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> Campus reacts to plight of > Sex education > Students have > Soccer team crushes ?? T? co'n a 9? Giants anc* Mets ar|d Knicks Magic Johnson, page 2 needed, page 4 differing views Kentucky, page 8 fp? with you. SB on Greeks, page J J Aaron Sheinin, page 8 1(tAMEC()(!K1 Volume 84, No. 38 University of South Carolina Monday, November 11, 1991 Formei By The Associated Press Former Gov. Robert McNair, now a prominent attorney, knew of an allegation that former USC President Jim Holderman made sexual advances toward a male student, a newspaper reports. McNair, one of South Carolina's most powerful men, learned of the allegations in 1986 during a meeting with Holderman and a former USC trustee, according to three unnamed sources in The Charlotte Observer's Sunday edition. Former trustee Jerry Beasley said last month he confronted Holderman about the charges during a meeting in 1986 with Holderman and a "mutual friend." Beasley said the meeting was prompted by a visit from a USC dean who told him of a student's allegations that Holderman had offered him gifts in exchange for sex. Beasley did not identify who the "mutual friend" was. But the newspaper reports that three sources, two of whom are USC officials, have identified the third person at the meeting as MciNair. h| WmT Bk m 8 M IMk : an |P? wI ^ f^mi HhbHv <# <*? |te^|F *ss?., . |HsF *si|PWp::; David Hallman, a Columbia resident, talk and his friend Bob Eckardt stand in fror every Tuesday and Thursday talking aboi In the World... Thousands of angry nationalists seized airports, barricaded roads anc blockaded Soviet troops Saturday in de fiance of Boris Yeltsin's emergency rule ii a tiny southern Russian territory. The new president of secessionist Chechen-Ingush, inaugurated Saturday defiantly vowed to "leaved the totalitariai empire" of Yeltsin's Russian Federation. The Soviet news agency Tass saic Grozny, Chechen-Ingush's capital, was "ii turmoil" and events were "highly explosive." The United States Saturday joined the European economic sanctions against Yugoslavia and will co-sponsor z U.N. resolution that could lead to an oi' embargo, President Bush said. But Bush expressed skepticism that th< measures would bring an end to the ethni< bloodshed. goveri McNair said on Sunday that he wouldn't comment. "I have told everybody that I don't plan to discuss Jim Holderman or the university. I don't see any useful purpose in it," he said. McNair also declined to respond to written and telephone messages from the Observer about the allegations. Last month, the Observer reported several male student interns said Holderman gave them cash, jewelry, job offers, clothes and liquor before making sexual advances to them. The alleged advances were made during the 1980s, often on trips out of town. Holderman has denied making the sexual advances. The students' allegations were apparently dropped. Beasley said he didn't think he could pursue the matter further because it was the students' word against Holderman and because Beasley was no longer a university trustee. Othniel Wienges, chairman of the USC Board of Trustees in 1986, said McNair, whose law firm was working for the univer RH By MELISSA TE Staff Writer Outside Russell bearded man dr< shirts and baggy ] gid, holding a si? reading, "God Hz Homosexuality, i The other hand o: It has been evei the past 15 years ardt has been sol gious message fc He never tires, be must hear the trutl His voice is hoarse, but gentle speaks fast while eyes wander, hab the passing studi still fastened to th< Eckardt does n< particular religion. 