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i Student fin COLLEGE PRESS EXCHANGE {Me Homesickness can put a damper on the few months of freshman year. While some first-year students are out me new friends, cheering at football games whooping it up at dorm parties, others are < nothing?except thinking about home. Why do some students get homesick, others not? That's exactly what Nicole Scaramelli w? to know. The 1997 Dartmouth College grac spent her senior year researching a problem experts say afflicts as many as 30 percent of year students. "Homesickness is one of the leading ce of people coming into the health center to counselor or doctor," said Scaramelli, a psych USCPD officer BOB SIMMONDS Staff Writer Many students returning to USC will ? into Five Points. But, to insure a good tin ' know how to be safe. According to Officer Calvin Gallman < Department, there are several basic rules t safe while out on the town. If you're being followed, go to the firs can find. Never go home or risk being folio Don't hitchhike. That's a federal law Avoid shortcuts and isolated areas. T them in Five Points. Avoid walking on the get home. Don't walk alone after dark, even in \ On the street, walk facing traffic. Thi % from being pulled into a passing car. Department of I for Aug. 27, stud CARA PELLAT Asst. News Editor Students wanting to change rooms this s ^ to compete with students still on the waitii according to Gretchen Koehler-Shepley, P of Housing. "If s a matter of whether we have space who want to switch will have to work toj Shepley said. There are several students in temporai students don't show up on campus, their s house students on the waiting lists. |1 I G; V With I Can Ci // h 1 Get a phone ca if you open a checking accou Our representatives will be a Free AT Visa 1 Al' CAT The be Member F fle . Campus AT 2 Branch Locations: Colur * One unil represents one minute of a dome; depending ofUhe country called. Wednesday, ids certain pe major. For the 12-month project, she studied a i first 100 Dartmouth students and dug up eviden suggest that homesickness is mostly linked letinfT shiHpnt's nersnnfllihr nennlp whn nrp ir?trnv< i and or neurotic tend to be more likely to be home ioing according to her study. Scaramelli said she delved into the topic , and though she herself never experienced a bad of the homesick blues. But during her fresh mted year, "one of my roommates had a difficult luate adjusting and ended up leaving school," she i that "That kind of sensitized me to the issue." first- Working with Dartmouth Professor Wil Morris, Scaramelli asked first-year studen luses fill out a questionnaire in the summer b< see a starting Dartmouth, and then six weeks i ology arriving on campus. The questionnaire te offers Five Points If you're wearing a purse i it in case of a mugging. It's not i want to venture y0ur bag le, people need to Following these rules shoo . in Five Points, coupled with tl )f the USC Police police substation next to Food o follow to remain "There are citv Dolice wal the night," Gallman said, t lighted area you There are also pay phones wed. For people who try to use t as well. get into establishments, differ* here are plenty of "Many will just turn you aj railroad tracks to ID," Gallman said. All people to have their identification cht vell-lighted areas. "Above all, drink in modera swill prevent you activity to the police," Gallma] lousing sets fall rooi lents still on hall wa For those wanting to char Housing will begin the procesi semester will have building in the area offices Aug ig list for housing, 0n Aug. 28. Lssociate Director Room changes between res and continue until Oct. 28. Tt 3 or not...Students handle these changes, jether," Koehler- In order to change rooms, and sign a form indicating his i ry housing. When about the room change, ipaces are used to imecocks /ho Bank Carolina Hi ill Home Fi rd worth 30 units* of free long distance talk tir nt at Carolina First. It's easy to start banking wi it the Russell House in June to assist with your No Minimum Balance No Service Charge Free Debit/ATM Card "M Use-No Fee Charged by Carolina First Free First Order of Checks Credit Card and Overdraft Protection Available with Approved Credit fOUNA FIRST mk that puts South Carolina first DIC Equal Housing Lender O Carolina First Bank 1997 i=r M located next to Business Administration School nbia Main-1225 Lady Street Five Points-1940 Bios; ilic U.S. call. For