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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 i INDEX VIEWPOINTS Check out the new M ^ A today Viewpoints 2 views "Faduty Viewpoint" 2 j 7rh* I fa W%% IT M I* ^fl ! <^X? Sigh 82 Etc. 3 ETC. Summer "Weenie Roast," and j \ V I I I I I I 1/ I III Wf Low 60 Comics 4 new music from "Busta Rhymes." 3 j k >-| I I I I I III 1% j __ Saturday i Sports 5 SPORTS Former USC softball player \ /&EI I I ^11 j High 82 Classifieds ^ receives prestigous national award. 5 ~ ^^F ^^F^ V j Lo^ 58 I I Serving USC since 1908 j j GAMECOCK BRIEFS New York biographer to visit USC Patricia Bosworth, biographer journalist, actress, playwright, will vis it USC 3 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6, at Gam brell Hall, room 152. ? South Carolina Archaeology Wee! South Carolina Archaeology Week will be Sept 27 - Oct. 4. State wide kick off is 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 27 at Dunes West Community Center, Mount Pleas ant. Other events will be in Barnwel County, Summerville and Aiken. Foi more information contact Nena Powe Rioo 777.0170 fc McKissick Museum to hold sym posium McKissick Museum will hold sym posium about natural history Oct. 3-4 in the museum's auditorium, regis trations ranges from $6-15 for students or $15-30 general public. For more in formation call 777-7251. Rape Crisis Network recruiting volunteers' ^ Rape Crisis Network is recruiting for volunteers to train in October. The 20-hour training schedule is Oct. 18- IS and Oct. 25-26. For more mformatior call Rebecca Mattox, 252-8393. Graduate Association for Biological Sciences to hold seminar Dr. William Fenical, from the Scripps Institute for Oceanography, will present a seminar titled "Marine Mi^ crooganisms and Cancer: Developing a w New Resource" Sept. 29 at 4 p.m. in CLS room 211 Funding available for graduate study U.S. Department of Energy is offering fellowships for graduate studj in nuclear engineering, health physics, industrial hygiene, radioactive waste ^ management, fusion science and fusion ^ technology. Deadline is Jan. 26, 1998. For application contact Milton Pnnofonfm UOQI HPTC!? WUUJbOUVlU \~XHU/ KJ I W t/UC/U Ui VIUUJL Fellowship Programs, ORISE, Education and Training Division, P.O. Bos 117, Oak Ridge, Tenn. 37831-0117 McKissick Museum to hold Fall Folklife Festival The McKissick Museum's third anP nual Fall Folklife Festival is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 27. The festival showcases the folk artistry of the state and region. It's held on the Horseshoe in front of the museum. For more information, call Holly Mitchell at McKissick Museum at 777-7251. USC poetry reading A USC poetry reading of original works will be held at 7 p.m., Oct. 1 at P Alley Cafe on Lady Street in the Vista. For more information about taking part in the reading call the USC English Department at 7774203. ODK applications available Applications for Omicron Delta Kappa, a national leadership honor society, are open to undergraduate and graduate students with at least 60 earned hours, a GPA of at least 3.0, and excellence in leadership. Information sheets and applications are available at the Russell House Information Desk. OPERA at USC to stage Rossini's The Marriage Contract" OPERA at USC will perform "The Marriage Contract" on Friday, Oct. 10, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 12, at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $15 and $10 for the Dublic and for students and senior ^ citizens and can be purchased at the w Carolina Coliseum box office or by calling 251-2222. Families Helping Families underway The Families Helping Families project is underway for the year and they need volunteers. Last year, with the belp of volunteers, 4,000 Midlands-area families had a brighter Christmas. To sign up or for more information, con^ tact Bruxanne Waldowski at 790-6165. Gamecock Briefs is a service of The Gamecock. Organizations are welcome to submit briefs to the news editors, but the newspaper is by no means obligated to print submissions. The editors re**** the right to determine what is published and when it is published. I Compiled by Rosalind Harvey A <*' (Goldhag ; SARA LADENHEIM News Editor-Design A gun to the head made me do it. : A statement can really say a thou sand words. In the case of Dr. Daniel : j J. Goldhagen, his novel, "Hitler's Will" : ing Executioners," not only falsifies i j the aforementioned statement, but in frn/]iinoa a rtmxr irino fn fVin Wnlnnonci vi uuuwo u uv/yt iuv<u w uii^ iiuiuvauov I i ? the role of the "innocent" German r ! people who were the key perpetrators. ^ ; At the keynote address of the three-day Nuremberg symposium on : Wednesday, Goldhagen informed a . ; public that included USC students, faculty and administration, as well as I the public, that without the German ^ j citizens, the Nazis could have never j committed the crimes Nuremberg ad; dresses. i . j "Who were the perpetrators of the ; holocaust? They include any people who were involved in any aspect of the I collective employed to destroy the r t /-i.iji _ ' .j ; jews, uoianagen saia. I These people involved in the "col? | lective" were ordinary citizens that ; | Goldhagen claims committed these i crimes out of the pure zeal of the kill. "In the absence of Hitler and his : many more ordinary accomplices, there would have been no Nuremberg," said | Dr. Robert Herzstein, USC history pro fessor, amplifying Goldhagen's re5 | marks. I j Junior Sarah Effrid parks her bike a ! of the largest reported crimes