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The Gamecock Founded 1908 Friday Volume 79, No. 50 University of South Carolina January 30, 1987 a Committee v dorm visitati By BRENDA BLYTH Assistant news editor Residcncc hall policies dealing with visitation rules and security are under review to see if ^ anything can be done to improve on-campus life. The review is the result of student and staff recommendations to iiiaKC uit* uorms more secuic. There have been a number of incidents including fights, vandalism and disorderly conduct by people who don't live in that part i c u 1 a r dorm, said Jim McMahon, director of resident student development. Some of the incidences were caused by people who arc not students or lH don't live on campus. A committcc choscn by McMahon is investigating the possibility of a new policy. The committcc will look into the possibility of a process to sign-in non-residents to decrease the disorderly c o 11 d uct, McMahon said. "We want to set up some mechanism where people cannot just walk into dorms and do these things," he said. McMahon also said there are a lot of inconsistencies within dorm A visitation policies. He said the ^ policies between dorms such as Bates West can be totally different from policigs at the Towers or the women's quad. "There arc three different visitation plans," McMahon said. "Docs this make sense? Lobbyist appoi By The Associated Press USC's paid lobbyist has asked the attorney general to determine whether it is a conflict of interest for the USC lobbyist to sit on the university's board of trustees. Columbia lawyer John Gregory is paid $69,9(X) a year to represent the school before the state legislature, state agencies and Congress. He recently became president of the USC Alumni Association, and under state law the alumni president is f>nlitlr?H m ;> vnfinu seal on the 22-member board. Gregory told The Charlotte Observer Tuesday that he approved efforts to clarify his status before sitting n ;he board of *109 It's all greek to me ^ Michael Boerich, a finance junior, a 1 Vietnam Wai i Somi ; the r //;_ Amei will review on, security Maybe it docs but it seems confusing." "The committee is looking for something consistent," said committee member Wayne Johnson. "Right now the committee is just looking at the options." "It has been said, not in the committee, that the policies are ^ being inconsistently enforced," said Johnson, residence hall director for Maxcy and M| Thorn well. Me said the committee includes campus RAs, RHDs, resident hall senators from both men's and women's halls and resident student development administrators. "The committee represents the m people on both sides of the y| residential hall," Johnson said. jjjL "The committee must weigh the 1ft; different interests of students as II well as university personnel and LI agencies." The committee will get student f j reaction by holding an open forum in which students can voice their opinion, by conduc- m ting a survey and by gathering p-j ideas from each resident hall. y These ideas will then be sent to ?. the committee, Johnson said. "Some interest has been ex- ' pressed concerning a campus- J*P wide policy, but at this point the committee has not yet discussed g* this," Johnson said. ^ The committee will have some suggestions by early March. The decisions of the committee have Sub "Visitinn hour." oaae 2 By Sen inted to board r? tie trustees. Se "I sofU of felt it was necessary," Gregory said. "I'm tic not anticipating anything, but H< I'm not voting on anything until fu the attorney general says it's OK ? or his opinion says it's OK. I of understand it doesn't have the tin force of law." wl Gregory said university attorneys already have researched so the matter and have determined re; there is no conflict. For one pi thing, he is hired by (JSC President James Holdcrman, not the Be board, and he works under cd contract. w< The last Alumni Association in president, Helen Harvey of Beaufort, was on the board dur- cc ing 1986. nc nd Jimbo Wear, a buainaaa aophomora, diecuti r j critics are calling Platoon nost realistic movie about rica's most controversial war. See page 4 ^ TH01 Eugene "Mercury" Morris, former running bad eaks to students about drug abuse Wednesday. Senate will fl TODD MINES ior reporter A resolution supporting the lobbying el rts of the Student Government against tu in increases was passed by the Studet nate Wednesday. The senate voted 24-1, with two in abstei >n, to join forces with SG President Am :>user and other student officers to figl ture increases. It s really bad that wc rc being priccd 01 our education every year and costs are cor luing to go up," said Sen. James Franklii 10 proposed the resolution. "I don't see an end in sight and it will tal< meone to stand up and say, 'Look, this ally hurting us,' and I think we are the pe< e to do it today." Recently, the State Budget and Contn 3ard recommended a reduction in high* lucation funding percentages. The resu :juld be a $16.2 million loss to USC, insu g a tuition increase. SG Vice President Robert Beall said the lo >uld result in a $250 to $300 tuition increa ;xt year. Hi WtiSm j:$ B^attgBfl f* NICI m . .. i _ _ _4 O! II.L. r i fraternity rusn over a orinK ai aigma ?ipna r ?i Inside Classifieds Comics Datobook Features ! Sports Viewpoint I I i |g?-' BIB. _ | ^W^bBSELl sSufm MAS HUMPHREY/The Gamncock ( for the Miami Dolphins, ght poss Sen. John Thomas, s to the proposal, said, " f- to go to catch up with i- UVa and even though t it right now, if we keep and putting money intc i- a better university in tl ly Many senators ot it debate, including Sen. personally insulted as a it aid working my way t l- think his statement was i, perspective and showe< students' financial slat1 ;e Representatives of th is will meet on Feb. 3 to c > against the board's r< said these tactics may r \ 1 . Iw. I??;t ui IU iiiv ^uuv. K^i.