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gfjj) =33 NFL may stilLawait Ellis <:0I"ple^ S<* Sports, page? S?e "Viewpoint," page 3 ii i See Carolina Life, page 4 The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Friday Volume 82, No. 36 University of South Carolina November 10, 1989 University has spent m Lawsuits By JAYE SIMMONS Staff Writer The business of ousting athletic officials has become a costly endeavor for USC during President James Holderman's 12-year administration. Since 1979. at least $1.58 million has been shelled out by the university in judgments to former athletic department members. This figure only includes judgments awarded, not university defense costs. So far, $154,774.24 has been spent by the university in its defense of the Bob Marcum trail, said Paul Ward, USC system legal counsel. This figure accounts only for the legal expenses paid through the month of August, Ward said. "Billing from the months of September and October have not yet been vouchered," he said. 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A MH| M *? 1PRHRM. ?--^ " <>??. * * * ._ Drilling it into their heads USC's Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps ( find that the ROTC is a helpful way to complement t Bills give fundin By KRIS TAYLOR year gave the Senate reporter tra $50,084 t The Student Senate passed two fi- groups, nance bills concerning supplemental funding at its meeting Wednesday According t afternoon. viously receiv The first bill, proposed by Senator Ra- an honorariur jan Shah, allocated supplemental funding extra monetar to undergraduate student organizations, ing major spea The increase in student activity fees this Since the h Amnesty din By KATHY BLACKWELL Copy Desk Chief uy More than half the nations in the world use ? vp some form of torture on their people every day . by state policy, Executive Director of Amnesty hk? } International USA Jack Healey said. Healey spoke to a crowded Russell House Ballroom Wednesday .night about human rights violations around the world. "The fact I'm trying to get across to you is that we're a worldwide organization of aver- 1977 age, normal, decent people. There are people Peace just like you who are in jail tonight in stinking work< places all over this world of ours. They're not and ir very different from you," he said. "Tens of As thousands of people have been executed for minis) being just like you." lopmc Healey, director of the human rights organi- ited S zation since 1981, gained international recog- plen nition this past year as an organizer of the comn highly acclaimed Human Rights Now! World and d Tour and Campaign. the ol THa tnilf which fpjlhirAH rvirfArmorn mioVi oo nnrl x iiv w?j --V.VV*.vu 1*1 vii3 duvu a>3 auu in Sting, Peter Gabriel and Bruce Springsteen, fluent traveled around the world in an effort to raise 0n< awareness of human rights violations. the to Healy opened his speech by explaining what Argen he felt Amnesty is all about writtei "It is the powerful against the powerless, the had d innocent against the violent," he said. "Our titled side is non-violent ? we really don't have used i much to fight with. We have letters, and we Chile, have pens ... all you can do is your best, the Dui humane thing." mo the Before becoming a leader in the amnesty Argen movement, Healey served as director of the stage, Peace Corps in Lesotha, Africa, where from peared ore than $1 million i involving; October should have considerably high legal costs, since that was the month of the trial." The Marcum case, awarding him with $234,425 in judgments and much more in uncalculated defense costs, is only one of several high-dollar cases brought against the. linivexsitv over the nact 19 veare Other cases of note include the suits of former athletic department members Frank McGuire, Jim Carlen, Richard Bell, Pam Parsons and Bill Foster. All of the cases involved the athletic department, which assumes responsibility for its own defense, Ward said. After McGuire vacated his basketball coaching position under pressure in 1979, he settled with the university for $400,000. Carlen, former football coach and athletic director, got $506,800 in 1981 to pay off his contract. mm *5 Uli IkJ 1iw? im mm mm mmmmmm * < ' SVs- .. -.-v J .... ... Tinyriinmi -Ax-. &&&& x-3 5^. ^^ ^ mm *r jf '$&$&&& y" ^ -N *?* ^ ??kiW??l ^0* g m. % mm mm ?* mm % SSSS^S '% m MM ?i? 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He also fj^ id for various world hunger programs To give istitutions during the '70s. around the executive director of AIUSA, Healey ad- human rig ters the human rights programs and deve- Qrmth Afri ;nt of Amnesty International in the Un- ?In t^e tates. He oversees the planning and im- black kid i lentation of campaigns and disappears lunications, membership and financial sajd. evelopment programs. He also serves as Healey'i fficial spokesman for the organization, about the as gained the reputataion of being an in- this past si ial speaker. ?In Chii 5 of the more memorable moments on ger who b iur for Healey came from a concert in who Were tina near the Chilean border. Sting had Square w< n a song about the mothers of sons who China. (It'i isappeared in Pinochet-ruled Chile, en- iace natj0i "They Dance Alone," which has been wjth that n as part of the democracy movement in "Ifyou'i Tienneman ing the performance of the song, the that this c< rs of sons who had disappeared from stiu standii tina emerged from the right side of the ???? and the mothers of sons who had disapl from Chile came onto the stage from athletic offi One year later, football coach Richard Bell received $178,000 