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The Horseshoe was dusted with sn
sidewalk in front of the President's
dome of the McKissick Museum ha
Olympic torch
With Columbia's role in the 1996 tf
Summer Olympic games ? the hosting Si
of the Women's Olympic Marathon Trials si
Saturday ? and the celebration of Black S
History Month, The Gamecock will be co
looking at where the South has been and st
where the South has gone since the 1960s hi
Civil Rights Movement ? the last major it
time when the South received of national
and international attention. The C
Gamecock will focus on how USC has b(
changed in the past thirty years. b(
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With the Centennial Olympic Games
coming to Atlanta this summer the tl
international spotlight will be on the c<
American South for the first time in 30 oi
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at the South was in the '60s during the tl
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WENDY HUDSON The Gamecock
ow Sunday morning. Above, the
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todies. "It says something about the itaspos
gnificant changes in the American To
outh, even though there is still who brc
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whites trying to keep the system of tl
oppression against blades intact Thirty ii
years later, wounds are still healing from
the struggle, and there is still more ft
progress to be made. tl
Hie South is again a part of the world G
scene, this time in a much more positive k
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The fact that Atlanta was able to
secure the Olympics was a major coup," tl
said professor Cleveland Sellers from ii
Board of Pi
MARTHA HOTOP News Editor
Budgets for the 1996-97 school year ani
continuing WUSC-FM 90.5 controversy domii
the Board of Student Publications
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wiumiumcauuns meeting munuajr aitcn
Chris Carroll, director of student mi
presented the Board of Publications witl
proposed budgets for the three student n
groups: WUSC, The Gamecock and GBQ. Sti
Media receives 14.86 percent of student acl
fees, which is equivalent to $106,999. This ?
amount in then divided among the t'
organizations.
GBQ's budget allocates less money fo
organization than last year's. According to Ci
a lower dollar amount was put in the new bi
to accurately reflect the amount GBQ s
production with. The budget allocates en
money for GBQ to be published twice next
"There's the mind-set that if they start
fewer issues, they can earn additional iss
Carroll said. "Students know they will hav
issues, but if they gather the initiative, the
get more money for the other two issues."
Board member Robert Wilcox raised se
questions about whether l.e budget would
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ate flag that flies over the capital still things 1
is the confederate flag incorporated in "Th
South a
Thirty five years ago, the Supreme to the r
ourt ruled interstate travel could not ma,
j segregated, but this decision had not we neec|
sen enforced. Because of this, the we
reedom Riders came through the gou
merican South to fight for blacks' rights ^
i ride interstate buses. j .1
With their actions in May of 1961, Colixmh
le Freedom Riders were testing this ?pQ]
)urt ruling. The riders, who were
rganized by the Council on Racial
quality, rode through 11 cities in one , .
lonth, being beaten and harassed when a ia
ley got off at each city. Marath
In 1996, the Olympic Torch run will D
e passing through 10 of the 11 cities newsP*
le Freedom Riders came through, recruit
lcluding Columbia. Jersey i
According to Kevin Winston, Regional saialedia
Relations Director for Coca-Cola, Me
le Atlanta Committee on the Olympic a
tames (ACOG) wasn't thinking of any went ir
ind of historical significance when they Atlanta
ere planning the torch route. afl over
The committee had the task of having the Soi
le torch go from Los Angeles to Atlanta well," ?
184 days and making sure as many Amy B
lblications di
the publication to be a "three-issue qua
jWilcox asked if it was reasonable to
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lated pUDllcauuu suiu wj iajse uie muuey lu u
an(j costs of the third and fourth issues.
loon "^e nee(*to on a reSu^ar sc*
3dia publishing every two months," Wilcox sa
~ the the long term, we need a solid base. [GB(
ledia t? start conservatively, or it will die of
ident weight."
tivity Next year's WUSC budget allocates
lollar f?r a new emergency broadcasting systen
hree Under a new law, all radio stations will be
to purchase and install the new EBS d(
r the January 1997.
irroll, Under The Gamecock's budget, the ps
idget return to publishing three days a \
tarts compensate for lost revenue,
ough The board unanimously approved the
year. They also selected Eli Sanchez as the
with editor of GBQ for the rest of the semest
ues," Carroll updated board members al
e two controversy surrounding WUSC.
yean He said 86 DJs recently attenc
mandatory training session. Carroll sai
veral those who attended the training sessio
force former executive board members.
