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Y ugosla Student Goverm I ;By GORDON MANTLER iStaff Writer ; Five Yugoslavian students and -their adviser from the University sof Ljubljana have been on campus dor nearly a week to study how USC's Student Government deals jwith student issues. I J The students arrived this past ;Tuesdav for a nine-dav visit said :Assistant Chief of Staff David iHaller. | University of Ljubljana has 124,000 students, but unlike most tAmerican colleges, the buildings .are spread all over town. The residence halls and classrooms are on opposite ends of town. Even though certain parts of the ; Ljubljana student government are - ... | | |lY|-|?gjflfCrunch time Brantlee Wyndam, sophomc Women . The center would also provide counseling and support to victims of rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment and eating disorders. Addison said the coordinator must be someone trained to handle these matters. However, the most important reason for a full-time, trained coordinator is to oversee the development of the women's center, Chambers said. "If you're going to set up a women's center, it's a major project," she said. "The first process is to find the money, which the coordinator does by writing grant proposals. Getting a grant is a very difficult thing, and we need someone who can do this. You could take a long s letting the tap run while Messa CD" i Utr/mM (fl|fcfiggT SHURJE SA jjj^ ^ vian stud nent examined * SF similar to the USC Student Gov- ci ernment constitution, there are a i? number of differences in the two governments. m "Our structure is not within the tu university," said Marko Kushar, a pi member of the Ljubljana student h government. "We have our own fr people employed and our own finances." th "We do a lot of lobbying of the national government, since their sl decisions are very important to students," he added. "And we are sj quite successful usually." Their executive officers are chosen by an assembly of elected stu- m dents, similar to the English parliamentary system. Student government is separated into a number of e; PIk? m | ^ ' ire business major, gets a jump on fina ued from page 1 t "Once you get the money, you tx still need to find a location and begin setting things up," Chambers re said. if Because of the time involved fi and the training needed to carry tc out duties, a full-time coordinator is with a master's in student person- th nel who can fill the position for at least two years is necessary, she ta said. le Services WSS provides, such as m thf? MWifnr Pmcrr^m thp Wnmpn'c di M?V XVAX/aflWX/JL A A MIV T T VflXBVtft w Speaker Bureau and date rape education programs have helped make the office a vital part of Student m Life, Chambers said. Also, mem- w bership in WSA has almost tripled al over the past year. However, fi Chambers and Addison feel that cl ;hower everyday with the watt you shave and brush your tec ge by Students Allied for a Greener E NEW BREED OF FUNKROC FRIDAY Mi ATURDAY 1 Rockafella's Columbia iBIAN ?JSJL?J!LLLl" (w*mw** Switchcra *""*' K A lUiyWia? ^ftytiy a lents sti apartments including: culture >orts, international, education, so ial, and publishing anc formation. "We've seen how your organi ition works. The student govern ient here has a very nice struc ire," Kushar said. "I think we'l ck up a few things to use bacl ome, voluntary work ant aternities." They were also impressed witl le student media. "It's not so common to have j :udent newspaper in Europe,1 ushar said. "But student radit ations are pretty much the sam< 1 over the world." Ljubljana also has a 50-pag< lagazine that comes out twice j lonth. The students' expectations were tceeded even though they hav< . . Is by studying in Thomas Coo| Dth are in danger of declining. "We've already seen the offic< egress a little, and people feel tha the coordinator position isn' lied, this regression will continui the point that USC will feel i n't necessary and sweep it unde ie rug," Chambers said. Addison said WSA has ahead; ken steps to see that their prob ms are heard by people wh< light be able to help them in thei ilemma. "We have started a petition witl )out 500 signatures of both wo en and men, and people hav< ritten letters to President Palm: )out the importance of our of ce," she said. Letter writers in ude Catholic Students' Associa &r you might waste by Jth. TURN IT OFF! Earth / KOSAURUS \Y 3 VIAY 4 . * ////?// j;////^V J1 _?KHiNK7_ udy USC1 seen much of the United States N over the television. 