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WEEKLYMEETINGS Gamma Beta Phi will hold ih 8:30 p.m. in RH Ballroom. Weekly Meetings Mondays, Sorority Council, 5 Mondays and Wednesdays, C 201. Call Darva James at 544-0664 Tuesdays, Carolina for KIDS August 30. Tuesdays, Carolina Cares, 7 p Tuesdays, Student Psycholog ference Room. Tuesdays, Homecoming Comr H ITT v i rii 1 i wecinesaays, student tjoveri Wednesdays, Fellowship of C lobby. Thursdays, "Heart to Heart,' 700 Pickens St. Thursdays, Intervarsity Chri House 303. For more information, c< Thursdays, Campus Crusade 1 RH307. Popularity of to increasing in S COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ? College undergraduates who majored in biology used to be just the ones who wanted i. _ .1 1 Tl..i l. _l u; gu lu meuicai scnooi. out Dioiogy majors keep increasing, as experts say students see the major as a meal ticket to a variety of jobs. Last year at the USC, more students majored in biology than any other particular subject - 881 undergraduates, or 5.4 percent of the student body. Hie growth in interest in science has a connection to the environment, said Roger Sawyer, chairman of USC's biology department. Mob "opportunities," Sawyer explained. Indeed, some of the best job prospects are in environmental fields like chemical engineering, water quality and dealing with chemical spills, said Patrick Scheetz, director of the College Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University. At Winthrop University in Rock Hill, 18 percent of the freshman class say they want to pursue a degree in biology. "That's still incredible - for us. I Wish T knew t.hf* rensnn whv * t I B ^ 4 I 6PM - 1C Buy any Large 2-Copping L'JsLt'E | pizza & pay whatever L I -J I dme you call! r^Tl |TOj^ K?SSa?S i w m "mEdiumTtoppi! ! $??* M jl Wannabe a 1 p Sure y( ^ W<=?'rp> mol/inn n cnorinl? |P people as student tour g |p to tell prospective stud |p and a great way to le pp historic campus! |P Interested? We hope yoi m McDonald in the Office p 0076. Plan to join us for this yea ^ auides Wednesdav. Sent II Lieber College on the Hor p the Office of Admissions). p| seeing you there. s first meeting Thursday, Sept. 1 at p.m., RH Theater ampus Rape Awareness, 6 p.m. RH , 6 p.m., RH 302. Opening meeting, >.m., RH 204. y Association, 7 p.m. Barnwell Connission, 7:15 p.m., RH 307. nment Senate, 5 p.m., RH Theater, hristian Athletes, 9 p.m., the Roost ' 7:00 p.m., Baptist Student Union, stian Fellowship, 8 p.m. in Russell mtact Richard Grinnan at 256-1211. hr Christ "Prime Time," 8-9:30 p.m., iology studies LC. colleges said biology professor James Johnston. High school counseling has helped spur the interest, too, Sawyer said. Counselors are telling students that a biology degree opens up careers in medicine, forensics, molecular biology, physical therapy, biotechnology, or .genetic engineering, among others. Freshman Martin Roetner of Poquoson, Va., a biology major, said he took "all the science I could in high school." He's bypassing first-semester bi ology because he got credits for courses he took at a community college near his home while in high school. He wants to be a doctor. Business is still popular, but not like it was a decade ago. ^ Nevertheless, it was the No. 1 major listed by this year's pool of USC applicants, Admissions Director Terry Davis said. South Carolina's business college remains one of the most popular among students, where 12.3 percent of all undergraduates were pursuing degrees in accounting, marketing, economics or finance. Xslli Ura QI9P JEEJ mm i SffiSffisoES" grrjTsrrT !GP!zza^!I|I ter 10pm | BjIFji Si" ^ ^EaJj. :our guide? ^ >u do! ^ effort to recruit special ^ uides. It's a great way ?nts about Carolina >arn about Carolina's I j are! Telephone Teah ^ of Admissions at 777- p r's first meeting of tour ^ ember 7. at5!00 PM in vm. seshoe (Lieber houses |p We all look forward to p| w Alcohol, creativ College Prm Service Los Angeles?Literary folklore has always been kind to alcoholic authors. For years, English majors have been told Ernest Hemingway's battle with the bottle led to bursts of creativity and writers from Edgar Allen Poe to William Faulkner flourished when fueled by liquor. But a leading researcher at UCLA is disputing those myths, saying instead that such prominent literary figures were not successful because of their alcoholism, but despite it. "There is an impression in creative literature that alcohol and creativity go together," says Ernest Noble, MD., Ph.D. "The fact is that alcoholics who wrote well were already very creative people. Their alcohol intake had nothing to do with their cre ativitj. Noble's study, one of the first to take a practical look at the subject, involved 56 families (fathers, mothers and sons) who were divided into three groups: recovering alcoholic fathers with a family history of alcoholism, non-alcoholic fathers with a family history of alcoholism, and non-alcoholic fathers without a family history of alcoholism. The study was supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Participants in the study filled out personality profiles, which tested their capacity for creativity, Speculation grows BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) ?Reports that the IRA was about to call a cease-fire after a quarter-century of bloodshed put nerves on edge Tuesday in Northern Ireland's majority