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The Gamecock
^Founded 1908 Eighty Years of Collegiate Journalism Friday
Volume 80, No. 68 University of South Carolina February 26, 1988
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By RITA K. COSBY
Staff writer
Sexually transmitted diseases are running rampant,
and two unwanted pregnancies occur every week on
USC's campus. Based on this high intensity, USC's
^recent message is very clear. "Safe Sex," with a condom
^contraceptive, is the best and safest method, said Lisa
Zucker, director of USC Health and Wellness
Programs.
Two new items have garnered attention recently ?
National Condom Awareness Week Feb. 14-21 and the
sale of condoms in campus vending machines. Both
were efforts by the university to raise studente'
consciousness about having safe sex.
National Condom Awareness Week was promoted on
campus by the Open Door Health Enrichment Center,
a drop-in center located on the third floor of the
Student Health Center.
Open Door gives campuswide presentations and
counseling on birth control and other related topics.
The center also had a table on Russell House patio for
one day during the awareness week and handed out
Phone may reolace
signup sheets
by spring 1989
By JIMMY MOUNT j :
Staff writer HkIKA \ A.'?
Students might not have to worry BBBKM
about long lines and aggravating
waits because preregistration for I : \ '
the 1988-89 spring semester ; " registration
may be just a phone !
call away. J
USC Registrar T. Luther Gunter
said plans for overall phone
registration may be completed by
the November 1988 preregistration V "
period.
"I'm working on it night and f ~,r ^ day,"
Gunter said. ^ '
f?P The student registration by
phone would be handled by voiceresponsive
computers. The
telephone would replace
registration scan sheets, Gunter
said. wSBr
Students would begin the IB
registration process by keying in
their student identification
numbers, followed by a personal \
four-digit security code. The / * *--*5
security code would ensure that no " ^""wj
one could punch in another
student's identification number
and gain access to that student's
registration file. w
However, Gunter said, if r \
someone were to tamper with ' ^
^another student's identification
^piumber, only the student's ^
registration file could be tampered
with, not grades or other important ^
information.
After tKo tinni i?if i> n/w^A mna I
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entered, the computer would ask jyi/
what term the student was \ /
registering for. Gunter said this Vl^**%ALwould
only be applicable in the
spring when students can register '
for summer classes and the next fall , '
After the student had entered the
desired term, he would have to Jk
punch in the first course sequence
code. The computer would state the
course was entered or inform the
student the course was full. Laid bad
The process would then continue
like regular registration. About 60 stu<
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Gunter said phone registration I U/Arn thu Anlarit
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i will "eliminate students Tunning I ?
around.'' Personal contact during
registration will occur only when 9
students need to pay fees or desire | ^
"special" services, such as O |j
independent study courses or
course overloads.
Gunter haB prepared a proposal By ANDREA ML
aV>out what he wanta in voice- staff writer
responsive computers and They all agree
equipment. Beginning March 2 and The statistics
continuing throughout the month, born to mothers
the registrar will view presentations South Carolina, i
by seven vendors who have nf Health and Ei
installed phone registration Girls younger
avstems in other schools. per year.
And more tha*
jflh Ciunter said care will be taken in reported in the a
selection of USC's equipment have tested poai
because he wants the computers to Nearly 100 Soui
be as "user friendly" as possible. AIDS.
USC will be following the lead of But the Comp
other schools in phone registration. Bill has been w
Brinham Young University has help those you
done away with in-person numbers arounc
registration, Gunter said. Georgia b naHf,ed hv
State University started registering b th ?
by phone this year, and 50 echoola jojnt C()mmittee
across the nation began phone rp.
registration in the fall of 1987. An fo S
additional 60 will begin in 1988, ~ public s
Gunter said. Subjecta auch ae
|| Gunter .aid he has tentative taught a9 well a8
plan, to reg..ter a .mall test group t0 ,?er preMUre.
I bv ohone in fall 1988. <.u/? ... 4
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"It'll be beautiful when it's all incidence of c
over," Guntar said. prevented," Sei
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pamphlets and condoms to students.
About 100 condoms were given out during a four
hour period. "Some females even came by to get some
for their boyfriends," said Tammy Williams, intern at
Open Door.
Williams said she notices new condom marketing
strategies being geared now to females. "Recently, we
see female magazine ads and find them for sale in
female bathrooms. We must inform women as well,"
Williams said.
Condoms, available in a pack of two for $1.10, are
also for sale in 22 cigarette vending machines across
campus. They are all in student-accessible locations,
with 14 machines in dorms, and the remaining
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Administration building, Gambrell Hall, Physical
Sciences and the Student Health Center.
