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HP?- .^-w use Jazz and Media J" 1 t Q"o'e of the day ISSlgk ^ansluXfjazzvdi^ luSC football team still ranked No. 8| K?today. See Features paee 4 I See Sports, page 8 I terim Athletic Director ft'*""?}' K See "Dixon," page 9 The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty Yeurs of Collegiate Journalism Wednesday Volume 81, No. 31 University of South Carolina October 12, 1988 use BRIEFS , Actor visits USC Actor Richard Thomas, best known as "John Boy" on the television series The Waltons, will give a free reading and lecture Thursday at USC. The program, which is open to the public, will be held at 8 p.m. in Rutledge Chapel. Thomas will deliver a reading ~c (ii E?;io ^f U1 LCLl UIC Ull LI1V i^vno KJI Tobacco," written by the famous Russian playwright Anton Chekov. Thomas will also speak about the role of the arts in today's society. As part of the university's celebration of the Year of the Arts, Thomas will lecture in history, psychology and theater classes through Oct. 15. (See related article this page) Holderman gets award USC President James Holderman has been awarded the 1988 James Y. Perry Lyre Award. The Lyre Award was started in 1965 and proclaimed as Columbia's highest cultural award by former Columbia Mayor Lester Bates. The award was designed to honor those who have made outstanding contributions to the performing arts in Columbia. Holderman was recognized for a number of contributions, most notably his involvement in building the Roger Center for the Performing Arts Professor honored for service to medical school Dr. Donald Saunders Jr., professor of medicine and director of cardiology at the USC School of Medicine, has been awarded the ?r c; : i-'vau a L/iaiiii^UlMlCU OCIVIL'C Award. Saunders, who played a key role in the establishment of the USC School of Medicine, was honored in Founder's Day ceremonies Friday. Saunders, a Columbia native, is a USC graduate and a graduate of Duke University's School of Medicine, where he graduated first in his class. STATE BRIEFS Cleanup at SRP priority, reports says WASHINGTON ? A federal report says radioactive and hazardous waste contamination at the Savannah River Plant is so bad that its cleanup should be a priority. The General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, said the SRP and four other Department of Energy nuclear plants should be added to the National Priority List, which would mandate schedules for environmental cleanup. One DOE plant ? Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 1.- ? in ^aiuumia ? is ancauy uu 111c list. USA BRIEFS Explosion kills two SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif. ? An 8,000-pound pressurized lid shot through the roof of an aerospace manufacturing plant Monday in an explosion that killed two people and injured four others, authorities said. The explosion at Reinhold Industries occurred about 2:30 p.m. when contractors were testing a hydroclave steam-pressure unit used in the production of aerospace components, said Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy Chris Wahla. "It was like being in a war," said city fire Captain Phil Pepin. "This building just blew up, and there were fragments of sheet metal going everywhere." INDEX Viewpoint 3 Features 4 Datebook 6 Comics 7 Sports 8 Classified 10 GOT A NEWS TIP? CALL 777-7726 | Students: trT 1 1 1 1 VN 1 Ulll up the heat' By JEFF WILSON Staff writer For those students who find the lack of heat in their residence hall rooms unbearable, be prepared to bear it a while longer. Before something can be done about the problem, Housing Services must look at the current weather conditions, long range weather predictions, responses from area managers and the number of complaints form students, said David Macaulay, Area Operations director. Housing officials are monitoring the situation right now, Macaulay said. Each year there is a period where the Columbia area gets a few days of early cold weather, he said. There is a committee ? not just one person ? who is responsible for determining when the heat gets turned on, Macaulay said. It could take from three tr> SlY Have for thf>m tr? assess the room conditions, he said. S9 Then it will take at least three days to switch from air conditioning to heat. In the spring, it takes three days to switch back again. The heat has been turned on in iH various campus areas because of different heating systems and housing ^1 requirements, Macaulay said. ~:~-f In the Carolina Gardens, married g students have heat because they have a separate boiler system and can |||g regulate their own heat. In Woodrow dormitory, the heat has been turned r on in the transitional living center M^UL ? Lt. Traini See HEAT page 2 Col.1 South Kon By JOHN MILLS III Staff writer South Korea has entered the ranks of a developed country, a former U.S. ambassador said. Richard L. Walker, James F. Byrnes Professor of International Studies at USC, served as U.S. ambassador to South Korea from 1981 to 1986. At an informal brown-bag luncheon in Gambrell Hall Monday, Walker said South Korea has come a long way since he first visited Seoul in 1961. The lands have been beautified and modernized since the Korean War, he said. "The Hon River running through Seoul was a dirty, muddy, sludgy river, and all of the marine life died," said Walker. "With the aid of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers' project in 1981, there was a beautification and purification of the Hon River." He was pleased with the strong empasis Rho Tae Who, South Korea's president, put in renovating Seoul, he added. Walker cited a new subway system which is "spectacular in every way." Even Soviet visitors were impressed with the transporta' V W JSKMtWm *,, #* ^ -tE** 5& ^WhL? W 1 fe# ; ; >" ?? ,j5 ^^pr | ^K2fc ^ j^i %^^KHb -* ^y*j ?r SBp?* ^Mf^ifi) - - ' ... * ' Jamming out Poi Dog Pondering plays on the Russell Hon jfi jE / .+UWJS&,. w )[T^?