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REGISTRATION ISSUE ? Summer weather Movie, 'Rude Awakening,' lives up to its name see page ib N It is the same old summer weather r Throughout the week, there will be a Vjy^"s chance of scattered thundershowers with ijjr highs in the low to mid 90s and lows in the Gamecocks ready for 1989 football season See Page 7B low 70s. The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Monday Volume 82? No. 7 University of South Carolina August 21, 1989 Solidarity takes over By The Associated Press Tadeusz Mazowiecki returned to Solidarity's birthplace on Sunday and implored 10,000 cheering Poles not to lose faith as he tries to form the East bloc's first government led by non-Communists. The Solidarity activist who will KA DAI O ?-i rl * n nAvf I M + i/v i v/iaiiu o u^/Ai piling luiuidua met Solidarity chief Lech Walesa and other leaders of the independent movement to begin the daunting task of creating a government to confront disastrous economic problems and delicate political situation. Mazowiecki expects to decide by the end of the month how the government ministries will be divided among Solidarity, two minor parties allied with it and the Communists, a spokesman said. The Communists will continue to wield power through President Wojciech Jaruzelski, who nominated Mazowiecki as prime minister Saturday. The president will formally submit the nomination to the Sejm, or lower house of the National Assembly, on Monday. Confirmation is all but assured. Four decades of total control by the Communists have ended with the once-inconceivable success of a movement founded by Walesa and fueled by Poles such as Mazowiecki, who was imprisoned by Jaruzelski after the martial law crackdown to suppress Solidarity in December 1981. Solidarity took some time Sunday to celebrate. "Poland is alive," Mazowoiecki proclaimed, invoking the national anthem which begins: "Poland has _ .1 . . j - students j By MARY PEARSON Editor in chief A plan to make the 250-space com at Pickens and Pendleton Streets, a s has been changed so that the lot will by students and faculty members. USC Students Government Presidi Ramsdale said administrators have de lot, giving 110 spaces to both student eliminating 30 spaces to allow room to the lot. "This is the best compromise we < the administration was really com views and did their best to accomm Ramsdale said. "No one really lost an The plan adopted by USC's Paikii early summer would have turned the < staff members, but Ramsdale complai President James Holderman that the n the parking needs of students livin classes near the lot. Ramsdale also said S.G. was not changes when they were made, as un had promised. The 30 spaces eliminated from the are being used to create room for drit cars around after the lot has been se] Changes in Students will be able to get grades by telephone By RON BAKER News editor Beginning Aug. 28, students will be able to get their grades over the telephone, using USC's 1 new Telephone Informatinn Prrv. cessing System (TIPS). * < The Office of the Registrar said the new system will allow those students calling from on- or off- ] campus to access their grades as 1 soon as they are available at the i end of each term. i The system will officially be turned on Aug. 28, said registrar i Luther Gunter. As of that date, < grades will be available which date back to 1983. < r leader in Poland not yet perished, so long as we're alive." Walesa told the crowd: "This is our greatest achievement" since the Communists took power after World War II. "I ask you all to take responsibility for Poland," Walesa said. Mazowiecki, who edits Solidarity's weekly newspaper in Warsaw, drove with an associate to Gdansk in his red compact car. They attended Mass in a packed, overheated St. Brygida's church, where one man fainted virtually at the new prime minister's feet Then Mazowiecki and Walesa spoke from the rectory steps at the church near the Lenin Shipyard where Solidarity began in 1980, a site of countless rallies when the union was still illegal. "Today when we open this historic chapter, we must reject a feeling of hopelessness and helplessness," Mazowiecki said. "We can do it. I believe that we can do it." There was a small contingent of militant, anti-Walesa demonstrators in the crowd, who chanted, "We need bread, not a premier." ^ 1 know we need bread more * than a premier," Mazowiecki answered. Walesa asked for a show of hands of who was with him and who was against. Support was overwhelming. The two then met with the leadership of Solidarity and its parliament caucus to determine where they go from here. *et back 1 lots, one for student All students will muter parking lot changes proposed f< taff parking area, the different design; be shared equally student lots, said dii will only oe student ent Marie-Louise This change was i cided to split the utilize parking spac< s and staff, while campus in lots such for modifications Carolina Coliseum, ter Becker said. ;ould get. I think "Even during peal eerned with our empty student parkin odate everyone," He added that the made in connection lg Committee in bring a faster and n entire lot over to to make the lots on ned to university accessible, nove disregarded Becker said the c( g and attending ton was a good com he did not know hov notified of the The plan to chan lversity omciais ranting committee nistration in June. T1 former CS-1 lot meter rates on campi rers to turn their Other improved c oarated into two cost of garage parkin ! telephonin The system is being fine-tuned, nc Gunter said, because of problems tic with the quality of the voice which de gives callers instructions. "Some- p] times they sound a little peculiar, ge We're trying to straighten all of to that out," he said. sti "We have 30 lines up now," Gunter said of the number of be available lines callers can use. "On ni fr\K/?r 1 Ufa K?