The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, March 21, 1996, Page 2, Image 2

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Entries for is a box in the 0ATEB00K newsroom designated for datebook entries. KiinHavs PALM Campus Ministry, Worship and Dinner, 5:30 p.m., 728 Pickens St. Student Government Executive Cabinet, 6 p.m., Witten Room Sorority Christian Fellowship, 7:30-9 prn, basement of South Tower. For more information, call 779-7173. Ballroom Dance Club, 4-5 p.m., Blatt PE Centerl07 Mondays ( Model United Nations Club, 8:30 p.m., RH 302 Sorority Council, 5 p.m., RH Theater Fraternity Council, 4:30 p.m. Carolina Productions Traditional Events Commission, 6:00 p.m., RH 348 Carolina Productions Ideas and Issues Commission, 6:30 p.m., RH 203 Carolina Productions Performing Arts Commission, 7 p.m., RH 201 Tuesdays Newman Club, 7 p.m., St Thomas More Center Hillel, 7:30 pm, RH 315, call Roger Rachima at 544-2523 SAGE (Students Allied for a Greener Earth), 7-8 p.m., RH 302 Association of African-American Students, 6 p.m. Psi Chi Psychology Honor Society meets every other Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. in Barnwell room 465 P.E.E.R.S. meeting, every other week, RH 315 Carolina Productions Concerts Commission, 7 p.m., RH 203 Carolina Productions Cinematic Arts Commission, 7 p.m., RH 309 Carolina Productions Membership Commission, 5:30 p.m., RH 201 Carolina Productions Homecoming Commission, 7:30 p.m., RH 348 H RHA Spnafo 7 n m oanffn The ( ? ^vuuwv, I y.m., VII aoocnc Room-Horseshoe ^nn -v Camnns Coalition for Litpraov V 7 every other week, 8:30 p.m., RH 205 Carolina Cares, 7 p.m., Preston ' Seminar Room Wednesdays PALM Campus Ministry, dinner and program, 5:30 p.m., 728 Pickens St. Student National Pharmaceutical Association, first and third Wednesdays of each month, 5:30 pjiL, Coker Life Sciences Building lounge. Call Sonia at 544-0899 for more information. Young Democrats, 7 p.m., RH 315 Student Government Senate, 5 p.m., RH Theater , Women Students' Association, 6 p.m., RH 203 Carolina Productions Marketing Commission, 6 p.m., RH 201 Carolina Productions Special Programs Commission, 6:30 p.m., RH203 Carolina Productions Black Cultural Commission, 7:00 p.m., RH 348 College Republicans, 7:30 p.m., Gambrell 250. Call 343-7194 for more information. The Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Association, 8 p.m., BA 436 Fellowship of Christian Athletes, 9:15 p.m., Williams Brice Club level Scholarship Donors Lounge Thursdays Habitat for Humanity, 5:30 p.m., RH 205 Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, 7:30-9 p.m.,RH 322/326 Baptist Student Union, Heart to Heart, 7 p.m., BSU Center Campus Crusade for Christ, Prime Time, 7:30 p.m., Calcott 15 Omicron Delta Kappa, every other week, 6 p.m., RH 203 ^ Students For Christ, 7 p.m., RH 302. For more information, call Ryan or Jamie at 544-0828. Carolina Productions Executive Council, 3:30 p.m., RH 201 Carolina Productions Finance Commission, 5:30 p.m., RH 201 1 eOui at the II Award Meni Dffice of Womi Department * { flWfl Come recc J Dei 5 finalist Car tape playei THE ASSOCIATED PRESS v TOMS RIVER, N.J.-Kathleen 1 Weinstein was a teacher who liked to , reward students for their random acts , of kindness. , Her life ended when she Med to talk a 16-year-old boy out of a random act of ? violence. The 24-minute conservation Weinstein s secretly recorded before she was , smothered to death last Thursday showed the lengths she would go to to help others, a; her colleagues said. "When I heard what she was saying ' to that boy on the tape, I thought, 'She was a teacher to the end, said Eileen % Largey, a guidance counselor at Thorne Middle School in Middletown, where ! Weinstein taught for eight years. "Me, I would have fainted, passed out and ? died on the spot." Hie tape enabled police to track down ^ a suspect they have identified only as M.L. of Berkeley Township. The boy, ' SENATEcontinued from page 1 considering writing a bill to provide p funding for Carolina Debate through la Athletics funding. According to Baxter, S the Debate team fits most of the criteria that establishes a competitive team, p The committee is still waiting for n more information on WUSC-FM 90.5 funding before they take action on the (c frozen funds. v, The Powers and Responsibilities K committee met and set their regular meeting time for Mondays at 6 p.m. This r< week's meeting will be this Sunday at a 2 p..m. tl Their main responsibilities are to fill a empty senate seats and approve the President Executive staff (cabinet) a positions. - v There are currently empty senate s< Got a ne A>; "* . * [ctoni Lotaiii diversity i BP en 121117e the manv ou O ~ Featured 5 9 Dr. Judy Van! in of the College > Mass Commt March 25,1! @ Russell Hou :s for the Outstai and the particin toring Network1 en's Services and of