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1? ? Weekend weather Disco 'fungus' returns to haunt like bad dream See Features, page 3 k' The weather promises to be nicer this weekend with partly sunny skies and only Kfill a 20 percent chance of scattered thunderm^m r^^.beinthemld90sand Giants ? * *??? through this season See Sports, page 5 j The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Wednesday Volume 82, No. 3 University of South Carolina July 26, 1989 USC speii The Associated Press USC President James Holderman, other top officials, guests and a few celebrities have flown aboard a private plane owned by one of the university's foundations at a cost to taxpayers of more than $420,000, records show. Records released Monday by the Carolina Research and Development Foundation show that among those who flew aboard the foundation's private twin-engine plane were: Jehan Sadat, the wife of slain Egyptian President Anwar Sadat; U.S. District Judge Sol Blatt Jr.; former Gov. Robert McNair; former political director to President Reagan, Lyn Nofziger; and novelist George Plimpton. The Reechcraft King Air prop plane flew 1,265 hours between July 1985 and June 1989, according to foundation records. At a cost of $425.22 per hour, charges for those flights amounted to $538,000. The university reimbursed the foundation at least $423,000 in airplane operating expenses for trips taken by Holderman, other school officials, their family members and guests. Holderman's president's account, which is funded with state tax dollars, paid for those trips, foundation fiscal afAdvisory comrt meets to orgat By RON BAKER tion marks in th News editor news media abot An advisory committee set in mo- Bradley said, tion the process of improving the "Anything wh credibility of the fiscal functions of credibility of f USC's foundations at a meeting serve the Uni> Tuesday. Carolina renders The organizational meeting was university," said the first gathering of the six-member president of the B Advisory Committee on Universi- Foundation, who; ty/Foundation Relationships, which improve USC's b was formed last week by USC Board "Let me assure of Trustees after the release of a mittee is not a po Legislative Audit Council report that Bradley said. He was highly critical of USC's relation- sions would be rm ship with its foundations. the individual fc The LAC report urged state hopes the founc lawmakers to take steps to increase whatever policit the accountability of foundations for decides on. the spending of taxpayers' dollars. USC Board of At the meeting, the committee Michael Mungo members determined its member of the a methodology and set a schedule. It echoed this hop? should have made its final recom- uniform policy,' mendations in eight weeks, according said the board's to the agenda set forth at the guarantee const meeting. "university famil The committee will reconvene on "I submit th August 9 to review the positions of method of operat the board's members and to begin tions would be i formulating its recommendations. records and docu Committee Chairman and USC appropriated pub trustee Jim Bradley said its purpose is nual or semiannt to study aspects of the relationships remaining privat between the university and its foun- seem a third par dations, being most concerned with confirm prop public relations rather than legal matters. "We cannot afford to have ques- See ME ' ,v. J3& i MliiL" ;. s| niHBHgp # fe 4* ' ' ? ?^S?o5? /<-s ,-1/rJ Doirt9 lunch This furry creature was found eating a potato chip House. The squirrel and its friends were scavenging fo it thousand fairs officer John O'Donnell said. Holderman said Monday that the university used the plane to fly faculty and staff to places such as Washington, D.C., for fund-raising purposes. "Is $129,000 too much to spend for $40 million in grants? I don't think so," he said, referring to how much his president's account spent on plane trips in the 1988-89 fiscal year, which ended in June. Holderman, who has been president at the university since 1977, flew 461 hours on the plane, criss-crossing South Carolina, and flying to Illinois, Washington, New Jersey and Miami. He was occasionally accompanied by his wife, Carolyn, records show. Charges for Holderman's trips, which amounted to 36 percent of the plane's flight time, totaled $193,000 of the $423,000. The remaining $115,000 in costs incurred over the four years was paid for by the foundation and the school's athletic department, which used the plane to fly former football coach Joe Morrison and others on trips. A ~~ PnlnmKJo fn Wachinotrtn r*n thp /"\ VJ11C- W ay llip 1IU11I V/UIUJUUIU IV/ ?? ujiiiiieiv/H~v/iin.v foundation's plane cost the university between $640 and $900, depending on the flight time. A one-way, first-class littee 0 I I m . XXZj ?'iimuro nwMi owuuc awwa. xmmmf*w\ e public or in the : 1IM1. >e sole purpose is to 99 ^* our lie funds on an anty circumstance to ETING page 3 use board Chairman Michael Mungt Time table set to i News editor ^^fccoraing to Ken Medendorp ol a him last semester about the possibilit l^C ^?am w*t*\paper Pro<^ucts' which Chinese stud f' crackdown on the pro-democracy - "J 2^ ? 