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?r? | J | f j Famous South African I Viewpoint S / ! uusc?faacnuhyprofessorjoins IVolleyball team falls to Georgia ::::::::: E1 J | See Features, page 4 see Sports, page 7 | Classifieds page 8 The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty Years of Collegiate Journalism Friday Volume 81 No. 20 University of South Carolina September 16, 1988 F ? - *- ?*** , . -f > JOh Candlelight vigil English sophomore Laurie Snelson (left), Englisl Gilbert and mechanical engineering sophomore Franl for a candlelight vigil that was held Thursday nig Horseshoe on Sumter Street. The vigil was sponsored Africa Alliance and the National Assnciatinn for the A, ored People. Leary turns sell-out cro\ By RITA K. COSBY him 10 Comn Senior reporter suggestions." "I consider myself to be the Pete "An informa Rose of philosophy," said big-hitter calls himself, m Timothy Leary, 68, who spoke to a formation age. ' sell-out crowd on Wednesday night. ing too quickly. Leary, wearing a suit and tie, star- conventional wi ched white shirt and worn-out ? we must lead sneakers, brought in a full house to Leary, now k the Russell House Ballroom. More movement and i than 900 people attended, and about Inc., a company 100 were turned awav. according to interactive soft Beth Hewson, chairwoman for the computers, com Ideas and Issues Committee of expansion. "I Carolina Program Union. CPU anyone can becc sponsored the event, paying Leary a own television s $3,500 fee. ing packages thj Leary, an influential and con- seen on the scr< troversial figure during the '60s, running the sho> began walking around and swearing "It's good for almost immediately. He said his goal screen so intentl was to perform philosophy for the at- reading any boc tentive audience. "This is the most off some Engli: risky activity; I'm going to think for one." myself in public. And I don't care if I Mind-expansic insult every authority in the nation." Leary uses and ; He said he believes too often those such drugs as ma who are in power, especially govern- and LSD. "I do ment, feed off their inferiors and I've used LSD push one-line philosophy. certainly not bi "Even as far back as Biblical disgrace that times, when Moses came down from around." the mountains ? he brought with Leary initially Professors reseai By LYNN GIBSON Staff writer Somewhere in the Soviet Union, a group of Russians now knows the meaning of the word "Gamecock." Daniel Hinckley, a Ph.D. candidate in USC's Marine Science department, and Stephen Zeeman, who received his doctorate in marine science in 1982, joined the Soviets July 23 in a joint study of the Bering Sea. "The fact that both of us were invited to participate in the expedition shows that USC has a nualitv marinp science program," Zeeman said. "If at least 100 Soviets know about USC, it shows that we definitely have a good n reputation, and it puts us on the map on an international scale." The sea is in the north Pacific, lying between Alaska and northeast Siberia. The expedition, sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Interior, was the third in a continuing U.S.-Soviet Study of the ecolopv nf thp Rprintx Tho firct place in 1977, and the second, which Zeeman also attended, took place in 1984. Hinckley said it was in the best interests of the United States and the Soviet Union to team up for the study because the Bering Sea straddles the U.S.-Soviet border. Each side can get only part of the total picture when working alone, he said. Hinckley's research focused on trace analysis of low use C( M suspect . arrested By STEPHEN GUILFOYLE Editor in chief University Police have made an arrest in a shooting early Saturday morning of a young man who was attending a dance in the Russell House B Univeristy Union. |||S| > The police obtained a warrant and 4 arrested Perry Tyrone Wilson, 19, of 217 William Harden Road. Wilson is charged with assault and battery with B I intent to kill, police reports said. According to police reports, the I victim, Michael D. McQueen, 18, of 1 18-4 Hammond Village Apartments, 1 said he was attending a stepshow Friday night, after which he was walking by the reflection pool on Greene * * * Street. i^||gsf? He said he was approached by three men, and a fight broke out. McQueen was shot in the left hip and made his way home. His mother drove him to Richland Memorial * Hospital, where he was treated and ' held until he was released Thursday morning. IN MILLS Ill/The Gamecock u 11 * u i* i_ j j He originally told police he did not wish to press charges, reports said, i junior Kalherine but ,h5 told Pollcc M?"da>' <hat he t Timmons prepare would Press char8es' The Pollce ?b" ht in front of the tained a warrant Tuesday, and it was t? (he Free South se"fd WednesdayJ . dvancement of Col- ? Wl,son rerI,amed the Richland County Detention Center Thursday at press time; he was being held