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Founded 1908 Wednesday
Volume 78, No. 70 University of South Carolina March 5, 1986
Deadline
to leave:
Friday
By mtu STEPPE
Staff writer
USC's student housing
facilities will close Friday at 6
p.m., according to Jim Smart,
director of Administration for
University Housing Services.
Smart said residence halls have
closed on the Friday before Spring
Break for the past six years.
Dormitories have not been
kept open until a later date
because there has never been
much of a demand for the
residence halls to remain open,
Smart said.
But students will not be forced
to leave campus if they have a
legitimate reason for staying,
transportation, for example, he
said.
If students have a problem
with leaving campus before 6
p.m. on Friday, they should consult
their RHD and RA
immediately.
See "Dorm," page 2
Fort Lauder
By SHARON COSTE
Staff writer
The time has finally arrived
students to close books and open 5
as they prepare to head for the s
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for Spring
In addition to the usual mayhem
dale every spring, this year there w
to drinking as a result of a new <
passed last summer.
The new Florida drinking age is
birthday before June 30, 1966. The
feet many younger college students
ed to drink while at the beach.
This year, the city of Fort
organized alcohol-free alternatives
come there for the spring break sej
from the last two weeks in Februar
April. A Spring Break committee h
College Games, in which several ]
leges and universities from the acrc
be competing against each other w
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sponsored oy ouaweiser, me f
Society and local businesses, the g;
volleyball, basketball, tug-of-wj
relays on the beach and a 26-mile i
will be given daily, and a $1,000 sc
awarded to the school with the m<
each week.
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Four fire trucks sped to Bates \
noon in response to alarms accidei
Richland County Fire Department
Evelyn Jefferson of the depa
Capstone alarm was registered at 1
3 p.m.
Hard at work
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for blowing. Todd it a Department <
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place in the NCAA women's tourm
dale plans '
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comedy concerts
for some USC tie to no alcohol
untan oil bottles Though the at
unny beaches of this year, most 1
Break 1986. Fort Lauderdale
i in Fort Lauder- and businesses ?
ill be alternatives Most of the pre
irinking age law pected, but not <
21, or 20 with a Steven Culbr
; new law will af- Lauderdale said
who have plann- ing laws v. ill din
"We are still
Lauderdale has broken window
for students who chairs being thi
ason, which runs drinking excess^
y until the end of How strict the
as organized The the severity of tl
sarucipaung coi>ss
the nation will Steve Babik, <
'ithout alcohol. Route A1A, saic
American Cancer pecting the calm
ames will include strict laws. Last
ir tournaments, don't want thai
marathon. Prizes Hilton plans to
holorship will be and have hired t
3St points earned Most of the bj
be much differei
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Vest and Capstone Monday afteritly
set off within the dormitories,
employees said.
rtment's records office said the
2:44 p.m., the Bates West alarm at
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dry' activities
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will be held on the beaches with lit- n<
mosphere may be slightly mellower sp
will agree that students who go to w
are going to have fun. Residents m
ire ready for the massive crowds.
)blems from the past are still ex)n
such a large scale. T<
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he doesn't think the tighter drink- so
ninish the usual crazy atmosphere,
expecting the same problem of L;
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rown into the pool and students th
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assistant manager of the Hilton on af
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atmosphere ever because of the
year's mess got out of hand, and we so
t to happen again." He said the fe
be very strict in enforcing the rules
ighter security. or
irs' staffs do not think this year will L;
it. Though they plan to enforce the he
efiahtprs ranini
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Water leaking into the Bates West 1
box holding equipment that alerts tl
Buford, USC environmental services
An electrical short stopped the ah
dorms, he said.
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Bates West Area manager Bob Holde
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12) leant onMindy Ballou (44) after the game.
> for students
inking age strictly, they feel the atmosphere wil
3t change much.
Mike Doumai of a b3r called The Button, also j
lonsor of the College Games, said the environmen
ill not be any different than in the past. "Ou
ain concern is that students have fun safely."
The Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerc<
purism Department reports the main troubh
udents get in is alcohol-related. "Students don'
>rmally do crazy things when they are completely
>ber."
Some USC students planning going to For
luderdale for Spring Break don't think the nev
ws and the stricter atmosphere will interfere will
eir plans for having fun.
