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American Celtic band | viewpoint page 3 Sr*'""" I Dingle, Williams excel as starters g... ; I see Sports, page 8 F & ^ See Features, page 5 ^ j Classifieds page 10 The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty Years of Collegiate Journalism Wednesday Volume 81, No. 19 University of South Carolina September 14, 1988 Lounge to reopen its doors By HAL MILLARD News editor The Golden Spur was a place for students to unwind after classes with a beer and a few close friends ? an evening sanctuary where books were closed and kegs were tapped. But time and a 21 drinking age had put the Golden Spur into an early retirement. Now after a four-year hiatus, the Spur is back and scheduled to open its doors on Nov. 4. The new and improved $250,000 edition of the Spur will be a non-alcoholic lounge with an area for students to study or relax and an area reserved for concerts. There will also be a bar and a state-of-the-art sound system. "It's really going to be an incredible place," said Lee Cossin, Golden Spur manager. "It's been a long time in the making, but it's going to be worth it." The Spur had originally been scheduled to open at the beginning of the fall semester, but work delays hindered completion of the project. Jack Barrie, one of a crew of university construction workers preparing the Spur, told I he uamecocK two weeks ago that plans to have the place ready by late September or early October were unrealistic. Barrie mentioned that problems with blueprints drawn up by Drafts and Jumper Architects in West Columbia would cause delays and that specialty items such as oversized door frames were not yet ready. But now, Barrie said he thinks his crew can complete construction by the new target date of Oct. 28, when the keys will be handed over to Cossin and Russell House Director Larry Zuleba. The Spur is still far from complete. The parquet floor is not down. The walls are still just sheetrock. The ceiling still exposes air ducts and pipes, and the scraps and remnants of months of work lie on the dusty concrete floor. The Homecoming Commission will use the Spur Sept. 29 as part of its festivities regardless of how it looks. "We're just going tt) sweep up and go on in, no matter what," said Jerry Brewer, dean of Student Life. i See "Grand Opening," page 2 Groups to spt By JOHN MILLS III Staff writer Two student groups will hold a candlelight vigil on Sumter Street in front of the Horseshoe 7:30 p.m. Thursday to protest USC foundations' investments in companies that do business in South Africa. USC's Free South Africa Alliance and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People are ininine forrec tr> brine a lareer crowd to the nrotest. The student groups had planned to hold the vigil on the Horseshoe in front of USC President James Holderman's residence, but Holderman said all demonstrations on the Horseshoe are against university policy, according to English junior Katherine Gilbert, FSAA president. I "We were informed that it was against university regulations for us to hold it in front of President Holderman's house, even though we have held things there in the past," Gilbert said. "We had a vigil last June ? on the Horseshoe ? at night ? in front of President Holder / Business freshman Sean Sheehan registers to vote at the Russell House Tuesday. S.G. promotes vc By KELLY THOMAS ti Staff writer c September has been declared Voter Registration Month by Student Government President James Franklin. I . i: To promote the idea that students should register ? a and to make it more convenient for them to do so ? S.G. ^nd several other campus organizations will have registra- d IP 1 i iaii m VgF IE MBKK9t^mm m ?BHjHp| S * ; - s/'* "V, . " USC employees work hard to renovate the Golden Spur irk anti-apar man's house. We had no problems with that, so we assumed we would have no problems again," she added. The university does not approve any campus activity scheduled after dark because of safety reasons, said Jerry Brewer, Dean of Student Life. Brewer said he was unaware of any nighttime vigil last June. The foundations invest their money according to the Sullivan Principles, said Christopher Vlahoplus, executive director of the USC Educational Foundation and the Carolina Research & Development Foundation. The Sullivan Principles provide a protocol for fairemployment in South Africa, he said. The product of Rev. Leon Sullivan, the principles instructed U.S. companies to defy South African law by integrating company facilities, establishing fairemployment practices and equal pay, and developing troininn nronromc fV\r nnnu/liitpe Pt/pntliollv IT Q firmC naming, pivgiaiuo IUI iivuY?unva. ^?vinu?u;, v/.o. were to lobby against apartheid. Sullivan abandoned the principles in 1987, because they ' . .:-i- "X " - ^. j;/. ^:. > " "**"? _A *? TEDDY LEPP/The Gamecock Student Government registration table in front of the ner registration ion tables set up this week at various locations around ampus. The League of Women Voters is assisting S.G. The league has already provided brochures and other nformation and will be called on for further assistance nd leadership, Franklin said. Students may also register in the S.G. office any time uring September. on the second fl The gunman iM^W^PMi black pistol, wh I ^9Hp might have been i subject pushed t |r \ cash register ant J employee's ba< agfflF 1 ^standing about 1: K 1 ject, was told i register. The su JK| . -A# aside the first em demanded the m - knew he was serf ||g||||gp^ to put the monej The subject to the first employei leaving the r employees then BRIAN SAULS/The Gamecock police and the . ?. . , number 911. for its Nov. 4 grand opening. Wild Pizza ma ings said as far a; /11/7 t tlA-l/ /"k t/l UIVIU Vlgu Ufl "We were informed that it was against university regulations for us to hold it in front of President Holderman's house, even though we have held things there in the past." Katherine Gilbert president Free South Africa Alliance failed to "work." According to Sullivan, the Principles were supposed to force the South African government to put an end to apartheid. He is now trying to get companies presently doing business in South Africa to pull out. "We have had a position for some time that they will USC student, runs for schn By BONNIE DAVIS As a junior, he Staff writer S.C. Association Robert Dozier may seem a little through intersch young to be running for Richland city level. He County School District Two Board national-level S< of Trustees, but that just might count chairman of in his favor on the Nov. 8 election district, day. ^ Serving on a s This 20-year-old USC coun political science junior is body the youngest of nine m' senic candidates running for a W*?