Although the vendor, Cardinal Services, is
contracted through the university to supply the
machines, the installment in early January of condoms
was done with university administration. Profits from
condom sales are treated the same as they are from
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dents camped out with their pillows and blankets Tuesday fo
Blanket Night." Professional comedian Rondell Sheridan and
ainment for the event, which lasted from 8 p.m. until abou
slature health
JSHER said. Smith is the bill's or
Although general awarei
; something has to be done. the bill, it's the section on
are chilling. Nine babies are has received the most hea
younger than 17 each day in legislators don't disagre
according to the Department the bill, which is to chang
nvironmental Control. behavior in a way that wc
than 17 have 2,000 abortions pregnancies and less venei
"We can no longer bur
i 140 cases of AIDS have been sand about some of th<
tate, and about 1,000 people happening to our your
tive for the AIDS antibody. Carolina has a very high r
th Carolinians have died of Smith said.
And they don't disagree
>rehensive Health Education to encourage the changes ii
ritten by S.C. legislators to through education by pare:
inger than 17 turn those "The sad fact is many
1 themselves. The bill has their responsibility," fom
the Senate, amended and McDonald, who chaired
louse, and will soon be in a develop a plan to prevent
to decide the differences. What educators and legi
ooes a wide range of health on is the information childi
rc K through 12 to be taught in school and how it shoul<
ichools in South Carolina. Two Dressure valv^a
i nutrition and safety will be that might relieve some ol
i reproduction and resistance disagreements.
The first is the provision
o promote wellness. The high be withdrawn from any cl
loronaries could even be find objectionable.
i. Nell Smith, D-Pickens, The second is the requ
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ms in ms
cigarette sales. Dorms will receive a percentage from
their own machines sales.
"They are definitely selling. But it is too early to see
the exact results and quantities," said Karen Crocker,
USC vending manager.
Condoms in cigarette machines have caused no
surprising reactions. "I think it is ironic, though, that
cigarettes and condoms are sold in the same machine
side by side. And crazy that there should be any slack
about condoms, while they continue to sell cigarettes,
which we in the health industry are so strongly
against," said Zucker.
Annf Ko?* r>rr\KI ntvi in Uo ...I A. L ?- ? ? * ?
lu.v/vuvi piuuiviu >11 i>^> uimaiun wiwn ui^a-ienes is
the fact that many students do not smoke and therefore
do not use or look at these machines.
Kris Costello, a finance major and student
government representative, said this was exactly the
reason why he put up a sign about their availability in
his dorm, Columbia Hall. "All students need to know
about it and be able to have immediate and convenient
access to them," he said.
Costello says he also thinks it would be a great idea
h Kemp 1
a By STEPHEN GUILFOYLE
Managing editor
Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y. visit*
Tuesday and granted The Game<
exclusive interview. The intervi
conducted in the Grand Marketpla
the presidential candidate was eating
Question: If elected, how will you
the federal budget?
Answer: Well, the first thing. ... I
what (to photographers waiting for ]
take a bite) after I take a bite, will y<
eat? ... Great. Great Southern food...
only one way to balance the budget. P
economy perform at high le
employment, output, production an
rates of tax and interest rates, and pu
spending, give the president a line-it
Br! bring down the unemploymentr
. I stabilize the dollar and make it as
:3P This would not only
\ unemployment down but bring inter
down and bring the budget into bala
js^j 'Sy if only other answer is to do whi
i/> < y jPresident George) Bush and
Tj Republican Sen. Robert) Dole want 1
freeze spending forever. Bush want
^35 year spending freeze, and Dole want
tA * &? taxes, and I don't know what Pat (Rc
t wants to do because, frankly, he j
balance the budget, but he has not p
any new idea to balance the budget
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\ \ By KELLEY McDONALD
Staff writer
| Outsiders may think that all peoj
I the South sound alike, but USC
^ 3 _ - 1 | professor Michael Montgomery, w
; studied Southern speech patterns, die
SBBHHHHHB Montgomery has identified 11 die
th jones/tht gamecock Southern dialects, half of which are 1
South Carolina.
r the Carolina Pro- "Just in this state, we could iden
the movie The Jerk major dialect areas, maybe even five,
I midnight. across me siaie, ne saici.
Montgomery finds extreme differ
:ducation bill at
iginator. communities retain control over
ness is addressed in specific decisions.
sex education that "I like the idea of total local c
tarl n fil- - 1 ' HWa a - I - - **
^.v? omnn saia. n lanes care 01 bo man
;e on the purpose of situations."
e teenagers' sexual But there are some choices legislate
tuld result in fewer hesitated to leave at the local level. O
pal disease. teaching of contraception.
y our heads in the The bill requires stressing abi
i things that are before marriage, but it also allc
ig people. South teaching of contraception if the local
ate of pregnancy," chooses. Rep. Michael Fair, R-Gn
opposes this.
