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Jim Hefley talks about "Being gay isn't just what you do i life at use ? as president Ii7inc lVT/^ A A 4rkii??vinYv%Avif sexually ? it's how you think and of the Gay and Lesbian U^V-x WlIlS 111 IN lOUT 113.1110111 how you deal with other people." ? Student Association. J*m Hefley, USC student See Carolina Life, page 4 ^ "Student," page 4 The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Monday Volume 82, No. 37 University of South Carolina November 13, 1989 use stude to perform in Moscov By ELISABETH TANGUY Staff Writer The University of South Carolina' Theatre and Speech will represent the the Soviet Union in January. The first International College/Un Festival will be held in Moscow Jan the only American university invited the event "We're ecstatic about being selec American entry in the festival," the professor Jim Patterson said. "This that people across the country reco work we're doing here," he said. Fourteen different countries will p festival. Among them will be France, Britain, as well as several Eastern Eur "The festival will enable us to see is being done in other countries," Path The 12-member troop from USC \ Fantasticks! at the Moscow festival. 1 morous musical about romance and di inplnHAC mont/ Kit rnnrto on/^li oo iiiwuuvj "luiij uii du uga ouwi ao xij "It's Gonna Rain" and "It Depends Pay." Patterson will direct the play. USC is only allowed to bring 12 pe which includes a cast of eight, a mi designer, a stage manager and a direct Auditions for the play will start N< dent enrolled at any of the USC syste apply. "We hope to include students campuses, in order to represent the \ tern," Patterson said. The USC theatre and speech depari present a play symbolizing the Ameri in 20th century theatre. The play als< peal to people from different countri comedy proved to be the most adequat "We wanted to present a classic," P; a matter of fact, The Fantasticks! running musical in the world. It open at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in Ni is still being played there. USC was selected to participate in i International Amateur Theatre Associ; The LATA based its selection on the i of Alex Chrestopoulous, chairman of I division of the American College Thea "I came to USC last summer to dir cial Security, and I was very, very ir latent mere, cnrestopouious saia. "I felt USC would best represent tl at the Moscow theatre festival," he sai< Patterson said the Moscow festiva recognition to the whole theatre and ment, which has made significant proj five years. There are about 100 undergradua rolled in the department and 65 gradua "The world is changing very rapi said, "and the Soviet Union is a cour sisted change for so long. Finally, thi up, and this theatre festival is a sign mate. We're honored to be a part of it Minority 1 r\ I A panel of USC's black student :nts play . atreand speech is an indication * ^Bk 1 gnize what fine II' vill perform The JjUk I "\ [ ji pK >/ rhft rtlav ic a hn_ r! m aSk.8 '*" -. "'** r * isillusionment. It Jiyp^l r to Remember," f Mr *m*M: j wl-lu i. j ; on What You f JMM ople to Moscow, (Mm JMr% isical director, a m \JMm or. )v. 20. Any stu- MM | m campuses can vhole USC sys- i tment wanted to 1 can contribution I d needed to ap- Ira !< > . ics; the musical e form. jHMhMa* l * * ... t * itterson said. As is the longested 29 years ago * ew York, and it the event by the USC DePartment of Philosophy Chai ation in Detroit crow(* pro-choice demonstrators at the recommendation 1 the Southeastern # y sy /y rtt i ~y sj Is] 11 uc rcsuvai. l^U l/f/f W f f/t/C ect the play Sonpressed by the By jaye SIMMONS Staff Writer ie United States Leaders of the Columbus-America Discos 3- engaged in some rich conversation Thurscfc 1 brings offical the Belk Auditorium about the sunken tre speech depart- found off the coast of South Carolina jress in the past summer. 'The coins we found were minted in 18! te students en- lier as $50 pieces. Because of their anti te students. could be worth $10,000 to $15,000 a piece,' idly," Patterson terworth, expedition videographer and fo itry that has re- media arts instructor, said, ngs are opening of that new cli- USC's College of Applied Professiona all. sponsored the evening with two leaders of i i *m l i l aign scnooi stua * wBpicA leaders addresses prospective USC students and their i 3,1 ^ i*' D. i promote tion batt pro-abor Our opj pro-life, horted pi TEDDY LEPP/The Gamecock d^S^OU rman Nora Bell speaks to an enthusiastic j f State House Sunday. nters speak of off which found the S.S. Central America thi summer. /ery Group The S.S. Central America sank 200 miles ( ty night in coast of South Carolina in a hurricane in 18: asure they least three tons of gold and 400 crewmen wer this past So far, one ton of gold has been recovered. "Every two weeks, a shipment went from Cal >5 and ear- to the banks of New York," said Tommy Th( quity they director of the Columbus?America Discovery ( " Milt But- The search team built their own submersible rmer USC Nemo, and used it to search the ocean floor searched 14,000 square miles before finding the Thomson said. 1 Sciences Nemo is equipped with six cameras and four the group, lights on the outside of the vessel because the si ents experience 1 By JEFF Assistant] The s< gave mini and the glimpse c Carolir the Offic day-long such thinj sions, ho cess. Stut student o ?" wmmmm i 1 wmmmm high star South C and overa % helped ir ^JSSm * mcnt in tl