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^ eekend weather Cosby star plays in Shakespeare production at Koger see page 3 WW\f There is a 60 percent chance of thunder 9kd^3 showers during the afternoons Wednesday through Saturday. Rain could be |fflv(flocally heavy. Highs will be in the mid to high 80s and lows will be in the high 60s to . Oklahoma football COach resigns See page 5 The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Wednesday Volume 81, No. 89 University of South Carolina June 21, 1989 Trustee By DEBORAH RYAN Staff writer The USC Board of Trustees voted Thursday to increase tuition at the Columbia campus beginning this fall. Residents will pay $110 more per semester and non-residents will pay $350 more. Last year, residents paia $1,114 tuition per semester and nonresidents paid $2,424. Trustees also voted to raise student activity fees by $10. Students paid $25 in activity fees last year. President James Holderman and Executive Vice President of Business and Finance Pete Denton stated three main reasons for the increase: Faculty salary increases of 8 percent are needed, totaling $2.1 million. The university needs to recovei funds from past academic cuts to bring departments back to the level ol operation in 1986, and a portion ol the increase will go to computer ac quisition and upkeep. Restoring the cuts will cos $1,675,000 and the computers wil cost $986,000. Other academii priorities will cost $819,000. The Columbia campus state ap propriations increased by only 1.' percent despite a growing enroll ment, giving the university about 9 percent of full-formula funding afte budget adjustments. Holderman said the Commissioi on Higher Education needs to adjus General. may com on sales From wire and staff reports Signs of compromise are becomin evident in the ongoing battle in th S.C. General Assembly over the Iocs option sales tax. The object of the controversy is proposal to allow local government to impose a sales tax of 1 percent i their counties to lower property taxe and generate new revenue, depender on November referenda in individut counties. The essential debate is over th percentage of the money generate by the tax which would be used t roll back property taxes. The Hous version of the bill called for 50 pei cent of the tax money tp be used fc this purpose, but the Senate versio insisted on a 75 percent rate. Members of the House indicate thw would compromise and sunno a version which allows for 65 percei to be used for a rollback. House and Senate conferees finall reached a compromise late Tuesda morning. Under this new plan, 6 percent of the revenue generate Guest speakers u Chines* C hi nose students Anne-Marie Jepsl es pass the formula. The funding formula favors an increase in undergraduate u/Hil?> incnffiri<*ntlv fun C1I1 UIHIH.IU TTIIIIV liuuilivivin.; ding graduate programs as the university becomes more graduateoriented, Holderman said. The Fall 1989 freshman class is about 2,800, but the university hopes to secure a total of 3,000 by September. The enrollment increase will generate income which will be the basis for next year's funding. "The way the formula is structured, we will be eating ourselves alive if the freshman class is not expanded," Holderman said. I As the board approved the increase, Student Body President Marie-Louise Ramsdale expressed how helpless students were and asked that each member of the university f family make it their personal priority f to see that USC achieves full-formula funding. "1 challenge everyone in this room t now to work over the next year to 1 alert the people of this state to the : fact that higher education must become a priority and must receive priority funding," Ramsdale said. J Out-of-state costs will eventually increase again to keep up with rising 1 tuition at Clemson University, r Holderman said. The increase will make USC the n third most expensive public universit ty in the Southeast, just below Assembly ipromise tax issue would have to be used to decrease g property taxes. e This amount would increase to 71 il percent in five years. The compromise also eliminated a the Senate bill's exemption for s grocery purchases, which was not a n feature of the House version, s The plan requires a two-thirds mait jority in both chambers to pass, and il legislators who support the compromise are expecting difficulty in ate taining the 31 votes needed in the d Senate. o Sen. John Land, D?Clarendon, ,e has indicated that up to one-third of r- the 46 senators will oppose the bill >r under any circumstances, n Land fully supported the Senate's d plan, which he said would have given rt about $80 million in relief to it homeowners, while the House version credits only about $24 million. County government represeny tatives were at the state house Tuesy day, hoping the legislature would 3 pass a bill which would give them as d much leeway as possible. irge all to join in pr< ; students r? 1 i 11 i LTI HP', M ^ Jk* jBjTw B|||f ^IfR/ j^Br ^ Mpmum*- '^|C mi [in, | te|?!i en and Tans .lie discuss recent events in C tuition, activit M 1 * . -v $ '.w>. < vvJK s gggjgffi.. ^MBaM m m/ v;, fj 1#^ i ' :^k? ml |L^ - 9 ^KHt J?