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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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wthout anybody noticing," Smith
"If we get in a full-scale war in
m the Middle East and oil goes to
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\ **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
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Parker, psychology sophomore, and Sabrina Queen, marine biology
dent support for RHA.
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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
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;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
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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.
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