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I I Z^TTX Staying in Shape 1 __ * * Quote of the Day Va^s>:A Exercise is Gamecocks prepare for Augusta pw 7 : znz I I .1 i P?rt- This is our waY> ancJ the main key university tried to Keep us from to weight loss Soldisrs' names disolaved Page5 FrankGraffagnino,freshman Carolina Ufe page 4 | &UIUICI lldMICi UldpidyCU SeeF/agspagea ! _ The Gamecock Eighty-two Years of Collegiate Journalism Volume 83, No. 53 The University of South Carolina Monday, January 28, 1991 13 DICETI ^ D Ii IEL Im IN THE NEWS South African polio report 7 people killc JOHANNESBURG, So Africa ? Mourners massec the black township of Sebok Sunday to bury 39 African tional Congress supporters ki in a recent massacre, and pc reported seven people slair unrest nationwide. The report on seven de? came two days before a plan meeting of the nation's ir powerful black leaders ? Nel Mandela of the ANC and N' gosuthu Buthelezi of the Inla Freedom Party ? conside crucial to ending fighting tween rival black groups. More than 1,000 people h died in Johannesburg towns! since black factional fighting upted in August. State bar committe rejects sex ban pies LOS ANGELES ?AC fomia State Bar committee vc Friday to recommend minor strictions on sex between atl neys and clients, but rejecte< legislator's call for an outri ban. The proposed restrictio] which were to be voted on by full Board of Governors on i turday, require a lawyer to demand sexual relations wit! client, apply coercion or intii dation in entering into sexual lations with a client or contii representing a sexual partner i would impair the lawyer's abil to perform legal servic competently. A non-lawyer member of Board of Governors had favoi an outright ban. Court unfreezes fun* for Noriega defense MIAMI ? Austrian cou have unfrozen a $1.6 milli bank account belonging to M uel Noriega and the money \ go toward defending him agai drug smuggling charges, the I government said Friday. The fallen Panamanian die tor's lead defense attorney Fr; Rubino faced today's deadline agree to government terms of payment or withdraw from case. If Rubino were to withdr; the judge would have to appc new defense lawyers. War Hpmnnstratnrs voice troop support SPARTANBURG ? Ab< 700 people in two Upstate tov demonstrated to voice corner for anti-war protesters and si port for U.S. troops in 1 Middle East. About 400 people convey on Spartanburg's Morgan Squ Saturday. Among them w< children in camouflage face pa and Highlanders in kilts. About 300 pro-war demonst tors rallied in Anderson, about miles to the southwest. Tens thousands across the nation < monstrated for or against the \ Saturday. Demonstrators in Spartanbi called out the names of soldi serving in the Middle East. Many people at the Anden rally were wives of servicen stationed in Saudi Arabia. Compiled from wire report f] Washington exper J use spi g By The Associated Press i USC spent $400,000 this past year for its Wash ton, D.C. office, prompting questions about the r utjj for the office. I jn USC employs two full-time employees in Wash eng ton' an(* ^ a^so stains a law firm. No other univei Na_ in the Carolinas has a Washington office, The Q lotte Observer reported Sunday. ,jjce Harvard, whose total annual budget is more I i jn double USC's $395 million, has only one pcrsoi Washington. The University of California, with a ltjls billion-a-year budget, has at least seven employee ned Washington. lost USC's Washington office helps faculty meml [son get federal grants, and it also monitors national tre [an_ and federal laws on higher education, USC offic itha saidre(j Fred Sheheen, who heads the state Commissior ^e. Higher Education, said incoming USC President Ji Palms might want to examine the Washington of ave expenses. ups "i would think it would need to be looked at a; er" whether they need to spend that kind of money there on a permanent ongoing basis," Sheheen said, C. D. "Dick" Spangler Jr., president of North ( olina's 16-campus university system, doesn't thin Washington office is necessary. e ft KR. "* iW M m*. - > ft *'S ft 4M ^ KV a j^^g|||| es the red Students display patriotism and support foi Persian Gulf by hanging American flags on tf side their Douglas dorm rooms. : BB Allie ion a^" By The Associated Press Lt vl11 EASTERN SAUDI ARABIA ? Saddam nan 'n^1 Hussein's front line, though hammered by al- ( lied air strikes and manned by dispirited, Ro] lice-ridden soldiers, can hold out for months, plai *ta" senior allied officers fear, ink "They will fight because they have no ? 't0 choice," said a Saudi officer with access to eve V*s defecting Iraqis. "They know they might sur- up the t 4.4-1- L..A T .1 .1 Ml 1- - vive a uaiuc, uui 11 iney run mey win oe u shot." line iw' "Nothing about this is going to be easy," brei nnt USC partially list of minority By MARCUS SESSION tries to pre DUt Staff Writer peer counsel /ns A joint "suggestion list" of ideas students who apt for minority mentoring programs We are jp. was released by the National Edu- t*ie>r come he cation Association and the Ameri- Moore, MA can Association of University Pro- Wc P^an Pr ;ed fessors in December. However, as aca(lemic ; are USC has only partially integrated. Moore sai jre the suggestions in the system. ^as comc tint The joint statement is a com- counselors ir bined effort by the AAUP and existence ha1 ra- NEA to provide more minorities a ?ne- ^1S 35 chance to attain a college educa- 14-y Percen of tion by intervening at all stages percent black de- with some type of mentoring However, var program. by saying the "These are just suggestions; "We feel th< iirg these are like a first step," said for these ffes ers Carolyn Walace, spokesperson for 0n a predom the NEA. "As more and more is to have j >on schools become involved in it they that best ider ien can use it as a springboard." Moore als The closest thing USC has to s this type of