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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;
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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
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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.
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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
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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|
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Witnesses said a car on
Sumter Street ran a redlight [f|||jp||||
and hit Devlin as he was NHHH
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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,
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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
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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.
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of. day or Friday.
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y complained ol
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Saturday nigh
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seating
Trustee proposes
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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
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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
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chest pains. ?
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)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