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9 Spotlight J Fewer USC students are ::: r 51 ' " defaulting on their loans, a "' jlilIIwtIiIwMtowlil^WW( ?. ; ; -v^: ;v:t y. I financial aid official says, page :;P^^T:::::::::::::mfflfflftlf :::t:t:: :::;:::::: :::: ? ; 0 ^ iw JMIJiHW T T Take off those sweat pants and put on a grass skirt! 1111111111 H1 i 111QJH HI W\W It's homecoming week, and Carolina has gone Carib* t ii< ' i 11 . i . i ?I., ?_______________________________________ The Gamecock Founded 1908 Wednesday Volume 78, No. 27 University of South Carolina October 9. 1985 USC grou ? activism i By MARY FANT Staff writer Two student groups opposing nuclear arms race indicate studen tk. aii: ? i lie rviuaiiLc ior reace ana t*ri formed this past year, giving stud against these issues. The Alliance for Peace is a groi between the U.S. and the Soviet 1 This group, which was organize an original five members to fortj co-founder Malinda Hamann. p The group meets regularly to pi the Horseshoe, to educate the US "We want people to know what The goal of the other student gi Hlvi>c(m0nt r\f ?ll - ....umuviii ui on uiuvciany-ri with interests in South Africa. The group also wants to educate and apartheid, that country's sysi Menkhaus, FSAA co-founder. Ken Menkhaus, a Ph.D candid) tional Studies department, said he involvement in international a awareness and concern about inte ) Despite its relative lack of size, vantages over those of the '60s, N "The students involved in today critical and thoughtful and aware Student Body President Kevin ! "Students are concerned with issues that affect them directly," HOP uoo euui '' I By ASSOCIATED PRESS A national survey of colleges i sities has named four, spools Carolina to a list of institutions quality education without I expensive. The book, which was research writers for The New York Times, "The Best Buys in College Educat uioria rem By JIM NEWMAN Science writer They can develop anywhere, from just off the coast of Africa to mid*ocean or even in the Caribbean. Often they can wander aimlessly over far reaches of the sea or assume a steady, but deadly, course for a heavily populated coastline. But when they strike, they make their presence and purpose unmistakably clear. Hurricane season is now upon us once again, and with it is the ever-present risk that such a storm will form and threaten some coastal portion of the U.S. mainland. Indeed, this risk has already been realized with the recent development of Hurricane Gloria. f -j v- . ?> ^ t . 5*T..*" ^^PP^FV ^ ??^r*i ^^Bml /vr< '^Cv*i3 ?jB8Rm -i >,r:" |NM/'?|fnBCHRBff8 1 XSM^^HHK^n^gHoy l^ff>3Bj^^.'J^?ra?^8BiMi '' *'' r^^^SKifWmiiT^i |Bfl^^, v'^i- Ss,/':S Father and aon Tha Reflation Pmid in (rent sf Hi sm, Micbiia, it tpmtf tlw boy'c tw ps prove increasing South Africa's apartheid and the t activism is rising at USC. ;e South Africa Alliance have been lents a chance to take an active role ip dedicated to ending the arms race LJnion. d over the summer, has grown from r-five members, said Treasurer and an events, such as Friday's rally on C community about the arms race, 's really happening," said Hamann. oup, Free South Africa Alliance, is elated funds invested in companies t the community about South Africa tern of racial segregation, said Ken ate in the Government and Internat believes the university's increasing iffairs has stimulated students's xnational issues. today's student movement has adlenkhaus said. 's movement seem to be much more of the issues," he said. J " jiiuuic agreea wun Menkhaus. international, national, and state Stroble said. :ation a b; schedule# for tiJeew 0 ind univer- The four schools in< in South named in the hook ar< that offer Furman University, Wo jciiib iuu university or South Ca "These aren't your led by two Princetons," Joseph M is entitiled authors, said of the lis i6n" and is about quality institutio linds coast Originally formed off the coast of Africa, Gloria moved steadily toward the continental United States until it reached a position l ? several nunarea miles almost due west of Miami on Sept. 25. For the next two days Gloria moved rapidly up the Eastern Seaboard, bringing with it a possible threat to such coastal cities as Charleston, Wilmington, N.C., Norfolk, Va., and Atlantic City, N.J. Worst hit of all were perhaps Cape Hatteras, N.C., and much of Long Island, N.Y. As Gloria maintained a northerly course on Sept. 27, it lashed North Carolina's Outer Banks with 130-mph-winds. Luckily, it shifted slightly east of north later, the worst of it missing the K^t ^^^???111 ^;,": ^ -^fl ^IL^_ .