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Volume 77, No. 52 University of South Carolina January 21, 1985
Councils
By Ron Brackett s\
A proposed $15 million perfor- cc
ming arts ccnicr for Columbia may w
still have a chance although cc
Richland County Council voted b<
against a $5 million bond issue for ni
ii> cuiiMi UV.1IUII ims piisi i ucsuay.
Council chairman I .cone Castles b
said if two-thirds of the council LI
(eight members) vote to reconsider b
the arts center bond issue at tomor- n
row's meeting it can be brought tl
up. tl
She said, however, she would
want no specific date or amount C
set for the bond issue, and the arts o
center should be discussed by a 1'
committee of the three groups in- h
volvcd: USC, Columbia City n
Council and County Council.
n
A QUKSTION Castles raised c
about the center is the county's n
Train kills
3 students
during holiday
By Leslie Dunson
Three IJSC students, including
two Sigma Nu fraternity brothers,
died in a freak train accident during
Christmas break.
Robert Worrell and Thomas
Hawpc, both 21-year-old Greenville
natives and members of Sigma
Nu, and Frank Galloway, 19, of
West Palm Beach, Ma., were killed
instantiy when they were walking
?.>m? lit/. Ir-l.-Lc . *I\. ulrtrc.
railroad crossing in Greenville
County.
The accident f jcnrred duiing
early morning ,ai?. K when the __
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Alex l.awsoti^Vand Micheal
J as?, .Inch, hoiw 19 and from
Cireenxille, were waiting at the
crossing for the passage o' a slowinoung,
north-bound Southern
Railroad flight train.
I.awson and Jaskwhich are USC
freshmen.
The students got out of their car,
1 . . i . _ r
and Lawson crossed a ursi sei 01
tracks to hop on the train. Hawpc,
Worrell and Galloway started
across the tracks to follow him and
stopped when Jaskwhich called to
them for a cigarette.
Another train, moving southbound
at about 40 mph., blew its
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apparently did not see it and jj
believed the whistle to be from the
slower train.
The south-bound train hit the
three on the tracks, and all died instantly,
according to the Greenville
County sheriff's department. I
Mac Bennett, executive assistant
to USC President James Holderman
and adviser to Sigma Nu, said '
in an interview with The State *
newspaper that the deaths "were a 1
terrible loss for the fraternity and 1
to USC as a whoie." I
"It's like any organization that's
been hit with something like this," I
he said. "The guys took it real I
h:<r<i A vomio niar^nn\ tim#*r:il it i
one of the hardest things to take i
part in. It's been a hard time for all <
of the boys who knew them."
: I
I Bennett said he hoped the frater- ;
nity will cope with the loss and join I
together to strengthen the ;
fraternity. !
"It would be a shame if their
loss didn't have something positive
come out of it. I hey can make this
the best year lor them, I think."
Gamecocks
needed
'Gator-aid'
See pages 14, 15.
feud a
iare of control. She said the
ninty would have "no real vote
ith only three members on the
:nter s nine-member governing
oard. USC would have live
lembers, the city would have one.
She also questioned USC buying
aek the center from the county.
Inder a provision of the original
ond issue, USC was required to
lake a $200,(XX) yearly payment to
le county from a seat tax or from
le university's general fund.
"This needs to be worked out,"
astles said. "There is a question
f the legality of putting county
linds into a state building. Do we
ave the riulit to lend countv
loncy lor 10 years?
USC would have contributed $5
nillion to the center's construction
osts and pay operating and
naintenance costs tor the facility.
Semester unloa
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That's right, classes begin tod
the USC campus this past we
Plane just misses
Basketba
From Staff and Wire Reports
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. ? I hi
,vcre killed Thursday when ihei
;rashed into a parking lot at I:a
lessee State University, hut the
USC basketball team physician, av
greater tragedy hy narrowly mi
women's dormitory.
