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South Carolina's #1 Student Newspaper WEATHER ^TrPTU^s. TTlHii WORLD WIDE CAROLINA TODAY 7(1 [| | r====; Can't find good Rainy SET.. ^ a! I f "s v"^ news? CNN's lw691 n11^wet>siteotfers THURSDAY r? V vJ I I I Wf I III 94 both US and ( ?SKj. \ JiM I iCvUUV 1L__J I Serving USC since 1908 http://www.cnn.com INSIDE mm VOTE A Getting involved in politics: columnist John Frick makes it easy as one, two, three. ?w Hungry? Today, ETC. is not only feeding the mind, but filling the tummy, too. Volleyball: it's more than just spikes and kneepads. Gamecock Sports explores. Qnnth Pornlino UUUIll UUIUIIIla Happenings S.C. STUDENT LEGISLATURE TheSC Student Legislature is a non-partisan organization of students from ten colleges and universities across the state. Its purpose is to inform and educate SC's youth about leadership, as well as the legislative and judicial processes of the Palmetto State through hands-on involvement and activism. It meets at USC in Gambrell Hall, room 151 on Wednesday, September 4, at 8:30 p.m.. For nnc wppIc parb fall student members meet in the committee rooms and the official chamber of the SC House of Representatives. There, they discuss and debate topical bills and resolutions drafted between sessions within individual campus organizations. Those measures passed by the student delegates are presented to the SC General Assembly. Students participating in the fall session may run for leadership positions like Speaker of the House and Governor of the S.C.S.L. Call Bryan Menees for more information at (803)798-5404. Student MARTHA HOTOP News Editor si The United States fired 27 missiles T Tuesday at Southern Iraqi military & targets after Iraqi President Saddam cc Hussein refused to remove his troops that were fighting the Kurds in Northern ^ Iraq. w President Clinton ordered the act c( Tuesday, following Saddam's refusal to C( comply with the no-fly zone in Northern ?1 Iraq. "Our objectives are limited, but clear s to make Saddam pay a price for the latest ? act of brutality, reducing his ability to 1 threaten his neighbors and America s a interests," President Clinton said. mi _ . *i 1 f-"*" ine missiles were muuuicu uum Mas fi ill !BE |kMM. ~| HAH (j ffig E -P f J SERVICE HALL j I?H The new dormitories will soon b dorms, above, provides a glimps New dorn ALYSSA SMITH Staff Writer oft] Out with the old, in with the ^ new is USC's new policy. rec( The University's Master Plan this includes plans to renovate and ' replace the school's dorms for it's ren( bicentennial anniversary in the Bat year 2001, and has literally started Hal vub w ii/ii a uaiig. " VJ In June the school tore down lobl two of it's dorms?Baker and its Burney. Baker, Burney, Douglas, rece Snowden, Moore, and LaBorde were built in the 1970s, and were known tota as the Honeycomb Towers. in tl In the next few years the rest co-e of the Towers will come down to sper make room for the new math and Ma? science complex. 1 In the fall of last year Preston 199' College's rooms had been totally styl remodeled, with direct mainframe 100 internet access installed. bath Last year Sims, a dorm on the and women's quadrant, was being 1 renovated. H-sl The lobby and student rooms eithi were redone. New windows were the i put in and direct mainframe I I internet access was also installed, upp Woodrow and DeSaussure, two the t Speaker, mc Carolina Productions sponso "Dead Man Walking" and presen Susan Smith's defense sHa? tonight in hopes to spark studenl interest in capital punishment. MARTHA HOTOP Staff Writer Students will examine their beliefs about capi punishment tonight during a presentation whi includes Susan Smith's defense attorney, Da\ Bruck, and the movie "Dead Man Walking." Bruck, a nationally-recognized, anti-capil punishment lawyer will discuss the death pena with students. He is expected to speak for about 45 minut and then open the floor for questions from t audience. Bruck's speech will focus on the genei s react lips and planes in the Persian Gulf, tt he U.S. hoped to launch them from y< audi Arabia or Jordan, but the two "? >untries refused. si State Department spokesman D icholas Burns said the U.S. continued R ith the attack, despite the lack of si implete support from the Arab immunity. The Russians were also si iposed to the U.S.'s intervention. w As news of the attack spread among a udents and faculty members, they Fered varied opinions about the attack. a| 3me students considered the missile a unch to be done for purely political H sasons. ai "[I think] it was a political move by tering Sbt rara m PWSAC EAST C0U1 a a reality on the corner off Sumter e into the future. is advanc tie Horseshoe apartments, and Bryde, the fraternity housing, jived new carpeting and paint i summer. The !