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GAMECOCK ONLINE Visit the Gamecock's Home on the World Wide Web http://www.gamecock.sc.edu GAMECOCK INSIDE j \ WEATHER INDEX VIEWPOINT Columnist asks, ij M \ ^ ^ TODAY I Viewpoints 2 "What's with today's kids?" Sj| 7jj f| f ^ gV ^ j \ ?c. 3 ETC. A review of the recent Indigo Si l-V" H | I I I I I 1/ I III I a 47^* Low 65 Comics 4 Girls' concert. 3 : V V-1 I I I | I III 1% Thursday i Sports 5 SPORTSMen's soccer team shuts j j V/Wl | IVVVVlV [ ?? I " ' rec j j Serving USC since 1908 j j Gamecock Briefs j Student Organization Fair USC Student Organization Fair j sponsored by the Department of Stu- ! dent Life is from 10:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. to- ; day at Russell House Patio. j New York biographer to visit USC : Patricia Bosworth, biographer, j journalist, actress, playwright, will vis- : it USC 3 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6, at Gam brell Hall, room 152. | ivicjvissicK Museum receives grant ; McKissick Museum received a In- j stitute of Museum and Library Service J ^ grant, the largest grant awarded to a ; Southern university. The grant sup ports the museums^ computer opera- : tions and special exhibitions, upgrade j security and enhance public programs, j South Carolina Archaeology Week : South Carolina Archaeology Week j will be Sept. 27 - Oct 4. Statewide kick- : off is 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 27 at Dunes j West Community Center, Mount Pleas- j ant. Other events will be in Barnwell : County, Summerville and Aiken. For j more information contact Nena Pow- : el Rice, 777-8170. I McKissick Museum to hold sym posium : McKissick Museum will hold sym posium about natural history Oct. 3-4 I in the museum's auditorium, regis trations ranges from $6-15 for students, j or $15-30 general public. For more in- : ? formation call 777-7251. j Rape Crisis Network recruiting I volunteers : Rape Crisis Network is recruiting j for volunteers to train in October. The : 20-hour training schedule is Oct. 18- j 19 and Oct. 25-26. For more informa- j tion call Rebecca Mattox, 252-8393. i i t' Funding available for graduate : study ! U.S. Department of Energy is of- j fering fellowships for graduate study j in nuclear engineering, health physics, industrial hygiene, radioactive waste management, fusion science and fu- I sion technology. Deadline is Jan. 26, ; 1998. For application contact Milton j Constantin (423) 576-9655 or ORISE i v Fellowship Programs, ORISE, Educa- j tion and Training Division, P.O. Box I 117, Oak Ridge, Tenn. 37831-0117. Golden Key to sponsor practice j tests : Golden Key National Honor So- j ciety will be selling tickets for practice I CPA, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT to be held Saturday, Sept. 27, at 9 a.m. in Gambrell Hall. Tickets cost $5 and : will be sold Monday through Wednes- j v day, Sept. 22-24, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Pro- j ceeds will go to Golden Key. : Autumn Jazz Gruisa on T aka Mnn. ! ray An Autumn Jazz Cruise on Lake j Murray will be held from 7-9 p.m. j Thursday, Sept. 25. It will benefit Big i Brothers/Big Sisters of Greater Co- j lumbia, Inc., and is available to indi- j viduals over the age of 18. For more : information, contact Barron Damon at V e 691-5700. : European Bronze Sculpture opens j at Columbia Museum of Art The Age of Bronze: 19th and 20th rontiiw F.nrnnaan Rynnio" vviicui j v^vwi wiwimc ii urn me Mandeli Collection will be shown Sept. i 27-May 3 at the Columbia museum of Art. For more information call 799- I 2810. i , ^ ' S.C. Philharmonic announces its ; 1997-98 season . The S.C. Philharmonic announced ; its 33rd season beginning Oct. 4. The | season includes eight "Master Se- : ries" concerts of traditional classical music, two "Pops" concerts and one spe- I cial Sunday matinee performance. All ; concerts are at the Roger Center for v the Arts. I I V t USC poetry reading j ?c A USC poetry reading of origi- : g nal works will be held at 7 p.m., Oct. j ci 4 at Alley Cafe on Lady Street in the Vista. For more information about tak- : n ing part in the reading call the USC j? English Department at 777-4203. ! a : si ^ complied, by Carie McCullough j ir ~ I h Nazi pros JESSICA VANEGEREN Staff Writer tone the ? Throughout the next three days, mo(* USC students will be able to experi- ^wa ence firsthand a lesson learned from the past: History does repeat itself, focus Nine prosecutors from the Nurem- day 1 berg War Trials, along with Harvard ^obe: University professor Daniel Goldha- dons gen, will discuss the Nuremberg trials Stats and the impact they've had on future indh war crimes Wednesday through Friday were at the Law School auditorium. The nine original prosecutors from tions the Nuremberg trial who will be pre- tion: sent at the panel discussions are H.W. a t i o Caming, Theodore Fenstermacher, Ce- orga 1* n i_ TlT'll* _ _ T 1 TTT1 *1 V ciiia ijoeiz, wiiiiam uacxson, wnuney ciuqi Harris, Henry King Jr., Herbert ofthi Markow, Jack Robbins and Walter ty. Rockier. Professor Goldhagen will give a day i keynote address at 7:30 p.m. Wednes- the 1 day. Author of the international best modi seller Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, j Goldhagen will focus on the German gg w mentality before