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JjfS* A. Hlfeu I International. Friendship fellowship to foreign Seminoles demolish Gamecocks I colu nnist ' J 1\ I StlldentS. See Pep Talk, page 8 1 \}lLz==i \{J _ , See 'Massacre,' page 9 a?*JU See International,' page 6 The Gamecock ]l Founded 1908 Eighty Years of Collegiate Journalism Wednesday Volume 81, No. 41 University of South Carolina November 9, 1988 MUSC faculty members agree to cuts in pay CHARLESTON (AP) ? Faculty members in the Department of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina have voluntarily taken a pay cut to save the jobs of fellow employees. About 50 of the 70 faculty members are receiving less money through a plan that pays them a percentage of the clinical work they do at the Medical University Hospital, said Dr. Allen Johnson, president of the faculty practice group. "If they hadn't agreed to take the cut, layoffs may have been necessary to trim 3 percent of the department's expenses," said Dr. James Allen, chairman of the department of medicine. Two plead guilty in crash that killed three people CONWAY (AP) ? A Myrtle Beach man has been sentenced to 15-and-a-half years in prison and a Salisbury, N.C., man to threeand-a-half years in prison for their roles in a June drag race that killed three people. Jeffrey M. Belsky, 20, of Myrtle Rpflrh cniiltv nn Mnn day to three counts of voluntary manslaughter in the deaths of John and Elizabeth Williams of Little Rock, Ark. and Marjory Branch of Myrtle Beach. He was sentenced to 15-and-a-half years in prison and will be eligible for parole in less than five years. George Michael Shuler, 18, of Salisbury, N.C., pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of involuntary manslaughter and no contest to racing. He was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison and will be eligible for parole in about a year. USA BRIEFS Toymaker makes amends for Sambo character dolls SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? A Japanese toymaker donated more than $250,000 in toys to poor children in San Francisco to apologize for selling Little Black Sambo dolls in Japan. Sanrio Toy Co. has also stopped making the Sambo character and two similar black-faced toys. Sanrio came under attack in July when The Washington Post carried a story describing the popularity in Japan of black caricatures based on Little Black Sambo, a children's book figure created by Helen Bannerman in 1898. Sanrio executives met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus last week to propose the toy distribution, as well as a Japan-U.S. children's ex change and the development of multiracial characters for a monthly magazine the company publishes. WORLD BRIEFS Typhoon kills at least 19 MANILA, Philippines (AP) ? Typhoon Skip roared into the South China Sea yesterday after killing at least 19 people and forcing thousands to flee their homes in Manila. Skip's center passed about 100 miles south of Manila, sparing the capital from high winds and flooding. But, officials said Skip triggered tornadoes, landslides and widespread flooding across the "typhoon belt," the central Visayas islands and the Bicol Peninsula of Luzon Island. The government weather service said that at mid-morning Skip was about 150 miles southwest of Manila. INDEX Viewpoint 4 Features 6 Comics 7 Sports 8 Classified 12 GOT A NEWS TIP? CALL 777-7726 ? .in i.i i I"''" Bush wir Incumbents win in 3 districts By The Associated Press Incumbents swept to victory in three of South Carolina's six congressional districts Tuesday, while Democratic Rep. Liz Patterson also led in her hotly contested re-election bid with Greenville city councilman Knox White congressmen. The winners included incumbent Republican Arthur Ravenel and incumbent Democrats John Spratt and Robin Tallon in the 1st, 5th and 6th congressional districts, respectively. In the 2nd District, incumbent Republican Floyd Spence trailed his Democratic challenger, Columbia banker and attorney Jim Leventis, by a slim margin. However, at 11 p.m. most of the votes from Spence's home Lexington County, a Republican stronghold, remained to be counted. Incumbent Democrat Butler Derrick also built an early lead in the 3rd Congressional District over Anderson surgeon Henry Jordan. In the 4th District, Patterson led 42,678, or 56 percent to White's 32,865, or 44 percent with only 46 percent of the Upstate district's 239 precincts reporting. WLTX-19 declared Patterson the winner at 11:15 p.m. Ravenel led 45,653, or 58 percent, to 32,820, or 42 percent, for challenger Wheeler Tillman in the Lowcountry district. Spratt easily defeated Newberry College professor Robert Carley, with 32,033, or 62 percent to 19,629, or 19 percent for Carley. The figures represented about 33 percent of the 5th District's precincts. "My opponent has taken the position I'm not representative of the district," Spratt said. "But my constituents are saying I am representing them and their voting interests." Carley said he didn't know whether he would wage another campaign but said he wouldn't stay out of politics. "Having been in the Republican Party for 40 years," Carley said, "it's highly unlikely I'll weave some type of cocoon and climb into it." Tallon said he was "really humbled" with his re election. "I love this district and have great love and admiration for our people." Tallon turned back retired newspaper publisher