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Forecast : : \ Index : HKShHHII : ^rk): Labor of loans i News 1 Today ; ? _*? JpCr^r- hA * Student loans cause cash crunch, especially K3L Sunny ; W, H i V/l IT i ?"er graduation. : viewpoints....3 wii^Fsotfifrnrb- i* P^J Partly sunny i HlTjMB m Vfl I I I IW I I II - l\ j Carolina Charnr High 67 : Back to the I P-^ V W U \ Pamhers appeal to Gary Jones. # t=LJ Low37 : bases j j i Paae 6 ! : Classifieds....8 I rdyeD * Serving USC since 1908 ? NEWS BRIEFS ~ WORLDWIDE WASHINGTON (AP)?The United States and Mexico signed an agreement Tuesday that will unlock $20 billion in U.S. support to stabilize the Mexican peso ? but under tough terms that could cause severe economic and political distress in Mexico. Officials in the Clinton administration and the government of Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo acknowledged that hard times lie ahead for Mexico. But they stressed the situation would have been much worse without the support package. "Under these agreements, Mexico should be able to take the steps necessary to end its liquidity crisis and in time the Mexican economy, wnicn is ranaamentally sound, should stabilize," Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said at a signing ceremony. Rubin said the agreement had taken political cqurage by the Mexicans in agreeing to the "kind of stringent economic medicine this program requires." In order to receive the U.S. support, Mexico pledged to continue a tight-money policy that has already seen interest rates soar to nearly 50 percent, to run a budget surplus of 0.5 percent this year and to move more quickly toward privatizing state-run enterprises. TODAY Today is Wednesday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 1995. There are 312 days left in the year. Today's highlight in histoiy: On Feb. 22,1732, the first president of the United States, George Washington, was born at his parents' plantation in the Virginia Colony. On this date: In 1889, President Cleveland signed a bill to admit the Dakotas, Montana and Washington state to the Union. In 1892, the Oscar Wilde play "Lady Windermere's Fan" was first performed, at London's St. James's Theater. In 1924, Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House. In 1934, the romantic comedy "It Happened One Night," starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, opened at New York's Radio City Music Hall. In 1935, it became illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House. In 1973, the United States and Communist China agreed to establish liaison offices. In 1980, in a stunning upset, the United States Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets at Lake Placid, N.Y., 4-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.) In 1984, a 12-year-old Houston boy known publicly only as David, who'd spent most his life in a plastic bubble because he had no immunity to disease, died 15 days after being removed from the bubble for a bone-marrow transplant. NOTEBOOK Candkiates debate today in front of Russd House The Student Government candidates in the runoff election Thursday will debate today in front of the Russell House at 1 p.m. Candidates facing off for president are Amy Bigham and Teresa Wilson; vice presidential candidates are Darcie Shively and Peter Siachos and treasurer candidates are Jermaine Britton and Jonathan Dick son. The debate is sponsored by the Young Democrats and Carolina's book store. Financial aid workshop to be held Feb. 25 The USC TRIO program will offer a financial aid workshop on National Trio Day Saturday, Feb. 25 from 9-11:30 a.m. at the Booker T. Washington Auditorium on Wheat Street. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. and is open to all Richland County residents. The workshop will provide counselors to help economically disadvantaged people select the type of higher education that best suits their needs and also helps them complete federal financial aid forms. Participants must bring a copy of their 1994 federal income tax returns. For more information, call USCs TRIO Programs at 777-5127. Carolina Camp counselor applications due today Students interested in sharing their experiences and knowledge about USC with incoming freshmen during Carolina Camp, an optional summer orien tation experience, can pick up a counselor application in the Career Center, sixth floor of the business administration building. Deadline is today at 5 p.m. Paper recycling 1! how saving ? Iswnri rv,;n ItlllllUII UCW i ^ USC resea TINA MORGAN Asst. News Editor A USC