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Volume 84, No. 51 University of South Carolina Monday, January 20, 1992
Thousands of students demonstrated
Sunday in the Uzbek
capital of Tashkent to
protest a police shooting. The
demonstrators claim six students
died and at least 30
were injured after police
opened fire Thursday to dis;
perse the students, who were
.protesting against rising
.prices.
Violence broke out at theaters
in at least eight states after
the premiere of the urban
film drama "Juice." One teenager
was killed and four other
people were wounded.
Although fights Friday
night involved theatergoers,
police said much of it was ranoom
violence that could
have occurred anywhere.
Chicago police Detective
Roland Paulnitsky said the
death of a 16-year-old girl
outside a theater showing
"Juice" resulted from a street
altercation between rival
gangs.
"This was not a result of
that movie," Paulnitsky said.
Thousands of protesters
showed their support Saturday
for legislation that would
severely restrict abortions.
Rep. David Beasley, RSociety
Hill, is the main sponsor
of The Human Life Protectoon
Act, which is before the
House Judiciary Committee.
The bill is co-sponsored by 23
other lawmakers.
The crowd, which law enforcement
officers estimated
to be about 6,000, began the
rally with a march from the
USC campus to the Capitol.
Clemson trustees Friday
approved a 7 percent average
rise in university housing fees
and a 5 percent average rise
in meal plan fees for the
1992-93 school year.
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The History Department is
sponsoring the Warwick Exchange,
a competition open to
all history majors, minors or
cognates.
Winners attend the University
of Warwick in Coventry,
England for the 1992-93
academic year.
Students will be able to
earn 30 credit hours, made up
of three, year-long courses of
10 hours each. Courses will be
taken on a pass/fail basis.
Voter
. Election
By GORDON MANTLER
News Editor
It's another election year and for
the next few months USC students
will be inundated with political
campaign posters, nanusnaKing,
speeches and other pleas for support
from USC, local, state and national
candidates.
Voter registration deadlines are
last approaching for the South Carolina
presidential primary March 7.
Eligible voters can register
through Feb. 5 at a county registration
office, or through Jan. 22 by
mail.
South Carolina residents must
register at a registration office in
the county in which they live, or
by mail. Registration forms can be
picked up at most public libraries
and other designated public locations,
said Garry Baum, a public
information officer with the state
Election Commission.
"We expect registration to increase
in this state, being it's a
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Bands formed a band to perform
Friday night for a basketball game
at a local orphanage.
Kappa Kappa Psi fraternity and
Tau Beta Sigma sorority, honorary
groups for collegiate band members,
played Gamecock spirit songs
for about 100 peole who turned
out to watch the Fighting Cougars
play the Long Cane Cavaliers.
The teams competed at Carolina
Children's Home gym and are part
of a basketball league from children's
homes around the city.
The teams are supported by
ticket sales and public donations.
Kappa Kappa Psi president Nick
Duvall said it was the First time the
organizations have played at one
of the orphanages' basketball
games.
For nine years the fraternity and
sorority have played at the annual
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presidential election year," Baum
said. "We've also noticed many
businesses and corporations are
putting on voter registration
drives."
There are 1,272,271 active registered
voters in South Carolina.
"Active" refers to people who have
participated in voting the past two
years.
About half of the state's
2,566,496 eligible voters are
active.
"We hope that when people do
register, they will not only vote for
presidential candidates, but also in
the state-wide primary," Baum
said.
The local, state and congressional
primary is June 9.
In addition to state and local
elections, USC Student Government
will be holding elections for
Lhe upcoming year.
Filing for USC Student Government
executive and senate offices
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p.m. in the Student Government
office in the Russell House.
Jan Wilson, USC election commissioner,
stressed that students
can not file through the mail.
"One of the stipulations is they ,
have to be in person," Wilson said.
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Carolina Children's Home
barbeque.
"We enjoy service projects like
these because it lets the kids know
that people on the outside care,"
Tau Beta Sigma president Jina
Moore said.
The band showed its enthusiasm
and who it was rooting for by
heckling the visiting Long Cane
Cavaliers during their free throws.
Moore said Friday night's performance
was a successful experiment
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ciatcd. The band is hoping to play
at future games, she added.
Sorority member Shenequa
Coles said, "Kids need to get involved
in a good activity like basketball,
and I'm glad we have a
chance to encourage it."
Moore said the band is willing
to perform for worthy causes and
suggested contacting the USC
band for information about arranging
a performance.
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eligible to vote. 1,272,271 are regi
voters.
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"We won't accept any applications
in the mail."
Potential candidates must bring
an academic certification from Peligru
to prove they're in good
standing in their college, she said.
There is a $5 filing fee for senators
and $25 for executive officers,
which includes president, viceCity
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By ROCHELLE KILLINGBECK
Staff Writer
About 700 people Sunday celebrated
the 63rd birthday of the
late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
during the King Freedom March
and Rally.
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by the Committee to Honor Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., began with
a march at 12:30 p.m. from the.
Benedict College area to the State
House.
"We decided to begin the march
at Saxon Homes and Gonzalas
Gardens because those communities
have high crime rates and poverty,"
said Sam Stone, one of the
event's coordinators. "We wanted
to make a statement that those are
things Dr. King fought against."
More than 500 people carrying
banners and pictures of King sang
about peace and justice as they
marched toward the State House,
where about 100 supporters waited
to join them.
"I came to see what it was all
about. People talk about Dr. King
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take down all campaign posters
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and what he stood for, so I wa
to see how many people woul<
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Jill Burkhart said.
The rally drew people froi
variety of ethnic groups, gen
and generations. Although the
jority of the participants v
African-American, people f
other ethnic groups also attende
Mothers and fathers pushed I
babies in strollers as they marc
with grandparents and sch
children to hear speakers at
rally.
Jim Fcldman, president of
Columbia branch of the NAA
reminded the marchers in
speech that they were there
make a statement and let ever\
know they were fighting aga
environmental degradation, rac
sexism and political and econc
oppression.
Feldman's statement was
with cheers, shouts of "Justice
all!" and applause.
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starts election
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Today's edition of The Gamecock
marks the beginning of our
two-month Election Watch '92
coverage.
In the upcoming weeks, The
Gamecock news team will focus
on the national, state and USC political
elections. In addition, arti
tivo wjii a^ptui uii campaign
issues, candidates and political
views.
"The Gamecock will fairly and
id- accurately represent all the candidates
and focus coverage on the
issues, not mudslinging," Editork
in-Chief Eric Ward said.
"Candidates should plan on dismty
cussing issues, not rhetoric. If they
fil- don't, they won't be seeing their
ates names in the paper very much,"
Ward said.
ign- Managing Editor Tige Watts
i of said, "We hope to give the most
:reb thorough and comprehensive
and coverage to this election because
r is of its great importance to the
university."
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nted "1 volunteered to serve as a mari
be shall during the march, but this is
man more than just a rally to honor Dr.
King's Birthday. This is a tribute
m a to everyone who came before me
ders and made it possible for me to atma"
lend USC," journalism senior Jeff
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tion to become active in dealing
'hed w'^ today's social a?d economic
100I problems," Wilson added.
the Others agreed that the present
generation could learn from King's
the ideas. "1 think we've come a long
.CP, way, but we've got a long way to
his go. The younger generation needs
j to to continue the struggle that Dr.
'one King started," said Michael Gill,
inst USC director of the Ronald
ism, McNair Scholarship program,
rnic USC's chapter of Students Allied
for a Greener Earth and the
met NAACP participated in the rally,
for "This is a great way to kick off
Black History Month," Patrick Daong
vis, president of USC's NAACP
chapter, said.
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