The Johnsonian December 12, 1983

Winthrop University Digital Commons @ Winthrop University The Johnsonian 1980-1989 The Johnsonian 12-12-1983 The Johnsonian December 12, 1983 Winthrop University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/thejohnsonian1980s Recommended Citation Winthrop University, "The Johnsonian December 12, 1983" (1983). The Johnsonian 1980-1989. 153. https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/thejohnsonian1980s/153 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The Johnsonian at Digital Commons @ Winthrop University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Johnsonian 1980-1989 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Winthrop University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. aflhreoninVOLUME LXI NO. 14 WINTHROP COLLEGE ROCK HILL, SOUTH CAROLINA Monday, Decembenr 12,1983 Ad dispute goes to Attorney General the Board of Trustees. They're giving me some direction, but it's not final vet." said Winthrop President Phil Lader. "The college has no policy as to the appealment process or as to who decides the con- tent of the newspaper," Lader said. "The Board of Trustees has full authority, not the president." Recently Lader met with South Carolina Attorney General to present the facts of the pending controversy. "I presented the facts to him and he will issue an opinion. Sometimes it takes Mr. Philip Lader (Photo by Kathy Costa) a couple of months for a n decision to be rendered," It 8 Christmas Time in the City of Charlotte where (left to right) Mark Armstrong, Ru 8 Gaf- By LYNN NATIONS Lader said. fney, Dr. Bruce Thompson and Scott Thompson are playing every night for the Carowinds assistant news editor Mark Dillard, public in- Winterfest. formation director for the The process of ap- Attorney General, said, pealment for the abortion "We've been asked to ad dispute involving Jeff examine the constitutional Stanley, Editor-in-Chief of issues. It's being researched Sawyer has impressive career The Johnsonian has been right now and it will be at taken to South Carolina At- least a few more days before By MELINDA NOLEN vention. torney General, Travis a decision will be made." TJ staff writer More recently. Sawyer Medlock, for advice. Stanley is anxious for the was the first to report the El The ad controversy began decision. "I'd like for a Diane Sawyer, Winthrop's Salvador foreign-policy test when Stanley refused to run decision to be made as soon commencement speaker for case by the Reagan ad- an abortion clinic ad in the as possible. I think that the the December 17 exercises, ministration. She also student newspaper. staff needs to know how is the nationally renowned examined the role of The Board of Publications things stand. I feel the host for CBS Morning News Secretary of State Haig convened to decide the mat- decision should be made by and boasts an impressive following the assassination ter, and stated that Stanley the end of the semester." journalism career. attempt on the president. should run the ad. Lader added, "I regret it Sawyer is a 1967 Phi Beta Newsweek describes Stanley decided to appeal has taken this long, but it's Kappa graduate from Diane Sawyer Sawyer as, "industrious, the board's decision. not a matter for me to Wellesley College in inquisitive, disciplined, wit- "I've been confering with decide." Wellesley, Massachusetts. Besides former president ty, gracious, charming, and From 1978 to 1982, she was a Nixon, Sawyer has inter- loyal." CBS news correspondent. viewed Prince Charles, Nan- At the graduation Then Sawyer became co- cy Reagan, John Updike, Or- ceremony, Sawyer will be Campus set aglow anchor of the CBS Morning son Welles, and the former awarded the Honorary Doc- News. special presidential envoy, The Winthrop campus throp and also on some tor of Humane Letters and the neighboring city parts of campus. According to the March Philip Hebib. Also, she has degree from Winthrop. The candles will be 14,1983 edition of Newsweek, covered such stories as the According to President street will be aglow of "Whether doing on-scene Jonestown massacre in Lader, Sawyer is not being soft candlelight Wed- lighted at sundown and coverage of breaking stories Guyana and the American nesday evening as Sigma will remain lit until they paid for this appearance. at Cape Canaveral or in El efforts to free the hostages "I believe the college will Phi Epsilon adds to the burn out. Salvador, or handling studio in Iran. Christmas spirit by spon- "We're hoping that this be paying her expenses but may continue and become interviews with am- Reporting on the Three that is all," said Linda soring its second annual bassadors and former Mile Island Nuclear accident Lader. luminaria which signifies a tradition," said Stewart presidents, she has emerged and the investigative the coming of the Christ Watson, Sig ep activities Winthrop does not usually director. as morning T.V.'s first hearings that followed was have guest graduation Child. female co-anchor with fully included among her major speakers. "I know that in Beginning at 1 p.m. Watson said that equal status." assignments. Wednesday, Sigma Phi Epicure is donating the the past, the president gave paper bags for the Prior to her work at CBS, Sawyer has covered the speech, himself," Mrs. Epsilon with the help of Sawyer was a reporter for political campaigns of John Tri Sigma sorority will luminaria, Rock Hill Con- Lader added. "The college crete Company is WLKY-TV in Louisville, Anderson, Jerry Brown, and has usually given one place an estimated 700 Kentucky and a staff George Bush during the sand-filled paper bags donating the sand and honorary degree during area businesses and assistant to Richard Nixon. 1980 primaries. She was a commencement." with candles placed in- After his resignation, floor correspondent during side, along Oakland student^organizations are Sawyer will speak Satur- providing the candles. Sawyer assisted him in the coverage of the day at 11 a.m. in Byrnes Avenue in front of Win- writing his memoirs. Democratic National Con- Auditorium. Page 2, THE JOHNSONIAN, Monday, December 12,1983 Foreign Poll taken on ad issue the issue. Of this 50%, 47 By JANE SNIPES students were male and 63 TJ staff writer enrollment were females, Mondaresi With the final decision on said. the abortion clinic ad still to drops from past come, Dr. Heidar Modaresi, Of the 50% who had associate professor of ppinions on the ad, 45 male NEW YORK, NY (CPSY dropped from a high of psychology, and student students and 40 female For the first time in a 51,310 in the 1979-80 Mary Montgomery recently Students felt the ad should decade, the foreign school year to only 26,760 conducted a survey to sam- be published. student population on in 1982-83. ple students' opinion on the American campuses has "The Libyan student issue. leveled off, the Institute population has also Montgomery conducted Mod&resi offered reasons of International declined by 26.9 percent," the survey as part of the 9 as t(f why students were Education (HE) reports. Jullian notes, "from 2900 requirements for unaware of the ad situation. Some foreign student for the previous school Psychology 471. observers -attribute the year to 2120 for 1982-83." Two hundred nineteen "It may seen that studen- population change to "I think probably Winthrop students were ts are apathetic and don't political adventurism in political upheaval in selected at random and con- want to read about what's Iran and Libya. Libya and Iran could ac- tacted by telephone. Each going on around campus.' For the last ten years, count for some of the student was asked the Dr. Modaresi The ad controversy was well foreign student decline in students from question: "Should Jeff publicized in the Johnmtnian enrollment here has been those two countries," he Stanley publish the abortion and the Evening Herald as growing at least 10 per- speculates. ad in The Johnsonian'?" females. Fifty percent of the well as other newspapers cent a year. The growth Indeed, "in the case of The total sample con- students who were contac- around the state and several rate in some years went Iranian students, for the sisted of 110 males and 109 ted were undecided on television stations,** he said. as high as 16 percent. last couple of years it has been difficult for them to But new figures in- get exit permits (fromthe Grad student sues Texas dicate foreign student Iranian government), and enrollment grew by a then they had to go to a A federal court dismissed. limits on grad assistants' in response, and has kept mere 3.3 percent in the third country to get U.S. Kathleen Kelleher's academic freedom was grad assistants out of 1982-83 school year, from visas because there is no discrimination suit against "correct." government courses since. 325,865 students for the U.S. embassy in Iran," the school, saying Texas' Two students walked out Kelleher sued after 1981-82 school year to explains Georgia Stewart of the class when gay ac- refusing the transfer, and 33,983. with the National tivists were invited to ex- was fired. "I think (the foreign Association of Foreign Notes plain their causes. Ad- Her lawyers say she'll ap- student populatin) is Student Advisors (NAF- ministrators reassigned peal last week's contriver- basically peaking because SA) in Washington, D.C. NOTES FROM ALL Kelleher to research duties sial ruling. of'the decrease in (the But more Iranians may OVER: Latest drinking game at Texas is to gulp number of) Iranian come to American cam- beer whenever someone on students," observes puses in the next few The Bob Newhart Show says Alfred Jullian, research years, she adds.

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