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Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Friday
Volume 81, No. 74 University of South Carolina March 24, 1989
New visit:
By MARY PEARSON
News writer
A new visitation policy was approved by administrative
action and will eo into effect next fall. USC President
James Holderman said.
The policy is a result of a report by the USC Ecology
Committee issued earlier this month. The report was
presented at a meeting of the Board of Trustees Executive
Committee Thursday.
The new policy is not finalized, Holderman said. Some
modification in the policy might be made by the administration
with input from the Board of Trustees and
the Office of Student Affairs.
A main opponent to the policy, Board member Rep.
Mike Fair, R-Greenville, said he agreed more than
disagreed with the Ecology Committee's report. The
report, however, had one element that he disagreed with
? opposite-sex visitation.
"By virtue of what the state did last year with sex
education, the mandate was to strongly urge students to
abstain from sex before marriage. The policy of USC
regarding overnight visitation is unintentionally a tacit approval
of sexual activity before marriage," Fair said.
Fair also pointed out that no other state colleges or
universities allow overnight visitation.
Fair's" statement was misleading, said Dennis Pruitt,
vice president of Student Affairs.
"How many institutions manage and control that overnigh:
visitation the way we do? We are one of few that
manage auu euninji viMiauun anu inaKe an nonesi statement
that* it exists," Pruitt said.
Fair said the issue should remain an administrative one
with final policy decisions made and implemented by
Holderman.
The Ecology Committee's report included several proposals
that would make visitation policies in some areas
more stringent, but still give students more residence hall
visitation options.
The new policy will allow students to choose from four
visitation categories, ranging from no overnight visitation
by opposite sex to apartment-style access, depending on
the residence hall.
Burney and Douglas residence halls would be set outside
as freshmen halls where no opposite-sex visitation
will be allowed beyond the lobby areas. Opposite-se^
visitation will be allowed in other dorms, but restricted to
certain hours.
Overnight visitation will only be allowed in suite-style
and apartment residence halls such as Bates West, ColumSee
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IBM appro;
By LYNN GIBSON
Staff writer
USC will become the only university in the Southeast to
have a research partnership with IBM Corp. if a proposal
to purchase a supercomputer is accepted by the state
Legislature.
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A supercomputer is faster than regular computers and
capable of handling more data.
Last fall, IBM offered to sell USC an IBM 3090-600S,
"the largest computer they make," for $14 million, compared
to the computer's actual selling price of $26.5
Miller sends
for sexist ad\
From staff reports
For the second time in two months, a major beer company
has gotten into trouble with the student press.
This time, Miller Brewer Co. of Milwaukee has sent letters
of apology to the editors of 55 college papers
apologizing for a "sexist"'spring break advertising supplement
that Miller officials said was meant to be a satire.
"We blew it," the company wrote in its apology for the
supplement, Beachin' Times. The four-color, 16-page
advertisement was laced with references to women as
"babes" and suggestions for luring women to bed
("swallow her car keys"). It also implored students "to
name something you can dunk, bump and poke. Hint ?
it's not a babe. It's a volleyball."
Newspapers at the University of Michigan and Marquette
refused to include the supplement. Students at the
University of Wisconsin proposed a boycott of Miller
products.
"There was not a place in 16 pages that you got the impression
that men and women talk to each other without
men being drunk and scamming on people," said Maggie
Sarachek of the University of Pennsylvania's Women's
Alliance.
The staff of I he uamecocn ueciaea in January not to
include the supplement. But it ran anyway two weeks later
because of miscommunication between the newspaper, an
advertising representative firm and the printer, said
Margaret Michels, advertising manager.
Michels said she called Casscommunications, the firm
handling the supplement, to explain that the staff had
refused to include the advertisement. Casscommunications
officials said the supplement would be stopped, but
it had already been sent to the printer.
"We should have followed up on Cass," Michels said.
Andy Bechtel, editor-in-chief of The Gamecock, said
tie decided not to run the supplement after reviewing its
;ontents. "It was tacky and sexist, and it encouraged
-eckless drinking," he said.
Miller officials said the ad supplement has been
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Solomon said.
USC has two months to respond to the offer, he said.
"This discount is one of the best I've ever heard of,"
Solomon said. "IBM's normal discount for universities is
20 to 25 percent, but this is more like 50 percent."
IBM's interest in USC stems from the university's
world-class researchers and their ability to test the limits
of supercomputing, IBM's Columbia Sales and
Marketing Operations Head Cary Smith said in an interview
with The State newspaper.
"IBM cannot do all the science that's involved in supercomputing,"
he said. "South Carolina provides us with
various expertise we know we need."
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misunderstood, "the piece wasn't being interpreted as
parody," Bev Jurkowski said. "It was a high-quality
piece."
Peter Herman, editor of the Marquette newspaper,
disagreed. "The message was nothing but drinking," he
said. "It had no value. If it was a parody, I missed it."
