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China plans for Hong Kong dispute i BEIJING ? China set up a com- 1 miltee Thursday that could be the 1 seed of a "shadow government" to rival British rule during Hong ' Kong's last years as a British 1 colony. China hopes lo increase pressure on Hong Kong Gov. Chris Patten to drop his proposal to , expand popular participation in i legislative elections before the colony is handed over in 1997. Premier Li Peng said it was up 1 to Britain to take the first step to resolve the dispute. The committee was approved by China's legislature, the National People's Congress, with 2,828 delegates voting in favor and just 43 voting no or abstain- , ing. Passage was followed by a i quick burst of applause. Li told a news conference that < British businessmen were still 1 welcome to invest in China and singled out the British-Danish oil ! conglomerate Shell, which is j helping build a refinery in China. HUMANE tions would save more than $2 mill "would dismantle our liberal arts core." She said, "We can trim here and d nowhere close to $2.6 million." Citing the English department's expe of nine of its 54 faculty members, K* that humanities cannot afford to cut a without damaging its ability to teach ba: es, like freshman English. She said ] faculty provided "the least expensi\ effective instructional dollar." The only recommended cuts were tl nation of the sculpture track of the a major and the contemporary Europeai degree. One committee member asked Sh Akhavi, th? chairman of the Col Humanities and Social Sciences Committee, which assessed the impat cuts on the college, how devastating it1 if the committee were to cut everything. Akhavi said previous cuts "have gott bare bones of our budget" and they "coi the operating budgets." The humanities tee tried identifying the weakest progr "there aren't too many weaknesses," he If humanities were to lose 41 fa would threaten the closure of the d degrees in linguistics, creative writing, history and philosophy; and seriously the comparative literature, art edi English, history, philosophy, religious sociology and acting programs. Future Committee Chairman ai Provost James Moeser said, "I see an u ness from humanities to cut. I get no s the hard questions were asked about ex grams. I feel that the critical mas occurred. Were expendable programs be cut?" Kay said she considered cutting the and religious studies programs. When tion "Should a secular college have ; ment of religious studies?" was posed, it serves to meet the university core ments and interdisciplinary studies, ar fore, should not be eliminated. CHAMPS me How long a CHAMPS A M / April, Find Out About Drugs, Sex & j . 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The New York Times 1 Thursday quoted Edzard Reuter, I the chairman of Daimler-Benz i AG, which owns Mercedes-Benz, j as saying the Carolinas are a possibility because Daimler-Benz already has a presence there with 1 its Freightliner heavy truck sub- i sidiary. < "We've been looking at a ] number of countries outside of Germany," Mercedes-Benz spokesman Fred Heiler said earli- 1 er this week. "Several people have said the short list includes i Portugal, the U.S. and some | countries in Eastern Europe. ] That's as far as it has gone. It hasn't been narrowed down any further at this point." riES continued froi ion, but Kay proposed a $100 the usage of Rutledge C lere, but dings. Proposed addition; plies and foreign languag cted loss Kay asked to use 20 ty added enrichment fee to unden ny more expenditures problems. I sic class- to 20 percent of the core ^art-time dents, such as languages /e, most The College of Bus however, has failed to pr le elimi- used to pay faculty for it studio Kay said. 1 studies As a result, Kay has office to compensate the lahrough native ways to finance [lege of the business college's f< Future MIBS enrichment fee, :t of the operating in a deficit f would be said. "Either we'll have to en to the we may have to drop the uld go to MIBS students force commit- additional course section ams, but vice a few students and said. its budget, culty, it These sections, usuall loctorate dents, cost as much to ri English, 30 to 40 students. They damage guage courses costing 1< ucation, sessions than during the studies, of this, the expenditures i far exceed the revenues ? id USC In response Moeser s; nwilling- we should write blank ense that tracks." cess pro- In total, humanities is s hasn't one of its degree pro? asked to German, compared to < considering ending s< German VanSlyke Turk, deai Trviirnoliem nnd \4 oor r uic v^uw jwuiiioiioui mm iviaw a depart- the German Masters was Kay said sacrificial lamb." require- Kay said the humanit id, there- ommended that Germai more carefully so that w ans TENNIS I in you last? Marathon >3-24 AIDS. Cau. 1-800-32^AiDS HL trncc ejt? HLPftOS ^ 'L* FULL SERVICE OIL CHANGE hange NOT VAUD WITH OTHER | DISCOUNTS. EXPIRES