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^ . . ... I J _ _ "ZT ~ ~ ~ _ _ ~~ ~~| The USC Dance Company will j "J I j USC preps for Met Life Classic | I The Gamecock I O F?unded 1908 Friday H Volume 80, No. 37 University of South Carolina November 6, 1987 H DHEC n rumor o By TODD IIINKS Assistant news e?Htor Rumors of a ease of AIDS on carnal pus arc being invesitgated by the the state Department of Health and Environmental Control, a USC doctor said. Dr. Richard Ball of the USC Department of Preventive Mcdicinc, who is working with DHEC studying infectious diseases, said the department is investigating the possibility that a female student tested positive for the AIDS virus while out of state. He said they don't have the name of the female they have heard of. Because the test was done out of state, they have no authority to get the records. Dr. Ball spoke to fraternity members Tuesday night at the Kappa Sigma lounge. He presented a slide show, AIDS literature and condoms. "The high-risk individuals are not going to get tested locally," Ball said. Melody Hokansen, coordinator of greek affairs, who has been pro viding greek organizations with information and lectures about AIDS, said as far as she knows there arc no confirmed cases of AIDS at USC. Woody Carothcrs, assistant vice president of student affairs and chairman of the c; .pus AIDS advisory committee, also denied any cases reported on campus. He did say, though, that in any community the size of the USC campus there will most likely be some cases 01 He said there are two or three cases at the College of Charleston. High school- and college-aged peo plc are at a high-risk factor, Ball said. He called the disease an epidemic, because the number of AIDS cases in the United States doubles every year. Bill gives By KELLY S. MARSHALL Senate reporter Control of 1,500 student football I given to the Student Senate, a bill passe Senate meeting said. The bill was proposed by Athletic ( man E. J. Cousar and was passed Wednesday's meeting. Tickets not picked up by students hav n 11 Q I K/ Q C f r\ (tin A (Mnl nnr\ortm?* iiuuii; vjj u.vi. iv/ iiiv. r^iuiviiv. l/vj;ai iiiiv approval, Cousar said. Holdermait commission for higher c "Colleges and universiti mental and corporate leadi state and our people into satisfying life in the new n i @ By MARY PF.ARSON Administration reporter USC President James Holderman praised the Commission on Higher Education for their education plan Wednesday, saying it would carry South Carolina into the H forefront into the year H Iogy and communications make it imperative to 4 i iiai wc p i c j>iu c mu A to the commission IHHwrji during their annual James Hol< banquet. The main purpose of this year's banquet was to introduce the commission's plan for higher education, The Culling Edge, to state education leaders. Included in the plan are provisions to: m a C l (II 1 II 1 III U i uu in iSo iu ii standards, fund a state merit scholarship program, provide developmental education for students whose skills are ) below minimum standards, and develop a program to reduce illiteracy in South Carolina. The plan also calls for the state ^searches f AIDS "If you have sex with somebody now, then you've been sleeping with somebody they've had sex with for the past five or 10 years," he said.' The ratio of Americans who have AIDS is one in every 10,000 people for a total of 43,000 people. In 1986, there were a million to 1.5 million who had it worldwide. For every case confirmed, there is one uncomfirmed, and estimates say there are 50 carriers for every case. Ball said one cause for the massive amounts of AIDS patients among homosexuals is that their sexual drives are twice as much as heterosexuals. "We probably won't have a cure and vaccine until the end of this century, but there's intense research going on," Ball said. A push towards AIDS education and research is the hope for the future, he said. "Still, 13 years from now by the tnrn rtf f Kn ^nntnrti tim'rn 1 iui ii v/1 uiv uv 11 laiMii^ ^ billion cases of AIDS and 100 million Americans affected with the virus." In South Carolina, 250 people will be affected by the end of the year, and by 1991 there will be 5,000 cases and 250,000 carriers of the virus. Of the cases in the United States, homosexuals have 73.4 percent and heterosexuals have 26.6 percent. Ball said the disease wasn't recognized as a heterosexual disease until 1982. "It's not just a gay disease, no question about that." The ratio of males to females in America with the disease is 12 to one, but in Africa it is one to one. The chances of steady partners with one having AIDS spreading it is CO JO pciicill. "We have got to modify what we're doing to keep us safe," Ball said. > Senate Because the ticl fees, a check on t iickets should be needed, Cousar sa d at Wednesday's The bill requin Athletic Committe "ommittec Chair- tickets, and the Se unanimously at "It's unfair hov e been loaned an- pens to the tickets, nt without Senate ed back to the Atl "I think studci applauds l's agenda education es, together with governorship, need to guide our a more productive and lillenium. james Holderman, USC president General Assembly to increase appro .: c l* i j.. ^ cn/4 piiaiKMIN IUI IllgllCI CUUlctllUIl IU ^74 million for the fiscal year 1988-89, $63 million of which is required to bring the institutions to full-formula funding. B The plan also identifies sources of revenue for this increase. "Colleges and universities, together with governmental and corporate leadership, need to guide our state and our people into a more productive and RFJ3Kk9H satisfying life in the new lerman millcnium," Holderman said. "The universities must be players in the economic development of South Carolina." "We need to actively recruit minority faculty and students to our colleges and universities and provide resources and incentives to retain them on campus," he said. Other speakers at the banquet included Fred Shehecn, CHE Commissioner; James Morris Jr., executive director, State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education; and Frank Newman, president, Education Commission of the States, a national edcuational organization. tm \ HH ^l^yr' ' .'^ ^gHn^ i ' ^>. v-j^Vf ySm -. rrts^?