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The Gamecock
Eighty-two Years oj Collegiate Journalism
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Volume 83, No, 37 __ The University of South Carolina Monday, November 12, 1990
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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
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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
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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
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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<
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$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
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' 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
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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
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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.
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