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- I, l -I ' ? ?????..... ^... - , . : . ........ : 1 I . ! ii"?>i" i?' niMiYi'r'r i... i . r. mi.. , '->'' . n , - - ----- r - . ------ -. . I m ^SLwstrlevys Local band does it's own thing page4 AIDS, but not enough to stop taking ^ ????? intravenous drugs or to engage in | summer movie safe sex by using condoms, ff5 's3 ^"? p-51 Veteran leads soccer team pages The Gamecock Eighty-two Years of Collegiate Journalism BRIEFLY IN TBI NEWS !| , j| Armenian army blockades roads A rmanton iTIV/kJ W ' ? /lilHUllail security forces blocked roads around the republic's capital after a series of attacks, some blamed on a nationalist paramilitary army, claimed the lives of a local lawmaker and an officer in another militia. Troops in armored vehicles moved into place after Armenia's parliament declared the republic under emergency rule Wednesday and banned the paramilitary army, which has attacked police stations and gas depots to equip itself in its conflict with hostile Azerbaijani neighbors. The republic's parliament also declared a nighttime curfew. An Interior Ministry officer said troops were guarding all roads to Yerevan, the capital, allowing passage only by special permit Tornado kills 24, injures over 300 PLAINFIELD, III. ? Robert Whitesel had lived on Nuclear Drive for 29 years, and the street name seemed grimly appropriate as he surveyed the tornadowhipped wreckage of his house and those of his ~ neighbors. I "You have to laugh ? you can't cry," Whitesel said Wednesday. "I'll probably rebuild it In the meantime, I'll live with my daughter." At least 24 people were killed and more than 300 injured Tuesday by the tornadoes, which steamrolled virtually without warning across a region known as "Tornado Alley," about 35 miles southwest of Chicago. Damage was estimated at more than $100 million. Fant apologizes for using office House Ethics records show that Rep. Ennis Fant apologized for using his legislative office for personal business only after the committee said it might hold a formal hearing if his apology wasn't acceptable, records show. The committee announced this week that it had reprimanded Fant in the first such punitive move it has ever made. The committee said that it found "probable cause" that Fant violated state law by using his legislative office for financial gain in interviewing candidates for an escort service. I ^ynnggjggi In the Monday, August 27 issue of The Gamecock, it was reported Mortar Board made a $1,400 profit instead of $14,000 and students need a 3.2 grade point average to be inducted into the honor J society instead of a 3.0. The Gamecock regrets the errors. Compiled from wire reports I Drinker? JMk A -MB. Bk Pk. By LYNN GIBSON "7" News Editor Students who plan to celebrate this Ch weekend with alcohol should be aware that it could cost them their drivers' licenses. A bill, signed into law on June 24, stipulates that anyone convicted of either under age drinking or providing underage drinkers A with alcohol will lose his license for 90 rests days. joint At least 80 students at Clemson Univer- Sher sity were hit with the new law when the Al- A coholic Beverage Control Commission held coul a "saturation operation" within Clemson's Colu city limits, and Columbia was rumored to the be the next target in the operation. sem< Firm will help find, review 4A /x t /4 /% 4 I1CW piCSJLUClJLl By JEFF WILSON Editor in Chief USC officials, who might begin interviewing pres idential candidates in as early as six weeks, have hire< a consulting firm to review resumes and recommen< people for the university's top spot. The Washington-based firm was hired because th< committee believed it needed an impartial, outsid< consultant to assist with the selection process, com mittee chairman Mark Buyck said. "We felt the need to get professional assistance t< help with the search and for us to council with,1 Buyck said. "We've gotten some good input fron them." For most executive positions at the university, can didates are brought in to be interviewed, but Buycl said the committee might have to go to the candidate: for the presidential position. "Because of the confidential nature of our mission it may be dangerous to bring in candidates. We ma1, have to go to them," he said. Stephen Benjamin, Student Government presiden and committee member, said he is pleased with th< committee's diversity. "The search is going well. We have a lot of quali fied people on the committee ? students, faculty staff and trustees," Benjamin said. "Everyone is realb working hard and working together." Security systei By SHARON WILLIAMSON that Managing Editor the d When the USC board of trustees ap- ^ proved a 3.59 percent housing increase in cu April, money was set aside for campuswide security measures, including the in- rca J stallation of a code card security system, according to Vice President for Business J? Affairs Richard Wertz. r The cards, which are longer than a credit R card but not as wide, are used to gain ac- easil cess into the building and the resident's awk room. "] But Wertz said the card system might not but be the best option. The revamped security said system, now called perimeter access, will R most likely include a single key, not a card, two Meritous teacher, art professor dies From staff reports Art professor and director of graduate studies the USC Department of Art, Nell M. Lafaye died 1; Thursday. A memorial service was held Thursday at 4 p. in Rutledge Chapel. Lafaye had been the director of undergraduate si dies for the USC Department of Art for 10 years a won the. first Outstanding Teacher of the Year