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Cast' director of Longstreet | Viewpoint page 2 1??? ^ ^7 a^)?"t bringing Shakespeare's I Parker leads the Lady Gamecocks : classic to USC's stage. I s? sP.,i,. p.Be 6 ?.ponS pagc ' !?S V See Features, page 3 H Classifieds page 6 iBHHMMBmMMHHnnwnMnBBIMMi1 1 . The Gamecock I Founded 1908 Eighty Years of Collegiate Journalism Friday j. Volume 80, No. 56 University of South Carolina January 29, 1988 H Spur's f< on stuck I By BONNIE DAVIS 1 Senate reporter i Qt l ir^nnt r ttrill Kn o l\ln l/\ /Jirn/'flir , vJIUUVIIU VT HI i/t auic IU UIIWli; decide the fate of the Golden Spur after more than two years of debate by the Student Senate. A special referendum vote will be held Feb. 5 in Russell House, and students will be able to vote if they want to fund the operation of a nonalcoholic lounge. And, as has been the case for the past two years, it took hours of long, confusing debate before the Senate decided to let the students decide. The Senate passed the referendum Wednesday night, but only after the Senate entered a special session. Because time was running out on the first session, and Senate rules allow only two hours per session, the senators had to call for a special session to finish debate. The Finance Committee's deadline for spring allocations is approaching, and the committee needs to know by Feb. 6 if Spur operating costs will be included in next year's budget. During the debate, Sen. Mike Gillen presented a friendly amendment putting the Spur bill on a ! special referendum. The referendum allows students to decide whether they want $1 collected from their student activities fees to fund the Spur. If the referendum isn't passed at the polls by the students, the finance bill will fail and the issue of the Golden Spur will once more be undecided. Sen. Harry Sharp, president pro tempore of the Senate, suggested that if the bill fails, the Spur will be given to Student Affairs. The bill originally was presented at By AMY DELPO Strff writer If you smoke Marlboros or Sale Reynolds Co. cigarette, don't expect R. J.'s grandson, to thank you ? he'l you to quit. "When my grandfather began manu > at the turn of the century, he did not 1 causes lung disease, heart disease and said. "Now that this has absolutely bi 1 to help people wake up to how poisonc I ^ are " (Ml Reynolds, who spoke to a small groi in the B.A. building Wednesday, was i < by for the Clean Indoor Air Bill in S use ins survey fc By STEPHEN GUILFOYLE Managing editor USC's Earth Sciences and ' Resource Institute will conduct a $2.8 million geological survey for the chief oil company of Colombia, South America, the Board ol Trustees's Executive Committee ( unanimously approved Thursday. The committee granted "ap propriate power of attorney" to th< project manager, Frank Keith, to ob tain an exemption from the Colom ' bian government. Bodies doing business in Colombij must normally be registered as a cor poration, but Professor Willian ' Kanes, director of the geologica research institute, said the chance! S tor an exemption from the incor ; poration requirement were good. I | PACIFIC ?ni OCEAN ijjjjjj ite rests jnt vote this past week's meeting by Finance Committee Chairman Steve McElvecn, and it allows for about $30,000 a year to be allocated from student activities fees to maintain and operate the Golden Spur. One dollar from each student activities fee collected and appropriated to the Golden Spur for its operational rnctc Rut thptp fioiirpc u;i>rp based on the number of students who paid the fee this past year, according to McElveen. The finance bill has been a controversial issue carried over from this past week. Sen. Stanley Davis appealed the legality of the bill twice. He first said that, based on the the Student Government Constitution, only registered student organizations can receive tunas ana, at that time, the Carolina Program Union had not formally requested any funds to manage the Spur. The Senate voted down that appeal. Davis then said the legislation was illegal because it came from the Finance Committee, which did not have eight members as the S.G. Constitution requires. This appeal was subject to a roll call vote that ended in a tie and had to be broken by Sharp, who was presiding. Davis had amendments to the bill to be presented, but they were disregarded by the Senate. He could not get a second motion to read the amendments and lambasted his colleagues for denying him the right to be heard. The nnnreperlentflH rhr<*p-hmir meeting was adjourned following Davis' protest. company said becoming an u:? i:rA . iitai gave in* 111c 1 ms or any R. J. reputations of two Patrick Reynolds, grandfather. 