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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
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ty registrar
so far, and
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back as far
>ping teletems
origins,
Gunter
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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.