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Forecast : fj&f r; \1 j : : Index WET~ Today | t; 4 T -jH * i Regular exams, awareness key to catching i ^ews 1 urfny IIfckJIBW Itzr*"*- j in i P! ^il! ^FnlTlf ITll R isadd,e up ! ^ 5 W\. High 67 JF I W fflSw.. j (JSC's equestrian team qualifies to comU Low 45 5 Out of the park sS : pete in the national championships. i Sports 6 : ? : : Page & : Page 6 ! : : ^ ; : : Classitieds....8 Serving USC since 1908 NEWS BRIEFS NATIONWIDE WASHINGTON (AP)?Anticipating defeat on a key element in their "Contract With America," House Republicans hope to reap credit for holding a vote on term limits while blaming Democrats for the measure's likely demise. "If we get half the Democrats, we will pass the term limits constitutional amendment," House Speaker Newt Gingrich declared Tuesday as debate opened. He said that more than 85 percent of GOP lawmakers would vote for the measure and "it ought to be possible to get half the Democrats to side with the country that elm." Gingrich's partisan jabbing aside, the term limits issue has had a rocky path toward this week's expected vote, particularly for an issue that commands support in the 70 percent range in public opinion polls. Some senior Republicans oppose the limits. The critics include Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois, chairman of the Judiciary Committee who calls them a "dumb idea" that would rob Congress of needed expertise, and Texas Rep. Tom DeLay, the party's whip, who says they would enhance the power of unelected bureaucrats. It takes a two-thirds vote ? 290 if all 435 lawmakers vote ? to send the measure to the Senate. Republicans hold 230 seats in the House, Democrats 204, and there is one independent. TODAY Today is Wednesday, March 29, the 88th day of 1995. There are 277 days left in the year. Today's rtghlight in Mstory: On March 29,1973, the last United States troops left South Vietnam, ending America's direct military involvement in the Vietnam War. That same day, President Nixon announced that "all of our American POWs are on their way home." On this date: In 1932, a vaudeville comedian made his radio debut with the words, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is Jack Benny talking. There will be a slight pause while you say, Who cares?"' In 1943, World War II meat, butter and cheese rationing began. In 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage charges. (They were executed in June 1953.) In 1962, Jack Paar hosted NBCs "Tonight" show for the final time. In 1971, Army Lt William L Calley Jr. was convicted of murdering at least 22 Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre. (Calley ended up spending three years under house arrest.) In 1974, eight Ohio National Guardsmen were indicted on charges stemming from the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University (The guardsmen were acquitted.) Five years ago: President Bush, addressing the National Leadership Coalition on AIDS, declared his administration "on a wartime footing" against the disease, and called for compassion, not discrimination, toward those infected with the virus. One year ago: Mexico's ruling party picked ittnesto Zedillo to be its new presidential candidate, replacing the assassinated Luis Donaldo Colosio. NOTEBOOK Campus Coalition for literacy ReacM-Thon today The Campus Coalition for Literacy Read-A-Thon will be on the Russell House Patio today from 8 am. to 6 p.m. As part of Literacy Awareness Week, the ReadA-Thon will feature local celebrities to help promote the need for literacy awareness in the USC and Columbia communities. Among those members participating from the Carolina community in the Read-A-Thon will be Dennis Pruitt, vice president of Student Affairs; Professor Ann Dreher from the department of theater and speech; Lee Clontz, editor in chief of The Gamecock; Mark Berson, men's soccer coach; and Sue Kelly, women's soccer coach. WIS-TV sports reporter Joe Daggett and WARQ 93.5 disc jockey Steve Varholy will also be participating. For more information, call Deanna McLendon at 544-0868 or Margaret CGorman at 777-5780. Women's History Month activities continue The religion studies department will present "An Exploration of Women's Spirituality" today at 6 p.m. in the Gambrell Auditorium. The Hisrnssinn will cover such topics as Merlin Stone's "When God Was a Woman," how patriarchal religions gained power, current dianic paganism and women in Christianity today. Outstanding Women at USC Celebration today The Office of Women's Student Services is sponsoring the fifth annual Outstanding Women at USC Celebration today. USC faculty, staff