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|S5 Greek Week | Soccer team slaps Clemson 3-1 777] USC's greeks battle it out I I out me, as long as they're saying I lJbt - ix i t I something dbout me. in week of games, contestsl r?~ 1 -Educatorjo? eta* 11 Educators cast doubt on 2001 plan page211 The Gamecock Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Volume 82, No. 75 The University of South Carolina Monday, April 2, 1990 BRIEFLY 11 IN THE NEWS Bj Stc de] SU1 Lithuanians fear an\ martial law rar VILNIUS, USSR ? The mood in the Lithuanian capital was grim Sunday as the Slt Soviet army moved in do- 11C; zens of additional armored personnel carriers hours after an a threatening statement from Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. c ? The combination of the warning, the reinforcements, Friday's, seizure of a Lithua- int nian government building by mc Soviet troops and the Soviet ? Union's drive to remove foreign correspondents from the republic by Sunday night had many people worried that martial law would be imposed within days. "I fear they are going to start shooting," said one middle-aged Lithuanian woman. Explosions force C airport evacuation By r\rr\\Tr\/ a i jiuixtii, /\usirana ? as; Gas explosions ripped through a plant in southern Qe Sydney Sunday night, touch- rec ing off a huge fire and fore- bet ing officials to evacuate ] thousands of people from C0I nearby homes and close the wy international airport. res No injuries were immedi- nQl ately reported. I Nuclear missile "0C faces opposition mi WASHINGTON ? The ^ United States is considering ^ "bold, imaginative" propos- ^ als to deal with controversial ^ XT A TH nlone fr\r q npu; ehnrt. iini V piailj A v/l (A uv TT JlIWi I range nuclear missile in Eur ope, a senior administration an( official said. r The idea of updating the oJd Lance missile, which would be based on West German soil and used to halt a Soviet j)Q thrust through central Eur- qq ope, has run into trouble in unj Congress. lhe It also has encountered pu] fierce public opposition in -n West Germany in light of rea moves toward democracy in oLd Poland and Hungary, and prospects for German ? reunification. Sheriffs help fight IS rural traffic deaths ANDERSON ? Sheriffs By are trying to win a federal grant they hope could end the state's No. 1 national orif ranking in per capita deaths ^ on rural roads. In 1988, 82 percent of the state's 1,034 traffic-related e deaths occurred on roads seldom patrolled by state troop- ? ers or county police, according to statistics compiled by , the National Traffic Safety Highway Administration. jThe national average for traffic deaths on rural roads 1S is 58 percent, according to a CC j spokesman for the national highway agency. per Today, partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. High in the upper 70s. exe Southwest winds at 10 to 15 yn mph and gusty. j Tonight, partly cloudy saj( with a 20 percent chance of anc showers or thunderstorms. Sch Low in the lower 40s. I Tuesday, sunny with highs enr in the lower 60s. / Compiled from wire reports ber of nternational CAREN CAMPBELL aff writer USC has the top international business partment in the nation, according to a vey in the March 19 issue of U. S. News d World Report. fTQr'c intpmatinnal hneinpcc Hpnnrfmpnt iked higher than programs at the Univery of Pennsylvania, New York University, rvard University and Columbia Univery, according to the survey of deans and ids of MBA programs. 'We're one of the few schools that offer international MBA degree, and it's even ire rare to have a doctoral degree in innational business," said Virginia Holmb of the College of Business Iministration. in addition to having the second largest ernational business faculty, the departnt is the editorial home and co-publisher the Journal of International Business idies, a top academic journal in the field, ilcomb said. rhe department is also one of five federBills could ^ ffect lives || )i sruaents m LUCY SOTO sistant News Editor rhere are several bills in the neral Assembly that will ditly affect USC students if they Most of these bills are still in fmmi nmittees. Although the session 11 end in June, the bills may be uirected next session if they are t considered this year. The Appropriations Bill, ich is the state's budget for next ar, has been passed by the use of Representatives and is w in the Senate Finance Comttee. The committee should be BMP iding it to the Senate floor after , ril 9. The bill is funding higher iiauuii at ou pvuv^iiL ui luunuia iding, which is a decrease from 5 percent funding this year. House bill 4748 would reire the Department of Highways 1 Public Transportation to issue lew license to persons 21 years I or over for a reduced payment $5. It is sponsored by Reps, ndy Waites and Tim Rogers, th Democrats from Richland unty, whose district includes the versity. The bill is currently in Committee on Education and blic Works after a first reading the House. Bills receive three dings before being sent to the Ba er chamber for consideration. Rogers said he and Waites spon- Bi wea See Assembly page 2 Minority stude College Press Service decent reports by the American Council on I i indicate that most predominantly white cc 1 universities are failing to convince minorii its to enroll. 