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Professor uses mold to liquefy coal A USC biology professor is using a common bread mold to liquefy coal and convert it to a safer-to-burn coal product. "Liquefying coal shows great promise in helping to clean up the environment and lowering the costs of mining coal," said Nawin Mishra, a professor in USC's biology department. Solid coal, when burned, creates sulfurous emissions that mix with rain drops in the atmosphere to form acid rain. Certain bacteria can remove sulfur from coal, but the bacteria can remove it more effectively when the coal is liquefied. Using a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, Mishra has identified at least one enzyme responsible for coal liquefication. That enzyme is found in a species of bread mold called neurospora. School of Medicine receives new fund The USC School of Medicine has been endowed with a new fund to be used for the study of chronic depression. The fund was set up by the family of Mark Steven Smith. Smith waged a 10-year battle against chronic depression, finally committing suicide in 1986. He had completed his studies at USC-Spartanburg when he died. USCS posthumously awarded Smith his degree in recognition of his outstanding academic record and as a tribute to his courage. Anyone willing to make a donation to the Mark Steven Smith fund should contact USC's development office. Scholor to speak on black religion Deotis Roberts, a noted black scholar, will deliver two lectures Thursday at USC. Roberts is a distinguished professor of philosophical theology at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia and has preached, lectured and. conducted research on six continents. The lectures, sponsored by USC's religious studies department, will take place at 4 p.m. in room 250 of Gambrell Hall and at 8 p.m. in Rutledge v^napei on i ne Horsesnoe. The afternoon talk is titled "Black Religion and Human Rights," and the evening lecture will be "Black Survival Institutions: Church, Family and College." College of Education to get new dean The College of Education at USC will have a new dean come July 1. Richard E. Ishler has been named to the position. He will succeed John King, who has been serving as interem dean since the retirement of John Mulhern in 1987. Ishler is nationally known for his work in teacher education and has been dean of the College of Education at Texas Technical University since 1983. USC Provost Arthur Smith praised Ishler's work. "Dr. Ishler has superb credentials as an administrator and in the important work of teacher training," he said. "His background, experience and expertise will be invaluable as the university's College of Education continues tp work with the state of South Carolina to improve our schools." Ishler earned his bachelor's degree in elementary education from Lock Haven State College in Pennsylvania and his master's and doctoral degrees from Pennsylvania State University. Department to honor former professor USC's biology department will honor the late James T. Penney, a former biology professor at USC, on March 29. Penney, who served the university from 1929-1964, will be remembered at the university in the form of the Coker Life Sciences building's reading room. Dpnartment faniItv will nffir-ioIK/ noma th? *> ? ? * ?**.?* viiiviuu; 111 v- Itauillg IUU111 <X I J p.111. Wednesday Frederick Harrison, chairman of the biology department at Western Carolina University and a former student of Penney's, will speak at the occasion. Former students, friends, family and emeriti faculty are invited to the ceremony. College Sophomores: 5_y^"A Looking for cy a career W J direction? ABUNDANT JOB MARKET ATTRACTIVE STARTING SALARIES ? 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"Get hold of your representative's arm and twist it as hard as you need to get support," said Howard Duvall, the association's director of intergovernmental relations. Duvall estimated the bill, if approved, could Visit Continued from page 1 bia Hall, Capstone and Sims. progress The new policy will also affect policy so sign-in and escort procedures. Under Trustees' i the policy, each visitor would be re- Some t quired to carry a "guest card" at all support times while in the buiiding. Suite- opposite-s style hall residents would be required the proces to get an approval form signed by be gradual roommates before having overnight Board guests. said, "I 1 Fair said he was happy with the study the i Africa Continued from pa? Carolina Research and Develope- "They : ment Foundation, invest money in slowly, an American companies doing business Gilbert sai in South Africa, Gilbert said. 