Robert Cunningham Sr. of Pawleys Island, a Republican. With 41 percent of the 6th District precincts reporting, Tallon had 42,067, or 73 percent, to 15,487, or 27 percent, for Cunningham. Early returns Tuesday night showed few surprises in S.C. General Assembly races, with most incumbents taking strong leads and no major shifts in partisan makeup. In House District 33 in Spartanburg County, however, with all of the precincts reporting, Republican challenger Lanny Littlejohn got 54 percent of the vote to Democratic incumbent T. W. Edwards' 46 percent. Group seeks dives of funds from U.5 By JOHN MILLS III Staff writer ( ( University foundations should COminil divest from companies that do single g] business in the Soviet Union, said a . member of Students for America. t Slirvn The USC Educational Foundation alienable rigl and the USC Research and Develop- ljhprfv " ment Foundation should divest, SFA ^ * member Janice Kraft said Friday. "American firms should not be Studet doing business with the economy of the Soviet Union because it runs on slave labor and oppression," Kraft said. SFA set up a mock graveyard on u cont' , ^r. the Russell House Patio Friday to an Standard Oil protest the university foundations' "The Standard investments. They made 10 tomb- admit, is with Ea stones, each representing a country said. "When the that is influenced by the Soviets. American compa: Countries represented in the money to builc graveyard were Afghanistan, military. And in s< Angola, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East use our technolog Germany, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, expansionism. North Korea, Vietnam and "We're trying t Yugoslavia. a way to get somi Kraft also provided pamphlets involved in our o describing what SFA supports. hoping also to Several SFA principles deal with organizations and communism and the free market. ty members and involved in our ef The free market is the best system Rawley Patton for rewarding hard work and in- Richland County genuity in the middle class, the pam- SFA's efforts, phlet said. But according to some Patton said he i U.S. and Soviet officials, the socialist ings with the Sovi< economy of the Soviet Union is based arms reduction on full employment and although doesn't trust the 5 people may be given different jobs by "In the past th the government, Soviets receive the up to any treatii same salary for whatever type of agreed to," Patto work they do. continue to build, "Communism poses the single not to build." greatest threat to the survival of the "We're not ti inalienable rights of life and liberty," university or the f the pamphlet said. us," Kraft said. The research and development send a messag foundation has projects with Boeing businesses that i Aerospace, Occidental Petroleum, business with Sovi is; Dukakis c< ? jEHB i ? ^^HB^BI^^bhi^ flHjHBH^HjH|H0j| |f" E^H| h _- BHHHmflBH i n'He^^B i t r<? r ? f DliMHii*??'H ?*" "J c SR- ..j?BP& a File photo E George Herbert Walker Bush, wins the popular vote Tuesday Nov. 8. Bush, who says he wants a "kinder, gentler America," will become the 41st president of the United States. Pictured with him is Gov. Carrol Campbell, his Southern campaign strategist. State voters OK 8 : By The Associated Press prospective jurors should be selec South Carolina voters on Tuesday were the rolls of licensed drivers rati voting heavily in favor of eight proposed registered voters and whether the amendments to the state constitution, in- Assembly can set minimum qual eluding one allowing the creation of for county sheriffs, statewide grand juries to investigate crimes The voters also were approving involving drugs or pornography. the state to change how much it As of 9:15 p.m., Amendment No. 1 was aside as reserve funds, allowing el passing by a margin of 74 percent to 26 per- ficials and government employees cent. With 17 percent of the vote in, it was serve as volunteer firemen or consta leading 83,132 votes to 28,707 against. allowing counties to jointly dev Among the other eight questions broken dustrial parks, up into 11 parts on the ballot, were whether They also were approving char tment ID system hat J Editors's note:77i/s is the second of a twopart series on problems associated with USC student ???? identification cards. inism poses by kris taylor reatest threat sta" *rit<T. . Of.. Difficulties with the scanner system for student lden'31 01 tfte 111- tification cards are clouding USC's hopes for a single its of life and multipurpose ID card, a registration official said. Scanner systems were installed last fall to solve the problem of multiple IDs, said Registration Director Linda Woollen. She said students needed different ntS for America cards for the different places on campus. pamphlet "I definitely think it (the scanner system) was a good move, but the lack of education has caused a pro?????? blem," she said. "Different departments bought dif. ferent types of scanners, and now student IDs may s ?Kraft sa\T?n ^ work at one place and not another." When the ID system was designed, the computer n I Oil project, they analysis company recommended specific scanner n stern Europe," she equipment, and many of the departments did not u y get money from follow the recommendations closely enough, Woollen nies, they use that said. v. 1 up the Soviet Dining services, the Thomas Cooper Library and st 3me cases they even football