aw? given by the department for 1990. She also participated in numerous group exhil tions and held many one-person shows at college museums and galleries in North and South Carolina She received the Award for Excellence in Visi - Arts from USC in 1988 and the Merit Award Sculpture from Springs Mills in 1989. She held a private pilot's license and was a mei ber of the Carolina Chapter of Ninety Nines Inc., international organization of licensed women pile She was a member of the Lake Murray Sailing CI and competed in the Regatta circuit. _____ 5 face toi The parents and the kids just don't u oesn't include driving to school. " Administrative specialists for BC enforced alcohol laws in area bars, "We n lurants. off-camnus concerts and set ound the roadblocks with local police and the certs," he riffs Department in Clemson. Howevi BC Chief Enforcer Joe Dorton said he game at dn't say when the ABC would reach said, imbia, but that they did typically visit "We ha USC campus twice during each dium for ister. (ABC) cc ^0Im % JHH 3 WZ- > > |^H C BBHWtt - Going, going, gone Students flip through books of posters on ^ Thursday. m causes profc would unlock exterior doors as well as three-bed oor to the individual resident's room. same as ri ne key would be the easiest and least according jersome option," Wertz said. Wimmc sidents of Thornwell College are al- venient wl / using the plastic code keys. sit outside stalled for security purposes in August added tha , the system has its faults, according to phone wil nwell residents and university staff. Univers esidents complain that the cards break ^ pcrim< ly, are hard to keep up with and are ?^ent L ward because they stick out of a wallet. we w can see the point (of having the cards), an~! con^0 it s a nassie, resiaent Marc vvimmer " "I lost mine my first day back." ould lu" eplacing lost code keys costs $30 for a bedroom apartment and $35 for a He saic Nell Lafaye i igh new nrinrifv " Dnrl r1"?j ' inderstand that the law sel1 alcohol, a had when we < Among tlit JoAnn Catoe alcohol-restric Driver Records department J drinking if ormally concentrate on areas ar- a using a fak< campus ? restaurants, bars, con- g an(j tjistribu saic*- A second ol er, ABC won't be at the football olations will i Williams-Brice Stadium, Dorton license suspen ? . , , The law's ive not furnished agents to the sta a number of years, because the immission decided it was a lower in Httr _ _ I ^ x iL > r V . . A a a 11 t Iai ia/\ n rt + ! a Tk /\ nnl/N I sale at ine nUbStJN nuubt? i-ciuu. iiic adit?, op lems, not best * room apartment, which is the meant to be a ^placement costs for regular keys, cut down on t to Horseshoe-area staff. that have "no jr also said the system was incon- Although g hen friends visit because he has to there will not and wait for them. However, he exterior dorm t the residents have been told a cess is in plac 1 be installed outside. The syste :ity officials said a bid was out for residence-hall eter access system, which will be said, with the han the Thornwell system. With 1,200 re ant to find the most inexpensive fourth of the nient method," Wertz said. said. Hope r option, which Wertz said they be working so n to if necessary, is two keys, one The housin 5 doors and one for room doors. t the security measures were not I~ Efforts to seci upset many i By CHAD BRAY in ai lyP! Staff Writer guar( Reigns on the fraternities living all t on the McBryde Quadrangle will and be tightened within weeks as offi- will cials step up security. armb All outside gates to the Quad, "S except the front gate by the guard- on c< house, will be locked from 11:30 of th p.m. to 8 a.m. All doors that lead Patte directly from the fraternity housing Hous outside the Quad will be fire exits. T1 I Most of the fraternities at to an McBryde, however, are not happy with the new security measures, out according to senior Vic Pyle, pres- there ident of the Fraternity Council. P> mm "The feeling that I got at the presj Monday meeting was that a major- unde ity of the fraternities weren't "F pleased at all," Pyle said. mor< Guests will be required to sign foot! laws on said. "The stadium doesn't ind most of the violators we did do it were of age," ^ violations under the new tion laws are: Icohol to people under 21; alcohol for people under 21; under 21; i ID; iting a fake ID. ffense on any of the above viresult in a six-month drivers' ision. only exception to suspension See DRINKING page 2 ^Wjj| x " Wto* 1 - - t3g$&tfA8^?s*v ^ Gabrielle Lee/The Gamecock onsnr^H hv P.PI I onHori w. .WW. w VJ VI w, vi IUUU | option barrier to residents but would he number of people in dorms business being there." uards will not be eliminated, be a need to place guards at entrances once perimeter ace, Wertz said. m will be installed on a l-by-residence-hall basis, he Towers on the top of the list, isidents, the Towers houses a on-campus students, Wertz fully, the Towers' system will rnetime this year, he said, g fee increase was projected See SECURITY page 2 urn OnnH LV-JL U^itVt esidents t the guardhouse, where a i will be on duty from 4 p.m. a.m., and must be escorted at imes. During special events home football games, guests have to wear color-coded lands. ecurity is being emphasized 3llege campuses for the safety ieir residents," said Lt. Carrie rson, security coordinator for ring Services. , le area is currently accessible lyone, Patterson said. Ve're trying to keep the people who aren't supposed to be he said. de said he was under the imsion the new measures were rgoing a trial period this fall. *arties have traditionally been 2 out-of-control during the >all season," Pyle said.