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* i Referen By Michael Gooding QimarAfili RliflWrllar The petition to bring the proposed new Student Government, SG, constitution to a student referendum is not yet complete, according to Seamus O'Boyle, SG president. "Last week I turned in 1,437 names to Kim Fowler, (SG Elections Commissioner), and we still have a very large number of petitions out," O'Boyle said. A minimum of 2,500 signatures are required to bring the proposal to a student vote, he said. /\LiL. fKii iiuiss snouid t>e in Keb. 23, according to O'Boyle. He said the referendum could be held 20 days later, By Kimberly Cihlar Gamecock Staff Writer Melody Marshall, the newly appointed director of continuing education in the USC College of Nursing, said she hones to streamline a continuing education towar program for nurses. There "We're looking at the tinuini development of continuing- allow education tracts in nursing, since advan nursing as a profession is moving needs, rapidly toward mandatory con- The U tinuing education," Marshall said. cours To renew licenses once a year, works nurses might have to take more Curi hours, according to Marshall. recogr Consequently, nurses may "grab" ticipa hours from any program, regar- Educa dless of whether the program is Progrj relevant to their practice, Mar- S.C. N shall said. said. "SOUTH CAROLINA does not "Un have mandatory continuing we v education yet, but we're moving orogra $19,000 oivpri for hin The USC Biology Department has from the National Science Found dergraduate participation in resea mer of 1979. From the award, 10 stipends of $ undergraduates who have comj semester 01 junior level course worn Seven faculty members are invo Under the direction of these facult will research some significant aspec The stipends are designed for unc considering biological research as ; had an opportunity to work full-tii vironment. GINT professor's bo< A USC Government and Internal member has published a book that definitive word on American foreign The book, "American Foreign DrA/incc" ' 1 IUV-COO, Kjy JUfl . VyliUI ICS ivcgicy *JJ this past week and has already primary textbook by such instituti sity, the University of Michigan a Southern California. Three years in the making, t "focuses on the constraints ?- don nature of bureaucracies and the rel; presidency ? which make it diff States to change its policies," Regie; Kegley is working on another fc America: U.S. Foreign Policy in t for publication by spring. A sequel is About 1,100 sic * mti pending the validation of signatures. "If there are not enough signatures on the petitions, the whole idea of the (proposed) constitution will just fall through," he said. According to Fowler, Feb. 22 had been set i as a tentative date for the referendum, but I 11 A * * " i ine receni snowstorm caused the delay. . Bob Rosenberger, one of the students circulating petitions, said he is confident the required 2,500 signatures will be attained. "We are making pretty good progress," he i said. "They (the students) have been willing to sign the petition." Rosenberger said Continuinc. emphasis d it," Marshall said. planning a pi fore, the structured con- Department of 1 g-education tracts would Medical School a nurse "to identify and take and health can tage of the courses she planning a seri< according to Marshall, skills for nurs fSC program includes short Marshall, es, conferences and hops. "WERE TRY ently, a nurse might get program in a p lition by voluntarily par- manner," Mai ting in the Continuing possible de' tion Approval Recognition workshops inclu am, a program set up by the and for spring 1 ursing Association, Marshall child abuse." IV "thinking ab< til we get the tracts set up, program for thi vill continue to offer particular dis ims," Marshall said. "We're hypertension, si logy research I THE? been awarded $19,140 EVER lation to support un- j irch during the sum- I ;i,000 will be given to j^j| )leted at least one i.* j lved in the research. . ' y members, students V i :t of a project. lergraduates who are a career but have not Tie in a rpsparnh #>n fpa ak 'definitive' tional Studies faculty f jMBBfjf is being hailed as the Policy: Pattern and j ' r , came off the press ^ been adopted as a oris as uuKe univer- IIMPJID^ nd the University of frl he 544-page volume U " lestic pressures, the ? ative weakness of the - ATTENTIO icult for the United FACULTY y said. DISCOUN1 >ook, "Challenges to THE RUS he 1980s," scheduled : planned. 1 Columbia i ivhhhmbhb I natures need tion nol nptitinn u;firlforc "Iiquo ni r^v.v?w?a f* va a?Vk u IIM V- I^VV/II IU111 i.gai what they have been signing." SG Senator Dale Oldham, humanit social sciences, said the wording petition is "vague and ambiguot would support what's on the petiti never the constitution," he said. 44I THINK the students will realis the constitution is about, and the] pass it," (if the proposal goes referendum) Oldham said. Rarrv Hnrvif-7 in nhorrta nf niMi.in J VIIUI 5V, V/I LUld petitions, said "The main point I educatic in nursin* rogram with the and lung cancer. Philosophy and the These progn relating to ethics divided into hi e." They also are allowing statewid es of management "The program; ;es, according to the division with Nursing are for r not only in S ING to develop the Marshall said, "b lanned, sequential entice nurses frc 'shall said. The Marshall said lit velopments of been given to 2 de one on diabetes, from outside Sout 980, a program on The benefits w< larshall said she's a lot of peopli out a monthly education and sh? s fall dealing with and ideas whic ;eases such as ideas," Marshall; ckle cell anemia "We also want I Aimrv 1/ rti ainkMAi ? r? iMv^rv-nwi ivnumun I I 1Y FRI. & SAT. NIGHT A H From the director who gave you j$ "NATIONAL f I AUDAIUPC I i t j LHinruuii a 'jUr~S ANIMAL fgfc* HOUSE" SOMi^ ^^|*<| ALL SEATS $2.50 M A I I II C P CTI ir\CHTP 11 fILL O I UULIM I O, & STAFF, USE G.C.C. TICKETS AVAILABLE AT SELL HOUSE WHENEVER TO BUSH RIVER OR V MALL AND SAVE! ed t complete :udents petition is to enable the students to vote on it, not the senate." "The students are signing the petition ies and only to put the new constitution on the on the ballot," Horvitz added. "They are not is." "I signing a petition for or against the conon, but stitution." If the necessary number of signatures is r.e what reached, they must then be validated by the f won't SG Elections Commission. A proposal for a ; to a referendum must be made public "not less than 14 davs hpfnrp th? t?wtinn ;? ??rK;?v> ;* j x, WIV V.VVUUI1 111 Wllltll 1 I ting the to be considered," according to the present of the SG constitution. m who are nationally and internationally known, someone who has done research or published a f* book, to do part of the teaching," Marshall said. 3 Qualified members of the community such as "a nurse that ims would be hac* expertise in a certain area" ilf-day sessions, mi8ht ^ brought in, according to le participation. Marshall. "For the ethics and 5 offered through health care, we might bring in an in the College of attorney. Of course, we'll use our egistered nurses own faculty, too," Marshall said, outh Carolina," Two kinds of short-range ut also we hope to planning were in effect which m other states " include the programs for fall and tie attention has spring, and long-range which inittracting nurses eludes the tracts, according to h Carolina. Marshall. )uld be "meeting "We hope to plug into the 2 in continuing Medical Educational Television iring information System, too; so we might look to h lead to new making video-tapes that could be said. broadcast throughout the state," :o bring in people Marshall said. aovies! BESBTOffiEfl T 12:00 thtrow?ng week TOERMICY ? 100 MINUTES OF MOE, LARRY AND CURLY'S BEST EPISODES! "THE 3 STOOGES FESTIVAL" 5 GREAT 20 MINUTE EPISODES. CLEAVON LITTLE MARTIN MULL MUSIC BY LINDA RONSTADT JIMMY BUFFETT & STEELY^^^^^^