Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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0 Is nuclear power a Royal Winnepeg Volleyball team H viable energy source? Ballet performs Sunday signs two honor ^? " " ? M af fhe ?0ger Center. students . f 1 was not successful as a ballplayer, as it was a^v mm See Cross Fire V game of skill. j H Page 3 Page 4 Page 7 IGamecock Volume 84. No. 73 University of South Carolina Friday, March 20, 1992 W9W9VW9 U.N. special envoy C Vance said Thursday a c( fire has been arrange< Nagorno-Karabakh, Arm so he can visit the disp region. * Vance, on a United Nal fact-finding mission to Caucasus Mountains area nounced the development news conference after t davs of talks with eovcrnr officials in Armenia Azerbaijan. ^ j '- r p Paul Tsongas pulled of the Democratic presidei race Thursday, blaming campaign's downfall o shortage of cash that kept from effectively compel against front-runner Clinton. "The alternative was to ] the role of spoiler. That is what I'm about; that is worthy," said Tsongas cancer survivor. "I did survive my ordeals in ordc be the agent of the re-elec of George Bush." I j In response to a si Supreme Court ruling, South Carolina Coastal Cc cil will hear an appeal plans to expand a landfill far from the source of CI leston's drinking water. Environmental groups ject to the expansion of Chambers Oakridge Lan< Inc. in Dorchester County cause they say it is too c to Four Holes Swamp, swamp is only a half mile stream from the Edisto R water intake, which supp the Charleston metropol: area. The council's Managen Committee last month g permission to fill just o nine acres of wetlands at landfill. . . The fifth annual "L Showcase" 5K run will b( at 8 a.m. Saturday, April < the corner of Whaley ; South Marion streets Columbia. Runners should reporl the starting line betwee and 7:45 a.m. Awards wil given to the top three wini in each age category. P A/vil' * ? rho 1-. ^ i i\t-gouduon is $0 uei March 31 and includes a shirt and refreshments. E day registration is $10 does not guarantee a T-sl not said. "1 hope to continue my in:r to volvement in student government, 1 tion and I believe my experience will 1 be an asset." Lovelace focused on her associ- ; ations and familiarity with the ex- i ecutivc branch and her responsibil- i ities as vice chairperson of the se- i nate's Rules Committee last year. : "1 would like to offer better ' leadership, and I believe I would work well with Kelli Lister," Lovelace said. "I'm familiar with the judicial process, and 1 truly have a committment to the senate." :ate the After he was named, Brooks >un- said, "One of the responsibilities of for the pro tern is chairman of the i not : SAGE d the i fill , By MELISSA TENNEN lose StafM/Vriter The Students Allied for a Greener up. (SAGE) attended a lecture Wednesd iver the director of a local environmental dies that opposes restarting of the Savannah itan Site nuclear plant. SRS, located on the South Carolir tent Georgia border, is one of nine national ave ufacturing sites built in the 1940s and ' ver The plant produces tritium and plutc the which are radioactive chemicals nee for the production of nuclear weapons. HI Because of 40 years of neglect ant management, SRS shut down in May i under, among other dangers, the thr | Nielson Women of nineties 'sc will face obstacles gin I, at By JENNIFER FULLER and Staff Writer in Twenty years ago when state Superintendent of Education Bar- < to bara Nielsen became a teacher, n 7 women were not allowed to be 1 be high school principals in South lers Carolina. < And in 1992, Nielsen is one of I ore 0nly six female state superinten- : 1 T- dents in the United States. i 'ace Nielsen's speech Wednesday but night, "Making the Grade in '92 I ^irt. ? Women in Education," was part 5 I Mungo kp Bv GORDON MANTLER ^ | News Editor Jj USC Board of Trustees Chairman Michael Mungo questioned vo last month's faculty senate deci sion to raise admission standards in an Executive Committee meeting Wednesday. "Don't make this an elitist place Yrus by raising admissions standards," Mungo said. "That is just a perin sonal opinion." enia uted c (acully senate voted in February to raise the predicted grade ions P?'m ral'? ^or ?ncom'ng freshmen from 2.00 to 2.15. ' an~ s Brooks and By JACK DUNN |p3 Staff Writer jp Student Senator Shine Brooks was chosen president pro tern in lilt llie