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r Viewpoint " 6 * Friday, April 10, 1987 Cleared Solicitor clears president; it's time USC moves on Some blue sky may be in sight for USC president James B. Holderman now that his spending habits have been tound to oe legal, ine question 01 wnetner nis spending was proper remains to be answered, but Fifth Circiut Solicitor James Anders' statement that his office found "no evidence of wrongdoing" is a welcome break, not only for a beleagured president, but also for a university whose only real publicity in recent months has been negative. Anders stated in a seven-page summary of his investigation in his report: "It is our conclusion that no public funds were involved in the donation to the Carolina Research & Development Foundation and that Dr. Holderman hac nnt fnmmittprl rriminal violations: of the State Ethics Act." After a dismal year full of recriminations and rumor, Holderman now seems to be ready to put this whole episode behind him and get back to business. The university community, too, may now be able to resume its own business and forget about the legality of Holderman's dealings. Few people even dreamed that the initial lawsuit brought against Holderman to reveal Jehan Sadat's salary as a distinguished visiting professor would open such a wound in USC. But some good things came out of the whole mess. The state legislature was forced to face the reality that Freedom of Information legislation needed to be strengthened in this state. A president, for good or ill, was forced to account for his elaborate and perhaps unneeded spending in light of public reprisals. Most of all, the publicity surrounding Holderman may have just changed his attitude about such Kinds ot extravagance and nippea his desire for nonsense such as porcelain birds and fancy gifts in the bud. But now that Holderman has been cleared from his alleged wrongdoing, which included gift-giving to public officials, a $200,000 loan from the Carolina Research Foundation for a Lake Murray home, installation of nrivatp sprnritv cvctpm.c hv nniversitv emnlnvees. $52,500 I" "" ~ ? "J "J ?? ? J J 1 J I 1 in compensation supplied by the foundation and a $2 million pledge to the same foundation in connection with USC's sale of the former Wade Hampton Hotel, he and the university community can begin to build some positive publicity for the school. We can't wait for the pope to save us. The press and the public have been battering Holdermai for months, and even though he deserved a lot of it, it' time to start giving it up. The story is old and the issue i old. Holderman has professed to his boo-boo and he pro mises he won't do it again. He better not, we'll make sun of it. But, unless he slips up again, we should try to dea with matters a little more important than the increasingl; old habit of "Holderman bashing." (7) 53F ^ ' nwrv \r ^ 8^ .1 w up WA vm w, >V, ^^ / <mmw> cw&^oon\&, urtPatna X I WWSfK. WHS-WW 50*0. BOftRBB. Wiy ,?AS,... 1 i M5(?3re.wv w. mmm wms- E5 uJSp l W www lt> ?WMWM y^Tv uw- 3 ^Tw oh f&UGS V.?y Lpv \ J Iw'T Trrvwrfe^till w?jhik Krv _ I Write us a letter MM i ! Tell us what's on your mind. Letters must There is a limit 1 ? a 1 aL . i oe typeci, aouoie-spaceu anu nu inure man me same writer. | 250 words. Include name, address and We reserve the telephone number for verification. Names on outdated top will not be withheld. Guest editorials are topics. ! limited to 500 words. Indicate whether you Write to: 1 are a student, USC staff member, or com- Gamecock, Draw ; munity member in letters and editorials. Columbia, S.C. ; OritegoTrihw* Spending a w< 11:45 p.m. "ZZZZZ." I awoke. I was prone. My bed was moving across The Horseshoe to the president. I was gagged. "You've won the 'Spend The Day With Thf? PrpsiHpnt' Pnnfpcl Ymir Hav will huoin at exactly midnight," I hear someone say. I see a Holderclone fumbling for keys in front of the President's House. "You will wake up with the president, eat with the family, go to work with the president, and spend an evening of fun and frolic with his family. Do you have any questions?" "ZZZZZZ." 7:05 a.m. The alarm clock woke me up. The president appeared out of nowhere. 1 "Let's brush our teeth," he said. "Hygiene is so important." 