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E-mail \ Lef s say you're an idealistic student who wants to protest some perceived wrong. What do you do? Start a strike? Hold a sit-in? Bum something symbolic? Nah, this is the 90s, and those options are so low-tech! To get attention these days, all you really need is a web page and an e-mail address. This is tha mnta onmn fimm- o+off?i<o AXUW w AVMW OVUiW 1V1 UiCI 0UU1U0 of campus radio station WUSC have chosen to take. If you are interested in the continuing controversy surrounding the dismissal of students hum the station, you can now read about it on the World Wide Web. The Justice on Campus Project, which bills itself as "an informal online collaboration of writers, students and persons concerned with free speech on campus," has taken up the ex-WUSC students' cause. It has created a web page concerning the controversy that can be found at http://5oc.mit.edu/carolina.html. The web page,based out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gives a synopsis of the situation from the U9C students' point of view, as well as featuring links to more information about the dispute and pages dealing ^B?||| with censorship issues. As a computer columnist, HjrJHjj I have no interest in whether Hfldl the students nr the TTSf! administration are right or fECWMJJ wrong in this dispute. I do, Marc LaF however, find the idea of an on-line protest intriguing. No longer are aggrieved citizens relegated to picket signs and fliers to send their message to the masses. The WUSC protest is an example of how the internet and the medium of the world wide web are changing our society. The common man or woman can now have as much of a voice as the highest official. People from around the world can read about contentious issues and even send e-mail to the participants if they wish. Whether the ex-WUSC students are right or wrong, they are to be congratulated for making effective use of a new medium. They have found a direct and inexpensive way to draw attention to their cause, a method that is sure to be duplicated by others in coming years. One complaint: The Justice on Campus pages feature e-mail links for President John Palms, spokeswoman RESERVE ' ' -r i . v - ' ... ' _:.r_ BDMV DAT niUVAA AIVA Every ye sands of mei fied students right here i scholarships %) w protests b Debra Allen and other USC officials. But, the officials I spoke with said they were never notified that their e-mail addresses were being linked. It has put these people in the position of receiving potentially hostile messages without knowing their source. Creating an e-mail link to someone that will likely result in hostile messages and not at least notifying them of it has a disturbing vigilante quality. People should be able to disagree (or protest) without being disagreeable. Personality. On a less controversial note, I wanted to share with my readers ? :?i. a: i- tt *1 an iniei eaiing weo sue i nave enjoyea for some time. Users who point their web browsers to http://sunsite.unc.edu/jembin/mb.pl can take a 70-question test to determine their personality type. The test, called the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, scores results according to the Meyere-Briggs system. Meyers-Briggs, which has been used as a personality test for decades, scores your personality on four different scales: Extrovert vs. Introvert, Intuitive vs. Sensing, Feeling vs. Thinking and Judging vs. Perceptive. The results are computed instantly, and you can know not only your personality type but also joflf c the famous people and J/UfDLC fictitious characters who 'ountain share it. I mvself am an ESTd ? an Extroverted, Sensing, Thinking, Judging person. This means I have the same personality type as disgraced former Sen. Bob Packwood. Gosh, my female readership may never look at me the same way again! A correction: In last weeks column, I said development of OpenDoc for Windows was being handled by Novell. It turns out that Apple's OpenDoc FAQ is in need of updating. Novell has dropped its development of OpenDoc, and it will be left to IBM to take the reigns. Marc LaFountain, a journalism senior, can be e-mailed at lafiyuntain-jnardSl9c.edu. To subscribe to an electronic version of this column, send email to list9erv@univscvm.csd.sc.edu with "SUB T-BABBLE YourFirstName YourLastName" in the body of the message. OFFICERS C SALUTES OUR 5ar Army ROTC awards thouit-based scholarships to quali; around the country and n your school. These p""!] : pay most tuition, as well |N^J| ARMY THE SMARTS COURSETOD For details, visit Legare * 777-6543/6 Th? 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George Strait picked up five The nominees for best female artis *, are Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Rebj il McEntire, Lorrie Morgan and Shanii e Twain. The nominees were selected tr " readers of Music City News. The award; show will be broadcast live June 10 01 The Nashville Network. NEW YORK ?Russian poel il Yevgeny Yevtushenko is joining th< il faculty at Queens College, i, The 62-year-old former member o e the Soviet Parliament takes up the pos on Feb. 6. He will teach two courses or r Alexander Pushkin and 20th centur) i, Russian poetry. i CORPS X fT yyjZSt * ^ m . WINNERS. ince up to tat, Army develops and confio success. 1996 w^ A^1 SOUTH CAROLINA STAT lilbit Friday. The exhibit will Illustrate tl gs. Call (803) 737-4921 for more Informa p Yevtushenko has taught at other A American colleges, including New York N t, University, the University of t Pennsylvania and the University of p: o Tulsa, but Queens College is his first ot permanent post. N e . He has issued 46 collections of poetry i" and four novels, and dozens of his poems bi 0 are the basis of Russian popular songs, w i. cl f WILMINGTON, N.C. ? Charlie i: Daniels is going to put aside his fiddle 1 and talk for a spell instead-of singing. W i. The country music star, whose hits rc t include "The Devil Went Down to a Georgia," will be the speaker for the H a May 11 commencement at the University w ol North Carolina at Wilmington. D y "Not only is Charlie Daniels from 3 Wilmington, but he has been recognized bi 1 by virtually every country music re organization as a fine and representative artist in his field," Chancellor James in t Leutze said Tuesday. "E i ba KLOSTERS, Switzerland ? vi f Britain's Prince Charles has merited a t one-man exhibition of his landscape le i watercolors. bo r Thirty-one of his works will be on W display in a bank at this fashionable vii ALTERNATIVE to C (803) 794-2948 '[ 2 5 Minutes fro $200 off second month's rent DIVE INTO A 0PP0RT ji \i L Role Modeling Resume B Friendship Counseling 01'1'OltTl Become a Resident Advisor. Application: located between Baker S January 29?Feb 5 H |e museum Special to The Gamecock La rtartllnrf now dl?eov?rU? In tlon. Jpine ski resort village from Feb. 1 to larch 5. Half were painted in Klosters, the rince's favorite skiing retreat, and hers were painted in Scotland, Greece, epal and other countries. None of the paintings are for sale, nt signed prints, books and tablemats ill be sold to support theprince's larities. LOS ANGELES - Billy Dee rilliams was arrested on suspicion of iughing up a woman. 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