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Founded 1908 Eighty Years of Collegiate Journalism Friday j.
Volume 80, No. 56 University of South Carolina January 29, 1988 H
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By BONNIE DAVIS
1 Senate reporter
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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the people who phoned in definitely | fl/1
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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.
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