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Volume 84, No. 56 University of South Carolina Friday, January 31, 1992
Irish Prime Minister Charles
Haughey, whose administration
has been rocked by
scandals, has told members of
his party that he will resign
next week, his office said
Thur&day.
First word of Haughey's intention
to step down came
from a senator who attended
a party meeting Thursday.
The senator, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, said
Haughey would stand down
after a successor was elected.
Haughey, who has led the
Fianna Fail party since 1979
and is serving his fourth term
as prime minister, resigned at
the insistence of the junior
partner in his coalition
government.
The American Lung Association
asked Congress Thursday
for at least $91 million to
combat what it called a
"looming epidemic" of
tuberculosis.
The association said the
federal government had
missed the significance of an
increase in TB cases.
It said 25,701 cases of TB
were reported in the United
States in 1990, an increase of
more than 9 percent from the
previous year and the largest
rise in new cases ever
recorded.
Luxury automaker BMW
has visited sites in Anderson
County, including one near
Sandy Springs, to search for a
possible locale for a new
plant.
Officials from the Munich,
Germany-based company
searched the area for a suitable
site, the Anderson
Independent-Mail reported
Thursday.
One site that the group
viewed Tuesday was public
property near Clemson University's
Simpson Agricultural
Station, college officials said.
Dr. Edward J. "Billy" Dennis
III, the first chairman of
obstetrics and gynecology at
USC's School of Medicine,
died of cancer late Tuesday.
Dennis, 67, was also director
of education for Richland
Memorial Hospital's obstetrics
and gynecology residency
program.
Compiled from wire reports
Parkii
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By BILLY BLUME
Staff Writer
By the beginning of next fall,
USC should have its newest parking
garage.
Bill Baker, director of parking
services at USC, said the new
parking garage on Pickens and Senate
streets will make drivers feel
like they are in a drive-thru teller
machine.
"The best idea to operate a parking
garage that we're kicking around
right now seems to be a card
access system, where you would
purchase a card for a semester and
it would be reserved for only those
nennle that have a card " he said.
,
Baker expressed hope this new
garage will alleviate the parking siGreek
Fees not always
focus of frats
By KIMBERLY EVERITT
Assistant News Editor
(Editor's note ? The Gamecock attempted
to include sororities in this article,
but seven out of 13 (JSC sororities
would not grant an interview.)
Fraternity pledges take note ?
the cost of being in a Greek organization
can add,to your financial
responsibilites.
The 20 USC fraternities require
some type of payment to become
an active member.
Dues range from $240 to $250 a
semester and over the course of a
four-year college career, a single
member might spend more than
S2,000.
Despite the high costs, some
fraternity members said they are
getting a good deal for their
money.
"It's not just a lot of great parties,"
said Trey Wilder, president
of Kappa Sigma fraternity. "When
you get more involved, you learn
about all of the leadership opportunities
and you find out that the
fraternity really opens a lot of
doors for you."
Dues are usually broken down
into national and local fees.
Each fraternity is required to
pay a set amount of its dues, from
10 to 50 percent, to its national
headquarters.
Annual dues for an active memAverage
Frate
One third of the fraternity du*
headquarters. Percentages;
chapters use
Local
US Social 75%
BM Rush 10%
S Service 10%
I I Housing 5%
Source: Based on 10 fraternities
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will provide more than 5i
parking places for the uni\
students when it opens up t
fall.
In addition, metered ]
places are likely to be incre
150 spaces in the Pendletc
ing garage for those studei
do not wish to pay $100-$
a garage space.
However, students sho
wary of a change in the
rates, Baker said. While
has been said at this poin
changing the meter rates 1
of the new parking facilitie:
crease may occur due to th
rise in parking meter rates.
Baker reports the garage
mained on schedule during
struction and, weather per
should be completed on tim
Baker said the $3 millior
will pay itself off from the
brought in by the new facili
life ca
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fraternity's programs, sai<
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national office in Memphis
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conventions, scholarshi
travel for chapter consultan
"Yes, there are financial
tions," said Matt Basta, cc
cations director for Pi Kap
"If you have to
about paying your
then you shouldn't
a fraternity."
