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? ? MM " 1 ' " " ' J ^ AtjHo^o^pmJs | Soccer classic comes to USC page9 The Gamecock t Eighty-two Years of Collegiate Journalism v5iaiir;NOi - The University of South Carolina Friday, October 26, 1990| t BRIEFLY jjjlN THE NEWS Right wing victoriou in Pakistan election ISLAMABAD, Pakistan A right-wing coalition scored landslide victory over forme Prime Minister Benazir Bhutt Thursday, likely setting Paki; tan's struggling democracy on more conservative, Islami ; course. Bhutto, who claims her Augu: dismissal was a "constitution: coup," refused to concede the de feat of her center-left Pakista People's Party in Wednesday' parliamentary election. She accused the army-backe< caretaker government of large scale vote rigging, a charge th: 1 may be difficult to prove. In the final vote count, almoi 24 hours after polls closec ; Bhutto's Pakistan People's Part won only 45 of the 216 pai liamentary races, to 105 for he 1 opponents. October bad month for fusion scientists SALT LAKE CITY ? Stat officials prepared to review th controversial "cold fusion" re search program as one of the tw scientists involved said angril they would miss the meeting be cause he had learned it onl hours before. "I'm infuriated," said Martii Fleischmann, a scientist at th National Cold Fusion Institute a the University of Utah. "The have known for ages that w would not be available in Oc tober." Fleischmann spoke fron his native England, where he i receiving medical treatment. 11 to stand trial on cocaine charges The federal government wil put 11 remaining defendants o trial simultaneously Monday oi charges stemming from the "Op eration Avalanche" drug bust. In all, 17 charged in the druj investigation have pleaded guilt; in North and South Carolina. / total of 23 people were indictet in Charlotte in connection witl the drug investigation. Federal investigators say thi drug ring shipped $20 millioi worth of cocaine into North am South Carolina and distribute* the drugs in the two states, Geor gia and Florida between 198! and the spring of this year. USC student free unvi uuaiii^c ui uc<ii JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Two Floridians, including a Uni versity of South Carolina studen made the final leg of their joui ney home Thursday after bein held for more than two months i Iraq and Kuwait. USC student Kenneth Charle Grose Jr., 22, of Jacksonville an John Charlton, 19, also of Jack sonville were among nine hos tages flying into Washingtor D.C. later Thursday after spend ing their first night of freedom ii London. In the Wednesday issue of Tht Gamecock, Leon Spencer's name was misspelled. The Gamecock regrets the error. Compiled from wire reports Month-long de Dorms I By JILL JAUCH g Staff Writer After more than a month of deliberatioi the housing office has decided to close tf - majority of the residence halls for Thank: a giving Break. it The housing office will charge studen o approximately $10 for each night they sta 5- in the rooms over Thanksgiving, a "We're going to open up (unoccupiet c spaces in the Towers that will accomoda about 40 students," said Jim McMahon, d st rector of Resident Student Development, il Funding I. ; for queen ? continues v By GORDON MANTLER Staff Writer ;r The controversial bill calling for the end of funding for the HomeI coming Queen election was narrowly voted down, 13 to 11, by the Student Senate. The bill, which was debated for more than an hour on the senate floor Wednesday, was first introe duced two weeks ago by Sen. Rae jan Shah, because the idea behind the election of a queen "is just not 0 working," he said. y "We should stop funding the Homecoming Queen part through j y student activity fees ... because it is not appropriate," Shah said. n "There is a lot of sentiment within ' e the student body that it (the elec- gl lt tion) is sexist." y Shah said many other universi- W e ties comparable to USC, including Duke University, University of 11 Tennessee and the University of s North Carolina at Chapel Hill, do not fund a Homecoming Queen I election through student activity fees. "The election is sexist. It is a bad tradition," Student Government Vice President Todd Weiss [1 said. "Take away the funding, n* maybe they (the students and n alumni) will realize that the Unii versity of South Carolina Student Bi Senate is stating that the election is I 1 Th( f See HOMECOMING page 2 ! Lieutenant 