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> Winner of the 1996 CMA Pacemaker Award Si Ut Gamecock ^ Serving USC since 1908 : Frankli ^ KAREN LAYNE News Editor This time last year, newly elected Student Government President Jamel Franklin was celebrating a different victory ? his election as vice president. He spent his 1996-97 term working to fulfill his vice-presidential campaign promises, and he'll carry very little unfinished business into the president's office. Franklin's first vice-presidential platform objective, as printed in the Feb. 8,1996, edition of The Gamecock, was to personally lobby state legislators for funding for student programs and a voting student member on the Board of Trustees. To meet this objective, Franklin and 1996-97 President Patrick Wright spoke with several legislators on the Senate Finance Committee, where most m^jor State con ROSALIND HARVEYStaff Writer The Commission of Higher Educa fire systems in resident halls across tJ A fire in a fraternity house at the U Chapel Hill two years ago killed fiv . questions of fire safety in college dorn The University of South Carolina is working on an extensive report for th< According to Dave Castine, USC's no dorms fully equipped with sprink Department of Housing is working 01 full sprinkler systems to be installed i Improvements are currently being m; safer. "Very few schools have gone to the < rto insure fire safety for our students," In 1993, housing officials began ins systems. This project is expected to las a total cost of around $4 million, Cast Patterson Hall is the next resident system installed. Kutiedge, Woodrow Columbia Hall and Sims are already eq detection system, Castine said. He also said that the Bates Hous cost a total of $300,000. "These new systems are state of th< ) students who live in the dorms equipp systems will testify to the sensitivity < According to Castine, once a sing there is a 60-second time period befor and the entire dorm alarm system go< In case of a false alarm, students Y smoke away from the detector during Once the USCPD is notified, the fire c If a main fire alarm is pulled, th ? Gilbert, Guba STAFF REPORTS Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, America's leading experts on 19th- and 20th-century women's literature, will talk to USC freshmen and the public Monday, Feb. 24, about the films that depict 19th-centuiy fictional women such as "Jane Eyre." TTip 3-30 n.m. talk, titled 'Plain Jane at the Movies," is free and open to the public and will take place in USCs Koger Center. It is part of USC's First Year Reading Experience, for which 2,000 freshman students are reading "Jane Eyre" and seeing several film adaptations of the book in February. Gilbert, a poet and English professor at the University of California-Davis, ^ and Gubar, a distinguished professor of English at Indiana University, have collaborated on literary works for 20 years. Most notably, they edited "The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women" (1985) and wrote "The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the 19th-century Literary LIGHTS, C I f i< y ii i I Mi *< f II succc work on the budget is done, and encouraged them to give attention to funding for higher education, Franklin said. Franklin and Wright were guaranteed attention to higher education from the legislators, and this year did bring an increase in higher-education funding, he said. The battle for a voting student member on the Board of Trustees was close, and student Brian Comer was almost awarded the position, Franklin said. He said he will continue the fight as part of his lobbying efforts by asking legislators to sponsor a bill to reserve a seat for the SG president on the board. Franklin's second platform objectives involved improving campus safety to decrease "threat of crime and unsafe feelings many students have about this university." Emission p tion is pushing for updated |~| 1 ie nation. niversity of North Carolinae students and has raised litories. Mj]( one of the many universities Up fron i commission on fire safetv. Uo* liU fire safety officer, USC has asleep1 ler systems. However, the "It's 1 a budget and proposal for Tha in all residence halls. gradua ade to make USC dormitories used to Tol axtent that we have in order have j0 Castine said. ?rV( tailing new smoke detection commu t for another two years with ine said. hall that will have this new , Bates House, Bates West, [uipped with this new smoke dorms go immediat e and Bates West systems Castinesi j art," Castine said. "Those their cent ied