The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 23, 1987, Image 1
The Gamecock
Founded 1908 Monday
Volume 79, No. 60 University of South Carolina February 23, 1987
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Editor's note: Student Government elections are Wednesday.
Each presidential and vice presidential candidate was given the
chance to present their platforms to the students. Their, statements
are printed here. A list of all SG candidates is on page 2.
By MARY PEARSON and PAULA WETHINGTON
News reporters
President
Jimmv Rrphm
"I have three objectives. First, for a practical government,
secondly, for a visible government and thirdly, for a government
for all. My goals are realistic, and,as president,I know with dedication
and hard work I can achieve my goals.
"I am against tuition increases, and to
achieve this, I will continue Amy
t? Houser's efforts as well as urging administrators
and legislators to support
I "*** full-formula funding as well as a student
J, vote on the board of trustees.
/vMp ' &? "I am committed to the improvement
^- of safety on our campus by seeing that
x f 1 lighting is installed in several areas on
| ' | campus, and finally I am against the adH
- | ministrativeplans to move the students in^
Jimmy 1116MII to t^e encj zonc for football games.
I "For visible government, I would like to work with student
media to keep students abreast of situations that directly affect
them."
What experience have you had in government?
"I have been involved with the student alcohol policy hearings. I
have also been involved with Alpha Tau Omega as president, and I
have been involved with the Integration Intcrfraternal
Committee."
Angus Smythington Farnsworth III
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^ "I'll lower tuition or resign, period."
W Why haven't you put up a lot of campaign posters?
"Angus works on a very low budget. I'm up against the organized
politicians, and I don't think it's necessary. If I can get 100 votes
and spend $14, or whatever I spent, that's a good ratio.
"Vote for Angus, because I look so damn good. That's the brunt
of the campaign.
"I could also lower tuition; I don't know. I'm an accounting major;
I know where the waste is. It can be done, but it's a lot of
work."
! How do you feel you best represent the typical USC student?
"I don't represent the typical student. I'm more intelligent,
smarter than the typical student. The average student doesn't com^
pare to Angus. He's a veteran ? been in the service for two years. I
w spent two years in Germany. I saw the United States in the eves of
Europeans. I've spoken to people who've hated America.
I "Not every student, mind you, but a good 75 percent of the student
body is ignorant.
"That's why Angus doesn't take this too seriously. I'm not even
going to vote for myself."
Mike Gillen
"My focus would be to organize students and present the
students as a large voting block of people to the legislators down at
the State House.
_ "I'm not going to make a lot of proi
lidBB 11 mises on various issues; I would just promise
to focus 100 percent of my time on
9 what I feel are the two most irnnnrtant
W^FWW ^ issues. Those are keeping tuition down
? arK* gett'ng more student input by a
^ voting student member of the board of
* Hv trustees.
; . A MM "I've been working on these issues the
f T MB past Tcar w'1^ ^1C H?user administration.
"' ' Keeping tuition down is the major issue
Mik0 Gifilen anc* Persona^y affccts me because I'm on
! financial aid. Other issues are important,
and I will deal with them, but how important will they be if half of
^ us can't come back?"
- now ao you jeei you best represent the typical USC student?
"First and foremost, I consider myself a student. However, my
interests havewen with SG to represent all students. I have the experience.
I know what can realistically be done and what effort it
will take.
"SG has come a long way since I first became involved with it.
As far as credibility goes, however, it has a long way to go."
Michael Hogue
I "I am committed to having a student voting member on the
board of trustees.
r _ "I believe the time has come for
& positive action on solving the student
parking problem.
if tbB "I am committed to the expansion of
^9^ V* SG involvement in the awareness and im^
plementation of a student safety program.
Wk Relieve ^iat students should be given
Ngnrriff l|j priority in seating at football games.
want to WOfk w'th all organizations
/IllSii with the SG to get specific information
from those organizations and back it with
MichflOl HoflUt the power of the student body through
"I have worked with most organizations on this campus, and I
have an understanding what their student concerns are."
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By PAULA WETHINGTON
News editor
A Student Government presidential candidate
has filed a written complaint with the
SG elections commission stating his campaign
posters have been defaced.
Candidate Mike Gillen, an international
studies junior, filed a complaint Thursday
with Elections Commissioner Eric Eppes that
"nearly 100 percent of Gillen campaign
material" had been defaced.
Today, SG presidential candidate Michael
Hogue, a chemical engineering junior, is expected
to file a counter-complaint stating
"where HogUc posters were hung in high and
unreachable places, Gillen posters are now
Something old, somethi
Proposed a
By TODD MINES
Senior reporter
Students will have an opportunity to vote
for changes in the 15-year-old Student
Government constitution in Wednesday's
election.
The proposed constitution, already approved
by the Student Senate, includes the
elimination of the executive office of
secretary, changes in the codes and a new
system of senate representation.
"It is much more concise, much more
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entire student body," said Sen. Stanley Davis,
chairman of the Constitutional Rewrite
Committee.
"It is 100 percent better than the old
constitution."
Davis said there are contradictions between
the old constitution, Student Affairs and the
Faculty Senate which would be eliminated by
the proposed constitution.
He also said Student Senate codes, which
can be changed at any time by the senate, do
not agree with the old constitution. Davis said
the codes make up about 175 pages in the present
constitution.
Sen. James Franklin of the CRC said the
codes always propose a problem for reviewers
of a proposed constitution. The CRC will
work on writing the codes if their constitution
is approved.
