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The Gamecock Founded 1908 Wednesday Volume 79, No. 55 University of South Carolina February 11, 1987 State ethics la ^ mm m a b tarn about Holi By RONI BEA KAYNE Editor in chief State ethics commissioners won't discuss the complaint against USC President James Holder man's use of public funds to buy gifts for public officials until action is taken next month. The investigation is confidential under state ethics law. The maximum penalty for violating the ethics law is a $1,000 fine and a 90-day jail term. Holdcrman said he gave gifts to high-ranking public officials including the governor, speaker of the House and more than 170 state legislators. a i \i?. u:i . u: u: * ? ui:~ rv SlctlC ClIIIO IdW piUIUUll^ glVlIlg |JUUlll uificials compensation or public money "to influence his action, vote, opinion or judgment." Holdcrman said Monday that people who raise complaints against the USC's expenditures arc "dissecting the university . . . and for what purpose?" "It is humiliating for the whole state that we are ** moving in this direction." Legislators who received gifts from Holderman may be in a position to decide how much money USC gets in state appropriations, determine budeets. or vote on HolHprman'c calarv O I - - J ' Holderman bought some of the gifts with money : I ; wsjf VT uppr? i \ \ m * j'^^K fl ' ffPsBSsSEE^ Hen Oftnon antj OantSnn JENNIFER S uoo iioiidc aiiu uauuuii This week is safety week at USC, and Alpha Phi Omega p day by giving away balloons and rape whistles provided by ment. Left to right are APQ members Virgil Pennie, Rachel McDonald. Mailboxes a privilegt By DIANE SPITZER distribution to ? News reporter for distribution One privilege of a registered less, USC Posti student organization on campus Moss said, is access to a mailbox on campus, "The reason a university administrator said. advance is beca "For a group to petition to and Tuesday wi become a registered organization tremendous vol UrtiiA 1A frtA r\oninn \4aco CQlH ''1 llicy 111U31 navt iv/ 1 vvpajrui^ itiujj juiu . ? students, a constitution and a delivers us mai faculty adviser," said Novella week. We have j Fortner, student organization in on Saturdays coordinator. "Once this is done what they don't 9 they bring me a form reouesting a Sunday's mail 1 campus mailbox, and I initial it. care of on Monc They then take it to the post "The mail cle office." House distribute Fortner said not all organiza- which takes a I tions want campus mailboxes; fees offset the 1; some want their mail delivered ing this." through departments. However, According to all 250 registered organizations Guidelines for L are required to have a campus dent Organizj mailing address. campaign mate To solicit through the campus that solicit: mail, campus organizations must businesses will i give five working-days notice and without pre ^ pay a fee of either $25 for However, Fortr Red roses A?jflfn Local florists plan s ffpL? to meet USC stude for Valentine's Day ' ? , ? ***. wV-jr' '-"V ? ?*' ' " iw prohibits [, derman case I a from his discretionary fund, but claims other gifts ? came from his own money. Discretionary funds come from concession sales at athletic events, vending machine and game room profits. In November, USC's board of trustees voted to withhold information on how Holderman spent |j about Si.7 million of his discretionary funds since 1 1977. He spent about $364,000 this past year. On Jan. 23, the board reversed its previous dcci- m sion and agreed to release vouchers and spending records. The records will be available for review by the end of the week, said Debra Allen, news bureau director of USC Information Services. ? m "I don't know of any university ? public or private ? that has published its blueprint for ad- ? vancement," Holderman said, emphasizing USC's | achievements in the past three years. "How can we maintain our momentum with this I much demand for detail . . . you get tired of it after a while." History senior Paul Perkins, who won the j Freedom of Information lawsuit against USC demanding the release of Jehan Sadat's salary and expenses, denies claims he knew about the recent ethics complaint. Senate to t Ru RRFNnA Rl VTH Assistant news editor A new resolution to decide on endor renovation of the Golden Spur brought up by the Student Senate's Committee at today's meeting, a senai If the committee does not address t of the Golden Spur, Sen. Harry Sharp will bring a motion to the floor. "1 will do whatever is necessary to a resolution is passed by the senate," Sharp said he hopes the senate will the renovation of the Golden Spi < jfij renovations have already been appr l \ '* ( the Non-Alcoholic Nightclub Coi ' which is part of the Social Environm* * Force. "We have no power to stop the tions," Sharp said. "It doesn't whether senate endorses the project llCf* S, uob picpa By MARY F. WHITE News reporter s USC students may escape the i ordeal of registering for classes at ( Carolina Coliseum as early as < next year. A new form of technology, the s einn-L ? l Touchtonc Telephone/Voice t TEIB/Tbe Gamtcock n n i , Response system, will make I romoted it Men- registering