ticket distributors are among those most af;y for their military fected by the inability of their scanners to read IDs. c< "We were looking for one card that could do U o raise this issue as everything. It could be used at the P.E. Center, the : people active and library, the restaurants and everywhere," Woollen d rganization. We're said. get other student "It is a big hassle to send students back and forth " maybe some facul- between the registrar's office and us," said Tim s? community leaders Schafer, a staff worker at Cooper Library. "But when rorl- our scanners can t read their cards, they have to have ei , a candidate for new ones made." di Council, supports The library uses three different scanning systems to make sure the new IDs work when students check out d is against any deal- books, he said. :t Union, including "We have the laser pens, a scanning box for cards talks, because he and a scanner box for book numbers," he said. "Most S? Soviets. of the cards work now using one or the other." iey have not stood Thomas Cooper Library has spent about $10,000 on s< es that they have scanning equipment that does not work, said C. J. sj n said. They will Cambre, library director. while they want us "Part of the problem is that the original pins that we k were told to get didn't actually read the cards well," tt rying to get the Cambre said. "There were two types of pins, high ^tl0nS ma?* at resolution and low resolution. We were told to get the ai We re trying to wrong type of pins>? u e to American iit,rary is now using badge readers to scan the t s wrong to do jDs wjtj1 some degree of success, Cambre said. This n let tyranny." mcedes Bush wins presidency Yom staff and wire reports Vice President George Bush, riding the swell of a lead n the South and the Rust Belt, coasted to a decisive vicory by winning states in every region of the United itates. Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, who placed his lopes for the Oval Office on an 18-state strategy, managd to win states like New York and Illinois. But Bush early lashed the Democratic presidential nominee's hopes vhen he won Michigan and New Jersey, two states that Jukakis said he needed to win. Dukakis conceded the election to Bush at 11:25 p.m. in lis Boston rally. CBS News projected at 11:40 p.m. that Bush had capured the presidency with 312 electoral votes, or 54 perent of the popular vote. Dukakis had 122 electoral votes, r 46 percent of the vote. CBS had no projection for most if the West by 11:40 p.m. Despite the vice president's strong showing at the polls, ew congressional candidates were able to ride Bush's oattails. CBS News projections showed the Democrats ept and even strengthened their hold on the U.S. House nd the Senate. In South Carolina, Vice President George Bush capLired almost 60 percent of a higher-than-expected state ote, capturing all eight of the state's eight electoral votes nd pleasing one of his biggest state supporters. "My night is made," said Gov. Carroll Campbell, tush's Southern campaign chairman. "Bush has won." With 68 percent of the state's 1,835 precincts reporting, Rpp PRFSTDFNT nnop ? - ?- " - f ~?5" amendments ted from constitution to allow magistrates' jurisdicher than tions to be changed without changing the General constitution each time, and changing the ifications constitution to allow the legislature and voters to revise entire articles in the constituallowing tion with a single ballot question, rather than must set a series of questions as is often the case, ected of- Perhaps the most publicized of the ballot also can questions was the statewide grand jury, a pet bles, and project of Attorney General Travis Medlock. relop in- ??????????? iging the See BALLOT page 3 > problems Problems with IDs Second of two parts ystem cost the library an additional $4,000. "The company has said it will refund us some of the noney for the laser pins, but we don't know how nuch. I am not sure how much the new system will end p costing us," he said. Ruth Hamilton, a dining service worker in charge of alidation, said dining services has used a magneticrip scanner for meal plans for about five years. The system works well, but problems arise when IDs ome from students who have lost or damaged their Ds and have to have cards validated, Hamilton said. IDs pose the biggest problem in football ticket istribution, especially in block seating, Woollen said. "That is when I see so many students," she said. They've given their card to someone for block :ating, and they never see it again. "Student Government is looking at revamping the itire way block seating and ticket pick-up is being one," she said. S.G. is looking into ID problems and football ticket istribution, said S.G. adviser Woody Carothers. "We won't have anything in effect this season, but lould have some solutions for next year," Carothers lid. Whatever difficulties might exist with the present :anner system, the advantages of the future scanning rcfom mill ni/orckaHrtii; tViAm WnnllAn coiH r 3 I vlii Will UYV1 OllttUW" IUV1U) YY VVHVIl OU1V*. "The treasurer's office is looking at making some ind of credit card out of it, and Housing may evenlally use them as door keys," Woollen said. Howard Rhodes, assistant vice president of business nd finance, said there are no definite plans on using Ds as credit cards. "There is a lot to look into," Rhodes said. "Right ow, we are just thinking."