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Andy Duncan is still on vacation, but his replacement, Ed ^ ? rival, is beaten in three ' 'Hi l0MfltAliilH9t Chambliss, continues to spend his time wisely. Today, he gjp?? SnHrf^ If 1^? straight games by the I jjjjj r- J*8 C0ntr0V8r,v #urroundin0 Mr- Potato Head- ^" women s V0,,8ybal1 teamThe Gamecock Founded 1908 Friday Volume 78, No. 22 University of South Carolina September 27, 1985 Campus s * despite in USC offici By JULIET NADER and LINDA TAYLOR Staff writers The sexual assault of a USC fr 1981, has prompted university off on personal safety and protection ^ Carl Stokes, systems vice presii ^ said the assault was probably an is< the campus atmosphere. "This only happens once in a bli The crime rate is not bad. It has be .attributed to efforts by the faculty inform and help students. We h educate students on their own safi The 1981 sexual assault occui Women's Quadrangle. Bars were i quad dorms after the incident. _ fUSC student assailed near Russell House By HAL MILLARD Staff writer A female USC student was sexually assaulted about 12:15 a.m. Thursday morning behind the Russell House StuUnion, according to? report filed by the USC Police Department. The freshman was walking back to her dorm when an assailant stopped her at the southeast corner of Russell House ana tnreatened her verbally. He forced her into an equipment room on the side of Russell House where he assaulted her. ^ The assailant is described as a black male in his 20s, about ! 5 feet 9 inches and of muscular : build. He wore an earring in his right ear and a lightcolored tank top and short pants. He also had on either prescription or sunglasses. , After the incident the victim went to the 1700 block of Bull Street where she met two USC students, who walked her back to her dorm, where the USC ? Police Department and her parents were contacted. nri - r ? i nree types 01 universuy ponce officers in blue coats who monito happenings; walking patrol of uni well as assistance at request from Other safety measures taken 24-hour, 7 days-a-week residence limit access, an entire detail devot pus at night, Alpha Phi Omega ? said Pruitt. Stokes urges students to take ad with a friend. If this is not possit police for help. "Arivtim* unn'r? rcallii roor?/J t inj iniiv j \su iv i vauj avai vu 9 assist you. Within reason, we'll d "People usually don't call (the en The campus police will send an; dent by car or foot, or monitor tl "You might not get this help frc campus police. We will provide s< Students can call the emergency tion number, 777-4215, for assists Beyond the basic advice of > avoiding poorly-lit places, Stokes tions. "As soon as I say resist, you assailant) in the groin . . . and g< ferent. I'd rather suggest (going i after 11 p.m.) than using mace or APO members strongly urge s many people know about us, but often. We would like to be there i; vent campus crime," said one men tion is very small, they have about as much as possible. "We have tried several times t< tions, namely the Greeks," said M asked the Inter-Fraternity Counc escort, and they said they would, it." No institution can do enougi ^ policemen to respond to calls and < w university educates faculty, staff a programs. till safe cident, ials say eshman, the fi st on campus since Icials to offer students suggestions lent for Law Enforcement Safety, elated incident and doesn't relate to tie moon. We've got a safe campus. :en reduced, and I think that can be r and staff who have been trying to ave been and are doing things to ety," he said. rred in McClintock dorm on the ?ut on the windows of the women's USC has an open, urban campus, and in any city the size of Columbia (about 24,000), incidents such as an assault are bound to happen, according to Dennis Pruitt, vice president of Student Affairs. "The campus is comparatively safe statistically. Since 1980 the the number of critical incidents have declined," he said. T? inot i *vw\ - in i7oi incic were i,uuu incidents of various types, as compared with 804 last year, said JPt9)c.?,;Hs ^tributes in incidents to student and university efforts. "In any city this size, you'll have a critical incident. The in- 1 dividual (victims) shouldn't take I the blame or feel guilty, it was just the circumstances," Pruitt said. "Students shouldn't walk around in fear, but they should be sensitive to their environment." "We don't want to fence in the campus, and there are undesirables on campus," said Pruitt. Stokes said students should report any strange person on campus at any time of day or night. The person can be asked to present a student ID card if they appear to be loitering and can be arrested for trespassing, he said. Stokes said they don't mind the paperwork and hopes students will be more apt to come forward. "We will be there for service." operate on campus: Reserve police r the campus for unusual people or formed officers; and car patrols, as the Columbia police. by the university include having Kali mAnitnrp in l/\UUi?o * -? IIUII IIIV/III1UIO 111 UUI 111 1UUU1C3 IU ed to locking all buildings on camand even campus police ? escorts, vantage of the APO service