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The Gamecock
Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism.
Volume 82, No. 87 The University of South Carolina Wednesday, June 6, 1990
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IN THE NEWS
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Gorbachev visits
San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO ? Here
at a glance are some of Mikhail
and Raisa Gorbachev's activities
during their visit to the San
Francisco area:
He met with South Kon
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rean rrcsxucm ivun iac-wuu.
Roh afterward said he and Gorbachev
agreed to end 45 years
of Cold War animosity by establishing
diplomatic relations
between their countries.
In a speech at Stanford
University, Gorbachev declared
that "the Cold War is now behind
us." He called for a more
united world in which U.S. and
Soviet scientists work together
to destroy nuclear weapons.
Appearing before some
of the West Coast's most influential
businessmen, he said
he would speed up plans to
make the ruble a convertible
currency.
He held a 40-minute
reunion with former President
Reagan, who said afterward
they discussed the independence
drive of the Baltic states and
other issues.
Atwater at home
after treatment
WASHINGTON ?Republican
National Committee Chairman
Lee Atwater has returned
home after spending six weeks
in a hospital for treatment of a
blood clot in his left leg, a
spokeswoman said
"He's feeling great. He
sounds terrific. He's just delighted
to go home/' said Leslie
Goodman, a spokeswoman
for the RNC.
The clot, which will be
treated intravenously at home,
is related to problems caused by
the brain tumor that was discovered
after Atwater collapsed
March 5 while delivering a
breakfast talk to Republican
campaign contributors.
Atwater, who was released
from a Washington hospital
Monday, underwent radiation
treatment in New York following
the March incident.
Senate weakens
Beachfront Act
COLUMBIA ? Critics say
the state Senate's vote tc
weaken the Beachfront Management
Act was a sellout to special
interests and could do more
damage to the coast and wetlands
than Hurricane Hugo.
n T /? ?/>?? C tiirl'io P
LA/1HJ11 axLexington,
a supporter of strong
beach protection, said the Senate's
21-18 vote Thursda)
"gutted the beach managemeni
bill."
Senators voted to strip th<
South Carolina Coastal Counci
of its authority to regulat
building in all freshwater wet
lands except those within fiv<
miles of the ocean.
Senators also amendec
changes in the beach law allow
ing more construction near thi
ocean and virtually ensured tha
existing sea walls would not bi
removed.
Senate supporters of th<
changes said their action woiil<
^ protect private property as wel
as the beach.
President
i From staff and wire reports
James Holderman announced his resigna
tion after 13 years as USC president in t
brief speech on the Horseshoe last week.
"I have decided that it is time to pursut
new personal and professional challenges,'
his May 30 letter of resignation stated. N(
other reasons have been given for hi;
departure.
Holderman will relinquish his position or
July 1, but will continue to serve as an ad
viser to the Board of Trustees until the em
of summer.
Holderman assumed the presiaency lr
late 1977, which has been a stormy on<
filled with both controversy and praise.
Recently, Holderman has been the targe
of much criticism from board members anc
state officials concerning his use of discre
tionary funds to raise money for th<
university.
The controversy arose in May after ii
was revealed that Holderman spent mon
than $533,000 from his discretionary fund
which is supplied by concessions and ven
ding machines on campus.
Trustees meet W
to start search W
for president I
By RON BAKER
News Editor _____
The USC Board of Trustees will
meet today to discuss the process
of selecting a new president for the
university.
The board's chairman, Michael 3J
Mungo, has proposed a new
method of selecting the next presi- I
dent. His plan involves a screening
committee of 11 members, including
two students, to narrow the
university's choices.
One of the students will come
from USC's Columbia campus and
one from another of the system's
campuses.
Many consider the most likely .
candidate for the job to be College ^
of Charleston President Harry
Lightsey, who was formerly dean I |k
of the law school at USC.
Mungo's plan involves a nationwide
search and would rely on the
board itself to further eliminate
some of the choices named by the
11-member committee. The full
board would ultimately select the
next president.
The board is expected to name Hk!
