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rrJ^JS^TSe: I |N.C. State ends Gamecocks' hopes 11 SES&g&s National Or8asm Week. See Sports, page 7 t^an tfiey are." ? Roger Libby, HaaaiLffivzz&Jr See Features, page 4 ' sexologist ^ ..Week ? page 4 The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Monday Volume 81, No. 73 University of South Carolina March 20, 1989 Blaze erupts I -4- -P-M-4- <?4*t T? ill iiaiciiiny, | no one hurt I By RICH WALENDA Staff writer A fire, a celebration in Five Points and car vandalism H kept University Police, the city's police and fire departments and a state agency busy this weekend. University Police and the Columbia Fire Department responded to a fire at the Phi Kappa Sigma lounge on Saturday morning. No one was reported hurt in the incident. || The blaze occurred at 12:39 a.m. in building A in the B|l McBryde Quad when a mattress caught fire. The Columbia Fire Department responded with five trucks and was able to extinguish the fire in about 15 minutes. University Police and the Columbia Fire Department are treating this incident as arson, and it is still under II investigation. jr Sophomore fraternity member John Lipsky said there is smoke damage to all the rooms in the building. "All of > my clothes smell like smoke," he said. I Damage to the building is estimated at $20,000, and $400 for couches and mattresses that burned. There was I about one inch of water on the floor of the bathroom where the fire apparently started. Also listed among the losses were the fraternity files and the fraternity tests from past classes, which were destroyed. According to the S.C. Alcohol Beverage Control Commission, 57 people were arrested during the St. Patrick's Day festivities in Five Points on Saturday. Among those arrested were two males who assaulted a female ABC agent. Most of the individuals arrested were 19 and 20 years old, with charges ranging from underage drinking to possession of alcohol. The youngest arrested was 13 years old. Only four of those arrested were charged with possession of false identification. It is unknown how many of the people arrested were USC students. In a separate incident, a juvenile was arrested by University Police after attempting to break into a car at ___A See CRIMES page 2 estii Phase two of sign-up procesi Few spaces lefi By ROBERT THOMAS Sim Staff writer a.m. Nearly all spaces in campus apartment complexes have "Ft been filled for the next academic year, Director of Ad- defini ministration for University Housing Jim Smart said. Mei "We have some spaces left over for men, but many of lightei those spaces already have a preferred roommate listed for Sim that space," Smart said. apartr The first phase of the continuing student sign-up period the vi: for housing ended Thursday. Tw< The apartment housing still available ? less than 50 ing pr spaces for men at Bates West and Cliff apartments ? will to Pr< become available for underclassmen during sign-up phase Mike four on April 11. Truste Groups discoura use of plastic foa By ERIC KENNETH WARD it can be recycled. Staff writer Beck said plastic foam Cold drinks at USC may be served recycled, and South Caroli in paper cups instead of plastic foam future shortage of land ir cups next fall because of an ozone- can dump its solid waste, depleting chemical used in many Mike Griffen of the Mar plastic foams. Corporation said the issue Eric Beck, member of an en- ing plastic foam with papei vironmental club in the business is being investigated, bui school, said many plastic foams in- know for sure when th volve chloroflorocarbons (CFCs) in would take place, their production. Beck is a member Beck said his club has al: of the Organization of Business this semester with Studer Students for Environmental Greener Environment and 1 Responsibility. dent of Facilities Planni OBSERVE was formed last Rinker to develop a p semester to increase awareness in the aluminum can recycling pr business school and community of environmental issues relating to The future program will i business. The club is made up of a trial run, he said, graduate students in international Large containers for p business studies. cans will be placed in t CFCs break down the ozone layer buildings, possibly Garni protecting Earth from the sun's and Coker Life Sciences, h radioactive rays. They also collect in SAGE currently has cor the atmosphere, holding in heat and Gambrell Hall for collectii raising the temperature, Beck said. help cover their operating < Besides damaging the ozone layer, large containers will replac plastic foam does not decompose and now being used, he said, stays around a lot longer than paper in addition, an educati when littered, he said. gram will be launched He said Marriott campus food students aware of the pi facilities have been encouraged to said, find alternatives to plastic foam with "if this program works \ other items than cups. hopefully going to expanc "There's no reason for the whole campus," Beck said. Styrofoam bowls in the Russell to work well, the student House. They could easily use re- participate, he said, usable bowls." The restaurants said they will The administration is als research alternatives, Beck said. with the groups to hold Another advantage to paper is that cleanup day. 111 >1 \ THIWl w fire at the Phi Kappa Sigma hali on the fraternity quad caused an nated $20,000 in damages Saturday morning. f begins tomorrow t in campus apai irt said the women's apartment spaces