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H Should USC add luxury Professor Bruce Soccer magazine M seats to Williams-Brice Konkle bicycles names Rob Smith a i j B stadium? across the nation Freshman All-American. A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ldeas^^ mm " $00 Cross Fire V are *urec*anc* t^ien <lu*etty strangled. \ H Page 3 Page 5 Page 8 sir Bamett cocks IGamecock Volume 84, No. 72 University of South Carolina Wednesday, March 18, 1992 An explosion Tuesday destroyed the Israeli Embassy in central Buenos Aires, Argentina killing at least three people and iniurine 60 others, ac r jo cording to the Argentine government. The mid-afternoon blast reduced the four-story embassy to a one-story pile of rubble. The blast was heard more than three miles away. A 21-year-old woman who witnessed the explosion was quoted by the government news agency Telam as saying the bomb was believed to have been planted in a car in front of the embassy. Supporters of an Irish gay group, barred from /-v * J-V* /\ Ci maiuimig 111 uic JI. i auiL^ d Day parade, staged their own peaceful mini-march of more than 1,000 people Tuesday before the Catholic-sponsored procession began up Fifth Avenue in New York City. "We're here, we're queer, we're Irish, get used to it!" chanted the marchers as they approached the parade's reviewing stand, where parade officials had turned their backs on the group last year. s The Myrtle Beach Air Force Base could become a second runway for the local jetport and could be developed into a theme park, industrial park or air and space museum. The 4,000-acre military base, which is scheduled to close in March 1993, also could be used by a college or developed into a retirement village, said EDAW Inc., a planning company hired to work on t h p ha c o development. The USC debate team won the 1992 Southeast CrossExamination Debate Association competition for the second year. The debate was held Feb. 21-23 at the University of Monevallo in Alabama. USC also captured five individual speaker awards, more than any other school in the conference. Tom Randklev, Dee Walker and Leigh Jeter received awards, as well as Jason Hartwig and Jason Boan, who tied for top speaker. Firefigt By J.T. WAGENHEIM Staff Writer The Columbia Fire Department C responded to a potentially hazard- P ous chemistry experiment Monday e afternoon in the Thomas F. Jones fj Physical Science Building on Main ^ Street. The building was evacuated for 1 nearly an hour. No explosion S occurred and no injuries or fatalities were reported. USC chemistry professor Jim n Tour said he saw smoke and vapors emitting from a flask in which f( nitric and sulfuric acids were n mixed. The experiment was conducted in Tour's sixth floor re- r, search laboratory. c As soon as Tour noticed the vapors, he realized the potential \\ dangers of the situation. An explo- L| sion could have occurred, he said. a "Safety is my primary concern. v If I think there is a one-in- f, thousand chance the reaction may cause an explosion, I am going to e take precautionary measures to c prevent it," Tour said. Tour ordered students to leave the chemistry lab and immediately j. notified Muthukrishna Raja, USC's hazardous waste manager. s "We realized there could have been an explosion, evacuated the n entire building and notified the g Columbia Fire Department for s back-up in stabilizing the situa- n tion," Raja said. Tour said the experiment was a a basic, documented procedure to p find a new polymer, a substance s; I - / m L t c t 1 1 m 1 i ^^000m, i "" Eric Glenn/The Gamecock President John Palms has had his share of accomplishments and criticism during his first year at USC. Environmer By MELISSA TENNEN Staff Writer | A march and a unique rally to protest the devastation of the environment in South Carolina will be held for the first time this weekend. The Citizen's March for a < Healthy Environment is a new out- I let for concerned people in the : state to urge action for protecting < uiv vuv livjiiniciii, eveiu coordinator Tim Crenshaw said. ; The march will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday on the corner of Richland < and Main streets and will cover se- i ven blocks before reaching the State House. The rally will begin < after the march. The rally makes the event one I of the first of its kind in the nation. I At the rally, anyone will have the 1 opportunity to speak about the en- I vironment for about two minutes. i The rally will highlight com- I ments from anyone who wants to J speak instead of featuring the opin- i ions of only one guest speaker, Crenshaw said. < There has been a lack of con- 5 iters pr "We realized there ould have been an exlosion, evacuated the ntire building and notiied the Columbia Fire )epartment for. back-up n stabilizing the ituation." Muthukrishna Raja iade up ol giant molecules. "We've run this experiment beDre without any hazardous occurences," Tour said. Raja said the chemicals appaently overheated and got out of ontrol. "When two highly reactive acids ke the ones used here are mixed, le experimenter has to heat them t a very low temperature to start I /ith and slowly increase the heat rom there," Raja said. Tour said the magnitude of the | xplosion that could have resulted ] annot be estimated. Columbia firefighters, dressed in azardous waste gear, poured the lixture over ice to cool and stabille it, Captain Tony Bedenbaugh f the Columbia Fire Department aid. "This was just a precautionary leasure to prevent anything from etting out of hand. It is a stable ituation and everything is okay ow," Bedenbaugh said. "We will try this