*i n rr oil ^ A f* i, rr ^ rv 111 uiiug an in Jf( lines up." St Students need only enter their nu personal identification number and be follow pre-recorded vocal instructions to obtain course and grade xi information for the term requested. Oi Grade reports will still be 77 nailed to students at the end of jach term. tei The PIN numbers were sent out an ;o students in their appointment to * William-Brice Stadium William-Brice Stadium stands < ball season. The 1989 season gets 1 10 spaces 5 and one for the faculty, be able to use the lot because the >r parking will also do away with ations of resident and commuting ector of parking Bill Baker. There lots on campus. nade so that students would better 1 J ?U~ r 5S lUtaiCU Ull Ult UUltl UlllgCS U1 as the ones at Bates West and the Parking Committee Chairman Pe: tim6s there are about 100 to 200 ig spaces in these," Becker said, changes in lot assignments were i with a revised shuttle route to ^liable bus service to campus and the outer fringes of campus more jmpromise over the lot at Pendlepromise. He added, however, that ' faculty would react to the news, ige the lot was part of a larger proposal approved by the admile proposal also increased parking is from 10 cents to 25 cents. :hanges include doubling of the g rates. g practices )tices for Fall semester registra- i >n, which were mailed to stu- 1 rnts' permanent addresses. The [N numbers were randomly U-. . 1 u&iatcu uy uuinpuici anu scivc ensure the confidentiality of the idents' grades. Those students who have not i sen issued these identification i imbers can request a number < Dm the Office of the Registrar, udents may also request a new ? imber if they feel their old num- * r has been compromised. i Off-campus students may reach 1 PS by dialing 251-TIPS(8477). i-campus students should call J 7-8477. t Students who use the TIPS sys- ( n to obtain information about y other persons will be subject t 1* uisuipiiuary auuon. s ,v . sip!!'z-z&t ' $ msr >v ^F**< * 4 ' . ' Jhu * j^:' jHB File photo 'mpty awaiting the start of footinderway on Sept. 2. Bang 'em up Old White plays against Hilton 1 tpam cnnrt ?VH111 UJ/U1 ? for studer Students returning to c have to learn new phone By RON BAKER News editor Changes in USC's telephone syst into effect Aug. 15, will have studei rather than "7" when calling otl :ampus. Although the numbers for on-camp administrative offices will still use I and require dialing "7" when using f students' numbers in university housii aave a "544" prefix. Officials in the university's compul >ion cite the university's growth proj irity measures as primary reasons for >f the telephone exchange. A m/Jmn frrvm A a. U1VII1V 4IU1H w/uipuiw J^i VltCS I he former system, students' number ;equentially according to the location Policy wc kids from From staff and wire reports At the Aug. 11 meeting of the USC board of trustees, Rep. Mike Fair, R-Greenville, proposed a new policy for on-campus events which would exclude attendance by per sons under 18 at those events which are found to include references to sex and lack artistic merit "There's a lot of rotten stuff going on out there in the guise of entertainment" Fair said. His written proposal to the board applies to, "but is not limited to, any play, public forum, musical concert, etc." Fair said the rule would apply to the Rolling Stones, who were i looking into holding a concert at Williams-Brice stadium but were i turned away by USC officials be- i cause of the concert's coincidence < with football season. Fair cited the i "obscene" language in some of the group's lyrics as the reason for the ] grouyp's inclusion. i 464 freshi in Douglas From Staff and wirp rpnnrtt ??...... * 1-1"^. Editor's note: See related story r on page 2k. f Only 36 students signed up to c live in dorms this fall which will s not allow opposite-sex visitation, according to university officials. c Incoming freshmen were given i the option to live in Douglas and Burney after action by the USC n board of trustees earlier this year ( which designated these two dorms for strictly single-sex occupancy. $ 4' - : lead Island earlier this summer. Rugb) its come to which made prank or ,4mpUS who wanted to harass i numbers insin same senen "(In the new syster ery dorm are random) that this would prever em, which went *jve hara its dialing a "4" ticular dorm, ler students on Computer Services strators' office numl us academic and where they work on c the '777" prefix change often because ive-digit dialing, which meant that the ng facilities now more suited to adjustm Computer Services ter services divi- tern which uses both ections and sec- staff members and stu the restructuring the full five digits ' numbers. noted that under If anyone has any s were assigned they can call Telephc of dorm rooms, said. uld ban i concert After a request by USC President James Holderman, the university's board of trustees voted to speed up its policy-setting for offseason use of the football stadium, a move that could result in a dicisinn tv?fr*r*? tho DnllJnn ' WW., wwawaw Uiv iwaiiig JIUllOd ^IIU their 27-city 1989 tour. "It would appear to me that it's closer to reality," board Chairman Michael Mungo said of the rock concert But young people might not be able to see the concert, if it does take place, under Fair's plan. The proposal defined objectionable behavior as any performance including references to lewd sex, incest rape, sadomasochism, necrophilia, sex organs and "excretory functions of the body or male or female gentiles (sic)." Mungo said he would send Fair's proposal to a board subcommittee for consideration. men put Burney However, because of this low esponse to the new plan, 464 reshmen will be housed in those lorms even though they didn't ign up for them. Visitation by members of the pposite sex will only be allowed i the lobbies of those two dorms. This new policy is the result of loves by Rep. Mike Fair, RIreenvillft whn i? an Av_r*ffioirt ? ? ?*-" ui? v/v vsxx iviV ee VISITATION page 2A [iw:: &*% JN|faa2AK f is a very popular intramurals university obscene calls easy for students students, primarily women, livU area or dorm. n) the telephone numbers in evy-picked," Stokes said. She said it students from calling consecussing students who live in a paralso noted that, while adminibers stay the same no matter _1 ? fundus, siuucuts pnone numoers of moving from dorm to dorm, ; students' exchange would be ient than that of offices, warns that, given the new sysa 777 and a 544 echange, all dents should be careful to write when giving out their phone problems with their phone line >ne Repair at 777-8153 Stokes