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A spokeswoman there, Marjorie Boggs, said, "We are coordinating with investigative agencies to see if there is anything to" the report. College students are cheating more CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ? Cheating appears to be on the rise among college students, according to researchihe. trend may- be a sign of today's "make it" mentality. Studies indicate about 20 to 30 percent of students cheat. Some copy from classmates' work, others plagiarize term papers or use crib sheets during examsn while others take advantage of computer technology. Forty-three percent of S 000 nrnff?<!Qr>r<; nationwide. f responded "yes" when the Carnegie Foundation for the Au.^cement of Teaching asked: "Are today's undergraduates more willing to cheat in order to get good grades?" Atwater diagnosed with brain tumor WASHINGTON ? Doctors found a benign tumor on the right side of Republican Party Chairman Lee Atwater's brain Tuesday and said it would be treated nonsurgically with "no difficulty." Dr. Edward Laws, chairman of the department of Neurosurgery at George Washington University Medical Center, said Atwater would be released from the hospital by the end of the week and able to resume "a reasonable work schedule and normal activities next week." Today, partly cloudy and cooler with highs around 60. Northeast winds at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight, becoming cloudy with lows in the upper 30s. Thursday, cloudy with a 20 percent chance of light rain and highs in the mid 50s. Because of spring break there will not be a Friday, March 9 issue of The Gamecock. The Gamecock will resume publication on Wednesday, March 21. The staff of The Gamecock would like to wish everyone a very safe and happy spring break. Compiled from wire reports Rare nev By LYNN GIBSON Assistant News Editor Somewhere between the Federal Express office and Highway 12, 4,000 feet of irreplaceable film has been lost, and a USC official is losing hope of recovering it. "It's nitrate film, and exposure to any amount of moisture ? including open air ? will disintegrate the film," said Don McCallister, assistant archivist for USC's News Film Library. The film, which features candid shots of Albert Einstein at various times in the 1930s, is part of USC's Movietone News Collection. The rare footage was on its way to Audio Plus Film International in Northvale, N. J., for transfer from volatile nitrate stock to safety film when it fell off of a Federal Express truck on Feb. 27. The truck left the Federal Express office MfMM| S.G. President Marie-Louise Ramsdale < Presidenc # Ramsdale ac By JEFF WILSON News Editor The office walls that used to be plastered with mementos and memorabilia of the past 12 months are now bare. "I'll really miss this office," MarieLouise Ramsdale says, fighting back the sniffles of a cold. Her eyes express the 40- to 60-hour weeks she has put in as Student Government president. "I think we've had a really good year," she said. Looking back on that year, the lame duck president denied that Student Government backed out on fighting changes in the visitation policy. "We really did want to listen to student opinions. Maybe on visitation we didn't get exactly what the students wanted, but we tried," Ramsdale said. Ramsdale knew from working with members of the Board of Trustees that rigidly fighting the visitation policy was not going to work because of conservative public opinion in South Carolina, she said. "If we had gone into the board meeting looking for all our demands, we would have ended up with Mike Fair's original proposal ? no opposite-sex, overnight visitation," Ramsdale said. "Not three years or four years down the road, but immediately. "I think we came out with something that's good for all students, but visitation isn't a dead issue," she said. "It's not going to go away." Getting traditional visitation restored in Burney and Douglas was a real struggle for Ramsdale and her staff, she said. At the beginning of the fall semester, the two dormitories had no opposite-sex vs film fal "If you're doing an in-depth want this really bad. Otherwise with it." at 1824 Barnwell St. and turned right on to Taylor Street. It proceeded on Taylor Street past the Central Correction Institution, and across the river on Jarvis Klapman Boulevard. At that point, the driver realized the back door was open and stopped the truck. Federal Express workers searched the route, but weren't able to find the package. The film was packed in a one-foot-square fiberboard carton and marked on all sides with red "flammable solid" stickers. It contained four rolls of film wound on yellow cores. Bil ? * :leans out her desk as she prepares leave y ends xomplishes most a sum "I hope they will remember pro\ that I was never afraid to ^ speak out. I don't think I ^ could have done any more." ^ca Marie-Louise Ramsdale "] S.G. President will ' oum visitation. Later in the semester, re- cam stricted visitation was restored to the out dorms. They were allowed opposite-sex A visitation from noon to 11:30 p.m. on ovei weekdays and from noon to 2 a.m. on adec the weekend, with space made available to students who did not want any writ opposite-sex visitation. we "I don't have any regrets about how Ran we handled visitation," she said. "I think S we did what we needed to do. mai "You can either stand your ground sum and lose everything or give in a little and spac win something. I'd much rather win for gine the students than lose for them any day," com she said. didr An issue of personal concern to Rams- P dale was campus safety ? personal be- n?