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at noon Saturday with a 11 Baseball team downs Georgia, 6-11 \ run away." ? Jeff Shrewsbury, j JpFyMiPO free music concert. ? 7 columnist See Features, page 3 See Sports, page 6 See "Parental'" Pa8e 2 The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Friday Volume 81, No. 84 University of South Carolina ' April 14, 1989 Contr< 75 students stage protest By MARY PEARSON News editor About 75 students gathered on the front lawn of Capstone Thursday to let the Board of Trustees know their concerns about the campus visitation controversy. The students began gathering about 9 a.m. in the morning before the board held its meeting, talking amongst themselves about the upcoming vote. "We know that we may not have that much of an impact on the vote today, but we hope our presence will send them a message," journalism sophomore Amy Beckham said. After the Student Liaison Committee Board meeting Friday, board member Rep. Mike Fair, RGreenville, said he would make a motion to ban all overnight visitation except in campus apartments. Other board members said they would have to deal with the issue of visitation by voting for either the amended Ecology Committee visitation proposal or Fair's proposal. The amended Ecology proposal would start phasing out visitation for freshmen in 1990 with an intent of ending all overnight visitation by 1992. In the fall of 1989, opposite-sex visitation would be allowed only in the suite-style residence halls on the weekends and on-campus apartments. Before the trustee members began to arrive, Beckham asked the Housing trends Freshma By ROBERT THOMAS Staff writer As residence halls that allow overnight fill up for the next academic year, tw residence halls with no visitation have ha students sign up to live there. "This shows that our present studen want to live in a building with no visitati Director of Administration for Universitj Jim Smart. "The availability of having guests is a real concern of the students." Next year, under the Ecology Coi recommendation, Douglas and Burney h< Towers complex will have no opposite-s tion at anytime beyond the lobby area. Presently,out of the 484 spaces availal buildings, there are four resident advi graduate student and eight undergraduat up to live in the buildings. ^Ipncita nnv kJVllitiV VV/1 activity fee By KRIS TAYLOR < Senate reporter The Student Senate tabled a ( resolution to consider a student ac- ( tivity tee increase at its meeting t Wednesday afternoon. A resolution calling for a $10 in- c crease for next fall was proposed by r Senator Raj an Shah of the Senate tFinance Committee. The increase v would be the first since 1981 and would be appropriately allotted to t benefit all funded entities. c "Pending national legislation per- p taining to minimum wage, rates and work study costs will significantly p add to activities costs," Shah said in ( the proposal. Campus organizations a are also in need of more funds that s could be generated through the pro- <j posed increase. The resolution also states that no s student activity fee increase would be q requested during the next three fiscal ti years. h The resolution was tabled to allow r senators a week to study it and its p; consequences. The finance commit- b tee will be sending out information Sl In the Wednesday edition of The Gam about the business seminar misidentifie picture is psychology professor Ron Po error. >versy ovei ' s> t^^M M^ Journalism sophomore Darren Shepherd and psycholo visitation by holding a sign at a protest in front of Capstone 1 students not to shout at them as they agreed with Beckham walked inside. "First it will be whc "We want to make the point with our dorms and wher our presence," she said. "This pro- them there. Next, the test is not just about the visitation dictating what cloth policy. It is not a personal attack on criminal justice gr Mike Fair or the university ad- Harkins said. "We < minstration," Beckham said. should be allowed as "Mike Fair is trying to push his ?ur own decision." l 1 - r ? uianu oi morais on us. 1 tnink this is When the students 1 scary because with this sort of legisla- board had voted to tion we will no longer have a overnight, opposite-se democracy, but a dictatorship." 