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South Carolina's Best College Newspaper -\ "Thursday Volume LXX No. 2-4 University of South Carolina Columbia, S.C. 0ct.23,1980 ' mm r*, -:-.j^B r_,' y. / g - - * * *' US ' v - * ' . _'. ; : ' * '. <- ' ' * : ' Russell House Fire Columbia firefighters responded to an alarm in Russell House within minutes Tuesday night and quickly put out a small fire that broke out when a T.^io fira Z/irpoW art ri/i/ll/f ( urr ? ##*> ***** ?v/? ww ??? evacuation of the building. (Photo by David Cauthen) Campers get more than ticket Front-row set By Patty McCarthy "Playboy" magazine aloud staff writer all night Sunday. Another Manv Dartied. some made auite a Drofit collect studied, but everyone who ing beer cans. registered and camped out for tickets to the USC- SKIP GOLDSMITH, a Clemson football game last second-year law student, weekend was guaranteed had a good time in an more than just tickets. unusual way. "I kept myself People watched people, entertained- by kicking and there were a lot to footballs into the crowds, watch. The variety was Ninety-nine percent of the endless. time they were high, Students near the ticket spiraling kicks hooked to the . rr- i J! . a. xi1 J: J I J on ice sang, providing great leu. wu aiso uiu rucuaiu accompaniment for the Pryor and Rodney surrounding activity. Dangerfield imitations." Roiler skaters, guitar Other imitations aboundplayers and sleepers were ed. A Waylon Jennings scattered around the look-alike and sing-alike coliseum. Punk rockers contest was held, but no were punk rocking. People winners were announced, threw confetti. One guy read People brought sleeping (JSC students relax outside Carolina Coliseum USC-Clemson football game. Distribution this yei there were no major problems. (Photo by John Par r lino i Powe: darke By Donald B. Weatherbse Staff Writer A power cable leading to South Tower exploded at 4:40 p.m. Tuesday, cutting electricity in at least 15 buildings on campus, according to USC maintenance men. The explosion occurred in an underground power line, _ i a.a.1 j 11 ~ r snumng uown power un an ui the university's circuit two, which includes Osborne, the administration annex, Preston, Maxcy, Engineering, Wardlaw, part of McBryde quadrangle, University Terrace, South Tower, South Building, Russell House, McClintock, Sims, Wade Hampton and LeConte. USC maintenance workers Max Gantt and Robert Woods said the university's plpptri^ni evetpm nnpratps on four power circuits. Power to all the buildings on circuit two automatically shut off when the cable shorted out, they said. Gantt, Woods and Bob McNaughton, another ts to the game bags, tents, blankets, bear rugs, mattresses, televisions radios, lounge chairs, food and coolers. A confederate flag waved proudly over the largest tent. Four portable toilets were provided. But using these "luxuries" was like playing "Let's Make A Deal." since campers had to guess which ones were occupied. Two of the toilets overflowed. SPORTS KEPT many students amused. F'risbee throwers and football passers had big audiences. A panel of men set up by an unidentified committee developed a girl-rating system near the registration area. Then some women V ^ K ;; % ^ B^93Bk: . *'. I v-H|^H i W^:' HBHHra ?:v . x-'i-'y ' K H waiting for tickets to the ir was well organized, and nell) I, 1111V 1 ns 15 Small fire in R possibly due tc Staff Ho A small fire broke out in a room at 8 p.m. Tuesday, po power that occurred when I tricity after the power outage. "When the power surged machines went up," said I Mclntvre. "I guess it caused motors." | ^olumbia Assistant Fire C i . med that the power surge n The fire was extinguished used the extinguisher and p Anderson said. "The windings inside the n he said. "I would venture to : | $200 and $300, but I can't asse maintenance worker, began looking for the trouble spot soon after the power went out. By 8 p.m. they had restored power to all circuit two buildings except South Tower. Their search began at a power sub-station on Pendleton Street between Main and Assembly streets. The mson cc judged the panelists. Students camping on the Assembly Street side of the coliseum amused themselves by watching Holiday Inn