until on ' :ader of the Futurist Timothy Leary ^resident of Futique, high after he experienced a mindwhich designs highly blowing death-rebirth trip not ware for personal deliberately induced by chemicals, centrating on mind- but from a delirium he suffered from bet in five years an illness he had while in Spain. >me director of their After the illness, he said, "All the how. We are design- ropes of my social self were gone. I it can alter anything was 38, high, completely free." Since ;en ? now you are then, Leary has deliberately tripped v," he said. more than 500 times, people to watch the Leary said that the war on drugs is y, much better than ridiculous, and that drugs are the real >ks. I hope I pissed killers is a lethal lie. >h teachers on that "Everyone is so preoccupied with drugs, drugs, drugs. What about >n is the reason why more serious problems like the naidvocates the use of tional debt and literacy? Only 700 a irijuana, psylocybin, year die from cocaine (probably n't know how often related more from bullet wounds and personally, but it's balloons that have popped in their een enough. It's a stomachs as they cross the border) there's not more over 10,000 die from handguns," he said. got hooked on its See "Leary," page 2 rch with Soviets level pollutants, such as pesticides. Hinckley studied hexachlorocyclohexane ? most commonly known by its trademark "Lindane" ? which is the highest concentrated pesticide found in the air and water. The compound is a known carcinogen and a bioconcentrate, which means it builds up in the fat tissues of organisms. Therefore, Hinckley said, when Lindane is transferred from the air into the water, it is absorbed by ocean creatures in a concentration 10 times the amount in the water. When people eat the fish, the concentration grows to 100 times the amount. Lindane was banned in the early 1970s by the United States, the Soviet Union and most of the Western world. However, because Third World countries continue to use the inexpensive pesticide, the hazardous compound is still prevalent in the environment, Hinckley said. The Bering Sea is an excellent place to study Lindane traces because the cold temperature facilitates the transfer of Lindane from the air to the water, Hinckley said. Zeeman, an assistant professor of marine science at the University of New England, went on the expedition to study the primary production of phytoplanckton, the basis of the food chain. Zeeman discovered that the Bering Sea is the most fer- j tile sea in the world, apparently because of the effects that See "Sea," page 2 >pes with r Campus SPla Crime ' University police report ^ Saturday, September 10 incidents of: By mary pEj disorderly conduct (2) News assistant et Assault and battery with usc Wl11 hua . . . i-ii/i\ measures such , intent to kill (1) walking on can Assault and battery of a student identif Li J i mgn ana aggravatea nature mmistrator toic a fight between members of special meeting two fraternities on the ' This past Wl McBryde Quad ? pus from he could meet a $20,000 surety bond, neighborhoods which requires a percentage of per- here," said Jei sonal property worth the bond's Student Life, amount to back the bond, detention Brewer said t center personnel said. campus are oft University Police are still seeking juveniles who ? another suspect who may have been ble. He said tl involved in the shooting, said Carl responsible for Stokes, systems vice president for law that have happ enforcement and safety. He said both weeks on and a Wilson and the other suspect "were "This is not t known" to the University Police and of violence. I have been reported for other anyone that i< incidents. "But we do hav Stokes said the current rash of need student in crimes on campus has been caused by these problems, non-students who have been coming This past onto campus. USC students wi "I think the troubles on campus of fights that br are being caused by visitors, not sponsored by A guests of our students, but visitors person was stal who enjoy coming onto campus and was shot, crashing parties," Stokes said. The Wild "They see the opportunity to come House was also and party, to engage in isolated Sunday around fellowship and partying with the Rutledge Chapel ctuH^nto " vonHoli'jarl jiuwvmo. tanuaiiLvu. 'Better but not enough' USC short or By SARA CRUTCHLEY Staff writer Several black organizations say USC is not doing enough to increase the number of minority faculty on the Columbia campus. The university hired nine black faculty members this semester, bringing the total number of black faculty members to 23. In terms of past statisics, this increase is considered by USC officials to be progressive. But some blacks say more should be done. "Although in terms of statistics this increase would be considered praiseworthy," said Edward Hayes, president of the Black Faculty and Staff Association, "when they are studied in the light of total faculty of some 1,500, and given the location of USC, it's not a drop in the bucket." South Carolina is unique because it has a high black population ? 