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'Cockaboosi
new twist fo
By The Associated Press
Twenty USC football fans have found i
to tailgating from their station wagons ar
to game time.
For $45,000 each, 20 fans purchas
designed garnet and black railroad caboo:
will debut this fall as the "Cockaboose R;
rail spur next to Williams-Brice Stadium.
"TTiis is the ultimate tailgating," busi
Robinson said.
In r\ r% ire Dr\Kino/\r? nr?/4 kin
in iww uap, ivuuniDuii aiiu uid pai uiv^i
ard, sold 20 of 22 cabooses they collecte
last two years. They are holding the rei
off the market.
The caboose concept grew from the su(
olina Park, the first condominium parking
side the stadium. There are now four fac
Gamecock fans lease or own parking spa*
access to clubhouses at costs ranging
$1,200 to more than $10,000 a year.
The cabooses are 45 feet long and 10 f
can accommodate 70 people or more insid
Author calls
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NEW YORK ? The academic the
world has hardly finished licking flaw
its wounds from Allan Bloom's ru- teac
naway best seller, The Closing of over
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Bloom's premise, which fit per- god
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the 1980s orchestrated hv former
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liam Bennett, held that all was Smit
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at U.S. colleges before the '60s. railed
Any talk of "the good old days" cause
simply doesn't jibe with the his- Gen
tory of higher education in this Rosei
country. were
The crisis afflicting America's By
campuses, writes Smith, is nothing initial
new. Nor, he admits, are his at Ha
criticisms. caus<
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id vans prior and sewer, electrical wiring,
a satellite dish for television:
;ed custom- Some caboose owners are
>es. The cars tubs and wooden decks on tl
ailroad" on a ditional cost, Robinson and 1
"We think it says a lot ab
nessman Ed versity of South Carolina," F
one to go out there and speni
', Carl How- they're really supporting the
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naming cars Robinson and Howard pc
caboose compares favorably
:cess of Car- at other stadiums, incluc
facility out- University,
ilities where
:es and have And, they said, owners ca
from about round for parties and other e
used as residences or for con
eet wide and Along with the caboose,
le and on the portion of the spur on which
college4 non
:olonial beginnings to this day, It occi
system has been fundamentally leges we
'ed, fostering in students and been, the
hers alike a leaden conformity many bel
creativity. schools h
nd in its obeisance to the great he calls
o?; 11 -J i Jorv, "
OUltllL-C, LUllCgC cuucauuu lias will, Iii^t
its direction ? and its soul. or teach(
I'm not optimistic about stray fror
imeal reforms at this stage," doxy of tl
h said in a telephone interview None o
1 his home in Santa Cruz, escapes S
e he writes a syndicated col- tenure sy<
on old age and is an emeritus ers Publij
essor at the University of research.
ornia-Santa Cruz. are intell
nith was the founding provost command
C-Santa Cruz and author of ^he ^ectu
irous historical works includ- unnatural
n eight-volume history of the rnitting k
id States. nonscienc
i said he was moved to write humanitie;
ig the Spirit after he learned bave sob
aspiring college teacher who wholly ur
st saw his career hopes de- viewed as
I by his academic judges be- Interesti
; he invoked the name of a communii
man historian, Eugen Teachers
tistock-Huessy, whose ideas sense of r
considered heretical. their stude
coincidence, Smith had been loftier inst
lly denied for graduate work Smith's
trvard forty years earlier be- the manne
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