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"IS Serving Lee Clontz, Editor in Chief Edttc Keith Boudreaux, Lu Jimmy Del A matter o: Renaming Coliseun Carolina legend, de That the coliseum doesn't aim has been a glaring oversight 1 he made during his reign as I ment of by-laws has been systemat make changes. However, in lieu of the coach's r passed a resolution to right the wn not possess the sole power to bring subsequent kickoif of the tedious pi While naming the basketball are in its own right, it compromised wl tion. That the coliseum was built ir tested theory. That it was never na could have enjoyed it remains a cui McGuire spent his time and ene basketball program. In doing so, hi um and even the Carolina spirit. H and the fans who enjoy the reward) Naming the coliseum after Fran made. His record certainly shows h name change will take place is the The Board of Trustees should fo the sooner, the better. This is not t< other matters but to remind them 1 Frank McGuire hasn't won the ] the coliseum; he has earned it. Tha the "House that Frank Built" is a g There is no better way to rewarc na basketball, but who also personi Rree concei outlet for ci aMULOROW I love free stuff. Anything you don't have to pa; for has that special feel of privilege that taint of taking advantage of some one and getting a free ride. Take the 96 Wave Fest i] Charleston this weekend. The Wave Fest is a gianf "lister er appreciation" concert a Charlestoi radio station puts on every fall. The; give away tickets at promotional event j m __j_I x -1 arouna i^nanesion, ana aDoui naj the students at USC call in favor from friends at the College o Charleston or Hie Citadel to get tick ets. The station gave away more thai 90,000 tickets this year. I think every body showed up. A couple of days before the con cert, it rained cats, dogs, cows, chick ens, hippos and assorted other farn animals on Charleston, causing som< of the heaviest flooding the city's ha< in a long time. This means it was kinda muddy like Woodstock if it had really raine< heavily. The concert had a big ole mosh/dance/craziness pit in front o the stage People were crowd surfing where someone intentionally is man handled by an entire mob of peopli and passed along like a sack of grail until they hit the portion of the crow< that didn't tak9 their Wheatieo tha morning, at which point the crow< surfer wipes out and tumbles to th< nmnnJ AAbo amaaViinir onH amiiaVi 51VU11U. mici omcuuuiig utiu KUUUDU ing their heads in the mud, most crow< surfers mount up for another crow* surf. It would seem crowd surfing wouli be an activity suited to a few select hard driving, rocking songs. Peopli at the Wave Fest would have crow< surfed to Barry Manilow singing fu neral dirges. Other groups of people got th< blankets they were planning to usi to go to sleep in the mud after the con cert and started flinging people up i] the air. It was kind of a human tram Letters should in phone number s nu ? ri n< AtMIECOCR & Student Media Russell House-USO Lee Clontz Jimmy De Butts Editor in CWef Sports Editor Susan Goodwin Kim Truett Viewpoint! Editor Photo Editor Steven C. Burritt Gabriel Madden Copy Desk Chief Graphics Editor Keith Boodreaux Erin Galloway News Editor Asst. News Lupe Eyde Robert Wertz Features Editor Asst. News The Gamecock is the student newspaper of tb University of South Carolina and is published Moo da; Wetfcieiday and Friday during the fall and spring semei ten, with the exception of university holidays and exaj periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are there of tt editors or author and not those of the University < South Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Comnsinicatior is (he publisher of The Gamecock. The Department < Student Media is its parent organization. flBKR use Since 1908 Susan Goodwin, Viewpoints Editor wtal Board ipe Eyde, Steven C. Burritt, Butts, Kim Truett f respect i overdue tribute to serves attention idy bear the name of Frank McGuire For awhile now. That the contributions 1 : nL. i! x jasneiDtui cuacn warrant me aqjustically ignored by those with the power ecent death, the Student Senate has >ngs of the past. Though the body does this change to pass, their interest and rocess is certainly welcome, ina after the famous coach was an honor lat could have been a more fitting ac1 part because of McGuire is an unconmed after him during his life when he iosity. rgy providing a foundation for the USC s work built the structure for the coliseis legacy can be seen in the building 3 of his hard