Miller wasn't the first beer company accused of insulting
students this year. In January, a group of students
at Florida Atlantic University circulated a boycott petition
because of an ad on the back of the campus phone
book.
The ad, which featured three women in Budweiser
bathing suits sprawled on a towel, ran in many other
publications without protest, said Mike Fleming,
spokesman for Budweiser.
| siuaeni reaction to
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and JEFF WILSON
I Staff writers
Wk Student reactions have been mixed about the
Wk I new visitation policy proposed by the Campus
JP I Ecology Committee.
English major Robin Boswell said the
I changes the committee are suggesting are good
in a sense. She said she feels that people who
B don't want to live in a dorm with 24-hour visitaJB
1 t'on s^ou'c' have that option while others have
the option of moving to a dorm with the type of
policy they desire.
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would end visitation altogether for everyone (
would not be a good thing.
Retail management major Alyce Hooper
HiP said, "Stopping it (visitation) is not going to
BL prevent those people who want to engage in sex
from doing just that. ]
"This is a place where people go to grow i
socially as well as academically," Hopper said. <
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Thursday. themselves. This is why a majority of people 1
about supercoi
Solomon said USC would get several benefits from the Feedl
supercomputer, including: New YorI
A Numeric Intensive Center created at USC by IBM laboratory
in which IBM scientists would work with USC faculty on established
the best way to use the computer systems and would be The stab
available to work with other universities. computer ?
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Africa Alliance.
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USC held a candlelight vigil Tuesday theid were taken into custody
night in remembrance of the result of the massacre.
Sharpeville massacre and to call for Emotions ran high at the
an end to USC's financial ties to despite a small turnout.
South Africa. Katherine Gilbert, head of
In Sharpeville, South Africa, on group, read a quotation by
March 21, 1960, a peaceful protest chbishop Desmond Tutu aftei
march held by 20,000 men, women lighting of the candles,
and children was fired upon by "Those who invest in South A
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The marchers were unarmed, and favor," Gilbert quoted Tutu as
:y approved
Most colleges allow 01
By MARY PEARSON
News editor
Among universities comparable to USC,
about 70 percent allow opposite sex visitation,
according to a study by the USC Ecology
Committee.
About 43 percent of those universities allow
24-hour visitation like an apartment complex.
"This data shows that we are renresentative
for an institution of our size and location. It is
more liberal than some, significantly less liberal
than others,"said Dennis Pruitt, vice president
of Student Affairs.
According to the study, seven of the 23
schools surveyed have limited visitation with no
overnight visitation allowed.
These schools include Clemson University,
the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill,
North Carolina State, Georgia Tech, Ohio State
and the University of Akron.
Six of the 23 schools have a 24-hour visitation
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for fall
)posite-sex visitation
plan either during the week or on the weekends,
the study said.
These schools include the University of
Georgia, Florida State University, the University
of Florida, Virginia Tech and the University
of Maryland.
Ten of the 23 schools surveyed have 24-hours
per day, 7-days per week visitation. These
schools include the University of Miami, UNCCharlotte,
the University of Virginia, the
University of Cincinatti, Syracuse and the
University of Connecticut.
One of the institutions, the University of Pittsburgh,
only permits overnight opposite-sex
visitation if the visitor is a relative, the study
said.
Pruitt said, "This is an evolving process and
will probably lead to further assessment and improvement
of the environment * of the
university."
new policy mixed
come to college, to learn to be independent and
to be able to think for themselves."
Broadcasting junior Keisha Elliott said, "I
don't think they should mandate whether or not
a person can spend the night. I think there
should be freedom of choice."
Lisa Jenning, engineering freshman said, "I
think the policy is fine right now. I think the
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good idea as long as it can be done even on the
night you want to have someone stay over."
Robert Latham, mechanical engineering
freshman said, "I plan not to stay in Douglas
and maybe not in the Towers because of the
:hange in the visitation p,olicy. Part of the
reason for coming to college is the learning experience
that goes with being away from home
for the first time."
Engineering sophomore Joseph Meralit said
hie didn't feel trying to place a visitation restriction
on students is fair. He said a lot of students
:ome to college to live on their own and be independent.
By restricting their visitation, it's
ike not living home at all, he said.
mputer
sack from IBM's staff of scientists based in
;. USC would have a direct line to their
;s, and an exchange program would be
between the two facilities,
s Legislature must approve the purchase of the
ind find money to pay for it, but Solomon said
listic because so many legislators support it.
h the chairman of the House Ways and Means
:te on higher education, Rep. Herb Kirsh, D>osed
a six-month study on supercomputer funISC
and Clemson University, Senate Finance
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njur- ing. "They are here for what they get
out of our cheap and abundant
ipar- labor, and they should know that
as a they are buttressing one of the most
vicious systems."
vigil The Free South Africa Alliance has
been calling for the university's total
the divestment from South Africa since it
Ar- organized.
the The two organizations that make
all investments for USC, the USC
frica Educational Foundation and the
us a
say- See AFRICA page 2