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The Gamecock
Founded 1908 Friday
Volume 79, No. 53 University of South Carolina February 6, 1987
Jury decid
guilty durii
By SHERRI BERRY
Assistant news editor
A Columbia man was found
guilty of the 1984 murder of a
^ USC nursing student and
W sentenced to life in prison.
Benjamin Anthony Joyner,
after rejecting his courtappointed
attorneys and putting
up no defense in his retrial, was
convicted Wednesday of kidnapping,
sexually assaulting and
murdering 20-year-old Barbara
Lynn 'Bobbi' Rossi.
Joyner immediately announced
his appeal, but he gave no
response when Circuit Judge
William Traxler asked him if he
would like a court-appointed at
QP torney to handle his appeal.
Traxler scntenccd Joyner to
consecutive terms of 30 years for
first-degree criminal sexual conduct,
10 years for grand larceny
and five years for conspiracy, The
Associated Press said.
Traxler said according to law,
when a person is sentenced to life
for a murder that also involves
kidnapping, no additional
sentence for the kidnapping is
imposed.
Ray Rossi, the victim's father
and founder/president of
^ Citizens Against Violent Crimes,
said he was satisfied with the
sentence ana aian t ieei tne
dismissal of Joyner's courtappointed
attorney's had any
bearing on the decision.
Joyner received a life sentence
during his first trial.
Senate inv
By TODD HINES
Senior reporter
A resolution protesting an ap
student activity fees is being cons
dent Senate, though one senatoi
was simply a misprint in the unde
Sen. Michael Hogue, chairrm
Committee, presented the resol
after discovering what appeared
crease in the fee for the past sen
Hogue said the activities fee v
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"As the judge told him, he was A
just trying to manipulate the ff
court so that he could appeal,"
Rossi said.
Rossi said he thought Joyner's
decision to appeal is groundless.
"I don't know what he's appealing
on," he said.
It took about an hour for the
six-man, six-woman jury to reach
a verdict.
Joyner's sentence constitutes
20 years in prison before he can
be paroled.
"He's already served two years
so in 18 years, in the year of 2005,
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Rossi said. *
"We'll be up there opposing
the parole in 18 years."
Joyner and Marccllus Pierce,
both originally convicted in 1984,
won new trials because of errors
in their first trial.
Pierce received the death
penalty at his first trial, but his
sentence was reduced to life imprisonment
after his retrial in i
December. !
Rossi said he felt the death j
penalty is justifiable in certain
crimes such as violent, aggravated
crimes. This is one in
which it should have been imposed,
he said.
" I was naturally disappointed |
when he did not get the death
penalty," Rossi said in regard to
Pierce.
Willie Nesmith, the third codefendant,
was also convicted in
1984 but did not appeal.
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;idered by the Stu- saying the increase
said the increase the budget. The ch
^graduate catalog. concur with legal re
in of the Finance of the way the unive
lution Wednesday Williams-Brice Stac
to him as an in- Davis said puttin
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between the fall and spring activities fees without any act
said.
Davis objected to the proposal, "Those students who have
was only a line-item change in tivity fee are being reimburse
ange mas made, Davis said, to higher fee was just a misprin
rcommendations in a state audit Hoguc said the controversy
:rsity financed debt payments on ting reports from school ol
lium. USC's financial director, sai
g the money under the activities the Athletic Department to
ace to retain legality for paying But Dennis Pruitt, vice presic
nd the money was shifted under told Hogue the money did n<
! Uy TODD lllfJLS
Senior reporter
A recommendation to re<
was postponed by the Studei
in renovation money can be
At their meeting Wednes
ment Vice President Robei
^I Finance and Judicial commil
so the report can be presenu
tion at the next meeting.
In the fall of 1985, $60,(X
Student Government gener.
the club, Sen. Harry Sharp
passed a finance bill to give t
Life Committee to handle tl
Sharp said the money wa
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Senior reporter
The USC administrator
made a commitment not to
tuition next year, USC Pre;
James Holderman said We
day at a Faculty Senate me
Holderman told the seiu
sent a message to the I
Ways and Means Commit
hopes of receiving tull-fo
funding for USC next year
Full-formula funding i
minimum amount of fui
state university needs to fui
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I Managing editor $5
A bill that would change the tic
state's Freedom of Information gn
Act would not force USC to th
disclose how $1.7 million in a
presidential discretionary fund Sc
was spent prior to Jan. 20, 1987. tit
The bill is not retroactive o\
because USC has already promis- pc
ed to disclose the information m
sometime next week, said qi
Thomas Li mehou.se, R- sa
Dorchester.