30.4 percent, Hayes said. He added that USC's current drive to become an international university means that its focus must be on creating a multi-cultural, multi-racial environment. He said a white student's education is less valuable if he hasn't had a student-professor relationship with a black faculty member. Nelson Rivers, executive secretary for the Columbia chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the organization thinks that not enough is being done to attract black faculty to USC. He compared USC to Winthrop College, a smaller institution that took on about the same number of new faculty members in the same period. "We will not heap praise on USC, because we're still talking about 23 out of 1,500, and that's not real good," Rivers said. He said the NAACP would contact USC in the next few months to discuss setting up a Fair Shares Program to at : * jfl Hgl^^m'jfl Daniel Hinckley takes water samples from the Bering Se ising crime ins to fight r?n s~\ iiv utuaLtu \RSON A University of North Carolina litor student was shot when he was returnve to take special ing from Five Points late Sept. 3, and as checking all people a USC female student was raped last ipus late at night for month when walking home from Five ication, a USC ad- Points late at night. 1 student leaders at a Brewer asked for ideas from the on crime Thursday. student organization leaders on how eek the campus police to deal with the problems of security is and said we have a on campus. Brewer said he wanted sople coming on cam- ideas on how to prevent future insurrounding cidents from happening, who don't belong Many of the students said they saw rry Brewer, dean of no problem with presenting IDs to police officers, but they were not .sure he people coming on how their peers would react, en rough, gang-type Other students said locking some ire looking for trou- entrances to the Russell House at lese people are also night and posting security guards at many of the crimes the back and front entrances to check ened in the last two IDs may help keep unwanted people round campus. out of the Russell House, o say we are in a den Brewer said the administration has don't want to give already considered several ideas of its dea," Brewer said. own. These include closing all social 'e a problem, and we functions down at midnight, not put on how to solve advertising social events off campus, and allowing only USC students to weekend, two non- attend registered social events in the ere injured as a result Russell House and on the Fraternity oke out after a dance Quai. Ipha Phi Alpha. One Brewer said no decisions had been sbed, and the other made. Meanwhile, the Fraternity and Pizza in the Russell Sorority councils are working on a robbed by a gunman plan to provide off-campus transpor11:15 p.m., and the tation on Friday and Saturday was broken into and nights, history* senior, Luke Byars said. 1 black teachers tract black faculty. Winthrop College already runs such a program ? the first college in the country to do so. The NAACP and Winthrop College have agreed in their program to monitor several areas affecting minority groups in the college. Winthrop has also agreed to monitor an Employment Development Plan lor black faculty. David Belton, assistant to the president for affirmative action at Winthrop, said the program has clearly helped the college's efforts to employ more black faculty. "We have employed nine new black faculty for this coming term, only three of whom are in administrative positions," Belton said. Black faculty represent seven percent of the Winthrop College faculty. But while their number is equal to that of USC's, Winthrop's total faculty is between 260 and 300. The hiring of the new black professors is a commendable increase compared to the number of black faculty in the past, said USC Provost Arthur Smith. "We are in a very tight national situation in which universities are raiding each other of black faculty," Smith said. "We are going to continue and increase our efforts in this area." The Black Faculty and Staff Association is compiling a report for the USC administration that will show that qualified staff prospects exist if USC is willing to look", Hayes said. "This report will refute the saying, 'We can't find them,' " he said. "We know they're out-there." But he said he remains only cautiously optimistic that USC will maintain its efforts to hire minority faculty. "If this university and this state recognizes that it is within its interest to increase the numbers of black faculty, then this momentum will continue," he said. "Unfortunately, there is not much evidence of this in the past." V/ | ^ ^ ^ x . ... ; fe M&L ^ :' ' > # sMbS^. Phoio courtesy of DANIEI HINCM E> a.