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Volume 84, No. 52 University of South Carolina Wednesday, January 22. 1992
A French Airbus A-320
crashed Monday night in
snow and fog on a wooded
ridge in eastern France. Nine
.survivors of the 96 people on
board, including a child, were
found after a four-hour
search.
Crews worked to remove
bodies and injured people
from the crash site in the Vosges
mountains near Mont
Sainte-Odile, 30 miles southwest
of Strasbourg, Germany.
. John Gotti, reputed mob
boss of the nation's most
powerful crime family , went
on trial Tuesday for the gangland
assassination of his predecessor,
Paul Castellano.
The trial will be the fourth
since 1986 for Gotti, dubbed
the "Teflon Don," for past
success at beating prosecutions.
But while he has
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man previously, law enforcers
are confident they have
amassed an unbeatable array
of evidence.
Nearly 300 Georgia-Pacific
employees are out of work as
company officials determine
whether to rebuild a profitable
plywood mill reduced to
ash by an early morning fire
Monday.
Two-thirds of the Newberry
County mill was destroyed
. when the fire reached the
wooden roof of the plant,
quickly engulfing a building
the size of three football
fields.
The Business Administra
tion library has permanently
extended its operating hours
I by 14 per week. This extension
was in response to Stu;
dent Government surveys of
undergraduate and graduate
business students. The survey
! questioned the safety and
convenience of the previous
hours.
? Thp npu; Vir?nr<; are the
. following:
Sunday, 2 p.m. to midnight,
Monday to Thursday, 8
a.m. to midnight,
Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
and
Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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ROTC 1
By MELISSA TENNEN
Staff Writer
USC's ROTC programs are reducin;
larships, raising standards and cutti
number of active duty assignments f
duates as a result of federal cutbacks i
tary personnel and budgets.
Air Force and Army ROTC studer
they're feeling the effects of the cu
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oiuuenis in ine rsavy kuic progia
they're experiencing fewer cutbacks,
pect the Navy may make further <
1996.
Air Force ROTC sophomore Davi
bertson said the chances of a cadei
commissioned into active duty as a p
mediately after graduation are one it
lower than they've been in previous
And students said competition for b
Force and Army commissions has in
because the number of active-duty si
been reduced.
"Some of this is necessary," sa
tores still
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^ gag
jc'S. tsuppiiE
1 pus bookstores,
Hgrj- (clockwise) Ad|h
dam's, Car
HH olina's, South
*|Hi Carolina, and
University, will rnsmmmmm^
I WL be under the
H| ownership of HHH
two separate
I stores. South
Carolina Book
stores will overCar
mMmfi
Virginia N
feeling pin<
Force senior Donna Green. "They are selecting
only the best people now and the comT
petition is too much for some people."
n^the Culbertson agreed. "I don't like them (the
cuts). I wish we weren't forced into this but
or 2T3~
in mili *n recess^on' lt necessary. Somebody
has to feel the pinch and unfortunately it is
its said us'
itbacks. The Air Force and Army ROTC program*
m said also are encouraging those cadets who maj
but ex- have second thoughts about the military as i
cuts in full-time career to voluntarily resign fronr
their programs. In the past, "voluntary disen
rollment" was difficult because of all the
l being necessary paperwork.
ilot im- ROTC faculty wouldn't say how many
1 eight, cadets have resigned or been dismissed since
; years. the relaxed policies went into effect almost a
olh Air year ago, but students said some cadets had
creased resigned using the'new disenrollmeni
ots has procedures.
Resignation or dismissal from ROTC
lid Air programs for medical reasons also has beer
I compe
Study st
fegl may affe
By STEPHANIE JAC1
Jggggtm and PATRICK VILLI
Staff Writers
Ni'tiiKl recession ripp
across the nation, US1
who might be on tigl
have several options c
purchase their textbook;
Or do they? Is capit;
at work, with the nec
ment of competition?
By spring, when Fol
Stores, Inc. takes over
Bookstore, the four
serving USC will be c<
only two companies.
^ X I^P1 I Follett, which will bi
-1 \ University Bookstore ii
months, owns and op
dam's Bookstore on Mt
South Carolina Boo
on Main Street, owns s
olina's Bookstore, a b
next to Stuffy's on Mai
"You've got competi
as you have two cr
South Carolina Bookstc
Perk Bailey said.
JL \ d M * Bailey said competit
C ^ l^e tw0 comPan^es w
more fierce becaus
0 stores will be fightin
dent's used books.
