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^ GAMECOCK ONLINE Visit the Gamecock's Home on the World Wide Web http://www.gamecock.sc.edu GAMECOCK INSIDE \ j j WEATHER j INDEX NEWS Mother Theresa wUl be ^ A. ^ ^ ^ ^ ! f3HCl T0DAY | Viewpoints 3 aoreiymissed- 3i Trip# r?-5 ETC. OPERA use gets ready for SUIItl I I I I 1/ I III ' Low66 : Comics 6 October start. 5 : V ^~~l I I I | I III W\ j THURSDAY j Sports 7 SPORTS Soccer team upsets No.8 / II, I I I ^L, ^^1 ^11 | IjMflH ^76 : Classified 8 k SMUin UMBROKickoffClassic. 7 WW W W* W i ^a^Fwl Low 65 i j Serving USC since 1908 j GAMECOCK BRIEFS j McKissick Museum's third annual j Fall Folklife Festival ! Fall Folklife Festival will be held 10 am. I to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27 on the ; Horseshoe. The festival will feature folk I crafts and artists from South Carolina, j North Carolina and Georgia. j Women by Design Fall Retreat Third annual Women by Design Fall : Retreat will be held Sept. 26-27 in the j social hall of Columbia's First Baptist I Church, downtown Columbia across from j Baptist Medical Center. Registration is j $35 before Sept 21, $40 afterwards. For j more information call Sybil Peckham, ; 787-4816. : I J Sacramento Bee Summer Internships j The Sacramento Bee, a McClatchy ; newspaper in California, is offering summer j internships in reporting, sports, copy : editing, photojournalism and graphics j arts. Send resumes to The Sacramento j Bee, P.O. Box 15779, Sacramento, CA : 95852. : Peace Corps jobs available overseas * Pfeace Corps will host a general information : session on job assignments available at j 5 p.m. Thursday in the Russell House Ballroom A For further information call j 1-800-424-8580. I A If i? /\ T\ 11 TT Applications ror umicron ueiia nappa ; available I Applications for Omicron Delta Kappa, | a national leadership honor society, is : open to undergraduate and graduate j students who with at least 60 earned j hours, GPA of at least 3.0, and have i excelled in leadership. Information sheets j and applications are available at the I Russell House Information Desk. j USC to stage "Frankenstein" j USC will be performing Mary Shelley's ! "Frankenstein" Sept 19-28 in the Drayton ; Hall auditorium. Tickets are available j at Longstreet Box Office and one hour : before the show. For ticket reservations j call 777-2551. : John Izard Middleton's works on exhibit at McKissick : Rediscovered drawings by John Izard j Middleton are the focus exhibit Sept. 17- : Dec. 19 at McKissick Museum. In j conjunction with the exhibit, USC Press j is publishing a book on the drawings and ; other outstanding holdings of the South j Carolina Library. : Carolina Productions presents j "Scream" i Carolina Productions will be showing : "Scream" at 8 p.m. today and Thursday j at the Russell House University Union j Theater. The movie is free to all students. : USC Volunteer Fair The USC Volunteer Fair will be held from 10 a.rn-3 p.m. today on the Russell House : Union Patio. The fair provides a chance { for Columbia community agencies to : highlight and introduce themselves to ; the USC community. For more information I call 777-6688. i Buck-A-Book sale j USC Press will have a $1 per book j warehouse book sale from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., : through Friday at USC Press Warehouse j on the corner of Pickens Street and Whaley j Street. : Special preview of USA Network j movie, "Clover" j USC will be presenting a special preview : of the USA Network movie "Clover," with Dori Sanders, writer of the novel the I movie is based at 8pm, today in Gamhrell Hall auditorium. A reception will follow j on the Gambrell Hall roof garden. For : more information, call USC's Institute for Southern Studies, 777-2340. \ USC Dance Conservatory registration j extended ! Registration for the USC Dance I Conservatory has been extended until : Sept. 15. Classes include instruction in j ballet, tap, jazz, musical theater and pas j de deux. The classes are held on weekdays ; and weekends in Blatt P.E. Center. Daniel Goldhagen and Nuremberg