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* . The Gomecoch Founded 1908 Friday Volume 77, No. 63 University of South Carolina February 15, 1985 ' Four months Parsons, Buck s D.i MnrL uy main nuiisuuny Former USC women's basketball coach Pam Parsons and former player Tina Buck were sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison, suspended to four months' service and five ^ years' probation for perjuring themselves in federal court. U.S. District Judge Clyde Hamilton, who presided over Parsons' failed $75 million libel lawsuit against Time, Inc., recommended the two women serve their sentences at a minimum security facility in Lexington, Ky., and undergo psychiatric evaluations and counseling. "There is no doubt that both of you are in serious need of professional help," Hamilton said. THE JUDGE allowed Parsons and Buck, who pleaded guilty to perjury charges in November, to remain free on $10,000 bond and report to prison on their own. The perjury charges stemmed from an FBI investigation requested by Hamilton after hearing sharply conflicting * testimony during Parsons' libel trial against Sports Illustrated last spring about her alleged membership in a gay bar. Babette Wales "Babs" De Lay, a disc-jockey at the Puss'n'Boots club in Salt Lake City, Utah appeared as a surprise witness and testified that she met Parsons and Buck at the club, which is frequented by lesbians, in 1983. Rocky road j .- srcsggfc' 'g.'jl^f^xvf: wl^i^VH W?r\-' * Iw I I 1A . . - SSfl| I I 5^**" I I & ~v?? '? ^3K3k..' ." I I y in^ . - ~mqb . ..W . Uwj >.' JENNIFER STE Construction continues throughout USC at lines for the i system art being dug into the ground. This crumbled road I be Bull Street, between Russell House and McClintock do Q the Women's Qued. Construction will continue for some ti bettor gat used to it. I entenced for perjur , i "I'm so awfully judgmental of people who couldn't do what I J^P jn couldn't do myself ? face up to something that was WpP^BHI nnrcnnallw omharraccinn " ?f T?Mln pi>l OUIIUII J blllUUI I U Jull llj> Pam Parsons former coach UNDER OATH, both Parsons and Buck denied they had ever been in the club or had met De Lay. Before sentencing them, Hamilton told Parsons and Buck he requested the FBI investigation to verify De Lay's credibility in order to insure Parsons right to a fair trial. "If I had found that Ms. De Lay had lied, I would have had to order a new trial to be sure your rights were protected," Hamilton said to Parsons at Wednesday's hearing. "But 1 lafpr Ip'jrr\f*r\ fhot it ii/ac i/aii anrl V/ic Rnrl^ vi'Ka horl perjury." Senate passe By Linda Taylor woujd ? The president, vice president, better secretary and treasurer of Student the un Senate should turn down job of- and stu fevs from USC's administration to , avoid conflicts of interest, accor- . ding to a resolution passed by the wor' Student Senate Wednesday. [fso Senators Ross Toyne and Don sc"a'^ Upton's resolution said, "The in- ^.or 1 terests of the student body, as ,ng ?r represented by the Student ent ' Government Association, may be Offic in a nosition contrarv to the in- ._i - i -- IUKC itll ? C ZLJ terests of . . . administrative (ions policies," and the employed SG a JqJ, (j official "is sometimes unable" to student voice views they or their consti- fiict) t tuents hold "for the mere fact of "stroni r.^-T--**J| being employed by that organiza- the enf tion and wishing to continue their yjc However, dissenting Sen. A se ^>pjl?r Rodney Drown said barring of- by the ficials from administrative jobs ing the Diplomat to o\ From Staff Reports Cjv Veteran diplomat Lawrence Eaglebur become chief executive officer for the rec . James F. Byrnes International Center, US dent James Holderman has announced. fi?ra& The former undersecretary of state for pol hBI fairs will guide the activites of the center and chairman of an advisory committee consistii tionally and internationally prominent states ' ' The membership of this committee wil nounced later, Holderman said at yesterday '- nf lrncli>f>c m<>/?tino v* ** M,'%VV,J . ivv....e. Charles Kegley, chairman of the depar government and international studies, w Eagleburger in administering the center chair a new faculty-staff University Advise mittee on the Byrnes Center. MAC BENNETT has been named chiel for the Byrnes Center and will continue tc executive assistant for international a IB I TM Qanwcock Holderman. raw phona The center's activities will be divided hiantni to regions of the world. Each region will ha' rmitorv on visory committee composed of faculty ; 1KB So'voil mcmners wnn acuvc programs III mm aic< ' ' These committees will be chaired b Blachman, associate professor in the GIN y in libel trial r?