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? SoufchteOaroliniana*Library> 5 horseshoe flCi..i T | U.S. HOSTAGE i AJ* . f PAID (JSC's budf provides fe n.. _a if. I oy jonn vtiujjiitiii Although USC was able to cover this year's 4.6 percent statewide cut with various reductions, redirections and the use of one-time funds, the projected $13.2 million budget deficit for fiscal 1983-84 leaves the university with fewer, more painful financial options, according to university officials. The tuition increase of $100 to $500 for the 1983-84 academic year was cited last week by USC President James Holderman as a primary measure necessary to handle the projected deficit. But the university must tap other options to cover the deficit, since whatever specific tuition figure is set will not cover the entire $13.2 million, Holderman said. iiinn 111/11 It r? n Men f..Uinn i?A?nnoa 11 WKfXJLitJ utivc a fwu luiiiun uiucaoc, per student, to accomplish that objective. That is out of the question/' he said last week. Holderman said a Faculty Senate steering committee is meeting with Provost Frank Borkowski to determine the areas of the university that can best withstand program cuts. Pete Denton, systems vice president for fiscal affairs, and Earle Holley, USC budget director, said the university's specific actions will result from the final budget cuts fVio T .officioturo imnncM M*V UV^UJtUVMtV Denton said USC knew about the financial problems it would face this year about nine months before the cutbacks. "We used that prep time," he said. ONE-TIME adjustments totalling $3,884,839 were made. For example, USC drew $1.1 million from renovation reserve fund, $600,000 from student facility funds and $240,839 from housing capital funds. Classified as one-time changes, these opBeliaious see a BGr tMraBaff ^irr^r These rock music albums may contain Sati cording to a speaker at a Marantha Christia jet deficit \m nntinnQ mm V|JIIVSIW tions cannot be excercised again, and the university faces fewer options for one-time funding for 1983-84. USC faces other options that officials said will amount to painful cuts. "What we certainly looked at up front was buildings," Denton said. "You have to say you can always work on it next year." The university also faces problems with faculty /staff positions. Although USC is not actively firing, in some cases the university is not actively hiring. Several vacancies have been left open until January, and according to Denton, "any position deemed not to be critical won't be filled at all." HOLDERMAN SAID USC has lost almost 750 state and federally funded positions. The university is taking a close look at operating efficiencies, but Denton said cuts here are beginning to affect students. For example, Thomas Cooper Library has cancelled 1,100 general and scholarly magazine subscriptions, and Russell House operating hours have been shortened. Marsha Duncan, dean of Student Affairs, said programming in her division has been weakened, and the loss of staff positions for graduate assistants has placed work loads on the shoulders of student volunteers. University officials have been critical of ine state government. Holderman said last week that USC is viewed as "an easytargefe-V by-state officials. Denton said the university's ability to handle budget cutbacks is hampered by the specific directives and requirements handed down with the budget reductions. "NO PLACE is an island, or should be. Every place needs someone to review them. But institutional governance is expected to come from within," Denton said. taker says Sat sr* Brjg snic messages or other amoral themes, acn Center program Friday night. The agony of defeat USC sophomore offensive tackle Jim Wa during the USC-FSU football game Saturda 56 26. an behind all By Nancy Young A young man standing on a bench on the Pickens Street bridge Friday shouted "John Lennon is burning in hell! So is Jim Morrison!" He invited people to find out why at the Marantha Christian Center's rock 'n' roll seminar that night. About 100 people went to the Bates House social room to the seminar on what fundamentalist Christian speaker Bobby Ball referred to as "the phenomenon called rock and roll. "Music has two influences." Ball said. "One is God. The other is Satan. A famous rock producer said, 'Rock music will be the religion of the '80s.' Well, if that's true, who will be worshiping?" Ball began his slide presentation with a photograph of the late rock singer Jim Morrison. An audience member yelled a response to the picture, and Ball called for a security guard. "If you do not like what's being presented here, then you can leave," he said. When the audience's murmuring stopped, Ball resumed. "Morrision said he was possessed by spirits. These spirits weren't coming from God," Ball said. Ball spoke next about the Rolling Stones. He said a recent Stones album, "Tattoo You," was influenced by "voodoo rituals, a satanic cult practice." Ball also accused the rock group Led Zeppelin of satanic practices and criticized them heavily. "Jimmy Page (lead guitarist) called himself a 'white witch.' He read a great deal of (the works of the mystic) Alistair Crowley. He delved into cult practices. Robei& Plant (lead singer) blamed him for the death of drummer John Bonham," Ball said. Ball showed an album picture of Plant holding up a child as an offering. "Robert Plant lost a daughter and later a son. You ^^Sr JbBB i:-:F?'^~v::-\ mjmmm' jflj B 1 - Bm ! ,: . . . " T"_ - ' "^" vJjL i r . - : , .-'- - ~ . .- :: -; .- -v-v / ---- .- ~ TWm -.? ' ' :.' ; " ; . j ' rnoio oy win imnwn^ Ish contemplates the Gamecocks' situation ty. The Seminoles crushed the Gemecocks, rack music see, Satan plays for keeps," Ball said. After Ball commented on Blue Oyster Cult and Black Sabbath, he asked a group of hecklers to leave. "That man is full of s~!" said Gary Bell, one of the four students who left. "I like rock and roll. His whole opinion of it is based on misinterpretation." Another student who left, Scott Hurston, said, "1 don't like the way they are putting rock and roll down." Ball also spoke about "backward masking" ? hiding messages in songs when they are played backward. For example, the Queen song "Another One Bites the Dust" played backward says "Start to Smoke Marijuana," Ball said. According to Ball, a passage from Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" played backward said "My sweet Satan, no other made a path, for it makes me sad, whose power is &aian. Ball also criticized the Beatles, and John Lennon in particular. "John said, 'We're more popular than Jesus.' He later apologized for it. Well, John Lennon is dead now," Ball said. Seo "Rock music," page 3 inside U.S. religious institutions are concerned about the unrest in Central America, according to Jerry Hammet, chaplain of the Presbyterian Student Center. Page 5. Heart gives a heartless performance while John Cougar surprises the crowd at the first Carolina Coliseum rock concert of the fall semester. Page 8. Twelfth-ranked Florida State embarrassed USC 56-26 in college football action at Williams-Brice Stadium Saturday. Page 10.