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> Columnist criticizes USC >- How to be aware of > A look at Prince's > Atlanta's Nixon Cf ' would think with all the crime the USC P.D. sees going on Police, page 3 your cholesterol movies, page 5 suspended for failing f|? around campus they would be on the ball enough to level, page 4 drug test, page 7 "* know prevention is the best way to fight potentially violent crimes. ||f| Shelley Magee, page 3 BGAMECO(TKl Volume 84, No. 17 University of South Carolina Wednesday, September 18, 1991 Foundation to decide new course By TIGE WATTS News Editor The Carolina Research and Development Foundation took another step to clear past controversy by naming an interim president and implementing a full board of directors. The foundation named its acting president Alan Medlin from USC's law school. A new president, along with a vice president and secretary, will be named at the foundation's next meeting. The foundation also reviewed bylaws and recommendations made in June about the foundation. Among those bylaws included the separation of the foundation into two separate entities, one research foundation and one development foundation. The foundation also decided to conduct an open search for a new executive director. The former director, Chris Vlahoplus resigned last semester and was involved in the controversy of the foundation's lost files. "We're going to have an open search for a new executive director. The director should serve for all three foundations ? education, research and development," USC President John Palms said. We hope to Fill the vacancy as soon as possible. We have to approve the job description and responsibilities for that post," he said. Palms said the new director should have some understanding of scholarly operations, as well as research and teaching operations. He also denied USC is looking outside the university for a replacement. "We might find the person we want within the university. It's too early to tell," Palms said. Vice President for University Advancement James Rex has been filling in for the director's vacancy. Medlin and Palms said no projects stalled because of the transition. Palms did say it was possible projects might have dropped. "Thank goodness no major issues came up that would have forced the temporary board members to take up," he said. The foundation was a source of controversy last semester when the South Carolina Supreme Court ordered the foundation to open its records because they were a public body. After the order, foundation officials claimed the records were lost. Opened records did reveal a $25,000 payment to former USC President James Holderman for his services in freeing a Puerto Rican businessman from possession of cocaine charges. In the World... Secretary of State James III told Israeli Prime Minister Yitzl" mir Tuesday that the Bush admir will support the housing-loan tees Israel is vigorously seeking, < rael accepts a four-month de limitc r\r> VA/horfi thft monou , I W VI I I IV/I V ' t ? VI I v y ' spent. Baker's proposal was part of < to end an acrimonious squabl has upset U.S.-Israeli relatio threatened efforts to convene c East peace conference next mc Six sailors died when thei Sea Dragon helicopter plunged Persian Gulf, the U.S. Na\ Monday. * Lt. Cmdr. Tim O'Leary said the crashed Saturday night after tc from the amphibious assault s Peleliu 40 miles north of Bahrain, dies were not recovered until M? Hanging Around 1 . Friends gather one late aftern< sidence hall talking about the day Speaker Museum director speaks on campus By GREG RICKABAUGH Assistant Photography Editor Almost 200 USC students were treated to a slide show of Robert Mappietnorpe s controversial photographs Monday night as the Carolina Program Union sponsored a thought-provoking program featuring Dr. Dennis Barrie director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinatti, Ohio. The photographs, many of which depict homoerotic acts between two males, were presented after Barrie spoke about his art museum and what it was forced to do to protect First Amendment rights and artistic freedom. Barrie spent over $300,000 for his defense when he was brought to trial in 1989, indicted on two counts each of "pandering obscenity" and "the illegal use of a minor in iiuuiiy-uncuicu material. The indictment came after Barrie held an exhibit of Mapplethorpe's photographs and the Cincinnati sheriff said seven of the 175 photographs were criminally In the Nati A. Baker Industrial pr iak Sha- panded 0.3 percer ustration straight increase, th< guaran- Tuesday. It was the cnly if Is- the manufacturing s lay and lead the economy, can be Still, the pace wa: cent months, curbe an effort falling automobile 01 cle that ^Middle United Press lr )nth day began a new r layoffs aimed at kee troubled news servio r MH-53 The move came into the asked a federal judg ry said and allow the elimin tract provisions gua i aircraft ployees severance iking off tice of 'ayoffs and ot hip USS Spokesman Milt C< The bo- c,ose how many en onday. ting layoff notices Ti mm 7 < * JL 1 ^ imhm t 4 I ? ' ' y( *~" "~ D ?r TH i^^w l~? J comii - A Dii I organ 'v ^ wouk Thi ^HHjHfiSttitt|iMMg^^41 from later J Cu Ithey i they 1 Toe Greg Rickabaugh/The Gamecock "Wp' Don in front of the Preston re- we to '"s events. toget equip discusses; WP Dennis Barrie spoke about the probl damentalists and his work, obscene. "Bi "A lot of our defense was about busin< what art does. .. or at least what didn't contemporary art does. And people this v we brought forward (for the de- things fense) said that sometimes contemporary art is not pretty, and sometimes it's not beautiful. And some- cflar& times it shows you things that you ^ don't want to see. And sometimes seum it holds up society, and it's hard to exhibi look at what society does," Barrie ^ said. bad c on... In the S oduction ex- Saltwatei it in August, its fifth peered of ki e government said County resid 1 newest evidence months, ector continued to Donald W. S reportedly was s slower than in re- ra^ shrimp ar d in large part by saltwater. He d jtput. yio1"0^ mC?[J ' 43-year-old rr man. Both hac iternational Tues- seafood and f ound of employee put them in a h Ping the financially - Gian Car|c e in business. a , over ' ? daV aft?.r UP Spoleto Festival new board ch iation of labor con- Qnd 14 new me ranteeing U.S. em- |t ended a pay advance no- the Pu|itzer Priz< her benefits. : the former festi apps would not dis- general manac tployees were get- y ^ dispute * jesday. trol of Spoleto. Jo aire [)r Cai SC Hying C ses their wi: [GE WATTS Editor ' len USC's Hying Club holds th< it at Owens field, they will be w ;y ? an airplane, past years, the Hying Club had is air field for their use. Howeve lying Club landed in a scandal \ rsity policies in buying a new p ventually led to the sale of thei the end of the spring semester, mer Hying Club President Bill S 1 into buying a plane from Tom f Georgia. He said the club neec se one of their planes was too I and purchased the plane with m ie from individual members. ector of Student Life Jerry Brew lization was suspended and th; i be put in place, e Flying Club advisor, Dick Fi his position, and the organizatic >old. rrent Flying Club members art do not have a plane to practice tave not been refunded for their i on McKinney, president of the Fl re actively seeking new members ive no aircraft. That's like saying her a baseball team, but we < ment." artistic \ Greg Rickabaugh/The Gamecock ems he ran into with funit it wouldn't be doing its jss if it didn't do that - if it show you the problems of /orld as well as die beautiful ; of this world," he said. was later acquitted of all es. The case is thought to be rst one involving an art muand the contents of an it. Tie said there were good and onsequences of the case. He tate... i r bacteria is sus- 1 lling a third Charleston ent in less than two imith. 