S31-93 D BUSH I 119 RABON ROAD ROAD OAKS SEVEN OAKS >ING SHOPPING TER CENTER 638 788-8899 wmi Malicious Inju Library, BA Buil* Stadium graves * waler in[?1 sorae , _0 estimated damage deserve honor CHARLESTON ? The city -T tl, . Lost Wallet, lh mould pay lor a monument to ,<-,*, ' ' ? . lei t the University lonor 36 Conlederate sailors and 4 . .... that time. When iiannes whose graves later were . , , , 0 noticed her wallet :overed by The Citadel's football J contents are worth vadium and parking lot, a state a ??,,,! with in >cnaioi says. 0jf Bumey residen Sen. Glenn McConnell said oel some male vj; Wednesday thai he considered q,c residence h Jie city at least partly responsible die victim. The ca for not making sure the cemetery Larceny of Br was moved before Johnson person(s) stole ai Magood Stadium was built. tents of the bookt McConnell wrote Mayor Joe a cassette. The tot Riley, requesting that the city research the situation and, in a Sun separate letter to Citadel Larceny of Lict President Claudius Watts III, The unknown sus isked that the school allow the parked car. The v; nonument to be built. A school spokesman said the lVIor equest would be considered at ? P?rse- H Jie school's governing board in purse at the buile Vlay. The Citadel bought the are worth about $ ;ity-owned stadium in the 1960s. " Illegal Use of suspect keeps ca m page 1 fee to be charged for to beef it up or eliminate it." lhapel to conduct wed- Gunter Hoist, chairman of the il fees were for art sup- German, Slavic and Orienta e laboratories. protested the decision. "We wei percent of the MIBS on the Masters degree eliminatio write her current MIBS on an upcoming vacancy. To sa? -lumanities provides 18 bowled over by the committee's courses for MIBS stu- tion is putting it lightly, and geography. "We may be small, but it's tl iness Administration, the state. It is of good quality, at ovide any of the money mendations are counterproductive teaching such classes, Kay also asked the committee ROTC programs to the provost's used money from her posed to move the Suicide Centei faculty and find alter- school if it was willing, and tl her office. Because of marching band be supported b lilure to give them the department, humanities has been To combat large classes, teac 'or several years, Kay and a severe understaffing of r faculty, Kay requested funds to h get this money, or else al 43 faculty members, program," Kay said. Kay also stressed that her pr humanities to create the humanities college's desire to s in the summer to ser- nological, international and in occupy a large piece of studies and activities. Several cc bers and Hoist said cutting the G y consisting of six stu- contradicted this new focus. Lin as a class section of Moeser asked if the new fac are often intensive lan- used to replace those professors sss during the summer retiring. "Will you be spreading t regular year. Because over 30 V departments? If so, i for the summer sections a thin veneer over your probh generated by them. ' know, are you going to spread aid, "I don't think that weak departments, or are you j checks to fund empty them on the strongest programs?" By focusing the additional pre consiuenng eumuiauug ?>uoiigesi uepaiuiienu>, muc>>ci n ;rams, the Masters in - and Oniversity could then begin 3ther colleges that are weaker programs and still mainu everal degrees. Judy ing. 1 of the College of Kay replied, "What you're pro immunications, asked if ancing act. I can't really answer \ ; being cut simply as "a The humanities hearing was tl the committee, which will now b ies committee only rec- weighing all the budget proposi n would "be reviewed ting its recommendations to USC 'e could decide whether Palms May 1. > In the March 31 edition of The Gamecock, the stoi assaults prompt concern among university officials, stud tained an error. There were two sexual assaults reported f 1992. The Gamecock regrets this error. i 4 j^^^AHSeats$??0( KMWjTOCTiDiscount Matinees-j Before " "Rush Hour" I BiTffifeifftffi iff . A! 4 -t Last Matinee SI Tuesday Bargain Nite I Columbiana Student Specials S4. | vSfc C?n|er >X Late Nite shi X4* ,m\ / I Friday &Sa . Box Office Oper 1 I 'a. X- Cop And A Hi I ^ ^IBinaWI A '" "" 2:30 4:30 7: I The Crying Game E^^^Hea^N^Evil I ^00^00^7^5^4^12^00^^1-115 3 50 715 Born Yesterday ^ -1 1:30 4:15 7:15 9:3012:00 M Married to It I ? r_=-1:00 4:00 7:00 I Jack the Bear lPG13l I , 1:10 3:45 7:10 9:30 12:00 ^Pnint Of Mn F ! Huckleberry Finn 3:45 7:15 12:00 2:15 4:30 7:00 9:20 12:00^^^^ """^ I Teenage Mutant f I The Crush [R] 12:002:154:307:009 J 2:30 2:30 4:30 7:20 9:45 12:00 The following crimes were reported to USC jay, March 26 hanging ry to Personal Property. Spring ? Auto ding. Unknown person(s) poured entered expensive equipment. The total s,0'c a 1 is $200. forced e about $6 rday, March 27 Auto omas Cooper Library. The victim the v'ieti ' Bookstore and had her wallet at radio. T she arrived at the library, she *s worth : was missing. The wallet ana its i about $55. itent to Kill. Third floor stairwell HSimpl ce hall. The victim was trying to victim s sitors who stayed past curfew out directioi all The suspect pulled a knife on strL se is under investigation. victim : >okbag. Bates House. Unknown scene. 