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The Gamecock Founded 1908 Monday Volume 79, No. 57 University of South Carolina February H>. 1987 m Offenders get second chance Rv .1111IPT NAnco ? f iinukii Senior reporter There is hope for students who ^ get into an unlawful predicament, but show a willingness to change, said Jerry Crotty, head of USC student discipline. These students can receive a second chance through the South Carolina Pre-trial Intervention program. The program applies to everyone living in the state. Because USC students are considered members of the 5th Judicial Circuit of Richland County, they are eligible for the program. ? Oncc a student has been arrested and formally booked, he may be allowed the opportunity to apply to PTI. Criminal charges can be erased from a student's permanent record if the arresting officer, the victim and the PTI counselor assigned to the case agree. The student must then pay a $200 fee, do 20 hours of community service and take a tour of Central Correctional Institution. Once a student has been through the PTI program, he can never use this privilege again. If 0 any of the agreements made through the program are violated, such as a change of attitude or second arrest, the program is aborted. j The 11 n i V r c i f v nnliro itonori - -.? > VI WII.J pv/livv wvpu I I" ment has employed this program out of concern for USC students, said USC security officer Michael Couick. "Although we have a commitment to law enforcement in ! South Carolina, as employed by E W the university, there is no rule that says we can't care." t Couick said students don't realize this option is available. He { said he believes there arc many 1 students who get caught on top of t the Blossom Street garage or driving down Blossom Street with $ an open container of alcohol who 1 would be interested in Pre-trial J Intervention to have the offense $ removed from their record. ? He said the officer is not J obligated to agree to the pro- I gram, but if the students agree to I straighten up he can send the stu- J dent to Pre-trial Intervention. t Couick said this is where the r humanity that all police officers \ are trained to practice comes in. i See "PTI," page 2 t USC studer ABC mornii By SHERRI BERRY y Assistant news editor By random calling, Alpha Phi ( Alpha President Darrin Thomas j was interviewed and chosen to > ? J 1 M un kjuuu iviurmng America Wednesday morning. , He got a call from a USC stu- j dent whose brother works for the show and said the show was look- ; ing for students from universities i ^ across the country for a segment < P on Wednesday's show, Thomas 1 said. "They are doing a segment on | sex across American campuses," | he said. Thirty people were interviewed i over the phone and the decision ] was narrowed down from there. me interviewer was impressed with Thomas and asked that he , appear on the show. Thomas will fly up to New | York Tuesday afternoon, do the ; show Wednesday morning and i k fly back Wednesday afternoon. All expenses will be paid by Good USC basketbal f" Ov\ Gamec< k. 'n an ? Florida L C CHHIH RC MUH HHHHn I W y "& - ' ' _ KtllH JUNESfThe Gamecock It s hip to be Huey Huoy Lewis and the News performed at Carolina Coliseum Thursday. The band opened with "Jacob's Ladder" and also performed such hits as "The Heart of Rock 'n' Roll" and "Hip to be Square." Released account d Jy RONI BEA KAYNE More than 5,000 voi Iditor in chief man's discretionary Thousands'of dollars worth of gifts and about 15,000 transactioi ravel to places such as Washington, New in expenditures during tl York, San Francisco and Hong Kong were The discretionary fu imong the most common exoenses in IJSC from concession snips President James Holderman's discre- events and the canteen ionary vouchers released Thursday. vending machine profits Crystal objects from Steuben Glass account now comes fr gallery in New York and porcelain from tions. Before 1984, half i Bdward Marshall Boehm Inc. in New ad sales in student teh lersey were predominant in Holderman's were included, with the ?ift list, the vouchers showed. Student Affairs. For th President Ronald Reagan, former Student Affairs has k Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former directory profits, said J Jndersecretary of State Lawrence of Student Life. Eagleburger and former Egyptian first lady About 5 percent of the (ehan Sadat received gifts worth from $400 were censored to protet o $3,000. Since 1978, more than 80 inter- and "friends of the univ lational leaders have visited USC, some of sion of privacy, universi vhom received gifts from the discretionary Names of about 30 iccount in appreciation for their contribu- travel and dining guests ions to USC, Holderman said. mostly between 1983 anc m Thomas "My Em "amily and fraternity brothers vere excited as well." ^^ idyikiLlAMHff Thomas hopes his professors .vill excuse him and not deprive lim of this opportunity, he said. fMa^,'ftflBkJa Good Morning America begins it 7 a.m., and the segment in .vhich Thomas will appear will be B9RBbm&||A >hown during the first part of I Wednesday morning's show. Thomas said he is somewhat he has been on television before. "1 was on Good Morning Col- H jmbia talking about Black | History Month last year," merit. He is a member of Delta R/lnnlsah fnr mucin Sigma Pi, a business fraternity, M0?ian *0i inIIrill. :he Student Alumni Association, WUSC FM raised more than *4,000 and the Association for Afro- Maxwell, Heather Young, Chip Crean American Students. "| Iris id 1 Classifieds Comics )cks lose third strainht natohnni ..... ^ w ?