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"" Gamecock 1 Founded 1908 Volume 77, No. 13 University of South Carolina August 31, 1984 & * & - Uonterence to By John Deiner USC President James Holderman said Tin view with The Gamecock the Caribbean conf ly will have a lasting effect on the university "To me, it's the most important thing tl done in nerhans this t'pnfurv t'nr n<> n mair an attempt to bring academic and practiea university," Holderman said. The two-day conference drew leaders of tions and territories and was capped by a vis Reagan. "WE ARE literally the most visible univei bean; we are head and shoulders above evei eyes of the Caribbean leadership," Holder that USC may receive a 'seven-figure grant pean community for use in the Caribbean. He said the university has been invited to < to receive the grant, which he said is "a got man said the grant may be used for a Europe "In 500 years since Columbus sailed, tl never met together," Holderman said. "(The conference) will be impacting up decades. We're so far ahead of everybody bean now and this is where the action is goii ^Kf & jap WXgfK' &^h9HHV^3 HI * bK& * jfrX' **; vw^viiL HP jSf ' ^' : : r - ? , . Diinliintl nuaiicu Kappa Delta sorority members Marsha Miles (center) as she becomes a pledge. USC's s( Horseshoe. New phone sys By Barry Bradley A $6.1 million phone system is under construction to be in use by fall of 1985, according to Rob Roberson, system vice-president for USC's computer services department. This svstem will allow for data as well as voice transmission over phone lines. The project was approved in May by American Telephone and Telegraph Co. The system will allow USC to run its own phone company. New phone lines will stretch across campus, and they system will be available in dorms as well as administrative offices. i i have long lasting -r-?? i?llMlm I'-W? irsuay in an intererence held in Ju- I ; "for decades." : lis university has >r leap forward in ilSH ? j Pg|?3 ,1 visibilty to this ^BKA'^ >!5pr jjBpfiKillilft 15 Caribbean na;it from President rsity in the Carib- Eill^ 1_ __!.. _ I _ _ . .1 yooay eise in me man said, adding HOLDERMAN ALSO spoke ' from the Euro USC tuition costs: "We had t submit a proposal the formula funding (from the s )d sign." Holder- to raise tuition way above wher :an studies center. everything we could to keep it lese nations have now. . . . it's driving housing ? up." on this place for else in the Carib- Dorm renovations: "It's aga ig to be,' he said. anything but housing money to w ^ ^1 5r vHB*"Vb tH ~^l&k V v??Lw Wj. jBl|l|ll|^ Kt ^^HgMn^l9r^BMttttl y m w^smmmhl ,JHH ; v^agjlB^ |. p^| ' ^^^'ii^iiiiiBBi 111 i :-iiW^gy.Tg.vT?"-': i Photo by Jennifer Wooten (left) and Kelly Smith (right) congratulate Nancy Thyden jrorities announced their pledge classes on the tem allows comput *t i''?1 % Roberson said USC will become one Rober of the first institutions of its kind to to have use this type of data and voice system Christm. simultaneously in dorms and offices. such as To be added to the operation are manhole analog and digital phones, as well as ten equipment rooms. The PBX terminal will be located in the Computer Robe Services Department on Sumter Street. in use b As for the data system, each dorm tion off or office will have its own jack. With phones this jack, a student can plug in his for use computer and have access to any com- could b' puter process on campus. Roberson straint said he hopes to have video capability security for each dorm in the future. his recc effects, Holderm million in the pot st renovations. We ca summer . . .the Wc "It will be impacting h,?h .. . , ** blem with renovatic lipon this place for Sale of Wade Ha, decades." i lou "s 10 keep ,he $ . ; ? Iv in that tvpe ot sa - James Holderman over occupancy (art USC PresidentI salc of that sizc 10 comes out, you'll t s -.-.v ; s . Swearingen Centc buy the South C; on a number of other topics: Railway properties. to another site the i he $15-20 million shortfall of the band practices tate) to recover from. We had center will be. " e it ought to be. We've done from going above where it is Falling enrollmet osts up and it's driven tuition fall, but we won't k probably start level gone up so mucl linst the law for us to use undergraduate pop renovate. We'll have about $4 population. " V uoacnes flisput cost USC nearly By Associated Press Contract disputes with three former head m coaches at the University of South Carolina Pi have cost USC close to $1 million, records th show. u niuino thp nnct ihrpp upars thp imivprcitv N/ has agreed to pay $700,017.74 to the coaches v to settle contract disputes and has paid