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*v The Carolina Ballet brings /;W Sugar Plum Fairy to T TC/^ rlofowiCO nilV1Pilll*AC! IVcilTv'c CQllc We didnt get into the end zone as the Township Saturday for vl-CJLdMiu^^ iJ Ullv lUlViS iJM'IIo much as we'd like to." ? Todd Ellis, a production of 'The usc ^uarterback XT,it/-T-o/-V^r ? See'USC defense,'page 7 See Navy game, page 7 i>UltrdLKCI ^ 'Nutcracker,' page 4 The Gamecock ; Founded 1908 Eighty Years of Collegiate Journalism Monday Volume 81, No. 43 University of South Carolina November 14. 1988 f" 1 STATE BRIEFS ^ ? , ' ! . - /f" GSX landfill opponents expected at hearing SUMTER (AP) ? Hundreds o opponents of the GSX hazardou waste landfill are expected to at tend a public hearing held by stat< health officials who are consider ing whether to issue the company a final operating permit. The state Department of Health and Environmental Control ha: set the hearing for 7 p.m. Mondaj at the Sumter County Exhibitior Center. Although billions of tons ol nazaraous wasie nave oeen leganj buried in the landfill since it opened almost 12 years ago, this will be the first public hearing held specifically on the facility's operating permit. Truck workers win case COLUMBIA (AP) ? An arbitrator has ruled that Mack Trucks must reinstate five workers with pay at its Winnsboro plant because the workers were misled about their rights to transfer from a plant in Hagerstown, MdArbitrator Ira Jaffe found that in August 1987 the workers were not given enough notice and accurate information before having to decide whether to accept the transfer, according to a statement quoting Jaffe that was released Friday by the United Auto Workers. Union members at the Hagerstown, Md., plant were given the opportunity under a union contract to take jobs in - South Carolina when Mack Trucks closed a plant in Allentown. Pa., one vear ano. Janitor saves the day INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? A school janitor jumped onto a driverless car circling a parking lot and another man helped him get inside to stop the vehicle moments before it would have plunged through the wall of a crowded classroom Friday. Larry Loy, 38, a janitor at Indianapolis Public School 89, hopped on the hood of the car after it ran over a 4-year-old girl and struck her 5-year-old brother and their mother. Tysons to dissolve marriage out of United States NEW YORK (AP) ? Heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson and actress Robin Givens have discussed dissolving their stormy nine-month marriage with a quick divorce in the Dominican Republic, Tyson's lawyer said. Tyson, 22, is eager to "get on hie lifn 99 lrtiiTtrof U/\*irof/4 niui IliO 111V) lOnjVI 11UWCUU Weitzman told the New York Post in Saturday's editions. Lawyers for Givens, 23, and Tyson met Nov. 6 in Las Vegas to discuss the possibility of filing for a divorce on the Caribbean island, where divorces can be obtained in about two days, the newspaper reported. ' ii)M)igiiniiiijiii)?)i)iiiii.i u/Anr r\ ddidd WUkLD oKlfcr Swearing birds not allowed KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) ? The organizers of a mynah-speaking contest say birds that swear or screech obscenities will be banned from participation. All mynahs entered in the Sea Carnival contest in Lumut, 120 miles northwest of Kuala Lumpur, will have to be judged by "a censorship board" before being ollmira/1 f/\ o ?/%*?+<*?+ iu iarvv_ ya. it, v*uiiicai directors said. " " -- ' ' !- iiiijn.iiiiiiii.ii.il injiK.' INDEX Viewpoint 3 Features 4 Datebook 5 Comics 6 Sports 7 Classified 8 U0PI.A NEWS TIP?: CALE 777-7726 '' " 1 11 - 1 Election gets little ! ; praise f 1* VI?* T */ *** m a DJ ALLLI I/. inUMAS ' Assistant news editor President-elect George Bush will I 1 take over the Oval Office in January, 5 but few USC campus organization P and Student Governent leaders are . 