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Volume 84, No. 38 University of South Carolina Monday, November 11, 1991
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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.
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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.
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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
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Staff Writer
Outside Russell
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shirts and baggy ]
gid, holding a si?
reading, "God Hz
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the past 15 years
ardt has been sol
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must hear the trutl
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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.
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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.
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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