as easy as picking up Student Govern- the telephone. < Lance and Pam We are simP1>' 10 make life easier for the student," USC Registrar Luther Gunter said. ? of student groups ill boxes or $15 some special permission for offto 500 boxes or campus business to solicit master Ladonna through the campus post office. "If Domino's Pizza wants to for the five-day put 250 flyers in campus use on Monday mailboxes, they have to bring the e receive such a flyers to me so 1 can monitor ume of mail," them," Fortner said. "The lie post office reason 1 don't give out the camil seven days a pus mailing lists to off-campus people who come businesses is so we can monitor tr? cr?rt mail Knt what is mailed sn fhf sfurlenK get finished and don't get anything gross, and lave to be taken there are so many organizations lay and Tuesday. that the list changes all of the rks at the Russell time. ; all of the mail, "We also don't want ong time, so the businesses to make copies of the abor costs of do- mailing list," she added. Moss said the post office does Policy and Rules not take outside business mail icensed USC Stu- because of the bulk of mail they itions, political already get from student rial or material organizations. s off-campus "If students don't want the lot be distributed mail they get in their boxes they per postage. push it back through onto the ler said she gives floor," Moss said. ~ ? Inside ! Classifieds ?????-? Comics . . Datebook ;trate0,es Features nts' demands Money flowers. SportsZZZZZ. See pege 2 Viewpoint I ma w Wi ? > iHHUn ? " *-^a* jjf?srajr,mtaiT'gsfn wU^g/gggEgmlwMMlM i^gnir-zrrs \n endless task Cindy Jeffcoat, a microform assistant at the Thomas Cooper Libr 1 the Government Documents Room. liscuss Spur toda the Golden Spur will be renovated." Sharp said the money tor the renovations sine the will be coming from the university renovation will be fund. Finance Money to maintain the Spur, once it is in or said, operation, will come from a $2 increase in the he issue student activities fee, according to a 1985 > said lie report put out by the Social Environment Task Force. see that Once the Non-Alcoholic Nightclub Comhe said. mittee decides on the renovations and they are endorse approved by the board of trustees, renovaLir. The tions will begin, Sharp said. He also said the oved by Spur should be completed by fall 1987. nmittce, It has been recommended that the Spur be ;nt Task made into a non-alcoholic nightclub where students can go between classes and in the renova- evening, Sharp said. matter Light food such as salads and nachos would or not be served. There are plans to make a section ring phone regis Under the new system, each After punching in tl indent will be assigned a day to computer will respond :all USC. Students can make the student whether he i rails on touchtone phones from for the course or if the mywhere in the world. and the student needs The first step in using the new alternate section, system will be to enter a secret "All that we are re; :ode number, which will pro- taking the technoloj, bably be the student's social banks have been us security number or birthdate, electronic transfer of ..erori..t?t- toilet-inn if trt fit fh ^JUIIUJI 3CUU I Ilk. 11 liic UIIIV;I 1115 11 iv/ 111 ui will ask the student to punch in USC," Guntcr said, ihe schedule code for the class he After the student wants to take. call, a copy of his sell* "Two tickets for..." r.:_ n-_?? .:_? n:.Ln ,.n i.:, iicp ci?.;,j? c???? * criu ruriur, an auuuuilllliy JUIIIUI, piuna up ma uuu i luiiun oiait; I 8 Concert news 5 4 :::::::2 Huey come 6 ^ jjj^ ^ ?3^BT M ^'sHHHHHHhRHHIK^^SrHKSSRSb H ERWIN BAKX/The Gamecock ary, sorts through pages and pages of newspapers iy at meeting for bands and dancing and to have a large screen television, he said. A Tellus survey shows that two-thirds of all students polled want the Spur made into a non-alcoholic nightclub. Eighty percent want foorl in hp srrvpfl anrl almn<;l all of thr>m want a dance floor and bands. "The senate believes this is the best thing for the university," Sharp said. "We need to bring the Spur back as a place to socialize because of the raised drinking age." The $60,000 allocated for the renovation of the Golden Spur has been reallocated to student organizations. Sharp said he thinks the senate will take measures in the future to see that money set aside for one purpose is not used for another. "Nothing like this is going to happen again," Sharp said. itration plan ie code, the mailed to him. If the student 1, telling the changes classes, drop-add may s registered also be done by phone. : class is full "The cost for equipment for to select an an institution this size is about $150,000, and that is the only madly doing is jor holdup that I can see," thai the Gunter said. ing for the The system is now being imfunds, and plemented at several schools ic needs of across the country. For example, at Brigham Young University in finishes the Utah, phone registration is the ;dule will be only way to register. ?!f ' ! a VlinTrnfTffiSjK p a M/fsi r-_' fOBBm n ' KEITH JONES/The Gamecock ickets from Peggy Fe?3, a student ticket distributor. s to Carolina See page 3