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The Gamecock
Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Friday
Volume 81, No. 86 University of South Carolina April 21, 1989
Forme
By KEVIN ADAMS
Sports editor
Three former USC assistant foot
ball coaches were indicted Wednes
day in federal court for allegedly set
ting up a program to provide illega
steroids to Gamecock players from
1984 to 1986.
Former defensive coordinatoi
Tom Gadd, former tight end coach
Tom Kurucz and former defensive
line coach Jim Washburn were all
charged with "conspiring to conduct
a program of illegal steroid use by
members of the athletic community.
. . particularly by members of the
university's football team."
Former USC strength coach Keith
Kephart, who was with the
Gamecock program from 1982 to
1988, was also indicted and charged
with illegally obtaining and dispensing
steroids during the same period.
Gadd and Kurucz both coached at
USC from 1983 to 1986, while
Washburn coached from 1983 until
this past January, when he accepted a
similar position at Purdue
University.
The three were charged with bringing
steroids into South Carolina,
dispensing them without prescrip
Police at
demonsti
at AIDS
By The Associated Press
At least 40 demonstrators were i
ficers wearing rubber gloves Thurs
blocked traffic in front of the State!
protest South Carolina's treatment
The protesters, yelling "Keep you
were picked up by police officers an
to a waiting bus. They were then dri
National Guard Armory and charg
police officer directing traffic, s;
spokesman for the State Law Enfoi
The charge carries a $100 fine and
About 80 protesters gathered at th
10 a.m. carrying placards such as "S
and chanting, "The racist, fascist
bigots, go away."
After about an hour, the dem<
groups of about 25 to a street by the
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lilt iuhu uiilil llicjr WCIC pitKCU up m
officers.
The protest was organized by thi
Unleash Power, a national group ki
protest the treatment received by All
Carolina.
The demonstrators said they
anonymous AIDS test sites; an end
and quarantine of inmates infectei
human immunodeficiency virus; and
that allows public schools to expel ii
"South Carolina has the most re
books in the nation for quaran
AIDS. ... It drives people deeper u
closets," said protester Mike Smith
"This state has been criminalizin]
s,
Event st}'
By TINA FERRO
Staff writer
Student Government President M
Louise Ramsdale led about 50 students
tour of the campus Tuesday night poir
out where lighting problems have been
rected and where they still exist.
The Women Students' Association s]
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Violence" as part of Sexual Aware
Week.
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By KELLY C. THOMAS
Assistant news editor
Jaime Escalante, a nationally recogn
Angeles math teacher, has accepted ai
tion to speak at USC's undergradua
jjjgflccincnt exercises.
Escalante has received national accl
his success in motivating underpr
Hispanic students to excel. He was the
of the recent critically acclaimed movit
and Deliver.
Mary Lowe Good, chairman of the 1
Science Board and senior vice-presii
technology for Allied-Signal Inc., will
commencement address for the g
students' ceremonies.
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Jim Washburn ]
tions and providing funds for the ?
purchase of steroids. In addition, <
Kurucz was charged with one felony
count of lying to the grand'jury. The
other charges are misdemeanors. i
If convicted on all counts, Gadd i
and Washburn face a maximum *
sentence of four years in prison and a
$301,000 fine. Kurucz faces a max- j
imum penalty of eight years in prison <
and a $550,000 fine, while Kephart 1
could receive a five-year sentence and t
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arrested by police ofday
after they briefly ^3
louse during a rally to 1
of AIDS victims.
r laws off my body,"
id taken on stretchers |Bfl
ven to the S.C. Army HjHj
ed with disobeying a
aid Hugh Munn, a ^Bgjjj|k
cement Division. jH
1 30-day jail sentence.
e Statehouse at about
ilence Equals Death"
t, anti-gay Southern 1
anstrators moved in
Statehouse and lay in
;conds later by police
e AIDS Coalition to jflJP^ ,
aown as ACTUP, to
3S sufferers in South
were demanding WM
to the forced tpstino
d with the HIV, or
a change in state law
nfected students,
pressive laws on the
itining people with
nderground and into
of Atlanta,
g this infection, and
A demonstrator is s
?e AIDS page 2 aids policy.
