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AMI Bui vru n? ExPI /n ^ l unmnj dedicati By STEPHEN BROWN Staff Writer John Cunningham, president of the Carolina Program Union, greets wide-eyed students every day to the busy programming office, a place where group effort results in campus-wide events. His three years of dedication and team spirit have prepared him for the difficiilf ioh ? J ? * He began as a member of CPU's Contemporary Sounds Committee, was its chairperson, and became programming union vice-president before beginning his current term of office. "Through CPU I've made a lot of my best friends, and I've learned about school and community," he said. The poignant presentation of the AIDS Quilt last year opened his eyes. He enjoyed the visit by CNN journalist Catherine Crier and Cockstock, an all-day outdoor music festival, as well. Proper can Bwaafc a Qn jJt Mm u^m in*. i T? 11 v BBBa a^KjraH|^^^^^H^Lv ' "% >^f >; *" ^^HN| *iiii Hl Students are stongly encouraged By CHRIS MULDROW Staff Writer Consider this scenario. You. drag yourself out of bed 10 minutes before your early morning class and sprint down the stairs, counting on your trusty Schwinn to fly you across campus in time. When you reach the post where you locked your bike the night before, all you find is a broken chain. Your bike has been stolen. "We probably see at least five people a week who say they're replacing a stolen bike," Jim Buser, owner of Cycle Center in Five Points, said. 'There are people down here who steal anything." ( CPU President John Sol niiiravi >ham shows on, diversit1 Comedian Bertice Berry pulled c Cunningham on stage and dressed ( him in a Tina Turner wig during 1 one memorable performance. This year each CPU officer must i attend at least one third of the ( union's programs. The officers ( have worked out a system through 1 which at least one of them is pre- i sent at each event. As president, Cunningham easily i meets the minimum ten hours a t week he must spend in the office. "Because I don't impose a lot of i structure on myself," he said, "I s like the system of designated office hours." ~ ( CPU goals for the year are to { reach more people, increase mem- \ bership, educate people about < CPU's function on campus, collab- ( orate with other organizations, and \ tap the resources which will help i touch the Carolina Community. In addition to his CPU presiden- i cy, Cunningham serves as \ Homecoming treasurer and is part < 3, locks key; JH JH *" iMr \ jjfH Jr ji ^j^sP A *1 ^O to keep their bicycles locked with a 1 Students who are getting bicycles to travel across campus have tl been worrying about the possibili- a ty of theft. L "I'm terrified of getting a bike p stolen." freshman Amv Coonler d said. "I wasn't going to bring a 1< bike, but I got on campus and 1; decided I needed one. My parents are looking for a bike at home, but n now I'm not sure." v Buser said his store's biggest e sellers are U-shaped locks which are considered more effective in a protecting the theft of bicycles. "If you leave your bike on a q cable-type lock, it's not a question t< of whether your bike will be stolen or not. It will be stolen tl eventually," Buser said. a Zarc iSSr yton/The Gamecock j I jlff| II I ) v IIP )f Leadership Council, Student Orientation, and the Parent's Weekend Steering Committee. lo help mm witn time managenent skills, Cunningham always :arries his Mortar Board Planning Calendar. "I never let it leave my lands," he says. "I often have lightmares about losing it." Last year the CPU office was inderstaffed, but currently all posiions are filled. Said Cunningham, This year we are lucky to have an ncredible staff. I couldn't be more jatisfied." Cunningman claims that life is a :onstant learning experience. He irefers to spend time with other leople. One time during college he ind some friends went to Charleston at 11:30 p.m. on a vhim and returned early in the norning the next day. Cunningham's favorite celebrity s Madonna who is "very open vith her opinions and pushes iccentance for groups of people s to prevei A ^ Lea Clayton/1 U-lock to discourage thieves. "The U-locks are harder to cut irough. A cable lock might have 50-50 chance of being stolen. A J-lock cuts it down to about a 10 ercent chance, he said, we tell eople that if they don't pay for a 3ck now, they'll pay for a bike iter." According to Buser, thieves are ot only taking bicycles but /heels, seats, bicycle bags and ven handlebars. "We went through 75 seat posts nd seats last year," Buser said. With wheels and seats on a uick-release mounting, it's easy d take them." Buser said if people would lock heir bikes through the front wheel nd the frame while attaching )lina Wm IM . :-v."; xx1saSHIiM^r $1^ ^BF jJH , s ', UBiM who don't get the proper respect." His love for Madonna has nromnted him to send her cards ai r - - -r - ? - all the major holidays and invite her to his graduation. "She's the one for me. If she ever comes tc Columbia, I'll be on the from row." From Dallas-Fort Worth, he moved to the humble town ol Simpsonville, SC, and became the valedictorian of Hillcrest High School after three years there. Being part of the big USC campus opened his mind to many'new ideas. "Simpsonville is not exactly the cultural hub of the universe. In small towns people tend to be alike, but here I've learned aboul people who aren't like me. During my first two years, my mouth popped open at what I saw on campus, but now it takes a lot tc shock me." Cunningham does not like "leading from above." Being part of the ition of bic their seats with bolts instead of quick-release fasteners, they would cut down on theft. USC's Law Enforcement and Safety Director Carl Stokes said 32 bicycles have been reported stolen since January. Only two bicycles have been reported p t a I an oln/?a A i jy 11 c t dluiwii aunt, nugu^i, Stokes said. Stokes attributed the relatively low number of bicycle thefts this semester to students taking better care of their bicycles. "I think one per t , month for two months ; is a good number," Stokes said. "People ai"e locking their bikes, playing it tight, and not rheGamecock