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IN SPORTS: Point Blank honors Ripken's record page 10 . "IBaifftcock Serving USC since 1908 WEATHER I TOnAY ThriH 0f VlCt0ry ?, |K: JSf eKs#^ f ,-T* j-JV lkj|t | Sophomore Kristlnn Larusson celebra ranked No. 2 Clemson. The Gamecock On the right foot Lady Gamecocks start inaugural soccer X T T^T ?* U.N. confere ERIN SHAW Staff Writer on the CAMPUS BRIEFS Hillary Rodham Clinton is only one ^p< of approximately 30,000 women who t* 56 Preston College opens doors have convened in Bejing, China, this f?tera> tn nnklu> Enrfau Cam* fi 1, C ~ t ix. xt_a: r> about H/puwiiviiiww/f wcciwiui uicruuiui uiiiuxii^auuiiaVyUii- , Preston College's Open House ference on Women. Itlsa will be Friday, Sept 8. The event Amidst controversy over such issues me * will include remarks by Provost as ^uman rights, discrimination and on ? James C.Moeser at 3:30 pjn. Hie abortion, the seven-day conference is be- Ir dining room, public rooms and held to discuss these and other top- portar Principal's Lodge will be high- ics concerning women. Among the goals theyV lighted in a walk through from 4 of the world-wide meeting is the creation g? " S] to 5 p.m. of a 120-page action program. disagr Although it's being held halfway they s Faculty meeting today around the world, the issues at the heart these i The general faculty meeting of the conference are considered vital on car will be held today at 2:30 in the topics by some USC students. Senior womei Gambrell Hall auditorium. The Trevor Spencer is keeping a special eye the wc Faculty Senate meeting will follow. Student tickets < Omicron Delta Kappa will have its first meeting Wednes- llfCf-PntTlP MfCt" day, Sept. 7 at 6 p.m. All mem- lllOL vUlllv? bers are urged to attend or con tact Manisha Shroff at 5444518. ntn caret Start Writer c - . Student ticket distribution for the 1995 foot??? j 8Pea* ball season began Tuesday in RH Room 205. to student Democrats The hours of operation are from 9 a.m. to 4 USC Democrats welcome Sen- p.m. Students will enter the Russell House on ator Darrell Jackson today at 7 the Bull street entrance. Distribution will be p.m. for a discussion on why he on a first come, first serve basis, has asked Governor Beasley to "We will hold distribution two weeks prior bestow the Order of the Palmet- to each home game. Students will be able to to to Hootie & the Blowfish. The pick-up tickets for two games each distribution discussion will be in Russell House dav. Tickets will be available at the Russel room 315. Free Hootie CDs and House a total of six days for each home game," tickets to their Sept. 13th concert said Curt Derrick, assistant ticket manager, in Columbia will be given away. Students will be required to show their I.D. card and will then receive a coupon that will be Alpha Phi Omega service turned in for a ticket. This coupon must be fraternity to meet turned in during distribution. Coupons will not Alpha Phi Omega Service FYa- be honored after the last day of disribution for ternity will conduct rush this thatfootball game. week. All male and female stu- Students who do not get a ticket on the scheddents are invited to the mixer to- ^ distribution days will be able to get a tickday in Russell House room 303 et at ^ Athletic Ticket Office located on Rosefrom 6 -8 p.m. Fraternity mem- wood Drive, Monday thru Friday from 8:30 am, bers will also have tables on the 5 P-m- "As a last resort any remaining tickets Russell House Patio Sept. 7 from wiU be available under the northeast ramp of 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more in- the stadium until the end of the first half," formation, call 777-DUCK Derrick said. "HnWPVPr nnr nffipo ia nnt anitorl fnr lama VI y ^Ui NTiTivv 10 iiv v Otui.vvi juj iwi iuncv lini I numbers of people and students will have to INDEX compete with non-students both at our office NetffS 1 and at the stadium. We prefer to give all the Viewnnint tickets to the students but they do not always ^ | use all of them. Tickets are offered to the pubEtc 5 lie on Thursday and Friday of the two weeks gemics 8 prior to the game. Students may not get a ticket if they wait till the last minute," Derrick said. In or^er to get block seating tickets students Classifieds. n must go through the line and ask for a block seating card rather than a ticket. Then take MBHHkyf HJHp Hf "nB^^ ^^kSSSsL.