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H*-: Cliches Dispelled Golf team swings into season Pages S??5iSSS?*. ^ r^+, fend why in the hell you sent a African StUOGntS ? $3,000 Excalibur doohickey to r)terij<*<* homeland Bin cosby...?* V M,w5 NBC news crew comes to USC Page 4 - - ? ^ : The Gamecock Eighty-two Years of Collegiate Journalism fVolume 83, No. 69 The University of Soulh Carolina Wednesday, March 6, 1991 IlaaMfc %mm m mmt mm u m jr : Drf IsZiL. T IN THE NEWS Train's faulty brakes kill 96 people Sunday MAPUTO, Mozambique ? At least 96 people were killed and 113 others injured when a train's brakes failed and it "plunged down a hill and smashed into a train station, according to a report Tuesday. Radio Mozambique said the accident happened Sunday in the northern port of Nacala. The heavily loaded train was unable to clear a hill outside the town and when its brakes didn't work, it hurtled four miles back down tViO Villi on/1 propVq/1 uiv ma aiiu uadiivAi. Israeli court sentences Palestinian teen-agers JERUSALEM ? An Israeli , court Tuesday sentenced two Palestinian teen-agers to 30 years in prison each for stabbing a bus passenger to death. In the attack on Dec. 2, three Palestinians from the West Bank boarded a bus, stabbed to death a Jewish seminary student and wounded three other passengers. Police fatally shot one of the assailants. The court said both defendants are 17-year-olds but did not release their names because they were minors. Puerto Rico Senate approves Spanish bill SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico ? Puerto Rico's Senate approved a bill making Spanish the island's official language despite strong opposition from statehood advocates. The 18-6 vote late Monday split along party lines. All six "no" votes were cast by members of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party, which argued that it would hurt Puerto Rico's chances of becoming the United States' 51st state. The measure was passed by the House this past year and now goes to Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon for signing into law. New plans will change size of space station NEW YORK ? NASA's space station, first proposed by President Reagan seven years ago, will be smaller and less ambitious than the orbiting outpost originally envisioned. Under the new plan, NASA would reduce the station's size to about 300 feet, lower its cost and cut its astronaut crew in nail. Because of their reduced size, the work and living areas will be constructed largely on the ground, reducing assembly work for astronauts in space. Court allows lawsuit of state social workers Social workers and local agencies can be sued for not properly investigating a child abuse report, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Monday. The court said the Child Protection Act requires the protection of abused children when their cases have been reported to local officials of the Department of Social Services. The Court said public officials who do follow policy may be sued for their mistakes. Public officials who make the policy cannot be sued, said attorney Charles Henshaw Jr. Compiled from wire reports Court order forces F oundati By The Associated Press ^ The Carolina Research and Development tl Foundation might disband after their first ii open board meeting today at 8:30 a.m. The state Supreme Court declared the fi foundation a public body this past month, v forcing the board to open its meetings. p Closing the foundation "is certainly one of F the. options that will be considered, very seriously considered," president Gayle Averyt p told The (Greenville) News. Board of Trustees Chairman Michael a Up in smoke Firefighters try to control a fire in Scriven The fire was contained to the restaurant, biiiuKe diiu waier udmdye. Saddam fre By The Associated Press ol Civil strife intensified in Iraq Tuesday, but tc U.S. officials said they didn't know if Sad- b; dam Hussein was in serious danger of being d; overthrown. U Meanwhile,Iraq freed 35 more allied POWs, and said they were the last. Allies, on v the other hand, could not release Iraqi pris- b oners because of bad weather. tt The allied POWs, including 15 Americans, g< were turned over to the Red Cross in Baghdad Tuesday. Ten allied prisoners, six of b< them Americans, had been freed Monday. th The First American prisoners of war freed w by Iraq are in good health, according to the al doctor who accompanied them to a U.S. w