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_L Holdern By The Associated Press Former USC president James Holderman will complete his sentence at cramped prison headquarters rather than a resort in Florida. The change, which starts next week, followed reports Wednesday that Holderman was doing much of his community service work from his Dosh beach home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., south of Jacksonville. Solicitor Dick Harpootlian's office worked out a plea agreement that resulted in Holderman's sentence of 500 hours of community service for tax evasion and accepting extra compensation. "We didn't have a mental image of him lying around a beach house in a Hawaiian shirt, pecking on a computer," Harpootlian said. How much time Holderman has spent at his Ponte Vedra Beach rental home in the Financial 1 _i 1 coma oe By The College Press Service Students soon may find more grants in the cial aid packages. Higher education associations have been fig expand grant eligibility while simultaneously that a decade-long trend toward loan-based ai< end. Their battle will climax this fall when C rewrites the Higher Education Act, the blue] all federal aid programs. 4National student leaders say the battle can students are willing to join the fray. "It is going to be an incredibly tough battle need to call your congressmen," said Selena E gislative director of the United States Student ation (USSA). The House Postsecondary Education subcc led the reauthorization effort, holding more hearings during the past two years. The subcommittee has finished its hearing expected to begin marking up the bill early MarK-up is me crucial pnase ior an dius. i nai congressional representatives go over the bill proposing new rules to replace ones they do n with. When the subcommittee finishes, the House condary Education and Labor committee will the bill before it goes to the full House for Any section of the bill can be amended at any the process. The Senate also will begin later this fall ma its version of the Higher Education Act. W House and Senate pass their versions of the ac ference committee will try to combine the t into one, which must be approved by both hou Dong said this mark-up process gives sti chance to fight for proposals they favor, switching financial aid emphasis from loans tc "A lot of people say, 'What difference does to call your congressman?' But a lot of chanj to be made and congressmen do read thei Dong said. USSA, the primary student-run lobbying c tion, has been pushing to expand Pell grant e to families with incomes up to $49,000 and to the Stafford loan program to all students, rega income. It also wants to increase Pell granl and to make them an entitlement, which wouli them from budget cuts. The group included these recommendatii 25-page proposal that it submitted subcommittee. "We want to make sure that middle income get Pell grants and are eligible for Staffon USC group 100,000 veterans la ec to be contacted By CHRISTY BRANHAM veterans Staff Writer "Our The USC National Information childrer System for Vietnam veterans and Smith, ] their families will contact 100,000 The veterans throughout the United Disabil States beginning next year. based p C09\feRW J' New Tri Delta I The fu Summer Ashley Rohii Kim Atkinson Laur Heather Bartlett Melii Jennifer Baugh Suza Stacey Beltram Kim< Susanne Bradley Virgi Josie Bryan Kelly Amy Bums Laur Heathley Buxton Eliza Bently Butler Miss2 Amy Coan Tern Allyson Corley Susit Shelley Creagh Allisi z>t:isy tcrisiiuus Ulna Virginia Edmunds Caro Monica Erisman Rem Amy Finkbine Wenc Marika Gyulai Jessi Catherine Griffin Cass, Amy Gray Caro Heather Garris Anne nan assi past month was in dispute Wednesday. For the most part, Holderman has b working out of his home in Columbia, s Tom Hudson, a spokesman for the state partmcnt of Probation, Parole and Pari Services. Holderman has occasionally been allo\ to travel to Florida on weekends, howe1 and might have done some work there well. Hudson said a reporter with The CharU Observer misunderstood him when he s Holderman was working out of his hoi Hudson said he meant Holderman's Colt bia home, not his Florida home. The Observer stood by its story Thursdt In any event, Hudson said, allowing soi wiiv IVJ au a iiuiiuiuiy vitg aisiiUsiiv^ his home is very rare. Meanwhile, Circuit Judge John Hei Waller said he is bothered by the percept grant refi passed sc Dong said. "We don't want to c : I only the very poorest and the ver ir finan- ?' .. '? go to college. The Education Department < ;hting to njstratjon are proposing more m arguing recommendations, delivered to i should summer> would expand the maxi ingress $2 400 ^ $3,700, but it would Drint or neediest students. The administration, however, be won programs for middle-class studei , limit would go to $3,500 for firs and you students and to $5,000 for th ong, le- fjfjh?year stu(jents. Graduate sti Assocl- $7,500 annually. Also, the limit for Supplement immittee wouid