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J*H !atter up . I (James Brown to sing less in jail^7| fflV jfm Gamecocks split series \ a bad haircut is going to tell me any-1 With Georgia Southern \ rr. _ ,B _ ; ? 1 JJj^p sports.71 New chart fists top music hits page4| | Vewpoi:^ The Gamecock Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Volume 82, No. 69 The University of South Carolina Wednesday, March 21, 1990 BRIEFLY IN THE NEWS Lithuania denies Kremlin's charges VILNIUS, USSR ? Lithuania's president denied Kremlin accusations that his Baltic republic plans to seize state enterprises and sell thpm tr? nriiiotn ??i ?.w.? uwiitu, anu called a harsh warning from Moscow a negotiating ploy. In a nationally televised broadcast late Monday, the Soviet government warned Lithuania not to erect customs posts, introduce its own currency or take over Moscow-run factories without Kremlin permission. Lithuania's parliament voted on March 11 to secede from the Soviet Union and restore the independence it enjoyed before being forcibly annexed in 1940 along with the other Baltic states ? Estonia and Latvia. Court rules on abortion regulation BOSTON ? A federal regulation that prohibits government-funded family planning clinics trom discussing abortion with clients is an unconstitutional infringement on freedom of speech, an appeals court has ruled. The 1st U,S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a ruling released late Monday that the speech at issue involves telling a woman about an activity ? abortion ? "in which she has a constitutional right to engage." Massachusetts Attorney General James Shannon and attorneys for various family planning groups challenged the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for enforcing the family planning regulations in 1988. DOE estimates billions in clean-up AIKEN ? Federal officials have learned a considerable amount about the right way to approach environmental restoration near nuclear plants such as the Savannah River Site, a Depart ment of Energy official says. Leo Duffy, director of DOE's Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, said although such restoration efforts are "in the embryonic stage," much has been learned over the past four years "about the right way to do it." During a meeting Monday with plant officials and area government and business leaders, Duffy gave an overview of the Energy Department s efforts to clean up radioactive and hazardous wastes at the nuclear weapons plant. Duffy said the DOE is estimating $100 billion will be spent in clean-up costs over the next 30 years. Today, sunny and warmer with highs in the mid 60s, wind north at 10 mph. Tonight, clear and cool with lows in the mid 30s. Thursday, highs in the lower 70s. Compiled from wire reports Cap would pose p House By ROBERT THOMAS Editor in Chief USC would have problems offering core curriculum courses and meeting faculty salary annualizations next fall if current House funding plans and a tuition increase cap gc into effect, USC President James Holderman said. "I think it would be a very serious problam tA foAA " UnlHarmnrt UT li/iu ivy law, iiuiuuuiaii ddlU 1 UU^Ud). J don't even know that we could continue to pay faculty at the level we raised it to lasl year." A state budget amendment limiting tuition increases at state colleges and universities is headed to the Senate after getting House approval this past Wednesday. The move would limit tuition increases to 4.6 percent for S.C. residents who attend public institutions in the state. However, it falls short of limiting tuition increases for Williams-Brice Stadium will get a facel east upper deck. University dr to more strii By ERIKA JOHNSON Staff Writer The university's drug policy, which outlir nalties for trafficking illegal drugs and pos illegal drugs and drug paraphernalia at US( cently rewritten by the Office of Student Aff The drug policy, which dates to 1972, cc the more stringent regulations of state ar government. The faculty senate has endorse policy, which is ready for approval by the Trustees. "We would like for students to know wh; world is like," said Dennis Pruitt, vice pr Student Affairs, who helped rewrite the polic Pruitt said students must know the seric the consequences of using drugs, although t sity's rules are not as strict as in the work ] sanctions imposed by the university allow t two chances, whereas employees in the worl only given once chance. The new drug policy, if approved by the 1 allow the university to permanently suspen found guilty of trafficking. It would also suspension and removal of students from housing if found guilty of possession or us cir?n nr cnlp of drue naranhernalia would he. on an individual basis. Students may lose scholarships if found g drug charge. They may be tried in civil coi as by the university judicial boards, witho them in double jeopardy, Pruitt said. Kathy Altman of the Campus Activities C the center's programs focus on education, ] and early intervention, not therapy. "We try to prevent and try to intervene a point," she said. The center provides assessments, counse port groups and general information for any( problem or who has a family member or frit problem. In a 1989 USC survey conducted by A roblems, Holdermat i limits t "Everybody I talked to in thi ty . . . would all hate to see it i other body such as the Genera out-of-state students. Holderman called the move "inappropriate" coming from the Legislature, whicl traditionally does not play a direct role ir i setting tuition. "Everybody I talked to in the university and college community . . . would all hate to see it (tuition setting) drift away to some nlhpr hrvrlw curh nc thp Opriprol Accpmhlv ' WWIV1 UU HIV VJVIlVlUl l ljovlllflj 9 Holderman said. House Speaker Bob Sheheen, DKershaw, who helped lead the push for the tuition cap, said it is appropriate for the Legislature to put a cap on tuition increases