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NATIONWIDE
WASHINGTON (AP)?The dollar hit another record
low against the Japanese yen Monday as currency
markets brushed aside a massive rescue effort mounted
by the Clinton administration.
Currency traders estimated that the Federal Reserve,
acting on orders from the administration, sold
Japanese yen and German marks to purchase dollars
in a sum estimated at $1.5 billion to $2 billion,
possibly a record for Fed dollar purchases.
Hnwovor tVio arJmirnqfrflfirm's infprvpntirvn in
currency markets did little more than halt a steep
decline in the dollar. In late New York trading, the
U.S. currency was still below its levels of last Friday
against both the yen and the mark.
I Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin confirmed that
the United States was buying dollars in a statement
issued early Monday morning in which he repeated
past assurances that the administration was intent
on defending the U.S. currency.
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The cleanup of radioactive
waste left over from decades of nuclear weapons production
will'take longer than the Cold War itself and
cost between $230 billion and $350 billion, the government
estimated Monday.
The largest environmental cleanup ever undertaken
still is expected to leave hundreds of acres contaminated
with buried debris and cordoned off from
the public. Many of the other areas would be suitable
only for limited uses.
The staggering cost estimate announced Monday
by the Energy Department envisions a middleof-the
road approach to cleaning up the legacy from
nuclear research, production and testing during the
decades of the Cold War.
"The future use of the land and facilities will
largely determine if the cost is higher or lower," said
Thomas Grumbly, assistant secretary for environmental
management He said in many cases its not
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TODAY
Today is Tuesday, April 4, the 94th day of 1995.
There are 271 days left in the year.
Today's highlight in history:
On April 4,1968, civil rights leader the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr. was shot to death in Memphis,
Tenn. He was 39.
On this date:
In 1818, Congress decided the flag of the United
States would consist of 13 red and white stripes
and 20 stars, with a new star to be added for every
new state of the Union.
In 1841, President William Henry Harrison succumbed
to pneumonia one month after his inaugural,
becoming the first U.S. chief executive to die
in office.
In 1850, the city of Los Angeles was incorporated.
In 1887, Susanna Medora Salter became the first
woman elected mayor of an American community
? Argonia, Kan.
In 1902, British financier Cecil Rhodes left $10
millign in his will to provide scholarships for Americans
at Oxford University.
In 1945,50 years ago, U.S. forces liberated the
Mfl?i Heath camn OhrHmf in Germanv.
In 1945, U.S. troops on Okinawa encountered
the first significant resistance from Japanese forces.
In 1949,12 nations, including the United States,
signed the North Atlantic Treaty.
In 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves tied
Babe Ruth's home run record by hitting his 714th
round-tripper in Cincinnati.
In 1975, more than 130 people, most of them children,
were killed when a U.S. Air Force transport
plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crashed shortly
after take-off from Saigon.
Ten years ago: Gary Dotson, who served six years
of a prison sentence for rape, was freed on bail from
the Joliet Correctional Center in Illinois after his
accuser, Cathleen Crowell Webb, testified that the
attack had never occurred.
NOTEBOOK
Affirmative action forum today
State Reps. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, Jim Hodges and
Hunter Limbaugh will be the featured speakers today
at a panel on affirmative action.
The forum, sponsored by Young Democrats, will
be at 7:30 p.m. in the Russell House Ballroom.
International Week continues
The College of Journalism and Mass Communications
is sponsoring "The Media In Eastern Europe"
at 4 p.m. today.
International students from Eastern Europe will
discuss the role of the media and the expansion of
the communications industry in Eastern Europe.
The event will be in Russell House 304. Journalism
Professor Kent Sidel will moderate.
Clarification
In Thursday's edition of The Gamecock, the paper
"Direct Action of Endotoxin on Cardiac Muscle"
> mentioned in the article "Stroman named USC
Woman of the Year" was written by Rebecca Starr,
Alan Lader, George Phillips, Courtney Stroman and
Francis Abel.
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JENNIF1R HUSTON Staff Writer
University of Oklahoma Professor Anita Hill sp
students and Columbia residents on gender and r
Monday night in the Russell House Ballroom.
Hill, a member of the baby boom generation, beg
ing Generation X. Through her research, she has
Generation Xers are known as cynics, know-it-al
tive and selfish.
"I couldn't distinguish any difference betwes
boomers and Generation X."
She said if s Generation X's turn to face issues!
ual and racial harassment.
"It is time to start thinking about what the n
tion will do," she said.
USC student Aileen Jencius said, "I think she i
day hero."
Hill talked of sexual harassment in other cor
used a case of sexual slavery in Thailand as an exa
five females between 12 and 16 died in a brothel 1
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NANCY SALOMONSKY Staff Writers
USC can boast one of the best honors
programs in the SEC and in the state. About
6 percent of Carolina's undergraduates are
enrolled in the S.C. Honors College, said
Peter Sederberg, the college's dean.
The average requirements for students
admitted into the Honors College are at
least a 1,200 on the SAT and finishing in
the top 10 percent of their graduating class.
Honors housing is located in the Horseshoe
area.
"The Horseshoe is about 60 percent Honors
College and 40 percent nonhonors,"
Sederberg said.
Honors College offices are located on the
Horseshoe, and next school year there will
be an honors lounge, Sederberg said.
"Any qualified student in any major can
participate in the S.C. Honors College,'' he
said.
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must earn 45 honors credits including
a three-to-15-hour senior thesis.
"Seventy percent of the students complete
the requirement," Sederberg said.
"This is an official university honor, which
means that it will be written in transcripts,
on the diploma and in the graduation program."
