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The Gamecock
Founded 1908 Eighty Years of Collegiate Journalism Friday
Volume 81, No. 26 University of South Carolina September 30, 1988
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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.
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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
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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.
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USC wo
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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id of a shuttle from weekend.
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"It's sort of scary,
Kampbell, who watcl
s all across campus "I was thinking it mi
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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.
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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.
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ssell House to watch the launch
tudents
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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
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