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skits to show South Spring football drills come to close tion, you 're going to get it.'' ? Sparky I Carolina history. woods. head football coach ^"rp/ See Features, page 5 See sPorts? Pa8e 10 See "woods," page 10 The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Wednesday Volume 81, No. 85 University of South Carolina ' April 19, 1989 S.G. remo^ By JEFF WILSON Staff writer The student book exchange board put up by Student Government earlier this semester has been taken down by the new administration. The book exchange board was put up by the former S.G. President James Franklin's administration as a place for students to buy and sell books and give the requirements for future courses. The book exchange was to work this way: When a student had a book to sell, he or she would get a card from Student Government. The student would then put information about the book on the card. A TViot infr\rtnnti/^n n/UioK Ka irari f* 1 a/A V\\r Q G w l nai iniui iiiauuii, wmv*ii w uuiu uv vuiiivu \jy lj.vj., would include the book title, edition, course for which it was used, price paid for it and price for which it is being sold. Also included would be the student's name, address Officials still noi if Bush will be sp at spring gradua By ROBERT THOMAS be paid for the Staff writer Lamb of Univers: USC officials still have received no No deadline w word on whether President George respond to the in1 Bush will speak at this year's spring in early April, graduation, Ann Hill of University "It is possible t Relations said. pond until short! The invitation was extended in mencement," saic March to Bush by USC President assistant to the set James Holderman and the Board of of Trustees. "We I rustees. Word ot the invitation was very oest we can published at the first of the month. ment speaker." Tuesday, the White House scheduling office did not have any in- USA Today re formation on Bush speaking at the Bush had already ceremony. five college gradu "We do not show the president in Bush will spec South Carolina on that day," a May 12; Alcorn ! spokeswoman for the office said. and Mississippi St "However, I'm sure at this point if University May the president was coming there, there Guard Academy i would have been notification by 24. now." The USC cerei If Bush does speak at the com- for 9:30 a.m. N mer^ement ceremonies, he will not Coliseum. Poll Results: Fear of Crime . . 1988 ^ 1989 1. Do you think crime in your ...A. .. ^ area has increased in the past year? 5l.f% 'v 57.1% 2. Are you more concerned about your personal safety todav than you were five years ago? ^ | 71.2% 77.8% 3. Are you more concerned about the safety of your per- ?*??*** *** sonal property tcwlay>::than.:you:;x;::?-? were five years ago? 76.7% 179.2% 4. Do you think criminals are -- more violent today than tney were five years ago? 74.5% ' 82.1?7o "Results are for "yes" answers only. Administrator answers ques Students di By CAREN CAMPBELL betv Staff writer gues Students gathered together to discuss the visita- H tion policy and the Ecology Committee Report at The; an open forum Tuesday evening in the Russell pers House Theater. Pi The morality question was a recurring pers phenomenon addressed by students. The report J< and the administration did not choose to address disa the problem of immorality, said Dennis Pruitt, vice president of student affairs. man Instead, they chose to address the safety issue T1 and the task of providing the students with what Con they want and need in an academic environment, Part he said. pror Pruitt said visitation is not exploited by students, Ecol citing the fact that on a typical weekend, USC has Fair takes religi By the Associated Press "A policy tht State Rep. Mike Fair's religious spend the night, convictions run deep ? especially visits if you live when it comes to his stand against sex that reinforci outside of marriage. behavior," said The 42-year-old Fair ? a Green- fundamentalist w ville Republican and USC trustee ? curse, drink or si has been criticized for initiating a ban Students have on overnight, opposite-sex visits at the university's n the Columbia campus. The Board of to be phased in b Trustees' ban last week was a major "Students fee social change at the state's major treated like ac university. business junior ics book ex< and phone number. The information from the cards would be placed on a book exchange bulletin board that was located on the ursi noor or me rcussen nouse. S.G. President Marie-Louise Ramsdale said the board was taken down because Student Government cannot run a project such as the book exchange without it being thoroughly researched. "The book exchange is high on our agenda, but we are not going to run a program for the sake of running it," she said. "I don't think the program has been researched enough, and we do not want to start a program if it is not going to be feasible. When we put a program in place, we want it too stay in place," she said. Franklin disagreed. "Personally I think it is a mistake to discontinue the exchange. It could work, especially right around exam speech, Margaret ity Relations said, as set for Bush to a tat ion, Lamb said hat he may not resly before the com- ? *13 i Maxine Gehrman, :retary of the Board , are trying to do the v * s ~v?'m on our commence- *4A <* > . planned to speak at i atipns. I ik at Texas A&M * State in Mississippi ate May 13; Boston ~ """ 21 and the Coast n Connecticut May Spaced OUt mony is schedulet Civil engineering junior Kerry Pate lay 6 at Carolina Tuesday. Pate is the president of thi Poll shows stc By ERIC KENNETH WARD Staff writer Concern is growing rapidly among South Carolinians over the fear-producing trio of guns, drugs and violence, criminal justice professor Gene Stephens said. "It appears that citizens increasingly feel that the three are connected and that something must be done about this fear-producing trio," Stephens said. C. onl/l nlorm -.1,, J ? oicpiiciis jaiva l11v aiaiiii can pai ny ut am luuitu iu in-* creased national and local media coverage of drug-related crimes involving automatic and semi-automatic weapons. "Those kinds of things that are in the news heavily obviously have an impact on people's perceptions," he said. Stephens said the heightened concern was discovered in the 1989 South Carolina Fear of Crime Poll. The poll was conducted for the ninth consecutive year by the College of Criminal Justice. He said the poll results also