on cai j USC press s j DIONNE GLEATON Staff Writer The USC Press is one of the old| est publishing houses in the South and j the only university press in South Car: olina, but some of their newest strate| gies are helping strengthen their comj mitment to students and faculty here I and abroad. "We want to be know as a schol arly publisher," said Fred Kameny, asl sistant director and editor-in-chief. "I think this is an outstanding university," said Kameny, who joined j the staff of 23 employees after leaving : Yale University Press. j He believes USC can "get even j more visibility and standing by the ; books that are published by the Press." I The press generates close to $2 J million in annual book sales, and pub lishes under the categories of history, j literature, international relation t theory, religious studies and rhetoric. ! Most recently, the press has published books on culinary history. The press' books are sold all : around the world. According to Kameny, the press j has undergone several changes under : the leadership of its new director, ; Catherine Fry, and the addition of its j new sales manager, John Scruggs, I along with acquisitions editors Bar T*V Rlnco Qnrl A 1 ovonrlnr * j f 1VOV Uiiu X UUAOX1UC1 iTIUUl C. j Kameny said anytime an organiI zation recruits new members, it de: velops new ways of thinking. One of the press' goals now includes going af ;en spee< The trials of Nuremberg were aimed at teaching the future generations of Germans that what was done in the past would continue to haunt them until time ended, a thought many post-Nazi Germans would like to forget. As one unnamed, but clearly representative, Nazi camp commandant said at the 1946 trials, "The Jew was not acknowledged by us to be human." mis statement, lioianagen stressed, was one of the key reasons why he decided to aim his research at the ordinary German citizen. In his in-depth speech, Goldhagen told the maximum-capacity audience that in the testimony of these killers, there was no mention of "madmen," or "psychopathic officers," who "forced" them to commit these crimes against humanity. In almost every testimony, there was an element of "obeying orders," or of a Nazi party anthology of anti-semitism a good soldier follows. In his novel, Goldhagen claims that by 1933 a toxified German nation was ready to provide hundreds of thousands of perpetrators for what was to be the answer to the "final solution" to the "Jewish question." Ordinary German citizens of this time, he concludes, were raised on virulent antisemitism. ^ '"; fig? *' utside the Russel House bookstore and tnpus is the theft of bicycles. ;eeks broadei ter book projects "rather than simply letting them come to us," he said. < "It's where all of the people in the 1 profession are at the same place at the i same time," said Kim Patterson, pro- i motion manager at the press. "We essentially have a little retail operation for a few days," Kame- , ny said. "You're displaying what you've , already done, but at the same time you try to acquire projects that are either . recently completed or seem to be completed." Networking among USC professors, who may have students' doctoral candidates about to complete pub- 1 lications, is another way the press ' obtains projects. 1 "Technologically (the press has) a lot of advantages," he said. < The university typesets their own I books electronically, which Kameny i said not only saves money, but may 1 even be "a lot more important" than 1 Internet and e-mail connections. Linda Fogle, marketing manag- ( er at the Press, said changes have al- } so been made in the sales of their books. , "We don't do quite as much direct < mail," Fogle said, citing that the cost . of renting mailing lists had gone up. However, by grouping similar types of books together, like the press' Civil War tabloid, and then renting the publication out to a specialized au- 1 dience, the press is trying to minimize < cost and garner a profit at the same i time. 1 T :h recall This became his theme throughout the entire speech?when children in an anti-semitic culture are raised to hate Jews simply because they are Jews, with no other reason than prejudice, the vast majority of the people become to hate, according to Goldhagen. As for the validity of the excuses that came up after the "discovery" of the concentration camps in Germany and extermination facilities in Poland after the war, Goldhagen said,"The excuses cannot begin to account for the 'zeal' of volunteerism and brutality." If anything should be learned from the Nuremberg trials, it should be that at one time or another it came to be that the individual was responsible for his actions. For the prosecutors, the trials would end up making precedents still used today. "We must shift the attention of blame to where it should be: on the kiimam lv\mrfa Un/1 1 !4-4-1 r\ a* ma /lie iHUllflli LA^lllg^ UilClL liau lit tic Ui 11U U13regard for the lives which they were destroying, families they were annihilating, and a culture that would never recover from these terrible actions that were committed by people just like you and I," Goldhagen concluded. Wt/KBP ^ S/ *, SUSAN MEYERS Photography Editor prepare to lock it on the rack. One r influence "If you can offer people a variety of books and yet you can rent your list where everybody has pretty much a similar or common interest, you can increase your chances of more sales," ' Fogle said. 1 roaUx? tw'o^ frt nr\_ ?i v iv/uuj uvuy uij uiwu iaJ *rade our awards database," Fogle 3aid. This would be a way to find more