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I? "I cola nights Gamecock great Alex English profiled Quote of the Day I a USC alumnus opens Page 5 "The best teacher is a teacher who I homet0Wcn.,0i Li..lPa9.3 Road-weary use to face So. Miss Pages _________________________________ The Gamecock Eighty-two Years of Collegiate Journalism I Volume 83, No. 61 The University of South Carolina Friday, February 15, 1991 DDimrci \f DrllCrLi T IN THE NEWS Air attacks continue as civilian toll rises DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia ? The allies pressed on with the air war Thursday but focused on i: i * auypiy lines <11 iu uoop concentrations after Iraq charged that a U.S. raid on a building in Baghdad killed hundreds of civilians. In Baghdad, thousands of angry Iraqis marched to a cemetery to bury fellow civilians killed Wednesday in the U.S. bombing of a structure where they had taken shelter. Ba'ghdad officials say the building was a civilian air raid shelter; the U.S. military says it was an Iraqi command and control center. The issue of civilian casualties was expected to be raised at a closed-door meeting of the U.N. Security Council Thursday. NfiW /pJilanH tn rolov l-V/ * VI u/\ S. African sanctions ROTORUA, New Zealand ? Sporting, cultural and academic sanctions against South Africa could be relaxed "within a few weeks," a government Cabinet minister said Thursday. The government believes the measure would be an appropriate response to South Africa's introduction of bills to Parliament to repeal the main apartheid laws, said External Relations and Trade Minister Don McKinnon. He said New Zealand wants to re-establish ties with groups within South Africa that already were integrated such as sports teams. Gays, lesbians register romances in city SAN FRANCISCO ? Wally MacMillan and Richard Faust, wearing matching tuxedo shirts, were among the first to sign up Thursday as domestic partners under a city ordinance allowing unwed couples to register their romance. About a dozen couples were waiting when City Hall opened for an expected Valentine's Day deluge of gays, lesbians and unwed heterosexuals taking advantage of the first opportunity to sign up under the new law. "Being gay ... I had put the idea of marriage out of my mind, and here we are, registering our relationship," said MacMillan, 37, a San Francisco architect. City Hall had 100 weddings scheduled. Nobody could predict how many domestic partners would show up to add to the throng ? estimates ranged from 50 to 5,000. Adult, two children die in trailer blaze CLEARWATER ? An adult and two children died in a trailer fire Thursday morning, but three others escaped the blaze, authorities said. Firefighters were called about 4:30 a.m. When they arrived at the trailer park off Highway 421, the home was engulfed in flames. They got the blaze under control quicKiy. The fire apparently started in the kitchen area, but is believed to have been caused by faulty wiring on an oven hood light, coroner Sue Townsend said. Compiled from wire reports I SLED " By TIGE WATTS Assistant News Editor Gov. Carroll Campbell has ordere vestigation to find out what happei USC foundation's financial records Supreme Court ordered should be the public. Officials for the Carolina Resea Development Foundation said We the records were thrown away by nance workers. The Greenville News reported th; Vlahoplus, director of the foundatii the workers threw away four years'1 records while renovating a house wl documents were stored. Vlahoplus told The Associated Pre nesday that the files were dej "inadvertently." i 11 ? < ? ^ - ? ^ampoen asKea tne state Law i Adminis back D.( By SCOTT PRUDEN and DENNIS SHEALY Staff Writers The recent controversy surrounding USC's Washington office, its $400,000-a-year price tag and the pay of one of its employees might be unwarranted, according to the university's administration and several faculty. The primary point disputed by the university is the comparison between the amount of federal money received by USC to that received by Clemson University, I u Vir??-: -* wiiii/ii naa iivj such wasnillgion OIfice, but does have contacts there. Both the Charlotte Observer and The State reported that during a three-year period, Clemson received $107.3 million in federal money, while USC received $87.7 million. Administrators say this comparison is not exactly accurate because Clemson, as a land grant college, gets millions of dollars from the USDA under the Hatch Act. The federal act provides money for colleges to encourage agricultural research. Without this money, Clemson's competitive federal awards total only $42.2 million. "Those are purely competitive research dollars, that's us against Clemson," J. Christopher Simpson, associate vice president of External Affairs, said. "Above and beyond that is their land grant that they get for running the State Extension Service and conducting agricultural research projects." The total amount of federal and private money received by USC for the past three years is $124.3 million dollars, while Clemson received only $75.3 million (not including the Land Grant money) in the same time period. This difference of nearly $49 million went unreported. Numerous faculty and administrators have voiced their concern , that the Washington office has Senate con on parking By GORDON MANTLER Staff Writer ( The Student Senate unanimously c passed a compromise resolution Wednesday for parking at USC. "This is a compromise of all as- * pects," said Student Government Vice President Todd Weiss. "Ad- r ministrations have fought for years a for a resolution like this." c The parking proposal calls for s the installation of armed gates on c two faculty/staff lots as "pilot pro- j jects" and clean-up projects for s student parking lots that "insure r the safety of students and basic f good condition of the lots." v to inv< ment Division Thursday to minary investigation into n an in- the Carolina Research ai ted to a Foundation of USC. the state "This morning the gove open to (Robert) Stewart to conduct vestigation as a result of tl rch and stroyed documents," Cam] dnesday Bob McAllister said, mainte- "This raises troubling que seems to be an appropriate z at Chris answers to what happened," on, said John O'Donnell, the foun ivorth of officer, said only the fiscal here the intact. He said no one aske fore destroying the records. ss Wed- Benny Gunter, director ;troyed said the authorization to de would never have been gran inforce- Gunter said he remember trators 2. office been given unfair criticism, without any acknowledgement of the accomplishments that might not have been possible without it. "We firmly believe that there are numerous grants we would not have received without the knowledgeable and timely intervention of the Washington office," interim President Arthur Smith said. "We have many faculty who got their rcscarcn programs started earner and more effectively because of the Washington office," he said. Smith considered the amount of money, the size of the staff and the office's relationship to a law firm as open to debate, but he said the advantages make it indispensible to the faculty and students of USC. Another area of contention is the salary paid to Washington office employee Patrick McLean. According to the Charlotte Observer and The State, McLean's salary as a part-time employee was $52 per hour. But according to USC's records of McLean's employment at the Washington office, his hourly wage was closer to $12 per hour for a 37.5-hour work week. University documents, which administrators say reporters refused to consider in lieu of actual check stubs, list McLean's salary range as $16,000 to $24,000 for the period from July 1989 to June 1990. L According to state law, the university is not allowed to release I check stubs and may reveal only a * salary range for employees making I under a certain amount A spot survey showed that most faculty supported the Washington office, even if they had not all made actual use of its services. Those services include lobbying j for legislation, securing grants for 5 faculty research, arranging meetings for faculty with higher educa- ^ tion associations which often shape fi education policy and provide addi- ^ tional grants. c< lpromises ? problem 1 This nast semper ^ - x Ww?.vuwi uiv x aiiviug, Committee wrangled over the issue m )f parking, coming to an impasse. ^ "This is a positive compromise n( or both students and faculty," Dr laxter said. ^ These projects will be funded by gi lew revenues which were gener- st ited for parking issues. These in- vc :lude $120 per semester for all reerved spaces designated with a fa :orresponding number, $20 per Rj 'ear for all faculty/staff parking A< tickers except "Z" stickers which bri emain free, and $40 per semester ne or all faculty/staff members who vill be using armed gate lots. st istigat conduct a preli- cords in the b lissing records at the workers be, id Development However, he to throw out the rnor asked Chief O'Donnell sa a preliminary in- 1988 that the re le missing or de- could not plac pbell spokesman learned the reco "I went over ;stions and SLED I walked down igency to provide door and the wa he said. "I asked this dation's financial pened to these 1985 records are said, Tm not s d permission be- fellow who loc said, 'We were oi renovations, down, and w( stroy the records dumpster.'" ted. O'Donnell sai ed seeing old re- the records' des Shbhk ilL Students gather outside Russ port of U.S. troops in the Persi Studeni A A U r ^ ivicuuii iur troops in Persian Gulf By ROBIN MAGGY Staff Writer A crowd of about 100 students held a Valentine's Day march Thursday in support of American troops in the Persian Gulf. The march went from the Russell House to the State House, where Sen. Addison Wilson, RLexington, addressed the supporters. "The concept behind having it on Valentine's. Day is because we love our country," organizer Greg Slavin, an applied profession il science junior, said. S.G. coi to hp np 1/Vf V ly GORDON MANTLER ttaff Writer ditor's note: This is the third in a ve-part series featuring the Stuent Government presidential indidates. Thomas Rainey, Student Govrnment presidential