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Weekend weather Summer Repertory season opens tonight see page 3 Partly cloudy through the period with scattered showers and thunderstorms. TOWWIM Highs near 90 Thursday, cooling to low 80s by Saturday. Lows around 70 Thursday'cooling t0 60s by Sat"rday. Columbia Mets suffer loss to Rainbows page 5 The Gamecock Founded 1908 llighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Wednesday Volume 81, No. 88 University of South Carolina June 14, 1989 T rustees on tuition By RON BAKER News editor The USC Board of Trustees will vote Thursday on a proposed 9.87 percent tuition increase for S.C. residents who attend the Columbia campus. At the June 8 meeting of the board's Executive Committee, a proposal was approved which will increase in-state tuition annually by $220 and out-of-state tuition by $700 or 14.4 percent. Most state-supported colleges, with the exception of the College of Charleston, expect to see an increase in tuition, ranging from nominal increases to USC's own proposal, the highest in the state. Pete Denton, USC's treasurer and executive vice president of business and finance, said there were several reasons for USC's tuition increase. "State appropriations increased by only 1.9 percent, in spite of a five percent enrollment growth, so state funding clearly was with a shortfall," Denton said. Denton cited three basic needs for the money which cannot be met on the state funds as they came through. "The overriding and primary need was for an eight percent faculty salary adjustment," Denton said. He said the salary needs an increase "in the range of $2 million." Restoration of previous academic cuts and the need for "instructional computing devices" are two impor tarit needs which cannot be met with present funding levels, according to Denton. Restoring prior cuts would cost $1.7 million, said Denton, and the computers would cost about $900,000. Denton said the state's funding for University By MARY PEARSON Editor in chief USC agreed Friday in an out-of-co publish the results of all drug tests i athletes. The action settled a lawsuit broug newspaper in March 1988 to gain access records. The State brought suit because it want information on laboratory test records, Robert Hitt said. "Our role in this case was to examir university's drug testing program and to working or not," Hitt said. Hitt added that during the past 14 m and the USC Athletic Department hai several occasions to reaching an agreem Pro-choice i to organize < By CAREN CAMPBELL Features editor The Supreme Court's decision to revi( dous amount of unrest across the natio English sophomore Heather Beggy ph movement at USC to help ensure the re A preliminary organizational meeting Russell House Room 306., The meeting will deal with membershi] discussion of future plans for action. Beggy said it is important to start a g summer the Supreme Court will have ru opportunity for Roe v. Wade to be ove Beggy said she would like men to joii Although the exact focus of the grouf the movement will first focus on distril speakers. Although South Carolina isn't consid said that is precisely the reason she v Columbia. It s so much more important here somewhere else where there's already a who attended the Women's Equality Ma year. Beggy also said she spoke to some ar endeavor. They expressed support for h dent participation in many of their progi the Night" march, a march and candlel from the hazards of illegal abortions. One of the main goals for the group \ qui which stalled in tne senate Beggy said the Florida Supreme Court for the notarized approval of both pa before a minor has an abortion, was ur Other aspects of the bill, Beggy said, woman s character, maturity und other while making no mention of the father. In the states that have enacted this bill but the number of abortions in surroun Beggy said this only makes women w and later, second-trimester abortions ar to vote i increase the university does not meet the full amount prescribed by the formula used to calculate the needs of the university. The funding only reached 92.6 percent of full-formula funding, but Denton warned that this figure is not adequately adjusted. The actual amount funded to the university fell short of this because of a 4.7 percent "vacancy lag" cut, instead of the 2.5 percent lag of the past, which assumes there will be a vacancy rate of paid faculty and staff positions of almost 5 percent. Denton said this cut took away $1.8 million from the Columbia campus. He said this fact makes the adjusted total funding only about 91 percent of what the state should give the university under the full-formula scenario. Denton also said the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education considered re-working the formula by which the state funds public colleges in early June, but positive action has not been taken yet. Denton said he expects the Commission to revisit that issue later. Denton also conceded that moves by the university to reduce the growth rate of new admissions, which would make the university more exclusive and function to increase the prestige of the university, would have some effect in increasing tuition costs. Other colleges are also experiencing tuition hikes. Clemson University will also have a large increase, with tuition fees going up 6.5 percent for resident students and 8.5 percent for nonresident students. to annour tions stalled bee; department, urt settlement to "The bottom lii nvolving student that we asked for 1 our position," Hit ht by The State University offici; to student testing use legal counsel "Our greatest c< ;ed more accurate tiality of the indivi Managing Editor said another main tests results would ie the cost of the According to the i determine if it is athlete drug test res semester. lonths, The State Another part of d come close on test results betweer lent, but negotia- USC also agreed novement hi campus ;w Roe v. Wade has caused a tremenn and on this campus, ins to begin a "Students for Choice" productive rights of all women, will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in p and establishing a charter, as well as roup soon, because by the end of the led on a case which could provide an rturned. a the group as well as women. J is still up for discussion, Beggy said puting information and having guest ered a strong pro-choice state, Beggy vould like to start a group here in to be doing something than to be lot of things going on," said Beggy, rch in Washington, D.C., earlier this ea women's organizations about her er efforts because of the lack of sturams, such as the annual "Take Back light vigil for those women who died vill be to concentrate on the Parental last session. ruled that a similar bill, which called rents or a court-appointed guardian tconstitutional. include the court's discussion of the options for the unwanted pregnancy, , abortions have declined, Beggy said, ding states increased. 