awards in which their books could qualify It's this type of planning that has allowed the press to maintain its publishing of more than 60 books annually. "A few years ago, we didn't publish that many," said Leon Ginsberg, /ice-chairman of the Press. Fry, who has been director for aver two years, said the long-range joal and benefit of the press not only ncludes increasing book sales, but reflects the organization's commitment aa scholastic achievement. "In addition to maximizing inxame, the long-range goals of the press are to publish books of lasting merit, and to promote the university and the state of South Carolina both nation illy and internationally," she said. Patterson said he believes stulents can benefit from USC Press. "Although we don't directly work vith the students, we put information )ut there," he said. "It's all interconlected to the whole educational and earning process ." I S01J1 1 |3pi Dr. Daniel J. Goldhagen, professor of S addresses the Nuremberg prosecution "Hitler's Willing Executioners," at Wed Professor of money maki ROSALIND HARVEY News Editor College students these days are looking for a quick way to make some cash. ft J A_ A 1 ' . il ^ some siuaenis iry draining meir j plasma for a quick $25, while some try ( investing in the stock market. Plasma donation is a reality many students face, however, according to Associate Professor of Finance Steven ! Mann, investing in the stock market is j an unlikely path college students follow. "The stock market is a long-term ^ investment," Mann said, "It's a terrible , short-term investment." Mann teaches a course where stu- ] dents, can get firsthand experience in < stock market investing. In his class, each student is given "play money" to j invest in the market. Students then can buy, sell or trade j as they wish through a computer. They , can see how well they did by checking j the daily stock market. However, students aren't graded on whether or not they make money. Even though college students are j short on cash and unable to invest thou- j sands of dollars in the stock market, 1 Mann said, on average, investments < will increase around 12 percent over a i long period. ? Mann said students who have some i discretionary funds and are looking to i invest in the market should remember that a profit is not a sure thing. r "My rule is if you need (money) c within the next five years, then you j should not be in the stock market," he g said. Resolution t multiculturi CARA PELLATT Asst. News Editor c The student senate passed a res- j olution calling for the senators to t support multicultural events at Wednesday's meeting. j SBL(97)015 states that each sen- ? ator will attend one event sponsored by or recognizing a multicultural group g per semester. The purpose is to have \ senators interact with other students s and create awareness of the needs of F the university. "It's part of our responsibility to ? the people we're representing," Sen. Kathy VanNostrand said at the meet- J ing. In other business, SBL(97)014 ] went through its first reading. The bill, ? if passed, will revise Financial Code i 304.11, which pertains to the allocation of Graduate, Law and Medical s School activity fees. The bill will come t back to the senate floor next week. ( KH I H SUSAN MEYERS Photography Editor iocial Studies at Harvard University, team and the public on his book, nesday's symposium. fers sound ing advice Mann said students will probably be more successful making money in mutual funds. A mutual fund consists of a portfolio of many individual investors who have invested smaller amounts of monjy and share the profits according to the amount invested. On average, Mann said these funds Eire fairly safe. However, nothing is a 'sure deal" and there are always risks involved. "The problem with college students investing is they don't have the money to spare," Mann said. "When you think . pou might need the money soon, your best bet is not to invest in something risky. Mutual funds are safe, but not a sure thing." He said college students are more likely to use things like savings accounts in credit unions or banks. This is a definite way to insure your money, as well as make a few dollars while you're saving. Mann said interest rates can vary Eiccording to different businesses. He said those students interested in making more money through their savings accounts should read the "Money Wise" section of your local paper. These sections publish the interest rates for elII of the area banks and credit unions. Money market mutual funds have a slightly higher return than a savings account, Mann said. Another wav he said students can nake money is through investment :lubs. These clubs, usually a group of >eople with common interests, invest similar to a mutual fund. ;o support rl events Also, the senate approved by acilamation Gesla Wilson for director of jarking and Kimberly Baun for senaor. Wilson said she would work as a iaison between student government md parking services. "I know everyone's complaining ibout parking spots," Wilson said. "I mow everyone's complaining about the ihuttlecock-Fm going to work on im>roving the shuttlecock stops." Wilson said she had no specific )lan of action for the closing of the parkng lot next to Russell House because ihe hasn't had access to the plans for he lot. Baun will represent the College of business Administration in the senate. 5he was sworn in during the meetng The following senators were abent:Chris Dorsel-Liberal Arts; Eliza>eth Fordham-Liberal Arts; C1 e t e u r ^ounard-Nursing,