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sSJQHN HEITING 6/85 ^UNIVERSITY OP S.O, ARCHIVES ^ 'TMeKISSICK MUSEUMS " UAMPUS ??n?^Ta I ^ \ Lebanon debated p. 3 fWiiif^Piii I _ """ lOJiy Animals invade Spur p. 10 B? GBF^?K^%k Br? September 30, 1983 USC to face Trojans p. 13 ^bI^&BB I Jj| Uje_rsi^of South Carolina 1,1 1 ' *? < " 1,1 11 ' ' " ' 1 11 I" "* Drunk driving (AP) ? USC students could be forced to change their drinking habits if the General Assembly adopts the recommendations of a statewide task force. Those task-force recommendations on drunken driving will "add clout" to public pressure on legislators to act in the upcoming election year, the panel's chairman said. More than two dozen recommendations, including a ban on open beer and wine containers and raising the drinking age to 20, were presented Wednesday to the Governor's Committee on Highway Safety. The task force forwarded the package to Gov. Dick Riley. RILEY WILL review the recommendations and decide whether tr? inHnrie thpm in his 19R4 leoislative nackaoe. accor ding to Judy Turnipseed, spokeswoman for the Governor's Division of Public Safety. Some committee members noted the open container legislation is stuck in two legislative committees and a solid lobbying effort will be needed to get the bills through the General Assembly next year. "It's an election year and everybody's running. There are no free rides," said committee Chairman Jim Creel. "They will be sensitive to some of the public pressure. The task force recommendations will add clout." Thp r<?rr?mnr?*nHntinn? wi?r<? drafted hv four reainnal task %^-tilB^P^P-.. %r '; V "; SiD ^RBI 191 ' BE^aw jH ' sf 5 Photo oy Mvvt L kmuu Fines necessary, safety i By Wendy Nensel parking spa< Parking tickets: you can't live with them; instead of $< can't live without them. At least, that's the "We're n view of a USC Parking and Vehicle Registra- we're out tc tion Division admininstrator. that's a serv .. The divisi USC collects about 3>2lHJ,uuu annuauy . . f from parking fines, ? one-fifth to one- Pr? ems ? fourth of total revenues generated by the '"^'Life r v! division. This amount is only about $3 for , each of the 70,000 to 90,000 tickets written three*0 , annually, said Danny Baker, systems vice , ree , president of Law Enforcement and Safety. an<j | , Because parking fines take up so much "This is paperwork and time, "we would, for our ^ave .. , particular purposes, do away with fines, but . that would cause chaos," Baker said. He said -.u i . blems with i Ii they are necessary 10 snow siuucms wmu alternative they can't park. cumstances , Although fines do raise revenue, they also cJent w^o . involve costs: officers' salaries, scooters and Drececjence gasoline, the printing of the tickets and . h( he saj maintenance of the computer, Baker said. ferent level* I "Actually, if we were smart, we'd double . . * ) all of our tickets, " he said. Another < Elsewhere in Columbia, there is no such tjcuiarv for I thing as a $1 meter violation nor a $12 per j-rom t^e j month reserved parking space, and if the university were to charge downtown prices, a 1 under legisla forces during the past eight months. THE OPEN container proposal and raising the legal drink i 1 a. ? a ; ? ? ao a j ^a :M i noc mg age 10 purcnase oeer ana wine 10 iv in i?oh <tuu m i?oj were among recommendations given top priority by the committee. The others would be to require videotaping of people suspected of driving under the influence, with videotaping equipment funded by revenue from an increased alcoholic beverage tax; and to make any amount of alcohol detected in the blood of drivers under 18 illegal. In its report Wednesday, the task force also submitted suggestions for law enforcement officers and the judiciary as well as a list of ideas to increase public awareness of drunken driving. Other suggestions included a proposal to broaden the implied consent law to include additional breath tests and a body fluid test for alcohol levels and evidence of drug use. UNDER THE implied consent law, people who accept driver's licenses agree to submit to breath tests if they are suspected of driving under the influence. Another suggestion would establish a law that would hold a bar or other establishment liable if alcohol were served to an already intoxicated person, who then caused an accident resulting in death, injury or destruction. I Exchange | diverse le< By Marisa Porto The National Student Excha which began four years ago at approximately 50 students to u colleges in the past three y Sus&n Heyward said. NSE includes 70 . schools t United States. The program period of administrative ct scnooi year, oui c* Law of the land imately 20 students to particip Anne Wessinger writes a gram this year, Heyward said ticket for a car illegally parked "I began as director of t\ in the Coliseum parking lot. November of last year. We ha\ significant changes in the prog we placed a total of 25 studi which was an increase," Heyv "THE STUDENTS' tuition at UbC Dut personal expense are paid at the chosen colleges ly, several students withdrew gram because of financial reasons," Heyward said. The minimum grade point a' ticipants is 2.5 and students ca thirty hours of graduation. T geared for sophomores Hey ward said. Students who a the criteria choose three scl | allowed to attend for a semi academic year. m mm m Heyward attends the natior r\ff |ft|?