Dr. Hminett l.unceford Jr., 54
(ionally known orthopedic surge<
Hying his twin-engine Cessna back
Limbia after a Gamecock basketb;i
in Cincinnati when his plane de
engine trouble.
Federal Aviation Administrati(
[rollers in Atlanta instructed him
lit T ri-C "ities Airport near Johnsc
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mil iiiu pidiie iuuk a iiuscuivc anil
lit 1:0) a.m. t*S I, I AA spokesmai
Myers said.
ALSO KII.I.KI) were Michael
36, of Columbia and Dr.
McGuire, 34, of New York City.
bout fir
"The university is goii
We have to convince the
falls to pieces...that we
smaller for the universi
US
I he $5 million lias been donah
by a Florida businessman.
CAS'I I.KS SAII), "I don't wa
to spend tax dollars there that v
could use for indigent care <
sewerage projects.
"The average taxpayer that I'
talked to doesn't want anything
rnsl mnncu "
ids on students
IPS^^HSa ^Biis
f?S?
lay. Page Fowler, a freshman, was
ek. So, welcome back and have a
dorm
II team doc
USC head basketb;
rcc men said in a statement
r plane death, "What a shod
st Ten- (after the Jan. 17 Viri
pilot, a asked me if I wanted
oided a to Columbia after tl
ssing a him I needed to be w
was busing back).
I, a na- "He was a close
>n, was there when i had my \
to C ol- pie of years ago
ill game moderate heart alta
veloped game against Purdue
19K2). He helped tn<
>n con- that.
to land "It's just unbelic
>n City, happened. He was tin
crashed you'd look up 10 n
11 Roger time, and he would
(locker room) door t(
there. He had ilist fl<
Smith,
Michael "UK WAS so trie
loved being a part (
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le arts ci
ig to build a fine arts center.
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' UUNUr ITldl II lllc WllUlc mmy
go ahead and build something
ty purposes alone..."
C President James Holderman
at a December interview
xl She and Council member John
Monroe have discussed the
possibility of having an advisory
nt referendum to get public opinion
ve on that issue as well as several
[>r other items, such as funding for
expansion at Riverbanks Zoo and
v v. a v.uiini> iiciiii >.
to She said she has learned a
referendum will cost the county
grog^--iy ^: - - J
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JENNIFER STEI8 / The Gamscock
; one of thousands who returned to
good semester.
:tor dies in T
ill coach Hill Foster never asked fo
about Lu nee ford's working with i
Just last Saturday Wallace Frc
;ima Tech game), he public relation
to fly back with him dent at the A
ic game, but I told Clinic, where
ith our team (which was a former I
of the Univer?
friend, and he was school.
leart problem a cou- Robert Mos
(Foster suffered a director, said
ek during a home ed his life and
ill #?url\/ t #
vui i j 1/v.v.tiui'v. i , | ' il V, I I U, V. I > I
: out so much with casualties.
"Give the g
vable that this has "He saved a
Mype of person who spot and mis
linutes before game mitory. If he'
be knocking on the knows what w<
> let us know he was of a major dis
>wn in.
ABOUT 30
'ndly, and he really snowball fighi
>f our program. He they saw the
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II Mil I I II. I 11.111
inter pre
$10,(KM), and she is not as en- i
ihusiastic about ii as she earlier ,
was.
NO MA TIT. R the outcome of
tomorrow's County Council
meeting, Columbia Mayor
Kirktnan I-inlay said there is a
"strong possibility" USC and the
city will build the arts center
without the county's help.
I he city has informally agreed
to donate a plot of land at
Assembly and Greene streets and
give % 2 million to w a r d
construction.
" The land has been committed,
and I'm satisfied the city's contribution
will be in that range,"
I inlay said.
USC' President James Holderman
said in a prepared statement,
"Since first approached by comFederal
attorney
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By Associated Press
U.S. Attorney Henry McMastcr
launched an initiative to collect
outstanding federal loans Friday
by I'iling suit against more than KM)
South Carolinians who owe the
government money.
