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The Gamecock
Founded 1908 Monday
Volume 79, No. 57 University of South Carolina February H>. 1987
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Offenders
get second
chance
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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
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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 >
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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
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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
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"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.
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Don't fly this 'airplane'
Lexington sher
campus police
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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
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"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
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