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The Gamecock Founded 1908 Friday \ Volume 79, No. 10 University of South Carolina September 12, 1986 - { Midnight raise I nf ririnkinn ano I ......J, f tricky for bars By MARIA FRATUS Assistant news editor This weekend 20-ycar-olds in South Carolina will drink their last beer lncallv Bccause of recent legislation, the drinking age in the state will increase from 20 to 21 on Sunday. I Although the change doesn't go into effect until Sunday at 12 a.m., some bars and clubs that stay open past midnight will not be letting 20-year-olds in their doors on Saturday. "It would be impossible to walk through and take beers away at midnight," said James ^ LeCroy, manager of O'Hcnry's on Main Street. T* l r_ i _ n w?juiu ctij>u uc uiiiciir iu maKC 20-year-olds leave early, LeCroy said. "I think it would be cheating them to charge a covcr charge , and then run them out early." See "Alcohol," page 2 Houser's * _ rBBi *io mi sec By STEPHEN C. GlllLFOYLE and TODD HIN News reporters Student Government President Houser Thursday vetoed a pair of coi sial bills approved by the Student ( ment Senate during its first official i of the semester. There was heated discussion We< - A over how to fill the vacant position of A ^ nn^ o ?1 ?-*-< X VJV/T VI IUIIVI11 UWW1 VIU! J UUU a IlMlli senate seats. In response the senate two bills allowing the appointment of ficers, rather than the usual fall elccti Georgia sod By TRISH MCKITRICK News reporter An audience voted against the resc Q Supreme Court was correct in u] Georgia sodomy law," presented Wed Athenian Literary and Debating Soci Both personal freedom and the i American legal system were debated 1 considering the Georgia law, which pr acts defined by the state as unnatural S.C. debtbus 16 Caroliniai By PAGE IVEY News reporter The $111 billion federal budget def for 1991 was wiped out with a few bil during South Carolina's participation busters National Megathon. A oronn of 1 f\ narfirinanfc from ar reduced $117.6 billion from the budge night during a session in the business ai building. Similar sessions were held ir state capitals. They voted to cancel the Midgetmar gram, to restrict cost of living allowanc retirees and to reduce farm price su; percent. The group also voted unanimous!; tobacco, beer and wine taxes, and the cutting college student aid was not me The results from all 50 states were co "People's Budget" and were present Budget Committee Chairman William and Senate Budget Chairman Pete R-N.M., at a press conference in Wash Thursday. The "People's Budget" complit Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, which mandatory across-the-board cuts in t reduce deficits. __ K Drinki \ 'A v.wi^s8nes \\irLi n??1 - V(f All dried up Graduate student Francis Piron crosses the d Workers were cleaning the pool, and somo studi than around it. veto force: ;retary, set ES The two separate bills would the SG president and the Execu Amy tee to take applications and ltrover- pointees. These appointees woul jovcrn- first by the Senate's Powers meeting sibilities Committee and then Qon afn uvnaiv . inesday After debate on the two bill; Student came to a close decision and vot iber of prove appointment for secret; passed tighter roll call decision of 15-1 the of- regarding appointment of the s< on. The major point of the propo omy law voti "It may be a good law the constitution must be dution, "The Andy Bechtel, speaking ^holding the upholding a state law, th nesday by the the right of the state to p iety. content of the law is irre The 14th Amendment Dower of the privacy, is not strong )y students in Georgia law, said Bechtc ohibits sexual "Any other decision b> be a miscarriage of justic sters lis 'reduce' feder The state participants groups ? defense and foi icit projected ty, medicare and federal i lion left over ding; and taxes. Each pe in the Debt- for reducing the federal c Two sessions were held roCC fhp ctQtP tpam r\ri>cnntn/l a Uolnnno . x/uu ?nv ^iuiv ivuui piv^tiuvu a uaiauvv :t Wednesday for its assigned area in th drninistration In the second session, i the nation's develop a balanced budge ing a vote and not requir 1 Missile pro- Debtbusters was creat es for federal Roosevelt Center for Am pports by 50 has been in planning for n for the debate had to be y to increase ing passage of the Grami possibility of In South Carolina, th ? *? iitiuntu. i ictcnci, a iiianuiiiciurn mpiledintoa daughter, Jill, a USC po ed to House They were contacted by Gray, D-Pa., immediately began assem r Domenici, Fletcher said she and lington, D.C. everyone personally. "Sc of mouth, so they all ha> ;s with the their groups." 