'Colleges are caught in a Catch-22," said rkowitz of the council, a Washington, D.C. up that represents college presidents. "They' iu niuicaac iiuiiuiny enrollment, uui uie iai low is a disincentive for minorities to go thei n a January report, the council, after revi a over a 13-year period, found that the perc black high school graduates enrolled in colle m 40 percent in 1976 to 30 percent in 198 panics, enrollment went from 50 percent to 3 t over the same period. :or middle-income blacks, the college partici 5 for high school graduates went from 53 pen '6 to 36 percent in 1988. Corresponding rai panics were 46 percent in 1988 compared cent in 1976. 'Every college in the country is having troul :ting and recruiting minorities," said James cutive assistant to the president of Florida A iversity. light out of every 10 administrators polled b) i they directed "a lot" or "some" efforts to 1 retain minority students during the 19 ool year. lut only one in four administrators said mi ollment had actually gone up. U the University of Wisconsin-Madison the of minority students dropped from 252 in tl 1988 to 245 this past fall, despite an ela business depa ally designated centers for international business education and research, Jeffrey Ar- h pan, director of international business, said. tc This designation brought $140,000 in federal grants to the department to be used fi for faculty research, new programs and fi- c< nancial assistance for masters and Ph.D. s< students, Arpan said. The department hopes to get mree limes mat amount next year, ne ir added. tr The Masters in International Business Studies program is largely responsible for m the department's high ranking, Holcomb K said. The 15-year-old program was ranked No. ^ 1 in the nation last year in a study by Dr. ^ Lee Nehrt, former president of the Academy of International Business. "The program is getting the full attention S1 that it deserves," Holcomb said. lv In addition to bringing top quality stu- ar dents and faculty to USC, the high ranking at will help attract more companies to our students and raise money from other sources, 3< Arpan said. e< H^P^ f^pc ^ ^ BIK ^?i I tlllli jdWjfeJ ?*. rely getting by siness graduate student Scott Hedin takes ther Sunday by studying and sunning on the Ri nt enrollment d< "Madison Plan" to double the enrollmi -(juca_ Hispanic and American Indian students. Alleges Plagued by racial incidents in 1988, tl tv stu- stu(^ents at Pennsylvania State drop for the first time in seven years, even d Ivlave minority enrollment increased. -based Money also seems to be a big reason,r re trv- tenson ?f the American College Testing ct that *n a reP0It released the first week of Mart re ? The growing emphasis on student loan ewing ls driving low-income students, who mo not are minorities from hieher ediica eniage ? ' ?? fell low-income people generally are less w g por taking out a loan, Mortenson said. Mortenson's study said that between late 1970s, when grant assistance expai pation college enrollment of disadvantaged s jj-j increased. tes for ?ut s*nce loans have become the to 53 form of student aid, decreasing 40 and i those gains in low-income student enro ble at- tenson reported. Spear, Some schools are trying to solve the tlantic offering special scholarships. Florida Atlantic announced March 8 I ! ACE give free tuition to 43 black students who attract si?n standards, which is up from thi 88-89 scholarships,. Blatant racism, however, seems to tx inority deterrent to minority students thinking at at a predominantly white campus, num- At Slippery Rock University in Pennsy tie fall " borate See Minor irtment gets Along with the high ranking come igher standards. Every year, it gets hardi ) get into the MIBS program, Arpan said. "A typical MIBS class draws studen om at least 35 states. About 15 foreig auntries are also represented," Holcom lid. Between 20 and 25 percent of the peop i the MIBS program are from other coui ies, Arpan said. MIBS students intern in France, Gei ianv T ii*pmhniircT Snain Fcrvnt Tanoi ?j , ?? &> r** * orea and six countries in Latin America. An Italian track will be added to th [IBS program this June, with plans to ad ussian and Mandarin Chinese tracks i )91, Holcomb said. The department also hopes to double th ze of the MIBS program over the ne) vo years, if resources become availabh id change the curriculum to allow for gre er specialization, Arpan said. Each student participates in a 24 c 5-month program of international busine: lucation. The longer program allows f< BAssisI quarn ant in Houg list N< 8-foa ^ * t0<Sh( her ri Renee Meyer/The Gamecock a Ho advantage of the warm ture v jssell House patio. Da] lice a icreasing on i ent of black, t to /^\ , f USC coi ie number of Cooler?,; large nui Alfnr T?.. 11? 