Navy Hospital ship Tuesday. He said a team lVfoviriQ < Student Go^ reminisces a By AARON SHEININ would be Assistant News Editor would pla So many issues, so little time. students tf This is how Stephen Benjamin, Benjam who will no longer be Student students Government President as of 4:30 other bein p.m. today, summed up his presidents administration. He said When Benjamin was campaign- the new ins for S.G. president a vear aso. "student c> * ? "O"' he listed his major issues as: recy- very pleas cling, campus safety and security, Dr. Palms tuition fees, apathy, parking, cul- things for tural diversity and racial and sex- Benjam ual discrimination. served as However, Benjamin believes he chapter of best served the students of USC by for the A serving on USC's presidential People, al search committee that selected made in ir John Palms. USC as be "If I had mystical foresight at "USC i: that time (when he was campaign- so we ha ing), I would have to have said needs," he serving the search committee. . . first direel open meetings on may /lungo said the board discussed the future le university's relations with its foundati* i a secret session this past week. Averyt said if officials choose to close oundation, its assets, valued at $14 milli /ould be transferred to an "appropri dace," such as USC's Educatioi foundation. Averyt said he would not comment on ; ossible action until after the meeting tods Foundation officials said they had thou bout combining the two foundations bef jjjggj E 's Alley restaurant at Gervais and Hug although several businesses around es POWs ? doctors found no solid evidence they w< irtured or seriously mistreated while he 1 the Iraqis. The six were flown from J< in to Bahrain for checkups aboard t SNS Mercy. The first major contingent of U.S. trot 'ho fought in the war ? about 4,400 me ers of the XVIII Airborne Corps ? will lrn to the United States on Thursday, Pen in officials said. Bad weather stalled what was to ha len the first release of Iraqi prisoners ie allies. U.S. commanders said 294 Irai ere to have been be flown from Saudi I iia to Baghdad Tuesday but rain and hi inds delayed the release until Wednesday U.S. military officials had earlier e 311 /eminent pre ibout term of the most important role I ^ ly as far as serving the J$P lis year," he said, in was one of only two on the committee, the g Regina Simpson, S.G. it Coastal Carolina, it is very important for president to be very sensitive. . . and I'm ;ed with the selection of { . I think he will do great |isNlll uns university. in, who in the past has MM"??* president of the USC the National Association year. The inc dvancement of Colored has plans for so mentioned the strides nent position lcreasing race relations at ment next yea dng important to him. The Caroli 5 a microcosm of society, achievement 1 ve students with special when respom ; said. "We appointed the Lor of cultural affairs this See decide to > of the state Supreme Court issued its ruling. 3ns Foundation director Chris Vlahoplus said U1 Five clerks and secretaries and two execu- 0i the tives may lose their jobs if the foundation is $< on, disbanded. in ate lal Vlahoplus has served in several administrative posts at the school and is now a teiny nured professor of journalism, earning ly. $92,757- a year. Records show he has re- 11 ght ceived $100,500 in bonuses from the founda- ^ ore tion since 1984. tf 2nd di afe I 8 occurs By CHAD BRAY Staff Writer Another student has beei rested in Preston on drug cha weeks after an undisclosed an of LSD, marijuana and hal nogenic mushrooms were foui the men's residence hall. Christopher Bell, 21, an M campus student from Lamar, arrested Feb. 26 on charges of session with intent to distr marijuana. Police said they received z from a Preston resident advis about 10:45 p.m. He reporte smelled "a strong odor of i juana" coming from a room o third floor of Preston. .. When police responded, :ric Glenn/The Gamecock , ' , . 