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The Gamecock
Founded 1908 Wednesday
Volume 79, No. 6 University of South Carolina September 3, 1986
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J Registration
I mix-up just
a mistake
By MARIA FRATUS
Assistant news editor
a A "bizarre" computer error
^ assigned one third of the senior
class to the last day of registration
instead of the first day as in
previous years, according to Linda
Woollen, director of
registration.
Although there was no
deliberate change in the priority
SV5tPm mnnv iinHcrrloccmon
were given registration appointments
before seniors. "There was
absolutely no rhyme, reason,
logic or sense to any of it,"
^ Woollen said. "Even now, a
W month or more later, they still
can't tell me why."
In the past, registration appointments
were assigned according
to a student's hours and
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new oiai
By STACY SWARTHOUT
News reporter
The drinking age on campus this
creased to 21 for all alcoholic bevei
V This policy, in keeping with Sout
law, was administered by the memb
pus Alcohol Project. The state drinl
change to 21 until Sept. 14.
The policy was written by a com
of a high proportion of students, i
and other organization leaders, to e
and opinion, said Michael Shaver,
Campus Alcohol Project.
The university could have a dr
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proof of ag
By AMY DELPO
Assistant news editor
Bars and liquor stores are not
tne only places where people
wanting alcohol will be carded ?
USC students will now be asked
% for identification if they want to
enter their dorms with alcohol.
As a result of USC's new
alcohol policy, students must be
21 to drink in USC dorms.
"We are at the point when, if
we see people coming into the
lobbies with alcohol, we will ask
them to get rid of it," said
Malani Grecu, associate director
for resident student development.
"Obviously, the drinking age is
going up, and you need to be 21
Athletes m;
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By BUDDY MOORE
News editor
Plans for a new athletic dormito
sent one being converted into athle
could proceed sometime this winter
university official.
But the project must be approved
of trustees and then by several stai
David Rinker, system vice preside
planning.
"It would take about two to tl
A design and review time, and then
months for cnn<5friirtir?n itcolf "
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The plans are a modification of
posal to renovate the Roost, USC'
and to build an addition for any e
new office building near the Roost
original plans.
The former proposal was mod
would be difficult and expensive
Roost as a dormitory, Rinker said.
"The Roost is set up with small r
off a double corridor, with twi
room," he said. "In the center, the
bathroom.
"To build suites there, like those
^ on campus, would mean 30 to 40
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Fall registration meant long lines for
grade point ratio," Woollen said.
Seniors with high G.P.R.s were
given the first chance to register.
A fault in the priority system has
never happened before, according
to Woollen. "We can't see a
pattern," she said. "If it affected
everyone or even half of the peo;e
law fo
could impose m<
Shaver said. "W
fall has been in- abide by the res
rages. Liability is an
h Carolina state policy, Shaver s
>ers of the Cam- could be liable
ring age will not cidents than in t
With the ne'
mittee made up restrictions on p
ncluding greeks tions on campi
insure fair input included party p
director of the registered one w
Shaver said h
y campus or it about a "changi
ith alcohol
e when ent
to have alcohol."
According to Grecu, university
officials will not search student's
dorm rooms. They might,
however, ask for identification in
dorm lobbies.
"This yeat has been unusual in
that most students are underage
and drink," Grecu said. "The
staff has been faced with the problem
of underage students heinp
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intoxicated and bringing alcohol
into the dorms."
This year the residence hall
staff is mainly concerned with
educating students about the
policy, Grecu said.
"We are going through an
educational phase right now,"
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ry, with the pre- TflBTB has
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, according to a
by USC's board system vice I
te agencies, said
rnt for facilities
would be lost,
iree months for placing the athl
about 12 to 13 sion and contrc
said. "There has fc
' an earlier pro- the 17 years sir
s athletic dorm, Under the re\
xtra athletes. A cost about $4
was also in the Marion Street b
made fr?r #hf? r?
ified because it The new proj
to renovate the Activities Comi
Thursday. Rinl
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a residents per the board itself
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these students as they wait at the Coliseui
pie, we could see a pattern."
