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Bomb in discotheque
kills three people
: SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA,
Spain ? Six bombs exploded
in several cities in the
northwestern Galicia region before
dawn Thursday, including
one in a discotheque that killed
three people and injured 46, police
said.
. > A seventh bomb was defused.
Officials said the three killed
in the Santiago de Compostela
disco bombing were believed to
have been planting the device
when it went off.
No one was injured in the five
bombings, which targeted businesses
in another province,
Pontevedra, its Civil Governor
Jorge Parada told reporters.
Suspicious satellite
explodes after liftoff
. MOSCOW ? The Soviet Union's
most advanced booster, carrying
what an American specialist
believes was a Soviet spy
satellite, exploded seconds after
liftoff last week, the Soviet news
agency Tass said Thursday.
The blast nearly destroyed the
launch pad and may complicate
Soviet efforts to sell space hardware
to the West, analysts said.
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that a commission was investigating
the accident. The threesentence
dispatch did not identify
the payload or give any other details,
including why the accident
was not reported sooner.
Police charge woman
with abandonment
CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio ? A
woman sought on charges that
she abandoned her 13-month-old
daughter on a downtown street
has been arrested in Myrtle
Beach, authorities said.
Dawn S. Jones, 19, formerly
of Waverly, is charged with a felony
county of child endangering,
and misdemeanor counts of
child endangering and abandonment,
Circleville police officer
Don Barton said.
Chillicothe police received a
tip and passed the information to
Circleville police, who used it to
locate Jones. She ottered no resistance
when Myrtle Beach police
arrested her at about 5:30
p.m. Wednesday, Barton said. (
Three people missing 5
after dams overflow
Three people are believed to
have been swept away in Kershaw
County when the dam
failed due to heavy thunderstorms,
officials said.
George Ballentine, the chief of
Dam Safety with the South Carolina
Land Resources Commission,
went to the scene early '
Thursday and was told by wit- \
nesses that three people were missing
following the dam failure
Wednesday night. r
Ballentine said that the report I
could not be confirmed. f
South Carolinians fled to shel- t
ters, officials closely watched r
dams, drivers were warned to f
stay off the road and the
Emergency Preparedness Divi- 1
sion swung into action as the
state weathered torrential storms
that dumped as much as eleven
inches of rain in some counties j
and caused flooding.
Compiled from wire reports
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By MARCUS SESSION
Staff Writer
USC's College of Business Administration
announced Wednesday that AT&T's donation
of $1.2 million worth of equipment and software
put the college past its $6 million fundraising
goal.
The college's Campaign for Carolina Business,
a cooperative fundraising effort between
USC and the USC Business Partnership Foundation,
has raised $6.7 million so far in donations
and pledges.
' Private support a few years ago was considered
something that people considered for private
universities, not public universities," USC
Interim President Arthur Smith said. "Private
support has become a crucial margin of excellence
for public colleges and universities."
The donations will be used to provide faculty
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to drop in fall rush !
By PATRICK VILLEGAS f
Staff Writer t
Fraternity and sorority enrollment
dropped slightly during USC's fall rush, but r
the decline does not worry the Office of
3reek Life.
Rick Gant, coordinator of Greek Life, t<
>aid the decrease in enrollment of this s
Rains push
Cockfest to
later date A
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The USC homecoming pep
ally, Cockfest, has been postmnpH
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The 20th annual Cockfest will
?e held at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 2, the
light before the USC-Florida State
ootball game.
This year was to be the first
ime the queen was crowned at
Cockfest. However, the 1990
iomecoming Queen will be
rowned tonight at the Homecom- WKKtttk
ng Dance in the Russell House
lallroom, which begins at 9 p.m. AfriCc
on tour
See COCKFEST page 2
s donate
gets mor<
puter resources, library services and program
innovation and enhancement,
i AT&T's gift will be used to study computert
based voice and data communications between
on-campus systems, electronic mail tor faculty
and students, linkups to the mainframe and
world-wide data links.
