The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, September 21, 1995, Image 1

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ication colle ich." A teac rgraduate and graduate starts witi npetitive. Although the a Masted )g states that the under- ing to Rich iment is 2.5, a professor for 1995-9 tias been raised to a 2.7. A profe ete undergraduate re- hire a staj t get into the education degree ins 1 not be able to teach be- uate degr eacher certification that Dean 1 "XSafStaick ( Serving USC since 1908 WEATHER jjHBK TODAY i I Sunny j0 High 81 - . . ' Low 62 . JJF' FRIDAY . ^ \ High 84 Low 64 *. I , INSIDE I -ZF9 7 1 Let's talk about sex Chris Dixon examines the female side of sexual ; harassment. ETC., PAGE 4 Carolina tops Buccaneers Women's soccer team walks away a winner, 4-0. SPORTS, PAGE 6 CAMPUS BRIEFS Volunteer Fair set for Friday The USC Volunteer Fair will be Friday, Sept. 22 from 10 a.m. 2 p.m. on the Russell House Patio. The Office of Community Service Programs at USC is hosting the event for Columbia community service agencies to highlight their volunteer opportunities. Students, faculty and staff are invited to attend. For more information, call Jeff Smith or Rachelle Lehner at 7776688. "Take Back the Night" walk and rallv to be held today Hie Columbia Coalition of Take Back the Night" will hold its 12th Annual Walk and Rally today. Participants should meet at the steps of the state Capitol at 5:30 p.m. and walk to Finlay Park for the 6 p.m. rally. The 1995 theme is "Alternatives to Abuse," and the rally will feature speakers from a variety of community groups with information about ways to address mental, physical and spiritual abuse. Other activities will include yoga and selfdefense demonstrations. Ballroom, RH room reservations lottery planned for Sept 27 The lottery for the Russell House Ballroom and Russell House meeting rooms will be held on Wednesday, Sept 27 in RH 201. Registered student organizations can make reservations for January through ( July 1996. The first lottery will be k held at 9 a.m., and the second lottery will be held at 10 a.m. Acad- I emic classroom space may not be reserved until Jan. 23,1996. r D , m. s - ,-~TirmTTn1T 1Trrir v , a tHDBX Mews . 1 I Viewpoints 3 s r Etc 4 Conies 5 0 Spots 6 s Classifieds a t a a year rarer, JENNIFER STANLEY Staff Writer More than a year after the restruct elimination of the undergraduate educ jor, students accepted into the Collej cation after May 1994 are finding out be at USC for longer than they barga The restructured program revolv the idea of earning a Bachelor's degre education minor, Master's in Educa teacher certification in a five year pe people who meet requirements and a an extra year, this program can sav Other students feel that the undergrat gram is still needed. Early childhood, elementary, and s education majors can now only obtain tification at the graduate level. The HHmS ****" ' ? *&c> ' K * V Bk jjtji Jpw _ i Meridith Wolf, a psychology ju missing daughter, Dail. Chi Ome Chi Omeg; ALLISON WILLIAMS News Editor Three years have passed since 23-year-old USC graduate student Dail Dinwiddie disappeared from Five Points, but Chi Omega sororitv has not forgotten ? and thev want to make sure the Carolina and Columbia communities haven't either. Members of the sorority passed out flyers and ribbons on Greene Street in front of the Russell House as part of the second annual Operation Safe Streets Wednesday, reminding students not to forget Dinwiddie, a member of Chi Omega at the University of Georgia, and to be aware of safety. "Basically, Operation Safe Streets is to remember her (Dinwiddie) and to increase awareness that this could happen to you," said Meredith Wolf, Operation Safe Streets organizer and Chi Omega community service chairperson. Wolf said student response was Science, mat] ftARTHA HOTOP Asst. News Editor Students with excellent academic ecords who are planning a career in aathematics, science or engineering hould apply for the Barry Goldwater cholarship. "The Barrv Goldwater Srhnlarshin hould alleviate a critical current and uture schortage of highly qualified dentists, mathematidans, and engiieers," stated the enabling legislation. In today's terms, it provides a coninuing source of highly qualified inlividuals to those fields of academic tudy and research." Congress established the Goldwaer scholarship in 1986 as a way of some still c dergraduate programs si : T of health, art, music, ar nBand An example of the pi lationma- , , ,r f ?, who wishes to pursue te '+1? mi eludes: Bachelor's degra of study (ie. English, his j a minor in Education. T1 es around p courses m the College of 1 ;e with an , ,, , . ,, ,. , accepted to a highly com ition, and . . , r, gram a student can rece nod. For " .. ,, , , / orinn taQAnor nnin-il to Pay for e money. (m addition to the four v, iuate pro- uaie Program). secondary ? job their cer-?English educa'C^ - only un- tensive education and vvi ^tl ? h * * nior, helps Jean Dinwiddle pass < ga