work. ik McGuire isn't really the decision to be ie deserves that honor. How soon that real concern. now tne senate s lead m this matter and 3 insinuate that the board neglect all x> give respect where respect is due. Dlacement of his name next to that of t his name should always be linked to iven. I a man who not only personified Carolified Carolina. rts entertain, rowd surfing ; poline effect. While the flying Kara- 1 mazovski brother was tumbling ] through the sky with the greatest of j ease, though, the tossers tired of the ( _ activity. i Tosser. Hey, Bob, lefs throw you ] up in tne air on tms Diannei! y Bob: Yeah, thafdbe great!!! >, Tosser Get on! y Bob: Wheee! Tosser Look at how high he's go11 ing! Bob: Wheee! l" Tosser Hey, Bill, you wanna go a get a beer? y Bob: Wheee! ? Bill: Sure, lefsgo! Bob:Whee..aighhhhhh. ..thump.... ? ughhhhh. We really went to the concert to see Big Head Todd, the last act to a play. This meant we had to listen to the Meat Puppets first. The Meat Puppets played every . sons' they've ever learned. They even < - played some songs they haven't 1 i learned. I think they got together and s wrote some songs on stage so they'd i have more stuff to play. Fm not being critical of the group ', or its music. Anyone who's got the 1 guts to call themselves the Meat Puppets is OK in my book. It's just that they played so long, f A supergroup of Clapton, Led Zep>? pelin, Muddy Waters, Dire Straits, " eveiy member of the Jackson family 8 and Jimi Hendrix could play as long } as the Meat puppets played and get t to sounding pretty monotonous. ] it didn't help that my friend Jim- { mv was auicklv developing throat can- < cer because, as he put it, about 80,000 < j of the 90,000 people there decided to 1 i smoke. You could've cured buffalo steaks in the smoke hanging in the 1 i air. He was looking pretty green by i the time Big Head Todd got on stage. 1 e And another thing...Big Head Todd's 1 1 head wasn't really all that big. It looked J like a regular-sized head. That's gotta be false advertising, e I still had a good time at the con- ( e cert. Hey, it was free. r ' 1 Chris Muldmw is a journalism senior. ? His column appears every Friday. tclude name, major, < ind social secuirity i mber. ;ws: 777-7726 I ivertising: 777-4249 Laura Day VX: 777-6482 Creative Director Columbia, SC 29208 Jim Green Ait Director Wendy Hudson Gregory Perez Am. Copy Desk Production AM Tanja Kropf Elizabeth Thomas AM Copy Desk Adv. Graduate Asst. Allison Williams Renee Gibson AM Features Marketing Director Ryan Wilson Christopher Wood Aast. Sports Asa. Advertising Manager Jason Jeffers Erik Collins Cartoonist Faculty Advisor e Letters Policy f. The Gamecock will try to print all letters received, n Letters should be 200-250 words and must include full name, professional title or year and major if a student, e Letters must be personally delivered ty the author to The Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 321. B The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letters for H style, possible Mbel or space limitations. Names will not be withheld under any circumstances. "O : A) ( l $aa**s/O-Z0-1*f t&'Wl -me QUOTEUNQUOfi "I totally sympathize with the complaint t Associate Chairman & Din Hollings' polit Winston Churchill once said something along the lines that Russia is a riddle, shrouded in a mystery, wrapped inside an enigma That pithy phrase applies ,.r?n TT O O *? "C1 ?+ XJ-.li: equally rvcn tu .kj. ^cnatui uiiicot X'lllX iiuuill^s, the powerful Democrat of South Carohna. Hollings speaks in a thick Charlestonese as hard to decipher as the most vexing riddle. His political beliefs are mysterious because his views run the gamut from certifiably liberal (homosexuals) to downright conservative (defense spending). He is an enigma because he is still South Carolina's junior senator after nearly three decades in Congress. Hollings' latest action exemplifies his role as a congressional curiosity. The cantankerous chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee has vowed to block a vote on the latest General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GAIT) accord for as long as he can. Under the current process, this is 45 days?well beyond Congressional adjourn ment and the November elections. As a result, President Clinton seems determined to call Congress back into session after Thanksgiving to consider the GAIT deal. Senator Hollings offers two reasons for his ornery obstruction of the trade legislation. First, he complains that the GATT, which reduces tariffs