Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Office as minority By CASSIE YANG Features editor The upcoming fall semester marks the 25th anniversary of the acceptance of the first minority students at use. Three students, one graduate and two undergraduates, were admitted to USC. There are now about 2,600 minority students enrolled at USC and numerous programs and services geared toward the minority student. The Office of Minority Student Affairs assists minority students in their academic, social and cultural development. "The Minority Student Affairs serves as a liaison between the students and the university," said Ralph Johnson, Assistant Dean of Student Life for Minority Students. "It's for the enhancement and retention of minority students and enhancing the quality of life at the university." The major programs and services coordinated through the office are: Advising the Association of AfroAmerican Students and assisting in the coordination of Black History Month activities. The Minority Student Graduate School Fair is held every October. The program is designed to encourage minority students to attend graduate/professional school. The Minority Student Honors Night Program is held in April in conjunction with University Awards Day to recognize students who have excelled in academic, leadership, and campus/community service arenas. An Annual Conference on the Minority Freshman Year Experience is co-sponsored with the National YOU A % FIRS TRE Fin t Find it at 1306 Hamj. Apple, the Apj Sony Corpnt jsists students Center for the Study of the Freshman Year Experience. The conference is an opportunity for professionals in mgiivi ^uuvauuu IU lu^cuiu and discuss the issues and concerns facing minority freshmen and identify strategies to enhance retention. Minority Student Welcome is an annual program for incoming freshmen where the leaders of the major student organizations welcome the freshmen and solicit their involvement. Workshops on Cultural Sensitivity and Diversity are conducted upon request, for any university division, department, class or student organization. The Minority Assistance Peer Program assists minority freshmen in becomming oriented to USC by providing them a trained peer counselor. Co-sponsorship of the annual USC Careeer Fair, in conjunction with the USC Career Center. Lisa Mills, an intern with Minority Student Affairs, said she used the office to help with projects for a graduate Masters program. She now works with the office because she said she was familiar with the office, needed credit, on-hand experience and had a strong interest in it. Mills has worked on organizing a conference and has done research on minority students. "I think it's very interesting. It (The Minority Student Affairs) promotes awareness and shows the revival of particular programs for students. It gives a better look at what's going on. 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Some of the services and program through the office are the Babysitt umbia Area Resident Assistant, Liv pus and Learning, The Carolina Cc Off Campus Housing Locator Serv Writers' i From staff reports Mention South Carolina and most people think of things like shrimp boats, stock cars and veils of Spanish moss hanging from ancient oaks. But thanks to a major writers' festival planned for September 9-11 in Charleston, the state's literary output may soon start to attract the recognition many feel it deserves. The event, Carolina Connections: A National Literary Festival for Writers and Readers, will feature over 75 well-known or emerging writers and scholars who live in South Carolina or have close ties to the state. The festival comes at a time when South Carolina can lay claim to more novelists, poets and short story authors than at any time in its past. In this century the state has produced a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and a novel which became America's most famous opera. 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Their duties include ing Off Cam- tivities, educational and soc nnection and advising, counseling and le ice. Living Off Campus and festival brii nationally respected writers, too," says Steven Lewis, Director of Literary Arts for the S.C. Arts Commission and director of the conference. "This festival is being staged to help give them the recognition ? and the readership ? they deserve." The list of participating authors includes James Dickey, one of the nation's most respected poets and author of Deliverance and Alnilam; William Price Fox, Moonshine Light, Moonshine Bright and Ruby Red; Josephine Humphreys, PEN Hemingway Award-winning author of Dreams of Sleep and Rich in Love; novelist Gail Godwin A Southern Family and A Mother and Two Daughters; flj and novelist and playwright Alice Childress A Short Walk. "The reading public will also be well represented," said Sara June Goldstein, a former literary agent who is acting as coordinator for the festival. 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Housing Locator Service ? proehensive housing locator service of up-to-date files of apartments, to rent as well as roommate situain the Columbia area. nition "One major goal of Carolina Connections is to bring the public together with our writers to promote wider readership of South Carolina authors and encourage emerging authors to produce," she said. "We want the public to be involved, to be proud of South Carolina's literary reputation and see writers as important, familiar resources. When this conference is over, I think people will have a new appreciation of the state's writers," she said. The three day conference includes a series of workshops, panel discussions and marathon readings by the authors themselves. In addition, a book fair is scheduled for the sale of works by the guest writers ? both in print and out-ofprint. And throughout the festival, Informal gatherings have been planned to give writers and readers a ehance to talk and get to know one another on a more personal level. Those interested in participating in workshops or other activities are urged to respond as soon as possible ;ince space for many events is ex:remely limited. i Alive tging Group ly Traveled iitions t 21-6:00 pm ng-Room 311 WF 12:00-1:10 HMATION CALL nant 777-3125 a :d todaya few typos and ng modifiers. You'll e to crank out assignthat look as though ibed a friend in art LAndwithanamazw program called Card?which just ns to come packaged very Macintosh?you sily store, organize, oss-reference research