esses safe
Coles Badger of Rape Crisis Netwoi
dressed about 50 students who attend*
arie- Lightways program on the second flc
on a Russell House.
iting Badger spoke about rape and the
cor- Crisis Center services, urging studer
volunteer at Rape Crisis to educate p
pon- about the problem,
linst She said the Lightways Walk would
ness bolize the fears women have and shov
women have to go hand-m-hand togetl
mmencei
"We believe in our s
ized Los faith in his high schoo
i invitate
comlaim
for Good has published more than
iveleged technical journals, as well as num<
; subject tions on science policy and rese;
Stand ment strategy.
She was named Scientist of th<
National dustrial Research and Developmer
dent of 1982.
give the
;raduate High school math teachers thi
state have been invited to the gra
is indie
ieith Kephart
i $302,000 fine if found guilty of all
:harges.
The indictment also charged that
'Kephart and others would adninister
the steroids to each other to
mprove athletic performance and to
rnhance physical appearance."
Besides the four coaches, the grand
ury also indicted John Landon
barter of Bethesda, Md., with a
"elony count of distributing steroids
o four former USC football players,
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irrested Thursday at a protest of Soi
walkways
k ad- walk across campus.
;d the Students, by coming t
tor of asked USC to respond t<
safety, she said.
Rape Lightways' purpose
its to awareness about the fea
eople campus, to look at the n<
better lighting on campus
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itudents and their future ju
>1 students."
USC Preside
100 articles in cises to hear Esc
:rous publica- seniors may invite
arch manage- teachers whom they
on their lives.
; Year by In\t
magazine in "We believe in oi
just as Escalante h
students. The powei
roughout the is evident in how it
duation exer- Holderman said.
ted on
including Tommy Chaikin, a defensive
lineman for the Gamecocks from
1983 to 1987.
It was Chaikin's Oct. 24 article in
Sports Illustrated magazine that prompted
the grand jury's investigation
into steroid use in the USC football
program. In the article, Chaikin told
the story of his own four-year battle
with steroids and alleged widespread
drug use by other Gamecock football
players.
Arraignment for those indicted
will be at 10 a.m. on May 4 at the
federal courthouse in Columbia.
No USC athletes will be indicted,
said U.S. Attorney Vinton Lide, who
conducted the investigation with help
from the State Law Enforcement
Division, the S.C. Department of
Health and Environmental Control,
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
and the U.S. Department of
Justice.
"It had been my intention, and remains
my intention, to treat studentathletes
as victims," Lide said. "I
have not charged and have no intention
of charging any student athletes
See STEROIDS page 2
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By KRIS TAYLO
ody lepp/The Gamecock Senate reporter
.th Carolina's The Studem
recommending a 3
meeting Wednesd;
The resolution
Senate could si
prepared by the
J Senators also reo
f Government Presi
in support of the i
"There are tim
ogether to walk, at the pos
a the problem of ?rsI appear.? 10
Ramsdale said in
was to raise "enefi's ?f an a<
rs of women on outwetgh the costs
ted for more and . e.n" J"1!1
, to point out the resolution on behs
also stressed the in
"For the past (
tTTM/~, ~ organizations have
1T1NG page 3 amount of money
eakers <
st as Escalante has
students
-j. t rr f i and fh<?i
mi james noiaerman '
Both
honorar;
:alante speak. Graduating They >
high school or university to be pr(
r feel have made an impact USC (
degrees
1,033 gn
ar students and their future 216 law (
as faith in his high school Comm
r of the teaching profession begin at1
can change people's lives," Graduat*
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Reactioi
of sterol
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Sports editor
Former USC football playe
my Chaikin says he has no
about co-writing a Sports IUu
article that led to an investiga
steroid abuse in the Gai
program.
