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IN VIEWPOINTS: Meet the SG treasurer candidates, pabe4 ? WEATHER iifiii U IHDEX TODAY | : VfljT ^ ^ ^ l|^ tT VJBl NEWS Sunny /\1 visbnJtfW S Mm viewpoints 2 11 ^rnwrnrD SATURDAY fc. Ill I I III l^k COMICS ?3 sill | ILLULi V W W SP0RTS s y ^ ^ ~ ^ m m ^ CLASSIFIEDS 6 Serving USC since 1908 oatch some fish, PAGES Columl * > Up and down Main Street Olympic Trials with so Gausman, No. 57 in tomoi Oaklawn, III., and has a qt Student ? budgets 1 JENNIFER STANLEY Asst. News ALLISON WILLIAMS Special Projects Editor Twelve out of 80 organization not satisfied with the student a fee allocations they received fit Senate Finance Committee committee heard their ap Wednesday and made their dee Thursday. The committee met Satur distribute about $85,000 of st activity fees to undergradual graduate organizations. Hie brea was posted on the Student Gover office window Mondav. According to Woody Carothe advisor, $1.5 million is generate student activity fees, and the s is responsible for allocating $7{ of that amount. The senate deli this responsibility to the fn committee. The $750,000 is divided int categories including undergra organization, graduate organizf media, SG, Carolina Productions, clubs, Medical School organiza Law School organizations and St Life. Undergraduate and grac organizations account for about $8 Among the biggest recipie: the student activity fees wer Association of African-Ame Students, $13,639; Student Su Blacks, v to contin In the final article of series, The Gamecock k at the current state of i relations and what s< daodIa think nhnut future. ROB GIOIELU Senior Writer For the 33 years USC has integrated, much progress has made in the area of race relationi there is a long way to go. Many people have emphasize fact that in some areas blacks whites interact but in others the; self-segregated. Teresa Wilson, a senior who is t in the Association of African-Am? Students, said that in stuc )ia prepare: the 1906 I il topthree r V summer p V I The 'JZ " V H downto rm V campus. < Jm \i. ^ to street H' J^Jg p..m. Sat 1 Allen, uj students their cars night. Othei may ha temporal between Hr streets fr Saturday, Street ft ^Kf Saturda \ Main an 8:30 a.m %!? and Gree x and Sun until 1 p. '"***' Studi robert walton The Gamecock the race : runners were preparing for the to campi me last day training. Wileen can come tow's race, is a competitor from near th< lalifying time of 2:42:40. beginning groups appeal i , lance committee had $2,000 available to allocate to those who appealed. _ CNPA, Criminal Justice Association, duate BGSA, AAAS, Pi Tau Sigma and itions Carolina Debate were awarded some ^ of the additional money they requested. tions SNPA asked for funding for udent Professional speakers. They received $300 for that component, bringing their 1 uate allocation to $950. g 00Q "Speakers are a justifiable cause," ' j. said Senator Jennifer May, Finance ^ the Committee member. e. The Criminal Justice Association, ncan ' pport APPEAL page 2 vhites need ue progress s for Oly I WILLIAMS __ Projects Editor lili s normally quiet weekend vill see a little more activity 1175 runners from all over itry will be competing in Egg len's Marathon Trials for i Olympics Saturday. The i runners will compete this the 8in Atlanta. Th 26-mile course begins new 1 wn and loops through Mara Grreene Street will be closed guest i parking from 4 a.m. to 1 USC v urday. According to Debra game i diversity spokeswoman, will d< I are encouraged to move maririi from Greene Street Friday Day. ( Th r streets near campus that closinj ve detours or will be Natior ily closed are: Main Street Closin i Richland and Calhoun and w am 9 am Friday to 9 p.m. Root ] , the 1400 block of Blanding Childi om 7 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Fii y, Lady Street between the cei d Assembly streets from US . to 10:15 a.m. Saturday coincid ne Street between Harden Aspec iter streets from 8 a.m. Runni m. Saturday. and Fi ents who want to watch the Scl bave several places close Ayeer is to observe. Observers Carolii ; to the Main Street area begar i Capitol to watch the contin I of the race at 9 a.m. and to committee ; Editor Services, $5,000; and Carolina Debate, $5,400. Those receiving the least amounts is were money were African-American davity Student Nurses Network, $160; Society m the ^or Human Resource Management, i TVio $150; and Rho Chi Honor Society, peals $175risions Groups that appealed to the committee were the Student National ^ to Pharmaceutical Association, Criminal udent ^^ce Association, Black Graduate e and Student Association, Masters of kdown Bu8*11688 Administration Association, nment SACS, Carolina Cares, AAAS, Pi Tau Sigma, Carolina Debate, International re gQ Student Association, Friendship d from Association of Chinese Students and t Scholars, USC Ballroom Dance Club -q fw> and the Graduate Association of '7" Biological Sciences. this a f organizations X)kS ?