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New rule limits visiting marching bands’ tunes BY LAURA MOSS THE GAMECOCK A new restriction created by the Southeastern Conference lim its the number of tunes that the marching bands of visiting teams will be allowed to play at football games. The SEC regulation allows a visiting band to play two pieces of music at the conclusion of the games and suggests limiting those selections to the team’s fight song and alma mater. “I think .this policy is intended to promote good sportsmanship,” said David O’Shields, USC associ ate director of bands. “Since the visiting team is on the road, they don’t want the fans to remain at the stadium, and there have been instances of pep rallies getting out of hand.” According , -to the Sportsmanship and Fan Behavior Summit Report released by the NCAA on Sept. 16, inappropriate behavior at college sporting events is becoming an increasing problem. The summit, which in cluded members of the SEC, took place in February in response to incidents that resulted in violence among fans and the destruction of property. O’Shields said USC hasn’t ex perienced any such incidents and that after Saturday’s game against Tennessee, the band won’t be af fected too much. “This may have had an effect had we won the game this weekend and wanted to play afterward,” he said. First-year chemical engineer ing student and marching band member Tim Davis was told of the change in policy just before the band traveled to the Georgia game. He said he’s upset over the new regulation. “I think the band and the fans will be disappointed. We like to swap songs with the other bands, and there are always fans that stay to hear us play. It gives us more to do than just sit there,” he said. Third-year psychology student Lindsey Cencula thinks the band contributes to the atmosphere of the game and is disappointed with the changes. “I understand that maybe stu dents wouldn’t want to hear an other team’s songs at their stadi um, but if the team wins, I think they should be allowed to cele brate that,” she said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com our crown for national recogni tion for projects like this,” Moore said about the Calhoun Papers. “The volumes have always been well respected in quality.” Moore worked as an associate editor for volumes 23 through 27 and says working on the project helped propel him to other schol arly historic research. He is the author of The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina: Volume 1,1514-1861. Wilson said the most difficult research involved tracking down Calhoun’s works in private col lections and deciphering dam aged documents and illegible handwriting. Since the first volume was pub lished, historians from Ivy League schools, Canada, Holland, Japan and Ireland have visited USC to study the findings in Calhoun’s documents. One state official from the for mer Yugoslavia inquired in the late 1990s about Calhoun’s politi cal theories about the emergence of sectionalism within a unified nation and its possible causes and consequences. Calhoun retains recognition to this day. He has buildings, streets, monuments and counties in South Carolina and Florida named after him. Wilson said there is much about him that most people don’t know. He lived much of his life on a plantation called Fort Hill, where Clemson University now sits. He urged Congress to de clare war against Britain in 1812 and was the lone senator opposed to the Mexican War, saying that President James K. Polk was not within his execu tive constitutional powers when he sent American troops to war. Overall, Wilson said he feels like he has come to kn<r Calhoun as a member of 1. family. “I’ve spent almost every day with him for over 30 years,” he said. “With that kind of a con nection, you’ve either got to love him, or you’ve got to hate him. I’ve enjoyed our time together.” “USC Press has always been proud of its association with this project,” Moore said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk(a;hotmail. com FBI begins investigation after CIA leak BY TERENCE HUNT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - The FBI began a full-scale criminal investigation Tuesday into whether White House officials illegally leaked the identity of an undercover CIA of ficer, and President Bush ordered his staff to cooperate with the first major probe of his administration. Democrats demanded the ap pointment of a special outside counsel but Bush resisted. “I’m absolutely confident that the Justice Department can do a good job,” he said on a re-election fund raising stop in Chicago. Democratic leaders said Attorney General John Ashcroft was too close to the White House to conduct an impartial investi gation. With pressure building, the Justice Department alerted the White House late Monday of the decision to move from a prelimi nary inquiry into a full investi gation, a step rarely taken with complaints involving leaks of classified information. The investigation is aimed at finding who leaked the name of the CIA operative, possibly in an at tempt to punish the officer’s hus band, who had accused the admin istration of manipulating intelli gence to exaggerate the threat from Iraq. Although Bush said he wel comed the investigation, it was an embarrassing development for a president who promised to bring integrity and leadership to the White House after years of Republican criticism of the Clinton administration. While the administration ap peared cool toward naming a spe cial counsel, Ashcroft has not ruled out that possibility, a senior law enforcement official said. That decision will depend on a . number of factors, such as whether a suspect is identified who presents a potential conflict for the Justice Department. For