'There is one c not Jewish or Cat] tant ? it is fait said. Rp.fldina thp. than "listening to they are bigshoi Swaggart. The o God." Eckardt wants in people" by ge sage across. "Pe< "should try to leai pose of life is n< The purpose is fi in life ? the real John Fletcher/The Gamecock not create US to ! s to a student. Hallman but t0 serve Him.' it of the Russell House The college st ut God's word. daily guilty of In the Nation... > "Doonesbury" cartoonist G; 1 Trudeau has divided newspapers again with his daily comic strip. This I i Trudeau alleges a cocaine cover-up an< target is Vice President Dan Quayle. t The two-week series beginning Moi . prompted some of the 1,400 newspa i and other publications that buy "Doc bury" to compose editor's notes and st ^ explaining why they will ? or won 1 run them. Columbia's The State will ^ run the comics. Jeffrey Dahmer's brain will < tronically be scanned to help determi: he was criminally insane during his ad ted slaying of 17 people, according ' judge who has given permission to a cc [ appointed psychiatrist. Circuit judge Laurence Gram Jr., will preside over Dahmer's trial in Jam * signed an order Friday approving c : quest by psychiatrist George Palerm study Dahmer's brain. lor awa sity at the time, did not tell him of the th accusations. d< "If he'd gotten any specifics, we would pi have looked into it," Wienges said. McNair, 67, served as South Carolina's governor from 1965 to 1971. He founded a U] Columbia law firm that now has 100 lawyers and has corporate clients including CBS and Sony. In the late 1980s when public criticism pi and pressure increased on Holderman's in- in tem program and lavish spending, McNair th was one of his staunch defenders. F< In May 1990 when officials were ques- d< tioning Holderman's out of town trips, McNair and another former governor, John West, announced a campaign to support Hoi- M derman. Holderman resigned May 30 of that e? year. fi The two men have ties in other ways. Hoi- $ derman's daughter Betsy is a lawyer in d< McNair's firm, and Holderman gave scholar- pi ships to the children of two of McNair's law th partners. M University documents made public earlier m ving God lelivers religious me, :NNEN thinks. "You are here trying get an education to make mor House a quiet, and live in a fancy house- Y sssed in plaid fren't servinS God You ^ se pants stands ripi in one hand hated my son, I d se ites Hvnorrisv him to college," Eckardt sa Adultery. "He'd learn the same thing ii ffers pamphlets gutter. There are too ma it. wrongs." y Thursday for Safe sex programs are cons that Bob Eck- ered by Eckardt to encourage t iciting his reli- already "sick society" to contii >r the campus. in a downward trend, lieving "people When students demand fr i." dom of speech, they are actus gruff, almost more concerned about the and polite. He selves rather than loving God, his watery blue saiditually over to Eckardt said he is obligated ents, his hand sPeak his message, since "peo ? sign assume that God loves all i )t advocate any wil1 forgive easily. That's not case." 'Kiirpli and it i<j He also said people are per holic or Proles- ""ally in "bondage for Iheir si h in Gotf he and said "the average pen Bible is better thinks he is free. men who think People die while still in b ts like Jimmy daSe without ever having re nly bigshot is in God," Ecks said. "For that they are sent to "start a fire ^ell. But wasn't created ;tting his mes- ^or man- ^ was createcl f?r jple," he said, devil and man was created m that the pur- serve God. ot materialism. Eckardt determines God as nding the truth ing a two-sided being. "Not o truth. God did is God love, but he is also a C serve ourselves of judgment." He said both componei udent is espe- counterbalance each other. W this, Eckardt love, "we must overcome i In the State... arry ? Water quality should be tested once areas of the Chattooga River near a I time, Carolina landfill and a tributary in wl d his Georgia city discharges its treated se1 Oconee County environmentalists say nday Members of the Oconee-based F tpers Watch are trying to raise the money t< mes- f?r an independent study of the two a ories Two key areas near Oconee Cour 't ? Upstate South Carolina are prime c not dates for polluting the Chattooga. elec- A retired Richland County ae. deputy coroner and longtime law en mit" ment officer was arrested early Sati to a on a charge he participated in the s 3urt" assualt of a Florida boy last month. who Agents with the State Law Enforci iary, Division arrested James A. Anasti, A i re- fugitive warrants secured by Da] o to Beach police investigators, SLED sp man Hugh Munn said. ire of cl lis year show McNair received thousands of hilars in gifts that Holderman bought with iiblic money. McNair