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-^Genesis \ | Sports events highlight weekend p.ae7j W Play brings special effects, I 1 new-age music to Longstreet I i ygq ITlUSiC StUd?ntS fOIIII OtChfeSlr^a p 4| on exclusive contracts The Gamecock Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Volume 82, No. 77 The University of South Carolina Friday, April 6, 1990 BRIEFLY IN THE NEWS Czech official wants country split FKAUUE, Czechoslovakia ? Czechoslovak Vice Premier Jan Camogursky said in an interview published Thursday that he wants his republic of Slovakia to eventually become an independent nation. "Europe is headed towards integration," Carnogursky said in comments to the trade union daily Prace. "When it becomes a reality one day, we would like to join it as an independent subject." Asked what he thought of Slovak independence, Carnogursky avoided a direct answer, suggesting that extremely close economic ties make it virtually impossible for the two republics to separate immediately. 3 teenagers die in crack house DETROIT ? Five people, including three teen-agers, were found shot to death inside a suspected crack house, and a sixth was critically wounded, the police and witnesses said. The shootings occurred about 11 p.m. Wednesday, said police Deputy Chief James Younger. He said police called to the scene found the six. Four of the victims, ages 15, 16, 20 and 32, were dead at the scene, said Officer John Leavens, a police spokesman. Another in his late teens died at Detroit Receiving Hospital, where a sixth victim was in critical condition this morning, Leavens said. Cocaine babies keep problems CHARLESTON ? Problems do not disappear in the few months after b?rth for the estimated 375,000 babies born nationwide with cocaine in their systems, a researcher told health professionals Thursday. The so-called cocaine babies generally have lasting neurological defects, which can lead to problems with learning, language skills and hyperactivity as they reach the ages of 3 to 5, Dr. Dan Griffith said. Military colleges criticized again DAHLONEGA, Ga. ? Armed with the 1964 Civil Rights Act and charges of sex discrimination, the U.S. Department of Justice is assaulting the all-male bastions of two Southern military colleges. As a result, officials at Virginia Military Institute and The Citadel may want to take a lesson from the only other state-funded senior military college recognized by the Department of Defense, North Georgia College in Dahlonega. Mil 111 LH Today, mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and possibly thunderstorms. Highs in the middle 70s. Tonight, 70 percent ' chance of showers with lows in the upper 30s. Saturday, sunny and cool with highs in the lower 60s. Compiled from wire reports j 1 Koger Ce By ROBERT THOMAS Editor in Chief In the wake of a $300,000 inaugural year deficit, the Koger Center for the Arts has had to pass up several big, profitable productions similar arts faciltics in the South have scheduled Because of financial penalities and scheduling, the center has not been able to schedule two of the most successful Broadway touring musicals in the country, Cats and Les Miserables. MmAv OvPnc AnHitrvnnm r\\\Kw I Kn i nwuuj V/*VIIJ XlUUllUliUlll) UY*I IJ J UiV/ city of Charlotte, is expected to turn a profit this year as it has done for the past several, auditorium director Hubert McLendon said. "I have had a fantastic year with my Broadway series. We are more or less happy," McLendon said. The big Broadway theater money makers Phone cards make trouble for students By NANCY LEHMAN Staff Writer Phone problems resulting from USC's change in long distance ser vices from AT&T to Telecom USA last Friday should be solved, said Gerald Stover, USC director of communication and business. When the operator gave Stepheny Moskos, an hotel, restaurant and tourism sophomore, the AT&T operator code, it didn't work. "They told me to go off campus," she said. "I shouldn't have to go off campus to use the phone." The reason for this problem is that about five percent of the people with AT&T calling cards have numbers that are in a private database and other long distance carriers can't charge services to these cards, said Mark Bradley, USC communications manager. "We didn't know this until after we cut the service," he said. The 95% with regular calling cards should have had no problem. Bradley said USC made arrangements with AT&T to develop software to allow people whose _ cards are in the private database to U3y access AT&T operators. This is a Qor "short-term fix," he said. AT&T an(j ^ dence See Telephone page 2 S.C. ETV to b From staff reports Undergraduate commencement ceremonies at USC will be carried live by South Carolina Educational Television from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. May 12. "We are very pleased that S.C. ETV has been able to make arrangements to broadcast the ceremony live," said Dennis Pruitt, vice president and dean of Student Affairs. "We appreciate this public service that allows all South Carolinians to participate ft S W** $ - t^t| - k S\ ... -? ' Bit ilfe IL) y mk ^bE^h Gen. Carl Vuono, the U.S. Army's chief :roops on carrpus Wednesday. nter turns "Sometimes the location on o bring things in." for Charlotte's auditorium and auditoriums in Knoxville and Nashville, Tenn. and Huntsville, Ala. have been musicals such as Cats or Les Miserables. The two musicals sold out for eight performances each this winter in Charlotte. Cats was on its second tour in the city after sold-out 1988 performances there, he said. Koger# Center Director Ron Pearson said there were three days reserved for Cats to come to Columbia this past January, but the penalities were too great for the center to allow the musical to come. 