sponsored the Operation Safe i remembei good, although she and JJinwiddie's parents, who attended Wednesday's event and supplied fliers and buttons, were surprised that many students did not know who Dinwiddie was. "We were surprised at how many people didn't know who she was. People are forgetting who she is and that's what we're here for," Wolf said. "At first no one knew about Dail ? there's a whole class of freshmen out there who didn't know ? then we talked to them, told them the story and they were very shocked," said Chi Omega President Ashley Clayton. "It was a great success today because we educated and re-educated." Dinwiddie was kidnapped from the Five Points area on September 24,1992. Friends she was with mistakenly thought she had gone home and left Five Points without her. She has never been found. h, engineerir honoring Senator Barry Goldwatei The scholarship pays tribute to Golc water's leadership, courage and visio by encouraging excellence in the field of science and mathematics. Senate Goldwater served his country for 5 years as a soldier und statesman, 3 years of which he spent serving in th U.S. Senate. Each year the Foundation award up to 250 Goldwater scholarships. Foui year institutions like USC can nom nate as manv as four students. Stc dents nominated by USC are place in the national pool of applicants. R< cipients of the Goldwater scholarshi receive a maxium of $7,000, which ca be used for tuition, fees, textbooks an lonfused by Edu till available are those able in the area we tea id physical education. However, the unde rogression of a student programs are more coi aching high school in- 1995-96 student catalc i in a specific discipline graduate GPA require tory, biology, etc.) and said the requirement ] he minor requires four Students who compl Education. After being quirements and do no petitive graduate pro- graduate program will ive a Master's in Edu- cause they lack their t ication after one year they can only get throug ears of the undergrad- However, they can worl other institution and s 3 us more competitive Jansen said, "If I w< phomore Ellen Jansen, graduate school then't jor. "We get a more in- extremely beneficial, t 11 be more knowledge- graduate school then I s< 1 1 1 ig students snou r jj^S==| room an<^ board. n plicants must cur- ju Is rently have sopho- wl ,r B %,more or junior sta- ex 6 BW* >W1 J tus. Additionally, ? 1L | they must be be in nil e the upper fourth sh GAMECOCK of their class and m ~ POCCUDJirVP iiavc a cuiiiauuve se - unttnoMbliO GPAof3.0orbet- n? i- ter. As part of the application process w< i- .students must obtain recommenda- pe d tions discussing their potential in the sh fields of science and mathematics. The p major part of the application entails sit n students submitting a 600 word essay ist d about a possible research project. Je ;h graduate work at USC. the progrj i for their Master's at an- dents are eek certification. "Althoi irk hard and get into the the studer ;he restructuring will be is getting jut if I don't get into the explained 'm stuck." G Senate del ST1WAROJAS Staff Writer SG senators are now expected to poll dents about campus concerns, but the ire of that requirement was questioned Wednesday's Student Senate meeting. These constituency reports require ators to poll students each week Each lator is responsible for asking five stults general questions about the unisity such as parking services, dining ilities and TIPS services. It really appalls me that Senate wants ibolish the constituency reports," said lator Allan Tucker ."It's taking away responsibility of [the Senate's] job. lial/CJ 10 ouppuoc LAV icpi cocut pcupic, 1 it's an oxymoron not to do so." But not everyone agrees that the rets are worth keeping. "The reports are mundane and totaledundant," Menees said. "Well nev*et anything substantial done. Con;uency programs limit out abilities, need to get rid of the program, and, tead, work on hardcore programs." Senator Jon Robinson agrees. "The program asks people questions t they don't really care about," Robinsaid. "If people need us, they'll cont us. We are also students so we aldy know what people feel. The whole gram is a waste of time and energy, lere's a strong opinion (students) will us know." Some senators said reform could be answer. "I believe that if we get rid of this prom, we'll be taking a big step backward, forward," Senator Clifton Chestnut 1, "I don't see anybody stopping someat Pizza Hut and asking them about eijing confere >r USC GINT E VON KOLNITZ Staff Writer ti n j i?. * >ne saiu it was amazing. USC Professor Jan Love attended 11 Fourth United Nations Conference ^ Vomen held in Beijing Sept. 4-15, 0 was amazed at the determination ? layed by the 25,000 delegates there. delegates had to overcome prob- c i ranging from how to obtain visas & the Chinese government's em- a sis on surveillance to bad weatha What was really amazing was that >ite the problems getting there and ^ ig there these women were abtely determined to be