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> USC medical researchers > Liberals not bad, > Brooks entertains > Gamecocks fall to fC I wasted mv Saturday, Hi receive grant, page 2 page 3 Columbia fans, arch-rival, page 7 1# }/ page 4 Clemson defensive tackle Brentson Buckner SGAMECOCKl Volume 84, No. 44 University of South Carolina Monday, November 25, 1991 m WF M ' fl I aHHL H ft*. '* $?y jk I i!* j ml llll The Clemson Tiger mascot taunts his of cocks Saturday, 41-24. Merchai Five Points festival is under scrutiny By J.T. WAGENHEIM Staff Writer The Five Points Merchants Association said Thursday they are being singled out by Columbia Police Chief Charles Austin for the underage drinking problem, especially after this year's Halloween celebration. Merchants also seemed agitated at The State wnen tney ran a story witn tne neaanne "Alcohol soaked Halloween festival, chief says." They felt the story in The State following the festivities was "too one-sided." Austin wrote a memo to City Manager Miles Hadley which addressed the problems of having alcohol at such nighttime activities. Austin contended that "festival organizers were intoxicated," and that "young people drank freely in the streets." The merchants maintained no festival coordi9HHHH I Bh In the World... British Conservative party members launched a scathing counterattack against former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Saturday after she criticized Prime Minister John Major's government's stand on Europe. Former Cabinet member Norman Fowler, a close political ally of Major's, declared that Thatcher's remarks could cost the Tories the next national election. Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia announced Saturday that his royalist party would form a coalition government with the current Vietnamesebacked Cambodian regime, a move that would solidify the former monarch's authority at the expense of Khmer Rouge. 1 Saturday's announcement was not a complete surprise, but it did heighten concern that a month-old United Nations peace treaty for Cambodia could be in danger of unraveling. Hf: mmr ^ ^ jgs***** HH H^b 1 flKy^ H 1hh&.''JBi 1 Si \? " 'V. ^ I Greg Rickabaugh/The Gamecock jponents as the Tiger football team thumped the Gameits debate < nators were intoxicated during any part of the dent whic celebration. parently d "The organizers of the festival were not Austin drunk. They were acting responsibly. If anyone night of tl was drunk, I would like to know who," said Mercht Joseph Azar, festival organizer. Burts said Austin also addressed other events which he gardless.' felt made the Halloween festival a safety disas- what they ter. He said "people urinated and defecated in Mercha yards, and properties were abused." underage He also said a complaint was made to the po- port from lice department about a young man and woman cation anc "making love" in the backyard of an elderly cess to th( couple's home. J Anothe "I have to look beyond the festivities and into , . the publics' safety. I have no ill will against anyone. But these residents do go through a lot Mercha of aggravation," he said. tin cited < Austin also recognized that twelve off-dutv *n the stre officers were required to oversee the party celebn football ta which amounted in 108 hours in overtime pay. P City Councilman Jim Papadea said to The air" State immediately after the festival that he saw "h is ur underage drinking in the street and one car acci- rection," s; In the Nation... In th A Ghanian woman swallowed 13 Form balloons filled with $6,500 in $100 bills as Horry C< part of an unsuccessful effort to smuggle of takir $60,000 out of New York's Kennedy Air- Saturday port, officials said Friday. Jurors Vivien Mensah, 29, a resident alien liv- secretly r ing in Queens, is the first person ever taking $2 nabbed on charges of using body cavities mant Ro: to sneak currency out of the country, ac- through t cording to the U.S. Customs Service. g Sovi< An author with Tourette's syn- a visit tc drome, a disorder that causes its victims, mine so - _ " _ .1 .1 ? i i .. . r ?.* among otner tnings, to Diurt our proranines wuuuicu involuntarily, accused a radio station of paper ref discrimination for canceling a live inter- As ma view with him. pected to Adam Seligman of Berkeley, Calif., said at Charle he was supposed to appear on WRTA in sources t Altoona Wednesday morning, but disc leston. jockey Charlie Weston backed out of the Charlestc interview after he had an outburst at an in- they won terview before ?he meeting. missiles. Racial in on rise at By The Associated Press Racial intolerance is growing more acceptable on American college campuses, say Jewish and black experts on the subject who read the warning signs in college newspapers. An increasing number of campus incidents of racist violence, both physical and verbal, is one indicator of * the climate of intolerance, said Michael Nelson, national college coordinator for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "Over the course of the last few years, the unofficial license to become more racist on campus has been issued," Nelson said. This past year alone, he said, local NAACP chapters have become involved in disputes alleging racism in student newspaper articles and editorials at such in^ T ~ 1 TT 1L' n.U' .1 T T ? * sluuuuhs as juhiis nopians in