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,^%x Mississippi Burning avoids ^11 a p ll il 1 1 ". . . we consider The (JSC to be one the obvious to be one of -Both hoop teams tall this weekend Jf the best movies of the m Dean year. See Features, page 3 ^ee Sports, Pa8e 5 See ''Random Patterns," page 3 The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Monday Volume 81, No. 57 University of South Carolina January 30, 1989 Annual meeting held College pres discuss state By D. R. HAYNES Through Staff writer Cross fo More effective teaching and fun- tent ani ding for higher education were the teachers, primary topics for the annual tend to c meeting of the South Carolina There Association of Colleges and Univer- with tea sities held on campus this weekend. promotit The meeting is designed to let col- external lege presidents or their represen- an intern tatives exchange ideas or discuss from the issues dealing with higher education. is a rewa This year's theme was "Higher The se Education Into the Next Century" opened v and featured three speakers who ad- of the A dressed the topic. tion. Du President-elect K. Patricia Cross with AC of the American Association of with pi Higher Education spoke Friday educatio afternoon to a capacity crowd in the lege com Gambrell auditorium to kick off the Atwell event. Cross, presently a University the govei of California-Berkley professor of cial aid. education, gave a speech she called about w "Teaching To Improve Learning." from the In her 50-minute talk, Cross said phasis 01 naivete was a problem in the outs and classroom. Professors assume primary students learn, and then they are Reagai curious as to why students don't wants to learn, Cross said. president "Teaching is a profession," said presideni the former Harvard Graduate School having of Education faculty member, so The pop "teachers need to know how to the num teach." Professors need to be experts has beer in teaching, Cross said. ing, Atw Having distinguished herself as a research scientist, Cross introduced Refon some classroom research that has cial Aid proven to be very effective. The because "minute papers" has the instructor complex receiving feedback by asking students the risinj to list the two most important things Speak they learned. Another method re- Represe quired students to critique each Sheheen other's writings. and edu "Teachers can and do respond to pact mei student evaluations," Cross said. for state Conferem 3 of every 1, have AIDS, By DANNY MITCHUM Staff writer The Second Annual Conference on AIDS offered college students and faculty from North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia a more personal, concrete look at the disease as well as giving the latest facts and figures, a coordinator said. Lisa Zucker, co-coordinator of the conference held Friday through out Russell House, said the purpose of the conference was to go beyond abstract numbers and figures to offer those attending a better look at how the disease affects individuals. "One of the goals of the conference is to try to add the human side of the epidemic AIDS," she said. To that end, the conference started off with the unfolding of a giant memorial quilt com.1 , r 1 ~ C ?1 A memoraung me unsuccessiui struggles ui ot AIDS victims. Each 3-by-6 foot panel of the quilt illustrates the name and often the face of an AIDS victim, along with notes from family and friends. In the final seminar of the day, three people who have been affected by Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome shared their experiences and answered questions. "I have been infected with the virus," said Bill, a 27-year-old junior from the College of Charleston. He showed no visible signs of the illness, even though he has been infected for about six years. Bill contracted the disease from his lover, who died in 1984. Bill said one way he copes with the illness is to High SAT sc By ERIC KENNETH WARD Staff writer The Scholastic Aptitude Test no longer car weight it once did in determining admission to I administrator said. Carolina's SAT average, at 975 for 1988 fall fr< was higher than South Carolina and national a' but less important for admission than in past yet missions Director Deborah Haynes said. She said USC currently seeks a 900 SAT minin admission, but the number is more flexible than pi minimum required scores. The minimum possit score is 400, and the maximum 1600. funding WL IIW i ^ exhaustive research, are some rewards that come ? merican Council on Educaniinistration.^Em ^ . ?i?i Aj *.\ ? r . ciauuiaieu un me rssue ui more minority professors, ulation has been rising, but H ber of minority professors 1 disproportionately declined said. ms in Federal Student Finan! are needed, At well said, the process is presently too and not proportionate with g cost students encounter. er of the S.C. House of DrUlfimer I natives Rep. Robert J. spoke about state funding Sophomore mus cation. An educational im- drum set at the Bai itioned was the competition a professor last we dollars. ce provide 000 students study shows continue making plans for the future. "AIDS has done something positive for me. j It has made me acutely aware of death, making every minute of my life precious to me. I try to make every minute of my life count," he said. On the way to the conference he heard Bette Midler's hit song "The Rose," which he said summed up his current perspective: "It's the ! heart afraid ot dying that never learns to live. Zucker said the purpose of the final seminar was to further personalize the AIDS tragedy. t "Hearing from a person who has AIDS makes the rest of the information of the day seem real," she said. There were, of course, plenty of facts and figures. Donna Richter of the USC college of health said many students still have some misinformation about AIDS. "Many students appear to believe that contact which spreads most common infections also spreads the HIV virus. Of course, this is not true," she said. "AIDS is very hard to get. We are very fortunate that the HIV virus is very fragile. We know that there is less to fear than we originally thought." HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus and is what actually causes AIDS. Francisco Sy, an associate professor of epidemiology at USC, warned that students who practice risky behavior can get AIDS. He said abstinence is the best way to avoid the disease. Monogomous relationships are the next best :ore not as im In 1980, USC abandoned the strict Si ment in favor of a sliding scale method i ries the sion, she said. JSC, an In a sliding scale system, additional fa in consideration for admission. ;shmen, "We do not have a minimum (SAT) c verages, base admission on a combination of hi; irs, Ad- class rank and test scores. The SAT hi weight," Haynes said. "It's now one f lum for