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1 Volume LXX, No. 42 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Dec. ~7, 1979 StuHpn By Megan Sexton Gamecock Staff Writer Security guards not doing their jobs and problems in the Wade Hampton Hotel were two of the major complaints voiced at an open meeting on campus security Wednesday night. The meeting offered a chance for representatives of each area on campus to cite problems with security in their specific areas and offer any possible solutions for these problems. Sen. Matt Ward and Sen. Nancy Scheffler, members of the subcommittee of the Residential Life Committee, started the program to look into the security problem on campus and, with the help of the students, find some answers to these problems, according to Ward. WAHI) BEGAN the meeting by explaining the maior areas he and Scheffler discussed with Chief Marvin Harrelson, chief of Campus Security, concerning campus security. These included: 1. The physical condition of the Campus Police officers. 2. A work-study program where students would be paid to patrol the campus with walkie-talkies and assist Doliee officers. 3. A system to check up on security guards stationed in dormitories!# make sure they are ... doing their jobs properly. 4. Proper lighting of parking lots and walkways where there are large numbers of students. 5. A program to help inform the J t- 1 l it. IJ 1? s>iuueiiii> uu wiitii mey tuuiu uu iu protect themselves, their property, and the property of others. 6. The improvement of internal security, including better locks in places such as the biology and chemistry buildings. Ward asked everyone at the meeting of residence hall directors. hall advisors, and dorm Q+nHonfc W t. IAVtV/1 A LVJ in local d By Megan Gamecock St Four men, including three USC .4 ?4 i...A n?i. u:? 1 A* m ug 1 uius (ii iwu unuiuuia lucauuu Narcotics agents from the Kichlc confiscated 180 pounds of marijuan amphetamine and barbituate capsu The three USC students are charj ! with intent to distribute, and posses; Perry Bill Pappas, 20, and Joh arrested at 511 Kilbourne Rd. T marijuana and the weapons, whicl | and pistols, Rithland County Sherifl RONNIE BENSON ROBERTS,of Anthony Arnistead Jr., 21, of Greyi in the apartment parking lot duri pounds of marijuana. Roberts and Pappas are under*, Dowell is working on his graduate d Arnistead is charged with posses distribute. The four men were described I whnlp?tt1#?rs in lh<> f!nlnmhin arpn students. The marijuana had been s I THE MARIJUANA had a street vj I Narcotics agents from the sheril Solicitor's Office and the Camde: working on this case for more than four men had received up to 200 poi I- KKtaL iwo iu inree years. Powell said the intent and origin is under investigation. r Secut A is voice c presidents to cite specific || problems with security in their areas. p Mike Doherty, Wade Hampton I| Hotel dorm president, asked that a I uniformed police officer be stationed in the Wade Hampton B Hotel. Doherty said the unique K residence hall situation of the n Wade Hampton Hotel where there p are more than 500 students, semi- fl isolated from campus in the B downtown area. With two en- I trances, one directly on Main Street, and all the traffic in the H dorm lobby, checking residents' keys to see who should be there is imrvncciKln " Hnhnrf?r Bi pujoivanj UlipUOOlMlV, JL/UIIVl :_ said. I Doherty said there have been I cases of armed robbery, drunks wandering in from the street and watching television and various people coming in and soliciting. He & said the Wade Hampton Hotel t parking lot is another area of p. concern. Cars have been broken I intnmflnvlimps I DOHERTY PROPOSED a plan I to Richard Wertz, associate vice jS president for Residential Life Services, where a combination lock would be put on the door to the $ hotel. By doing this, only people who are supposed to be there would i know the combination, and it "would serve as an initial \ Wertz has not given Doherty a definite answer on the plan since the new door to accomodate the lock would cost $1,000. Sen. Ruffin Weaver represented South Building, and said most of the problems in the women's dorms had to do with security guards falling asleep on the jco or not showing up for work at all. Desk security guards are supposed to check resident's keys when they come in at night, and enforce the visitation nolicv in r %f effect for the particular dorm, but arrested i Irug raid Sexton latt Writer students, were arrested during s Monday. md County Sheriff's Department ia, 14 weapons and more than 100 les. Zed with possession of mariiuana sion of controlled substances, in Vinson MacDowell, 2Y, were he police seized 160 pounds of i included various kinds of rifles f Frank Powellsaid. 