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L_ I P Profile cpp CnlitQ intn Hi\/icinnc "USC's win over the ... Tar n wLv OUIIlO IlliU Ul VIolUI lo Paaeio Heels has got people thinking Protessor 1 y the Gamecocks basketball ? program is close to returning to QISGUSoGS the level of play ... during the semester at sea Board Selects new editor Page 2 FrankMcGcuoium^stDoug Aube Carolina Lfe page 6 J L/V/WIM pep fa/He page 9 The Gamecock Eighty-two Years of Collegiate Journalism Volume 83, No. 44 The University of South Carolina Wednesday, December 5, 1990 IttRIEFLYf". : IN THE NEWS : Chinese courts try counterrevolutionists BEIJING ? About a dozen major figures in last year's prodemocracy movement have been charged with counterrevolutionary crimes, and two have been nut on trial, a court official and a I ? ? ? Chinese source said Tuesday. Fan Shumi, a spokeswoman for the Beijing Intermediate Court, said two students, Zhang Ming and Zheng Xuguang, went on trial late last week but their sentences have yet to be handed down. The two students were among 21 on China's most-wanted list and were charged with propagating and inciting counterrevolution. "It was an open trial, but it's not over yet," Fan said, declining to give any other details. Police arrest AIDS protesters at center ATLANTA ? Police said they arrested 100 demonstrators when a protest against the federal Centers for Disease Control's definition of AIDS turned destructive. 'They were allowed to demonstrate until they began defacing CDC property," said DeKalb County police Maj. J. S. Wilson. "They painted the building. They ! beat on the windows and chained themselves to the front entry doors." The protesters contend the health agency's AIDS definition costs women health benefits by failing to include some gynecological conditions that afflict women infected with the AIDS virus. The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power said 700 people from 30 states participated in the demonstration. Police estimated the crowd at 300. Station to air drug dealer commercial A student-produced commercial which some adults said improperly portrayed blacks as drug dealers went back on television in the Midlands Tuesday after a change of one word. The commercial from drama students at Alcom Middle School in Columbia showed a jewelryclad black man giving dnigs to a boy. The advertisement had opened with a narrator saying, "This is what a drug dealer looks like on the outside." The middle school students, all of whom are black, had won a Midlands-area award for their commercial, which was sent to local television stations as a public service announcement Stations pulled the commercial from the airwaves last month after Columbia NAACP President Adell Adams QUestinnAH ?? i --viivu w iivw?v? it stereotyped blacks as drug dealers. City bids for tree, owner can match it CHARLESTON, S.C. ? The City of Charleston successfully bid to buy the ancient Angel Oak at a tax sale Tuesday. But the * man who owns the tree, reputed to be the oldest living thing east of the Rockies, has six months to match the bid and keep the oak. And S. E. "Speedy" Felkel said he will. Compiled from wire reports ^ TV videos Stud By AARON SHEININ Staff Writer Residents of McBryde Qu were receiving pornographic v eos over television airwav Wednesdav. Bryan Burgin, assistant to t director for housing services sa the transmission, which was co ing through on channel 14, was < iginating from somewhere on I ^gprfp I -m-.... IIMP Out of Business The Magik Market at Per 8 textbo( Companies want f for republished w< By The College Press Service VENTURA, Calif. ? Each students are faced with the : problem of economics. Should tl $40-$50 for a textbook ? one probably won't read entirely ? to the nearest Kinko's Copy C their $12 down and buy a copy torn anthology their professor piled for them and left be counter? While the economics might t calculate, the textbooks' publi claiming students who ch< cheaper course might be brei law. In a lawsuit unfolding in In City, eight major textbook publ asking the court to make Kir seemingly ubiquitous copy sh( Pre-regis TIPS disk drive re but other units pic By TIGE WATTS Staff Writer Pre-registration problems usi formation Processing System n down disk drive, temporarily shi Assistant Director of Adr George Ballington said the uni\ iencing problems with one disk "The disk drive will shut d abundance of those signing up drive is down, the unit is do\ have three other units to pick uj He said the problem began tinued ever since. He also said down for a total time of an houi Bob Askins from the Office "TIPS can process 60 calls at c to one unit. About 250 studem the process of pre-registration." Although a possibility of 3,7! had difficulties getting througl surprise Quad ent trai Quad by a student using a device known as a "rabbit." ad Tbis device, which is a new feaid ture on video cassette recorders, is rrr\r%A f/\r llCA K\7 O n ATlhfA C5 UtOTpTUU TT7T U CTJ ZTTI CTTTTTX/ household, Burgin said. The device he is set up in one room of the house, id, and it enables other members of m- the house to view the video from )r- other rooms without the need for he wires, Burgin said. | n ? ] idleton and Sumter streets has closed. >k publishei )o v on about 300 campuses nati * them unspecified damages fc Drks ing parts of their books. Lawyers finished their op ments in the trial in early Oc Constance Baker-Motley sait semester (jown a dccision this spi same old resu|t couid aher or si k S^n tively new practice of profes: that they "cust0m" ? an(j 0ften less e - or wa textbooks for their student efr-Pul class. o a cus- Publishers claim they onh has com- . hind the " "T"* ^ U,C"YWT" tor the copyrighted worl _ _ . authors. shcrs^re Thcy said Kinko's Servic 30se the violalcd the 1976 Copyright j iking the in^ dl0usands of anthologies "fo ally