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? , w ^illllip. Two USC seniors arc having I 1 K-imrcs'' p'i?c 4 w^M W^a^u'nHvc IGamecocks avenge Boss to UAB iirEEEEEEE^* I ^nfPoilltS See Keatures. page 5 I See Spurts. puKt- 7 Classifieds paptf K I" J MggSMWSgg., J _J ; The Gamecock I ^Founded 1908 iiilhty Years of Collegiate Journalism Monday L: Volume 80, No. 51 University of South Carolina January 18, 1988 [E Art faciliti lull tor's note: This is part one of a two pur t story. Wednesday's story will deal with the renovation plans and possible solutions for the problems USC art professors are facing. By MARY PKARSON Senior reporter In the fall of I9K6, art professor Chris Robinson was ^^working in his Kirkland Apartments office when he was knocked to the floor by almost 2(M) pounds of ceiling plaster. While the collapsed ceiling broke no bones, the incident and similar mishaps caused by deteriorating facilities are threatening to break the spirit of USC's art faculty, Robinson said. As construction continues on the $15 million Koger Arts Center, many art professors complain that their classrooms, studios and offices are inadeuuate and in EMfiv ffaa ..y I W f jnMnn?| m v'<^^ j 4En garde' Bachelor of fine arts Arthur Morton and master of fim I past week at the Hlatt I'. K. (Center. Lab director i Co wen to fill in as systems vice president I ioih staff reports the l);i\itl Cowen, director of USC's Humanities e\te .UK! Social Sciences computer Laboratory, has moi been appointed acting systems vice president of said computer services, President James Holderman an- C nounccd this past Tuesday. men (Owen succeeds Robert Robcrson, w .o died of a peri heart attack Jan. 6. A search committee will be ap- info pointed to seek a permanent replacement for II Roherson. degi George Johnson, a math professor who has been Nev \ working on the university's megacomputing pro- froi ( ject with Roberson, has been appointed director of H that project, Holderman also announced Tuesday. Cira Medical profes. evolves into dru\ By <;AM. K. BUCHANAN ? { Staff writer " 11 A IJSC." School of Medicine professor's lex- no(6 I (hook for medical students has evolved into a . dictionary of drug and alcohol terminology con HI1Q I taming more than 3,100 terms. arc a N. I'eter Johnson, coordinator of alcohol and drug studies, said A Dictionary of Street Alcohol and Drug Terms is already used by a rt'lllti broad audience of medical students, health professionals, counselors and the law enforcement community around the country. Although the majority of the dictionary's readers are professionals, "The book is intend ed tt) be clear enough that anybody should be publish able to understand it," he said. I he st\ Johnson compares the book to a "Spanish- "A i ^fco-lnglish, l-.nglish-to-Spanish dictionary" was pu because it lists a drug and other known terms said, for the drug, including all street terms, much The ! like a foreign language dictionary. plete, ? "frequently, a patient will only know the edition street term for the drug," he said. "It the John counselor hasn't heard of it, then he's really at a help c j loss. Many people say this book has been a big "oper ! help to them, not only in trying to determine the experie kinds of drugs somebody took, but also the ex- Join lent of that person's addiction." from : II he hook includes an alphabetical list of vard, a street terms, drug categories, jargon for com have c< mon methods ot use, dosage and side ettects. I h | The book also comes with a language key, il differe ^^ustrations and even tips for deciphering sign terms i language. to helj "It's particularly striking to note the number I'rot ol sexual terms and to realize that many of these tionar; are a reference to the use of drugs as a replace- alcoho ment for relationships," he said. the(io The first edition of the dictionary was Studie ips Hdnopri dangerously poor condition. 1 he instructors said they tear needed impioveinents will be put olf because the center has fostered false perceptions that their needs have been met. Art history professor Charles Mack said the ait ptograin has grown so fast over the past two decades with no matching expansion of facilities ? that th?