Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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'Red fiends'at USC HPS All-pro person **"* '" Andy Duncan searched to find evidence of Marxist-Leninist HyJ| Former Minnesota Viking Carl Eller speaks out against overtures made by university professors in classrooms. drug abuse< a Prot)lem that destroyed his football career 1 W 7/ The Gamecock Founded 1908 Monday Volume 78, No. 88 University of South Carolina April 28, 1986 Sigma Pli kicked of Dm icni nnuir u| ?jtni nunc Managing editor After-party damage done by several Sigma Phi Epsilon members caused university officials to evict the fraternity from the McBryde Quadrangle this weekend. Six fraternity members shattered four windows and knocked out ceiling tiles early Friday morning after a five-keg mixer with Delta Delta Delta sorority. "It was basically destroyed and pretty much beat up," said Jerry Brewer, dean of student life. Brewer and the Greek Life staff visited the lounge Friday and saw ceiling tiles and broken glass on the floor of the fraternity's lounge. After hie vicif Rrpu/ffr horl - ...w ? au*> vfTVl IIUU V1IV UUU1 padlocked and called a meeting with Sigma Phi Epsilon's executive committee and the entire fraternity Friday afternoon. He told the five-member executive committee and the fraternity's 75 brothers that the university had revoked their privileges as a student organization and gave them 24 hours to move off the hall before it would be padlocked at 4 p.m. Saturday. "The university doesn't recognize Sigma Phi Epsilon as a student organization. They don't exist anymore," said Brewer Sunday. Sigma Phi Epsilon had been placed on a one-year probation for a fight between them and the Chi Psi fraternity this past fall. Brewer and other university of Protestors could face n suspension R By PAULA WETHINGTON Assistant news editor : Free South Africa Alliance Br imembers David Miller and Dan Clay have been charged with TOgg violating rules regarding use of university property, according to Miller's lawyer. USC students Miller and Clay J stayed overnight on the Russell House patio in a cardboard |j? snaniy' painted with statements protesting the living Hm conditions of South African blacks under the apartheid State Sen. Theo Mitchell, DGreenville, represented Miller and Clay in a pre-hearing session ^ Thursday with Belinda Newman, associate dean of student development. According to Mitchell, Newman said *' students should have kept an agreement they had signed .vith the administration. Acting for the Free South Africa Alliance, Miller signed the Fin agreement that the shanty would be taken down at 6 p.m. unless tj)fl ^ the alliance hired a guard. Miller t ^ and Clay stayed overnight in the shanty without a guard, a service that would have cost $5 an hour. (P* jL Miller said he did sign an & agreerpent that included a 6 p.m. deadline to take the shanty down. But "civil rights do not end at 6. By JOA People in South Africa don't shut St8" Wfl down at 6 to go home in a nice A g ~ is.,- ?? t J iiuuai iu nvt in, iic suiu. ireaiet Miller said the shanty was on man, i the patio from April 9 until April USC p 15. Vot< Dennis Pruitt, dean of student tractiv affairs, said hiring a security Bowm guard during the night was not a to una restriction on the protestors. Bow "People look at this as a restric- only h tion. We consider it protection cians. for them . . . ," he said. Some of inspire the . ons he gave for having a acquai reservation system for activities, Florida including protests, is so campus The Sm "DittlpHna," page 2 glamoi li Epsilon f campus ficials he counseled with cnacted the most severe displinary action ever taken against a USC student organization that Brewer could recall. Brewer began working at the university in 1974. Brewer said this stiff decision would not have been made if fraternity members had reported the incident to -? uiiivvi any ui i icicll> IIIC I1CM uay. 15UI mc incident wasn't reported. "Basically, that showed the university that the organization condones vandalism by not reporting it," Brewer said. Sigma Phi Epsilon President Frank Craft said the incident wasn't reported because many fraternity members didn't know about the problem until their lounge had already been padlocked early Friday afternoon. "No one ever called mc to tell me that the door would be padlocked," said Craft, who didn't attend Thursday's party. "I understand us being subject to disciplinary measures, but I don't think the fraternity should be punished for the actions of a few," Craft said. The university's decision to clamp down on vandalism of USC property bewildered many Sigma Phi Epsilon uiciiiucrsi. Two weeks before exams, all 26 members on the third-floor fraternity hall had to pack up their belongings and move in with friends or into vacant spaces in the Towers that the university provided. Piles of clothes and stacks of boxes d*r^ , ''' ^ ^jgBWr ^BflL $J ish line ^ GRONBERGfTh? G?m*cr> Lang, journalism senior, places in the top twenty a rst Carolina Triathalon. The race was held Saturday i P.E. Center. udy warns wo H PRINCE quest iter becan ood-looking woman in politics is eye o I differently than a good-looking peopl iccording to a study conducted by a In political scientist. studei ;rs prefer unattractive women to at- femal 'e women, according to Ann basis an's study, but prefer attractive men Stu ttractive men. male man said this holds true when voters tracti' ave looks to go by in judging poliii- tracti' The study, published last year, was may b d when some voters said Bowman's In < ntance running as a circuit judge in "On i "doesn't look like a judge." Hurt, r*qmrxaion nr ^ f ? v?>.iKui6M hu1?