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? GAMECOCK ONLINE Visit the Gamecock's Home on the World Wide Web http://www.gamecock.sc.edu QAMECOCK INSIDE j WEATHER j INDEX VIEWPOINTS Small town M ^ ^ ^ urirf fl * - - wL*~1 T0DAY ! Datebook 2 charm works its magic 3 j /ITh* M fa #%% ffe f g% pfl ! WW I ViewP?ints 3 ETC. Are you a Days' junkie? Take j wl IV I I I I I I 1/ I III IT j cSHH_J Low64 Etc. 5 0UrteSt 8 1 m WlS 1 I i I | III lm H 39m THURSDAY I Comics 6 , affirm-? I \L/WIIIVVWVIV iSSP'S^ TI Ji ; c ?C/r, . ,onc : Low 66 . Classified 8 mf I Serving USC since 1908 j - GAMECOCK BRIEFS Carolina for Kids kicks off Food and entertainment will be at the Carolina for Kids Kick Off I from noon to 4 p.m. Sept. 4 on Greene Street Far more information j contact Caroline Croft at 790-2768. : ^ t KryoTech ceremony today KryoTech will be moving from J > the USC College of Engineering to Chris Drive in West Columbia in a I ceremony at 3 p.m. today in front of Swearingen Engineering Center j on South Main Street. Parking is : available behind the engineering building at 300 South Main Street j T ruj Ai?k. ' uautMua vui At[iuc icvcivco Membership Recruitment : | I Award The Lambda Chi Alpha j Fraternity chapter at USC was : awarded the Membership j Recruitment Award at Lambda Chi j Alpha's 26th Leadership Seminar, i held June 23-29 in Bowling Green, Ohio. | USC Dance to hold auditions j Auditions for "Phantom, the : Ballet," presented by the USC j * Department of Theatre, Speech and j ' "Dance, will be held from 2 p.m. to : 3:30 p.m. Sept. 6-7 in room 114 of j USC's Sol Blatt P.E. Center on j Wheat Street. Auditions are open to anyone aged 12 and older. Call j Susan Anderson at 777-5636 or 777- I 7209 for more information. Registration for the USC Dance j Conservatory has been extended : until Sept. 15. Classes include | instruction in ballet, tap, jazz, j a musical theatre and pas de deux, j 1 The classes are held on weekdays and weekends in Blatt P.E. Center. : Student Nurses Association to j hold joint meeting with state i nursing association The S.C. Student Nurses ! Association will host their annual * fail workshop for the first time ever j in conjunction with the S.C. Nurses : ^Association's annual convention. | Wlhe SCNA is the largest professional j association for registered nurses in | South Carolina The workshop will j be held Sept. 26-27 at the Adam's j Mark Hotel in Columbia. National j and state nursing leaders will | present seminars on a variety of : topics. The featured speaker is j Beverly Malone. Information is j available at the College of Nursing, i ^or by calling the SCNA at 803-252- j 4781. McKissick Museum's Fall | FoIkHfe Festival receives second : grant USC's McKissick Museum has j received a grant from the S.C. Arts : Commission to help underwrite its j third annual Fall Folklife Festival j Sept. 27. The festival showcases j folk artistry from the state and I ^ a i i. or r.n. ? 1 ! ^cgiuii. nuuut &o iuia. artists anu ^berformers display and sell pottery, canes, baskets and quilts. The j festival is on the Horseshoe in front : of the museum. j Fulbright Grants available for * graduate study in the arts, j academics : Students planning on | professional training in the arts or graduate study should attend the : Fulbright Grants Workshop at 4 j %>.m. today in the Gressette Room j on the third floor of Harper College, j Nationally known speaker Helen : Alvare to talk about respecting life | Helen Alvare, the spokeswoman i fcr the Conference of Raman Catholic { Bishops and its national advocate : foe, the Sanctity of Life, will give a ; series of lectures and meet with j priests from the Diocese of ! TI7-J !?.. Cnnf 0 of I wiicuicsujii vveuucsuay, ucjii. u, ai> , JSC. ; USC to celebrate 100th j anniversary of William j Faulkner's birth The University of South Carolina j will celebrate the 100th anniversary : of the birth of Nobel Prize-winning j novelist William Faulkner with a I symposium for students and the : Public Sept. 4-5. % Women's Healthcare Center to : host seminar on migraines j The Women's Healthcare Center, : a division of the University Specialty j Clinics-College of Nursing, will host j a free seminar on Thursday, Sept. : 4, at 7 p.m. in North Trenholm ; Baptist Church. Admission is free. ! Call 782-1002 to register. ? compiled by j ; Carrie McCu'lough ; College studei COLLEGE PRESS EXCHANGE It's like like booze Diane Kerwin, a University people," shi of Chicago sophomore, used to ln