1 .. also smelled the marijuana The resident adviser knocke ier streets Sunday. ^??r l^e room an(^ a I suffered heavy student other than Bell ansv and invited the officers in, th lice report said. as Iraqi tensi ye pressed anxiety that the turmoil in Iraq could fl jld slow prisoner exchanges and that turmoil tc Dr- was said to be growing. tc he The \yorst anti-Hussein protests appeared n to be centered around Basra, in southern s }ps Iraq, where remnants of Saddam's loyalist ai m- Republican Guards and anti-government re- troops faced off with tanks, U.S. military of- n ita- ficials said. Z twenty-live journalists on tneir way to ve cover the unrest in Basra were reported missby ing. Eleven, including three Americans, were o qis last seen Monday about 25 miles south of si ^r- Basra. The U.S. command said they were be- d gh lieved to be in "serious danger." The others, all French, were last heard from Sunday. C ;x- Refugee accounts also spoke of unrest K Debate i in regioi sident Funding problerr of fire dont stop winnij By JENNIFER THACKSTC iiriilr-li Staff Writer Despite a lack of funding USC debate team is foi iittiiriiT - _ ^8$?? through the spring semestei lecting awards and establi I themselves as the team to bea ? Budget problems and the h university support forcec Gamecock debaters to put th< lent and knowledge on hold f Jjp A 1990 fall semester so they ^ JLv, ! raise money for the spring to cipate in Southeastern Confe Benjamin an<* invitational competitions. , r David Berube, of the D( oming administration . _ . ment of Theatre, Speech making it a perma- F c. Dance, is m his first year coa in Student Govern- ...!*? ? ,_ ., ir ? the debate team. Berube said ina Creed is another ^apointed by *<; '** of fin; Benjamin can point to suPP?rt ^ ^eive from th< . . ? , versity and Student Governme ling to questions ab- . , , . . ? n We just don t have the dcmiamim ney," Berube said. "We're BENJAMIN page 2 v. # ... , r a waiting to find out if we re disband John O'Donnell, financial officer of the liversity, serves as the foundation's fiscal Ticer. The university also pays O'Donnell 34,938 a year and he has received $42,500 i bonuses from the foundation since 1983. The discussion about the foundation's fujre also followed disclosure that the major;y of the organization's records sought in a reedom of Information lawsuit were mysiriously destroyed in 1988. Tig bust : in dorm One of the responding officers told the students why they were i ar- there and asked if they could irges, search the room. The officers were lount given permission, and both of the luci- men consented to being searched, nd in Police said Bell then voluntarily gave the officers an undisclosed oft- amount or marijuana, ne aiso gave was the officers $155 in cash, which he ' pos- stated he received from selling the ibute drug. Bell was advised of his rights i call and arrested. The other student ;er at will be turned over to Student Afd he' fairs for an investigation, marin the Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs for Resident Student they Development Jim McMahon said odor, he cannot comment on individual d on cases, but that any student inmale volved in circumstances where an vered illegal activity was taking place in e p0- his room would be subject to disciplinary action by the university. on grows aring in one city after another. In addition ) Basra, refugees reaching the Iraqi border >wn of Safwan said demonstrators were larching in the cities of Karbala, Nasiriyah, hutra, Suqash-Shuyukh, Amara, Samawah nd Kut. Pentagon officials said earlier the U.S. lilitary also had reports of unrest in Najaf, ..I IS A C*-i:L uuayi, rvuiuayi ana vaiai oaim. Jalal Talabani, head of the Patriotic Union f Kurdistan, also said anti-Saddam demontrations took place Sunday in Tikrit, Sadam's hometown. Iraq's ruling Revolutionary Command Council Tuesday annulled the annexation of oiwait, the official Iraqi News Agency said. team ranks n's top five to nationals." J Although it has been a financial [jcr struggle, the team has proven their abilities and the program is cur)N rently ranked in the top five in their region. T the In February's annual invitational ging debate tournament at the Univer col- sity North Carolina-Charlotte, shing die USC varsity team with Jason t Boan, a philosophy junior, and ick of MarK Smitn, Honors economics i the junior, placed third overall. Boan iir ta- anc* Smith were awarded first and or the second best speakers at the tournacould ment> respectively, parti- The team captured the SEC Re'rence gionals Novice Debate Crown and Varsity Debate Crown, as well as jpart- first a?d second best speakers in and each division. They also won the ching SEC Sweepstakes Award for the he is best performance by any school at incial the tournament j uni- "We have established ourselves int. as an SEC power that must be remo ckoned with, and as a team to ; still watch at the National Championgoing ships in March," Berube said.