newly-elected student senate's first meeting Wednesday. Brooks won the position over i||i Kim Lovelace in a secret ballot T3 Itf V VJIX/, LJ-IO. The responsibilities of the president pro tem include taking over the responsibilities of Vice Presiout dent Kelli Lister in case she has to "itial leave or defend a controversial his decision. n a In a brief speech about his qualhim ifications for the position, Brooks ting mentioned his three years of ser- 1 Bill vice in student government and his responsibilities on a number of exslay ecutive committees, not "I have tried in the past to make not decisions that were in the best in?, a tcrcsi of the students," Brooks contamination spreading up to dius, said Brian Costner, w Earth SAGE members Wednesday, lay by Costner is the director of th group search Foundation, a private 1 River Columbia that promotes en safety. 1a and SAGE, other student groups I man- organization are trying to educ; 50s. about the possible dangers tl miurn, pose once it's restarted, essary "This is just to give them (S terone boost," SAGE member i mis- lund said. 1988 Another SAGE member agi cat ol ridiculous that with the Cold W discusse of Women's History Month programming. ef '"The Little Engine That Could' sti was a she," Nielsen said. "We have an extraordinary task ahead of us for the '90s." ha Nielsen advocates better m< counseling and "mentoring" for sh students in all grades ? kindergar- bu len through 12th. w( Nielsen wants to end what she calls the "tyranny of limited expectations." In other words, younger students need to be encouraged to Pr' nove forward. ca There should be a more suppor- 10 ivc climate in the schools, she lhl ;aid, especially toward women. lx: I oppose Mungo said raising admission (I standards for a public school in a Ui state with such a poor schooling a system would not be a good idea. B However, he said raising standards for a private school would be fine. p "Just keep the standards reason- in able," he said. "They should be left the way they arc." V \ ol In response to Mungo's remarks, lc faculty senate President Peter pL Becker said, "1 don't see the slight l0 increase in admission standards as n( transforming this into an elitist university." y( "1 have no difficulty with that g( wins sei Rules Committee, in effect the chairperson of all the other chairpersons." He also said he hopes that by I helping the committees, he can I make student government a useful | organization and move it in a direction that will make the student body proud. Lovelace conceded to her oppo- m ncnl and turned her attention to the m r... ... i. ~ r ? I i?* * - IUIUIC WUIK U1 llic SlUUCIll SCIttUC. "I'm excited because there are pi lots of new faces in the senate, and that means new experience," Love lace said. "Student government has | gotten a lot of bad press because || of its perceived isolation, but I'm % glad more people have chosen to C get involved. It brings us to a new level and a new perspective that , * will make the organization jA stronger." fp The senate's first meeting of the year also included the inauguration of new senators and action on an |L emergency resolution. Lister began her responsiblities as the senate president by addressing organizational issues and dis- VV tributing student government manuals with instructions to the new m senators about how legislation is to oassecf. Following the president pro tern th election, Sen. Todd Hudak intro- ,e duced an emergency resolution, tit proposing S300 in emergency funding be allocated to Alpha Ep- tie silon Rho, a journalism fraternity. va The money would be used to n' help fund a trip for six of the organization's members to attend their gt enounce: is high he senate's decision) as long as icrc arc alternative avenues to get higher education in the stale," eckcr said. Mungo is known for not suporting admission standards creases. He contends many South Carina high school graduates have a >ugh time trying to ""enroll at tblic universities in the state and ugher admission standards would )l help this trend. If a student goes to college one jar, they are better off than not jing at all, he said. nate pi r x ...iBa W Student senator Shine Brook ednesday's first meeting of th ilional convention in Washingn, D.C. Heather Wallace, president of e fraternity, was present to dend her request and answer quests from the senators. Wallace missed the funding adline because