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^ South Car^ina amecoCx ||& BB South Carolina's Best College Newspaper Wednesday Volume LXX No. 3B University of South Carolina Columbia, S.C. Nov. I9.I98Q Famil to fine By Donald B. Weathorbee Staff Writer When USC sophomore Eugene "Mike" O'Boyle. disappeared from his Broadmoor Apartment orr IU 1 iiumc may 6i, uicbcmui was left up to the State Law 'Some people / using psychics is < there was nowhere Enforcement Division. Now, almost six months later, O'Boyle's parents are seeking the aid of psychics to find their son. The 20-year-old media arts QtllHont mac loef ?-? kn wimmviji iuoi uui\cu iw uy r'f, Ft 5 Mike O'Boyle was last day he disappeared. (Pho TIT il worm t Pick uj this w( By Patty McCarthy Stuff Writer The 1979-80 "Garnet & Blac have finally arrived, but the 1 is having problems selling adv< Yearbooks are available o Moor of the Kussell House be and p.m. weekdays. Student prepaid orders by presentii identification card. About 7( available for purchase at $12 e; perry Vincent, "Garnet & I in-chief, said he hopes most of be distributed by Friday. I Banks and local merchants s the advertising tor the yearb Leenhouts, "Garnet & Blacl representative, said theathlet is supporting the yearbook v\ ii this vear as it has in Hie past IH T ST I DICNT Govcrnme also bought ads in previous ! being as supportive, she (Student Government) don't v ad They just don't seem to w, iic niiich "I led that it'Student Gover support the student media, ho know that Student Governr porting them?" Leenhouts saic Jeff Floyd, student gove president, said Student Gov ly aski "I mJcci 4L liliOOJ Christopher Clifton, a friend f who was going to repair i O'Boyle's 1974 Volkswagen Dasher. O'Boyle called Clifton at 9:30 a.m. May 27 1 and said he would be at 5 Clifton's house at about 11 i a.m. O'Boyle never arrived. f ( r wight think that J off the wall. But J else to go.' J ?Emily O 'Boyle J < The next day Richland l County deputies and the ? state Highway Patrol found < O'Boyle's car on a road near 1 the intersection of Farrow and Parklane roads burning 1 from an interior fire. Peter f O'Boyle, the student's 1 '' <&> flflH "i;-^rV"./-;--t.^-;iivj EIN i 1 )?WSf seen af f/j/s C&S Aan/f at 11 to by John Parnell) "he wait: pa 1979-80'Gat lek. and decide / * J probably buy a fi he said the alloc;] k" yearbooks "We were nol .980-81 edition spending $200 m ertisements. when we had s n the second already througl tween 9 a.m. process," Floyd: s can pick up He said the m iff ? ot nrlnnt 1(3 OVUUCIll 1>UU f\ (lUVCI 113 H) copies are community sup licIi. * (iovernment air *lack" editor- biggest chunks" the books will media VINCENT SA mpply most of aside for adver ook. Meighan book. Sixteen pa (("advertising one ot the higge ie department advertising is ll Ih advertising once a year. .v.. .w,... JJ<I |M" I : lit. which has vcrtising.. The years, is not investment," V said. "They valuable advert vant to run an forever." ant to support Another prob came out late th MIMiltti "n't -Ill ? - ? - ? iiuiv in vuf\.ni ?- writw do students vertisers are f< nent is sup- come out late n i. bother." Vincenl rnment vice He said this y ernment will deadline. >psy< ? i ing st ather, reported his son Hissing May 29. MIKE ?'BOYLE'S Drother Henry, 17, said SLED has given up on the nvestigation. He said his amily has talked to psychics *bout locating Mike. "We talked to a psychic lamed Mary Green, but lothing ever substantial :ame from her findings," ;)'Boyle said. Emily )'Boyle, Mike's mother, ;aid Mary Green told the amily Mike was dead, but he family didn't believe her. A family friend in California then contacted a Dsychic and showed him lewspaper clippings of D'Boyle's disappearance, Mrs. O'Boylesaid. "He said Michael had been udnapped by a religious *roup and that we would ^eceive a message or a :30 a.m. May 2 7, the 7 ) "net & Black' :or yourself j 11-page advertisement. But ttion was questioned. t sure of the propriety of ore of the students' money upported them so heavily h the student allocation said. lain purpose of "Garnet & ing should be to get more port. Floyd said Student eady allocates "one of the of the budget to student II) 22 pages have been set tisiriL' in the vivir ges have been sold He said st problems with yearbook tat the ad is published only > are immediate ad yearbook is a long term 'ineent said "But it is lising in that it will last lem is that the yearbook is year. Last year's missed partly responsible. "Ad IU.. : I I ."cii mi uicii uit" win ext year and don't want to l said. ear's staff has met its first :hics udent ransom note in March," she sni cniH Mirhnnl was in a tunnel somewhere." THE O'BOYLKS are trying to contact Dorothy Allison, the New Jersey psychic working with Atlanta police to solve the murders of at least 11 black children. Mrs. O'Boyle saw Allison on Phil Donahue's television show and wrote to her twice. Allison has not contacted the O'Boyles, but they say they are confident the psychic will reply. "Some people might think that using psychics is off the wan, Mrs. u Koyies saict. "But there was nowhere else togo." Bob Burch, Mike O'Boyle's roommate, said he was the last person to see Mike, but Henry O'Boyle said SLED found that his brother had cashed a $17 check at the C&S hank in Dentsville near Columbia Mall. O'Boyle said the cashier rememoerea MiKe oecause he cashed a two-party check. She said a girl accompanied Mike. TIIK LAST development in the case occurred when a bartender at Group Therapy in Five Points reported that Mike came to the bar in July with a girl named Susan, according to Hugh Munn, SLED Dublic information [ officer. 1 Munn said SLED has ruled out foul play since no blood or clothing were found. He said authorities are ||f ^g^t^i^>ii>i?wi<iii>iiiiiiiiij^ Students stand in line 1979-80 'Garnet & Blact i? ? ?? i/j/a yaar uvuuu&v msi ytf deadlines. (Photo by Davie "' ''$ '* $0* v.: Missing USC student Eugen operating on the theory that are b O'Boyle is still alive. after O'Boyle and Bob Burch moth agree that Mike had no beth enemies. said. "I knew everything that forth went in and out of the "T apartment, and if he made quest enemies, I would have dead known about it." Burch said, know "He wasn't into anything to tal that could get him into May! trouble," O'Boyle said. "But steak even if he was. one of us Th< would have known about it 1 $2,(KX would have known. We never form kept secrets." wher Mu MIKK O'BOYLK will be 21 seart Nov. 28. Henry hopes his stude brother will telephone or leads maybe come home for said Christmas. over "Both he and my father anytl waiting to pick up the c. ' The yearbook is late ar's staff missed some i Cauthen) V*?i e 'Mike' O 'Bo y/e ig Gamecock tans, and we beat Michigan, my er said maybe this will e day he calls," O'Boyle "We just keep waiting le day he'll come home, he most important ion is whether he is or alive. We don't He and a lriend used k about goin^ to Texas )e lie's in Texas eat mil ;."hesaid. i* family is ottering a [) reward tor any illation about Mike's ea bouts. inn said SLKI) is still :hing for the missing ?nt, but "all the local ; are exhausted." He SLED is going back the case to see if ning was overlooked. k^;i^^'|>^ in^' n. 201 of the linker T. ishington build. fiji' ' ~ * "Y ,'j UII Film ? 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