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"it-.- Spotlight & (ffi Sports W / U Like to hear a good story every once in a while? Well, two USC staff The Gamecocks will try to stop a two game members will be giving performances in the art of storytelling in losing streak tomorrow against the Pitt I j?-***-- || -nther8. The Gamecock Founded 1908 Friday Volume 78, No. 25 University of South Carolina October 4, 1985 ^ jHkfl v ** | ? .* ^IWWHBfc^B^jP' . .. Special Events codirector Bred Jergei Bush's secu ? ?"-t - ^ _. . : _t fltmi *>' ' k ** MM^anaHk Jk u. is urawn in By CARL DAWSON Staff writtr Security measures for Vice President George Bush's visit to USC will involve coordination between all available state, city and campus forces, according to Bill McCord, special agent in charge for the | Secret Service. That includes police from Lexington and Richland counties and the cities of Columbia, Cayce, and West Columbia; the Highway Patrol: the I South Carolina Law Enforcement Division; Airport Security; USC Campus Security; and the Wildlife and Marine Resources Department, McCord said. I Bush will give a speech to| day at noon in the Russell ' House Ballroom as the highlight of a three-day conference about the global crises and challenges facing the Western community. Other than a lack of parking spaces because of the conference, Bush's presence will have little effect on students, according to Carl Stokes, aysicina vicc president Ol USC's Division of Law Enforcement and Safety. ) "Other than parking, students probably would not know that he was on campus if it wasn't announced," Stokes said. Althouah Stl By LAURA ANM BOOZER Staff writtr Despite the general consensus among USC students that they arc being "ripped off' at the checkout counter in local f bookstores, store representatives say publishing companies seem to be the real villians. The publishing companies set book prices, according to both the University Bookstore and South Carolina Bookstore. "As to whether the prices are IaoqIIu fair I /lAn't Is?iau/ ** cntrl IVgUlljr IUII ) A MVII I RHUTT, 3?iU E.A. Bailey, general manager of the South Carolina Bookstore. "I see a lot of prices that I don't ) agree with, but my back is up against the wall." (A jk ^ wlfB j1 I i aaHnm i I i ;/ j b ? JOSEPH GARNETTfTh. Gtmtcoc* non prepares for Bush'* luncheon. iiicy iuibc Dm all over McCord said a scction of the Russell House will be sectioned off and secured during Bush's speech in the ballroom, but otherwise the visit will have little bearing on students, j Lt. Fritz Jolly of the u/:isii:*~ ? ** ? ! ? it 11 u 111 c a ii u ivi a r 1 n c Resources Department said, "We are state police officers. In VIP situations like this, j they use whatever resources they have available." Jolly said wildlife officers will be stationed under bridges and on rooftops. "I don't think the visit will have any effect on students unless they are under a bridge. It wouldn't be advisable to be on rooftops, either," Jolly | said. Bush will not tour the campus during his visit. McCord said security opera tions have run smoothly. "We have received cooperation I from all agencies involved, I and without it, we couldn't do our job," he said. According to Hugh Munn, public information officer for SLED, primary security will be handled by the Secret Service. "They call all the shots, and rightly so. We just do whatever they ask," he said. Munn said former cabinetlevel dignitaries such as Henry Kissinger receive similar security. iidents compl Don Miles, director of business services for USC, said the publishers set the price, giving the University Bookstore a 20 percent discount. This means that if the book costs the student $10, we pay the publishers eight dollars, he said. Another factor weighing heavily in the book price is freight. "The bookstore now has to pay the freight costs on shipping orders," Miles said. "After that expense and the cost running the business is taken out of that two dollars, not much is left." Miles said it is impossible to break down the bookstore's profit into how much the buying and selling of books brings in. Trustees sei By CARL DAWSON Staft writer A letter stating the USC board of trustees official position on the issues of apartheid and divestment was sent to the leaders of the Free South Africa Alliance Thursday. Tim ? ~A u.. / n. ~: ?: -i t iiv ivuvi , si^utu uy v. iiuu man WIIIIUC1 Wiengcs, refers to apartheid, South Africa's governmental system of racial segregation, as "inequitable and iniquitous." The letter was distributed Thursday at the meeting of the Student-Trustee Liason Committee of the board of trustees. "Knowing the commitment of the board of trustees of the University of South Carolina to an open democratic society in which all share in the conduct of its affairs and the benefits of its opportunities, I can say that we share the view that it is appropriate for us to speak out against injustice anywhere it exists," the letter says. j "'vvrfi' '^~: :'G'' yyfW. ** , BIT ~ \tfr*^$0r~' *"" ^ M Br jjgy I .r, '.'ii $8 billion in ab Pornography vie By BOB KlIDELKA Staff miter Pornography is an $8 billion industry run by organized crime that violates the civil rights of all women, according to a Stanford University law professor. Catherine MacKinnon said Wednesday the amount nf nhlicp Cllff7?ri?H hu uinm?n kanouca MIXV ? ?? wa i#MI IV* VW \J J TTUIIIVIl UVVUUJV of pornography only now is beginning to be uncovered. "You see women being bound, battered, tortured, humiliated or sometimes killed," the Yal<? graduate told about 150 people at the Strom Thurmond Auditorium at the USC School of Law. MacKinnon is the author of Sexual Harassment of Working Women, co-author of the ordinance against pornography passed by the Minneapolis and Indianapolis city councils lain, bookstores 5 "You can't break up the profit guarantee in that fashion," Miles said. "We will be sell