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. Donna Kitchen, nursing J I ~ ~ ~ [ ~ I Quote of the day M ""ti".-'"! IFearless prognosticator tries again \ 1 ACft I r Uniia? I See Sports, page 7 rushed upon him with clubs swing\\ ;r* teacher of ballet. I wg.Dan Hollis, USC historian See Features, page 4 ' See 'Rebellion," page 2 The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty Years of Collegiate Journalism Friday Volume 81, No. 26 University of South Carolina September 30, 1988 fc. use BRIEFS Chemistry professor gets cancer research grant Professor James Sodetz has been awarded a grant of more than $109,000 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to research proteins that destroy foreign cells. Ttl 1* P ir tVia ' C COlfAntk A 1113 13 LilV piyjVVl 3 aWVlUll year. The project has total funding of nearly $800,000. Sodetz will study a system of five proteins called the terminal complement complex that attacks and destroys foreign cells. STATE BRIEFS Plant expansion pleases Gov. Carroll Campbell A $650 million to $700 million expansion by Union Camp at its paper mill in Eastover will have an "enormous" effect on South Carolina's economy, Gov. Carroll Campbell said. The expansion, announced Wednesday, will create up to 5,000 temporary construction jobs and 250 permanent jobs. "The economic impact on jobs and families alone is enormous, and I don't know if the spinoff economic benefits can even be calculated for an investment of this size," Campbell said during a news conference announcing the expansion. Suspect in shootings in Greenwood tells 4State* he is sorry i The man accused of walking into a Greenwood elementary school, opening fire and killing a student and injuring 10 others, says he's sorry the shootings happened, but he thought some students were out to get him, a copyrighted story in Thursday's edition of The State says. "I thought some of the students in the school were after me," he said in the interview. "I was trying to make them be quiet." The 19-year-old Greenwood man has been charged with murdering 8-year-old Shequila Tawonn Bradley and wounding eight students and two teachers inside Oakland Elementary School. One of the students remains in critical condition. USA BRIEFS S.C. members ready to fight textile bill veto WASHINGTON, D.C. ? Lawmakers are mapping efforts to override President Reagan's veto of tightened curbs on textile, apparel and shoe imports, but they concede it will be difficult. "It's going to be an uphill fight, but it can be done with a lot of hard work and a little luck," Rep. Butler Derrick, D-S.C., said Wednesday after Reagan vetoed the measure and called it an example of "protectionism at its worst." U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., called the Reagan veto "a serious mistake, a terrible blunder." DOE official urges quick restart of SRP reactor W/ A CUTMrTAM r* r A TTnc7iiiiivii vii< n ' / Savannah River Plant nuclear reactor must be restarted as soon as possible to replenish the tritium supply for the nation's nuclear weapons, an Energy Department official said Wednesday. . Deputy Energy Secretary Joseph Salgado said tritium used in the weapons has a "short shelf life" and must be replenished periodically. He said no tritium has been produced at the Savannah River * Plant since last spring, and the government has no other source [ for the weapons material. "" 1 INDEX ! ? I I Viewpoint 3 Features 4 a Datebook 5 v Comics 6 s Sports 7 s Classified 8 \ GOT A NEWS TIP? CALL 777-7726 | J j ? Singing the blues Drink Small performs Thursday USC wo use of sc By STEVE PRADARELLI Assistant news editor The Five Points shuttle service was dealt a severe blow only one week after it began when use by the service if university vehicles was prohibited by a USC official. Carl Stokes, senior vice president for Law Enforcement and Safety, ?aid Wednesday that he will no onger authorize use of university /ans for the service because state laws define such use as personal and inofficial. He followed up his decision with a etter to Dennis Pruitt, vice president if Student Affairs, advising Pruitt to naKe sure all student use ol umversi:y vehicles conforms to policies set by he state Budget and Control Board. Sorority Council Service Chairwoman Marie Louise Ramsdale, who irganized the shuttle's first run last weekend, expressed frustration at the iecision. But she said, "Evidently, hat's the policy, and there's nothing we can do about it." Two vans will be leased privately 'or this weekend's shuttle service, she ;aid. The cost, about $450, will be laid for with Sorority and Fraternity :ouncil funds while a Student Senateipproved bill covering $316.75 of the :osts awaits the Student Government resident's signature. The service, scheduled to begin last light, will continue to run 10 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. today and Saturday. The evised route will include stops along harden Street at Circle K, Eckerd Drugs, Crazy Zacks and Green Street ind on South Main Street at the larking lot between Muldoon's Deluxe Deli and Bar and the Cockpit. Stokes had expressed reservations ibout the legality and liability weekend shuttle service at a special afety meeting Monday, where he aid he was "sticking my neck out" >y allowing the shuttle's operation ast weekend. He urged the Sorority and Fraterlity councils, which sponsored and >aid for the leasing of two vans last -, ~?*5S ^5w(P ?. .. pL b jp^l w*%ggWM V - ^ fl *-*^^B Jf#^- * * ' ,^JM " ':^^^K<*|I HI ?