j trial prosecutors to speak at USC | Daniel Goldhagen, author of the 1996 book, "Hitler's Willing Executioners," will : join 10 of the prosecutors from the Nurembeig Trials Sept. 24-26 at USC to j discuss the trials and their implication ; on future international war crimes trials. SC Philharmonic season begins The 1997-98 season of the South Carolina l Philharmonic begins Oct 4. Subscription j tickets are now available. For more I information, call the Philharmonic office j at 254-PHIL. | qompiled by Carrie McQullough t i MLK Day, 1 CARA PELLATT Asst. News. Editor of Noveml With! Since Sept. 3, student government tave lit has had two petitions in residence halls. Sunday tl One proposes extending library hours. 011 Saturdj The other calls for the cancellation of at midnigi classes on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a* 8 P m-1 Student government plans to send "We w the petitions to campus organizations to ^ bette next, according to Student Government said. President Jamel Franklin. Franklin I11 No1 said that as of Monday, there were over collected, 900 signatures and he hopes to have Library ] 3,000-4,000 signatures by the beginning recommei Rutledge em DIONNE KENNEDY Staff Writer ^ J Anyone who has walked along . the Horseshoe area during a brisk r^f||^ ' Sunday morning or special day ' may have seen a wedding taking place, heard a service in progress fflt; or even walked into the white building for prayer meditation, ^ ' meetings or a memorial service. . j! The Rutledge College Chapel K* has been part of the University of South Carolina for more that 159 igfo&i, I years. Built in 1805, it was the only completed structure on the W^S| campus. It contained a library, jEmm chapel and recitation room. "Anywhere from Welcome week | *3?! to altar call during Sunday morning f M church services, I feel as though ispf Rutledge Chapel stands as a center Ljt. ^ of fellowship and congregation for ||B students on all levels, said Nolan Boseman, a sophomore who has 9 never been inside, but has heard j of and seen its importance to the H university. "Hopefully, I will be I able to sit down inside the chapel and experience its uniqueness one I In February 1855, there was I a fire in the chapel and part of the inside was destroyed, but later renovated. The stage was rebuilt, simple pews were installed, the Built in 180 alter and pulpit were replaced and is one of ma there was new red carpet put on the floor. The new chapel that holds 300 peo] rededicated in 1956. During the Civil War, it was used as a hospita Confederate government, provided offices for the Fie Bureau (1864-1865) and the General Assembly c Carolina held meetings in the chapel (1865-1866 The building was originally called the "South Bi then "Old Building," and now Rutledge College < It has two dormitories on either side. The chapel also holds a Georgian chandelier t originally in an English home. The crystal pris lighted by 18 candle-style globes. The chandel donated by President Donald Russell. An organ \ USC Habitat to bu fwMm M g?^ |Jl Student volunteers for USC Habitat for Human symbolic Habitat house on Greene Street, will b CARRIE MCCULLOUGH Staff Writer USC's Habitat for Humanity is , joining central South Carolina's Habitat ^ Augti for Humanity for a building blitz starting fortheCe] ^ePt_. , ... , . forHuma The goal is to build seven houses m and Lexin seven days in Arthurtown, a community Watsoi about a mile south of Williams-Brice 0f vohmte Stadium. the seve Two homes bemg built are part of comnietec the Maxwell House Coffee Company's Accord "100 Houses in 100 Weeks" program, contacted j These houses were started Aug. 23. abates "These two houses are already up Carolina'] and framed," said USC geography of professor Greg Carbone said. local bran Volunteers are important to the ^ two completion of these houses. This i h "It requires student support," said vfounteei ibrary hoi ber. the hours change be petition, Franklin wants Students sei >raiy hours extended to 3 a.m. extended librar irough Friday and to 11 p.m. 1 personalty ay. The library