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A * crowd pieasers j I use defeats UNC-Charlotte 16-4 7 \ I ., VmHBL* ;GreenSIreet'S CAr0Wd ?1 con^subatttuta^^he9Lady?Gameam HjSVfr favors Pnvato Ayes I U 1 cocks were stepping on Bowling cw.I...m,,411 Rainbows appear in Sumter forest 411 " -*??. The Gamecock Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Volume 82, No. 70 The University of South Carolina * Friday, March 23, 1990 BRIEFLY I' IN THE NEWS B U.S. pilot drops * 'dummy' bomb TOKYO ? An American ai fighter pilot accidentally re- to leased a dummy bomb near O the construction site of a nuclear waste reprocessing cen- Y ter, news reports and U.S. a military officials said pi Thursday. The accident caused no in- iti juries or damage, acmrriincx sp ' ~"? to Capt. Phillip Delaney, a di spokesman at the U.S. Mis- fit awa Air Base in northern Japan. gr Delaney said the pilot "in- w; advertantly released" the de 25-pound dummy bomb over a field about 1.5 miles from the base bombing range. Dummy bombs are for practice and do not explode. Asoirin rednrps strokes, report says NEW ORLEANS ? The risk of strokes resulting from irregular heart beats, which strike 75,000 Americans annually, can be cut in half simply by taking a single aspirin tablet each day, according to a study published Thursday. These strokes are triggered by extremely rapid beating of the atria, the heart's upper chambers, a condition called atrial fibrillation. About 1.2 million people have this abnormality, and until now most have gone untreated. Eastern announces interim contract MIAMI ? Eastern Air lines Thursday announced an interim contract with its pilots union that calls for a 25 ? percent wage cut, and said the pact did not call for rehiring those who walked out ^ last year. The cut applies to Eastern's approximately 850 pilots still being paid at the ? pre-strike wage rate of about I $72,000. Eastern had 3,600 sat* union pilots who honored las* picket lines when a sym- rnir pathy strike with machinists doe began in March 1989. of 1 FEMA may give vo11 S.C. $10 million X-r COLUMBIA ? The Federal Emergency Management T Agency plans to give about JP $10 million to South Carolina to help eliminate or reduce roadway, bridge and ?1 other hazards stemming from Hurricane Hugo, an official said Thursday. * "The program 5$ undefined Ass tuuugn so almost anytning hi can come under hazard miti- neg; gation" including long-term duel emergency development ofF plans and beachfront restora- T tion, said Mary Hudak, an tion emergency management ber. program specialist with whii FEMA. en(ji Today, mostly sunny with 8en( highs in the upper 70s. 0 Southwest winds will be 15 relai mph. whil Tonight, partly cloudy with lows in the lower 40s. the Saturday, mostly cloudy Soul with a 20 percent chance of 0 light rain and highs in the relal mid 60s. com Compiled from wire reports ?P ?rofessor denies Studi y LYNN GIBSON ssistant News Editor A USC graduate student is seek 500,000 in damages from the univer id a professor she contends sexut irassed her in a lawsuit filed in Richl ounty Monday. Media Arts graduate student Camilla ork filed the suit against Franklin Ash tenured professor in the College of j ied Professional Sciences. The suit alleges that Ashley used his p on of authority over York to try to sec xual favors from her and attempted to ice her while on a university-sponso dd trip to Atlanta last fall. York contends that during her study ; aduate assistantship this school year, ; is subjected to "sexually suggestive < rogatory comments and improper ph} MMMilwi'' - iHi * V , $ it j x :<;r: i r k ( V* \*0X. | That equals .... Accounting juniors Teresa Haley floor of the Russell House Thurst fraternity. JSC resear< KATHY HEBERGER distant to the Editors nsulation problems in communicatio Elites, nuclear bombs and high pow its might never improve without the al 1a ceramics research Tangali Sudarsh; >s everyday in his Swearingen lab. We want to find why it's not workii make improvements," Sudarshan sa lis research with alumina ceramics, ins ng material that must withstand hij tages without shorting out. leutron triggers for nuclear weaponr av tubes and the microwave tnhpe tace relatic ccording tc SHARON WILLIAMSON istant Copy Desk Chief ilacks in South Carolina view race rel aftt Trtl. ? J? - - auvtiy man win its au, according to a ted in November and December by US 'ublic Affairs. he study, designed by Robert Older ed 585 adults chosen randomly by tele Sixty-eight percent of those surveyed :h is representative of the state, accorc ick, director of the Survey Research La he results indicated that the largest d lions was between the races, rather th ler groups or age groups. wer 80 percent of blacks surveyed stat tions were poor or fair, compared to 51 ies who felt the same way. ro some extent, these data may reflect series of racial incidents that have tak th Carolina during the past year," Oldei ver 30 percent of blacks surveyed be tions had gotten worse over the past pared to 19 percent of whites holdin lion. Slacks rate the current situation more harassment charges ent seeks cal sexual contacts" by Ashley. She also alleges that Ashley ridici ing and harassed her when she rejected sity overtures. illy According to the suit, USC is named and defendant because the university knew out Ashley's alleged "pattern of har; A. ment" but failed to investigate or cor ley, previous complaints against him. \p. The suit is asking for damages basec York's alleged emotional distress, phys >os- injury and/or illness, and delay in her e ure cation. It also asks that the court order I. se- to take "appropriate disciplinary acti red against Ashley. York claims she was forced to withd md from Ashley's class this semester, she Ashley said he was shocked by ind allegations. fsi- "She didn't go through the normal ch Hh Rei (left) and Brenda Snider do taxes free of ( jay. They are members of Beta Alpha Pi :her works to in space satellites all contain the insulati] _ material, and Sudarshan says he has hop ns for using it for environmental purposes li er radioactive waste handling, u- Sudarshan, an electrical engineer wl an came to USC in 1979 after working for tl National Research Council in Ottawa, r ag ceived a $180,000 grant last year from tl id M. J. Murdoch Charitable Trust to use to^ u- ard his alumina ceramics research, jh One colleague, the French Atom Energy Commissioner, came to USC rece y, tly for 10 days of work with Sudarshan. id Sudarshan said USC is one of the b( ns not going ) S.C. blacks^ "Blacks rate the cur lations more more negatively than d survey con- are more likely to feel C's institute tj0n js getting worse." phone num- Director, Survey Res were white, ?????? iing to Old- ^an do whites, and are more 1 boratory. situation is getting worse," Older ifference in More blacks than whites were ian between spending for state universities an and mental health facilities, accc ed that race results. 3 percent of Results also indicated that mo believe the drug problem is the reactions to lem facing the state. :en place in ndick said. "The survey clearly indicates dieved race tween the races," Oldendick said, two years, Issues that the races agreed on g the same issues. Oldendick said blacks < agree on issues such as Hurrica > negatively front Management Act and Local $500,000 nels, and people here are very perplexed iled we had no warning of this (the suit), his Senior Vice President for Personnel Ja Jameson acknowledged that York talked as a both her and the Affirmative Action ( ab- ficer, who handles harassment complaii ass- for the university, rect "I can confirm that Ms. York talked the. nmnpr nnivfrcitv r\ffir>io1c oKrvnt ? jv A V* Uiiif vuifcj v/HAVlUiJ auuu L I on month ago. She was seeking informati ical about filing a complaint and about her si! ;du- ation she was alleging. She was provid ISC with information on the procedure for fili on" the complaint, and she has elected not file an internal complaint prior to filing raw lawsuit," Jameson said. York's attorney, J. Stephen McCormac the confirmed that York had not gone throu; USC channels first, lan- "I would like to point out there is no 1 IP?" ^ \ v \ ^ From staff reports The Koger Center's d most $300,000 is causi one USC Trustee to ta look at the university's A Itl 1VJX U1C rtlls. Trustee Chairman Mungo expressed cone this week that the ce # J produce so much debt year, and even went s< suggest that Richland ( the city of Columbia t help pay the center's costs. ,. ? Mungo said the Koge iee Meyer/The Gamecock ?? . .. .. 6 an extraordmanly expe ation for the university.' charge on the 2nd "We're subsidizing c si, the accounting above and beyond tl duty," he said. He added that he felt improve insul ag places he could be right now for his spe es cialized ceramics research, ke "USC probably has one of the bes equipped labs in the country for the experi 10 ments we're doing," he said, he e- Graduate assistant Rom Bommakant ne agrees, we compete witn some or tn n- world's best universities in the experiment we perform." ic n- Sudarshan's research requires equipmen that can produce very high voltages. Hi >st works with an electrical generator, for ex well, usc vhites ^ _jjl lo whites, and idick said. 55.30% in favor of improved d colleges, public aid >rding to the survey's White Students' Respo re blacks than whites most important prob- jj? X^"ent EU Fair 0 Poor i the differences bewere not race-related ind whites tended to ne Hugo, the BeachOption Sales Tax. in lawsuit ? quirement for doing so and USC is a defendant in this suit because of failure to act on ne previous complaints," he said, to He declined to comment on whether the )f- previous complaints had been filed by York its or others. "By the code of ethics I am governed by, to which is law in the state of South Carolina, a I am extremely limited to what I can cornon ment on as the plaintiffs attorney. Indeed, tu- the only thing I can comment on are things ed that are matters of public record," he said, ng Ashley's attorney, Herb Louthian, was to not available for comment but told The a State newspaper in an article that appeared Wednesday the allegations were "inrespon:k, sibly made and done to damage my client's gh reputation." e- See Professor page 2 ir Center uces debt hrvrio sity needed to look into the opera^ tional costs of the center, and reT\QtQ (*uce t*iem w^ere possible. 'Uolo USC President James Holderman said he didn't think it would oe aavisame to ask tne two govleficit of al- ernments to help fund the center, ing at least He did not feel the suggestion ke a closer would be well-received by the KogerCen- governments, which provided almost $6 million in construction aid Michael when asked for funding on the ;ern earlier mid-1980's. nter could in its first An audit was ordered by a Truso far as to tee committee to study the first opHounty and erational year of the center, but e asked to that information has not yet been operational released to the public. Koger Center director Ron Pear>r Center is son said much of the costs were nsive oper- eaten up by the expensive performances that have been held in the ulture way center, and that more lesste call of expensive acts are scheduled for the future. He said other ways of the univer- cutting costs are being looked into. -1__ auon product ample, capable of producing a 300,000 volt pulse for one-millionth of a second, t He used the $180,000 to buy equipment, pay graduate assistants and for personal needs. Sudarshan, who also has a grant from the Navy, says he hopes to receive i another grant after the current grant's three e year span is finished, s Bommakanti said he likes working for Sudarshan because "he gives students freeit dom in the work. He doesn't say 'Just do e this.' We all enjoy the work. It's a lot of fun," he said. Daro Rolotinnc Cnriiau i IMWV iviuiiviio wuI v^y Black Students' Response 16.30% |||^ Excellent 12.50% 7.50% nse 40 60% Donnie Cornell/The Gamecock