inlcrn.ition.il calling, one unit will not equal one mini Calling card to be issued 4-6 weeks after opening your account willu 9 August 20, 1997 The Gamecock lli? rsonaimes more pre students' personality types. that introverts find i bout Scaramelli said she thought the survey results "If you have trouble | ice to would verify what she calls her "grieving" kind of in a bind." I to a hypothesis, that "people who were happiest with The research sh jrted their home life mi^it have a greater sense of loss practical strategies fc ssick, in a new situation, and would therefore be more such as social activil likely to experience homesickness." she said. Dartmoutl even But that was not the case. "We were pretty orientation camping 1 bout surprised," she said. "The results were exactly of freshman go hiking man opposite. People who were most unsatisfied with Also, after hearin time their homelife were most likely to be homesick." study, Dartmouth's said. Students were deemed to be homesick by the create a program to way they answered questions like "I feel lqnely homesick students, liam here," and "I think about home constantly." The health servic its to The ones who battled homesickness also were secretaries to doctoi ifnrp mnsf nftpn infrnvprtpH atiiHpnfa whn fpnriprl tn will hp naeianpH t.n after be dependent on others. "It sort of seemed like a members will send i isted double-edged sword," Scaramelli said, explaining Tm your contact pei safety tips Carolina Collegi ar book bag, be ready to release ; worth risking your life to save p i. f Credit union S ild help people stay safe while taj ie help there already, like the CSte tO StudeiltS, co, Lion. " king around the area during facil * available to dial 911 from. i fake form of identification to BRANDINA CALLWOOD Staff Writer ^ ?nt places have different rules. Though Carolina Collegiate Federal aci round and others will take the ? , jTTon ui i nn , j , Credit Union has served USC since bal imder 30 years old can expect inor7 c i , , 1967, very lew people associated with an , , . . the college say they know the services ition and report any suspicious ^ 0g-erg orc Q sa^' Located behind Carolina Coliseum ore at 710 Pulaski St., anyone currently an 1 employed with USC or Coastal Carolina Mt ITI PHriTlP'PS University and any USC alumni for Ctll0Vy0 associate and immediate family | members (including children, He IlinP' llStS grandchildren, parents, siblings and cr< H in-laws) may seek membership. wil T ?i. i: n~n i.-? i ljtujL suxiixiiei, v^euuiiiitt v^uuegiau; Cn: ige rooms, the Department of enlisted USC studenta as possible Se 9 for changes within the same applicants. This privilege includes not tog r. 27. There will be no changes only full-time and part-time students, ac< but also anyone enrolled in a single idence halls will begin Aug. 29 class at the university. (S. te Department of Housing will All members own and command Fo this financial institute. The staff operates So students must pay a $10 fee under the guidance of a board of s.( or her roommate has been told directors, composed of approximately Ur nine elected members. Members may suggest changes in the 9v Mil 151, ? ;-v - ' "r Area merchant and services miss this one ne what C th Parnlina Firct v.. ^u.vs....u . ^ ^ banking needs. .COME SEE * HAS Thursda i 10 * Russ - Rain Location; yr iom Street * ^ ___ A . w 4 4 VV lilt;; the v.tlue will v.try, . - ' , win.. First. Department of Student Lif t me to homesickiu i i 11 .i i i ii i ? i nara to meet new people, come taut to me. getting that support, you're That way, there's "more acquaint students other than when they're sick,' ould help colleges devise Turco, director of the health service. >r fending off homesickness, Scaramelli's study drew interest 1 uies for first-year students, focused on "this whole introversion, isol h, for example, offers pre- causes problems," he said. "We certa trips, in which small groups lot of that." ;, horseback riding or biking. For some first-year students, "the ? g the results of Scaramelli's anxiety is tremendous. Some of them are Health Service decided to by their parents, who can't separate help identify and counsel them alone," said Turco, adding that ma share some anxiety about leaving hor :e's 60 staff members, from Scaramelli, who will attend rs to nurses to counselors, University's law school this fall, said shi groups of freshmen. 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