1 unattended bookbag. The con- Malic >ag included a sweater, shoes and Hall. Th ai estimated damage is $84. vision a loons. day, March 28 mse Plate. Behind the Band Hall. pect(s) stole a license plate of a ? Mega due of the plate is $15. victim < her. iday, March 29 Auto umanities. The victim lost her suspects ling. The contents and the purse two t>as< 10. damage Telephone. Harper Elliott. The Jling the victim repeatedly and DEAN. "CPCU Journal" and "Th< department of of Business Research" an 1 Languages, ate editor for "The Journa ren't consulted and Insurance" n or the freeze Obtainer of doctorate in i that we were administration from ; recommenda- University Trennepohl is an assoc tie only one in of Texas A&M's busines id these recom- His accomplishments are: Hoist said. Co-author of two textb to transfer the author of several professic office and pro- nal articles to the medical Chairman-elect of the tat half of the Management Association y the athletics Consultant to the Chica Options Exchange an hing overloads Pension Trust nortfythan 100 Obtainer of a doctorate ire an additionoposal reflects focus on tech terdisciplinary Continued from p?l? mrimittee mem rerman Masters tions are outlawed, ba abortions could become a ulty would be Brown showed a video ai who might be of some of the medica] hose 43 faculty involved in abortion that t appears to be been proven, sm. I want to "I came to the meeting 1 them out over wanted to hear both side going to focus story," business freshm Greg said. "So many o afessors on the under many misconceptioi aid the college was interested to learn mc eliminating its abortion." ain good teach- One woman present at I inn coiH cht> ccimp lr\ tho m 11I?1 OOIU Oliv VU11IV ivy uiv 111 posing is a bal- __ ^our question." le final one for Give the gift of egin the task of Give Blood! lis and submit- American Red Cr< President John South Carolina Regit Blood Services HISTORIC m ELMWOOD P "" 1-1 "Qlll All Seats $3.50 | I 10pm Special I TOUR of HO how $2.75 i-AII Seats $3.50 April 3, I99 00 w/student ID m nn a aa ows on 101003.111-4-100pn turday IS at 12:30 Advance Tickets $ alf ^ B Mais Oui Ltd. 929 Gervais St. 9:50 12:00^1 Tickets on Day of Toi Logan School o on o 815 Elmwood Av< 9:30 12:00 M !eturn|]3^w Art Exhibits - Refresh 9:45 12:00^ Mid-day Lunchec Minja Turtles Come nde ^ trQ| 2012:00 |?(|] Police through March 31 up. Breaking. Wheat Street. The suspect the car by unknown means. The suspect rubber mallet, hammer and clay tools. No ntry seemed evident. The total damage is 0. Breaking. S-23 Lot. The suspect(s) broke nrs passenger side window and stole the he value of the radio is $211. The window about $100. Tuesday, March 30 e Assault and Battery. Gibbes Court. The aid the suspect came up to her, asking for ts to Arnell College. Afterwards, the susick the victim's bottom with his hands. The icreamed, and the suspect fled from die ious Injury to Personal Property. Columbia e victim said the suspect damaged the telend VCR and wet the bed will} water balWednesday, March 31 1 Use of Telephone. Columbia Hall. The aid the individuals have called to harass Breaking. Pendleton Street Garage. The broke a passenger door window and stole jball hats and a radar detector. The value of is $360. Compiled by Alissa Easton :ontinued from page 1 ; Journal ness administration from Texas d associ- Tech 1 of Risk Retired major in Air Force Reserves business "The short list of candidates for Indiana the position of dean is still being refined." said Susie VanHuss. iate dean chairwoman of the committee and s school. a busjness professor at USC. As part of their interviews, the oolcs and >nai our candidates addressed the business >n jour faculty on a prepared list of topics. Financial VanHuss saicl- She said the candidates will meet with other business ctq Boarcj faculty members at an informal d Shell reception so that the men can be met in "a more contfortable setin busi- ling." FTAM 11U11 ;e 1 ck-alley hear what pro-choice people had to problem, say. She, herself, had a abortion a tid spoke few years ago and said she feels [ factors she should fight to keep abortion have not legal. She said she was not saying she because I thought it was right, but that cer:s of the lajn situations call for an abortion. an Julie "$ome people just do not have a f us ^ choice," she said. as, an "[f abortion is outlawed, then ire about , ,, , people would resort to back-alley be meet- abortions, and women will die," leeting to s^e believes. fl ? nwws I oeauiy anu mo oeasi Book and Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN Music by ALAN MENKEN mmmSEBBSSSSm ments )n BpSBlSB