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VBipiflfek Walt Disney World Col- I _ I v iewpoint."""'"!'^^ 1"^"-"""page 3 I rLf*3 IReserved leader sets good examples; See Features, page 4 I see Sports, page 7 Classifieds page 8 The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty Years of Collegiate Journalism Friday Volume 81, No. 23 University of South Carolina September 23, 1988 Students left out Ticket li By STEPHEN GUILFOYLE Editor in chief Student tickets to Saturday's football game against Georgia ran out early Tuesday after noon, to the surprise of about 100 student: Wednesday afternoon. Not only did the students learn that no ticket: were left, but some had to wait in the ticket line before being told. Clarence Abrams, a finance and marketing senior, said he had to wait in line 20 minute: before he was told no tickets were left. Calling the situation ridiculous, Abrams said "How can everyone on campus pay fees foi tickets and then they run out of tickets?" "It's unfair and unjust," said Moniqu< Jones, a journalism senior. "After all, we ar< students, they know how many students gc here, there's no reason they should run out. "They told us it was on a first-come, first serve basis, but if you have an ID, and you're < student who pays fees, they should give us '< ticket or give us our money back," she said. There was a line stretching from the ticke use que panel's ri on bid le < By The Associated Press The USC should not have been fined mason Sept. 14 by a legislative oversight the gri committee, said a USC includ administrator. other; "We followed every guideline, not be every rule that existed," said David Pan Rinker, vice president for Facilities is the Planning. "From this, people are ordere getting the impression that we did in thei something wrong, and we don't even create* know what we did." award USC was fined $10,000 by the S.C. Spir Procurement Review Panel for its lost ] handling of bids for construction on $173," the Roost athletic residence hall. $7,108 The fine was the first issued by the time. 1 committee, which condemned what it pect ai called USC's "reckless and ques- In a tionable conduct" in its handling of it wou the bids. said it Committee chairman Hugh fairly Leatherman, a Democrat from concer Florence, said USC had subjected the USC state to open-ended liability. He call- Consti ed the procurement process "one of N.C., the worst judgment decisions I've tions ? seen." dormit "To me, it was the most flagrant accord abuse, total disregard that I've seen, Meti I believe, in all the appeals that have Brick-] come to the panel," he said. Weekend s By KRIS TAYLOR Staff writer Editor's note: See related story on page 2 Student Senate reaction. A Five Points to campus shuttle system be? service this weekend despite declining support. Alleged conflicts of interest have reduced s port from Student Government and the Law ] forcement and Safety Division, according Sorority Council Service chairwoman, Mj Louise Ramsdale. Original plans for the shuttle system ? propo by the Fraternity and Sorority councils ? inclu< a paid reserve police officer for each bus : qualified bus drivers chosen from a list of aire: W ~ * * \'*jf m jt;? wSm WTj * # tt*MHF WJ * *OiaWPP g# j t*ymmMr * BHp l?I A USC student receives a flu shot at the Thorn of Georgia game mit make; tables in front of the Russell House Theater around and in front of the Carolina Program ; Union's office, Abrams said. "All the tickets shouldn't run out in two days," he said. 5 Every student is not entitled to a ticket simply because he pays the student activity fee and the 5 athletic fee, said Dean of Student Life Jerry ; Brewer.' 'Students pay the fees to support an intercollegiate sports program and, in exchange, a I certain amount of tickets are made available to 5 them." Students pay $16 as part of their tuition to support Athletic Department programs, r The tickets ran out around 2 p.m. Tuesday, Athletic Department officials said. Assistant ; Ticket Manager Shawn Burke said Thursday ; that student block seating with organizations ) nearly doubled since last week. Greek organizations picked up 1,018 tickets during the block seating for the East Carolina game and 1,717 i for the Georgia game. Independent block i seating more than doubled, picking up 841 last week and 1,976 this week, t Students are allocated 13,456 tickets by the stions jjjgjj school was ordered to pay Homer Spires, who registered ievance, a total of $17,108.05, * ing $10,000 as a warning to |H agencies that such conduct will j^B |P tolerated. ? pn el attorney Faye Flowers said it first time an agency has been BpB d to pay a penalty to a bidder seven-year history of the panel, J to review protests the ing of state contracts, es had asked compensation of LH profits in the amount of I 722, but instead received I .05 for attorneys fees and his I -lis attorney said he did not ex- H a appeal. prepared statement, USC said I Id not appeal the decision and had tried to handle the matter and most efficiently to