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Founded 1908 Eighty Years of Collegiate Journalism Monday
Volume 81, No. 27 University of South Carolina October 3, 1988
use BRIEFS
Scholarship established
The USC alumni association
has established a scholarship program
for qualified dependents of
alumni.
Children or dependents who
will enter USC as freshmen next
fall will be eligible for the $200-ayear
Alumni Legacy Scholarship,
which is renewable for up to eight
semesters.
Campaign gets donation
Clinton Mills has donated
$100,000 to the USC College of
Business Administration's Campaign
for Carolina Business, bringing
the campaign total to more
than $3.2 million.
Funds from the campaign,
which began April 12, will be used
by the business college for faculty
development, student assistance,
updating computer services and
expanding library resources.
STATE BRIEFS
Beach bill change sought
MYRTLE BEACH ? Some
Grand Strand real estate agents
want the state legislature to convene
a special session and soften a
new beachfront management bill
they say is creating chaos along
the oceanfront.
Real estate agent Doug LaVay
said he wants lawmakers to allow
existing buildings to be "grandfathered
in," meaning they would
be exempt from the law and could
be rebuilt if destroyed.
But Rep. H. E. "Pete" Pearce,
D-Myrtle Beach and a leading
supporter of the bill, said it would
take a governor's order for the
General Assembly, which isn't
scheduled to convene until
January, to convene in an
emergency session.
SRP tritium supply low
WASHINGTON ? A Savannah
River Plant nuclear reactor
must be restarted as quickly as
possible to replenish the tritium
supply for the nation's nuclear
weapons*, a Department of Energy
official said.
Deputy Energy Secretary
Joseph F. Salgado said there is no
other source for the tritium.
Department of Energy officials
told a House subcommittee last
week that the nuclear reactor the
department ordered shutdown in
August will not be restarted for
another 30 to 45 days.
USA BRIEFS
Nuclear plant leaks water
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. ? A
water leak in an enclosed part of
the Sequoyah nuclear plant posed
no risk to the public or plant
> workers, the Tennessee Valley
Authority said.
The TVA notified the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission of the
problem Wednesday morning and
declared an ''unusual event," the
lowest of four emergency
categories.
Teenager shot
SHREVEPORT, La. ? A
white teenager was shot and
seriously wounded by a black early
Saturday in this city scarred by
recent race riots, but police said
they didn't think it was a racial
incident.
Todd Spillers, 17, a high school
sophomore, was on a respirator
but improving in the intensive
care unit following surgery, his
mother said. The restaurant where
the shooting took place was the
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racial shooting in
August of a black teenager by a
young white man. One man has
been charged with second-degree
murder.
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Features 4
Datebook 5
Comics 6
Sports 7
Classified 8
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By HAYDEN DONEHUE
Staff writer
Women make up 50 percent of the
undergraduate population and 63 percent
of the graduate population.
Each semester this number grows. Along
with this growth, the issues and concerns of
women are being taken more seriously.
Last year, USC President James Holderman
appointed a committee to study the
needs of women students.
As a result of the committee's recommendation,
the Women's Student Services
Center was established this year. The center
serves to aid women students in exploring
their resources at USC and in the Columbia
area, said Leigh Stanton, Women Student
Services coordinator.
All women are not invoivea in
sororities or clubs," Stanton said. "There
are some women students who aren't
members of any club and who need a place
to feel that they are a part of."
Five cars bro
By RICH WALENDA p?
Staff writer lflP|
Five vehicles were broken into dur- f I
ing the weekend at USC's S-16 park- J
ing lot on 1100 Wheat St., University
Police reported.
The vehicles were broken into between
1:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. Saturday. JL
The stolen items included a radar
detector and car stereo equipment.
There are no suspects.
A USC student reported that her
vehicle was stolen from the 1300 Colui
block of Wheat Street sometime bet- she v
ween 6 p.m. Wednesday and 1:30 throv
p.m. Friday. male
Also Friday, a non-student block
reported that an AM/FM cassette Co
player was stolen from his locked or m
vehicle on level five of the Blossom that
Street Garage. . ducte
Three female USC students Un
reported being assaulted at 2:20 a.m. non-s
Friday by a non-student in the Bates 3:16
House dorm. The male was charged rnnHi
with assault and battery by Universi- Un
ty Police. three
A male USC student was arrested Willi;
by University Police at 3:15 a.m. Fri- footb
day in the South Towers dorm for sion <
assaulting a female USC student at An
the same location. charg
Another female student reported viola!
that an unknown male peeked Cont
through her window at Sims Dor- Stadi
mitory Friday. The peeper ran off An
when spotted. unkn
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umbrella type of organization that will include
all women students from sorority
members, mature students, married
students, handicapped and all nationalities
to the artist, athlete and accountant.
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support from the university environment
that they need to succeed," Stanton said.
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tory of services, a resource library and a
speakers' bureau, all specifically geared to
meet the needs of and address the concerns
of women," Stanton said.
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students, faculty and staff and will be a
listing of services available to them on the
USC campus and in the surrounding area,
she said.
The resource library will contain journals
on women's concerns and articles on assertiveness
and leadership training, health,
child care, rape and abusive relationships.
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?mptation of Christ, which opened in Cole
Jefferson Square Theater Friday,
dent religious organizations, individual
1 a community group protesting censorship B>
;d students were there to represent both Sts
issue.
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if morality and wholesomeness," said a Se
tics junior who participated in the protest
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afraid someone would threaten him and his sy:
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ti portrayed Jesus as the son of a prostitute, bu
death threats against his family,
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from local fundamentalist Baptist, im
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>wing each showing. The groups said they ve
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with the choice to see the movie," said
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;roup. "I would also like to encourage peo- m;
he movie and to fight censorship in any
as banning this movie."
