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?__ ?-?-?__?-? I . . : - - - ? ..... . . . . _ , : J___ ... . , ^2M Professor Profile I ?. * . . . .R . - Quote?',he ?ay t 1m use Drofessor Computer chip might improve page2 * pivi^oov ^ underprivileged, but what good wifi wrifpq npw hook afl that do if rwne of us have an { jLgyk VV IvO Mt?VV uuur\ Earth to stand on?" i ll *>*"?'ic?,aSl,.,l Aerial attack key to USC win ,?., | "TZT" The Gamecock Eighty-two Years o] Collegiate Journalism Volume 83 , No. 13 The University of South Carolina Monday, September 10, 1990 ' ' ' ' -- " " . . ?^ - ... ..- -..v.. || :.. , , . , ' _j^^_j_^;:T |-j:'-1 'Ti'<i 1 Tii'-' :i' vv :i!_lli_i ___l_____ ?i_ : " minim ' :'^itiiVif; '*EhlEF=lil :: IN?THE NEWS Pope's visit brings amnesty to inmates KABGAYI, Rwanda ? Pope John Paul II on Saturday called for a narrowing of the gap between Africa's urban elite and rural poor and urged peasants in this infertile nation to redouble efforts to improve the quality of rhp.ir livfis. Later, the military government announced a general amnesty to mark John Paul's visit and said it will cover all prisoners except those sentenced for "political crimes and corruption against the state." The announcement broadcast on state radio said prisoners facing the death penalty will have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment. Life sentences will be reduced to 20 years, and sentences of 10 to 20 years will be halved. Space shuttle flaw delays take-ofl date CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ? NASA was counting on a successful shuttle flight this month to help shake a tarnished image and prove to Congress that it is, indeed, the can-do agency of years past. But the glory days seem further away than ever now that Columbia still leaks hydrogen and remains earthbound for another week, possibly longer. It's one more embarrassment for NASA as lawmakers head into the final weeks of budget talks. President Bush has proposed spending $15.1 billion for NASA for fiscal 1991, which begins Oct. 1. That's 24 percent more than this year's $12.3 billion budget. New plant needless, says N.C. group WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. ? The five states targeted to use North Carolina's hazardous waste incinerator may soon have more than three times the waste-treatment capacity they will need, predicts one environmental group. The North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network says the proposed $70 million plant will be unnecessary, given that plants capable of treating 3.9 million tons of waste a year are expected to be in all five states in 1995. WSPA sportscaster dies in plane crash LYNCHBURG, Va. ? A Spartanburg, S.C., sportscaster and another man died i ii _i wnen ineir smau piane crashed into a house near Lynchburg as the pair were flying to South Carolina after the Clemson-Virginia football game. Paul Jackson Viall III, 37, and pilot Robert J. Sumner were killed when the twin-^ engine Cessna went down about 10:20 p.m. Saturday, police said. No one on the ground was hurt, police said. Viall was sports director for WSPA-TV in Spartanburg, WSPA station manager Jack West said Sunday. Complied from wire reports Police ai By AARON SHEININ Staff Writer I nnltpp om?etAf1 a mon PriHav Aurr wuv yviivv uiavjuvvi a iiian x nuajr, * iu^. 31 in the act of stealing books from the secured carrells of the Thomas Cooper Library. Howard Lee Hills, 25, no current address known, was arrested and charged with one count of grand larceny, according to the police report. Hills made a verbal confession and was transported to Richland County Detention Center and released on a $10,000 surety bond. Investigator Michael Couick, the arresting officer, said the arrest was made after several days of police work in and around the library. New office to promote recycling By GORDON MANTLER Staff Writer With the opening of a recycling office last month, USC made a move toward a greener environment. The office's purpose is not to run a large campus-wide recycling 1 Ct\ 111 I program dui to neip develop ana ;r coordinate recycling and to be an ! information service for any branch or organization that wants to start one," graduate assistant John New- fefa man said. gLfoj The office, which was formed in response to faculty requests, consists of Newman, undergraduate assistant Harvey Lucas, and faculty adviser Shealy McCoy. Newman said limited organized recycling has started on campus. A pilot program developed by Frank $lfiP| Mins of Operational Services is Firefic currently recycling white office paper from the Byrnes Interna- SKitfi tional Center, Osborne Administration Building and Wardlaw I College. The white paper is collected in bins and then taken to a recycling center. The money received goes into the department's recycling account, which goes back into the program. "When funds permit, we'll add to it (the recycling program)," Mins said. In addition to Operational Services, Resident Student Development and Housing Services are working on a joint project to provide bins in the dormitories for the collection of aluminum cans and newspapers. Currently, there are no recycling containers in any of the dormitories. Lori Harshaw, the Horseshoe area manager, said they are working to put the bins in the dormitories but it is doubtful they would be in place by recycling day. Any group who is currently re- MMl cycling products are encouraged to