ran out by 11 The Ecology Comn rhursday, which was earlier than previous years. current apartment-s >r women, it (signing up for apartment housing) was shortening current vi tely heavier than normal," Smart said. move to no visitation i requesting apartment housing was normal or by areas of two Tow< than normal, Smart said. Douglas and Bur irt attributed the increase in women requesting freshman hall, of the nent-style housing to their concern over changes in by the committee's pi sitation policies. Fair, a member of t 3 forms of changes in the visitation policies are be- campus-wide ban on oposed, one by the Ecology Committee in a report sex. ;sident James Holderman and the other by Rep. Freshman internatii Fair, R-Greenville, to the university's Board of looked into moving f :es. The Horseshoe or Wh cannot be i which it riott Food of replac products HHKHH did not e change HH9HB ?o worked its for A ^ice Presing David ogram. .Hfc begin with | -JT aper and ~ "* l|. 111 wo select >rell Hall ie said. itainers in f ~ onal pro" to make * - ?? roject, he '<wmo|Q|^ * veil, we're - ?^ """ 1 - m> * I it to the ~ ^ ^ But for it s have to o working The heat is on. . . a campus Residents of Douglas soak up some rays on the dorm's root Officials a more fake ] By JEFF WILSON Staff writer Three USC students have been arrested for the manufacturing and selling of false driver's | licenses, and state and local law enforcement officials said more arrests are expected. Joe Dorton, chief of enforcement for S.C. A ~ r> ? ? i _ j r-iicuuvjin. Dcvciagc v_,uihiui ^.unimission, said Corey James Drake, 18, of Orangeburg was ar'ested Wednesday night for forgery, illegal Dossession of liquor and simple possession of narijuana. He was released Thursday from Richland County jail on $1,000 personal ecognizances bond on the forgery charge and 6200 bond on the other charges. driv< After further investigation, Joseph Riopelo, A pt 18, of Simpsonville and Edward Joseph picti Laurent, 17, of Greenwood were arrested Fri- prop lay for forgery in the same case. They were 30th released on $1,000 personal recognizance P< xrnds. All three students reside in Moore dor- clud nitory, Dorton said. alon He said information about the campus ID false nanufacturing operation was obtained from bore ;tudent informants. coul Students were paying from $15 to $50 for S( "alse driver's licenses in this particular case, he dupl .aid. the < "Our (ABC) agents developed the informa- F< ion about a month ago that there was on the Car* JSC campus individuals operating a factory of Dor orts for manufacturing false IDs and were us- sent ng a method we know well from past investigaions," he said. Dorton said investigators from ABC, S.C. forg Jighway Department and the USC Police gam Department were able to get an undercover D igent in and purchase a driver's license from a undi tudent. Si The operation run by the Moore students had und< >robably been going for about six months, Dor- fron on said. M The process the students used was a common or 3i ystem, he said. and A handmade board of a Pennsylvania $20( rtments for littee is calling for no changes in the because of the tyle housing visitation policies, "Apartmen sitation hours in some halls and a ly worth it bee by the opposite sex beyond the lob- see ar)d when, :rs residence halls. "The Horst ney, one male and one female ar>d it did fill Towers complex would be affected Thornwell, an. renovated and he Board of Trustees, is calling for a the first buildi overnight visitation by the opposite Smart said newness of th< onal studies major Elizabeth Harris 1 rom a traditional residence hall to aley's Mill, an off-campus complex, * / f ? v J| |p* s .s . - ?j ** jwy^^WK^.,..-mnil?,, L ^. .TVl ,inruu_ '. The warm weather lured many sun seekers outdoors I nticipate [D arrests \ \ \ \i \ \ \ \&B? V\U w ;r's license was made and placed on a wall. :rson stood beside the board and a Polaroid ire was made, the picture was trimmed to >er size, laminated and sold, Dorton said. slice confiscated the equipment used, ining the wall board and Polaroid camera, g with several finished and almost finished : IDs. All the Pennsylvania driver's licenses : the name Erin Ernst, probably because it d be used by a male or female, Dorton said, juth Carolina licenses are more difficult to licate than several other states because of detailed background, Dorton said, srgery is a felony in the state of South slina, with a maximum seven-year sentence, ton said they are seeking the maximum ence for the students arrested. We intend to send a message by using the ery charge that we are no longer playing es with underage drinkers," he said, orton said more than half of all people zr the age of 21 have false IDs. nee July 1, ABC has arrested 1,800 ;rage drinkers statewide, ranging in ages i 13 to 20, Dorton said. inors caught with false IDs face a $100 fine 0 days in jail. Individuals over the age of 21 caught supplying minors with alcohol face a ) fine or 30 days in jail, he said. next year : pending visitation policies, ts may be more expensive, but they are realause it will be our choice to who we want to " Harris said. ;shoe is most definitely the most popular, up first as usual," Smart said, which reopens in the fall after being converted to apartment-style housing, was ng on The Horseshoe to fill up. Thornwell closed quickly because of the ; building and its furnishings. See SIGN-UP page 2 ./ I V//:.S \tTTl.ES The Gamecock this past week.