leaving them lying around." Stokes also recommends the Ushaped lock available for $26 from the Parking and Vehicle Registration office. Some students are already Jan. 1, 1992 - Sept. 1 - 32 reported thefts Aug. 27, 1992 - Sept. - 2 reported thefts * A U shaped lock is the best protection fo your bike." Carl Stokes Director of Divisioi Enforcement and! f * mmk ^ mm WM v HH ^HgraH9| crowd allows him to truly savor , the experience of leadership. Cunningham knew he would be an English major since the tenth : grade. > "It's a very human major," he t said. "You learn a a lot about people and their societies together through literature." He particularly likes T.S. Eliot's : The Waste Land and Joseph i Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Returning CPU members are very committed to diversity, a goal Cunningham has stressed to the committee chairs. "The direction of the organizai tion should be steered by its membership," he said. When he looks back on his USC ; years, Cunningham hopes he will i "remember other people's successi es as much as my own. If people ? would spend half as much time talking and twice as much time listening, we might all learn some : valuable lessons." :ycle theft watching their bicycles. "I lock my bike everywhere I go," freshman Joey Jeffcoat said. "I always take everything out of my seat bag and lock my wheel to the rack. I also bring my bike uuu my louni ai uigin sometimes." Buser said taking bicycles inside at night thwarts would-be thieves. "Most of the thefts are either late in the day or at night," Buser said. "During the day, while people are in classes, many of the accessories are taken. At night, however, the people have all kinds of time to work on the locks. They can spend an hour on the lock at night, and it's very easy to strip a bike of wheels and other parts." People who use their bicycles less frequently and own less expensive bicycles are not immune to thefts. Buser said those cheaper bikes are often easier victims for thieves. "Most of the bikes you see stolen are low-end models," Buser said. "People don't think the bikes will get taken because they're cheaper, but they're wrong. Kristin Buehlman/The Gamecock USC students work in Russia From Staff Reports Glasnost, the fall of Gorbachev and the Soviet Union's collapse: u : * ~ i i Tien uiiuugu 11 an, uol piuiessuis shuttled in and out of the constantly changing country to set up the one-of-a-kind programs and research efforts emerging today. The plans put in place amid the political turmoil are now providing business training for students and a wealth of insights for geologists, USC officials said. USC's Earth Science and DocAnrooc Tnctitnto fnr ovomr-\lcx ?o l\WV/U IVV/O XllOUiUlW, iui tAainpw, 10 working with the Russian Academy of Sciences on geology and oil exploration projects, said Steven Schamel, institute senior associate director. "It would have been impossible two years ago to think about talking to Russian scientists about their mineral resources," said Schamel, who has made four trips in less than two years. "People used to get arrested for talking to Western scientists." Researchers aren't the only ones making the trip. Ten business students are now working for new Russian-American firms in the country. International business profpccnr Tampc Vnhlman firct vicifpH jlwoovsa rtu-iiwu ikuiiuiiiui *** ui T IUIVVV* Russia when Stalin was in power more than 20 year ago, and he's not surprised by the nation's transformation. He returned four times this year to place USC interns with Russianbased companies in the first such program by an American university Kuhlman said it has been fascinating to watch the rapid changes through the eyes of the USC stu dents in the program. "It's an enormously wealthy country with its human and natural resources, but it's not very developed, it's untapped," said Kuhlman, the J. Willis Cantey Professor in International Business and Economics at USG. "That's the exciting thing from a Western perspective; to go in there and help them tap it. The country is growing and our students are growing with it." More interested in science than Russian studies, Doug Williams, a geology professor, has made 11 uips iu ixussid Mute iy/y iu sci up research on Lake Baikal, the world's largest and deepest lake. After overcoming Soviet bureaucracy, he now has to maintain an organization of 40 Russian scientists who have seen their paychecks shrink to nearly nothing because of the nation's staggering inflation rate. "Researchers in Russia make less money than bus drivers, so the economic incentive is to leave science," Williams said. "With the inflation, what they make in a monin is enougn 10 ouy, mayue, a pound of cheese and a couple of pounds of tomatoes." Williams, who spent July and part of August at Lake Baikal, said the scientists, despite their struggles, are profiting from the link with USC researchers. "They want journals, new supplies, new equipment, printers ? things that our undergraduates have access to. A senior scientist over there has read about these things, but has never had a chance to work with them until now," he said. Schamel said the Earth Sciences Institute's researchers now have access to a large part of the world Westerners have never studied before. Their Russian research partners, including some who have visited Columbia, seem extremely interested in learning about the practice of science in America. \4rtpt A m ari r?nn />rv?r? nntar tank mudi nuii/iicaii LUiiipuiv^i iv.v,unoolgy, for instance, was off-limits in Russia until very recently, he said. Williams, who expects his research to last five years, said Lake Baikal will yield new information about the earth's long-term weather trends. Near Siberia, the lake's bottom provides 20 million years of geological clues. Most North American lakes were formed by the last ice age, 20,000 years ago. Kuhlman said he expects such research efforts to grow as Russia makes the generation-long transition to capitalism. Over the next 20 years, he said, the students now working in Russia will likely become the leaders of that nation's slowly emerging business community.