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^ 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
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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<
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systems will testify to the sensitivity <
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there is a 60-second time period befor
and the entire dorm alarm system go<
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smoke away from the detector during
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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
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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."
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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.
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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
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nity has really come through. The universit
off without the 60-second delay and the
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facilities to help drive prices 1
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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
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in someone else's nightmare, a dream she ai
f 10 that sustained fire and water damage
"But Fm not shaking anymore."
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wasn't pleased to see her books and notes fli
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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,
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lich smoke "Fire drills and fire safet;
anyone has "We have a lot of old buildings
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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