_r : ?.. uI. I>? ? i n 1. ? DCIUIC >tiiKinii!^, UUIII rai>uin auu IJUIA ujjuiugi/.tu ikj Hamilton for lying in court. Parsons, 37, explained that she lied out of fear. "I'M SO AWFULLY judgmental of people who couldn't do what I couldn't do myself ? face up to something that was personally embarrassing," she said. "I'm sorry for the time I took up in court and for my testimony," Parsons said, adding that she wants to get her life back together again. A tearful Buck said she realized it was a mistake to lie and that she had learned a lesson from it all. "No matter how much adversity you may be facing, the only way to handle adversity is to tell the truth," she said. "It may hurt very badly at the time, but it will eventually work out if you tell the truth." "I'M SORRY for what I did, I'm not going to try to excuse it," she said. U.S. Attorney Henry McMaster filed perjury charges against the two women in October after an FBI probe showed both Parsons and Buck lied about patronizing the bar. The decision on where the two will go to prison will come from the Federal Bureau of Prisons in two to three weeks. is motion on jobs 'conflict with our goals of students. communication between . , . This includes pxnandinB iversuy, our government , 1 , r.6 dents " academic counseling and offpnmniic cnrml artiuitipc an/i pvIpik :'re not saying donM ding equal opportunity to student Toyne replied, saying the organizations, said Sen. Dwayne on was presented so that Smalley, sponsor of the >rs will tell what other resolution. ley're doing, and if it's ad- * detracting from their (Stu- "This needs immediate attenDvernment) job." tion. There's no quick solution to . . , rectify the problem, but if we wis mil not be requ.red lo work |oward ? wc can , ovc y of .he three proposed ac- |h ,, of ll|c for minori and ,ot taking the job. quitting a|| sludems/. he said. icy already have, or telling s why the job won't con- ^ tecause a resolution is a Scheduled speaker Rep. Tim I statement" which lacks Rogers was unable to attend,-but o u;ii oiA hopes to reschedule a talk on the UIVHIg JJUWWI U I U fill, JUIU e President Oscar Prioleau. drinking age for next Wednesday. Rogers is currently authoring a cond resolution approved bill with a grandfather clause, acSenatc concerned improv- cording to SG President Glenn quality of life for minority German. /ersee Byrnes Center ment, Western Hemisphere; Hilel Salomon, ...:n r ? i. n?: r:_ T\ i j gel win assu^imc iiMiny, ruiini dumii, uimujiu trganizcd Puchala, director of USC's Institute of International >C Presi- Studies, turope; and John Mcladden, system vice president for intercultural affair* and professional development. litical af- jhe Washington office of the Byrnes Center will 1 serve as continue to be directed by Jonathan Davidson, lg of na- special assistant for international programs to men and Holderman. I be an- THE BYRNES CENTER is designed to coords board dinate and integrate the inttrnational activities of the nine campuses and various units of the USC system. tment of Under the new structure, it will function as a ill assist research and service agency, providing support for and also internationally related academic programs, training >ry Com- activities and research projects undertaken by faculty and students, and will encourage a global perspective among faculty and students by inviting international f of staff visitors to the campus for short visits. > m:ivc Lagleburger, who retired from government service ffairs to jn 1934 after 27 years with the Department of Defense, Department of State and White House, into four entered the foreign service in 1957. ve an adand staff He was U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1975 t to 1981 and assistant secretary of state for European V \iorrjs affairs from May 1981 to February 1982 when he was T depart- See "Board," page 3.