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Weekend weather USC summer ballet program features top notch instruction See Features, page 3 It is the same old summer weather , . III forecast for this weekend. For the jSji weekend there will be a chance ?f sci"- lowlo'mVd^fand'iowTin the8iow70s.e Basketball player Brent Price will not return to Gamecocks see sports, page 5 The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Wednesday Volume 82 No 4 University of South Carolina August 2, 1989 use profe: invitation tc By RON BAKER News editor A world-renowned physicist and USC professor has refused to attend a scientific seminar in China because of " * 1?- PKirtoco recent human rights violations oy mc v.....vov government. Physics instructor Jeeva Anandan, in a July 24 letter to Professor J.Q. Liang of Shanxi University in Shanxi Province, China, declined an offer to attend the International Symposium on Advanced Topics of Quantum Theory. The symposium will take place in the summer of 1990. In the letter, Anandan refused the offer "because of the massacre at the Tiananmen Square on June 3 and 4, 1989, and the continuing executions of the people who participated in the democracy movement." "I think it's against my conscience to participate in any conference in China," Anandan said Monday. "I believe that what the Chinese government has done in sending the troops which fired on unarmed students and workers is a serious human rights violation." Anandan said the students are neither criminals nor thugs the way the government portrays them. Anandan said he hopes his decision will encourage others in his position to follow suit and consider avoiding ties with the Chinese government. "I'm aware that at this point the Chinese government needs foreign scientists, and they also need foreign 1 * ' M S I mm rnU ll ^p|4 Jf >Z . 1 | j ^ 1 OC A lit I want your blood Barabara Beis, a registered nurse with the American Ri biology professor Duane Yoch for donating blood. A )lood were donated last Wednesday and Thursday. Students face r From The College Press Service Since July 5, it's been illegal for Tufts University students to wear T-shirts that bear phrases that administrators deem objectionable. It's now illegal for University of Michigan students to say things in class that administrators deem objectionable. As of fall term, it will be illegal for USC and Boston University students to entertain dorm visitors whom administrators deem objectionable. If college students anywhere want a student loan, moreover, they will have to swear they deem illicit drugs as objectionable as officials do. In the name of easing racial tensions, patriotism, student health, and even property rights, colleges around the country are adopting broad rules that govern what students can do, say, write in their campus papers and even wear in classrooms for the upcoming school year. "There's a lot of Big Brother-ism going on," said Lauren Segal of the American Civil Liberties Union's New York headquarters. "the biggest danger," added Fred Azcarate, Pres,ae"1 for the U.S. Student Association, which represents c Pus student government leaders in Washington, D. ., 1 the loss of personal freedom." , An unnamed psychology graduate student has sue University of Michigan, claiming its new rules have c ssor refuses visit China technology," Anandan said. "I want to put pressure on the Chinese government, and I hope that other people will also do the same." "If a sufficient number of scientists, engineers and other technical personnel do this, I think that it would put a certain amount of pressure on the Chinese government so that they will not continue to execute and imprison their dissidents," Anandan said. "There's nothing that we can do about what has already happened, but I'm very much distressed by the fact that they are continuing to execute and imprison people, many of them just because they have said what happened in Tiananmen Square," Anandan said. Anandan received the award of the international Gravity Research Foundation in 1983 for his work on gravitation and quantum mechanics. He was also awarded the Humboldt Fellowship, and international award given by a German foundation. In his letter to Shanxi University, Anandan said that he u/nnlH rppnnciHpr hie nncitinn qnH attpnH tViP cpminor if TI V/U1M ? V UUU UllbUU 111 V JV111I11U1 11 the human rights situation improved in China. "I would like them to stop imprisoning and executing their dissidents, those who demonstrated for democracy, and I would want the government to have a dialogue with See ANANDAN page 5 I Chines By RON BAKER News editor Chen Xitong, the mayor of Beijin the Seventh National Party Congress pie's Republic of China and sum: government's official stance on the J crackdown on pro-democracy demon: Statements by Chen and by Deng X sistently echo the official Chinese Con Sty evaluation of what happened ir Tiananmen Square, asserting that i unrest was used as a political tool by number of "counterrevolutionaries' overthrow the CCP and subvert leadership. The government still admits to on] dent deaths, claiming that the majoi killed in Beijing were soldiers of i Liberation Army. The response appears to be directs at China's populace in an effort to much support and legitimacy as possib people. Shuttleco By CAREN CAMPBELL Features editor Several changes are in store for students who use the Shuttlecock to get around campus in the Fall semester. Five buses will still be used, and they will be running two basic routes in clockwise and counter-clockwise patterns around USC campus. The main reason changes were | made is that students wanted the ? , system to be faster, and therefore erson/The Gamecock . , -j r? r? more useful, said Brian Barnes of Transportation Services Monday. ed Cross, prepares The major differences are that the bout 400 pints of shuttle will no longer make stops at the Swearingen Engineering Center, the Assembly Street side of the Col nore restrictions "There's a lot of Big Brotherism going on." American Civil Liberties Union, Lauren Segal him the freedom to express opinions in his classes. In an effort to try to halt a series of incidents in which someone distributed a racist flyer, and a white student broadcast anti-black jokes on the campus radio station, UM adopted rules in April which let officials discipline or even expel students who spread racist or sexist sentiments around campus. "It's something that's needed here, said senior Sarah Hubbard of the policy." The grad student complained that Michigan, by noting that a statement like "women just aren't as good as men in this field" would constitute harassment, was inhibiting him from participating in class. On Julv 14. UM filed a response defending its nr>i; > though it reputedly "backed off" its earlier threat to punish students for committing any of the 14 sample verbal actions it considered