program is the Minor ity Assistance Peer program, which J ises examined ends $400,i "It's a little foreign to me that we should have ing- somebody paid to lobby our congresspeople, most of leed whom are graduates of our universities and who understand our needs," Spangler said, ing- Jonathan Davidson, director of USC's Washington rsity office, said, "We are full-fledged members of the har- higher education community up here, we are leaders of it and we are looked to by other folks in this than community." i in USC obtained $87.7 million in federal research i $8 grants during the past three years, The Charlotte Obs in server reported. Clemson University, which has no Washington offers fice, got $107.3 million in federal research money ;nds during the same time period. ials Former USC President James B. Holderman established the Washington office in the early 1980s. "The i of international presence of the University of South Carohn olina was growing by leaps and bounds, and it took fice people to manage it and get it done," Holderman told the The Charlotte Observer. Holderman resigned May 30 under severe criticism s t0 for his lavish spending. UP Holderman, now working as vice chairman of Ko; ^ ger Properties in Jacksonville, Fla., objected to quesk a See Office page 2 Pig Studeni : Smith stops controversy * < By TIGE WATTS \ |w _ * tjj I Assistant News Editor I |j^| jjjJ fjA ' Housing officials told Frank I p M |^g A- ^ I Graffagnino, a criminal justice } freshman, he could not fly his M yjft M American flag outside his room in ^ f.* 2. Wm Douglas residence rail. Now, in ter"n President Arthur Smith has l?* -W W^r told students they can hang their '^?85v? flass I 'WM m Z * iSf |Rr The flag-hanging conflict started John Garner/The Gamecock Thursday night when Graffagnino r U.S. troops in the anc* friends Larry Arnold, an ecoie honeycombs out- nomics sophomore, and Bill Redmon, a pre-med sophomore, were d officers feai Col. Hu Blazer, a U.S. Army mainte- Until then, the al ce battalion commander, said. of Iraqi artillery f 5roup Capt. Niall Irving of Britain's Treacherous m ^al Air Force told reporters Saturday of only to slow allie is to house Iraqi prisoners of war. but also to stop Ir I think we are anticipating huge numbers "Saddam has 4 once (ground) operations start or maybe signed to every n before ? are going to give themselves make sure the mt fairly quickly." officer said, raqis might surrender en masse once their "Troops can u s are penetrated and control structures front or behind," I ik down, allied ground commanders say. The Republicai vide upperclassmen ors for those minority %fli want one. instant friends once on campus," Donna P team leader said, ograms for them such and social programs." d the MAP program ler fire because all the 1 the five years of its vc been black except is at a campus that is t minority and 12.5 Moore explains this it one of the reasons is j most effective way hman to edge into life linantly white campus i minority counselor itifies with them." o supports the ideas Doing her part Kathleen Schultz, an Englis See Minority page 2 can Red Cross worker. % 000 on office According to records obtained by The Charlotte Observer the cost of operating the University of South Carolina's Washington office in 1990 were Salary of office director Jonathan Davidson $97, i 22 Salary/living allowance of director of federal relations Steve Beckham $82,341 Earnings from July 1 to Dec. 31 of temporary $12,001 employee Patrick McLean to $27,641 Fees to Lane & Mittendorf, $132,564 a Washington Law firm Expenses of Lane & Mlttendorf $40,129 from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30, 1990 Davidson's travel expenses Jan. I to Nov. 12 $1 1,934 Beckham's travel expenses Jan. 1 to Nov. 19 $15,376 TOTAL $391,467 TO $407,107 SOURCE:The Charlotte Observer Aaron Shelnin/The Gamecock ts can fly flags told to take down the flags hang- support for the troops. All of us ing outside on the Douglas have family and friends overseas, "honeycombs." For example, I have one family "They said it was against uni- member and a couple of friends versity policy to hang anything over there," Graffagnino said, outside the honeycombs, even the ?- "We never wanted to make such American flag. We asked the RHD a big deal of this. But when we to make an exception since this is asked to display our patriotism and a time of war," Graffagnino said. were refused, we felt our constitu"What really got me mad was tional rights were violated. That's the-RHD told us to take down the when we took it to the press," he flag while he wore his Army said. ROTC uniform," Arnold said. Saturday, Smith instructed housa u ., , , , ' ing officials not to enforce the polArnold said he decided to hang , jnst h a j [he ? ou[. his Hag because he has two friends side ^ honeycombs 0, any olher fighting m die Persian Gulf War. exterior of a residence hall He said1 Redmon, a South Dakota He aIs0 asked S[udent Affairs native, has many classmates in the ? Middle East as well. "We're just trying to show our See Flags page 2 r Iraqi stamina lies expect a withering hail of the Iraqi army and are considered espeire and rockets. cially loyal to Saddam, linefields are designed not Clearly, the air war is taking a heavy toll, d forces from moving north Bombs from B-52s gouge gaping craters, aais from fleeine south. blasting awav mm p.mnlarp.mfnK anrt am A w O ? J o ** " ,000 Republican Guards as- munitions stores. Raids disrupt Iraqi supply division whose job is to lines and communications, sn fight," a front-line Saudi Many of Iraq's 530,000 troops in the Kuwait theater are secure in hardened bunkers, ike their choice, dying in and their 155mm guns are capable of pinie said. point accuracy with conventional or chemical i Guards are the elite core shells. Hi r %j II i -" \ Charles Jones/The GamecocK h junior, has her blood taken Saturday by Karin Mauldin, an Ameri