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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
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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
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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. ^
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Peace rally
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Students look over the tables an
groups to divest their holdings in S(
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USC President James Holderman presents Vice President George Bush with a Gamecock footb
Bush was in Columbia campaigning.
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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
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~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
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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
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' V- | By JEFF SHREWSBURY Pruitt said US
\ Assistant news editor AIDS classes,
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; . 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
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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
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members are working quickly in getting the handbook I
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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
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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
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