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Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Wednesday
Volume 81, No. 74 University of South Carolina March 22, 1989
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By MARY PEARSON
News editor
USG students are not responding
to a call to show their feelings about
a proposed visitation policy, the
Resident Hall Association president
says.
Michelle Lefeld said that while a
letter-writing campaign to Board of
Trustee members began Monday, she
hac nnlv rpppiveH ahnut SO nhone
calls from students.
"We want students to write to the
Board of Trustees members that they
support the Ecology Committees
proposed visitation policy changes,"
Lefeld said.
Lefeld said she was afraid that if
students do not respond, a visitation
policy proposal by board member
Rep. Mike Fair, R-Greenville, could
be approved.
Fair will ask the board to reject the
Ecology Committee's plan at the next
board meeting April 13. He favors a
campus-wide ban on overnight
opposite-sex visitation instead.
If passed, the Ecology Committee's
proposal would create four
visitation categories, ranging from
no overnight visitation to apartmentstyle
visitation, depending on the
campus apartments and suite-style
resident halls such as Columbia Hall
and Capstone.
The policy would set up Burney
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Editor's note:77i/5 is part two in
Women's History month.
By SUSAN BUCHANAN
Staff writer
"Most people who opposed wor
that women were less intelligent a
political decisions than men.'
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As men went to battle in the Ci
women's rights activities stopped,
the opportunity, but the responsibil
the house. They filled positions in
vants, factory workers and manual
The impact of the Civil War on S<
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and Douglas residence halls as
freshmen dorms where opposite-sex
visitation would be restricted to the
lobby.
In residence halls such as LaBorde,
Moore, Snowden, Baker, Patterson,
McClintock, Wade Hampton and the
Roost opposite-sex visitation would
be restricted to certain hours, from
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through Thursdays and from noon
until 2 a.m. on Fridays and
Saturdays.
In suite-style residence halls such
as Preston, Maxcy, Sims, Capstone,
McBryde and South Tower, overnight
visitation would be allowed on
the weekends.
The policy changes would affect
sign-in and escort procedures. Under
the proposed plan, each visitor would
still have to present a picture ID to
the desk worker, but the visitor
would also be required to carry a
"guest card" at all times while in the
building. The suite-style hall
residents would be required to get an
approval form signed by roommates
before having overnight guests.
Student Government President
Marie-Louise Ramsdale said she
agreed with Lefeld that students need
to get involved on this issue.
"Like any other project, we have
to have student input," Ramsdale
said. "If you are concerned, you
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should write a positive note to board
members telling them why you think
you should be given choices. It is imperative.
If students don't do
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By DEBBIE JORDAN
Staff writer
In a fight to get more money for I
Government President Marie-Louise
encouraging students to contact
senators.
A substantial tuition increase may
students act now by calling th<
Ramsdale sajd.
Students can acquire a copy of a let
the phone and visitation drive to sect
funding between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m
tables set up on Greene Street or att
next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thur;
ter will also be available in the S.G. c
be distributed to various clubs and o
The name and phone number of
will be provided in the letter. All
eluding those from out of state, w
voice their opinions.
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By LUCY SOTO
Staff writer
Some USC bumper stickers may
disappear from cars if a bill sponsored
by two state legislators
becomes law.
A bill outlawing the operation ol
any vehicle that has an obscene
sticker was debated recently in the
S.C. House of Representatives and is
up for vote today.
The bill sponsored by Rep
Herbert Kirsh, D-York, anc
Theodore Mappus, R-Charleston
makes the driver ot such a venici<
guilty of a misdemeanor and subjec
to a maximum fine of $200.
The bill outlaws "any part of i
sticker, decal or emblem or othei
device containing profane, indecen
or lewd words describing sexual acts
excretory functions or parts of th<
human body that are displayed t<
members of the public not operatinj
imen opp
. As Anne Feror Scott wrote in Th
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y." Scott explains that men returns
y had lost their land and that their wive
ustomed to the power associated wit!
rofessor Marcia Synnott said men return
ir with almost nothing, including sell
id been governed by troops for so long
:d home defeated. "I personally believ
>men were willing to step back a bit," sh
je number of men had died in the wai
;eep their jobs in order to support thei
the period following the war, the Sout
or political and social reconstructior
:re excluded from political control for th
ars, and the Southern states did not pre
i for the fight for equality to continue.
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visitation policy.
something now, then we will end up
with a situation we don't like. Then it
will be too late to cry about it."
Lefeld said students should send
?s student help
: to lowe
S.<3. alone can't make th
but with participation and
JSC, Student body, "the impact we
Ramsdale is explosive."
their state She said the bill will go t<
or four weeks. If student!
be avoided if they should not complain
iir senators, tion, she said.
Students are also eno
parents call their senators,
ter explaining we have a right to be hear
ire more USC
. Thursday at Journalism senior Lan
he same time concerned because a lot <
sday. The let- loans or grants and that i
>ffice and will back. Every year tuition r
rganizations. S.G., Dickens said. "I thi
students getting together,'
each senator Accounting freshman \
students, in- impressed with Ramsdale'i
ill be able to one of the best ideas becau:
alone. She sounds like a g
sticker issc
the vehicle."
Kirsh said an incident involving his
six-year-old grandson spurred him to
write the bill,
i "This past fall we were riding, and
we pulled up behind a car or truck, I
can't remember which, that had an
: obscene sticker on it. He's a smart little
hov. He can read, and he asked
i me what it meant. That got to me
when a six-year-old has to ask what
those kind of words mean," Kirsh
1 said.
