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Wk Jg Wednesday ^^^^volume LXX.No. 05 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. June <4, 1980 (JSC's Amda tn air Km irnrvl a iiiuy i By Karen Addy Editorial Page Editor The S.C. House surprised a number of people last week when, at the last minute, it added $5.5 million to the state bond bill to buy a new computer for USC. Some of the people most surprised were House members themselves, when the appropriation was proposed by Rep. Bill Campbell of Columbia. "There is no question that an expansion is needed in the existing computer system at USC," Campbell said. However, several House members, including Rep. Norma Russell, disagreed. Russell said taxpayers should not have to pay for the university's mistakes. RUSSELL WAS REFERRING to the purchase of an Amdahl computer system about a year ago, following a scandal involving USC computer official Jack Cooper. In the spring of 1979, USC bought an IBM computer system even though the company did not submit the lowest bid. It was revealed later that Cooper, then vice-president of Computer Services at the university, had accepted a bribe from IBM. IBM provided Cooper and his wife with a 20-day trip to Europe, Hawaii and Taiwan while USC was considering purchase of the new computer system. The State Ethics Commission investigated the Cooper-IBM transaction and requested that their findings be made public. However, a circuit judge p- . ^K - MM: James W. Jackson, director of the Newsi Kenneth E. Toombs (right) examine part of i series. Lows in the 60s. Friday-Sunday: Sunny skies and tmm te> On the inside... CARP, an organization affiliated w Myung Moon's Unification Church, wit! chapter on USC's campus this fall. See st ? Carolina Alive returns from Egyptian t< P< ' . ' * ' baseball team falls to Cletna A t(antic Regionats. See story, page 10. I- | j iffl ' M 1 1 tni computer ccd this year ruled that the results remain confidential. Cooper resigned in September, and charges were not brought against him. When the ethics violation surfaced, the State Budget and Control Board ordered the university to return the IBM computer and purchase an Amdahl computer. The Amdahl purchase soon proved to be a $2.8 million blunder. 'THE AMDAHL COMPUTER cannot satisfy the needs of the university, and the response time is unacceptable," Robert Roberson, vice president of Computer Services, said. Roberson said that while the university still owed auuui iiiwiiwu uu nit rvuiutuii vzuiiijpuici , 11 wuuiu bring only $1.2 million if it were sold on the competitive market. Rep. Russell argued that the computer was not being used properly. She said she has proof that politicians have used the computer this year to run polls for personal use, although Roberson said that there was no record of any such use during the past year. "Maybe things are going on after hours in that computer department that the supervisor doesn't know about," Russell said. Roberson said that 74 percent of the material run mrougn me computer is tor ine university, wnue 2b See Computer, page 5 ; K^^3H -,-jj - - .v _ EHfcfe^&x. EffiAfrf-'wfcgtvirMjgflflSiflpg^M^BB % * >: ' ".>* *V 9. fwSgggBlil . - V _ - - V.~ " ._ -- ---_ 1 ~* , ~ - -* l * ^---'-. -1_-rj ' ',r - ^ " '"' gxji r--, ^ ^ '- .- _?-f'~r-v;-Tr-v *-~*-? -r^v v['"/_ ' . "* _ i r-_ 1 } ' g^Bgjjgl ggjijS ^?^^^^^?^^^^^^^^???^^^^^*RoberiAriaU^GAMECOCK Hm library (left), and Director of Libraries he first shipment of the Movietone News N-Wast | From Wire Repor I Gov. Dick Riley has signed int< I regulations dealing with the han Probability Of I of nuclear wastes in South Carolin "This measure, for the first I responsibility and accountability disposal site managers," Riley sa promise that he would work to en mperatures. image as the nation's nuclear du the regulations "are the only thii '\ nation." TheS.C. Department of Health ith Control will enforce the new m< adopted interim regulations i try to 801 Ijp 0, Riley's signing of the bill and is e ory> page 3, / with permanent regulations to 1 I I oilicloturn fnr rniHiirfiH rotn/nr ni I liV^IOlUll.11 1' 1UJ t V-V|l?ll V.\4 A V. y IV T? II our. See story, I previously. riley said \| power to levy civil fines on shi transportation rules. The new la \r% f ivrr'A A^I the enforcement process,*he said, ton at JVCAA I law will allow DHEC and < ,1 "to effectively control the quar ' ' Ww** nuclear wastes inoursUite," Kile ? ' % 'fm A view of (JSC's overloaded Amdahl computer. The computer may be replaced this year after a $5.5 million addition was made to the state bond bill by Rep. Bill Campbell. Movietone Nems First shipment of newsfilm here By Walter Allread Gamecock Staff Writer Somel25,000 feet of the Movietone News film donated to USC by Twentieth Century-Fox has arrived at the Thomas Cooper Library where the film will be temporarily housed. The footage, which has been transferred by Twentieth Century-Fox from inflammable nitrate siock to "saieiy siock, composes omy a fraction of the 44 years of Movietone News film. USC President James B. Holderman said the total footage runs somwherefrom 80 to too million feet or "60 days of non-stop viewing." Calling the news film "The best source of pictorial review" of the period from 1919 to September 1963, Holderman said the completed Movietone News library will be an invaluable academic asset. I HOLDEItMAN SAII) THE the closeness of the proposed Carolina Arts I Center ? where the film is to be eventually housed ? to ETV facilities I will make the footage available to educational and commercial film i producers all over the world. "It'll more than pay for itself," the president said of the film library, \ "and it will help pay for the Arts Center." Holderman said USC could make money by charging commercial filmmakers for the use of Movietone News footage now that the university owns the copyrights to the film. see f/rsr sn/pment. page a e regulations pass 13 South Carolina, Washington and Nevada are the o law a tough set of onjy tjiree states presently burying low-level nuclear dling and shipment wastes. Until last year, the Chern Nuclear Systems a-, Inc. site in Barnwell buried 85 percent of the nation's time, places the nuclear waste. on each actor in the year Kiley ordered Chem Nuclear to cut back tors, carriers and on ^e amount of waste it will accept, and now. the 'd* facility handles 57 percent of the nation's waste, vily in 1078 on a Kileysaid. ise South Carolina's j^e new state law requires generators of nuclear mping ground, said w aste to post bonds or evidence of liability insurance of its kind in tin1 --c? ? r^iivu ^uiivi au)i iuu;n pui v naai* ck pvi um iu aiii|j radioactive wastes in the state and provide advance and Environmental notice of all shipments 'asure. The agency THK ACT ALSO will tighten the standards carriers n preparation for must nieet, including proper driver training, vehicle ixpected to come up safelv and adherence to all applicable federal and h* submitted to the state'laws ext year The law gives the state authority to impose fines i the state had no from $1.000 to $25,001) for violations. If companies ppers who violated consistently fail to meet the standards, the state can w puts "teeth" into revoke or suspend their permits. Hiley said certain classified activities of the federal ither atatp affpnrips government and some radioaetive shipments from itity and quality of federal ojH'ratiotis will be exempted from the ;ysaid regulations.