The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 18, 1983, Image 1
jBULK RA r?~f
SoubhftCaroiiniana*Library / pa?|SMGE /
Horseshoe I pormnN0.2i31
r I Columbia, S. C. I
* >
Study in England p. 6 jiilininr> .minr Jlfllh' I jn ffld<Xy
Cafeteria jazzes up p. 10 f/[ H||? jf?aif~lh mi BmL February 18,1983
Cremins returns home p. 13 H Bll University of South Carolina
T rustees rai
By Chris Handal
USC students will face a 17 percent increase
in dorm housing rates in the fall 1983
semester.
The USC board of trustees approved the
surcharge at its meeting yesterday. A
surcharge means the increase is not permanent
and will have to be reviewed by the
board for fall of 1984.
Board member Paul Goldsmith said the
increase does not provide for long-term
capital improvement. "We're kidding
ourselves," he said.
BOARD MEMBER Michael Mungo said,
"Somewhere down the line we're really
going to be in trouble. We aren't being unfair
and unreasonable. We really should
structure these things (capital im
provemenu in. we need to put tne student
body on notice that this increase is not
enough."
USC President James Holderman said
capital improvement is usually included in
housing fees but, "We are just out of money.
We will put it (capital improvement costs)
back into the housing fees next year," if
possible.
Support for the housing increase came
from USC Student Government President
Ashley Abel, who said that if Residential
Life Services did not receive the increase,
the department would need funds from the
university. This, Abel said, would be
"grossly unfair" to students living off
campus.
The surcharge passed without opposition
on a voice vote.
THE BOARD also approved four new
academic programs:
n /vf ? -1- -1 A ~ '
- ? iiiaatci wi yniuHuiei unu employment
J: KB
j IS H.
gjj |gU
j w Br ?' ~ ~~
I MOVIETONE
?[NEW5J
Prison inmates \
ny uavia run
"I'm now serving 15 years for killing my
husband," said Ginger, a woman with a
maternal look. She poisoned her husband on
a dare from her boyfriend.
With her stood another woman and two
men.
"I never thought about prison when I used
to get high and hang out all night," said
Melvin, a young man who looked like he
could be a hero on a playing field in any
American town.
The would-be hero succumbed to peer
pressure and robbed a store clerk.
"My name is Shirley," said the softspoken
young woman with large brown
eyes. "My prison number is 103201. I'm
serving a zz-year senience lor armea
robbery."
The second man spoke.
"Someone died violently, on the average,
I'd say ? once a month when I was there,"
said Jerry, a man with a thick moustache
and down-home drawl. Jerry committed
armed robbery to prove he had guts.
se fall dorm
relations in the College of Business Administration
a certificate of graduate study: instructional
methods and materials for
elementary school teaohprs in th#? ?f
Education
a certificate of graduate study: parent
involvement in early childhood education in
the College of Education
a bachelor of science in nursing at USCAiken
During the debate on the master of personnel
and employment relations, Mungo
expressed his concern for creating new
ijiugicuus. mis is a Daa puoiic relations
thing in light of this time of austerity."
But William Bethea, chairman of the
Academic Affairs and Faculty Liaison
Committee, said, "We're replacing an
existing degree by creating a new degree in
a recognized area. We're talking about
refining an existing program."
Holderman said, "Noboby is more sensitive
to the problem (of program cuts) than
the administration. You have to establish
your priorities. Some things you are doing
are not as important as some things you'd
like to do. We will have to give up some
things to get others."
THE BACHELOR of science in nursing at
USC-Aiken will not take effect until funding
is provided. The program was originally
targeted to begin in fall 1983, but now the
date is indefinite, Bethea said.
The projected cost is $277,070 for the first
three years of the program, Bethea said.
Rep. Kay Patterson, attending his first
board meeting, provided one of the few
moments of humor before the board approved
ticket prices for the 1963 football
V 20th Cenl
aI to USC's
By Susan Muir
USC may acquire
Movietonews from 20th Centu
awjinin tour weeks, according t
Vlahoplus, senior vice presidi
administration.
The donation began in Marc
and since then, Fox has donat<
million feet of Movietonews t<
four million feet are in the 1
Cooper Library, and five milli
are still in New York storage he
Fox is giving the collection
gradually so the company ca
advantage of the tax reducti*
( I companying the gift transactioi
T T.^r1 ic hnnina tn
arrangement allowing U:
manage film that Fox still owr
way, USC would benefit frc
collection while Fox benefits fr
warn students a
Ginger, Melvin, Shirley and Jerry were at
Columbia Hall Tuesday night to tell their
experiences to students.
They work in the Department of
Corrections' "Operation Get Smart,"
sharing their prison experiences with school
children and other groups, such as
Columbia Hall residents, to educate vnnntf
people on life in prison.
Their escorting officer said the S.C. state
prison system was built to house 5,300 inmates,
but is now home for 9,400 persons. A
10-year-old is serving a 35-year sentence,
and people as young as 14 years old have
been electrocuted.