Camille Baird, a freshman undeclared majo
aims, "We are going to have a great time one wa;
another." She and her travel companions will bi
fected by the new drinking laws.
Scott Montieth, a political science and businesi
phomore said there is no wa rhe laws can be ef
ctively enforced.
"It is a madhouse there. With all those people, n(
le can see everything going on." When in For
luderdale, "you can only use your imagination,'
: said.
a to Capstone. Be
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ne city of fires, said Lawrence alarms were
director Lawrence Buford.
irms from going off inside the He sa*d 011
way the fire
e fire trucks) just showed up," Bates House
:man said. or l*ie other,
uildings, a panel lights up and a Buford sai
;man said. "Someone
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aching English 287 when the freshman in
SC Environmental Department the police ma
jgan testing the alarms. was only goi
"A university policeman came time.
y and said they were going to "Class wa;
st the fire alarms so ignore it, times. It was
in mc noise was so irritating, we nad a Hai
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f people to ignore something Barry Strickl
| Journalist's
shuttle ride
still planned
By CHRIS MOULD
j* Staff writer
; Review panels for the Journalist-in-Spaee project
will resume the first stage of the selection process on
I Monday, project officials said.
i After a joint review with NASA earlier this
month, the Association of Schools of Journalism
and Mass Communication is continuing its selection
process, which has been delayed almost a month by
the Challenger accident, said Jack Bass, the proH
ject's public affairs coordinator.
R The shuttle flight including a journalist is
scheduled for Sept. 27. However, NASA announced
Monday that all manned shuttle flights will be
grounded for 12-18 months. NASA also announced
that they have hopes of returning, for the time being,
to the old rockets used before the shuttle made
them obslete.
Although the flight has not yet been rescheduled
and will not take place until another teacher has
participated in a shuttle flight, the journalist selec*
tion process is continuing in order to take advantage
of the administrative process already in place, Bass
said.
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J..VUUMUUI1V.ILU ill UOV., IIIC dSSUCiai 11)11 IS 111
charge of narrowing the 1,703 applicants to five for
NASA.
Albert Scroggins, former USC journalism school
dean, is serving as the project's chief program officer.
The college is providing office space and administrative
support for the project.
II NASA officials will make the final choice from
among the five finalists, said Jennifer McGill, exa
ecutive director of ASJMC.
t "All of the applications are very impressive," she
r said.
McGill said the panels have an extremely hard
decision to make. Not only do they have to choose
J an outstanding writer and sneaker, thev have tn
J choose someone who can handle the pressure of
t becoming an instant celebrity, she said.
/ In the first stage of the selection process, review
panels of professional journalists and faculty
t members with journalism experience will meet this
i month at 20 cooperating journalism schools, Bass
1 said.
The selection panels will review applications and
select 100 regional semifinalists, 20 from each of
r five national regions. These names will be announcy
ed in April.
? In the second stage, selection panels at the coordinating
school in each region will interview its 20
semifinalists and observe them on videotane hefnn*
s cutting the number to eight, McGill said. This will
leave 40 regional nominees to be named in May.
This number will be decreased to five by a
) 15-inember national selection committee, which mt
eludes USC President James Holderman. The comSee
"Shuttle," page 2
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the fire panels lit up in our office, which means that no
pulled," he said.
e alarm goes off for the whole Bates area, and the only
department knows whether the fire is in Bates West or
is to look for evacuated students standing in front of one
d the Capstone alarm was pulled by a student.
pulled it over there, I'm sure," he said.
sses disrupted
of fire alarms
as distracting. They everyone's attention. It was really
maybe at 4 p.m., annoying. Class didn't get started
ire few or out. Half until they stopped. It could've
as more or less waited for a later time in the
day."
most classes were Lawrence Buford, director of
his time period. Environmental Services, said the
inlett. a biolocv testinc wan nm m the ntnii ;.??
Castles' class, said but the alarms had to be checked
de it sound like test because there have been problems
ng to be done one in the building.
"We have a motor and timing
i interrupted many device not working properly, but
a nuisance because there will be a replacement,"
rd time keeping up Buford said.
said," Triplctt said. He said he had to wait until the
udent in the class, part that controls the power was
and, said, "It took shipped to USC.