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t South Carolina's #7 Student Newspaper \ iffdtWy WEATHER a., .j WORLD WIDE CAROLINA sw ??Rf?#rnrb SATURDAY H I | I | I III So, you have writer's block? Now you Sumy / | Fill look on the internet and find suggestions Hi8h 57 H about overcoming your writer's block. Low 27 Is? : fx. Serving USC since 1908 http://www.niva.com./wrttblok/ ^ ? ^^ Burn the Carolina's annual Tigerburn festivities and rally took place Thursday evening. 1 SHARIF SIMMONS Staff Writer ! ?? i Despite the dreary, rainy weather Thursday more than 300 USC fans stood on the Horseshoe J in front of the McKissick museum for USC's 96th annual Tieerburn DeD-rallv. The crowd ranged from five-and-six-year-olds, 1 dressed in Gamecock cheerleader and football player uniforms, to elderly alumni. Before reaching the crowd, the beating of the ( marching band's drums could be heard from far away. Moving closer to the crowd, one could see a huge orange and black tiger. Later in the evening, ( the tiger would be sacrificed in the name of a 100- ? year-old school rivalry between Carolina and archrival Clemson. < A parade down Greene Street began at 6:30pm. '> on the Horseshoe and ended at 7:30p.m. at the PE. Field F for this yeafs 94th meeting of Clemson USC football teams. USC students, band members, cheerleaders and alumni showed up in support of Tigerburn, in which they were ranting and raging "USC" as the USC band played "2001," "Old Fight Song," "Go Carolina Fight Song." USC football head coach Brad Scott was on USC honors killed in wee automobile a CECE VON KOLNITZ Staff Writer "Gen a lot A memorial service for Robert "Gene" dreams Doyle will be held at 4 p.m. Monday, of them \ Dec. 2 at Rutledge Chapel. b e Doyle, a sophomore and marine fishern science major from Naples, Fla., was Gee saic killed in a car accident Nov. 16 on his w a n t e way home from watching the USC/Flarida open u football game. own fis Funeral services were held Thursday business afternoon in Naples. The Honors College Keys soi sophomore would have been 20 years Doyl old Monday. Walter I Doyle's friends describe him as who was someone who loved life. It se "He did everything his way, and he and horn didn't worry about what other people know foi thought of it," sophomore Jonathan Gee them, ai said. "I really admired him. I wanted to about t] be like him." definitel Gee knew Doyle from living on the In a! same hall on the 15th floor of Capstone wrote," > last year and from the Echoes in Blues obvious, class they took together. so ofter "We both got really excited about it explorec (playing the harmonica), and he became with a one of my best friends in about three opennes months," Gee said. "He was quite a guy." the man Gee said Doyle loved the water. miss hii GAMECOCK! I ?? snasmc Nikki LaRoque talks about the .importance of forgivness. ETC. gives you a sneak peek at the jBjjp movies scheduled to be released * . * over the holiday season. f / Tired todai It's the 100th year of the Carolina- indih Clemson football rivalry. Sports has cam/1 a preview of the big game. , SOUTH CAROLINATo Kill A Mockingbird, beloved w o m a for three decades and a masterpiece underst of American literature, is a andthe quintessential^ Southern story of a {JSC's young girl coming of age in a quiet Alabama town in the 1930s. Her voyage of self discovery begins during * a tumultuous and Dainful trial in ^ov. ^ which her father defends a black man 777-251 wrongfully accused of raping a white informs % y it Kitty tiand to aid in the celebration. "Our players are ready to play, and Clemsoris a veiy hot team right now, but so is Carolina, and with your help and support like tonight, we'll win Saturday's ball game in Death Valley," Scott said. IMJUKA ? ADAM SNYD Dr.Willia ? spoke Wed^ including the 1 It ** WorkDisapp problem of ui of living on campus? Read neighborhoo special apartment guide in "Aneight f s paper. Find out about people is diff 'idual apartments around of poor and j m. See page nine. " Oxf; happenings tracy vre nandleadshertoan Student. anding of her town, her father, at Capstom meaning of courage. Theatre wag production features Jayce ess as Atticus Finch. The play The ban jroduced at Longstreet Theatre awareness L to 26 and Dec. 2 to 3. Call struggles t 51 for reservations and more dollars each ition. I went to helj ? Upon er Eileen Lrrana, UbL s 1996-97 Homecoming Queen gave the eulogy for the seven feet long riger later burnt. "This is great. Fm so proud to go to Carolina when I go to things like thisCTigerbum)," freshman Brian Talbert said. USC isn't the only one propping for the CarolinaClemson rally. According to The State, the Clemson Army ROTC cadets started beating on 100-gallon oil drums at Howard's Rock at 6:30 p.m. Thursday and will end at kickoff Saturday. In addition, Clemson also has its own version afTigerbum called Barnyard Burn, which is when a giant papier mache' gamecock is burned. Another aspect of the Carolina-Clemson rivalry began this week, as well. The Carolina -Clemson blood drive started Monday and ended Thursday Every year, each school has a blood drive and the school that has the most blood donations at the end of the week wins a trophy. Tigerburn was presented by the joint effort of Carolina Production's Ernest Sessons and Sigma Phi Epsilon's Jason Sagerquist. student US :kend as: and cat iccident Severe e had afternoon and forun ^ was j oiner ^to '%. <*^31 program 1 phis ' "Thiai hina DOYLE ,imsl . or what w opportunit , 1 l' . we have r e s Echoes in Blues professor, to rebuilt iniger, said Doyle was someone Thorne C > easy to get to know. USC's Tn? emed to me, he was a very open John ] 3st person. Some people you can nredp?