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Financial markets initially rallied on the news It Au\?vt 4-V* r\ /-w4- fVl rt Willi euJlluuilBUS UlfUiig ncai i n urn LUC latt tuat tuc steep slide in the dollar has so far failed to show up in higher prices. But the gains melted away later in the day after remarks by Federal Reserve board member Janet Yellen called into question the market's view that the Fed is through raising interest rates. The Dow Jones industrial average finished the day down 11.07 at 4,187.08. Bond prices, however, were up, pushing the yield on Treasury's benchmark 30-year bond down to 7.37 percent in late trading as many investors continued to hold to the view that benign inflation reports were showing the Fed's string of seven rate increases had accomplished its inflation-fighting goals. Many economists said the PPI report added to their convictions that the central bank has put any further credit tightening on hold. TODAY Today is Wednesday, April 12, the 102nd day of 1995. There are 263 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: Fifty years ago, on April 12,1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., at age 63. Vice President Harry S. Truman became the nation's 33rd chief executive. On this date: In 1861, the Civil War began as Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. In 1862, Union volunteers led by James J. Andrews stole a Confederate train near Marietta, Ga., but were later caught. (This episode inspired the Buster Keaton comedy The General.") In 1934, the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel Tender Is the Night" was first published by ScribneFs in New York. In 1955, the Salk vaccine against polio was declared safe and effective. T? O :-J. V,,~; in lyoi, ooviei uuauiunaui iuii vxageuiii utxauic the first man to fly in space, orbiting the Earth once before making a safe landing. In 1981, the space shuttle Columbia, carrying astronauts Robert L. Crippen and John W. Young, blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on its first test flight. NOTEBOOK Philosophy colloquium today Jacqueline Colby, from the philosophy department at the University of Alaska at Anchorage, will speak on "What's Wrong with a Rights-Based Account of Consent?" today at 4 p.m. in Gambrell Hall room 258. A reception will precede the event at 3:30 p.m. in the Welsh Humanities Office Building room 615. Non Lawyers program set for Columbia The South Carolina Bar Young Lawyers Division is sponsoring a Law School for Non Lawyers program April 18 through May 23 at the USC School of Law. The six-week program is designed to teach the general public about law. Members of the public must sign up in advance to attend the program from 7-9 p.m. Tuesday nights. Topics will include an overview of the judicial system, domestic and family law, estate planning and real estate law, consumer law and debt collection, personal injuiy, tort liability and insurance and criminal law. The registration fee for the course is $25. Class size is limited. To register, send checks payable toSouth Carolina Bar and your name, address and phone number to: SC Bar, Leah Johnson, PO Box 608, Columbia, SC 29202. Confirmations will be mailed. For more information, call 799-6653. PICTURETHiS The Crying Game / J\ \ Average length | \ \ 01 an aauu try ^ x~z. <. i i in minutes: 6 ? J J Source: Harper's Index GABRIEL MADDEN The Gamecock Fowler ere UNA MORGAN Asst. News Editor DORA DEVERA Staff Writer Democratic National Committee Co-Chairman Do] spoke to Carolina students and faculty Tuesday aboi complishments of Presidents Bill Clinton and Franl sevelt and the implications of the Republican "Conti America." The Clinton administration doesn't get the crei serves, said Fowler, a USC government and intematio ies professor since 1964. Fowler praised the administration for generating lion new jobs, cutting the deficit by $600 billion ar nating 200,000 federal bureaucratic positions. South Carolina has benefited from the creation than 26.000 new iobs each of the Dast two vears, a 61 [ Finding your roots ~T 1 MEtE ? Hng Alpha Lambda Delta freshman honor soc ject. President Andrew Tarrant and memb New music bull TINA MORGAN Asst. News Editor The USC School of Music expects to move into 1 on the corner of Assembly and College streets as ea The $17.5 million project houses a 102,000-squi 60,000 square feet of which is classroom, library a The move will consolidate the School of Music in tion for the first time in 20 years. "The situation of working out of six buildings ha tive, and the fact that the faculty could work through tain their enthusiasm and emotion and still turn < dents is a real tribute to them," said Dorothy Payne, < of Music. The school will still retain the band hall for the m some aspects of the preparatory program. The scl tinue the practice of using Gambrell Hall for some of Dean Payne said she hopes to establish a recits undergraduates play at 4 p.m., and there is a gra 5:30 p.m. Evening hours in the new hall would be i artists and doctoral recitals. The building will also house a new two-story lil features an automated audio system for listening pact discs. The library will give the general