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H S hould prostitution T heater and speach U SC's baseball mm be legalized? professor Ann Dreher season starts ^?--?" ' * Q ~ directs the play "Frogs." tomorrow. Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling yoii\ Dee uross i-ire L have isn't permanent. J H Page 3 Page 5 Page 7 ^ IGamecock Volume 84, No. 61 University of South Carolina Wednesday, February 12, 1992 il P a? ^ 3^ C -*? *: i *Mk;"': By Uf|p|?|V^H As! S t3 British police discovered a bomb Tuesday apparently C planted by the Irish Republican Army near government j buildings where Vice Presi- ? dent Dan Quayle was scheduled to meet with British of- ou] firials. the British home sec j ----- VVC retary said. his The bomb, which Indepen; dent Television News said ; contained five pounds of the ^ plastic explosive Semtex, was . discovered after several warn- ^ ings reportedly prompted au- ^c ; thorities to evacuate the 0 buildings. er^ r Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson returned to the courthouse Tuesday a convicted rapist, ? awaiting a routine probation meeting after being found fre guilty of attacking a Miss Black America contestant he or) lured to his hotel room. The conviction late Monday j was Tyson's darkest moment sai in a troubled history with wo- l?c men, and it threatened to end the rags-to-riches career of the Wl1 youngest heavyweight ^er champion ever. State budget officials Tuesday found themselves cutting state spending for the _ third time in 12 months. The Budget and Control Board ordered state agencies to avoid spending 1 percent of their budgets to alleviate a potential $55 million deficit when the fiscal year ends June 30. The only major exemptions from the $33 million cut are deficits at the Department of Corrections and the Department of Social Services. 1 Students are encouraged B to submit nominations for the L USC Columbia campus fa- ?! culty member who best exemplifies excellence in undergra- ar duate teaching. Nominations H should be in the form of a let- C ter describing the nominee's ck strengths as a teacher. to The letter should be mailed no later than March 6 to Wil- 3( liam Bearden, chairman of the te Amoco Teaching Award te Committee. The address is the College of Business Admi- 01 nistration, USC, Columbia, ra S.C. 29208. d( For additional information, ci call Bearden at 777-4914. P1 [JSCs olice arrest !olumbia man KIMBERLY EVERITT sistant News Editor \ 21-year-old USC senior was bbed to death early Sunday irning inside the River Ridge artment complex off Greystone ulevard. Robert Lathan of Park Place artments in West Columbia died Richland Memorial Hospital arad 4 a.m. Sunday from a stab ? - -? ? . .i . . J mna to tne cnest mat penetrateu heart, Richland County Corsr Frank Barron said. David Michael Brown II, 21, of 5 River Ridge Apartments was ested and charged with murder )rtly after the death of Lathan, lumbia Police Sgt. Mitch Wilkon said. Wilkerson said the two argued a party in Brown's apartment at :>ut 3:35 a.m., but he did not Sates H nay be< PATRICK VILLEGAS ws Editor Bates House, USC's only co-ed shman residence hall, may be inged into a same-sex dormiti, according to the director of sident Student Development. RSD director Jim McMahon d the housing department is iking into different options for dormitorv because of nroblems th locking the doors on the difent wings. According to city and state fire des, each floor must have at st two exits. But in order to do it in Bates House, the wing ors have to be unlocked. Having the doors unlocked ikes it easier for unauthorized ople to enter the dorm, espelly the women's wings, McMan said. Bates House Residence Life lordinator Maureen Wilson said ee options are being considered, The Humanities Computer L ted in the basement of Gambr ord processing, and a variety o Computer inique re; y KATHY HEBERGER and YNN BOLES :aff Writers The heads bent over keyboards id eyes glued to monitors in the umanities and Social Sciences omputer Lab are those of stumts studying everything from art geology. The lab is eauiDoed with about ) Macintosh and 30 IBM compurs. It also has Macintosh compurs for disabled students. These machines, along with abut 90 Macintosh software progims, such as Pagemaker graphic isign, enable humanities and soal sciences majors to merge cornLiter technology and their studies. "I haven't had a student yet who tuden know what the argument w; about. They continued arguing outsii when Brown produced a knif Wilkerson said. Lathan, a Greenville native, w slabbed at least once in the upp torso outside of Brown apartment. Wilkerson also said there w alcohol at the party. Brown is being held at the Ric land County Detention Center < Huger Street pending a bail-boi hearing. The USC Registrar's office sa Brown is not a USC student. Lathan was studying hotel, i staurant and tourism managenu and wanted to find a job in tl field, his father, Ray Lathan, t( The Greenville News. uUo urnc o UnH onH trantlA Krv liv wao a iviiiu auu gv/iiuv uvt said Ray Lathan, a Greenville wyer. "We're just devastated." Rodney Campbell, one Lathan's close friends, said he a Robert Lathan had planned to ouse dc come s; including making it all-male, i female, or leaving it co-ed. But making it all-female is most likely choice, she said. McMahon said the final decisi will be made before March 24. Bates House has one fern; wing, one male wing and an alt nating wing. McMahon said it would not practical to house more than 5 males in one place such as Ba House, which was originally all-male dorm in the 1970s. Bates House was made a co dormitory in order to allevi; some of the male behavioral pr< lems, he said. If Bates House becomes an i female residence hall, McMah said some females would probal have reservations about living in The dorm's distance from ca pus and the mandatory purchase the 14-meal plan might deter soi students, he said. But McMahon said the char i-SS; ii J W1 Van Hope/The Game ab, established in 1973 and ] ell Hall, provides USC studen f other computing needs. lab offers sources hasn'l said 'Wow! What an opp tunity,'" graphic arts profes Chris Robinson said. The computer center, in basement of Gambrell Hall, > established in 1973 by the Coll of Humanities and Social Scien< One of the lab's original purpx: was to create and debug softw and translate computer jargon i more user-friendly language also served as a research center faculty and graduate students. "Back then, if you were a manities major, you had to ha\ friend in engineering