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GAMECOCK LXXIV, No. UMTuxf University of South Carolina Wednesday April 28, 1982 Former Softba From Staff Reports Regina Gaudette, former USC softball player, has settled out of court with USC in her lawsuit to get medical expenses from the university for a shoulder injury. Timothy Quinn, USC attorney, would not disclose the settlement but did say "The case was settled on a mutually agreeable basis." Kenn Suggs, Gaudette's attorney, said he could not reveal the agreement either but said although the university was now dropped from the suit there was still a suit pending. The suit pending is in the Richland County common pleas court. Gaudette has filed suit against Pam Parsons and Judy Martino. The former Carolina softball player decided to file suit against the university when USC refused to pay medical expenses for an injury she incurred while working out during the 1978 softball training program. n i __.u: 1 w vjrctuueut; s i igin suuuiuei was injui eu wnue worsting on uie Nautilus weight equipment at Williams-Brice Stadium during October 1978. After receiving treatment from university doctors for ligament damage in her shoulder, Gaudette sought medical advice from Dr. Charles Neer II in New York. Neer is an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in shoulder injuries. He Derformed surgery on Gaudette on Oct. 4, 1980 and supervised her nine month therapy. The university refused to pay for any medical or travel expenses for Gaudette since her first visit to Neer. Gaudette, a full-scholarship varsity catcher for the Lady Gamecocks, signed a scholarship agreement which stated, . ' "'' .:-^':;:^^^^SB^:>c^?f|^ rf?ffij?& v.SbbH'">"V.^ ^ . ,. . ?; ?H SUM Photo by CAPERS HAMMOND Tracy Locklair, a physical therapy sophomore, takes advantage of the warmer weather and does some studying before finals beside the Thomas Cooper Library. ill Playei "If injured while participating member of the coaching staff, s paid for by the athletic departme Kenn Suggs, a Columbia lawy< has said his complaint has been pay for medical costs because t her injury was not incurred w supervised athletic program. Gaudette said, however, tha required to work out on the Nauti Gaudette reported the injury Martino in October 1978 she re< Athletic Trainer Debbie Granm team doctor. OU? t one was eventually iciencu i the Moore clinic for treatment, felt better and by December 197 to the point where she would Christmas break. Lunceford allowed her to do s she use heat on her arm before completely, and she use ice on out. In March 1979 during the first reinjured her shoulder. Within 1 asked her to quit the team and according to Gaudette. Gaudette said she refused an the softball squad. Her scholars* year renewable scholarships wj the year. Editor By FLETCHEK JOHNSON Editor in Chief He walked into the room and sat down. Very handsomely dressed in a blue pinstriped suit, a blue striped shirt with white collar and french cuffs, Lerone Bennett, Jr. presented an image of confidence, ac/lAmnlidimorit anH u/pll V>UIA4pll01?liiVllVt Mltv* earned success. Bennett, currently the senior editor of "Ebony" magazine, is all of the above. In Columbia Sunday for the meeting of the USC chapter of the NAACP, Bennett spoke briefly to represen Itatives of the local media and a few guests at a Sunday afternoon press conference in the Keystone Room of k USC's Capstone House. SG To Hold Gre< A rally will be held today by Student Government in an attempt to gain more momentum in their drive to B close Greene Street. Ashley Abel, Student Government president, said the rally would be held today at 12:15 in conjunction with the petition drive which started yesterday. "This grew out of the petition drive," Abel said. "We currently have about O AAA r% tr\r\ o,w/v dJgiiaiui w, anu uui petition drive will continue as well as the rally." The Student-Trustee Liaison Committee passed a resolution Thursday to close Greene Street and r Settles in softball supervised by a ill medical expenses will be nt." jr handling Gaudette's case, i that the university will not he athletic department said hile she was involved in a t all softball players were .lus as part of their training, to then softball coach Judy ceived treatment from USC er and Paul Akers, athletic ? r\? T7> T . U Ul . EjIIUUCU LiUlltClUlU dl Gaudette said her shoulder 8 thought she had improved be able to work out after ;ome under the condition that practice, that she warm-up her arm following the work week of outdoor practice she 0 days of the injury Martino fr\ rnliiiniiicVi hop cnVinl irchin IV7 I VilliVjUlOll 11V1 OVilWlUl Ollip d that day she was cut from lip, which was a series of oneis not renewed at the end of Bennett Ad< t\ I1UICU III31UI 1CSX1, turer, and writer, Bennett touched on many subjects during his conversation. The best advice he had for aspiring writers was for them to "read and write as much as possible, and observe and live as much as possible." juacn jrcai ucuiicti oaiu uc comes in contact with thousands of writers and poets, and even in the age of video in which we now live he said he believes that "we will and must continue to produce those who are organized around the written word. The written word is an indispensible tool in humanizing people. The written word is threatened today as never before, and thus poses a danger to our humanity." ene Street Rally authorized Abel to present the resolution to Mayor Kirkman Finlay and members of the Columbia City Council at their next meeting. Finlay had previously said he would close the street as soon as the university produced a body who was injured on Greene Street. ITCn ctnHont I miicf* Mlimhv was hit by a car April 8 and is recovering from a fractured pelvis. Finlay remains opposed tc the closing saying he wants more time to study the matter. ?Out Of She continued to receive trea the summer of 1979 when he rel felt there was nothing more he cc "Dr. Lunceford told me that s had reached a plateau in recov much more than that," Gaudette his care, saying I would just cor my txi in. When Gaudette heard Luncefi t hen Women's Athletic Director if she could go to another docto opinion she received was differ< hearing previously. "That's when I stopped seein university) and got my own," G umvcisiLy uuviuia iui a yccu c diagnosis. My arm never heal stayed the same." When Gaudette was finally ref Lunceford who agreed she shoul When she was infomed by th not pay for her medical expens she informed the university th; uiu iiui iciivt i espunsiuimy IUI ut "We gave them many oppc sibility before we suggested a la dresses Local Bennett seemed to think the future is bright. "The magazine business is growing in a peculiar sort of i) i : _1 iimi ?f way, ne saiu. nie age ui the general magazine is over, and special interest magazines are springing up everywhere. Bennett said he believes we are now in a period of reaction, and that we, the nfinnlp nopH tn mnhiliyp all ? ? ? our resources to defend ourselves and the American dream. The nature of the threat is such that we need to understand the lessons of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the 1960s in that we do not lose any of the freedoms MflHHKXHHHHHHHHRHBHHHBHHHHH ?rjjr ? IM|k >?: - | I1 v:. N Carta Stone signs the \ I Student Government t closed permanently. Court tment from Lunceford until ;ased her because he said he >uld do for her position, ummer that he felt my arm ery and that I wouldn't get ! said. "He released me from itinue to have problems with ord's diagnosis she went to Pam Parsons and asked her r for a second opinion. The jnt from what she had been g doctors through them (the raudette said. ,4I was seen by md never was given a firm led. It either got worseor it :erred to Neer she returned to dsee Neer. e university that they would >es after the summer of 1979 i cho intanrlaH tr\ ciiq if thoxi HI OI1V/ 111VV/1IUVU tv OUV U l-IIVJ ;r medical expenses. >rtunities to resume responiwsuit," Gaudette said. Media gained during these times. As far as the magazine business is concerned The fundamental lesson to be learned, Bennett said, is that you can't hurt one segment of society without hurting all of society. "The greatest danger to the U.S. is the failure to utilize the potential of its citizens," he said. Bennett expressed a great deal of concern over the Reagan administration's budget cuts, particularly in the area of those programs that help the poor and the students. SUff Photo by CAPf RS HAMMOND petition sponsored by o have Greene Street