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Founded 1908 Eighty Years of Collegiate Journalism Monday
Volume 81, No. 43 University of South Carolina November 14. 1988
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STATE BRIEFS
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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
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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.
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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
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INDEX
Viewpoint 3
Features 4
Datebook 5
Comics 6
Sports 7
Classified 8
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' 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.
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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.
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Medical technology junior Lyn Amancio checks th<
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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,
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"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
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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
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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."
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leo games and other amusements for USC students.