7:10 a.m. "Side side side, in and out, in and out," the president said as he brushed his teeth. "Up and down, up and down." "Big Mel Brooks fan?" I asked him. "Who?" Oh, nothing, I said. \ "Side side side. . . ." s 7:30 a.m. I'd never eaten in a $70,000 kitchen before. The scrambled eggs were runny. S 7:48 a.m. "Well," the president said, "it is time to walk across the historic Horseshoe to e work." 1 "Funny," 1 said, "I'd heard you drive to y work." "Rumor," the president said. "Just a rumor." "Flat tire?" I asked. "Transmission's shot." 8:00 a.in. "Well, this is my office." "It's not oval," 1 said, surprised for a reason I didn't know. "Not yet." 8:30 a.m. We spent a half of an hour going i r iu. ~ ~im I inciters 10 trie 'Hoax' story "hon fromh " there is eith bombs out ZJ1Z , the paper. ' To the editor: After reading the aricle "Bomb Thirdly, hoax threatens Patterson" in the not have a April 8 edition of The Gamecock, about the 1 was curious as to where the paper, to n - i - . r f * I A paper received lis lmormauon jor icu 10 con the story since the majority of person on that information was grossly in- firm even correct. Being the desk attendant cerning th< on duty the evening of the incident and the one who took the Last of 1 phone call concerning the threat, a headline I would like to set a few points over a we< straight. don't call First of all, the phone call was had nearl; not taken until 11:45 p.m., which threat unti leaves me wondering why "police on Wedn cars and fire trucks gathered in questional front of Patterson Hall around too. As 11:30 p.m.," as the paper stated, director c not to mention that no fire trucks services, \ showed up in the first place. "Any wa; rvit/i U VUIU 51 *1 Secondly, the voice of the the threat caller in question was most given th< definitely a man's voice, not a publicity woman's as the paper printed. I old. spent nearly an hour giving campus policemen statements concer- In the f ning the nature of the call, the of The Ga caller, and what exactly was said. investigate _ If The Gamecock got its informa- This was ~ j c A , ... Kdifor in Chief of two letters per month by Roni 0ea Kayne Mananlng Kdllor right to stop printing letters Am>'DelPo ics to make room for new cSU Assistant Copy /iewpoint Editor, The i>csk Chief /er A, Russell House, USC, tndy^uh,e' N'*' Wllor 29205. paula Wethmgton i > CTt _ underfill day Stephen <^afl|SHKp^ over the previous day's work, then something new started happening. "Mr. President? The student newspaper is on the phone,and they want to know how the young man is doing and how you feel about this event." "Tell them to call my spokesman,and he'll tell them how I feel," he said, then noticed my stare. "1 mean, I'll tell my spokesman what to tell them 1 feel. I'll get back to them. Tomorrow. Now, where were we?" "You were telling me how accessible you were to the media." Noon The ambassador from Panama showed up; he and the president were doing lunch. The reservations were mixed up, though, and the president was in a fix. "I know a place," I said. "Where?" "Trust me." 12:25 p.m. The ambassador looked a little edgy when he saw "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" on Pappy's big-screen TV. It took us 10 minutes to convince him it was a movie. The president and he started talking about opening a USC branch in Panama City. I watched the flick. 12:30 p.m. When I brought the pitcher of editor * 1 ? - - - ? I * r n c n a n r i K 1 A Q n r II1C tampub pUlll'C, Itopv/.IJIW.V- I*..v ier some serious errors journalism. olice reports or a Andre in communication in Journalism, Writer se and although I would # m ittempted to speculate TTIld Vlf ftV*Y call, no one from the ny knowledge, attemp- To the editor: itact me or any other Mr. Guilfoyle ha duty that night to con- conic up with some the simplest facts con- ideas in his recent coll : matter. and most curious am his contention that all, The Gamecock ran South Africa Alliarn story on this incident no effect or legitima jk after it happened. 