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Features Editor aty;
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Well, the weather outside is Horseshoe
tful, but the fire is so delightfiil students go
t it snow, let it snow, let it snow." hurling. On
students were singing the praises in the Pres
Id Man Winter this weekend. plagColumbia
was hit with a record 0fthe front
Monday of 14 degrees due to a was roped
front still gripping the Southern accident in
Eastern United States today, the ice. Als
same low temperatures were reported ar
;cted for this morning. Mostly dangers, n
ly skies are expected today with snow,
is in the lower 40s. Some si
ligher temperatures will be a weekend t<
:omed relief from freezing lows ?j was [
weekend. With a low of 21 degrees disappoinl
f Sunday morning, a half inch to ^e last tii
ich of snow fell in Columbia. Hie i989}" Nicl
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edom Riders rc
i the country got a chance to see
jsible," Winston said. OLYl
many people, especially those
>ught the Olympics to Atlanta,
leat chance for the South to show ^
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is gives Southerners and the fjp
n opportunity to send a message w f
est of the world that the South W %
ie progress," Sellers said. "But \?Jl
to keep that progress going until | f
3 solved the problems of race in
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ill be a great chance, for Atlanta I"#
ler Southern cities, such as V\
>ia, to be showcased. V%
a university provost it was a
! and a pleasure to read an article 1 %
?rning in the New York Times
about the Womens' Olympic
on Trials in Columbia . This
ce to Columbia in a New York I
iper can only help with USC's J
ing in the New York and New ?
area," Vice Provost Don Greiner J
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iny USC students don't realize ?
big deal it is and how much work
ito this, for Columbia as well as
i. ACOG called in leaders from
tlio Snnfhpflst. < /? mnlfp snrp that
itheast was really represented
student Government President
igham said.
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wer the to' us, and how can we work w
someone who has no respect fi
ledule, Matt Horgan, forme
iid. "For executive:
needs
its own Carroll announced plans to h<
staff meeting Wednesday to outline
i $3,000 for running for an executive positi
1 device, will then elect the executive staff
required week.
evice by Student Board of Publications
D'Alberto then raised the point t
iper will problem with the way the WUSC i
veek to handled, specifically the firing of 1
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stan.
) budget "I feel that the former execut
interim fired improperly," If Alberto said. "V
er. should have been told prior to the c
)out the made, instead of being blind and
to someone, not knowing what th(
led the to do with it."
d two of He said the former WUSC exea
ns were the current staff need to reconcile th
Wilcox agreed a reconciliation
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ill fights abounded on the ALLISON WILLIAMS
Sunday. Oveijoyed USC
t wild with their snowball Senate Fin;
e broke through a window most of the request
ident's House. graduate and underg
ued students as welL Most ^ a* ^
ofIhomas Cooper Libraiy Saturday. Most oi
off Sunday because of an eopymgand suppln
volving a girl slipping no , ^
o, several accidents were *ow to ****?*?
ound campus. Despite the or graduate anc
lost student enjoyed the organizations. .
These oiganizati
huWa nidroA tha urrnocr ?f al)OUt $240,001
"T* *? committee couldnc
>lcaveto the requests. Eadi 01
aSref^ a budget that outlii
ted that I had missed it. ?f their planned pn
me I We seen snow was iil996 through Ju
a La Rogue said. According to 1
^Student Govemmen
is generated from s
and the Senate is res
$750,000 of that a
delegates this respcn
Committee.