with the smoke detector a repc af these systems." . "Then le smoke detector goes off, sa^- Th' e the USC police is notified ^or these f js off. . Hesai lave the chance to "fan" the ^ Pas this 60-second time period. These lepartment is called. J*16 mam en the alarms all over the detector s< tampered r to visit USC Imagination" (1979), an in-depth look at how 19th-century women writers defied personal and artistic constraints of the era. It was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Gilbert and Gubar also will give 3:30 p.m. lectures Tuesday, Feb. 25, and Wednesday, Feb. 26. Sandra Gilbert will read some of her selected poems Wednesday in Currell Auditorium. Recognized in scholarly circles as the nation's leading feminist critics, Gilbert and Gubar, through their research and writing, have been instrumental in adding women's literature to the accepted canon of great literature. The pair met in 1973 after taking teaching posts at Indiana University. Recognizing that women's literature or feminist criticism was absent from the curriculum, they developed the course "The Madwoman in the Attic." For more information about Gilbert and Gubar's talk and lectures, call USC's First at 777-7120. AMERA, AC! iNickelodeaon Theater, which is just two blocks from cai Columbia's moviegoers an c see filmsnot featured in la from independent films to a ema. Check out ETC. for al ssful in Additional call boxes B| 4.1 D H WCIC iiiSUUlCU ill UIC ueusuil l|| area and at the School of Music, Franklin said. HB > Lighting in the Blossom Street Garage also was H| ^ W improved, among other I "We just spoke with the HSES. 9 Law Enforcement and Safety 1 Division, and they assured H us they have units working WUBg' .>?> in the garages, working FRANKLIN undercover in terms of monitoring garage safety," Franklin said. We made sure that was definitely taken care of." Franklin's first opportunity to meet his dining reform objective will be this summer, when the current dining contract is up for renewal, he said. "What we're trying to do is get less restrictive eating ushes for fi ident loses all be ?LAYNE News Editor Ired Farrington said she still feels like she's i L home at Cedarwood Apartments was one o with a lighted cigarette, been pretty upside down," Farrington said, inks to neighbors' warnings, no one was inj te student in the School of Public Health, v. contain it. lelp her pick up the pieces, the School of Pub] ined forces, offering Farrington books, stude i been really impressed," said Eric Ford, pre nity has really come through. The universit off without the 60-second delay and the ely notified. They call the Columbia Fire D< ud. o said that in 1989 the Columbia Fire Depai ral reporting system. Therefore, the USC pc irting service for USC. s is a $100 charge for nuisance (false) alarm e Risk Management and Fire Safety Deparl Ines." d that USC has been fined $3,000 in false ? tyear. systems are able to aid firefighters in locati panel is able to tell firefighters exactly wl it the system off. They also are able to tell if with the detectors in their rooms or if the i i fi> ?mi ^ipi try noN rw PAGE 4 Jpfl npus, offers ipportunity to irger theaters lternative cin1 the details. \ '96-'97 ] times and get dining i companies like Chick-Fil-A, Taco Bell and Wendy's, i Those are the three big ones. ] Also, (we want to) get more 1 K competition between dining j facilities to help drive prices 1 down and improve dining for students.". ' A campus-wide Race ; Relations Forum, possibly , Franklin's most visible effort, , mltilled his fourth objective. , A student committee on race relations will be created to plan more j programs, he said. , The fifth objective involved intercampus relations, where Franklin planned ( last year to "promote unity and , cooperation with other Southeastern college and universities and better organize state and national lobbying ire safety u longings in apai in someone else's nightmare, a dream she ai f 10 that sustained fire and water damage "But Fm not shaking anymore." ured in the fire, she said. But with midter wasn't pleased to see her books and notes fli lie Health, the Division of Student Affairs ar int housing and a lot of support, sident of the School of Public Health's grad v was outstanding." USCPD is dirty, Castine said, apartment, "We have two or three fir safety of the residents," Cas tment quit calls in the past year, and dril dice acts as make a difference." Thursday night many stude s," Castine one of these bi-semester drill ;ment pays Senior Woodrow resident the 7 p.m. drill at her