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Drug wa By WENDY PELOSI Staff Writer While many Americans celebrate cookouts and picnics, six USC grad their Labor Day being evacuated Cali in South America as bombs e violence erupted caused by the arres nf Hnicr ruTtf*.! leaders The students, all members of the national Business Studies program, companies in South America. Two students were with Colgateone was with Wella in Bogota and I with Carbocol in Bogota. Chris Malich, who was intemir business trip to Bogota during his America. While he was at the airpo Americans leaving Bogota." Marnie Moore, who was in Cai seven bombs set off recently. Program < global ec< By JEFF WILSON Assistant News Editor The United States has been feeling the effects of the lack of emphasis on international economics at the collegiate level, according to economic experts. "We are feeling the increasing effects of the lack of an understanding of global economics. And in the years to come, it will be an even bigger problem. Other countries are catching up and even surpassing the U.S. because of their committment to global economics studying," Robert Lawrence, senior fellow for the Brooking Institution, said. USC's Master of International Business Studies (MIBS) program has built a solid reputation in the area of global economics, Jeffrey Arpan, director of international business programs, said. "MIBS is the only business program in the United States that requires all students to intern in a foreign country for six months and to learn a foreign language," he said. "We (the U.S.) no longer operate in a domestic market. Understanding international economics, languages and customs is going to be highly crucial to the United States' competitiveness," Lawrence said. "A lot had to be done with MIBS students before they go on the internships. They needed business, language, culture, and geographic courses. We had to design a radically different type of curriculum. And I think this is what has prevented most business schools from establishing a similar program," Arpan said. Other business schools have tried to work within the confines of a two-year MBA program, he said. "And it's really not possible to do it that way. You have to do everything much more intensively. Not just the language instructions, but the business instructions and the area studies instructions, in order to have it all fit within a twoyear program," he said. MIBS was ranked as the number O How We Need You! O type blood is rare and special. GIVE BLOOD, PLEASE! + . American Red Cross SC Regional Blood Services I I BRING YOUR DEGREE TO BB&T AND BUILD A CAREER YOU CAN BANK ON. ^ ir _ A- DI contact lour career rmiming And Placement Center For Interview Times BB&T It's M re limn A li'ink. It's An .Attitude ir affects ? Moore said there they were there. Mo d Labor Day with lin, she said, uate students spent In order to avoid from Bogota and was in Medellin, tf xploded and other The police would st< :ts and extraditions to be sure you wei Moore said. > Masters of Inter- 'The bars were al were interning for liked to hang out at As part of the M -Palmolive in Cali, sent to Medellin to hree students were to their various cour dents were sent to ig in Cali, took a cause the university last week in South enough, Moore said, it, he saw "tons of Malich said he lc JACKETS CAPS "Anything Textih 79d I "HoWa COLIJ Homecoming $51 Plus 7% sa roorr complir breakfast I For reserv 803-79 Request Horn< 630 Assembly Street, IVJllllV^U coil li, said there were sinesses had people robbed. Malich said :overs gnomics "We are feeling the increasing effects of the lack of an understanding of global economics. And in the years to come, it will be an even bigger problem." Robert Lawrence Senior fellow for the Brooking Institution one graduate level international business program in a study published in the Spring 1989 issue of the Journal of International Business Studies. In two previous surveys, MIBS was listed as one of the top two graduate-level international business programs in the United States by members of the Academy of International Business. Another factor which sets USC's MIBS Droeram apart from others is that in the Japanese, Arabic and Korean specializations, students spend 18 months abroad. They spend six months on internships and the remaining time studying the language and culture. No other U.S. business school has such an extensive overseas requirement in the Far East and Middle East, Arpan said. "USC has a very pragmatic program. And the business community, including the 'Fortune 500' companies, has responded very favorably," he said. 'They not only participate in the internship program, but they also hire MIBS graduates. They have had the chance to test them in action and see what they can do, because our people have been internationally tested," Arpan said. The MIBS program is not for , everyone. It is highly specialized and intense, Arpan said. "But the people that survive the program are ready for anything the world has to throw at diem," he said. II graduate stuc were no problems in Cali while but he did "hear st of the problems were in Medel- According to stant contact wii as much violence in Cali as there best to evacuate lere was a tightening of security, order to avoid an Dp your car and check your papers The university e not one of the people wanted, last Thursday wl Colgate-Palmolh [so closed up because drug dealers the discos," Moore said. At that time, t IBS program, students have been togs to all Ame learn Spanish before they are sent America, ltries. This is the first year the stu- Since the stui Costa Rica to learn