Members of the
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Km Baxter, RaNell
David Haller, Jenn
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"Both sides are hardened, and j
happy with each other," Wilcox sa
Dr US?" He said when viewing the situal
;r WUSC-FM ^ isn't a First Amendment issue and
staff member hasn't taken over the station.
"I suspect there is more freedoi
)ld a general station]," Wilcox said. "Since the last 1
the procedure I've gone from one perspective to t
on. The staff Wilcox said former executive;
the following basically telling him, "that if wear
there isn't a station."
member Dan "All the crap needs to stop, th
hat he had a what it comes down to," Wilcox s*
situation was of the approach I keep seeing bein)
the executive want to see them sit down and deci
the station."
ive staff was Jerry Brewer, director of Stud
Ve [the board] he was willing to work with any
lecision being executive members who came to hii
giving power executive members contacted Br<
;y were going they worked together, and both side
from the situation,
itive staff and "The others have been counterp
eir differences, not contacted me," Brewer said."
t is needed on solution there must be mutual re;
lance Committee
lutes activity fees
OCk Continues non-voting members of the committee.
1996 The $750,000 is divided into nine
tivitv fees for ^teg01"*68 ? ^eh getting a percentage:
^G, media, sports clubs, Carolina
jnaergraquare ProductionSj Student Life, Law School
SUOget approval organizations, Medical School
ganizations are organizations, undergraduate
ite. organizations and graduate organizations.
??? _ ... Media, sports clubs, CP, Student Life,
c School organizations and Medical
Special Projects Editor gc^00j organizations make up about
ance Committee cut $660,000 of student activity fees. All
ed budgets from 71 organizations, with the exception of
raduateorganizations Student Media and Law School
iring their meeting organizations, have submitted itemized
the cuts included budgets.
as. The committee dividgd the 71
amittee met to decide graduate and undergraduate organizations
te $85,000 allocated between the voting members and Britton.
1 undergraduate Each member was responsible far making
recommendations to the committee about
ons requested a total their assigned organization. The
). This means the committee then debated the various
it honor $155,000 of components of the budget and passed a
ganization submitted total allocation,
led each component For each organization there was a
Dgramming for July recommended fair share amount. This
ne 30,1997. number was based on amounts of money
Woody C arothers, received last year plus an even share of
t advisor, $1.5 million the increase in student activity fees,
tudent activity fees, The Finance Committee must adhere
ponsMe fcr allocating to guidelines in the SG Financial Codes,
mount. The Senate but the rules are not specific. For example,
sibility to the Finance the Financial Codes prohibit funding for
food for regularly scheduled meetings,
Finance Committee but money for food for receptions, picnics,
n Martin, Senators etc. was approved by the committee.
uneney, J\en oaxter, Anotner issue me committee nau to
ifer May, and Brian deal with was T-shirt printing and
ritton, Student Body purchasing. The committee decided
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common decency you can't have reconciliation."
?ople are not Wilcox also stressed the need for both sides
id. to reconcile their differences,
ion, it is clear "This thing really has gotten into a bloody
the university war," Wilcox said. "There is pure defamation,
actual legal defamation by both sides... and this
n now [at the is particularly bad in a university setting."
board meeting Members from the former executive staff said
he other." they haven't approached Brewer about reconciling
members are their differences because they felt they weren't
en't in charge respected.
"We realize that Brewer has no respect for
at's basically us, and how can we work with someone who has
lid. Tm tired no respect for us?" Matt Horgan said. "In a meeting
I taken. I just behind closed doors, we were told that we had
de how to run no rights."
These members went on to say they would
tent Life, said like to return to the station and that it was killing
of the former them not to have a show,
n. Two former The Board of Publications established a WUSCiwer.
He said FM Mission Task Force made up of four students,
s have learned administrators and community members to look
into the situation. The group will meet once at
>roductive and the end of February and again in the beginning
To work out a of March. They will present their findings at the
,pect; without board meeting in March * 4