* department has had to spread its classrooms and studios throughout the campus. He said faculty members and students continue to work iu some of the worst physical facilities of any Southeastern art department. The department is located in two old apartment buildings, Kirkland and Blackhouse, and in Booker 1 Washington, I.eConte and Sloan classroom buildings. Renovation of art department facilities is one of US("s top priorities, said David Rinker, systems vice president ot facilities planning. The administration has taken care l> arts I.isa Khorien engage in a little sword pla> during a thes to take compi >luison said he is looking toward to being direc- Research although he said there will not be much dif- United Sta nee in his job,since he was already workingon the Cieogr; mcgacomputing system. Ciroup o I'm obviously quite excited to be working on Geographe project in this capacity. It will basically be an Cowen ; nsion of the work I've been doing the past few State Map whs since the system was introduced," Johnson respondi n (ieogr a p owen has taught in USC's geography depart Geographi it since 1970 and has more than 20 years of excnee in computer processing of geographical He was >i niation. appointnu le received his bachelor's degree and master's lohnsoi ree in geography from the State University ol professor w York at Buffalo and his Ph.D. in geograpln \1athemat n Ohio State University. He eart le is state director of the National Computer from Inn nlnri A ion '? itiont h.?r < \ ( tlw? \I'il imii-iI I l\iv sor's book llHH 1 dictionary the number of sexual terms H(v o realize that many of these reference to the use of drills a r eplaceme n t for feL j N. Peter Johnson HmmhMM ed in 1986 and listcd about 1,5(H) terms. f ", ond edition boasts twite tliat amount t " .. nonth and a halt after the lirst edition [ , iblished, we had 7(H) more terms," he - books took about a year each to com ; uul he began the second while the first was at the publishers. ~ | ison compiled the dictionary with the it colleagues and patients who have ily and willingly shared" their ^ ison said orders for the book have come ill over the l ast Coast, including Marnd news reporters from across the nation .Hit act cd him for interviews. >w,.a .ww.w.i.u..t, I.? l'VJV/f\ IIV.II'> V.V'IIillllllliV.tll I V ' I I l'\.l VV II Ft ill sets of people ? folks who know the in the hook and the folks who are trying . , . > them," he said. Never let l.ir llw. I IU ,M.?. eft ,1,. I . <ro nil. II I Dnnlii' Duiici which costs }>?, will help unci drug and ... , .. ,' . . ? < harks, directo 1 education projects lor students through .... .. / I 1 L> II e AI . I II, auditions lor ( rdon lames Russell Si. Alcohol and Drug .. , . ^ Washington ami s Hind. ous, profe ol majot physical problems such as faulty ceilings, and root and drainage repairs are already underway at I eC'onte, he said. Rinkcr said other renovation projects uore also planned, but remained contingent upon legislative funding. But art professor Boyd Saunders said the department really needs a modern, centralized facility designed for its special needs. He said IJSC has tried in the past to build such a center, but the funding was unavailable. Although some art faculty members are pessimistic that increased renovation funding would solve the problem, they said it would at least ease immediate discomforts. Meanwhile, faculty members struggle to make do with limited space and potentially unsafe conditions. In Sloan, classroom space and workshop space have been combined, art professor Howard Woody said. I Bio HH seei IflHBB in o \ 1 ho LISC hiolo WL - nearly $13 millinr 2 for research in I ?5 than it did a d< I Roger Saw ye chairman. W 1^88 Ten years ago j j yCar; t'10^ nOW jjf m nuK'1 'n a m?ni'1 I O-year period r< dedication ^jgjjpl duetiviiy," Sawv Sawyer said i research benefits hHBP&SHI the tracy not* it thr (iamectx-k "Seventy perc grant goes towa itre combat class given this support stall * which flows i through purchas personal expendi iter nnst '?<" ^ * ^ V/ m. J^F VF *3 1/ are pUrchascd wi Iranklin Her Council Advisory Committee to the SI,594,000 from tcs Cieological Survey and chairman of eluding the Na tphical Information System's Speciality Health, for hiss I the Association ol American lion of genes in r rv they undergo di ilso is chairman of the South Carolina also is investigat ipmg Advisory Committee and a cor- to lethal concent ig member of the International the implicati hical Union's Commission on chemotherapy, a cal Data Processing and Sensing. ing on with Som College of Phari unavailable for comment about his new Hcrton Ply ha ni I hursday afternoon. grants totaling l. who joined USC in 1972. is associate research on the t of mathematics and ditcctor of the ing cells. A pic us and Statistics Computation Center. research of ne\ led a bachelor's degree in mathematics developed a c nan University and a doctorate from the genetics for of lennessec at Kno.wille. bacteria that is Hp k 38B||pS? . ?? , v? :s=-Br i let5. j .. v H..v -'.'km*"*** *>v* RKIA\ SAVl S Ihr (.amr>,i 1em see you sweat in, left, ami l.auri kcrhoulas, right, follow the lead of Saral r and choreographer of King's Productions. Song and dune urowinds were held Sunday afternoon at the Booker I litorium. ssors say I "We have to trade off class time tor workshop time," I he said "It's hard to have a slide show when someone is i ^ sawing." Woody also said students were working on live to six different sculpture mediums, such as wood, metal and | cla>, in the same studio, w hen under normal cir- j" cumstances mere would tic a room tor cacti medium. 