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The Gamecock
Eighty-two Years of Collegiate Journalism
I Volume 83, No. 66 The University of South Carolina Wednesday, February 27, 1991
BRIEFLY
IN THE NEWS
Exploding television
kills 16, starts fire
MOSCOW ? A television set
exploded and sent fire racing
through a tourist hotel in Leningrad,
killing 16 people including
seven foreigners, Pravda reported
, Monday.
The other nine fatalities were
firefighters battling Saturday's
blaze at the nine-story Leningrad
Hotel, the Communist Party
newspaper said. Twenty-one people
were hospitalized with burns.
Pravda said the fire started
when a television set that had not
been turned off exploded in a
Swedish tourist's room.
13,000 crack arrests
made in three states
ATLANTA ? More than
13,000 arrests were made from a
three-month crack investigation
culminating in this past week's
four-day drug sweep in Georgia,
Florida and South Carolina, said
"a Florida law enforcement
official.
That three-month operation included
86 drug arrests in Greenwood
County, S.C., and another
29 in Laurens County, S.C., authorities
said.
"Operation Crack Attack,"
which commenced at dawn this
past Wednesday in Moultrie, experienced
a few setbacks along
the way. One of them occurred
when the Clayton County Narcotics
Unit broke in the door of an
elderly couple's home south of
Atlanta Friday after an officer
typed the wrong address on a
search warrant.
Bill would require
students to say pledge
South Carolina's public
schools should require the Pledge
of Allegiance, honor military veterans
and teach students about
the "values of patriotism" and
"Americanism," a Senate panel
recommended Tuesday.
"This is a movement to inject
. . . some of our traditional
American values" into the curriculum,
said the bills' sponsor,
Sen. Mike Rose.
But every student would not
have to say the pledge. Instead, a
student could leave the classroom
or remain in his seat.
But Sen. Jim Bryan, DLaurens,
said he worried about a
mandatory pledge. For example,
he said a class may ostracize a
student who does not participate.
l,efldprc tn mnkp nush
for weapons reactor
South Carolina political leaders
have vowed to push for a nuclear
weapons production reactor
in the state even though a congressional
report recommended
against the project
"I don't think the . . . report is
that significant," said Rep. Butler
Derrick, whose district includes
the Savannah River Site. "T've.
heard no one say we won't need
a nuclear arsenal in the future,
and that means there will be a
need for tritium."
.The report from the U.S. General
Accounting Office recommended
the U.S. Energy Department
reconsider a 1988 decision
to" build two nuclear reactors and
look for cheaper technology.
Gov. Carroll Campbell agreed
that South Carolina is a good location
for the reactor project.
Compiled from wire reports
Holde
From Staff and Wire Reports
State Law Enforcement Divis
Robert Stewart said Tuesday fo
President James Holderman coul<
tioned about the destruction of
records.
A report in The (Greenville)
SLED had no plans to question ]
during its investigation into the
ance of Carolina Research and De
Foundation records prior to 1985.
But Stewart said agents wouli
"whomever they deemed necessar
view," and Holderman might pro
into the investigation. %
"Our agents will investigate whc
USC fac<
5 to 10 percent
JL
cut is possible
By College Press Service
Administrators at USC are being
told to plan for a 5 to 10 perceni
budget cut in non-academic
departments.
North Carolina State Universit)
students find their library isn't
open as long as it was ir
December.
At Middle Tennessee State University,
a computer center won't
be able to buy the new printers it
had wanted.
In California, students just found
out their tuition might go up 20
percent ? about five times the in
flation rate ? next fall.
And in Massachusetts, so many
course sections have been eliminated
that "it's become almost impossible
to graduate in four years,"
said Plymouth State College student
government President Charles
Doherty.
The combination of the Persian
Gulf War and the national ecoBush
d(
announ
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON ? President
Bush declared Tuesday that the
Persian Gulf War offensive will be
waged "with undiminished intensity."
