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wg r" . .... A. . o Sports l:m mA cold front win bring f t ive billion not enough! page 2 If you're waiting to see a professionlower temperatures and more al sports^ exhibition at Carolina Coliseum pjj n . ?r , . 1 . 1 1 or Willlams-Brice Stadium, you're in for a [MS ^gjow 70s. But^heat and Stanley Kubrick is back page 3 | long wait. A USC policy bans such | HH The Gamecock /Founded 1908 Wednesday Volume 80, No. 5 University of South Carolina July 15, 1987 |?J i Gephar* 1 By MICHELLE SCHOHN i Staff Reporter U.S. Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., a contender ? for the 1988 presidential 1 nomination, brought his cam1 * - paign to USC Thursday, adv dressing issues such as higher , ' education and AIDS. Gephardt, the leader in some early polls, spoke to about 50 people in Gambrell j Hall. i Gephardt said funding | education is America's 1 greatest challenge. "By the year 2000, we'll have the besteducated people in the world. Nothing is more important than that goal," he said. The congressman said his ^ plans to achieve that goal include an increase in research dollars spent on commercial and civilian projects at univer, sities such as USC. He also in' ~ tends to increase student loan ( appropriations and otter . states additional financial aid | as an incentive to improve their test scores. Gephardt said he plans to deal with the epidemic of >. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome primarily through education and research. ! While mandatory testing is important, he said, it should be limited to certain hospital patients and immigrants, because it would cost about 7 v rWof prnr ,/ v y aivi 51 '| By PATRICK JEAN Editor in Chief J Archibald Cox discussed politic 8 umbia Sunday, but he declined \ man who fired him from his Watergate prosecutor in 1973 'V Supreme Court nominee Robert E fc Cox, national chairman of politi Common Cause, spoke to about ( ; f umbia's Marriott Hotel. He dis | * Contra scandal and congressional ding revisions. 1 # In the so-called Saturday Night ! J then-President Richard Nixon < AIDS pi IBy MARY PEARSON and LAURIE SNELSON Staff Reporters USC does not have a specific student policy concerning the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome virus, and officials said \uiL~y nave iiu jjiaua iu titait uuw. But out of 20 students surveyed Monday, all said USC should have some type of policy conceri . ning AIDS. All 20 also agreed j that more on-campus education i S about the virus is needed. V Woody Carothers, vice presil dent of student affairs, said ^ although USC does not have any set policy, university otticials 1 I follow guidelines developed by L the American College Health 1 Association. P "The key words we are using really sum up our program, i ^ IL { / AIDS isa virus that Was fin Am | J981, but its origin can be tracec The official^ rtairte^f the vli I V^rus, or HIV. The vlriip is desti "T4" ceils, which direct the be Medical research shows trai allowed oiriy through the excha the bloodstream of another pit! Ill Direct contact is required wit l or semen to contract the disease I AIDS through normal social int t or spitting, doctors say. j I. Studies have shown the risk q k ( ing the number of sexual partri \ \ ^ I history before having sex; avok sex; avoiding any injury to bo< J I the use of inhaled recreational < 1 dt stum ? JmSfm m flK MMsnr BBSS fln Jj&z ^ ^ JKL.' I I'" - BH v Missouri Congressman Richard paign stop at Gambrell Hall Thur $12 billion to test every American just once. Gephardt said he could not explain all of the shortcomings of the Reagan administration in one campaign stop. "We just don't have time," 1^ cniH "P nncilrl Rpaonn tricrl to make us feel good. Now, we need to be good." One major disagreement he has with President Reagan is the controversial plan to fly American flags on Kuwaiti shipping vessels. He said the purpose of the American presence in the Persian Gulf ate nros dismissal. The resigned rather :al issues in Col- Solicitor Genei comment on the he did so to rm job as special ment, Cox de< ? United States dismissal ? or tork. "It seems to ical reform group he said. "If th< 50 people at Col- on record, th< cussed the Iran- speak out. I campaign spen- "Mysccreta but taking tel Vlassacreof 1973, have no eomn demanded Cox's probably neve olicy nee\ These are education and preven tion he said. Carothers said USC has set uj an AIDS advisory committer made up of representatives fron campus departments such as