"We want to wait and see," sa
Limehouse said. "There's no ar
need to beat a dead horse." si
If USC doesn't release the in- di
formation. Limehouse said the I
I House could recall the bill and j;
change it.
"This is not something we r
should go on a witch-hunt
about," said Rep. John Felder, jj
D-Calhoun. "Why should we
change the rules? They abided by t
the rules." j
The bill was tentatively ap- a
proved by the South Carolina
House Wednesday with a 109-1 c
vote. The only "nay" vote was ,
^ cast by Rep. Crosby Lewis, D- s
Fairfield, who said he objected to f
| the House's refusal to force USC c
' to disclose how the money was
i spent, The Associated Press ?
^ reported Thursday. t
The bill would also make |
salaries of all part-time (
lie employees public as well as the
salaries of full-time unclassified ,
state employees. All salaries of [_
student activit
ual tuition increase, he University nubli?
no student input w
: paid $109 for the ac- "If we students '
;d," Davis said. "The must show strong
t in the catalog." fees are spent," Hi
/ also involves conflic- The resolution rt
fficials. Pete Denton, fees, notification ol
d the increase went to tion of where the i
pay the stadium debt. athletics.
lent of student affairs, Sen. Patrick Sn
ot go to athletics.
ing for 'missing' $
me student uovt
frozen there when
3pen the Golden Spur the club space ini
nt Senate until $60,000 Government creat<
located. renovations, whi<
iday, Student Govern- Nightclub Commil
rt Beall requested the According to ar
tees to locate the funds the finance bill \
id with all the informa- Government offic
money in the gene
00 was allocated to the Beall asked the
ll fund for renovating the renovation fu
said. The senate then were used for any
he funds to the Student "The money stil
le renovations. "It was allocated
,s then transferred into
iate talks about t
what USC requested in state
funds and what it received from
1 has 1980 through 1985.
raise I he legislature said UbC needs
iident to plan a "conservative" budget
:dnes- at the beginning of the semester
cting. so it won't have to make midite
he semester program reductions and
Hlouse tuition increases, Holderman
tec in said.
rmula "We will have to be taking,"
he said, "in consort with the
s the deans and other adminstrative
ids a and academic officers of the
[Ktion university, some very serious
; state steps if this process continues
gher along these lines."
Holderman also told the senate
nted he thinks the shortfall in state
wed a funds will continue year after
tween year. The administration is con^
kcaclrofknll
amecocks wi
forcing
en files
mlovces who earn more than
0,(XK) would be public informa?n,
and salary ranges would be
/en for people who earn less
an $50,000.
Glenn I uekcr, president of the
>uth Carolina Press Associa>n,
said he was pleased with the
erall vote, but he was disap)inted
with the $50,000
inimuin on the disclosure relirement
for state workers'
laries.
"I think it's too high," Tucker
id. "The association feels that
lybody paid with state money
ionic have their salaries
sclosed."
.aw revision repeals
irevious restrictions
ly Tho Associated Press
Among the major features of
he bill that would change the
rreedom of Information Act
ire:
? Repeal of a section of the
urrent law that allowed public
>odies to withhold information
imply because they felt it was
lot in the public interest to
lisclose it.
? Automatic disclosure of
mv information reauested
inder the FOIA if a public
>ody fails to respond within 15
lays.
? All formal action must be
/oted on in public.
ies fees
:ations indicate the increase and
as involved, Hogue said.
want our fees to not increase, we
concern and examine how our
ogue said.
. quested an othcial statement ot
f future changes, and an cxplana
ncrease went, if it did not go to
lith of the Finance Committee
See "Increase/' page 2
60,000
jrnment general fund and was
the administration tried to make
to offices, in response, Student
;d a task force to investigate the
:h became the Non-Alcoholic
ttee.
i investigation by the committee,
vas overlooked by the Student
:ers earlier this year, and the
ral fund was forgotten.
senate committees to find out if
nds frozen in the general fund
other purpose.
II has to be released," Sharp said,
within the budget, so therefore
See "Senate," page 2
mdget cuts
sidering whether to freeze new
positions and vacancies as they
occur, as well as close down some
USC institutions and centers.
Holderman attributed the
money problems to a new governor
who doesn't want to start off
with an embarrassing financial
record and a new House speaker
and chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee who are determined
to do away with shortfalls
and mid-year reductions.
Representatives from USC's
nine branch campuses attended
the Ways and Means Committee
meeting Wednesday to voice their
concerns, Holderman said.
The original state appropriation
for USC for fiscal 1987 was
See "Faculty," page 2
in 76-46
See page 7