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Burn the
Carolina's annual Tigerburn
festivities and rally took place
Thursday evening. 1
SHARIF SIMMONS Staff Writer !
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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
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Nikki LaRoque talks about the
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ETC. gives you a sneak peek at the jBjjp
movies scheduled to be released * .
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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
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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.
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'idual apartments around of poor and j
m. See page nine.
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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
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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.
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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
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tiem, Linigersaid. He was ofTI^r
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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'
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y who knew him, and who now
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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
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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.
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mines race
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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
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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:
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"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
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inger and poverty. Richland NE High
hool art students contributed with
irtraits of hunger as decoration at the
inquet.
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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,