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By David Hill
Student Government officials meetin
yesterday to discuss election reform agreei
the number of polling places for SG election
should be reduced.
In past elections, particularly this past spr
ing's, the main problem was in monitorin
polling places, SG President Barry Gray said
The large number of polling places
"several more than 20," was for students
convenience, but also "creates complexity,'
he said.
THE NEED is to "strike a balance," h
said.
Attorney general Cindy Price suggested
polling places for geographical areas of cam
pus where both on-campus and off-campu
students would vote.
For example, a polling place at the Colleg
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business administration and humanities ma
jors and for residents of Capstone and Col
umbia Hall.
Elections commissioner David Lasch sai
verifying students' housing status and majc
could be a problem, and that there would sti
be a need for poll workers for that purpose
"IT'S NOT going to drastically reduce th
number of poll workers; you're still going t
need a lot of them."
But there would be fewer places t
monitor, Gray said.
Other poll locations suggested were tr
engineering building, the Law Center, th
Horseshoe and the Coliseum.
Greg DeCastro, a member of the electioi
commission, suggested members of the con
US? tightens
Fine increased
USC has changed its handicapped parking re
Professor uses i
By Gary Moss
It is Saturday morning and the soft droi
of a woman's voice and the inviting smell <
brewing coffee fill the air.
But this is not the end of a Friday nig
adventure. It is the beginning of Ru
C,?ickland's American literature class.
She got in! '^ea bringing coffee ar
doughnuts to relieve tnJ .7?onPtony ''ste
ing to somebody talk for five hou7*.
"I COULDN'T look at Robert Redfoi
for five hours, and I think he's gorgeous,
she said.
She sprinkles her lectures with humor
make the subject more enticing. She said si
is particularly fond of poking fun at the se
ual mores of the early Puritans.
But she acknowledged the problem
teacnA*1* students who wear the "I-don
care-what-you ,re"sayin8"I'm"here"because'
have-to-be" attitude.
"I pick out the students wnJ can a
turned off and try to teach the class to i.. 1111
she said, adding there are always one or tw
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mission tour campus early next semester to
g find the most travelled and visible locations
d for polling places.
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VICE PRESIDENT Jill Mainwaring said
she would form a committee in the Student
g Senate to find ways of publicizing elections.
I. Also, a survey to gather ideas from
students on elections improvements will be
conducted early next semester.
Gray suggested acquiring portable, temporary
structures to house polls. "The kind
of thing that, as soon as you see it ? bang ? .
e a polling place."
Lasch said, "The biggest thing that will
d change elections is we're going to get more
i- off-campus votes."
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GRAY SAID off-campus students pay for
e 60 percent or more of activity fees, yet
r seldom account for more than 10 to 20 perl
cent of the vote in elections.
I- "It's hard to reach them," he said.
Another problem with last spring's elecd
tions was in recruiting poll workers, Gray
>r said. Fifty were hired, but only about 30
11 "showed up," he said.
Price suggested "anticipating all prohlpms
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e poll workers than needed, but that would be
o costly, Gray said.
o MANY POLL workers failed to work the
polls because of the scheduling of the elecle
tions during mid-term exams, Gray said,
le Mainwaring suggested changes in scheduling,
particularly in holding them earlier,
is "I would like to see the elections done by
1- See "Elections," pege 3
? handicap park
By Marisa Porto
', C" P^l A law suit filed two years ago
resulted in stiffer fines and immei
handicapped spaces, a university
' Danny Baker, systems vice pi
WT"~ ''j\and security, said the new policii
the USC police department. The
*#*fjgPr Baker, has been that people in wh
handicapped spaces are taken. T1
the parking signs for spaces thai
i * "We have some social and i
/ ** fellow man. That, in and of itsell
... < # in marking the spaces and curb
% **1 wheelchairs. It's a matter of pos
' USC POLICE Chief Kennetl
^ begun this semester, were chang
"If there were open spaces
Photo by JmwMw Woolen owner. Now, we do not attempt
. . cle in violation. We normally h;
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jnique teaching met!
students in every class she doesn't like.
le
;)f "I TRY really, really hard to go that extra
mile with them because 1 have very strong
ht feelings on fairness," she said.
th She bristles at questions of how the study
of literature squares with a highly pragmatic
id and commercial society,
n- "If somebody would have come up to me
several years ago and told me you've got to
be relevant, I would have told them to go to
rd hell," saidA
great deal can u\" learned from literature
that can't be learned anywhere eise, said.
to
hie "READING A Henry James novel could
x- teach the average person more about the
human personality than reading Freud," she
Of r,aid, adding a person must read more than one
't- writer to understand human nature.
-I- William Faulkner is one of her favornCS,
she said, because even though Faulkner
re wrote only about the South, he demonstrated
," a tremendous "understanding of universal
,0 human nature."
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ing regulations afte
spread the word, and we have notifit
by a former LT&C student has he said.
diate towing of cars parked in According to Pereira, in order to
r police official said. sticker is needed. A handicapped stui
esident for law enforcement ty handicapped decal, whether temj
es have been implemented by handicapped visitors must get a vis
main problem, according to which exempts them from feeding t
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tie public has been notified by ing was so poorly enforced that h
t have been changed. because handicapped spaces were ti
moral responsibilities to our
F, is the main thing. The key is
cuts. These are for people in GLORIA DAY, Cockfield's attoi
itive awareness," Baker said. rules have been enforced.
"Wayne's complaint was that he >
1 Pereira said the new fines, ing facilities for handicapped studen
:ed from $15 to $25. not beine enforced. He wanted a n
before, we tried to find the They have done that. We are very pi
to find the owner of the vehi- acknowledgement in making those p
ave not had a very large pro- handicapped," Day said.
g. The officers have tried to
hods with English course
After having difficulty teaching a group of know." The routir
medical students at Louisiana State Universi- said, but the tragec
ty, she said she asked them how they could be our reason for bei
doctors and only understand medicine, and least important thi
told them they must also have insights into
the way people think and feel, insights that "I THINK any<
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dictionary. py. But to wake 1
One of her pet peeves is suspicion about happiness is an unr
the legitimacy of a job that involves sitting less unhappy," sh<
around reading books, she said. "The thing I vali
is a sense of hum<
"WHEN SOMEBODY sees you reading a seriously, you don
book, they think it's OK to interrupt you. seriously. You ha>
Tn"u say '^re V?u busy?' and think 'oh no, from crying all th<
incr rpan'.rr ' Reading shouldn't be a She said she w
"non-activity," she said. people s faces as tl
Strickland studied under Walker Percy, a way home fruiTi >V
Southern author who won the National Book Henry David The
Award for hfs novel "The Moviegoer," men lead lives of <
which discusses the possibility of "the "Remember wl
seiirc*1" "The search is what anyone would 'Do not go gentle i
undertake it nC wcre not sunk in the CvCry- ra?c. against the d
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Strickland said, "The search is the quest to young age."
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Carolina Alive and USC's I
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id handicapped services,"
park on campus, a USC
dent must have a universi3orary
or permanent. All
iitor's parking permit,
he parking meters.
(field, who claimed parkie
could not attend class
oo often blocked.
ney, said the new defined
>vas unable to utilize parkts.
Those restrictions were
lore definitive procedure,
eased with the university's
arking spaces reserved for
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ly is "the routine becomes
ng when it should be the
ng in our lives.
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ned to be relatively unhapjp
to the realization that
easonable goal makes you
Lie more than anything else
)r. If you take everything
't ever know what to take
/e to laugh at life to keep
i time," she said.
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quiet desperation,
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nto that good night. Rage,
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