"It's going to be a
get those books, becau
have enough," he said.
Addam's manager '
agreed. "There will
competition," Gaire sai
The increased com]
The pric
New/ used prices
Gint 101 24
Tr^rrrrriT eroiioi 41
H J (used price}
Engl 101 18;
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37:
French 109 28.
m Source: Stephanie Jackson
larshall/The Gamecock
:h of fecit
made easier.
Patrick Eberle, a senior, had been in
Air Force program for three years and hop
to be commissioned as an officer. Facu
told him in the fall that because of his rec
ring nosebleeds, he would be unable to c<
tinue the program. Faculty told him
would be able to reapply for reinstatemen
he obtained a medical waiver. Due to c
' backs in its ROTC budget, however, the i
Force denied his request for a medii
waiver.
"I am not angry with the military," s
^ Eberle. "They did what they had to do. I
I'm angry with the way ROTC handled it.'
Recruitment into both Army and Air Fo
ROTC programs also has been scaled do\
; ROTC scholarship programs have beco
i more selective than before the budget ci
I and cadets entering the program must hi
t higher physical and academic qualification
Two-year scholarships for students sei
ing active-duty assignments are being elii
' nated. As a result, students not awarded
stitive?
lows takeover
;ct costs, service
said, will benefit students in customer
service and the price of retail
items, but it will not lower
book prices, Gaire said.
USC's Vice President of Busi?
i||| 1 1 ness anc* Finance R.W. "Pete"
i?H lilJ Denton, who spoke on behalf of
University Bookstore, said the two
KSON companies will be more competilGAS
tjve 5eCause the market will be
? more focused.
lies its way Denton said both Follett bookC
students, stores will charge the same prices,
ht budgets, Carolina's Bookstore owner
>f where to Dennie Frye said he speculates
that Follp.tt will not he. ahlp, to af
alism really ford to have two of its stores com:essary
ele- peting with each other and may
choose to consolidate them in the
lett College future.
University In a price comparison by The
bookstores Gamecock, five freshman-level
i>ntrolled by books at each of the bookstores
were recorded to find out if there
egin leasing is really price competition,
i about two Total cost of the books ranges
lerates Ad- from $140.12 to $173.15. Carlin
Street. olina's Bookstore was the lowest,
kstore, also followed by South Carolina Bookfock
in Car- store, Addam's and University
ranch store Bookstore,
n Street. The difference between the total
tion as long cost of the five books at University
impanies," Bookstore and Carolina's Bookre
manager store was about $5.
International studies junior Steion
between phanie Graham said she is frusill
probably trated with having to go to four
e the book- different stores to find all the
g over stu- books she needs.
"Often there aren't enough codogfight
to pies of the books needed for a
se you can't class, and waiting for re-orders can
put you behind," Graham said.
Betsy Gaire Engineering freshman Jay Shull
be definite said price competition does exist,
d. "The prices are cheaper in some
petition, she stores," he said.
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33/ $30.65/ $32.95/ $41.25/
.74 23 24.70 33
J3S 41 40.50 41
25/ 23.95/ 25/ 24/
.75 17.95 18.75 18
USt ' MM - :J~ P' -&60/ 42.60/
,9? 3t.1? 3195 31.15
35/ 36/ 37.26/ 36/
05 27 27.95 27
Ryan Sims/ Th? Gamecock
jral cuts
tive duty scholarships as freshmen aren't
the likely to receive ROTC financial aid as ju>ed
niors or seniors.
lty ROTC students aren't the only ones feelur
ing the pinch of the cutbacks. Early retire)n
ment is being offered to officers who have
he served in the Army for at least 18 years,
t if By 1996, the Pentagon expects to reduce
ut- the total number of military personnel by 25
\ir percent through retirements and cutbacks in
zal the number of new officers commissioned.
Air Force junior John Pesapane worries
aid about how well the United States will defend
Jut itself with a shrinking military. "Whenever
we start going down (in numbers), something
rrt* hip hanrv.ns like, a world war."he said.
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vn. "The Army is cutting from the top,
me middle, and bottom," said Lieutenant Colits,
onel Mike Firebaugh, a faculty member in
ive the Army ROTC program,
s. But Lt. Col. Firebaugh said USC will not
^k- phase out its Army ROTC program even
ni- though during 1991, as many as 50 schools
ac- thoughout the U.S. closed ROTC programs.