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Volume 79, No. 27 University of South Carolina October 22, 1986
JENNIFER STEIB/The Gsmecocli
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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^ freshman, 1
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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
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-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.
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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|
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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
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