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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.
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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
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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
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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
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level." There has beer
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affect their programs.
"I think a 5 percent cut in our
college in addition to the 10 percent
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ere hasn't been academic programs, said Judy
L990 VanSlyke Turk, dean of the College
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said. Thevll nications-UThis cut be devascuts
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cut will also neg- to be known as a nationally ranked
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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
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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
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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
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