1 probably just ask "It was importa Reynolds," he said facturing cigarettes maybe this was so enow that smoking could make a diff< cancer," Reynolds But taking a star ;en proven, I want was, afterall, one < his cigarettes really co companies in tl hasn't been invob lp of USC students than 40 years, Re> n Columbia to lob- half-sister found t outh Carolina. He "My brothers at titute to c >r top oil i "We've got to stay out of the commercial ends of things," Kanes said. I "We write papers, graduate t students," he said in a later : telephone interview, which is why the , university is applying ior me exemp: tion, to avoid incorporated, profit r status. Kane also pointed out to the board that the university's involvement : would not extend to "a piece of the action." USC Chief Legal Counsel Paul Ward said the exemption process was i unusual but not unique. He said ac cording to legal counsel in Colombia, \ the determining factors in the exemp1 tion would be the university's non5 profit status and its stated educa - tional purpose. "I would like to say it appears that lSSISIi!il8IIIISi!|8!ilS!!!lliiSll j ^ 11 f^CORDILLIERA l llllllflllP ANDES I - T rv. i L Z fB? ] KEITH JONES/The Gamecock Who's that Girl? Fashion Merchandizing junior Nancy Way struts her stuff during a fashion show Tuesday in the Russell House Ballroom. Way, a Delta /eta, is wearing fashions from Belk in the show sponsored by the Sorority Council. V 1 1 O r neir lODDies tor j anti-smoking advocate was something stock in the company and could ne\ neaning after years of living with the what I'm doing," he said. "Michael h business legends ? his father and his tion urging young people to not sm< the age of 21, and Will says, 'If you nt for me to get out of the shadow of start ? but if you smoke, smoke a F 1. "I thought maybe I could be a voice, Even though Reynolds' father dis imething I could do with my life that sons in the '60s to teach thein the val ;rence." still say Reynolds is "biting the hanc id against smoking wasn't easy. Patrick This doesn't concern Reynolds. )f the heirs to the second-largest tobac- "If the hand that once fed me is tl he United States. Although the family then tliat same hand has killed millioi ^ed in running the company in more continue to kill millions more unless 'nolds' brother, four half-brothers and the hazards of cigarettes," he said, 'atrick the crusader hard to deal with. The former actor became a s first were very reserved. They still have American Lung Association in 1986 onduct 1 Author ^mnamr tri am Luitijjmij tvy vjum this would save us a tremendous By JONATHON EOBEK amount of red tape," trustee Michael Staff Writer Mungo said. Author Frederick Busch read two Ecopetrol, Colombia's nationaliz- stories to more than 100 students W ed oil company would put up all the the Gambrell lecture hall. $2.8 million for the research. Busch, 46, an endowed professor "The work that we are doing is gate University, also attended facu related to evaluation of the basin in worked with graduate English studen Colombia, which hithertofore has writing skills this week. not been petrolium bearing. I Busch published his first U.S. nov presented a paper down there, and 1974, according to an introductory bi this was an area that 1 said might USC English professor Donald Grei have potential," Kane said. Since then he has published sc stories, and books of literary criticis "Sn Ihpv came m ask me if we "I don't think of mvself as havin would undertake an evaluation of that area. So we're looking at this in Est & terms of a very long term project." ma B a S? g ?rg \/ The survey will be done in the Cor- wt w V dillieras range at the northern tip of /* ~g the Andes Mountains. Research fh ? teams will study the central basin \JJ t f/g valley and another to the east. ** The Colombia basin to be in- By NANCY JO THOMASON vestigated "breaks the central moun- Crime reporter tain chain." The evaluation would USC police are investigating tw< take about five years, and would pro- cases of indecent exposure that oc vide an opportunity for about 20 to curred this past week, police report: 25 students to travel down to Colom- say. bia during the project's duration. A female graduate studen Groundwork on the project has said she saw a man with his pant begun. down fondling himself on the fourtl "We've got three students down level of Thomas Cooper l ibrary Jai there now," Kane said. 22., reports say. Kanes said the money could be On Sunday morning, nitron nn f rnnt A th A f n r>-\ o In ctu/lmtt liifinn in thn f\?rr\1in 5'vtii iij_/ i i uiii ivy uiv wjvvi ivinaiv ^vuuvni iivui^ 111 inv v^m v/uu managers, but that he would prefer Gardens apartments said she wa to space the payments out. cleaning out her automobile when One of the board members raised man approached her, pulled dow concern about spacing the payments his sweat pants and made a graphi out over a period of time. But Kane remark, according to the polic said it has been made perfectly clear blotter. to the backers that "before anybody A woman reported to US< goes down, the money comes up." police this past week that a tire on he car had been slashed by a man at th ) use I catch s in Villi4! ?11 PLr U.?. J By TONY MORENO Assistant news editor Michael Eugene Green, the burglary suspect wanted by USC police for several thefts around campus, was apprehended Tuesday, according to police reports. Green was captured by USC police at about 4 p.m. in the Five l>oints area and was subsequently iailcd in the Richland County Detention Center. The investigators who made the arrest