He denounced Saddam Hussein's
announced withdrawal from
Kuwait as an outrageous attempt to
regroup so that Iraq can fight
another day.
"He is trying to claim victory in
the midst of a rout," said Bush, effectively
dismissing calls for a
cease fire. He said coalition military
forces are ahead of their attack
schedule and that the liberation
of Kuwait is near.
The president said Saddam's retreat
is an effort "to save the remnants
of power and control in the
Middle East by every means possible,"
and vowed that tactic will
fail.
The president said the way for
Iraqi forces to end the fighting is
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Members of the Francis Ma
Sunday in the Russell House
annual observance of Black H
African-American Students.
rman
t?7777 "We let Jim us
;ion Chief . ..
rmer USC was PUShed tO
i be quesfoundation
News said motely involved in
Holderman said. "We don't noi
disappear- we're going to questic
welopment SLED spokesman
knew of no plans to
1 question the time he made
y to inter- newspaper,
ivide input "If it's important t<
will. Borders won't st<
>ever is re- He said the investi
?s budgei
nomic recession, in short,
caused a massive financial crisi
hundreds of campuses around
country.
For students and faculty m
* bers, it has meant fewer coi
[ sections, hiring freezes, lay-c
. mid-year tuition hikes, new I
for transportation and compi
r services, the abolition of in
t mural sports and less access
, their libraries and health clinics
"We're not trimming fat," :
Oregon State University spol
man Robert Bruce. "We're rerr
ing marrow from the bone."
At least 30 states* left by the
I cession to take in less tax mo
i than they thought they would
are being forced to cut spendin,
National Conference on State
gislatures survey in early Jani
found.
The University of California
Los Angeles (UCLA) has had a
peat policy in effect since IS
Florida State University's gr
forgiveness policy officially stai
in 1971, and the University
Maryland's policy began in 197
inounce
ced by
"to lay down their arms." He s
there will be no attacks on i
armed soliders in retreat ?
"we have no choice but to consi
retreating combat units as a thn
and will respond accordingly."
Coalition military officials si
some sort of an Iraai withdrawal
indeed underway. Bush called tl
insufficient to end the war, and <
rion Choir perform at the Gosp
Ballroom. The performance w?
istory Month and sponsored by
could 1
e his discretion as to where
the limit or past the limit."
this investigation," he than half done
rmally announce who have questions
>n." to determine wl
Hugh Munn said he Holderman 1
question Holderman at cords to the f
the statement to the from 1989 Foui
Meanwhile C
3 the investigation, we Carolina Reseai
3p us," Munn said. tion, said Hold
gation already is more his discretionar
t reductior
has In the fall of 1990, the Unive;
is at sity of Maryland restricted the po
the icv drasticallv. Second trades ai
substituted for first grades in th
em- GPR, but only for courses from th
irse first college semester.
>ffs, "It's a much more restrictiy
fees policy," said Gardnel Dyson, spe
Liter cial projects assistant to the Offic
tra- of Registrar. "We're very intei
; to ested to see how students react t
this."
said Brooks said the grade forgive
ces- ness policy might improve USC'
lov- academic integrity.
"It is obvious from the qualit
re- of schools that do have it, that
ney would not hurt our academic inte
get, grity," he said. "In fact, it woul
g, a seemingly improve it."
Le- Young said students should ex
iary press their feelings on the issue.
"This issue is in the faculty'
l at hands, but students can add thei
re_ input," Young said. "And if thi
171 students want it, we will addres
it "
ade lf
rted Since then, the news has gottei
of
3. See BUDGET page
s retreat
Hussein
amanded full observance of all Ur
ited Nations Security Council re
solutions on Kuwait, starting wit
recognition that it is independem
not part of Iraq. He said Saddar
has not relinquished his claim ti
the conquered nation.
i|| Bush spoke as a Pentagon offi
?1 cial disclosed that massive coali
tion forces had engaged key unit
of Iraq's Republican Guard an<
met "sporadic" fighting. He sai<
the coalition troops were poised t(
cut off any attempted retreat t<
aic* Baghdad,
unBush
said Saddam has not re
clcr
nounced his claim to Kuwait, ant
^ has not accepted United Nation;
Security Council resolutions de
lid manding not only unconditiona
[ is withdrawal but also the restoratior
hat of the Kuwaiti government and re
le- parations for war damage.