-i i?c wuiiian was witn ( ous, according to Bowman. She "Attr USC officials closed down the Sigma Phi Epsiloi crowded the Sigma Phi Epsilon's hall while members scurried about to move everything before the door was to be locked at 4 p.m. Saturday. Leaving the 20-room hall left many members shaking their heads. "The university didn't give us a chance," said Brooks Adams, a freshman from Pittsburgh. "I just uccamc a uroiner mis semester along with 30 of my other pledge brothers. For me, that's three years gone if they do this." Fraternity member Tom Gallop echoed Adams' sentiments. "As far as everything goes, there have [ Journalis [ NASA continue By JULIET NADER and SHARON COSTE Staff writers S CHAPEL HILL, N.C. ? NBC's I southeastern correspondent Jay Bar bree has covered every NASA mission | in the past 28 years from the ground. By 1988 he said he hopes to be the first p journalist to cover a mission in space. "I have drawn up a working $ knowledge and I think that knowledge ^ can be put to benefit as a journalist in space," he said. "It has to be an experienced person to go because you'll be looking for something that hasn't been written or hasn't heen hrnadmQt before." v Semi-finalists from the Southeast ? region competing for the journalist in space positition were at the Hotel Europa in Chapel Hill, N.C. Sunday going through a series of interviews in i the final stages of the selection process. IHoyt Childers, a UNC journalism professor is in charge of the two-day event said, starting at noon, 20 of the 100 finalists from the area will gc through a 45- minute interview. Fifteen minutes will be conducted in person ^ with the judges, and 7 minutes will be videotaped. The contestants will also t be photographed. j The judging panel of 11 educators will nurrnoi th>> nnmh/>r nf mni?ctnnti J-? ..?? ? v?? ?iiv iiuiui/vi vi wiiivjinui^ from 20 to eight, whose names will be imen politician ioned the public's reaction, and me ne interested in what she calls "the Bo f the beholder phenomenon," when 4 e are judged only by appearance. the her study, 125 male and female she nts ranked hypothetical male and be e candidates for public office on the 1 of their photographs. pre dents of both sexes ranked attractive art candidates hichest. However, nnat- nh< ve women were ranked higher than at- wil vc women. Bowman said good looks per >e a hindrance for women politicians. of a June 1985 New York Times article, cia The Corporate Ladder, Beauty Can 1 " Bowman's study was paralleled the Mher studies showing similar results. ed active women labor under an impedi- tifi iff'. -:vs IHnBHHMBS'' > n hall after a party Thursday night been cases where bad things have happened at fraternities. People have died. People have been raped. And we broke four windows and we're gone," said Gallop, a junior from Chicago. The only punishments that should have been enacted were fines and expulsions by the fraternity itself, said Craft, a junior from Simpsonville. Revokino thf?ir hnncino r>r?n?rar>? i?m weeks before exams merely places all of the fraternity under unneeded stress, Craft said. The decision now is what to do next. "We're grasping at straws just trying to find a place to live," Craft said. "I t in space ?s its monthlona se u "It's a way to be the eyes and ears to people who cannot travel. | I think that over the years of this program a numnber of astronauts have clearly demonstrated courageous effort and are impor> tant, but have never had anyone j to convey the experience." Barry Serafin Ann u ? ? i hdi# rauws national correspondent I i announced at a news conference at 5 p.m. today. i The selection is being run by the ' Association of Schools of Journalism ! and Mass Communication (ASJMC), i with headquarters for the Southeast i region at the the University of North i Carolina at Chapel Hill's journalism : school. > Two contestants interviewed Sunday said a journalist would definitly be i beneficial to the space shuttle program. > Both said it would be the first time that a trained ooserver would effectively s beauty may nt in running for public office," e< wman said. 'Voting is such a significant issue. It's a : cornerstone of American democracy," w ; said. "I would hope that people would p troubled by these findings." p iowman said her study is limited and F iliminary because it was conducted in an d ificial environment in which only " atographs were used. She hopes research t? I continue in a more realistic situation, d iiups aciuss mc country wnn inousands people rating male and female politi- p< ns, with job qualifications added. ti< iowman stressed she doesn't want to see pi issue trivialized. She said she approach- m the study unemotionally and scien- p< cally. "As a political scientist, I'm not p< "lil IBII it ill 4. i i :r to jm ! , " ; I ' ftjirfp ;c* - ^^msh^BWIM SEAN KEEFER/Tht Gamecock don't know what to do. We weren't given enough time to present our case." Brewer disagreed and said no case needed to be made. "It was basically cut and dry, " Brewer said. "If they tore up their lounge, what's the next thing they may do?" The fraternity now must face a hearing before the end of school to investigate the incident and see if they will be reinstated as a student organization. Brewer said the vandalism may cause the six members involved to be expelled from the university or be withheld from receiving their diplomas. election process . convey to the world exactlv what Han. pens in space on a shuttle mission. "It's a way to be the eyes and ears to people who cannot travel. I think that over the years of this program a numnber of astronauts have clearly demonstrated courageous effort and are important, but have never had anyone to convey the experience," said ABC News national correspondent Barry Scrafin. Barbree agreed. "It is the first time a professional communicator has gone up. I think the world public will get a look at the space program that it hasn't had before." 1I/LM- *1 - * winic me journalists agreed experience is essential to report from space, they differed on how their experience should be used in reporting the mission. Serafin, who has had more than 20 years experience as a reporter, thinks he is qualified. "I've had every single kind of story you can think of from the environment to the budget. This is just anther type of story. Like all other stories, it requires homework and research as well as reporters' objectitivity." Serafin said his 20 years of experience is worth something. See "Space," page 2 be obstacle ornmenting on the human condition." She said she doesn't know what voters re thinking, only that they treat men and 'omen differently on the basis of apearance. When people ask what a female olitician should look like or if Geraldine erraro's appearance affected her canidacy, she says she doesn't know. The eye of the beholder phenomenon" dicites lhat anncaranrp ( upruAno ifferently. Political scientists often ignore the apjarance factor in survey research in elecons. They may think it will trivialize the roccss. But ignoring this image factor ay create a gulf between the scholarly alitical scientist and the more practical alitical scientist, Bowman said.