2 e Theodore, McMaster n i discuss criticisms, flaws i - By JAMESON GREINER 3 Staff Writer A televised debate was held Tuesday between the two candidates for lieutenant governor to be elected on Nov. 6. Incumbent Nick Theodore and former U.S. Attorney for South Carolina Henry 7 McMaster's debate focused on criticisms [" and flaws of each other. , "The way the good old boys have operated so long is by squeezing money out g of the lobbyists, as Mr. Theodore has n done, writing letters asking for $1,000, and putting the money out into the streets," McMaster said. "I think that has -s got to stop." d Theodore countered that McMaster's > father was a lobbyist and quoted a letter Sexually transi " By CASEY MUNN ally; Staff Writer imp'a I "Love, Lust and Low Risk: Al- causi cohol and STDs" was the subject to in< of a talk given Thursday by Dr. Tu James Turner, director of the they ; Thomson Student Health Center. from The talk was given in conjunc- subs : tion with Alcohol and Drug them Awareness Week, held Oct. 20-26. Th "We are seeing an epidemic of are h J STDs in college students nation- warts liberation ends ; to close Thp r>rr>h1 r?m nf n/Vir*ro tr\ hnnoo ctnHpntc * ??v |/IV/U1VII1 v/t TT1IV1V iU 11V/UJV J LUUV11LO _ over Thanksgiving Break arose when the n, football schedule changed to include a naie tionally televised game between USC and s- West Virginia on Thanksgiving Day. The dormitories normally close over the ts holidays, but officials at the housing office ty considered keeping the halls open to house students who wanted to stay for the game, i) Housing officials and the Residence Hall te Association examined many issues before i- making the choice to close the halls. They first had to determine the amount of stu rrr rrench sophomore Karen Danke does her bes 3 temperature was about 48 degrees most of overnor candid from McMaster asking political action c committees for money during a different U campaign. C "My opponent is a part of the good old boy system," Theodore said. "He was ap- $ pointed to the only office he has held." T McMaster proposed several ways he f< wanted to get rid of the "good old boy system." He wants a 12-year limit on of- N tice terms, an independent prosecutor anu n expansion of the authority of the state grand jury. c McMaster said he also wanted to eli- u minate cash contributions, not allow contributions from lobbyists and eliminate the legislature retirement program. g "I think we need to get back to the day g when we had citizen legislators part-time p to do the business of the state and not go 7 up there and live off the people for the _ rest of their lives," McMaster said. Much of the discussion between the nitted disease ep Turner said. "Judgment is skin contact fro lired by drugs and alcohol, face to an unir ing the risk of getting an STD said, crease." Herpes most imer said most students know two types of v should protect themselves and genital infei STDs, but they get drunk and of herpes are equently do not protect stress, fatigue ai selves. pes virus is al ie three most common STDs whether or not < erpes, chlamydia and venereal tions are present i. All three are transmitted by Chlam> for Thai dents interested in staying for the game. A telephone survey of 400 students c< ducted by the Division of Student Affc indicated a fair response toward many px pie wanting to stay, McMahahon said. However, the response indicated fr< members of RHA and other students c fered from the survey results. Many peo felt that students would not remain on ca pus for their vacation. "I don't think anyone is going to s here for Thanksgiving because they want go home to see their family and friends sI I wc % --h: | , \ i Mi Wi A( UH the J JM vo , |BM sai / - - S ^ Cat do life * ? in Renee Meyer/The Gamecock jc^ sei >t to keep warm on her way to class. Thursday afternoon. on 1 fin lates debate ? m< COI andidates involved ethics and ethics tws because of the recent scandals in the ieneral Assembly. a.m McMaster said Theodore had spent U01 11,550 to bring people out to vote, and on "heodore was giving out "street money" N )r voters. a oni "I'm so disgusted with the system," IcMaster said. "This kind of corruption re!1 as got to stop in South Carolina." t*! j ~ l ~ 11 a thc i iicuuuic cnaiiciigcu mciviasaci s laim by asking why he did not attempt ) stop the corruption when he was the ^ J.S. attorney for South Carolina. aa "If I had any information