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~~^5F taip usc'for 23 ye^s Soccer team goes to quarterfinals AS, whlle pursuing a writing ? ~1 usc p0ct.in-residence career. See SportS) page 7 See "A Resident Great," page 4 See Carolina Life, page 4 The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Monday Volume 82, No. 40 University of South Carolina November 20, 1989 Student test grou to register by phc By ELISABETH TANGUY ~? TT starr Writer "So far it has A test group of students will a dream. We 1 have the opportunity to pie-register received anv CO for their spring classes by tele- ^ {he n/w SJ phone this week. J Graduate students, law students ^ and seniors have the option of us- Universi ing HPS ? USC's new Telephone Information Processing System ? gistercd by telephone to register by telephone during the another 2,000 are exp pre-registration phase of spring so before the Thanksg 1990 registration. Gunter said. If all goes well with the pilot Next week, he adc group, TIPS might become avail- gistration office will able to all students in the near survey among all the s future. used TIPS. If the resu "So far it has gone like a tive, the system will be dream," said T. L. Gunter, the uni- next term, versity registrar. "We have not re- TIPS is not only a ceived any complaints about the service, it also include new system," he added. programs, Gunter said. It seems, however, that all stu- One of these additio dents were not informed about the is ASKUS, the teleph new process. providing information Patricia Owens, who is a gradu- 0lina and Columbia c< ate student at USC, should have The program has bee been eligible for telephone re- mated this fall, so it gistration, but she did not receive hours a day, seven days an appointment card. "I'm not sure Students can also use I would have done it anyway," she time to find out about t said, "since the whole thing Gunter said. However, seemed so complicated." still be mailed at the If the new system proves to be term. And the compul efficient, it could in the long term tern keeps records of tl reduce the cost of the whole re- previous grades, going gistration process, Gunter said. For as 1984. example, there would be no need The idea of develc to set up the coliseum each term. phone information sys "But most of all, it is a fantastic nated in the early 19? convenience for students," Gunter said. Today, there are said. Students will still have to be tions nationwide ? c< advised before registration. But af- universities ? which h ter that, TIPS is capable of hand- system, ling all the same registration fea- "It is also very popul tures available on a scan sheet, and industries," Guntei Gunter said. For example, students cause of its endless appl may soon be able to use TIPS to USC will be the firsi drop a course, add one, change of higher education in sections, etc., from their homes. olina to adopt a telephoi Two thousand students have re- tion program, he said. USC professor he{ By KATHY BLACKWELL Copy Desk Chief For years scientists from around the world have tion been hoping for an opportunity to do research at Lake ? Baikal in Siberia, and now, due in part to the work of a a USC geology professor, they might soon have that to b chance. twee Professor Doug Williams is representing USC, who, along with two other American universites, is pursuing a seven-nation agreement to establish an international research center near Lake Baikal, the world's oldest and deepest lake. conto 'The Baikal project has international dimensions," Ardii Willaims said. "USC would be one of an elite group sored of institutions helping to break down the political bar- "B riers between American and Soviet scientists. for g "On a scientific basis, the lake is a truly unique na- who tural resource in the world that needs to be studied, the S It's the chance of a lifetime for our faculty and stu- a cha dents," he said. Ac The lake is the world's largest fresh water lake, mine * li ** ^ vJB M - 'Aftfe.iM ,, tHrfSii * ^-'3 # .<?* Giving a swift kick ?,.^SineSS.fr??ZnmjM,,(i?od kicks football to busir Sunday on the Intramural F,eld. Fa|| and fhe foo(ba|| ^ gone like lave not |H| mplaints stem." * L. Gunter ty registrar so far, and ected to do iving break, IHH L ed, the re- H Lgflj HH| conduct a ^ 1 tudents who jL ^ # S^Bk Its are posi m IPf I m back as far >ping teletems origins, Gunter <nn 100 mstitualleges and lave such a ar in banks said, "beiications." t institution South Car- A Gamecock defender tries unsuccessfully to strip t tie informa- in USC's 45-0 loss to the Tigers Saturday at Williams-] ps begirt international ?? 3Q mjjjjon years 0i(j ru? d?:I^I 1 : a lie uamai pi ujctl lias interna- luuuui, wmuiisar al dimensions. USC would be one 'he ,^rth: 11 . earth s climate, givm n elite group of institutions helping 0f the global climate. reak down the political barriers be- The global climau ;n American and Soviet scientists." Williams' main cono ? ..