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$ * I, South r f Ca")P(Js Ca^o7f?a , L,orary ^Iggggg^pr Volume LXIX, No. 39 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Jan.19, 1979 I SLED stt From Staff and Wire Reports An investigation is being conducted by the State Law Enforcement Division, SLED, into the possibility of missing funds from the P1..U TTO/~l'? .tui.ii. I L viaiiicvuviv uuu, uovy o auucut uuusici organization. SLED began its investigation Jan. 3 at the request of state Auditor Edgar A. Vaughn. I According to Vaughn, a discrepancy was discovered in university audits of cash receipts over the past five years. "WE WERE REQUESTED by the university to investigate the disappearance of some funds, and after a preliminary look at it, we felt we should call in SLED," - wfTTS By Bill Douglas Giimccock Staff Writer The high incidence of vandalism at Bates House is on the w ^ decline, according to James B. % I Campbell, USC vice president ^ ? of student affairs. "W "It appears that things are working out pretty well," "I ^ Campbell said. "I haven't seen my 0ff an incident report in several reducir school weeks. I was told by a damage staff member that there was a student false fire alarm at Bates West, Campb and firemen automatically went over to Bates House." THIS Campbell released a memo Bates in November to Bates House evicted residents warning them if tamper another false alarm were set ment. they would be evacuated until evicted the Columbia Fire Department ar labels the building safe. Since in ano then, Campbell said a false facility, alarm has not been pulled. Any By Tom Cannon Gamecock Staff Writer A $2.3 million renovation of Barnwel College will begin this month, according t( Harold Brunton. vine nrpsirfpnt nf nn#?rntinn? "Demolition of the inside of the building will begin this month," Brunton said. "Ar architect has been appointed and has beer working with the Psychology Department or plans for the building." Brunton said he expected the project to be completed within two years. "We will be gutting the building, and a completely new structure will be built inside," he said. BARNWELL College was gutted by fire January, 1978. The Psychology Departmenl ? idies Gan vaugnn said. "That doesn't mean any ' criminal action was involved," he said, "but we prefer to go ahead and get SLED involved anytime there's that possibility." i Vaughn said B.A. Daetwyler, USC system < vice president for business and finance, requested help from the state auditors office this past December after the athletic < department had discovered a discrepancy in i tunas. Daetwyler said the figures for the missing < amount "are purely speculative at this time." Sources report the missing funds total about $19,000 during the past five years, including $4,000 in 1978. Athletic Director and head football coach 5i55^5S6H8B8BP86HH8B8B8k IMW I m z *?' * l>lo falsi randalisr link the warning from pering with fir ice had some effect in vandalizing US ig false fire alarms and also face crimii e, but I think some be recomr s are just fed up," suspension fro ell said. sity, he said. PAST semester two Richard D. V House residents were ^icfe for vandalism and Life Services ing with fire equipOnce students are ? from campus housing e not allowed to reside set^ec^ down.ai syarsj? BMHBP student caught tarn- "WE'LL COIN Barnwell i ) * ? - * begins tr 1 has been "scattered across campus" sine* 1 then, according to Richard Silvernail 1 associate dean of the College of Humanities and Social Science. "We have a fair numbei | of classes in Gambrell Hall, but we arc ; spread all over," he said. Faculty and students have been affected by the relocation, Silvernail said. "Research and communication among faculty members i has been hurt," he said. t Lack of research space has had the most [lecock Cli Jim Carlen said most money received by the poc Gamecock Club is in the form of checks, ma "The discrepancies were in our cash get receipts. And anytime we find anything of questionable significance we check it out," t n?i? ?j J v^anen saia. dec THE GAMECOCK Club is chartered furt separately from the university, but is ad- T ministered by employees of the athletic duri department. The primary purpose of the ma :lub is to provide scholarships for athletes. Sep Gamecock Club contributions exceeded con $1.1 million in 1978, and the club has handled his1 nearly $6 million during the past five years, the according to Carlen. cesi 14You assume innocence until guilt is sent proven," Carlen said, "but whether this was was ^I Ssi I ? alarms n decline: e equipment or the staff monitor what's g C property can on over there," Wertz saic rial charges and someone wants to tak nended for chance of being evicta m the univer- disciplined, that's a sequence." Vertz, associate par^ 0f monitoring of Residential be done by Bates H , agrees that residents who have vc lavior at Bates teered as fire marsh v- According to Cynthia For the area has associate riirprtnr Kesidential Life Services : hfe0"' what student development, , floor and wing of Bates H ITINUE to have will have a fire marshall. rPnovatinn lis month * j marked effect, according to Lester Lefton, v , psychology professor. "Our research ur ? facilities are very limited," he said. "Vice President Brunton has been working to get us ! space, but I've had to move my laboratory wi two or three times in the past year." of r th< I LEFTON SAID graduate students are more EH : affected than undergraduates, because it': graduate students are directly involved with fai research. on i iK *fi irkrlo Ul%J IU11U9 >r management, a computer foul-up or a tter of doing something wrong, I want to ?i i ? ii it ticaicu up. ISC ADMINISTRATION officials lined comment on the case pending her investigation. he SLED investigation is the second ing the current school year into financial Iters concerning the university. This past >tember, the department's former cessions director, Ross Broom, JrM and assistant, James Clark, pleaded guilty to pmhoTvlomnnt nf toc en r ? ^...xvuuiviiibut ui fju, /oo.iaj irum cunsion and souvenir sales. Broom was enced to three years in prison and Clark sentenced to a one year term. ^Tnei^ob is ttHSeontne lookout, to be a peer, to help evacuate and help in possible emergencies, along with the 5 staff," she said. The volunteers will go through a training period directed bv the USC Safetv ,oing Department. f* <<If FORREST said the in'? a dividual wings in Bates House or will receive monthly bills for con" damages, to be paid by the hall residents. will Billing will al ^o go to ouse students who were evicted or )lun- caught damaging USC alls, property. Wertz said if the bill rest, is not paid the student's for records will be withheld, i for meaning the student will be ?ach unable to transfer or to ouse register for the following semester. Relocation of classes has not hurt the aching quality, Lefton said. "We have to in around a lot more, but overall it hasn't irt teaching performance." ! "The whole university is tight for space," ;fton said. "Benson School is being conirted for the Psychology Department to help itil the Barnwell renovation is finished." j According to Silvernail. orcnnizAtinn thin the department has been hurt because the communication problem. "In a way, [>ugh, it has brought the Psychology ipartment closer together," he said, "since s a necessity that instructors come to culty meetings just to find out what's going %? |