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July 23,2003 ♦ Vol. 97, No. 7 University of South Carolina ♦ www.dailygamecock.com INSIDE VIEWPOINTS Two-party politics need to end now The Green Party and Libertarian party have gone too far. PAGE 5 THE MIX %S matinee Wednesday at 3:00 MATINEE jfl ’ Saturday at 3:00 ' MATINEt Sunday at 3:00 Student cinema converges at USC Nickelodeon celebrates international student films. PAGE 7 SPORTS Filling the Void The SEC basketball coaches deal with loss of many players. PAGE 10 INDEX Comics and Crossword 9 Classifieds 12 Horoscopes__9 Letters to the Editor 6 Online Poll 6 Quote of the Day 7 USC Police Report 3 Democratic candidates open shop in Columbia BY WES WOLFE THE GAMECOCK There are 197 days until the South Carolina Democratic pres idential primary, but the candi dates in the race are already lay ing the infrastructure for their campaigns in this state and cam paigning hard for votes. Yesterday, Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina opened his campaign office on the comer of Gervais and Huger. In the middle of the crowded, hot lobby, Edwards laid out his case for his campaign against President George W. Bush and why he's here in Columbia. oouui c-aromia is important ior a lot of reasons," Edwards said. "It is a critical state in the nomi nation process. It is, in fact, the state in which I was born.” John Moylan, an attorney at the Wyche Law Firm in Columbia and Edwards' state chairman, said that while South . Carolina has a different con stituencies from Iowa or New Hampshire, Edwards' "message will be the same, and he will rely on heavy retail politicking." Retail politics describes the process of a candidate meeting ♦ EDWARDS, SEE PAGE 2 PHOTO BY TRISHA SHADWELL/THE GAMECOCK Presidential hopeful Sen. John Edwards emphasizes South Carolina’s importance in the Democratic primary race. Saddam’s sons killed in Iraqi villa BY SARMAD JALAL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSUL, IRAQ (AP) — Saddam Hussein’s sons Odai and Qusai died in a blaze of gunfire and rock ets Tuesday, the U.S. military said, claiming their deaths will blunt Iraqi resistance to the American occupation. It was the most successful American operation since the war and comes as a much-needed tonic for U.S. troops, who recently have suffered a dozen attacks a day. U.S. forces mounted a six-hour operation in which they sur rounded and then stormed a pala tial villa in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez ♦ SONS, SEE PAGE 3 WUSCtoair Beatles fund-raiser marathon BY COREY GARRIOTT THEOAMECOCK It’ll be “a hard day’s night” for WUSC this Friday. Columbia’s only alternative radio station will be “working like a dog” during a spontaneous 24-hour Beatles marathon. It’s a fund-raiser to restore the station’s Web radio, said station manager Elyn Blackman. “It’s not one of our normally scheduled fund-raisers,” she said. n wdi dumeiuiiig nidi wd& uune at USC a long time ago, and we’re trying to bring back a tradition.” For WUSC, she said, the Beatles are the perfect band, sure to appeal to all tastes and sure to last for the entire day. Callers can donate during the individual two hour shows, and the largest do nation on a show will win a prize donated by a Beatles fan club. “There is probably no other artist in music history that makes sense to play for 24 hours,” she said. “There’s so much solo mate rial, tributes, crazy studio record ings and rare stuff. There’s going to be live recordings and rare tracks and spoken word and in terviews.” The money has been earmarked to pay royalty fees for WUSC’s live Web radio, unplugged in 2001 in response to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. WUSC, like many college radio stations, relies on educational ex ceptions from the recording in dustry to play its music at a low cost. In 2001, the DMCA warned Web radio stations that compa nies could charge normal rates for ♦ WUSC, SEE PAGE 3