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won't be televised for the
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BRIEFS
Counseling center sponsors
"Forgiveness Workshop"
A "Forgiveness Workshop" will
be held from 2:30-4:30 p.m. today
at the Counseling and Human Development
Center at 900 Assembly
St., room 212.
The Carolina Band presents
functraising concert Friday
The Carolina Band will present
its "Sounds Of Gamecock Spirit" at
7:30 p.m. Friday at Carolina Coliseum.
Admission is $6 for adults
and $3 for students. Proceeds go to
the Carolina Band Scholarship Fund
to help support USC Athletic Bands.
USC-Sumter alumni to hold
first Big Wednesday party
USC-SumteFs Alumni Association
will sponsor its first annual "Big
Wednesday" for Carolina and Clemson
fens Nov. 15. The event will include
a tailgate party at 6:30 p.m.
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Tiger Contest.
ALD offers scholarship LSeniors
who plan to attend graduate
school and were members of
Alpha Lambda Delta Freshman ,
Honor Society may apply for a $3,000 j/
scholarship. Applicants must have
a 3.5 GPA and be involved in cam- _
pus activities. The application dead- ?
line is Dec. 8. Harrison Greenlaw,
ALD advisor, is available to help Pl
students with the application. of
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USC Folic* Officer Gene Gabrys works <
his shift Friday night. He worked almost
Working the evening shift (4 p.m. - midnight)
Nov. 3 was Officer Gene Gabrys, a
two-year veteran of the USC Police Department
and a former Marine. He explained
that his duties were mainly oriented around
the protection of people and property. The
officers on patrol make sure the campus is
secure both through routine checks of cam
pus buildings and through timely response
to any request for assistance from people on
campus.
Safeguarding property can be hard for
police, said Gabrys, because people are not
very security-conscious on a university campus
like USC. That is a real problem around
here, because a person will go out a door
and maybe the door will not close the whole
way and then the door is ajar, and so the
entire building's open."
Gabrys said he tries to get the property
checked early so that as the evening progresses
he can turn his attention to other
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Vcademic centei
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Enhancing the overall experience of on-cam- yyh i(
is living is a primary goal of the Department
Housing and Residential Services. The deirtment
is taking one more step toward that ning
lal with the opening of the Academic Center
r Excellence, located in the Towers residence like
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A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at also
30 p.m. Thursday to kick off the opening of ing a
e center, which is located in the lobby area
stween Moore and Snowden. this,'
All students can use the resources of the cen- idea
r, although it is geared, in particular, toward na is
shmea It is situated near a large demographic parti
ncentration of freshmen, with 1,200 residents comj
the Towers, most of whom are freshmen. h
ACE will provide students with a variety of in us
andng-enhancement services and opportuni- comp
is. Students can browse through a myriad of and j
formation about improving academic skills at with
'self-serve" area of the center. On weekdays, targe
staff member from Academic Skills Programs tial S
11 be on hand to assist students. On Fridays, comj
representative from the Career Center will line ^
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matters. "Right now, it's 9 o'clock, people
are starting to have a good time. By 10 or
11 (p.m.) they're getting liquored up and
other things may take precedence over property
at that time."
On dealing with students, Gabrys said,
"You've got to treat people with respect. In
most instances you'll be treated with respect
back... There are people whoU look at you,
and they won't see you, they'll see the badge."
He added that sometimes getting respect
can be a problem, because many students
have the mindset that every officer wants
to "do them wrong," that every officer wants
to blame students for something they didn't
do.
But, that doesn t mean that uabiys won t
do his job. "If someone needs to be hooked
up, and go down to Richland County Bed &
Breakfast (Richland County Detention Center),
that's where they're going, and I don't
feel bad about it."
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is continues our mission in housing,
;h combines living and learning." '
Gene Luna, director of Housing ,
their futures.
Tie center will hold workshops on topics
time management, note taking, reading 1
irehension and speed reading. There will 1
be a two-credit course on improving read
ind study skills.
We're quite excited about the potential for
' said Gene Luna, director of housing. The '
came about a year and a half ago, and Lu- (
i confident that it will be a success. He is
cularly enthusiastic about expanding the '
>uter resources of the center,
i addition to the eight computers already
e at the Towers, ACE contains a new IBM s
luter. This computer is complete with math *
English tutorials. It also will be equipped
Sigi, a program designed to help students (
it potential careers. Housing and Residen- 4
iervices is looking in the future to wire these J
)uters to the backbone, getting them onwith
other computers across campus,
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In the second part of
The Gamecock's series on
safety, a reporter spends a
riday night with USC Police
Officer Gene Gabrys to find
out what our university
police force does.