stude BUI may give CRISTINA ROJAS Staff Writer a * ?? ??; Rep. Tim Rogers D-Richland, has proposed a bill that would appoint a student to the USC Board of Trustees and give the student vot ing power. "It's a bill that I introduced previously," Rogers said. Tm reintroducing it to see if if 11 ca pass this time." Rogers brought the bill up before in 1988, ^ but it did not pass the Senate. "The problem is there's a lot to be consid- ^ ered," said Edward Floyd, chairman of the Board of Trustees. "The Legislature in the past hasn't been fit to accept the bill, but they've just changed our board, so we'll see." W( But first, the bill must pass the Academics m Affairs Committee. If the committee approves ^ it, the Board of Trustees generally goes along gQ with it, unless the bill is really controversial. gQ "The student attending the board right now doesn't have voting privileges," Rogers ^ said. "I'd HKe to cnange tnat. 1 feel like the (student) population are the ^ main reason for the university's existence," Rogers said. "I think they should have a direct vote." LG And others said they agree with Rogers. "Right now, it's nice that the student has ^ idits Clini increase from the Bush administr employment rate from 6.9 percent n Fowler Nationwide, 82,000 students h? it the ac- aid reform, he said, din Roo- Fowler said the "Contract with act with ?oals Clinton admir Roosevelt in the New Deal he beg iit it de- "This nation and this state are nal stud- ^es ?f which haven't been seei The "rape of America," as Fow ' 6 1 mil- can contract> would lead to "econoi Id elimi- contract would put at risk, punish children for their p? i of m ore en tuture 01 America. t The Republican aims set forth b grich would "repeal the New Deal JHL 7 igdBpjBF A. ?| issSkie f| || ifflMMay % J1 HHKk - *;?!i ' V| lll^nJii|^BP| J * if ^HHSilv ffejforff | "^vX-^^.': .. *fi?f Jety Is planting palmetto trees around ers Jennifer Howard and Stephanie Coh Iding to be re munity access to the schc their new facility The Sch?o1 of Music * rly as June. decades, said William Bj are foot building, Committee. md recital space. UThls Wl11 greatly imF one central loca- music maj?rs-the ?ener? said. is been so disrup- Several in*state comP? i it and still main- ,nS- ^ KAm CorP-in aut excellent stu- the ?eneral contractor, dean of the School The music buildinj Craig, Gaulden and Davi arching band and e ^aoc^tes lool hopes to con- UUL.y uic iu,bci ^ci11 the larger recitals. Edwaixl Bass, assistar il schedule where struction Services, said i duate's recital at m& eserved for guest There are about 50 ] trumpet in one room and Drary facility that hear each other, Bass s? to tapes and com- ^he S.C. Legislature nt body and com- tlonsstudents voi 'oice," former Student Government Presint Brian Comer said. "But the only way they a listen to that student is that he or she can backed up with a vote." Comer has previously worked with board. "There have been poor excuses in the past," >mer said, "but there's no reason why we n't have a vote." "Although we listen to them as it is, I don't ive any objection to a student on the board," id Arthur Bahnmuller, a member of the Stunt Trustee Liaison Committee. But some feel installing such a bill would : complicated. "If you give the student voting power, you auld have to amend the bylaw as to what akes up the Board of Trustees," said Dupre iller, another member of the Student Liain Committee. "But I would certainly give it me consideration." All members are elected by the S.C. Genal Assembly for four-year terms with stag;red elections. "To change that, you'd be getting into a tuation that would require a little study," [iller said. "Many considerations would have i be taken." But Rogers said he doesn't believe the rocess will be that complicated. ton, rebut ation and a drop in the un- Programs genera to 5.1 percent, Fowler said, curity, agriculture, ive benefited from financial and the environment control of the Congr America" is a direct threat "Franklin Roose listration and those set by economy," Fowler sj an in 1933. In remembrance being faced with challenges death, Fowler spoke ti this century," Fowler said, tion and the Democ: ler referred to the Republi- "(There was) a sp mic and social segregation." president," said Fow ; health care-and education presidents funeral 1 irents' mistakes and threat- to Washington, D.C The Democratic y House Speaker Newt Gin- this same enthusias ," Fowler said. USC's Young De K. JAMIE CLARK The Gamecock den the Horseshoe as a service pro;er watch the planting Tuesday. '101j cou $70 ady by June i ter, >ol's resources. las been promised the building for several e] a ites, chair of the Music Facilities Planning anc Hi <sr rove our ability to service the needs of our bas il student body and the community," Bates jab org anies have been used to construct the buildColumbia, a branch a MB KAHN Corp., is not uat I was designed by the architectural firm of stu is, based in Greenville. an( :d as the acoustic consultants for the new fater for the Arts. to ] it director of Facilities Management for Con- Fn acoustics are an essential part of the build- to 1 rer practice rooms where a student can play a tee another can play a