Protestant community. Speculation became intense after Gerry Adams, leader of the Sinn Fein party, said Monday that he had met with IRA leaders and told them the time was right to "break the political, constitutional and militaiy stalemate and create the potential to eradicate the underlying causes of conflict." Adams, whose party is the main political ally of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, said the group's leaders promised a swift response. Many among the Protestant maioritv feared the IRA would not suspend its terror campaign to reunite the province with the largely Roman Catholic Irish republic unless it had won concessions from the British government. "The vast majority of people in Northern Ireland don't want civil war, but they are being compelled into a civil war situation by what the government is doing," said the Rev. Ian Paisley, the hard-line leader of the Democratic Unionist Party. WEBASEt /mum nuowii i vn Of SI A banking NO' HASSLES. I We created the Wac do than worry about banki and the Wachovia Banking Other features include you free checking. Stop by your there's more to life than ban Member FDIC Subject To Approval ity not good mixe imagination, originality, curiosity, intelligence and independent thought. Although Noble and his group of researchers found no difference between the three groups in terms of intelligence, they did find that the recovering alcoholics and their sons received lower scores than the other two groups in creativity tests. The recovering alcoholics and their sons tended to be less expressive and imaginative. They did not respond to aesthetic stimuli as the others did and were more shy, pessimistic and less able to acknowledge new ideas. "We found that children of alcoholics are less creative than their peers who come from families without histories of alcoholism," says Noble, adding U1UK UIC CI1UC1U? tlas >3UU3UUltiai. 11D UUV1UUS UlUL the creativity suffers substantially when people have a history of drinking." While Noble does not discount the effect drinking may have on the immediate creative process, he does think long-term drinking is more detrimental to originality than people acknowledge. "I realize that a couple of glasses of wine might help the creative process, but we're talking about serious drinking," Noble says. "We have this cultural expectation that in order to be this creative person, you need to be a drunk." There are some English majors who are aspiring to be great poets and novelists, and they think > that IRA close to c The Ulster Defense Association, one of the two main Protestant-based paramilitary organizations, warned of civil war if the IRA had its way. "Do you, the Irish, seriously believe we will sit back and allow ourselves to be coerced and persuaded into an all-Ireland?" the group, which also is outlawed, said in a statement to news media. The British government denied there had been any change in its policy on Northern Ireland. The British and Irish governments agreed in 1 December that there would be no change in Northern Ireland's status without the consent of a majority of its people. They also said Sinn Fein could 1 not participate in peace talks unless the IRA per- 1 manently halted violence. ] "Contrary to wild speculation over the weekend, there has been no shift in the attitude of Her Majesty's government in regard to the constitutional position of Northern Ireland," said 1 .InmoQ Mnlvnoanv loorlor nf TTIafor ITninniot j Party, the largest Protestant-based party in North- , ern Ireland. In Dublin, Prime Minister Albert Reynolds of 1 Ireland met with his Cabinet on Tuesday. Uncon- < BSSe ?NTTIME HANAt W KIDDING. OH YEAH. 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"But there is a difference between a legitimate battle and one created simply for the sake of experience," Barr says. "You cannot choose your demons, they only choose you. If someone is an alcoholic, and they happen to write beautifully, that's one thing. If a person drifts to alcohol because he thinks it will help his creative process, he's probably mistaken." Noble agrees, saying that great writers historically regarded as alcoholics rarely mixed their il i * * * annxing wun meir wnnng. "Most 01 tnese writers did their work when they were in their sober phase," says Noble. "When they were drunk, they couldn't write a damn thing. They couldn't even hold a pen." ailing cease-fire firmed news reports said the Irish government had been informed of the terms of an IRA cease-fire announcement. Irish rebels fought under the IRA banner against Britain between 1916 and 1921, when the Irish republic became independent and Northern Ireland remained part of Britain. But the IRA was inactive and poorly armed when ethnic violence blew up in Northern Ireland in 1969. Hie "provisional" wing of the IRA took up arms in 1970, months after British troops were put on the streets to separate Catholic and Protestant mobs. Aided by arms shipments from Libya, the rerived IRA developed into a disciplined and inventive guerrilla force. Its tactics included sniper attacks on army patrols, long-range attacks with lomemade mortars, huge bombs that shattered town centers and pocket-size incendiaries that devastated shops. itlEEE DMCIPLE mi I t who has better things to lovia ATMs at no charge but works like a check), protection, and get this, liege Account. After all, WACHOVIA