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at she and the other 15 students from the of
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"In the future," Stanton said, "we want
to establish a drop-in center as a place for eq
any women students to meet or come in for ni
information and/or counseling. One simple jn
but big plus will be the bulletin board we
hope to put up." m;
With the bulletin board, women students
will be better able to communicate with tic
each other. The board will offer guidance m;
for women looking for child care, items for ft
sale and notices of meetings or public lectures
on women's issues. sp
Ideally, the center will enlist the coopera- ac
tion of women .students helping women th
students, Stanton said.
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available to provide references, academic ye
and personal, and it will assist in coor- ce
dinating or planning programs. or
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of the Russell House. There will be an
organizational meeting for the center co
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ators at schools in countries such as Burma is g
jlting in professional enhancement for USC
>articipants, an administrator said. *
;rvices to Overseas Schools Program is part of t
ersity's ongoing commitment to provide sup- 1
educators wherever they are, said Aretha
the college's interim assistant dean. "But, it I
a tremendous development experience for our ^
ructors."
rogram was established in 1982 to make inraining
available to faculties at international
overseas, which were providing American-style
ns for children of American expatriates and
tionals in sometimes remote locations,
years, 31 professors and adjuncts have concourses
for university credit and skills
?ps at schools in Africa, Asia and Latin
, said Susanna Melo, coordinator of the ColEducation's
Office of International Students,
diversity has instructional relationships with
sols in 13 countries, including Burma,
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esn, J3UI Kliici i aau, v^amvi wn,
aast, Niger, Liberia, Senegal, Brazil, Ecuador,
ala and Mexico.
professors go to the schools where generally
e faculty participates in their in-service trainle
of the teachers choose to take the course for
:dit.
king with schools in Guatemala and Brazil
my view and enriched my own teaching,"
in professor Gail Breedlove said. "Teachers at
ols tend to be very bright and energetic people,
new respect for work going on in other coun1
how hard those people work."
Registration
L>y phone
iegins 1990
ERIC WARD
iff writer
USC students will be the first in the state to register for
isses by phone via a computer-controlled system, if
velopments follow current timetables set by Computer
rvices.
"We're planning for a voice response unit to aid
?istration, which will allow students to add or drop
urses over the phone," said Martin J. Solomon, USC
stems vice president for Computing, Communications
d Information Technology. "It will talk to you, and
u can negotiate your schedule by pushing the number
ittons on the phone."
Testing of the system will begin around February or
arch and enter the experimental stage next summer. Full
iplementation for use in registration for spring 1990 is
anned by the fall of 1989.
The system will enable students to register at their connience
by calling in rather than standing in long lines at
ecific times at the coliseum, Solomon said.
Some students, however, may be resistant to the
ange, registrar Luke Gunter said. The present system
11 remain in use and could eventually be phased out,
pending on how well the new system operates and how
iich it is used by students, he said.
Students will access the new system through their pernal
ID number, similar to the system used by bank teller
ichines, Solomon said.
It will also enable students to pay fees over the phone
ing credit card numbers or to make electronic transfers
funds from their accounts into the university's acunt,
Gunter said.
The university-funded system is expected to cost
83,000 plus the cost of an undetermined number of
one lines.
The State Budget and Control Board has not been
laranteed funding for the system. USC's funding relest
for the system will be presented to the General
ssembly before the Nov. 1 deadline, according to Fred
. Sheheen, commissioner of higher education.
"We're committed to doing it," Solomon said. "Funng
isn't really that important. We believe so strongly in
is system we're going to go ahead and spend money
>w. We're convinced the state will finish funding this
ing."
The system may pay for itself in the long run, Gunter
id.
The system will save money by reducing the amount of
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registration, he said.
Planned implementation of the system in fall 1989
arks a year's delay in the original schedule.
The initial timetable called for the system to be opera>nal
this fall. But newer and better systems were
arketed, and USC moved at a slower pace to make sure
chose the best system, Solomon said.
USC is still shopping for a system which will meet its
ecific needs, Solomon said. By mid-October, USC will
cept bids from companies to determine price ranges for
e various systems.
John Orwig, a systems analyst with Ohio State Univery
where a phone registration system was installed last
ar, said an unofficial survey showed that less than 5 pernt
of students and faculty disliked the system and that
ily one or two students each quarter complain of a proem
with it.
Nationwide, 32 schools have the system running, and a
uple hundred are working on implementing it, Gunter
id.
>erseas educators
"The teachers are energetic, flexi)le,
adventurous ? wonderful
itudents to teacn. no matter wnai
country they received their training in,
hey are working on the same pro>lems.
That was a relief. It makes it
eal to me that we belong to a global
community."
Beverly Busching
associate professor
In addition to giving her own course on "Teaching
Reading in Content Areas," Breedlove was able to
study literacy programs in Brazil. She will make a
presentation on the program's techniques next month
in the Philippines.
Working with multinational student bodies and
faculties was enlightening for associate professor
Beverly Busching.
"I had my first experience in a multicultural
school," Busching said of her work in Nairobi, Kenya,
where she conducted a course on "Teaching Writing in
the Elementary and Middle School."
"Here is primarily a bi-cultural situation. There the
children are from so many countries that the differences
become something interesting rather than a
division," she said.
"The teachers are energetic, flexible, adventurous
? wonderful students to teach," Busching said. "No
matter what country they received their training in,
they are working on the same problems. That was a
relief. It makes it real to me that we belong to a global
community."