naiumore, me university of South Carolina and Georgetown in Washington, D.C. At USC, a son of a state senator produced a football flier every week called "Gamecock Fever" with a character called "Cockwheat." A student senator, who was also a member of the NAACP, took offense to the character. Tige Watts, news editor of USC's student newspaper, The Gamecock, said some of the staff wrote columns defending the character. The columns touched off debate in letters to the editor. Experts say examples of racial intolerance appear in recent ads in the newspapers suggesting the Holocaust was fabricated, and increasing hate messages in student articles and even classified ads aimed at minorities. "We see a very disturbing trend evolving here," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. "Bigotry has come out in the open. Using code words like freedom of expression, they're trying to buy their way into legitimacy." A full-page ad claiming the Nazis didn't intend to exterminate the Jews and calling the accepted figure of 6 million Jewish deaths during World War II "an irreSDOnsihle exaPPP.ratinn" has run rprpnflv in stiirtpnf newspapers at Cornell, Duke, Michigan and Northwestern universities. drinking p h occurred because the driver was aprunk. said no DUI charges were made the le festival. tnts Association President Richard I, "young people are going to drink re rhey are young, rambunctious and do want to do." nts maintained they do not condone drinking and do not get enough sup* police when it comes to false identifi1 other attempts by minors to gain ac ;ir establishments. r merchant added, "I am doing my can't the police do theirs?" ? .g nts also said the problems which Ausdealing with public drunkeness, litter sets and mass chaos are a result from itions and events such as Gamecock Criminal justice J lilgating and the South Carolina State psychology senic evening. The Fi lfair to point the finger in just our di- plained that Coll aid one Five Point merchant. Points bars 1 te State... ler state Sen. Bud Long, a Not many turke junty Democrat, was found guilty iv8 thanks )or. ig a bribe by a federal jury What Amei said they were convinced by a (Multiple Resp nade videotape that showed Long ,800 from lobbyist and FBI infor- Health i n Cobb to push a gambling bill 1mm he legislature. |||, ;t missile experts are planning 1mm > Charleston next month to exa- Good H H me of the Navy's submarine- jQb8 lj| nuclear ballistic missiles, a newsx>rted Saturday. God pf| ny as 15 Soviet experts are ex- Wl i arrive in early or mid-December | " iston Air Force Base, government Food old The Post and Courier in CharThey then would travel to the The Wjk 1 >n Naval Weapons Station, where President *||| ild examine one or more Trident I _ ? . ? Source: Gallop PoH icidents ; colleges The ads were bought by Bradley Smith of Visalia, Calif., on behalf of the Committee for Open Debate of the Holocaust. Smith is affiliated with the Institute for Historical Review, an organization dedicated to proving Adolf Hitler's slaughter of Jews never occurred. Other schools rejected the ad, including the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Rutgers, Wisconsin, Georgetown and the University of California at Los Angeles and at Berkeley. But getting such ads into college newspapers is akin to David Duke's ability to gather national support for his unsuccessful bid for Louisiana governor, Cooper said. "As long as he was wearing the hood, he couldn't move forward in American society, so he put on the three-piece suit," Cooper said of the former Ku Klux Klan leader. "The bigots have learned the tricks of the trade and are masking that bigotry behind middle-ofthe-road political rhetoric." At Plymouth State College in New Hampshire, three editors of the student newspaper were put on probation this month after placing a classified ad for "three horny men" looking to "tag-team (a) young Afro-American virgin." The campus newspaper at the University of Cincinnati ran an ad offering a free pass to "Strictly Business," a movie with a mostly black cast, to anyone who would yell "ooga booga" at the newspaper's receptionist. Black students protested. For their part, student journalists defend their editorial judgment. c-vtiyuuc ai uio ouii miuws uidL cvciyuuug 111 uiai ad was-lies," said Neeraj Khemlani, editor-in-chief of the Cornell Daily Sun, which on Nov. 18 ran the ad challenging the Holocaust But, he said, "We're not going to protect our readers from offensive ideas." Khemlani is right, said Robert Peck, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. "The principle of freedom of speech has been not to restrict expression on the basis of its content," Peck said. "Newspapers refusing ads because they don't like the ideas he's expressing are turning their back on First Amendment principles." The best response to offensive speech is to counter it, and many student papers have done that, Peck said. problems : : fl^g C& .*Jt mat MB m ?i HHR File photo senior Brad Bannon received a friendly pat from ir Michelle Moore at Group Therapy one Thursday ve Points Merchants Association recently comjmbia Police Chief Charles Austin is singling out for the underage drinking problem. Thanksgiving ys have much to give thanks for. What do you have to leans Are Thankful For/ \ onses Were Given) jj Ryan Sims/The Gamecock