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The Gamecock Founded 1908 Friday Volume 79, No. 47 University of South Carolina January 23, 1987 Rain dashes snow hopes of Columbians From staff and wire reports After stations such as WIS-TV 10 and WSCQ-FM 100 predicted up to 2 inchcs of snow Thursday ^ morning, some Columbians thoueht thcv mioht havp (nmp nf the white fluffy stuff, bu" the snow was rained out. By 11:30 a.m. Thursday, the forecast had changed from rain and sleet with a 1- to 2-inch dusting of snow to just rain, clearing Thursday night and becoming cooler. snow aid tall, beginning Wednesday night, in the northwestern part of the state as forecasters predicted up to 6 inches of accumulation for the mountainous areas. A mixture of snow and sleet began falling around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday in Anderson, Greenville, Oconee and Spartanburg counties. By midnight, snow was falling in the ncithern parts of the four counties and had begun to fall in Senate sets r * i Tor spring ei By TODD HINES News reporter The Student Senate began its I new year Wednesday by setting tl ing Student Government electior An election bill, traditionally agenda, set the election date at plications due between Feb. 9-1 The election will be the fi ^ guidelines set in the SG constiti W senate last semester. Two of th< decrease in senatorial positions the elimination of SG Secretary tion has not been ratified by US Several of the committees re issues carrying over from tst y< The Judicial Committee said its recommendations for i Homecoming queen elections. The selection process for horn the subject of controversy students' votes were not the o electing the queen. The Residential Life Comn survey among freshmen abo freshman meal plan and will us sent a proposal to alter the syst Last semester, the Athletic; Off-campus Student Relations ( vestigations into the acquisitior dent tickets for the annual Can ball game and will present a re] February. Also, the newly formed Saf been working on programs for UfooL CoK Q 1 1 TT 1 vu. 7-1 J. The Constitution has been ap of Student Affairs and will be dent Trust Fee Liaison Comm Ebony editoi By MARY PEARSON Senior reporter Senior editor of Ebony ma Bennett gave tribute Wednest Luther King in a speech to UJ During the speech, Bennett t< the Civil Rights Movement and ggj to him. "It is a parable and a mystery and a ||j miracle that we | celebrate in South Carolina tonight," Bennett said. "And that parable can be I simply stated: 58 I years ago a black boy was born in a white Si fire in Atlanta, Georgia. That boy j-? "8 born in that fire "ony transcended the HI crowds and the fire maker: spiritual and mental heights o IMMWWBMBSWMIBI . * ' jjjj Camilla Munn, a journalism junior, bundl walks to class. Vinrr\l/ nn on/I Dir>l/nn c f V^llVl WrVVrl (U1U I IVIVVI13 VUUIIIIVJ. I Travelers advisories, flood c watches and winter storm warnings for South Carolina were in c effect most of Thursday morn- v ing. By 12:30 p.m., however, the 5 dates ?{J s. v "Wjf :'41 u lection jjgj^, . The new constitu ported progress on ^jj it will soon release ^ /oting in future <!>< v ,*< ' m fr%y~ 4 iecoming queen was . last year because > >nly determinant in nit tee conducted a ' ut the mandatory v e the results to pre- JSjjjfl em. 5, Community and "ommittee began in- j i of 1,500 more stu olina-Clemson foot- I port to the senate in ety Task Force has a Safety Awareness Rjg||f {q |j| proved by the Office Anthony Souther rpvipu/pH hv thp Stu- The march started ittee. honors Dr. Ma mortals." "Martin Luther Kii gazine Lerone showed us how to stru lay to Martin to hope, how to live >C students. nett said. )ld the story of "We honor him t< 1 what it meant dreamed dreams, but and lived the impossib Gadsden and Nelson l5eijple; ^ Colum Ibia Ci highway can suffice tc 1 owe him. But we as p ,or keeping the dream ali Bennett was presen s and rose to city, and Tim McAl btained by few Association of Afro-/ ioaps, a designer laundromat ibout to open in Columbia, iffers more than just suds. See pag t ... 'SJ? p^TTTnTTj THOMAS HUMPHREY/The Gamococ* les up against the cold wind as she National wearner service naa :ancelled all of them. Forecasters arc predicting the oldest weather of the season vith the lows in the teens on Saturday and Sunday. ,# jjl mm -fx K? i'^rl re n expresses his views at the South Can I at USC and ended at the State House. rtin Luther Ki ng Jr. showed us. He ggle, how to dare, how Marl and how to die," Ben- |^g sfoov )night not because he daTG, hi because he dreamt out how tO tie dream," he said. am also featured Leroy River of the National ivancement of Colored . ty Councilman Luther , pastor of Piney Grove a brie icky Wade of the USC accompl Benne and commemorate our lege in I ever reminded that no then he statute, no building, no Atlanta ) repay the dept that we tor Jet r eople can repay him by Benne ve," Gadsden said. on the ted with the keys to the Before lister, president of the Negro it American Students,gave A liiogr Comics Datebook Features Sports [e 3 Viewpoint Student ( to preven By RONI BEA KAYNE and ELEANOR SMITH Mo..,c .annrlorc Student Government has embarked on a major lobbying campaign to prevent any further tuition increases caused by state budget cuts. The state Budget and Control Board has recommended higher education be funded at 85.6 percent of full-formula funding. Full-formula funding is the minimum amount of funds a MtllC UlllVCIMiy I1CCU5 IU lUMLUWll at a level determined by the state Commission o n H i g li e r Education. Funding at 85.6 percent of fullformula funding would result in a $16.2 million loss for USC, said Pete Denton, USC vice president of business and finance. L.ast year, USC received 95 percent of the full-formula for state funding, Denton said. Two years ago, USC received 100 "MKf g z~~ Jt, | * #? .4^ Br r^M ' W' ." -* ' '' .4-^-.'