1992, students sail Students at the protest said they disappointed. go haywire n dorms get ] The remaining spaces in the two buildings will 1 assigned to freshmfen and late housing applicant visitation Smart said. o Towers "If it comes down to living there or nowher id only 13 that choice will become more appealing," Sma said. ts do not Smart estimates that 150 fewer applicants for oi on," said campus housing have been processed this ye< r Housing compared to last year. overnight All incoming students will receive a letter withi two weeks explaining the current visitation policit mmittee's and will have the opportunity to change the ills of the residence hall preferences, Smart said. ,ex visita- Meanwhile, the majority of men and wome who were listed to be preferred roommates in Co ble in the umbia Hall were bumped by other students seekin sers, one apartment-style visitation Tuesday and yesterday :es signed "Very few preferred roommates survived, Smart said. "There were a lot of juniors an -B | tsiaers ! increase iach senator this week. In other Senate business, Athletic "ommittee Chairperson Berkley Drier announced changes in football ||1 icket distribution for next semester. Students wishing to purchase latebooks will be required to pay the egular season amount of $116. kbuse last semester has done away vith the student discount. Ticket validation will continue to >e $10 per ticket, but the athletic lepartment reserves the right to sus- , , lend validation for any major game. Block seating for student organizaions will undergo the biggest change. )reanizations will no loneer be ? llowed to collect IDs and reserve eats on the Sunday prior to regular iistribution. Each member wishing to reserve a |l * eat with an organization will be re- if luired to present his ID at a special able during regular distribution ^ 5 ours. They will receive a coupon to Srtnii eturn to their organization represenative. The representative will then ring all coupons to the block fh,^ eating distribution in the S.G. office *-?***> n the Monday night of distribution. Dramatic rea< ecock, the picture with the article d the speaker. The person in the Writer and English ulson. The Gamecock regrets the do, in the Gambrell Hs on bookstands sometii r visitatioi mm w' jfr lli?j If n^ l^nTpry f^mmmKLnmJ &HHS HT* /) ; hHH^ e r^^H^K^H HHP w jjl | *2g ii '! P EPP/The Gamecock N gy freshman Chris Jones express their feelings on hursday. n Finance junior Elliot Hiddleson l > we can have in said the whole situation was / 1 we can have ridiculous, and many students were y will return to moving to off-campus housing to tl es we wear," protest the board's action. y, aduate Susan r are adults and Most students, however, said they adults to make agreed the issue was not over. h Student Government President is earned that the Marie Louise Ramsdale said the phase out all Ecology Committee will hold an " x visitation by open forum on the visitation issue at 0 J they were 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Russell House tl Theater. a, s< a! o low turnout )e seniors who were unhappy today because they s, wanted to get into Columbia Hall and Capstone. "Most information from students at sign-up in- , e, dicates that the primary factor in deciding housing II rt is visitation," Smart said. All USC housing facilities are now filled to j l- capacity for the next academic year except for ir Burney, Douglas, Baker, McClintock, Sims, Pat- J terson and Bates House, Smart said. Under the j n new policy, overnight visitation will not be allowed ;s in most of these halls except Sims, ir Patterson and Bates House have the most remaining spaces, as well as Douglas and Burney, , n Smart said. 1- Dennis Pruitt, vice president of Student Affairs, | g told the USC Board of Trustees yesterday that 300 < _______ _ : k & d See HOUSING page 8 ^ ?K| of yoi ^^^^B^B flgiK coi get to BiH I JAMES NETTLES/The Gamecock ltt? COl graduate Sarah Gilbert reads from her novel, Hair- P0; til Auditorium Wednesday. Her novel should appear me next year. ch? sta: i contii Board passes phase-out beg By RON BAKER Staff writer The USC Board of Trustees passed in Ecology Committee proposal rhursday that would phase out overlight, opposite-sex visitation for reshmen and sophomores beginning n 1990. The proposal implemented by the joard's action is a modification of he original Ecology Committee Report, said board Chairman Michael Mungo. The new plan means that students ntering USC as freshmen in the fall >f 1990 will be allowed no overnight, >pposite-sex visitation, and the same | /ill be true for sophomores beginn- ja ng in 1991. As protestors sat quietly outside, Ec Itudent Government President ter larie-Louise Ramsdale spoke inside n behalf of the students and the be icology Committee Report's recom- foi lendations prior to the Student sai .iaison Committee's compromise of ipril 7. leg "The majority of students here on be lis campus do not think there's a lot leg Tong with the current system," ov> Lamsdale said. She added that she links the actions taken by the board a i ave been an overreaction to the dis sue. rec Ramsdale noted that it was with pu great reservation" that the