because universities can't be judged sepaT" .1L 1 2 ^ \ * m* -m ift beginning Aug. 1 that will reduce the sway ug policy conf igent regulati percent of the students polled sai after drinking or rode in a car wit! les the pe- drinkng. Seventy-eight percent sail session of coho1 within a 30 day period. - was re- TJie Office ?f Alcohol and Dr ^ ro sored Drug Awareness Week befoi dil U ( . _ )nf0rms to program s focus was to educate id federal anc* alcoho1 use an(i abuse. d the new "\ye want the students to think Board of cohol, and make them aware of said Kimbra Robinson of the Off at the real Dmg Programs. She said it wasn'i r*eiHpnf r\f j . j rr j a _ y ^,ui"u a drastic anrerence in siuuenis *y- heighten their awareness of drugs a >usness of In the USC athletic department he univer- ministers random drug testing 01 place. The managers, cheerleaders and all su he student athletic department. ; place are Ten percent of the athletes ar< chosen randomly by computer. T >oard, will hours notice before their screenii d students Health Center. If an athlete does i allow the test, then he is considered positive university This drug testing system is hardc e. Posses- at an industry, Johnson said, becau dealt with for days or weeks in advance of a time to clean their systems by not \ [uilty on a The the 1989-90 season, 676 I irt as well 422 individuals. One test was posi ut putting in the athletic department, there positive. Group A positive include -enter said sent, or test positive for alcohol an prevention without a prescription. Athletes group A offense must tell their pa it an early by Johnson, screened at the health purposes and are scheduled for fr Jing, sup- following 18 months. Group A of 3ne with a three chances, after which they are jnd with a sport and lose their scholarship. ltman, 56 See Di i says uition in s university and college communi(tuition setting) drift away to some )l Assembly." USC President James Holderman rately from other parts of government. Sheheen proposed the amendment bei cause he thought tuition had increased out i of proportion to other expenses in the past five years. "I did not think it should keep r amu/incr " coirl &xx/TT4?.b, "V JU1U. 5 Rep. Tim Rogers, a Richland County i Democrat whose district includes USC, feels the Legislature's move was more symbolic that an actual stance to keep tuition low. \ "When we underfund higher education, we are making inevitable tuition increases," i Rogers said. The representative said he would be surmm n Swayin: to get d< By SCOTT PRUDEN Carolina Life Editor "mfr ; vr ?, ~ "If it ain't swayin', we ? ^ % w, playm won t apply to the upper deck of Williams-Brice ^ dium next football season. After Aug. 1, "all of the d sway will be eliminated," saic vid Rinker, senior vice pres % for Facilities Planning. Acco ^ >j$ to Rinker, each of the deck's i */c " jf| structural elements will be " fl forced with diagonal steel stru _J| On Feb. 15 and 16, five coi f gtfflHHHj tors submitted bids for the which was awarded to MSI Fitters of Columbia on Man The cost for the repairs wi $268,000 plus 10 percent of tl Eppy engineering fees. "We stayed well within our ^ ^ jected budget, which was ? $300,000," Rinker said. The repairs will be paid for USC athletic funds. | "These (the struts) will si the structure , so that the vibr File Photo ^at can ^ Educed will be mi ing motion in the iKd," Rinker said. Any kind of large buildn orms ~^MT hey are given fou^ lg at the Thomson lot show ud for his and is counseled. it to beat than a test se employees know drug test, and have ising drugs, tests were done on > are two groups of 1 s those who are abd prescription drugs found guilty of a irents, be counseled i center for medical PrucaW/n/Y equent tests for the L^rUSaOing fenders are allowed T0m Short, a pastor fr dismissed from the jn Atlanta, talked to stude day. Short's visit was sp ng policy page 2 dents, a religious group o creases prised if the amendment survived in the Senate and received Gov. Carroll Campbell's signature. Currently the House is debating a plan that would give 86 percent of formula funding. Full or 100 percent formula funding would fund USC and other S.C. schools at the average mark compared to other similiar institutions in 15 Southern states. The S.C. Commission on Higher Education proposed 89.28 percent formula fund ing tor U6C in January. Sheheen said if USC does not have full formula funding it would limit opportunities to experience growth in certain areas. "Universities are always going to be tied to the overall state budget. When it's a tough year for the state you can't expect to See Tuition page 2 g stadium sck support designed to accomodate a certain amount of structural motion, but ain't Rinker said after the repairs are east completed, the sway in the upper ; sta- deck will not be as noticeable. The upper deck first swayed in rastic 1983, during the battle of the i Da- USCs, in which South Carolina ident claim to die initials by beating rding Southern Cal. Serious concern arnajor ose a^ter l^e Gamecock's nearrein uPset Nebraska in 1986, when ts fans on the upper deck began bobltrac king up and down to the beat of job, l^e son8 "Louie, Louie." The Steel amount of motion induced was vis5. ible from all parts of the stadium. 11 be "Louie, Louie" has since been lat in banned on and off at USC football games. pro. In a November interview on Na. u ~finnal PuKIip PqHia T7\m qtann IUUUI who heads the Board of Trustees Facilities Use Committee, said that with the beat of "Louie, Louie" was very similar to the frequency of iffen motion in the upper deck. When ation fans bounced to the beat, the wave inim- motion was drastically, increased lg is See Stadium page 2 !: Pfk*pt f, , si I < " ~ ,i' /' P''' L 1 V- SHi.' pifcx? .. . . I- i "* -f - ,. Teddy Lepp/The Gamecock om Willow Creek Community Church nts on the Russell House Patio Tues>onsored by Great Commission Stun campus.