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WUSC'S jazz man Spot,i9htp-8 i|P^i Fun with pain s^mo English graduate Terry Rosen spends free ikL-^T**fcs '*s party a*ter matc'1 ^at brings memhours bringing "America's music" to Columbia Oil bers of (JSC's women's rugby team back for more The Gamecock Founded 1908 Wednesday Volume 78, No. 86 University of South Carolina a i oo Seniors * buying tickets by SHARON COSTE Senior reporter Seniors desperate for gradua^ tion tickets are attempting to buy W extra ones from other seniors. Recent ticket allocation restrictions allow graduating students only five tickets, one for themselves and four for their guests. Many seniors would rather pay high prices for guaranteed tickets than submit their names on a waiting list and hope to get lef tover tickets from those not attending the ceremony. As a result, some seniors not P planning to go to graduation are getting their tickets so they can sell them to people willing to "pay the price." "It's really a shame that I have to resort to buying graduation tickets from other seniors, but I want all of my family to go to graduation," said one senior, who asked to remain anonymous. "It just isn't fair that I have to Fnnlkh Hpnai UUpUl By BOBBY FRAZIER Staff writer English graduate assistants po protest scheduled for earlier this they received a commitment f department for more pay and teaching load. | The graduate students had planr classes on The Horseshoe in froi President James Holderman's hou? 21 and 22. The English Graduate Organizai memo April 17 notifying English gi structors that the protest had been [ "For the moment, we have calli group action mandated by the majc graduate teaching assistants," 5 spokesman Gordon Van Ness. TKa I * - A ?' * *? uv. vjuiuiuciii usieu mice re cancelling the protest. The first was I mcnt from the English department ' the stipend from $6,000 to $6,500 The document also said the d plans to reduce the workload foi Suicide ral By BILL HANE Staff writer Between five and 10 students go to the USC Psychological Service Center each semester to get ) counseling after thinkina ahnnt or attempting suicide, according to a graduate student in the psychology department. The exact number of USC students who have attempted suicide isn't known because few cases are reported and the center does not keep statistics, said Kevin Turner, a coordinator at the center "The rate of suicide has increased a little among college-age students, but the suicide rate for | teenagers has increased greatly in the last few years," he said. Most students visiting the. center are not seeking help for suicide nr<*vf?ntir?n Tm-r??f r. v .vif?.vii| i UIIIVI saiu, although the center does provide counseling for students who may have serious problems. If a student does come to the center after attempting or considered suicide, he can set up an appointment with a student i therapist. During the appointment, the therapist asks questions about the student's personal life m uommencement ticket distribution will i buy tickcts to a graduation that I have already spent so much money and time on achieving," she said. "I just don't understand why the graduation committee cannot do this differently." The student put an advertisement in The Gamecock stating she needed five or six extra tickets. Within a 15-minutc time rtment to raii assistants from four academic year. A sev stponed a plans to study how I week once effect. rom their TAs would be requir a lighter in the fall and one in tl Van Ness. led to hold The other reasons fc it of USC test were that USC adn ic on April enough time to responc demands, and that Enj tion sent a ty and administrators a raduate in- protest would be "co? postponed. best, repetitive and uni ed off any )rity of the F.GO has also sent a 1 ;aid EGO vost Frank Borkowski the university budget a asons for assistantship prograi a commit- departments. to increase "Those of us who we per year. apply for an overload epartmcnt and get more money t graduate said. te unclear dealing with academics, family relationships, friends and other topics as they apply in different cases. During the interview, the therapist tries to identify the actual problem and tries to help solve it by working with the student. 441 think the center has had some success at getting students to admit their problems that could enable them to overcome suicidal thoughts," Turner said. Students' records arc kept con- , fidential and are not released without written consent of the student, Turner said. Counseling is free for students and available for a small charge for community members. Counseling and Human Development on the second floor of the Business Administration building also prov ides counseling services for students, according to Turner. Turner said the Psychological Service Center also provides training opportunities for clinical psychology graduate students. The center is open 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday. The phone number is 777-4864. continue through Friday in the Russell Ha period, she received three phone calls from seniors offering to sell their tickets for $8 to $15. The legality of selling the tickets, which have no set monetary value, may be questionable, according to Dennis Pruitt, dean of student affairs. "I don't think that thp Cpllinn ----- ? >e TAs' pay, to three classes per Van Nes en-member committee strike. "I c ;o put this system in balloted to ed to teach two classes He said ic spring, according to had been di not find th< >r postponing the pro- contracts. 1 linistrators didn't have in front of I to the TA and faculty "Thiswc ;lish department facul- not a strikt onsulted by EGO felt a jnterproductive or, at State lav lecessary." striking, ai USC News etter sent to USC Pro- If a redu asking for a copy of adopted, V na lniormation about students wi us in other USC the spring : Van Nes? int more money could freshman E to teach four classes for a few s hat way," Van Ness asking regu English ela: Dr. Paul Langner tends to a dog used 7"""* RAY GRONBERGfThe Gamccock use second floor lobby of these tickets could be called scalping, but it would seem illegal to sell tickets that were never originally for sale and that have no market value," Pruitt said. "These students need to check with the Carolina Community and the state's scalping laws before selling their tickets." cut hours ;s said the TAs had not planned a lon't like the word 'strike.' We had > c. 