were operating on information provided by an informant and numerous people who called in response to an article in the Jan. 22 issue of The Gamecock. Carl Stokes, USC systems vice president for law enforcement and safety, commended his investigators on the arrest. "Our fellows were persistent and diligent in conducting their investigation," he said. "They did a good job." "The Gamecock also did a eood job in speeding up the investigation," Stokes said, adding that all the people who called USC police with information deserve praise as well. "It was a good cooperative eltort on the part of our police, The Gamecock and the people who called," he said. Investigator Michael Couick said inti-smok 'er publicly endorse ban cigarette ad\ as now taken a posi- gain support for ake before reaching - The bill would don't smoke, don't public meetings teynolds product!'" Bodison, a State iinherited all of his "It would redi ue of money, critics Reynolds said. 1 that fed him." The tobacco ii dangers of secoiv le tobacco industry, "You may not ns of people and will to accommodate i people wake up to the president of association repre pokesman for the As for the con and has worked to son, it's noncom /% n x-vl I CdUi ^CJ brell hall see myself as ai myself a writer.' of his newest short To the Hoop, < ednesday evening in is told from the wife has died, an of literature at Col- basketball and a lty conferences and The struggles < ts on improving their "I write stork people in trouble el Manual Labor, in who work at try ograpny prepared Dy writers snoun ner. that they want t< :veral novels, short "There are worn m. get fired becaus< g a message. I don't instead of... son estigate twi it exposure Crime Report s Davis Field parking lot on Green* ti Street. n According to the victim's state ment, the incident occurred after i a verbal disagreement with the man. a A male USC student also had th< s tires on his automobile in Davis Fielt a damaged Monday, police record n say. c ? Several alcohol- and drug e reiateu arrests were macie Monua; evening during the Def Leppard con C cert at Carolina Coliseum, polic :r records say. le Police made five arrests for posses 1 lolice I U^pctl | paries I the people who phoned in definitely | fl/1 'l r\r\t it i\/f> o f f A /?t m n t Kn I investigation. "The response to the article honestly surprised me," Couick said. "By 10:30 Friday night, the day the particle ran, I had already received about 40 calls." bv? Couick said this case is a good ex- [tii ample of how much help people can |S| be when they call the station with > information. pp "People kept calling and filling in pS bits and pieces of the case," he said. \ "Finally an informant came forward )"l: to provide the last piece of evidence ;: necessary. j :: As tar as we re conccrncd, we offer our deepest thanks to everyone h;. who called in with information. Everyone's help was invaluable." Stokes said the informant who supplied the information which led Nt the police to Green was not even a p USC student, but someone who just |B happened across a copy of The pf? Gamecock, read the story and came forward. [7 Even without that lucky break, Couick said the student response was pf IICIIIUIUUUS. Green's bond was set at $50,000 for his USC offenses. He is also wanted by the Richland County Sheriff's Department, but those charges are pending. ing bill 'ertising, to raise tobacco taxes and to clean-air legislation across the country, prohibit smoking in public places and at exeent in designated areas, said Kathv House data-terminal operator. ice the hazard of second-hand smoke," Idustry, however, doesn't admit to the d-hand smoke. like the smell, but you don't need a law you," said Brennan Moran, assistant to the Tobacco Trade Institute, a trade senting U.S. tobacco manufacturers, npany's opinion of its founder's grandmittal. lections [ crowd n evangelist," Busch said. "I consider one of the stories Busch read Wednesday, point of view of an ordinary man whose d whose son has lost the will to succeed at t life. of ordinary people concern him, he said. ;s about characters I love. I write about : like us," he said. "I write about people ing to love one another." ci concentrate on finding the true story o tell and telling it honestly, he said, derful people who care about books who ; they publish books like yours and mine ne other mindless bestseller." 9 incidents I mis weeK sion of marijuana, two involving a violation of the state's ABC law and three arrests for disorderly conduct in the parking lots surrounding the coliseum. An unknown person damag ed an Atari Inc. baseball video game e in the Cockpit dining area in Russell House's Carolina Mall and removed the money from inside the machine, ;i records say. t'oiice are investigating the incident. e An incident of forgery is bej ing investigated by police. A staff <; mpmhpr rcnnrtpfl v\ rhf?rk wa*i Unlf?n at the USC Credit Union and that the thief apparently forged the victim's y signature to cash the check. A keyboard from a computer e terminal located in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications was reported stolen Monday. i