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Overnight, op From staff and wire reports Freshmen at the University of South Carolina will be the last class in forseeable future years to study late at night in their dorms with members of the opposite sex. As most students know from last semester's coverage of the issue, a motion by Rep. Mike Fair, R-Greenville, has led to a future ban on overnight, opposite sex visitation in USC dorms. And many of those students who aren't aware of this new policy are freshmen, the class of 1993, who are the last class in the near future who will be able to have members of the opposite sex in their dorms overnight. As a result of the April 13 vote of the USC board of trustees, freshmen residing in Douglas or Burney residence halls will have no visits by members of the opposite sex beyond the lobbies of those buildings. Student Government President Marie-Louise Ramsdale had supported the proposal which eventually was accepted by the board, but she said, "The majority of students here on campus do not think there's a lot wrong with the current system." The policy supported by Ramsdale and voted for by a majority of the board members was a VISITATION member of the board of trustees, to for these have all overnight opposite-sex april, accoi visitation eliminated in university Four of dorms. advisers. Only 13 students had signed up Jim Ac i i i i i i rrrrrrrrrrrrrr'frrrri-rr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr r,rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrr (rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I Carolina and is published tnree iimes a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during the fall and spring semesters and weekly on Wednesdays during both summer sessions, with the exception of university holidays and examination periods. Opinions expressed in THE GAMECOCK are those of the editors and not those of The University of South Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Communications is the publisher of THE GAMECOCK. The Student Media Department is the parent organization of THE GAMECOCK. Change of address forms, subscription requests and other correspondence should be sent to THE GAMECOCK, Box 85131, The University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. Subscription rates are $20.00 for (1) year, $10.00 per fall or spring semester and $5.00 for both summer sessions. Third class postage paid at Columbia, SC. THE GAMECOCK is a registered student organization of The University of South Carolina and is partially funded by student activity fees. ADVERTISE:777-4249 Gain valuable ex- | perience working for l|. The Gamecock! All | majors welcome. Call ^ 777-7726 or come by |g| Russell House room 321[ WISH 1 j YOUR NEW j ROOMMATE j A ( j HAPPY | BIRTHDAY! j TELL S YOUR i BEST j FRIEND i YOU j MISSED f TTWTI J i xijc.iv ) | OVER 5 | fl'H K 5 i SUMMER! | | | HOW? ! | ! IN THE I I | GAMECOCK'S ( PERSONALS COME BY | RUSSELL HOUSE I ROOM 323 i OR CALL 7-4249 i AND j I CHARGE IT TO YOUR | | VISAorMCARD^J THE GAMECOCK THE GAMECOCK is the student newspaper of the University of South posite sex visil compromise of the Ecology Committee's original recommendation to the board. Dean of Student Affairs -Dennis Pruitt, a member of the Ecology Committee, argued with Ramsdale at the April 13 meeting that the new policy could not be practilcally phased before the 1990-91 school year. The original Ecology Committe proposal was modified when the board demonstrated no interest in supporting it. It proposed to only exclude overnight, opposite sex visitation only to two residence halls so that students may choose the type of environment in which they are to live. Ramsdale chose to support the compromise which allowed the trustees to limit the visitation rights of freshmen and sophomore students by 1991 because she felt that the board would ac cept no other proposal, sne saia. The meeting in April was protested by 75 students who complained that their rights as adults were being violated by the measure, which was the result of action by Fair, a fundamentalist Christian who is a USC graduate. Fair argued that a state-supported school should not allow behavior with which most of the state's citizens disagreed. He said that the^ allowance of overnight, opposite sex visitation c was a silent acceptance of standards which Continued from page 1A two dorms as of mid- Whaley's Mill, an apart rding to The Gamecock, plex near campus, sai< those were resident that most of the housir made at that time were kerman, manager of of the visitation controv( - r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r rr r r r' rrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrf- r r r r r r r r r rrrrrrrrrr rJ~^jr r r rrrrrr r -rrrrrrrrrrrrrr r-r-r rCr*r?r rrrrrrrr r-r-r-t-r-t-i-rrrt-rrrrrrrr lyr rrrrrr.mm v ' * tation to end would allow for immoral behavior. Members of the board of trustees largely expressed their dismay that the university allowed students to have ovenight visitors who were not of the same sex. The board chose to implement a policy which will phase out such visitation rights for freshmen beginning in fall of 1990 and for sophomores in fall of 1991. In fall of 1992, the board will decide whether these rights should be taken away from juniors and seniors. The following dorms will allow opposite-sex visitation from noon until 11:30 p.m. Sunday through lhursday, ana noon until z:uu a.m. on Friday and Saturday: LaBorde, Moore, Snowden, McCIintock, Wade Hampton, Bates House and the Roost Overnight, opposite-sex visitation will be allowed in the following dorms noon to 11:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and noon Friday to 11:30 p.m. Sunday: Preston, Maxcy, Sims, Capstone, McBryde and South Tower. The "self-regulated" apartment-style housing (including The Horseshoe, Bates West, Cliff, Woodrow, Thomwell, NADA, University Terrace and Columbia Hall) will be "self; regulated," according to the Ecology Committee report. . .. ment com- "We are 90 percent filled for the i in April fall already," Ackerman said in ig requests April. 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