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USC Briefs Lecture to highlight history of quarantines Christine Voelker, a Clemson University professor, will discuss th< history and architecture of quarantine stations in Europe and the Unite* States Jan. 26 at 8 p.m. The free public lecture will be held in Room 203 of Sloan College. Governments have long protected their citizens from disease an* plagues by quarantining newcomers, Voelker said. While Ellis Island ii New York, with its popular Statue of Liberty, is a world-famous quar antine station, other buildings also have an intriguing internationa history. "As early as 1374, quarantine stations were located at port citie along the Adriatic Sea and along the Mediterranean coast," Voelke said. "By the time Christopher Columbus came around in the 1400s almost every major port had a maritime quarantine." Voelker and her students have traveled to Europe to examine thi archaelogical ruins of these stations, which were used to treat sick peo pie before they spread diseases in their new homelands. Similar stations existed in colonial America, with structures buil along the Atlantic coast, including Georgetown, Beaufort and Charles ton. Ellis Island did not become a major station until 1892. Voelker's presentation is part of a series of lectures sponsored by thi art history division of USC's art department. College of Education offers scholarships The USC College of Education offers awards and scholarship: ranging from $200 to $3,500 for undergraduate and graduate students The deadline is Feb. 9 to submit application forms and supply tw< letters of recommendation from appropriate faculty or persons who cai attest to the applicant's professional abilities and professional strengths Awards for the Fall 1990 semester will be announced at the US( and College of Education Awards Day ceremonies in April. For more information, call the USC College of Education office o student services at 777-6732. USC professor named United Nations Fellow Roger Coate, an associate professor of government and internaiona studies at USC, has been named a United Nations Fellow by th< Academic Council on the U. N. System. He is spending the spring semester in Geneva, Switzerland, as < scholar-in-residence, conducting research and analysis of operations ii the office of the U. N. Secretary-General. USC is a charter member of the Academic Council, an internationa organization founded in 1987 to support research on problems of inter national cooperation and the role of international institutions. Coate and Donald Puchala, director of USC'S Institute of Interna tional Studies, were commissioned to write the keynote report for th< council's annual conference in 1989. Titled "The Challenge of Rele vance: The United Nations in a Changing World Environment," th< report anticipated many of the events in Eastern Europe, and examinee the implications for the United Naitons. The report will be published in book form later this year with helj from a Ford Foundation grant Call The Gamecock at 777-7726 L I IIHIIIIIIIIIllHIIIMIMHIIiHIIIIMll III I 111 WIHMIIMH?I I at Planned Parenthood we take you personally Our focus is on YOU Professional, Confidential Feminine Healthcare |pj Planned Parenthood" 256-4908 SENIORS NOT SURE WHAT YOU WANT TO DO WHEN YOU GRADUATE? 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Money to establish the facility came : s multimillion-dollar, out-of-court settlem r June 1988 of a lawsuit by 344 people ; Sangamo-Weston Co. The original su filed in 1984 by McCullough. e The Medical University of South G had agreed to operate the clinic using tl vices of a Pickens physician. But the 198 1 tup date was missed when the plaintif university couldn't agree on a physician. MUSC later dropped its agreement to ( 5 the clinic. "Our people were interested in doing cause there have been few such epidemio ' Parking Continued fi 1 Baker said the volume of tickets am 2 is down with the patrolmen who sai< are using the computers, but the f efficiency of the system makes up for it tim "We don't have quotas, so the eve Campus crii i 1 the pizza man or leave the window atta open for your boyfriend to crawl a p 1 through at home, yet it happens do< routinely in the dorms," Sherrill ma said. ( Just such an incident sparked the Co ; current move to force colleges to ger confess that crimes happpen on dea ; campuses. knc j In 1985, Lehigh University eve freshman Jeanne Clery was brut- wei j ally beaten, raped and murdered in of-i her Pennsylvania dorm room. Her Environmer If the temperatures are increasing, then the consequences we face all} I are especially grave. We will see ing more droughts inland and a rise in ( sea level, which will flood the ran coast, a rise in ocean temperatures clu will cause more intense storms, so ' stronger hurricanes could be in our dio future, Lincoln said. ter I CANN March 10-13 Spring Break INCLUDES: Airfare, Hotel At CALL NOW spaci H (4-day pai Oand^ Service> j R E S E R V V ON still wait