on a broad range of products, will not give adequate protection to South Carolina's large textile industry. Second, he opposes the World Trade Organization, or WTO, created under the treaty. The WTO is based on the scheme of "one nation, one vote," and its primary role will be to settle global trade disputes through an international tribunal located in Geneva, Switzerland. Hollings says such a noting arrangement in this "kangaroo court" will allow Fidel Castro and Saddam to outweigh U.S. influsnce in future trade fights. In expressing his opposition to the GATT and the WTO. Hollines finds himself in a ueculiar Dosition. For one thing, it puts him in cahoots with a strange ambulation of dogmatic interest groups who are deRepublican party The upcoming November elections offer voters a iot of choices. In fact, we have a choice to allow ourselves more personal choices or more choices by the sfovemment. When it comes to choices, there is a stark iifference between conservative Republicans and Clinan Democrats. Let's look at some of the choices the Republicans want to offer the American people. Choice One: the right for parents to use their own tax dollars to send their children to the school of their choice, public or private. Choice Two: the right to vote on any general tax increases by the state of South Carolina. Choice Ihree: the increased opportunity to choose which chartable or "welfare-assistance" organizations we give >ur money to. Choice Four: the right to choose which nuseums and other "cultural" organizations we give >ur money to with consideration of each individual's ralues and beliefs. Choice Five: the right to vote on a state lottery (which Republicans recommend voters ^ i y \ jppose ior economic ana moral reasons.; Now, let's look at the choices the Democrats want jo offer the American people. Choice One: the right to abort an innocent baby as a means of birth control. Choice Two: the right to vote on a state lotteiy. Choice Ihree: oops, that's it! The Democrats always toot their own horn about Should the Coliseu "No, I really don't. The arena's nai AgpJ that's good enough." ~ "N?? I Just don't think they shoe BP it should stay that way for tradi ^ - M, This Ltpeue fOA. CAMPUS CAiCf.^< oNVfti' "PMC." TIlessen "PMC VHespfrf :up/)i/e." THoest/n "pwe." QNO A AtCMAL (TNCO&tT I fflesevTbTtQn OF "pwe" . ? r USC CABLE '"^r m? \w&>. \ A ? W lfc-~ / gAtnecociL PI _ hat they don't get enough. But the pressure actor of Graduate Studie of Physical Sciences H.A. Farach 01 leal beliefs swi n? 12 f ' I PHILLIP WARF ic Columnist termined to scuttle the accord, including Ralph Nad- n el's anviromnental-consumerists, protectionist trade 111 unions and America-first isolationists. This crudely ? vu i j j : . ti cuuuieu Lumiuuii nas auvancea various arguments to the effect that free trade is responsible for unemploy- ^ ment, falling wages and loss of American national sov- P ereignty. ^ Another consequence of the senator's stubborn stance is that it delivers an unwelcome blow to the ^ White House at an extremely inopportune time. Where is the logic in this? Hollings, a moderate Democrat, a ?* fine senator and usual ally of the Clinton administration, surely must hesitate to damage the president ^ Hus, because it is clear the GATT pact will be ratified irrespective of the chairman's action, his stalling tac- ^ tic serves no larger purpose. 01 On the contrary, it serves a smaller, more parochial T purpose. The reason for his action, sadly enough, is ^ that Hollings is playing to the protectionist demands 81 of powerful textile interests in South Carolina. Yet, it is fair to say this is not simply a political game. Hollings 1S seems to have a deep commitment to protectionism. a' Misguided as this may be, his consistency is certainly admirable. The last time Hollings vocally contra- C( dieted the president was on NAFTA. 111 At the time, HollingB argued that the North Amer- a ican Free Trade Agreement was going to produce all ? the negative consequences he now claims the GATT M accord will deliver. He wa9 wrong. By all accounts, NAFTA has been incredibly beneficial to the United States. Exports to Mexico in the P' first six months of 1994 increased by 17 percent, including a 600 percent jump in automobile exports. Commerce Department trade figures project that the offers voters more i1 1: I TOMMY TOUCHBERRY t Columnist 1 ! being the party of choice. The fact is the Democrats of- * fer very few choices to the American people. And the ? choice they always use as their example is abortion. ^ Unfortunately