tftitiSBtk f?ur perci KPW9 a signific lit """"" 1 coordinati ?L "Studei B involved aspect c university Godsha BH^glpP^^^^IIIS sions off Ml response dents and BHBBflflBflKMHBIII^H^HBHBI "We ha TEDDY LEPP/The Gamecock of the pa the progr parents at Carolina Tip-off Saturday. interest OOO-pltis rally r pro-choice D VENEZIA our choices," she said, adding a ter warning to pro-life politicians: "If thousand pro-choice advo- you vote pro-life, you will lose Hied at the State House your job." n conjunction with similar She then announced the forma rations across me nation uon 01 a new, non-pamsan group, onal Day to Support The South Carolina Voters for Choice. Choose Abortion." The group will support all proally, attended by a loud choice candidates in elections for ' banner-brandishing, sign- every level of state government, )ro-choice supporters, was she said. 1 by singer and actress Sen. John Matthews, DDeVito and included Orangeburg, who stood up to proby some of South Car- life pressures and kept a bill reirominent members of the quiring parental consent for minors iducation and law fields, from coming to vote* in the Senate, ie government. said, "The most fundamental right moral issues can be more we possess as a people in this state than reproduction or who is the right to regulate our own about a woman's body," bodies." jpartment of Philosophy fn the climax of the day's events n Nora Bell said. "Propo- Rep. Maggie Glover, D-Florence, legal abortions are both brought the crowd to its feet in a :e and pro-life," she said Jessie Jackson-like speech. ;emantics of the abortion "It would be better today to be a Pro-lifers are simply anti- United States flag, a symbol, than ind in a democratic coun- a woman," she said. "They are s intolerable." willing to convene a special sesHarriet Keyserling, D- sion of Congress to stop flag burn, also spoke on how the ing, but they think that we don't factions use vocabulary to have the good sense to make decitheir cause. "We have to sions about our own bodies." ie vocabulary of the abor- She also chastised pro-life le," she said. "We are not groups and the Ronald Reagan adtion, we are pro-choice, ministration; which she accused of jonents call themselves caring more about children before, out we are more pro-me rainer man alter, iney are Dorn. y are because our society "They are doing a lot more talkvhen unwanted babies be- ing about life then they are doing inwanted and abused anything about it," she said. In her final remarks, she tey Vicki Eslinger ex- whipped up crowd sentiment by ro-choice supporters to get saying, "There are more women and vote pro-life candi- than men in the United States, so t of office. "We must get ??1?????????? iliticians who will restrict See Rally page 2 '-coast expedition s past sible has to operate in total darkness at a depth of two miles. A backhoe and two mechanical arms, each haviff the ing 16 elbows and an extention of 12 feet, enable the 57. At crew to manipulate the wreckage and gather the e lost, treasures. One of the most prized findings was a 62-pound ifornia gold bar. "Since it is the largest gold bar ever found, it >mson, could be worth 10 times its weight in gold, much like jroup. one 10 carat diamond is worth more than 10 one carat vessel, diamonds," Butterworth said. ?VIf~ ?1M 1 a .a a .a a _ a j n . . wc wnen asicea exactly wnere tne snip is locatea, cutship," terworth replied, "I can't tell you that." strobe jbmer- See TREASURE page 2 ife at Carolina WILSON Many stated that it really changed News Editor their image of USC," she said, ^cond Carolina Tip-off Prospective students agreed Carority high school students olina Tip-off did help peak their ir parents a realistic interest and changed their miscon if life at USC Saturday. ceptions about the school, la Tip-off, sponsored by "Carolina Tip-off has helped me e of Admissions, was a a lot. I learned more about the program that focused on school and that has helped me gs as financial aid, admis- make my decision of where to atusing and academic sue- tend school. I thought Carolina lent panels also discussed was not a very good place for rganizations, criteria, the black students. I learned differently idards and reputation of today," Connie Rice, a Lower arolina Honors College Richland High senior, said, ill campus life at USC. "The best part about the progyear, Carolina Tip-off ram was the campus tour by the icrease the black enroll- Minority Assistance Peer counse!ie freshman class by over lors. I live here in Columbia, but I snt. The program has had saw things on campus today that I :ant impact. We plan to did not see before. I got to see doing it at least twice a how the students live. I thought ne Godshalk. admissions that when I go to college. I'd he r and Carolina Tip-off out there all by myself. I found out ar, said. there are a lot of counselors and nts seem to enjoy being black students that will help you if in the program," she said, you have problems," Lower Richk it is a very important land senior Kim Elliott said, if recruitment for the "At first, I said to myself, I live in Columbia, why would I want to ilk added that the admis- come Carolina? Where do the ice has gotten excellent black students fit in?" she said, from the prospective stu- "Today I saw the black leaders, their parents. and they changed my whole point ive evaluations, and most of view. The black students do irticipants indicated that ?????_ am helped enhance their in attending Carolina. See TIP-OFF page 2