.: ; " ' . , -' V--. KEITH JONES/The Gamecock ilina Pro-Life March and Rally Thursday. ing in speech in Luther King Jr. showed us ved us how to struggle, how tc dw to hope, how to live, anc die." Lerone Bennet Ebony edito f biography of Bennett' ishments. tt graduated from Morehouse Co 949 with a bachelor's degree. Sine has worked as a city editor for th Daily World and an associate editc nagazine. tt also has written a number of book history of Black America such < the Mayflower: A History of t! i America and What Manner of Mat aphy on Martin l.uther King, Jr. 7 6 iovernmen t tuition ii npr<'iMit V rivv,,u' Denton said the loss of funding o is partly because of state budget tl cuts such as the 2.6 percent cut u for state agencies last year. He said the board should establish ti better priorities. o "It seems that legislators are interested in funding prisons over I higher education." p USC President James Holder- c man said he doesn't anticipate a tuition increase next year even if the board does not approve full- t formula funding. c "No salary cuts or lay-offs are s expected, but I'll work like the r devil to get full-formula fun- r ding," Holderman said. i SG President Amy Houser t said, "1 know Holderman r doesn't want to raise tuition, but \ if the university loses $16 million, 1 how will it make up that additional money without a tuition ; increase?" "There is no other alternative. Legislators disclosure By The Associated Press Dissatisfaction with the way IJSC has handled a $1.7 million discretionary fund has prompted an effort in the state Senate to force disclosure of how the money was spent. Sen. David Thomas, RCireenville. offered a resolution Wednesday with 14 co-sponsors that asks the USC trustees to make public all information about the school's discretionary fund since 1980. Another seven or eight senators indicated they would vote for the resolution, Thomas said. "It doesn't mandate anything, but it's a first step," he said. "It shows the trustees how serious we are. "This is a polite approach, in which the legislature says, 'Show us what is in the discretionary accounts.' We arc not trying to beat anyone over the head. We are beHouse coma to strengthe By staff and wire reports The House Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday to open government activities and records to public scrutiny, but changed an amendment that would force USC President James Holderman to tell how he spent $1.7 million in public money. The amendment deletes an exj eruption in the Freedom of Infor, mation Act whereby a public 1 body could, by a vote of threefourths of the membership, hide public information by concluding t that the public interest wouldn't r be served by disclosing it. ? The USC Board of Trustees used the provision to conceal how s the school spent SI.7 million from a special fund controlled by I- Holderman. e The original FOl amendment ic by Rep. Tom Limehouse, R>r Dorchester, would have made the exemption retroactive, meaning ;s USC and other public bodies is would have to disclose informaie tion shielded by the provision. i: Holderman spent the money from 1977 to 1986 and has said he >C takes fit t fights icrease ou either cut back on programs r raise tuition, somewhere along ic line, something has to make p the loss," Houser said. She said USC is not as attracve to in-state students because f tuition increases. ... "We arc already too expensive, uition can't go up anymore; eople just don't have high in- ^ omcs in the state," Houser said. "The purpose of a state instituion is so that some graduates will ontribute something back to the tate," she said, emphasizing that nany graduates live in the state, )ay taxes and attract new ndustry. "We have the third highest tuiir?n iii the ^rMilheatt unci lhat'c a eflection of the lack of support v c get from the state Legislature." Denton said the state provided ibout SI 17 million for fiscal 1986-87. The suggested Budget See "Full formula," page 2 seeking of funds ing diplomatic." Rep. Terry Haskins, RGreenville, had an identical rpcnlnl inn rr?nrlv to intrnrtnep in the House on Wednesday, but after consulting with Rep. Thomas Li me house, R Dorchester, he withheld it. The House is expected to debate legislation next week that expands the state Freedom of Information Act, and Limehouse said he will offer an amendment to require USC to disclose details of the discretionary fund. The House Judiciary Committee voted Limehouse's proposal down Tuesday, but he said it may fare better in the full House. Sen. James Waddell, DBeaufort, said he will oppose the effort by Thomas and others. "1 think it would jeopardize the whole endowment system," said Waddell, who is on Clemson University's board of trustees. See "Funding," page 2 littee votes n FOI Act used a portion of it to buy gifts for legislators and other public officials. He will not reveal how he spent the rest of the discretionary fund, except to say it was used for fund raising. Rep. Tom Huff, D-Aiken, said it wnulri "hr? unfair tn rhnnop thr> rules in the middle of the game and say, 'Now we want to look at everything."' But Limehouse said the public's right to know should take precedence. Rep. Jean Toal, chairwoman of constitutional laws subcommittee, led an effort to delete the retroactive clause. The full committee voted to close the loophole as of Jan. 20. "We have never, when we abolished exemptions, gone back and penalized those who have taken the exemptions," said Toal, D-Richland. Judiciary Committee Chairman David W i 1 k i n s, R Cireenville. said it was not fair to I he USC Board of T rustees to change the rules and allow information to be made public after See "FOIA," page 2 rst place See page 7