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NEWS BRIEFS
NATIONWIDE
WASHINGTON (AP)?The cost of energy and food
fell at the wholesale level in March, giving the coun- I
try its best news on prices in five months and suggesting
the economy was still on the Federal Reserve's
glide path for a "soft landing." (
The Labor Department reported that its Pro- i
ducer Price Index, after posting worrisome gains of
0.3 percent in both January and Februaiy, showed
no increase at all in March, as the price of gasoline,
autos and women's clothing dropped.
Financial markets initially rallied on the news
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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.
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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
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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
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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 *
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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."
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And others said they agree with Rogers.
"Right now, it's nice that the student has ^
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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
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ers Jennifer Howard and Stephanie Coh
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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
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the Horseshoe as a service pro;er
watch the planting Tuesday. '101j
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ter,
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las been promised the building for several e] a
ites, chair of the Music Facilities Planning anc
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rove our ability to service the needs of our bas
il student body and the community," Bates jab
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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