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Eighty-two Years o] Collegiate Journalism
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:: 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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.