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. i I Lady Gamecocks beat Tulane PaS. 711 _ Klack ( S. African to talk on I ^?J wards while you're trying to walk forIHlSSrWy Apartheid encounters I . ? ^7 ~V- I Month Carolina me, page 4 j Clemson devastates Carolina ^7) The Gamecock Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Volume 85. No. 56 The University of South Carolina Monday. February 5. 1990 BRIEFLY I 11 Km I Li f IN THE NEWS ' " E c Gorbachev to end |j party's monopoly MOSCOW (N.Y. Times j News Service) ? President Mikhail Gorbachev has en- 4 dorsed proposals to end the Communist Party's mono- c poly on power and to accept rival parties and private property, party members familiar with the documents said Saturday. The proposals are included in a new draft party platform prepared at Gorbachev's order for debate at a crucial party leadership meeting that opens today, the party members said. Mandela credits release efforts CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Washington Post) ? Tmnricnnp/1 hlar.k nationalist leader Nelson Mandela on Saturday creditied pressure from the resistance movement inside South Africa as well as sanctions imposed by the United States and other countries for President Frederik W. de Klerk's decision to lift a ban on the African National Congress and other anti-apartheid groups here. t i Teenager first to get lung implant SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ? A teenage girl was in critical condition Saturday after becoming the first recipient of an implant consisting of a slender bundle of fibers that works like a lung in supplying oxygen to the body. The 20-inch device ? designed to give damaged lungs a chance to rest and recover before it is removed ? was implanted in a two-hour operation Friday at jlds Hospital, one of four U. S. centers approved for testing of the Intravascular Oxygenator. | kIuMOH Boy, 11, shoots ^ cousin accidentally 0 BLUFFTON ? A r 10-year-old boy died Friday after being shot accidentally s< by his 11-year-old cousin n who frantically called 911 for help, Beaufort County ti Shreiff's Department offi- C cials said. o Derrick Fields and Eric f Gardner were at their grand- t< mother's house when they r; found a small caliber pistol, authorities said. Derrick picked up the gun and began waving it around and it went off, striking Eric in the head. < Today, partly cloudy with highs in the mid the mid 60s and light to variable winds. I Tonight, partly cloudy b with lows in the upper 30s. t< Tuesday, mostly sunny s with highs in the mid 60s, 3 and nighttime lows in the upper 30s. f Because of a printer's er- 11 ror, the picture of Black History Month speaker Asa Hill- d iard was switched with another picture on the front page in the Friday, Feb. 2 edition of The Gamecock. The Gamecock regrets the error. s use, D1 \y BETH FISCHER Itaff Writer Revitalizing vital statistics is part ol aint $415,000 project between USC a tie state Department of Health and Em inmental Control. The Vital Records Geographic Referei tp Svstem is a nroiect Robert Lewis, n O ~ j Mr J ' r essor emeritus at the USC College lealth, and Murray Hudson of DHEC pn ised to the Robert Wood Johnson Founi ion of Princeton, N. J. 'The Johnson Foundation was interes nough to provide funding to test ideas z 3 test the feasibility of updating this v ecords system in this new geographi ystem for three years," said Hudson, pri ry investigator for the project. Health statistics and census data fr< )HEC have been fed into a computer z re continually updated in the USC Coll< ^|l M&: >. l!^3^ES&k&Km^^^^^BBfa*?rr 1aBB& fBm^ HHWgBm rl Same vjew, different pi Students enjoy a leisurely Friday walk beside Russell House. Counseling s \y JANE LONG Itaff Writer If students are stressing out or are ci us about their cholesterol level, help ight around the corner. There are several different counseli ervices at USC, which serve all kinds eeds and problems that students face. Losing weight, learning about better i -ition and quitting smoking are part of i )pen Door Health and Wellness Progra n the third floor of Thomson Stud* lealth Center. Weight control and chol jrol screening are the most popular pn ams. More assistan as professors ( \y THOMAS WATSON issi itaff Writer Fa* USC's hopes of becoming a ] ,evel One research institution has wil een a factor in hiring graduate lhe caching assistants, a USC profes- L?' or said during an open forum Jan. 0 in the Golden Spur. hai Philosophy Department Chair ^er fora Bell said more actual instruc- du! ion is going to be done by gradute teaching assistants as more v? nembers of the faculty work to s I neet research obligations. un About 25 people took part in the liscussion entitled "Is The USC e doving Forward or Backward?" ponsored by Omicron Delta vai Cappa, a national leadership honor sei ociety. The forum was designed to >ring together faculty, staff and tudents to discuss important flEC join _ "The problem with the f a health care statistics alon inH UIU firnc ro_ of Health since funding began this of July. 3p. The computer is programmed to da- birth and death records into latitude longitude and changes it to numbers ti ted ate new data. This new data is ovei ind and integrated with traditional ma ital streets, power lines or geography. Th< cal maps allow health care professionals ti m- places with high levels of risk or unto behaviors in relation to the environmei 3m 'The problem with the old databa: ind that they give you health care stal ige along county or city lines," said Lewi J Hi if m K ^31 Bafcr-jcr 5 rspective afternoon on the Russell House