Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Carolina News Student Media appoints *VC‘-' officers ■5: by Brad Walters Managing Editor ^ ! New leaders for Student Media - have been chosen for the summer and fall terms. 0 ■. Journalism junior Brock Vfeigakis will serve as editor in chief for The Gamecock 1 student newspaper this fall. Veigakis said one of his main goals is to expand the newspaper’s coverage of state and local , -events and to increase the quality of writ hing by allowing section editors to con centrate more on editing stories rather ! than laying out pages. >*• j - “I think the paper is doing great now, but I want to take it to the next level,” -Veigakis said. “Vtfe’ll continue our march nip-the ranks of the best college newspa ipprs in the country.” +* i, - Veigakis has served as viewpoints ed -itpr, news editor and sports editor of The Gamecock --v Kenley Young, current editor in chief, .-said he hopes Veigakis continues,to im prove relations between The Gamecock and its readers. “Brock is a meticulous planner and has a definitive course he wants to set for the direction of The Gamecock next se mester,” Young said. “He has the respect of all his peers at the newspaper, and I have no doubt he’s going to make a won jjSrfiil editor.” Journalism junior Taylor Marshall n has been named 2000-2001 station ir for campus radio station WUSC. ;hall-Green was unavailable for com L Jason Paddock, current station man ager, said he thinks Marshall-Green will “fantastic” as station manager. “Taylor has been here longer than al {fiost anybody,” Paddock said. “I’ve had {fie honor of seeing him go from a DJ to becoming one of the central characters in ^dramatic renaissance at WUSC.” £•- Journalism sophomore Martha Wight #as named editor of “Garnet & Black” Magazine for the fall. Wight said one of B5r first priorities will be to develop the Magazine’s Web presence. £ .“Having a Web site will help us cater 6$ the entire USC campus, not just to those v#io are picking up magazines,” Wight sad “I think the magazine is in great shape, ahd there are plenty of traditions to con #«e.” £ ..“Garnet & Black’s” current editor, &iily Streyer, said she thinks the news paper will be in “excellent hands” with “ Media Leaders see page2 \* Columnist fired after criticizing student play by Christine Tatum College Press Exchange Washington, D.C. - A columnist for Georgetown University’s newspaper, “The Hoya,” lost his job last week af ter writing a scathing critique of a stu dent production of the “The Vagina Monologues,” a play about violence against women and female sexuality. Senior Robert Swope criticized one scene in which a 13-year-old girl con sumes an alcoholic drink and engages in what she considers an enjoyable sex ual experience with a 24-year-old woman. Swope wrote he was disgusted that the mostly female audience laughed throughout the scene. “If a 24-year-old man had gotten her liquored-up and then had sex with her, rational people ... would consider that rape,” he wrote. Swope also blasted the Roman Catholic institution for allowing the play to be performed. His supporters agree that the production—and the ed itorial spat that ensued—are evidence of how far the university has strayed from its religious roots. When he submitted his work, Swope said Hoya editors told him it was too “divisive,” and refused to run it. When he objected to what he claims was censorship, he said Hoya Editor David Wong, a sophomore, fired him. Wong insists the story isn’t that sim ple. He maintains Swope’s work con sistently failed to meet the newspaper’s editorial standards. Swope’s pieces of ten needed heavy editing and ran much longer than the paper’s space limita tions would allow, W>ng said. “We told him on several occasions that he couldn’t just criticize,” Wong said. “He had to (incite) as well as be insightful.” Wong also said the newspaper may have run Swope’s column eventu ally —but chose not to the week Swope submitted it because it too closely fol lowed another Swope column critical of the monologues five months ago, and yet another about a women’s studies is sue on campus three weeks ago. Swope was fired after he behaved angrily and disrespectfully to editors who told him his column wouldn’t be running, Wong said. Flag from page 1 cause their parents had to work. “The children represent their par ents,” she said. “Each child represents two people. Wfe had 20 kids, so that’s 40 people.” The marchers arrived at the State house about noon, walking across the Blossom Street bridge and up Main Street to the Statehouse. Gov. Jim Hodges, who introduced Riley, said the entire country was watch ing the rally. “Let us not rest until we are gov erned under two flags — the state flag and the United States flag, Hodges said. Riley, addressing the crowd, said: “If it is heritage, it’s a heritage of a time long, long ago, a time, thank God, that has long since left South Carolina and the USA.” He then read a letter that a flag sup porter sent him. The letter threatened to put Riley in “gun sights” if he walked through Calhoun County. “That [threat] is not heritage; that is hate,” Riley said. The flag controversy can be resolved, Riley said, by appropriately respecting those who served in the Civil Whr with out keeping the flag atop the Statehouse. The “Get in Step” rally lasted un til about 1 p.m., but supporters from both sides stayed afterward and discussed the issue further. Moolah from page 1 for WUSC. “We are a free form, edu cational radio station. We’re one of the few stations left