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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
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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
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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,
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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
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! Lieutenant 2
e Theodore, McMaster
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i discuss criticisms, flaws
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- 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
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_ 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
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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>
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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
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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
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"I'm so disgusted with the system,"
IcMaster said. "This kind of corruption re!1
as got to stop in South Carolina."
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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?
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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
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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.