^ ^r '^81 HPs Richard Pearson, an international studies senior and vice president of Kappa Sigma fraternity, stands by as Dr. Robert Ball of LJSC's department of preventive medicine distributes condoms during an AIDS awareness seminar Tuesday night. Kappa Sigma sponsored the seminar in its lounge. control of leftov* <ets are paid for by student activities tickets, because they do come out he distribution of leftover tickets was fees." id. The decision to table the bill for a es at least one representative of the posed by Sen. Stanley Davis, who sai :e to be involved in decisions involving given away if the bill was delayed, nate must approve any loan of tickets. "A week is long enough to give t there is nothing in writing that say: v they bypass us and decide what hap- In other business, the Powers " he said. "Thf tickets have been loan- Committee also reported on the prob iletic Department and had been sold. of textbooks being sold to students its should be compensated for these Sample copies are not for sale, bi ' >T' \ . . A-v.^;mm CTM M |WJM' . t /, , JU * p| 3 /' jTA * Hi ' '. nmjN si Former Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole speaks about her husl K-Kan., is running for the Republican presidential nomination. Dole's bid gaining By NANCY JO THOMASON on" leadership experi< Staff writer "He believes in roll Momentum is building for presidential candidate getting right to the ce Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., with more than 300 said. campus organizations across the nation supporting She also said her li him, his wife said. young people and see Elizabeth Dole was on campus Tuesday night to problem for future gt i. _ * i A ? a _ c i i i n. .i.f' :* i _ spcitk u> siuueius in support 01 ner nusuunu s 01 uciiui spcmimg ur< campaign. burden to future gene Dole, former secretary of transportation, was in- She said she woul troduced by Carolyn Holderman at the Russell traditional roles of of House. ' fight drugs. Dole said she was enthusiastic about being on the But she said she co campaign trail for her husband, adding that her cabinet position by he husband is a good problem solver, using "hands- Dole said her husba Holde _ _ .A says ii might By MARY PEARSON Administration reporter USC's tuition might increase even if a proposed funding increase is passed by the legislature, USC President James Holderman said. This may happen despite a plea from (iov. Carrol Campbell for J/14VMIV V,V/IIV-5V--5 ?IIU Ulll?\.l .1IUV.1 IV/ keep tuition and fees at current levels next year. "We don't have any choice," Holderman said Wednesday at a Commission on Higher Education banquet at the Radisson Hotel. "We didn't raise tuition this year. We are, I'm sure, going to have to raise tuition next fall. The amount depends on the funding level we get from the state." Holderman said the governor's proposed budget was a good starting point. But Holderman said a tremendous amount of money is needed to make up for USC's losses of the past few years when the state General Assembly substantially cut funding to the universities. This past June at a Board of Trustees meeting, Holderman said the accumulated shortfall of funding over the past nine years was more than $70 million. The results of the shortfall were reductions in the distinguished, visiting-professor lectures series, various programs and course offerings this fall, he said. Campbell's proposed budget would mean $22.3 million in funding for higher education, including more sr footba of student activity are buying sam| reselling them to nother week was op- The committee d the tickets could be $23, but the resc This practice is m he tickets away, and the publisher's p > they can't." "This is somet and Responsibilities books should no lem of sample copies high enough wit! at marked-up prices. The issue will ( lit used-book dealers weeks, Black sail 8 jP| B flB j| : fc^lfe _ .o: ^L</I - J. _ inM^n v. --vivj land's campaign Tuesday in Russell Hon i 1 strengtn, Mice. people, e< ling up his shirt sleeves and serious w nter of the problem," Dole he has lu she said. iiisband is concerned about Dole al :s the country's deficit as a because c Mierations. Today's benefits She said t i going to be an undeserved ed him d< rations, she said. there are d continue to perform the first lady and she would help Dole j went on uld not be appointed to any resigned r husband. Reagan's nd has great compassion for she coulc rman I ntion I go up | "We don't have any p| choice. We didn't raise [ . tuition this year. We are, T7 I'm sure, going to have to p raise tuition next fall. The j ; amount depends on the p funding level we get from j;v the state." p James Holder man fe USC President than $14 million for colleges and universities to increase formula funding from 88.5 percent in 1987 to 91 percent for fiscal year 1988-1989. The budget would also provide $8 million in start-up funding for the s Commission on Higher Education's educational package, The Culling cage. j... The commission's plan calls for p $94 million in appropriations for higher education. Of this amount, p $63 million will be required to bring p the state universities and colleges to p full-formula funding. ?| CHE Commissioner Fred Sheheen 0 said Wednesday that Campbell had gone a long way for the commission' by providing about $26 million of the total $94 million. The commission intends, however, to proceed with plans and present their revenue package, which includes a proposal to eliminate sales tax exemptions, to the assembly this spring, he said. 11 -4- /m 1 r /a 4~ n Ill ll^lvClo ?le copies from faculty members and bookstores. : discovered one new textbook sold for >ld sample copy was marked up to $31. laking new book prices higher because of rofit loss, Chairman Aimce Black said, hing we should be aware of because these t have marked-up prices. Our books are >u;<- ? IUUI una itappv.ii 1115y lj 1 civ^rv daiu. :ontinuc to be investigated in the coming ci. ise. Her husbund, Sen. Bob Dole, wife says it.. ?i a: ? ui?,i i i.A , ..i tpcuaiiy me imauicu, uciau&c nc miih iiu ounds during World War II. in the past, :lped raise $3.5 million for the disabled, Iso pointed out that her husband is strong >f all the adversitv he has aone through. he paralysis in his right arm has not slowawn, and even she forgets sometimes that things he cannot do. graduated from Duke University, then to Harvard Law School. She recently from her position in President Ronald Cabinet, which she held for five vears, so I help with her husband's campaign.