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Winner of the 1996 CMA Pacemaker Award WEATHER I > I INDEX ii %k 0amccock i Serving USC since 1908 0 J. trial MARKPIRAS Staff Writer As the President was addressing Congress with the State of the Union Address Tuesday night, the verdict for 0. J. Simpson's civil trial came back. finding Simpson liable on all counts. "When you break into the President's speech about the next 50 years for the 0. J. verdict, thafs incredible," Criminal Justice Professor Gene Stephens said. The President's speech continued despite the verdict. Betty Glad, professor of government and international studies, gave her impressions of Clinton's speech. "I thought it was very well-delivered," Glad said. "He was doing exactly what Senate amends funding guidelines CABA PELLATT Staff Writer Senators voted Wednesday on SBL (97) 002, an amendment in the Law School 1S\nv)nwt r!iti/inK?oa rIlv\ Vnll uwm ?*????? x UlWIIIIft UIUUWUXU3. IXJC UUi VfCO jJUCOOlLCU by Sen. Matthew Richardson. The senators passed the bill by a majority vote. Jo other business, Sen. Michele Marinku?ic announced student government surveys will be distributed in Preston and to the Frata-nity and Sorority Council. The surveys ask students to evaluate the performance of student government and to give their opinions on various issues such as recyding and academic advisement "We want to get the opinions of different students about how they feel student government is doing," Marinkovic said. Sen. Susanne Newman reported the Tunnel Beautification Committee has contacted a professional muralist. The muralist will look at the tunnel and tell the committee what steps they need to take. Newman also reported design ideas are still needed. The committee also needs volunteers and additional funds for the project. Also, Sen. Michael Ladd was sworn in by Pro Tem Gene Willis. Ladd was approved for Senate membership by the senators at the Jan. 22 meeting. The Gamecock was unable to obtain the list of senators who were absent from Wednesday's meeting. National Ac ROSALIND HARVEY Staff Writer The faculty parking lot on Pendleton Street beside the Business Administration building has become federal domain. Federal funds are being used to build the National Advocacy Center, which will be used to train federal attorneys, on the spot once occupied by professors' ' automobiles. A $30.5 million budget has been set 1 for the construction of the center by the Department of Justice, according to Bond 1 Nickles of USCs Marketing and Media ' Relations. All of this money will come J from the federal government. The 260,000-square-foot building currently has little connection with the < university, Nickles said. I Plans are also being discussed for a ? The Wednesday Night Shag is show on WUSC-FM 90.5 featuring gr J mi 1 1 ? iruuic nance music, ine snow Dri ers the newest C!TT A trends in electronic club, triphop and drum'n'bass. So if you're tired of house dance music and disco, check out what's going on with the Wednesday Night Shag in ETC. Z> 1, basketli I expected, trying to find nan-controversial issues. His focus was on the balanced budget, education, reform of the election process and bipartisanship." "He didn't hit too many topics," Glad said. "He wanted to show he could take an active role." Dr. John Cavanaugh, research associate at the Institute of Public Affairs, had a different take on things. "From a politicalcommunications standpoint, [Clinton]'s a very powerful orator, but he is undisciplined, and has a tendency to crowd his agenda with too many items," Cavanaugh said. "The initiatives in his speech meandered from campaign finance refbim..to education...to the Mars mission... * x *v\, ' '4-J 1 T Ivocacy Cen student interface / / program in which w w law students will I think that this \ liave the for USC and for < opportunity to tour sounds like thii the center. u u ? i, couia re any put i 01 h e r agreements being discussed for 3 t u d e n t involvement ^on ?*ow< include freshma opportunities for a a part-time jobs and / / participation in federal judicial programs, Nickles said, f In an agreement with the university, c he Justice Department agreed to help I jay for the new Blossom Street Garage 1 md to give the center to the university 1 an alternative dance ound-breaking elec- flp ings Columbia listeniGGIN' I If AWAY k? 1 >all overs "He had too // many agendas for * ' Congress to digest it It's very inter at<any one time." verdict came o Cavanaugh said time as the P he felt Clinton's speech and a gji objectives for the Gamecock baski speech were "an t|,e effect ii effort to find overall Colum areas of agreement in the Republican GenflW Congress and to r .1.1. , Criminal Justic outline his vision and to secure his place Ij # in history." ' > Glad said Clinton was "talking too much about the 21st i century. It's getting tiresome." j :V ' . ^ * ' 'V . JONATHAN SHARPE The Gamecock ter unites D after 20 years, Nickles tl said. The university iill be great has not decided the n Columbia. It use of the building E It building once ^ gains lolumbia on ownership. a _ Construction of the g I Advocacy Center is expected to last until 0] I? Spring 1998. p The three-story n hnrVai^a nf tKn ~ ~ p] building is being equipped with 240 tj. residential facilities ^ or those who will be training at the :enter, according to Ed Bass from the facilities Management Center. [Tie front will consist of two stories of ^ egal offices and practice court rooms for 1 fl i mm Ray Tanner makei debut as the Game baseball coach this 2 noon as USC hosts the at 3 p.m. Read all a s iMflfl young squad in SPOl Also in SPORTS: Ha dered how those craz; behind the basket at b nfc/JjU bers of the Student G this club, its perks and f hadow Sf Glad said she was * also unhappy with eating the Clinton's proposal at the same for welfare reform, resident's "He emphasized rent upset in volunteerism with etball, reduc- businesses to create : will have in new jobs. I felt he l,fa. may have been ducking the issue," ypert Glad said "We'll also e professor have to see how much the proposed \ education system will cost." Glad said she had nixed feelings about "moving NATO guarantees to eastern Europe. Pharmacy graduate student Karen Martin takes her dog, a bloodhound named Suzy, for a stroll Friday on the Horseshoe. 