"Get Smart" tries to prevent this by
educating young people about prison so they
will know the possible consequences for
them if they commit a crime.
Melvin, serving 25 years for two counts of
armed robbery with intent to kill, said he
and his accomplice never wondered
whether what they were doing was right or
wrong. "We blocked the wrongness out of
our minds."
rate, am
jlll
Ill r "; 7 L:,T"
r-~V_ V"- yJr-~iZz-? illlr ~.. ^ ~7 'i
^'-Jf\ 11:
R. Markley Dennis addresses 1
looks on; Tfco Jtoarrf approved a 1
tury-Fox ti
Movietom
gift's tax reduction^
? ? m- 1
io accommoc
more negotiations for st
ry-Fox five of Fort Jack:
o Chris munition bunkers
ent for between USC ofi
Jackson's commam
h 1980, "The bunkers ai
ed nine well-lighted and 1
3 USC; atmosphere. They
'homas sod and trees, and
on feet location for the stoi
>uses. .lamps .T?r>lrcrm Hii
to USC film library.
in take USC already stc
3ns ac- feet of the C.E. 1
n. collection in one
ide an university plans to
SC to to house the Moviet
is. This "i don't even kn<
>m the bunkers. We cert
om the more than five," \
B
bout consei
He said that before he was a
prison permanently, he was put
cell with three other men. For s
slept under a bed with bugs in it.
He told Columbia Hall reside
have a problem, you better thin
you'll solve it. Think before you i
Melvin has been in prison sii
will be up for parole on June 7.
Ginger said she once told h<
sne "could kill my husband with
twice." Her boyfriend thr
blackmail her by showing co
photos of her to her husba
poisoned her husband.
"Never put yourself in a po
used or blackmailed," she said
in prison for two and one-half yc
r? 1 _ j_
uc cugiuic iui jwtroiK in iwo.
'^Shirley said she had a good m
two childffen, but she and her hi
drank. During one drinking
robbed a convenience store. Sht
the Women's Correctional
Columbia.
t
prove pre
I Jo
- ^B|H^ ^^8j^nB
w '* X
JBp
QbB^^^s#:.x. -.
he USC board of trustees as USC
J percent housing Increase for the
) soon add
B!
sws coilec
3. they (20th
late the film, film, we h?
oring the film in That's 1
son's unused am- Fort Jacks
began last spring VI a hop
[icials and Fort arrangemt
iing general. but USC si
e clean, dry and three to ft
have a cave-like release th
're covered with being stor
they're the ideal Jersey,
"age of film," said The Mo^
rector of the news ported by
grants, VI
>res three million grant is in l
^eltner news film Jackson
bunker, but the Cooper lib
lion rnnrA Utir*lri>Mn * Tn/^i ^
uob mute uuiiACi a UDt S U(
onews collection. puterize a
aw if we need five Thomas (
ainly don't need floor. He s
lahoplus said. "If
quences of
ssigned to a She said when
inan8-by-l0 wun its violence
ix weeks, he told herself, "Sui
rr.e in there with 1
;nts, "If you "What I did I g<
k about how S',i!.?an. erase
jj0 it ? While in pnso
ice 1976. He Pr<'?nant with a
hospital to give
... . back to the priso
v uuyuittuu Shirley hasn't sc
lout thinking hospital.
eatened to Jerry's friend ?
mpromising guts to hold a gui
nd, so she }Ie said he did,
prove it. The mar,
sition to be and, if she had di<
. She's been row.
;ars and will jerry is now s<
roDDery. He said
tarriage and ting his fate in am
isband often 4'Ninety-three I
binge, they locked up in Soutl
i was sent to when they commi
Center in a crime to get hi
jgrams
- m m
$*<& ?s?i
?J-" = :-=:V-'-:":;Ii;
JH i r ? i?-:?- ]
pwrnBgn**Photo
by Richard VogH
President James Holdermen
fail sfitrwster. I
roolc
i warn*
tion
Century-Fox) give us the
tve to be prepared to accept
why we've negotiated with
on."
lus said the gift
ints are not yet finalized,
lould know within the next
our weeks when Fox will
e collection. The film is
ed in New York and New
vietonews project is suptwo
federal government
ahoplus said, and a third
the offering stages.
said a group of Thomas
rarians and a team from
>mputer Services comnd
index the film on the
""nnrwr I iKromi'D
JUlMiilt J O 51 liUUU
laid Instructional Services'
Sea "Movietonews, " pas?4
crime
1 she first saw the prison,
s and homosexuality, she
ely they're not going to put
hese women.
3t to live with the rest of my
it; I can't block it out."
n, smrley found she was
third child. She went to a
birth, but then had to go
n. Her son is two now, and
>en him since she left the
isked him if he had enough
n to someone and rob him.
and his buddy made him
i almost killed his victim,
ed, Jerry could be on death
l,> Ting iii jr cai a iui di mt'U
I his big mistake was putother
person's hands,
to 95 percent of the people
i Carolina were either high
itted a crime or committed
igh ? to get money to get
Saa "Gat Smart," page 4