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i 1 The South Carolina Library Volume LXX, No.4 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. September 5,1 979 11 Senat imr'/Trnf 1 By Sharon Bt Qamocock Stal Student Government will beg vacancies because of resignations from last spring, according t( Government vice president. Three senators resigned becaus more resignations could be on the \* which cause ineligibility, Warshau the spring, and many people cann ! living in the fall. If a senator move off campus, he then represents ? ineligible in the district he was elecl RESIGNATIONS thus far, acco I /irpfta rw?nntcrtn nictrift .l.Coit i ? ?^ v w Jk/VIMUUV?I| VJL IV V 1 V/VU v V/ 13-Seat 1, (Sciences and Math); ai Seat 3 (Health Sciences). 'People do not know th f _ - / ^ m m m wnat s mvoivea wnen ted... Mike Warshaue Vacancies, or seats that were ne District 12 Seats 1,3,4 and 6 (Ed Justice), District 13 Seat 3 (Sciem Seats 3,4,and 5 (General Studies said. Journalism and General Studi General Studies has no representati "If you add the resignations and i a pretty big crowd of seats to fill. F outs of what's involved when they can move and still represent the d Warshauer said. "By the twelfth of the month w current senate." SG officials are unsure when an will be held. Warshauer said SG president Pet the 70 or more committee positi positions ar probably already filled, The senate powers and responsib any appointments made by Haesekc I Gov. Riley \ gives view I on rhina By Mark Platta d Assistant News Editor I China will not be trading with the I United States in a developed sense I anytime soon, but will become " more "western" as it develops, | according to Gov Dirk Ritav nn hi? I return from China, Monday. An American delegation, which ? left from Andrews Air Force Base s in Washington D.C. Aug. 24, was i led by Vice-President Walter \ Mondale, Mondale's family and c four representatives from Min- c nesota. > "I don't have any contracts or r any commitments,"Riley said. "It wasn't that kind of trip. It was c ? i_: 1 -/ iL-i * i i ictiny a Kiiiu ui inp uiai 1 nope i could lead into some kind of trade fr thing where I have the opportunity v to know people who can help us in I the future." r t RILEY VISITED a textile plant in Canton, which was about 25 t -l J i 1 * years oia ana contained macmnery f seen in South Carolina textile mills r 20 years ago. Since all business is c owned by the government, Chinese t f> in SG F ichanan S ff Wrh?f P ii in th(> sprriMtpr with 11 donate i and previously unfilled seats ) Michael Warshauer, Student c ? e of other commitments, but c ^ay because of district changes I 1 .J ni i! t_ _ i j ? icr saiu. riiecuons are neia in ? lot predict where they will be t s from one dorm to another or ( mother district and becomes ted in, he added. s F rding to Warshauer, include: * (Towers); Bill Greer, District I rid Conrad Banks, District 17- 1 t e ins and outs of < they are elecr, SG vice president :ver filled last spring, include ' ucation and 4 vpnr fViminnl ce and Math) and District 15 * and Journalism), Warshauer es combine for District 15, but { ves, he added. 5 vacancies together, you've got 1 *eople do not know the ins and ' are elected. They think they listrict they were elected in," j e'll know the makeup of the ( election for the vacant seats ( | c e Haeseker appoints people to E ions. Most of the important ( iic auueu. ility committee must approve \ T. t |4BPB^ v . am r; Brttt Andrew - GAMECOCK ire government employees. Riley ;aid there are about 3,000 em>loyees of textile mills in Canton vith 300 managerial and engineering positions. The plant loes everything but produce the rarn, which they import from the tAAM rtrtnf icui taai, i "It was a lot of people and a < rude machine, extremely < oud,"Riley said. "They didn't j lave a dust factor because they 1 weren't making yarn from cotton. < t was a well-managed, crude old 1 nachinery making rather simple I extile products." Riley said China does not want < he kind of quality that the U.S. I kPA/lll/tAO aifOA PKl M ft A rt vuuvvo MVVOUU7V VslUllO VVailU) 1 nore jobs for people and less i apital. "China has a billion people i hey have to put into place, so I see i Compu By Karon Addy Qom?cock Staff Writer Vice president of Computer Services, Jack Cooper, resigned Friday following an appeal by the Itate Attorney General's office publicizing information uncovered n a State Ethics Commission nvestigation. pAA?\At? tunn ? vwpvi rvcko uiciiviuiicu in a omplaint filed last year with the >tate Ethics Commission. The locument suggested possible State Cthics Act violations in a tranaction between Cooper and Inernational Business Machines Company. While the university was considering the purchase of a compter, IBM provided Cooper and lis wife with a 20-day trip to Curope, Hawaii and Taiwan ast year costing $5,200, according o the commission's findings. Although Amdahl Corporaton equipment underbid IBM by 1750,000, USC selected an IBM :omputer. This spring, the State nnH Pnntrnl RrwrH npHoroH he university to return the IBM :omputer and purchase a commter by Amdahl. An investigation ollowed a complaint filed with the Sthics Commission. A hearing determined whether he findings should be made public. Fifth Circuit Judge John Grimball ^resided a the hearing and ruled he investigation and all records -elating to it should be kept confidential. " The decision is an unusual one, iccording to Mark Dillard, public nformation officer at the Attorney General's office. "I don't recall >ne like this before where the ;ourts ordered the case to be closed," he said. Gary Baker, executive director )f the State Ethics Commission >aid the case was referred to the \ttorney General's office because, 'Wp folt thp irtvoctidatinn chnnlH >e make public, as a deterent to us continuing to have some possibility of export to China ol high quality