LUKE ROBINSON Staff Writer
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Gabrys said he sometimes feels frustrated
at how much needless crime occurs
on campus. "You've got to practice a little
crime prevention in your own life," he advises
students. "These autobreakings, I mean,
of course, if you have 100 CDs sitting out in
the back seat or your wallet sitting out...
or a cell phone in plain view, man, you're
setting yourself up."
According to Gabrys, cars are not the only
places where common sense would prevent
the most frequent crimes. "I've been in
the library before, walked past the Xerox
machine and seen a wallet or a purse sitting
there, no one around, then the person
comes back and says they were just looking
for another book."
Gabrys cuts short here as he pulls up in
front of the Russell House, where a sorority
social is swinging into action. The police
department is cautious about the event, and
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Towers area
ating a University 101 classroom is also beinj
considered. For now, housing is planning t<
monitoring the progress of the center for th<
next two years.
mere are other campuses around the coun
try who have done this sort of thing. It helps
partner the academic aspect of campus life with
residential," Lima said.
This continues our mission in housing, which
combines living and learning."
Housing is in the process of reevaluating
and reconstructing many of the formats previ
ausly utilized in campus living. They seek t(
nake living on campus more attractive to stu
ients, while providing enhanced opportunities
or academic concentration.
This includes structuring more services and
support for first-and second-year students, while
jiving upperclassmen less structure and more
reedom.
An open house was held for the center Nov,
2, and Luna said the response has only been
aositive, from students and faculty alike. If the
rowers' ACE is successful, it is possible thai
lew centers will be established in other resilence
halls, like Bates House and Patterson,
~ Education
dean resigns
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faculty member. He says the college is
ready for new leadership.
JENNIFER STANLEY Staff Writer
Richard Ishler, dean of the College of Education, has
submitted his resignation to the university. His resignation
will become effective on June 30,1995.
Although he will no longer be in an administrative
position, he will continue as full-time faculty.
Ishler has been the dean of the College of Education
for seven years. Before joining the USC community, he
was a dean at two other institutions for 11 years and an
administrator in higher education for a total of 31 years.
He has three years left before retirement.
"It's time for something else," Ishler said. "I feel I've
* moved the College of Education forward. If s time for new
leadership."
Ishler will devote his time to teaching and research.
He hopes to teach classes involved with education administration,
teacher reform, school reform, and "deaning.
His resignation is strictly voluntary and a search for
a new dean is under way. In this kind of situation there
is a specific process which is overseen by the provost's office.
Provost James Moeser meets with the faculty of the
college at a general meeting where nominations are made
for faculty to serve on the search committee. Pull professors
vote on those who receive nominations. The provost
can also appoint people to the committee who are not faculty
in the college.
The search committee meets with the Office of Equal
Opportunity to learn about procedures involving sex, race,
gender and confidentiality. They also meet with media
relations. The committee accepts applications and narrows
down the applicants. Applicants meet with the committee,
administrators, faculty member, and various other
groups within the USC community. The committee
makes a recommendation to the provost, and the provost
makes a recommendation to the president.
The search committee for the dean of the College of
Education consists of 10 people. This group includes one
representative from the State Department of Education,
one member from the School of Music, and one member
from the Department of Psychology. So far the committee
has met twice.
Housing to use
lottery system
to assign rooms
Under the new system, students currently
living on campus will not be able
to return 10 ineir same rooms nexi year.
SARAH NAGEL Staff Writer
An open forum for students was hosted by the Residence
Hall Association to address the concerns they might
have had about the housing shortage anticipated for next
year.
Leading the forum were Gretchen Koehler-Shepley,
associate director for administration, and Mel Miller, associate
director for residence life.
The intention of the meeting was for administration
to collect feedback from students on the proposed changes
and hear any suggestions students may have to improve
the situation.
Most of the time, however, was spent correcting the ,
misconceptions that students had and dispelling rumors
that have been flying around campus since the discussion
of what to do about housing next year began.
The permanent closing of Burney and Baker in the
towers area as well as the temporary closing of Maxcy
will put a strain on campus housing, but many steps are
' being taken to ensure that this shortage will be correct}
ed.
According to Koehler-Shepley, housing has always
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continue to be the university's major priority. In order to
* insure a productive first year for these students, fresh1
men centers are being created in the following areas: Patterson,
Bates (with the exception of the graduate wing),
1 the remaining towers, and a few floors of Capstone, two
of which are already reserved for Honors College fresh?
men males, as of this year.
This means that many students already living on
) campus will be displaced and will not have the option of
returning to their rooms if they wish.
"In the past, students returning to the same room or
building they occupied previouslv had prioritv when sign
ing up for housing. By instituting the lottery system, we
are putting everyone on equal footing," Koehler-Shepley
said. This year, housing priority will be based on seniority
alone, without regard to previous residence as it has
been in the past.
1 "The worst case scenario is that eight out of 100 people
currently living on campus will not have on-campus
housing next year. However, this is not taking into acHOUSING
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