The programmer is unable to
find the error, according to
Woollen. "As nearly as I can
tell, it wasn't anybody's fault,"
she said. "Somebody did
something somewhere, because
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>re restrictions on campus drinking,
'e felt it unrealistic to force USC to
traints of a dry campus."
other reason for enforcing the new
aid. Under the new state law, USC
for even more alcohol-related ache
past.
w drinking age come additional
arties involving alcohol. Organizais
are restricted to one atcoholer
weekend, and the party must be
eek before the event.
e hopes the new policy will bring
id attitude toward drinking."
must show
ering dorms
Grecu said. "We want them to
understand that you need to be 21
to drink, and we will enforce that
policy."
Grecu said enforcing the new
policy is as difficult on the resident
advisers as it is on the
residents.
"The posistion that the RAs
are in is very difficult," she said.
"They don't like having to be
policemen; they're students too."
If an underage student is
caught with alcohol, he would
go through university disciplinary
procedures, Grecu said.
"We are not interested in locking
people up. We just want them
to understand."
new dorm
been no modification of the
17 years since it was built."
David Rinker
president for facilities oiannino
And the architects recommended
letic offices close for better supervi>1
of the athletes.
een no modification of the Roost in
ice it was built," he said.
'ised plans, the new dorm, which will
.4 million, will be located along
teside the Roost. Plans have not been
resent athletic offices.
?osal was made to the Intercollegiate
mittee of the USC board of trustees
cer said it must be approved by the
ig and Grounds Committee and by
te Commission of Higher Education
et and Control Board, along with a
:w committee, must approve the plan
n begin, he said.
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Most of the seniors called the t
registration office and had their
appointments changed. i
"Anybody who called ? and t
believe me they called ? were 1
told to come in Saturday or Mon- i
day (the first two days of registra- c
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"The students have responded i
said, though some have voiced nej
about the new policy.
"I believe that the raising of the drii
infringement of our basic rights as
Bruce Woodhouse, freshman. "We
make many other adult decisions.
"However, we arc kept from doiu
sidered a basic freedom in ma
drinking."
"I feel it is admirable that the un
promote a new drinking policy tl
students to drink off campus, the
drunk," sophomore Jimmy Merrill s
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Several prominant religious
eadcrs, including Pope John
Jaul II and Billy Graham, have
jecn invited to speak at IJSC's
Williams-Brice Stadium next
fear.
The Billy Graham South
Carolina Crusade will be held
lext year during the week of
\pril 25, even if it rains.
The crusade will be recorded
md aired at a later date on interlational
television.
Graham, 67, is a prominent
3rotestant leader and an internaionallv
known cvaneelist
Spokeswoman Dcbra Allen anlounccd
in July that the universiy
was expecting a visit from
3ope John Paul II. She would
lot give details of the visit, saying
mly that the university views the
lope's visit as "climactic to the
C alcoho
>vell," Shaver Sanctions will
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ty of charges, s,
nking age is an following:
adults," said
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iversity would ? requireme
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to USC
university's plans commencing
later this year to recognize
religious leaders from around the
world."
The College of Cardinals
elected Karol Wojtyla pope on
Oct. 16, 1978. He took the name
Pope John Paul II after his
prcdecesor Pope John Paul I.
Another religious leader the
university may be expecting is the
Most Rev. Robert Alexander
Kennedy Runcie, Archbishop of
Canterbury and Primate of All
England. The State newspaper
reported Thursday that Runcie
had been invited to speak by
use.
USC spokesman Hans Knoop
would not comment on the
puaaiunuy ui a visu irom Kuncie,
saying he had no information.
il policy
be imposed against organizations
ew policy. Depending on the severianctions
might include any of the
i of student organization status;
to the Alcohol Drug Education
from use of university facilities for
e period;
nt to complete public service pro11
of individual students, or apion
conditions in order to maintain
organizational status.
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