^iaiuiv, cr Street to the State Hoi ilt Your Legislator" days r- "This is all to help tli the students don't wa ss crease and they're not se it," Beall said. "A lo the pressure." iiia' a j i r i-iMf-AVA! i ii>n,n l i* wk.vnvnvni.?.v|i"v ipsilon Wednesday. 3711 w?me 5 ~ zi Gan 6 Ex-football IGIIUUIIUCS By GAIL BUCHANAN away,' News reporter closc il Former Miami Dolphins runn- saying, ing back Eugene "Mercury" Twcnt; Morris warned students and Mor guests against the dangers of drug world abuse as part of his nationwide 1972-7 anti-drug tour. Miami Morris said those assembled a three could use his warnings two ways. In 1 "You can either use it to pull Larry yourself up, or you can wrap it runnin around your neck and kill in the yourself," Morris said at the season Russell House Wednesday. him a Morris spent three and a half of th years in prison after he was con- Fame. victcd in 1982 on charges of con- Moi spiracy and cocaine trafficking, of inji In March 1986, the Florida State The Supreme Court overturned the crumt verdict after declaring Morris was cocair not given a fair trial. All charges "Sc were dismissed. Morri Morris was one of the first in the athletes whose drug addiction is!"' was disclosed to the public. He is Mo traveling the country telling au- choic< diences they have a choice about life, whether or not to use drugs. "W "There's nothing worse than the dr to have your freedom taken ris sai ,:ui~ IUIC lUlllUII II peaking in opposition , ,, . We've got a long way 11 ^ 'Bally L schools like UNC and gd out of OUr >ur tuition is very high . on increasing tuition aic uun > education, we'll have le long run." )jected to Thomas' Mike Gillen. "I felt ????? student with financial Also during tl hrough school, and I member of the J a very narrow-minded volunteers to sei d an ignorance of the investigate the I us," Gillen said. Within two v e Student Government will decide whel liscuss lobbying tactics legally authoriz -'commendation. Beall Homecoming q include sending letters vote counts 60 | a march along Greene interviews coun use and various "Visit "There's beei and I don't th ic legislators know that Homecoming C nt another tuition in- that this be slig going to put up with Beall, who is t of people are feeling investigation, s? Election feud m . _ - i.. discretionary ti By TIMOTHY E. DAVIS no News reporter on N The House of Representative's Inf decision concerning whether to cha order a new election in House futi District 95 (Orangeburg) may af- fori feet the way USC manages its tha discretionary account in the put future. / In the November general elec- be tion, Republican Rep. William wei McCain defeated incumbent J Democratic Rep. Larry Mitchell. ove Mitchell appealed to the State ide Election Commission, claiming a pre key precinct ran out of ballots, fur affecting the outcome of the tru election. rur The two have opposing views we on how to handle USC President I s James Holdcrman's discretionary tru fund, which has come under con- 1 troversy since Nov. 21, when the agi board of trustees voted to make its< part of the fund secret. ces Mitchell said the source of US I fiinH th?, to be clarified. "If they were bu public funds, the university had scr n's basketball necocks lose hero drugs ' Morris said. "I would ny eyes and sec the judge , "Merc, I am so sorry. / years.'" ris played on back-to-back championship teams in 3. He was drafted by the Dolphins in 1969 and was :-timc Fro Bowl selection. 972, Morris and teammate Czonka became the first ig backs to gain 1,000 yards backfield in a 14-game i. This distinction earned place in the record books e Pro Football Hall of rris retired in 1976 because jries. football player's success iled at the beginning of his ic addiction. > now who can I blame?" s said. "One day I looked mirror ar\/^ 'TKorn VlA iiiii i ui til in r>aiu, i iiviv i iv rris said everyone has a ; regarding every aspect of rhat is the pr blem? It is not ugs. It has to be us," MorSee "Speech," page 2 lcrease iad that we're being priceducation every year and tinuing to go up." James Franklin Student senator ic senate meeting, Franklin, a udicial Committee, requested ve on an ad hoc committee to lomecoming Committee, vceks, the special committee her or not the commission is :ed to have a percentage in lueen elections. The student percent, but two pre-selection t for 20 percent each. n much bad press about this, ink it's fair to the reigning )ueen and those in the past hted," Franklin said. wnrlfino u/ith Franklin in thf? lid that in 1982 the senate gave Sue "Senate," page 2 iay affect ind release right to withhold information them," he said. litchell said the Freedom of ormation Act should be nged to prevent USC from jre attempts to withhold inmation. "All public funds i are dispersed snouid Decome >lic information," he said, ^n oversight committee would a good idea, he said, if there e guidelines for it to follow, lowever, McCain said an irsight committee is not a good a, although there have been >blems with the discretionary id. "We have a board of stecs that have traditionally 1 the university," he said. "If have an oversight committee, ce no use for the board of stecs." 3oth McCain and Mitchell ee that USC has damaged ;lf concerning the budget pros. "The disclosures involving IC in the past six mon; . . . will cause the USC dget to be more closely utinized," McCain said. i 67-46 See pege 7