4 movement, students said Tuesday. Ii \ 10 " * was the first protest reported since *,/ "* v the movement was suppressed in ear ' ~1L ^ $ ly June. At least 300 Beijing University ^y> students gathered outside their dor mitories Sunday night to sing sar T -v* casuc renaiuons ot patriotic songs w y** ^ ^ \jp-i and to mourn those who died in the * crackdown, said students whe rson ///c (iuiiH'coik participated. They also were protesting thai ? some work units, especially in behind the Russel government offices, have rejected ir food Monday. some students assigned to work foi Is to fly gu flight on a major airline is $243 to $253 per person with a two-day advance purchase, a travel agent said Monday. The foundation's flight logs do not list all passengers on every trip. But among those who flew on the foundation's plane at taxpayers' expense were, according to the logs: Sadat. In fiscal year 1985-86, the university spent $50,176 to fly her 35 times between Washington, Dublin, Va., and Columbia, where she was a guest lecturer at USC. The university paid her $315,000 to teach three semesters and lecture for a fourth. Blatt. He traveled from Columbia to Hilton Head Island twice on Nov. 1, 1985, at a cost of $1,020. McNair. He, with two other passengers, flew on Jan. 28, 1985, round trip from Columbia to Washington, with a stop in Greenville, at a cost of $1,743. George Plimpton. He flew from Lexington, Ky., to Spartanburg to Charlotte, N.C., to Columbia on May 10, 1986, at a cost of $893. Lyn Nofziger. An empty plane was sent to Washington on Nov. 16, 1986, at a cost of $680, to pick up President Reagan's former political director, who was a guest lecturer at USC's College of Journalism and Mass iiunniiiii sa? WBW <. mjm jgr ^ xs: L. HM^^HBB^^^^^^^^HWMMMWBBmmMBHajMiL ^ """ 1' ^WUTOWUI! Jf ) listens to comments made by President James Holderman, T replace plastic foam cups ervices to chang A schedule is now in the works at Dinin vices to phase out the use of some of these ci year s hotter replacing the large 22-ounce plastic foam cup arming trend plastic-lined paper ones at Gibbes Court ai md the deple- Sidewalk Cafe. irbated by the "The reason we're just going to start with >n campus. two areas, as opposed to the whole campus used in the this point we don't trust that our suppliers a -ts is a major jng to have a supply in the system, Mede ie ozone layer said. "As soon as they have, we're going y Dining Ser- campus-wide with it." s, bowls and Dining Services does not plan to discontini f Dining Ser- other plastic foam packaging products us s approached campus. y of replacing Medendorp said this is because the wast are less harm- duced when students eat in the Grand Marke and strew containers around the counters a lents rally for first tii them, questioning the students' teachers, housed > ideological purity, the students.said. to the poster ar< After about an hour, the students protest and lit fir ' marched to the campus area where head of the schoc students had put up thousands of ty office ordered : political posters during the spring The student s democracy movement, the par- are investigating ticipants said. ticipated in the i They sang and beat pots and pans no one had been to mourn classmates who were killed June 3-4 when troops opened fire on He said senior i student protesters and their sup- on campus now : porters, the students said. the month-long ? The Chinese government has said classes they hav< about 200 people died, but Chinese tend in order to witnesses and Western intelligence "No one dares i sources said the death toll may have ly thinks. We all 1 been as high as 3,000. said. One student said some young Meanwhile, in tests, staff Communications. The cost of flying him to Columbia and back over the next two days was another $1,743. Ira Koger, for whom the Koger Performing Arts Center is named, flew from Columbia to Jacksonville, Fla., at a cost of $1,913. Nancy Thurmond. The wife of U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., flew with three others to Columbia from Washington at a cost of $808 on July 11, 1988. On March 30. 1989. she flew roundtriD between Columbia and Washington with at least three other people at a cost of $1,483. The flight logs do not record the purpose of each trip, and Holderman said he was not sure if the university keeps other records for that purpose. Overall, the university spent an estimated $193,169 in fiscal year 1985-86 on travel aboard the foundation's plane; $91,218 in 1986-87; $109,389 in 87-88; and $129,440 in 88-89, the records show. Earlier this month, the Legislative Audit Council criticized the university's close fiscal relationship with the Carolina Research and Development Foundation and its three other private foundations. 1 3| BSE ^ xlBIM UPr J jjfl I & gS * i v. n / ?'s Uvt'rwm I he (iiiiiican k uesday at the Foundation Advisory Commitee meeting. "-> * - ?? </ >< iOf /r> c cup muieriuiz g Ser- floor prevents Dining Services from providing ips by alternatives to students who may not want or need is with plastic foam. id the "What I'm saying is that when we have one container for customers to drop on Jhe floor, that's gothose ing to be better from an ecology standpoint than if , is at we have two containers for people to drop on the ire go- floor," Medendorp said, ndorp to go Medendorp said Dining Services is looking into a replacement for the white paper bags presently used. But it is hard to know which is more damaging je any to the environment, he said, ed on "When you see statistics that the white paper bags take up 26 cubic feet and the plastic bags only e pro- take up 12 cubic feet, what damages the environitplace ment more?" Medendorp asks. "Unfortunately, nd the probably no one really knows at this point." me since crackdown in a dormitory next a Chinese delegation to a conference :a, joined Sunday's of scientists and statesmen walked ecrackers before the out after Soviet physicist Andrei >l's Communist Par- Sakharov condemned the Chinese them to go home. government's brutal repression of aid school officials student protesters. I those who par:wo-hour event, but "We cannot forgive or disregard punished yet. the conduct of the Chinese government. and we must find ways to s, the only ones left demonstrate this attitude," the 1975 , feel oppressed by Nobel Peace Prize winner said. ideological study Professor Shi Zhongben of Beijing : been forced to at- University confronted the 68-yeargraduate. old human rights activist, saying, - to say what he real- "We can build peace through inter have to tell lies," he national cooperation ? not oy interfering in the internal affairs of Cambridge, Mass., other countries.