ad missions, resident studen development, the Thomson Stu -J * I I 1*1. A T In!, ucm ncaiiu v^cuiti uiiu uuivcisi ty Housing Services to addres student concerns. The committee offers a variet of educational programs throug each department, such as testin for the disease, counseling an physician's care, he said. Jay Smith, USC assistar director of admissions, said a sti dent is admitted on his academi i skills and how he will contribut to overall student life on campi ; ? not on sexual preference c health. ibout AIDS *. , t,, 'k it reported Itv the United States in 110 some central African countries. is Human Immune Deficiency fiiCtive because it attacks the body's *Jy-s immune responses. reference of the AIDS disease is nge of blood or semen directly into son. h tile contaminated person's blood i. There is no chance of contracting eraction such as coughing, sneezing f AIDS can be decreased by: reducers; "knowing your panner's sexual ting exchange of body fluids during iy tissues during sex, and avoiding irugs wftieft can weaken the immuns ifiii i i H - -i jMT..'/.; -f. 'X'Za... f^3~'"^^j1:"-''^^K. *?*' ' ' ttk -, Gephardt, a 1988 presidential hopefi sday. was to keep oil shipping lanes open, not to choose sides in the war between Iran and Iraq. Gephardt said he is also opposed to giving aid to the Con tras in Nicaragua, because the mission of the United States is to keep foreign influence out of the region and keep Nicaragua's Sandinista government from harming its neighbors. This mission could be achieved, he said, through rnmnrnmiup with the San dinistas and economic ;ecutor \ ; attorney general and his deputy than carry out his orders, but thenral Bork complied. While Bork said lintain stability in the Justice Depart:lined to express his opinion on his on Bork's nomination 14 years later, me that the facts are all on record," ire were any facts I knew that weren't ?n I might feel some obligation to ry spends an entire day doing nothing ephone calls and telling the press I lent on the Bork nomination ? and r intend to," Cox said. ded, stud "There is a zero percent case ratio of AIDS on the USC3 Columbia campus," said Frane cisco Sy, associate professor of i epidemiology in the College oi Health. "There is no need to t 4'There is a zero perc s the USC-Columbia cam h g d ostracize a student (who contracts AIDS)." it Sy, who is also director of the i- Carolina AIDS Research anc ic Education Project, said, "The) e (AIDS victims) are still humar is beings and should be treated a: >r such, since there are primarilj only two ways a person can be ex posed to the disease. These ar< I I through having sex or sharing < II needle with person who has th< I disease." He also said the AID* Ij victim should be tell his room !! mate he has the virus. i Sy said he believes USC students have a fair level o knowledge of the disease, f "However, clearly there is : need for more mass educatioi about AIDS," he said. "Educa tion is needed not only to inforti the public, but also to persuad jj& individuals to modify thei | behavior. It is a matter of life am death." m An interdisciplinar I studies/sociology junior wh i declined to be identified compile b a report on AIDS for a summe | course. "Students seem to have taken mm pretty cavaiier aitituac toward arol^a \ Hfc~.jHMhiKjHHF' lUHHI SICK t.EONCA VAl.l.O'Thr Gamecock ill, talks politics during a cammcasures, using military intervention as a last resort. n\ t cniH ln? ic ttrnnolv opposed to Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court. He said Bork's firing of special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox under orders from then-President Richard Nixon in 1973 should disqualify him fro m appointment. Gephardt said he believes he has a good chance of winning most of the South in the "Super Tuesday" primaries this March. von't ta The statements of Lt. Col. C Iran-Contra scaiidal reveal mai ween President Reagan's aides a who were involved in Watergate "North paints a picture of h frightening," he said. "It bring was said during Watergate: 'We dinary rules applied to us becau in a mission. And it was the miss us, not the rules.' "That's the kind of indifferei contempt for law, the effort by White House staff to avoid poli that we saw in the Nixon admin PfltV C/7V AIDS, but do realize that it is problem," the report said. "Tlu seem to know how it is sprea< but still have a great fear of coi trading it through soci; contact.'' ent case ratio of AIDS oi pus." Francisco S USC epidemiology professo "It is such