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wl Baggy clothes, vests and f"~~^ JR fO equestrian-Style clothes are GameCOCkS DrCDaC^ for ECU PirateS JelT Shrewsberry^columnist |CTbv, the rage on campus this f f see page 3 ^ *""aro^na PaSe * Sports, page 8 The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Wednesday Volume 82, No. 22 University of South Carolina October 4, 1989 4,000 stuc visitation By JEFF WILSON Assistant News Editor Despite a proposal to relax the ban on opposite-sex visitation in Douglas and Burney dormitories, USC student John Byrd is not impressed. Neither are nearly 4,000 other USC Byrd said students continue to sign a petition protesting the changes in the university's visitation policy. "My concern is with the students. I'd like to see the visitation policy back in the hands of the students," Byrd, history senior and petition coordinator, said. Byrd wants the petition to bring attention to how students campus-wide feel about visitation, he said. In addition to signing the petition, students signed surveys expressing their views on the visitation policy, he said. A petition presented with a survey is more effective because you get an idea of the opinion of the students, he said. Some university officials and security guards have also filled out the survey, but declined to sign the petition, he said. "If something isn't done soon, students will be stuck with a visitation policy they don't want; they will be unhappy here; and the universitv will lose a lot of monev in admissions next year," Byrd said. The Student-Trustee Liaison Committee voted Thursday to relax the visitation policies in Douglas and Burney dormitories. Since the beginning of the semester, no females have been allowed past the lobby of Douglas and no males have been allowed upstairs in Burney. The liaison committee voted to support a student-sponsored compromise to set aside one floor in each dormitory for students that want no opposite-sex visitation, while Campus polii By ANTHONY HODGE Staff Writer Eighty-two prank calls have come in fr newly installed call boxes, but USC police dep has started crackdowns on call box misuse. 'The yellow call boxes at various points or campus are for emergency purposes only, and sters should think twice before pressing the c ton," said Danny Baker, vice president of law < ment and safety. The boxes are used as permanent sentries said, a direct 24-hour-day line of communic the police department. People feel better because of the call boxes, ' jr Br And the winner is . . . The homecoming queen finalists sit and an event sponsored by the 1989 Homecom Kissinger vi n_. trnt t o rrif A1M A C l)J KLLLI L. 1 IlUirmo News Editor USC students will have the chance to beconr of history Thursday night, a Carolina Progran spokesman said. CPU Ideas and Issues Chairman Marty Tay Thursday's lecture by former Secretary of Stat Kissinger will give students a chance to inter, lents sign petition giving the other floors traditional, limited visitation priviledges. Byrd said, 'The liaison committee has taken a step in the right direction, but not the step we're looking for." "In the past," he said, "each residence hall voted for its own visitation policy. Not all Hnrmc fr?r full vicitatinn Thprp Ull UV11IIJ TUIVU 1U1 1U11 T loiuiiivili were four or five different plans on campus." Of the nearly 4,000 signatures on the petition, almost 50 percent are from offcampus students. "Everyone is concerned about visitation. People living off campus have friends living on campus, and they want to visit them," Byrd said. "The petition is not about sex or morals, it's about students' rights." More students are financing part of their education and many are going into debt to do so, he said. These students feel it is against their rights to limit visitation. Since the petition began, Byrd has been bearing the expenses to run the operation, which amounts to over $240, he said. His fraternity, Delta Upsilon voted unanimously to sponsor the project, and Byrd will be reimbursed for his expenses, he said. "The fraternity felt the same way John did. I was one of the ones that wanted to start the petition, along with John. In order for the petition to work, we had to be sponsored by a group to provide the funds," said t>?:a n^itn l^dviu W11MJ1I, UldlKC/Ull^ 5W11U1 aiiu L/UW Upsilon member. Byrd would like to get as many signatures as he can and present them at the next Board of Trustees meeting, scheduled for later this month, he said. "I expect the board to listen. Not just to students' gripes, but listen to what students want Students want to vote for their own visitation policy," he said. ce respond tc There have been two apprehen: with misuse of call boxes, accordii om the lice reports. lartment A man was detained Sept. 18 a! served him pushing a call box an i USC's Police. When the two spotted the I prank- walked away, the witnesses said. F :all but- and detained by the two until the p enforce- "I thought it would make the much quicker," the police report , Baker saying. He also commented on hov ation to responded to the call box alarm. On Oct. 1, Desmond Chitty ol he said, was arrested and transported to Ri t| i ' s ** f J** * isjf , ' ? - * 11 v Mr' ~ answer questions on the Russell House Pat ling Commission. isit gives stu someone who has influenced the way. le a part "Even though some students may i Union things Kissinger did or things tht when he was secretary (of stat lor said Vietnam and all that ? but it's stil e Henry opportunity to meet someone like act with said. > V. ?, i?~- UJL w ' - i.'U'.'wiv ov...vuu..6 ?