1 fully satisfied with the outcome of I , the 1988 general elections. "I'm not ecstatic. Yes, we will L have a Republican president, but we (Republicans) want, we need seats in Congress," College Republicans m State Chairman E. J. Cousar said. "People who support the H Republicans and call themselves Republicans need to realize that it doesn't do any good to vote for a Republican president if they are go- 0 ing to vote for Democratic Congressmen," he said. Bush will have a hard time getting l|j things through a Democratic Con- ? gress, and it will be at least eight to 10 I years before the Republicans can regain the Senate, Cousar said. When asked about Vice Presidentelect Dan Quayle, he said, "He's there now. I just hope Bush takes all his vitamins and sees his doctor twice a year." In time, he said, Quayle may become presidential material, but Cousar doesn't see Quayle serving any more than one term as vice r president. See ELECTION Lf!! | uroup cam] I By NANCY BRANHAM SONGER Staff writer Some USC students believe they can stop torture, execution and illegal detention of peaceful prisoners of conscience around the world with the stroke of a pen. Amnesty International members run a worldwide letter-writing campaign on behalf of prisoners of conscience that is proving successful. Letter-writing and other tactics won the international human rights group the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize, the first Nobel prize given to an organization. "The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948," said Chris Hurschler, a mechanical engineering graduate student who is one of two A.I. coordinators on campus. "It was the first time that countries were bound to maintain standards of human rights. But no one was working to uphold it. That's what Amnesty International has done, hold countries accountable." Of the wide spectrum of rights enunciated in the.declaration, A.I. focuses on bringing about the release of prisoners of conscience detained because of beliefs, race or religion who have neither advocated or used S.G. making ga student leaders By DAVID L. EATON 1 Staff writer Student Government's success in meeting g spring has received mix reviews from some US "I've been here a long time, and I haven't s provements made," history senior Theresa said. "If there is a step in the right direction, li tie to Five Points, it ends up closing down or g< ed aside. Their efforts are often just brief." But some students, like English junic Prescott, said S.G. is working hard for the st "I think one of the successes of S.G. is thei lower tuition," Prescott said. "I heard they hs committee to try to lower tuition. I think the} to keep up their promise and are trying to do about it." S.G. President James Franklin said he agre S.G. is working to make USC safer, cheaper a for students. S.G. has successfully launched several pi tackle higher tuition, Franklin said. "Students for a Better Carolina Commissio formed to conduct lobbying and postcard, telephone campaigns against increases in Franklin said. S.G. compiled a report titled "Education i dability: A Dilemma In Higher Education." Fr the report "does not just apply to Carolina plicable to all universities with a tuitioi problem." The S.C. Association of Student Body Pr another organization that will address student eluding statewide tuition increases. See FRANKLII k lard-working girl Medical technology junior Lyn Amancio checks th< ore. The Country Store is located in the Carolina paigns for hv violence; on ensuring fair and prompt trials ir for political prisoners; and on ending torture aj and execution in all cases, Hurschler said. c< He is glad that USC members of Amnesty 0 come from across the political spectrum. "Human rights should be apolitical," he st said. "A.I. is non-political, not associated with any government or political ideology, it: We try hard to maintain that separation on tii campus." "The main purpose of our group is writing sc letters on behalf of prisoners," he said. cc The USC chapter is part of an urgent ac- A tion network which receives information A about prisoners of conscience or threatened th executions distributed from A.I.'s London wi international headquarters. This informa- Sc tion is only distributed after thorough investigation, he said. re Letters to the governments in question are ed written by club members at meetings held he every other Wednesday in Russell House wi Room 203. The letters are nrecentert on alter. Hr nate Wednesdays at tables in front of the by Russell House. There, passing sympathizers scl can add their support by signing the preprinted letters. ? The group's most recent urgent action case is that of six international volunteers worktins, say oals set last t-r A C students. lifl een any imi Woodard 1 ke the shutting push- IP >r Patricia udents. r efforts to we set up a / are trying something v/giaiuo iu ^ > f#A - y^llfi n has been letter and tiiition," ftl? and Affor- ; anklin said i; it is ap- ^ / i increase >, ^ esidents