! that the best way "I think teaching about contracepi
_ lit - -
i sexuai oenavior is "sate spx' will compromise the ab
nts and the church, message," he said. "I believe an emp
have defaulted on contraception will increase sexual i
ler Sen. Hay ward Students who have been surveyed
a task force to major reason for not having sex is
teen pregnancy. pregnancy."
islators do disagree But Ann Slater, a health e(
ren should be given consultant for the state Departr
i be given to them. Education, disagrees.
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uum inio ine dui Knowing the emotional develo
f the heat in these level of teenagers especially, the besi
assist adolescents is to lay out all of 1
i that children may for them and let them make the (
asses their parents Telling them what you want them t<
great way to get them to do just the op
irement that local she said.
ichines
for all dorms on campus to carry the contraceptive and
for more extensive promotion. Thin is a general
suggestion made by adminstrators as well.
"Students are experimenting a lot at this age. It's
vital that we do something like this to prevent the
spread of diseases," said Robert Harman, assistant area
manager for Towers and McBryde complexes.
But does their sale actually promote safe sex or
simply sex?
"I think you walk a thin line when you're promoting
condoms," Williams said. "Anytime you have
knowledge and products distributed, it's a good and
responsible idea. What people choose to do with this
information is up to them," she said.
Williams said she believes the university needs to do
more, as more than three dozen cases of clymidia and
other sexually transmitted diseases are reported at the
health center each month. Clinical nurse specialists in
the center's gynecology department now spend more
than 50 percent of their time seeing cases of
problematic sexual diseases.
See "Sex," page 2
to support
rogram
economic growth and putting a lid on
expenditures.
ed USC Q: What about a return to the gold
cock an standard?
ew was A: We need a new modern gold standard to
ce while II1UKe ine aouar 8iaoie, nonest, sound,
I dinner, predictable and bring interest rates down to 3
or 4 percent so these young people can buy
balance homes at 5 percent mortgages instead of 10
percent mortgages. We have the highest real
tell you mortgage rate in our nation's history. We have
Kemp to the highest 30-year treasury bill rates in our
)u let me nation's history, and it's killing the housing
.There's and agricultural industries to have high
tlakethe interest rates. And I'm making the case that
vels of the high interest rate policy of the Federal
d at low Reserve Board is squeezing the housing
t a lid on industry, hurting agriculture, hurting exports,
em veto, hurting third world countries. You've got to
ate and get interst rates down and the only way to do
good as it is to make the dollar, once again, honest.
' bring and stable, predictable. I think it's an act of
est rates morality to keep the dollar sound. In other
nee. The words, it's immoral to devalue the dollar.
at v vice y: Tuition will probably be raised next year
(Kansas at this unlveristy and at many others across
jo do and the country, and students are having a tougher
s a four- time getting financial aid. How are you going
b to raise to deal with the Increase in applications for
ibertaon) federal loans as students are having more and
just says more trouble paying for college?
iresented A: No student of any color, of any race,
through See "Kemp," page 2
't drawl alike,
irofessor says
t VlP I J r?a tatp onH I />uionnn(nr *? " P?
w^v.vvtw unu ??w?uii ii y a^tcuin. rui
example, the word 'right' would be
pronounced 'raht' by Upstate atives, and
i? pT closer to 'roight' in the Lowcountry".
English rp^e Midlands dialect, found in Columbia,
is a blend of other accents. Montgomery
(agrees. attributes this to the fact that this area was
itinctive ja8^ jn t^e state to be settled, and people
leara in are continually moving in from other regions.
Perhaps the most exotic of all South
tify four Carolina accents is Gullah, a black dialect
that cut spoken on the offshore islands. Gullah has
considerable African influence, savs
encea in See "Dialect," page 3
idresses AIDS
many Slater 9aid recent studies have shown that
children are less likely to have sex when they
ontrol," have complete reproductive and
y varied contraceptive education.
Fair doesn't think there's enough data to
ore have show what works.
ne is the Slater has other concerns about the way
flhHtinpnrp mivht hp tnni/ht
Btinence "Some abstinence education will just turn
>W8 the kids off. You saw that with some of the scare
district tactics used in drug education some years ago.
eenville, Kids don't believe it," she said. "If you just
give them the facts, most of them will ch(x>se
Lion and to abstain."
Btinence Another question is whether boys and girls
hasia on should be taught separately. The House's
activity, version of the bill requires separation when
of of A d n K/kiii Un
ovuvv U It(IV/II11I^ OlAIUl HIC )71C VCIIIIVMI V/l ^lU^ilHIll y.
fear of Hep. Harriet Keyserling, I)-Beaufort,
agrees with Smith that local control of this
iucation issue is important. "Over a third of the
nent of districts already have programs that are
working, and they would have to change," she
pmental said.
t way to Slater who taught eighth-grade health
:he facte education for nine years, has taught classes
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ivi/ioivii. uutn nt^aiaicu uy ^ciiuci anu tiaocwo witu
) do is a both sexes. She said students ask more
jpoeite," questions when reproductive anatomy are
taught without the opposite sex in the room.