all ned. ' initially agreed to hire Metro -uction Co. of Charlotte, in December 1987 for addi- f?poictrntin ind renovations to The Roost IieglAiruilU ory on the Columbia campus, Janice Kraft lot ing to the panel's report. signs up to suppo ro, in turn, contracted with States. Kraft, a m Laco of Charlotte to perform f0 vote. See "Fine," page 2 * j J i J - 1- - muiue 10 oe approved drivers from the Law Enforcement Safety Division. for But conflicts rose because organizers did not to the correct officials in the Law Enforcement pns Safety Division, said Carl Stokes, senior vice pi dent for the division. Stokes said he was never up- ed about the program. En- "I think it was a communication probk to Stokes said, trie Stokes will not allow reserve police officer participate nor will he release the list of quali sed drivers. ied "This project is out of our jurisdiction," St< ind said. "It is not the job of campus police to serv< idy protection for off-campus excursions. That is v ># >><.? , j; * v 1?Igl I TRACY ison Health Center behind Russell House. $ students Athletic Department, but 1,400 tickets are taken right off the top, so students only have 12,056 tickets actually available to them. About /ju students bought datebook books at the beginning of the semester so they could get season tickets for a datebook or for a friend, but those tickets also come out of the student allocation. About 15 datebook tickets remained to be picked up Wednesday afternoon when Abrams got up to the ticket table, he said. So when students who weren't block seating started lining up Monday, they only had a chance at 7,633 tickets. The 1,400 tickets that are removed from the student allocation by the Athletic Department should not come from the student allocation, said Brewer. Of that number, six go to the Student Government president, 90 go to S.G., 270 go to scholarship athletes, 270 go to non-dressed out athletes, 288 go to prospects, 397 go to dressedout athletes, 42 go to the wheelchair section, 12 go to disabled students and 25 go to the Department of Student Affairs. Jfl Kj j !?&98i^MH it tim 6 JULIE BOUCHIL LON/The G? >ks on Thursday as Kerry Pate, a civil engineering s< rt Ron Paul, a Libertarian, for president of the L anagement marketing senior, was also registering p gin service and the city police are for." It would be a conflict of interest for pc talk ficers to escort intoxicated students, Stoki and "We are under oath to uphold the law. If resi- our jobs we'd probably end up escorting p< ask- jail instead of back to campus." The councils, although they said they ai :m" with Stokes's reaction, still plan to procei the plan. s to The organizers mistook the interest of fied Baker, assistant vice president in the Law E ment and Safety Division as full support )kes specifics of the program, e as "It seems like now we are fighting bure; vhat See "Shuttle," Center si By TRACY MIXSON Staff writer With this week's temperati i j i n 1 i_ i.. com anu nu season piooaoiy i students' minds. But medical staff at USC' Center said now is the best t cinated for influenza. "A lot of students tend to Dr. Audrey Rhodes of the H year, it's not a high priority midst of an epidemic." Rhodes said about 500 stuc winter, and she hopes at least with the $5 shot this year. "Five hundred vaccinatioi pared to 23,000 students on i "I suppose a lot of students don't consider it a priority tc But they should take it ser wait until December or Janu? be too late to prevent catchir "At the University of Sout W/ASOA/7* Gamecock 3 mSSS ?f Pe?Ple> ty, Rhodes said. At the He unhappy But while all of the 12,056 student tickets were picked up, not all of the tickets will be used for students. In addition to the 730 datebook tickets, the ticket office has already validatebo'okd 1,375 student tickets for nonstudents' use, meaning more than 2,000 nonstudents will see the game with student tickets. While many of the validations are legitimate, many are probably used so that people can get cheaper tickets, Brewer said. Validations cost $16 on a game day, but are only $10 during student pickup. There are problems with the process, especially for big games such as Georgia, said Dennis Pruitt, vice president of Student Affairs. "The problem is the honest students suffer and the dishonest students prosper." General admission tickets to the Georgia game have been sold out for months, an Athletic Denartment secretary said, and the University of Georgia did not return any of the tickets sent to Georgia for allotment to its students. Ij Safety coi | becomes p By STEVE PRADARELLI I and LYNN GIBSON Staff writers ) A temporary safety committee to ^ study campus crime and propose preventive measures to the university < will be made permanent this fall. \ The committee, which has been operating as a temporary body for ' about three years, is expected to be in I place in a few weeks. It will be composed of students recommended by Student Government and of faculty recommended by the Provost's office and the Faculty Senate. F? Faculty