*?r years, and you still don't know American id others you just have a sense . i fi . i , m t *i aTT tne iirst c tiem, Linigersaid. He was ofTI^r y one of those people." Also^ letter to Doyle's parents, Liniger ,' He was able to see beyond the evenin striving for the only answer we evening. i fear: heartfelt truth. Gene f I his artistic and creative sides ormer s refreshing and infectious Pa .j' s...His presence was valued by or,a y who knew him, and who now n." "I Prof t USC cheerleaders and Cocky lit a stuffes replica of the Clei C symposium exa lolds symposium and The two events were part of a dayliscussing Columbia l?ng celebration and remembrance of mpus race relations ci^ rights movement. It began i acAv .n<i j._ j_., Thursday mormng with a ecumemcal L960 S ana tOflay. service of remembrance." IYDER News Editor "One goal of the program is to create a forum in which living histoiy can be il generations met Thursday shared," Compton said. "The people in a civil rights symposium who are featured in our three events 1 in Gambrell Hall. will be sharing their own views and 3 Solomon, one of the first, commentary on the struggle for civil an-Americans to attend USC, rights in Columbia during the 1950s 1 by other student leaders of and '60s. This was a time like no other ghts era in an event entitled: in Columbia, and to have outsL. ding sjhts on campus: A special citizens come forward to share their or students." own story is what makes this event program is not about politics unique." e have accomplished; it is an "Harper entered USC's law school y to celebrate the commitments in 1967, four years after Solomon and nade to rededicate ourselves two fellow African-Americans broke the ling the community," said race barrier. But years earlier, Harper lompton, acting director of had tried to apply to USC. stitute of Southern Studies. "The application said only whites Roy Harper, founder of the and Orientals need apply," he said. >r to the Association of African- He described the USC campus to Students, and Harry Walker, African-Americans as being akin to the ilack student body president emperor's palace in China; no one was ?ke about their days at college, allowed to see it. 'Celebrating the struggle: A "We were not to walk across the ogram" was held Thursday campus of USC," Harper said. But the lines had been broken by s Lourie and Hyman S. Rubin, the time Harper was looking for graduate ate senators, highlighted a school, so he applied to USC and was it remembered the struggle accepted. ?hts in Columbia in the 1950s Those days' equivalent of AAAS had )60s. grown tired of "Dixie" being a fight song :essor examines social ER News Editor in his most recent book. He said he was j i i r> _i_ r\_i i._ j c surprised 10 near dou uuie quuieu u um m Julius Wilson, one of the "When Work Disappears" while on the < ing scholars on the social campaign trail. 1 or urban African Americans, But in the book, Wilson dismantles nesday evening in the the conservative argument that people it the University of South in ghettos lack drive and aspiration and 1 iw Center. offers long-term and short-term solutions i d USC by invitation of the to get America's jobless working again. Liberal Arts and the This includes a 21st-century version of i of sociology from Harvard Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress school of government. Administration program, he author of many books, Also this summer, Wilson sent a September release of "When memorandum to President Bill Clinton ears," discussed the growing over concerns about the welfare reform lemployment in segregated bill's lack of creating jobs, ds. The president responded with a lorhood of poor, but working handwritten letter saying he would take erent than a neighborhood Wilson's points into consideration, obless people," Wilson said "The disappearance of work leads to am dinner imposes soc ELAND Staff Writer drew a ticket that determined whether 3 at USC participated in a w?uld ^ .T*!' 1or,lower n v 117 j j class of society. Members ot the lower Jxfam Carolina Wednesday . ? , , ? r ~ class sat on the floor and ate nee ott a ; Conference Center. The banana ,eaf ^ had a glass of water to sponsored by Fslm Ministry drink sored by Columbia Hall. Middle-class people sat on a chair, quet was held to increase ^ heans utensils and had about the poor, and the jgg ^ their water. Members of the upper hey must face. The three class were served a four course meal, student paid tor the dinner sitting at a table: lemon chicken witn ling the hungry. rice and peas; salad, bread, tea and itering the room, students dessert. ?