'ait longer before they get abortions, e more dangerous. . .. ' : Les Atverson/The Gamecock Look out below. . . Tim Faust attaches scaffolding to a building in the McBryde Fraternity Quad. Sandblasting and other work is being done as part of a $124,600 renovations project. ice results of studen ause of personnel changes in the the drug testing program and to h verified by the Indiana University 1; te, though, is that we got everything The State also compromised by d 4 months ago. We did not compromise gain access to individual laboratoi t said. refused to release the records becau als are also happy with the agreement, wanted to protect the privacy of sti Paul Ward said. ancern has always been the confiden- Hitt said The State had originally dual student athletes," Ward said. He to be published every week, but US( issue was agreement on the way the afraid that the confidentiality of th be reported. endangered. ' agreement, USC will publish student "Those are the only real changes t ults through the end of the 1991 spring said. The newspaper first attempted t the agreement includes disclosing the records after former football play t March 1, 1988, and May 1, 1989. charged with possession of marijuai 1 to disclose the costs associated with The controversy over USC's d * i > ' v * "" m A \ l|js gpgii W ^ .V ?s X - f - ] >^l^(B|Map' ^^hhhb^kk^ Planning ahead has advantages Media arts junior Aimee Seigler and art history graduate student Chri; Bookstore. For $10, students can insure that they get the books they ne< Foundatk privy to I rrom wire ana staft reports The Carolina Research and 1 Development Foundation is subject ^ to public scrutiny of records and meetings, a court decided Tuesday. The foundation, which has receiv- m ed public money for the building of n( the Swearingen Engineering Center and the Roger Center for the Arts, is accountable to the public, according m to Circuit Judge Carol Connor's S1 decision. n< ' The decision ended what is perhaps rL the first leg of a court battle which began when The Associated Press c and The Greenville News asked June ' 5 to have its records opened under j* the Freedom of Information Act. In asking for the summary judg- SL ment, the AP and The News argued that since the foundation received N public funds, it is therefore con- e> sidered a public body under the FOl sii act. Judge Connor agreed. "The m Freedom of Information Act defines is a public body as an organization sup- re ported in whole, or in part, by public fc funds or expending public funds and fc requires disclosure to the public of the activities of such a body," she S< said. cc "The Carolina Research and si Development Foundation has placed cc itself in that category by accepting th and expending public money," Con- ol nor said. re The foundation maintained that it m , is a separate entity from the universi- m ty, and that all money received by the bi foundation should be considered b< gifts. pi But Connor held that the foundation received and spent almost $20 si _ million, including a $16.3 million f< t-athlete dru lave the test findings began with Bethea's < aboratory. dent James Holderma ropping its request to force to study the issi y records. USC had After the task for se the administration testing was nonexisten ident athletes. quate, Holderman am Director Bob Marcun asked for test results : administrators were when Dick Bestwic le program would be he established a revise program randomly s hat we agreed to," he uSC's 350 student atl According to result; o gain access to test ween March 1, 1988, er Ryan Bethea was positive tests occurred rta in February 1988. juana, two for steroid: rug testing program for alcohol. V ' "MH " ?m* 11 BPHro :- v W- 'v %i fl*&?Nr ' ^ HH| . j SsatPSgjE ^ss?*^ *.'i? ^ l? ~ lr i I'Jfa yilL -- ^ ' v*1' " ' >... *' . ; ' :" " > Wilson take book reservations for the Univer: ?d for their courses in the fall semester. >n ruled rOI act deral grant to build the Swearingen jilding. Tuesday's decision will not open le foundation's records immediate. A formal order from the court ust first be issued, and it is expected ;xt week. Hoover Blanton, the attorney for le Carolina Research and Developent Foundation, said that no decion has yet been made on whether or 3t the foundation will appeal the ding. Blanton said he will confer with his ient, and they will make a joint ;cision on the possibility of an ap;al. The motion for aji appeal must ; made within 10 days of the islance of the formal order, he said. According to the AP and The ews, the foundation has received in ;cess of $28 million in public money nee 1984. In what might be a related developent, the Legislative Audit Council in the process of completing a port on USC's relationship with its mndations. It has been in the works >r more than a year. eouncil Director ueorge :hroeder said Monday the LAC's )unsel had advised that the report lould enter the "final exit procures," which include acquiring le final comments from university fficials on the contents of the :port. Schroeder and the university adlinistration have declined to comlent on the report, as they are foridden by law to discuss the report sfore it has been completed and ublished. Schroeder said the finished report tould be available around the )urth of July. g tests irrest. Because of the arrest, Presiin appointed an administrative task je. ce released findings that random t and testing for steroids was inadelounced his decision to fire Athletic 1. k became the new athletic director, d drug testing program. The revised elects by computer one-tenth of iletes and trainers for testing. ; released Friday for the period betflflH \/l?l\/ 1 I Q8Q pnnfirmorl : three for cocaine, three for mari>, two for prescription drugs and 28 ? fl Les Alverson/The Gamecock sity