fact, spend 40 hours a week on the college stud Internet, surfing or "chatting" can spark n with friends. personal liv< But the Net began to interfere similar todi with her normal life, so now, she according t says, she's cut back. In a st To 35 hours. students, t "My boyfriend dumped me their use o because I spent too much time various act online, but he was a loser anyway," a group, co Kerwin, 22, said. "It hurt a lot, at many c SO I Cut down." across tn thi Kerwin admits that she is not to be at hi] like other college students who abuse, a( dial up the Net to research a Morahan-M paper, check football scores or psycholo read a horoscope. Like an conducted 1 increasing number of computer Studen users, she spends hours prowling "pathologii the Internet and compulsively a d m i 11 e < checking her electronic mail, symptoms TIM CI Bonnie Boinean takes Graduate s Spracher's picture for her USC ID. Mai still baying books, getting IDs and nnpa Gettin it Togetn Student ~j phones blocked CARRIE MCCULLOUGH Staff Writer Because of problems with the new long distance communications system, some students living on-campus cannot receive long distance calls. While some might not want Mom and Dad checking in every minute, going weeks without getting long distance Dhone calls is frustrating for manv students, like IdeHa Chestnut, an Resident Advisor in Moore residence hall. "This has been going on since Aug. 7," Chestnut said. Finding someone to help with phone problems on campus and finding someone aware of phone problems seem to be a problem in itself for students. Daryl Davis, associate director of business and finance for the housing department, said he knew there was some upgrading done during the summer to the long distance programming and was aware that there were some problems early last week. He said all phone problems are handled through Computer Services, which handles the work orders. Elizabeth Woodard, information resource consultant for the university, said she was unaware there's a problem. She looked into the matter and later said there has been a problem with getting numbers steered from the old phone system to the new phone system installed this summer. So fer, there's only been about a dozen lines Computer Services knows about that were not steered correctly, according to Woodard. Specific residence halls didn't have problems, she said, only specific phone numbers not updated to the new system. Woodard also said she encourages students that do have communication problems to call 777-8153 so repairs can be made. 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I. jgjjjjjjjjjjjj^^^ ^jgtKL a?<^?>..? 1 KM - * - . -~ -J< ~ ^ |fiitiii^M|i am , A,v <o~^??i~L.A " Ei ' Ite first Ml week of classes underway, students finish a pizza and read The Gamecock on the Russell House ] I I IJI11 i IJRranffMHHHH I j I HHiWkEfl % fl NHMu sSfflH^^^^SP^ 'fi, fr WHB \&1*: %*..*; si.'> I - v ! > | -? - t ?'?- JHHP^j I FILE PHC'CO The Gamecock . hologists ie each the Net. lours a USC students said they see mt not internet addictions could be a problem. it they Junior Earl Owens said he ake on feels there is the potential problem 're in a of internet addiction on cammis. this, a "The only thing that I do on omore,' the internet is e-mail," Owens locality said. "I feel that students can week, become addicted to the internet riment because it is free." aid. "It Brette Barclay, lab assistant stories in the Thomas Cooper Library, :an go said she sees many students using "the internet, found "There is a good many t room students who come into the lab ep and to go on the internet," Barcley whose said. "There seems to be more eonally mail junkies in the making than internet juniaes. so said Rosalind Harvey iiships, contributed to this story ties for ,wX. * i? % . JHBI t\ J* ?** "'" ?* '-wV^2T V^iUfl- rr<<H6> SI'S AN METERS The Camecock i last minute odds and ends. Junior patio. Former Gamecock Nate Wilbourne signed a one-year deal with the Charlotte Hornets Friday for the league's minimum $242,000 for undrafted free agents. The 6-foot-11-inches Wilbourne played two years Ht IJSC after transferring from Ohio State. He averaged 8.1 points and 4.8 rebounds in 39 games with the Gamecocks. His best season was his junior year when he averaged 10.6 points and 5.4 rebounds. Last season be shot a team best .556 from the field. Wlllinnpti* attended e fane mini-camp, bat was not offered a contact. He signed the leal after attending an August camp. t | * ... % ??