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? I 111 1 " '"' ' ? ???? ' "1 1 I t - ? . ! I i y 1 "M'l'ui^n ...I. IHflB Cockfest ? . ^ I Quote of the Day J <;kik S?minol?s pound G?m?cocks Page7 OUIMUUIdllb, orxllb, I "Imagine ? teaching alcoholism n ft 5,000 USC fans qton chn\A# raicoc mnnm/ Columnist Kelly C. Thomas Carolina Life page 5 ?leP bflOW 'SlSeS mORey Page 4 _ ? 1 1 L _ The Gamecock Eighty-two Years o] Collegiate Journalism BRIEFLY IN THE NEWS Fishermen beach dolphins for food TOKYO ? Fishermen drov hundreds ot dolphins towar shore on an island in southern h pan on Saturday, causing th deaths of more than 100 do] phins, officials said. Fishermen discovered thou sands of dolphins swimming Fri day night in waters off Miirak on Fukuejima island, 630 mile southwest of Tokyo, an officia of the Miiraku Fisherie Cooperative said. He said dozens of fishermei drove the dolphins toward th sandy beach using ropes in hope of killing some for food. Bu more than expected were trappe by the receding tide and wer beached, he said. Some 200 re turned to open waters. Priests accept blame for abuse of teenagei ANOKA, Minn. ? Two Roma Catholic dioceses have admitte partial responsibility for psyche logical injury suffered by 24-year-old man who was sex ually abused as a teenager by priest. During opening arguments Fri day in a civil trial the mai brought against the priest, th man's attorney said the churcl placed the Rev. Thomas Adam son in positions of power am trust, knowing he had a histor of abusing boys. John Hoffman, representinj the Archdiocese of St Paul am Minneapolis, told the jury tlr church placed restrictions 01 Adamson, but the restrictions an* the church's monitoring o Adamson's activities were no effective. Man gets 10 years for pinching women TULSA, Okla. ? A man wa sentenced to 10 years in prisoi for pinching two women on thei buttocks. Randy Darrell Bowles, 36, wa: charged with two counts of sex ual battery, which was changet last year from misdemeanor as sault and battery to a felony. Dis trict Judge Clifford Hopper sen tenced Bowles to two consecu tive five-year terms under a plei agreement Friday. PTL raises millions in monthlong telethon FORT MILL, S.C. ? A month long fundraising telethon at Heritage USA resulted in millions ol dollars in donations, thousands ol "saved" souls and even some "miracles," evangelist Morris Cerullo and supporters say. During the past month, people s *1- - r sireamcu imu mc lormer FTL studios to witness Cerullo's telethon. Many were volunteers. Others were Christians drawn to the rebirth of Jim Bakker's banknipt theme park and retreat The 'Take It Back" telethon, so named because Cerullo said he wanted to take Heritage USA hack from the devil, ended Friday But in those four weeks, the telethon raised about $11 million of the $45 million Cerullo needs to buy the 2,200-acre property. Compiled from wire reports Rising en< By SHARON WILLIAMSON Managing Editor I The crisis in the Persian Gulf is "If Wg q( likely to affect USC by between _ ^ .. ** half a million and 1.2 million dol- | t i 9 lars in unexpected energy costs, P'? according to university officials. e However, "there will be no mid^ year tuition increase, and there will be no courses cancelled for the spring semester," Interim President C A o ? ! J rtxuiur aiiuui saiu. Although the university's Chief Financial Officer Robert "Pete" : Denton estimated the bills for the prices climbing ; Columbia campus could be $1.2 per barrel, Smith s million higher than usual, Smith sure could get I said the figure is an extreme. don't think it will s Taking a worst case scenario of "A better nu war in the Middle East and oil with ... would pr< : Enrollment 2 defies odds, 1 remains up n Transfers, retention rates ' stabilize USC's numbers a a By ELIZABETH FOX Assistant News Editor USC enrollment has remained on an even keel n amidst dropping college enrollment nationwide, said q Terry Davis, USC admissions director, h "Nationally and in South Carolina, the number of 18-year-olds has been declining and will continue to & do so until 1993," Davis said. y Enrollment across USC's nine-campus system increased by 437 students this fall while on the Columj bia campus, overall enrollment dropped by 79 j students. e Although freshmen enrollment on the Columbia n campus this fall dropped by 290 students, Davis said j the university expects "freshmen enrollment at USC f to increase in 1994 and continue steadily upward t throughout the decade." The decline in 18-years-olds has been anticipated for 18 to 19 years and has just been felt in the SouthSee ENROLLMENT page 2 ; Federal stud r g By The CollotjQ Ptqss SorvicQ mileston The nation's student loan program is near Cavazos 1 collapse, many colleges are on the fiscal departm< ropes and student costs are rising fast accumul But, for the first time in 10 years, the U.S. loan pro. Department of Education, which administers "We most federal college programs, has admitted ment, bi i it might have something to do with these have ad< problems. permane | In what some consider to be a sort of the Sena | ' mm * r |p| IjgSr a f JH / llSB ifl *'- I *:? >: ./fi 'lOft. A \ \ ,.