^ ("iiicc r?f thinrrc that havf HannpnpH fr> Dlar VttUJV VI UlillgJ UAUL nu - V iiMJ/J/Viivv* vv X her friends. tors "I've had friends that have been raped ver) and that really concerns me," she said. "I beei have a friend who was raped on this "j campus five years ago, and I still see pari some of the after-effects there, and that effo bothers me. As a Rape Crisis Network gars volunteer, I see what happens when goir safety measures fail." T During Ramsdale's term, S.G. spon- rner sored a "Safety Week," in which safety bee whistles were distributed. Also, 25,000 yea copies of the Lightways maps were atte mailed to students, emergency call boxes ? were installed on campus during the Is from it study of Einstein's life, you'd !, I don't know what you'd do Don McCallister News Film Library McCallister said USC had made its own independent survey of the route, but nothing turned up. Since the media released information on the loss Tuesday, McCallister has received two tips on the film. "One Derson said she saw the nackaec. but it didn't fit the description of the one we lost," he said. "Another caller said she saw it fall off of the truck as it was going over Taylor Street Bridge, which is disheartening if that's the truth, because it's been a week, and it's not there any more," he said. While the film is invaluable to researchc X. _ y ( cc By BR; Assistat The ( ting a ft Fund Holderi boxes. JS ?- boxes . Louise: The inittee " : Jh idea in mr Now lt proved, The of the 1 ceived, them t NHHHHHHI Septem "We be in pi Thp 1 Teddy Lepp/The Gamecock f i office today. light gc bad guj "It v "Somec lice ma The lig playing ampaign goals Jp "Wh( mer and money has also been ap- .. red to add lights to the call boxes for ing, ;r visibility. tl'helP he added that the USC campus is re- a T,0U^ 'ely safe, but there can always be , sures to make it safer. tt upsets me when I see a girl who say, 'I don't feel safe walking ar- in? 10 * i this campus at night.' This is our Prolectl pus. We've got to claim it and stake our rights to it," Ramsdale said. T nother major concern of students y " the past few years has been the injuate parking facilities on campus, it really upset me to see a student T"\l ing a letter to The Gamecock, saying haven't done anything for parking," tsdale said. he exnlained how S.G. worked to AAA ntain 120 student parking spaces last imer. "You can say 120 parking ^ :es ? no big deal ? but I can ima- Staff ; the students' reaction if they had Doin ic back to school in the fall, and we than 01 l't have those spaces," she said. Evan lans for a new parking garage have Studies ' been added to the facilities master Chairm i for the university, and administra- tion." 1 are looking into building it in the ition oi ' near future, but no definite date has Evans i i set, Ramsdale said. but oth [ know there's a parking problem. I ted, Fr< : on campus. I think because of our He v rts, we're going to have a parking April 1 ige. Maybe not tomorrow, but we're Visit lg to see it," she said. of the he task of getting a voting student careful nber on the Board of Trustees has ample, n a thorn in the side of S.G. for Wester rs, and Ramsdale attributes the failed Shiloh. mpts to lack of support by the USC ^nc rics, he See Ramsdale page 2 tail truck ers and historians, McCallister said it wouldn't be worth much to the general public. "If you're doing an in-depth study of Einstein's life, you'd want this really bad," he said. "Otherwise, I don't know what you'd do with it." McCallister added the film was the original negative, so there is nothing anyone could do with it until they made positive prints. Federal Express is still searching for the package, but McCallister said he speculated someone has already found the package. "It's been a week. The question is whether they opened it and discarded it, or they're still holding on to it to see how much it's worth," he said. If anyone has information, McCallister can be reached at 777-6841 Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. all boxes get tlored lights \NT LONG it Sports Editor jmergency call boxes at USC will soon be geticelift. s were recently allocated by President James nan to add two types of lights to the call light will be an indicator light (either red or 10 let people at nigni Know wnere mc can are, Student Government president MarieRamsdale said. second light will be activated when the call ton is pressed. It will be a flashing strobe light others that there is an emergency and thwart >e attackers. idea was developed by the USC Safety Comwho, chairman Richard Conant said, had the mind when the call boxes were first installed, lat the about $12,000 funding has been apthe lights will soon be put in place, funds will not be available until the beginning lew fiscal year in July. After the funds are rethc lights will be installed. Ramsdale expects o be operational by late August or early ber. '11 get the money July 1," Ramsdale said. 11 be installed over the summer and they should lace when students come back this fall." lights will serve a dual purpose, Conant said, ootball team could be driving by and see the ling off. They could save the girl and catch the /," he said. /ill also cut down on pranks," Conant added, me may know the person who set it off, or poty be driving by and see the light going off. ;ht will catch either the bad guy or the guy the prank." >dale hopes that the flashing strobe light will t down the number of pranksters activating the ;es. \r? < n r*i l oKnrl n>?11 thn flnrK n uic uullwii is puaui/u, n win uii ttit/ naaiiis," she said. "We think this is hopefully going with some of the pranks we've had in the past, h those have been decreasing." int added that he is happy the lights will finally jd to the call boxes. 're real pleased we have the funds. We are tryio what we can do to enhance the possibility of ion at USC." ^ /-? 1 /-> r* 1 lulling lMclCI its professor center of war rH FISCHER riter ___ g researcn in israei nas taugni i^ari tvans more !d Testament history. is, a professor in the Department of Religious on sabbatical, is researching what department ian Hal French calls the "Golden Calf Tradirhe second commandment concerns the prohib: certain images in the ancient Israeli tradition, is studying why the golden calf was prohibited, er images, such as the cheribum, were permitmch said. vill be at the ecumenical institute, Tantur, until ing the Judean desert put Evans in the center Palestinean and Israeli conflict. He said he is about where and with whom he goes. For exhe will take an Ara,6 taxi and tour guide to the n Bank when he visits Sumaria, Beth-El and takes Arab transportation through Arab territo; said. See Israel page 2