Tom Persons, general manager of AT&T,
i said he expects this program to "become a
model for other colleges and universities."
The program will allow USC to reach out
further, according to James Kane, dean of the
College of Business Adminstration. "Eventually
the system will enable USC faculty and students
to communicate with their colleagues ar?ound
the United States and the world," he said.
Fellowships from the donations have already
been awarded to 10 faculty members in honor
of the early leaders of the USC Business Partnership
Foundation, established in 1969 to sup*
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These fellowships are not only to recognize
the faculty members' accomplishments but also
to lessen chances that faculty members might
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Faculty development has $3.6 million slated
for its use, with the other four programs receiving
a half million each. Ak
"We had a very successful program during
some very unusual times," said James Lindley, ISPr
the campaign's steering committee chairman.
"The success is the result of the effort of a f^rf^Se^SjrA
lot of people who are excited about the achieve- A
ments of the USC business school. So we have
gone over the top," Lindley said.
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crease because state revenues are right, accord- Julje Bouchi?onmie Gamecock
See COMPUTERS page 2 Tom Persons
Bj^HB Senate might
cfnn funrlincr
queen election
By GORDON MANTLER
Staff Writer
The election of the Homecoming Queen has faced
controversy all semester, prompting the Student Senate
to act.
On Wednesday, Senator Rajan Shah proposed a bill
HHH| to stop Student Government funding of the Homecoming
Queen election.
"The Homecoming Queen aspect is working against
i-JPr H us'" sa^- "*l *s caus^n8 a ?f racial disharJjf
f* 4*'.:"^- * mony among the students."
j I . fttm I I The bill further stated "The election of a queen
. $? *W 'y does not seem to serve any great purpose and ... the
general value of this service to the student body has
* H.diminished significantly over the course of the years."
^ ; I I "/ "It should not reflect negatively against any of the
1 | ||flSH women in the current election," Shah said.
Shah added an amendment to the bill that would
not prohibit the future Homecoming elections, as long
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Renee Meyer/The Gamecock A lengthy debate ensued after the reading of the
bill.
"We all have the same goal in mind, but different
louse Wednesday.
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s membership declines
t year, while fraternities are down 70 released until the end of the year, Jonathan
nbers. Brant, executive vice president of the Nan
recent years, fraternities and sororities tional Interfraternity Council in Indianapoe
been plagued by a negative image lis, believes membership is actually at an
blem, according to a recent article by all-time high, despite rumors of the decline.
College Press Service. "Our impression is that there are more
According to the article, University of men *n C0^eSe fraternities than ever bet-.
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jgon rroiessor Myron Kotnoari con
:ted a survey revealing that over the
rse of their college career, students be- This past year, 3,000 men joined fraternito
perceive fraternities and sororities in ties across the nation increasing the total
sgative manner. number of brothers to 98,000, according to
Uthough national numbers will not be Brant.
I Government controls
I African print, broadcast
1 Media figures talk
with USC students government 14 months ago. The
government has control of its
By BRUCE BOWER newspapers, television and radio
B Staff Writer stations.
Discussing the role of journal- "We had a bad experience
ists and the press over coffee and with freedom of the press in our
#. y doughnuts, media and political country," he said. "In the United
* figures from six African nations States, there is a freedom of the
Bj^gf met with USC students Tuesday. press and freedom of media but
Sudanese press officer Mo- no one misuses this freedom."
hamed Elfatih Ibrahim Saeed Pauline Mbangweta, a reporter
I said journalists in Sudan abused for the Zambia News Agency,
the freedom of the press in the writes on political, economic and
HfigB 1980s. current affairs at the national and
"The journalists in our country international level,
during democratic times misused "Reporters in America enjoy a
SJeGamecoek ^ freedom of the press because freedom of press, but to a certain
some journalists wrote accounts extent, we also have the same
a s op while touching on the national security
of the country," Saeed said. See JOURNALISTS page 2