to get ? puter work done," said Hoi Sip.p.r11v assistant director of see Computer lab on page t stabb< i as to Greenville last weekend to visit Lathan's girlfriend, but they deie cided to stay in town instead, e, "I always considered him my brother since I don't have any," as Campbell said. "He was always er there for me." ' s Campbell said he is terribly shaken by the loss of his close friend, as As Campbell described in an interview what kind of person h- Robert Lathan was, the emotions 3n he expressed showed how it's not ad often that one experiences death firsthand, especially of someone id who is so young and in the prime of their life. re_ Robert Lathan was a dependable young man. He took life one day iat at a time and enjoyed playing vol)ld leyball and following USC sports. Classmates described him as auieL but the kind of person who would be there for others, a friend to lean on who had a good outlook of on life. nd "If you needed a friend, he was go there for you," said Leigh Newton, irmitory ame-sex ill- could also benefit female residents throueh housine-SDonsored Droe the rams on women's issues. If Bates House becomes an allion female dorm, McMahon said two options would exist for finding tie housing for males who are living er- there. First, the 266 males usually ocbe cupying rooms in Bates House ^ could be integrated into other les dorms. With a smaller freshman an class entering next year and current vacancies availible, males ed could be placed into other male lle dorms without much disruption, Wilson said. ill- McMahon said the males could * ion also be placed into female dorms, bly for example making Capstone or a it. residence hall in the Woman's m- Quad co-ed. of me McMahon and Wilson said student input is extremely important ige in this process. i Brooks 1 to keep 1 ?| Election r* SrtSS tS . Editor's note: This is part two in a series of profiles on USC Student 1 Government candidates. By J.T. WAGENHEIM Staff Writer Student Body Vice President Shine Brooks has a plan that he _ says can help students in their sor quest to keep tuition costs down. Brooks is running for Student the Govenmeni president. ^as He has proposed a way to get more students to vote, thus forcing legislators to better fund higher >ses educalion"We have got to show legislators that students will vote. It is j the only way to make them listen," "?or Brooks said. "When they listen, they will take action to help us." Under Brooks' voting plan, stuhu" dents who reside in a South Car's a olina county, other than Richland om~ County, would be allowed to vote mpr . r> i i i /-x ? as Kicniana county rcsiaenis. the "USC students live in Richland County eight months out of the two year. They should be able to vote id to d an HRTA student who had a class with Lathan last year. No one expected him to be cheated out of his future ? graduation in December, then a career and an engagement. But his death has forced those who cared for and knew him to deal with the fact that life is always precarious. Lathan was planning to go to Daytona Beach for Spring Break with several friends. He liked motercycles and owned a red, white and blue Ninja 900. "That's how he drove to class every day," Carla Turner, a close friend, said. Lathan always had a warm smile for his friends. He was a tall, athletic young man with wavy blonde hair. He was interested in exotic pets, such as his boa constrictor that he named Mavice. "That was his heart," Campbell said. Lathan graduated in 1988 from Eastside High School where he played tackle for two years under ml r L-j&ateiX IHGHI * JBL gy : t 4 USC senior Kevin Varner si guests warm on the front lawr Varner's surprise, the fire got a propose: A A tuition c for legislators that effect the county where their university is," he said. Brooks also proposes letting students vote by absentee ballot. Student Government would apply for an absentee ballot for students who want one and deliver it to their rooms, with the help of University Housing Services. "Students could vote without ever leaving their rooms," Brooks said. Brooks estimates the change would attract 4,500 new voters. As president Brooks said he would also try to place more emphasis on student-professor relationships. Some USC professors neglect the responsibility of educating students to their full poten tial, he said. At a large university such as USC, professors' tenureship is sometimes determined by the amount of research they do instead of their performance as teachers. "If I, as a student, am paying the second highest tuition in the Southeast, I want to be where the emphasis is educating me," Brooks said. "The emphasis should be focused on excellence in leaching." Brooks also said Student Government should not have to be reorganized every year. I here is eath La than varsity football Coach John Carlisle. Mineral services tor Lathan were held yesterday at 3 p.m. at Taylors First Baptist Church in Greenville. Campbell said quite a few USC student's attended the funeral. "The students showed their love and respect for him," Campbell said. "He will be missed, deeply, and won't be forgotten." A part of the entire student body has gone with Robert Lathan. Staff Writer J.T. Wagenheim and The Associated Press contributed to this story. '. ' " H- 1&'# Virginia Marshall/The Gamecock tarted a fire to keep his party i of his home Saturday. But to i little bit out of control. ? plan lown "wasted time" spent at the beginning of each academic year to set nr\ QtnHp>nt Onuprnmpnt anrt nrft up UlUUVIll VJ VT VI MUM pare it for the coming year, he said. "I can tell you from experience that it takes a new government several months to reorganize and set itself up. More important issues can be addressed and taken care of during that time," Brooks said. Brooks serves on 18 university committees and is president of the Student Senate. He says he would also focus his leadership capabilities on the handicapped and extending the withdrawal-withoutfailure date. "When the students asked for a vice president last year who will be dedicated and be visible, I was there," he said. Brooks said if he is elected president, he will focus on all issues and problems facing the university and its students. "When you dream a little dream, that is what you get. My administration will work on issues for all students," Brooks said. He said he would have a larger cabinet that would allow Student Government members to concentrate on specific issues. In the past, cabinet members have had a diverse set of responsibilities.