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GAMECOCK Monday, Jan. 30,1978 XJnivereity of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. Volume LXTV, No. 26 L 4 ^lUUClll ?u By SUE SHAW Gamecock Staff Writer Felony warrants have been signed by 22 students charging a 34 year-old former USC student with breach of trust with fraudulent'intent, according to USC Campus Police. The student, John C. Corbin, was identified by USC students who had expected Corbin to arrange a sailboat cruise to the Bahamas. Corbin received more than $4,500 to charter and provision four yachts and one sailboat for seven days, Jan. 12 through 19. About 35 students signed up for the cruise and all checks were written directly to Corbin. The cruise cost $182.50 per person and $6 extra for passengers of the sailboat. CORBIN, WHO was vice-president of the sailing club when the trip was organized, "did tell us the trip was not club sponsored," said Tim Thomas, Sailing Club member. The proposal for the cruise however, was made at the If "mr-mmm Ki wiiiiifl 11:b j ||L jJJ"r -'-7?-T'^-r;C.??n^<W5^-> '' - - ^--'flMCa^ jj^^E kSilli^^^HHKBi ^m9r ^^^^bmhhhbBB Steve McCormacK -THE GAMECOCK Board approves plan to integrate branches ui?ht inS ^?j ' T-r i Sailing Club's first meeting last semester said club member Reid Smith. Corbin told the members they would charter about four or five boats through the firm Carribean Sailing Yachts, Smith said. "We got all our information (about the cruise) through CntltMft ^luK 'l'1-i/A X J o V> r? w\ r? o /ttMitnA ?nrtnt ociiiiiig V/iuu iuc^iiii^a. iiic uauaiuua tiuiar wcui t igut along with the Sailing Club. We joined the club to learn to sail, but instead we learned a very expensive lesson," Smith said "CORBIN WAS supposed to arrive at my house Jan. 9," he said. The cruise itinerary indicated the group was to leave Columbia for Ft. Lauderdale Jan. 11. Many of those planning to go on the cruise gathered at Smith's house to :4 T?I 1 A ~> > * - wait ivi vajiuiii. eleven uuier people weiu aneau 10 ri, Lauderdale before they found there were no boats reserved. "We waited until Wednesday evening (Jan. 11) before calling Corbin's father to ask where John was," he said. Corbin's parents said they had not seen him since Jan. 3 and I Barnwell losses I ? "Four years of data on 500 Suzanne Bachman, < By DON FOBES Asst. News Editor The Jan. 20 fire at Barnwell College means disruption of classes, loss of invaluable research material and heartaches for most USC Psychology Department members. No one was seriously injured, but two-thirds of the t>7-year-oia Dunning was aamagea Dy smoxe ana water, according to Columbia Fire Chief John Davies. ONE OF THE MOST hapless victims of the fire is Suzanne uacnman, an assisiani proiessor 01 psychology. "All I've got left are 14 books and a computer tape," she said. Personal research materials destroyed by the fire were not recovered, according to Bachman, "Some of the experimental situations just don't exist anymore. Concerning one 01 ner experiments sne said, "Four years of data on 500 kids no longer exists." ANOTHER MEMBER of the Psychology staff, Ron Edwards, said he lost two or three hundred student Daoers on behavioral modification that can never he I replaced, although most of his files were unharmed. He estimated his research losses at about fifty per cent. | "The students too will suffer from the fire," said Edwards, "I've lost notes for my classes and will have to start from scratch. c By BRIAN TURNER Gamecock Staff Writer President James B. Holderman's "Carolina Plan" was unanimously approved by the USC Board of Trustees in a Dec. 9 meeting, beginning what Holderman calls an "intensive planning year" in 1978. "The Carolina Plan: A Prospectus 1978-1983" is the result of the president's visits to all of the branch campuses, to many of the colleges and academic departments in Columbia and with faculty and students. TIIE PRESIDENT addressed the board describing irolinion Library Han _ a a xJ-OII they filed a missing person's report Jan. 11. "THAT NIGHT, we went to the Richland County police," Smith said. Because the incident occurred on campus, the paco ic nnw hnina ini/DctidatoH hv thn I fammic Pnlinn VUtJV IO llVff MVIII^ IIITVOVlgUVVU WJ 111V VUV VyUIll pUO A V41VV. Corbin told those who signed up for the cruise that he rented the sailboats from Carribean Sailing Yachts in Ft. Lauderdale and that two were 37-foot yachts. CSY charters in New York said they have no marina in Ft. Lauderdale and they don't make boats of that size. According to CSY, f,nrhin Hirfri't mnkp anv rnnlant urifh Ihoir rharlorino organization. CORBIN BOUGHT a $3,526.64 car from Gibbes Volkswagen-Mazda Co. on Blossom Street and paid for it almost entirely in cash Davments After hp wrntp a rhprW tn cover the last payment of $826.64 in mid-December, he left with the car. Later the company discovered the check was bad. John Corbin told his parents the car belonged to a friend, according to Smith. neavy kids nn Innsrer airists 99 ? assistant professor of psychology Although most of the interior of Barnwell suffered some damage, the major impact of the fire was confined to the upper floors of the southwest section of the building. SALZBERG'S FOURTH-FLOOR office collapsed and fell through to Bachman's office. Bachman said the only thing to do in such circumstances is laugh about it. She told Salzberg, "We're now sharing an office, but your papers are mine since possession is nine-ieiuns 01 ine law. The immediate problem involves a search for space to locate offices, classrooms and laboratories. Faculty and staff were temporarily jammed into iiciiiiiuuii V/Uiicgc anu uiatrv x iuu?c, <t ^aiuy demolished two-story structure with exposed wiring, crumbling walls and missing doors. Laboratory facilities were at a bare minimum, and boxes and offices vied for hall space in Hamilton Pnllotfn unrl RIqpIt Uniico "The Barnwell fire couldn't have happened at a worse time. Not one square inch of extra space was available before the fire," said Harold Brunton, university vice president in charge of operations, at a Jan. 26 meeting with Psychology department staff and Dean of Humanities and Social Resources Chester Baine. BHUNTON SAII) the primary problem was to obtain office and classroom space, and the secondary problem was what to do with this space. See BARNWELL, page 6 his planning as "an ongoing process charged to face difficult situations." He hopes to complement the plan with annual reviews of its effectiveness and visits to each campus every eight weeks. The 31-page document developed in September by the administration gives strong emphasis towards meeting the university's planning needs, fully integrating the nine campuses into a comprehensive statewide system , aggressively recruiting students from all age-groups and improving USC's alumni endowments. See PLAN, page H