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The Gamecock
Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism
Volume 82, No. 53 The University of South Carolina Monday, January 29, 1990
BRIEFLY
IN THE NEWS
Soviets leave front;
peace talks to begin
MOSCOW (AP) ? Armenian
and Azerbaijani fighters
began withdrawing from a
Key battletront on bunday,
and the enemies agreed to
discuss extending the truce
to other parts of the region.
The Armenian National
Movement agreed to conditions
demanded by the Azerbaijani
People's Front for
peace talks that are to begin
Wednesday in Latvia, according
the Latvian People's
Front, which is sponsoring
the talks.
Both sides now say they
will discuss troop withdrawals,
refugees and other humanitarian
concerns, but not
the territorial dispute that
triggered the hostilities, said
Artis Erglis of the Latvian
People's Front.
Fire kills 28 people
celebrating holiday
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ? (
A fire broke out Saturday in ,
a five-story commercial (
building as a crowd inside j
celebrated the Lunar New
Year, and 28 people were ]
killed, officials said.
Police said 18 bodies were
found near the Taoyuan
building's bathrooms and in
a video parlor on the fourth ,
floor, which also housed a j
theater, hotel, a barber shop
and stores. ,
President defends
$1.2 trillion budget j
WASHINGTON (AP) ?
President Bush on Sunday ;
prepared to send Congress a i
$1.23 trillion 1991 spending ]
plan that his budget director
said contains no general tax
increase and which he predicted
will be "criticized unfairly"
on Capitol Hill.
With many details already
known about the budget,
which will be released today,
Democratic lawmakers are
complaining that it fails to
address the deficit seriously i
and that its defense cuts are .
too timid.
Mall might be using
discriminating law
(AP) Columbia Mall, recently
burdened with crimerelated
controversy, has been
using a 1960 state law designed
to quell racial demonstrations
to keep out people
it considers troublemakers, a
newspaper reported Sunday.
The Supreme Court has
declared the law unconstitutional
if used to discriminate,
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diiu uie iNauuiiai /\s$uLiauun
for the Advancement of Colored
People says that is the
case at Columbia Mall.
The NAACP claims more
than 100 people, most of
them black, have been barred
from the mall during the past
two years under threat of
prosecution for criminal
trespass.
Today it will be cloudy
with a 70 percent chance of
rain. High near 60 with
winds 5 to 20 mph.
Tonight, mostly cloudy.
Low in the lower 40s.
Tuesday, mostly cloudy
with 20 percent chance of
showers. High in the lower
60s.
Student coi
By LYNN GIBSON
Assistant News Editor
A USC student has confessed to stealing
$1,500 in property from her suitemate's
dorm room, police said Sunday.
April Harris, 19, of Heath Springs, S. C.
has been charged with third-degree burglary
and grand larceny.
She turned herself in to the USC Police
Department Friday night after police
searched her room, police reports said.
Harris waived her rights, was interviewed
by police and taken to the Richland County
Detention Center. Bail was set at $2,500,
and she remained incarcerated as of late Saturday
night, USC's senior criminal investigator
said.
The theft was reported on Jan. 13, when
the victim returned to school and found her
door open and her microwave, color T. V.,
electronic typewriter, 35mm camera, lamp,
Year of hors
helps to rais<
Chinese spiri
By KANGCONG ZHANG
Staff Writer
Students from mainland China ushered in th
sse New Year ? the year of the horse ? S;
two days after finding out they might have to r
China and face the possibility of retaliation for
pro-democracy demonstrations.
The U. S. Congress failed Thursday to c
President Bush's veto of a bill that attemptec
nove two-year home country residence requij
for international students to hold a job in this <
A.s a result, about 20,000 Chinese students m
forced to return home when their visas expi
this year, facing the danger of persecution f<
participation in the 1989 democratic movement
"I know some students don't agree with m<
want the Bush administration to send a stron;
:learer message to the Chinese government,
understandable, but I think the long-term
should be emphasized," he said.
Journalism graduate student Li Xiaomin sail
dent Bush displayed his diplomatic talent in h
[his tough issue.
Students from China held a Spring Festiv;
Saturday, the day 1990 officially begins, accoi
Lhe Chinese Lunar Calendar, while their coun
from Taiwan gathered together Friday evening
See Chinese students
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Staff Writer
Many of the USC students who were
charged sales tax on their textbooks by Addam's
University Bookstore have not returned
for their refund.
Store manager Mike Moore said only a
few hundred students have come in for their
refund since this past week. He could not
give the exact number of students or the
total amount of money returned, because
the refund was often added onto the receipt
for returned or exchanged books. It would
be up to the bookstore's accountants to figCommittee,
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sports clubs ^
end tension
By KATHY HEBERGER jf
Staff Writer W A
The Senate Finance Committee's
release of $16,000 in supplementary
funds to the Sports
Club Council Budgeting Committee
this past Wednesday marked an mDbj
end to tensions between the com- \
mittees that began early last fall. ^ 4
Tensions re-ignited briefly last J
week because an article about the
funds freeze in The Gamecock Friday
incorrectly presented one side
of this complex situation the com- >.10feSi|
mittees have been trying to resolve
for the past three months.