and during the war crimes committed by the Germans dur- xj ing World Warn. Goldhagen argues that the Ger- COrdi man people were so toxified by the be- prof lief in Jewish genocide that by the time Hitler came to power, he had no prob- ^ lem finding men to torture or kill for ..j* him. Goldhagen's speech will set the ^ ! Sweetgrase basket makers sit outside on year's Folklife Festival. Ibis years festival Folklife festival DIONNE KENNEDY Staff Writer rate boofc Fun, music, pottery and quilts 1 will be a part of the Folklife Festival atmo being held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. rytell 27 on the Horseshoe, showcasing folk of Gr crafts and artists from South Car- ing.r. olina, Georgia and North Carolina. Papp The theme of the Folklife Festi- ^ val is "Knowing Nature." It centers anc< on the museum's natural history ex- 0 v hibition, "Knowing N ature: N atural History Study in a Multicultural vance Smith IKfiO-IRfin" TKav There will be activities for the a^am whole family, like a discovery tent for s 1 the children, where they can deco- wher Internet help >ETER SORENSEN Staff Writer A new computer program available in the C er allows students to have interviews over tht irith prospective employers who may be a long1 It's called ViewNet. The company sets up a 3ites" at various companies and other places ountry so students and employers long distance onnect for interviews, according to Maureen D ram manager for the Career Center's On-Ca ruiting program and other special events. To facilitate more interviews for students, 1 y has come up with what is called a Virtual Job I i accessible through the Internet. Students use the Virtual Job Fair to find n vailable job listings. If they're interested in a c :udents then can apply for that job. When they iterview with their prospective employer, stu ave it at one end of ViewNet. i ecutors tc for the following two days. He links tions cone ittempted genocide of the Jews to sion. Refei ern-day war crimes in Bosnia, ]ems occu nda and Cambodia. . , ,. . including t The trials at Nuremberg are the c u r r e d a j for the panel discussion Thursat 9 a.m. The trials began in Oc- e s"1 rl945. The four prosecuting na- on subjects included Great Britain the I Inited effects of i ?, France and Russia. Twenty-four said, ndual men and six organizations : indicted. . Thefi The indictment of the organiza- ^ * addre i raised a fundamental legal ques- e'lsts W1" the legitimacy of guilt by associ- ti?ns of la n. In the end, three of the army offii nizations were found guilty, in- hostages, ng the SS, Gestapo and the Corps s Political Leaders of the Nazi Parwhich is cl A second panel will begin Thurs- includes lc at 2 p.m. Its focus will be to link liberal art essons learned at Nuremberg to for organi arn day situations. Herzstein Friday at 9 a.m., the discussion of juj-g loctors cases will begin. These casere originally held by Americans her of the ( een 1946 and 1947 to prosecute believes t physicians who had performed ex- for USC st ments on Jewish prisoners, ac- ?^g g ng to Robert Herzstein, a histoiy sssor. ' generatio By 1942, physicians accounted for PeoP^? ircent of the Nazi party. Panelists Nurember liscuss reasons for the physicians portant to icipation and raise ethical ques- can teach 1 irvj- * \ SPE USC's horseshoe last year. They were maki will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. until 4 kicks off this we gourds and make candles and Green poste marks. artists and V? For parents who prefer a diverse ^?&s' barbeci sphere, African-American sto- er refreshme ler Lorraine Johnson-Coleman The Mcl eenville, N.C., will be perform- something ei 1 o ? rhe early-country radio group tival Oct. 3y Sherill and the Hired Hands symposium : lapin and Native-American and Hospital: jr Cheryl Sanders of Rock Hill Southeast, 1 vill be there. feature 15 sc rickets will be available in ad- eas; and on the day of the festival. All proce cost $2 per person and $5 for seum's endo\ ily of four. Purchasing a $10 T- mation on tl enters people in a drawing, Mitchell or R1 e prizes include a Jonathan seum at 777s students fin "The ViewNet is a compa site," Durkin said. areer Cen- Durkin said that using the j< i computer as opposed to those available foi way off. what Internet of searching is ab< number of A student can get onto the 1 across the pie, the Career Center's Resum< s away can find a job they think they might urkin, pro- can find application informatio impus Re- scription or a phone number. No information is available < ;he compa- hired per year using these Intern'air, which to Anne Orange, the librarian that*s going to change, aore about "Through the South Carolii ertain job, Commission, the university is go have t eir commjssjon so they can 1 i en s can state of South Carolina, stu Orange said. > speak at erning the medical profes-ences will be made to prob- , rring in the United States, M ;he atomic poisoning that oct Mass General during I Atomic testing was performed j '4 i involuntarily to observe the i nuclear attack, Herzstein nal panel, Friday at 2 p.m., ss the ministry cases. Panexamine the unethical acwyers, judges and German :ials in regards to Jewish entral Planning Committee, * | j laired by Rabbi Epstein and ?A ?A I 'vdi uuoiiicoocs aiiu 1 aw aiiu s professors, is