include newspaper and few York cles and texlbook chapter ishers are blishers claim lhey siphon iko's the thousands of dollars from the rp fixture a year campus market. itration fau mains faulty bclieves ?nly a J were unable to ? :k up slack An appointm help prevent an day. "We wanted I ing the Telephone In- ing the appointr night be because of a assure uppercla utting off one unit. the registration j ninistration Systems Ballington sa 'ersity has been exper- going around ci drive. problems, but w Askins said ; own due to the great registration bee; for classes. When the p.m. vn. However, we still ) the slack," he said. "We've hearc Monday and has con- try to register I the unit has been shut realize that TIP or less. 5:30 p.m.," he s of the Registrar, said "The best wa me time, with 15 calls lem is to just I Ls use one line during students on this there will be an 50 students might have which takes a ti to TIPS, Ballington Askins said. tismits ] He said residents of the Quad were able to view the broadcast because of the close proximity of the rooms. Joseph Azar of Upstairs Audio in Five Points said the device turns into its own transmitter, in essence making a small television station. He said the person responsible for the transmission is not in violation of regulations of the Federal ** y ' : ? ki 1 " * It in Julie Boucl s sue Kink onwide, pay Kinko's said it also is >r republish- authors' rights, but clain ing its anthology busine >ening argu- dents of inexpensive, tober. Judge room materials. 1 she would It could also cost Kin ing. ney, although officials low the rela- much, sors creating The New York-base^ expensive ? American Publishers, 1 s to use in the eight textbook comp refused to comment bee / want what is still pending, said spc rovaltv fees Piatt. ? J ? 'J Ics of their Kinko's officials, how to say. e Corp. has "The main value of K \ct by print- allow students access to ; that gener- material, including origii journal arti- minute materials," said c s. The pu- nications director Adrian hundreds of For example, student ;ir $2 billion ? Se Its arise , small percentage of these students jet through. ent schedule was created earlier to overload of the unit during any onp to help spread out the traffic by creatnent schedule. We also wanted to help ssmen they were the first priority in process," Askins said. irt "TTPQ ic \i/r?rHnrr Hpcnilp rnmnrc ilU) 1 U AO TTV/llVUlg UVJpibV 1 Ulliv/t J impus. We've only experienced minor e haven't shut down altogether." students might have had difficulty in ause TIPS is not accessible after 5:30 1 a lot of complaints from people that ;hrough TIPS at night Students must S only works between 8:30 a.m. and aid. y students can work through the probae patient. There are close to 26,000 campus and only 60 lines. Naturally, overload for the, computers to handle lot of time to sort and clean up," porno^ Communications Commission on unlicensed stations because the power level of the broadcast did not exceed the limits set by the FCC that would require a license to broadcast. Azar said the same rules apply to walkie-talkies and toys such as "Mr. Microphone." 'These all use the same principle of using the airwaves, but they Hopl to gi Pat gr From Staff Repor Dr. Steven N Hopkins Univen address at USC' p.m. Dec. 20 in ( The university ate degrees t< graduates fron mm its nine-campu system. In addi tion, the Colum bia campus wil award 662 gra ^ ^ uuaic utgisss one medical de grec and 22 la\ degrees. The uni tillon/TheGamecock versity's two year campuse will award 15 a s s o c i a t degrees. 7 ^ Muller will b awarded an hon orary doctor o humane letter ; concerned about degree, is further restrict- use nursing ) ss would rob stu- umbia atlorney t up-to-date class- aiso receive honi Muller served ko's a lot of mo- versity from \91 won't state how ins Hospital fro tive governmeni d Association of rently chairs which represents philanthropic or ianies in the case, ties among demc ause the outcome for many yea ikeswoman Judith guiding force in ber and chairm 'ever, have plenty Universities, fori ciation of Indep Linko's is that we director of the C a wide variety of Abdellah, wh< aal and up-to-the- U.S. Public .oiDorate commu- ? 1 * uwoiucu an iiuiu inaLFoss- In 1989, Abd ^ had classroom je COPY page 2 w m&'Jp&ttTi Sound of Music Dr. Richard F. Grunow, as* Eastmman School of Music ir music performance and mus He talked about teaching mus ;raphy don't put out enough power to require licensing," Azar said. He also said that although the person is not in violation of licensing laws, he might be in violation of laws concerning what f\me of transmissions can be made, namely, pornography. The FCC could not be reached See PORNOGRAPHY page 2 dns leader ve speech aduation Is luller, president emeritus of Johns >ity, will deliver the commencement s winter graduation ceremonies at 8 rarolina Coliseum. r expects to award 1,453 baccalaure1 SHli WrWM s h ? i I Wm ? n jg ? s v ftr s ' A 6 ' ^1 f e fl|^ e f s Steven Muller professor Dr. Faye Abdellah and Colind retired banker John Lumpkin will orary degrees. 1 as president of Johns Hopkins Uni'2-90 and as president of Johns Hopkm 1972-83. A specialist in comparat and international relations, he curthe 21st Century Foundation, a ganization dedicated to strengthening jcracies. rs,the German-born Muller has been a higher education, serving as a meman of the Association of American inding chairman of the National Assoendent Colleges and Universities and ouncil on Financial Aid to Education, a served as deputy surgeon general of Health Service from 1981-89, will be jrary doctor of humane letters degree, ellah received the prestigious AlliedSee SPEAKER page 3 ^?, . "? ?%! Renee Meyer/The Gamecock jociate professor of music at the i Rochester, New York, spoke to ic education majors last Friday, ic by sound and by imagery.