Former USC assistant c
Tom Gadd, Tom Kurucz at
Washburn, plus former s\
coach Keith Kephart were ii
Wednesday on various charges
taining and dispensing sterc
USC players. All face heav;
and jail sentences if convicted
In the Oct. 24 article, C
who was granted irnraun
January for testifying befo
federal grand jury, men
Kephart and Washburn as
aware of steroid abuse by
players.
ices inv<
f.
cumj' it
lR and MARY PEARSON t
o
pter of Omega Psi Phi is being
both its district and national ii
: of a reported incident of f
C
Phi District Representative p
;y in Charlotte, N.C., said
raternity's activities have been e
the end of the semester. si
it is verified, criminal charges
against the USC fraternity, a
latter was reported by Melody tl
:udent Life in March, and the v<
gan immediately. n
.1 fraternity does not condone o
;rate hazing," Sweeney said. n;
said that, as he understands it, di
incidents of hazing by other
being looked into by the USC th
irs released an updated state- in
stating one of two hazing in- ti<
ivestigated has been discon- ti<
lent Sent
fee increi
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tivi
Senate passed a resolution ere
>10 activity fee increase at its get
ly afternoon. tioi
was tabled last week so the (
tudy information packets adc
Senate Finance Committee,
eived a letter from Student are
dent Marie-Louise Ramsdale
resolution. altf
les when you have to look crei
itive impact of what may at
be negative legislation," tee
the letter. "I feel that the res<
ctivity fee increase will far nev
gra
Shah, who proposed the mo
ilf of the finance committee, pay
nportance of the resolution. f
eight years, various student ~"
: been working on the same
they were working with in
chosen
gooa 10 Know tnat tnere are people
e who are willing to give so that t
can build better futures for themse
r communities," Holderman said.
Escalante and Wood will be awar
y doctor of science degrees,
vill receive two among six such awt
;sented this semester.
:xpects to award 1,744 undergradi
at the Columbia campus, as well
iduate degrees, 59 medical degrees;
degrees.
lencement for undergraduates 1
9:30 a.m. May 6 in Carolina Colisei
; commencement will be at 3 p.m. N
:oliseum.
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"1 don't feel any elation," Chaikin
said in a telephone interview with the
r Tom- Associated Press from his Bethesda,
regrets Md., home. "1 Just wanted to show
strafed that there was a problem and that 1
tion of was involved, and the coaches, like
necock the players, were caught up in the
situation. And turning their backs on
oaches it was not the answer."
id Jim Reactions by those involved in the
trength indictments were mixed,
tdicted
, of ob- "At this time, I don't know any
ids to specifics of the charges," Gadd said
i lines in a released statement. "My No. I
concern at this time is clearing my
haikin, name." Gadd, now an assistant at
ity in the University of Utah, said he was
re the never contacted by authorities contioned
cerning the investigation,
being
USC The Associated Press contributed
to this story.
?stigating
or hazing
inued because of lack of evidence, but the
ther incident is still being considered.
The incidents were reported to USC officials
i late March, according to earlier Student Afairs
reports. Hazing is illegal under South
Carolina state law and is against university
olicy.
Dean of Student Life Jerry Brewer confirmd
that Omega Psi Phi is the fraternity that is
till being investigated.
The Division of Student Affairs has released
statement.
"University offices are working closely with
le national officials to determine who is inolved
and to what extent. The university will
ot put additional pressure on the national
rganization during the review process by
aming the organization or involved students
uring the exam period," the statement said.
Brewer said since the district office released
te information, he would confirm it.
"We are supporting Omega Psi Phi in their
vestigation. We will not take any further ac3ns
until Omega completes their investiga3n,"
Brewer said.
ite votes
ase of $10
11, while programming costs for various acties
which students participate in have inased
significantly," Shah said. "If we don't
the increase, I don't know how organizais
are going to survive."
)pposition to the resolution dealt with the
led burden to undergraduate students.
Sen. Frank Timmons said undergraduates
usually faced with the brunt of expenses.
'I think we should look into some other
:rnatives besides an across-the-board inase
for undergraduates," Timmons said.
Sen. Alton Hyatt, former finance commitchairman,
proposed an amendment to the
alution calling for a $6 increase as well as a
v fee of "$15 per semester for all students,
duate and undergraduate, taking nine or
re hours who presently have the option to
the university tee."
lyatt said his amendment would cause the
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