'light Savings nputer Science Sophomore T.J. Horan tal'armer temperatures and reads by an oper hall. roadcast undei in our commencement ceremony,"he said. "We also appreciate the fact that the telecast will include recognition of each indiviHlltl rrroH ll Qto OO tKn*/ rnoniuA " viuui ^iuuuuiv uo liivj1 I^VVIVV/ LIIL11 UL^ll/L. The decision was made to carry the ceremony live because President George Bush is delivering the commencement address, according to S.C. ETV officials. Although the university announced in February that graduating students likely would By LUCY Assistant News Edi1 The reductions ( army's role in the i 011 drugs were dis Army chief of stafi iH the future of the ; cadets at USC. .,v Si Chief of staff G j ductions would aff< " " entering the service & $ I "We're going to five year period of gradually and balar flow of new office HflKL * \ officers, after they ^Hp|n| commission, can r - ^li' said while speaking 'If includes cadets fro HrS an<^^orr*sco"e^es time such a high le1 "There are a lot the number one gu) History junior E( by Vuono's speech. Renee^eyerThelSamecock ?WUh aU ^ cu, Of Staff, visited ROTC tarn for him to con tion," he said. down top ur calendar hampers our ability to Ron Pearson Koger Center Director The Koger Center's penalities would come from the musical's move from Nashville to Jacksonville, Fla. that week. By having the musical stop in Columbia on its way to Florida, it would be limited in "the number of performances they could do that week." "Sometimes the location on our calendar hampers our ability to bring things in," Pearson said about the musical Les Miscrables looking at coming to Columbia. On the dates the Tony-award winning musical would have been able to come to Columbia, a community group had already booked Sei obi for By LUCY Assistant h "Ass-ki t m Cocks," "i ? - KMH Cocks" an< i of the US< fine for th< bill passed obscene bu The bill, would prol scciic wun determined political 01 community functions o Kirsh sa H|| bill, that h f I volving his P 1 "This pa behind a c had an obs He can rea< s to me wher | words meai "There's Deborah Ryan/The Gamecock ?you can't close ces advantage of longer days diving bch window in DeSaussare resi- ccuUVl rgraduate comr receive at least three guest tickets each, a final decision about tickets cannot be made d until the Secret Service determines to what li extent seating will be restricted in the sec- u tion behind the stage. g "We do not have a definitive answer, but tl if appropriate arrangements can be made, h, we could offer a fourth guest ticket for a c: total of five tickets to each graduate," he w said. n< chief of staff dis Despite b [or said that th )f funding for the U.S. Army, the team. Panamanian invasion and the war "This wa cussed during a visit by the U.S. short month f Wednesday when he spoke about Cause," he i irmy in the '90s to Army ROTC Just Caus to oust Presi en. Carl Vuono said the Army re- He talked jet the flow of officers leaving and mcnts needc "We had shape it (the army) over about a pro-Noriega time so we can take the reductions objectives t ice how we make them, both in the dictator, and :rs coming in. . .and to insure that He told tl have reached the 20-ycar mark of U.S. interest etire with their full pav." Vuono "Wp hnvp ; to the Gamecock Battalion, which not have the m USC, Francis Marion, Benedict the defense limelight of )usty Owens said there has been an dangers in tl 3 since 1982, but this is the first "Because yel official has chosen to visit. stability thai of generals in the army, but this is we have seei he said. "As we 1 idie Murphy said he was reassured third-world -v tanks, a gres backs in the army, it's real impor- weapons ant le down and give us some inspira musicals the hall. Pearson did say, however, the center has been able to schedule other popular Broadway plays like Me and My Girl and Driving Miss Daisy. The Kogcr Center is now looking at trying to gel Les Miserables to come to the city for the 1990-91 season. That might also be the season the musical permits halfweek stops in a city rather than week-long engagements, which smaller markets, like Columbia, might not be able to afford. The Van Bruan Civic Center, owned by the city of Huntsvillc, Ala., a city of 175,000, docs not turn a profit but had Cats performed six times on two different slops See Koger page 2 aate passes scenity law stickers SOTO lews Editor eking Chicken," "You Can't Lick Our cmson's Little Pussies Can't- Lick Our i "Damn Right I'm a Gamecock" are some C bumper stickers that-may cause a S200 Mr owners if Gov. Carroll Campbell signs a 1 by the Legislature Wednesday that bans mpcr stickers from cars and trucks, sponsored by Rep. Herbert Kirsh, D-York, libit any dccal, sticker or emblem with obis or photographs. The material would be obscene if they have no "literary, artistic, r scientific value", and, if determined by - standards, depict "sexual acts, excretory r parts of the human body." id in March 1989, when he introduced the c sponsored it because of an incident in6-year-old grandson. isl fall we were ridine. and we Dulled un ar or truck, I can't remember which, that ccne sticker on it. He's a smart little boy. j, and he asked me what it meant. That got 1 a 6-year-old has to ask what those kind of i," he said. no choice in not seeing these things," he your eyes. They're right there when you're ind someone." 2 Director of the S.C. Civil Liberties Union See Obscenity page 2 nencement In addition to seating for graduating stucnts and their guests, USC will provide mited seating for the press, as well as the sual 180 scats each for faculty and special ucsts. Student Affairs will distribute tickets for ic May 12 ceremony at the end of April to ive adequate ume lor reallocation of any ctra tickets. A computerized lottery system ill be used to redistribute tickets not :cdcd by graduating students. cusses future udget cuts and reductions in forces, Vuono e group of cadets was joining a winning s demonstrated so successfully just three s ago in an operation called Operation Just said. ;e was the December invasion of Panama ident Manuel Noriega. I extensively on the invasion and the eled for success during the mission, to attack with overwhelming force, attack forces in one mass move, seize tactical hroughout the country and take down a 1 that is exactly what we did," he said. he cadets that the army existed to defend s in a world of changes, i to keep our guard up," he said. "We do ; luxury, those of us who are charged with of the country, of basking in the so-called saying 'peace is here and there will be no te world.' if you look at Europe, you look at the int occurs when great empires break up as n in the Soviet Union, ook elsewhere and we look at so-called countries, you see a great number of it number of artillery, the use of chemical 1 so-called low intensity conflict; you see See Army page 2