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The Gamecock Founded 1908 Monday Volume 79, No, 67 University of South Carolina March 23, 1987 * Gift r< dated By The Associated Press USC documents incorrectly ^ stated the date when USC President James Holder man repaid $1,011.05 in public SjHHHHi money spent on personal gifts, and a iRHMi circuit solicitor said he will investigate, sk' The Charlotte Observer reported Sunday. ggSSjUk' 1 Holderman had repaid the money used | to buy eight personal James H gifts in the past three years, according to documents released Feb. 12 by USC. But The Observer reported Holderman repaid the money on March 6, 1987 ? 10 days after the newspaper asked for proof. Last week, documents showing when Holdcrman repaid the money were released in response to Observer Freedom of Information requests. A March 6 memo to a USC finance officer from Holderman's executive assistant, Mike ^ Genau, said in part: "After W carefully reviewing over 5,000 documents covering nearly eight years of expenses from the President's Office discretionary account, the following expenses were inadvertently paid for from this account and should have been paid for with personal funds." In the memo, Genau referred to an attached check for $1,011.05. The university also released a copy of a receipt dated w March 10, saying it had received a $1,011.05 check from Holderman on March 10. Holder man declined to comment on the case. He could not be reached by telephone Sunday by The Associated Press. Solicitor Jim Anders, who is Changes i ' to relieve By TODD HI NFS Assistant news editor It's time once again for students who want to live on campus to brave the long lines and hot tempers that often characterize housing registration days. There have been some changes this year to minimize the problems ? including an early registration for apartment signup and regular registration for greeks living on campus. Also, there will be no deferments of the $100 advance room fee paid during registration. Jim Smart, director of Housing Administration, said the cnanges nave dccii implemented Sign-up schedule i All sign ups are in the Towers W lounge from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Same room: Men ? Tuesday Women 7- Thursday Same building: Men ? Tuesday, March 31 Women ? Thursday, April 2 Displaced students: Men/Woinen ? Wednesday, April 8 Different hall: Men ? Tuesday, April 14 Women ? Thursday, April * ? songmras BMMBHB??WM jcords wrong investigating USC spending, said u was improper to use public money for personal expenses. He said his staff would investigate. i"We consider the use of public funds for private purposes ? not only here, but anywhere ? to be a very serious matter," Anders told The Observer. Anders said his investigators would olderman examine notes on documents incorrectly showing Holderman had paid for the items before the reimbursement. The notes appeared to be 1I1C1US. HI at !Cd3l lllicc UIllCICUl types of handwriting, the newspaper reported. When shown copies of USC records with reimbursement discrepancies, Anders said he was surprised anyone would indicate an item had been reimbursed "when in fact it had not." USC records show Holderman used public money ? from a special discretionary account he controls ? to buy eight gifts totaling $1,011.05 from 1984 through 1986. The gifts included a $473 porcelain statue of a Carolina wren from Boehm Inc. given as a Christmas gift to an unidentified recipient. Holderman received a $290 discount in his December 1984 purchase of the wren, which usually costs $725. Boehm frequently gives USC discounts. A public official who gets a discount usine nnhlir mnnpv for a personal item may be violating the ethics law, which says an official can't use his position for personal gain, the South Carolina Ethics Commission said. n sign-up problems because of comments from students who had registration problems last year, especially in apartment sign-up. He said students attempting to get an apartment in the past were often unable to reserve a space and were then displaced because they had surrendered their old room already. Smart said the new early sign-up gives students a chance to find a space before releasing their old one. Apartment registration was Wednesday through Friday. Students were required to get a 1^** -i- *? iuncry numoer me week Deiore spring break to determine their registration time. These numbers will be available for dorm changes in the Housing Services office until April 10. Students in sorority and fraternity housing are now also required to sign up for housing like other students. In the past, greeks registered for housing on the McBryde Quad and South Tower through their organizations. The organizations must fill 90 percent of the spaces by the end of registration, or they may have to forfeit the area. The rest of the process will remain unchanged, Smart said. "My biggest concern is that students aren't reading the information," he said. SC graduate students dreai :ssional opera singing. See page r* JB Li ^ Hyk * N? JBPP About time Landscape artist Mark Schinimoeller and hi< the 01>K sundial on The Horseshoe Sunday. use smokit By RRENDA BLYTH Assistant news editor The medical fact that smoking can be harmful to non-smokers exposed to the smoke has caused the Student Faculty Relations Committee to investigate the possibility of proposing a university smoking policy that would prohibit smoking in all closed-in public places. "In fall of this academic year, we received a request from a faculty member in public health to consider a university legislation to prohibit smoking in all closed-in places," said committee member Mike Costa. ; The committee has been considering the request for several mprtinoc eoM "We've been considering it seriously, not just because it came from a faculty member of public health, but also because activity on this sort of issue has had a lot of activity outside the university." Costa said the committee is interested in , .lyf !/ T j*. .. i*..| p- < JEBjlMBt '.i Mfff w HHR. -V"f w^t^mm j^H Tossing the keg Tau Kappa Kpsiion member Larry Hlair, a tin a beer kej? during a Greek Week relay race h Week will eontinue until Saturday with event* game and a blood drive. ?i r?? Inside ? - Classifieds 6 Comics 3 Date book ? Ti Features 2 Sports 5 Viewpoint 4 '2 V *T^^'?WMb1(H I | 4,J^pyrj/^Bm j^BS9Bto&U I C ijLmd^m mR?H*&^I *?? JHHmHV ^ twBRBBHBBBBHBH?'^^*^ !>l<?j?y senior Rodney Brown, Omicron Delta Kapi Sehimmoeller had redesigned (he sundial and II ig hinges on "We are considering legisla non not 10 keep smokers from hurting themselves, but to keep th em from harming nonsmokers." Mike Costa Student Faculty Relations Committee protecting the rights of non-smokers. "We are considering legislation not to keep smokers from hurting themselves, but to keep them from harming non-smokers." Right now the committee is just collecting information that will help them understand how serious the smoking problem is perceived to be on campus and what the best way to solve it would be, Costa said. I rrc^ ?i UOL/ VII 1 on creai Tl ii ByTOMAULD y Mil "I News reporter ^ ' ^^C teaC^ of crea EoscAVAuo rHeo^k attempt to support thee so-called scientific expe he said. anee senior, throws The difference, Rohl eld Sunday. Greek between pure science i such as a Twister tion science is science tr out facts by investigat creation science is ba 1 USC baseball Gamecocks d< ,v ' 1 * J v**p HR 1 *? j ""* 't *&?? U4L. |4 I HI - _ * 1 ^p|j||||a f J ^ HMt(| n*i^ ,_ , * KEN SAMSON/Th* Gamecock pa president, talk after a ceremony dedicating le surrounding area. l committee "We have been very cautious about recommending any legislation because it would most likely be very hard to articulate clearly what the legislation is suppose to do," he said. The committee, with the help of Student Affairs, is collecting information on other universities' policies. They have also conducted a TELLUS poll at USC. The poll showed almost 90 percent of the students polled thought public places should be designated with smoking and non-smoking sections. The committee tried to hold a forum this past Thursday to get reactions on what students think about such a smoking policy, wui 11w Stuucilis UUL'IIUCU. Costa said the lack of attendance could suggest the issue is not "hot." "This meeting was to be another step in the process to see what the university and community in general feel about the problem." ucators disagree ion philosophy religion and is a matter of a belief system. tionism in Although not at odds with 1 'A CllhlA^t P 1 1?? L " 1 ' . ~ ivuillllllg, UIUUIILI oioiogy years, but professor, Theodore Cole, said ofsurfac- he knows many scientists who ' form ? believe in the concept of creation. But Cole said he would not call itends the creation science a true science. ) years old "If it is a science, it is a theory igle act in ? a concept, idea, belief. But so : existence is evolution," he said. Tie theory Others at USC approach the tastrophic issue of creationism from a difything is ferent angle. Carl Evans and Keith Lewis, both of the religious scientists studies department, present is most courses that examine creationism iggest the in light of the Biblical text of s old, and Genesis and also as a cultural exists sup- phenomenon in America, a creator "It is a well-meant but the realm misguided pseudo-science," Lewis said. He said creation university scientists believe their faith will ting the stand or fall on the basis of a professor literal reading of the creation acs an alter- count in the Bible. es about Lewis said faith is central to the whole debate. lessor of faith is a Evans said legislative effort is itc. "They intended by creationists to bring >logy with some control back into the situariments," tion and to fight chaos and unchristian thinking. Ting said, Hut Lewis said the creationists utul fr/Vl. hot/o o?> nnnmtf A * * ' * uii v_ 11 v. iiiy ill<? UUCM1 I eXISl. ies to find "Nothing the evolutionist says ion while does damage to what the Biblical sed on a accounts say," he said. ifeat Eagles 6-2 See page 5