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Gemini 1 Some of the funding sources could developed be state agencies, who would buy purchased i time on the computer; state funds; million, is O How We Need Yo Rewar fp Y THE UNl\ VOD For those students wl volunteer service, we General Motors and ( your campus "GM Sp of student volunteers will be named as "G1 3 shares of A mounted A special oi Campus an If you, or someone y be considered for the VOLUNTEER S RUSSEL1 PHONE (803) illow 6 percei generate $280 million for city and county 1 governments. I Sheheen, D-Camden, was primary sponsor of a r similar bill that passed the House but got stuck in r the Senate last year, in part because city and county representatives could not agree on how to distribute sales tax revenue. > Thf hill's simnnrtprc arc 11 en. ceed this time because the Municipal Association and the S.C. Association of Counties are joining to lobby for the bill. Voters would have the final say on adopting the tax for their counties if the legislature passes the bill. Separate referendums would be held in each of the 46 counties on the same day, but each county would vote whether to increase the sales tax by a penny on the dollar only in that county. Assuming all 46 counties adopt the tax increase, half of the $280 million generated would be used to lower property taxes, while the other $140 million made on the visitation We also have to keep in mil far and the Board of students came here with esponse to the proposal. about what the lifestyles a >oard members said they like. Their positions s Fair's ideas about no respected." ex visitation, but believe Board Chairman Micha ;s of eliminating it should said he had three suggestioi 1. _ sideration by the adminis member James Bradley they continue to Teviev lope we will continue to which impact students' lift tnatter with an open mind. No overnight visitati \e 1 say they're fully divesting NAACP last semester, a d we hope that they are," dance for some of those me d. 50 or more. Those meetings were "ormation was obtained Horseshoe, in the heart of secretary of State's office pus, and this one was on :he USC organizations Street, release it directly to the "Publicity wasn't quite bert said. sive on this as it has been iance worked with the meetings," group member isting resources; federal developing the software, 1 * J , _ - . A iu private uonauons, ?aiu. aid. "Each new application artnership would benefit new software, whereas with olina by giving the state the technology is readily av is a high-tech, forward- Because USC already u :te," he said. mainframes, all of its softw be converted to work with :hnology behind USC's computer, he said, but a 000, a supercomputer software to the Gemini coul by Perceptics Corp. and to a year, in December 1987 for $3.3 The two supercomputei so new that USC is still complement each other, - - ?; ? I O type blood is rare j and special. 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Car taxes would be reduced in proportion to the other property taxes. The bill also would set up a fund paid for by wealthier cities to guarantee that all ritifs anrl tnu/nc xvr?nIH opt ot lfact S million in sales taxes, regardless of how much they raised. The fund would be used to make up the difference in what the city raised in sales taxes and $1.5 million. The bill has a good chance of passing this year, predicts Rock Hill Mayor Betty Jo Rhea, president of the Municipal Association. "I think it's a real milestone that we got with the counties," she said, adding that "that we need to work together to get alternative sources of revenue." This is the third straight year the association has pushed for the local-option sales tax. ap-cf-03-23-89 153 lest id that the incoming freshmen, i an idea A parent notification process t USC are where students' parents would be hould be notified that their daughter lives in a dorm that allows overnight visitael Mungo tion. Some type of form would be is for con- signed by the parents acknowledging tration as the arrangement. i policies Adoption of severe penalties :styles. for drug possession in the residence on for all halls. nd atten- tison said. etingswas Gilbert was interviewed about the vigil by local radio stations WUSC on The and WWDM. ' the cam- The vigil concluded with the recitaAssembly tion of the poem "Sharpeville" by Klaus Maphepha and a prayer by as exten- Gilbert asking for USC "to divest for other and make this truly a kinder, gentler Kim Mat- nation." Solomon said, because the Gemini is suited more toward physics problems, recquires whereas the IBM could be more the IBM suited for problems such as ailable." chemistry. ises IBM When the Gemini is fully operaare could tional, it will be more powerful than the new a comparable IBM computer. In the onverting meantime, USC needs both kinds of d take up technology, Solomon said. "We're working with two different s would timeframes: the present and the Solomon future." jjtfttWM*?**;; ? 8/, iit' J' -ft .f'-.r Si Mi t'v' gj American Red Cross SC Regional Blood Services ?1988 I ^ROLINA I RICE I nd/or community e associated with reward the spirit rom your campus eceive: Class E) tion fl ;m (or yourself) to lication form now 5S CENTER ;5128 I 31, 1989