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|K^ For the Schroeder fam- # "j fcrtew I'd be walking home ^ily, there is no place like W |"k P P P T* T P Jl 1T1 C P | Q h 1 f| one day and see a giant mushroom home. That's because they ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ CI 111 ^ V 1 lj KJ 1 vl cloud over Detroit. . ? Jeff raHBH^BgR make their home on the See Sports, page 10 Shrewsbury, columnist The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Wednesday Volume 82, No. 35 University of South Carolina November 8, 1989 Compu By Wayne Washington Editor in Chief < When Todd Weiss checked the ^ list of social security numbers that indicated who had won the right to the get a USC-Clemson football ticket, tic he knew something was wrong. c jj ( The curiosity of Weiss, a management science junior, wasn't aroused because he hadn't won. Rather, like many other students who did not have their student identification numbers scanned for ~~"~" the lottery, his social security num- who ber appeared on the list. gett Weiss and many other students wen who didn't participate in the lot- nam tery appeared on the list because D of a computer mistake. stud "This first list is just not a valid now list," Woody Carothers, assistant day vice president for student affairs, 4 p.i said Tuesday. "We have no choice A n but to throw it out." be p Instead of choosing students Gov from the 10- or 11,000-name list Mon of those who had participated in T1 the lottery, a computer mistake low* enabled all students who paid their Mon student activity fees, about 15,000, ner to be eligible to win. Thus, many ticke students who did not sign up for ners the lottery won. mor Weiss was one of those people. pick "Some of my fraternity brothers If, Trustees gr A 1 _ i _1 stuaenis cnc on visitatioi By STEPHEN GUILFOYLE Staff Writer The students of Douglas and Burney 1 ? "Let my people have traditional visitatic And USC's Board of Trustees has respo "ayes" have it. Students in USC's two sexually-segreg will be allowed to decide if they would lik a floor in those dorms that have traditions which allows opposite sex visitation at al cept overnight. Trustee William Hubbard, chairman of Student-Trustee Liaison Committee, pr change in USC's visitation policy. The vii icy was originally changed last spring tc night, opposite-sex visitation after Rep. M Greenville, a trustee, said the policy was in The latest proposal has had a long histc nally started in the two sexually-segreg when a majority of the students voted that like to change to the traditional plan. Only 24 students living in the two dor quested the Freshman Plan, which ban: visitation. The vote was brought to the Student Se voted to send the policy to the Student-T son Committee. That committee voted una support of the change in the policy, and it brought up at Tuesday's Board of Trustees "It means, beginning with the second si year, that students who do not wish tc freshman-style dorm arrangement, who v to be in the traditional-style, will not be fc in Burney and Douglas with no visitation said, "but, would instead be able to choo those dorms where they would be ab opposite-sex visitation during regular hours." USC President James Holderman said dents have requested this, I think, very effi maturely, and I think we are in good shape " .. .. We resDected the reauest of the have more freedom in the visitation prn they had on certain floors on Bumey ar and that's what we've now done," Hold but added he wasn't exactly sure how soon would take effect "We'll probably try to get it changed as can ? I'm not sure what the timetable is quickly, I'm sure," he added. Holderman would not characterize the cl proposal as a defeat for Fair, but it is ano in the representative's quest to end opposite-sex visitation. The first was at the Board of Trustees spring when the policy was implemented, all overnight, opposite-sex visitation to time, but the board voted to gradually ] over the next four years, beginning with fi year. Fair didn't say anything as the issue was by Hubbard, and no one on the board vote though those who voted for it mumbled th( See BOAH ter glitch 'Some of my fraternity others who had missed lottery were getting kets, so I went to eck and found my ne." Todd Weiss Management science junior had missed the lottery were ing tickets," he said. "So, I it to check and found my e." ennis Pruitt, vice president for ent affairs, said students must re-sign up for the lottery tothrough Friday from 9 a.m. to ti. in the Russell House lobby, ew, valid list of winners will >osted in front of the Student ernment office at 8:30 a.m. iday. lie new winners will be al- Students loc sd to pick up their tickets day and Tuesday. If each win- ferred to ticket doesn't pick up his or her students will I >t, alternate lists of lottery win- them up as t will be referred to Wednesday games Wednes* ning to determine who can There are H up the leftover tickets. able for studenl , after the alternate lists are re- believes all sti the board's I f i |fl Citation pol- |^|IH|Bfef^fl b ban over- * t B like Fair, Rlimoral. # Iry. It origi- I ^ lated dorms I Imitories re- A m overnight 1 jr Inate, which | ,^lB rustee Liai- I Bnimously in I PV1 I was finally ' * < I meeting. I i Bsmester this M B be in the lfi9 Bould prefer IB Breed to stay I 1H| B rights," he Bsc floors in i ^tj'The stu- I <*^*^ students to Graphic design junior John dleges than Bigger Tuesday portrayed the p