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Settled
Former head football coach Jim Carlen settled his
breach of contract lawsuit with USC out of court
Monday.
Two Gamecoc
By Joseph Foley
Two swimmers familiar to USC
waters will be among the competitors
in the XXIII Olmpiad in Los Angeles
beginning July 28.
RisinP iiinior Snrpn Osthpre will
represent his native Denmark, and
Shelly Cramer, a recent USC
graduate, will swim for the Virgin
Islands.
Both Ostberg and Cramer will swim
in the butterfly events starting Sunday.
Ostberg holds the USC men's 100and
200-meter fly records, while
Student has intei
with Columbia bal
By Barbara Kiemi
A public relations position with a
baseball club is the only career Beth Ga
seriously considered.
Gar has not advanced that far yet, bul
she's on her way, thanks to an intern
Pnlnmhia Mptc lpist snrinp.
A senior advertising/public relation:
said her internship with the Mets was
USC student.
"It was fantastic," she said. "I real
and it was something I wanted to do. I re
lot."
A NATIVE of Lauren, Gar said sne soj
wrote press releases and prepared
directory for visiting league teams.
She said she also performed othei
duties when help was needed.
The three-credit internship was for
week, but Gar said she worked 20 hours
"It's a lot of work and late hours,"
involves so much that the public doesn't
METS' GENERAL Manager Bill Bla
was pleased with Gar's work.
4'She did an excellent iob for us."
I worked in a lot of different areas and sh
extra time that she didn't have to."
But Gar said the work was familiar."
I did in class and labs," she said. "I h
I from class."
In addition, Gar said her father, I^ai
relations work for the Greenwood Brav
Braves' former Class-A club.
SHE SAID he still helps the
organization, now located in An
promotional duties on occasion.
"I wanted to get into professional bas
with it in some respect, she said.
And now that she is involved, Gar sa
stay that way.
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although she realizes how few
management positions.
'I want to stay in management or f
with a major league team, she said,
lot of women in management and put
professional baseball.
Ex-nnanh set
By Tracy Mixson
Former football coach Jim Carlen
settled his breech-of-contract lawsuit
against USC out of court Monday, but
attorneys for both sides declined to
elaborate on the agreement.
"We settled it and an order of
dismissal was signed today," USC
off AmAif Tnrmll ninn ooirl TV fi rvr*^ n?r
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afternoon. 44Any details of it will have
to be given out by the university. I
can't comment on the details of it at
all."
Neither Carlen's attorney, Thomas
MrCutcheon. or USC SDokesman Chris
Vlahoplus could be reached to comment
on the agreement's details.
The trial, originally scheduled for
May, had been postponed because
negotiations between Carlen and the
university were underway.
FIRED IN December 1981, Carlen
sued USC for lost benefits and
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In his suit, he claimed he was
"wrongfully relieved and terminated,M
and that USC "seriously
and permanantly damaged his
k swimmers to
Cramer holds the women's mark for
the 200-meter event.
Because Ostberg and Cramer will be
swimming for their respective
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measured against competition in those
nations.
IN OSTBERG'S case, his best time
was ranked 13th in the world, including
Americans, two East Germans and
one Russian.
But eliminating the Americans who
fail to qualify and the foreign competition
not participating because of
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By Barbara Klemt
Five USC fencing clii
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proiessionai Ders competed aaiuraa
r said she has Palmetto State Garr
placing high in their re
t now she said events.
ship with the The fencing com
featured sabre, epee
s major. Gar events for both men and i
the first by a Each event had six fen
had qualified at the F
ly enjoyed it, Divisional Championship
sally learned a 31-April 1. The Piedmont
is a division of the U.S.
Association (USFA).
,d advertising, Dr. Jane Littmann, ;
a Columbia professor in the neurops
and behavioral science
* promotional ment at USC's Sc
Medicine, won the three
nine hours a events.
a week.
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see." were the most by any i
the Games, which i
ckwell said he Carolina's version of the
Olympics.
he said. "She Littmann, fencing co<
e put in a lot of for the Games, is the 19
sabre champion and has
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It was all stuff weapons the past five ye
ad experience At the games, she woi
her bouts.
*ry, did public But despite her med<
es, the Atlanta Littmann said the lorij
competition posed
centration challenge am
minor league to work that much har
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ucisun, wmi well.