used to be the only factor." eceding If an applicant has an SAT score be >le SAT but has grades higher than required, or \ be admitted, she said. Ufirn. *' %P' jf i f | II M i ! ijJBkB II II TRACY MIXSON/The C )oy lie performance major Andy Hubbard practices id Hall. Hubbard was preparing for a private lesso ek. s 'human .......... ' fl Hk *** ?? r^,. liij^! -*** Br ^^^ffUliliiii -^SL "* -gj Students examine the memorial AIDS Quilt whic as part of the second annual AIDS conference Fri way, with the use of condoms being the third most effective way to combat AIDS, he said. Sy said as of right now, there are no confirmed cases of the disease at USC. But he pointed out that there may be AIDS carriers who have not been detected, either because they are afraid to come forward or because they don't know they have the disease. He said a person can contract the disease, yet not show any signs of having it for up to 10 years. He said a recent preliminary study of iportant in d< \T score require- Haynes said basing admiss n deciding admis- alone is an ineffective appro "I don't think by itself it i ctors are weighed conjunction with everything good idea of a student's char ut-off because we The sliding scale admissii gh school grades, balance with SAT scores cc sre has decreased class rank combined countir actor of many. It Haynes said research shov performance is the best pr< low requirement, performance, dce-versa, he may "Most research shows the you can do is what you hav( Bill woi students fnr firiQi | By JEFF WILSON Staff writer \ Students may have to join the military or do volunteer work in r ^ order to receive federal aid if a new bill introduced to Congress by Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., and Rep. Dave McCurdy, D-Okla., becomes law. Congress is expected to vote on the bill by early 1990. If it passes, the bill would phase out all federal aid programs within five years, replacing them with programs in which I students have to perform some kind of national service such as working in a nursing home or hospital or serving in a combat branch of the military in return for aid. At USC more than $51 million in financial aid is given to more than 11,000 students. This constitutes about 45 percent of the student body k population and includes loans, campus jobs, scholarships and grants, said John Bannister, financial aid Of the $51 million awarded in financial aid, $30 million is federal money, and 6,500 students at USC receive some kind of federal assistance, Bannister said. Bannister said, however, the bill probably would not be approved by the House or Senate. The plan, if approved, would give students who served in the military a || $25,000 grant at the end of their service. Students who worked civilian iamecock wouJcJ get a $10,000 grant. Rep. McCurdy said if the bill was approved, it would help reinvigorate on his citizenship and enforce the notion n with ^at democracy is not free. But Student Government President side' of A IMHi - - _ ' ~=* CHAM TVCKER/The Gamecock h was brought to USC's Russell House Ballroom iday. other college campuses suggests three of every 1,000 students have the HIV virus. "I would advise sexually active students to be tested. But before they get tested they should go to counseling because they may not be able to handle a positive test result," he said. "The outlook," Sy said, "is that the epidemic will get worse in the next few years." Students can be tested for the HIV virus at the Thomson Student Health Center. ;termining ad ion to college on SAT scores There are limita ach. Some students n s an effective tool. I think in have difficulty tak else it can give us a pretty Cultural biases ice at success here," she said, in measuring a stui ons method strikes a 50/50 said. "There are sc ?unting half and grades and ty students would ig the other half, she said. A third limitati vs a student's past record of students with lean :dictor of his or her future she said. Despite its limil most valid predictor of what standardized indie ; done," she said. she said. ild have i serve iicial aid "It is preposterous for anyone to be denied the right to an education, and if this bill passes, that is what would happen." James Franklin Student Government president James Franklin said the bill was not a good idea. "1 think it is preposterous for anyone to be denied the right to an education, and if this bill passes, that is what would happen," he said. He said the bill would cause problems for S.C. students because many of them come from lowincome families and rely heavily on state and federal aid. "With tuitions on the rise, it is becoming more and more difficult for students of low-income families to attend a school of the caliber and magnitude as USC," Franklin said. He said' people need to start writing letters and making phone calls to their senators and represen tatives to insure that teaeral financial aid will be available to future students who will need it. "The thought of such a bill, as the one proposed by Sen. Nunn and Rep. McCurdy concerns me not only as a student, but also as student body president, and I am committed to seeing that financial aid for students is not jeopardized," Franklin said. JDS AIDS quilt makes trip to campus By DANNY MITCHUM Staff writer The unfolding began at 9 a.m. Friday. With each tug on the quilt, a new name covered the Russell House Ballroom floor. The names of 64 people ? AIDS victims ? were soon revealed. Touted as part of the world's largest community arts project, the quilt gave faces and names to the numbers. The quilt panels, brought to USC o c norf f tVio QooAnH Annual A I wo yavv \Ji iiiv uvvvjiiu / "niuui ' xiivu Conference, made up only a small portion of the entire Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. But it was enough. Each 3-by-6 foot patch of material offered the viewer a moment to reflect upon the personal tragedy of AIDS. The burlap, the silk, the plastic, the leather, the pieces of attached memorabilia, reminded those viewing that AIDS kills individuals. Upon the panels could be read the simple, yet poignant phrasings of mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters and friends and lovers, as they expressed their love and fond remembrance toward those represented there. The names of Rock Hudson and Liberace were not to be found. Their panels are on display elsewhere. No celebrities here, just common folk. [mission tions to the SAT, Haynes said, nay perform well in the classroom, but ing standardized tests, she said, may also limit the SAT's effectiveness dent's ability to perform in college, she >me groups who would say that minorinot do well on the SAT." on to the SAT is the difficulty that ling disabilities face in taking the test, tations however, the SAT is the only ation of students' potential for college,