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By BRENDA BLYTH
Assistant news editor
NBC's Today show was on
campus doing a segment on the
honors college course |
"Phenomenon of AIDS"
Thursday. yggBsL
The 80-second news segment is
scheduled to air at 7 a.m. this
morning and may be repeated hH|^BsP
several times during the newscast, i
NBC reporter David Hazinski ||
and two cameramen interviewed
four honors students enrolled in H
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tors, Nora Bell and Dr. Bosko
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Todd Boleman, biology junior;
James Harley, chemistry senior; liiti/
Stephanie Johnson, an English
transfer; and Sharon Morris, an NBC's Toe
undeclared sophomore were in- Coverage in
terviewed on The Horseshoe.
Hazinski asked the students undergrad
why they were taking the course virus,
and why they thought the course "I told
was important. in scientifi
"They asked us all basically the diseast
the same questions," Morris He also
said. "They asked why we took how the
the course, and if we were per- and treat
sonally afraid of contracting reporter a
AIDS. about saf<
"I told them the course is a was not a
unique opportunity because the 4' T o
topic of AIDS is relevant now." knowledge
Morris also said it was a unique que," sa
opportunity to be taught by master of
Postic, who treats AIDS victims. lege. "Ma
, The Today show asked Fostic awareness
what he could teach these what this s
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"There were reports that some of Michael
Hogue's campaign workers had been taking
down fliers," Eppes, an insurance and real
estate junior, said Saturday. "According to
the election code, it's a violation.
Eppes said he talked to Gillen Friday and to
Hogue Saturday about the complaint.
"If the actions arc severe enough, there
could be a $1()0 fine, but we talked it out so
there could be a smooth-running election," he
said.
Hogue said, "It's not been a major problem
except in certain areas," including Gambrell
Hall, the Humanities Building and Coling
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onstitution on
"It is much more concise, much more
direct, and I feel it will serve the needs
of the entire student body,"
Sen. Stanley Davis,
Constitutional Rewrite Committee
Davis said the major change in the proposal
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secretary. He said this decision was a "kind of
Catch-22" because, under the old constitution,
secretary slot is included on this year's
ballot.
If the proposed constitution is approved by
the students, it will be reviewed by the Student
Trustee Liaison Committee on Thursday and
then the board of trustees. Even if the board
approves the document before the secretary is
inaugurated, Davis said SG will retain the office
for the final term.
Another change in the proposed constitution
makes elected senators responsible exclusively
for college representation.
Because of a senate amendment last
semester, the representation policy will be in
effect for this election. This system allows
students to vote for 42 senators from the 15
colleges on campus based on enrollment
figures.
For example, each college will have two
representatives for up to 1,000 students.
Imed segment oi
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fay show visited campus to do a special report on the
eluded taping the two-hour class Thursday.
uates about the AIDS is extraordinarily timelj
Mould said he thinks
them I could introduce main reason the Today
ic terms the biology of interested in doing a se
Postic said. the course.
told them he teaches Mould spent the e
disease is transmitted with the reporter, as th
ed. When the NBC with the students and h
isked if Postic taught taped the two-hour ever
; sex, Postic said this Mould said class went
course on condoms. with a one-hour lectui
the best of our virus itself and a gues
this course is uni- from the state blood bs
lid William Mould, During the lecture, Pi
South Carolina Col- ed about associated d
ny schools have AIDS which AIDS is the
programs, but not result. Bostic said he h{
school has. This course scientific content of the
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workers
urnbia Hall. In Columbia Hall, he said one
student was seen taking down Gillen's
posters.
Gillen said campaign workers were probably
responsible for the defacing. "I know
Michael Hogue and Jimmy Brehm personally,"
he said. "Neither one would do
something like this."
Gillen said, "I've been so busy it hasn't involved
me personally," explaining that cam
paign workers can at times "get ovcrzealous"
about the posters.
Eppes said he doesn't know of any
presidential candidate in the past who was fined
for defacing or tearing down fliers.
spring ballot
Every college will be allowed another
representative for each additional 1,000
students, for a maximum of five. Any college
added to USC will also receive representation.
In the past, on-campus senators were
elected through dorms, while off-campus
students were elected through their colleges.
The judicial system also includes more in
put from administrators, while increasing the
power of the students. Davis said the current
constitution is a "real mess" that doesn't
have much power.
The proposed system will allow administrators
to sit on SG's seven boards. They
will only have the power to offer advice and
act as a check and balance of operations.
Franklin, also chairman of the senate
Judicial Committee, said this past semester
the student judiciaries tried to refer the
homecoming queen voting problem to the administration.
He said the proposed constitution
would give more power to students to
make disciplinary actions and rulings.
The committee first met last August and
wrote the new document. The seven-member
CRC reviewed 34 college constitutions and
decided to model the document after Florida
State University's constitution.
The CRC also met with Dennis Pruitt, vice
president of Student Affairs, Jerry Brewer,
dean of Student Life, and President James
Holderman before writing the document.
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HORVATHfThe Gamecock
honors college course "Phenomenon of AIDS."
t." The course's main objective is
this is the to help students better undersshow
was tand AIDS, how it is transmitted
gment on and how it affects society. The
course is divided into three secntire
day tions: the medical/clinical aspects
ley talked of AIDS, the ethical/legal aspects
iculty and and the psychological/social
ling class. aspects.
normally, Mould said the course is imre
on the po ;ant because honor students
t lecturer ha\e a history of becoming comink.
munity leaders. "As a result, we
ostic talk- have in this college an added
iseases in responsibility for doing our best
ultimate to make them responsible
indies the citizens.
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