id Douglas, USC Air Force ROTC in an el ernian said, POW's and others missing in ac i the change soon as we ? but very iange in the lather setback overnight, Jrjj| meeting last < Fair wanted )hase it out eshmen this I up mam. ~ ^shm D page 3 Alice Stewart i ruins Clem 11^ '1RIB >k Tuesday to see if their ID numbers are on the list of those ( ; are still remaining, go to the game will be able to. times t>e allowed to pick "I apologize to the students," he didn't hey do for other said. "There ought to be enough Joh jay afternoon. tickets for those who want to see more, 0,800 tickets avail- the game. That's how we knew winne ts, and Pruitt said he there was a problem. Sometimes No idents who want to these things work well, and some- win ii ^ ^ ^ BMP \ pan i. & drom< JAMES NETTLES/The Gamecock " like Saunders and electrical engineering sophomore Kirk ^ light of prisoners of war. The event was staged by the ^ ^ ^ Tort to raise awareness of the hundreds of American tion in Southeast Asia. Th< ilies ' ' Expert on radiation e I By LARRY GIBBS cancer, leukemia a Staff Writer cal phenomena. One of the world's leading experts on She is a foundir radiation health effects and cancer re- national Epidemiol search, Dr. Alice Stewart, will speak on Society for Social the "Health Effects of Low-level Radia- famous research st tion" at two upcoming public forums. of Childhood Can* Stewart received her medical degree this study that cli from Cambridge University in 1932 and had received peh was the youngest woman to be elected to gnancy were nearl the British Royal College of Physicians velop leukemia o before 1947. those who weren't Her body of work consists of 300 pap- The OSCC ha ers on the health effects of low-level ion- epidemiological dz izing radiation, 140 scholarly works on causes of childhoo ison lottery -ws V ll^ F m | JAMES Nt'I'lLES/The Gamecock eligible to get tickets for the Carolina/Clemson game. they don't. This time, they "That possibility exists," Pruitt L." said, in Talbert, a business sophowas one of the initial lottery "I think if we won the first time, 'rs. we shouldn't have to do it again," w, he's worried that he won't Talbert said. "I'll be really upset if i this second lottery. my name isn't there." enter offers program >r maladjusted boys UCY SOTO writer "It's normal to feel :ounseling program for young guilty or feel like 'I'm a "SSS i?' ,hal'? am Center in use's psychoi- the case. Anyone can epartment. get into this rut, into un5 program, directed by Dr. healthy strategies in their i Miller and Dr. Ron Prinz, f ? een established to help faminth boys age 5 to 9 with be- Gloria Miller rs such as acting out physical Child and Family Program ssion against others and non- Center liance at home and at school, r said. i center received $811,104 in land and Kershaw counties. FamiU funds from the National In- lies from other areas are consid' Mental Health when as a ered on a per case basis, Program year grant, Miller said. This Coordinator Donita White said. second such grant the center The program began in Septemeeived since 1985. ber, and there are 10 families astheir child has had difficulty sjgned to therapists, but the center ^g,their ten Per? rf they win be equipped to deal with 150 difficulty controlling and dis- families or mpre> White said ing the child, if parents re- "There is a minimal registration complaints rrom neignoors, fce of $35> which ^ ^ waived>? \ she said. "We don't want anyone and if the child has difficulty not coming in because they can't taming peer relationships, pay? are all clues, she said. The counseling lasts for about a one particular behavior is flve t0 seven months and some;h, but if the child is exhibit- times a year according, to each iese behaviors across many fami|v gs, and if it occurs for about The nonprofit service is solely lonths, these are real clues. for y0ung boys, although the cen'* slf^ ? are ter has referral sources Tor families >f this ^behavior problem syn- w-tj1 giris who have the same i a so' s^e saic*- problems. \ Her wants to encourage pa- ?Qur funjjjng agency requires to realize there are many ^ we WQrk rimaril with ^ es that expenence this prob- The incident is higher among ^ ?he said. than girls, and it would be too s normal to feel guilty or feel costly to provide services for I m a bad parent, but that s Mi]ler said ..,t.s uke a ralio te case. Anyone can get into 0f j2 t0 j 0f (xiys to girls who exit, into unhealthy strategies in hjbi[ problems.? families, she said. por more information on the e service is provided for fam- program, call the Child and Family who live in Lexington, Rich- Program Center at 777-6175. 'ffects, cancer to speak ind various other medi- most reliable risk estimates ever. To preserve the work of the OSCC in ig member of the Inter- the future, she and several of her collogical Association, the leagues have established a foundation, the Medicine and her most Childhood Cancer Research Institute, udy, the Oxford Survey A current major investigation of the :ers. It was revealed in CCRI is a study of the nuclear workers at lildren of women who the Hanford Nuclear Complex in 'ic X-rays during pre- Washington state, which indicates a fracy twice as likely to de- tion of "safe" occupational exposures is ver other cancers than responsible for a five to 10 percent inX-rayed. crease in cancer mortality, s the world's largest ????????? ila-base for tracking the d cancer, producing the See STEWART page 3