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Founded 1908 Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Wednesday
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Volume 82, No. 28 University of South Carolina October 25, 1989
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By ROBYN THOMPSON
Assistant Copy Desk Chief
AIDS has had an effect on many people's lives. In
one case, the disease has helped a USC graduate student
win a national award for his poem dealing with
his feelings about working with people who have
AIDS.
Daryl Lofdahl, an Elizabethan Literature graduate
student, won a $1,000 prize for his poem, "Distances,"
in a contest sponsored by the American Poetry Association.
The poem will be published in Best New
Poets of 1989 coming out in March 1990.
Lofdahl wrote the poem during his undergraduate
career at Winthrop College, where he won the President's
Prize for Poetry for four consecutive years. The
poem came from his work with Metrolina AIDS Project
in Charlotte, he said. "Distances" is part of a series
of poems on this subject
"It was real emotional getting involved with these
people. It was a difficult time and it came out as
poetry," he said.
He got involved in the competition with a friend
and fellow graduate student, Duna Miller, who won an
honorable mention in the contest
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Lofdahl said he chose "Distances" because there
was a 20-line limit and it was the only thing he had.
The Metrolina AIDS project worked to get patients
in touch with the right social service agency that
could help them. They set up a buddy system for the
people with AIDS. The patient "deals with one person
until they die. The sicker they got, the more help they
needed." .
The organization trained the buddies, staffed a hot
line and tried to get information about AIDS to the
public.
Lofdahl worked with the organization from 1985 to
1987. "When I started working there, there were six
people and four clients. Now there are 400 clients,
300 volunteers and eight staff members. It is one of
the best organizations dealing with people with AIDS
in the .South."
He worked with the executive committee, which
looked for funding and set up bylaws so they could be
declared a non-profit organization. They put out "Safe
Sex Cards," telling which activities were safe and
which were not.
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\M Z, /: By THERESA STAROPOLI
Staff Writer
^he **cer Conduct Board, whi
housing violations, plans to expand
campus and let students know tl
treated fairly during university proce
versity officials said.
The PCB currently consists of
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mg dent then has the choice of the case
in front of an administator or by a j
i | peers, the PCB.
jL K'f j The board plans to publicize its<
ii by letting students know they car
hearing from a group of their peers i
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* i The state Department of Educa^
M lion will recommend shortening
jm the 180-day school year by five
V days to help districts hit hard by
k 1 Hurricane Hugo, state education
Superintendent Charlie G. Wil H|
liams said Tuesday.
Under the recommendation, all
schools that closed for more than
five days because of the Sept. 21
storm could shorten their school
calenders to 175 days, Williams
IP* told the state Budget and Control
Board.
Hp Districts that lost additional days
would have to be make up that
in cm/the gamecock jjmc by shortening vacations, elicit
House Patio minaling teacher work days,
lengthening the school year or increasing
the school day.
Schools unaffected by Hugo
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By AMY BAR
Staff Writer
The Beach
have each don
South Carolina
after their rece
Carolina Colise
The bands p
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mm concert, said C
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Theodore.
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Green said. Th<
checks to Thee
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1 media people
said.
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helping and ap
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e being sentenced to Green said.
Omega sorority. "Band mcml
how much dai
ird for poem
"I really got annoyed with wha
could and couldn't be talked about
and it came out as poetry."
Daryl Lofdai
Sen. Jesse Helms (R?N.C.) tried to cut their fund
ing because he said they were trying to send porno
graphy through the mail, Lofdahl said. "I really gc
annoyed with what could and couldn't be talked ab
out, and it came out as poetry," he said, adding tlia
the poem is about not communicating.
Lofdahl has taken as many classes with Jame
Dickey, USC poet in residence, as possible. Dicke;
has been supportive of his work, he said, whici
"means a lot because he is James Dickey." Takinj
classes with Dickey is scary, he said, berause he L
such a respected poet, but "if he sees that you'n
working, he'll go out of his way to talk to you an<
help you."
duct Board pk
udents about 1
The group was formed because studei
the administration wouldn't see their side
ch handles story in a violation case, Kris Rollin, 1
[ its role on senior and three-year member, said,
hey can be Last year the board heard about 10 cas
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This year they have heard only one.
