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e ? . _____ . The Gamecock Founded 1908 Monday Volume 77, No. 74 University of South Carolina March 25, 1985 Game plan Proposal would rotate independents, leave greeks alone By Gregg tasky & A survey conducted by the Student Government Block Seating Task Force has been sent to presidents of campus organizations to determine the popularity of the current blockseating system and suggest an alternative. According to Rodney Brown, chairman of the task force, the survey was sent out Friday afternoon and is due back by March 29. Fie said the athletic department asked the task force to compromise on the problem of complaints by independent student organizations that they wished to sit closer to the field a rather than in the upper deck. Under the current system, sections 17 and 18 are allotted for sororities and fraternities, sections 501 and 502 for independent organizations and 14 and 15 for general admission. THE NEW PROPOSAL would rotate independents between sections 501 and 502 and sections 14 and 15. At least one task force member was upset by the wording of the survey, which he felt gives special privileges to greeks, because it does not include sections 17 and 18 to be rotated with sections 501 and 502, but en; Student dies, MM on nth or hit UIIUUIUI III* in auto mishaps From Staff Reports A USC freshman died Friday from injuries she receiv- ' ed in a car accident, and a USC junior was injured early ' 'A-'W.' Saturday morning in a hitand-run incident on campus. VXjL litlllCUI /Mlllil I'ttuy J* K Meet/e died at 12:15 p.m. at E^jTV Richland Memorial Hospital, where she had been taken alter her car collided with a H||?g||?|iS pickup truck Thursday morning. BHSsbBK Tlte accident happened at I'iney Cirove and St. Andrews roads. Lexington County Coroner Harry Harman said ''' a 1961 l ord pickup driven by 30-year-old Thomas Lee Dar- HVln \ dp by was stopped at a stoplight Httv' on St. Andrews Road when SSmHL^ the USC student's 1977 Chevrolet collided with the L . truck. pgg|p|gi|g Harman said the state M?g||||||| Highway Patrol reported she had been thrown through the M|lj||g|?? windshield. The coroner rul- M|ji|||?|| ed the death an accident. Mp|??|?|?| In another incident, USC" SB^SH junior Robert Devlin, a ^ 20-year-old geology major ppiSgSIp > ^ from Summerville, was struck by a car at 1:30 a.m. BSstjtstfS Saturday in a hit-and-run at B&vSS-Q | Blossom and Sumter streets. [- }T-~Devlin was taken io Baptist ftfipitep Medical Center and treated I" ' for a head injury. He suf- 1 j/: ;:.. .4; v fered cuts and bruises, but jlllll?|?|8| IL'QC rpl<v?tn/l Witnesses said a car on Sumter Street ran a redlight [f|||jp|||| and hit Devlin as he was NHHH I returning home from a for mai. I he car traveled 25 teet A|>nk {p with Devlin on the hood, then stopped and took off (JSC pol again after Devlin had fallen .m08t 84I off, they said, i man nhani i IIIU y viiuiri EAST STAND cna\ SO"11 506 5 I M ? ! I if anu iii. win ui hid* aiiu iiaioiniuvs wuui sures the fraternities of block-seating in 17 and 18. "Everyone pays the same activity fees for tickets, and it's not fair for the greek oraanizatinns to hp tittino in ihntc ?>aic which most people consider the best, all of the time," said task force member David Burroughs. "The individual student should have a better chance at a better seat." According to Burroughs, because the Interfraternity Council is so well organized they have been able to secure those sections with little opposition. If the task force does ' WMk ^km| m 'I'/j, BMD ';|^Hu3Z support le vauiter uuke berke goes up against Miami-Ohio. 70. See story, page 13. ge stadium vtvil between sections 501 and 502 and sections Id remain in sections 17 and IB. not address this problem he may take the issue to the Student Organization Licensing Commission. BURROUGHS, WHO was not at the meeting when the new proposal was approved, said he has been in touch with seven schools in the Southeast that rotate block seating among greeks and independents. Student groups at Clemson, North Carolina, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Alabama, Florida and Florida State draw out of a hat to determine the distribution of seats, he said. Docto drift Mnrrk iwiv/" i?From Staff and w.?'' ^ "His doctor ^W&jjfijfy V^j^jj Wilson, assistai E| ^AccomTn^Mc JB office early in ( of. day or Friday. H Morrison, ffj participating ii m lice drills last y complained ol f | According u mat ion Directc g; Morrison was > blockage of th UWdk.U l>u mgioplasty, a sanding b'oo -joints o! bloc .atheter. "II everythii okay, he ough the office by M said. "Right ij Morrison to 1 - S m Bowl and a fin H national coach ;T , "We arc cei Morrison's do cedure," said ward to Joe's : ;^ ars wcrc v someone was VISKO HATFIELD/The Gamecock assault and 1 drunkenness ; conduct in a p USC lost the Saturday track Thomas Co Saturday nigh J police reports. seating Trustee proposes irirJi+inn al c*a ate auuiliuiiui oguio, reserved parking By Associated Press Last year's successful football season has USC officials thinking about additional scats at Williams-Brice Stadium and has a company planning a second set of "condominium luxury parking." Trustee John Beasley, Activities Committee chairman, said Thursday the talk is far from a decision, but the matter is definitely being considered. "We're just taking a look at it," he said. "We have a lot of graduates of the university, and somewhere down the road we will have to handle increasing ticket needs. "WITH THE SUCCESS we enjoyed this year and what we hope to enjoy in the future, added space may be needed. This season we hope we can sell all available tickets, and that looks like a cood nossibilitv." Beasley also said USC has made some contacts in Columbia to see what interest there is in suites the stadium. "I'm sure this will receive some favorable response, as with other institutions." he said. "But anything we say now would be speculation. We're looking at capital improvements as we always do, and when the C.. "IJJUS.. A uod nuuiuuii, 4 rs pleased with ion's condition UU irn Dnnnrtr VVII D I1CJJUI ID at ball coach Joe Morrison was moved from the ry care unit to the progressive care unit Saturictors remain encouraged with his improving s are pleased with his progress," says Sid u athletic director for media relations. Wilson, Morrison is expected tp return to his he week and return to the practice field Tluirs7. had been i spring prac- J ? IIV. 11 lit f.-* 4 chest pains. ? > Sports Infor- f )r Tom Price, ^ treated for ^ ^ e arteries with \ "* icedure called ..: method of exd vessels at tftSMjEgB jgk ^Krri^vJ kage, using a f|p' ': ig kety going Joe Morrison [ to he back in ^eati f00tba|| coach londay, Price low, it looks like that treatment was greatly ok the Gamecocks to a 10-2 season, the Gator al ranking of No. 11 last season. He was named of the year by the Walter Camp foundation. tainlv pleased with the diagnosis from Coach :tors and the confidence they have in the proathletic Director Bob Marcum. "We look forreturn to practice in the very near future." arrest one suspect ive cars vandalized 118 l ive cars were broken into andali/ed, and on both sides ol the reflection arrested for pond, Russell House building mattery, public supervisor John Malone said, and disorderly A student and his sister >arking lot near heard glass breaking, and oper Library when they investigated, they t, according to were assaulted, "slapped See "Suspect," pege 5