Student Life/I V r key to catchi /ho turned 17 on Friday, was charged j \iesday with murder and carjacking. ! authorities say M.L. carjacked Weinstein < ecause he wanted to steal a 1995 Toyota lamry like hers as a "present" for his ] lirthday. He smothered the special j ducation teacher with her coat and i umpea her body in the woods, police aid. Weinstein had managed to remove 1 tie tape from a recorder in her bag and i lip it into her pocket before she died. 1 Don't you understand what kind of i rouble you are going to get in?" she is < teard saying in a desperate attempt to 1 et him to release her. Fellow students said the suspect was j rouble. : "I knew he was a bad kid. I stayed ? way from him," said Brian Gregory, a inior at Toms River High School South, i diere M.L had transferred days before ' tie slaying. "He just has a bad reputation i or fighting and (using) drugs." ] Published reports said the suspect 1 ositions, including seats in nursing, iw, social work and Applied Professional i ciences. Filling these empty seats is the main riority right now, according to committee lember Graham King. "Right now, the main responsibility ?f the committee) is to ensure all (senate) acancies are filled by quality people," jng said. To fill these seats, they will be ^viewing applications that have been pproved by Franklin. The next part of le process includes interviews with the pplicants. Student Services committee also met ad discussed student concerns: safety, oter turnout and ways to make the anofo mnro viciKlo ^1UW UAVA V V lUA^/lV* ws tip? C ling 1 if South I I B B fl itstanding wome, Speaker Slyke Turk, of Journalism a inications. 996,4pm se Ballroom nding Woman ants in the W< will be recogni theWomen Sti )ivision of Stu< ng car jacker also was fading charges as a juvenile in Family Court for assaulting a police afficer after a scuffle. But Anna Chantsri, who described herself as M.L.'s best friend, told the (\sbuiy Park Press he is "sweet and realty innocent." "He wouldn't hurt a fly," she said. Weinstein, on the other hand, was universally recognized as a teacher with a big heart who kept an eye out for others. Under a Droeram she started three vears ago, students who performed good deeds aarned a chance at a free lunch for two from a local fast food restaurants. Some students also dealt with their *rief by writing letters to her 6-year-old son, Daniel, said assistant principal James Ouellette. There also was a tribute on the message sign on the school's front lawn: 'Mrs. Wejnstein, thanks for your random acts of kindness. We will remember you." By Wednesday, more than a dozen aouquets of flowers lay around the sign. . "It (Student Services) is pretty much i catch-all committee. Most power is in inance and judicial, but we deal with a vide variety of things," said committee Dhair Heath Roberts. All committee chairs are also a part >f the rules committee. Darcie Shively, L995-96 student body vice president and :urrent SG senator, is on the Rules Committee. One goal of the committee s to keep each committee chair informed >f the activities in other committees. Qliixrolv coir) rvn o cm a 1 io fn fa Ira jressure off of Franklin by keeping track >f absences and committees happenings. The senate will continue to meet luring their regularly scheduled time >n Wednesdays at 5 p.m. alius. 77 " " : ^ IIIami mini Carolina noN ) n at IJSC' g? md J at USC mien's ized. ident's Associi ?|pnt A ff Q ire LJ-V/XJ.I JL lllUii J Briefs Candidate for director of Women's Studies gives lecture Barbara Ryan of the Department of Sociology at Widener University and the candidate for director of Women's Studies presents "How Much Can I Divide Thee? Let Me Count The Ways: Identity Politics in the Women's Movement" today in Gambrell room 151. For more information, call / / /-4UU /. Leadership Council applications deadline approaches Applications for the 1996-97 Leadership Council are due tomorrow by 12 p.m. in Russell House room 115. The Leadership Council's duties include development and implementation of the Emerging Leadership Program, LEAD conference and the Student Leadership Training Conference. Performance in honor of Women's History Month "Mertle and Gertrude, Two Old Friends" is a free performance of dance duets and solos by professors Martha Brim of Columbia College and Gayle Dogerty of Oxford College, Emory University. It will be held at 3 p.m. on March 24 in Drayton Hall. A reception will follow. Philosophy Colloquium planned for tomorrow Tracy Strong of the University of California in San Diego is the featured speaker for a seminar called "The Song in the Self: Nietzsche, Music and Dpmnrrarv" tnmnrmw at. d n m in Gambrell room 258. A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m. in Welsh Humanities Office Building room 615. im . m- m mm"m .. C I gSggg'A*'* f, ? ? Kg |? I ition an ' x ;'