presently closes that late at nigh it Sunday through Friday and stay up all night on Saturday. probably use it," n?4- llUnAUff AM/] ^AAl1t4lAn ImIOIM Aflfl fMAlAW ant uic iuji aiy oijlu iio lauiiLics uuauicso majui, ir used by students," Franklin The other p cancellation of c] member, when the petition is King, Jr. Day. it will be sent to the Office of and festivities Development. The office's day and many s adation is necessary to have with these pr< riches Horse I ' -I I V, M " .1 I Ml SUSAN IV 5, surviving time and a fire in 1855, Rutled ny historic buildings on the Horseshoe. ale was donated to the chapel on May 3,194! Although the chapel is located in 1 i by the many students and faculty membei Oman's inside or even noticed it when they i if South know the chapel is there and know ;) symbol for the university, adding" The chapel was designed by CI Chapel, originally from Ireland, who lived in! also designed the Governor's mansioi hat was 1838 and the Georgia Medical Colle sms are The two architects were Robert Mills < ier was For further information on the R\ vas also Performing Arts Center. Sunda every Sunday at 11 a.m. i t w i . ua 7 nouses in / - ? ?wr I TORI O'HARA The Gamecocl lity, two of which are shown here painting e building seven houses in seven weeks. 1, president of the university's TT L i . r TT Habitat for Humanity. ^ T irst Saturday that we were in* e ie ?, we had about 200 people," *elcfome V0'1 n Watson, executive director ocaJf supp . itral South Carolina Habitat .t ?r mole \ jSSHfii n ?iA xinii K. Habitat for Hu LA OU1U UlUb TV AAA UVy l/TTVJ OAAAAUO n il n i m ers working daily on each of u .. ^ r n houses so they can be Cfohm 1 in the planned seven days. wwv,.habit? ing to Watson, Maxwell House , orm,a on on several Habitat for Humanity ^re samee including the central South ^day on Ule I branch, with the possibility ol^e'?,r ^ ^ g grants to build homes. The Habitat for H ch received $20,000 for each orfan'zatlon th houses volunteer suppi is not the only chance to community. Fa for Habitat for Humanity, homes through] its subject id, according to Franklin. Franklin, who thinl em to be in favor of the major increase in par y hours. programs if classes a wouldn't use the library Franklin believes 1 t but I have friends who is not putting the st studying and they would first when classes an Katie Whitt, a freshman Martin Luther King, (said. "The university letition deals with the students first Thissh lasses on Martin Luther of understanding of st Educational programs said, will take place on that Last year, a simil tudents' classes conflict for Martin Luther Kir Dgrams, according to circulated However, 1 Fear of amidpi Erne yet (1 ve heard) they sized lesions on his arm room doctor at Bapt communities, but it's IEYERS The Gamecock t i proDiem anymore. ge College Chapel ^d an old, redl didn't want to take a co because he was afraid I. from it, but that's so uno he Horseshoe area, I don't think that's the i s have never been said, valked past. Many South Carolina ra: that it is a historic nation in the overall L AIDS, according to Lav larles B. Cluskey, that according to the S Savannah. Cluskey of Health and Environ] 1 in Milledgeville in Richland County has the ge in Augusta, Ga. of AIDS cases per 1 md Edward Clarke. population, ltledge Chapel, call DHEC statistics j y services are held number of reported AH Carolina at 6,765 sine to be taken. The total n has been 3,702. From 1 number of reported ca . | decreased from 1,0161 WCCKS Caulter said that Pj Support Service he] I . counseling program a This is just part of "buddy* they provide Y an ongoing project ^ buddy is provi that urn nn vaar- j.t. i ? j ?ine emoxionai suppo: round, Watson said Palmetto Aids Life S "The ultimate goal program. Buddies ar< is to build 26 new through intensive train houses in the Arthurtown area." USC's chapter has I plans as well. USC's chapter, ^formation about ie building blitz contact at 252-3570, visit the manity office at 209 or visit central South for Humanity's website ttcsc.org. For more ae university's chapter ing at 7 p.m. every I. hird floor of the Russell istin Hill at 544-1305. * | n i t iumanity is a nonprofit Se or ?