for T studies," MUSC Assistant President Steve Joni if after said. "We were very near an agreement wh< e than negotiations broke down last summer. PCBs "F?r w^t they were trying to accomplish, i health, indications were that (enough) money was n n. there to do all they wanted to do," Jones said, ling to The Sangamo plant in Pickens County us< }f Lib- polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, to mal s been electrical components and dumped contam le test, nated waste into area landfills and a tributary Twelve Mile River until the chemicals we from a banned by Congress in 1977. tent in naiuuiid aaiu uiniAJii^ waici anu iimi uuu against from the river were the major source of the it was exposure to PCBs, which are suspected of cau ing cancer in humans and have been linked irolina skin rashes, kidney ailments and birth defects, lie ser- Under the terms of the settlement, the clin 9 star- was to monitor the health and the effects < fs and PCB exposure upon the plaintiffs for the rest < their lives. Also included was to be an epid operate miological study of residents of the affect< area, the Twelve Mile Valley of central Pickei it be- County. logical McCullough "has suffered two debilitatir rom page 1 ount isn't really a factor," he used to be," said Li i also the assistant vice law enforcement and The staff needs some more One patrolman v ie to get used to the system, but computer likes the ne mtually we'll be as fast as we cause she doesn't ha\ me Continued from page 1 icker got into the dorm because start a non-profit izza box was propping the main Security on Campus ir open, and Clery's room re- help other universi ined unlocked while she slept. campus safety measu Dlery's parents, Howard and Thanks to the Cle nnie, sued Lehigh for negli- Pennsylvania was th< ice, Claiming mai, given me require scnoois 10 re{ irth of crime statistics, no one tistics. The bill becan jw such an assault was likely or 1988. ;n possible at the school. They Since then, Flori< re awarded $2 million in an out- and Tennessee have court settlement. statistics laws. Nev rhe couple used the money to Jersey, Massachusei it Continued from page 1 'We still need more data to re- form sulfuric acid. E / be assured that it is happen- is battery acid," Lino ," he added. Lincoln said he be Dther problems caused by our power could give us ipant burning of fossil fuels in- the problems of ou de acid rain. and coal methods, t 'Coal and oil produce sulfer only be faced with tl xide, which combines with wa- toxic wastes. in the upper atmosphere to CUN I W. 1 OQflOO 7 O per person xomodations & Taxes 9 is limited :kages also avail.) m 256-05471 m c orriCERS' traini j, <=>> ^o> "p > Cfi vrv CASH IN I UUU1J UK A If you're a freshman or sophomore with good apply now for an Army ROTC scholarship. It ] during college. And afterwards. ARMY ROTC SCHOLARSHI For more information contact CPT Owens at 777-6 VIL SC clinic es strokes within the last year. "Maybe if I'd had in that kind of care, I would not be in this condition," she said, ill An attorney for the plaintiffs said the clinic ot fund, originally reported at $650,000, remains in a court-supervised bank account drawing inid terest while a new sponsor is sought, ce Attorneys for the plaintiffs have declined to li- discuss the search, but some plaintiffs are growof ing angry at the delay. One plaintiff had circure lated a petition asking U.S. District Court Judge Joe Anderson to intervene in the clinic-founding sn process, McCullough said. Anderson oversaw jir the initial settlement, s to- Now that MUSC has backed out, the College of Health at the University of South Carolina is ic negotiating with the plaintiffs to take over operof ations of the clinic, university spokeswoman of Anne Hill said, eid Before the clinic opens, a hearing will be ns held to explain what services it will provide and who will operate the facility, officials said lg Monday. ithren, who is "Sometimes I give over 200 i president for tickets a day ? it depends on what safety. area you work," she said, vho uses the iw system be- Staff writer Kathy Heberger con- r re to write. tributed to this story. 'i organization, California and Delaware are con, dedicated to -sidering similar laws. The penalty ties improve for non-compliance would be res. $10,000, except for Tennessee and ry's lobbying, New York, where the fine would 5 first state to be $1,000. x)rt crime sta ne law in May uoodling s bill, the Crime Awareness and Campus Security ia, Louisiana Act of 1989, would make all campassed crime puses provide "timely notification" / York, New of crimes and publicize their seeds, Missouri, urity policies. ssentially that He said as we enter the '90s we aln said. must confront the questions of ' lieves nuclear whether we should risk potential power free of spills by erecting offshore oil rigs r current gas and whether we should continue to >ut we would dump our wastes into the rivers, le question of I N G CORPS , " X. X * ' * ? grades, pays off PS 542 , ?