candidate, ays he is an "advocate for the eople . . . and as president, I will ave a key role in serving others." "I feel I can effectively represnt the student body's needs and ancerns," Rainey said. "I believe rmlv in Dublic service "I have six main focal points to iy platform, but by no means is is a complete list," he said. Raijy feels a Student Government esident should be a voting memsr on the Board of Trustees to ve hetter representation of the udents than the current non>ting member does. "We also need better entrance cilities for the handicapped," liney said, "such as the Business iministration building and Gamsll Hall. These entrance facilities ed to be upgraded." "I believe there should be more udent acfiv^m " He said. "I think e lost r >asement of the house before ured the gan the renovations. that hap] said no one was authorized USC , records. sa^ id he discovered sometime in SLED lr cords had been destroyed. He ?The e a specific date when he ^ matt( rds were destroyed. R&D Ft there looking for something. ness ? <j, the stairs and saw the locked Smith lis were gone," he said. records \ maintenance guy what hapfiles and boxes in there. He Carl I ure.' So he asked this other News an iked like a supervisor, who cords wa told to tear down this wall who resj * carted them all to the the objet litigation d he did not complain about He adt truction because "I just fig- responsit y Sm ** m mJL ell House Thursday preparing to mar ian Gulf. About 100 people attended ts show s Slavin began planning the march at the end of January because he c was tired of seeing protesters for g peace on television instead of sup- i porters for the troops. s Joe Asaro, international studies c sophomore, said the rally had a de- s finite air of support. "I think it is important for us, as t Americans to show our support for d the troops. I get really tired of seeing all the anti-war protests. It is p about time USC did something like i] this," he said. Asaro did say, however, that he s expected more students to attend. c "I thought there would be d more," he said. "But a lot of peo- f pie have exams this week, so I guess that's why there weren't S more people there. p ntender sople's at * . < - ^ I Rainey * it is a travesty that we have 30,000 f students on this campus, and less c than 2,500 voted in last year's Stu- i dent Government election." jOne way Rainey wants to en- j courage student activism is to have a "State of the University" address s every month on WUSC where he \ will air the students' concerns. He \ also added he would like to have a e weekly column in The Gamecock \ so students know what Student c Governement is doing. t "Another area I am very con- c cerned with is the environment," he said. "I will ask the university $ to buy only biodegradable trash c bags and to broaden our recycling n projects such as glass or metal." fi He also hopes to create a better b ecords y were gone. It's one of those things pen. interim President Arthur K. Smith irsday that he too would like to see a ivestigation. University of South Carolina views sr of missing records of the Carolina >undation with the upmost seriousnith said. said he knew nothing about why the vere destroyed or misplaced. vfuller, attorney for The Greenville d the AP, said destruction of the res "a slap in the face ... to everyone )ects the law. The law requires that ;t of litigation be preserved during led, "We intend to find out who was >le for this destruction." i'Iwkr r ^ ||p# c Ipl Eric Glenn/The Gamecock ch to the State House in supthe march. mpport "We can't let someone like Sadlam Hussein dump oil into the julf and use chemical warfare on nnocent people without doing omething, at least we can show iur support (for the troops)," he aid. Asaro said he was surprised by he absence of counterlemonstrations. T-shirts about the rally were rinted, and all the profits are beig donated to the Red Cross. The march was sponsored by ligma Phi Epsilon fraternity and o-sponsored by SMASH (Stuents Mobilized Against Saddam lussein). Assistant News Editor Aarron heinin contributed-to this reort. ?rr? n 4- n vyann Ivocate working relationship with other student governments nationally and nternationally so "we can learn nore about each other, and besome stronger individuals." "Parking seems to be a mainstay jroblem here at USC," he decared. There is an empty lot next to Whaley's Mill which Rainey prop>ses the university should clear, >ave and light for the use of a jarking lot. Rainey was in the U.S. Army or six years and received two :ommendation medals. He says he s "excited, and will work hand-intand" with USC President-elect ohn Palms, a Citadel graduate. In response to recent controver;ial issues of Homecoming and the Washington office, Rainey said, "I vill do what the students want, to either fund Homecoming or not. Vith regards to the Washington >ffice, we need an office there, but he current spending is >utrageous." Rainey will spend about $200 to 300 on his campaign, but "my oncern is not show, glitz or glalour." He urges the voters look Dr qualifications and issues and to e sure to vote.