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First Chester! From Staff Reports Nancy Pupke of Charleston is the first recipient of the Chesterfield Manufacturing Corp. Scholarship in USC's College of Library and Information Science. A graduate student in librarianship and a graduate of the College of Charleston, Pupke has worked in libraries in New York and at the College of Charleston. The scholarship, established by an alumna of the college, provides full tuition for a student in information science. DR. WINONA VERNBERG, dean of the USC College of Health, has been elected president of the Council of Education for Public Health, a nationally recognized accrediting agency for graduate education in public health and preventive medicine. Vernberg earned her doctorate in parasitology from Purdue University and has been dean at the USC College of Health since 1978. f^FPH ic an inrlpnonHnnt onnr>??ii ? ?. . ?i> muvpviiviviik lliai accredits schools of public health, community health education programs and community health-preventive medicine programs. MONTY VEAL, owner of the Cookie Factory at Richland Mall, has been elected chairman of the state Advicnrv Pnnnoil tUo . ; wuiii.ii ui mi. uuuiu vaiuiiiiii Small Business Development Center. The SBDC, based in USC's College of Business Administration, was chartered in 1979 to provide management assistance to businesses in the state with 250 employees or fewer. The center sponsors continuing education programs in areas such as cash-flow management, loan-package preparation and women in business for a maximum fee of $35. Qiaioc ' o| o n Q FaumiMisC P 5 Ol Bo' Q Stuffe g bo Sumte 2 pc. cm Ml & Medii Q Served with Biscuit a 0 % Oi.imit or> <i(X)l? AT AL1- PAI Exi oooc field Scholars! news briefs THE use DEBATE TEAM took top honors in the Paladin Debate Tournament at Furman University last month, winning a dozen of the 15 debates. USC students Tad Stephenson and Kim Talley defeated a team from Tennessee Temple University in the finals, and Amy Johnson and Richard Osbaldiston placed third. Stephenson and Johnson won speaker awards, with Stephenson finishing fourth and Johnson finishing third in the individual events. The team's adviser is Charles Wilbanks, a professor in USC's theatre and speech department. A RECENT PUBLICATION of the University of South Carolina Press has received one of the nation's most prestigious awards for work in rhetoric and communication. ''Symbolic Inducement and Knowledge: A Study in the Foundation of Rhetoric," by Richard Gregg, won the James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Award for distinguished scholarship in rhetoric and public ad dress, presented by the Speech Communication Association. Gregg, a professor of speech communication at Pennsylvania State University, explores the human use of symbols in communication. The USC Press is celebrating its 40th year and in September published its 500th title. SPEC. 4 JOEL COOPER has been named the 1984 FORSCOM Soldier of the Year. The USC student in chemistry and mathematics is a five-year veteran of the U.S. Army Reserves. He won the lioianoiai ? VL A G * hicken n Biscuits ' f OC OFF ! I s -ifWS d Bo-taters j jangles j r St. location only ? tpires 12/7/84 ! i ... , r QQ sA ! * [CKEN DINNER I im Soft Drink j Hnm^madf1 Ruttr>rmilk I ind Choice of FlxltV ! IE PER CUSTOMER j RTICIPATING RESTAURANTS I Off jires 12/7/84 ! ?Q 080I03CW lip awarded award in a competition held recently. He plans to either attend drill sergeant school or apply for officer candidate school upon graduation. USC PROFESSOR .IAMF.S MERIWETHER has been elected chairman of the U.S. Board of Foreign Scholarships. The board's 12 members are appointed by the president of the United States to guide policies and procedures for the Fulbright exchange program administered by the U.S. Information Agency. The board approves selections of Fulbright scholars and participating educational institutions. Meriwether, professor of Southern letters, has served with the board since December 1982. He is currently on leave from USC. SOUTH CAROLINA BETA of USC's Phi Delta Theta Fraternity was honored recently when it was named winner of the fraternity's Improvement Citation. The award is presented annually to chapters that demonstrate outstanding improvement in three of seven possible areas over the previous year. Areas include scholarship, finances, rush, pledge training, alumni relations, community service and fraternity life. LARRY GOLDSTEIN,, a Columbia public relations director and a 1959 USC graduate, has been nominated for vice president of the General American Life Chartered Life Underwriters Association. He was president of the Central South Carolina Chapter of the American Society of CLU in 1981 and 1982. The election will be at the chapter's annual meeting Nov. 30 in Kauai, Hawaii. JOaODg AMECOCK SPECIALS ^REE Soft Sei ICE CREAM (Toppings Extra) with Purchases c 3 or 4 Piece Dinn Expires 12/7/84 r iL BISCUIT ME/ $1.99 icludes Chicken Filet Biscuit and of Dirty Rice , Cajun Plntos , Pc alad, Cajun Gravy , Cole Slaw or Fries and Medium Drink. Offer good after 9:30 a.m. w* rer expires 12/7/84. Good at participating r Limit one per customer mODDE Moot court winners named From Staff Reports Clarke McCants, a third-year USC law student, won the eighth annual J. Woodrow Lewis moot court competition held recently at the USC School of Law. McCants and Harriet Johnson of Charleston, also a third-year student, were finalists. Both made the highest combinecicumulative score for their written briefs and for two preliminary rounds of oral arguments. The competition honoring former Chief Justice Lewis is co-sponsored by the law school's Moot Court Bar and the state Supreme Court. This year the case was heard by justices J.B. Ness, George Gregory and David Harwell. It involved a domesticH relations dispute over whether property acquired prior tol marriage is subject to equitable distribution after a divorce.I McCants was presented with a copy of the S.C. Code of I Laws by Lewis. I ARNO PRELLER, a Christian Scientist, will speak on "Peace on Earth: Utopia or Possibility?" at 12:15 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, in Room 332 of the Russell House. The lecture is sponsored by the USC Christian Science Organization. IH I H I 5 I i \ D p ^ JL ^ ve mm i Q T ,f 0 H la a a n CT | K I ^ B | IWM vx I] choice I B MclIO p French I fl I N I estaurants. H I G I g | MThe next Gamecock will be? | published Wed. Nov. 28. K