increase to $6,000 for than 45 $10,000 for graduates. The administration plan would h f 1? ment scho,arsh'Ps for Pel1 8r: ,1S . would expand outreach progi Lswhen communities, section, Dong said she believes that r lot agree aye lQ slucjents will make it into Charles B. Saunders, a senio 5 Postse- American Council on Educ e*a me makers were looking for ways debate, families afford college without P?intin loans. "Where the punch comes is t g up onjy faVOrs grants for the needie nCU me Tka 0Aiin/?i1 Koc nmnnepH roic 1 111/ IUUI1V/U uao piujA/jvu ?uij t, a con- grant t0 $4 500 and expanding wo bills wjtj1 }ncomes Up to $45,000. ses. The American Association ol jdcnts a which represents more than 300 such as he|d ils j99o national conferenci t grants. reauthorization process bej it make lobbied Congress for the day, ges have f,ces to tell them how importa r mail, ^ was tbe average student. AAUS president Daniel Lab< >rganiza- tion's big push now is to incre ligibility registering students to vote, i re-open g0 out and vote, thei rdless of chance of getting listened to," 1 t awards don't vote then you are not reall d protect Labovitz said all students representatives, ons in a Saunders agreed that student to the opinions known. "Students in general need to i : students mittees are doing in both house j loans," press support," he said. to aid vete \gent Orange Class Assis- fund USC J Program, a non- year. The N ncntal program, funded the national proj provide support services to computer-b; ; and their families. referral systc role primarily is to help USC has 1 with disabilities," Bryan erans and th project director, said. states, Puert Center for Development Islands. The lilies operates the USCrogram while AOCAP will Se vnem I Qt *ledges rxJfe ) come! ^ 1 ** fT* t Humphreys \ 4 V en King I1 sa Kinsey J nne Lawrence McCormick ; nia McLeod jX McNamara I/y in Mil ford \beth Mims ' J \ . j Prnffitt __/\j? "T ? Parker ? Pritcher , on Quinn / y Rodesiler (V' fine Seeley / -" V\ te Shebiel \ ly Smith V ca Sparks , ie Sturkie line Walker Wyman 1GAMECOCK igned toi he was too lenient in sentencing Holdermar een "I figured somebody's going to think >aid sent somebody to a real plush place to ser Dc- community service," Waller said, don The Probation Department supervises person sentenced to community service ai ved determines what work will be required, ver, Because of the publicity about Holderma as the department issued an edict that Holdt man would be required to work out of otte prison office. ;aid Deputy Corrections Commissioner Milt* me. Kimpson said his agency had not been giv* lm- guidelines until Wednesday. Mike Cavanaugh, director of the Probati* iy. Department, said standard operating proc me- dures would require Holderman to work o ^ at of a prison office. "From now on, we'll know where he w nry be ? at an office in Columbia," Cavanauj ion added. Drm I )on reate a system where y richest students can rnd the Bush admiodest changes. Their Congress earlier this mum Pell grant from restrict the grants to would expand loan its. The Stafford loan t? and second?year ird?, fourth?, and idents could get up to z\ Loans for Students undergraduates and I create $500 achieve- This disabled Stude JL/ClUl VJOimua a IVU^VO JL^ BREWER, JENNIFER LYNN BRUCE, ALLYSON LEIGH BUNDY, SUSAN DOOBIE B. CLARK, CRYSTAL ELISE COCKRELL, KELLY DEANNE COLLUM, STACEY CRINION, TRACY DOUGLAS, BETH FLETCHER, AMY SUZANNE FRANCISCO, KRISTINE VALERIE FRANS, DENA KAY JEFFCOAT, KAMA LAURA JOHNSON, JENNIFER ALEXANDRA JONES, ELIZABETH LEFEVRE, SEPTEMBER LOUISE ODOM, VIRGINIA, L. PEDDICORD, AMI MARIE ROBERTS, JEAN MICHELLE SHERER, TRINA MARIE THOMPSON, PATRICIA ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, MARY-BETH a- WILSON, JENNIFER JO We Love You! Ar int recipients and it * ams to low-income ftQYlOLlC nany proposals favorthe bill. By WENDY E. POW r vice president with Staff Writer ation, said most law- First-year student B to help middle-class man jjves jn an adz taking out too many dence hall on the I doesn't mind when p hat the administfation doors for him and c sl" Saunders said. . , . unu smucuiie iu uany ing the maximum Pell cafeleria eligibility to families Bu[ car,ier (hij y( . TT . c. , . man, who uses a moi f University Students, ^ maneu?er around student governments, unab,e (0 uke a sche a in Washington when because gan. The participant ^ in a buddi whi| visiting members of- Qf lhc s,?e of ?fs car nt increased financial nolentcr ... The lest site was lal mtz said the associa- and EshcIman was a, :ase student power by thc tcst c Handling such situa , they have more of a ^ f Disabi% Servi Labovitz said If you Jsjon Qf Studen/Devek y a constituent. Educational Services, need to write their offers a wWe range Q ... to aid the approxinr ts need to make their usc sludcms wkh ( mental disabilities, nomtor what the com- Some activities th s of Congress and ex- pate jn inc|ud(, , counseling, adapted h transportation, career -|^ ^ p referrals, classroom r J 1 notetakers, orientatit gistration aid, perse 5773,682 for the next dents, sign language [IS is one of only six and test proctoring. jrams. The system is a While such prograrr ased information and ful and necessary, di an. dents still encounter d helped over 5,000 vet- gaining access to som cir families from all 50 on campus. It was on o Rico and the Virgin summer access ra ; problems range from added to all campus ?