of an unexpected cancy left by the previous fraterty president. She said the money would only > toward hotel rooms, and it 5 restart a 60-mile ra- that we should < ho spoke to clear weapons," ( Opponents of e Energy Re- around the plant foundation in waste dump, Cos ivironmental In addition, p SRS throuehout and Costner's increases of thyr< ate the public cause of poor m le plant will hc ad(led. But Bruce Ki iHS) a testos- plant's public rel Katrina Ny- Department of Ei safe plant be resh 'ees. "This is "A massive ci 'ar being over those items that ;s worn uiwiitwi ui? aa a 11 fective way to encourage idents. "It's extremely important to ve a role model," she said. Wo?n who have achieved success ould help other women along, t men also can be mentors for jmen, she said. In her speech, Nielsen also dressed inequities in hiring and omoting female educators. Edulion is an easier field for women advance in than business, but ^re arc still few women in high isitions in education, she said. ler stai HP * . kVrSsvcSFefe ? ^ *o tem *L wL? ^ r 'Tfi wilt iii . 1 Eric Glenn/The Game s was elected senate pro tem e new student senate. could be considered a tempoi loan. TL ~ ' * i nc senate votea in lavor ot emergency resolution, taking money from a $7,000 fund aside for new organizations or those organizations which I missed the deadlines for spr funding. The senate required the mo be paid back in the fall. of sr; ;ontinue to be building nu- saf< Caroline Duke said. dot SRS restarting fear the area ( could become a pcrmanant spc tner said. site eople living near sites like sai( the country have reported 3id and cancer problems be- Dei anagement of the waste de- tior ( tdotte, who works in the hci ations department, said the mc nergy would not let an un- ] tried. sidi Tort was made to identify ] needed upgrading from a ope en in ei Of South Carolina's 92 sch district superintendents, only n are women. Niclson said women often not encouraged to lake top lc positions because the jobs reqt frequent traveling, which wo keep them from their families. "We should encourage won not just to be good teachers, good administrators," she said. Nielsen said she wanted to be international diplomat, but wl she graduated from college, "v men either became a teacher o nurse." ndards ' Mungo Prpctnn AAsiypv A A VUI-V/1 A} ATAWW^ to install cable By MELISSA TENNEN Staff Writer Gamecock Cablevision will be available to Preston and Maxcy residence halls for the fall semester, according to housing officials. This new connection will bring the number of residence halls offering cable services to I? In another expansion, Gamecock Cablevision will add the Monitor news channel to its S programming package, bringing its total number of cable channels to 26. "There have been more demands in the male dorms. We tested the market by installing it in Simms (female dorm), but only 15 percent of the residents I purcnasea n, Alien oneaiy, aiI rector of family, summer and conference housing services, cock said. Shealy said the cable will be implemented into the two male ary residence halls by the fall semester, but he is not sure if other halls without cable will the have it installed during the the summer, set for "It depends on what work is bad required to have the cable ining stalled. All that is possible right now are the two dorms, which will be wired this summer," he ne^ said. > reactor ^ty standpoint and implement them," Kate said. rostner disagrees. "These people have nt years on the project of reviving this just to prove that they can do it," he 1. Our mission is to fulfill the mission the partment of Energy gives us based on natal policy," Kadotte said. ^ostner outlined several safety procedures ng considered by ttie U.S. government, luding: Monitoring of all waste sites whether concred a danger or not. Devising belter containment systems at mating plants. ducation ool She did not intend to be an adine minislrator, but ran for her position because "I thought I could make a arc difference," she said. vcl Nielsen wants to revamp the lire . way students arc tested and labeled u 1 when they enter school and placed into a category. She also wants lcn more technology in South Carolina hut classrooms. The standards arc going to an have to be higher lor all of our stulcn dents because (the United States) vo- will be in a world market ? the r a competition is open to everyone," she said.