?bal] and work Sg
id she wants to don't at ways reflect thai
She said one of her
.1^ u challenges came from
,ld is her goal, I ISf! fanning nltihmemh
women hold Caruso.
Caruso, a recei
mblic relations graduate, faced Littrna
There are not a epee and finished seco
lie relations in event.
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ties suit out
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"I'm just pleased that all
that's behind us. Now we i
can put it aside and get
on with our work." i
Bob Marcum 1
USC athletic director
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coach."
Carlen said the university stopped
paying him several fringe benefits
when ne was fired, including health
insurance, retirement benefits, two
automobiles, athletic tickets, car insurance
and life insurance premiums.
Carlen's annual salary was $67,200.
USC is paying off the balance of his
contract at the rate of $5,600 a month,
until the ex-coach's five-year contract
expires this year.
compete in X)
tMe boycott, Ostberg's time now ranks
fifth.
USC swim coach Steve Collins said
Ostberg's recent fourth-place finish
against other nationally ranked
swimmers wasn't good enough to
make the U.S. Olympic team.
But the coach saia the swimmer has
beaten the second- and third-place
finishers in recent meets.
IF HE can duplicate or better his
times that he had when he finished
third in the U.S. Nationals, he has an
excellent chance for the finals (in the
erform well at P
Littmann also said bronz
ib mem- medal winner Ashley Miklos ws
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y in me a luugu uppuuem in me iui
ies, all which Littmann said is not he
spective strongest event.
petition "EACH WEAPON has a di
and foil ferent character," she saic
vomen. adding that her strongest ever
norc whn varies from vpflr tn vpar "Thp
'iedmont place different demands on you.
>s March Another USC fencer to win
; division medal was Kim Oppinheimer.
Fencing A doctoral candidate in clinicc
psychology, she won a bronz
assistant medal in the sabre evenl
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i depart- fenced sabre in a couple (
hool of years."
women's Twelve years of fencing and
background in ballet helped he
win, she said.
medals
fencer at "MY COMPETITION has bee
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Summer been in a few local and region*
tournaments since I've bee
3rdinator here."
>84 USFA Still, Oppenheimer said sh
been the had placed second in th
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ars. at USC.
i all 15 of The USC student also finishe
fourth in foil but did not compel
*1 sweep, inepee.
g day of "1 never fence epee," she sai<
a con- "There is no timing, and it is n<
d she had suited to the type of game I pla:
der to do Timing is the strongest part <
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king out IN THE men's division, Ric
le scores Thompson won the foil event.
A summer USC graduate wit
toughest a history major and minors i
i another French and computer scienci
er, Cathy Thompson did not fence sabi
and epee at the Divisionals \
it USC qualify for those events at tl
inn in the uames.
nd in the "Foil is my main weapon," i
said. "The epee is secondary ar
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of court
CARLEN'S LAWSUIT was the
second action by a former USC coach
in the past two weeks, and the third
within three months.
In May, former women's basketball
:oach Pam Parsons lost her $75 million
libel lawsuit against the magazine
"Sports Illustrated" and USC.
And Richard Bell, Gamecock head
tootoaii coacn tor only one season
before being fired in December 1982,
won his breech-of-contract suit against
USC two weeks ago.
USC athletic director Bob Marcum
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have finally been settled.
"I'M JUST pleased that all that's
behind us," he said. "Now we can put
it aside and get on with our work."
As USC's athletic director and head
football coach, Carlen came to South
Carolina in 1975 after compiling
winning records at West Virginia and
Texas Tech.
He had a 45-36-1 record in seven
seasons with the Gamecocks, and 10769-6
overall.
fill fl I i?m nino
\III uiyiiijjiuo
Olympics), Collins said.
"Soren's the type who is a good meet
swimmer. He's mentally tough and he
can use the experience that he's had
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ueiure.
"If he's in good health, he should do
well."
As for Cramer's chances, Collins
said, "If she can drop down to the best
time she had at Carolina, then she also
has a chance for the finals."
ALTHOUGH CRAMER had been out
of collegiate competition for a year,
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almetto Games
\e i don't generally fence the sabre
is that much.
1, "Foil uses a lot more elegance
;r and a style that requires more
finesse than sabre and epee.
mat s one or tne tmngs tnat
f- really appeals to me in fencing."
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le signal the beginning of the P|fo|tto State
Games July 20. Five members <i$?$C's fen- v
ie cing Club earned medals at Sqpt&arolina's '} '<*'
id version of the Summer Olympjj|?
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