is issues, in- little rock 'em, soc ?Sports administration freshman kT _ Russell House gameroom. The gam N page 2 m^ms *: re Pi se b< b< A fii BRIAN BVRKHA RT/The Gamecock sh e cash drawer of the register in the Country ^? Mall in the Russell House. cc of to innan riohtc - "&MUJ ig with an educational and social action jency in Paraguay who have been held injmmunicado with no public charges since ' ?ct. 13 and 18. "Sometimes people turn up dead; >metimes they're released," Hurschler said. Through regular updates, Amnesty keeps s members informed of the fates of the vie- J tns, he said. Wes Belton, international relations Bj iphomore and the USC chapter's other sti >ordinator, has worked on cases-he felt mnesty has affected directly. One is that of U! nna Chertkova of Kazakhstan, a region in dii e Soviet Union. Chertkova is a Baptist who wi as arrested in 1972 for "circulation of anti>viet slander." an When Chertkova officially professed her ty ligious conviction, the government revokher residence permit and demolished her inj >me, said Amnesty* International. She ba ote in protest to Soviet Premiere Leonid up ezhnev, was arrested and was then judged r a psychiatrist to be a sluggish ps; tiizophrenic who was unfit to stand trial. nu She was placed in a psychiatric hospital, g0 See AMNESTY page 2 fo?, Sa) I b j ^j.;T?ffr^ ~*^<2F5rt *??*** '?* < J ^5?^ nwwiiP ?^ ,r '' >i-1 x *~~"1 ? **/,* ? ? *" *~ I v:V % v, ? H ' Nt ' _ ^ * k 'em action Darin Walsh and Civil Engineering freshman Ja eroom also provides pool tables, table tennis, vi( / " Bookstore to cut ties with USC \y JEFF WILSON taff writer The University Bookstore in the Russell House is in the rocess of severing its corporate ties with USC to become separate enterprise of its own. The new system will work similarly to the university iner service, said Pete Denton, executive vice president f business and finance. The bookstore's setup will not change, Denton said, ut it will no longer be under state institution jurisdiction. "The Marriott Service Corporation can run it (the diner srvice) better than the university itself because they don't ave some of the bureacratic rules that USC Has as a state istitution," he said. ? The bookstore's goal will be the same, Denton said. He lid he hopes the change will make the management more Ticient. Unlike the food service, which has an outside contracir, the management of the bookstore will still be handled ithin USC, Denton said. The bookstore will have its own jard of directors that will oversee its actions. The board ill replace a Faculty Senate committee and will better present the interest of the students, he said. "The method of choosing the board has been put into lace, but not all of the actual members have been elected," Denton said. The board of directors of the Dokstore will have a student representative, the student jdy president, three faculty members, the Alumni ssociation director and two people from business and nance, he said. "The question we asked ourselves was, what size board lould we have?" Denton said. "We thought we should ive a board that represented the USC community, our mmunitv beine the alumni nf thf? institution th? ' the institution and the students of the institution." "The next thing we found ourselves looking at," Denn said, "was the number of student representaives that Duld be on the board because students are the primary See BOOKSTORE/?##? 2 Two men steal football tickets y JOHN MILLS III iff writer Two men believed to be USC students stole about five 5C-Navy student football tickets from the ticket stribution table in the Russell House Friday afternoon, tnesses said. At about 3:35 p.m. Friday, one man stole the tickets d handed them to an accomplice, said Pinkerton securiguard Coolidge Morris. "He walked up, leaned over like most students do lookl at tickets," Morris said. "He grabbed them and high lied to the cafeteria. It happened so quick. They walked like most of the students do." Psychology and French junior Reggie Smith, ychology junior Cedric Swiggins and an unidentified in chased one of the men. "We chased him all the way to Bates," Smith said. "He t away over by the tennis courts. By then, I had already ipped a police car. They were still chasing him. They r he went down a curved road toward Bates." ? ? ^ ^ ^ ^?' BRIAN BURKHA RT/The Gamecock ck Spann battle it out in a game of foosball in the leo games and other amusements for USC students.