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2 Datebook Entries and corrections for the Datebook may be submitted to The Gamecock on the third floor of the Russell House. There is a box designated for the Datebook in the newsroom. ? The Counseling and Human Development Center located at 900 Assembly St is hosting a series of weekly programs beginning Wednesday, Sept. 13. These programs include: "Psychomotor Therapy for Helping Pro iessionals trom iu:io to iz:io p.m; Tat is a Feminist Issue" from 10:15 -11:45 a.m. and "Drop-In Self Hypnosis" from 2:30 - 4 pjn. All programs meet in room 212. For more information about any of these programs, call 777-5223. The Academic Skills Program will hold its first Drop-In seminar on Wednesday, Sept. 13 from 12-1 p.m. in RH 303. The topic is "Time Management". The Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Association will hold their first meeting on Wednesday, Sept 13 from 8-9 p.m. in BA room 364. Sundays Student Government Executive Cabinet, 6 p.m., Witten Room. Mondays Alpha Phi Alpha Service Table, 11 a.m.- 2 p.m., Greene Street. Sororitv Council. 5 D.m.. RH Theater. H Fraternity Council, 4:30 p.m. Performing Arts Commission, 6:30 p.m., RH 201 Carolina Productions traditional events, 6 p.m., RH 309. Carolina Productions performing arts, 6:30 p.m., Rh 201. Carolina Productions special programs, 7 p.m., RH 348 Tuesdays Hillel, 7:30 p.m., RH 315. Contact 544-0607 for more information. SAGE (Students Allied for a I I ________________________ D3S b .. . . L Lp hh-'i , : 0O|68rtP ^plH^ < Bps Jm- k B I I B Greener Earth), 7-8 p.m., RH 302. Dissertation Writing Support Group, 3:30 - 5 p.m., the Counseling and Human Development Center, 900 Assembly St., Room 212 or call 7775223. Association of African American Students, 6 p.m. P.E.E.R.S. meeting, every other week, RH 315 Carolina Productions ideas and issues, 6:30 p.m., RH 348. Carolina Productions cinematic arts, 7: p.m., RH 201. Wednesdays Student National Pharmaceutical Association, first and third Wednesdays of each month, 5:30 pm., Coker Life Sciences building lounge. For more information, call 544-0899 and ask for Sonia. Young Democrats, 7 p.m., RH 315. : Student Government Senate, 5 p.m., RH Theater. Women Students' Association, 6 p.m., RH 203. Academic Skills Drop-In, 6:30 7:30 p.m., RH 303. Carolina Productions marketing, 6 p.m., RH 235. Carolina Productions black cultural, 7 p.m., RH 348. Carolina Productions concerts, 7:30 p.m.,RH 201. College Republicans, 7:30p.m., Gambrell 250. For information, call their voice mail at 343-7194. Thursdays Habitat for Humanity, 5:30 pm., RH205. Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, 7:30-9 p.m, RH 315. Campus Crusade for Christ, 7 n m flfllrntt. 1fi_ J , v? Baptist Student Union: Heart to Heart, 7 p.m., BSU Center. Campus Crusade for Christ "Prime Time," 7:30 p.m., RH 322. Homecoming Commission, 7 p.m., RH 201. Carolina Productions Homecoming, 7 p.m., RH 201. Contact Lori Toland for more information. mam n | l H ||||| ... : , . pi- -x ? P** ** A- -JiNlM' Htt US I m a^l. ^fc^- \ ^HJ^^K The Gamecock IClmj Financial plai Associated Press Parents may find it a little easier to put as ey to send their children to college with th state officials and North Carolina's larges Under the proposed College Vision Funi would be deducted-automatically each month bank accounts of participating parents. T would go to the state treasurer, who would im under North Carolina guidelines. Parents would be able to withdraw th any time, but the idea is to wait until chil _ _11 in conege. Seven states have college pre-payment p' like those, the College Vision Fund does nol tee to cover the future cost of tuition, althc ents who don't save enough might be able t from the fund. Loan details haven't beer out yet. A for-profit company in Winston-Salem c ucation Financing Services will help develop ket the College Vision Fund, the Charlotte1 reported. The company was founded in Mar state's four biggest banks: First Union, Nati Southern National and Wachovia. Education Financing Services also wi the software that calculates how much pare Marijuana use Associated Press a Marijuana use among teen-agers has 111 nearly doubled since 1992, even as adults' w use of all illegal drugs leveled off, the V( government announced Tuesday. Some 12.2 million people used ille- P gal drugs last year, up from 11.7 milli m m in 1993 and 11.4 million in 1992, said P1 the 1994 National Household Survey on w Drug Abuse. The increases were not considered statistically significant. P: At the same time, 1.8 million teen- Vl agers used illegal drugs last year ? the r< vast, mainritv mariiuana. which the gov emment survey says is on the rise among 01 young people after 13 years of decline. a About 7.3 percent of teens ?1.3 mil- tl lion ages 12 to 17 ? smoked marijuana P last year. That's up from 4 percent two n years earlier, the survey found. Until 81 19S2, youth marijuana use had declined d every year since 1979. v "Anyone who thinks we've licked the drug problem in this country is living in a I - -- - s-"- -w-V 4 W" - ' ' >' t '/ft*'* * " Uvy# ' IPs Kip. B * ' ''' Wednesday, September 13,1 nning secure "The one thing that woi nde mon- were a parent is entrusl e help of the state. If they manag 'tbanks, servative fashion... you dC2 yourseH-" he funds Caroline P ^est them to save. e money Monthly payments would dren are ^ fr?m the parents' bank accc ing would administer the acco lans. Un- money to the treasurer's offio ; guaran- Tbe money would be manage* ugh par- bnes state Treasurer Harlan o borrow $32 billion of state employees i worked Money is invested only in government agency bonds an< :alled Ed- bonds. The funds' investment and mar- fiscal 1995, Boyles said. Observer By comparison, if you owned i ch by the stocks in the Dow Jones indu onsBank, vested your dividends, you wi 28.5 percent. 