10 students "I'm excited about the group's endeav
ig violations this year," Debbie Ritter, assistant dire*
adviser re- Resident Student Conduct, said. The
uest that the plans to publish pamphlets, create a pos
zc. The stu- ries and has plans for the next Carolina P
being heard Week to inform students of the board
group of his goals.
According to Ritter, the board plans t<
ilf this year problems before they start and encoura
1 get a fair dents to get help before they are in troubl
if needed. The PCB is looking to expand from II
:ut school year in
must hold classes for 180 days, he Williams a
added. Campbell have
The proposal, which Williams cation Sccretar
said appears to be the consensus of to ask that such
the state's superintendents, must be included in the
approved by the state Board ofSouth Carolint
Education and the General As- for damage to i
scmbly. Approval, if it comes, is federal governr
not expected for several months remainder,
because the General Assembly
does not reconvene until Jaunuary. In other bi
Meanwhile, Williams told the
board, it will cost an estimated
$55.1 million, instead of the $85 -w-jf
million first projected, to repair JH OJ*
schools damaged during the
hurricane.
All public school students re- In Monda;
turned to class by Oct. 20, al- was incorrecl
though many classes are still being thryn Gilbert
held in temporary quarters such as dent. The Ga
churches and portable classrooms.
nds donate
ief money
COMB did in South Carolina and they
wanted to help," said Jack SwerBoys
and Chicago ling, attorney for C & C Entertainated
$10,000 to the mcnt of Camden, the concert
Hugo Relief Fund promoters.
;nt performances at Theodore met with and talked to
urn. the bands during the intermission
resented the checks of their concert and was very im-1
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n of their Oct. 13 This is just one more caring act
Jloria Green, assis- The bands had no ties to Columbia
ress secretary for or South Carolina other than it being
a tour stop, she added.
teach Boys nor Chiblicity
for their act, 'This donation shows that peojy
asked to give the pic across the nation are aware of
xiore during the in- the plight of South Carolina areas
none of their own that suffered from Hurricane Hugo,
were present, she This is a very generous gesture on
the part of the Beach Boys and
felt strongly about Chicago," Theodore said,
proached their coni
before the show, The money will go to the S.C.
Hugo Relief Fund to help some of
Dcrs were aware of the areas that were hit really hard,
nage the hurricane Green said.
about AIDS
Besides Dickey, Lofdahl said he learns a lot from
t his fellow graduates students. He also enjoys teaching
his English 101 students. All his work, however,
' means he has little time for writing and must do it late
at night.
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Lofdahl is using his prize money to go to France
this summer with a former teacher. He said he will
it use that time to see if he will pursue writing as a ca
rcer. But right now, he is just worried about getting
it out of school.
He has considered being a teacher. "You don't
s make money as a poet, but creative writing teachers
y do," he said,
h
g If he could teach his students about people with
s AIDS, he said, then they "need to remember that
? they're people and they're sick." What he has learned
i from his work with AIDS is "not to waste any time.
People my age really do die."
ins to expand,
?air treatment
nts felt members this year. The board is looking for re:
of the sponsible, dependable students who maintain at
)iology least a 2.5 GPA, are on-campus housing residents
and are at least second semester freshmen.
;es that "Board members must have good judgment
; facts, and must believe in the university's policies and
discipline," Rollin said
ors for
ctor of Applicants must be nominated by a PCB
board member, resident adviser, residence hall direc;ter
se- tor or resident life coordinator. There are never
review
and its more than three RAs on the board at one time,
and all majors are invited.
3 "spot "It's a good way to meet new people, show
ge stu- leadership and understand the judical system,"
e." Andy Jones, graduate student and PCB adviser,
3 to 15 said
Hugo-hit districts
nd Gov. Carroll Budget and Control Board:
written U.S. Edu- ?Adopted a form that state
y Lauro F. Cavazos agencies must use to report their
i repair expenses be lobbying activities at the State
\ $8.5 million limit House. The General Assembly last
i will have to pay year closed the loophole allowing
Miblic facilities. The state employees to avoid reporting
nent would pay the such expenses. Lobbyists representing
private concerns already
are required to register and report
isiness, the state expenses.
The Record
y's issue of The Gamecock, Campus Rape Awarness
tly referred to as the Rape Awareness Group. Also, Ka:
is the group's co-chairperson, not its pro-chair presimecock
regrets the errors.