and staff representation will initially come from Housing Services, Resident Student Development, Operational Services, Continuing Education, the Women's Center ? a new divison of Student Affairs located in the Russell House ? and H Student Affairs, said Dennis Pruitt, I dean of Student Affairs. The com imittee will include two or tnree tacul- < ty members from various colleges and one representative each from the i education and safety and the law enforcement branches of the Law En- ; forcement and Safety Department. t Students will represent the Resimecock ^ent Association, S.G., Law ' Enforcement and Safety's reserve i enior, police officer division, the Sorority > Inited an?j Fraternity councils and Off- < eople Campus Student Services. < The office of USC President James Holderman must approve all < appointments. < Sorority Council Service Chairwoman Marie Louise Ramsdale i pushed for a permanent safety committee last fall, Pruitt said. This spr- < ing, Holderman announced he would i dice of- seek for the committee's change from 1 es said. an ad hoc body to a permanent comwe did mittee by this semester. < iople to The committee is a priority with ] Holderman and will likely be approve upset ed without problems, Pruitt said. < ed with lne decision to make tne commit- < tee permanent was more a reflection Danny of its importance than a reaction to ; nforce- crime on campus, he said, for the "Now there'll be an added sense of ] importance," he said. "I really think aucracv we've just taken a natural evolu- < page 2 tionary step, empowering this com- j iggests fall imn ed about preventive 1 vaccinations to prevt ires hovering in the 90s, the A flu shot is not a sn't at the forefront of most ministered annually, about 100 doses for: s Thomson Student Health in early November, ime for students to be vac- "We put our order has been overrun wit! : u,ar ?? roiH th* remainder nf thf jJUl 11 uu uiiin laivi , jaiu ...... ealth Center. "This time of still be plenty of tii because we're not in the begins." lents received shots this past All full- and part-t that many will be vaccinated the vaccine. Student elude those who are is is a small amount com- with an acute illness this campus," Rhodes said. People at high ris don't hear about it, or they with chronic heart t > take care of now." well as those peop iously, she said. If students diseases, anemia, as iry to be immunized, it may system. These are t ig the disease. priority to be vaccin; h Carolina, where you have "Flu is a disease c could cripple the universi- "Anything you can d ;alth Center, we're concern- a life. It's worth the < U. S. C, STUDENT SEPT. 24, 1988 GATE SEC. ROW SEAT 7 14 9 2 SOUTH STANDS GUY GUKTEM fHHffi! South Carolina Hall of Captains South Carolina vs. GEORGIA rhe hottest ticket in town. nmittee ermanent "An ad hoc committee would have to be justified ^ach year. A university committee ? it would ake an act of God to do iway with it." Dennis Pruitt dean of Student Affairs nittee in making bolder recommeniations." Beyond that, he said, the :ommittee's new status is simply one )f convenience. "An ad hoc committee would have o be justified each year," he said. 'A university committee ? it would ake an act of God to do away with t." S.G. President James Franklin laid S.G. has been pushing for a pernanent safety committee since last ipring. "USC is an open campus in the niddle of an urban area," he said. 'Crime will always be an issue here, ind 1 want to see the safety commitee become a permanent fixture." Details on the committee, such as 'role and function, scope, degree of ntervention, working relationships with offices ? all that will be worked >ut at the initial meeting," Pruitt ;aid. But Franklin said he would like to ;ee the committee address a number 3f issues, including: Organizing a safety awareness week. Putting call boxes on campus so itudents could dial for help if they were about to be attacked or feared being attacked. Establishing a weekend campus ;scort similar to Patterson Hall's Protect Our Women program. Increasing foot patrol on the :ampus by security and reserve officers. Increasing security and lighting it Pendleton parking garage. Increasing security at Russell House parties. Teaching crime seminars on subjects such as rape and theft prevention. utilizations lealth ? pushing immunizations and :nt disease." one-time vaccination; it must be adRhodes said. The Health Center has students and will have more in stock in last spring, but the drug company h orders," she said. "We hope to get : doses in by November, which will tie before the cold and flu season ime students may be immunized with s who should not be vaccinated inseverely allergic to eggs and those and/or fever. k for catching the flu include those rouble and breathing problems, as ile with diabetes mellitus, kidney thma and disorders of the immune he students who should make it a ated soon, Rhodes said. : that could be fatal," she said, o to prevent it could potentially save effort to come in and get your shot."