experiment exploring drug therapies will take off with NASA's Endeavor Space Shuttle mission scheduled for a launch March 2 at Cape Canaveral. The purpose of this study is to explore ways to improve the quality of life on earth through effective drug design, particularly in the treatment of cancer, and to identify optimal treatments for humans during long-term space flights " said Edward Fiepmeier, USU professor in the College of Pharmacy and coordinator of the research team that includes USC students. The NASA experiment will examine the effects that doxorubicin, a drug widely used in the treatment of cancer, has on leukemia cells in zero gravity. "One of the most important problems in cancer treatment today is the resistance that cancer cells develop to drugs, making these drugs ineffective in combating the disease. This same kind of resistance also occurs with infections, making it imperative for new antibiotics to be developed as bacteria become Mioiotant tn nlrtar nntihintipQ " Pionmpipv said Options for treating cancer today may involve surgery and/or chemotherapy. Howev +'s< BpP? Faculty feai CRISnNA ROJAS Staff Writer ~ A 5 percent budget cut for USC beginning July 1,1995 was pro- gOilt; posed by the Ways and Means Com- j mittee of the House of Representatives to give property owners a tax break. Although a new proposal that would reduce the cut to 2.5 percent at any is currently under review by the Thi Ways and Means Committee, some cent a still feel the cut will adversely af- kinder feet the university. "Tt "I think a lot of the people do- is to h ing the budget cut are going into it gram; blindsighted," said Faculty Senate vice pr Chair Marcia Welsh. "To get an ed- "For e ucation isn't a luxury anymore, and cuts in I think if s wrong to cut education grams McNair progrc TMEFFA HARPER Asst. News Editor The Ronald E. McNair Graduate Schol Program is offering 20 students from South ( olina institutions the opportunity to learn no about graduate degrees and academic care while working closely with faculty ment< The scholars program is named in honor Ronald E. McNair, a South Carolina nat physicist and Challenger astronaut. It offers nority and disadvantaged undergraduates chance to work with faculty mentors and le more about attending and paying for gradi school and careers in academics. Students are involved in an academic j component and summer residential progr "The academic year entails working with A irch project er, cells often become resistant to the drugs in chemotherapy. "Whenever chemotherapy is the major source of cancer treatment, the failure to cure cancer is caused by the cancer cells' resistance to the drugs used," Piepmeier said. Piepmeier said he believes that factors causing resistance may be more easily identified in the zero-gravity environment of space where cellular metabolism, which influences drug resistance, is altered. "One of this study's main goals is to help increase the number of drugs available to the patient by developing a better way to determine which of the drugs will be clinicaPsuccesses," Piepmeier said. The experiment on the space flight will involve the mission specialist mixing leukemia cells and drugs. Several days later, the mixture will be prepared for analysis back on earth. Piepmeier will retrieve the cells when the space shuttle lands and bring the cells back to USC for further studies on drug resistance. USC College of Pharmacy students involved in the study are Beth Hilscher, Ron Stroman, Lori Huddleston, Elizabeth Mead, Ginger Vivas and Les Brewer. These students were choNASA page 2 . fi< ' * ' '^;r * i L - -- 1 ' money loss ink a lot of the people doing the bud? g into it blindsighted. To get an educa luxury anymore, and I think it's wrong education at any level.' Faculty Senate Chairwoman Marcia Welsh level." There has beer e state will be cutting 5 per- USC of about 16 pe cross the board except in four years, and th garten through high school, an increase since 1 te approach of the budget cut "We can't take old safe any academic pro- across the board," W and try to cut from the ser- have to be specific ogramming first," Welsh said, Others feel the xample, there won't be any atively affect the i Jv:-I ?T our JMigusn anu uiuiu^y pi v- x uuiuv uic piu is going to be dev on offers close i :ers ulty mentors who oversee the student's ac 3^s' mic activities, and it seeks to encourage . r" dents to go to graduate school and work ii lve' reers in academics," said Michial Gill, dire of the Ronald E. McNair Graduate Scholars the Mentors monitor student