now, the investigation is being done by FBI agents in the coun terintelligence division. VMMl f W»k. PHOTO BY JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECC New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman speaks to a near capacity crowd at the Koger Center Tuesday night. Pulitzer winner speaks at USC BY KEVIN FELLNER TilK (1AMMOCK Pulitzer Prize-winning jour nalist and author Thomas Friedman talked about the Iraqi war, his reflections on Sept. 11, 2001, and current relations among Middle East countries while de livering the Solomon-Tenenbaum Lecture to a near-capacity crowd at the Roger Center on Tuesday night. The New York Times Foreign Affairs Columnist talked about Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, pioneered by such leaders as Osama Bin Laden, as the third global effort for totalitarianism in the modern era, only succeeding Nazi Germany and the rise of Soviet Communism. “To me, the most disturbing fact about 9-11 was how many people in the Arab-Muslim world supported it, accepted it and quietly celebrat ed it,” he said during a panel dis cussion moderated by College of Mass Communications and Information Studies Dean Charles Bierbauer earlier in the day. A commentator on Middle East 1UI niaiijf yecus, Friedman initially supported the war with Iraq because he said a regime change was needed. But he said that the Bush administra tion’s postwar policy has lacked a commitment to the rebuilding of the nation. “This is going to be the mother of all long hauls,” he said. “This is not a sprint; this is not Bosnia; this is not Kosovo; this is a marathon.” Friedman said he thinks it is wrong for the United States to have any long-term occupation with Iraq without having an al liance of nations supporting the cause of rebuilding and without also studying the regimes in Syria and Iran. He argued that the Middle East was the most auto cratic and most constrained re gion in the world due to its na tions’ regimes. He pointed out that not one of the 22 nations compris ing the Arab League has leaders elected by the people. He said that sort of political ideology has led to serious violations of human rights, widespread poverty and disorganized industries. Friedman said a more impor tant conflict than the physical war is the war of ideas that needs to continue in order to find compre hensive diplomatic solutions among nations and especially be tween Israel and Palestine. He said an important way of embracing the war of ideas is to listen to other nations. Even though he said the physical war might turn out hi* torically to be a great failure,. said he would rather have the na tion go down preserving the dig nity of Arab citizens than allow ing nothing to happen at all. “Before the war, I said this is the most audacious project ever,” Friedman said, adding that the strategy for the war itself should be just as audacious. The reper cussions of this war will dictate how the United States is viewed by the rest of the world for many generations to come, he said. Friedman has served as Beirut bureau chief, Israel bureau chief, chief diplomatic correspondent, chief White House correspondent and international economic cor respondent for the New Yo Timps Hp ininpH thp ctafF in Ma . 1981. Friedman won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and 1993 for International Reporting, first for his coverage of Israel and then of Lebanon. He has published three best-selling books, the most recent of which, “Longitudes and Attitudes,” is a col lection of his columns exploring re ligion and international relations after Sept. 11,2001. In 2002, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary. Provost Jerry Odom said after the lecture that students could learn from Friedman how to ana lyze political and social affairs that can be seen from many different an gles. “I thought he really presented a very balanced view of what is a very complex issue,” Odom sai'1 about Friedman’s take on Mid< East relations. He said he hopes USC can bring more distinguished orators to campus by finding more donors to sponsor lectureships. The Solomon-Tenenbaum Leadership in Jewish Studies is presented annually at USC and is endowed by Samuel and Inez Tenenbaum, the latter of which is South Carolina superintendent of education and a U.S. Senate candidate. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Calhoun CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 through the antebellum era. Wilson determined that the pub lished version of “Discourse” is an unfinished draft and that Calhoun died before he could completely edit it. Both works are some of the earliest writings by a southerner on American politics in the 19th century. “He was a great commentator on the way the United States was developing over the course of his political career,” Wilson said. The project, partially spon sored by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, is one of only 40 like it in the nation. USC is only one of three schools in the nation to have two such projects running simultaneously. The other project is the Papers of Henry Laurens. USC Press has been publish ing volumes since 1959. Acquisitions editor Alexander Moore said volumes usually sell about 1,000 copies. He said many historians buy them for their in dividual private collections. “It’s really been the jewel in Motorola v6oi _ Phat. Phones • • with sweet games. # voice dialing. # custom ringtones. • check out our cool calling plans, too. starting as low as $30 a month. AIM-Wireless WeGetlt. SunCom Member of the ATST Wireless Network SUNCOM STORE LOCATIONS STORE HOURS: M-F 9A-7P WEEKEND HOURS: SAT 10A4R COLUMBIA Columbiana Centre Columbiana Place Two Notch Rd CAMDEN LEXINGTON ET. 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