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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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