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>* South iCaro 1 iniana^-Library Horseshoe Gamecock Founded 1908 . Monday Volume 77, No. 49 University of South Carolina December 3, 1984 Rossi trial juror: From Staff and Wiro Reports Jurors in the Barbara Lynn "Bobbi" Rossi murder trial i * i ...u ?u? v rcr1 were cstuncu oaiuiuay iu mc ucuu wucic mc vjjv, aiwuciu was raped and to the nearby woods where she was found shot to .death in September. Richland County deputies, who escorted the jurors, were instructed by Circuit Judge Anthony Harris to say nothing more than, "This is the barn," and "This is where the body was found." Solicitor James Anders suggested the trip after the end of testimony Saturday afternoon. Defense attorneys objected, and Joy Ooodwin, an attorney tor Benjamin Antnony Joyner, said the tour "could impassion and inflame the jury." THE OTHER defendants are Marcellus Pierce, 36, of Carolina campus sp H,' , ISffll jfSI -* 's, -v ][:; ^Hp. MMMt Iff J 1?BmBIM.M: nH 9h9HHJM imffi it ^<ja?aW^^MM|pgg^gg&g^SggpESiag^iggB^^p^^iiija W&v ; %? "*/ ;->"T^' -i * v . - ^mmrfflrT^ffl^r^n^rraffP^TOfrrr^B ^n* !' l???il * Hi' ' ' ^1*#fWBWflCwli#I^^AWSF*S5;:! Patterson Hall enforcing rule Male guests mil! Bv Juliet Nader nip <w ni ?! F,v "K f" On a Sunday morning, the elevator door overnight. Bi of Patterson Hall opens, and a young, leave, and 01 unescorted male runs out past the main desk admitted, and through the door. "This rule This used to be a familiar sight at Patter- more freedor son, but now the residential staff has rules to could only h curtail these near-escapes. "The mair One reason for the increasing violation of student safe "house rules" is ignorance of them. For ex- son's resider ample, page 25 of the "Carolina Communi- want males ty" says students must register their over- because that nieht ouests in advance with a residence hall The hall staff member or area manager. Because of who is in th< negligence of this rule, action had (o be fire. "If thei taken: Patterson Hall enforced the rule and get everyone provided staff in the lobby to sign in guests after midnight on weekends. THE DOl men sneaKin JANE ROOT of University Housing Ser- unescorted r vices said students are allowed to have "peo- decided to t* 5 cqq coono nf & uwu avunu vi Gadsden, and Willie Earl Nesmith, 26, of Raleigh, N.C Joyner, 24, is of Garner, N.C. Anders has asked for the death penalty for all three, wh have made conflicting statements about their involvement i the crime, but who all deny the murder. Murder is the onl charge in the case for which death is a possible penalty. An attorney for Nesmith, Dennis Bolt, said jurors shoul also visit the soybean field where Rossi's car was seen the da before she died, the home of Pierce's wife and other sites mer tioned by witnesses. John Young, Pierce's attorney, said h wanted jurors driven from the murder scene to the Pierc house to see that they are 15 or 16 miles apart, not 5 or 6, as ir vestigating officers indicated earlier. Harris said he would have a deputy check the distance, bi he would let the jury decide they wanted to go. irucing up for Chri more than three weeks away, me mans are crowded, "Jingle Bells" mP can be heard everywhere - and Christmas trees are popping up all over town. USC began to decorate its halls in earnest on 5 Friday, when trees on J the Horseshoe and in the ;. Russell House made Wi i i 1 i' i'1 ,, i i 1 1 their seasonal, *ppearance. At left, senior Thomas Waye ^ assembles a Christmas I. j | tree in the second floor I lobby of the Russell House. Workers, right, '" ".'V"" decorate a tree courtesy .... ;??? of a cherry picker in front of the President's House on the Horseshoe. The next several weeks p'^ will be full of Christmas* t|j! r; related activities at ?g, .:. USC, including the an- pfe | "nil Pkrip + nrtio P nnr>r?rt BMf MU UUMll I Photo* by Riy Gronberg S it sign in for overi zza" who are not going to stay "Since the desk in the Ji it after midnight the guests must dow, the hall personnel nly one overnight guest can be watch the two stair-acce? and right, and men coul seems strict, but it really allows Aven said. n," Root said. "Before students . ?? Tn tlilc fo.ilt tVi ave one guesi up ai a nine. i u i^mvujf uua i?wu, m i reason for the strict rules is for the desk was locked pern ty," said Renee Aven, Patter- door is unlocked from 7 itial hall director. "We do not "There have been no running around unescorted, about this rule," Aven s; could be dangerous." authorities must know exactly THE LEFT door is ; building at all times in case of second-floor entrance, so e is a fire, we have to be able to between floors on this s out." the lobby. The hall advisers told r IM has also had problems with of fire, the door can I ig in. After three complaints of "slapping tne emergency naleS on the halls, hall advisers off the alarm. ike action. S crime firsthand TWENTY-FIVE WITNESSES have testified in the trial's two days of testimony. Some of them described the crime o scene as "impossible to find unless you knew the area like the n back of your hand." They also said the barn sits in a cleared ly area, but it is surrounded by woods and undergrowth. Rossi's body was found in the woods near a path leading d from the back of the barn. y Jurors also heard statements, two written and two oral, l- given by Pierce. In the statements, Pierce said he and two le companions, Nesmith and a man called "Floyd" but later rtf T rv* FMAV Krhs-i ? *!+/> ^/\lnmKio frAm D rSZ lu^iiuiicu ad t liau wuiw niiu V/Wiumi/ia 11 vui i\uivig,u i- with a Maryland man, identified only as "Slim" and never located. it Pierce said they turned onto Old Bluff Road and the dirt See "Trial," page 3 ~ 1 Student plans ^ word around. -courages everyone to come out and rJ^^--' ishow their support for the team. Inside %% "fr tffc Classified 16 nigntS Dateline.... 2 %M Entertainment 10 .. ff . tl Features 9 obby faced the win- _ Q on duty could not Opinion 8 >s doors to the left SPorts 12 d easily slip past," | f'tinimic Watrh Rtiirlpnt.s nrp at Ipast I partly to blame for a 58 percent decrease le door to the left of in the number of thefts at USC residence lanently. The other halls 7 j a.m. to midnight. complaints so far aid. Oh boy! O Boy! The dance floor was nnnlm/J Knf n r\ /\nn uioo at Ci I [jatrvcu, uut 11 \j uiiv wuo uiaiiviu^ ^ locked only at the Boy's concert at The Beat 10 ?residents can travel tairway, but not to In the swim. USC's men's swim team esidents that in case and women's swim team won the >e pushed open by Gamecock Invitational swim meet this bar," which will set weekend. The women's team is ranked iCiL il 10 Iioui, tiiu men lutn \ ^ n 1