in the country that is still free form. Basically, this weekend is an opportunity for us to go on the air and say that we need help to preserve what we do.” WUSC DJ Taylor Marshall-Green said he looks forward to the weekend. not only because it willie fun, but al so because it will benefit the station. “It’s going to be a good time up here at the radio station. We’re going to be hav . ing fun, and hopefully the people lis tening will also have a good time,” he said. “Basically, were pulling our pants down in front of the Carolina commu nity and hoping we make some money doing it.” Moolah for Music weekend kicks off Friday and ends Sunday night. News Analysis Gore finds his Al-pha When feminist author Naomi Wolfe told A1 Gore to start acting like a more aggressive “alpha male” several months ago, the entire political establishment had a chuckle at Gore’s expense. Now, Gore has gone alpha, at least in news coverage, and nobody is laughing anymore. Especially not the GOP. Gore has seized the headlines more often than Bush, leaving the im pression that Gore is campaigning hard while Bush lackadaisically waltzes through the campaign. And it’s paid off. New polls show Gore continuing to gain ground on Bush. Gore is now in a dead heat with the Texas governor, a huge improve ment over the double-digit beating he iook ror most oi i m The vice president has proposed a massive overhaul of the campaign finance system, attempt ing to grab the supporters of the man who once vowed to “beat (him] like a drum”—John McCain. Bush responded by repeating some of his earlier slaps at Gore. “Hypocritical.” “19% campaign scandals.” But even then. Gore seemed to remain the key actor, the one who was controlling all the action. Bush seems to be re sponding to Gore. Meanwhile, Bush’s initiatives have gotten lost in the shuf fle. Bush’s environmental proposals, more government-cen tered than most Republican plans, got only mild attention. Gore’s boldest move came last week, when he broke with his Administration and his party over the fate of Elian Gonza lez, the young boy whose mother died in an attempt to ride a ' makeshift raft from Cuba to America. Most Democrats—indeed, most Americans—oppose al lowing the boy to stay in America and similarly oppose a Senate bill that would grant Elian and his remaining family per manent residency. They want the boy returned to his father in Cuba. Meanwhile, Gore came out in support of the residency bill, enraging even the Hispanic members of his party. It still isn’t entirely clear why Gore broke in such a dramtic way on such an emotional issue. “Little Havana,” in Miami, is overwhelmingly opposed to Elian’s return. It’s also over whelmingly Republican. Between the Cuban-American pop ulation and the feet that Florida’s governor is named Jeb Bush, George W. should be a cinch in a prime electoral prize. Gore clarified Thesday, saying that if Elian’s father comes to America and “on free soil” declares that he wants to return to Cuba, he would support the boy’s return. Gore’s position might be an inoculation against the possi bility that Miami could bum. There is fear that riots might take place if the INS, which has ruled that Elian must return, at tempts to forcibly deport Elian. If the boy’s relatives lose their court case to keep Elian here, the Clinton administration — and, by extension. Gore —- will find themselves in an incred ibly awkward positon. But even if nothing happens, even if Elian remains in the United States, or even if the boy returns to Cuba, Gore has scored a victory. Gore’s got his alpha on. Bush needs to find his again. You can only get so many headlines by raising $70 million. Brandon Larrabee is a sophomore journalism major. He can be reached by e-mail at: Iaughin98@ hotmail.com Group wants Michigan universityf to drop course on homosexuality JL. College Press Exchange Ann Arbor - A conservative group is pushing officials at the University of Michigan to drop a course on male ho mosexuality that it says is recruiting and teaching teen-agers to be gay. The course, “How to Be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation,” is sched uled to be offered for the first time in the fall. Descriptions of the course, which will fall under the English department, say it “will examine the general topic of the role that initiation plays in the for mation of gay identity” by analyzing the writings, musical and artistic works of gay men. Gary Glenn, president of the Michi gan affiliate of the American Family As sociation. sent an e-mail last week to UM’s president and board of regents, state legislators, and Gov. John Engler, calling for the course’s cancellation. The asso ciation’s Web site says it strives to “ex pose the misrepresentation of the radical homosexual agenda and stop its spread through our culture.” “UM actually wants to force Michi gan taxpayers to pay for a class to open ly recruit and teach teen-agers how to engage in a lifestyle of high-risk behav ior that is not only illegal but many be lieve immoral, behavior that further in creases the burden on taxpayers to pay its public health consequences,” Glenn’s letter says. University officials said they have no intentions of canceling the class. In a state ment, Nancy E. Cantor, UM’s provost and executive vice president of academ ic affairs, said; “V*fe are completely in sup port of professor [David] Halperin’s course and of his freedom to teach this course as he constructed it.” c f ; Thinking about lTeaching College? 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