USC Provost Art Smith interim
president of the university at the Jarr
meeting today. stor
USC comvlie
JL
By RON BAKER
News Editor
The legislature's Compliance Revie^
Committee has found that USC has met th
recommendations of 1989's Legislative Au
dit Council report.
The report criticized USC for usin
public resources to raise funds for private
university-related foundations, refusin
openness to the press, the structure an
i
Hilton Head coi
alcohol on islan<
Bv The Associated Press minis
r ?1 1
Spurred by reports of disorderly tions
conduct and other problems ?.
blamed on crowds of beer-drinking
1 ? r\ otr
college students, Hilton Head's
town council has banned the con- or^
3 sumption of alcohol on the island's c
i 12 miles of beaches. 0 1;
1 brea
The council voted 5-2 Monday a stl
for the ban, a town official said. ^ha
"It's in effect immediately and C1^rn
1 there are no waivers and no excep- ^ee'
tions, not even for Jesus Christ,"
g said town manager Martin Gainer. 5
sai(j
The council passed the law de- CQji
spite last-minute objections made
by five Hilton Head Island resij
dents and the introduction of a pet- E
ition with about 350 signatures. are;
The speakers and the petition drin
claimed the ban would unfairly on I
Holdermai
Holderman's 1989-90 expenditures m
than doubled the $252,674 spent the pre
i ous year.
However, university spokeswoman De
i Allen said that Holderman actually sp
' only $70,863.82 of the $533,898.56 to
TUa * ~
) me udidiiL-c ui uic au^uum was spciii
; other university departments and offici
and for general university functions :
i said.
At a May 21 emergency meeting,
] board of trustees limited Holderma
spending, particularly with regard to ac
! modations and travel costs. He was wid
i criticized for spending more than $70(
night for hotel rooms while on fund-rais
t trips, among other expenses.
* The meeting was called by Board
Trustees Chairman Michael Mungo, v
; had called Holderman's spendi
inappropriate,
t Supporters say Holderman's expen
? were justified because he has increased
, nations to the university by more tl
1,700 percent since becoming presid<
Other accomplishments thay have cited
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ies Holderman, with wife Carolyn, sayi
my career as USC president
's with legislc
funding of the foundations, the reporting
salary supplements for USC employees,;
v other matters.
e State Rep. Herb Kirsch, D-York, said
i- foundations, which claim to be private ei
ties, have opened many of their files to
press and have begun to reimburse the i
S versity for the use of public resources.
g While the foundations have opened tf
d records to the press, their meetings are s
jncil bans 171
d's beaches
;h the majority for the infrac
oi a iew.
le year-round ban calls for vi>rs
to pay a fine of up to $200
>end 30 days in jail.
fter reports of problems in the
gny Beach area during spring
k, Mayor Jerry Barkie formed
idy committee on the problem.
t spurred Fred Cornett, a coun- 6I
lan who served on the committo
ask the council for the alcoome
councilmen and the mayor f 1
I they would not support an alol
ban that was not enforced
nd-wide. Ever]
iarkie said enforcement in one The poc
a only would just result in mental 1
iking crowds moving elsewhere ical imb
Jie beach.
i resigns afi
ore the building of the Swearingen Engineering
-vi- Center and bringing prominent speakers an<
instructors to the university,
bra Spokeswoman Allen said the university
ent spent 8 cents per dollar to raise $22.5 mil
tal- lion during the 1988-89 fiscal year, inclu(
by ing money spent by Holderman. "Compar;
'a's tively, the national average was 16.9 cen
?fre per dollar," she said.
The Associated Press reported that Ho
lfre derman's discretionary spending outstrii
n s that of other university presidents who rai;
co~ comparable amounts of money, includin
lely Clemson University's Max Lennon.
? a Clemson, which has 16,000 student
,n8 spent $1.4 million on its fund-raisine la
year and raised $21.8 million. USC, wil
of 40,000 students, spent $1.8 million an
yh0 raised $22.5 million.
ng Holderman and Lennon are not the on
school officials involved with fund-raisin
ses but both play major roles. While Lennc
do- spent $14,715 to raise funds, figure
han showed, Holderman spent $160,000.
mt. Unlike Clemson and most other univers
are ties, the president's account at USC cove
IHoldei
clothes
By The Associated Pre;
USC President Jan
" man used his state-is
card to buy $18,242
electronic equipment,
leather goods in 19!
show.