and students had the opportunity to recognize a female colleague or advocate for women by making contributions of $15, $25 or more in her name to the USC Educational Foundation. Donors and Honorees will be recognized at the Outstanding Women at USC Celebration. The speaker this year is Jackson Katz, the founder of the anti-sexists group Real Men. He is the first man to receive a minor in Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts. For more information, call 777-5780. : > Students pa TINA MORGAN Asst. News Editor USC students addressed proposed higher education cuts Tuesday during a WIS-TV panel discussion. Students had the opportunity to watch a segment by WIS reporter Rochelle Stewart on higher education that featured chemistry professor James Marshall's departure to the University of Virginia because of spending cuts and the costs of The School of Music's new facility located on the corner of Assembly and College streets. After the segment, students watched and contributed to the panel discussion. The panel discussion, "Dollars for Diplomas," was moderated by WIS-TV anchorman David Stanton and included Gov. David Beasley's Chief of Staff Will McCain; Rep. Henry Brown, Chair of the House Ways and South Caro Pulitzer Prize winner anc Harry Ashmore returns ho MARTHA HOTOP Staff Writer Talking with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Harry Ashmore reveals not only that he's a Yellow Dog Democrat but also that he's extremely knowledgeable about politics and history. Ashmore served as a moderator Tuesdav far t.bft TISC innmalist. nanel discus sion, "Covering the South Today" and spoke about his new book Tuesday night at Belk Auditorium in the BA Building. A South Carolina native, Ashmore graduated from Clemson University in 1937, with a bachelor of arts in science. During the time he attended Clemson, the university did not have a journalism school, and there was no real liberal arts degree. Ashmore said he basically wrote his own curriculum, taking lots of courses in history. Through the efforts of his high school English teacher, Ashmore began writing a column for his high school paper. "I had an absolutely wonderful English teacher who encouraged me to read. Since then, Fve never consciously considered doing anything else [besides journalism]," said Ashmore. While at Clemson, Ashmore's journalist career really got started. The death of Ashmore's father, while Ashmore was still a child, meant that he had to work his way through school. So he spent time working on the Clemson newspaper. It was through this work that Ashmore learned about the makeup of a paper. Also, the local printing company offered Ashmore a job doing substitute work as a printer. After graduation, Ashmore immediately started working for the Greenville Piedmont. After that he began writing a political column for the Greenville News. Part of his column was devoted to the legislative happenings in South Carolina. In 1941 Ashmore s work won him the opportunity to take part in the Newman Fellowship at Harvard University. The five-year experience was designed to, "advance and elevate the standards of working journalists," Ashmore said. However, in February of 1942 Ashmore, who was in the Reserves, was called up to active duty. He served in an army combat unit stationed in Europe until 1945. Scholarship; TIEFFA HARPER Asst. News Editor USC has been selected to participate the Mutual of Omaha Marlin Perkins Sch arship Program. The scholarship is intended to help? sure that future generations can follow the footsteps of the Perkins, a pioneer c< servationist. The scholarship offers a $1,000 each spri to a junior or senior who is pursuing a coir of study through the marine science progra Students must meet high academic sfc dards and have shown interest in conser tion through extracurricular activities or \ unteer work. USC was selected because of its outstand program of study and emphasis on prot tion and use of natural resources. The i dergraduate marine science program is rani fourth in the nation. "The center is so proud to continue M lin's conservation education legacy throu these scholarships so that a future gene tion will benefit," said Brad Smoak, gen al manager for Mutual of Omaha's divisi office. The scholarships are funded by Muti of Omaha companies. For more scholars] irticipate i SG is currently mailing ? parents encouraging the planning a panel discussion Theatre at 7 p.m. to infor in proi Means Committee; Jim Hodges, De ic Minority Leader and Clemson Ur Interim President Philip Prince. Student Government Preside Bigham emphasized that students i main informed throughout the