1 broadens its scope that news. In fact, 1 apartheid everywhc y forgotten about the world, especially il 1 picked up the paper where the British oi icsday morning. The his ancestors. Unforti )le caller probably had Guilfoyle, you ar Lawrence Beauford, misinformed. >f USC environmental Just what, since vas quoted as saying, knowledgeable, do 3 y you can, you try to to do about Northerr ng the person making that unfortunate ai anything." Yet, has situation you have, < e caller front page Margaret Thatche ? at least it's a week British Governmt match Ronald Reagi sigence, if not ignoi uture, I hope the staff Protestant commun mecock will thoroughly loyalty to Britain. ( : the articles it prints. side is the IRA, te an example of both ir- have lost whati _ 1 ? uamecucK ^ t L ? h Astltlanl Nr%%? hdltor* Sport* Kdltor Todd Hines Jeff Shrewsbury II rend a Blylh A?t4i(?nl Sporls Mltor Viewpoint Miioi Wayne Washinxton Hal Millard Photography Kdllor TL. 1/ i Money Kdllor > "umu* riurri/trirry Candy Harr AutWlani Photography Kdlto Feature Kdltor Nick Leoncavallo Tamara Willis Graphics Kdltor Attlilant Kraturei Kdltor Rob!) Lane Patrick Jean S\ EP OUT Of THE. CAR ] .EASE, SENATOR SANFORP-.J ^ *l< with the prez , beer to the table, the ambassador asked why there were olives in it. "Pappy thinks its the common man's martini," I said. "Oh, here comes Pappy now." "Let me see some ID." 12:33 p.m. Two mature-looking guys like me and the president chafed at being carded, but we came up clean. The ambassador had ; some trouble, though. "'Licensio por la manejando del coche en el Rcpublica dc Panama?' You kids arc getting better and better, but you can't fool ol' i Pappy," the proprietor said. He took out his shears and the ID was clipped. ^ 12:48 p.m. The ambassador went crazy ? when he got the John Wayne burger. Mine ?i was fine. r He was yelling "Diplomatic immunity" ;~ when the cops took him away. C 1:01 p.m. "Well, 1 had this next hour C scheduled for the ambassador," the president X said. "What do we do now?" > 1:31 p.m. "Gin," I said. 1:45 p.m. "Checkmate." \ 5:31 p.m. We had a cookout at the Presi- '* dent's House after our long hard day. The X beeny-weenies were great. 7:00 p.m. We watched the news. v 8:00 p.m. Cosby was on. ~ 11:00 p.m. We watched the news. 11:31p.m. "Side side side, side side side, up and down. . . . 11:44 p.m. "Well, was it really rough today, Tdear?" the president's wife said. "Ah, it wasn't that bad, except for when the ambassador swallowed my Timex and yelled '1 can feel it keep on ticking.'" > "Well, sleep will make you feel better dear." ;' ^ "Say, you guys don't snore do you?" I ' asked. .? ' ;; I shoddy legitimacy they may once have had by recently turning to protecw Robinson tion rackets and extortion among sophomore their Catholic supporters to raise funds. Beyond this is Ireland's ems position as an economic colony of Britain, Europe and the ; nprl United States, with an unemploy- " ^ ment rate of over 20 percent and a currency artificially pegged to is certainly 95 percent of the British pound's interesting value, in the desperate hope that \ jmns. Chief this will create some jobs. Before ong these is Ireland can be reunified, without 1 USC's Free another major depopulation, all ! :e can have of these problems must be ; icy unless it addressed. v to address I feel, Mr. Guilfoyle, that it is ; ;re in the up to you to address these proin Ireland, blems. The members of the nee insulted FSAA have, in addition to ' unately, Mr. classes, papers and work, taken < e seriously on this cause because they believe in it. Thev believe that their ef you are so forts will make at least a small * /ou propose difference in South Africa. Since 1 Ireland? In you have found another such nd stagnant situation, I hope you will also I on one side, find the time and energy to r and the organize for it, to do something ; :nt, which about it, beyond "crying green an in intran- tears for the old sod." In this, ance, and a you will have my support, for / ity of rabid what little that's worth. \)n the other ; rrorists who David Babson |. ever little Graduate student 0 11 1 1 ' i mi in 11 Datcbook Editor Director of Student Media t/?. I ; s^:ii nil y-11 14 murier iritr \.jnutrri Dili C. tern CMS + Comic* Editor Production Tracy Mixson Chuck Norris * Wire Editor Son Ha Z Gillian Smith Advtrtklng M?n?g?r ? r Advlttr Margaret Michels } Bill Rogers Aulstant Advertising ? ( raduate Aulitanl Manager , Mary Anne Hanich Jan Hodges' , _ A I ; Bfi