^ ?, UF^^HHMi3HlHBt nfr** ^ 4| ___^ ites after scoring the second goal for USC li s won 3-2 and are now ranked No. 6 national!: nee on wome proceedings. His stepmother, Lin- |0f gf pgop sneer, is attending the meeting. with ^ ^ rves as the deputy director for In- , a computer information network S3y it's a! the environment, based in Kenya. bcliCVG th6S6 subgroup of the UN's Environ- gygry Single W 1 Programme, which she will speak u . * n ialf of at the conference. Ill the TOOt 10 l dealing with any issue, it's im- Ofl C3mpUS W1 it to get together and see how far the WOltC forCC e gone and how far they've yet to Jl sencer said. "A lot of people have eed with the conference because He thinks th* ay it's all rhetoric. But I believe concerned with t] issues affect every single woman though it has att: npus. In the next 10 years, the because of the Fi i on campus will be the women in and h?f dlscussl ,rk force." sues. Spencer str distributed on serve basis riiuiici y/a/fflpuffu/v Name days 1 La. Tech;lif Sept. 5,6, 11 < fifi; M.W.. ^ 12,13 I Kentucky Sept. 11, 12, 13,1 18, 19, 20 La, State = ; : Sept 18, 19,20, 'f '' 52S, 26,27 i! Kent State Sept. 25, 26, 271 Oct. 2, 3, 4 ; Vanderbilt 1318 Oct. 2,3,4, 19 I Florida Oct. 18, 19 Nov. 6, 7, 8 ICiemson^ll Oct, 25, 26,27 :>Cfofttsaftgame by ' the card back to a group leader who will then take them all to student government. Student government will then bring the groups package over to our office where we will give them the tickets. Finally student government will give the tickets to the group leader. Students wishing to get a non-student guest into the game can do so by paying $20 for validations at the Russell House, or at the stadium on the day of the game. The validation ticket enables the guest to enter with the student on their I.D. According to the 1995 USC Student Football Ticket Information brochure, validations for a non-student guest may be cancelled for any game, if the demand for student tickets exceeds the number of student tickets that are allocated. Cj Fleur's ] jKl , mac^e J ''' ' Char ter in W chemical are sevei - - Anot Health ( JAMIE CLARK The Gamecock Columbi usually i n Sunday's game against then- are acce 1. S? story, pg. 9. contact I n aims for act: 16 have disagreed portance that students, womer jrence because pay attention t0 the tm< II rhetoric. But I "This conference will be issues affect beneficial to women and mei (Oman on campus. P^lirity will bring out ma uporo thpummpn Spencer said. "Women are up ... J wom wau to prove themselves and II be the women in fair." Spencer attributes this n revor Spencer, senior ignorance, but also the estab rial structure. He said people it some students aren t times unwilling to look past S be UN's conference, al- 0nna ^ news happening across racted media attention don>t ^ w,e ^ av 'rs a /s attendance issues across the country and t on of human rights is- hg gaid esses, however, the im- ? I m-vi.uc.i_: Sophomore Elizabeth Strinj Pfimn Dan/IK^ C/lllllC nUfJUi I Sunday, August 27 b Larceny of a parking tag, Coliseum lot. Victim a stated that unknown person(s) removed a parking decal from his unsecured vehicle. Estimated I loss: $1. I c Monday, August 28 Larceny of compact discs and auto-breaking, I parking lot S-6. Subjects entered the vehicle and r took 31 CDs and one CD case. Estimated loss: $330. b E Larceny erf bicycle, McBryde Quad An unsecured bicycle was stolen. Estimated loss: $500. I b Larceny of a book bag, Snowden residence hall, c Subject removed a book bag containing a high school E ring, watch, calculator, cassette recorder and books. Estimated loss: $597. V 1 Auto-breaking and larceny of a cellular tele- A phone, Blossom St. Garage. Subject broke into ji the vehicle through the rear window. Estimated v loss: $250. T Tuesday, August 29 A Malicious injury to personal property, Bates v House lot. Victim stated that unknown subject b broke off her vehicle radio antenna. Estimated C damage: $25. a o Larceny of pocketbook, Russell House, Grand Market Place. Victim's purse was stolen when left h unattended. Items stolen include credit cards