{?1\ j| where students race \ \ H are brought seem to interact rTiinui niviiiiiiiuiii^^^H both black and been white students tend to go back to the been comfort spheres of their own races. }, but "We've come far from being forced to integrate," Wilson said, d the Patrick Wright, a law student who i and is director of Graduate Affairs in the y are Student Government office, said on campus you can see the racial divides ictive in the organizations and cliques, rican "You don't see the division as much lent FUTURE page 3 I i Hek ha The Association of Africa visited the Ben Arnold M and Girls Club of the Thursday this year as par project. Above Lateca Wi plays Connect Four with E Arnold Memorial Unit of tl the Midlands. Right, Clinti senior, sits conversing wit Frequent ANGIE CAMPBELL Staff Writer The constant threat of fire al inconvenience for students living There have been 142 fire alar since January 1995 and 17 since t according to reports from the Department. The dorms with the most freq were Cliff Apartments, 29; Prest and Columbia Hall, 13. "We get pretty annoyed about sophomore Robert Regal, a Preston one time it happened at 3 in the i people had tests that day and wi mpic t watch runners at and 24-mile marks, le top three runners ? the USA Women's Olympic thon Team ? will make a appearance at halftime of the s. Louisiana State basketball Saturday afternoon. The team a recognized in ceremonies ig National Women in Sprats jame time is 2 p.m. te public is also invited to I ceremonies in front of the isBank Plaza on Main Street g ceremonies begin at 5 p.m. ill feature local hands The Doctors and Jump Little en. eworks at 8:30 p.m. will end remonies. iC is also hosting a conference ing with the trials. "Scientific :ts of Women's Distance ng: Implications for Health tness" is being sponsored by 100I of Public Health, Wyeth st Laboratories and the la Marathoa The conference i Thursday evening and ues today. Oing nd n American Students hi emorial Unit of the Bo; Midlands almost eve t of a community servh se, psychology freshma toShawn Sims at the B< lie Boys and Girls Club < mi White, criminal justh h Zacfc Holmes. : nuisai lose arms has become an * I on campus. ?^V ms in student dorms ^ ? he banning of 1996, , Health and Safety ajj ?l? i nnr haD [ucub auuiiis ui c || an, 17; Woodrow, 16; setc it," said engineering * resident 1 remember ~f1 norning, and a lot of J eren't too pleased to rials women's HUE BB^hhP!P? * *:. ' -' ' ,.. ':- ..... . l in - 1 - Cpl. Quentis Young, Cpl. Patricia Wood and , vide security for marathon runners in the lo Bodyguards < JENNIFER HANSEN Asst. Features Editor ? \ Our veiy own USCFD bicycle patrol was chosen e to protect the lead runners of the USA Women's Olympic Marathon. Sgt. Eric Grabski, supervisor of the bicycle c patrol, said, "We're just really very honored to be able to help out. We hope that it will help them - ^ ^ w w ^B Hlj^B Mm ?jft^t %^?L SIB: 9b Has ik; BHg r]|i iin^^B^i l?m j^M T3^ HI mi fiiijirii]M>'iji [L < - - .r ,..i...,. V' iii i -: PHC . w ice' alarms fire i their sleep." over tl According to Robert Amick, a public education W1 :er for the Columbia Fire Department, USC is betwe ably the worst place he's ever seen for fire alarms, alarm We do get a substantial number of calls from there If t are false alarms," he said. from ( l/Tfinv st.llHenffl uunnrlar J WWMMVwvw ?f vituvi ?T HJ mivow aiauiit) aic a.iai ill pening so frequently. Business senior Darnell the fir ey, a resident advisor in Rutledge, said he once "W iff the alarm while taking a shower. alarm lealth and Safety officer Dave Castine said USC call a 1 installed new, top-of-the-line, photo-sensor smoke The fii tors in Sims, Wade Hampton, McClintock, Preston, to do." mbia Hall, Woodrow, Rutledge and Cliff Apartments marathon m m flft MANJU SHROFF The Gamecock lama? i*#llll? Kl/?m?l? .. ?!*? ...HI ?-? ?? ?? V*IUI?| mwjvav IPHMVl HIH?Vf wall pi V ad. )n bicycles tnd will bring a lot of good things to USC because ve're really representing the university in our ifforts to help out the marathon." It's the patrol's first marathon. There are five USC bicycle police units with me female and four male officers. While the race BIKE PATROL page 3 Rig ^ ^ . IT05 BY TYSON M. PETTI GREW The Gamecock r Mb :: * >:" ?! 2 - - ? '"-** nn rpci^ptifc x vaivi'Viiio ie past three years. len smoke, shower steam or air freshener gets en two sensors in the detector, a silent room is tripped, Castine said, he sensors have not cleared in 10 minutes, smoke >ne room reaches another or the general hall goes off, the USCPD is alerted, and they call e department. e call these alarms nuisance alarms, not false s," Castine said. "Rarely do we have what we false alarm, a malfunction of the system itself, e alarm usually does exactly what it's supposed FIRE ALARM Daae 2