responsible XT | zing the three-day event, { Wilson, a senior and memcentral Planning committee,. A , X his is a great opportunity tudents, we are the last 'J n to hear first hand from ! who were actually at the g trials," she said. "It's im- The actual Nur learn from the past so we Tribunal proseci Future generations. where they were v i-v Powc i" \ OVGH jH marii -? S c i 6 hfsk-- ^ cial to the gamecock A cyclical Pari ?g baskets during W enon cf 1'ed ? N ?m ing up to be the w< P' * years. I 1 El Ninos occun i p \r p]l fl trade winds bl ov pacific QCean weg Under normal r, brooms made by folk winds drive water irious folk art books. Hot for the upwelling le, hamburgers and oth- the depths off the < mts will be sold. South America. Cissick Museum will add Now, as in past (tra to the Folklife Fes- trade winds have; 4 at the museum. The ter back into thesi is titled "Heaven, Hell WafprtPTrmei : Knowing Nature in the dramatically, and 1 .560-1860, and it will er, nutrient-rich w holars from diverse ar- suppressed. As a i terns may be in fo seds will benefit the mu- fects. vment. For more infor imsj'cai uic he festival, call Holly aging wanner th< londa Melogy at the mu- South America-Ce 7251. in the summer," sa instructs meteori partment of Geogn time of year, they 0 d? 1 are the highest sir jobs su g,t: t J The effects on m . T , overwhelming. Fis ny, and not an Interne ggen Qnjy -n j.r0pj( pulled from the tyj )b listings on the Internet, off the West Coast i r ViewNet, is "the bulk of causes mi| )Ub" life population wh internet, using, for exam- favorable areas," ; Expert site, and, if they does disturb the li; be interested in, usually Shifts in the pc n included in the job de- jet streams over th _ J rw .1- i ea otaies can De exj >n how many students are rapidly moving cun et services. But, according tuate drastically th, for the Career Center, ating unusual wint< "In general, we la Employment Security than average wi ing to supply information in South Carolina a ook up and see where in whatwarmer wint idents have been hired," U.S., Purvis said. } symposium - * SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK emberg, Germany site where the International Military ited such top Nazi party members as Herman Goring, and convicted for their part in 'crimes against humanity.' rful4El Nino' . vhelmingly effects le life worldwide Globally, El Nino-en1^^ hanced conditions can be ^ expected to be severe as 1 well. Normal monsoonal ^ ^^1^ patterns characteristic in S m Indonesia have been larger I ly absent where severe lv.' * drought has been the rule. The Philippines are also expecting the worst. iiue rvcpuu In the tropics, the At lantic hurricane season has afT Writer been quite tame compared to 1995, per haps the only tangible benefit of El Nino. Thirteen named storms had raged fic weather phenom- in the Atlantic and Caribbean by this ino is rapidly shap- time two years ago. Only five have orst such event in 150 formed so far this year. By contrast, the eastern Pacific ivhen normally strong has seen some unusually powerful hurring west across the ricanes. iken or subside. Recently, for example, Hurricane 1 circumstances, these Linda smashed the record as the westward, allowing most intense hurricane ever in that of cooler- water from part of the Pacific. Warmer than norloasts of Central and mal water, enhanced by El Nino, is providing the potential for the developE1 Nino events, weak ment suc^ stormsallowed warmer wa- However, not every tropical wave or e areas. depression will form into a killer hurrature has increased ncanethe upwelling of cool- "It will cause more disturbed arater has largely been eas, more rain and so forth, not necesresult. weather cat- sarilv rear.hina Vinrrimno fnroo " Pnwie - - D r some abnormal ef- said. Strong El Ninos occur, on average, water started aver- every three to seven years, according m normal near the to Purvis. Like hurricanes, they can ntral America coast possess varying degrees of severity, lid John Purvis, who The 1982-1983 El Nino was 3logy at USC's De- enormously devastating worldwide and iphy. "So far, for this js 0ften USed as a benchmark for cornwater temperatures) parison with the current eruption of ice we've been mea- this phenomenon. In fact, this year's El Nino appears tarine life have been to have already surpassed that earlier sh species normally record-breaking event in terms of high:al locales are being er water temperature. Purvis said the lically cooler waters water temperature in El Nino affected of the United States, areas is now higher than at the same grations of the sea- point in time during the 1982-1983 ere they seek more event. Purvis said. "So, it Fortunately, technology allows forefe of the ocean." casters the opportunity to better preilar and subtroDical diet when an F,1 Ninn is nhmit le continental Unit- up. Purvis said there a monitoring jected as well. These network in place for detecting varia ents of air may flue- tions in water temperature and atanks to El Nino, ere- mospheric pressure. zr weather patterns. Though it is not possible to foreshould have a wet- cast an El Nino occurrence, many years nter and spring here in the future researchers hope to at tnd perhaps a some- least provide some warning when one er over much of the looms on the horizon. 'V I