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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.
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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
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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."
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)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."
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powers to hire and fire his cabinet. (
The Russian Congress of f
1 People's Deputies, the supreme leg- h
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members in the Kremlin twice a S
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' radical reforms under Yeltsin "did ^
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the two-thirds vote needed to
require Yeltsin to get the congress' Cl
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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
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Congress is over and to assure the c
inancial markets of a calm, steady
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Saturday. /
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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 |
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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
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SRS valuable site
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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.
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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.
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