|||r?"9 M. . ^^n flfr * ipi "^pj Trustee Herbert Adams and USC President James Holderman confer Virginia Polytechnical Institute and since 1981, and, although no < the University of Virginia. likes fee increases, this one \ Ramsdale said she was happy with definitely needed. Every major < the increase in activity fees and that dent organization endorsed the Student Government endorsed the crease," she said, increase. Because the activity fee incre "This is a question of balance. We was approved, Ramsdale said she haven't had a activity fee increase work with Dean of Student Life Jt %.,r: fpt. <** Wm* $y% wBK l.es Alverson/The Game The limbs of (his free on The Horseshoe were damaged in the storm Frit and the tree will be cut down. otest of massacre hold 2 days of r By ft Kdili \ i "u viol HMnHHHi mci Vara Gurry The Gamecock of i hina at a demonstration Tuesda>. \ y fee inc tan S I m I K WfflxtSfm ~>?tWEi: fpi H nv : <JH ^K ^.J&- v -M at Thursday's board of trustees meeting. )ne Brewer to ensure that the Russell ? vas House user fee is eliminated for stu- c tu- dent organizations. t( in- The Russell House began charging student organizations and university d ase departments for use of the student ri A'ill union space May 8. The organiza- s rry tions were charged a fee, depending s; ' Storm bla many lose By LES ALVERSON c Photo editor si I High winds and heavy rains Friday I' I damaged many areas in Columbia and left 90,000 people without S1 As of Tuesday, 7,500 people were e still without power and 1,200 without s phone service. An additional 1,500 people lost power in Monday's P storm. Only thei campus power has ^ continued uninterrupted since Friday's storm. d Several trees were knocked down ^ and branches scattered on the ^ Horseshoe. n "Many trees were split down the t middle and we're unable to save them," said Clyde Dyson, USC manager of grounds. Also, part of a ( tree fell on the Disabled Student Ser- t vices building, but the structure was c not damaged. 1 . Dyson said that if good weather < continues, groundskeepers should have the debris cleared in two to I three days. The total amount for < damages caused by the storm was not I available at press time. : Cablevision of Columbia reported lay, that they lost power for almost 20 i hours because of the storm. Work < allies to rai; 1ARY PEARSON Chan >r in chief leadei ore than 100 USC Chinese students, youth munity members and professors turned said, luring two days of rallies on the Russell Bic se patio Monday and Tuesday. the si le rallies were held by The Committee remet olidarity With Student Protestors in not t ing to raise money for the Chinese stops ilies who lost members June 3 and 4 in "H violent crackdown on the democratic forge ement, organizers said. lives, rveral guest speakers also attended the Chin< ' to encourage the Chinese students in to sei r efforts and to make pledges of will i letary and moral support. out a We need to address the political, she si tomic and social issues, connecting Mi n with the tremendous sacrifice of the to co nese people who died so nopeiuuy tnese rneni lents would not have died in vain," said "T ert Jabs, a USC doctorial candidate and articl w University political science professor. them The relationship between ideals and their locracy as espoused by the Chinese CS lers in Tiananmen Square is the same as than as for our founding fathers during the starte erican revolution," Jabs said. three 1c said the conflict grew and became the j cut because of the Chinese govern- whicl it's failure to harness the youthful spirit each, dealism into a positive force. they It was a failure of public relationship. 73IT reases l.cs Alverson/The Gumecock n what rooms were used, if they harged any type of admission or fee 5 attend their events. The fee was enacted because of the esparate need for money to pay for ^novations in the Russell House, ;udent union director Larry Zuleba aid. sts city; power rews are still trying to restore cable ;rviee to many customers who had nes torn down by falling trees. South Carolina Electric and Gas till has many crews working to estore power to customers who lost lectricity in Friday's and Monday's torm. Monday's storm caused additional Toblems in the Columbia area ecause of flooding. "Many places that usually flood lid" on Monday, said Miles Hadley, Tolumbia assistant city manager, iadley said some of the flooding nay have been caused by debris locking drains. "The city had little property iamage, except for some pump staions and traffic lights that were Jamaged by lightning," Fladley said. He also said it will take a month to dean every street. "The garbage truck gets trash from one house and then has to Jump it, and it takes 30 minutes for a [ruck to get back on its rounds," he ;aifl The weather report for the rest of the week said rain is possible each day. se funds ge in China was inevitable, and the -s had a responsibility to guide the ful ideas into creative change," he ilogy graduate Susan Mitchell asked tudents and community members to nber what had occurred in China and urn away their support once China making front page news, lopefully our conscience will not let us t about the thousands who gave their That is what this rallv is about. The jse need our support. They need funds id telegrams to our government that irge the Bush admistration to speak gainst the human rights violations," aid. tchell said that funds were also needed ntinue communication with the movein China. he funds are needed to fax newspaper es and materials to keep the Chinese selves aware of what is happening in own country," she said. SPB organizer Jenny Kaye said more $3,000 had been raised since the group ?d their fund-raising efforts more than weeks ago. She said during the rally iroup sold more than 150 T-shirts h said For Democracy in China at $8 She said if people wanted the T-shirts could write the organization-et'-eaH1421.