McMastcr warned that the suits
were the first of many to be filed
by the U.S. Attorney's office
against people who've defaulted
on student loans, mobile home
loans and housing improvement
loans.
I he tederai initiative includes
deductions from lax returns and
paychecks, reports credit
| bureaus and release of tfie debtors'
I * BP Tf T?rT tftvii -* j
rass them into paying. ^
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DKFAULT FROM the loan programs
amounts to $3.1 billion nationwide,
with about $22.6 million
owed by South Carolinians.
Most of the debtors sued Friday
owe money on student loans, and
all of the debtors are gainfully
employed. McMaster said.
"By filing these 100 new civil
lawsuits all at the same time we are
trying to get the attention of debtors,
and they are primarily student
loan debtors," McMaster
said.
The U.S. attorney's office will
be working with the federal
Department of F.ducation, the
ennessee pl<
r anything, he just enjoyed spinn
;uir players." Harm
>mhart, liTSU director of 19.
s, said McGuire was a resi- "E:
ustin T. Moor Orthopedic not hi
I.unceford worked. Smith been
awyer and a 1976 graduate "T
>ity of South Carolina law to on
ning
sman, F.TSU public safety Schei
the pilot may have sacrifie- from
I the lives of the other two Mi
o avoid causing more work
wreel
uy credit," Mossman said.
lot of lives by picking this "V
sing Lucille Clement dor- Mich
d not been successful Clod studc
t* would have had in the way cryin
aster." Po
back
0 siiidcnts were having a blow
1 near another dorm when stuck
plane shooting sparks and
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JENNIFER WOOTEN / 7h? Gamtcocfc
1
iposal
munily leaders aooui mc concept
of a joint community-university
project to construct a performing
arts center to serve the needs of the
entire community, the university
has been enthusiastic in its
support.
"IllK PROJECT, as nronosed
to us, depended in part on (county)
council's involvement, which at
this point appears unlikely.
"Our own plans in regard to the
future of such a project now have
to be reviewed."
At a press conference last
month, however, Holderman said,
"The university is going to build a
fine arts center.
"We have to convince the donor
that if the whole thing falls to
pieces, which I don't expect it to,
See "Center," page 4
I files suit
student loans
Veterans Administration and the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, MeMaster said.
THE EDUCATION department
wants to collect $1.5 billion nationwide
in defaults of student loans
made under the National Direct
Student loan program and the
Federally Insured Student Loan
program.
Under the NDSL program,
loans are made directly to students
by schools. The college pays 10
percent of the loan and the government
pays 90 percent. Federally insured
loans are *yidc by banks and
credit unions >md are ^acV"'*
If the coileg^anc' ' anks can't
collect, they iflW turn the loans
over to the education department
lor collection.
The Veterans Administration
wants to collect $1.4 billion nationwide
in defaulted loans and student
loans made through its overpayment
program included in the
Cil Bill.
AR/WIT OC/1 : 11: ~
I I IIIIIUUII lidliuilwidc
is owed to HUD for home improvement
loans and governmentbacked
loans for purchase of
mobile homes, McMaster said.
President Reagan's advisers are
scrutinizing federal programs, and
See "Loans." page 4
jne crash
ing end over end before it burst into
;s upon impact, said Jill Scheurer,
verybody just ran to it. There was
ng we could do," she said. "I've
shaking all night. I couldn't sleep,
he propeller was found on a hill next
r dorm. I almost tripped over it rundown
to the parking lot," said
irer, a health administration major
Johnson City.
iny students watched as rescue
ers removed the bodies from the
It age.
t/1*' WKMI-' crar^H fr\ *' coiH
cllc Canite, a 21-year-old nursing
:nt from Kingsport. "We were all
g-"
lice shouted at onlookers to stand
because the second engine might
, the students said. The tires on one
;nt's car were melted, Scheurer said.
See "Crash," page 4
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