we couldn't get started back up. We couldn't get us another van, so the See SHUTTLE page 2 d industry company says it treats its a O m nthni* linn \\ nil n f ? 1I1UIUC1 IIC1I. T Ell, a ioesn't cut their beaks off, ngs and keep them confined even spread their wings." John Rob bins author/activist eggs included, are an insult to that )bbins is the aforementioned profit men to be wasteful of resources, such used to fuel the meat industry; the exan of drugs and pesticides; and the jerience not in death but in short, tor3 create a marketable product, t World War II there were the farms about when they think about where from. But now we're seeing factory eutical farms.' These are becoming the being kept confined indoors under 3ns. There's a tremendous use of drugs als alive until they can be slaughtered rhe profit motive creates a shabby proa conscious effort to mold peoDle's t from early childhood keep the vast from seeing the dangers in their diet, rank Perdue commercials say his cken heaven.' It's chicken hell is what 1. "Another company says it treats its ther hen. Well, a mother hen doesn't feed them drugs and keep them cont even spread their wings. It's all a rossly misleading." and egg industries mold our attitudes ud. i group charts they used to have when were made by those industries. We yhat we were supposed to eat to be ial propaganda," he said, reat pains to make sure people don't loesn't advocate people immediately and swear off meat and other animal It's a process that takes time. If they al product consumption it may save