EiflB Whether
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Vice presidi
I I has made the i
-f P giveness policy
year's Student
urn quesuoi
51 consequences<
Lori Toney/The Gamecock Vice presid
said, "If it will
el Singout this past I m all for itis
part of the 22nd dize our acad
f the Association of 8oal "
The grade
policy, allows
>e questioned
tion's money.
tO put the money. It Averyt said he was surprised to learn Holderman
had spent $1.2 million from the
Gavle Averyt Foundation in eight years.
r- "We let Jim use his discretion as to where
Foundation president pu[ the money ? he was pushed ^
the limit or past the limit"
and law enforcement agents Holderman, now working with Koger
J several people in an attempt Properties in Jacksonville, Fla., received
hat happened to the records. $50,000 salary supplements and a $60,000
lad resisted releasing the re- expense account.
Hihlir arrnrHincr tr? minntpc
ndation board meetings. Avert said he was unsure what made up
3ayle Averyt, president of the res* Holderman s spending.
rch and Development Founda- Details about Holderman s spending, inlerman
"pushed to the limit"
y power to spend the Founda- See FOUNDATION page 2
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2 Kevin Varner pours a mug of homemade beer from the brewery
he built in his home.
Student brews beer
Makes own lager 9 "real ale" taste was to start bre
wing it at home,
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having to do with it,"
By VIRGINIA MARSHALL Varner said.
Staff Writer So after Varner returned to
Plans for South Carolina's the United States, he began ex^
first beer brewery are underway tensive research and shopping
in a USC student's apartment. for the best ingredients for his
0 But instead of an average new home-brewing adventure.
American beer, South Caroli- "Since then, I have prognians
can expect a home- ressed to where I now control
brewed ale with foreign origins. the entire process," Varner said.
Bottled or draft, Kevin Var- "The process of brewing beer
ner, a USC junior, can brew it from a malt extract is much like
once a week in the front room making a cake,
of his Charles Edward apart- "Quality ingredients, a lot of
ment in Columbia. It's legal, sanitation and a little knowledge
too. Any adult, 18 years or will take you a long way," he
older, can brew up to 100 gal- said.
Ions per person or 200 gallons All that is needed are four inper
household. gredients: malted barley, hops,
Inspired after frequenting the yeast and water. The malt must
5 pubs of Scotland while studying be mashed to convert the starch
a spring semester at the Moray to sugar. Then, a sweet solution,
House College in 1990, Varner called wort, is strained from the
1 enjoyed the beer and realized
the only way to capture the See BREWERY page 2
le forgiveness questioned
nnlirv \x/nn1H die second time t0 average the higher of the
puiiLy WUU1U laloC twQ CQurse grades intQ GpR lQwer
standards debated grade will remain on the transcript but will
not be figured into the GPR.
MANTLER "I believe in offering the student every
chance to succeed or fail," Brooks said.
sntial candidate Shine Brooks "This offers the student a great deal of
implementation of a grade for- mobility."
/ a major platform issue in this Joy Wynn, a records official at the UniGovernment
campaign. versity of Tennessee, said, "It gives the stuns
have been raised over the dents a second or third time for a student to
af having such a policy. improve. We're here to help the students."
ential candidate Tom Young The University of Tennessee allows D's
1 help our academic credibility, and F's earned in the first 30 hours of work
As long as it does not jeopar- to be repeated by the end of the students'
lemic standards or our 2001 first 60 hours of work.
Before 1984, Tennessee allowed students
forgiveness policy, or repeat
students taking a course for See GRADES page 2