* .i. with Soviet scientists Doug Williams ples from thc sedim Geology professor samples hold direct changes over the past lining 20 percent of the world's fresh water, said data of earthquake at ? Savory, USC's system vice president for spon- diet earthquakes aroui 1 programs and research. The origins of thc aikal is now one of the primary areas on earth back to this past Janu eological and ecological research," said Savory, George Shultz signet was invited to the Soviet Union in October by with USSR Foreign oviet Academy of Sciences to begin drawing up This agreement helpe rter for the research center. the two countries to cording to Savory, Lake Baikal is a virtual gold projects such as Willi; of scientific wonders. The lake, which is 20 to This past July, a p JAMES NETTLES/ less sophomore Trey Legare and finance sophomore Brett Frazier son prompt many students to drag out the pigskin and have some By WAYNE WAS Editor In Chief If USC's blowoi ! the subsequent vi | didn't say it, then I f son ^id: The onl> life,. vH bowling is in an al r V J&1W The seventh-lar, 74,509, packed V f w fl| nigni only to see l at the paws of the lesk ,1 * ' the Gamecocks, 51 & J|k Saturday's natic t-WKr <r~ , Jlr^W have been worse. ^ "IHL/ The Gamecocks Z pP" thing else. pile up yardage am Ng# i A stadium dispk yk crowd began to cl J Wj ^ little 'D' on the fie About six minuU W Injured Gamecoc JT around the sidelin Dickie DeMasi pla; Clemson's Jeron flh^ up, too. On USC's first j wobbly pass dow double-coverage. 1 turned the ball to U "It was a weird { DeMasi said afterw Three and a half DeMasi, handing old Green, moved sion. When the dr kicker Collin Mack Th<*. Hriv#? ant\ Gamecocks came & TEDDY LEPP/The Gamecock he ball from a Clemson player Brice Stadium. center to study , has three miles of sediment on tion came to USC ecord of the history of the forma- project, and talks 1 ; also cpntains a history of the preliminary agreei g important clues to the changes traveled twice to tl scientists there aboi an important current issue, is The October sei sntration of study. He is working representatives fror to begin drilling deep core sam- and West Germany ents from the lake. These core nal negotiations o clues to world climatological completed by sprinj 10 to 20 million years as well as Joining USC in t :tivity that could be used to pre- sity of California a ad the world. consin at Milwauke i Baikal research proposal goes limnology research, ary when then-Secretary of State i the Basic Science Agreement in addition to th< Minister Eduard Shervardnadze. of the lake, it also d open doors for scientists from ganisms indigenoi work together on joint research world's largest sing ams' Baikal drilling proposal. "It is a mystery ^ rominent Soviet science delega- ? they should be ii Charges upgraded Suspects r in HorsesI By KELLY C. THOMAS 1 News Editor \ Three Columbia men were re- c arrested this past Thursday on c charges stemming from the Nov. c 12 attacks on two students and a USC police investigator on the university campus. c Edward Crum, 20, of 4041 Waterpark Drive, Eric Wallace, 20, t of 2614 Palmland Drive and Mi- c chael Anderson, 19, of 2630 Palm- t land Drive were charged Thursday a with assault and battery of a high t and aggravated nature and were 5 transported to the Richland County Detention Center. a USC Vice President for Law 1 ? Enforcement and Safety Carl > The Gamecock ~ . . - f , \ . Stokes said the men had been placed in the detention center earlier this past week on lesser h charges, but they had posted bond h and been released. $ Two of the men, Crum and Wal- r< nson linates tiecocks 5HINGTON lit at the hands of Florida State and ctory over lowly North Carolina the Gamecocks' 45-0 loss to Clemr place the Gamecocks should go ley. gest crowd in Gamecock history, Villiams-Brice Stadium Saturday JSC absorb its second-worst defeat Tigers. In 1900, Clemson crushed -0. nally televised game could easily won the coin toss, then lost everyling point was when we kicked it parky Woods said, he opening kickoff and began to 1 first downs. ly ooara nasned a big *D,' and the hant. But the Gamecocks flashed Id. is into the game, Clemson led 7-0. :k quarterback Todd Ellis hobbled es on crutches. Ben Hogan and yed catch, warming each other up. le Henderson should have warmed )lay of the game, DeMasi lofted a n the middle of the field into Henderson intercepted it and reSC's 26-yard line. )lay, that first play," a bleary-eyed ards. minutes later, the Tigers led 14-0. ; the ball off to runningback Harthe team on USC's next possesive fizzled out at the Tiger 30, ie missed a 47-yard field goal, lackie's kick was the closest the 3 scoring and the closest DeMasi See FOOTBALL page 7 Soviet lake to discuss the scope of the drilling >egan about the research center. A mAnf rAcn 1 taH onH iiivih i vjuiivu, aiiu TT llliailld 11(15 re Soviet Union to meet with other jt the project ssion Savory attended along with n Belguim, Britain, Canada, China concluded in mid-October, and fin the charter are expected to be I 1990. he research project are the Univert Davis and the University of Wisie. Both schools conduct extensive i unusual geological characteristics has more than 1,000 species of oris to Lake Baikal, including the le population of seals, vhat the seals are doing in the lake i the ocean," Savory said. e-arrested loe assault ace, had previously been charged vith assault and battery and disorlerly conduct. Crum had also been :harged with assaulting a police >fficer. Anderson had been charged with lisorderly conduct. "The reason we couldn't charge hem with the assault and battery )f a high and aggravated nature I * ? ? ? ueii was oecause we naa noi oeen ible to talk to the one assault vicim who was in the hospital," >tokes said. The assault victim had been unible to talk to the police until ruesday or Wednesday of this past veek, he said. "After we were able to talk with iim, and he could tell us what had appened, we were able to make tie charges, and the men were arssted again," he added.