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Volume 84, No. 61 University of South Carolina Wednesday, February 12, 1992
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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
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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^
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.