Spanish be- Embassy has alsi / did not feel Medellin was safe Michelle Lam Bogota, said she wed Cali. He did see several uni- However, she s ying guns. Many stores and bu- American Emba: with guns so they would not be Lambert said he did not feel threatened in Cali, her office. She s ' J ~i, -: ^H ,JK Putting it in writing Hotel, restaurant and tourism sophomore T sophomore Karen Eide fill out visitation survey to see what action students want to take against Enrollment Continu sociation of Afro-American Stu- with Clemson' dents and many others at Carolina He said the Tipoff," Johnson said. program is a Other state schools have also es- where the top tablished new programs that con- in each South tributed to the increase in black school is offei enrollment larship. If the Of the 2,899 students in Clem- not black, the son's freshmen class, Til (9.5 per- student is o cent) are black. That is an increase scholarship, of 3.9 percent. Of the 227 Mike Heintze, director of admis- men class at sion at Clemson, said the newly Clemson Scho established Clemson Scholars Winthrop C program had a great deal to do ond highest 1 Insurance Continued fr< tion. Several unidentified state Others, lil employees have expressed suspi- Pritchett of U! cions that the state government ae- mess Adminis tually took the money from the old no deceitful < Insurance Reserve Fund, and used ance ProSramthe money to fund other things. "It was mor e? L-5638 ...justa< ? 718 Sc ij^vxjfv. ! >EUM ' Weekend Package .00 'li les tax per -i i?' i with I mentary Duffet for 2. ^ ations call GRE 9-7800 poplai ecoming Rate single Columbia, SC 29201 mm II ^^^^^=====^=1 hW-l-UJrW lents in Soul gunshots through the streets." security Virginia Holcomb, who kept in con- the time th the students, the university felt it the students from South America in On ^ ly possible danger to them. seemed r's decision proved to be a wise one seemed lien a bomb had to be deactivated at state ?' in Cali, Holcomb said. Lam he state department was issuing warn- 21X1 deans advising them to leave South . a ,7 time. dents have been evacuated, the U.S. Th,-e o been bombed, Holcomb said. col in tbert, who was working for Wella in drug c ; did not feel as if she was in danger. buildin said she lived 25 meters from the legedl) ssy. Lam there were police with guns outside and B >aid there was a noticeable step-up in None < IStiili * - iM t p j* jfJB ->M m joBl >f? *3 il^fe ara Banks, broadcast sophomore Kelly Partyl s on the second floor of the Russell House Tues : the visitation policy. ed from page 1 s increase. centage of the schools Clemson's Scholars About 17 percent of the scholarship program 964 freshmen this fall s -ranked rising senior This is a 1.1 percent inert Carolina public high At Wofford, 11 perce ed a four-year scho- 280 freshmen were bh top-ranked student is past year, blacks made highest ranked black cent of Wofford's freshr ffered a four-vear This is a 4 percent inc AT FOR GUEST BED ^ si VACATION HOMES 8HT * HARDWOOD BOUNG FRAME: 100 $119.00, DOUBLE $149.00 100 largest increase of an blacks in the fresh- surveyed. Clemson, 98 were The Citadel experience lars, Heintze said. cent increase over this College had the sec- Of its 533 freshmen, 51 ( )lack freshmen per- are black. om page 1 ce Professor S. T. free loan, and most of it SC's College of Bus- paid back," Pritchett said tration, said there are plan had to change becau tctions in the insur- policy was losing about! lion a month, he said. e or less an interest- The new policy is nc ?J I pmrm Come By Our New Location 136 State Street, West Columbia :ross Gervais St. Bridge, 5 min. from (ISC intee Avenue 252-4656 vn it Y P PEVINE ST. J?1 >NS CONVERT FROM \\T n <;ofa in SECONDS A^y th America and police between the time they arrived and : they evacuated. lug. 10, when Galan was killed, the whole city to be in mourning. Lambert said everything to stop, and then security increases began. A seige was imposed in Bogota, Moore said. bert said she did not see violence or anyone beested. She said, "to really see anything it would latter of being at the wrong place at the wrong :e or the students who were working tor CarboBogota did see a little action. A member of the artel, who worked on the same floor in the ig as the students, was arrested and was al' extradited to the U.S., Lambert said, bert, Malich and Moore all said they loved Cali ogota. They said they were beautiful cities. }f them felt threatened at the time. A JULIE BOUCHILLONIThe Gamecock lea and international relations day. The surveys are intended surveyed. But not every school saw black 5 school's enrollment increase, ire black. Lander College and the College jase. of Charleston experienced deKit of the creases in the percent of black stuick. This dents in their freshman classes, up 7 per- This past fall, blacks accounted nen class, for 13.7 percent of Lander's freshrease, the man class. This fall, Lander has y school 9.4 percent black freshmen. d a 1 per- At the College of Charleston, 5 past year, percent of the 1,260 freshmen 7 percent) were black. This is a decrease of 7 percent from this past year. has been among most state employees, 1. The old Vicki Scott of the South Carolina se the old Department of Corrections, said. S100 mil- Many people will miss the prescription drug cards they had in it popular their old policies, Scott said. "SPECIfiL DISCOUNTS" For Fraternities & Sororities Wholesale ? 1 OPEN Mon - Sat 10-7 t ^ Crffli ifr*il J J ZJ _> J ve Cifestuie {urnisftinas 3 /-x i " ''^1^\ Jjj^'' ?- ^Ji^2=l? HICK FIJTONS IN 100% COTTON: % COTTON TRIFOLD - SINGLE $74.00 % COTTON TRIFOLD - DOUBLE $99.00 i?? isuJ