or walk >le, students can call the university I'll guarantee they (the officers) will o anything in our power," he said, lergency line)." y officer available to escort the stule area, according to Stokes. >m the city police, but you will from icurity as best we can," he said, number, 777-5222, or the informaince, said Stokes, valking with another person and hesitates to make specific suggesmight use your key . . . or kick (the rt you killed. Each situation is difin pairs, calling APO or the police a key," he said. tudents to use their service. "Not t we wish they would use us more n /.a.. ...? ??I I i> voov nt ait iiccucu su wc can prciber. Although the service organiza18 members who would like to help ) enlist the help of other organizaary Rowland, APO secretary. "We :il and Panhellenic Association to but they never went through with 1, Pruitt said, but areas are lit, confront suspicious persons and thf nd students with a number of crime t.?"?.;?^ vft MgBejRV BSXJSSb fffe Hf BP x 1J B 1' .?r . 12* * ft- BbmbmI^v: ? Dancing, Caribbean style USC students and faculty members ei Festival earlier this week as the quee dance from her homeland of Grenada. Security to b By AMY BEOENBAUGH Staff writer Security at parties on USC's frat* quadrangle will be tighter in the future result of Saturday's fight between frat< members and non-students, an 1 Fraternity Council spokesman Wednesday. At its meeting Monday, the council a u:-~ ~ 1 - .? iu iiuc a ^uciiu iu pairoi parties in me q common areas, which include the n ground and sidewalks, said Council Pre: Kevin Hall. "Each fraternity will also have a se guard stand at their own parties," Hall "This means there will be eight to 10 g on the quad at a typical after-game par He said security has been left up to chapter's judgment in the past. All 14 fraternities housed on the qua have to continue paying the guards the tor their individual parties, but the c< will pay the salary of the guard in the mon area. "We have the funds and it's a commi we're willing to make," he said. The council, which consists of representatives from each of USC's 16 1 nities, did not vote officially on the n" but everyone agreed, Hall said. "W< strongly about having a safe place to Student Sei By BUDDY MOORE and COLETTE boj BAXLEY wh Staff writers Sot A resolution denouncing South / Africa's governmental system of by aDartheid was nassed hv thp I IfSr1 Student Government Senate "w Wednesday. wit The resolution "does not take she a stand on investment" in South sen Africa, said to Sen. Leroy 4 Gadsden, who introduced it. Fes Apartheid, a governmental tioi policy of racial segregation and ma supression, has allowed five sai( million whites to take control of of 23 million blacks and provided a Coi system of punishment without ' benefit of trial. pec "We're showing our disfavor the of apartheid. We want to send a eve message to the S.C. State 1 Senate," Gadsden said. har He also said he hopes the dir. resolution will influence the USC Rul M.S/ *- '/ : \ mm w$ w wBj iWPW ... Pn /1 MICHAEL I ULL/The Gemecock njoyad the Caribbean Cultural n of the cernival performs a e tighter < each other's company, In Saturday's incide irnity a party jn front of ! as a house when fraternity ?rnitv ~ -1? ...l_ -? mate* who were piayn Inter- A USC police repor said refused, and one c students in the face wi A fourth student, C tempted to act as a me struck in the head with 1!^dle report said, s nt The non-students f Greene Street. Police niritv "said' Juven'le beside Longst uards The 15-year-old < ty." charged with three co He is in the custody o ' ea the Richland County ! Rollins' injury, whi d *lU Medical Center for > y * was not reported to pi 3uncil repQrt said R0| com- Qf identities of an could not prosecute ai tment not see wj10 hit two Police were not call 'rater- was out of control, sa latter, vice president for law < e feel "If they had called enjoy confrontation, perhaj late passi ?rd of trustees "regardless of o has USC money invested in ith Africa." Although the resolution passed acclamation on first reading h no debate, Gadsden said he as expecting a little opposition h it. I think the final vote wed the concern of other ators in the matter." 'With the Caribbean Cultural tival and USC's other internalal ties, we should touch on iters that apply to these ties," i Gadsden, who is chairman the senate's Minority Affairs mmittee. 