students Cc n the Ecology Committee accepted le compromise in which freshman fcc nd sophomore overnight, opposite- tio ;x visitation rights be eliminated tio Itogether. The issue arose from actions by ex thi fficio board member Mike Fair, po ho originally brought the matter to ? le board's attention. The adlinistration commissioned the ACLU investig By MARY PEARSON Th Vews editor prr The American Civil Liberties pai Union is investigating possible civil action against USC because of its act tew visitation policy that was pass- tha :d at a Board of Trustees meeting stit fhursday, the ACLU executive the iirector said. uni "We will ask our attorneys to Bal ook into' possibly challenging the 1 >remise on which the university ac- hat ion today was based," Director chs iteve Bates said to a group of tak tudents who sat outside of I :apstone in protest of the Ecology att< Committee proposal amendments. jou Students shot nastier jtchedi f LUCY SOTO day iff writer regi Students pre-registering April cha -25 should be sure to check the C ?en section boards for corrections che< errors in the fall master schedule. hav Luke Gunter in the registrar's of- Lee :e said the errors occurred as part jus an experiment when the informa- son: n for classes was downloaded clos )m the mainframe computer to an dro] )ple computer. G "We lost a seven-character field. mer ie person who typed it in by hand amc tde some errors," Gunter said. bier Ve will fix that so it won't happen sche ain." A The error in the schedule occurred the the area beginning with the last senc pt of the classroom number and offii last letter in the days classes are thej Id. After the seven-character area sche c ctrinr>?*H flip infnrmotinn KoH fn ^ IUV 1111 V/I U1UL1VSII liau LU llltu put in by hand, Gunter said. advi 'We worked all night trying to put :m back in, and when you do that, " u're going to have a mistake. It's dep; fortunate," he said. "We had a rors ltract and deadlines. That's why sche 're trying to use this new system to S< all the workload down in a rush mer meet the deadline." psyc Hunter said students should always hav< jck the open section boards in the erro iseum during registration for isible changes in class schedules. thin 'By fall, there will probably be 20 ing inges in the schedule. We're con- effic ntly adding sections or changing that lues proposal; ins in 1990 ^p& ..jyH 4^ i i i i ir- |jg|^B| mes Holderman ology Committee to study the matof visitation at USC. Fair said at the meeting that he has en attacked by friend and foe alike r his stance. "That's okay," Fair d. "It's better than being wrong." "Those who yell loudest about ;islating morality are usually angry ?uuu. iuc niui amymax ib ucmg islated doesn't represent their n," Fair said. Board member Donald Bailey said )oll revealed that in every judicial trict in South Carolina the people :ommended following the policy t forward by the Ecology mmittee. Holderman agreed, adding that the ology Committee's recommendans reflect a move away from visitan freedom, not a move toward it. "I do not believe, and I do not nk the students believe this prosal is in the best interest of the See BOARD page 8 e Ecology Committee visitation >posal and an amendment were ised at the meetjng. 'We are concerned that by this ion the university is assuming t students will give up their conutional rights in exchange for privilege of attending the versity. The issue isn't over," p said. Jates added that students still 1 time to organize and work for inge before the policy finally es effect. lates talked to {hp students who mded the protest organized by rnalisra junior Amy Beckham. uld check ule errors s and times," he said. "As we ster students, there's a constant nge in the master schedule." >ne student said she hardly ever :ks the open section boards. "I e before," said advertising senior Satterfield. "But it was probably t my freshman year and letimes when they say a section's ed the guy in front might be pping the class anyway." iunter said the psychology departit seems to have the greatest >unt of errors, although the pron is spread throughout the :dule. ndy Ryan, business manager for psychology department and who Is information to the registrar's fp fnr thp macfpr crhfHnlp saiH f have produced a master ;dule of their own for the departit to help students who are being sed. We've posted signs around the artment saying that there are erand to please verify their :dules," he said. a far, Gunter said, the governit and international studies, rhology and biology departments : called to complain about the rs. There are like 10,000 lines in this g," Gunter said. "We keep tr^to improve it and make it more :ient and sometimes when you do you slip and trip."