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Volume 80, No. 50 University of South Carolina January 15, 1988 p
President
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^By TODD HINES
^P\ews editor
As the state legislature begins a
new session this spring, the Student
Government officers will be campaigning
heavily for them to support
USC, says the student government
president.
S.G. President Michael Hoguesaid
there will be a major thrust to Ret
full-formula funding and to persuade
the House members to adopt a bill to
allow the USC-Columbia S.G. president
to vote on the Board of
Trustees.
Hogue and the other officers took
over the two projects begun by the
1987 S.G. and spent the fall semester
preparing for more campaigning,
Hogue said.
A postcard mailing campaign to
einstate full-formula funding,
money supplied by the state to help
fund state colleges and universities,
will begin next month, he said.
The cards will be given to students
and will include space for them to offer
their own comments directed at
their district representatives. Hogue
said the cards will also prove to the
legislators the students are
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uoncerneu.
The goal is to have 5,000 filled out
and for each legislator to get 25 to 30
responses.
Hogue says he expects other campuses
to participate, including those
in the USC system. He met several
^times with other S.G. presidents and
I flfcas been in contact with Clemson'
^md Winthrop among other
campuses.
The campaign also includes contacting
supportive legislators who included
their support this past year
during a similar campaign. Students
sent letters and marched to the State
House twice.
Despite those efforts, he said,
there was not enough student support
to make a strong impression. He said
the new efforts will be more
effective.
Similar efforts will be used to gain
support for getting the voting
member on the Board of Trustees.
He said the presidents of the branch
I ^^ampuses have shown their support
! Wjf having the representative from the
Columbia campus.
Hogue said he is optimistic that the
bill will pass through the House.
"It has n hflter phanrp sinre lhi>
Senate passed their bill and some of
the kinks have been taken out."
The S.G. will seek support from
some of the senators who supported
the bill in the Senate and from House
Speaker Robert Sheheen.
He said there are plans to have all
the branch campus presidents meet
with legislators in the future.
) The bill is now in the House
Education Committee, and it will be
presented during this term.
I Tobacco
; of heavet
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| COLUMBIA ? Republican
| presidential hopeful Pat Robertson
told a "Tobacco Belt" audience
Wednesday that his plan to snuff out
the smoking industry is supported by
1 i.
tuiKCis.
"I'm not about to lose any votes
on this. I'm on the side of the angels
/ on this one," he said at stale
Republican headquarters in
|' ^?*umbia.
"I'm not worried about it one
' bit," said Robertson, a former televi
sion minister. "Because what is truth
and what is right is always the besi
; political policy. And if you want ?
president who will tell it straight, I'n
your man."
Robertson proposes that th<
federal government buy up the tobac
co allotments of farmers over i
seven-to-10 year period. At the sami
time, he would permit the tobacc<
companies a tax holiday of five or si:
( years as they phased out their in
^prstments in tobacco.
1 ' Tobacco growers would be urge<
' to diversify their crops or chang
, jobs altogether.
Robertson, a native of Virgini
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time playfully until his mother got out of class Tuesday.
Police look into larcenies
By NANCY JO THOMASON Police reports also said USC police responded
Crime reporter to a domestic violence incident.
Several incidents of larceny and domestic A female student resident of University Terviolence
have been investigated by USC police race said she was in an argument with a nonover
the past two weeks, according to police USC student who assaulted her after an argurecords.
ment between the two.
USC police responded to an assault and bat- After the incident, USC police served the
tery/larceny incident call from Gambrell Hall suspect with a warrant and took him to the
Jan. 12. Richland County Detention Center.
At 11:35 p.m., a USC faculty member was One grand larceny case that was being in
slammed into a door frame at Gambrell Hali by vestigated by the USC police ended when the
a male who stole an undisclosed amount of defendant plead guilty to the charge of receiving
money from her pocket book. stolen goods.
The alleged crime is still under investigation Police records reported the suspect was
by the police department. sentenced to three years in prison.
A USC student was the victim of grand University police also investigated a breach of
larceny/burglary on Jan. 12. trust that occurred at the USC band hall.
A University Terrace student said his secured The case involved a male non-student who
apartment was broken into and that about had signed for a band instrument worth $200
$1300 of personal items and cash was removed. and did not return it.
On Jan. 11, USC police and local fire of- During the Christmas vacation, an incident of
ficials responded to a fire alarm at Bates House. burglary and first degree larceny occurred in the
After further investigation, it was discovered Towers area, police records said.
that the alarm was caused by a smoke bomb A resident of Douglas Residence Hall said
that was ignited on the 10th floor of the some jewelry and videotapes were stolen from
residence hall. the room.
policy has support |~T^
is, Robertson says ^ ?
