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Fitzgerald CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 pay off his debts and start writ ing what proved to be his un finished novel about Hollywood, ‘The Love of the Last Tycoon. ’ ” Bruccoli said the heart of Fitzgerald’s economic prob lems was not what he made, , but what he spent. “The really extravagant people, you can’t tell what they did with their money,” he said. “He didn’t buy fancy cars, he never owned a home, he didn’t buy a boat, and he didn’t have a horse. These are the extrav agances of most people. In Fitzgerald’s case, it was just money he dribbled.” Bruccoli started collecting Fitzgerald’s works when he was a freshman at Yale University in 1949. He became a serious collector in 1957 with his marriage to Arlyn Firkins and his friendship with Fitzgerald’s daughter that be gan in 1969. The collection was given to USC in 1994, when then-Vice Provost George Terry worked out a gift pur chase plan. The collection has over 3,000 Fitzgerald writings. The tax returns were re leased in hopes of encouraging readers to look past Fitzgerald’s personal life. “The important thing is not how much Fitzgerald spent or how much he drank, the im portant thing is he wrote ‘The Great Gatsby,’ ” Bruccoli said. “All of this chitchat and scut tlebutt and gossip and anecdo tage about writers tends to de flect people from what they should be doing, which is read ing the little black marks on pieces of paper.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail. cam Endorsements CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 open to all students — under the current codes. , “Any organization that publicly endorses, either through its pro gram or through its officially rec ognized officers, a political candi date for any elected office, includ ing student offices, shall be con sidered a political organization,” the finance codes read. Liberal Arts Sen. Kelly Bowen agreed that the measure passed the SG constitution test, but that “it still is the right of the student body to voice their opinion.” Former SG President Corey Ford criticized the bill, calling it “ridiculous.” “For one, I think that this would discourage student involvement in our elections process,” Ford said. He also said student organiza tions should be allowed to speak on the elections because SG offi cers are responsible for allocating student activity fees and repre senting the student body in front of the Board of Trustees. “If students can endorse a can didate with their vote, why is it wrong for a student organization ... to do the same?” Ford said. Representatives from the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Alliance; the South Carolina Student Legislature; the Association of African American Students; and several fraternities and sororities, said Tuesday that their organiza tions hadn’t endorsed candidates in the past election. While USC’s chapter of the NAACP did put out a report card on SG candidates, the organization never officially endorsed a candi date, President Lee Allyson Gailliard said. SG Treasurer Becky Floyd couldn’t be reached for comment. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Mideast CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 said on Israel TV. There were signs, however, that U.S. efforts were having an ef fect. Earlier Tuesday, Israel pulled out of Tulkarem and Qalqiliya, two of six Palestinian towns it has occupied; troops remained in Nablus, Bethlehem, Jenin and Ramallah and several villages. Secretary of State Colin Powell, due to arrive in Israel late Thursday, said he was optimistic his mission could bring a truce and lead to negotiations. Speaking in Cairo, Powell said he would meet Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as well as Sharon and said the United States was willing to deploy observers to monitor any cease-fire. Israel had said it would keep Arafat isolated in the Ramallah offices where he has been con fined by troops since the West Bank campaign began. But Israeli officials said Tuesday they would not prevent Powell from meeting the Palestinian leader. Israel launched its offensive on March 29 to crush militias after a series of Palestinian suicide bombings. At least 124 Palestinians and 25 Israeli sol diers have been confirmed killed during the incursion, according to Palestinian medics and the Israeli army. The toll was expect ed to rise; there were reports that dead Palestinians had not'been brought out of some areas, espe cially in the Jenin camp. Aside from the deaths in Jenin camp, an Israeli soldier was killed Tuesday in the city of Nablus, though the military said it may have been by errant Israeli fire. The Jenin camp in the north ern West Bank, home to more than 13,000 Palestinians, has been the site of the most intense fighting of the Israeli assault, with gunmen inside battling Israeli soldiers for the past week. All but three of Israel’s casualties in the campaign have occurred in the camp. By Tuesday, several hundred gunmen had been pushed into a small area of the camp, with Israeli helicopter gunships pro viding heavy cover fire for ground troops, witnesses said. Camp resident Jamal Abdel Salam, an activist in the Islamic militant Hamas group, said the gunmen told him “they said they prefer death to surrender.” In the double ambush, one group of soldiers was walking in a narrow alley when the bombs went off, military spokesman Brig. Gen. Ron Kitrey said. One of the blasts was set off by a Palestinian who blew himself up, while the other explosives were wired together, he said, killing several soldiers and bringing a house down on three of them. Just a few yards away, Israeli soldiers who had entered the court yard of a house came under heavy fire from Palestinian gunmen on rooftops, and several more soldiers were killed, Kitrey told The Associated Press. The wounded and three bodies were recovered. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel said dozens of bod ies of Palestinians were piled in the streets of Jenin camp, and res idents were prevented from get ting food and water. The Israeli organization complained to the Defense Ministry that the mili Don't let anything derail your college education! Affordable Birth Control P Planned Parenthood 803-256-4908 “This is a battle for survival of the Jewish people, for survival of the state of Israel.” ARIEL SHARON ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER tary has committed serious hu man rights violations in the camp, including the demolition of homes with residents still inside. There was no immediate response from the Defense Ministry. In Nablus, the West Bank’s largest city, troops took control of the densely populated down town area, or casbah, after sever al days of fierce resistance by Palestinian gunmen. At least 41 Palestinians were killed in the fighting there, but the toll was not final because bodies remained in the streets, medics said. Israeli forces also raided the small town of Dura, south of Hebron, leveling two Palestinian intelligence and security com pounds and rounding up men for questioning, Palestinian security officials said. Two Palestinians were killed in exchanges of fire with Israeli forces, the officials said. In the Palestinian-controlled territory in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, three Israeli tanks and a f bulldozer began demolishing a Palestinian security post and olive and orange trees, witnesses said. The area in Deir el-Balah, south of Gaza City, has been the site of several mortar attacks on Israeli troops in recent days. The Israeli military would not com ment immediately on the report. Meanwhile, a standoff at Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, built over the tradi tional birthplace of Jesus, entered its second week, straining deli cate relations between Israel and the Vatican. More than 200 armed Palestinians have been holed up in the shrine, ringed by Israeli troops. An Israeli army officer said that negotiations were under way, and that one proposal was to have the gunmen surrender to a third party. I Christian leaders called on Israel to leave Bethlehem after a gunbattle and fire erupted Monday around the church. Some church officials, including a Franciscan friar, angrily accused Israel of provoking the unprece dented violence around the shrine. Sharon said Israel would not lift the siege until the armed men have surrendered. « LIKE TNE PARENTS WOULD EVER SEND YOU A CARE PACKAGE THIS COOL. GO TOTALLY WIRELESS FOR ONLY $30 WITH NO deposit: GET FREE iNotes" 2-WAY TEXT MESSAGING FOR 3 MONTHS. 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