171? IITTI CAM iiivjuiaa iviui- ny jtirr ttiLiOWH Program said News Editor -h. While several pred s over grants white colleges and uni re often than the country are having tion because cruiting and retaining illing to risk students, USC has be< ing its minority enroll 1966 and the the past few years, a nded greatly, official said, itudents also "When you look at one of the reasons mi predominant fact that USC already 1 50 percent of number of minority si llment, Mor- it is somewhat cycli Ralph Johnson, assista problem by Student Life and direc nority Affairs. "If y< that it would large number of mir i meet admis- dents, you are going t is year's 28 to attract them." The average freshm; J the biggest USC is 2,500 studen >out enrolling minority student repr of approximately 40( Ivania, a pre cent). About 2,027 (13 cf the 14,551 undergr; ities page 2 > top ranking >s an extra year of language training for peoer pie involved in particularly difficult tracks such as the Japanese, Korean or Arabic ts tracks, Holcomb said. ;n In the 24-month program, students have a ib traditional MBA curriculum the first year including language and geopolitical studies, le Holcomb said. Then students travel to forei ign locations for five weeks of intensive language training. After a short break, stur dents put everything they learned in the i, classroom to use during their six-month internship with a company in a foreign locaie tion, Holcomb said. A A ftAr thp firot 1 ^ mr\r?the in nmnrram vj i iiwi wiv iiui x111w1ii.no in uiv piu^iaui, n American students intern abroad, while foreign students intern in the U. S., Holie comb said. The internship lasts from Auct gust to mid-February, she said, s, "The program does cost you money," 5- Pauline Doig, a MIBS graduate student, said. )r Students are responsible for their own )r See Business page 2 students o through window VNN GIBSON tant News Editor o students went through a window during a si Saturday night at the Gamecock Park restaurthe Russell House. nthia Marie Williams, 19, and Stacey Vaughn h, 23, were treated and released for cuts at Bapledieal Center after going through an 8-foot-by t window near the stairs to the restaurant at 9:10 tnesses told USC Police that Williams had been n through the window, but as of late Sunday af3n, no charges had been filed against Hough, lliams, an advertising/public relations freshman, olice she and Hough had gotten into a fight, and I this fight both hit each other, ugh, a senior, went through the window also and 1 both of them back to avoid falling on the stairs \ Williams told police. ugh fled the scene, but at 9:45 p.m. he voluntartumed to speak with the police, telling them he un back to his dorm room to take care of his 5S. ugh told the police that Williams had made a comment" to him and when he confronted her, ood up and slapped him. ring the altercation that followed, both he and tms fell through the window and he pulled them sack into the building, Hough told the police, lliams told the police she plans to file charges i suffered a two-inch cut on her forehead above ght eye, a two-inch cut behind her right ear and rter-inch cut on top of her right hand, ugh suffered two small cuts and one large puncvound on his back. mage to the restaurant was estimated by the pot $500. many campuses ? i itinues to attract Tiber of minorities dents at USC are black, accord ing to statistics from the Office lominately of Minority Affairs, versities in USC has a higher percentage trouble re- minority students than most I minority traditionally white institutions in In increas- die country> and it has the highment over est minority enrollment of any university ?ther institution in South Carolina with the exception of hisit I think torically black South Carolina ght be the State College, has a large ^ata from the USC Office of tudents so Minority Affairs for the last 14 cal " said years a'so indicates that a higher nt dean of percentage of minority students tor of Mi- stay *n school longer than nondu have a rninority students. lority stu- For 1988, the data derived o continue fr?m studying the freshman-tosophomore-year return of USC an class at students in four-year degree ts, with a programs carrying nine hours or esentation more indicated that 81.9 percent ) (17 per- of minorities returned, while 79.4 .9 percent) percent of non-minorities aduate stu- 7 ~T~ 7 See USC page 2