58. of Folly Beach infected after cleaning id having contact with ied Friday. the bacteria killed a ion and a 71-year-old i minor cuts, had eaten iad liver disease, which iign-risK caiegory. > Menotti won a power the future direction of U.S.A. this week when a lairman, vice chairman smbers were elected, yearlong feud between twinning composer and val leadership, including ier Nigel Redden, centered on artistic con raft av; rolina ] 1"l_ McKinney sai< lUU access to airplan* liability was too i I1.?S McKinney sai< O lanes to the state vertised and later McKinney alst ar first meeting Sel1 J1* new airP ithout one com- W?uld at lea I know they g two airplanes at in trouble over r, this past year McKinney said. ' vhen they broke not ?Pen to any c lane. That scan- McKinney sai< ir two airplanes tiead failed as we "I talked to (1 'tith said he was Affairs vice presi Jones Aircraft, dent) John Palm: led a new plane an?l toe only resp old. Stith went .don 10 phase out 'ost of the funds saidIf USC phas* 'er later said the wa[erskiing club at new officers ^ hate to see I that's what might eniter, resigned Flying Cli ?n's nlanes were shorf time in Q quicKiy ovenurne McKinney and j upset because the money used t their skills and dent funds, and tl noney. "A portion of I lying Club, said, ity fees, but a r i despite the fact fees," McKinney I we want to get "After the sale ion't have any We have no idea ever see it again,' freedom said it was scary for him to see how far people would go to limit his freedom. After the program, USC English senior Craig Brandhorst said he thought the program was both interesting and worthwhile. 'It's encouraging to see that the case was won, and we don't have a completely fascist state," he said. Sal Cilella, director of the Columbia Museum of Art, attended the program in the Russell House Ballroom and said Barrie did museums a great service in bringing the issue to the floor. Cilella said he felt Mapplethorpe was more of a glamour photographer than anything. "He was a good photographer, not a great photographer. Some of his flower shots were more erotic," Cilella said. The brief program raised money to defray the cost of the trial. Barrie has booked appearances until April of next year, and is in the process of making a film about the Mapplethorpe incident. Barrie remained on campus Tuesday to talk with a photography class at the Carolina Coliseum. He is scheduled to speak at USC-Spartanburg this week. 0R? WnlHarmnn'c corr<=>t <;nhr>lnr<ihir! CM ST; cb . SCO 5 Jo <*3 H & + *"" 2 o? O- 00 o O <> :5ih, CO C? ? ^g- I ailable pilots 1 he talked to Brewer about getting 5S for the club, but "Brewer said the rreat." d Student Life transferred the airpFrnm thprp thp airn1on/?c u/prp oH. ' ? - MMW V UIV UUpiUIIVJ TTV1V UU sold 3 said Brewer initially promised to lane and keep the older one, so they ,st one plane to fly. ;ot $23,000 for the new plane we got and $18,000 for the other one," 'However, through it all, Brewer was ffers the least bit" i his attempts to go over Brewer's 11. brmer provost) Art Smith, (Student dent) Dennis Pruitt, and (USC presis. I handed a letter to him (Palms), onse I heard from him was his intenall recreational vehicles," McKinney zs out recreational activities, the may lose their boat them lose their boat, but it looks like . happen," McKinney said. Lib was able to fly their planes for a :tober. However, that decision was d and the planes were taken away. Stith have said a large percentage of o purchase the planes came from stulat money has not been refunded, that money came from student activnuch larger portion came from our said. of that plane, our money was gone, of where the money is and if we will ' he said. Newswoman visits Aiken By The Associated Press Newswoman Linda Ellerbee said she got started on her journalism career by attending Vanderbilt University to "find a husband." Since that time, Ellerbee, a television journalist and independent producer, has developed into a "pain in the behind" Her current project is trying to irritate the public into recognizing that censorship is damaging the Constitution. Censorship is dangerous because "what you don't know can hurt you," said EOerbee during a lecture at the University of South Carolina's Aiken branch. A censor "is someone who knows more than he thinks you ought to," someone who doesn't respect the right of free speech, a right that is guaranteed by the Constitution, she said. Ellerbee was in Aiken to tout copies of her latest book, "Move On: Adventures in the Real World." : jrman's Scholars als for former USC President James ?s given to international students. pn' Iniernattooat student y X SOI tUIUISI __ ^yT US total scholarships & ' i vi v, g S 8 s i?;ft s s \?i| <n S * ^:: HS ^ ? >* r-:f f ;.l pil^ |. ^ o o k$y p oo to fef? i&r s ?;? '%_. lA / : > OO .00 i:::;: '.. ? ? Ryan Sims/The Gamecock