, "There's no choice in not seeing
; these things. You can't close y6ur
t eyes. They're right there when you're
driving behind someone," he said,
i "Personally I find the ones with the
r four-letter words offensive."
t Kirsh said that he has not seen a lot
, of opposition to the bill.
; "I've already had 15 letters in sup)
port of the bill. I don't think the
I communities of people in South ,
ortunities
e Northern women were continuing th
ment to fight for equality. They did no
d
s of the men to keep their jobs after the
h not going to stop them.
Despite negative attitudes, teminist:
fight for political and social equalit
organized groups such as the National j
Suffrage Association. Its primary goal
' dividual state legislatures until they
e women,
e
The women's movement began to m
, pact in America in 1890, when Wyomin
ir woman suffrage state admitted to the I
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i. 19th Amendment, but the South was nc
e drastic change, as Reconstruction conti
>- In the early 1900s, Carrie Chapmar
Wood Park lobbied the nation's capit
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tnt Kim Livingston signs in geology
their letters to the RHA office at the I
Building. Ramsdale will take the letters
to the full Board of Trustees
meeting April 13, she said.
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lis work, Ramsdale said, Torres said
concern by the student and call."
would have would be Ramsdali
will work.4
a the Senate within three students ca
? don't make an effort, come to c
about an increase in tui- adults," sh
ouraged to have their A bill wil
"We vote, we pay taxes, get voting
d," Ramsdale said. Trustees, R
Ramsdali
yia Dickens said she's the bill wil
of students are here on time to pre]
money needs to be paid ensure the J
ises despite efforts from fledged mei
nk it's going to take the The unh
' she said. Florida Sta
Vilda Torres said she's Duke all h;
5 efforts. "I think this is Trustees, R
se one person can't work "We live
reat president already," for us, give
ie faces v<
Carolina want to stand for this kind
of thing," he said.
There was debate on the bill March
9, and Reps. William Keesley, DAiken-Edgefield;
Timothy Wilkes,
(D-Fairfield-Chester) and Candy
Waites (D-Richland) objected to the
proposed legislation.
Wilkes said he brought four
bumper stickers that were bought at a
local bookstore to the podium to
show that what may be offensive to
some may not be to others. He showed
three of the stickers, but said that
he wouldn't show the fourth because
it was offensive to him.
"They all dealt with USC themes.
One mentioned ass-kicking chicken.
My point was that the stickers can
have two meanings. Does it mean
mule-kicking chicken or what? "
Wilkes said. "If it's left up to local
law enforcement officials and
magistrates, what's offensive to
outside t)
ie women's move- support came froi
t have the support Other organizei
riot Blatch ? recr
war. hut that was active forms of ni
These suffra]
s continued their themselves to the
y to men. They went on hunger si
\merican Woman
was to lobby in- State organizat
gave the vote to Pa'gns and conv<
state. They were
Numbers of w
ake a serious im- salaries were risi
g became the first enthusiasm.
Jnion.
egan ratifying the This did not st
t ready for such a frage amendment
nued. Women in all s
\ Catt and Maud law, but they soi
al. Most of their from social preju
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The USC Ecology Committee
formed in spring 1988 and was
charged with studying student
visitation privileges.
The study began last spring.
As a result of the study, the committee
came up with a proposal that
would make visitation policies in
some areas more stringent, but still
give students more residence hall
visitation options. The plan's opponents
say it is a weak
compromise.
The following is a summary of
the proposal's main points:
Sign-in policy would become
more restrictive, requiring notification
of roommates and roommate
approval of overnight visitation
(where allowed). All visitation
would be more strictly enforced.
+ Renovations of residence
halls would increase the level of
safety by further controlling access.
A study would determine
whether new policies are conducive
to a positive living and learning
environment.
i begins
. "I'm going to take advantage of this
e said she's confident the phone drive
'It can't hurt us to have them know that
re. Students made a mature decision to
ollege, so we need to be treated as
e said.
:1 also be introduced in January 1990 to
student members on the Board of
amsdale said.
z said it's too early now to tell whether
1 pass. She said she thinks taking the
pare and pull resources statewide might
5.G. president the right to vote as a fullmber.
/ersities of Kentucky and Tennessee,
te, Memphis State, Louisiana State and
ave a voting member on the Board of
amsdale said.
with the rules every day. Out of respect
: us that vote," Ramsdale said.
ote today
magistrates in Greenville may not be
to magistrates in Charleston or
Columbia."
"There are a lot of buirfper sticker.'
I find offensive, and I would like t
get them off the highways and car
but I don't think legislation is 1
way to do it," Wilkes said.
One student who has a "You ca,
lick our 'cocks" sticker is oppos<
the bill. 4J
"It sounds like another one of tc
tneir lame auempis 10 impose meir
morals on us," business finance
junior Scott Chamberlyne said. "I
don't think some of the stickers are
profane. They are more of a joke.
My uncle went here at least 20 years
ago, and he told me that they used to
have the sticker I have even then."
All three of the representatives
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young people and radicals in their
rotest.
gists marched, picketed, chained
White House fence, were arrested and
trikes.
ions became stronger by holding cammtions
to try to win suffrage state by
successful in their attempts.
-omen college graduates and women's
ng, but the movement began to lack
op the ratification of the woman's sufto
the U.S. Constitution in 1920.
tates now had equal rights with men by
on found the law did not shelter them
dices.