showed that most South Carolinians think it is too easy to buy a gun in the state. Almost nine out of 10 respondents indicated that they tions scuss visitation /een 400 and 500 guests, which makes about 20 however, a its per residence hall. The new e said the nature of these guests is not known. the universi y could be same-sex guests or members of a Pruitt sa on's family, he said. will move < ruitt went op to stress the need for people to de- effect, onalize this issue. jurnalism sophomore Susan Gutierrez In additf greed. up for the d It you tight the ideology, then you tight the opposite-se i," she said. he consensus was that the original Ecology Pruitt sail imittee proposal, which was approved by the expected, a ;nts' Association, was acceptable. The com- with these nise between Rep. Mike Fair, R-Greenville, the residence h logy Committee and board members was not, buildings tc and more ci ous stance on foi tt says it's OK to "What is Fair going to tell them next , to have conjugal ? what time to go to bed?" in a certain dorm, Fair's religious convictions have :s irresponsible led him to sponsor proposals that Fair, a Christian would bar homosexuals from 'ho says he doesn't donating blood, allow home schoolnoke. ing for children, crack down on poradamantly opposed nography and restrict abortions, ew policy, which is But his best-known position is on beginning in 1990. sex outside marriage, which led to the 1 they should be USC crackdown, lults, not kids," Fair said sex between unmarried Don Lett said. people ? even if they are adults ? is change bulk time," Franklin said He said many people were beginning to use the board. "In the three weeks it was up, $50 to $75 dollars worth of books had been exchanged between students," Franklin said. "Who would the program be hurting? No one. Did we have to pay anybody to run it? No. Did Student Government have to go out of its way to operate the program? Did it cause us any grief and anguish? No," he said. Franklin said his administration has put out a 200-page report outlining the book exchange program and their other accomplishments and suggestions. Franklin added the board had only cost S.G. about $10 to put up and took little manpower to operate. Ramsdale said it would be costly to run the book exchange, and Student Government does not have enough money left in the budget to start a program like the book Jt#l, Jl M I 7! i $ works a table sponsored by the Students for the Exploration a e club that looks toward the future of space technology. itewide fear oi favor a two-week waiting period and background check before anyone can purchase a gun. Current South Carolina laws only require retail firearms dealers to have buyers fill out a form and register the gun. An individual can purchase a firearm every 30 days. Legislation to implement a two-week waiting period for gun purchases failed to pass the 1987 South Carolina General Assembly. About 52 percent of those polled said they thought stricter gun control laws would reduce violence, and twothirds believe drug dealers are arming themselves with guns, according to poll results released this week through University Relations at USC. A surprising 82.1 percent of the respondents indicated i that they think criminals are more violent today than they have been in the past. Stephens said this figure was an alltime high for that question. In surprising contrast to this figure, the results showed that only 42.7 percent said they keep a gun for protection at forum if pproved. proposal will have numerous effects on ity. id 300 students have already said they Dff campus if the proposal is put into on, fewer than 15 students have signed fiBi^ lormitories designated for no overnight, , m x visitation. d an increase in disciplinary problems is nd the administration hopes to deal problems by increasing the ratio of SOi all staff to students and modifying iQjg i make the monitoring of traffic easier omprehensive. rnication "M: unhealthy, immoral and illegal. "One of the lesser-used sections of the code of laws of South Carolina is against fornication," Fair said. The provision carries a $500 fine and a year in jail for sex outside marriage. "We don't need to use the JudeoChristian Bible to draw conclusions ahmit nrnnpr Pthiral hf?havir?r " caiH Fair, a member of the Faith Baptist Vice President of See FAIR page 2 the visitation policy tin board exchange by the end of the semester. "We have only been in office for six or seven weeks, and we cannot start a haphazard program without knowing how it is going to turn out. I want a book exchange just as much as everyone else, and we could have a program together in a couple of days, but if it is not going to work, it would be a dishonor to the students," she said. Franklin said a feasible book exchange is possible. He said Clemson and other universities have book exchange programs in place. Ramsdale said her administration has the entire summer and the beginning of the fall semester to research the book exchange and see if the program is feasible. If the program is feasible, it could be implemented by the end of next semester. "But I am not going to raise students' expectations about a program that may not work," she said. tgggBE^HUBn ? 2^^5*|b^MK^I ** g^HJji^^S fBhtiDiiii j/ I ^ jj| '"*Q??mK ^^^^^^RRRRRi: RB|SPf|5WR5p ^HS 4^ ^ ^-'" ~ JAMES NETTLES/The Gamecock ind Development of Space on the Russell House Patio ? guns, drugs ? an all-time low for that question? Three-fourths of the respondents said they would be willing to pay higher taxes to increase law enforcement efforts against illegal drugs. "This concern about drugs and guns may help explain why all categories in our fear of crime index Increased in 1989 over 1988 levels," Stephens said. More than two-to-one, respondents said they favor education and drug-prevention measures over law enforcement as a means of combating the ever-growing drug problem. More than nine out of 10 people indicated they favor the use of police dogs to sniff out drugs in schools and other public buildings. Stephens said the poll showed results similar to those reported in a Time magazine poll published in February. "Our random sample of 1,266 South Carolinians gave roughly the same answers as Time's national sample," he said. % ^ ' % 7 C | * ^ : J aw; Kg , - " t | , - ? . * V ' 1 sw*INwl c'lWt ll 4V Fs < i : i si %f! , TEDDY LEPP/The Gamecock Student Affairs Dennis Pruitt answers questions about issue Tuesday in the Russell House Theater.