~ According to a survej } VETERANS page 3 Congratulations /T/immo Dlprlrrpc "I ( igher s< i. Holderman will report to main off I the prison system Monday or.Tuesday. ve First, Kimpson said, he's got to find fice among the crowded facilities whei a derman can work. id After pleading guilty in May to ac< extra compensation and no contest t in, income-tax evasion, Holderman wa ir- tenced to the community service. He i: a loping a course for motivating inmates. Dn Waller would not comment Wednes en the appropriateness of Holderman's assignment. 3n Harpootlian said Holderman's comi e- service gives credibility to the perc ut that white public officials get prefe treatment. ill "They all should be fed out of the *h spoon," he said, "and here's Holderm; ting the silver one again." |p fc:Pi3F - int exits through the automatic door in tl apped accessib . last semester, 75 percent < buildings on campus are pai ? or totally accessible to dis rian Eshel- students, ipted resi- Partial accessibility may iorseshoe, that while a student can enti eople open building, access to other flo an usually restricted because the bui his tray in an elevator. And no 1 ing may be classified "full jar, Eshel- cessible" if it does not [orized cart Braille markings on elevato impus, was visually impaired students, duled biol- According to Rosvelt Ma was to be Director of Educational Su :h, because Services, USC is "probabl t, he could most accessible higher instil in the state." For that reason ter changed ablcd students at other staU t>le to take ]egCS and universities are referred to USC, where, in tions is the tain's estimate, 98 percent i ces, a divi- academic buildings are pai Dpment and or totally accessible. The office jw0 academic buildings > f programs are inaccessible are Sloan lately 160 McMaster Colleges. Sloi jhysical or scheduled for renovation i future and will be made full ey partici- cessible, and the new n academic school, set for construction ousing and the Koger Center, will b counseling quired by law to be l adaptation, accessible. >n and re- That law is the Ameri >nal atten- with Disabilities Act of interpreters which requires that any ni constructed building providi is are help- accessibility for disabled pei sabled stu- Several residence halls ar< lifficulty in inaccessible, including Mcl e buildings Quad, Maxcy, NADA A ly this past ments, Sims, McClintock mps were Wade Hampton. At present sidewalks. are no plans to renovate / conducted _ halls because the housing i ?/ I FEATURING FRI & "THE GRA NO COVER - $2.5C SERVIN FRIDAYS & SAT (Tin 741 Salu Friday, September 13, 1991 srvice ices of an ofre Hol:cpting o state s sen- ?. 5 dcveprison day on :eption rential ; same m getHolderman 9 * jylik # d' ^ Greg Rickabaugh/The Gamecock hie Thomson Student Health Center. ility growing af all for disabled students can be met rtially in Capstone, Douglas, the aoiea riorsesnoe, Laoorue ana ratterson Hall. mean These halls are equipped with zr the wide doorways and roll-in showors is crs. Martain said the University lding is required by law to provide i>uild- housing that is mainstreamed and y ac- integrated with the rest of the have University population, rs for At the University of Georgia, buildings are not simply classiirtain, fied as "accessible" or "inaccespport sible." According to Dr. Karen y the Kalivoda, Director of Disability tution Services at Georgia, a five-point i, dis- rating system is employed to inj col- dicate accessibility levels, often A building rated one is Mar- equipped with Braille markings, of all ample doorways, timed elevator tially doors and other such amenities. Students in wheelchairs cannot vhich even enter buildings rated five, i and For the past three years, the in is Board of Regents at Georgia has n the allocated $200,000 to fund varily ac- ous projects on campus. Renovalusic tions and improvements are made near based on suggestions from stue re- dents, with the eventual goal of fully updating all buildings on campus to a rating of one. icans Georgia also has a new Kurz1990, weil Reading Machine, a com;wly puterized device on which s full printed material is placed and sons. "read" aloud by a synthesized 5 also voice. Priced at $12,000, the latiryde est model is about the size of a part- suitcase, and The Thomas Cooper Library there also has a Kurzweil machine, but these some students have complained needs about the age of it. isr m rT f f " SAT NIGHT: DRINK SMALL NDFATHER OF BLUES" ) PER PERSON FOR NON-EATERS G BREAKFAST URDAYS MIDNIGHT - 4 AM 799-6303 nothy's Old Haunt) da Ave. Five Points