511 Kilbourne Road, and Robert itone Apartments, were arrested ing the delivery of the other 20 graduate students at USC. Macegree at USC. ision of marijuana with intent to by Powell as major marijuana , selling primarily to university old in 20-pound lots, he added. alue of $300,000, Powell said, fs department, the fifth Circuit n Police Department had been two months. The agents said the mds of pot every 10 to 14 days for of the weapons seized in the raid I ity guards criticizt ampus se * j l7r~, 1 - -- --- mjgffr++* - -J * 4& ? jfl ^ '-A, S'-A \ - i >' i ' " i" ^;:**r-? : ,,&. Iprplir^c nnrl imnr/nltc V ^ ^ KS V* f ft V* I I V7 the Wade Hampton h often the guards don't do this, < according to Meg Seasholtz, Wade 1 Hampton Dorm president. ^ IN THE WADE HAMPTON ' dorm some floors have "D" plan, 1 allowing open visitation on 1 weekends, while other floors do not. The guards are supposed to < check keys before allowing I escorted men in, but usually they ^ don't, Seasholtz said. ( Ricky Adams, Columbia Hall vice president, said during the 12-8 ( a.m. shift security guards in his ' dorm are often asleep on the 1 Grievance By Teresa K. Weaver Gamacock Staff Writer A proposal to exempt USC faculty state grievance procedures was appr at tne general laculty meeting weanes Professor Peter Becker, of the Histc urged the faculty to vote in favor oi procedure resolution as it is becau; reaching implications of the state pej bringing us under its control." If the state were given jurisdiction < Becker said, "We (the faculty) would self-administration, our right of peer our right of retaining privileges so acquired over long years." Becker argued that the authority trustees would be "undercut and d< 'We would /os right of peer eva/u state system. y~ n u... eiiuvn ytcun/v-iv ?ii ., ci law sviiwi pn the procedure proposal remained su same since November's Faculty S when the document was resubmitted advisory committee for revision. Wedlock said he believes the fac better off under an individual intei procedure. "I have some concern of actually doing that or whether tl proposed here a traditional faculty nr just another version of a managerial administration as manager." Wedlock said the revised grievai outline contained few references to ." *V . t* i ?"*' u. , . ^ - - _?. ... - ?d CI i 1 cunty prot J SEBB m have plagued student lotel. :ouches or on the telephone for concei lours. The Columbia Hall door KII< windows were broken one night, and fo and the guard didn't catch anyone was al and didn't even know they were Evans 3r ok en, he added. Camp This year one sofa, two chairs capab ind two television antennas have Cam ;>een stolen from the dorm lobby 21 yea vhen a guard was supposed to be diplon -j.. 4 _. A J ?: ,J > 1 jii uuiy, rtuamh scuu. SCflOOI Martin Delleboli, Bates House crimir iorm president, said in order to vestig; lave security work in a dorm the This r residents have to be involved and SLED ; exemptioi role of the faculty in perf tion. A traditional model partnership between the members from and the board of trustees, oved by a vote "What we're looking f >day. accountability? accounta iry department, administration, and bj f the grievance faculty." Wedlock asked se of the "far- the faculty or the admii -sonnel division grievance system be solid Perry Ashley, journals over grievance, of the faculty advisory c< lose our right to hoc committee had been evaluation and administration in studyi me of us have procedures. Under the faculty advi of the board of grievance system, the fi snied" under a member with a grievanc e our right to se/f-administi rntion... Professor Pe pi a nation from his admini >fessor, argued tenure or promotion, ibstantially the If unsatisfied, the fact enate meeting written summary from I to the faculty decisions were made. summary, if the faculty ulty would be grounds for reconsiderati nal grievance statement to the universit whether we're The president has the ai here is beinGf the individual rasp if hp f todel or rather faculty member also haj model with the faculty grievance commit The final level of recoui race procedure review by the academic the legitimate committee of the board of >1 lOm c 71^AAld M Rig' 9 ^V/ jSj.'.'V 1 ?TSI jjBr ? l>avt> KobacH-C>AMK('(H'K rned about their dorm. K EVANS, full-time student rmer Campus Police officer, so present at the meeting. In ' opinion, only 25 percent of us Police officers are leof handling their jobs tpus Police officers must be trs old, have a high school la, attend criminal justice for 10 weeks, have no lal record and be inated by campus security, eport is then passed on to , accuruiiig iu iiai rt'ihun. lOK'd orming the grievance fune, he said, is premised on a administration, the faculty or," he added, "is mutual bility by faculty to the / administration to the for a firm commitment by nistration that the present ly revised. >m professor and chairman >mmittee, announced an ad i formed to serve with the ng the issue of grievance sory committee's proposed rst recourse of the faculty p is tn rpniimt an oral pv ration, our ter Becker istrative officer for denial of ilty member can request a the dean outlining how After receiving the case member believes there are on, he can submit a written :y president. A 1 ! f uiuuriiy iu uruer a review 01 inds compelling reason. The s the right of appeal to the ttee. *se within the university is a affairs and faculty liaison trustees.