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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, <
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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
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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
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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&
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don't want to see. And sometimes seum
it holds up society, and it's hard to exhibi
look at what society does," Barrie ^
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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."
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show you the problems of
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; 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.
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onsequences of the case. He
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lling a third Charleston
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infected after cleaning
id having contact with
ied Friday.
the bacteria killed a
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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
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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
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at new officers ^ hate to see I
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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.
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dent) Dennis Pruitt, and (USC presis.
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recreational vehicles," McKinney
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may lose their boat
them lose their boat, but it looks like
. happen," McKinney said.
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:tober. However, that decision was
d and the planes were taken away.
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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."
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