& a cht seat on the board. He ^ the s may well be the youngest . this to ever run for this , w meet office, although the A bega district office keeps no W jHHEyj runn records of these m SU&Sm some ifHIIflHHi Di Dozier said his experi- j)ozjer vice ence lies in the fact that said he has recently completed 12 years in the school distric the public school system. In compari- what was going o son, the other candidates, the wanted to run f youngest of whom is around 40, have wasn't able becai not seen the inside of a school as a 18-year-old limit, student for 20 years and more, he After seriously said. the last six month "I've been through 12 years of Aug. 10. public schooling ? that's experi- Dozier said he ence," Dozier said. "I've lived it, link between th I've seen it, I've been there." community. Par* Dozier said his interest in the zens who have politics of education was sparked involved in the p during his high school years. He need a little insigl moved to South Carolina and into no concept of w the district at age 10 and continued in said. "Times are the same district up through high His platfrom o school. points, the first < nman robs Id Pizza tSON the first time any campus dining area or had been robbed at gunpoint, ked into Wild Pizza "There have been incidents where QtnH/?nt 1 Inir\n u/p \uprp HrnL-intr\ aft^r hnnrc anH j demanded an un- (someone) vandalized the cash it of cash from register," Cummings said. "1 ; reports said. wouldn't be stupid enough to leave took place about any money in there overnight, the gunman came in though." Wild Pizza, located Security in Russell House is difloor of the Russell ficult to maintain, he said, ject approached an "We are in the center of campus, is standing near the With so many things going on and the back of the people coming and going anyone Police reports said. could walk in off the streets," he then pulled out a said. ich the police said Carl Stokes, vice president of Law an automatic. The Enforcement and Safety, - said he he employee to the agreed with Cummings. But he said 1 put a gun in the police don't plan to step up patrols of :k, according to the area because of the incident. "Our officers will patrol the area )yee, who had been and provide protection as we have in 5 feet from the sub- the past," Stokes said. But he also to go to the cash said it is up to individuals to take ibject then pushed precautions. tployee, put the gun He suggested that restaurant nployee's back and managers and employees working in oney from the cash campus dining facilities limit the ;aid. amount of money on hand. He said jught it was a joke students could also help by calling an ex-employee," police if they see someone suspicious >yee told police. on campus. subject shoved the "When we get these type of calls, : again and demand- we fill out a field information card, e employee said she which we keep on file at the police ous. She then began station," Stokes said. r into a plastic bag. He said anyone near Russell House ok the bag, forcing at the time of the robbery who might s into the cooler and have seen the suspect should call estaurant. Other campus police. called the campus The suspect ? a black male, about emergency phone 6 foot 2 inches tall with brown eyes ? was wearing a dark blue ski mask, dark pants and a light-colored long nager Scott Cumm- sleeved sweater, possibly with an 5 he knows this was argyle design. Horseshoe only invest in companies that observe the principles that call for free opportunity to businesses that operate in South Africa. We had taken that position some time ago," Vlahoplus said. James A. Morris, president of the USC Educational Foundation, said in 1987 that the foundation supports the position taken by the Washington Post when Sullivan relinquished his principles. "...his code remains too valuable to South Africa's blacks to abandon summarily," Morris put in his written statement. The article in the Washington Post concluded with, "The firms now thinking of continuing 'the Sullivan Principles without Sullivan' seem to be on the right track." Holderman, surprised on learning of the vigil, said his policies lowaru in vcmiiiciu in companies wuiMiig m South Africa do not matter. "My policies are irrelevant. The univerSfty See "Vigil," page 2 despite youth, ol board seat ! was involved in the the teacher/student ratio in the of Student Councils classroom. This concern comes from ool council at the drawing on his own past experience also worked as a as a student in a classroom of 35 to "ASC delegate as 40 students, and the teacher being the congressional prepared for only 25 due to lack of funding. chool improvement He said he isn't sure what exactly it cil and as student will take to equal out the imbalance vice president his of teachers to students, but he feels >r year gave Dozier that if rezoning is the answer, then it ince to work behind needs to be done, cenes. It was during Dozier's second proposal consists time he began to of establishing some type of forum a lot of people and for students and teachers to establish n to think about communications with the school ing for office in board. : capacity. Sex education is another of his iring his term as concerns which he fully supports. president Dozier Though state laws require schools to it seemed as though have sex education classes, Dozier :t didn't really care said more can be done along these n in the schools. He lines. or office then, but "School is the only place where tse of the stipulated everyone will be educated uniformally," he said. considering it over The last proposal of his platform is, he filed for office deals with drug and alcohol awareness. Dozier said he feels that District himcolf at tho Twn needs tn start Jin awareness e schools and the program beginning in the middle mts and older citi- schools. The program would be :n't been actively developed and funded by the district ublic school system itself. it because they have Dozier said he feels strongly that hat's going on, he there should be a person on the different," he said. board who is young enough to ansists of four main communicate with the public school af which deals with See "Dozier," page 2