textiles." RILEY SAID the U.S. wil probably continue to sel machinery to China, and that there is potential for expansion in the Far East. "Somebodv told me hovi f ? much his company bought from Japan but preferred to buy froir the United States,"Riley added. Riley went to Peking, the capital of China, and visited Xian, a rural inland city. In Xian, the U.S. part} was given an ovation from 150,0(K cheering people. n was a signi 10 Denoia, nue> said. "One of the people that was with us was an authority on China Professor John Fairbank. He said it was the first time in the historj of China that the Chinese people have cheered a foreign power frorr this country. The same thing happened in Canton. These ex periences will go a long way to help stabilize the world situation in the Far East in Southeast Asia." RILEY MET with the president of the representatives of the chamber of congress of every far eastern country. Riley met the key people in Thailand and Malasia. He attended a reception in the chamber of congress in Hong Kong which included businessmen who have clients in South Carolina "One company there, Eastman Chemical, indicated that they sent thousands and thousands of pounds [>f products produced in Columbia over to mainland China every month or so, and 1 think it has good potential,"Riley said. iter head r lawbreakers. The Ethics Com- ex mission, after receiving a com- wh plaint, reviews it to determine if de thprp ic nrnhahlp pqiico fr?r q flu hearing," he said. Cc BAKER SAID the Ethics Ta Commission would not bring the als case to court unless an in- at vestigation revealed sufficient at evidence. Because of the Zu restraining order imposed on everyone involved, Baker could not release the information rrtllp/'tpH hv thp ^nmmiccinn an Grimball said he dealt wih the ed pr sa '3?SHt s' Jack Cooper M laws determining whether the M investigation whould be made \A rtuHlin "Mono r?f tho factc in thn rr pUMItVt VTA V4?V 1UVUJ W?V * . case were brought out at the S< hearing," he said E The ruling by Brimball sad the ai results of the probe should remain b< private unless Cooper appeals the to document, or the university suspends or fires him. Since ol Cooper was not suspended or fired, w but resigned, the court records remain private. H An IBM spokesman in Atlanta fc 5 percc i Book price ' By Angela I Garrntoock Sti i i The price of new textbooks has ir percent this semester, according to F I the USC Campus Bookstore. I The reason for the increase is the ] r The publisher sets a list price for the n ) books are sold for. Stewart said there 20 percent, but once they finish payii r and about a 16 percent overhead, there , "IF WE HAD to survive on the sal I it, therefore we had much rather see ( r a lot of change," E.A. Bailey, manage] ; The campus book store loses mon l "when we do make money it goes tov I goods in the store helps offset the mo - Stewart said. > The campus bookstore made about ; . last year, Stewart said, but only a The average student spendis about |5< cording to Stewart. Every fall there is i tho nnhtichoi* v*IX/ ^/UVllUIIVl ? SINCE THE BOOKSTORES don't books they sell used books, according t end of each semester the SC Bookstor books back from students. "Fifty percent of the list price is g uacvi again uii mis campus ana is a cur books are sold to the students at 75 p< list price. Stewart said the campus bookston dealers in the Southeast. Both Stewarl students get the best deals on used boo 1 well. The only competition between t bookstore is with used books. esigns plained the purpose of the trip rich Cooper received. "Cooper livered the keynote address at i International Conference on imputers in Education at mkeng College in Taiwan. He >o spoke on personal computing seminars for comDuter exoerts universities in London, Leiden, rich and Nijmegen." "The purpose was an academic d technical exchange among ucators and other computer ofessionals," the spokesman id. He added that Cooper was an knowledged computer expert, id this is why they paid the exnse of the trip. IBM,represented the hearing, requestd the inrmation be kept confidential. "We requested a stay until we id an opportunity to read and :view the commission's findings lortly thereafter when we >mpleted our review we moved to icate the confidential order," he lid. Cooper, whose resignation icomes effective Sept. 15, said he leaving ubc to assume a isiness position with a national 1 company in Tulsa, Oklahoma, e said he would receive a sub:antial salary increase. Cooper graduated from New [exico State in I960 with a RS in [echanical Engineering and Washington University with a tasters degree in Computer cience. He worked for General lectric, Washington University nd the University of Missouri efore comming to USC, where he as worked since 1972. The State Attorney General's ffice said Cooper's resignation ill not affect the appeals effort. USC President James B. olderman could not be reached ir comment. ;nt s increase Mass?y iH Wrttar icreased between three and five tobert Stewart, acting director of publisher, according to Stewart, ew books and that is what the new is a built-in profit margin of about lg a three to four percent charge > is little if any profit left. e of new books only we couldn't do Carolina use hooks atfain than spp r of theS.C. Book Store said. ey on the sale of new books, but vard scholarships. Selling other ney lost on the sale of new books, $1.5 million from textbook sales bout 35 percent of that was profit. D to $60 on books a semester, ac> a general book price increase by make much money on the new 0 both Stewart and Bailey. At the e and the campus bookstore buy iven to the student if the book is rent edition," said Stewart. Used ?rcent of the previous semester's 1 is one of the largest used book : and Bailey said they feel that the ks, and it is good for the stores as he SC Bookstore and the campus