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USC Futur to sponsor By MELISSA TENNEN Assistant News Editor USC administrators are encou aging students to voice their coi rernx about the future of the un versity at a hearing Dec. 11. The meeting, which lasts from 3 p.m., will be in Calco Auditorium and was created by tl University Future Committee. A major reason the committee conducting this meeting is to dete mine how an impending 12 percei budget cut within the next thre years should be handled, accordin to Student Government Presidei Tom Young. ACTIO Some universities have set asic special seats for the children c alumni, but if the person's paren graduated during the 1940s the would have to be white becaus most universities didn't acce] minorities then. Those seats exclude anyon who isn't white. "Some people only want t focus on what's benefiting whii women and people from minorit ethnic groups," Dark said. "Affirmative action is necessai to take steps to be inclusive." He said some people ar uncomfortable competing wit people of color and white womei "It's hard for them to acknow edge that we have skills and abil ties," he said. "Remember, at one time in hi: tory African-Americans were cor sidered three-fifths human." And somehow if a black pei son makes it, we aren't seen a 'like the rest,'" he said. Reenea Harrison-Cook, coord nator for academic affairs fc South Carolina Honors Collegt said, "Women and minorities wi always have to work harder tha white, male counterparts, becaus there are people who feel we onl get positions because we ar minorities or because we ar women." South Carolina Honors Colleg Dean William Mould said the col lege actively seeks qualifie minorities for admission, but n Sum Need a bre this summe want to ha> Capstone C H_11 x! iuii-ume s available a week sa limited me< available Capstone Center, lob Deadline f is Februar ? e Committee discussion The 12- member committe which consists of faculty and stal r_ created the program in an unstrui hirpH format tn qIIou; ctnHpnlc I [J. IU.VU I i_ volunteer their perceptions on tl future of the university. l_ Young, who serves as the sti tt dent representative for the commi ie tee, said, "We have to learn froi the students what is a priority c js the list." r_ Priorities must be made withi lt each college as to what is impo ie tant for continuity, he said. ,o Provost James Moeser saic lt "This will give the students a opportunity for a direct voice." n\r w -L ^ continued from page 1 IC UlIC 15 given tuiyumig. )f "Affirmative action as it per ts tains to women isn't addressee :y because women make up slightly >e more than half of the populatioi ?t in the honors college," he said. Dark said most affirmative le action jobs are held by white women, but USC has a mixture o ;o males, females, blacks and whites, te USC President John Palms ha< :y a vision for the university that': more than numbers and statistics y he said. "We want USC to be t public institution that offen e opportunity. h Dark said that by the year 2000 n. about 85 percent of new entrant 1- to the American workforce will fx i- members of minority ethnit groups and white women. "We need to learn how to ge - along," he said. Reverse discrimination is a mis - nomer because people who don' s have anything can't take awaj from people who do, Dark said. "Anyone can be prejudiced, bu r blacks can't be racists," he said, i, "Some media and insecure peo 11 pie have misguided the general n public on affirmative action. 1 e don't believe in quotas, but I dc y believe in goals. I hope one da> e affirmative action will work itsel) e out of business, and we'll be able to look at women and minorities e and handicapped persons and the I- skills they bring," he said, d "We're doing better, but we o have a long way to go." iter Jobs! ak from the book Need te /e a fun job Conference Center tudent to work with \ camos. 