\1 so this summer, the Towers u wated their computer lab. Sims, es, the Towers, and Columbia 1 built academic classrooms, rkers redesigned Capstone's >y and recarpeted and lighted Street C hallways. Columbia Hall P-E. C lived a new exercise room. invests This semester Maxcy is being new d? lly renovated. It will be open "E?] le fall of 1997 and will hold 185 asking d freshman. The school has in a doi it 4.8 million dollars renovating that th ccy. and bs banned to open in the fall of Directo 7 is a brand-new, apartment- that in e dorm. The dorm will have designe ' apartments with 2 full to mak rooms, a kitchen, a living room, In t 4 private bedrooms. plans t( [he new building will be in an of the i lape, with two courtyards on Wit! sr side and a commons area in and Bu middle. ofMaxc t will house co-ed housing erclassmen. The location of Bea lorm will be behind the Blossom studen >vie to add _ topic of capital punishment. . Bruck defends people who are o: hope of getting anything but the d< BV J T t-I i,'?? ? saiu jayson uuimsun, v^tuuiuia i iuu ^ and Issues Commissioner. Carolina Productions Cinematic / and Issues Commissions are responsib the movie and Bruck to campus. "We asked Bruck to speak becau t* attorney with national prominenc n that's being covered in the movie," J l_aj The movie "Dead Man Walking' Ity nun s effort to work with a convicted by Sean Penn, who is on death row. es Throughout the movie,which we he f?r several academy awards last ye al K played by Susan Sarandon confront whether capital punishment is moi to US ie Democrats because this is an election sar," said Jay Alverson, a junior, laddam has been attacking the Kurds nee Desert Storm ended, but the emocrats have [previously] blocked all epublican attempts to rectify the luauon. "Now that it's election time, Clinton iw former president Bush's success ith the war, so Clinton feels he needs war to help boost his poll standings." Another student, Christy Decker, jreed that the up-coming election was factor in deciding to launch the missiles, owever, past history with Iraq was lother factor. "President Clinton has to follow the the Pit CTYARD and Wheat Streets. An architects :fi Master housing, ide , **< ? housing l Blatt P.E. Center is left, sol ergoing renovations Brooks I >ss the street from the jjSC. dorms. Story, page 3. ?gut campus bedroon xarage, across from the Blatt have to 1 enter. The school has summer, i 14.9 million dollars on the after 2:0 rm. Sopht r three years we have been same pi students what they wanted anartmpr rm and everyone has said time was ey want private bedrooms wasn't ? iths," said Gene Luna, didn't m r of Housing. "So we took costs the to consideration when we and I gel d the new dorm. We want "My i e students comfortable." and I kn he year 2000, the school a housir ) build new dorms in front ahead a lew Bull Street Garage, together, 1 the tearing down of Baker USC sop rney and the renovations "Beca :y, there was a shortage of upperch ?* ; uuo yeai. preierre mse of the shortage many "Next yej ts looked elsewhere for will com< ress capita " Maybe this [progra XS students' thinking dei uctions Ideas C3US8 thCITI tO rG"6X3 on the issue," irts and Ideas le for bringing ^ se he's a local e in an issue rohnson said. One can receive th ' focuses on a involving a murder coi killer, played Wedlock, a USC law pr However, the juiy m is nominated guilty, without a doubt, oi ar, the nun, Wedlock said the mo s the issue of aggravating circumstano rally correct 4 felonies, with the victin attack ( precedent of his predecessor, George Bush, in order to maintain the U.S.'s image world-wide," Decker said. Other students said that the situation had been growing worse for a good period of time. Students cited Saddam's repeated violations. "This has been developing for a long time," said David Lowery, another USC junior. "Saddam hurt his people, so the U.S. released sanctions for humanitarian reasons, which he took as American weakness. Saddam has constantly defied treaties, and should have had his power taken away during the Gulf War." Initially, presidential-hopeful Bob Dole blamed the problem on weak political I ( m c a I S si "J^ NIK a"~ HI- Car TlCS mei beorm. hall cam bedmi. hall """"| Clm as p Cad J opii Cita Special to The Gamecock inch rendering of the new US( rath I the i Plan si * onet the time I signed up for "! there weren't any spaces a sop got an apartment," said to be lallentine, a sophomore at to re S I also wanted to move off that so I could have my own exP? 1 and bathroom, I didn't eave during breaks or the brea and my friends could stay a stu 0 a.m." " J Dmore Ryan Baker had the seP^ oblem, "I had to get an ' it because my appointment , so late last year that there sai mything left for me. It atter, though, because it ^ 1 same to live off campus, P1?11 ; my own bathroom." * oommate from last year ^ ew there was going to be ig shortage, so we went ind got an apartment ," said Lindsay Gainer, a now j homore. doit use of the shortage, many issmen didn't get their was t d housing," said Luna. jc u- we hope those students a p0g i back on campus." il punishm< m] will stimulate "CPhope! sper on the issue, or mine where they stend intheprofes There an Jayson Johnson, may become Carolina Productions Ideas P31^ ^ and Issues Commissioner , Maybe 1 deeper on th where they s e death penalty in cases Brack wi iviction, according Eldon House Ballrc ofessor. Followin] ust also find the defendant will be showi ' aggravating circumstances. Tickets fi st common cases involving RH Informat as are robberies and serious The USC i being lolled. led by Brack )n Iraq policies, but later backed off. "In matters like this, all of us think not as Republicans or Democrats, but as Americans," Dole said. "As Americans, we wish our troops success and safety." A USC GINT professor, Donald Puchala, director of the Walker Institute of International Studies, supported President Clinton's efforts. Puchala said that Clinton was faced with the question of how to influence Saddam Hussein. "For Saddam to massacre his own people is wrong," Puchala said. "The U.S. delivered the message to him that it is wrong; missiles were the only way IRAQ page 2 Jitadel lecision iffects JSC, USA KI1AROCQUE Staff Writer The Citadel and the University of South olina now share one commonality: both a and women walk their respective tpuses. Petra Lovetinska of Washington, D.C., riPV M Qeo nf flnnon Proolr Tnonio ?>, , il4UVv ui vjv/uow vi tta, ucauic itavlos of Charlotte and Kim Messer of /er all entered the 1996 Fall Semester ?art of the formerly all-male Corps of lets. (\lthough the decision has been made, lions still run strong, not only on the del campus, but throughout the country, iding our own coeducational University. I think it's fair," said Francis Duffy, a /junior, "but it violates tradition. I'd er not have girls go there." )uffy also said she felt sympathy for vomen attending the Citadel. I'd hate to be there. I know people at Citadel don't want women there," Duffy lot all students have concrete opinions, vay or another. I have mixed feelings," said Donna Ott, ihomore, "Legally women have the right there. The girls there now are qualified present women." till, Ott, who is in ROTC, said she feels her education at USC gives good sure and fit.c Vior nooHa At the Citadel) you live, eat, sleep and th being a cadet. You need time to be [dent," Ott said. unior Chris Reeves sees a parallel to rate but equal. [ don't think they're going there for the ity of education, but to prove 8 point," Reeves, "I believe everybody has the rtunity to have the type of education want, but to abuse that system for selflotion shows immaturity and lack of jrity for the American educational m." s opposed to self-indulgence, sophomore m Duncan sees the female cadets as y setting a good example, feel that the women at the Citadel lave proven to everyone that they can and are there to work." she said, "It t seem to me that Shannon Faulkner here for the right reasons." ?hn, a junior Cadet at the Citadel, feels itive attitude needs to be carried CITADEL page 2 snt issue 3 that the students will be open-minded Brack's opinion," Johnson said. "Brack sas and opinions from years of working sion." ?some expectations that the audience emotional during the speech, but that 's hope. his will stimulate students' thinking e issue, or cause them to re-examine tand on the issue," Johnson said. 11 speak tonight at 7, in the Russell )om. g the debate, "Dead Man Walking" i at 8 p.m. in the RF Theater. )r the movie will be available at the ion desk. Law School will also feature a debate on Thursday, Se'pt. 12 at 5 p.m.