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The Gamecock
Founded 1908 Wednesday
Volume 79, No. 41 University of South Carolina December 3, 1986
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By BUDDY MOORE
News editor
Sigma Nu Fraternity will have 10 days to appeal a
recent court ruling that the fraternity is liable for a
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informal initiation party five years ago.
The South Carolina Court of Appeals' 13-page
unanimous decision Monday agrees with a Richland
County Court decision in which Sanford Ray Ballou
? was awarded $250,000 for the death of his son,
Luric Barry Ballou.
Jury selection
for Rossi trial
underway again
^ From staff reports
Jury sclcction began Monday in the second trial
of a man accused of the murder of Barbara Lynn
"Bobbi" Rossi, a USC nursing student.
Marcellus Pierce, 38, was convicted two years ago
of Rossi's murder. The verdict was overturned this
summer by the state Supreme Court because of errors
made by the trial judge.
Rossi was kidnapped from a Columbia shopping
center parking lot in September 1984. Her body was
found Sept. 20, 1984 in a wooded area off Old Bluff
Road, ending a five-day search by local, state and
federal authorities for the USC student.
Pierce, Benjamin Anthony Joyner and Willie Earl
a Nesmith were convicted of kidnap, rape and
murder. Joyner's conviction was also overturned
and Nesmith did not appeal his conviction.
Pierce was given the death penalty and the other
two were given life sentences.
At the time that Pierce was arrested, Richland
County Sheriff Frank Powell said authorities began
looking for Pierce "because he was involved in
something similar to this."
Pierce had previously been charged with assault
and battery with intent to kill and criminal sexual
W conduct in connection with an Aug. 4, 1984
incident.
Eleven potential jurors were chosen after being
asked questions about their backgrounds and their
opinions of the death penalty.
Twelve jurors and two alternates will be selected
irom a pool 01 n poienuai jurors.
Phi Delta Thet
? By MARIA FRATUS of
Assistant news editor I
For another time this semester, a fraternity car
will be removed from McBryde Quadrangle wo
because of lease violations. De
Phi Delta Theta was notified by University wh
Housing Services before Thanksgiving break I
that it could not return to the quad in the spr- brc
ing because it did not comply with its lease in
agreement, according to Jim Smart, director tre
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retain black grad stud
Gale Sayers, who held several administrative
posts in higher education following his retirement
from professional football, is working with USC
faculty to develop programs designed to increase the
number of black students attending the state's
graduate schools.
Sayers earned a master's degree in education
from the University of Kansas, and later served as
an affirmative action and in other administrative
capacities at Kansas and at Southern Illinois
University.
He is helping USC's College of Education
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black graduate students and encourage them to plan
careers in education, said Dr. John King, the faculty
member coordinating Sayers' work with the college.
"1 can't think of anyone else who could do for us
what he's done," King said. "He understands the
importance of developing future educators, and the
need to provide young people with strong rol<
models who will encourage them to think beyond ar
undergraduate degree.
"Mr. Sayers helps us get answers that might noi
otherwise be available to us and helps us develoj
realistic strategies," King said.
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Ballon was a USC junior when he pledged Sigma
Nu during fall 1979. He passed out and died from
suffocation on his own vomit during a "hell night"
party Jan. 24, 1980. The party was the end of the
fraternity's pledging process.
Sigma Nu will have 10 days from Monday to present
a petition to the appeals court to hear the case
again, said Clerk of Court Rcba Minis.
If the appeals court refuses to grant a rehearing,
the fraternity may present a petition to the South
Carolina Supreme Court, she said.
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Lori Lynch, a history freshman, and Rush Lowry, a busin
wool blankets on the Russell House patio. The blankets v
around the country selling them. She is originally from C
a must move fr
administration with university housing. He sai
3i Kappa Alpha, which has a house off- members
npus, won the lottery to determine who "We i
uld receive the available space, Smart said. they won
lta Upsilon was the only other organization "Brothei
o entered the lottery. learned t
3hi Delta Theta lost its lease "as a result of He sai<
>thers not having their financial priorities their b
order," said Todd Knapp, fraternity organizai
asurer.
elps education college
ents within the state
Sayers said he has been concerned for some tinu
about the decline in the number of black student"
entering graduate school and preparing for career?
in education.