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L It called the cabinet's perfor- c " mance "unsatisfactory," wording 11 that boded ill for actins Prime E r O Minister Yesor Gaidarm, who is 11 ) R expected to be tapped by Yeltsin to * ' be full prime minister when the ^ congress reconvenes Monday. In secret balloting, the Russian n ' president's opponents fell short of c the two-thirds vote needed to require Yeltsin to get the congress' Cl approval for cabinet appointments. ) work but I . Join the Staff. 20 iif positions conferences es $195.00 using and a Applications '93 at the uonlerence one House. W '**&*^< WWWT I Ireasury leader ; will be Bentsen j VASHINGTON ? President- < lect Bill Clinton picked Sen. \ Joyd Bentsen to be his Treasury j lecretary, a move designed to send j tie political signal that the dead- j 3ck between the White House and f Congress is over and to assure the c inancial markets of a calm, steady onH on f b A nohnn'o AAAnnmiA U1IU v/ll 111U II CI 11 v/ II O J" evers, Clinton advisers said 5 Saturday. / But these advisers, in r Washington and in Arkansas, also r aid the selection of the Texas f )emocrat and the fact that the top andidates for the directorship of tie Office of Management and r iudget also come from Congress s idicated how, after 12 years of ^ Republican presidents, Congress is n te only realistic place to turn for xperts who have dealt with pivotal , tatters like taxes and the budget eficit. s Clinton apparendy set aside con- ^ srns that Bentsen might be rapre ^ aluable as chairman of the Senate nance committee | 7 ' " Co ni I to the followi placed in c Darnell Salley Eric Zabka Dharmesh Pate Christine Duca Jenifer Estrada Craig Rickabai Jonathan Fowli Karen LaPoint Lynn Nguyen Jenifer Eitel Robert Sanche; Eric Hansen Glenn Kelly Jonathan Eptin Matthew Alfon Marylou Buzzt Corbie Doizer Dana Franks Lenore Hazzar Sunil Dharma Stacey Winters j|r ^9^ firrir SRS valuable site for environment COLUMBIA ? The Savannah ^iver Site nuclear weapons cornHex boasts one of the most ecologcally pure and valuable wildlife reserves, despite containing areas or chemical and radioactive waste lisposal, an ecologist said recently. Ecologists attribute the wildlife )reservauon 10 tne isolation ai >RS, a 300-square-mile area neai Uken virtually sealed off from nost humans. Large areas contain 10 roads, no power lines or even ootprints. "This area is so tightly protected 'ou can see it clearly in a satellite >hotograph," Whitfield Gibbons, a enior ecologist at the SRS cology Laboratory, told The State lewspaper. The laboratory is an arm of the Jniversity of Georgia. Researchers ince 1951 have been studying lants and animals at the nuclear /eapons complex operated by Vestinghouse Savannah River Co. or the U.S. Department of Energy. *ratula\ ng students w V ;u-up juus iui jr as of Decern BI-LO BELLSOUTH :1 DUPONT nay BI-LO BI-LO ]gh BECHTEL ;r BELLSOUTH RICHLAND I t^T i A T 1 HCKJV1AL V. THERMAL C i ALLIED FIB I MILES INC. UNION CAM g F.N. MANUF d WALT DISNE :tti WALT DISNE WALT DISNE WALT D1SNE d WALT DISNE MILIKEN BURROUGH! Sophomore psychology major Mary Lou Buzzetti talks to junior exercise science mainr > 3 Kelly Smith during Saturday's Carolina Cares food and clothing drive on Green Street in front of Russell House. O O o a> E 0 <D .C 1 O >N J2 O OJ 0) _J USC, GM team up to honor volunteers [ USC and General Motors Corporation are teaming up to rec: ognize three students who have i demonstrated their commitment to : helping others. The 1992/1993 General Motors : Volunteer Spirit Award is in its t sixth year and provides individuals, faculty, student clubs, and i community organizations the i opportunity to nominate students i iu leceive wen-ueserveu recognition for their service. General Motors sponsors this award on 40 college and university i campuses across the country, and has recognized more than 400 students to date. All USC students are eligible to apply for the award. The students must submit an application, along with two letters of recommendation to the Office of Community Service Programs and Student Life. Applications are available across campus. V ions m i i no nave oeen the spring iber 11. [ | [ W MEMORIAL J ERAMICS | ERAMICS J -> n . | IKS P I \CTURING | Y j Y Y \ 7 :$S& I I II Y | S WELLCOME ill; ' K