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c J S?l ^* ^i i" South Carolina's Best College Newspaper p 'da Volume LXX No.-41 University of South Carolina Columbia, S.C. Dec.5.1980 Misj C^.rtmn^r c, XX ?V/I V/' soon after By John Vaugt Staff Writer Police are still searchir Dentsville where the body Eugene "Mike" O'Boyle weekend. The decomposed body w. p.m. Saturday by two boy identified through denta Tuesday by Dr. Charles 1 Spartanburg forensic odo body was found about a n fVUmrlo'c hiiminrt /">? ?n?-? v uvj IV O i/U( 111115 VC* I VYU days after he disappeared s Richland County Coro Barron III said an inves coroner's office, Richland Department and the S forcement Division will be homicide investigation, but death and the circumstanct have not yet been determir O'Boyle had been dead ab< had been missing. CHIEF DEPUTY Corom said Thursday, that about: searching the area and wou evidence is found. The would not say where the because investigators wen people out of the area. Anasu said he didn't kr oaaSfe, i . j i p ' |?| ijfe. \ ?* ^ ~,,__*"5> 11 jm# m 1 ' I The alleged A!A W n All-Ameritan Sheila Fo{. sings ays Mike O'B he disappear ,an searchers of the body. "Every c ig an area near has his own the of USC student that the body was found last ruiccihlv riinonf * vvv??* another animal as found about 8 Hugh Munn, s and positively officer, said 1 1 records late discovery, hi 3. Hanna Jr., a Gamecock, "A1 >ntologist. The exhausted." B nile from where back over the c s found several over the area w iv mnnthc 'i1 1 ne saici, aaaing ner Frank E. been buried or ligation by the the thinly wood( County Sheriff's tate Law En- O* BOYLE WAJ i conducted as a bank teller at said the cause of National Bank es surrounding it office remembe I - icu. dai run suiu at aOOUt 11:30 c )ut as long as he was accompani 20-year-old me ?r James Anasti posed to mec 20 deputies were Clifton, that i Id continue until Volkswagen Dc coroner's office O'Boyle never body was found the state High1 e trying to keep car burning fr< intersection of iow why earlier Road. ^ Lat ^ Bl ffff scruiting violations involve ster. tude oy/e died /j/J ?n A/fnfti t,u in iTiuy area had not uncovered the oroner or every investigator dories," Anasti said. "I felt was probably buried and ly uncovered by a dog or SLED public information le could not explain the ist month, Munn told the 1 the local leads have been ut he said SLED was going :ase. "They even went back ith a plane or a helicopter," ; that the body might have hiriHon linHor cnmo KrucVi ir? II1V*\4VII 14IIV*V> A OUIUV Ui UOII (II ?darea. S last seen May 27 when a a Citizens and Southern of South Carolina branch ;rea casning a cneck lor mm i.m. The teller said O'Boyle ed^by a woman. O'Boyle, a dia arts student, was sup:t his friend, Christopher norning to have his 1974 isher repaired. Clifton said arrived, and two days later way Patrol found O'Boyle's 3m an interior fire near the Parklane Road and Farrow ly Uam uuc^cu By Mark Platte News 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 Ail-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, Judy 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. Poster 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 Carolina graduate now coaching at North Greenville Junior College, said she did not try to persuade Foster to attend Western Carolina and even escorted her to each of the three colleges for interviews. NO SOURCES would speak on the record about the alleged violations, but the Gamecock has learned that one involves Foster's receipt of a gift of flowers. Foster says the flowers were sent to the team, not to her alone. The other involves a visit by USC Coach Pam Parsons to Foster's home the day she signed a letter of mmmmmsmmrw?. This spot is near the at had been missing since M icuuuao i ' recruiti intent to play at USC. Section II Rule A5R of the AIAW handbook states that "an institution may not offer any inducement, or gift, or promise thereof to a prospective student athlete, a member of the athlete's family or the athlete's coach," according to Ginny Hunt, AIAW Ethics and Eligibility Committee chairperson. Hunt said one of the four base regulations in Section II states that a coach may not make any off-campus contact with a prospective student athlete before the athlete signs a letter of intent with the school. Foster said she signed the letter of intent at her house with Parsons and Stroud present for publicity pictures. FOSTKIt KAin th<? problems started because she signed with USC. "Coach Stroud doesn't like Coach Parsons," she said. But Stroud said she didn't care where Foster signed. & 4 f I rl J! J * A. _ I L A. _ f wny uia 1 taxe ner 10 to meet with Coach Parsons if I didn't want her to play there?" Stroud said. Foster's mother, Ruby Miller, said Mroud promised Foster that Stroud would be coaching at Western Pornlirto tf cirtnn^ (ft V MI Ulllin IJ A IWIVI OI^IIVVJ IU play there. Miller said her daughter was impressed with USC and decided to sign. Then Stroud tried to change Foster's mind, she ' said.*' Stboud denied that she said she would be the Western Carolina coach if Foster und< ea where Mike O'Boyle wi ay. (Gamecock Photo) on nrn h ng viola played there. Stroud said she applied for a job as assistant coach at Western Carolina, but was turned down. "She (Stroud) even said Sheila could play the first two years at Carolina and transfer to Western Carolina," Miller said. Stroud came to the USC games and yelled at Foster from the stands, upsetting her so much that she finished one game crying," Miller said. "She'd act like she was still coaching Sheila," Miller said. STHOUI) SAID she saw Foster play against Old Dominion, Clemson and Tennessee, but denied shouting instructions to her former player. Miller said the only gifts her daughter received were from well-wishers in the Boiling Springs area. She said Parsons never visited her home, and the charges of AIAW recruiting violations were 44folse." Of Stroud, Miller said, "She can keep away from me. I confided in her because I thought she could help Sheila, but now I have no confidence in her." "I think very highly of Sheila and her mother, and I still consider them my friends," Stroud said. "If A L i ' ? iney wani 10 make allegations against me, I have no comment." FOSTEK SAID she believes Stroud told Westmoreland about the alleged violations. Foster said she remembered reading about the alleged violations. She said there were five or six, ... ... JL tMi aram I If. is found dead. O'Boyle ation tions 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. I.-v r, ? I 1 in u i uieased Tuesday, Parsons said USC would not be excluded from post-season play because of the probation.