> Migi ? MtMIMIIMM* 0-72 defeat to the Features State Seminoles Sports See page 7 ViewP?int ' & Don't fly this 'airplane' Lexington sher campus police Ru RQEUnA m VTU U J MMkllMn Uk 1 III Assistant news editor A pyramid scheme called "Airplane," which promises quick money, has appealed to many USC students, but most of their hopes of easy money have crashed. The scam offers a return almost 10 times more than the investment and has lured many students to "buy a seat" on an imaginary airplane. Ticket prices range from $25 to $1,500. Because the scheme is structured as a pyramid, many people never reach the top to collect their money, Lexington County Sheriff James Metts said. About eight tickets are bought per airplane. The tickets are sold by the plane's crew, which consists of a captain, two co-captains and four navigators. After all the tickets for the airplane have been sold, the captain takes his share of the money and "bails out." The two co-captains become captains of their own planes, each taking two of the navigators as their co-captains. Metts said the sheriff's department is trying to warn people that a large majority of investors are not going to win. The only people who have a chance of making a profit arc those who started the game. Metts also said, although he has no jurisdiction over USC, he has received several complaints from students living in Lexington County. ! "I know it is widespread over at the university," ine saiu. i ne scam nas gotten out of hand." One USC student said there are many "Airplane" games going on around campus. letails (JSC's gil iichers in Holder- sactions listed the gift, the pric< account revealed blank for the name of the recipien is and $3.4..million.... For example, "Watches $218.2 ie past eight years, as gifts to. . . ; 'Carolina Wrer nd was generated given as an expression of gratitude at USC athletic Cost for executive limousine to d , book store and fundraising project for the Sw< . The discretionary Engineering Center $301.63, for. . om private dona- for potential donors $4,005.25." of the profits from Holderman also bought several :phone directories works of art, including a $5,000 dc other half used by published by Abraham Lincoln du ic pasi iwu years, presiuency. voucners snow that ept all telephone man gave this gift to Dominican P erry Brewer, dean Jorge Blanco during a visit to USC to receive an honorary degree. total expenditures Another gift, a "framed :t possible donors autographed letter" given in July ersity" from inva- an unnamed recipient, cost USC $ ty officials said. Expensive meals for Holderm 0 gift recipients, aides and USC administrators, were whited-out, abroad and club memberships in 1 1986. These tran- bia, Chicago, Washington and Ne Kill iiMHflHMMnii IK \nmm if viir/fHssi yumSiiiMI WM Wg JWte during Its annual fund raiser. Pictured left to right are: Johnn) fter, Jeannie Malloy, Elizabeth Matsui, and Bill "Zork" Sengstac .11 Help! 5 EEEE:i Center off 6 iff reports scam; say no problem "My plane has not crashed," said the student, who asked not to be identified. "Alter the news reported aoout Airplane' being illegal, things got slow. But then it started to piek back up and more and more people started to buy tickets." "The airplane I am on cost $25 to get a ticket. When you become captain you get $2(K)," he said. "I am a crew member now." A crew member is the same as a navigator. But local and campus police say they haven't seen "Airplane" at IJSC. Inspector Allen Sloan of the Richland County Sheriff's Department said he has only received four calls inquiring about "Airplane." He said the callers want to know if the game is illegal and what could happen to them if they were caught participating. Participation in the scheme is a civil violation and coulu carry a line ot up to $5,(MX), Sloan said. Sloan said he thinks the scam is not as big in Richland County as in Lexington County. "Apparently the scam victims arc mostly in Lexington County," he said. Carl Stokes, systems vice president for law enforcement and safety, said he has not heard of anyone at USC participating in the scam. "If it is here, I don't know about it," he said. Stokes said he has received a call from a parent of a Clcmson student asking if the scheme is illegal. "I have heard of it being at Clcmson, but not this university." Metts said similar pyramid schemes are surfacing. One such scam is called "Ski Lodge." Participants try to work their way up to become ski master, then they collect the money. ft-giving, travel ; and a are also common entries in the discret. tionary fund vouchers. 3, given On February 1986, for example, a meal i* $495, at the Palm Restaurant in Washington for to. . . ; Holderman, his assistant, two USC ofiscuss a ficials, a Washington lawyer and Lawrence ;aringen Eagleburger cost $378.06. . ; Gifts Memberships for Holderman and his assistants at the Faculty House, Committee original of One Hundred, Summit Club and the >cument Columbia Action Council arc among the ring his local entries. Holder- Travel costs in 1984 top the list of resident expenditures. in 1984 In March of that year, Holderman traveled to Tokyo with four USC officials original for $4,500 each. 1984 to In July, Holderman and another en4,150. tourage tiaveled to West Germany for an, his about $1,747 each and to the Bahamas for travel about $1,987 each. Colum- Vouchers show that Caribbean leaders w York See "Gifts," page 2 l^h<* ' l^SSr " ^ Jr W^K uV?fc/ ??TfciBHfc^v v < l^^lUffilTfcui frtfr- / > !FS? BUBv ? jPByTH4 ^u > m^H^HBm0I?@EBBHHMP j ^cVA; JENNIFER STFIB/Tfw Game I "Fish" Van Citters, Keith Builard, Janet :kan. ers counseling See page 3