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The Gamecock
Founded 1908 Eighty Years of Collegiate Journalism Wednesday
Volume 81, No. 28 University of South Carolina October 5, 1988
use BRIEFS
Morrison to stay
COLUMBIA ? Joe Morrison
said he'll be staying for a while as
USC's head football coach despite
rumors to the contrary.
"Well, if I get hit by a train, it's
going to be hard," joked the
iormer ixew iorx uiaiu un Monday
when asked if he would
forever honor his coaching contract
at the school.
In a news release last Thursday,
former Athletic Director Dick
Bestwick said he was commenting
to quell speculation that Morrison
might leave to take a coaching job
in the National Football League.
Fellowships awarded
Two graduate students of the
College of Business Administration
have been awarded
fellowships by the Wachovia
Fund for Excellence.
The two are Sandra McManus
of Mullins, a 1983 graduate of
Francis Marion College, and
Walter Wood of Richburg, a 1986
graduate of Wake Forest
University.
STATE BRIEFS
MUSC races cuts
CHARLESTON ? Budget cuts
may force the Medical University
of South Carolina to eliminate
about 100 positions and delay
equipment purchases, school officials
said.
Marion Woodbury, the college's
vice president of business
affairs, said Monday that the cuts
could save about $4 million to $5
million.
MUSC Director of Human
Resources Betts Ellis told The
Charleston News^nd Xourkr
that, so far, 37 posts have been
cut or are in the process of being
cut.
Voter registration low
COLUMBIA ? Voter registration
for the Nov. 8 general election
has been mediocre so far, but
South Carolina residents have until
Saturday to change that, state
officials said.
So far voter registration totals
are running behind those of last
year. But state Election Commission
spokesman Conway Belangia
said he expects the 1988 total
registration to exceed that of
1984, when a record 1,395,714
voters ? including 388,948
blacks, about 27.9 percent ? were
registered, commission records
snow.
As of Aug. 30, the last date for
which the Election Commission
has separate figures, registration
totaled 1,330,189. Of that, blacks
accounted for 365,121, about 27.5
percent of the total.
USA BRIEFS
Town hunts for sniper
MASCOTTE, Fla. ? Enraged
townspeople carrying baseball
bats joined a police manhunt for a
camouflaged sniper who seriously
wounded a 9-year-old girl at an
elementary school playground.
Police, who said they have a
suspect, appealed for calm and
patience in the wake of Monday's
shooting, warning residents of the
rural central Florida town not to
take the law into their own hands.
The gunman rose up from
behind some bushes around 11
a.m. Monday and fired three
shots at a gym class on the
Mascotte Elementary School's
playground before fleeing,
Sheriff's Department spokesman
Randy Swails said.
SRP accidents confirmed
WASHINGTON, D.C. ? The
Department of Energy, in a turnaround,
acknowledged it had
received reports from Du Pont
Co. about nuclear reactor .accidents
at the Savannah River
Plant during a 28-year period.
INDEX
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Datebook 5
Comics 6
Sports 7
Classified 8
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Bestwick
By MARY PEARSON
Assistant news editor
USC appointed King Dixon as interim
athletic director after Dick Bestwick resigned
the director's office
Saturday because of 'Ni
"health reasons."
Bestwick is leaving 9Hr ^ i#ir9
USC after six months ^ M; M
as the athletic director I Hi
because of health
reasons, Bestwick and
USC President I *
Holderman said in a HHflMHHj
joint statement I
Monday.
"Although Dick Dlck
Bestwick had performed his duties as athletic
director to complete satisfaction of the university,
the condition of his health has made it
impossible for him to continue in that position,"
the statement said.
The statement also said Associate Vice
Greenpeac*
plans chapt'
By KELLY C. THOMAS
Staff writer
Greenpeace, the environmentalist group best kr
its confrontational and ship-shadowing protests
whaling ships, will have a USC chapter this ser
plans go right.
English senior Helen Hutson is heading the o
tion, tentatively scheduled to hold its first meet
12.
Greenpeace is an international organization th
to preserve the Earth and all of its life forms.
The organization began in 1971 in Canada. The
group consisted of people who opposed nuclear tt
Amchitka Island, Alaska. The island was e\
.transformed into, a bird sanctuary.
After this success, Greenpeace grew to include
in about 20 countries, including the United St;
Canada.
Hutson said she has been interested in Greenp
several years. "I was really concerned about a lc
vironmental problems that no one was taking
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about them," she said.
When Greenpeace opened a Columbia office,
saw her chance to bring the organization and its
the USC community.
"The reason I think it will be successful is fron
to students on the campus ? especially from Ami
ternational and the Alliance for Peace," Huts*
"There is a growing concern about environment
on campus."
The campus group will focus on the Savanna
Plant and USC's involvement in SRP. USC has f
research consortium with Clemson University
Medical University of South Carolina to ft
research ties to SRP.
"The purpose of SRP is to produce sul
necessary for the production of nuclear bombs,"
said. "We need to increase awareness about this *
pus. I don't think the USC-SRP union is a heall
USC should not become involved in such a
program."
