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???? 1111?? ? - Ill I ' 1 I I I I Too IfiA/rm Hn - F Quote of the Day I f* I aC IVWON UO f^CIIIIDrnrkQ not nOOHoH win n "There is too much real crime Qti iHontc oyojynqo I ICvUvlVO ICCUCU Wll I Page 8 on the streets to worry about a j OlUUCJlllo caoiuoc, few Women mimicking The X~r:z: ^ meet new people - Nasty on stage." r .t.i while learning sport Schools use gender neutrality page4 I tm W Jl 1 Carolina Ufe page 4 | ? 3 g Viewpoint page 3 The Gamecock Eighty-two Years oj Collegiate Journalism ? . . ________ _ Volume 83, No, 37 __ The University of South Carolina Monday, November 12, 1990 BRIEFLY Jin the news Mandela to hold talks to prevent violence SOWETO, South Africa ? Black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela said Saturday the African National Congress will hold talks soon with its main black political adversary and the white government to stop the violence that threatens to turn South Africa into "another Lebanon." Mandela said he would meet with President Frederik de Klerk Nov. 27 and with Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi as soon as possible. Spy satellite to go up Thursday on Atlantis LAnlAVLKAL, Ma. ? After months of struggling with dangerous fuel leaks on two of its three spaceships, NASA will try to launch the space shuttle Atlantis this week with a spy satellite. It will be Atlantis' first flight since March, when it placed another spy satellite in orbit. Atlantis is scheduled to blast off between 6:30 and 10:30 p.m. Thursday. The exact time will be kept secret until nine minutes before liftoff. Bush's drug bill veto shocks congressman WASHINGTON ? A congressman who sponsored a bill aimed at lowering the cost of some drugs said he was shocked at President Bush's pocket veto of the measure without any previous warning that he opposed it. The bill, supported by AIDS activists and other advocacy groups, was aimed at lowering prices of "orphan drugs" that have limited sales potential when they are first developed. Death penalty ruling could set precedent CHARLESTON ? A ruling declaring as unconstitutional South Carolina's legal fee limit for defending poor people facing the death penalty could set a statewide precedent if it is challenged unsuccessfully, officials said. Master-In-Equity Robert Smoak Jr. of Aiken made the ruling last month saying the state's law, which limited the fee that could be paid to courtappointed lawyers defending the indigent, was unconstitutional because it endangers defendants' rights to effective representation. South Carolina pays the lowest hourly rate in the country to court-appointed lawyers ? $10 ou.t of court, $15 in court Two children die after home burns SPARTANBURG ? Two of the children who were severely burned last month during a fire that gutted a Spartanburg mobile home have died from their injuries, authorities said. Whitney Michelle Hall, 3, and her sister Melissa Karin Hall, 5, died Saturday of infections from severe burns at Humana Hospital in Augusta, Ga., according to Spartanburg County Coroner Jim Burnett. Seven children, ranging from three-weeks to five-years-old, were rushed to three hospitals by helicopter and ambulance Oct. 16 when the fire ripped through their home. Compiled from wire reports Students School to send ? W phone call bills ; n By PAIGE VISHTON Staff Writer f( Students who illicitly charged more than ^ $23,000 in long-distance phone calls to the * university are now receiving bills. 1S About 500 USC students will get letters tl in the mail by Monday explaining that either they, their roommate or their suite 0 mate tampered with the phone system and n made what were seemingly free long- u distance calls. 31 w I w P . Christmas in November Pam Robinson, director of pro bono pro law students donated toys and clothes for C Health centei By MARCUS SESSION three days Staff Writer said. Feel bad? Really bad? Think The inf you might have the flu? from y^1" Then you're probably not alone, currently b or at least not for long. Flu season against the is almost here, and the Thomson ^ses exPep' Student Health Center is offering Unite influenza shots for USC students. "We exl usually sta The shot costs $5 for fee-paying and it goes students and $8 for those who are Turner said not currently paying fees, accord- There h ing to Dr. James Turner, director cases yet tf of the Health Center, who said the season ther fee will cover the cost of the vac- and more I cine and syringes. fore, accort "We're really encouraging stu- Although dents to do it because if the stu- there was s dent gets the flu, it's almost a tween the t guarantee that they'll miss about been becau Students meet for racism on Conference offers speeches, workshop By ELIZABETH FOX Assistant News Editor Students at Trinity College in Hartford, C< found billiard balls thrown through windows of black cultural center. White fraternity members from the Universit Mississippi were stripped, covered with racial ! and dropped off at neighboring Rust College. The National Association for the Advancer Colored People sited 300 racial incidents on col campuses in 1989, 100 reported cases in 1987 185 in 1988. These racial incidents and the statistics were an the reasons for the first major meeting of black dents for addressing a growing problem, accordin ; charge Beginning in August and slowly increaslg until October, students figured out a 'ay to make phone calls billed to the uniersity's master code, "and many students lought they wouldn't be billed," said Denis Pruitt, vice president of student affairs. "There were a few calls in August and a jw more in September, and it was apparent lat some system was being used, and we ^ere tinally able to tigure out, nruitt, who ; the sole university spokesman for the sitation, said. "Anybody who is in a location in a suite r room where unauthorized calls were lade will get a letter," he said. "The intenon we have is to bill the individuals that re involved, and we expect the individuals r ' : I f ^ nmmmamzm. 