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WW! USC Dance Company in Viewpoint page 2 ^ /^y v^\\ ^onSstrect Theatre; one a'um_ Lady Gamecocks go out in style / / i\m\ \ \ n n<* has returned to participate. I Sports page 5 I j J J | | \* \ 1 Set Features, page 3 S ^^^^^^^^^^^Classilicds page 6 The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty Years of Collegiate Journalism Wednesday ^Volume 80, No. 67 University of South Carolina February 24, 1988 WWWl Presidential hopeful Jack Kemp cuts a piece of chicken at I USC Kemp Club scheduled the dinner in the cafeteria to m walked around the Russell House cafeteria talking to stude Black stude JIM STUCKEY Assistant sports editor Three black USC professors have different opinions about how black students of today compare with black students of the 1960s and 1970s. But they do agree on one thing. There are big differences between those generations. Willie Harriford, a professor ex officio on the AfroAmerican Studies advisory committel, said more course offerings in universities and more opportunities outside college have helped black students. But he said he has noticed differences between black students of the 1980s and their counterparts in the precceaing two decades. "As a group, they are probably better prepared," Harriford said. "But 1 think many of the students in the '60s were better motivated. I guess it was kind of drummed into them to do well." i Harriford, who attended the University of Kansas from ^^1952 to 1956, said black parents made sure their children performed well in college back then. He said the sacrifices to get those students into college were much higher than today's sacrifices. He said easier access to higher education has affected the attitudes of the students he sees. "1 don't think today's students think they have to proOrganization needs help Disabled Studei helps students 1 aHv KKRRY HUGHES ^P>taff writer 4*Thi Accessibility is what Disabled Student Ser- 1 vices is ail about. 11181 r The service might not be one of the more withoil well-known or well-used services on campus, but it is a service that enables more than 150 disabled students to attend USC. The service takes existing university services _____ and attempts to adapt them to disabled The K students' needs. An example is the adapted book in i transportation service. DSS works with the this servi< university's department of transportation to the Kur7/ j proviue a servicc, as me uas encourages uisaoi- fullest po ed students to travel the campus as independent- Similar ly as possible. sities, but DSS has been in operation since the early make. 1970s. "This program has done a very good "It def job," said Tom Ward, director. He said the ser- in ? can iflfrice has made a strong commitment to making One si| ^ure equal opportunity exists on campus for that som disabled students. service a Although DSS staff members try to help these Ward sai * students integrate into regular student life, they The D! do not recommend specialized admission or cur- The m; riculum for them. lack of h Because of this, DSS offers a wide range of volunteer support. Services available are independent and No for ' group counseling, career planning and place- Many of ment, academic advisement, parking, transpor- hand to \ tation and assistance with registration. Some s A more specific service is the Learning the work IfxCM.HH LC IVUUIll HI UIC tUUUJUuu avtuun ui naVC HO ( Thomas Cooper library. The area has equip- "There Ajnent to help visually impaired and learning- wouldn't \ ^lisabled students with their studies. sophomo A Braille writer, tape players, regular and Ward large print typewriters and a Kurzweil reading students i machine are available. Gambrell - 4 (t , t JB V" ?jff_" fl ^^CfTggX TO-Vidi .^4^1 ;' iVi^H |MH| w ^ H * s** WAYNE YANG/The Gamecock the Grand Marketplace in the Russell House Tuesday. The eet with a The Gamecock staff member, before which he nts. nts differen ve anything," Harriford said. "It was a big sacrifice for parents back then. Now it's more of a laid-back situation." USC geology professor Mack Gipson attended the predominately black Paine College in Augusta, Ga., before he received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1963. Gipson has stayed in touch with problems facing black students in higher education firsthand. He said his scat on Paine's Board of Trustees has kept him particularly aware of trends affecting black students. He also said less financial aid for black students has had a tremendous effect on black college enrollment in the United States. Gipson said the federal budget crunch has hampered administrators' ability to fill many colleges, black colleges in particular, with a sufficient number of black students. "Those monies that were so abundant in the late 1960s to the early part of the 1970s began drying up. And for the last 15 or so years now, it has been increasingly more difficult to get financial aid," Gipson said. Gipson hasn't been the only one to recognize the problem. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that about 34 percent of black high school graduates enrolled in college in 1976. D.i* tUnl 1 Cl~l i\ 1 uui mat j.n.1 v_viiliifcv_ vjtcillltu IVJ JV7 [JtlV-tiil III 1 ''If tlllU it Services $&J| ive, learn ere are a lot of people here eally wouldn't make it ^ a Business sophomore urzweil is a machine (hat reads any 1 robotic voice to students. Ward said . } ce is not a highly used rescource, and .veil has generally not been used to its ; i * ^ _ services are available at other univerWard said a comparison is difficult to >ends on the kind of institution you're gnificant aspect of USC's service "is ' i e other universities have this type of ttsrezregB s a service within another office," i>S at USC has its own office. a . ajor problem facing DSS is the severe elp. A great deal of support relics on mal training is necessary to help DSS. the students simply need someone's 'tgWBBKr vrite and do lab work for them. .tudents have been unable to perform needed for their classes because they ffjjgfjmf)ne to help them. : are a lot of people here that really Rip Had J( make it without the DSS," said ? re Rohfrt Rrnwn a Hicihlpil cln/tonl (iiinHoi/'n Kali said he cncourages any interested sophomore, onto to stop by the DSS office across from ed away the aftei Hall. \ Kemn visits cj Sec. of Defens By STEPHEN GUILFOYLE Managing editor It was a surprise visit Tuesday. Qucntin Mcrritt, a worker in Russell House's Grand ^ Marketplace, said he would have had "the place spotless , for him," if he'd known Congressman Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., a candidate for president, was coming to USC to ' have a bite to eat in the cafeteria. It was A SlimrUp vi?iit with ;? snmrivo unnnnnivini'iil In a press conference after his dinner, Kemp said he sent a letter to President Ronald Reagan saying liethought Navy Secretary John Webb should not have resigned Monday, but Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci should. C Webb resigned Monday in protest of Carlucci's defense budget. The budget calls for a $33 billion decrease in c defense spending and puts back the Navy secretary's plans t for a 60()-ship navy. t "I want to say how disappointed I was with the resigna- i tion of Secretary Webb of the Navy," Kemp said. "The ; wrong person resigned. Frank Carlucci should resign. ; "I'm calling on Bob Dole and George Bush today to ask the president, as I have, to reappoint Jim Webb as I secretary of the ivavy and clearly to restate our committ- I ment to a 600-ship navy. I "If this country does not keep it's commitment to a 6(X)-ship navy, it is going to be letting down the security ol this country at exactly the time when the Soviets are I building up a blue-water navy. It's a mistake, and I'm I calling both on Bush and Dole to ask the president to I reinstate Webb. . Kemp said he wrote Reagan a letter asking for Webb's reinstatement. And he also used the issue to take a shot at the party's frontrunners, Vice President George Bush and Sen. Minority Leader Hob Dole, R-Kansas. "The $33 billion cut in defense comes at an absolutely inappropriate time," he said. "It is an example of the mindless type of budget or fiscal policy that I believe t now, prof* "I don't think today's students think they have to prove anything, it was a big sacrifice for parents back then. Now it's , more of a laid-back situation." Willie Harriford Professor of AJ ro American studies declined again to 27 percent in 1983. Although some colleges are finding it harder to compete for black students, USC's black enrollment has only declined slightly. According to figures supplied by the department of student life, black enrollment at USC was 13.13 percent in fall 1984.. That figure declined to 12.8 percent in the fall 1985. It declined again to 11.96 percent a vear later. Ralph Johnson, assistant dean of student life for minority student affairs, said those figures aren't too i'/t: