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j|t Partly cloudy today with highs in J 1 4 .4. 9 j ?n "1 A record trying to raise concern j __ upperc|7osy Lows^tonigh, I Gamecocks get even with Pack | per mental labs is good and may | T?1 ' A I 1 he bamecock I % Founded 1908 Monday H Volume 80, No. 35 University of South Carolina November 2, 1987 I S.G. set for new Coordination causes problems U? THMV MOUKMO Copy editor The campus lighting improvements Student Senate promised earlier this year have not been made, but Student Government Vice President Leigh Hunter said the project is far from dead. The plans for Light Ways, a lighted path along the most traveled routes on campus, was organized this past year by the S.G. Safety Task Force Committee, but it has not yet matured. Hunter said the project is moving slowly because of attempts to work together with the Resident Hall ^ naautiauuii, vviniu iiaa uwvii nu 11x1115 on the same type of project. She said before actual work can begin, they must work with RHA to finalize the plans and present a proposal to the department of Facilities ^ Planning, which will supply the I money for the project, i,. "1 guess in a way we've overlapped /l some of the things we've both been IV:' working on," Hunter said. "It's hard to get so many people together to get one thing accomplished. This task is so important to both RHA %JIUgUi By TONY MORENO and TODD HI Staff writers Prc-semester promises to improve s more campus lighting and reopen th< non-alcoholic nightclub/lounge are close to being fulfilled, Student Government President ivucnaei nogue saiu. Several obstacles have delayed action by S.G. in the first half of this semester, but Hogue said many of the projects planned for the fall will begin before the spring semester. ^ vyIIC U1 W1C UUtJUI ctCMVlllC.S Ul HI S.G. has been its working with 1 USC utilities to plan lighted paths heavily traveled areas. Money has b Peace rally successful. 1 2wuvs sav (J X ^ By RITA COSBY Staff writer The Free South Africa Alliance and the Alliance for Peace sponsored a joint annual peace rally Friday in front of Russell House. A totallv studeni organized and 1^^ supported three-hour event, the rally contained six speakers and two bands. Emphasis was placed on the Central American issues, and there was also a strong speech delivered by black civil rights activist Modjeska Simkins. cI -wi i,: i i : i ? 1111 K 111 IltlU ClllUUraglllg WOIUS for the two peace groups. "You must keep up the hard work and will later be rewarded," she said. The groups had to face lastminute scheduling and cancellation problems by their speakers. "It was a lot of work putting il Idii tugcuici , sciiu rnjjiiMl ctlHJ religious studies senior Amy Brown, vice president of th< Alliance for Peace. They accepted donation; throughout the day and raisec $200. "We about broke even financial ly with the actual cost of the rally Fortunately all the bands ant speakers donated their time," sai( women studies senior Malind; Hamann, president of the Allianci For Peace. Brown said the USC aroun I received over 1,800 signatures oi their petition urging USC suppor foundations to divest from Soutl Q} Africa. "I was very happy with this tur nout. If we get 2,500 signatures . l_^= ? plan li&hts and us that we want to make sure we have it down pat before sending the proposal to Facilities Planning." Todd Christenson, president of RHA, was unavailable for comment. But I)ave Rinkcr, systems vice president for facilities planning, said his department has allocated funds for general campus lighting, and although work on Light Ways has not begun, general lighting improvements are being made. 1 lie iittULini is uciug sti ii|;, uuu the money is being used," he said. "We've worked with these student groups by involving them in surveys to come up with an analysis of the deficiencies around campus. We've used that data to develop our approach to solving some of the Il?llllllg |/IVJUlVim. He said they are having the lamps in some areas upgraded by increasing the voltage and wattage for greater visibility. But these improvements are not a part of Light Ways. Rather, Light Ways is a specific part of these improvements, since it will use money allotted for general lighting improvements. Still, the idea of lighted paths for students to follow should be a welcome one, said Mary Louise Ramsdalc, chairman of the Safety Task Force. See "Lights," page 2 ? says i NFS new lights by faci Hogue said he e tudent parking, add this semester and e Golden Snur as a semester. tm Volunteers fror tHall Association ' find areas needini Planning. Lighting will the parking lots, will be the comi Also, a few of i down, providing Vfirhopl llouiip lot and regular st around campus in The Golden Sp een allotted for the issue for more thi h\ itiWlh Students look over the tables an groups to divest their holdings in S( > tunies were manned by members o 2 Alliance for Peace and Amnesty Int _JH Wtk^^^//M ^ iM ' iSl ' fet is ^ i e^i ifk^^lH^^^HH^HSHHKSsHpCiMHifc Ip&l 3 JK From one leader to another USC President James Holderman presents Vice President George Bush with a Gamecock footb Bush was in Columbia campaigning. 11 /? 1 /?