the thing was oing on while I was U.S. attorney, I su) uarantee you there would be some peo- jn >le in jail today," McMaster said. "Nick sk Tieodore, why didn't you come tell me? See DEBATE page 2 idemic hits coll m an infected sur- same method as the 1 lfected surface, he is the most common fertility in women. S often appears as chlamydia include in iruses: cold sores burning with urinatioi ctions. Recurrences can also cause arthriti often caused by Inflammatory Diseas< id illness. The her- ally, chlamydia is the Iways contagious, STD, Turner said. :old sores or infec- The most common t on the skin. ereal warts, also tra .nitted in the skin contact. The ve ..r r .,M...y,v , ijM.;.i , jfmmirmmi i i-^ijifiriyi; vraiiwiri; i nksgiving freshman marketing major Candy Grow )n- said. "The game isn't going to make people want to stay, since it's going to be televised anyway." The large cost involved in keeping the 5m dorms open was also considered, lif- 'To any significant number of facilple ities open few five days when they could be m- completely shut down is just an extraordinary expense," McMahon said, lay The housing office will fund the cost of to See Thanksgiving page 2 Federal bill night affect lid recipients MARCUS SESSIONS aff Writer Students receiving federal financial aid might have do volunteer work if a national service bill is >rked out in the current session of Congress. The U.S. Senate passed a version of the bill in arch, called the National and Community Service :t of 1990, that would give students vouchers in ren for volunteer work. The House of Representatives passed a version of ' bill in September that would give schools and col;es up to $100 million next year to set up student lunteer programs. "The bill came out of conference a few days ago," d Michael Sherradan, an associate social work pro;sor at Washington University in St. Louis. "Senator (Ted) Kennedy had met with the White >use during this process, so there's every indication 5 White House plans to sign the bill, so right now it esn't look too promising," Sherradan said. Steve Beckham, director of federal relations for the >C system, said the bill is waiting to be signed by 5 president He said it is hard to tell for certain, but right now it es not look as if the compromise version of the bill going to be vetoed by the president. Selena Dong, the legislative director of the United ites Student Association, said that her group opsed an original form of the bill introduced in Consss in 1989. "It would have done away with all need-based fincial aid programs and instituted instead a program which the only way you could get money for col;e was if you gave two years of your life to military vice or community service," Dong said. Dong said their opposition to the bill is now based taking away the premise of pure need for federal ancial aid. "We're not opposed to students committing themves to national service at all," Dong said. "We're ;t opposed to programs that manipulate students by inipulating how financial aid is carried out in this untry." rhis bill may be in response to the ever-growing ount of defaults on student loans. The Aug. 6 edin of U.S. News and World Report said that defaults student loans reached $2 billion last year. In fact, the senate version of the bill, entitled the tional and Community Service Act ot lyyu, lists 5 of its purposes is to "enable young Americans to nove barriers to such services that have been comtted by high education costs, loan indebtedness and i cost of housing," Dong said. USSA's reservations are now about the parts of the 1 concerning exclusion of students involved in lgs in any way or those not registering for the draft, wording to Dong. "We certainly think it's not good for people who ffer from drug addictions to have roadblocks placed their way if what they're trying to do is learn some ills and open up opportunities for themselves," >ng said. See BILL page 2 eges, doctor says lerpes virus, virus is not the same virus as corncause of in- mon warts that are present on the ymptoms of hands or feet, fections and Symptoms of venereal warts are i. The virus painless growths in genital areas, s and Pelvic Venereal warts can also cause cer;. Addition- vical cancer, only curable Turner pointed out that STDs can be prevented by abstinence, STD is ven- having a life-long partner, using nsmitted by barrier contraceptives and avoiding mereal wart alcohol and drugs.