and C a Liz Claibourne purse. Estimated loss: $180. g v Larceny of bicycle parts, Capstone bike rack, p The hirvrle's rear tire and a nnmn were staler F.o. a timated loss: $60. e o Accidental damage to personal property. The C victim's driver's side door was apparentl> scratched r immunity ds fraternity ter suicide IRGAN Asst. News Editor ersity of South Carolina community leaders aided crintion programs after a student's suicide in a McBiyde sidence hall room this weekend, ael Osborne, a sophomore member of Tau Kappa Epternity, hung himself early Sunday morning. Accorde police report, alcohol was involved. >rne's funeral will be Saturday, Sept. 9 at 9 a.m. at funeral Home in Holland, Penn. Memorials may be the Leukemia Society. A memorial service in Rutlapel will be scheduled. fraternity advisers and alumni came together with ty chaplains and Student Life personnel to plan supdees for students. offers several avenues, on and off campus, in which dealing with the aftermath of suicide or contemplating an get help. The Carolina Chaplains Association works nth Student Affairs to ensure that students may be to a religious counselor of their choice. Anyone lookaligious counsel can call Student Affairs at 777-4172 information. Counseling and Human Development Center of USC udents individual counseling, therapy and support These groups include Adult Children of Alcoholics, nosis, women's and men's issues and various workter Rivers Hospital is an off-campus counseling cenest Columbia that offers out-patient treatment for i dependency and psychological problems. There also ral support groups available, her off-campus facility is the Columbia Area Mental Center. The center, located at 1618 Sunset Drive in a, offers care for Richland County residents. There is a one-week waiting period, but emergency walk-ins pted from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, )ick Masey at 737-7399. COUNSELING page 3 ion program i and men that too many students are apathetic toi issues at wards issues affecting women. She is excited that participants at the conference mutually are discussing efforts to promote the n because equal treatment of women, yet skeptiny issues," cal that one meeting will solve such comagainst a plex and historically-rooted problems, thaf s not "I think maybe something will come out of it," Stringer said. "I don't think ot only to this one conference will bring revelation lished so- to our community, but maybe it's the beare some- ginning of something. I think the imouth Car- portant issues will be brought to light? i the globe, similar to the issues of feminism in the rare of the sixties, but now we're more focused." he world," Stringer hopes this conference will bring about more talk of equality in the ger agrees WOMEN page 3 ly the vehicle parked next door. Estimated damige: $150. jarceny of wallet, Blatt PE. Center, outside courts. i wallet containing identification, credit cards and ash. Estimated loss: $40. / jarceny of books, Gambrell Hall. Subjects reaoved three statistics books from an unsecured book ag. The victim's door was left open by the subjects. Estimated loss:$110. jarceny of briefcase, Coliseum. Subject took bookag containing the following items: a wallet, cash, heckbook, identification and computer software. Estimated loss: $230. Wednesday, August 30 jarceny of a radio and compact disc player, aoore uormiiory. victim stated that unknown subset stole a radio and CD player. Incident location ras unsecured. Estimated loss: $200. hurday, August 31 l call box at the comer of Wheat and Sumter streets ras activated. Subjects were running from the call ox and were apprehended at the third level of the lomputer Garage and arrested for interferring with police call box. One subject had a strong odor f alcohol. lote from USCPD: The University of South larolina has placed emeigency call boxes in stratel 4.: rm i it locations across campus, inese devices proide a direct link with the University Police Deartment. In the case of an emergency, press the ctivation and the USCPD will respond. Call boxs are intended for emergency use only. Misuse f emergency call boxes is a violation of South larolina State Law. To give a false alarm may esult in imprisonment or a fine.