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1 gj . _ Neil Simon's 'Biloxi Blues' Pllilrt "" I Gamecocks defeat themselves The Gamecock ' Founded 1908 Monday j? Volume 80, No. 21 University of South Carolina September 28, 1987 a - 7 . HHHi . 1 Bp! ^1 mm MiWl imiBiaiiliir, a PPB2T^ "" I ? m ?T'.. > Pfcr - Thrust and parry Two members of USC's Fencing Club, sophomore Geoffrey Mi 1 at (he student organization fair on Russell House patio Wednesd j Faculty Senal I By MARY PKARSON conduct Adminislrutlon reporter salaries Faculty salaries at USC are below the salary averages of 3) Dear other Southeastern state universities, but the USC Faculty dated s Senate is trying to do something about it. their de nru~ r? i-- - "' 1 ^ i iic ratuay wenarc committee will present the Facul- 4) The ty Senate with a set of proposals for devising a salary salary p policy at the senate meeting Oct. 7, said Trevor Howard- creases Hill, chairman of the committee. In 19 The proposals will include the following: average 1) Salary levels should be brought up to at least the South study sa Eastern sample. and full torn hal 2) An immediate examination of faculty salaries should be The s l^T ~i ? new uuscenuy la to restrict theatre I By TONY MORENO "If a movie is PG-13 and Datebook editor one scene with nudity or s< The obscenity law that goes into tivity, we're going to have effect Thursday is already affecting people just to be safe," said movie theaters across the state, say For example, he said he wou some theatre managers. movie such as Dirty Dancin The new state law will place felony R-rated movie because it h uu anyone caugni scenes that are questionable distributing sexually explicit material that his theater will not adm to minors, so theater managers, not with notes from parents, the owners, will be held accountable "It's just not worth the ri for any violation of the law. mit a minor," he said. "Th The law originated to stop video thing could blow over very s< rental stores and X-rated book stores it really wasn't meant for from selling pornographic material but we're going to have to f< to minors. But because movie law until it is amended." theaters also show explicit subject The law is also affecting t matter on occasion, managers will be practices of theater manager: admitting audiences with caution. caused many theaters to "We're carding everybody under pmnlnvccc whr? 25 just to make sure they are over 18," said Kevin Wilson, manager of Wilson said his theater gei Jefferson Square Theater, a member tal consent forms signed wh< of the Roth theater chain. minors and has not fired Wilson, a finance/management because of their age. But junior, says the problem is that no Roth Theaters in North C one is sure how the law will be en- where an obscenity law has forccd in theaters, and no one is tak- gone into effect, have fired ing chances. employees who are minors. Catholic Church faces cri says theoloeical nrofessnr 9 ~ - ? r By KIMBKKI.Y I). HUN 11,FY philosophy of using religiou Staff writer in politics ? in the Catholic Despite the pope's recent trip to and her views on the churc America, "a crisis of credibility" under Pope John Paul II. faces the Catholic Church, said Ruether is a Georgia F theological professor Rosemary professor of applied thee Ruether Tuesday at Gambrell Garret-Evangelical The< auditorium. Seminary and Northwestern She said the values of the Vatican sity in Chicago. in Rome, the home base of Catholic With more than 600 < operations, are different from those engagements to her credit, of American churches. has taught at Harvard, Y RllPfh^r c?vc r?ri??ctc cIiaiiM ha 1' - "? *' 1 ' ' ,.?.,uiu uy. i i uiiciuii mcuiogicai scmitu allowed to wed and women should be A admitted to the priesthood. The pope Also to her credit arc 20 bo has said he opposes both ideas. more than 500 articles for i Ruether also talked about the magazines. Ruether is a co history of liberation theology ? the for the National Catholic Re{ I 15 1 By JEFF SHR *jji& ?K HHSj v ? ^Mp chemical into ' ^ - other than a cl HUT - smoke," he sai ^ were no studer ~ T; \V .. used liquid nil ? ' >" ^ - oxygen. ^* ^,4t* ' j* "It went out from the fire BRIAN SAUI.S/Tht Gamecock and liberated S (HCL), and tl cLean (left) and junior Kdward Switzer, demonstrate fencing techniques police, I guess, ay> Six universit; treated for HCI :e to propose new sal ed to identify extreme cases of inequalities in have been compressed to barely compensate for inflatioi and salaries for high school teachers with doctorates a is of colleges and departments should keep up- higher than manv assistant anH n?;cr>piat^ lausucs on nation-wide salaries comparable to salaries. partinents or colleges. The study was conducted by the committee in an a administration should establish a comprehensive tempt to address widespread dissatisfaction with faculi olicy for the university which separates merit in- salary levels, Howard-Mill said. from cost of living raises. USC faculty said reasons for this status vary, but mar 86-'87, out of 50 major state universities, USC's said the no. 1 cause was the lack of full-formula fundir salary for assistant professors ranked at 29, the from the state legislature. id. The average salary of the associate stood at 35, "We are in the hands of the legislature," Assoeiai professorial average salaries were also in the bot- History Professor Ed Bearsley said. "The university hi f of the list at 26. to operate within the limit of the funds provided by tl itudy also revealed that annual salary increases legislature, but unless there is a change in heart and th even m1 ^.!;VV.; S}?y in \ / fes i wnson. HUHHH^^^BHH^v^HpH Id treat a V%fi<g like an yrfl. % a few hR-- < _j* &H9 ,;v^-''. adding fi jS I l^gifll:-' 'ir^BLfl . to >f I[$* 8B^BBi|BBmBBWw|Mp^P^^%<MB^^B^iMH[m^:y| ,-w ..