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Volume 79, No, 67 University of South Carolina March 23, 1987
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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"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,
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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."
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system.
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But Cole said he would not call
itends the creation science a true science.
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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.
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