Patio. Tl ;ervices help si "Of a sample of 100 students th ? screened here on campus, one third h; iri- vated cholesterol levels. That's high 1 is to 20-year-olds," director Lisa Mohn : Located directly behind Russell 1 ng the center is staffed by trained studer of two professional health educators wh vide one-on-one consultations on a 1 iu- of health issues and offer classes on k the the smoking habit and weight cc ms These services are free (except for c snt terol testing, which is done for a sma es- to students who have paid their ai 3g- fees. The services are open to facul staff for a small fee. ts teach Ih 10 research S ues facing the university, ODK :ulty Secretary Paul Fidler said. Participants expressed concern 40* th the quality of instruction as : university aspires to become a vel One research institution. A Level One institute would /e greater research facilities, a "\IUJf^ (owned faculty and a major graate program. [f USC reaches its goal, the unirsity and faculty will gain pre- ^ ge in research circles, and the iversity will probably attract >re highly qualified students, 11 said. However, there may be disadntages to becoming a major reirch school. stud "Faculty will begin to demand . hter and lighter teaching loads , arir table or ote wor See Open forum page 2 L__ in statistics old databases is that they give you ii g county or city lines." Robert Lewis v USC project director past project director at USC. tiuason saia traditionally, geo-poiiticai u plot lines tell public health care professionals tl i and where health problems and unhealthy beha- ci o ere- viors are because the data must be collected tc layed by county. ps of The new mapping system allows statis- S j new tics to be applied to a geographical environ- d 3 find ment to pinpoint common health problems tl ialthy or behaviors in a certain area, rather than a! it stopping at county boundaries. Thus the p ses is program provides a "new way of looking at n istics small pockets of need in a way that we've s, the never looked at before," Hudson said. p donations. S. G. Pre this year's oyrne uuamona/1 ne uamecocK WnlCn naS C "I think he view is from the cement-covered cat- afford to gi help to pay how much ; tudents with need: lat we Coping with school, parents or personal ai ad ele- relationships is what the Counseling and ai ror 18- Human Development Center deals with, said. "Students don't have to be going off the Souse, deep end to need help in making decisions S its and hi their lives," said Don Swanson, director t( io pro- ?f CHDC. n variety Hie center is staffed by seven licensed tl jcking psychologists and three pre-doctoral interns si rntrol. who provide private counseling as well as t( wholes- workshops on assertiveness training and re- C ill fee) laxation techniques. These services are ai ctivity strictly for university students and faculty f< ty and and are free of charge for full-time stu- tl dents. Confidentiality is strictly observed, c; -? r " r *>v . ,^-< ' ent activism ie science senior Carol Seals and history senior Tiffney 11 the Russell House patio recently. The organization v\ nen's freedom of choice on matters of abortion. * ' ^ ' ~ ' ~ project High pockets of risk are already evident 1 the test area, Spartanburg County, allough some mechanics are still being worked out. If the project is successful, it 'ill be expanded to other parts of the state, ccording to Terry Hiltz, USC project oordinator. Data from the Appalachia 3 health disict is collected in Spartanburg County and ten matched to a vital records data set to reate project files. Then the files are sent ) USC for spacial analysis. After the data is analyzed, the staff at the partanburg County health department has ocumentation of the problems and risks ley know to exist in specific areas. This llows them to more accurately design a rogram to combat the problems and to moitor that program's success. "The project is intended to help the poulation," Lewis said. dors receive allenge' ^ive money ION B. GREINER lakes the world go around .. . and univeriors are being reminded of this in letters calls from Senior Challenge before they alumni status. hallenge is a program that asks graduating donations that go toward a designated area rsity chosen by students. t gives the students the opportunity to give rom their class, get involved with the unilearn something about the need for private Penny Parker of the Development Office, ting students with the program said. id she hopes this year's Senior Challenge om $45,000 to $50,000 that can be given r to USC from the 1990 class during grayear. 's Challenge money will go towards the [ as a gift from the participating senior's :sident Marie-Louise Ramsdale said one of goals will be to increase the participation teen as low as 37 percent in past years, you need to look at how much you can ive; and if you can give $5, then $5 may for one-fourth of a book. It doesn't matter /ou give," Ramsdale said. s, problems id the center "is prepared to see people at ly time." In addition to CHDC, the Psychological ervice Center is open to provide services i students in addition to the outside com lunity. It is staffed by graduate students in le clinical psychology department and upervised by professional faculty. Similar ) the Counseling and Human Development Center, they provide individual counseling nd private therapy. Their services are free 3r full-time students. However, because leir staff is small compared to the large ase load, there is a waiting list SHBWj I Kelly Thomas/The Gamecock / Wolf operate the Students for Choice /as formed this past summer to prom