% )on 1 -ji ? 1 heaters, : figg^ f^gjj )llow the ?? I .... |fcjj||f/f:. .'jJMlg MB X^vV^.V " > : .*& *g" Ei K I i I j '4^pr. and has B is paren- v :n hiring ILi / J anyone ' r Carolina, . ^HDHb HHMffljjj^HBP?^^'11*'" |ii ale and KHTH JONF.S/The Gamecn iries. jjere comes (fa judge oks and \ judge in the Homecoming Queen competition, Kobhie Fostor, reviews information on one lational 0f n,e 20 semifinalists Sunday in Kusscll House. The Homecoming committee was conducting lumnist the interview portion of the competition. porter. \ aky valve irted fire FWSBURY Medical Center, and five were releasditor ed Thursday. valve on a gas tank One of the officers injured, George ay's chemical fire that Jones, was not discharged until olice officers in the Saturday. ice building, Jerome The others treated and released try department chair- were Officer Thomas Collier, Officer Rodney Mills and Reserve F'olice Of>n a tank full of tri- ficers Troy Brown, John Calhoun a chemical which ig- and Michelle Massey. /ith oxygen, leaked the The chemcial that caused the fire a graduate research was a gift from a chemcial company the building's seventh to the university for research, Odom said. He said he said. He said the valve must have valve Friday when he decayed because of time. He said all the lab. other chemical tanks have been he first person on the checked for leaks and others from y afternoon, and he the same company will be disposed it the fire with liquid of. r? r:? J - vuntu iui lire- uepari- "We checked everything out Frill to arrive. He said day," Odom said. "It seems OK, but e damage to the lab, we're going to dispose of the other larred cabinet door. chemicals from the company for y office, and 1 smclled safety reasons." id. "I made sure there No other injuries were reported its in the lab and then Thursday, but the building was irogen to blanket the evacuated while the HCL fumes were cleared with baking soda, said Danny llalor : viv.t pmiucni lor law quickly, but the heat enforcement and safety. had cracked a bottle ome hydrocloric acid There were some reports of people hat's what hurt the in the building not hearing the fire " he said. alarms, but Baker said according the / police officers were information available there were no - inhalation at Baptist problems with the evacuation. ary policy n, legislature favors us more, the faculty will not see any sufre ficient raises." al Beardsley said the administration also needs to rethink its priorities. tty "The president has a goal to make USC a front rank school with high quality faculty, and making salaries a ly number one priority is critical," he said. "But as long as ig the faculty feel they will not be awarded equitably, then this goal is impossible." te is USC Provost Fra.icis Borkowski said faculty salaries le remains one of the highest priorities of the ic aummisiraiion. I~ Swearingen set for dedication By TODD HINES Assistant news editor The dedication ceremonies and conference for thr inhn IE. Swearingcn Engineering Center Oct. 16-17 should look like a "Who's Who" of the economic and business world. Among featured participants in the dedication and conference will be John Naisbitt, author of Megatrends', Secretary of Labor William Brock; Secretary of Commerce William Verity; and Larry Fuller, president of American Oil Co. "We ! j brought together an outstanding group of speakers who understand the shift toward a knowledgebased economy and the fiscal benefits nf remtrrh in or. j novative university environment," said W. K. Humj phries, acting dean of USC's College of Engineering. Vi Also present at the event will be Gov. Carroll CampI bell; U.S. Sens. Strom Thurmond and Ernest Hollings; I chairman of the General Electric Co. of Great Britain, I James Prior; and Capt. John Young, astronaut at the H Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. The dedication ceremony, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Oct. k 16, will include remarks by USC alumnus and center namesake John Swearingen, one of the nation's most ] respected industrial leaders. P "In dedicating this tremendous facility, we want to em|v phasize the importance of higher education in assuring j| that South Carolina continues to move towards a growing P industrial economy," Humphries said. 21 ' ! Ytmy win ucgm me conierence with a speech called & "Science and Technology: A View of Economic Develop(v ment in America." Then a panel of engineering faculty members will pre% sent "An Introduction to Research and its Implications Ion Economic Development Currently Conducted in the John E. Swearingen Engineering Center." Participants and guests will tour the facility and witness demonstrations in some of the research labs after the (dedication. Another panel will discuss technological research in South Carolina. I Included on the panel will be Robert Royall.. president of Citizens and Southern Bank; Richard Greer, chairman of the State Development Board and president and chairman of INTEX Products Inc.; W. W. Johnson, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of North Carolina * National Bank; and former governor Robert McNair. C John Warren, president and chief executive officer of South Carolina Electric and Gas Co., will chair a session called "Economic Development in the Midst of Shrinking Global Resources." Naisbitt will speak at 9 a.m. Saturday on "Towards the Millenium."