progress, intra e students to faculty responsibilities, providi posure to academic research and help stud 'ear with graduate school applications and GRE am. fac During the summer, scholars are involvi to launch in vx^v^ ~" 1HH^ i F Pharmacy professor Edward Piepmeler and pt conduct an experiment on a project that will Ih Spin the Wheel Art studio junior Jami McKinnon, ift, spins clay on the wheel Tuesday night during the introduction to f tne siuaenis ana me university. * CUt Some colleges believe it will directly affect their programs. "I think a 5 percent cut in our college in addition to the 10 percent , a hudfTPt rut at ^ weVe already had over the last ^ "? definitely cut into our ere hasn't been academic programs, said Judy L990 VanSlyke Turk, dean of the College . anv rnnrp rnta Journalism and Mass Commureish said. Thevll nications-UThis cut be devascuts " tating, and it will affect our ability cut will also neg- to be known as a nationally ranked poaedbudget cut [ Tnth# BA school, the cut can astatine," said have some significant effect, said FACULTY page 2 rnrk with faculty ade- intense course study, consisting of research stu- methodology, offered through the psychology 1 ca- department. Four credit hours can be earned, sctor and the course is designed to provide the founPro dation for a research prospectus on a topic approved by the scholars faculty, iuce The program also offers a stipend that proi ex- vides $750 for the successful completion of the ents summer program and $50 a month during the test- academic year for a total of $2,400. Room and board and tuition for the summer program are ;din GREENBACKS page 2 :eramics class. Below, art education ;enior Melinda Bellamy works on a sculpture during the class. Photos by Kim Truett i ir 11 jfe ' p ' - ' jfllHj It ; ' *-:> sjg, i will hurt USC Thomas Davis, associate dean of Jet Cllt are The College of Applied ProfessionitiOII isn't a ^ sci611088-"^8 t? affect both ito orbit ... If: ll? Photo/Marketing and Madia Relation? >ftri.aflin.nrA CIU?kA4k ldllll?ltj 9IUUOIH KiiAauvm mvau > sent into space March 2. Budget cut might be reduced to 2.5 percent MATTPRUITT Staff Writer The state legislature's plan to cut next year's budget by 5 percent may be revised, according to State House representatives. The new plan proposes a 2.5 percent cut over the next two years, as opposed to a 5 percent cut. The proposal is still under review in the Ways and Means Committee. If the Committee votes favorably for the proposal, it will move into the Legislature for a vote. Rob Springall, a graduate assistant fnrTTSf! Student Cnvernment said he feels that student demonstrations played a role in the decision to reduce the budget cut. 1 think it had a lot of positive impact," Springall said. It was well covered around the state, and it certainly got a few people talking about it when it maybe wasn't as hot an issue before" Springall said. "A few legislators still feel as though the 1822-year-old vote isn't as important the 40-45-year-old vote, but those are the same people who already have an idea about what should be cut at uaronna. The ones we were really concerned with were those who were already on the side of higher education. We wanted to say, "The students are behind you, and we still care whafs going on up there.' We also hoped to maybe sway some of those that were on the fence. It was also just good to get the issue out through media coverage," Springall said. He also said lobbying, letters and phone calls by USC President John Palms and help from the friends of higher education, such as Tim Rogers, in the legislature helped. Recycling efforts need student help uriTurn icuvftie o?~? uu? FILM I ntn JUimiw oiaii tviuci Though plastic foam recycling has been going on at USC for three to foui years, lack of student participation has caused University Dining Services tc remove a recycling bin at Gibbes Court A foam compactor was put in Gibbes Court in Capstone, but it had to be removed because students were either not recycling or not separating their trash said Carl Chandler, general managei of University Dining Services. "Students were putting anything in mixing Styrofoam and paper," Chandler said. "There was not enough to recycle. "That's one area we need to wori on," Chandler said. "Students really need to help out with this problem.' The recycling program has strug gled to make students aware of the pos itive results gained through recyclinf and some progress has been made. "Students do not want to take th< time to separate their trash," said Christo RECYCLING page 2