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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. "The month of
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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
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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.
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Finance Committee an ex- exists, the Finance Comi
o distribute among these higher to allocate more i
iginal funding process.
0 Shah, organizations pre- The second bill alloca
ed lower budgets because tal funds for graduate st
a fund was available for tions. The finance comm
1 support for groups host- $8,112 among these grou]
kers.
onorarium fund no longer Both bills passed by ac
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ens of thousands of peonle 'There
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Amnesty International USA man rights
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to 1981 he operated one of the larger cernjna w
Corps programs in the world. 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
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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.
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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
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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 ^ ? ?- -
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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,
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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.
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"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
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? 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 ?
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jctor of Amnesty International USA Jack Healey
Is on the struggle for human rights Wednesday
ssell House Ballroom.