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The Gamecock
Founded 1908 Eighty Years of Collegiate Journalism MondcW
Volume 81, No. 30 University of South Carolina OctoberlO, 1988
use BRIEFS
Civil War symposium
to be held at USC
Eight of the nation's leading
Civil War historians will gather at
USC Thursday and Friday for the
symposium "1863: The Critical
Year of the Civil War."
The symposium will discuss
why the South lost, as well as the
roles of Abraham Lincoln, Robert
E. Lee and Jefferson Davis.
All sessions are free and open to
the public. Morning sessions will
be in the Campus Room of
Capstone, and afternoon and
evening sessions will be in Gambrell
Hall auditorium.
STATE BRIEFS
11 1 '
SRP reports back
protesters' claims
COLUMBIA ? two years ago,
an activist group described a near
catastrophe at the Savannah River
Nuclear Plant in 1965, but the
report largely went unnoticed.
This week the incident was
detailed by The New York Times,
proving, the activists say, that
they are not the "kooks" they've
been called for years.
"I'm glad that people are
beginning to pay attention," said
Francis Close Hart, chairwoman
of the S.C. Energy Foundation, a
natural resource policy and education
group. "We've been saying
this kind of thing for a long
time."
Officials of Du Pont, the
plant's operator, insisted Friday
I that thf? II S onucrntncnt nlant
the nation's sole producer of
weapons-grade plutonium and
tritium, is safe.
"We believe these facilities are
safe; otherwise, we would not
operate these facilities. We have
never had an accident that has put
the community around us or our
employees at risk," said Jim
Felder, manager of public relations
for Du Pont at the sprawling
operation in Aiken, near the
Georgia line.
Jackson's half-brother
a 'political prisoner'
GREENVILLE ? Noah R.
Robinson's lawyer says he won't
request a change of venue, while
his client was saying he was a
"political prisoner of war."
Robinson, the half-brother of
former democratic presidential
candidate Jesse Jackson, has been
held without bond since Sept. 20
at the Greenville County Detention
Center. Authorities said he
hired a hit team to kill Leroy
"Hambone" Barber in 1986.
Robinson said in a prepared
statement that solicitor Joe Watson
was "a ruthless, irresponsible,
reckless and politically ambitious
lawman politician."
I V"? a c t itp rvi Pnt + O/.# 1 nr\
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cused Watson of "political
shenanigans," and referred to the
prosecutor as an "outlaw."
"We challenge him to button
his lips and get ready to be knocked
on his hips in a court of law in
South Carolina," Robinson said
in the statement.
USA BRIEFS
Judge orders Tyson
to leave wife alone
LOS ANGELES ? A judge
ordered heavyweight champion
Mike Tyson to stay away from his
wife, actress Robin Givens, after
she filed for divorce and described
her eight-month marriage as "a
continuous horror story" of
domestic violence.
Friday's order by Superior
Court Judge Hugh MacBeth Jr.
requires Tyson to stay at least
1,000 yards from Givens and the
Burbank Studios set where she
tapes her television series, Head
of the Class.
INDEX
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Features 4
Datebook 5
Comics 6
Sports 7
Classified 8
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Sweater weather
Students travel between clases in front of Gambri
has arrived in the Columbia area and will stay for
USC professo,
By LYNN GIBSON the
Staff writer T
Columbia residents are paying $100 to listen yeai
to USC professors speak during a 10-part Clai
seminar on U.S.-world issues. T
The seminar, which is sponsored by the pop
Byrnes International Center, Institute of International
Studies and the Government and Inter- Col
national Studies department, will run from Oct. ever
12 to March 15. thai
The weekly sessions will take place 8 p.m. in Clai
Gambrell Hall auditorium. The speakers are H
USC professors who are considered experts in sem
Tra inincr bplne
A A livipj
police fight crim<
By RICH WALENDA
Staff writer
Crime on the USC campus has decreased 8.2 perc<
since 1986, according to University Police statistics.
The decrease in crime on campus, said Carl Stok
system vice president for law enforcement and safety, 1
occurred because of the qualifications and training
quired of the University Police's officers and resei
officers.
According to a special report that appeared last week
USA Today, there were 16,783 thefts from cars, 6
rapes, 22,170 burglaries, 13,079 assaults, 3,366 drug 1;
violations and 1,874 robberies on 698 campu:
nationwide.
The survey, which included USC, found that one out
four students reported being a victim of a crime. But
percent of students polled by USA Today said they f
their campuses were as safe as they expected them to 1
University Police reported 1,085 crimes for 1987. T1
total includes vandalism and underage drinking.
There were 773 larceny cases, 74 burglaries and
assaults, University Police said.