experiment gain but on a smaller scale that oses no threat to anyone," Tour aid. 1 Palms' f iy TIGE WATTS Managing Editor USC President John Palms' first yet dent has been anything but tranquil. In Palms' first year, USC has been audget cuts, another scandal involvii JSC President James Holderman, ai ;tratiye reorganization and criticism phasing the Carolina Plaza Hotel. One faculty member, who asked no liiea, saiu, 11 raims uiun i nave giaj Fore he came here, he would have low." Palms, who came to USC claiming lead the institution in a new direction, pleased with some things that wer plished during his first year, but not c satisfied. "There's still more to accomplish tl Lo. I feel very positive about the new USC is taking," Palms said. Palms has helped reshape the Cai search and Development Foundation foundations, one for research and the development. He has also closed down USC's W Office, which was used for acquirinj grants, opened files on Holdermai ital rally to Soutj^Caroli For A Healthy ;ern for the environment by big lusinesses in the past, Crenshaw said, and he hopes the march will jraw attention to the problem. ine eiiviiuiiiuciiiai piuuiein isii i iccidental. South Carolina has always been lenient on big businesses and never enforced regulations," he said. Coordinators of the march have several basic aims: to send a message to politicians .hat the citizens are displeased with current legislative trends, to display public concern by unting all environmental issues, and to send a warning to big businesses to cease careless dumping tnd stripping the environment. ? . "I feel like we are on the brink )f environmental disaster. This state promotes an insane economic event wbi ^^^1 mm ?P>.. --i'h .. -4?^pH^Bjf:.v; ?p w -^w <# b jm esss >nr i w 9 -. f^<f i Wk *#1 jb^b * ^i&mbib ew i jt8^ hwhi ; 1 b ^||h jl^w.^.., b jbr ks\ bmi | ^^gjkj9 Columbia firefighters, dresse< ture of nitric and sulphuric acid irst yea scholarships, handled t olina to become indepe ir as pres- new provost and affirm Though Palms is pf rocked by some (JSC students arc lg former A petition is circulai i admini- nistration to find a di for pur- commencement ceremc The effort started aft t be iden- Palms would be the cor ' hairs be- Despite the petition < them by no major criticism for 1 "I don't see any crit he would have spoken at great , said he's mencement ceremonie e accom- understand," he said. ompletely Palms' administrate blow for buying the ( hat I hope $3.95 million. i direction "I think the key he have said all along tha rolina Re- feet tuition, and it worn into two USC administrators : other for hotel comes from insti funded from $35 of eac Washington Fred Sheheen, state g research education, opposed the i's secret the money could be use be held Environment base where they try to encourage businesses to come into the state and destroy basic economic resour ces," Crenshaw said. For example, South Carolina's air pollution problem is reported as being second only to Los Angeles, Calif, in the nation, he said. "This grass roots movement is expected to make the politicians pay attention to us," Anna Mulcahey, a coordinator of the march, ooJrl au iu. Coordinators encourage concerned people to bring signs, experiences and banners. Students are particularly encouraged to come because they are the ones who will inherit the the clean-up bills, Crenshaw said. "College students lend to be very insulated until they get out into the world," he said. lab ( ^ jT MM j in hazardous waste in the Physical Scien r full he drive by Coastal Car ndent and searched for ; ative action officer, eased with his progress not. ing requesting the admi ffercnt speaker for Ma >nies. en an announcement the nmcncement speaker, drive, Palms said he sec lis presidency, icism internally. When length about the com s, the students seem t n has also taken anothc Carolina Plaza Hotel fc ire is communication, t the hotel would not al t," he said. said the money for th itution bonds, which ar h student's tuition, commissioner of highe i hotel purchase, sayim id for academic and non Senate Street Gervais Street i\ n * CO o ^ ^ 3 S Lady Stree CO CD CD Was ling ton St Hampton Stret I ay lor Street Blanding Stree Caurel Street I 1 I? HichlandStree ixplosion IS I ^^Bg| w f *jg ||T ^*| *?- " f> , - tffi '-'* v- ** ' ,,a wteg^m Jim Arnold/The State gear, stabilized a potentially explosive mixces Building Monday afternoon. of hurdles academic services, two areas hit by this past a year's budget cuts. Despite harsh criticism, especially from the Commission on Higher Education, USC was able to purchase the hotel earlier this semester. The brunt of the criticism over the hotel y purchase came after administrators said USC had to slash its budgets because of a tight ecoit nomic year. s Most students, faculty members of the public believed USC and Palms were talking out of I both sides of their mouths. "The budget situation was a very serious one 0 this year. We couldn't do anything about some of the reductions we had to take," Palms said. :r ir "The budget cuts we took last year are really going to hurt us the next few years. We put off j buying equipment, and now that money is gone," he added. Palms said the budget remains a question this e y^1"e "There's no other place to cut except for the personnel. We don't want to raise tuition more r than the rate of inflation, but even with a modIs est tuition increase, there still won't be enough money," he said. Pendleton Street !<TF!State Capitol 111 l+l III \f\ li I SI I I lg-1 1^1 IS" I co, .?<, cB ,cn ni U as ? s ? 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