The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, November 30, 1995, Image 1

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IN VIEWPOINTS: Williams takes a stand for independents fade 3 *X5aif8!cock Serving USC since 1908 WEATHER jillf}, TODAY Cloudy High 57 Mlir Low 39 I comiv Sunny High 65 ' 1 Low 42 INSIDE is Getting it online Etc. takes a look at America Online. ETC., PAGE 4 Blowout The Lady Gamecocks roll over Minnesota, 73-35. SPORTS, PAGE 6 BRIEFS Annual Christmas concert to be held Sunday The annual Christmas Music Festival will be held at 4 pm Sunday in the Carolina Coliseum. The festival features performances by several groups including Carolina Alive, the Palmetto Pans and the USC Band. WIS-TV personality Joe Pinner will be master of ceremonies and will narrate "Twas the Night Before Christmas." Admission to the concert is free. University Chorus to perform at Son Lutheran Church USC's University Chorus will give a concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Zion Lutheran Church in Lexington. The chorus will perform selections from the romantic, classical, baroque and modem periods. Several songs will feature trumpet, hom and trombone accompaniments. The concert is free and open to the public. Support group organizing for students with HIV or AIDS A group, Positive Living, is available to provide support for young people living with HIV or AIDS. The group, formed by students, is for students and community members between the ages of 18 and 29. Anyone wanting more information should contact Laurie or Lisa at 7778248. Confidentiality of group members' names is assured. 5.C. history lectors to be given Mary Galvin will present a lecture "The Creolization in Colonial South Carolina" at 3:30 pm Tuesday, Dec. 5 in Gambrell Hall room 151. INDEX Hews 1 Viewpoints 3 Etc 4 Comics 5 Sports e Classifieds 8 Blake Gibson talks to Teresa Nixon about I i'L"t I rottamon*om. ?Blake Gibson HEI SHIN YUN Staff Writer You could be sitting beside the next Salvador Dali or a part-time musician. Tonight for the first time, Carolina Productions will be sponsoring Miscellany, Evening of the Arts. USC artists Patrick's Cadillac, a traditional folk band; The Fiascos, a ska band; The Preston Players, a theatre group; Chris McCormick, a poet; and Blake Gibson, a visual artist, will perform, read and make noise at 7 p.m. in the Golden Spur. Christine Hill, Carolina Productions Performing Arts commissioner, said, "We think it's a good way to showcase student talent on campus, which maybe the performing arts wouldn't have a chance to do unless they were a music major or they had time to do a theater production. This is more for people who have talents and interests but this isn't their main Scholarship award campus, area actrv MARTHA HOTOP an active role in fightii Asst. News Editor in the community. A scholarship opportunity "Weareseeki exists for students who have individuals whose e actively crusaded to change courage have inspire inequities on campus or in the join with them in cc community. and challenging ii The Michael Schwerner wherever they may aj Activist Award is for students the Gleitsman Foun< who took on The ft leadership roles in | Schwernei the "spirit oi citizen j Award Is aJs activism." Sponsored to encouraj by the Gleitsman rm\ |. students t Foundation, the I activists for < award is dedicated I ^ anportai to the memory of The Founda Michael Schwerner. award recij A1961 graduate of IxAlvlkUUwH provide in Cornell University, GREENBACKS approaches Schwerner was an old problem impassioned civil Students in rights activist. In June 1964, he applying for this awaj was kidnapped and murdered M-time undergraduat in Mississippi for his civil rights Nominees can be inv activities. variety of causes: s Each year the Gleitsman economic j Foundation awards five environmentalism,hu scholarships to students who and the fight again: have initiated a positive social sexism, antisei change in their community, homophobia or othe Through the award, the oppression. Gleitsman Foundation hopes to Anyone interested encourage other students to take CREEWDACK % ' pieces in his display in the Russell Hous ClfEMI Gibson's art display is part of Carolini Arts to bo held tonight in the Golden poet, ska band and a theatre group. major or goal." There was a reception Wednesday night for the visual artist, Blake Gibson. His exhibit "In the Bathroom" will be on display in the Russell House Lobby display case until Dec. 14. "I want to become a painter," Gibson, a senior, said. "If I had a choice, I don't know if* I would do it because it's so unstable, but it's something I have to do." This is Blake's first exhibition, and he said he's enjoying the feedback he is getting from students. The band name Patrick's Cadillac is based on the patron saint of Ireland because "when you're driving the snakes out of Ireland, you should be driving the best," or it may just be a random name. Peter Kwangjun Suk, a computer science ARTS page 2 Is Chamber of C istS Provides inter ig injustices spring career { ng those The Greater Columl nergy and Commerce is providing d others to table at the Russell H mfronting Friday to give stu? ??