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heavy metal concert 11 Hokies sweep twin bill with USC I They can make me either stare or | Jjff Tuesday at the coliseum. clean." ? Chuck Dean, columnist See Features, page 4 0 ^ _ See "Random," page 4 . See Sports, page 7 The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Monday Volume 81, No. 84 University of South Carolina April 17, 1989 * < ? Bi : A little spring cleaning Business ireshman 1 nomas Hamilton and political i Sigma Alpha Epsilon lounge Sunday. As the days gro\ an urge to tidy up. S.C. needs revenue, le Campus Rt By CAREN CAMPBELL Staff writer At least two USC groups agree a state lottery would be a good way to raise money for needed state programs and higher education. Shawn Dent, a government and international relations junior and president of the USC Young Democrats, said the state lottery is needed. "I think we should bring the money in and put it somewhere to better our state," Dent said, suggesting 4-V? V-W-* x~v ir\ y-\ * r rt /-VI11 /-I V-? rt 11 nrt/-] d , . nr. A 1. - .1 luc munc^ luuiu uc uacu luwaiu euucauuil, illgllwayb University, hos] at odds about fi By RON BAKER Staff writer creased medical cc A controversy between Richland the hospital. Memorial Hospital and the USC It was determir School of Medicine might mean the hospital was undergraduates will no longer be million in costs able to study at the hospital. were not being p The university has not paid all of USC President Je the $5.6 million it owes the hospital took details of the for costs supporting its study pro- the state Commis gram, Richland Memorial Public Education, which Relations Director Steve Burke Burke said, said. Floyd said the u Beginning in 1984, the hospital not be charged sucl began to bill the university for the v said the actual cost costs necessary to maintain the pro- year of the prog gram, Richland Memorial $5,000. spokesman Elliott Cooper said. The hospital is r The costs include supplies and $70,000 per studen personnel necessary to maintain $5.6 million figure the program, Burke said. students participai Burke said the university has only Floyd told the i paid the hospital about $651,000, Board of Trustee which leaves nearly $5 million discontinued its unpaid. Richland Memorial The hospital is demanding of Richland Counl tremendous and unjust sums for the The students prim services rendered by the hospital, treatment of those C. Edward Floyd, vice chairman of daily unable to j the USC Board of Trustees, said in care. Thursday's board meeting. But Cooper sai< Burke read a part of the contract poor received ad between USC and Richland care before the pr Memorial, which says that the 1974, and they w( university must bear the costs of receive that same the program so that there is no in- gram were to end. USC choir offe four scholarsk By KRIS TAYLOR the scholarships m Staff writer the class and then The Palmetto Mastersingers, fall. Winners will b USC's all-male choir, will begin of- on vocal ability, sig fering scholarships next fall to en- ty and willingness courage participation, the choir The scholarship wil director said. successful comp "We want to go ahead and let semester, students know about the scholar- "Students don't ship," director Larry Wyatt said. they can also recei\ "That way they can pre-register ticipating," Wyatt now for fall semester." receive one cr The choir will offer four scholar- semester. If stu< ships to interested male students three consecutive s wanting to participate in the group. qualify as fine arts The amount of the scholarships has lege of Humanities not been set, but the decision should The choir, listed be made in May. tion catalog as MUI Students who wish to apply for an active class sine ^ pr ill science sophomore Gary Daniels clean up outside the v longer and warmer, more people seem to be getting aders of organizations I I* TX puoucans, jji and other areas. E.J. Cousar, president of USC's College Republicans, agreed with Dent. Not all College Republicans are for the lottery, he said, but most are. "I feel that people are going to spend money anyway. And the churches ? they have the bingo games, and bingo is gambling in a sense, anyway," Cousar said. From a political standpoint, Cousar does not think the lottery should divide Republicans and Democrats. "I don't see it being a party issue," said Cousar, who cited the closeness of a vote passing a state lottery pital )st to patients of |.|9 led in 1987 that incurring $5.6 annually, which aid, Burke said. Holderman new to on to \ a large sum. He ; per student per I 'ram is around Burke the the mMWKtm ? program at ^ijfflir , the poor people ;y would suffer, m , arily help in the ' # v J )ay for medical IWWW^ / i Thursday the equate medical ogram began in / >uld continue to wEm care if the pro? ; . : /' v: . . ?.-: . * :: ' 1T) ^ Shootin9 hoops viv Business rreshman Greg Le Due the ball over honors freshman Mai . , . ball with their friends in front of 1 tust register tor I audition in early e selected based ^ ^it-reading abili- wr^ /"k I "1 IF ; to participate. JL VfJLl V V C4/ L II be awarded on JL letion of the tsy Kl^tl W ALfHiiMJA realize it, but Staff writer re credit for par- University Police responded to a cal said. Members pointing a firearm on Senate Street sdit hour per Wednesday. dents complete \ female staff member called police ;emesters, it will jng a man pointing a firearm at 5:45 p.] credit in the Col- of 150o Senate St. , Wyatt said. According to police reports, the man ^in the registra- viewed by University Police officers, sC 128, has been transported him to the Richland e 1981. Hospital Emergency Room for p Offices mig] Gambrell H By ERIC KENNETH WARD ' < Staff writer < The canteen in Gambrell Hall may be converted to office space by next fall, according to a notice posted in the canteen. ] The notice says one history and three GINT offices < will replace the canteen. Vending machines will be moved to the ground floor of Gambrell Hall, but an alternate site for the tables is 1 not planned, the notice said. Humanities and Social Sciences Dean Carol Kay