a $265,176.81 in related legal fees and si expenses. "The legal fees reflect money paid to outside lawyers," (JSC attorney Paul Ward said fi Tuesday. "That figure does not take into ac- f< count the time the university's staff lawyers IV spent on these cases." sc THE AMOUNT has been borne by hi athletic department revenues and insurance, in Ward said. cc Ward said the costs were paid from such revenue sources as gate receipts and the sale S! of broadcasting rights, he said no state- In appropriated money or Gamecock Club booster funds were used in settling with the A former coaches. ''< USC paid outside attorneys $231,459.60 to t'( represent the school during legal disputes with one-time athletic director and head football coach Jim Carlen, women's basket- n ball coach Pam Parsons and Richard Bell, U i _ _ y . r_ .1. . II I. f. i_ arien s successor as looioau coacn. h The university also paid $35,717.21 to reimburse lawyers and witnesses for travel ex- $ penses, photocopying and taking dispositions from the parties involved. b f THE LEGAL fees were paid to Charles t Porter and Terrell Glenn, two memberrs of the McNair law firm of Columbia, which ii represented USC in all three cases, Ward t said. v Carlen and Bell sued the school over their t dismissals, claiming they had been wrongful- t ly fired. er access n *?, Classified . . spn said the original plan was Dateline . . . the system put in over Entertainmei is break. However, problems, Features . . . having to dig tunnels and Opinion .... I SnnrJc j> IU lay lauics uciajtu [;iuu.i, "-> High speed eh; rson hopes to have the system speed chase on y March and in the administra- j ices by the spring. By fall the A reel man. Me in the dorms should be ready about "Nashvi r. Roberson said the system endeavors c used for registration, but conwould be needed to guarantee Soccer kicks o ' so the student could see only 1984 season to )rcjs (iraveyard. . . tan says )metime during this year with which to do n do a lot; some this year, but a lot next linens' Quad, Preston, Maxcy, Thornwell We've got a nine or 10 million dollar proms thrnnph ihp whnlf? nnivprsitv npton Hotel: It's an unpreeendented thing 3 million from the sale...that money usualle reverts to the government. Negotiations ? holding up the sale). It's not unusual for a take longer ? and when the total figure >e very pleased at what it is." >r for Engineering: "We've decided not to arolina Electric and Gas and Southern ..we've moved the sight. We're moving it ,~^i-~~.4.. ... \/? i i 1111 > ti .m i y iintciuy uvvin... i uu miuw vviicit: now? That's where the new engineering u:"There appears to be a slight drop this now until two weeks into the semester. It'll ing out after this year. The standards have ti, that there's been a decline in the ulation, and an increase in the graduate es, lawsuits f $1 million THE ONE exception was a $20,000 settleent with former women's basketball coach am Parsons in a libel-slander suit against le university. The settlement was covered nder an insurance policy with Michigan lutua\ Insurance, Ward said. Parsons sued ihe school for ttbet after an rticle appeared in Sports Illustrated alleging he had a lesbian relationship with a player. WARD SAID the legal fees and settlement gures do not reflect what USC paid to 3rmer head basketball coach Frank lcGuire when he was replaced in 1979. Carlen was fired in 1981 after serving ;ven years as (JSC's athletic director and cad coach. He sued two years later seeking iconic from fringe benefits and business mtacts he lost after being dismissed. Last month, USC agreed to pay Carlen 506,800 in cash and insurance to drop his > YY > U 11 . Bell sued USC after he was dismissed by .thletic Director Bob Marcum in 1^82 for Musing to follow Mai cum's directive to fire mr assistant football coaches. IN JULY, a federal jury awarded Bel! tore than S171,000 in Ins breach of contract iwsuit. Bell received an additional $7,000 rom the school for his legal expenses. The settlement called for the coach to get 100,000 a year for four years. Parsons, who resigned as women's basket- * iall coach under pressure from school oficials in 1982, agreed to accept a $20,000 set lement to drop her lawsuit against USC. The former coach resigned after a story n Sports Illustrated charged she had a les>ian relationship with one of her players, iolated recruiting procedures and ran a >asketball program that was "corrupt from op to bottom." Inside 16 L nt 8 7 6 12 ase. Two men were arrested after a high the USC campus 5 dm Arts professor Dick Wheelwright talks lie," which he wrote, and other film 8 iff. 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