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Student Association. J*m Hefley, USC student
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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
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is the longested
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the event by the USC DePartment of Philosophy Chai
ation in Detroit crow(* pro-choice demonstrators at the
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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
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leaders addresses prospective USC students and their
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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
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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