a scary thing," sa ^ /a - .j I Mi sail uwcns, an uuui-uun ; sophomore. "I know you car I get it from being in the sari * room with someone. Most peop i seem to joke about it a lot. i "If it came down to someo / on campus actually getting t disease, I think people probat - would take it more seriously i she said. - Kevin F.pps, a psycholo 5 sophomore, said AIDS studei should be admitted to the univ< sity. But it assigned to room wi - an AIDS victim, he would f quest a room change, he said. "The roommate has a right a know," said a physical educati n sophomore who asked not to identified. "He might have to n told by the university. It e depends on how concerned I r person is about other peopl d health." The sophomore also said m< y AIDS education is needed, o "It scares me not to know d would like to know more," r said. Editor's note: This is the first i a series of stories on the A! Is virus and its impact at (JSC. Local | plan to By MARY PEARSON News Kditor Two Columbia crouos onnos ed to USC support foundations' investment in American companies doing business in South Africa plan to begin campus protests Friday. Members of the Carolina Peace Resource Center and the South Carolina Coalition for the Liberation of South Africa said Thursday they will picket on the corner of Pendleton and Sumter streets every Friday at noon. The groups' members said they want the Educational Foundation and Carolina Research and Development Foundation to divest by Sept. 15. A report from the groups said the foundations had about $4.6 million invested in companies doing business in South Africa in June 1986, when financial statements were filed with the South Carolina secretary of state's public charity division office. Chris Vlahoplus, executive director for both foundations, is also USC executive vice president for administration. This past October, he said the Educational Foundation had about $500,000 invested in companies that do 11_ _ 1 IK clDOU )livcr North in the Cox also spo ly similarities bet- bill being deb; nd the Nixon aides limit congressi , Cox said. tributions by \: is superiors that is vide partial pu s to my mind what "This is a g didn't think the or- what is one of se we were engaged way elections c ;ion that counted to current bill fai away." ice toward law, the Cox said St r secrecy within the presidential ho itical accountability vote on the bill listration," he said. ported by both a J, rial fl I y r id * ~ rra ' ?d I i *1 I ?^ J?*"* mmmmmmmmmmmm ,!!! ilh , . *? ' v-> < . r- . - .? *?- * to -''V " * * *' *4* on be - V ^ be all X- *- ? ' ' * ' y :he ."**? e's M-r > . * * * * * , >* >f - ^ - V' ? Nfi. W * *v y* >v; > .Ml' i Stars and Stripes a *le Many Carolinians enjoyed beach. Mandy Brings (left) a " N.C., spent Independence I) lS Carolina. I I groups I ninlrAt 1 business in South Africa. He also pt| said both foundations invest in ggg companies that follow the \ Sullivan Principles, which are pp meant to promote fair treatment pg? for black South Africans working te| for American companies. ess "Those figures fluctuate from month to month," he said. "I > ; make that clear. That figure was ppg just a snapshot at a given time, and that is all it was." Mp About $470,000 of the Eiduca- j||| tional Foundation's investments fgj were in two companies not Hi following the Sullivan Principles fSpi at the time, the report said. |? But Vlahoplus said the founda- HJ tions' investors had strict orders fel to only invest in companies pi following the principles. p| "Our goal is to earn as much ||J money for the college as possi- |p ble," said James Morris, presi- pi dent of the Educational Founda- H Hon. "we believe in me ^univan f ^ Principles, and we are going to [ . follow them with or without (the \ \Rev. Leon) Sullivan." Sullivan L; : denounced the principles this past ||| May. ft Arthur Williams, president of p? Pnmliii!i PiHoarcli :?nrt T^pvclnn- fS! mem Foundation, said the report fa used by the groups was not up to p t Bork I ke about a Common Cause-endorsed jp tied in the U.S. Senate that would p onal campaign spending, cut con>olitical action committees and pro- f. blic financing for Senate races. j-: ri-j. .mnrtrtnnilv Inr in fn rlpan lin our greatest national scandals ? the ire financed," he said. "Even if this Is in the Senate, the issue will not go n. Robert Dole of Kansas, a 1988 peful, is leading a filibuster to block . "He is, I'm sorry to say, being supi of your senators ," he said. j ii a rfiri ? 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