A Holderman aide
the beleaguered presit
the goods for "u
purposes."
The Charlotte Obsei
Saturday that it obta
card records from th<
last week under the st
of Information Act.
The aide, Lyles Gle
r university was reimbui
derman or an "outside
related to the univer
school-affiliated found
ever, he refused t
canceled checks show
penses were reimburse*
Glenn said that ex
$854 suit, Holderma
items to university do
Glenn refused to ideni
j man reimbursed the u
his Saks Fifth Avenue
Irtesy of University Relations Said.
I goodbye after "a U"hder stat?,.law' off
?= ? ..OA thoil- T->llK1,/?
uivu puuiiv pvoiu
iture1 s report <
; of closed. The Charlotte Observer reported c
and May 18 that an unnamed reporter w;
asked to leave a meeting of the Carolii
the Research and Development Foundation 1
nti- the foundation board's chairman, Arthi
the Williams,
iniKirsch
said the matter of open meetinj
was not considered when LAC urged tl
leir foundations to open their records.
till One area that was covered by the LA
m ijK
1 I 11'
/body out of the pool!
)l at Whaley's Mill was temporarily closed by t
Control Tuesday. A Whaley's mill employee s<
alance," and the pool should be open sometin
ter 13 years
y not only his expenses but also a wide array
of other school-related costs. This includes
$25,000 to buy stadium lights for a soccer
field and $31,000 for airplane tickets to
send the university choir to Israel to
perform.
Holderman has also been criticized for
a" funding former USC artist-in-residence
ts Robby Benson's movie "Modern Love."
USC has been reimbursed for about
$7,000 which was spent on "Modern
)S Love."
5e Benson and his wife, Karla DeVito, have
announced that they will not be connected
with USC after Holderman's resignation.
Holderman has said that rules imposed
st on him by the USC Board of Trustees were
^ not among his reasons for resigning,
'd He has been hired by Ira Koger, one of
USC's most well-known donors, to head
ly Koger's two Florida businesses,
g, Holderman "has demonstrated great vis>n
ion and leadership and has expanded the
?s horizon of the whole state of South Carolina,"
Koger said in the announcement.
;i- "For that service, South Carolina should be
rs forever grateful."
man charges
, gifts to USC
;s vate gain. However, Holderman reles
Holder- ^usec* Friday to comment on the
jsued credit purchases made with his
in clothes, university-issued American Exartwork
and Press card.
39, records Controversy surrounding Holderman
has centered on his use of
said Friday chartered jets, $800-a-night hotel
lent bought rooms and $35-an-hour chauf
iniversity f cured limousine services while on
fund-raising trips,
ver reported But ReP- David Beasley, Dlined
credit Society Hill, said the use of a uni5
university yersity credit card to buy personal
ate Freedom items raised new questions.
"I'm going to write a letter asknn,
said the in8 f?r an accounting," said Beased
by Hoi- sley> chairman of the House Edusource"
not cation and Public Works
sity or any Committee,
ation. How- Other purchases Holderman
o provide charged to his university American
ing the ex- Express card during the first seven
i. months of 1989 included $1,094 at
cept for an Bullock & Jones clothing store in
n gave the San Francisco and $366 at the Innors,
whom ternational Male men's clothes
ify. Holder- store in Hanover, Pa.
diversity for Holderman also charged $2,451
suit, Glenn worth of goods from J & R Sound
stereo store in Maspeth, N.Y., and
icials cannot $1,077 at London Harness, a Bosons
for pri- ton leather goods store.
on foundations
)n report was Holderman's discretionary
as spending. The council said the university
had violated the universitv's own nolicv
)y which states that gift recipients' identities
ur may be kept confidential only if they are
potential donors to USC or the disclosure of
gifts of a personal nature would constitute
gs an invasion of privacy.
ie The Compliance Review Committee
found that USC had not violated its own
C policy.
Nick Leoncavallo/Tne Gamecock
he Department of Health and Environed
there was a problem with a "chemie
today.