1 I : ^ r|l @ 1 R* RRRHH 'gram, gathers clothes for Sister Care ant Christmas to sent to the shelters. prepares fc of class," Dr. Turner last season, Turnei "We had a lo luenza virus mutates weather right thrc to year, and shots are son, so I think p eing offered to protect doors, windows v current strains of vir- didn't spread so e< ed to be most prevalent Students living id States this year. are more suscepti pect the flu season to which has sym irt in early December, chills, fever, bad > through until March," pains and a lack ol Thp fp.vp.r can ave been no reported temperature to arc lis semester, but last flu and can last threee were up to 300 cases People with lu han 1,500 the year be- emphysema are e ling to Turner. able, said Dr. Da1 i it was not clear why sociate professoi uch a big difference be- preventive medic wo years, it might have School of Medicin se of the warm weather Also, elderly i to find soluti college campi the NAACP. Officials from the NAACP do not has been an increase in reported incid c "While the issue has been examim ministrators, by human relations exj media, this is the first time African-A have come together, on their own, examination." NAACP Colleee Divis rjnn chael Nelson said. The conference, "Stop the Madne ism on College Campuses," was held y of USC. slurs More than 150 delegates from al across the nation attended the works nent discussions and speeches throughout l lege On Saturday, the conference woui and final session and reports from the 1 Relations and Diversity Classes, Is: long Non-Academic Conduct and Free Sp< stu 8 10 See F $23,000 to pay the bills for the calls they made." It is up to the student to make restitution and if they don't, the university will do further investigation. "A student might want to know what are the consequences if I don't make good on the bill. Well, we're going to investigate and we'll use all the appropriate authorities to do that," he said. Many of the illicit calls were for less than $1 or were made only once. 'The way we treat every violation of university policy is based on the severity and the frequency of the violation, considering the status of the student at that point in time," Pruitt said. "It did appear that a good number of the By The Dun ment 1 use school The pective source order t One bia's J require the ex; ^1 ^ _ uiai su Top testing ter lie equipp HHHHIHHHHHHHi But Renee Meyer/The Gamecock cial ai 1988 r j Oliver Gospel Mission. (JSC prograi >r approachi ' said. women and people with t of nice warm are very vulnerable, ugh the flu sea- The vaccine's prevent! eople were out- tiveness can vary fc vere open and it 60-to-80 percent, but ev isily," he said. who get the flu after ha in close quarters shot will have a much mil ble to the virus, Sheridan said, ptoms such as The most common con :aches, muscular for those catching the d F appetite. pneumonia, although othi raise a person's tions might accompany, und 103 degrees Turner said, "College to-seven aays. will sometimes get bron ng diseases like pneumonia on top of the specially vulner- occasionally, they get str /id Sheridan, as- or an ear infection or wil of family and dehydrated from the high ; ine at the USC Even though the vaccin ie. there might be a slight so jeople, pregnant the site of the injection ar ions I uses flJSs.':. know why there |hh ents. sd by school adverts and by the merican students to do their own ion Director Miss: Ending RacI this weekend at x>ut 27 colleges ;hops, roundtable he weekend. . id down with its workshops: Race sue of Codes of jech, and the Fu- ^ Gina White, an NAA speaks to an audience RACISM page 2 puses. I to use calls were made either out of curiosity or one time. "Appropriate action in a case like that, for a student who has no prior disciplinary record might be as little as, if they make restitution, a letter in their file saying they were engaged in this activity and that's that," he said. However, if a person made repeated calls and has been in trouble many times before at the university, penalties might be more severe. Pruitt said the university will look at each case individually. "What the students need to know is that See PHONES page 2 arrangement innels funds i universitv i Associated Press ing the past 10 years, a little known arrangebetween the state Real Estate Commission and has funneled more than $750,000 through -affiliated foundations. practice has raised questions about why pros> real estate agents must donate money ? the of the fund ? to USC-affiliated foundations in o get their licenses. e a month, hundreds of people travel to Columamil Shrine Temple to take the five-hour test xi to become a licensed agent. Before taking im, they must pay $15 to a private foundation pports USC. real estate commission administrators say the program is the most efficient way to adminis:ensing exams because their agency isn't ed to do the job. the Legislative Audit Council, the state's finanld management watchdog agency, said in a eview of commission operations that the exam m was too expensive. Auditors suggested costs See FUNDS page 2 ng flu season diabetes grade fever for a few days, Turner said. ve effec- People who are allergic to eggs etween and egg products should not have en those the vaccination because the meiving the dium in which the vaccine is Ider case, grown is egg products, Sheridan said. There is no alternative vaccilplication nation for these people, isease is It is possible for up to 20 perit condi- cent of the U.S. population to become infected with the flu each students season. Approximately one percent chitis or of those will require hospitalizaflu, and tion, and as high as eight percent ep throat of those can die, according to the 1 just get Center for Disease Control in At fever." lanta, Ga. e is safe, For those students who already ireness at have the flu, rest and plenty of id a low- fluids are recommended. liit%iSr fSstsssssSt $ , < v ^ >"*" IXrnii^..^. *::: ?| V-- lit! :: J* p Donald Bradley/The Gamecock CP delegate from Bowie State University, on how to handle racism on college cam