> at builds houses with ' Can , r r ... with representativ art for families in the ,. ... hia resume, imilies then buy the no-interest loans. of petitions is there will be a said the petition was submitted too late ticipation in these to cancel classes and they are skeptical re canceled. about this year's petition being submitted he administration early enough, according to Franklin, udents' concerns Some students believe students are e not canceled for only signing the petition so they will not Jr. Day. have to attend classes. ' should put the "Martin Luther King, Jr. Day needs lows a large deficit to be reserved as a day of observation udents," Franklin for the good work that King did, but I think a lot of people are signing the ar petition asking petition to get a day off of school," Lee lg, Jr. Day off was Anne Hellebrand, a junior psychology/ ne administration pre-med major, said. AIDS still present ogress, programs Writer matched to a person with AIDS. A buddy keeps in contact with the social worker , ., fl to keep them informed of any needs that ays he wouldn t mayarise quired Immune Caulter said his former buddy moved onniswors out of the state and he no longer has one. ., , . , He said he sometimes visits a neighbor J re atives and ^ aun^. sometimes visits him, but ia> ca C he's usuallv alone in his home. , - , ... Caulter said his house was burglarized ers at ( lve when he left his home in January to be hospitalized. re afrai ese ?i'Ve been ripped off while I was in mting to quarter- the hospital," Caulter said. "I lost my s legs andchest my ^ ^ ^et, the VCR, my it goes by that hying mom table, my suits, my shoes, . ' * sheets, towels, pillow cases, curtains ? i is an emergency you name ft ? Caulter said. S Tathq in He was diagnosed with the human ear ot AiUb is immunodeficiency virus in 1985. He e b 1 a ac a began getting the symptoms of AIDS in 1996 people who live Anderson said Caulter has lived longer than is expected for a patient with here you're going ! would use the words unusual or udice. highly unusual," Anderson said. "You support Services ^ prt)bably say that back in 1985, a tence. wrence patient diagnosed with HIV would have b remains in gve ^ iq years. He would have a death ess-educated sentence. Not an immediate one, but a > not a \ er> lg death sentence nonetheless." i i , i . Anderson said the chances of surviving leek trucker that ATnc ? v . . T? ,. AlJJo are increasmg, but seem to be ^ e. somewhat dependent upon a patient's of getting AIDS outlookoniiff ammon anymore. ?m. ^ fViinrr oo a anrinna n j iiicic xo uu ouux uuiig ao a lorm, Lawrence tllness that doesn't have an emotional , 19 , . , component,'' Anderson said "Some people si th in e accept that death sentence more readily nci encerate o than others. People get depressed and vrence. bhe said hind of give up at some point Others maintain their sense of self-worth." 1?CeS' Caulter said he's finding ways of coping with the disease. ' "Basically, the way Fm dealing with . , . this is I keep myself positive and I tay i aces e o a ^ to Qther people, and hopefully it cases in bou will keep them from going down the road e records egan that I went," Caulter said. "I tell them oqk J iqqg^v, about me and I show them the lesions." n tt^o'iT16 Caulter said he formerly was a ses of AIDS has homosexual prostitute. i II a j tit "Be careful who your sex partners Umetto Aids Life are because ^y^ can have MDS," Ips him with a Caulter ^ -jfg best to get to know a indthroug e person before you have a sexual ? relationship. Condoms aren't safe because e as a p o they do bust. You've got to think about rt aspect of the ^ ? upport Servi ce Caulter said he intends to fight AIDS. j required to go "I plan to be around when they find ing pnor to being acure;hesai4 ll fl| eEswPH* ; " ^ SUSAN MEYERS The Gamecock ck was one of many students who spent some time eer Fair held in the Russell House. Here he spoke es from Formosa Plastics Group. Amick gave them