#?* tBS^. > gS "^mil^^HHk aHHil Golden opportunity John Fletc James Dickey speaks at the Golden Key install* in the Russell House Ballroom. srgy costs 5t in a full-scale war in the Middle East ss to $100 a barrel, we miaht ask Deo lore than merely conserve energy." Interim President Arthur Smith as high as $100 million dollars," he said, "and said "our expo- that's if the price of oil stays at its that high, but I current level until the end of the fiscal year on June 30." mber to work Smith said students need to be ^bably be half a conscious of their energy use by Buttering them up Residence Hall Association Vice President Gary sophomore, give away free popcorn to promote stu uj uuuciManu uic iciiouiio iui uiai, said Herb Tyler, chairman of Furman's department of education who oversaw the two-year study. The keys for teachers are understanding those reasons and work^ * ing around them to reach students ^ier/The Gamecock who are at-risk or more likely to drop out of high school are, said ^ David Russell, Berea Middle Thursday School's principal. t ent loan prol ie, U.S. Education Secretary Lauro Oct 11. admitted earlier this month that his The secretary int may be partly to blame for the hearing in the : ated problems of the federal student vestigation of gram. findings will be have failed may times as a depart- in the financial < it I really feel during our watch we "The secretar iressed the issue," Cavazos told the facing up to fat nt subcommittee on investigations of American Cour ite Governmental Affairs Committee the question is,1 n Dropouti if toooliAl? 111 ivaviici By The Associated Press GREENVILLE ? School dropout rates could improve if teachers were taught to help the most troublesome students enjoy learning and feel good about themselves, according to a Furman University research project. But educators said "at-risk" students often are the hardest to reach. "There are some students who are just unlovable, and you've got to affect USC ??????????- could save half a million dollars wthout anybody noticing," Smith "If we get in a full-scale war in m the Middle East and oil goes to 1 ...... _1mI $100 a barrel, we micht ask oeonle M ' W E E v *SflL - JMBn - to do more than merely conserve \ **3^ M energy," he said. it ili* However, Smith believes the si? )f^T| tuation is manageable as long as the university does careful conser^ ipr Ways of saving energy around campus include an energy shuttaking measures to conserve, turn- p0vj" over lhc Christma$ break, ing off lights and turning down ?u'ld,1"fsKlha'^ "?Tfuy ^ thermostats when the energy is not . c \ mi? ' k^i" a'a necessary ** e of heat' but ^ "If everybody would give a little would not include buildings with bit in a university like this, we See ENERGY page 2 I 1 I n flF . Jr -jfl| * 1 mm mam M ^B ^ I ^1 9PS9I TOK f| KL A B rHH^H * lu* Bhbh98^KjA I I ?|ii? jli| I H ^ I ^^tiiSTnrrA, 1 I KT. m Renee Meyer/The Gamecock Parker, psychology sophomore, and Sabrina Queen, marine biology dent support for RHA. )lems accumulate out it?" 's remarks came at the final The entire student loan system almost colsubcommittee's year-long in- lapsed this summer when the nation's largest student loan programs. The student loan guarantor, a Kansas-based used to recommend changes agency, the Higher Education Assistance lid program. Fund, ran out of money trying to pay for stu>tt in ka nnnnrrohilnfn/1 fr\r J jr 10 IU IA/ mii^ittiuiaiw iui UCIIL UClilUlD. ;ts," Charles Saunders of the In early October, the Student Loan Maiketicil on Education said. "But what are they going to do ab- See LOANS page 2 rate could improve s help, project says In 1988, Furman received a Berea Middle was the model $170,000 grant from the BellSouth school for the program, and its enCompany to work for two years tire teaching staff participated in with a group of 13 Upstate school the Furman training programs, districts to develop strategies to teach at-risk students more effec- Twelve other upstate middle tively, Tyler said. schools took part by having two to five teachers participate and then Those at-risk students are often ^11 what they had learned to the root .u~:_ ?~i 1?> T .U. me ones wno miss a 101 01 scnooi, W1 u,cu >uuis, lciu skip homework assignments and said. get into fights, Russell said. Furman's project resulted in a Furman's study tested how best teacher training program to help to motivate those students in teachers identify at-risk students' middle school because that is the skills and determine the best ways time many students decide they to teach them based on how they will drop out of high school, said learn best, Tyler said. Judy Lehr, the project director. Teachers participating in the prog- Tyler believes that training ram used different teaching tech- package can help teachers better teach their at-risk students and niques to reach the students after help Furman better train its studetermining which ways those stu- dents who want to become dents learned best, she said. teachers. J