said i she expects final authorization of the change by next week. . She said she is 95 percent sure the change will be approved. ; But David Rinker, system vice president of Facilities ) Planning, said a decision will not be made until late in the summer. < He said a request for the conversion was made by the \ College of Humanities and Social Sciences as part of a < package of needs for next year. "But we will not do anything on that for some time," i he said. < But many students are opposed to seeing the canteen converted to offices. ] Chris Smith, an East Asian studies senior, said he < say emocrats cigr< resolution at the College Republican State Convention 1 this past week. "It could've gone either way," he added. ? The groups' opinions on the lottery issue are not 1 shared by the S.C. Baptist Convention. s "We feel that the lottery is not a good idea," said E. C. Watson, executive assistant in the S.C. Baptist t Convention and member of Concerned Citizens Against t Legalized Gambling. More than 100 years ago, a lot of states had lotteries, Watson said. He said there were problems with them I By D. R. HAYNES Staff writer Students should b( pie hanging around Hmagazine subscrip PPS^H they might be after ' ?f orders, police say ^ Dix jvent to the te withdraw $50 for tw i-ocirlorino Vtoll tA JAMES NETTLES/Th< ' *<; " i^ about^his alii unce W Alpha and the fact stay in a hotel becaus goes for the long shot, throwing r00m on campus, sh< tt Jochim. The two were playing Dix said she then ? the Chi Psi lounge Sunday. -were going to a hote >prehend gunevaluation. The suspect was then transported the b.U. btate Hospital and admitted t< 1 of a man treatment. this past Two false fire alarms were reported to Unive sity Police this week, after see- A fire alarm in Douglas was activated at 10:S n. in front p.m. Thursday. University Police responded ar found that no pull stations or smoke detecto was inter- had been activated. The system was then res< who then with no problems. Memorial The third floor pullbox in Bates House was a isychiatric tivated by an unknown person at 1:54 a.m. Satu tit replace all canteen started a petition Wednesday to prevent the conversion. Smith said he had more than 100 signatures and was working to get more. "Such a move by the university definitely shows a lack of common sense. After all, where are students supposed to go when it rains?" he said. "What's more important ? four university officials who want a big desk, or a large segment of the student oody who want to stay dry?" he said. Smith said he did not know about the plans to convert the canteen into offices. "First with the visitation policy and now this, students' rights are being ignored," he said. Rinker said the need for students to use the canteen as a place to study, eat and escape bad weather must be aalanced with university needs. Referring to USC's need for more space, he said a committee will review the request to convert the canteen and try to solve the problem in a way that benefits sveryone. Although the project is in the budget plan for next /ear, Rinker said he does not know how much it will :ost. F. A. Hilenski, assistant dean for grants and development in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, said he was also unaware of the planned change. ee on lottery ;hen, and those problems have not changed. The lottery is not a dependable way to raise revenue, ind it's not appropriate for the state to raise revenue at ;he expense of people who can afford it the least, Watson said. "One of the main problems," Watson said, "is that ;hey encourage people to build a life .expectancy on get;ing rich quick off the lottery rather than the necessity See LOTTERY page 2 izine fraud non at USC said he wanted to iron his shirt. While at the hotel the salesman i aware of peo- tried to convince Dix to leave her campus selling purse, she said, tions because At that time Dix left the hotel, money instead returned to campus and called the police after repeated phone calls lent involving rrom tne salesman, ine man was and tourism not caught, Dix said, c, a young man Since then, there have been e salesman ap- reports of other people posing as Russell House. salespersons and taking people to d be interested their teller machines. k said. Then he Anyone approached on campus by aid. such people are subjected to being ller machine to hit by con, artists, Baker said. Such o subscriptions solicitation is against USC policy, and Shape he said, e process of If students have questions or conids the uniden- cerns about solicitation, they should ned her access call the police department in order to avoid con artists, Baker "Said, d to take me to Magazine fraud incidents are fairreally think he ly routine, said Jerry Brewer, dean then he did," of Student Life. Along with ; out the fake magazines, sales of stationery and lad Dix's phone sportswear are the most common , she said. types of fraud, Brewer said, ved up at Dix's "It is quite frequent that we hear :k her up, she complaints from students and stuminutes early, dent organizations about those jet signed in three areas of people selling and lave any iden- never getting what they bought," le then wanted Brewer said. relused to have in order to combat the traud ring, )om. a thorough solicitation policy has into a cab, the been provided to all residence halls, ed the driver to Brewer said. Teaching students to 1, Dix said. On be good consumers and use comudulent stories mon sense is difficult to do, Brewer ith Tau Kappa said. that he had to College students tend to be ?e there was no trusting and are inclined to look for 2 said. ?-????????? isked why they si, and the man See FRAUD page 2 toting man to day. University Police responded and found no 3r evidence of smoke or fire. University Police responded to a suicide threat r- in Douglas at 6:10 p.m. Friday. A female student called police after a male friend of hers had IS threatened to take his life if she did not talk to id him. rs University Police responded to the eighth floor et of Bates West at 6:05 a.m. Friday to a call about cr\ See CRIME page 2