leg process and let the law-makers kn students feel about the proposed s] cuts. SG is currently mailing out a students and in-state USC parents aging them to rally around the caus Una welct I South Carolina native me to share his stories. Since World War I, Ashmore has serv "as a correspondent and editor-in-chief 1 a number of papers across the country, was during his executive editorship at t Arkansas Gazette that the Supreme Coi made its decision requiring the integrati of all public institutions. A series of poli cal editorials dealing with the issue of i tegration won Ashmore the Pulitzer Pri; At the same time the Gazette won a Pulib for its public service in the efforts to c segregation. After receiving the award, Ashmore w quoted by an Associated Press news repor as saying, "I richly deserved it, and it w long overdue." Ashmore said his response was mea to be irony, but the reporter took it liter lyIt was also during the period when pi lie schools were being integrated that A? more faced his hardest and most intere ing stories. After the Brown v. The Board of Ec cation decision, the Arkansas Gazette s\ ported the entry of blacks into public ins tutions. According to Ashmore, Orval Faub the governor of Arkansas then, and the C izens Council were against the decision a as a result boycotted the Gazette. The Gazette had to decide how to pi the news. We ran everything but in the o text of no violence," Ashmore said. thought our biggest obligation was not crusade for justice but to keep order." When discussing his experience woi ing during this time period, Ashmore sponded with a quote that is often used describe World War II. 1 wouldn't have missed it for anythii but I wouldn't go again," Ashmore sa Since that time, Ashmore has grown prestige as a result of the 12 books he I published and his recent induction into 1 S.C. Academy of Authors. Ashmore and t other authors were inducted into the Acj emy March 25 during a ceremony at t College of Charleston. In light of his many scholarly acco plishments, Ashmore still considers hi self to be foremost, a journalist. Tve always principally been a jourr ist," Ashmore said. "I never had the int tion to be a scholar, but I do some stuff tl is accepted as history." s, cancer rei in ] I tl jn. or application information, call D< in at 777-1234. >nS.C. Cancer Center to provide jTg summer research opportunitie rse The S.C. Cancer Center is spor m. search opportunities for summer m- Undergraduates with a basic bi ya- in the sciences are eligible to work r0l- with USC faculty and Richland Hospital staff in cancer research I ing through August. ec. "The program is offered becai in. is a very serious disease in South [ed and Richland Memorial Hospital, decided to team up and try to pr ar_ search at the campus and the hos] Lgh Dr. Stanley Fowler, associate de ra_ search and development at the U er_ of Medicine. jon "It provides funding for facult search and allows students to w< i i 1J i"? it _ ___1J Jaj aer-io-snouiaer witn me iacuuy, l: very important part of undergradi ing. It also gives them experien a educati ut a letter to students and m to rally around the causi i for next Wednesday In the m students about recent d< x>sed spending cuts. imocrat- also planning a panel liversity Wednesday in the Russ< 7 p.m. to inform studer nt Amy velopments in proposed must re- Jamel Franklin, a hi islative said he was concerned t iow how not able to attract top-q pending cause of below-average letter to Trav Robertson, a encour- asked McCain why son te. SG is ...higher education staff i >mes naf ed "or It he irt on ti- K liP n- Hk j ie. I /, 'er h mm le- SMgflj f ' ib- i J IB shst Journalists from nowsi t Panelists stius, MARTHA HOTOP Staff Wri 1 j" Recent S.C. Academy Authors inductee Harry As a more, served as a moderat for Tuesday's journalist pa ,T" el discussion, "Covering tl t? South Toda/. The panel was made up , three journalists represei re ing southern newspapers. Di , ^ ing the discussion, each of t panelists presented his vie1 ? of the problems that journ j ^ ists face when covering t (jn news in the south. ias Peter Applebome, journ the ist for the New York Tim< wo said there are two ways of lot a(j. ing at the South: the Sou ;he since the Civil War, or the fi that the country looks mc m. like the South. m. The panelists discussed t way the country as a whole tal- adopting the demographi en- and policies that have tra hat tionally been considered sou search ava ibra Allen lows them to focus o said. Fifteen students w ticipate in the reseai # experiences include t isoring re- ties and attending sei 1995. search and visiting ackground medical