1 "The world is small," Miran Bi Gombach said. "We see a lot of su - America on television. There are un no real surprises." "It is much more open down m 1 here," Matjaz Tauchar said. "Much c more than New York." sc j The biggest difference between thf* ^Auprnmpnt onH m ?v K/v/x/ WVUUVIlt W*VilllllVlli UHU 1 the Ljubljana government is the separateness of the government and the university. Their student gov- L a ernment serves as a liaison between the students, and the univer- ^ a sity and the national government W( J The other students visiting are j Petra Globochnik and Gortzd' ^ Sancharch. ? ou Among their itinerary for the ^ a rest of the stay is a Columbia Mets baseball game Thursday night, a he ? tour of Columbia and a trip to i Charleston. Cf( wl nu ne to Bi T1 XI sii ag > A M u: A] he in or J? tic Eric Glenn/The Gamecock ha E2 Der Library. ch ^ G tion President Mary Jane Scott, ag s former Student Government Presi- i0j t dent Marie-Louise Ramsdale, and se; t Sue Rosser, director of the Wo- ca ~ man V C tn/Lno Drrtrrmm ; uitii 3 oiuuiw x lu^iam. t r Adisson also addressed Palms at the Columbia Campus President's y Panel this past Monday about their tic situation. After the discussion, 3 Palms expressed an interest in the sa r problems facing WSS and asked se for a copy of a report she is an i compiling. ? a h/ s IjWorking I i Wow, we've bee I {I by Whaley's Mil I j summer rental rates II ^^management team I \ Whaley's Mill, 1 IS* Shuttlecock service I f Laundry facilities Sleep/study lofts 1f Swimming pool Video surveillance systi \f OFFICE HOURS: if M-F 9:30-5:30 If 211 MAIN ST. [ews magazine rates MIBS program No. 1 U.S. News & World Report rates USC's Masters in International isiness program as the number one program in the country above ch schools as the universities of Pennsylvania and New York, Colnbia and Harvard universities. The news magazine has a report schemed for release in today's issue rating the top engineering, business, edical and law graduate schools in the nation. The schools were eked by deans and heads of graduate programs. USC's business hool was rated fourth in the runner-up category of the top five "upd-comers." ISC biochemist gets $252,500 to study insulin USC biochemist Zahi Damuni has been awarded a three-year 152,500 National Science Foundation grant to find out how insulin 3rks in the body. The study could lead to a discovery of the cause of ^pe II diabetes and to a cure for a disease that afflicts 6 million mericans, including about 95,000 South Carolinians, of all ages. Abit 6 million more Americans suffer from early stages of the disease it have not been diagnosed. Damuni, an assistant professor of biology, will try to identify what thinks could be the first step in a series of chemical events set off r insulin production within the body. In normal conditions, the paneas secretes insulin, which triggers a chain reaction within cells in hich enzymes are activated to regulate the body's use and storage of itrients. lobile telephone owners can call USC Police Cellular telephone owners who are driving on campus or in areas ar the university can call the USC police department at 777-4215 free report possible criminal activity or unsafe conditions, said Danny iker, USC assistant vice president for law enforcement and safety, le plan was arranged by Traci Dent of BellSouth Mobility and is nilar to arrangements between BellSouth and other law enforcement encies, including the S.C. Highway Patrol. Jumni invited to buffet dinner in Lake City USC alumni and their guests are invited to a buffet dinner at 7 p.m. ay 7 with special guest speaker Dr. O'Neal Humphries, dean of SC's School of Medicine. The dinner is sponsored by the Carolina lumni Club of Lake City, Olanta, Coward and Scranton and will be Id at the Lake City Country Club. The cost is $10 per person. For formation, call Tom Perrin 394-8329. V ' r . Few service, leadership group on campus Epsilon Sigma Alpha International is a new service and leadership ganization on campus that offers students leadership training, educarnal programs, service work and social activities. ESA International s a network of about 1,200 chapters in the United States and abroad, ich chapter chooses its individual philanthropic projects and may oose to participate in state and international programs benefiting uses such as St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Easter Seals. >r more information, call Dawn Neff 798-7538. Geography professors to study urban growth USC and NASA have reached an agreement in which the federal ency will pay USC $227,928 to assist the BellSouth Corp. in deveping improved methods for projecting urban growth patterns. The rearch is designed to improve data collection, population growth foresting and aid in decisions on where to locate billions of dollars of w telephone equipment each year. The three-year award to USC geography professors John Jensen and ivid Cowen is part of the second phase of NASA's "commercializa>n of space" initiative known as Earth Observations Commercializa>n Applications Program. EOCAP is designed to turn geographic information gathered by tellites, knwon as remote sensing data, into commercial use. Remote nsing data include satellite photographs, thermal infrared readings d microwave enerev readings. ? ? - - w I Hard for You! m n working hard for you. 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