in judgment and legal expenses. In 1983, women's basketball coach Pam Parsons was fired from her position and settled for $20,000. Three years later, basketball coach Bill Foster resigned under pressure. He settled for a payment of $241,660 to nav off the remainirKT twn uporo nf hie r-j .b lOW JWIUJ W ??10 contract "The General Assembly appropriates monies, but funds for legal defense are non-appropriated monies," Ward said. The money to pay for law suits has been generated through the athletic department's various components of revenue making ? ticket sales as well as radio and television broadcasts, Ward said. fe. m$? mm mm 4 V "T" li g 1 fW mm m * ? I ' ? ? S I . Hp mmm j/m / i::-: PrpHlt Ci wXC^XXXX 1^' I By KELLY C. THOMAS News Editor Being a college student means g< des of mail from companies across try advertising this or selling that, the offers are legitimate and some < The Division of Student Affair received a copy of a letter sent to science sophomore Sarah Appleby she felt might be misleading The letter offered Appleby oho TT C /~I ?J wiuit^w iiuiii uii a u.o.v^. KUIU charge card. But the U.S.C. was USC, it was the U.S. Credit Corp America, a company operatin; Washington, D.C. "At first, I thought it was affili the university, because it kept sayii WIN On/The Gamecock and Said 10 make checks P3yable Appleby said. "I just wanted to dents about credit cards of any s Many students cially ones where the terms aren listed. "Like it said, you could get $1,2: cash, but only after you had bough! -I t rj n and then only half of your total pui ' LA/LJ l3 something like that," she said, ad students might tend to overlook t conditions, thinking about how th mittee budgeted use the money for Christmas pr< noney in its or- necessities. "I just didn't want them (studen into something that could be so mis ited supplemen- she said. udent organiza- The letter states that card holders ittee distributed ^ ? ?- - uui wiui a ucuii umii ui no less mai Ps- which can be increased to as much i if the student maintains a "gooc jclamation. history." or peace was this meshing on stage of people on and song, and I would guess it f the better moments in human rights lealy said. "The stadium turned into lug ? it's what you hunt for in t it's also what you hunt for in hu, ?? g for amnesty, Healey has experme apathy among Americans conorldwide issues, which he said he ;ult to understand. ^fjg| some idea of the horrors happening \ world, Healey talked about specific rJM ;hts violations in countries such as jflF: ^fl ca, Iran, Iraq, Cambodia and Chile. \ Republic of South Africa, every JH in the country is in danger of torture, jM ince, death or detention," Healey s voice began to break as he talked atrocities that took place in China immer. la, people your age or much youn elieve in democracy . . . those kids shot, killed, tortured in Tienneman sre the Jeffersons of our time in s) unreal, unreal that the most popu1 on earth is allowed to get away onsense. re the mother of one of those kids in i Square, you surely want to know 5untry that stands for democracy is rig for the Tienneman Square kids," Executive Din spoke to student See AMNESTY page 2 ni8ht in the Ru' icials costly [ "Bowl appearances are a major source of income into the athletic department," Ward said. "Another major source is contributions to the Gamecock Club. However, the Gflmernrlr PI11H fr.TAtrik?i;^n ? V/AUl/ WlIUil/ULlWlld (lie IC" stricted to scholarships." Because of these restrictions, legal costs can never cut into scholarships, he said. "At this point, we have not decided where all the money will come from to finance the costs of defense for the Marcum trial," said John Moore, associate athletic director in charge of finance. "In past cases, money was drawn from the athletic department reserve, not the Gamecock Club reserve." Gamecock Club funds, he said, have always been protected. ' isn't USC, cam shows "I just wanted to warn stuthe coun- dents about credit cards of any . Some of sort, especially ones where the iren t. terms aren't clearly listed." s recently Sarah Appleby Computer dnmnuter xripnrp vnnhnmnro ? a leuer y to USC In order to receive the U.S.C. charge card a $2,960 and gold card, a student must send in a pro. card and cessing fee. The fee ranges from $39.95 for not The one year processing to $79.95 for lifetime oration of processing, and is non-refundable, g out of A $1,250 "free cash withdrawal" is offered, if the withdrawals "total 50 percent of ated with paid-for purchases." Furthermore, the student ng U.S.C. is told in the final paragraph of the letter that ) U.S.C.," the cards are only good in the company's exwarn stu- elusive catalogs and brochures, ort, espe- Students are instructed to make payments 't clearly payable to U.S.C. 'The use of 'U.S.C.' in the letter does ap50 instant pear to be misleading," said Clifford Scott of : so much USC's legal department, who reviewed the chases or letter. ding that The credit corporation is in no way affilhe vague iated with the university, Vice President of ley could Student Affairs Dennis Pruitt said, jsents or Pruitt said the university does have agreements with some credit card companies for ts) to get "affinity cards" ? such as the Alumni Assoileading," ciation card and the Gamecock Club card. These cards, he said, are used by organizawill start tion members, and a portion of the money n $2,960, obtained by the credit card company is is $5,000 I paying ? See CREDIT page 2 i i i 1 ' . S w- 1 * TEDDY LEPP/Tke Gamecock jctor of Amnesty International USA Jack Healey Is on the struggle for human rights Wednesday ssell House Ballroom.