Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. 1 11 ' 1 " 1 1 1 1 1 1 .11. I , ^ , 1 I '"I ' -11111??? nil 11 11 I I -t'mVJ Mother Earth I I Quote of the Day students work President might call reserves Pag? 2 ^er ^ves't)Ut 11 does not ma^e us ^ ? happier or more prosperous, and it Of! Droarams " ? certainly doesn't allow for improving I(Mp r person-to-person reiatons." tO save environment Dl inn^KO I f|t|A Columnist Keliy C. Thomas |fr - j Carolina Life, page 4 TiniSh in tOp flVe Page 9 8? The Gamecock Eighty-two Years oj Collegiate Journalism Volume 83 , No. 16 The University of South Carolina Monday, September 17, 19901 ' -r n - 1 ' " " 1 ' - " '' ~ . . . * * ? ??? J BRIEFLY JlNf?HE NEWSItaly extends credit to Soviets MOSCOW ? Italv agreed to give the Soviet Union $2.72 billion in credits Saturday, one day after Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev warned that his nation is in danger of bankruptcy. Italian Foreign Minister Gianni de Michelis announced the loans at a news conference after his Kremlin meetings with Gorbachev and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. On Friday, Gorbachev presented an economic plan to the national Parliament that proposes market-oriented policies and other measures to halt the nation's slide toward bankruptcy. Gulf crisis renews Star Wars interest til a mr?n/>inn/\ki T?1 WA5ni^biui> ? ine prospect of Iraq firing ballistic missiles at U.S. forces in the Arabian desert is stirring congressional interest in an obscure Star Wars spinoff effort to build defenses against close-range missile attacks. The United States has only a rudimentary defense against Iraq's missile arsenal, which U.S. intelligence agencies say is rapidly growing more sophisticated and is capable of carrying chemical warheads to targets inside Saudi Arabia. Even some of Congress' harshest critics of the Strategic Defense Initiative, more commonly called Star Wars, say the Iraqi missile threat might call for spending more on what the Pentagon calls "theater missile defense." Attorney thinks publicity is unfair An attorney for a South Carolina lawmaker implicated but not charged in the Statehouse bribery scandal is considering asking a judge to quiet federal prosecutors. Charleston attorney Andy Savage, who represents Rep. Thomas Limehouse, RSummerville, said he is researching whether courts can shield potential defendants from the wave of publicity the federal sting has produced. Senator's son to be investigated The state highway department has decided to investigate a March traffic accident after reports said a state senator's son was not charged though documents show he was at fault, a department spokesman said. *T"t_ _ * U?. 4L _ inc lnvesugauvii uy uie department's internal affairs unit was triggered by a story Friday in The State detailing the March 28 accident involving Hartsville lawyer Edward E. Saleeby Jr., spokesman Joseph Pelicci said Saturday. Saleeby, 37, is the son of Sen. Ed Saleeby, DHartsville. Compiled from wire reports i Police to By ELIZABETH FOX " M Assistant News Editor Students should be aware of the penalties and inconvenience involved in parking in designated handicapped areas, university officials said. Parking in one of these spaces for only a ? few minutes frustrates disabled students be- of cause "if a disabled person comes along and sees that there's a car there, they don't th wait around," said William James, director pi n rtrnrvro ti rvr? c ^uiuui atiwiic try to bring u voter turnoui By SHELLEY MAGEE Staff Writer South Carolina has the lowest rate of registered ers in the country, and in attempt to solve this lem, a state-wide voter registration drive is 1 sponsored by Bojangles, Bi-Lo, C&S Bank, an Palmetto Project. The drive was instituted by corporations who to raise the poor voter turn out, which is less th; percent of the state's eligible voters. "Only about one-third of our workforce is i tered to vote." Scott Derks, spokesperson for Bank, said. "If there are six people in any office of them are not registered in their county, and m< those just haven't gotten around to it," he said. Those who are eligible can pick up a registi form at any of the sponsors' locations before F and Fill out the necessary information. There will witness provided to cosign the forms and then the cess is over. The business will make sure the ap] tion reaches the appropriate hands in the vote gistration office. "People have to eat, they have to go grocery ping, and they have to go to the bank," said E "We're making the process easier for them by where they already have an excuse to go. "This way no one even has to go out of theii to become registered. We think we have an oppo to touch many people in a short amount of time said. The expected goal for the project is to re; 25,000 voters before Friday. Sponsors stress,*hov that it is important for all eligible residents to t gistered voters, whether they do it through the dri a registration office. When the drive began two years ago, it wa . brainchild of Bojangles in conjunction with the metto Project, when in seven weeks they manag jointly register over 11,000 voters within 5 Carolina. This year with Bi-Lo and C&S adding their 1 to the list of sponsors, Billy Webster, president o , jangles said, "We have confirmed to the best c ability that this voter registration drive will b largest such corporate drive ever held in the I States." \ wf ^^^ ini *\ vHPi: Break an arm Graduate students Tom Becker (left) ani through a dress rehearsal for the opening o which will be presented at Drayton Hall The* * i ticket han "Basically, we wanted people to km and we are towing." assistant dean for student development and i Disability Services. jess i "They assume that they're going to be said, ere, and they have to move on to some- "Ho] ace else. So, even a few minutes can sity stii 1 ' : / - u $ - ?