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l.he South Carolina Library I Campus jf ll /""""V 6>*?V**^ ^ '"*\ O #***"'** LJcar T IfciLA-/Frday Volume LXX, No. B2 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. April 25, 19BO Thursday s j Student's dc By Mark Platte N?w* Editor The driver of a jeep involved in an accident which killed USC student Gene Myers has been recommended to be sent before a Grand Jury next month to determine his responsibility in Myers' death. Arthur Lee Moore, of Pickens S.C., was found to be driving in a "reckless and felonious" manner by a five-man, one-woman jury during Thursday's Coroner's inquest. The grand jury will determine whether or not Moore should appear before the jury and then will decide whether he should be indicted and sent to the S C. general sessions court to "be iudged bv a iury of his peers." MOORE WAS NOT present at the inquest but Columbia Police Officer Norman Seibert testified that Moore's alcohol count on the breathalyzer test rppistprpd 17 A 10 count is considered leeallv - ^ ? ? ? o drunk. Frank Barron III, Richland County coroner, read statements by Karen Soete and Patricia Dolan, two girls who were riding in the back of the jeep during the accident. Moore, Myers, Soete and Dolan had been drinking while in Twilight lounge, a bar on Rosewood Drive, according to the girls' statements. Moore drank "4 or 5 beers" but the girls didn't think he was drunk. They said there was no drinking or drug use in the ieep /Hafzpp3& / /~/ * /"'" / l/^r' ( uTi/l D( / Epggc ^ I |f,M#V ' * I" V" 11 1 - ' JJ" * L j ' I r # ? ?ir \ / 1 | M \ \ U SC to test r By Jeannto Ralston O*m?cock Staff Writer USC will be the testing ground for a compute] system developed by NASA. The system convert! complex census information into an easily read color I coded map. Using the Domestic Information Display Systen granted to the university by NASA for a 12-montl project, state agencies will be able to call up a coloi demographic display of state and national censu: data on a display screen. The $80,000 system wil allow complex information to be obtained an< analyzed in minutes instead of days or weeks, ac cording to Dr. David Cowen, director of USC's socia and behavioral science laboratory. COWEN WILL WORK in a technical capacity witl the state government, NASA and the Council of Stat< Governments, a joint agency of state governments, t< determine the value of the system for state decision malrincr r?rrw?occ Tho cvctnm ic h?ina nuoH pffwfivph .. unu.g f ? ..v v., by the federal government. The system will be installed in about six months ii the basement of Gambrell Hall. After three months i will be moved to a state government building. Stat agencies will have access to the computer to appl; ttv- information to various projects for state agencie and the legislature. The council, which chose South Carolina for th atal mishap >ath probed after they left the lounge. The jeep, traveling north on South Pickens Street, ran over the curb and struck a pole at the corner of South Pickens and Heyward streets. The jeep then proceeded to hit a pickup truck after Myers was i jolted out the jeep's door and hit the pole, resulting in breaking Myers' leg and "mass trauma" to his head. DOLAN ALSO FELL out the jeep but was not seriously injured. Soete sustained minor back and neck injuries and after the accident, she said she lay down in the street after checking Dolan's condition. Moore also came over to look after both Dolan and Myers. Soete, who had known Moore for six months, said she didn't know how fast Moore was driving, but she felt the jeep bump as it ran over the curb and saw the windshield shatter. Both girls said that Moore was well-liked. Moore was arrested after the accident and voluntarily submitted to both a breathalyzer and blood test. Officer Seibert said Moore "was in a drunken condition." Seibert said Jim Craig, the driver of the hit pickup truck, signed the warrant for Moore's arrest. There were no other vehicles present at the time of the accident. Frank Barron said he believes the grand jury will probably give Moore some kind of probation next month. "They'll probably go real light on him," he said. I /-?J/ 71 /?1 / 3 feMi?k> ^ A A .QIi.Qtpm project, will help in the design of the project and make recommendations concerning future use of the r system on a state level based on the results of this } testing project. The council will conduct workshops on this system for other states. , The system was awarded to USC by the council 1 because of USC's reputation as a major center for i computer mapping and graphics and its close r working relationship with state government, Cower 5 said. Sen. Ernest F. Hollings assisted with the grant. 1 1 Two NASA officials visited USC yesterday to begir preliminary work on the system's installation. NASj^ 1 will provide the necessary hardware, software anc $35,000 for the installation. USC is also providing $35,000. i John Quann of NASA Goddard Space Flight Centei b said South Carolina will have access to the data o compiled by the 24 federal agencies which use th< svstem. "SOUTH CAROLINA CAN put anything they wan n into the system, and the> will also be able to compan t their data with other states and the nation," Quant e said. y A wide variety o( social and economic informatioi s is contained in the computer such as population health, labor, unemployment, and energy data e according to Quann. Bj|u&Rag&ffii^Z;. ;?|?j||aM Ik.' "'^M "'' TO1MW:- * 8 snaP v^ji^ i?j 19 ^^X^ame^^AMECOCK Karen Soete, foreground, is directed out of Richland County courthouse after a coroner's inquest Thursday in connection with the death of Eugene Myers. f** <Am ' rf"fc < ?4 i* ot:riuiuf5 ivum parking privileges By Tammy Kilpatrick Gamecock Staff Writar A plan giving student senators special parking privileges was announced by Student Government vice-president Jeff Floyd at Wednesday's senate meeting, but parking officials say such plans are only tentative. The new privileges would allow student senators to have parking stickers numbered 1-60 and meter maids would consider them "special persons." Senators on student government business could be excused from paying tickets in most cases if a meter maid gave them one. Floyd said the plan developed last semester by the senate and could be in effect next fall. "I won't consider it definite till they (senators) get the letters in the mail," he said. Danny Baker, director of Parking and Motor Vehicle Registration, said the special plans for senators are a rumor but admits a solution may be worked out for senators to be exempt from tickets if they are on official business. Parker said the parking division already excuses students from paying parking tickets they receive while participating in campus events, such as band members. 44WE WOULD TREAT them like any other student," Baker said. He said students on official business can take tickets to the appellate court and be excused. "I don't really see any harm in doing that," he said. Senators were given special parking privileges until 1974, Baker said, but the program was discontinued after senators stopped picking up stickers. He believes the low-number decal may be more 1 of a "status thing" than an attempt by the senate to get special ! privileges. 1 "I do not encourage the use of decals supporting and making ; distinctions that some students don't have to pay tickets," Baker said. In other senate business, the Rules Committee put off until Wednesday a vote on the part-time students bill sponsored by Sen. Lorean Evans. Arnold Evans, co-writer of the bill, said attorney 1 general John Foster has ruled the bill constitutional and recommended the senate pass it. Marsha Duncan, dean of student affairs, said she has researched 1 the bill in the student catalogue, and part-time students paying | activity fees are guaranteed all rights of full-time students taking 12 1 or more hours. "The catalogue is the university's contract with ' students once they pay their tuition," she said. "They (SAC) and I have an obligation to ensure that all our students have the rights established in the catalogue. ' DUNCAN BELIEVES part-time students do have the right to run for office. "I've advised Student Government that that is university policy. The bottom-line is part-time students have the right to run. They may want to pass legislation to establish that," she said. Foster said he has ruled the bill constitutional "I feel it is in the catalogue and we would be in violation of university policy" if SG did 1 not let part-time students run for office, he said. University policy needs to be clarified, according to Foster. He pointed out that one regulation says full-time students must take 12 hours to be able to live in a dorm, while other regulations say parttime students who pay activity fees and take more than six hours are considered full-time.