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. The Gamecock F ounded 1908 Wednesday Volume 79, No. 27 University of South Carolina October 22, 1986 JENNIFER STEIB/The Gsmecocli 9 A-maized Anno Neoly closely inspects Indian corn at a roadside market on Knox At | Wilkinson High School. USC students will By T. C. HUNTER the phone ? Nbwi reporter Student. ^ * Students will be able to register for classes by Gunter a: phone in 1988 to make the registration process computer cc easier and more convenient, Luther Gunter, USC's ? used by registrar said. country ? t The system, Touchtonc Telephone/Voice To imple response, allows students to call from anywhere in purchase ne the world to register for classes. an appropri "Yon could uo to London for Christmas and The comr register from London," Guntcr said, adding that existing pho ** J iiniun nn i u?r ra^? ' ' j.'* "TE"TLCMMMHTWE over, but does not serve alcohol because of the risk, said Manager Steve White. Customer, mu.t wear wrist band: "It's strictly a dance night, he said. "We had (underage) age is under 21, to support people saying they wish they bands that he hires. & could just come out and dance, "To bring a varied type so we tried it." music to Columbia you m Along with soft drinks there depend on the students who is a fro/en drink machine that the most open-minded i serves non-alcoholic drinks educated as far as music goe such as daquiris, pina coladas he said. and fuzzy navels, White said. Wild-life Alternative Mi "We've been doing it for Night on Mondays for 18-y< three weeks and it has picked up olds and older, puts wristba every week," White said. "It on 21-year-olds as they ei should turn out good once it the door so the bartenders i catches on." bouncers can easily see wlv Co-owner of Kockafellas', legal to drink, Padgett said, Scott Padgett, said he relies on The wristbands, which USC students, whose average bought from a company Features p team in state tourney F ? Sm * 9 Sv Holderman am By BRENDA BLYTH News reporter USC will reecivc $16.3 million in federal funds to supplement its new engineering center, enabling it to contain some of the world's most sophisticated technological equipment, President James Holderman said. The funding is included in the 1987 Omnibus Spending Bill, which was adopted Friday by Congress and signed Saturday by President Reagan, Holdcrman said at the Columbia Rotary Club meeting Monday. [ "This is the largest single appropriation in the history of the University of South Carolina and perhaps to any higher education institute in the state," Holdcrman said. The funds will be used to complete construction of the third floor of the John E. Swearingcn Engineering Center and to equip it, he said. A portion of the federal funds will be used to refurbish buildings adjacent to the Swearingcn ! center donated by South Carolina Electric and Gas I Co., and pending approval by state authorities, to ^ help plan and design a graduate sciences research center. "This begins a new era for us and the two other p research universities as we turn more and more to federal funding for major research efforts," Holderman said. * NCR corporation, a multi-national company with I a West Columbia facility, is donating several of its Tower and Tower 32 computers to the College of . Engineering, Holderman said, citing an example of a cooperation between the engineering school and major industries. "Taxpayers of this state could have paid a quarter of a million dollars for computers of this cost," Holderman said. "But the manufacturer, which happens to be in the same city, gave them to ' us to test for possible bugs." I The engineering school will also test NCR's new $100 million Broadway computer in order to detect I any problems with it before it is marketed. register for clas bill must be paid by the registering students to use. The cost of tl nd Rob Roberson, director of USC's and $150,000, a :nter, arc currently tailoring the system The target ye 13 colleges and universities around the center has other :o fit the needs of USC. system. "We mcnt the system, the university must sophisticated tr ccessary computer hardware and create that is more im] ate computer program. Another proj (liters will be linked into the university's system is a vei nc network, allowing 35 phone lines for faster retrieval c ^ ^ -4 " ... 1 f ' ^ I , ROGER CUF i in order to drink alcohol at Rockafellas' whenever underage peopl the California ana inscrioea wun were mere, Rockafellas' name, can not be don't enforce of removed without being broken. forces it. All w ust Rockafellas' serves soft leave, but they are drinks as an alternative to Padgett sai ind alcohol, but if there is a de- night has b s," mand other drinks, such as because most < alcohol-free beer and alcohol- are hired ap sic free wine coolers, they may be students. Jar- added to the menu. nds Rockafellas' has not had a He added, 1 iter problem with the underage peo- old guys have and pie trying to drink once they get girlfriends tha o is in the door, Padgett said. ing to the 1 hurl In ;i?ik neonle to here." arc leave, but last week it was less The bands in than 10 out of 20() people who preciate crow< ivorite study pU 1 " " " vimmer ranked in i ^ounces feder "Any company needs to grow and develop, and having a group of experts 10 miles from your door certainly doesn't hinder that process. " That is why NCR is here and that is why, quite f,,...i,i.. <t i ?? 