4In other parts of the world, pie are killed just asking for things we take for granted ry day," Gadsden said. ^here was a question over the idling of the resolution, accorg to Sen. Rodney Brown, les Committee chairman and Coast prep for winds. From staff and wire reports MYRTLE BEACH - While many stores ai along the Myrtle Beach oceanfront yestei iU. 1 L 1 - i me ucatn anu in oars naving "hurricane They were accompanied by expected wi feet higher than usual as hurricane Glork according to Richard Marvin, Myrtle Bea Gloria, one of the most powerful storm Atlantic, spared the Bahamas and head Wednesday as it spun across the sea with A hurricane watch was posted from Son eluding North Carolina's vulnerable barr and tourists began evacuating, and schoo closed for Thursday. Although the storm, which had 150-mpt day night, emergency plans were drafted a: keep track of Gloria in other coastal area Before weakening, the 300-mile-wide hi a "borderline" Category 5 storm, capab The last time a storm anywhere near the sti Coast, it killed 600 people in New Englari "If it goes into the Carolinas, this couh said Neil Frank, director of the National Gables, Fla. Even if Gloria's winds weaken further b comeby today at a site yet uncertain, it n ward speed that it could be just as danger less time to evacuate, Frank said. At 9 p.m. EDT, Gloria's eye was near la 74.2 west, or about 500 miles south-southf It was moving northwest at 15 mph and thward gradually and increase its forward A hurricane watch was posted from E - Charleston, S.G,,.?o Cape-Henry, Yaco Outer Banks. A campground on Ocracoke Island, a Hatteras, was evacuated Wednesday n Ocracoke, Hatteras and Portsmouth islar at future quad " he said. not have been hui nt, a fight broke out at dent occurred waj f? - jigiuci V.111 s iraicrnuy No more arres members asked several because the police lg basketball to leave. "Only two witu t said the non-students tell us anything,' f them struck three nine black males ith his fist. We need names lifford Rollins, who at- security guard ha< diator in the fight, was been able to resp< a blunt instrument, the more to go on." i ac ?i ~,.oa Wes Kirkland, led from the quad to . . . 7 a ~ director, said thei reel Theatc" Chijs par,, excep, on IDs. jreenville youth was "The fraternity unts of simple assault, local people who t f illv/pnilp n* . ?.uw a> uninvited and hav Sheriff s Department. Non-students f ch sent him to Baptist come into other i :-rays and six stitches, Stokes said slice until Sunday. . .. Ilins had no knowledge ? Outs,ders can y persons involved and House recently an lyone because he could We hafd ,0.ca" ,h ment for back-ui n Outsiders are able led until after the fight free beer. If the id Carl Stokes, systems blems will occur," :nforcement and safety. Even though th< the police at the initial ty, its grounds are )s these people would employees and stu J.S x? es anii-aparm president pro tempore. rect s "Last year a bill was passed in world which all national or interna- the is tional resolutions would be refer- tant i red to the Powers and Respon- truste sibility Committee for considera- enoug tion instead of an open senate Ga< debate 'if such resolution has no Mitch direct relationship to university trodu activities,"' Brown said. the S< "The Rules Committee, along next : wun (Muuent Government) H. President (Kelvin) Stroble decid- Gat ed that this issue has just such a voice relationship to the university," fluem Brown said. possil "I'm glad it was not referred to "A a committee," Gadsden said. "We "We should be more direct with 28,00 matters on the senate floor." Du Senator Gadsden disagrees Gads< with students who believe apar- have theid is not pertinent to USC. and sj "Whenever you're in a posi- what tion to affect a change and cor- done. ares rain (id restaurants were closed rday, some people were on parties." nds of 45 mph and tides 20 i headed for the Carolinas, ch city manager. is ever recorded in the open ed for the East Coast on 135 mph winds, ith Carolina to Virginia, inier islands, where residents Is in a coastal county were i winds, weakened Wednesnd residents were warned to s. irricane had been ranked as le of catastrophic damage, ength of Gloria hit the East id in 1938. i be a very terrible storm," Hurricane Center in Coral tefore landfall, which could light attain such a fast forous because there would be muae Z8.u north, longitude :ast of Cape Hatteras, N.C. was expected to turn norl speed. Ldisto Beach, just south of inc)u4m& North Carolina's. short ferry ride from Cape doming, and residents of ids were asked to leave. a parties t," Stokes said. "The inci/ before they called us." ts are expected, he said, have no more leads. tesses have come forward to ' he said. "Just telling us were there is not any good, to put on warrants. If a i been there, we might have ond quicker and we'd have the quad's resident hall e was no security at Sigma : for someone rherkino sow o *'ov'/ is not the problem. It's the hink they can come in there e a party," Kirkland said, rom the community have student parties on campus, le into a party at Russell id it was a touchy situation, e Columbia Police Depart>, but nothing happened, to come on campus and get police aren't notified pro' he said. i university is state proper; limited to use by faculty, dents, he said. teid bill ome of the wrong in the , then we are involved. If sue of apartheid is imporenough for the board of es, it is also important ;h for the Student Senate." isden also said Sen. Theo ell of Greenville is incing four bills concerning Duth Africa situation at the rtr.t--.u~ ^ iiaiklluu?C >CSSIUIl Ull UCl, Jsden believes that USC's of disapproval could in:e the board of trustees and )ly the statehouse. fter all," Gadsden said, are a population here, we're 0 strong." ring his presentation, ien noted other universities passed similar resolutions aid he was "hoping we'll do the other schools have >>