school. ; hands-on A barbeque is held Memorial and students get the from June with doctors about tr cancer and discuss si ise cancer how much informati i Carolina tient with cancer. At , and USC mer, participants mi omote re- experiences and pres aital," said "It really gives the san for re- sight into medical ree SC School "It helps local patient isfying experience, y to do re- A $2,000 stipend i ark shoul- For more informa which is a application, call 733oate train- can be obtained from ce and al- USC School of Medic on funding forum In-state USC of state. Cft is alcA Hodges said his main concern about the ^ spending cuts was the increasing cost of and I Russell House the possible decline in the quality of higher sveiopments education. Fnnce echoed these concerns and described Clemson's attempt to thwart cost increases by reducing the number of colleges from nine to four and cutting the number of discussion for next administrative positions, ell House Theatre at McCain criticized USC administrative deit* flhnnt rpppnt dp- cisions such as allotting millions of dollars . spending cuts. to building renovation. In the segment prior imanities freshman, to tbe panel discussion, Professor Marshall ;hat universities are also criticized USC because his laboratory is uality professors be- not being kept up to the highest standards salaries. because of a lack of money, humanities senior, "Higher education and education in genae of Gov. Beasle/s er&l *s not making the progress it needs to vas sought from out make," Marshall said. Ive son Ashmore MY-ni-:, ^ J ^^p^p|P ^ |JAMIE CLARK The Gamecock >apers around the country describe news In the South. discuss Southern news iter em issues. The issues of states' said Chris Burritt of the Atrights, guns and race as a lanta Journal-Constitution. h_ defining factor in politics have "In Union blacks and whites or all been traditionally south- have their place, and they n. ern based. In the past few stayed there." he years these issues have re- Ashmore said the media caved more and more national foiled to cover the shift of black 0f attention. going to the North to find a "Die nation has realize that place to live and make a livjr the South is not a bubble that ing. This shift helped remove he is going away but is the en- the South from isolation, ivs gine of American democracy," The panelists also menal Ashmore said. tioned that politics is a topic he During the discussion, pan- that is typically difficult for elists stressed how race is an the media, al- issue that the southern me- "There is no longer a poss, dia must typically deal with, litical vocabulary anymore for )k- Dealing with the race issue is the kind of division that exth sometimes difficult for jour- ists throughout society," Ashact nalists, they said. Recently more said. aorn u/nrn If ia tVia lurlf nf TV^llflPal vru IIC OUUHlWIljWUlliUilOKO TIVIV AfcJ II4VI1 \^A forced to make tough decisions cabulary that makes it diffihe about the race issue during cult for journalists to explain s is the Susan Smith case in why southern values and ideas ics Union. now seem to be converging di- The newspaper is always with the ideas typically found th- reluctant to offend people," in tho West, the panelists said liable I Righa111 to address wm^zd su senate n cancer research," MATT PWUIIT Staff Writer ill be selected to par- Amy Bigham will deliver the annual ch, and some of the presidential address to the Student Govouring cancer facili- emment Senate today, and the Senate will minars on cancer re- begin to vote on Bigham's cabinet appointees and working at the ag well. The SG president is required by SG conduring the summer, stitution to address the Senate annually, i opportunity to talk jn the tradition of the State of the Union eating patients with or the State of the State address. Bigham ach ethical issues as has been granted permission by the Senion do you tell a pa- ate to do so today, the end of the sum- All SG president appointees must be reake a poster of their viewed by the Powers and Responsibilities ent if- Committee and approved by the Senate, s student extreme in- Bigham's appointees for Chief of Staff and search," Fowler said. Executive assistant, two of the most ins, and it's a very sat- fluential cabinet positions, are among those that will come up for approval today, is provided. Finally, the Senate will hear from Dition or to request an . rector of Student Media Chris Carroll con3331 or applications ceming the fate of WCFG-TV. Carroll will the office of Fowler, provide explanations for the station's lack ine, VA campus. of funding and field questions concerning its possible co ntinuation.