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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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an, 17; Woodrow, 16;
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norning, and a lot of J
eren't too pleased to
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vide security for marathon runners in the lo
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JENNIFER HANSEN Asst. Features Editor ?
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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 -
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:er for the Columbia Fire Department, USC is betwe
ably the worst place he's ever seen for fire alarms, alarm
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are false alarms," he said. from (
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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
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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
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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
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