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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.
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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.
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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
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:roops on carrpus Wednesday.
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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.
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nputer Science Sophomore T.J. Horan tal'armer
temperatures and reads by an oper
hall.
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in our commencement ceremony,"he said.
"We also appreciate the fact that the telecast
will include recognition of each indiviHlltl
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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
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Assistant News Edi1
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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
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receive at least three guest tickets each, a
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we could offer a fourth guest ticket for a c:
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Panamanian invasion and the war "This wa
cussed during a visit by the U.S. short month
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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
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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
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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