-~^^vpagr KBil c a A p ?Sj . *. i Tkoaua Caapar library was tfca parte irtb birthday tMa patt Saaday. y .- ; - ]T;T'-vf :%YVfr ' -'jgmt- KfnP ^P^ W' - rUpWg^ vffijjPPv ',v. . "gKlBj SHF1a;.O ' 'lilITI H?| ' ' jMHlT Ba | jIIpF' I^^^hh^^hb ..... . . MARION BULLfTtw Gamecock 5-o clock shadow The sun shining on n lampost in the late afternoon caused an elmost perfect image on the Pickens Street bridge. argain^ survey says >?, 10. . - To b* inclwdcd on the list, a schoqj?5?p?T? :luded among the 22i '~<feni population had to average a combined s Clemson University, score of 1,000 on the Scholastic Aptitude >fford College and The Test. The maximum score is 1,600, and those rolina. that ttbred at the cutoff point did better than 73 percent of the other students taking the Harvard, Yale and test, Michalak said. Also, a school had to ichalak, one of the co- rank below the national average in tuition it. "But we're talking costs and had to have at least 60 percent of its ns." - faculty holding doctorate degrees. ai i*-- : ui iiui i luaiie season Hampton Roads region and Nor- before a hurricane ever acquires folk altogether. its namesake, it must transcend a Coastal portions of Long number of subordinate levels of Island also suffered greatly as intensity. Gloria, still packing maximum A typical tropical cyclone first sustained winds of 110 mph, begins as a tropical disturbance, made landfall. For many people, usually developing in a region Gloria, which was deemed to be a between 20 degrees north and 20 great danger, was actually little degrees south latitudes. threat at all. By late Sept. 27 it A number of tropical disturdrifted into the annals of bances can exist at a given time meteorology as one of the most within this zone, but this is no powerful hurricanes to affect the guarantee most or all of them will East Coast this century. develop into something more inA var^ttf ? ? ? A .. ui lauuis aic rc- tense, n mat was the case, hurquired to sustain a hurricane, ricane season would assume a among them a very warm supply whole new degree of terror for it of water and the Coriolis effect, would be likely a great number the continuous deflection of wind would form within the Atlantic, to the right in the Northern easily threatening numerous Hemisphere resulting from the coastlines. Earth's rotation. Of course, Soe "Storm," page 3. ^ Wi Bia Slffiflilfe# -.v.M From staff reports y:;| '"^'5' '? * ' . The fear of contracting AIDS ^tranfusions has prompted the state R stricter screening program for donoi : "There is a very minimal risk : ^ \ blood transfusions with AIDS, and '3v ^ Vr'" v*; ^ j risk from donating blood," said D . ;/ 10?: 'wi ;*'- : ."7"' ' 6 American Red Cross director for th< - , ? "* ~ Testing started March 11 for the . tibody^ccordin^^Co^^^^^^m Cross. All^u nits t esting positive^arc uk*um wiitn..?i "^e don't know all the means o MAfflUH VVlimm Bamttock fof AIDS ftt th|# ^ bm Wfi dQ knQV cannot contract AIDS from donating ct spatter Alma BHIard and Ma wid- "AU Rcd c">m bIood collect wth a sterile, disposable needle. It U i i i I after a single use." Accuracy causes u amnnn In UIIIUIIU Id By BUDDY MOORE Staff writer "Accuracy in Academia," an organization recently formed to prevent the dissemination of false information in university classrooms, has caused unrest among professors across the nation, and its repercussions have been felt at USC. Formed just six weeks ago in Washington, D.C., the organization has started an "awareness campaign" in whichstudents who doubt the accuracy of professors' statements can have AIA check their correctness, according to AIA's executive director, Les Csorba. "We will call the professor, verify what he said and hear his side of the story," Csorba said in a telephone interview. "If we find him incorrect, we will publish the statement in our monthly newsletter." The issue presents a "serious problem" for Charles Tucker, associate professor of sociology at USC and secretary of USC's chapter of the American Associa' lion <'If they are out to criticize nrnfoccnrt In ? >*? -? ? :-A ? " I..V.VMUU ui a rt ay uui CUIISlSlCIll with the academic process, we have a serious