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and once a pack-and-a-half-a- day ing causes cancer, birth defects and
smoker, estimates that present tobac- heart conditions.
co subsidy programs cost about $330 "I think a president that speaks up
million annually. But he said he had and is courageous is what the
no cost estimates for his own ideas. American people are looking for. I
Robertson said he hoped his pro- don't think that's foolish at all, to
posal would be "the business, in- recognize what we all know, that
tollioAnr u/au tn with a verv cmnkina is hatl fnr vnur health." he
i serious health problem and help said.
s some very fine people who are tobac- "Being courageous has never been ~ '
i co growers." a flaw in the presidency. And being
Many growers are upstanding, honest about a serious health pro- , '
- religious people "whose life business blem is not a flaw cither," he said. "I
may be harmful to other people. defy anybody to defend giving i>
' Here's an easy way to help them anybody else lung cancer." A
t out," he said. Robertson said he first made the A
i "Sooner or later, folks, we have to proposal several months ago in ** *?
come to the time that we realize that Raleigh, N.C. And he accused the
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i pense of the lives of other people. I R.-N.Y., of distributing remarks apthink
as a society we have to pearing in this months's Conser- .M
i recognize that this isn't wise," he vative Digest.
: said. Robertson said the purchase of
> "I'm not interested in political tobacco allotments would give the
< smart. I'm interested in what's farmers enough money to plant alterright,"
Robertson said. native crops.
South Carolina's largest cash crop "If they have as much money
i is tobacco, and the state ranks fifth available to them as those tobacco Back to b
e nationally in total tobacco allotments are worth, they can go inproduction.
to all kinds of useful enterprises," Humanities s<
a He said there is no question smok- Robertson said. do some studylB
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By RITA K. COSBY
Staff writer
There is still time for all students and staff
members to pre-register before the Jan. 22
deadline for the second annual Student
Leadership Conference Feb. 6.
"This is a concentrated, one-day conference
designed to develop personal leadership skills
and assist in career and personal development,"
said Novella Fortner, conference coordinator
and assistant to the dean of student
life.
"A lot of time*; wtipn we talk ahniit ctiirtpnrs
getting an edge, we suggest interviews, job
searches, etc. Yet here we will probably present
the best, easiest and most compact way
available on Feb. 6.," said Jerry Brewer, dean
of student life.
The conference is open to all, the cost is $10
for all USC-Columbia students and $20 for
others. This fee covers a full, 9 a.m.- to 5
p.m.-day consisting of a continental breakfast,
refreshments, a luncheon, conference
materials and a total of 16 speakers, five of
whom are from other institutions.
Members from in-state colleges and from
neighboring Georgia and North Carolina colleges
have been invited to participate.
High cou
surprises;
By STEPHEN GUILFOYLE
Managing editor
A ruling by the Supreme Court upholding a
high school principal's riRht to censor a student
newspaper has caught many journalism
educators by surprise.
Beth Dickey, a USC journalism professor
who is involved with various high school journalism
associations, including the Southern Interscholastic
Press Association, said she received
calls all day Thursday in response to the
ruling.
"I've gotten a number of calls from high
school advisers who were surprised and disappointed
with the ruling," Dickey said. "One
asked me, 'How do 1 teach the First Amendment
now?"'
Dickey said she also talked to Leslie bawarus,
the lawyer who presented the case for the high
school students. She said Edwards thought they
might lose the case, but didn't expect the ruling
to be so restrictive.
The case arose when students at Hazelwood
East High School in suburban St. Louis wrote
articles on divorce and teenage pregnancy for
their school newspaper, the Spectrum. The principal
of the school deleted two pages containing
those articles and others.
Five Supreme Court justices, including Chief
justice wiiuam Kennquisi, upneia me prin1
cipal's right to censor the articles and in the process
established very loose guidelines for future
censorship in public schools.
"A school need not tolerate student speech
that is inconsistent with its basic educational
1 mission, even though the governement could
i not censor similar speech outside the school,"
wrote Justice Byron White for the majority.
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"This enables you to talk to others in the
same field and with the same career motives.
You really can learn so much from other peo- pS
pie," Brewer said.
This past year's conference consisted of -jl
about 325 students and staff from more than K
18 different institutions. j '
"It was a big success. Therefore, we have [
decided to maintain the same format again," j ,
Fortner said. j
The conference will feature a morning jr|J;
keynote speaker and a luncheon speaker who j '
have not yet been confirmed as well as 14
speakers who will direct a total of 18 gg
workshops throughout the day. p|
Students and staff members will each select fa
their area of interest and track of concentra- PI
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development to creativity, and each participant
will attend three workshops in their
specific field.
The workshops include sessions specifically
for greek leaders and also one focused on
women's issues entitled, "How Would the
World Look if Women Were in Charge?"
"This setup allows each individual to have
flexibility and a choice in planning their own
See "Leadership," page 2
rt ruling
journalists
. . school principals have
the intelligence of a post and
shouldn't get anywhere near
regulating regular free speech. All
they'll talk about is the weather
and mom and apple pie.''
Erik Collins \
(JSC journalism professor
The determining factor is the emotional
maturity of the intended audience, the decision
says.
But Justice William Brennan blasted the majority's
decision. "Such unthinking contempt
for individual rights is intolerable," he said.
Calling such censorship powers "Orwellian
guardianship of the public mind," Brennan said
the "mere fact of school Sponsorship, does not,
as the court suggests, license such thought control
in the high school."
Dickey said she is attending a conference of '
me Association 01 Educators ot journalism ana
Mass Communications this weekend, and she
expects the ruling to be the main topic of the
conference.
Other USC journalism professors said the
ruling disappointed them.
: "We're really talking about ideas here," said
Ronald Farrar, a journalism professor who is
i teaching a class in media law this semester,
I "and, as long as they don't disrupt the order of
I the school. . . those ideas ought to be
' published."
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