'el a class." the original idea of cancellation ropped so the administration could e group in violation of its teaching Instead, they had planned to teach the President's House. >uld be more of a symbolic protest, he said. . i * * t ^iumuiis puDiic employees from ccording to Hans Knoop of the Bureau. ction in the TAs' teaching load is an Ness said it will leave about 750 thout a freshmen English class in jemester. > has proposed limiting sections of inglish, allowing masr enrollment ections, hiring more professors or lar faculty to teach more freshman sses. HTV . II . fla \ m i m < ": -; : \";:\ ", ' t K^fr---mSh * T<|||p''' -' SEAN KEEFERrthw Ganwcock In a research experiment Vigil sp I ? Liuyci li for terr By JULIET NADER News editor Three protestors of the April 14 bombing of Libya agreed that the United States is not looking at i uui 01 mc terrorism problem in the Arab world. The protestors spoke at a vigil Monday at the Strom Thurmond Building sponsored by the Columbia Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. The United States needs to acknowledge the Palestinians' right to a homeland, which was supposed to be created for them when Israel was established as a separate nation after World War II, said Bruce Pearson, a USC English professor and member of the Columbia Friends Society. The United States Navy and Air Force bombed Libyan terrorist facilities and Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy's compound last week in response to Libyan terrorism. Pearson spoke from a religious standpoint, "hor church people, killing is like throwing gasoline on fire. It doesn't help to stop the problem." He said there are alternate routes through the United Nations and World Court that the United States could have taken. "All religions emphasize peace and reconciliation," Pearson said, adding that anything else is prcaching false religion. He compared the way the Libyan situation should be handled to the way situations are handled in family life. He said parents mediate and try not to judge their children one way or the other. "The U.S. is playing a similar role in international relations ? they should not take sides." Pearson said the the raid did .iwi jh vc us purpose 01 weakening violence, but has made terrorists more determined to strike back. "If we want to end terrorism we need to end all the real Work with I takes 'sped Editor's note: The following is the USC's Animal Resources f acility. , research being conducted. By TRACY MIXSON Senior reporter It takes a special person to work at \j ? ? |;ii3un vvnu iuvcs animais so n i creature destined to be used in a I; That's the belief of Peg Rentz, esponsibilities is necessary to get her jram's animal care supervisor. The >erimental subjects for scientific resi "You have to love animals, of coi vhat they're here for," she said. "Nc >en to these animals, and it does take :ience, but you have to accept it." "You have to accept that all the ai esearch procedure. You treat them hem and put it out of your mind th? >e here." Kent/, said she had problems sta vhen she started working for the fac "We had two dogs here that I g 'They actually were not (put to slec ent the other one back to the shelter turchased). From then on. 1 realized nvolved with the animals." The lab animals are valuable rest echnician Derrick Thompson, who lecause of the time and money devo >f the animals involved becomes top "That's where we come in," Thorn y to take care of them while they'rt 11 J eaker: lid fuel orism grievances," lie said. "Terrorists feed on this kind of action." Sulaiman Aljuraid, a USC government and international studies graduate student, said the American reaction was nonsensical. He said the United States condemns terrorism, vet practiced it in bombing Libya. The manifestation was a Palestinian problem, he said, and inc united States must "become impartial" and help resolve the problem by recognizing that terrorism will continue whether Khadafy is in power or out of power. "Terrorism could only have intensified when we began shelling. That resulted in killing 260 American soldiers," he said. Shahrough Akhavi, a USC GINT professor, said using planes and ships won't stop the violence: "terrorism can't be stopped with a blunt instrument. "Terrorism is a weapon of the weak. We're just playing in the hands of terrorists. There is no need to stoop to their level." Articlc 5 1 of the Charter of the United Nations gives countries a right to self-defense, but the United States was not in extreme enough danger to apply this rule, Akhavi said. The rule was framed in 1945 after World War II to prevent direct attack because there was a great fear, he said. In cases such as the bombing of the Trans-World American airliner by Arab terrorists on April 3 in response to the U.S. clash with Libya the week before, Americans were killed, he said, but it was not a direct armed attack. He said the United States needs to show evidence to support their violent actions. He said the saying "an eye for an eye" should apply, yet "this action was way out of proportion of Libya's original action." lab animals ai' people second of a three-part series on Friday's story will be about the USC's Animal Resources Facilinich, lie is willing to show love to iboratory experiment. who said an acceptance of her through a normal clay as the profacility supplies animals as exearch. irse, but you also have to realize ) one enjoys what's going to hap, ? 1? a unit wicsiung wuii your conslimals are going to be used for a i with kindness while you have it tomorrow they're not going to ying unattached to the animals :ility in 1980. ot very attached to," she said. :p) ? one was adopted, and we (from where the clogs were first 1 could not really get emotionally iarch investments, according to works at one nf ihn farii;?;?c ted to specific research, the care priority. pson said. "It's our rcsponsibili; here. We feed them, give them See "Animals," page 3