The USC-Columbia campus police force Stokes spo
of has 59 full-time uniformed and non-uniformed <
ficers. This force is supplemented by 16 reserve offici
who are students. These students are commissioned pol
See TRAINING page
Sp* ,4
BRIAN SAL
ell hall Friday. Many wear sweaters because fall
the next couple of days.
rs to discuss
topics they will discuss.
he seminar will be the first in a series of i
iy seminars if all goes well, said William
rk, associate director of the Byrnes Center. i
he series is designed to cater to the non-USC i
ulation, Clark said.
This is a community-oriented program for t
umbia residents who are interested in world
its and want to know more information i
1 they could get just by reading the news," ;
rk said. I
[e added that part of the attraction for this 1
inar was that the small-group atmosphere
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band traveled to Blacksburg, Va., to ei
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Room i
exceeds
By JULIE STUEMPFIG
About 47 of the 300 students al
tected by a housing shortage thi
gtaif Wffi,.W& semester are still in temporar
In August, about 200 women an
100 men ? many of whom wer
freshmen ? were left with no plac
gjjyygito live. A little more than a mont
later, all but about 35 women and 1
men have been housed, said Jame
Smart, University Housing Service'
director of administration.
Many of the students had bee
placed temporarily with resident ad
visers in various dorms, but the
m have since been given permanen
quarters, Smart said. And at Pattei
fson Hall and McClintock, som
women are living in lounges that hav
been converted into living areas.
"The remaining students wh<
could not be placed have made othe
living arrangements for the semeste
until we can find them spaces," h
This semester's shortage was th
first in five years, but he added tha
the problem could occur again nex
year.
Housing Services starts taking ap
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reimbur,
By BONNIE DA Via
Senate reporter
The issue of the Five Points shuttli
system continued to divide the Stu
dent Senate Wednesday, as senator;
debated whether to pay part of las
weekend's shuttle costs.
Senators debated a bill that woulc
retroactively reimburse $316.75 tc
the Sorority and Fraternity council:
for costs in running the shuttle lasi
weekend.
The shuttle was discontinued lasi
weekend ? after two weeks of service
? when questions about liabili//c/t*
- . ty, insurance and costs were raised. A
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special task force is looking intc
alternatives for the service.
Several senators said approving a
like weather bill to fund something that has
already taken place would set a bad
precedent.
world issues a
promotes interaction between the speaker and ning t
the audience. speake
1 he seminar has been publicized primarily oy ai me
mailings to people who have shown a prior in- Of I
terest in world affairs, Clark said. 37 an
Sixty responses have come out of the 500 in- subscr
titial mailings, Clark said. Any
The $100 subscription fee covers admittance year's
to all 10 sessions. Half-subscriptions are "He
available for couples, meaning that after the in- enougl
tial $100 fee, the additional subscription for
Families would be half-price.
Funds will be used to absorb the costs of run
d business sophomore Cathy Kate jam at the Virginia Te<
icourage the Gamecock team to victory.
demand
I nn?^?%lvT
? supply
plications in early December, Smart
said. Most of the residents left
f- without rooms this year had not apis
plied for housing until late spring,
y and some waited as late as June, he
said.
d "They set themselves up for proe
blems by waiting so long, but
e students have been mostly very
h cooperative in dealing with the situa2
tion," he said.
:s Another reason for this year's
s shortage was the loss of 100 dorm
spaces with the closing of Thornwell
n ? a men's dorm ? for renovations.
I- Thornwell is expected to reopen next
y fall,
it
Smart said he thinks the increase in
e the size of the freshman class this
e year further affected the availability
of housing,
o About 3,000 freshmen were enrollr
ed at USC this year, compared with
r 2,883 last year, said USC Admissions
e Director Deborah Haynes. About 28
percent of this year's freshmen are
e out-of-state students requiring on- or
t off-campus housing,
t Admissions doesn't consider housing
availability when accepting
students, she said.
iebates
sement
The funds had been sought in a
separate bill, filed before last
; weekend's service, that was passed by
the Senate Sept. 28. But Student
5 Government President James
t Franklin, awaiting counsel from
USC's legal department on the use of
1 such funds, delayed signing the bill.
) Franklin said he was ready to sign
> the bill when he realized that its wort
ding made it ineffective. He then asked
Student Sen. Marie-Louise
t Ramsdale, who wrote the bill, to
rewrite it and re-introduce it to the
senate.
"It's a question of semantics,"
? Franklin said.
Franklin, who had to veto the
i original bill in order to approve the
See SENATE page 2
m
it seminar
he seminar, including mailing expenses,
;rs' honorariums and a banquet to be held
final session, Clark said,
he 60 subscriptions confirmed thus far,
e full-subscriptions and 23 are halfiptions.
excess funds will be retained for next
seminar, Clark said.
)pefully, the program will generate
i interest that we can attract and pay for
See SEMINAR page
JULIE BOUCHILLON/The Gamecock
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