The group won't try to shut the plant down,
support the clean-up of SRP and oppose the
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Thursday.
resigns f<
President for alumni affairs Albert "King"
Dixon has been appointed interim athletic
director.
Bestwick was appointed athletic director on
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Marcum was fired because of a drug testing
controversy.
Bestwick was the assistant director for
student services at the University of Georgia.
During his term as athletic director, Bestwick
was instrumental in creating a program for the
drug testing of athletes.
A special task force appointed by Holderman
in February revealed that the previous program
under Marcum was inadequate and had not
tested athletes for drugs randomly since spring
1986.
Before his resignation, rumors had been
circulating that tensions existed between Bestwick
and USC head football coach Joe Morrison,
who was hired by Marcum.
But Dixon, who was asked to consider
becoming interim athletic director Saturday
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JULIE BOUCHI
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>r 'health
morning, said as far as he knew the rumors were
not true and had nothing to do with Bestwick's
resignation.
"One reporter asked me if that is all there is
to it, when I told him
Bestwick was resigning
Mr ^jk because of health
problems, and I said,
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to it. There is nothing
1 else,' " Dixon said.
.JfSfc Dixon said he was
genuinely concerned
about Bestwick's
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King Dixon that, he wist!ed Best"
wick a speedy recovery.
When he was asked to take the position as
interim director he said he jumped at the
chance.
"I wouldn't want anyone to be negatively
affected by the publicity surrounding the
resignation of Coach Bestwick, so I felt positive
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Decembi
By KRIS TAYLOR
Staff writer
The job-finding possibilitie
December graduates are unu
* *. high, according to the Man]
s'4?!^ Inc. Employment Survey fo
fourth quarter of 1988.
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M USC graduates will be ir
forefront for those
Bl opportunities.
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Jpl^ benefit USC graduates, said
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of a liberal arts major," Kay
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swift action was needed, so I immediately
accepted the offer," Dixon said. "It has been a
very busy weekend."
Dixon, who played on the USC football team
in the late '50s, hinted that he is open to
removing the term "interim" from his title.
Dixon served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 22
years. He returned to his hometown of Laurens
in 1981 and became executive director of the
Laurens Family YMCA. He then served as vice
president and city executive of the Palmetto
Bank. He was appointed associate vice presi
aeni ior aiumni ariairs in June.
"It will take time," Dixon said. "The details
of the whole offer have not been worked out.
President Holderman did the best he could over
the weekend."
Holderman will consult with the appropriate
standing committees on the Faculty Senate and
the Board of Trustees and is expected to
announce a new athletic director in about six
weeks, USC spokeswoman Debra Allen said.
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WILSON
e Points shuttle service will no longer furnish
ents with a safe ride back to campus on the
but alternative transportation is being studied.
Smith, special assistant to the Student Governident,
said there was a meeting Sept. 29 with
he university's leading organization heads, and
luded that the shuttle service is not the best
tion program.
shuttle) was for a trial basis, and the Sorority
nity councils were not committed to it," Smith
;y wanted to run the shuttle, access it and see if
it Government could take over the program."
ins had been leased privately for this past
shuttle service for about $450. The Sorority
rnity councils paid for the vans, and Student
proved a bill covering $316.75 of the cost,
chairwoman Marie Louise Ramsdale said the
ere disappointed with the lack of support and
>f liabilitv and misuse of state-owned vehicles
, making the continuation of the shuttle system
ibilty.
called the two-week pilot program a success,
first week, the shuttle system transported about
s from the Five Points area. This past weekend,
s used the service.
udents would have used this past weekend's
the service's availability had been advertised
d Ramsdale, a Soviet studies junior,
ople were hearing so many different things all
word couldn't really get out that it was runn>aid.
h the shuttle system will not run this weekend,
said several key issues still need to be settled,
right now, we don't know if the Sorority and
councils will be reimbursed. (S.G. President)
nklin has not signed or vetoed the bill, so we
ay of knowing," Ramsdale said,
iklin has asked the legal department to see if
> can pay for student transportation, and it is
;w, said System Legal Counsel Paul Ward.
; not scrapped the program all together, Smith
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opportunities
graduating at the time."
The nationwide survey, conducted
:s for four times a year, showed that 28
sually percent of 14,000 employers inter
power viewed would increase employment
r the during the last three months of 1988.
Only 8 percent of the companies
y feel were expecting cutbacks, 61 percent
i the were remaining at their present level
job and 3 percent were undecided. This
year's results are the best of the last
n will ten years.
Carol Specifically, the wholesale and
i and retail trades are expecting the largest
increase with 35 percent of employers
ength seeking new workers,
said. As the number of skilled laborers
akeit remains relatively low, the demand
more for manufacturing employees has
re ex- risen. Durable goods manufacturers
jetter are expecting a 30 percent increase
while non-durable goods manuface
job, turers are foreseeing a 25 percent
)f the increase.
> se- Finance, insurance and real estate
lalism majors can expect a 22 percent increase
in hiring in their fields. The
d has demand for workers in these areas
ivolv- has risen steadily during the Dast
/ities, eight quarters and is expected to
job," continue.
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