got a $2,115 glass sculpture in ?84; a $950 set of porcelain kings and two identified gifts worth $1,675 in 1985; and gift worth about $500 in 1986. In the 13 years Holderman was university esident, McNair's firm received $904,000 i legal fees from USC and $316,900 from le Carolina Research and Development oundation. The foundation provided Holirman with money. Earlier this year, two payments from IcNair's firm to Holderman resulted in the c-president's criminal conviction. The law rm paid Holderman $8,000 in 1986 and 17,000 in 1988. The money came after Holirman and Manuel Justiz, a former USC -ofessor and current Dean of Education at re University of Texas, helped free IcNair's client, a Puerto Rican business lan, irom jail in tne Dominican Republic. ssage to campus to faults." iey During his 15 years of spreadou ing the truth, Eckardt has had his rv- share of encounters. Most students tell him, "Go get a job!" ;nd He has noticed that less and id. less students stop to talk to him i a about converting. "In the past, ny students used to miss class just to talk to me. They don't do that lid- anymore." his Most students have "grown lue numb" to his presence on campus. Eckardt remains for approxiee mately a half hour between clasilly ses, then leaves. He remembers one incident where he was standing on the steps of the Capitol in Washingj? ton, D.C. A woman approached P him and said, "What a way to desecrate a ouuaing. Eckardt said the university no pe- longer tries to force him to leave, ns" "They must have a big file on ;on me." The police, as well, leave him orj~ alone. At first they tried to make him leave by saying the section t0 of Greene Street in front of Rusas sell House, which is closed durthe ing the day, was closed to him as t0 well. "I bet I have a better time here be- than these people do on a Saturnly day night," Eckardt said. "It lod takes more guts to stand out here and to tell the people the truth, nts Most people can't do this." fith Eckardt said most people try our to solve problems externally. ^ons North thinks of Roe vs. Wade and abortio rich a ^ 990 Gallup Poll that said 88% of tl wa8e' "legal" under all and certain circum: orest Reported Abortions Per 0 pay 1000 ' reas. 800 ^ ity in 600 ' & :andi- 31 ' 400 180.ti^SP^-" 200 force- ? 1972 1976 urday The rate of abortion in America is ;exual industrialized nations. In 1987, 80% of women having al given birth to a live child, and 58% mcnt . jn 197Q ^ mortality rate of abort 16, on mortality of childbirth was 16. In 19 ^tona and 7.8 for childbirth. >okes laims ' i Holder-man Police bikes to increase USC safety By GORDON MANTLER Assistant News Editor Reserved Police Officers will use more scooters and bicycles in thpir inh r?f cf?riiritv "It was one of our campaign goals to make the RPOs more mobile through the use of scooters," Student President Manish Shrivastava said. "This will also make the peripheral parking areas more accessible for the RPOs." Shrivastava and Special Projects Director Debbie Drucker went to see Carl Stokes, vice president of Law Enforcement and Safety, to discuss the issue. "To our surprise, Carl Stokes has said they had decided to do it a few months ago," Shrivastava said. In addition to using the motor scooters, the RPOs will use bicycles when the weather improves in the spring. "We're hoping to implement it next semester," Stokes said. "There's no need to be out in the cold." The bicycles to be used are ones that have been abandoned on campus, and will be fixed up for the RPOs. "This will set up a four-prong system for security," Shrivastava said. "They include on foot, bicycles, motor scooters and cars." At the beginning of the semester, Shrivastava laid out five major goals for student government including parking, recycling, advisement, a legislative "hit list" and KTUS. rtion what Justice Clarence Thomas n. Does his opinion agree with the lose polied thought abortion was stances? 1000 Live Births 353.8 Reported Abortions 1980 1985 among the highest of all Dortions were single; 51% had never were under the age of 25. ion was 19 per 100,000; the 85, the rate for abortion was 0.4 Source: The Universal Almanac 1991 Ryan Sims/The Gamecock