1 ipnorfmanf ie training attorneys, he said. The outside color of the building will laintain the "traditional" pink of the | [orseshoe. r "The partnership of the university ad the Department of Justice will be a reat opportunity for USC and its udents," said Russ McKinney, director | * communications in the USC Office of I ublic Affairs. "Some of the best and brightest M rosecutors will be here," he said. Freshman Jon Powers said, "I think E lat this will be great for USC and for I olumbia. It sounds like this building 1 >uld really put Columbia on the map." | Carr Bennett said he agreed. "The g liversity and the Judicial Department ive made a fair swap. It is going to be good thing," he said. 1 cock BATTER ! College of Charleston UP bout Tanner and his #TS PAGE C ve you ever wonf fans keep getting the same seat asketball ffames? Well, thev're mem o 7 ; * ~ ----amecock Club. Find out all abou how to become a member. T tate of th "He also said that all Latin America is democratic except one country. That was a cheap applause line. I'm not sure how democratic all those countries are," she said Cavanaugh said he felt an unrealistic goal of Clinton's speech was "the fairly lofty goal to link all classrooms to the Internet. It's overly optimistic to get all the structural problems resolved in the classroom and still get them hooked into thp Tntpmpt. anv timp in fhp near fiihirp " "I think this was an attempt to turn the poetic themes of the inaugural address into the prose of proposals," Cavanaugh said. "He's got a lemon?the public's in a conservative mood?and he's trying to Celebrated ail on race relatit in light of cur KRISTIN RICHARDSON Staff Writer Many current events are flashpoints along a line delineated by race, according to award-winning author Dr. Micheal Eric Dyson, considered one of the nation's most distinguished and public ??? intellectuals. [ TW^ Dyson spoke last night in uJjLK*., the Russell House Ballroom as IP part of Multicultural Student Affair's celebration of Black | iVifAT History Month. j Thomas Rivers, coordinator of Multicultural Student Affairs, described Dyson as "one of the leading intellectual men in African-American culture today. "He speaks in a stimulating way which helps students to perceive ideas," he said. "This is important because he knows the facts and he really relates to the students" Rivers said. Walter W. Jackson, director of Multicultural Student Affairs, began the program by providing a brief background about the beginning of black history month. Following Jackson was a special presentation from Larry Jordan, the Postmaster of Columbia. He spoke about 1978, the year the "postal service began to recognize and honor black historians and black history. "These stamps bring to our consciousness the people that we may not know anything about," Jordan said. He then presented the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs an enlarged photo of the stamp of Benjamin Oliver Davis, which symbolizes the elimination rvf Ti i /"4/\ i UI JU&llUC, I |pgr^ l^apA JaMBy ., / m?| lie Advocacy Center should be comf i - How many frogs do the Fn ) every year ANSWER:* t Source: Harper's Index f* e Union make lemonade out of it," Glad said. "The address was overshadowed nationally by the Simpson verdict and locally by the Gamecock basketball team," -Cavanaugh said. Not everyone was following the President's speech as closely as the Simpson verdict, especially students. Criminal Justice Professor Geoffrey Alpert said, "It's very interesting the verdict came out the same time as the President's speech and a great upset in Gamecock basketball, reducing the effect it will have in Columbia." Although Simpson was found responsible in the deaths of Ron Goldman REACTIONS page 2 1 i thor speaks >ns, divisions rent events of segregation in the military. Dr. James Miller, director of the African-American Studies Program and a professor at USC, introduced the author and said the program was ua special occasion because it was an opportunity Sto be with an old friend and After thanking Miller, Dyson, director of the Institute of African-American Research at the University of North Carolina, began his u&mspeech about black history and race relations today in ?jK I reference to his book, Race Rules. Navigating the Color Line. Dyson described his book as "different flashpoints along the projectoiy of race." Dyson discussed the different spectacles grounding our perception of race, and used examples such as the 0 J. Simpson trial to make sure the audience was clear about the point he was trying to make. "It revealed the racial division," he said, "between Americans of AfricanAmerican decent and Americans of European decent." What Dyson said he wanted to emphasize in his book is that "we have been taken back because of bigotries, blindness, and biases". Dyson continued with a reference to the hip-hop culture that he feels society should except and not reject. He spoke on the idea that rap and other hip-hop forms of music contain nothing but violence and vulgarity. DYSON page 2 iniversity M 6 TW^tT unBi JEFF NICHOLSON The Gamecock ileted by Spring 1998. ??J 5 JUST FOR ^ FUN 200,000,000 I