11 ? i? ..:a 11 <t11 aiy, uicy ^uttccu, nuiuti nuui s<iiu. In addition to the federal funds, Holdcrman discussed the Research Investment Act, which calls for a total of $600 million from the state and the state's three major universities during the next five years. The $300 million from the state would be matched by federal and private funds from Clemson University, the Medical University of South Carolina and USC. "We talk excessively over the importance of research to economic development and the importance of attracting industry to our state," Holderman said. IBM recently purchased 1,600 acres of land in Columbia, and the Research Investment Act would make South Carolina attractive to a company like IBM, Holderman said. "If we could speed up IBM's decision to locate such a production facility here, in just one year the magnitude of the impact of South Carolina's economy would more than pay for the Research Investment Act," Holderman said. The Swcaringen center should be completed by fall 1987 and will increase the number of South Carolina's engineering graduates, he said. Not enough engineering students arc graduated from USC and Clemson to meet the state's growing needs, Holderman said. "We will double our enrollment now with the new engineering center at Carolina and hope that that will begin to be more effective and more efficient in meeting the total needs for economic development and growth in the state," Holderman said. "We expect by the year 2001, when the University of South Carolina is 200 years old, that we will be one of the top 10-15 universities in America," Holdcrman said. ses by telephoi potential empl tic system will be between $100,000 Gunter said ccording to Ounter. pointment tim ar is 1988 because the registration an overload o: projects with priority over the new State, are currently working on a To use the s anscript request system. We think phones. The f portant," Gunter said. ' out a worksl ect ahead of the new registration Schedule. "It ification program that allows for sheet," Gunte >f college records when requested by Helping ha ' " i fl/ni/nmfinr t ivuvgiuuui i ^ freshman, 1 :xr By BUDDY MOORE W? <# Nswi editor |g M * Freshmen will have the oppoi tunity to meet with and fostc BHjj-;/- '-wy-B relationships with facult members and with othe 1 freshmen in a special prograi sponsored by the Department c ^^apr,'^ Student Life and the president' ^ Two Freshmen-Faculty Dir ?V fF *> it are 11 Ua r\ff afa/l u 5r caiyi acf r il /*' I llUd III uv UllUtU 11113 StlliVSll -TWr , ' ! in which faculty members wi V ' vV. . lead small groups of students i .**" discussions on selected topics, a< ? ? cording to Jenny Noyes, gradual lETON/The Gamocock assistant to the vice president fc b are admitted. Student Affairs. i^ABcr Program at e do is ask you to ** ^underage //J adjUStiM een successful, s ^ af the bands that By JOY PIERCE peal to college Nawi reporter Helping minority studen become adjusted acadmicall 'A lot of 21-year- socially and developmentally under 21-year-old college is the goal of the Minori t they want to br- Assistance Program, the found bands that play said. The program "should increa that play ap- the retention rate and enhan Js, Padgett said. the quality of life of minori students at USC," said Rai| r- II 7 ? sao*. fiimi ? HI Plopoifin ICRS D, 3 I r ? M Comics. Features ingland p. 9 & ** I viewpon a) nranf vi ii wj m M % Telling salary j would be the easy way out' By BRENDA BIYTH j News reporter To release information about Jchan Sadat's salary when it was first requested by Paul and Cheryl Perkins would have been taking the easy way out, USC President James Holderman told Columbian Rotarians recently. j "Everyone would have got ten oil my back, he saia at aB Rotary Club meeting Monday! in which he announced a I federal grant for research and! to complete Swearingen! Engineering Center. "It would! have been very easy, and it I would have been a cop-out." j The information was not released because doing so would not have been within the spirit of South Carolina's Freedom of Information Act, which states only department heads' salaries arc subject to disclosure, Holderman said. j "The Freedom of Information act was devised not only to record disclosures of information but also to provide some kind of privacy for pco-B pic as well," he said. j j le by '88 oyers. i students will have a telephone ape to prevent jamming the system with f calls, which was a problem at Pcnn ystem, students must have touchtonc irst step in the process will be to fill heet found in the course Master will be just like filling out a scan r said. See "Registration," page 3 mrls tinners promote Acuity relations "We need to be promoting freshmen-faculty interaction. We r- don't want to wait until the :r students are in a seminar class y later," she said. r "It's important to make a Ti faculty friend," she said. "A >f faculty contact can make a world 's of difference to a freshman ? to a student." l- The discussions will be infor;r mal in that students will meet 11 with faculty and other students to n express their views, but at the : same time the setting will be that te of a special evening, Noyes said. >r "You don't have to impress See "Dinner," page 3 ycSctc minnritioQ FuJiuiu i f ft# fi/i 11 ruo jf to college life Johnson, assistant dean of Student I.ife, Minority Student ts Affairs. y, There arc 27 counselors who to meet with the students, and they ty are matched by major, college or er academic interest whenever possible. se The program began last ec semester when applications for ty counselors were sent to black ph See "Assistance," page 3 Inside ds 10 8 k 7 ; 5 4 9 it 2