visitors. And the visitors had front-row seats for the camp-out circus. SOME PEOPLE got bored and took road trips. Hungry hordes gave fast-food places some heavy business. Seven Eleven binges emptied the shelves there. One group barbecued chicken. A few crimes were committed, but Campus Police didn't intervene. Someone poured detergent into the fountain by the Law Center, and campers staged a "suds" battle. Pizza deliverers were bargaining and campers were gamming to knock down pizza prices. Some lounge chairs were taken from the downstairs rest-room lounges. The chairs were not stolen, though, probably because no one wanted to drag away anything but himself by Mnndnv mornine Firecrackers were thrown from sleeping bags. Mattresses and a few shoes were missing Monday morning. PEOPLE AMUSED themselves in some funny ways. Chris Crowley, a junior, laughed, "How did I keep myself entertained? I compared my new puppy's KHJK5 IU SUII1C U1 II1C ?11 I > who were walking by. Then I studied and drank." Gary Carson, a sophomore, was No. 2 on the list. "1 mingled with all the people, raised a little hell exploi buildi ussell House ) power surge pons Russell House maintenance ssibly caused by a surge of the building regained elecback on, the aii handling building supervisor Wayne a short circuit in one of the 'hief Barney Anderson conlight have caused the fire, with carbon dioxide. "We ui me ine uui m secuuui>, lotor are what caught fire," say the motor costs between ss the damage," he said. workers followed the circuit two cable toward South Tower checking the main underground switches along the circuit. After they checked each switch and eliminated it as a possible fault, the workers opened up that part of the . . *1 1 II 1 A. I L circuit ana canea me sunstation on walkie-talkies to tmp-out and generally had a good time," he said. "We mostly danced to have fun and studied," said Louise Haltiwanger, a junior nursing student. Bluto Shevl.in, a sophomore transfer student, said, "I spent my time consuming intravenously beers ? don't ask me to explain, and wallpapering the walls of the coliseum with Tuborg Gold labels." DREW JACKSON, a computer science sophomore, did something definitely different. "At one point, we entertained ourselves by watching two people across the street showing us different ways to comfort each other." Dar Williams, a senior advertising/puunc reunions major, said. "We kept busy with tremendous games of backgammon, Monopoly and spades with friends that you could never replace." Mike Sheely, a sophomore marine science major, said, "I'd like to say that our group was such a great mix of Greeks and i n dependents." t-y : j it j L-. ? uavui ihki^ ?>cuu i itstudied for a GINT midterm. MOST CAMPERS began running out of steam about 4 a.m. Monday when WUSC, broadcasting live from the coliseum, went off the air. At about 5 a.m., anyone awakening would have believed he was in the middle of "a reenactment of the .Jonestown mass suicides," as sophomore Dana Lucas said By that sion ings order power restored to that part of the circuit. Power was first restored to the administration annex, Osborne, Preston and Maxcy. The next buildings regaining power were Wardlaw and I'niversity Terrace. At 7:50 p.m.. ciu wit one was extended to provide power to LeC'onte. Wade Hampton. M c (' I i n t o c k . Oalcott and Russell House By a process of elimination, the workers narrowed the problem to the South Building-South Tower area. When the switch to Tmnor InrnoH <in a breaker tripped causing a second small explosion, indicating that the fault was in that section of the cable. The maintenance workers then switched the five buildings that had been switched to circuit one back to circuit two. Then they restored power to South Building. South Tower regained power at 11 '45 p.m. : circus time almost everyone was asleep. But the calm didn't last long. At 6:15 a.m. Student Government members began circulating, announcing a 7 a m. roll call. Cold students groggily took their belongings home, to their cars, or to the Blossom Street side of the see Front, page 4 Xmeeting, i p.m., mi Itm. m. FHm ~~ "The Hig Sleep," starring Husmphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. ST,? Matlnel'at