17Z "We've arrived at a situation where we're trying to do rf? too much in a small space, but we have to because we pJJ shouldn't limit the student to just one medium just Q because we don't have the space," he said i Woody said safety ha/ards were also a problem. "At times, we work with just as dangerous equipment p>; as students in chemistry do, but in some of the buildings H we do not have a safe environment to work in," he said. j See "Art," page 2 f logy faculty I n nr tn/^rnn i 11^ lllV^X^CLd^ utside funds gy faculty received microbiologists worldwide, i in outside funding Sawyer has grants totaling 987 ? much more $943,000 for his investigation of :cade ago ? says deratins, proteins that form a protecr, department tive barrier for the skin. His work may help to alleviate the numerous the faculty received disorders that affect skin. grants for an entire Robert Feller has received receive about that $582,000 in grants from the National Science Foundation, the South increase over a Carolina Sea Grant and General :flccts the faculty's F.lectric's Knolls Atomic Power Plant reased research pro- for his work on the marine food er said. chain. His research, which involves noncy received for food supplies tor sport fish and comthe community and mercially important crabs, assesses the potential impact of radioactive em of the average waste on the deep sea food chain, rd technicians' and John Vernberg, director of the .alaries ? money Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine nto the economy Biology, oversees more than $3 es, taxes and other million in grant support for longtures," he said. term studies of ecological processes nt goes for equip- along coastal estuaries. es, much of which Robert Lawther has a multi-year, ilhin fh#-? I nil it lift* nf urunt ger has obtained totaling $398, (XX) to study how various sources, in- bacteria respond to changes in their tional Institutes of environment, research that may lead tudies of the regula- to understanding how other, more nice and the changes complex cells regulate theii uring evolution. He metabolism and growth. :ing how cells adapt Anthony Huang has grants totalrations of drugs and ing $505,(XX) to enhance the quality ions for cancer and quantity of seed oils important i project he is work- to human diets, animal feeds and intlra Berger of USC's dustry. He and his colleagues use inacy. biotechnology, including genetic s received multi-year engineering, as well as classic $1,049,00 for his breeding methods in I heir work. )asic processes of liv>neer in the genetic "This entity will enhance our abili v oacteria, i.iy nas ty 10 attract anci retain outstanding omplete system of faculty," Sawyer said. "Research exprcviously studied cellence is no peripheral to excellence used as a model by in teaching; it is essential." 1USC to play host to week of prayer Several noted religious leaders will speak at daily vesper services Jan. IK 25, university officials announced Thursday. The services, to he held at 4:30 p.m. in Ruiledge Chapel on I he Horseshoe, are part of the international "Week of Prayer for Religious Unity," a worldwide ecumenical observ ance. The theme foi the week, "l ove Drives Out I ear," was announced jointly this past year hv the Vatican SivrtM;iri:it tor Christian Initv and the World Council of B Churches. I 'SC's department of religious studies and the I niversi tv Council of Chaplains ha\e cooper .tied in planning the hall-hour vesper services. Robert Marshall, former national head ot the 1 iithcrau Church in America and now a faculty member at the 1 uthcran I'heological Southern Seminars, vmII speak at the opening service Monday. I he Rev. John Motchkin, executive director of the Bishops Conference for I cumenical and Interreligious Affairs, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, will * speak Wednesday. * A panel discussion on "Prayer and the Disciplines: An ?hr/\n<\L?iv A rf 1 ruilich T ' will h/? llplfl Flllir<w ? nil WJ'WIWJtiJ , nil, . l.f,....., . day in place of (lit' traditional service. The panel of IJSC facultv mcmhers will include I nglish professor I'aula lcldman, the Rev. lerome Veieb. visiting _ professor of religious studies; anthropologv professor John Adams; and art history professor Charles Mack USC religious studies professor Kevin lewis will moderate. Joseph I owery, co-founder and directoi o! the Southern Christian leadership Conference, will speak SaHildas Music tor the scrv ice w ill he pun ided hy I JSC's I ouch ot I aitli Ciospel Choir. ^ I he Rev I eonid Kishkovsky, president elect ol the Na t> tional Council of Churches of Christ, I SA, will gne the sermon at tfie final service .Ian. 2V A pnesi ol the Russian Orthodox tiadilion, kishkovsk\ is ecumenical officer of I he Orthodox Church of America.