*fl te will juijui pron lities planning, Hogue said. anticipated, should begin over Christmas and be xpects installation to begin at the end of completed in the spring, Hogue said. Everything has been continue until the beginning of spring approved for the facility to reopen, including structural pians, s agreement 10 provide ioou anu more man n the Student Senate and the Resident $60,000 of student activities fees to finance the took several walks this past semester to renovation. ; lighting and drew a map for Facilities Hogue said he anticipates a need to raise the student activities fee, but he said the entire renovation and upkeep also be installed at various student costs must be examined first. r?d campus along with paving and lining He said a special committee formed after the S.G. One of the first Dlaces to be improved finance codes will look into the costs of funding and nuter student parking lot on Pickens operating the facility. The committee will then report its findings to Hogue. the buildings next to the lot will be torn 20 to 30 extra spaces for the commuter A new student handbook will also be issued next udent lot beside it, he said. semester after long delays caused by a change in project ur renovation, which has been a major organizers, Ilogue said. He said there was a lull since the an a ytai anu nas iars.cn inuit iiiui; man ov;uaic luinnnucc inangcu niiniuci:*, uui uic new IM nuiiiniisiiniiuu icpuucr ~It got down to 35 degrees Thursday night on the Russell _4?i _ House patio, and six USC students spent that cold night 'n a "house" made of cardboard, a homemade shanty. -j^L^T*' The students were protesting the fact that the Carolina Research and Development Foundation and the Educafir tional Foundation, two university-support organizations, V , ^have investments in companies doing business in South ttgjgj 'n addition to protesting the investments, the shanty was built to illustrate the living conditions of black South A fririnc tin/lnr onort^iai/l thn rtn/ioist c coi/l t ivi4ii?7 UIIUVI apai IIIVIU, nit siuuviii.) IQIU. R "Yes, I am going to stay out here all night," theatre tu J JM arts senior John Coulter said. Coulter is a member of the I % I Free South Africa Alliance, the group that sponsored the JSF | event. The Alliance for Peace also helped with the event, '' Jg9H a preamble to the annual Alliance for Peace rally held "It sort of validates the whole statement that we arc trying to make ? you build a shanty to simulate pESfe*-. Programs exis __ 1 Editor's note: This is the second in a know that if yo series of stories The Gamecock is safe lifestyle running ui/uw mu^ una us ejjecis eliminate your CI1 MWH | on USC and its students. the disease," he ' V- | By JEFF SHREWSBURY Pruitt said US \ Assistant news editor AIDS classes, 7f_.., - - j Getting people information and available to the U ; . counseling about AIDS is a primary on request of the iSHfe ; " - ? : 7 Sb way to help stop the spread of the the university doc ' ?j disease, a university administrator formation and V ' said. students, but it " "i Dennis Pruitt. vice nresident of nvailaM^ ;; student affairs, said USC has taken a Literature aboi : . v;,: * . . H stand that edueation about acquired tape and eounsc USC, Woody best way for the university to help vice president < id sign a petition askinR USC support combat its effects. said. Also, the >uth Africa at a peace rally Friday. The "We want them (students) to Health Center ke f The Free South Africa Alliance, The understand AIDS and how it is policy so student ernational. transmitted and not to be alarmed ask questions an< about it ? understand it enough to Both Carothci '*pr ^ I ail jersey neiore tne IN.C. Male game Saturday. J nises soon members are working quickly in getting the handbook I finished. I rrogress nas been maue in combining enoris 01 orancn campus presidents to work toward the same goals. A resolution will go before the Senate this week to form an association of the system presidents that will meet three times a semester to discuss issues important to the USC system. S.G. Vice President Leigh Hunter, who presides over the Senate, said the resolution is likely to pass. Hogue said this association could be very effective in pushing for full-formula funding. Full-formula funding is complete state support for a university's operating costs. The state General Assembly is not in session, so Hogue said no major lobbying has been planned, but he said when the legislators return in January, the USC system presidents will work together to lobby for the funding. See "Hogue," page 2 USC investments conditions in the townships, and it all makes sense to live in it for n:?ht and find out just what the conditions are," Cornier said. The Free South Africa Alliance has said the two rn..niini;nnr r;nnnnioi . i ic/-' i,.,,,.. i u u 11 u u 11 u 11.1, ?> 111 v_ 11 51 vl financial 1 1 \j ujv,, nav^. S4.6 million invested in companies doing business in South Africa as of June 31, 1986. This information was found in the foundations' 1985-86 financial statements to the Secretary of State's Charity Division Office. The Free South Africa Alliance received permission from the university to sleep all night on the patio, but were required to hire a security guard. The group spent the evening listening to music, eating popcorn and talking about why they were out on the patio. During the evening, other members of the groups came out to encourage the participators. Mechanical engineering junior Frank Timmons came out to give support to the other students sleeping in the shanty. "The whole issue of apartheid and the South Africa See "Shanty," page 2 t to increase S awareness u practice a good, that the information on AIDS and you can greatly counseling arc available, and ances of contracting students need not give their names, said. USC also has a class about AIDS, C does not require which was started in 1986 for Honors but speakers are College students. This spring, the iniversity 101 classes class will again be offered, but it will instructor. He said be open to ail undergraduate :s not try to force in- students. counseling on the Dr. Fransisco Sy, director of the makes these things Carolina AiDS Research and Education Projcct and professor of it aiu:>, an epidemiology in the school ot rublic ling is available at Health, is teaching a graduate course rot hers, an assistant in AIDS education dealing with the )f student affairs, medical aspect of the disease. He also Thomson Student lectures extensively to groups about eps an "open door" the disease and says he thinks, other is may come in and than abstinence and safe sex, educaonymously. tion is the only way to help prevent rs and Pruitt stress See "AIDS," pajje 2 J