this choice is one which is in direct con- : tradiction to basic American law which has always 1 provided that "murder for reasons other than self-defense" will not be tolerated. The Democrats do not be- ^ lieve in true choice, but rather their own narrow-mind- j, ed agenda. Ihey believe in big government that makes decisions for each American and creates as much de- j pendency as possible. p The conservative Republicans, on the other hand, r believe in giving the American people as many choic- c es as possible. The conservatives want to "get govern- e ment out of our daily lives" as much as possible. With I sound economic policies that emphasize lower taxes, I less regulation and a smaller, less involved federal government, the Republicans allow the average American many more choices. Our ultimate freedom comes m be renamed after ned after him. I think "I think t] David Smithey Psychology senior ild rename it I think """ "Yeah. Be ition's sake." , ketball in i u. ail been built Anita Gibson Psychology senior : > V " : ; if::': ' . - ! Illlll: 1:1:11 ll.llvl Ill' :. -: ' . ' I '' c4 _ ; / ,.:. < ' ' * I ^^H^IvivIvivtvX;'.;//!;/ B (they think) they put on us is nothing." n the physics TA strike ng both ways foited States will em'oy a $2 billion trade surplus with lexico this year, with a consequent benefit to Ameran workers of over 100,000jobs. GAIT will have similar success. Two goals that the linton administration's Republican predecessors had jught, protection of intellectual property rights and ales for trade in services, will be achieved in the agreelent. Tariffs and consumer prices will fall, and jobs id exports will increase. The conflict resolution ftincon of the WTO will be largely positive for American usinesses; they have been by far the most frequent etitioners under the current system. Though the All, like all international accords, will not be persct, its advantages will significantly outweigh its rawbacks. The president recognizes this. Through his support 'both GATT and NAFTA, Bill Clinton has firmly esiblished his credentials as a free trader. At the same me, however, he has demonstrated he is a staunch lir trader. Tough and protracted bilateral negotiaons with the Japanese have resulted in breakthroughs i cellular phones, insurance and financial services, he message is clean the United States is committed ) free trade. Its markets will continue to open, but ich policies must be reciprocated by others who wish ) reap the rewards. This approach, not protection;m, is best suited for addressing Hollings' concerns bout wages and unemployment. Thus, Bill Clinton should be Fritz Hollings' dream >me true, particularly after 12 years of the pateralistic soft-sell approach ("One day the Japanese will me around, but for now, they can pound us to death"), ill Clinton knows economic policy and knows its priity in the post-Cold War world. Hollings' attempt to ve the president a bloody nose on GATT proves he )es not. This only makes him just a little more inex licable. Phillip Warfis a graduate student in government and international studies. control, choice rom the right to spend our hard-earned money the my we want to, not the way the government wants a spend it. As things stand now, I personally have to fund nany activities which I am morally opposed to. For nstance, I am paying for low-income women to kill heir innocent babies as a means of birth control. I am ilso paying for art works which I consider to be pornographic, eg. a drawing of a man urinating in another nan's mouth. Furthermore, as a taxpayer I am payng for schools which teach 12-year-olds to have prenarital sex as long as they use a condom. An ethical government would not force me to pay for these acivities when they clearly violate my basic religious >eliefs and values. The Republicans would be wise to aggressively joint out the difference of "choice" between the two jarties. The Republicans clearly offer Americans many nore choices than the Democrats. This type of freelom leads to a stronger economy, a more ethical socisty and a stronger family unit. Republicans seem to >e honoring the intentions of our constitutional framers; Democrats seem to be betraying our basic freedoms. Tommy Touchberry is a marketing junior. His column appears every Friday. PnonVi l\/fnn.n{i*A9 \juatii iTituuuui hat would be a good way to remember him Sharetta Dozier Journalism freshman V cause he really put USC on the map in basthe '70s. If it wasn't for him it wouldn't have . ? P hillip McClintock Sports administration senior V v