together and this opportunity to set an agenda w he coming decade," said Love, an ? date professor in the department ^ ivernment and international studTie propose of the conference was a scuss issues affecting women and ime up with solutions to problems ? ild apply for Jennifer Wu, a senior and a 1995 ildwater recipient, said that the dges look at the proposal to see lether the applicant would would eel in a career of research. A chemical engineering major, Jenfer dedded to apply for the scholarip after hearing about it her freshan year. For Jennifer, scientific rearch was something that came iturally, so it made sense that she )uld apply her previous research exriences to the Goldwater scholarip. Jennifer's proposal was an exten>n of research she did in a biochem;ry lab. In the lab and her proposal, nnifer discussed looking at how col C11/ 1 Itoa Sei the [Se anc erf stit We ins tha son tac rea pro Tftl let the TYSON PETTIGREW The Gamecock grao ?ut information about Dinwiddle's not Streets Wednesday. saic one *s, reminds ? Mfgrrnraggf] ft The Dail Dinwtddie Safe #I|I Streets Foundation wishes to CEC Remind you of the following It: S Five Points for Safety: J.. i I 1. Never walk anywhere 1... alone after dark. is , .12, Never leave with :: someone you don't know. -I EJfp 3. Keep track of your lhe i friends. ... . len^ f} 4. Always have a sober|psi and ^driver* '.Hi ??: . pha 5. Need a ride? Call a er. | cab. H- """ pli'v desp tAtfrSj beir O^X solm use |||| I Y>. fort i| IWrn asso ?: 5 ? ? ' tocc ge changes her with an undergraduate degree ti a salary of $21,864. A teacher with 3 degree starts with $27,219, accordland County District One Salary Guide 6. sSsor said some low income schools will rting teacher with an undergraduate tead of a starting teacher with a gradee because of the difference in cost, itichard Ishler voiced his support for am, but expressed concern that stunot aware of the changes. Xglk Uie piUglCLLLl &CCIIIS SU(AX??>1U1 clIlU its seem positive, the biggest problem the word out to the students," Ishler . "Because we don't have an under EDUCATION page 2 >ates polling parking services. If the reports are so unacceptable, then we should come up with a plan that everybody agrees on. Let's not just get rid of it." Senators feel that if reports were reformed to address different questions they would better reflect student concerns. "What about parking? When is Student Government going to do something about it?" Menees said, "We are students, we know whafs going on, we know what students want. We have to challenge the administration and get them to care. We don't see Student Services Committee like we should." In other business, Student Senate confirmed two seats. Biology sophomore Chico Stanley was confirmed for an Elections Commission seat and English junior Shadira Richardson was confirmed for the remaining Liberal Arts seat. Senators also voted to form an ad hoc committee to work with Institutional Affairs. Institutional Affairs oversees var ious university committees. 1 hough the motion passed, some senators objected to the creation of the ad hoc committee because university committees are not required to report to Institutional Aflairs. Senate also discussed involvement with the AIDS Memorial Quilt project and the Senior Service Project. The latter is aimed at uniting the senior class through student service. Student Body President Amy Bigham addressed Student Senate about Homecoming, raising money for the Brian Comer endowment fund through raffling parking spaces, expansion of TIPS services and work being done on election code changes. nee 'thrilling' 1 professor hat women face world-wide. "There were quite a few different ssues on the platform and some of hem were more controversial than thers. It was fascinating because you ould watch governments doing realy hard negotiations over issues they are about a great deal," Love said. "As omebody who likes politics, that was lot of fun for me." One of the most prominent issues t the meeting was human rights. "The standard is now set that women's rights are human rights," . /Ove said. Some specific rights discussed were women's rights to inherit property, to ay no to sex, to go to school and to ave reproductive freedom ? rights unerican women enjoy every day. "This (the right to birth control) is major freedom for some women in tie world, to not have to be pregnant, BEIJING page 2 Goldwater lagen calcifies. Collagen is integral in the formation of bones, and when it calcifies, osteoporosis can occur. Applicants are not required to have previous research experience, but being able to draw on previous experience is helpful. 'Those interested in applying should get involed in research, and get experience. The more oriented you are and the more you show that you're truly interested, the better off you are," said wu. There will be an information session on the Goldwater Scholarship Sept. 26 at 4 p.m. in the Gressette Room. Application materials will be distributed at the session. *