"Northern schools are actively recruiting frorr
South Carolina's colleges," he said.
"South Carolina is producing black faculty ant
graduate students for Princeton and St. Johns ant
Bowling Green. You need to produce enough ti
meet your own needs as well as those of othei
states."
"USC has been successful in attracting and re
i taining black undergraduates," he said. "We wani
' to identify the factors that have produced that success
and apply them at the graduate level."
; Sayers said he is impressed with the Minority Ad
r ministrators Program, the Black f aculty Develop
: ment Program and the rural education program;
; underway in the College of Education,
i He said he and USC's education faculty intend tc
look at these programs and others undertaken bj
t the S.C. Department of Education and the Coinmis
> sion on Higher Education in order to develop i
master plan for the next several decades.
in 1980 deal
Monday's opinion was in answer to an appeal filed
by Sigma Nu's attorney, James W. Alford.
Alford said his firm had not deeided whether to go
further with the appeal. "All I can tell vou is we'll
wait those 10 days to decide what we're going to
do," he said.
In appealing the Dec. 13, 1984 Richland court ruling,
Alford contended there was no evidence of
negligence by Sigma Nu. It also stated that Ballou
voluntarily consumed the alcohol and therefore
assumed risk of injury himself.
Assistant news editor
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vere made by Lynda Kyser, who travels
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keeping secret li
id the fraternity did not make the $364,138 was sf
pay their housing bills up front. USC's board
issumed because they were brothers 'ast month to
ild pay along the way,' Knapp said. penscs paid by
hood doesn't pay bills, and we've used "lo lurtl
nir lesson." ment of the uni>
d the four members who did not pay Denton, senior
ills were dropped from the business and tii
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Judge C. Tolbert Goolsby, writing the appellate
court's decision, stated the evidence Sigma Nu required
Ballou to attend the party as part of its initiation
process and pressured him to consume
alcoholic beverages to excess.
The decision also stated Ballou "did not as a matter
of law, freely and voluntarily, with full
knowledge of its nature and extent, incur the risk of
the dangers created by Sigma Nu's action of promoting
extreme intoxication^"
See "Sigma Nu," page 3
onated more blood
Jemson in contest
of students living on campus.
"Prior to the competition,
arolina-Clemson some oral agreements were made
made having a that we would not use percen>le,
and naming tages to determine the winner,"
2 blood donating Snow said. "The day we were
tween the two leading (Wednesday, Nov. 19),
ch easier. my consultant in the Red Cross
/inner, Clcmson, informed me that they were
at the football thinking about using the percenJ
controversy ex- tage ? they gave no reason."
Mould have won, Snow said Student Governinow,
director of mcnt doesn't plan to contest the
for USC Student decision because the goal of the
competition was acheived.
atals in the comUSC,
707, and "We accept it," Snow said.
"We are not going to argue
declared the win- because the reason for the comreater
percentage petition was to get people to
idents than USC donate blood."
ood. "We just wanted the students
Snow, however, to know what happened," he
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igcs because, In January, the schools will set
as more students, guidelines for future blood
greater percentage diives, Snow said.
al fund
j releases information
half of $700,000 fund
d Pr88S guest of Holderman's, $6,600 for
ers and vouchers a dinner during a Caribbean
' USC account for leaders' conference in July 1985
liscretionary fund and $1,543 for 2,000 president's
President James Christmas cards and envelopes,
but the school is The money for the discreiow
the remaining tionary fund comes from col)ent.
iseum and stadium consessions,
of trustees voted games and vending machines on
account for ex- campus, and some athletic
part of the fund department funds. An attorney
ter the advance- general's opinion has held that
/ersity," said Pete such money is public.
vice president for Vouchers released Monday inlance.
elude $121,157 for campus events
d $2,800 for rent and receptions, $2,300 for
nt for an official Sea "Holderman," page 3
Deck the halls
A.
^ Residence halls on The
W Horseshoe are decorated in
V preparation for Christmas. Helping
m, with the work is Rondo Crespo, a
^ pharmacy senior, and Carolyn
Holderman, wife of USC President
la, James Holderman.
ROBERT GGNZALEZ/The Gamecock
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