>* "^viewing. iation. Staff Reports I i c h a e 1 The Greater Columbia Cha r Activist staffing an information table c o dedicated Friday to help students prepa: jing more The information table will b o become to 5 p.m. in the Russell House causes that have the opportunity register fc nt to them. the spring called "Applying the .tion hopes to Work and to Life." The semin bents will U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in ? novative Columbia Chamber of Comm< to solving seminar has only been offered s- to professionals but now is av terested in The cost of the seminar is $1,5 rd must be ?v.:. pu. \jl uiic uicaici ^uiuiiiuia e, ,. encourages students to enlist the 1 v , in chambers of commerce to spc ocia an seminar. Finance packets wil US \ V!' information table. strackm According to the Greater C . ' Commerce, the seminar stresse nitism, , ir types of peak performance, time managei and long-term happiness to hel in applying these Personal ^ professions graduation. The seminar lasts 11 8 page 2 are available. 1 m M 1 'i photos by Robort Walton The Gamecock ? at his opening Tuesday night. NG i Productions Evening of the Spur. Other artists include a _ __ ? ? IK wJHHHj Gibson explains the motivation behind his exhibit. ommerce I Lending /iew tips, seminar )ia Chamber of [ an information ouse today and fonts tips on r\f in 111LTC1 U1 VyUllUllCltC lo >n campus today and re for job interviews. ie set up from 10 a.m. lobby. Students also >r a career seminar in i Lessons of Athletics ar is sponsored by the iddition to the Greater erce. Until now, this through the military ailable for students. 00, but Bob Thompson imber of Commerce lelp of their hometown ?nsor the cost of the 1 be available at the olumbia Chamber of s balance, principles, nent, family, priorities p students cope with d aspects of life after James Bit I hours, and 40 spaces being built V Senate appeals veto by Bigham CR1ST1NA ROJAS Staff Writer Student Government President Amy Bigham vetoed Student Government Senate's decision to allow a transition period between the election and inauguration of Student Government President, but SG Senate refused that veto at Wednesday's meeting. "Based on the codes, the president has six days or 10 calendar days after the passage of a bill to sign for or against a bill," Senator John Martin said. Martin, chairman of the Finance Committee, presided over the meeting because vice president Darcie Shively was unable to attend. "Senate passed the bill two weeks ago," Martin said. "This bill automatically goes into effect because Bigham said she vetoed the bill today. Six school days passed yesterday and ten calendar days passed several days ago." But Bigham wasn't as concerned with the number of days as with why she vetoed the bill. "I don't care if it's been two, four, 39 days," Bigham said. "I have yet to receive a bill from the Senate clerk. I had to request it. It's not about days. It's about working out details left out in the bill." Bigham vetoed the bill because she felt it lacked SENATE page 2 'Great Gatsby chosen for 1996 Freshman Reading Experience ROB GKME1U Staff Writer The Freshman Reading Experience will be The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, as decided recently by Vice Provost Donald Greiner and a special advisory committee on the Freshman Reading Experience. The University has recently purchased one of the largest Fitzgerald collections in the U.S. from English professor Matthew Bruccoli, who is considered one of the foremost Fitzgerald scholars in the country. Also, the University will be hosting an international conference next fall to commemorate what would be Fitzgerald's : 100th birthday. In light of these two events, Greiner decided that it : would be proper to feature Fitzgerald during the Freshman Reading Experience. Greiner then had to decide which of : Fitzgerald's four novel's should be read. Greiner originally suggested the novel Tender is the Night, but after reading 1 it, the committee decided that it was too long and difficult 1 for the 90 minute seminars that compose the Freshman Reading Experience. Greiner also considered Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, which is about Fitzgerald's ' experiences as a student at Princeton, but he decided it was not appropriate. | Then Greiner suggested Gatsby and the committee agreed. "Gatsby is one of the world's major novels about America. , And at the end of the century, whafs a better time to read about the disillusionment of the 1920s," said Greiner. "It is the quintessential American novel," said committee member Becky Lewis. Bruccoli said that the committee picked the novel READING EXPERIENCE page 2 f a hand i^a jf, -1 ' '1 HHH|; HHhm % ^ Jlttl TYSON PETTIOREW The Gamecock >wn works on the new athletics practice facility I in front of the Coliseum. _A __J