>. Jpfl on the Russell House patio. He sings a cc n't allow hool vans weekend, to consider using private transportation services instead. Ramsdale had said the councils would look into alternatives, including the possibility of retaining a taxi company and having students sign vouchers for free rides. Meanwhile, she said, the councils would plan to lease two USC vans this weekend for the shuttle service. But Stokes said he will refuse to release any USC vehicles for the shuttle service and said such use will no longer be an option. He added that an article in Monday's edition of The Gamecock describing his reservations about the shuttle service forced his hand in making the decision. "I'm going to do my job," he said. "I don't mind bendinc a little bit." but he said the rules clearly show that the shuttle service is not a legitimate use of a state vehicle. Lyn Hensel, USC deputy general counsel, said picking up students from Five Points does not qualify as an official university function simply because USC students are involved. "That's individual, off-campus, personal activity," she said. "And that, to me, is the big difference." Unauthorized use of university vehicles would also jeopardize USC's liability insurance coverage, she said. "For students to use the vehicles, it has to be authorized," she said. "To be authorized, it has to be for official use." The obstacles surfacing have had a sobering effect on the organizations trying to make the shuttle service permanent. "It's just one thing after another," Ramsdale of the Sorority Council said. "I'm not complaining about the (USC) legal department or Law Enforcement (and Safety), but it would be a lot easier if everything fell into place a little better." S.G. President James Franklin said he has been reluctant to support See SCHOOL VANS page 2 mr mi ^ t p SEim ii { mm ik ??! BSSns?45^?* ~~-%?fT Isysugjgflw^^^r i - i:??Tf,rrT" |i: v JULIE BOUCHILLON/The Gamecock imbination of blues and soul music. Senate aL By BONNIE DAVIS Senate reporter The Student Senate passed a bill W< $316.75 toward operation this weeker the Five Points area to campus. After much debate and discussion, tion of liability, the bill passed with 1 and seven opposed. The signatures of Student Governmi Mr About 50 students gather around t of the space shuttle Discovery. Shuttle la By KELLY C. THOMAS Staff writer At 11:39 a.m. Thursday, student were glued to their television sets ? Discovery left its Cape Canaveral, 1 headed out into space. More than 50 people were gatheret House television ? many of them st? view while others sat on the floor. Th titude toward the successful launcl optimistic. Florida Si won't be1 By MARY PEARSON Assistant news editor Students will be unable to get tickets validated for the Oct. 31 Florida State game, an athletic department employee said. The decision comes as a result of problems with ticket distribution for the Georgia game early this month. Many students were unable to get tickets for the game, because student tickets were gone by 2 p.m. on the second day of distribution, said Dennis Toney, ticket manager for the Athletic Department "The decisipn was made so that we could free up tickets for the bona fide students who could not get their hands on tickets for the Georgia game because so many tickets were validated," Toney said. The athletic department validated 1,375 students for non-students' use for the Georgia game. Because 750 datebook tickets were sold at the beginning of the semester, more than 2,000 non-students went to the game on student tickets. For each game, students are allocated about 12,056 tickets. "The original intent of student tickets is to guarantee one ticket per one student," Toney said. "I don't think the intent was to make tickets available to friends and family." The datebook tickets for students who want to bring dates to the games were available for student purchase at the beginning of the semester, Toney said. These tickets are always honored, he said. Some students said they're upset by the elimination of ticket validation. One anonymous student left a note on The Gamecock's office doors that said, "Did you know that Berkeley Grier (Athletic Committee chairman) and the Athletic Department have decided without the advice or consent of Student Senate that no validations will be allowed for the Florida State Game? "There is no provision in the Football Handbook to allow such a change mid-year, and I, along with other students who don't have datebooks, are mad that we cannot vproves fi Franklin and USC quired before the bi ;dnesday to provide needed by today, be id of a shuttle from weekend. Franklin, who sai mostly on the ques- meet with the USC 9 senators in favor " snt President James he television on the second floor of the Ru: unch lifts s "It's sort of scary, Kampbell, who watcl s all across campus "I was thinking it mi is the space shuttle don't get overconfide -la., launchpad and "I was extremely n geology senior Micha 1 around the Russell thing wouldn't happ< inding to get a good OK. But you never kn e general student at- . i was positive and t. tickets validated "When it comes down to the choice of students having the tickets versus non-students getting the tickets, the students win." Jerry Brewer Dean of Student Life bring our guests to the game," the letter said. The note was signed "An angry student." "We had a special meeting to talk about the problems with the Georgia game and how to avoid those problems in the future," Grier said. "We felt we would have the same problems with the Florida State game, because first of all it will probably be a bigger game. We are ranked and tickets will be in high demand." Grier, a journalism senior, said even though students had input into the discussions on the problem, the final decision was made by the administration, not students. The validation of tickets was a student privilege that was misused, she said. itl- f-A ?? ? in luiure seasons, we win nave to look into the ways of correcting the problems of running out of student tickets and the misuse of validations," she said. Possible solutions could include eliminating datebook tickets, validations, and ? as a last resort ? having lotteries for the bigger games, Grier said. - Eliminating validations is not new, Dean of Student Life Jerry Brewer said. USC has not allowed student ticket validations for the past two home Clemson games, he said. "When it comes down to the choice of students having the tickets versus non-students getting the tickets, the students win," Brewer said. Tickets left over from student distribution will be available for purchase or validation to students on the Saturday morning before the game, he said. inding President James Holderman are re11 goes into effect. The signatures are cause it asks only for funding for this IA liA rimnArtr rUnttlo cari;i/>o tl/ill iv* lit id liiv- anuiuv avitivv, "*** legal department today to discuss the See FUNDING page 2 f ? Wm TEDDY LEPP The Gamecock ssell House to watch the launch tudents " said criminal justice junior Todd led the launch in the Russell House, ght blow up again. I just hope they :nt about it like they did before." ervous and tense," said biology and el Stallings. "1 was hoping the same ;n again. It looks like everything's iow. It can happen so quickly, like it See SPACE page 2