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The Gamecock
Eighty-two Years of Collegiate Journalism
Volume 83, No. 53 The University of South Carolina Monday, January 28, 1991
13 DICETI ^
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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.
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red Students display patriotism and support foi
Persian Gulf by hanging American flags on tf
side their Douglas dorm rooms.
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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
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Charles Jones/The GamecocK
h junior, has her blood taken Saturday by Karin Mauldin, an Ameri