The conflict began in midOctober,
1989 when the Senate Finance
Committee withheld sup- r*r\r*
plementary funds, not the clubs' UOC
regular 5 percent share of student pen
activity fees (about $32,000), be- fee^ <j|
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this was brazen. It's sad pie
always point a finger
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VCR and jewelry gone. Her roomma
answering machine was also missing.
The door to the bathroom, which c
nects the two rooms, was locked.
Investigator Michael Rouick and Res*
Police Officer Bryan Mills were assigne
the case and repeatedly tried to get in tc
with Harris. They went to the victi
room Friday to get a diagram of the r<
and the placement of the property.
While there, they knocked on Han
door and her roommate invited them
The officers noticed the victim's T. V.
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ure out the total amount of money recei
and returned.
Students' lack of interest in returning
their money may be related to the siz<
the refunds, which range from just a
cents to $3.
"I was only overcharged a dollar
something, so I didn't think it was that
of a deal," USC freshman Laura Kirk
rick said.
"If anyone has paid (the sales tax)
want to make sure they get it back,
that's the bottom line," Moore said.
When asked if he thought the misl
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stealing from
;ighbors stealing things before, but
- when things like this happen, peo
ai ine cusioaiar worKers. wen, i ve
lat's hardly ever the case."
Senior criminal investigator
ite's without notifying the victim or the roommate,
left to get a search warrant.
;on- Harris's roommate, who had just moved
in this semester and was unaware of the
erve theft, told Harris the police were looking
d to for her.
>uch Harris's friends then persuaded her to
m's turn herself in and she gave a full statex>m
ment, reporting that she had discovered the
bathroom door unlocked when she moved
ris's in. She entered the victim's room, removed
in. the property through the bathroom and then
and, came back to the victim's room.
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ly when a valve at the Physical Science building o
owing clouds of the gas to escape. Chemistry p
) valve off. Creek said the valve probably loosened
idams's for sal
ved had hurt the bookstore's reputation, Moore
replied that the S. C. Tax Commission realfor
ized that it was a-mistake, and he thought
5 of that the students at USC would be just as
few understanding.
"We hope that they realize that we're huand
man, too. It was not an intentional thing,"
big he said.
pat- "It doesn't bother me much, because
they're giving the money back. Besides, a
, we bookstore is a bookstore," said Lori Noand
votny, a government and international studies
sophomore,
lake "I really don't care, but it seems to me
Populati
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r. jflB By KATHY LEAPHART
^ MKBm Staff Writer
In the 1980s, the populati
fr a plosion became a global a
jJk as the world population
KB i ^Sjf reached 5 billion.
Population will be increas
k .Jig pidly in the 1990s, and by tl
WL ^JP 2030 population will have d
mm i to 10 billion.
"We in the affluent
should be very apprehensive
the population explosion,
uSC geography professor !
jm Janiskee. 'There is no simpl
! jU 4 tion to the population problei
As a member of the globa
munity, Columbia must tak<
to help find a solution for c
pulation or suffer the far-re
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could arise from uncontroll
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After locking the bathroom door, she unlocked
the front door and left the room.
She had given some of the property to
other people, whom she insists did not
know it was stolen. All the property has
been recovered, the senior investigating officer
said.
"We've had cases of neighbors stealing
things before, but this was brazen," he said.
"It's sad ? when things like this happen,
people always point a finger at the custodial
workers. Well. I've been here for vears and
that's hardly ever the case."
Danny Baker, vice president for Law Enforcement
and Safety, said the case shows
it is important to keep doors in the dormitories
locked.
"It's unfortunate that community members
steal from other community members,
but it's a reality and people have to realize
that," he said.
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Deborah Ryan/The Gamecock
n the corner of Devine and Main streets
jrofessor Kim Creek was contacted by
I up on its own.
n i
es tax reruna
that they were more interested in Carolina
sportswear and being the big, new bookstore
on campus, and that's why they
goofed," electrical engineering sophomore
Dan Ramage said.
Addam's was unaware that a South Carolina
tax law exempts both new and used
textbooks from the state's sales tax.
Addam's plans on turning over all the
money that is not refunded to the S. C. Tax
Commission.
Students who have not gotten their refund
and have their receipt can still go by
Addam's to get their money.
ion growth
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on ex- ^
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ing rale
year
oubled =Vli
world In addition, the economic conse:
about quences could include sky"
said rocketing debt as countries
Robert struggle to keep up with populae
solu- tion demands. Countries who have
m." borrowed large sums of money,
1 com- such as Brazil, will find it difficult
i steps to pay back their loans and may
iverpo- default, causing economic shock
aching waves that will affect all countries
is that around the world,
ed po- Although population control
nsequ- boards can help to lower birth
quarter rates, attitudes and lifestyles will
e alive
See World Population page 2