Kappa
national headquarters in C
"But the fraternity could n
ate without the financial su
Pi Kappa Psi is require*
$42.50 a year to the nation
for operating costs. Memb
also pay a yearly fee to co
insurance policy.
Most of the other fra
also pay a national fee f<
ance coverage.
Sigma Phi Epsilon meml
sell Gartz said about 80 pc
their national dues are use*
surance. He said the nation
uses the remaining money
regional and national confe
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_ In addition to the national fees,
kpr RiiSr
members are required to pay chap:[ftof
terfces.
?L-in Zeta Beta Tau's Treasurer Ed
3 ?f nd Kingsmore said, "The social
10 un budget is the biggest part. Since
rences. fraternity provides a lot of your
? social life, it's a good value for
your money."
Wai Ng, a Kappa Sigma brother,
I | said money should not be an object
in the fraternity.
"I think that dues should be
$300 per semester so that we can
have more social events. If you
have to worry about paying your
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(lues, men you suuuiun i uc in u
fraternity," Ng said.
Sigma Phi Epsilon divides its
chapter dues between social
events, service projects, rush parties,
intramural sports and formal
dances.
pter "And then sometimes we buy
* things like dart boards and pool
^ ? slicks," Gartz said. "It's not a mo/o
ncy organization in the first place.
It's where you make your friends."
Sigma Phi Epsilon member
Steve Licbcrman said fraternities
Stmecock provide friends to hang out with.
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iber of Delta Tau Delta, is sitting
Duse for his next class.
To afford his dues, Liberman
works during summer and Christmas
break.
Mat Surles, Sigma Alpha Epsilon
president, said a lot of members
work to pay their dues.
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the summer and save up money,
and some parents send an allowance
and the brothers use that money
to pay their dues. Most of
them pay their own dues though,"
he said.
"There is a stigma about buying
your friends," Surles said. "But it's
not like that."
Dues for "the African-Americar
fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha are
only $60 a semester for active
members because the group does
not have an insurance policy.
Because of their low dues,
Alpha Phi Alpha relies on the success
of their many fundraisers
throughout the year.
"This year's stepshow raised
over $1,600," President Ozell
Newman said.
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Wofford seniors
travel America
By The Associated Press
A trip along the route that was
once America's main highway
earned four Wofford College seniors
four hours of college credit
and gave them a glimpse of
America.
The four from South Carolina
traveled Route 66 in a rental car
earlier this month, stopping for
meals and chats in small-town
cafes on the road that runs from
Chicago to the Pacific Ocean.
Heather Stallworth of North
Augusta, Amy Edwards of Charleston,
Margaret Green of Camden,
and Sherrard Kenshaw of
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crack of dawn on Jan. 2 and
drove straight through to
Chicago."
Then they followed Route 66
through Illinois, Missouri, Kansas,
Oklahoma, Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona and California.
The women said they got the
idea for the trip while talking to
a professor at the Spartanburg,
S.C., school. They wanted to see
the United States instead of visiting
Europe as some of their
classmates did.
A college lab assistant suggested
they drive Route 66,
which opened in 1926 as a U.S.
highway. The road has lost its
U.S. designation, but lives on as
a state highway in the states it
runs through.
"We researched it and took
him up on it," Green said.
Their next step was to write a
proposal for the journey and get
it accepted by the college so they
could earn credit for the trip.
Each student chipped in $600
for the journey and made arrangements
for a rental car,
which turned out to be a brandnew
white Cadillac.
"They were still taking the
plastic off the seats when we
| picked it up," one of the students
said.
During most of the trip, the
i students stayed with friends or
; relatives. They seldom slept in
hotels.
"One night we took a detour
and went to Las Vegas and
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shaw, who won $400 at Las
Vegas.
In Oklahoma, the students met
Michael Wallis, author of "Route
66: The Mother Road," during a
stop in Tulsa. Wallis gave them
lips on what to sec and who to
meet.