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Volume 77, No. 13 University of South Carolina August 31, 1984
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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
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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.
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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
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(left) and Kelly Smith (right) congratulate Nancy Thyden
jrorities announced their pledge classes on the
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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
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lipon this place for Sale of Wade Ha,
decades." i lou "s 10 keep ,he $
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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. "
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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."
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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
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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
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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.
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the system put in over Entertainmei
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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
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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
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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."
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dm Arts professor Dick Wheelwright talks
lie," which he wrote, and other film
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morrow again si western Carolina at the I
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