violin in the next and not aid. pn funded the project through bond appropria- ajs ice on Board "I don't think that this is that radical of an "B \r\oa " Rncrers snirl "anH hnnefiillv. with a suf- it ficient amount of leadership, we'll get favorable appreciation for the bill." sb "If s hard to predict whether it will pass or er not," Comer said. And many said they feel certain obstacles th have to be overcome. in "It has to go through the hurdles first," cli Bahnmuller said. "We have to remember that ca the Academics Committee has to scrutinize it p< first. Honestly, I have no idea whether the bill will pass or not." id "I don't know if the bill will pass or not, st but many questions have to be studied," Miller ir said. "Should it be approved by the faculty? Should it be approved by the student body?" qi Some said they believe the bill won't pass. "My feeling is that it will probably not pass," ai Floyd said. "I think we have a tremendous "*] amount of input now as it is for the student, tl The president of the student body does a really good job of representing the students. Al- t( though he doesn't have voting power, he does si have a lot of input." b Still, Rogers said he is hoping the bill will tl pass. tl "The basic problem in the past has been e opposition from the board itself," Rogers said. ;es GOP ted by the New Deal involving Social Seminimum wage, safety in the workplace ; are in danger now that Republicans have ess, he said. velt showed us how to live in a modern lid. i of the 50th anniversary of Roosevelt's of the president's contributions to the naratic Party. )iritual bond between the people and this ler, who was nine when he witnessed the train pass through Spartanburg en route . from Warm Springs, Ga. Party and its supporters must "reignite" sm, Fowler said. mocrats sponsored Fowler's appearance. G Senate 0 discuss ctivity fees IT PRUITT Staff Writer 1 resolution concerning recommendations 1 the Student Activity Fee Task Force will e to the floor of the Student Senate Wednesalong with a bill proposing to make changes le Freshman Council Constitution. "he Student Activity Fee Task Force is a :ial committee formed in the spring of 1994 le request of Dennis Pruitt, vice president tudent Affairs. The committee, comprised J?: ?:_a?i. c U.. uiiiiiiisii aturs, lacuiiy mcmucia, unucr luates and graduate students, was designed sform the fee allocation process. Today's resolution, wrote by the Student ernment Finance Committee Chair John rtin on behalf of the Finance Committee, ilogues those recommendations made by task force that the Senate endorses. The )lution is designed to provide support for recommendations as they come before the 2 Board of Trustees in June. The task force has recommended that stut activity fees be increased by $25 and that / be extracted from all undergraduate stuts taking 12 or more credit hours and all duate students taking nine or more credit trs. The fee increase and expanded base Id increase the student activity fund by 0,000. \nother proposal by the Ad Hoc Commitreforms the method of allocation. If acted, three bodies will take partial responlity for allocations: Campus Activity CenTravel and Promotion and Event Funding, i Finance Committee will oversee the Travmd Promotion and Event Funding areas 1 will allocate funds for special needs at its iretion. The Activity Center will provide folic supplies such as stationary and computer use, which was previously included in an anization's allocation. Many of the graduate school senators do view the resolution favorably because grade students would be classified as full-time ^ Ar?tc- if +V-?rv\7 qvo folrinrr rtino nr mnrp hnnrs U^lltO ii U1V/J ui v turuii0 liinv vta &JU.W1 v i*vv? ^ 1 would therefore be required to pay the fee. Another piece of legislation that proposes nake minor changes in the wording of the ishman Council Constitution should come die floor for its first reading. The bill is curltly under review by the Judicial CommitSG Vice President Darcie Shively will also sent her appointees for Faculty Senate Lion and City Council Liaison to the Senate. of Trustees >ut I'm hoping that perhaps ifll be less against now than it has been in the past." And if the bill were to pass, most feel the adent to whom the voting power will be givi should be the SG president. "Honestly, I think the logical person for te job is the student body president of USC Columbia," Comer said, "but I'm not for loosing people from other USC campuses beiuse our campus comprises most of the USC ipulation." "I think it should be the student body present," Rogers said. "He or she represents the udent body, and that would stimulate more iterest and participation." In addition, some have stressed certain aalities the student should have. "He or she should be very conscientious nd should love the university," Floyd said, rhe qualities in our student body president lat sits on our board have been very good." "The student should be someone with inilligence, good common sense and compaslon for people," Bahnmuller said, "He should e able to see the other side of the fence and le other side of life. He should have sympany for his peers and should be a well-roundd person." 4?. * / ^?