> c I V ; i| -; JH? " ^ v ;%> I- #^?i> . \iSr Mi nson tiger last night. The tiger was bui mines race "Thn nonnlo uikn or a fookiraii in mi I lie pcupic nnu Ulb IbUIUIbU Ul sharing their own views and commi civil rights in Columbia during the 1 time like no other in Columbia, and citizens come forward to share the this event unique." acting director of I at football games, and the Confederate of t battle flag being flown at games, as of i well. A Confederate flag burning was stu planned on the Russell House patio, tea but on the day of the event, white students wore lapel Confederate flag we pins to class. bal It led to heated words and fist fights among students. Harper described it civ as a war zone. ab< "The tension was incredible," he of f said. But after everything calmed down, the the battle flag came down, and "Dixie" th( was no longer played. "We all had decided we were going mi to live together peacefully as brothers kn and sisters at USC," Harper said. Walker also talked to students during bla the symposium. He told of his days Hi growing up in Greenville, and the scl differences between 1968 and 1996 at USC. thi "I found this to be a hostile Be environment. But, I enjoyed the period ch ' u ^ * * % % MARTHA HOTOP The Gamecock It by Sigma Phi Epsilon. relations ir three events will be sntary on the struggle for 1950s and '60s. This was a E to have outstanding ir nuin ctnrv is what makes conditions oi moblems," Wilson said. by i Wilson's books, often directed at woi changing public policy, have been hailed mo Dy Time magazine. Am "No thinker has done more than William Julius Wilson to explain why ma the black under class sank into such anc misery and isolation at the same time liv< millions of other African-Americans were escaping from the ghetto to create a pa; vibrant middle class," Time said. dei Wilson contends inner-city decay cannot be explained by racism alone, em but instead relates it to a complex web be< of factors. cor The most important of those factors wr is the changing class structure of ghetto neighborhoods. wit The movement of middle-class, black hu professionals from the inner city, followed sa: Jil r?1occpc svn i iai v.iuocyvcj v/ii "This was my third year in the pe banquet, and I've sat in a chair once. I have yet to sit at the table," said Betsy ou Kenney, acting as a lower-class member. Hi "It's a very humbling experience." ha The majority of participants were acting as lower-class members. Only a pe small percentage got to be in the upper en class. Oxfam America, the national sk equivalent, has been raising money for hi the poor over the years. The banquet is S< held annually at USC and at other pc colleges and universities. Oxfam is helping b? iting and speaking. "Employers are looking for people th a wide range of abilities. Education rts blacks in employment," Wilson id. participants ople internationally, also. "There was a really, really good turn t A lot of people participated," Columbia ill senator Denise Dunbar said. "We id a lot more people than we expected." After dinner, skits, musical srformances and poetry readings itertained the audience. Those in the *44Un on^innno fonfo nn wnrl/i JIO tUIU U1U auui&ixvc lUVVto W11 T? v? *v? inger and poverty. Richland NE High hool art students contributed with irtraits of hunger as decoration at the inquet. t ? J ? ?? Thorne Compton, JSC's Institute of Southern Studies ime I spent at USC. We had one hell i time," Walker said. He said landing the position as ident body president was thanks to mwork and demographic research. "We were not surprised we won, but were surprised we won on the first lot," he said. During the evening panel discussion, il rights leaders of the era spoke Dut their roles and their recollection he time. Mayor Bob Coble welcomed i speakers and commended them on iir achievements for Columbia. "I think we have accomplished very ich over the past few years, but we ow we have more to do," he said. Ethel Bolden became one of the first ick teachers to be assigned to Dreher gh School, a previously all-white 100I. "We brought a generation of children rough the years of the movement," ilden said."We can't save our own ildren unless we save all children." : urban life the exodus of increasing numbers of king-class blacks, has leil behind the st disadvantaged segments of black lericans, he said. In the latest census, nearly 6 million les ages 25-60 were not employed 1 a disproportionate number of them i in ghettos, he said. Blacks are unable to obtain well ying jobs, or jobs at all, because of icient education, Wilson said. Examples he produced showed iployers were not hiring blacks not :ause of race, but because of weak nmunication skills, including reading,