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By JOHN MILLS III
? Staff writer
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The number of males escorted
I around campus by Alpha Phi Omega
| has increased, although the total
| number of people escorted by the
| coed fraternity has remained the
; same, the president of APO said.
APO President Lena Younts said
! that despite recent crimes in the area,
i overall use of the program ? which
' the fraternity has run since the 1960s
J ? has remained the same. But in re|
cent weeks, she said, more male
; students have asked for a safety
1 escort.
The escort service, which operates
! Sundays through Thursdays between
8 p.m. and 11 p.m., uses a university
j automobile to provide free transpori
tation around campus. The service
i does not extend off campus.
APO escorts about 25 people each
| night, she said.
"We take people to places where
! they might be nervous to walk
i alone," Younts said. "Some people
\ may not be scared, but they just feel
| better walking with someone else.
"I can't tell that there's a large in1
crease," she said. "Normally, we
serve to the females and the hani
dicapped. But we are getting a lot
| more men, I can tell right now."
The USC APO chapter has 20 active
members. Younts said a pledge
class of between 10 and 30 people
i joins each year.
APO has not yet installed a pledge
class this year, but she said it will
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Leary said the war on drugs is used
| as an excuse and distraction from the
real problems. "They're frothing at
the mouth at the Oval Office right
now. They don't want peasants to
reward themselves and use their
brains."
Drugs can be extremely beneficial
when done with a group of people,
Leary said. "It's when you sneak off
in a corner alone that it becomes a
problem. That's abuse."
He views LSD to be less
troublesome than lesser drugs.
Statistics reveal that 10,000 times
more people get hurt by alcohol than
marijuana, and 300,000 people die a
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Despite the safety offered to
students by the escort service, the
program does have limitations.
"We don't operate on the
weekends," she said. "When we're
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and that's prime studying time for
us, also. So Friday and Saturday
we're not open, because most people
spend Friday and Saturday nights
socializing and not going to the
library."
She said another reason for the
limited schedule is a lack of volunteer
escorts. She added that APO did
operate on the weekends one
semester, but there was little demand
for the service.
Younts recommended that
students call for an escort at least 10
minutes before they are ready to
leave. She said the staff operates only
one car, and they might receive 10 to
15 calls within a few minutes.
She said APO urges all people on
campus not to walk alone after dark.
"1 know a lot of people know that
we're here but they think we're just
for girls, and we're not just for
girls," she said. "We are an
organization that serves anyone ?
faculty, staff, students at USC."
Although the escort service is the
group's largest project, Younts said
APO is involved in other activities as
well, including work with adult and
child care homes. This week, APO
will help with voter registration. '
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addictions ? gambling, homosex- j
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Teddy, we should go for more quali- c
ty control. I don't want kids taking
bad stuff." <
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A lack of role models, poor cam\
'r: locations and an intimidating
low black/white ratio are to blame
for the low black enrollment at
South Carolina universities, say
higher education officials.
The most recent census figures
indicate that 30.4 percent of the
state population is black, but in
many of the state's higher institutions,
the black enrollment percentage
does not exceed a single digit.
USC fares considerably better
than many other state campuses.
Of the 3,000 students in the fall
freshmen class, 13.6 percent are
black. At the Citadel in Charleston,
6 percent of the 651 freshmen that
started the fall semester are black
and at Clemson University, only
5.6 percent of the 2,886 students in
its freshmen class are black.
Two state colleges have a higher
percentage than USC. Of the 521
freshmen at Greenwood's Lander
College, 13.8 percent are black.
Winthrop College has the highest
percentage in the state ? 16.1 percent
of its 838 freshmen are black.
Twelve percent of the College of
Charleston's 1,103 freshmen are
black.
Statistics are similar at some of
the state's privately funded institutions.
At Furman University in
Greenville, for example, 4 percent
of its 665 freshmen are black. And
at Wofford College in Spartanburg,
blacks in the freshman class
equal only 7 percent of its 271
students.
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Today, Leary tours the college cir:uit
four months a year and owns a
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Cary Grant's mansion. "Life is
about experimenting it all and then
deciding what you like best," he said.
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recognizes there is a problem,
and funds have been issued to increase
the enrollment of black
students and to recruit more black
professors," CHE Commissioner
Fred Sheheen said.
He said the funds were approved
in July 1988 for use beginning July
1989.
It's hard to say why blacks don't
flock to predominately white campuses,
said Ralph Johnson, director
of USC's Minority Student Affairs
Office. But he said he thinks
some of the reasons include the
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valuable learning experience socially
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Also, many campuses are in
areas where there is not a large
black population, Johnson said,
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of blacks at area institutions, the
black students may feel
uncomfortable.
"The cause of the low black
population at many South Carolina
schools is the fact that many blacks
aon t want to attend a wnite
school," said Stephen Benjamin,
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entirely Soviet, all commmunications
such as menus, were written in
Russian only.
"It definitely made every meal a
surprise," Zeeman said.
Both of the men had unique experiences.
"I had never been on a
ship before," Hinckley said. "And I
picked a real doozy for the first one:
a 408-foot-long ship full of Soviets."
Zeeman said the high point of the
trip was seeing all the Soviet friends
he had made on the 1984 expedition.
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prefer to attend predominatly black
colleges, such as Benedict and
South Carolina State, said Randal
Jones, USC chapter vice president
of the NAACP.
At South Carolina State College,
preliminary data indicate there has
been a substantial increase in new
student enrollment this semester.
No statistics were available at press
time.
Some blacks might be able to get
more money if they go out of state
for their higher education, said
Tjuan Dogan, executive assistant to
the president of USC's Association
of Afro American Students.
There may be several reasons why
USC is able to obtain and retain its
black student population; Lisa
Mills, a graduate assistant in
Minority Students Affairs, said her
office's Minority Assistant Peer
Program, or MAP, is one reason.
Under the three-year program,
juniors and seniors are paired with
incoming freshmen to offer advice,
assist with social problems and help
the students adjust to campus life,
Mills said. Research is being done
to see how effective the MAP program
has been.
The office also sponsors a
Minority Student Awards Night,
she said. The program honors
minority students who have excelled
in academics and leadership.
USC fan, Zeeman and Hinckley said.
"A ship like this is a small city,"
Zeeman said. "It's impossible not to
make friends in such close quarters,
working with everyone."
"If every U.S. and Soviet citizen
went on a trip like this, we wouldn't
have any problems," Hinckley said.
"Everyone became such good
friends, because we were all literally
in the same boat on the same sea putting
up with the same food, working
10- to 18-hour days with no breaks
except for meals. I found out that no
matter where you're from, people are
all the same."
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