USC offers between 85 and 90 honors
classes per semester. Some classes are already
existing university courses, but others
are created specifically for honors students,
such as "Infotech: Surfing the Net";
"Echoes in the Blues," a look into the roots
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The Honors College also offers a speciality
degree called Baccalaureus Artium P
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These students must fulfill the minimum
general education requirements for a de- ho
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the College of Science and Mathematics, a I
These students also must complete 69
honors hours and a nine- to- 15-hour the- so
sis. Students, who apply for the Baccalau- tei
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for four semesters, create their own spe- or
ciality degrees.
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honors program with a minimum 1,280 ta:
SAT score (before SAT changes) and a 3.6 ck
GPA, said Keith Legg, director of university
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not an honors college," Legg said. C
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Freshmen are invited to join Georgia's 1
nors program if they have a minimum
>re of 1,200 SAT on the SAT, with at least
>50 on the verbal, and a 3.86 GPA.
If incoming freshmen have a higher SAT
ire, usually a 1,400, they can be admiti
to the program with a 3.5 GPA, said
ndra Whitney, assistant director of hon3
Drocrams.
About 4.5 percent of the undergraduate
pulation at UGA is in the honors proam.
However, Georgia doesn't have spell
honors housing facilities on campus.
To graduate with a general honors deee,
students must take at least nine hon3
classes and maintain a 3.3 GPA. To earn
ligh honors degree, students must mainin
a 3.5 GPA and take at least 12 honors
isses, Whitney said.
Theses or projects are optional; they are
ne in conjunction with specific majors.
About 6 percent of Clemson's underaduate
students are enrolled in the hons
program, director Stephen Wainscott
id.
Students entering the program in the
11 semester must have scored at least a
300 on their SAT and be in the top 10 pernt
of their high school class, Wainscott
id.
At Clemson, there are two honors lev3:
the general, or junior, level and the seor
departmental honors experience.
Students in the junior program attend
sneral courses with other Clemson students
and complete honors-level coursework.
They are required to attend seminars
regularly each semester.
Senior honors students take hon
ors-level, undergraduate courses and
write and defend a thesis in their senior
year.
Honors students living on campus
have been moved from their traditional
residence hall, Clemson House, to Homes
Hall. Wainscott said the new facility
allows 300 honors students to live together,
versus the 200-student capacity
of Clemson House.
Only students in good standing are
allowed to live in honors dormitories,
Wainscott said.
Only students majoring in the arts
and sciences are allowed to participate
in the Fulbright Scholars program at
Arkansas, said Mary Tannehill, administrative
secretary for honors studies.
This year, there were about 650 students
in the program.
Admission into the Fulbright program
requires students to have at least
a 28 ACT score or at least an 1,170 on
the SAT. A 3.5 high school GPA also is
required. /
Fulbright students are required to
take 60 hours in the honors core curriculum,
research and write an independent
research project, and defend
the project before a committee.
At Arkansas, honors students have
the option of living in two honors dorms,
where housing reservations are made
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JAMES PONCE The Gamecock
ks Monday night in tho ballroom.
Faculty pass
service
amendment
ERIN GALLOWAY News Editor
More than 300 faculty members gathered
at the law school Monday to debate and vote
Dn several proposed amendments to the faculty
manual.
Of nine amendments to one resolution regarding
tenure, two amendments dealing with
the service issue were passed. The faculty manual's
guidelines for tenure now equally emphasize
teaching, research and service.
Tor many faculty members service is a major
academic function, interrelated with both
teaching and scholarship," amendment three
now reads.
The second amendment passed, amendment
four, now reads, The University is committed
to achievement in all three areas of its
mission. Collectively, the faculty profile of the
University and of any academic unit should
reflect a record of high quality teaching, research
and service....It will be unusual and exceptional
to award promotion and tenure merely
on the basis of strong performance in only
one of these areas."
Many faculty spoke in favor of the amendment.
"In some units, service forms a part of a tri
angle, which is interactive," library and information
sciences Professor Linda Walling
said.
She emphasized that service is an active
part of being a professor and that tenure recommendations
should be based on all three
aspects, not teaching and research alone.
Amendment four, proposed by the College
of Journalism and Mass Communications, also
met with debate.
"Service is an integral part of this university,"
journalism Professor Kent Si del said.
Journalism Professor Jerry Jewler, who
helped write the amendment, said, "The first
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USC student
arrested
in robberies
ANNE PAGE Staff Writer
Three men have been arrested by USCPD
in connection with several recent robberies on
campus, said Ernest Ellis, associate director
of law enforcement and safety.
Robert Johnson III of Columbia, a USC
freshman, was arrested March 23, Ellis said.
Johnson was charged with one count of attempted
strong-arm robbery and two counts
of strong-arm robbery, according to a media
release. He was released March 27 on a $20,000
surety bond, according to the report.
Hassan Warren, a 19-year-old Allen University
student, was arrested March 24 and
charged with one count of attempted strongarm
robbery, two counts of strong-arm robbery
and three counts of petit larceny. Warren was
released March 28 on a $35,000 surety bond,
according to the media release.
Johnson and Warren have been connected
to two robberies that occurred near Thomas
Cooper Library, and an attempted robbery
March 21 near LaBorde, according to the release.
Warren also is charged with three book
thefts in the library that occurred in February
and March.
Ujama Reese, also an Allen University student,
was arrested March 27, Ellis said. Reese
is charged with an attempted robbery near
LaBorde, a burglary March 20 at Bates and
breaking into a car March 18 in the Bates parking
lot, according to the media release.
According to the Richland County DetenARRESTS
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