discriminatory. "All the examples do is show how extremely broad the policy is," said Robert Sedler, a Wayne State University law professor who is representing the grad student. i Professor Jeeva Anadan looks over a physics paper. lent plans future nic reforms m I News Analysis 1 g, addressed of the Peomed up the The government has publicized the crackdown lune 3 and 4 a move to stifle an anti-socialist revolution, ai strators. has even noted that the manner of the stude uaoping con- rebellion contradicts the principles of democrai nmunist Par- itself. i and about This may be seen as an effort to placate tho nild student students who remain unconvinced of the CCP a very small sincerity by the executions of pro-democrai ' coolrinn tn mnvpmpnt lpafiprc JVVIVI115 tv/ the Chinese Deng and Li Peng seem to be on a path towan reentering the political and economic path of a ye ly a few stu- a8?? when gradual economic reforms were beii rity of those implemented and Deng consistently refused any e the People's tension of political liberties. The CCP's focus has shifted to foreign trad d exclusively and the government-controlled Chinese media establish as making much of efforts on the party's part le among the eliminate the corruption which marked the begin ing of private business ownership. ck rerouted arc iseum and the Roost, which are three Carolina Coliseum. 1 of six stops that have been eliminated muter parking lot a all together. Pickens and Pendle "We haven't done away with the been changed to a fi engineering building. We're just Jot. stopping a block away from it rather Peter Becker, the i than stopping right at the curb," Parking Committee, Barnes said. ly the Shuttlecock wc Two new stops have been added, at so the bus system, ar the intersection of Wheat Street and be more efficiently u Sumter Street and the intersection of A major problen Catawba Street and Sumter. students will expect i "The Parking Committee made by the Coliseum on these changes in response to student that stop has been eli; complaints," said Derrick Huggins said, of Transportation Services Monday. The basic incc Huggins said that another reason students is that they \ for this is to make it easier for more a block from old Shu students to use the parking lot at the either the new ones > on what they v 1 Michigan offir>ialc tr> mmmmt further ahr?uf the lawsuit, but Hubbard thought it unlikely they would try to limit other student speech or activities. "Students won't allow themselves to be curtailed" in the control of student fees or who they can visit in dorms, Hubbard said, i Others have. Boston administrators have sharply limited the number of times students can have friends stay overnight in their dorm rooms, and completely banned overnight stays by members of the opposite sex. Moreover, dorm visitors must leave by 11 p.m. on weekends and 1 a.m. on weekends. St. Joseph's College in Maine, the State University of New York at Binghamton and North Carolina State University also adopted dorm visitation rules in recent years. Administrators at the universities of Montana, Notre Dame and Wisconsin at Green Bay, at Arapahoe Community College in Colorado, and at Indiana, Utah State, Alabama State and Fordham universities recently tried to exert control over how students distribute student fees. And student reporters at Andrews, Brown, Appalachian State, Georgia State and California State ! universities at Long Beach and Los Angeles, as well as at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Dartmouth and . Bentley colleges fought administrative attempts to control ] H; S . Jsggl m, |flP- :. i ___ ? ... ' *^>? ? '' ......^Meja^liiBHwl I ^K^- BBI 1 Les Alverson/The Gamecock Lay continue There is also renewed talk of furthering the economic reforms, and Deng seems little concerned with the inflation (about 30 percent in 1988) resulting from the reforms, which was one of the as root causes of political dissent earlier this year, id There is no certain way the political and nt economic agendas of the CCP can be charted by cy anyone outside of the Grfeat Hall of the People. It appears, however, that the leadership is intent on se normalizing the domestic political atmosphere in "s order to move forward with the 1988 plans, cy A major impediment to economic liberalization may prove to be that the same fiscal ills suffered in ds 1987 and 1988 are likely to befall the Chinese ar economy again, ig x_ The onset of extremely high inflation and corruption among private businesses and local governed ment officials simply exacerbate the problems, and is there is no guarantee that public unrest will not t0 reappear in force again after the impact of June n_ 1989's crackdown has been lessened or reinterpreted. tund campus 'he former com- which are still being used, both t the corner of Barnes and Huggins said, ton Streets has acuity and staff Other stops eliminated include those on Pendleton Street between chairman of the Sumter and Marion; at Whaley and said in early Ju- Bull streets; at Catawba and South )uld be rerouted Main; at Wheat Street and South id the lots could Main; and the stop at the Roost, sed by students. Barnes said Tuesday the new maps l may be that . of Shuttlecock routefhave been sent a shuttle to stop to the printer and should be available Assembly, but August 18. He said students may adminated, Barnes dress questions about Shuttlecock operations to Transportation Sermvenience to vices at 777-4209. vill have to walk Barnes said that all complaints ttlecock stops to about the service should be made to or to old ones Peter Becker at 777-6318. vcur, uu, ouy what they write in their campus paper during the past two school years. The federal government also has been imposing new regulations on student behavior, making collegians who need to borrow money take what the ACLU's Segal calls "absurd loyalty oaths" that they don't take drugs and that they've completed military registration forms. Adults, Sedler said, are "coming back with the kind of restrictions (students) rebelled against in the '60s." Schools cite all kinds of reasons for re-regulating student behavior. "There's the perception in society that universities over-reacted in dropping rules in the '60s," said Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C. At some campuses students themselves, desiring quiet and privacy, have prompted visitation rules. The State University of New York at Stony Brook, for one, limited access to the dorms after a student was raped in her room. Athprc rifpH nrnrvprtu riohfc run thp Hryrm cry we set up the guidelines," said Boston University spokesman Scott Edwards. Cal State- Los Angeles administrators have yet to explain why they took more control over what gets printed in thecampus paper, though one lawsuit-eontendsit*s To stop the paper from compromising the school's fight to avoid paying damages for a student who died in a campus building.