CV;;y , nn i HOMPSON/The Gam iiv weather tempted John Marston. criminal instice the steps of his South Gregg Street apartment where he pickmoon. impus, says e should quit 4'I want to say how disappointed I was rvith the resignation of Secretary Webb )f the Navy. The wrong person resigned. Krank Carlucci should resign." Rep. Jack Kemp, N. Y. Republican presidential candidate joorgc Bush could follow. "He called in Dallas for a four-year freeze on all spenling, a four-year freeze of the defense of America at a ime when the Soviets are investing in offensive nuclear :apability, conventional capablility, building up a blue.vater navy and using Cuban surrogates in Africa, Asia uid Central America. I think it would undermine the security of the United States and our hemisphere." Kemp said he would not quit the presidential race if he lost the South Carolina Republican primary March 5 to former television evangelist Pat Robertson, but also said lie didn't ihink he would lose. "We're going to do well in South Carolina." Even when pressed, Kemp would not say he would do badly in South Carolina. "You're talking to a quarterback; you're asking me to concede before the game's begun." Kemp said he, a "Yankee," could beat Robertson, a Southern fundamentalist. "I may be a Yankee, but I vote like Strom Thurmond." Sen. Thurmond, however, has endorsed Dole's presidential bid, which Kemp said was "good for Dole, but it's not enough to win South Carolina." Editor's note: The Gamecock will publish an exclusive interview with Kemp in Friday's issue. issors sav mf discouraging when put in perspective. He said overall enrollment at USC has also declined in the past few years. "Although minority enrollment has declined, it has kept up with total enrollment," Johnson said. Grace Jordan McFadden, a history professor and chairwoman of the Afro-American advisory committee, said the low number of black students on white campuses in ihe 1960s and the early 1970s made it seem as if those students performed better in the classroom. "The students I had in the early '70s, when I came here, probably up until the mid-70s, were as good as any students I've ever had," McFadden said. "As the number of students increased, 1 didn't think those students were any more intelligent. It's just that when I had fewer students, I could key in on those students, because they had taken the risk to enter a predominately white university." McFadden said many others decided to attend a black college or leave the state to pursue their education during those critical limes. She also said today's students are less committed to social causes. "It's a much more conservative group of students now," she said. "A number of things that people in the '60s and '70s were struggling to undo or to rectify, students now just take for granted." USC continues contract to help n 1 mi toiger meatre By The Associated Press COLUMBIA ? USC has extended its contract with the Shakespeare Theatre at tlie l olger Library in Washington and reduced the amount of money it must pay, officials say. Originally, the 1986 agreement called for a six-year term, but that was extended to an eighty erm with the school paying $300,000 annually, said C arol McGinnis Kay, dean of the USC College of the ?.jmanities and Social Sciences. File nrii>in;?l .'lurivnifnl Inr thf? ci-IhiaI f/^ $300,0(X) (he first year and $5(X),(XX) for the remaining five years. The Shakespeare Theatre is the only theatre in the United States that exclusively performs Shakespearean plays. It almost closed in 1985 because of financial problems. The agreement with USC kept it from going under. The new contract reduces the total cost to USC to $2.6 million, while extending the commitment to eight years. USC will pay SI.8 million over the next six years: $800,000 has already been paid under the 1986 agreement. Kay declined to explain why the Shakespeare Theatre agreed to the reduced-funding arrangement. A reciprocal arrangement between the USC department of theater and speech and the Shakespeare Theatre was announced in July 1986 by USC President James i v 'luv. I until. Since fall 1986, USC has sent between five and eight undeigraduate and graduate theater students each semester to study acting and serve as apprentices in the set design and technical department of the Shakespeare Theatre. Although use was sever- ' monins taruy in paying the $300,000 for the first year the reciprocal arrangement, Kay said the university is now caught up on its payments.