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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
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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.
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more minority professors,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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,