^ . 8. -.^45^ I *\ -v.. ., ?.;r r; ; ?: ration Tiday ' be a . nro' pro 1* plica'r re? .... -V* ' < :.. shop)erks. Cooling off be'ng English education graduate student Deb - way Thomas Cooper wading pool. rtuity . ? i a 1 Fair to stress gister p rs awareness ot ive or By PAIGE VISHTON tar Staff Writer de s the Seventy percent of USC students may Pal- be unaware of a campus office that is ed to sponsoring a volunteer fair today. tei Jouth The Office of Community Service He Programs, established a year ago, de- an signed the fair to encourage students, fa- ha orces Culty and staff to increase their awareness pa f P?" and involvement in service, if our According to a recent TELLUS survey co e the researched by Paul Fidler, assistant vice M< Jnited president for research, grants and plan- vi( ning and Harlan Smith, graduate assis- a i Free led about ef By MARCUS SESSION Staff Writer One year ago Friday, through North and South C dollars in damages, chan forever. Now South Carolinians 1 a about the details of the stc public lectures hosted by tli The first lecture, held John Purvis, state climatolc Water Resources Commiss ricane Hugo: A Forecast ar Hugo was "bad, but noi affected us," according to 1 force-four hurricane when assigned to storms with w miles per hour and storm ti The rating system range the most powerful. The s Hurricane David, was a 3. Eric Glenn/The Gamecock Hugo had winds of 160 ocean, but the highest wir not in Charleston, where 1 d Michael Donlan run in McClellanville, where p f "Breaking the Code," The storm's relatively s ater. is one of the main reasons the rain. T ' 11anvilk idicappi ow that we are ticketing Rosvelt Martain educational services for education support services t up for a handicapped person," he pefully, we can sensitize the univeridents to the problem because by stu : V: " -*. jfe , I J| aaggi '7^--zZ7mm*rn '" .-rxL ^ ? * ; * - '*' v ? ? * v v ^ ^^ m" >.. '"" - .. . :" .... w \. 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"This is rare, first-time opportunity for the stu;ure series ec fects of Hui signated ; sea level Hurricane Hugo sliced rise so h "arolina, causing billions of venting d ging many people's lives "Certai evaluating lave a chance to learn more that the : irm in a series nf five, free feet was le geography department on the 20-fo ' the Calcott Social Science "Hugo of the st; Thursday, was hosted by followed )gist for the South Carolina hotel wh ion and was entitled "Hur- and man< id Operational Dilemma." cane part i the worst that could have Thirtec 3urvis. Hugo was rated as a result of it hit the coast, a category lated inci inds between 131 and 155 "If the des of 13 to 18 feet. good pla? s from 1 to 5, with 5 being storm en trongest storm in the '70s, been 10 right anc mph when it was over the could ha1 ids in South Carolina came $711 mil winds reached 98 mph, but to be dec eak winds were 138 mph. peedy movement over land Hugo : Charlotte received most of is typical ;, Lincoln High School, de- olina, Pu ed spots dents, for whatever reason, parking in these spaces, it imposes a major inconvenience for (those) who are confined to wheelchairs," said Rosvelt Martain, assistant dean for student development and educational services for education support services. Handicapped students cannot park in regular parking spaces because they need at least 12 feet to operate the side lift, which See HANDICAPPED page 2 :< >/. "'"' ' *v -m"** / Eric Glenn/The Gamecock i, a black Labrador Retriever, out of the Tzrkl ?7Am An f YUIYCUICU^ opportunities dents and organizations to meet and learn about one another." While 43 percent of the students Fidler and Smith surveyed had participated in a volunteer activity as a USC student, only 15 percent had registered their volunteer efforts with the office. Ninety percent of the student volunteers said they will continue to offer their services in the future, and 91.6 percent agreed that there's a renewed sense that See VOLUNTEER page 2 lucates public Ticane Hugo in emergency shelter because of the school's elevation and solid construction, had water igh that adults began stuffing children into ucts in order to save them from drowning, inly, in the future there will be a better job in g the heights," Purvis said as he pointed out school's estimated sea level elevation of 18 later actually found to be 8 feet, no match for , ot level the water eventually rose to. taught us a very painful lesson," Purvis said ate's Standard Building Code, which wasn't in some cases. He showed a picture of a ere people stayed behind after the voluntary iatory evacuations in Charleston for a hurriir Tt ?ioo rvmnl j . ai yy uo wwiupivivij uwuv/jvu. >n people in South Carolina died as a direct the storm, and another 23 people died in redents the first day afterwards, storm had to hit South Carolina, it picked a ce," Purvis said. He pointed out that had the tered further up the coast, tides could have feet higher. Had the storm not veered to the 1 gone to the east of Columbia, "Columbia ye looked like Sumter," a county that suffered lion in damages and was the second county lared a disaster area, he said. started over Africa as a tropical wave, which of the worst hurricanes affecting South Carrvis said.