problem," he said. "People can disagree, but there are rules for disagreement. That's what democracy is all about." Professors are "allowed to say anything within their discipline that's available, whether or not they agree with it or if the student agrees with it," Tucker said. "Some ideas that are fine now were once out-of-bounds," Tucker said. He also said some of the "wildest ideas" may become accepted in time. When it can be iudsed bv em pirical evidence, "professors are obviously accountable" for what they say, Tucker said. "Take art, for example. There are all kinds of opinions about what is good art, and it is difficult to pin them down because art is not empirical." Checking the accuracy of statements is appropriate as long as people understand them within the limits f a particular discipline, he said. "The claims against us are ridiculous and paranoia," Csorba said. "We're not involved in ! censure or firinc" of nrnfe?nrs < but "encouraging more opinions IDS has p i to screei Kolb said the 1 through blood understand giving I ed Cross into a needs a regular sup s. hospital patients, from receiving At the present ti; absolutely no the country has d r. Todd Kolb, AIDS, he said. ) S.C. Region. Homosexual ant HTLV-III an- abusers of intravei g is being done main groups identi American Red of developing AID liscarded. Acquired Immui :s a person was incubation period f / and the body transfusion-associa icing these an- result of transfusio :an the person said. Hemophiliacs iviarcn iy85t when >ut to find peo- Nearly four mil HLTV-III an- sions every year. f transmission "The panic over v that a person patients who need I ; blood/' Kolb Cross doctor. "If 3ns are drawn blood, or if patien i thrown away surgery because o thousands of lives i ' group nrest icturers put forth by students" and "urging them to challenge to challenge professors" and not be afraid to do so. "Professors should be held accountable for what they say," Csorba said. "Marxist professors use their position to bring students to the science of Marxism. Their role is to convert students to Marxism. Professors should educate, not propagandize." Csorba paraphrased a rcuruary 1V53 report by the Association of American Colleges by stating "while professors have a right to academic freedom and free speech, they have a special responsibility to students not to use the classroom to propagandize." "Instruction is inquiry, not propaganda,"1 Csorba said. "Professors should be as objective as possible. We all have biases, and we must recognize them." The issue of "Accuracy In Academia" was brought before the USC faculty steering commitdays ago, although not on their agenda, Tucker said. "We talked about it, and it was decided to be left to the individual professor." Many professors have begun to feel uncomfortable about allr?u/. ing tape recordings of their lectures because they are wary of having AIA members in their classes, and the results could be harmful for certain students, according to Tucker. "It will be difficult for a handicapped or hearing disabled student if he is allowed to tape record lectures," Tucker said. The organization has been met with an 4'overwhelming response," Csorba said nntino 9 hundreds of letters representing 110 college campuses across the nation. Although no USC students or any from South Carolina colleges have contacted AIA, Csorba said they had received a letter from a professor at The Citadel. AIA is not looking for expansion through chapters across the nation but the use of existing net- . works, Csorba said. "If a student is interested in AIA and contacts us, we will tell him to go to his regular classes." Csorba said. "If he comes across Sm "Accuracy," pago 2. rompted n blood Red Cross needs the public to jlood is safe and the organization ply of blood to meet the needs of me, the blood supply throughout ecreaseci uecause ot the fear of 1 bisexual men, present or past ious drugs and hemophiliacs are ified as having an increased risk S. ne Deficiency Syndrome has an 'rom two to seven years. Cases of ted AIDS appearing now are the >n$ from several years ago, Kolb ; with AIDS contracted it before testing began on the disease, lion Americans receive transfu AIDS is far more damaging to blood/' said Alfred Katz, a Red healthy people stop donating ts refuse transfusions or forego f fear of AIDS, hundreds of could be endangered."