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I' ' - "' - ' IpFiPiSS* Upset I Employees fail to reveal extra pay Quote of the Day The Citadel p q "I did a very poor job coaching ^ rage o this week." surprises Gamecocks atWilliamctiric??page^ Indian students share culture Pag95 """-"S555: The Gamecock Eighty-two Years oj Collegiate Journalism Volume 83 , No. 29 The University of South Carolina Monday, October 22. "l990l ' feRIEFlP ijNjTHBNEWSf U.S. destroyer fires warning shots in Gulf A U.S. destroyer on Sunday was tracking an Iraqi vessel in the Persian Gulf that defied two warning shots and tried to elude U.S. warships, U.S. military officials in Saudi Arabia said. Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Steve Roy confirmed the incident and said that in about a dozen cases, U.S. ships have fired warning shots to enforce U.N. trade sanctions on Iraq. The U.S. destroyer O'Brien fired two shots across the bow of the al-Bahar al-Arabi after the ship did not answer its radio and ignored commands to stop, Roy said. The Iraqi vessel was intercepted and boarded, then permitted to proceed, Roy said. U.S. military sources in Dahran, Saudi Arabia said the ship was headed for Aden, Yemen and was being tracked by Italian and U.S. warships. Jurors acquit rappers of obscenity charges FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. ? Jurors ruled Saturday that the ribald rap group 2 Live Crew was not guilty of violating obscenity laws in a concert that spurred the arrests of three band members. The jury deliberated a little more than two hours after a twoweek trial based largely on a distorted recording of the concert Band leader Luther Campbell jumped to his feet, raised his right arm and smiled at supporters in the courtroom as the verdicts were read. Three of the four band members faced one misdemeanor count each. Barnwell schools want nuclear plant funds BARNWELL ? Barnwell County schools want the county council to give them a greater share of $2.6 million the federal government paid in lieu of taxes .L. f ai me oavannan Kiver aue. The county recently got $865,129 from the Department of Energy for 1988 and $1.7 million for 1989. Savannah River is a nuclear weapons plant under the DOE's auspices. The money is payment for land donated to the plant The county council has proposed giving Barnwell's three school districts $400,000 of the money received for 1988 and 1989, and the same amount from a similar $1.7 million DOE payment next spring. Preservationists adopt Charleston principles CHARLESTON ? Preservationists ended a four-day conference by unanimously adopting a set of guidelines known as 'The Charleston Principles" and urging communities across the nation to do the same. The principles are designed to encourage local governments to commit themselves to identifying and protecting historic places. The adoption of the guidelines Saturday by the National Trust few Historic Preservation capped the four-day conference that attracted about 2,500 preservationists from across the country. Compiled from wire reports Wages are more Emplo; See related story on Page 3. By The Associated Press Private foundations supplement the sals ries of more than 100 USC employees, ir eluding several top administrators whos regular wages exceed $80,000 a year. Three foundations tied to USC gav $921,000 to 115 USC administrators an professors during the fiscal year that ende June 30,The State reported Sunday. Eight top administrators received be tween $5,000 and $16,000 each. Many c the supplements increased salaries to th $100,000-per-year range, The State re ported, citing records from the state Huma Resources Management Division and th three top USC foundations. Michael Mungo, chairman of the bOE They discussed the possibility of Coasl USC, Sovie By PAT SMYRL Staff Writer Scientists from USC and the Soviet Union met this weekend to discuss an ongoing reaserch project on climate changes at the world's oldest lake in Siberia. The Lake Baikal Drilling Project was initiated at the university in May of 1989 by Dr. Doug Williams, a geology professor. The U.S.S.R. Academy of Science was approached with the proposal and the first meetings were held at USC in July 1989. The purpose of the project is to learn more about the Earth's climate changes over the last 25 million years and to studv the lake's unique ecosystem. "Our long range planning involves drilling sedimentary samples from the lake. Right now the project is partially in the planning stage and partially in the execuStudent group Israel at Stat< By TODD VENEZIA invoh Staff Writer openi: A group of about 20 students carryi from USC and nearby colleges left staged a rally at the State House woun Thursday denouncing the recent "A actions of the Israeli government inserl and their policies toward the peo- troops pie of the West Bank and Gaza ternai x k suip. ivioaa "We are gathered here to urge Isra the United Nations to send troops a car* to protect Palestine arid to imple- Jews ment the provisions of the resoul- wall a tions," said Nadia Naser, former fiable head of the now defunct Arab Stu- Th< dent Association. were The U.N. resolutions, which re- the sil ceived unprecedented support from "Tl the United States, denounced the Temp actions of the Israeli Security For ces in the incident this month that than meets the eye pees get s Some supplements at USC include: $16,000 to Interim President Arthur Smith last year when he was the univerl" sity's chief academic officer. Smith already l" earned $112,154 in his state salary. e $16,000 to James Rex. USC's chief fund-raiser. He earns a state salary of e $87,090. d $5,000 to R. W. "Pete" Denton, USC's d chief financial officer who also acts as a consultant for one foundation. Denton's " state salary is $109,229. $18,000 to business Dean James Kane, e who earns $103,296 annually from the 1_ state. n $10,000 to Paul Ward, USC's top altore ney, who made $87,995 in his state salary last year. ird of trustees, addresses the board as Inte al Carolina separating from the USC systen ts meet to di "Baikal holds twenty percen it's not just a Soviet lake bt Siberian Branc tion stage," Williams said. The first U.S./U.S.S.R. expedition to Lake Baikal was held this summer and was coordinated by USC and The United States Geolf>pira1 Snrvpv anrt upper fifteen-to-thirty feet of sedimentary layers of the lake. The team consisted of a diverse group of geologists, geophysicists and biologists operating off a 145-foot ship and land-based locations sponsored by the Limnological Institute at Irkutsk. Only shallow drilling was done because the team does not currently have the equipment to reach the depths of the lake. red the forces in Jerusalem |||| ng fire on bottle- and rock- | ng Palestinians. The incident 19 dead and over 100 ded. resolution also calls for the lion of U.N. peacekeeping } into the area," Amnesty Intional Co-Coordinator Carl said. leli officials claim that it was efully orchestrated attack on praying at the sacred wailing ind that the ISF acted in justi- I self-defense. i Palestinians claim that Jews trying to start excavating on hey claim that it is the le of David," Midlands Tech International See PALESTINE page 2 state capital b alary sup] 3>iu,uuu each to the chancellors at USCAiken, Coastal Carolina and USCSpartanburg. All were paid $87,576 in state salaries. Faculty representatives criticize the salary supplements. Smith's often-supportive faculty on the Columbia campus issued a blistering report in November of 1989 warning that morale is being eroded by a feeling the administration is top-heavy and overpaid. At least 36 people listed in the 1989-90 USC faculty and administrative staff phone directory had the title of vice president "Morale is worsened when we hear and read reports that salaries for administrators are so much higher above us," said Edward Beardsley, a history professor who has BByLAU Staff Wri USC'i main ca Smith sa The I tion and vited a olina Co "I thii universit olina Co "and I I that has Smith as a "he any part} The c< economy o o t of the world's fresh water, so it a world lake." Njko|ai Dobretsov Vice Chairman :h of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Science "We are planning to apply ocean drilling techniques to the lake in the future," Williams said. One of the participants was Liasl Rhodes, a marine science senior at USC. She was working with the land based biological team attempting to identify the different trophic levels of the Lake Baikal ecosystem. "My job was basically to identify who 1 eats who," Rhodes said. The meetings held this weekend at the university and at the Mills House in Char leston involved scientists from the United ?m .4T \w^3K v j^pBM^aHS^aW "i 4*lfc ' w tPT ' V- & ?^^*p Studies sophomore Katrina Wylund participa uildinq. The arouD was demonstrating for pec plements taught at USC for 25 years. "Fm not saying T'm etonnntr Rut xi/a'ua Irvct onxmrol ar\nH x xii jiai viug. uui ttv ?V/ iuoi jtvuai ^vaai people to other schools because of salary." Beardsley earns $44,500 per year. He receives no supplement Ernst Benjamin, general secretary of the American Association of University Professors in Washington, noted that USC "is known for offering (high-paying jobs) to people who are public figures rather than have a strong academic background." But Smith said salary supplements help attract and retain valuable employees. fUr example, the supplements help offset the state's lower retirement benefits, he said. Smith said if he is named president, he See SALARY page 2 iastal college ght cut ties th university RA BARNES ter ; Coastal Carolina branch may split from the mpus in Columbia, Interim President Arthur id Friday. lorry County Commission on Higher Educathe Coastal Educational Foundation have inthree-member team to evaluate Coastal Carllege's contract with USC. lk this is a good time in the history of the y system and in the evolution of Coastal Carllege to address these questions," Smith said, ave great confidence personally in the team been selected to do this." said USC-Columbia will welcome the study althy process, not threatening in any way to r" allege is in the area with the fastest growing and population in the state, and a split would See TRUSTEES page 2 :al proposal States Geological Survey, France, Australia and Switzerland as well as those from USC and the U.S.S.R. The workshop was the largest gathering of Soviet and American biologists, geologists and geophysicists ever. Many of the Soviet scientists who visited the university expressed excitement about the project. "Lake Baikal offers the unique possibility to study climate changes over the past 10 million years. It is important to cooperate on this project to learn more of global change," said Academician Nikolai Dobretsov, vice chairman of the Siberian Branch of the U.S.S.R. Acadamy of Science. More expeditions to the lake are planned for this summer. "We can study the history of the region See SOVIETS page 2 iliB Tl? I t||j |M - p \ mm ^ Renee Meyer/The Gamecock tes in a protest in front of the ice in the Middle East.