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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
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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
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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
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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
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Features 4
Datebook 6
Comics 7
Sports 8
Classified 10
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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.
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various campus areas because of different
heating systems and housing ^1
requirements, Macaulay said. ~:~-f
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students have heat because they have
a separate boiler system and can |||g
regulate their own heat. In Woodrow
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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
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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.
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there would be a rally. Then the students is
called the police and "told them there would tl
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new debate
on plant ties
By KELLY C. THOMAS
Staff writer
USC officials refused to comment on how recent conrnvprcv
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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
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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
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