Il? contact Newman or Lucas. A fire See RECYCLE page 2 '13 Joe Dorton * rest, char "Friday, he slipped right into th possession." "T* ? a ~ : - ? t- * a ii was iiul d une-uay aiiau,ne saiu. According Couick, Hills would enter the library carrying an empty book bag, proceed to the secured carrell section and wait for a student. When a student unlocked the outer door to the carrells, Hills would ask him to hold the door open for him. The student, without any reason to refuse, unsuspectingly would give Hills ac- i cess to the carrells. Hills would then wait \ ' ; y-^'vg '1 , V? 4. ::-r -ff-?f' jhters battle the blaze that erupted in the field h< Ml > - - 'v- g&Sgi: 'v:' I , ?. ? ?V:> % iflHBk ^ f 4 w* J% % ^1'pP^jP W^T dI < r ^asF,iMfa Jn WF W I ^ $mSm mm I^ITI*: EricGU lighter cools off a colleague during Saturday's f Students 1< a oiiiei speaK: about enforcemen By CHAD BRAY Staff Writer Students learned about the new und< age drinking laws from the chief of e forcement for the Alcoholic Bevera Control Commision in an open foru Thursday night. For about an hour and a half, Joe Dc ton addressed a small crowd in the Ri sell House Theater in the event sponsor jointly by Tau Kappa Epsilon fraterni and the USC Office of Alcohol and Dr Programs. "In a lawful society, obedience of t law is expected," Dorton said, "and ii expected for people of every age." Dorton said any person will lose the ge textbc le net with the property in his Michael Couick USC Investigator until he was alone and crawl into the carrells through the exposed bottom. Couick said Hills sold the books to unsuspecting merchants in bookstores around Columbia. He said, however, that it is the general policy of Columbia bookstores to "bend 3ver backwards" to help both the police and the victims in crimes such as these. He also said the solicitor's office is very : JSRW- ^' < ^ , :Wn- **J" Duse on Whaley Street Saturday afternoon. ^1 Blaze H athleti TTCP rvi mm inf/ tvatuaw By STEVE JOHNSON South campus residents 1 evacuated from their dorm USC's nearly completed in athletic facility on Whaley S caught fire in a bizarre acci at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. At about 4 p.m., university licemen and campus security ficials sounded the alarm Bates West, Bates House Cliff Apartments and evacu the three buildings. Officials ordered the eva jnn/The Gamecock (jon in an effort to protect th ire. sidents from further inhalatic iarn about al ^ license for 90 days and face a fine of up to $137 under the following circumstances: being under 21 years of age and t in possession of alcohol, giving false information about their age while attempt ing to buy alcohol, possessing a false I.D. or providing alcohol to someone under 21 u- years of age. ;n- "You play the game, you pay the ge price," Dorton said, im "Nobody has ever said that you don't have sense to know how to use alcohol," )r- he said, "What the legislature has said is- and the U.S. Congress has said is that if ed you aren't 21 years old then you aren't ity legally old enough to possess alcohol, ug "Police officers aren't interested in the fact that you might just be holding a beer he for someone else, when, in fact, they're t*s charging you with holding the beer." He said ABC makes 4,500 arrests an?ir nually and that approximately 3,500 of >ok thief helpful in these cases. Couick said the recovered books are placed into evidence. The solicitor's office often will permit photographic evidence to be allowed, meaning that photographs are taken of the evidence in question, allowing the books to be returned to their rightful owner. If this is not possible, Couick said, many _ C .1 1 1 1 . Ml ? ui uic iuuai oooKsiores win agree to loan copies of the books in question to the student, signed out by the police department, until the original book can be released from evidence. Couick said the USC police "pulled duty going from floor to floor" once they knew See LIBRARYpage 2 John Fletcher/The Gamecock destroys c facility the toxic fumes that were blowing directly toward the Bates area. Within two hours, students were allowed to re-enter the buildings. Ten workers were in the facility when the fire started, and ^ere they all escaped without injury, s as The fire apparently started as door wor^ers were flattening the treet artificial turf onto the gluedent covered floor. A single spark from the rolling pin jumped from r po- the pin to the floor, with the j Qf_ flames quickly sweeping across s at the flammable glue surface. ancl According to the Associated lated Press, 150 firefighters from across Columbia responded to cua- Waze. e re>n of See FIRE page 2 icohol policy > those arrests are underage drinkers. "People who are underage and are in possession of beer, wine or liquor exhibit behavior habits that ABC agents have learned to recognize," Dorton said. "We watch enough young people that we almost guarantee if one of our agents says that person is underage and they've got beer, then that person is underage and they do have beer, even though that agent hasn't seen it yet," he said. "Getting arrested for a can of beer is serious business," he said. "Getting arrested for possession of beer means that i i i c ?u? . yuu nave a criminal iccuiu hji uic icsi ui your life." Dorton also touched on the subject of fake I.D.s, saying that anyone caught making fake I.D.s would be charged with forgery, a felony that carries a maximium sentence of seven years in prison.