>.ww II ^ ^H^l >A: out below. . . Col. John Lockard and Army Sgt. Maj. Cha ng Corp prepare to demonstrate rapelling to lick Kasonovic looks on. Lockard rapelled d< ea called '] tion system when they came to Seoul for the Olympics, he said. "Many of the stations have galleries or displays of Korean culture," Walker said. The Koreans are sensitive about the United States, he said. "Koreans look to the U.S. to provide some type of security from North Korea." But, Walker said, South Korea is growing more self-reliant. The country is now the seventh largest trading partner with the United States. The South Korean family is also faring better, with per capita income increasing 4,200 percent. "In 1961, the per capita income of a family was $82 per year. In 1988, the income was $3,500 per year. Korea has entered the ranks of developed countries," he said. For the Summer Olympics in Seoul, the government constructed 14,000 luxurious apartments which were sold in advance to the athletes, Walker said. South Korea made $350 million from the games. The money will benefit other athletic programs, he said. * i i ' -f* . , ~?i it r pit ise Patio Monday. The band plays a folk, e* t rles Marshall of USC Army Reserve Officers cadets Sunday at Fort Jackson as Cadet Lt. c >wn Victory Tower which has a 50-feet drop. | g promising' ; p Anti-Americanism still exists in Seoul, he w said, but the protests are limited to a small si percentage of college students. "Out of the 800,000 college students in e Seoul, there are less than 1,000 radicals," " Walker said. "These students say South ii Korea recovered from the Korean War without U.S. aid." ii About 150 "savvy" protesters decided to b rally during the Olympics to gain media at- h tention, he said. The leader called all of the Western news media in Seoul ahd told them d there would be a rally. Then the students is called the police and "told them there would tl be trouble in the streets. A picture of the protest appeared on the front page of the Inter- b national Herald-Tribune the next morning. w Protesting students say they want unifica- S tion of North and South Korea. tc n..* * 1 ? n o ir\r nrr\KUm n DUl U1C piUlCSlS Clic I1UI a lliajvi puuiv.ni, u Walker said. Seoul cannot rely on the United States anymore, because the country has si come so far economically and politically. A peaceful transfer to power followed an elec- re tion in 1987. h< B A J p< rn. So *u, ~*0 ' sai Se BR IA N BURKHA R 77 The Camecotk _ Lperimental type of music. 1 Report stirs new debate on plant ties By KELLY C. THOMAS Staff writer USC officials refused to comment on how recent conrnvprcv mioht a ffpr?t tViP* cr?Vir*r*l'c nrAnneo/1 * *?! a .. V V. MAXVVV kliv J ^/1 V/pUJVU I lailUIldllip with the research lab at the Savannah River Plant. "A lot of it is political," said USC-Aiken Chancellor Bob Alexander. "It's kind of like when you have a divorce ? how angry you get at each other. DuPont and DOE are going through a period called 'DuPont bashing.' DOE wants to make DuPont look as bad as it can." The Savannah River Plant, located in Aiken and owned by the U.S. Department of Energy, was the subject of a recently released 50-page report by the DOE that was critical of Du Pont's plant management. The plant produces plutonium and tritium necessary for nuclear warheads and bombs. DOE also acknowleged that it had received reports from Du Pont about nuclear reactor accidents during a >8-year period. Some of these accidents could have esulted in a meltdown of the reactor core. SRP project committee members have not met and will rot meet for at least another week, Alexander said. He ook no position on the subject and refused to comment 'urther. "The events being talked about concern another com)any," said Arthur Smith, USC provost and executive dee president for academic affairs Arthur Smith said. 'USC is looking to the future and a relationship with the iVestinghouse Corp. What has happened in the past hould not affect us. It's not something I think should be mportant at all." Mike Lowe, Southeast Nuclear campaigner for jreenpeace, disagrees. "I don't think it makes any difference who the contracor is," Lowe said. "Westinghouse is just another conractor. They're not great. They have a great PR operaion, but they're not great." The SRP is operated on a philosophy where production jverrides safety, he said. "This is a bad sign. It is a bad vay to do business when you are constructing nuclear >ombs." Government and International Studies professor Peter iederberg agrees. "There is an obvious risk involved," he aid. "I think the university should reconsider whether it hould become involved with the plant." He said he does not think the controversy will af .ect the niversity's participation in the labs. The lab and the lant at SRP are separate operations. USC's association ith the lab would be less controversial than a relationtip with the plant, he said. "Supporters of the proposed relationship will use this vidence as support for the program," Sederberg said. They will say that the university must take an active role t cleaning up the plant." Lowe agreed. Advocates of the relationship will use the lformation to help their argument, he said. "The problem is that we think we can do a better job, ut USC (and USC is clearly the leader in the consortium) as no influence to wield," he said. He hoped the controversy would affect the university's ecision. "I'd be surprised if it did, because the university so profit-oriented," he said, "but I would hope that ley would seriously rethink their proposal." The proposed relationship is not with the actual plant ut with SRP laboratories. The university, in consortium ith Clemson University and the Medical University of outh Carolina, is seeking research contracts with the labs ) try to bring greater academic recognition to the in v ti diucs. Smith, however, does not fear that the university will iffer from being associated with the SRP name. "I don't think we will be branded. People need to :alize that the plant and the lab are two separate things," ; said. S.G. studies shuttle system alternatives y KRIS TAYLOR aff writer Students will have their safety in their own hands for e next two to four weeks while the Safety Task Force udies alternatives to the defunct Five Points shuttle. At an Oct. 5 meeting, task force members were assigned develop proposals for a transportation system to place the Five Points shuttle, said Patrick Smith, task rce chairman. Shuttle service ended Oct. 1 after a two-week trial iriod. Student Government created the task force to find a fe transportation system to and from Five Points and her places in the city that are frequented by students. Members are working on two proposals. The first is a >ci system where students would sign vouchers for a free le home. S.G. funds would reimburse the cab company r the rides. The second proposal is chartering a bus and operating it jch like the shuttle system run by the Fraternity and Tority councils. The committee is leaning toward the taxi system, Smith id. The proposal is being studied by Tim Burke, Student nate president pro tempore. A subcommittee is working See SHUTTLE page 2