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Volume 78, No. 66 University of South Carolina February 24. 1986
Power failure stri
H By BOB KUDELKA
Assistant news editor
Two USC females were trapped for three hours inside a dark, hot
elevator at Russell House Saturday night while on the way to Carolina
Mall lo satisfy a craving for peanuts.
The elevator malfunction at Russell House was one result of a
power failure that affected 30 buildings on campus, according to a
university official.
Bob MacNaughton, manager of energy distribution at USC, said
power went off at about 4:45 p.m. in 30 buildings, including the
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...wiuavMi oiuutm ncaiwi center, university terrace Apartments,
Preston College, part of The Horseshoe, the Women's Quadrangle,
Patterson Hall, South Tower, Russell House, LcContc College and
^ Petigru College.
^ Power was returned to 20 of the buildings at about 5:45 p.m., he
said. The remaining buildings, including Russell House, the Women's
Quad, University Terrace, South Tower and Patterso.i, were without
power until about 9 p.m., MacNaughton said.
Jacqueline Shuler, who was trapped in the elevator at Russell House
with her roommate, said she was concerned but not scared during the
three hour incident.
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exited boxcars from a train behind California Dreaming and 1
to the Coliseum on Friday morning. Their trainer, Gunther
Williams, kept them in line as many anxious youngsters w
captivated by the lumbering pachyderms. The circus stayed
umbia for three days. The final performance of "The G
Show on Earth," was given Sunday afternoon.
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SG commission to call in
By STEPHEN C. GUILFOYLE the right to be d
Staff writer Administrator
After a long debate, the Student Organization dent Developme
Licensing Commission decided to call in Intrafrater- Tuesday night I
nity Council leaders for what the committee ealU n
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grand jury-like proceeding. Shanley said
SOLC will try to determine if there is enough original jurisdicl
reason to warrant disciplining 1FC. As many as 12 ministration, bui
^ fraternities under IFC's jurisdiction were disciplin- He also said SOI
ed for drinking, noise and other violations by the greeks but the c
administration, an act that violates the student time of the infra
code. Code 42 states "No organization shall have of time she decu
kes 30 campus bui
"I thought we were aoina to be them all ninht w? hoard
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people outside and began ringing the bell, but no one came.
Then it started getting hot. We were sweating. We took off
our jackets, sat on the floor and settled down for the
night."
Jacqueline Shuler
Criminal justice sophomore
trapped in elevator
"I thought we were going to be there all night," the criminal justice
sophomore said.
Shuler said there was an emergency bell but no phone or emergency
light in the elevator.
"We heard people outside and began ringing the bell, but no one
came. Then it started getting hot.
"We were sweating. We took off our jackets, sat on the floor and
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i IFC leaders for proceedi
isciplined administratively." Shanley said the student cot
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ijciiiiuci iNcwman anu uean 01 atu- superseded twice, both times in I
nt Mark Shanley addressed SOl.C dividual student discipline. He says
o explain why the fraternities had sistcncics in the student codes, bu
by the student discipline office. Kelvin Stroblc asked, 4'What incon
the Greek Tribunal system had Both Shanley and Newman said
tion in the cases heard by the ad- previous executive officers of stud
t that they had failed to hear them, were informed of the administratio
X has appellate jurisdiction for the Kelvin Stroblc, SGA Vice Presider
organization wasn't meeting at the and Secretary James Helton said
ctions. Newman said in the interest informed.
Jed to discipline the fraternities. Se
ildings Saturday
settled down for the nivht " cnM
Although Shulcr said she and her roommate couldn't see each
other, they kept a conversation going and tried to joke about the
situation.
"We were asking each other, 'what else could go wrong?'" she said.
Power was returned to Russell House at about 9 p.m., and the
elevator was opened. Shuler said a campus police officer escorted her
and her roommate back to South Tower.
Shulcr said they both took the stairs to their room, on the 17th
floor. They gave up on their peanut search.
The power failure also disrupted some students who were busy
preparing for a formal.
Hellen Fellers, a sophomore resident of Dcsaussure on The
Horseshoe, said she had to take a shower in the dark while getting
ready for a Chi Omega formal.
Fellers said she went across The Horseshoe to Rutlege College to
blow dry her hair. "Having a formal and having no power is no fun,"
she said.
The cause of the power failure was not known, but workers will hp
replacing a high voltage cable today that had a defect, MacNaughton
said.
*F1 Women's track
may be reality
'djSfl within 2 years
IfS^ jP Bv JEFF SHREWSBURY
jfck V HI ictant ennrt f
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AMjjmfIV A women's indoor and outdoor track program
|k may be organized at USC within two years, but
| many students and faculty members still question
why one wasnt established earlier,
i "I don't understand how a state-supported
school could not have a women's program," said
Kclli Frcas, co-founder of the non-existent
Women's Track Club. "When I first got here, I just
figured there was one because it is such a big
Frcas said the group was started in spring 1984 in
^|| an effort to get campus women involved with runn
ing. Their intentions were to maintain the interest of
. enough athletes to field a team when a women's
program was eventually begun. The club gradually
disappeared because of wanine interest amrmo
W
0Q I many women athletes.
^ ^ I "When we started, we had a lot of participants ?
maybe 30 or 40 girls ? but since there was no team,
Ethey lost interest quickly," club co-founder Amy
"We couldn't compete as a USC team, so some
of the girls figured it wasn't worth it."
Of the 278 Division 1 schools in the National Collegiate
Athletic Association, 194 have an outdoor
women's track program, 175 have an indoor
women's program and 223 have a women's cross
country team, said Denny Poppe, NCAA director
*w..wv/i, nwiic m uifsc.
Poppe said women's cross country and outdoor
track have been sanctioned NCAA sports since the
1981-82 season, and indoor women's competition
^ has been sanctioned since 1983.
Jeff Wentworth, assistant coach of the men's
cross country and track teams at USC, said he
Lawyer asserts
|?ll! barriers remain
Illil for black voters
yv'^\}rrtr- bv kathy lewis
\\ | + Staff writer
South Carolina no longer legally condones racial
)j^*_^ discrimination in elections, but structural barriers
still hinder equal voting rights, according to a civil
At-large elections diminish voting strength of
blacks and other minorities, said Laughlin
McDonald, southern regional director of the
American Civil Liberties Union.
McDonald said in a speech at the USC Law
fill School Thursday that in an at-large election, a black
w candidate with a majority of black votes may still
latp if rl tc* ris** !?"* " ! '* r
.w.,^ .. i..v vji3iiiv.i iujn a majority 01 wnue voters,
ics have been Single-member districts arc less discriminatory,
the area of in- hc sajd
there are ineon- The state was founded on "an aristocracy of
it SCi President voters" that has affcctcd the subsequent history of
sistcncies. (jlc sjatCj McDonald said.
the current and Since the beginning, "whites have been fighting
ent government to maintain and blacks to pull down the old regimes
n s actions, but 0| this aristocracy," he said.
it Amy Houscr Despite the expansion of federal voting rights acts
they were not since 1970, "the heritage of past discrimination (in
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