dorm, darm fines "Fire safety is good, but tl time," she said, ng the fire. Senior Ernest Sessoms ag lich smoke "Fire drills and fire safet; anyone has "We have a lot of old buildings detector is the dangers." > I i |H SB I IX 11 M *** ? b NIKKI THORPE The Gamecock ~~| BATTEI The Gamecock U1 W, baseball squad took two out PAGF ot three trom \ ^ Kent Sunday. With the t IE w'ns> Carolina improved to I J/m% on the young season. Che out SPORTS for details. platfori efforts for higher education." o i o n Oi 3 A oevertu o.v^. oLuuenu* rtaaotiauuu meetings, attended by representatives from state colleges and universities, have been held, Franklin said. The organization is improving and operating much better than it had been, he said. Franklin's academic objectives included thorough and consistent departmental academic advisement standards and a course repeat or academic forgiveness policy at USC, as so many other universities have." To meet his advisement objective, SG conducted a survey of colleges' adyisement processes, Franklin said. The results will be taken to deans to encourage a "more personable advisement where students feel less like a social security number," he said. Academic forgiveness is an objective Franklin will carry into his presidential pgrades rfm anf fira L tlll^llt 111^ id her neighbors just can't wake early Tuesday when a man fell ms approaching, Farrington, a oating in the water firefighters id the South Carolina Bookstore uate association. "The Carolina FIRE page 2 e drills each semester to ensure the tine said. "We have had some close lis and these state-of-the-art systems tits living an the Horseshoe experienced s. Sonia Darley had mixed reactions to le alarms always go off at the wrong jreed. y is very important," Sessoms said. 3 on campus and we need to consider Sophomore Susanne Newman defeated Terrance Levine in the race for the next Student Body Treasurer. Newman took 1,403 of the votes. The results were announced around 11 p.m. Thursday. Run-off elections will be held for the office of vice president Thursday. The candidates are Kim Dickerson and Michael Phillips. I How many children's s Pare attacked each year r^0f??r?tc L JJCU. Wllto 8 H ANSWER: 100 ;ck Source: Harper's Index 2 it goals term. This summer, SG hopes to present information collected on 50 colleges and universities, most of which allow some form of forgiveness, to the Board of Trustees. They will request USC introduce a program allowing fin* a limited number of courses to be repeated with grade replacement, Franklin said. "It's definitely something Student Government needs to continue working on," he said. Franklin said he considers the safety improvements, lobbying for higher education and the Race Relations Forum his greatest platform achievements, and he has hopes for more success. "We were able to address every one of them, but I would like to concentrate more on the voting student," Franklin said. "Fd really like to hit that harder." And now as SG president, Franklin will have that chance. rrmmiTO BRANP1 MARTIN Staff Writer The Multiple Sclerosis Association of America is sponsoring an $8,000 essay project The project is called Learn MS '97. College (and high school) freshmen, sophomores and juniors can participate in the essay contest The essay covers multiple sclerosis, its effects on the family and society and how life for the physically challenged can be improved. Contestants must obtain at least one sponsor pledging $7.50. Applicants can win various prizes by sponsorship as well. The essay must include an official registration form, $7.50 sponsorship and must be postmarked by April 11. The essay must contain 500 to 1000 words, a title page, be accompanied by an official registration form and the sponsorship. Questions that should be answered in the essay include: What is MS? How does it impact a person and family? How can society improve physically challenged lives? The scholarship winner will receive $8,000 to cover tuition and book bills. Three sponsorship winners will be rewarded ? Grand Prize (minimum of $500 received) winning a color Zenith TV with remote, second prize ($100+ received) winning a project Learn MS sweatshirt, and third prize ($50+ received) winning a project Learn MS T-shirt. Submitting applicants should send their essay to PROJECT: Learn MS '97,706 Haddonfield Road, Cherry Hill, NJ 08002. For more information contact Public Relations Director Peter Damiri at (609) 488-4500. For an official registration form, call MSAA at 1-800-LEARN MS. 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