11 design Caroline Powell, a financi mts need Financial Associates Inc. in ( : among teen fantasy land," said Health and Hu- d tan Services Secretary Donna Shalala, hose department conducted the sur- o! iy. s halala used the data to attack House- sj issed budget cuts that would take $700 u lillion away from federal drug-abuse ti "ograms. The Senate is considering this A eek whether to let those cuts stand. "We hope they remember that drug b revention is a national priority ot tne a ery same order as clean water, good ii lads and safe streets," Shalala said, f Marijuana accounts for 81 percent f the nation's drug use, and its rise a mong teens reflects a growing sense f lat marijuana is benign, said Lee Brown, \ resident Clinton's drug policy coordi- v ator. Only 42 percent of teen-agers con- a idered marijuana a dangerous drug, own from 50 percent in 1992, the sur- v ey found. "Marijuana is not cool," Shalala told c tudents at a Washington high school 'uesday. "Marijuana use is illegal, if s ? unfa1 ' fl lite. / wl ir ' /' ;^y , ^fggMihk 995 ;s money fo ild concern me if I ents would se ling my money to ~ey' ie it in a very con- Theonethini may shortchange entisentrusti they manage i ?? ? may shortcha: owell, financial planner Thatdoesi assistant at D , , A , .. , has two sons. I be drafted automatical- the stock .unt Education Fmanc- when she neei uxiuj aiiu Haoc5 Wyrick an( t a a j regularly. So 1 under the same guide- tion frQm her Boyles uses to manage ?^y theory al ' pension funds. don't see it, yc U.S. government bonds, The Colleg i high-quality corporate investments 1 3 earned 8.44 percent in proval from th and bank regi me share each of the 30 vices is still ra strial average and rein- ed, according ould have earned about serve Bank in The four b al planner with Carroll the company i Charlotte, believes par- state for the r s on the rise angerous, it's unhealthy and it's wrong." To estimate the prevalence of the use f illegal drugs, alcohol and tobacco, HHS urveyed a nationally representative ample of 22,181 people last year. Drug se was defined as taking a drug someimfi in the month hefore the survev. dnong other findings: The proportion of teens who report eing approached by someone selling rugs in the month before the survey ticreased to 18.9 percent last year, up rom 14.4 percent in 1993. Some 10.6 million people under ige 21 drank alcohol in the month beore they were surveyed. Two million vere heavy drinkers, defined as those vho had at least five drinks on five seprate occasions in that month. Among all Americans, 13 million vere heavy drinkers. Four million teen-agers smoked igarettes, steady since 1992. Pregnant women cut back on drug ibuse during their pregnancy, with 1.8 r education se greater earnings if they placed the n other investments, like mutual funds I that would concern me if I were a parng my money to the state," she said. "If it in a very conservative fashion ... you nge yourself." n't matter to Betty Wyrick, a teacher's evonshire Elementary in Charlotte who She doesn't want to risk education mon- n L market because prices might be down is to withdraw funds, i her husband have been saving, but not she likes the idea of a monthly deducsavings account. oout the bank deduction is that if you >u don't miss it," she said, e Vision Fund hopes to be ready to take >y early next year. The fund needs aple Securities and Exchange Commission ulators. And Education Financing Ser ising the $1 million it wants to get startto documents filed with the Federal ReRichmond. ig banks are contributing $640,000, and is asking other banks and thrifts in the est. : since 1992 percent using an illegal drug compared with 6.7 percent of all women of childbearing age. However, 5.2 percent of all women with children used drugs, indicating women resume drug habits once their baby is born. Some 1.4 million people of all ages used cocaine and 500,000 used crack. Rates were highest among young adults, 1.2 percent, but just 0.3 percent of teens used cocaine. The survey couldn't say how many people use heroin every month, but estimated there are 2.1 million Americans who have used heroin at some point. To back up the anti-marijuana message to young people, HHS and "The Weekly Reader^ will distribute anti-marijuana educational materials to 5 million students next month. Also, the government is sending to 16,000 school districts videos that can help parents discuss :: ..rUU * maiijuaiia WILII uicn teeus. . ' //, l yfl| III | I w I ^ wnn V9HI JTm^i 3 r IV . ;-; ... , 3Ss : 11111111111 JH * T t