1 deals with The groups, with a wic ne Duciget to eluded retired military p? ing age * s ^ \ f 1P11B1 THOMAS HUMPHREY rained reflection pool in front of the Welsh Humanities )nts saved a few steps between classes by going throug s fall elentin nator positio have allowed rather than elect was that an el itive Commit- fall would be costly, time cor nominate ap- ineffective. d be reviewed "I can see how it's costly, and Respon- Patrick Smith, one of those who by the entire bill, "but (the officers) shoulc democratically, not selected." s,the senators Sen. Harry Sharp said he tho ed 19-9 to ap- tion would be too late to be eft ary. A much fall term. 1 was reached "An election would not be pc ;nators. than Nov. 4, and even then, the sal to appoint See "Student J ed down by stu ; it may be a bad law, but Speaking for the n upheld," said sophomore Mills said the Suprei ; for the affirmative. In right of the state to e Supreme Court upholds tionality of the law i ass laws, said Bechtel. The "It opens the way levant, he said. ed on the federal lev . which nrotects nercnnal enough to override the "Leave the Supr< 1. Cousar, a business in r the Supreme Court would College Republicans :e." laws, and if you don hiiiimi I i ' r were divided into four | reign affairs; retirement; domestic spen- i rson had a list of options ieficit by 1991. ! during the program. Each j d-budget recommendation Bg le first session. all participants worked to JBHWy it plan, with each one havcd to remain on his team. ! ed and sponsored by the 1 ggf lerican Policy Studies and | Her nore than a year. The rules 5 altered last March follow- i f n-Rudman-Hollings act. gt e organizers were Candy - - N*? ig representative, and her ?jS& ?-litical scienrp dnnhnrnnrp the Roosevelt Center and v ^ M bling the 16 participants. V her mother didn't know \ JKjB ^ >me were chosen by word /e a good background for The gift of I le variety of members, in- Hotel, restaurant anc ;rsonnel, state and county USC graduate, was oni See "Dobtbusters," page 2. wmmamnaMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammm \ i xl Stude K from | p still IT ?y IHHLV MIAbUN Kickoff editor MH9MM1 A USC freshman remain*, serious but guarded cond Thursday following an acci in a Columbia bar Sept. 5 left him in a coma. John Go.uld, a business ministration major and a wal kickcr for the Gamecock foo team, suffered severe heac juiics wncii iic icporicuiy from an elevated dance flo< Rumours, located on Blari /The Gamecock Street. Reports vary and rui i Center. abound as to the details of th h rather cident. People in the bar a time said Gould had been c ing on the stage, estimated < to 10 feet high. Most said he ?& bably backed off the plat | ' I and fell over a waist-high rai The manager of Rumours, refused to give his name, sai _bar had no comment on the | Hi ter "until we can figure out e m I ly what happened. "We're not going to be s? cction in the anything about what happ lsuming and unt'' then, and we have no when that will be," he said. " said Sen. USC student Mark Ma opposed the was 'n t,ie bar Saturday, and :i be elected be saw Gould sitting on the of the railing several mil ught an elec- before the accident. Fective in the ^ didn't actually see fall," said Madden, who >ssiblc earlier been in the bathroom at the new senators When I came out, he was o Senate" page 2 floor- 1 knew he had fal,cn dents at Athc egativc, senior Gregory Squire- The resc lie Court votes not only on the well as th< pass laws, but on the constitu- said Squin tsen. "This i: for more state laws to be pass- This law el." society. Ju ly, it does ime Court alone," said E.J. Julie Va iajor and vice president of USC was preser . "Georgia has a right to their for protec 1't like them, too bad." this law." ifo \M i tourism sophomore Dawn Jeranok gives blood to a of the nurses on hand when the Red Cross Bloodn so d. 81 (?assif" Feature Kickoff Snorts IUUU ? II. U| B,, I Viewpoi tit's fall ralatffirm jJiyilUI HI! lystery not just passed out, because part of the speaker near his foot was :d in broken. You could tell he had ition broken it when he landed." dent Madden said it took about 10 that minutes before the paramedics arrived, placed a neck brace on ad- Gould and carried him to k-on Richland Memorial Hospital, tball Before Rumours closed that 1 in- night, Madden said, the managefell ment asked to speak to anyone 3r at who witnessed the accident. iding "I didn't see anyone go to the front," he said. nors Other reports from people who e ac- heard about the accident said l the Gould was trying to perform a lane- backflip on the stage and fell over it six the rail; another says he was sit i-uu- uug on iiic lulling wnen 11 oroKe, form causing him to fall. iling. "There have been so many who rumors, we don't know what to d the believe," said Skip Hume, mat- Gould's resident adviser at xact- Snowden dormitory. "I've even heard he fell off a cliff." lying Hume, who held a prayer ses ened sion for Gould Tuesday in the idea dorm, said the student's family was still trying to learn the details dden of the accident. I said "Even the familv doesn't edge know," Hume said. "But if nutes anyone was there, saw what happened and does know, I know the him family would appreciate learning had more." time. Debra Quilling, USC's United n the Methodist minister who has aided ' anc* See "Gould," page 2 inian debate )lution involved the content of the law, as i right of the state to pass its own laws, e-Mills. 5 more than just a constitutional issue, is an example of disenfranchisement in ist because a person makes love differentnot make him inferior." mburg, a graduate student in psychology, it at the debate and said, "Laws should be tion, and I have never felt threatened by MHy S i i I i IJ ?m ? | | .0, & a ^ i * ? ! IHUMAS HUMPHREY/The Gamecock a former gamecock. Sue Harmon, a 1966 tobile was at the Towers lobby Thursday. Inside 3d 10 7 )k 6 s 4 8 9 nt 3 t