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i? ' M ) a ) South Carolina's Best College Newspaper ^ 'pr'ClQy Volume LXX No.41 University of South Carolina Columbia, S.C. Dec. 5,1900 Miss I Coroner 8* | soon after ?y Jonn vaugi I Staff Writer Police are still searchir Dentsville where the boa> Eugene "Mike" O'Boyle weekend. The decomposed body w p.m. Saturday by two boj f lUCUUllCU UllUUgll UCIIW [ Tuesday by Dr. Charles Spartanburg forensic od< i body was found about a i O'Boyle's burning car w; days after he disappeared j Richland County Con i Rnrrnn IT! sairi an invf* coroner's office, Richland Department and the I forcement Division will b homicide investigation, bu death and the circumstanc have not yet been determi O'Boyle had been dead at had been missing. CHIEF DEPUTY Coror said Thursday, that about searching the area and woi evidence is found The would not say where the because investigators wei people out of the area. Anasti said he didn't k -aSMES* Aafe-ii: ^r *1 I 1 - . e I* I 1W* # 1 M TheaJloged A/Jfit AU-Ameritan Sheila / - sing s ays Mike O 'B he disappear searchers of the body. "Every c< lg an area near has his own ^e ' of USC student body was found last possibly recent! another animal, as found about 8 Hugh Munn, i c anH nr*ci tivol v ?rr: :j I. rv, ?j uiuccr, saiu n il records late discovery. La B. Hanna Jr., a Gamecock, "A1 jntologist. The exhausted." Bi nine Hum wnuitr bacK over tne c js found several over the area w >ix months ago. he said, adding ;>ner Frank E. been buried or I stigation by the the thinly woode County Sheriff's State Law En- O'BOYLE WAS _ i * i ? - i?i- i-n? -* e coiiuucicu s surm ituer ai t said the cause of National Bank :es surrounding it office remembc ned. Barron said at about 11:30 a out as long as he was accompani 20-year-old me ler James Anasti posed to met 20 deputies were Clifton, that i Lild continue until Volkswagen Df coroner's office O'Boyle never body was found the state High re trying to keep car burning fr< intersection of now why earlier Road. M. ^0< ^ for UN g : \ fSSSiilsPlIi gg nn^H K* 1 1 1 bseBSBBSBSB^Z^ISP?^ I 88 & n . - BaiMk ^'.': I ' recruiting violations involve coster. tude oyie died ed in May area had not uncovered the kroner or every investigator ories," Anasti said. "I felt was probably buried and ly uncovered by a dog or ? SLED public information le could not explain the st month, Munn told the 1 *1 I 1 1 .... I U1C llltdl icavid lid vc uucn it he said SLED was going ase. "They even went back ith a plane or a helicopter," [ that the body might have hidden under some brush in sdarea. ? last seen May 27 when a a Citizens and Southern of South Carolina branch tred cashing a check for him i.m. The teller said O'Boyle ed_by a woman. O'Boyle, a dia arts student, was supit his friend, Christopher Tiorning to have his 1974 isher repaired. Clifton said arrived, and two days later wav Patrol found O'Bovle's i>m an interior fire near the Parklane Road and Farrow iv Gam alleged By Mark Platte N?ws Editor The USC women's basketball team has been placed on probation by the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women after a two-year investigation into alleged recruiting violations involving All-American forward Sheila Foster. Western Carolina Coach Betty Westmoreland said Thursday that she reported violations, but she would not say what was in the reports. Foster's high school coach, -Inriv Stroud told the Gamecock Tuesday that the AIAW called her in 1978 and asked her how Foster was recruited. She wouldn't say what she told the AIAW. Foster was recruited by USC, Clemson University and Western Carolina University in 1977 when she was a senior at Boiling Springs High School. Stroud, a Western Caroline! graduate now coaching a I North Greenville Junior College, said she did not tr> to persuade Foster to attenc Western Carolina and ever escorted her to each of the three colleges for in terviews. NO SOURCES woul( speak on the record abou the alleged violations, bu the Gamecock has learne< that one involves Foster'! receipt of a gift of flowers Foster says the flowers wer< sent to the team, not to he alone. The other involves ; visit by USC Coach Pan Parsons to Foster's horn the day she signed a letter c This spot is near the had been missing since ' f _ _ tecocKs recruit intent to play at USC. Section II Kule A5B ol tl AIAW handbook states th "an institution may not off any inducement, or gift, promise thereof to prospective student athlel a member of the athlete r J 1 - - 41 iairiuy or me uuueit coach," according to Gini Hunt, AIAW Ethics ai Eligibility Committ* chairperson. Hunt said one of the fo base regulations in Section states that a coach may i make any off-camp contact with a prospecti student athlete before t athlete signs a letter of tent with the school. Foster said she signed t letter of intent at her hoi with Parsons and Stro present for publicity p tures. FOSTKK SAIII I I problems started becai she signed with (JSC. "Coa ' Stroud doesn't like Cos t Parsons," she said. But Stroud said she did ' care where Foster sign I "Why did I take her to U 1 to meet with Coach Pars< if I didn't want ner 10 p there?" Stroud said. Foster's mother, Hi Miller, said Stroud promi: i Foster that Stroud would 1 coaching at Westc t Carolina if Foster signed J play there. Miller said ! 5 daughter was impres with USC and decided e sign. Then Stroud tried r change Foster's mind, a' said.*' a Stroud denied that she s e she would be the West >f Caitolina coach if Fo: >und < i area where Mike O'Boyle w > May. (Gamecock Photo) t on orob trig violc played there. Stroud said she tie applied for a job as assistant at roach at Western Carolina, er but was turned down, or "She (Stroud) even said a Sheila could play the first :e, two years at Carolina and i's transfer to Western i's Carolina," Miller said, ny Stroud came to the USC fid games and yelled at Foster ee from the stands, upsetting her so much that she finished ur one game crying," Miller II said. "She'd act like she was lot still coaching Sheila," Miller us said. ve STROUD SAID she saw he Foster play against Olc 'n~ Dominion, Clemson anc Tennessee, but deniec he shouting instructions to hei ise former player. | Miller said the only gift: ' her daughter received wen from well-wishers in th< Dnilimf Qnrinflc urna Qhi . M,b" said Parsons never visite< JS? her home, and the charges o >c. AIAW recruiting violation: icn were "false." Of Stroud, Miller said " "She can keep away fron me. I confided in he because I thought she couli I help Sheila, but now I hav av no confidence in her." . "I think very highly o lX Sheila and her mother, and still consider them m friends," Stroud said. "1 ?r n ' , . they want to mak ^ allegations against me, sed have no comment." t0 FOSTER SAID sh believes Stroud told Wes' sh(. moreland about the allege violations. Foster said sh ;aid remembered reading aboi ern the alleged violations. Sh ster said there were five or si: lead v ligjjr IbhT ?s found dlad O'fl^ nation itions but she didn't remember them because she read about them too long ago. The women's team has 30 days to appeal the probation. If an appeal is filed, a final decision will be made by AIAW. In a statement released Tuesday, Parsons said USC would not be excluded from post-season play because of the probation. * I - 351 [ * ?/ ./'* ' *V? I*. JkClfefj ?. ' .. > W.^Av . . ' 'v . k