|| QQ1/Q every year to place and identif J I I IUIQ I Oflfa will attend USC. This year's < be held in Buffalo, N.Y. ;e would cost $130 per semester *8, Baker said. II L lot out to gouge the students, /X FTIM 3 Q Q 51 fl I > implement a parking program ill I IBJOOuOUl ice to the community," he said. on is "very sympathetic" to the From Staff Reports student, faculty and staff park- William Middendorf, U.S rban campus, Baker said. to the Organization of Americ olves around cars," he said. "A been added to the list of student who has driven to school dignitaries scheduled to attend ars, then comes to Carolina and on the security of democratic n 3utside his dorm gets frustrated and Monday at USC. ve have a paking problem. The event begins at 3 p.m. ! lot necessarily so, the values may convocation on the Hoiseshoc jst." he said. Lord Carrinaton. former B ion is willing to discuss such pro- secretary, will deliver the kcyr students to find some solution or Carrington will receive an he especially when extenuating cir- during the convocation, as are present, Baker said. A stu- Prime Minister Edward Seag< working late at night may have Hammer, chairman and chiel over someone who is at a bar all ficer of Occidental Petroleum id. This is what Baker terms "dif- Sunday Seaga will speak at of concern," although the divi- Russell House Ballroom o erned for all students. ''Dependence, Indeper concern the division has, par- Interdependence." females, is walking late at night The evenf continues Monda garage to the dorm. several speeches and panel disc ? ? ? of a forum on the Western alii ' ? ?? 7 | Wes( re|ations tive attack Despite a public outcry for major reforms and strengthened DUI, penalties, many of the proposals failed to pass in the General Assembly last year or died in committee. Only one bill, providing a mandatory $200 fine or jail term of two to 30 days for first offenders, passed the House and Senate. The law also included a felony charge against drivers who inflict bodily harm or kill another person in an automobile accident. THE GOVERNOR signed the bill 111 June and pledged support for raising the drinking age and prohibiting open containers of beer and wine in moving -'ehicles. Other proposals submitted Wednesday include setting mandatory sentences for all DUI offenses; requiring the immediate surrender of a driver's license in court for a DUI conviction; increasing insurance penalty points for DUI offenders on second and additional offenses; and allowing the state to suspend or revoke a driver's license or registration when illegal drugs or controlled substances are found in the car. "The task force was very conscious that many of the proposals have already been submitted to the General Assembly," said Pat Noble, deputy director of Riley's Office of Highway batety. "These are good bills that the task force believes will best benefit the state." program promotes arning experience "The popular choices among LISC inge Program, students are the University of Maryland at USC, has sent College Park, the University of niversities and Massachusetts at Boston, and the University ears, director of Georgia at Athens. New Mexico State University, university 01 New iviexico, anu hroughout the California State University are also popular, experienced a Nationally, the favgjrtig,jfrJ&sJUliiyersity of langes in the Hawaii at Manoa. The most unique is the cpects approx- College of the Virgin Islands at Saint ate in the pro- Thomas," Hey ward said. le program in . /en't made any JUNIOR GABRIEL, a chemistry major at ram itself, but USC, participated in last year's student exents last year, change at Indiana University of vard said. Pennsylvania. "I wanted to go to another state io see i fees are paid what it would be like, and I thought the Nors and housing theast would be a different environment. . Unfortunate- They (IUP) had a good chemistry program from the pro- and were half the size of USC. I wanted to be or personal close to a large city, and it was only 50 miles to Pittsburgh. I lived on campus and in a verage for par- dorm, which I don't do at USC. I really ennnot be within joyed it while I was there," Walters said, he program is According to Walters, changing univer* - J.'fr! A J !ff .A _ A L and juniors, sines was uiuicuu. /\ umcrciit aimuspnere tpply and meet combined with administrative hassles were lools and are the main problems. ester or a full 44A student should go to school with an open mind. They have to take the bad along tal conferences with the good, and they have to get used to a y students who little attention," Walters said. conference will _ See Exchange/ page 7 )r to join symposium The convocation and the Monday forum, . ambassador which will be held from 9:15 a.m. to 12:30 :an States, has p.m. in the Campus Room of Capstone international House, are open to students, faculty and I a symposium public. ations Sunday Participants also include former prime ministers J. Malcolm Fraser of Australia and 1 Sunday with a Andreas van Agt of the Netherlands; Sen. : during which Mart Hatfield, R-Ore., chairman of the iritish foreign Senate Appropriations Committee; lote address. Lawrence tagieourger, undersecretary 01 >norary degree state for political affairs; and Keith Johnson, will Jamaican Jamaica's ambassador to the United States, i and Armand Alton Frye, Washington director of the i executive of- Council on Foreign Relations, will be the Corp. moderator. a dinner in the Press commentators at Monday's sessions n the topic, will be Mary Lord of Newsweek; Carola idence and Kaps of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; Bruce van Voorst, Time magazine, and y morning with Daniel Southerland, Christian Science ussions as part Monitor. ance and EastSm "SympMitim." pa?? 7