*TV * ^ Mm ^ ' - anything that can go wrong will, rig this time. teddy LEPP/Th* Gamecock USC physics professor Ron Edge,1 an in-depth study of the jelly-side do1 io Tuesday. "Meet the Queens" was nomenon, has found that luck has no do with which side of the bread 1 floor. And there is no truth to the m -i i._ _i ueius cnance iu expt nation in a major Kissinger will discuss many of the major issues facing the United States and the world ? terrorism, the not agree with the drug lords, events in Eastern Europe and other topics, it were happening a USC press release said. e) ? you know, Taylor said the discussion will be a one-on-one ex11 good to have the perience, with Kissinger taking questions and cornKissinger," Taylor ments from the audience. "USC is really lucky to have him speak here," Tay ^:,,5?? ^ , " *? Wi^%;it"" JULIE BOUCHILLON/The Gamecock USC students sign the petition and survey against the university's visitation policy enacted this semester. Tables were set up on the second floor of the Russell House and moved to Greene Street in front of Russell House. ) 82 call box pranks sions in connection tention Center and charged with falsely activating an ng to university po- emergency call box. The police report indicated that charges were fter two people ob- brought against Chitty because he had no emergency d called University or need for emergency police services, man, he smiled and Chitty said, "I just wanted to see if the box le was then stopped worked." olice arrived. Baker said, misuse of call boxes is a violation of traffic light change S.C. State Code of Laws 16-17-570, which could requoted the man as suit in a fine or jail sentence or both, v quickly the police Anyone arrested will be tried in General Sessions f 1530 Harden St., ichland County De- See CALL BOXES page 2 D.. 1^171 I V r TUAA4 A c J'^l jpV V/. 1 I1U1T1/1J ISf want toast. And what's better on tot Of course, anyone who eats toast a ^ !? ^"?WS l^at ^ ?an ^ ?ne l^C n % % The scenario: the toast has just poj ^ and you're smothering it in grape (c doom, whichever way you prefer to ^ % it), landing jelly-side down, as usual. w^s %? You stoop to wipe up the gooey m ' miimkln PAm/ifkino aknnt Miimhu'e Students give time, money Campus responds to call for help By D. R. HAYNES Assistant News Editor It still seems like yesterday since Charleston was ripped by Hurricane Hugo, but USC students have reacted positively by offering time, energy and money to aid victims. USC student Fred W. Collins, who is also a member of the National Red Cross, was an active part of the relief effort in Charleston. Collins, who is on the National Disaster Services of the Red Cross, describes the effects of Hugo as an "ultimate nightmare." To his knowledge, he was the only USC student on the Red Cross National Disaster Team, he said. More than 1,000 people are still homeless, and more hungry people are being discoverd, Collins said. It will take about five months to restore Charleston to a decent state, he said. "I expected the damage to be nominal," Collins said. "I expected the media to blow it 10 times out of proportion. The damage done was so devastating until it could not be exaggerated or "Hollywood-ized," Collins said. Initially, Collins was assigned to Beaufort and Jasper counties, but was reassigned to the Charleston area by the Columbia Red Cross after the hurricane's path was determined, he said. While there, he was also responsible for helping in Folly Beach, James Island, John's Island and the indigent community of Wadalamaw Island, he said. The disaster team is scheduled to be there for six weeks, Collins said. Collins plans to make more trips to Charleston, but, being a student, he also plans to study, he said. "After I finish here, I will resume as a full-time student," he said. If there is some beauty in all the damage, it is seeing people unite and work together, Collins said. "When you have a disaster, it doesn't matter what class, race or color you are." The victims have become "a family of survivors," he said. "Everyone became primitive for a while because they had to," he said. Gail McGrail of the Office of Community Service Programs said she is pleased with the help students are giving. 'The students at USC are wonderful with the time i .u?.. :i ..:J diiu ciiwgy uicy jjavc, mcvjidii >diu. Student organizations and greek organizations have helped with the contributions of money and canned goods, McGrail said. Columbia Hall sent residents to Sumter to a children's home to clean up and offer support, McGrail said. Two vans of students went to Charleston to clean up. About $4,000 was donated at the USC-Georgia Tech football game, she said. The Homecoming committee will be selling tickets See HUGO page 2 iuses problems, > Murphy's law the jelly makes the top of the bread heavier, and this weight pulls it down, he said. "Actually, almost any flat object larger md you than a coin that is pushed off the table will ist than land upside down," Edge said. Edge conducted experiments using a book nd jelly about the size of a piece of bread, pushing it lessiest off the table again and again to see how it fell, he said. Dped up He also experimented with slices of bread >r apple and, once, even slid a piece of jellied bread off the table and onto the floor, he said. 5 under "I didn't use jelly more than once, and the though," he said. "It's just too messy to have >r your to clean up all the time. I don't remember look at what kind I used, but I did try it once." What actually happens, Edge said, can be ess and easily explained by simple physical laws. Law ? As the piece of bread is sliding off the ht? Not table, and before it goes into free-fall, a torque force begins to tip it ? kind of like a who did see-saw, Edge said. wn phe- This force could cause the bread to flip thing to ' hits the yth that See PHYSICS page 2 . :rience history lor said. "I'd like to see all of the 2,000 seats available filled." Tickets for the event are $1 for students with USC ID cards and $2 for the general public and are on sale at the Coliseum, Russell House and Longstreet Theatre on the USC campus and also at Taylor Street Pharmacy and all Sounds Familiar stores in Columbia.