so many other things that it is semester, impossible to say how much the back fror buying and selling of books solely the sellinj brings in, especialy after the condition other costs are figured in." Miles r Bailey said due to space limita- costs $10 tions, the South Carolina Bookstore concentrates mainly "If the on selling books. $10 book and onlj "We'd like to be able to sell a without e lot more of the (JSC parapher- will be u nalia, but we just don't have the We will t space to store or display it. We for $7.50 try to concentrate on what the the studei student needs, not necessarily and resell what he may want." tinue unti After a student uses a book, he being use may elect to sell the book back to The So the store. If the bookstores are uses this i nd letter to The Free South Africa Alliance is a campus group seeking the divestment of monies invested on behalf of the University in companies who have interests in South Africa. The funds are invested by the USC Educational Foundation, a body chartered independently of USC and composed of private citizens. There are three university representatives on the foundation board. The letter says the issue of divestiture is one is most properly addressed by the foundation board. '<!, ? .ui i?: ~c c? in in*. v,aav ui nit uiiivtiMiy ui ouuill Carolina Educational Foundation, the University is not divorced from these proceedings since it is represented on the board. I (Wienges) am one of them. Please be assured that 1 will participate in the decision. My confidence in the outcome of this matter is based on my absolute faith in those who serve on these boards, their good judgment, their mam: :Br JB 1 .''' p| V use? )lates all women, fen and writer of many articles on feminism. She called pornography the "graphic, sexually explicit subordination of women." MacKinnon said studies have shown that men repeatedly exposed to pornography become desensitize'1 to the abuse of women. Men in these studies report an increase in rape fantasies and are more likely to commit a rape, she said. MacKinnon said obscenity laws of the early '70s are no remedy lor the problem of pornography. She said existing laws are inadequate because profit counts and women don't. "The products of these acts are protected by the First Amendment," she said. "Women are not." MacKinnon said a wide range of women are used in pornography: whites, blacks, Asians, >ay they don't set d in writing the book "We would rather used the following used books." Bailcv they will buy the book the risk factor is so gr< n the student at half of books won't resell th; I price, regardless of its possible to deal only dhand books." eferred to a book that "You are buying that will hopefully helf long run, Miles said. " ! student resells us the didn't buy the books I , we will pay $5 for it if students spend on ' if we are positive, minimal compared tc i doubt, that the book spent on their whole thp ni??f ?#?rr?pctf?r act u/hv th??i hen sell the same book more money back. P< . This process of giving to sit down with ai nt $5 for the same book show them the invoi* ing it for $7.50 will con- products." il the book is no longer d." A prime example uth Carolina Bookstore made on a single boi same method. both stores for the san USC group knowledge, their cognizance of the serious fiduciary responsibility that they bear and their affection for the University of South Carolina," the letter says. In other matters discussed at the meeting, studies on the timing and nature of fee increases are beimz imDlemented bv a committee of the USC Student Senate and the administration. Vice President of Student Affairs Dennis Pruitt chairs the administrations committee, preliminary recommendations of which are expected by Dec. 15. The committee will begin meeting after Oct. 8. Student Government Vice President Amy Houser distributed information concerning the Inter-Club Council, a new governmental body created to make information more accessible to campus organizations in order to avoid conflicts and promote a sense of cooperation and community among members. Pickin' Ml grinrtin Comedian Tim Cavanaugh m 1^ keeps them laughing at the ' . | Russell House on Wednesday Yfl night Cavanaugh, whose apB ' j ] pearance was sponsored by 11 Carolina Program Union, is a H | 1 Chicago native who has per: ?1 formed on "The Tonight Show" m i I I lift -A I> ana lbio nigm wun uavia Letterman." SEAN KEEFER/The Gam?cock linist says amputees, the retarded, the pregnant, adults dressed as children, children dressed as adults, lesbians and children as young as 2 years old. She said many women get started in pornography by answering a modeling advertisement. The pornographers, or pimps, then threaten the women into indulging in pornographic acts. "Woman are told if they don't come back, they (the pimps) will kill their children," MacKinnon said. MacKinnon said besides those women directly involved, many others are forced to be exposed to pornography. "Pornography is used as a 'how to' guide to subordinate a woman and enjoy it," she said. t book prices deal in all be seen in the Geology 103 text by said, "but Edward A. Keller, Environmental that the tal Geology, fourth edition, at it is im- Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co. in seconBoth bookstores sell the book something for $28.20. The publishing com> you in the pany said the book was sold to Even if we the stores for $27.95. back, what books is "Let me emphasize that our ) the total nurnose is not tn turn a laro<* nrn education. fit," said Bill Rorie, assistant y don't get director of textbook department i be happy of the USC Bookstore. "Of riyone and course, we must make a profit to :es on our stay in business, but we give $65,000 each year to scholarship funds. Our first and foremost oi prom obligation is to the student. It is ok sold by your store. Wc want to work for le price can the campus community."