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USC to stage "Frankenstein"
USC will be performing Mary Shelley's
"Frankenstein" Sept. 19-28 in the
Drayton Hall auditorium. Tickets are
available at Longstreet Box Office and
one hour before the show. For ticket
reservations call 777-2551.
Oxfam Carolina to meet Monday
Oxfam Carolina, the anti-hunger
coalition at USC, will meet at 4 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 22. The meeting will be
held at PALM Campus Ministry, 728
Pickens St. The annual Hunger Banquet,
Day of Fast and other activities
are being planned. Call 799-7363 for
more information.
v Black Graduate Student Alliance
meeting next week
The Black Graduate Student Alliance
will have a meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 23 in the Law School
auditorium, room 160. For information,
call Yvonne Mitchell at 754-2601.
Learn how to really get involved
at USC
The Working to Inspire Leaderv
ship Development Team (W.I.L.D) is
sponsoring a information meeting about
student organizations on campus on
Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 7 p.m. in the
3rd floor lobby of the Russell House.
For more information, call 777-6688.
Golden Key to sponsor practice
tests
Golden Key National Honor Society
will be selling tickets for practice
v CPA, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT to be held
Saturday, Sept. 27, at 9 a.m. in Gambrell
Hall. Tickets cost $5 and will be
sold Monday through Wednesday, Sept.
22-24,10 a.m.-2 p.m. Proceeds will
go to Golden Key.
One-Shot Community Service projects
coming up
A One-Shot community service pro
v ject will be held at the Department of
Juvenile Justice from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30
p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23. Refreshments
and transportation will also be provided.
For more information, call 777-8402.
Autumn Jazz Cruise on Lake
Murray
An Autumn Jazz Cruise on Lake
Murray will be held from 7-9 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 25. It will benefit Big
Brothers/Big Sisters of Greater Columbia,
Inc., and is available to individuals
over the age of 18. For more information,
contact Barron Damon at
691-5700.
European Bronze Sculpture opens
at Columbia Museum of Art
"The Age of Bronze: 19th and 20th
Century European Bronze" from the
Mandell Collection will be shown Sept.
^ 27-Mav 3 at the Columbia museum of
Art. For more information call 799-2810.
McKissick Museum to hold Fall
Folklife Festival
The McKissick Museum's third annual
Fall Folklife Festival is scheduled
for Saturday, Sept. 27. The festival
showcases the folk artistry of the state
and region. It's held on the Horseshoe
in front of the museum. For more in%
formation, call Holly Mitchell at
McKissick Museum at 777-7251.
S.C. Philharmonic announces its
1997-98 season
The S.C. Philharmonic announced
its 33rd season beginning Oct. 4. The
season includes eight "Master Series"
concerts of traditional classical music,
two "Pops" concerts and one special
Sunday matinee performance. All concerts
are at the Roger Center for the
Arts.
USC poetry reading
A USC poetry reading of original
works will be held at 7 p.m., Oct. 4 at
Alley Cafe on Lady Street in the Vista.
For more information about taking part
in the reading call the USC English Department
at 777-4203.
^ Continuing Education piano workshop
to be offered
"Piano Playing Secrets in Three
Hours," for ages 16 and older, will be
held from 6:30-9:30 p.m., Wednesday,
Oct. 8. The cost is $55. Little or no
experience is required. To register call
Joan Kirkpatrick, 777-9444.
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i REGEVNA GREEN Staff Writer
j For Deborah Johnson, the dream
I of becoming a student at Boston Uni:
versity hinged almost entirely on one
J thing: financial aid.
"I totally wanted to go to BU,"
j Johnson said. "But it costs almost
I $30,000 a year to go there. There's no
: way I would have been able to afford
to go here if it weren't for grants, loans,
scholarships and work study. You could
: say I got the total package."
As the cost of tuition at America's
colleges and universities continues to
I rise, the issue of financial aid has bel
come increasingly important.
I Thirty-four percent of freshmen
women cited "low tuition" as very im
portant in selecting the college they at
tended, and 27 percent of men agreed,
: according to the UCLA Higher Edu
: cation Kesearch Institute, wfticn sur;
veyed 300,000 full-time freshmen in
I 1996.
: The numbers go up in regard to
; financial assistance as 36 percent of
women cite being offered financial as
sistance as very important in selectj
ing their college, and 31 percent of men
: agreed.
| Sept. 15
Larceny of a banner, Coker Life Sci
stated that some unknown person(s)
\ "Welcome to College of Pharmacy" f
I timated value: $47.50.
j Sept. 14
Burglary (III), malicious injury
na Coliseum. Complainant stated 1
j entered a secured area and damage
: cession stand No. 1. Entry into the
ed value of damage: $4,587.
Auto tampering, disorderly cond
coin Street. Arresting officer obser
I side door handle of a car and made t
: officer stopped the suspect and dete
: about his breath and person. The s
: der arrest.
; Sept. 13
Disorderly conduct, possession o
I drivers license, Blossom and Sur
: cers observed one white male stag
; heavy traffic. Once approached, he s:
steady on his feet and his speech wa
possession one unopened 12-ounce
: so had in his possession an altere
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nember those who are missing in act
lie ally represented MlAs and POWs b)
most of the day. These two soldiers
college si
Nationally, the distribution of state
aid has leveled off after a five-year period
with an average of 9.6 percent
yearly increase in state spending on
need-based aid, according to a 1997
survey commissioned by the non-profit
National Association of State Student
Grant and Aid Programs, and conducted
by the New York State
Higher Education Services Corporation.
The survey reported that the 50
states, the District of Columbia and
Puerto Rico spent $2.9 billion on grants
to students in the 1995-1996 school
vear. onlv a 1.6 Dercent increase over
the previous year.
Andrea White, a marketing sophomore
from Charleston, said one of
the most important reasons she chose
USC was because of its low cost.
"USC is inexpensive [for in-state
students], and that was a part of my
decision to come here," she said. "If I
had gone to a private university or a
state school outside of South Carolina,
it would have been much more expensive
for me and my family."
President Bill Clinton signed into
law this summer a bill creating a
commission to study increasing college
costs, with special attention paid to exences
building. Complainant
removed a banner that said
rom the above location. Esto
real DroDertv. Caroli
that an unknown person(s)
d consumable goods at conarea
is unknown. Estimatuct,
dirt lot west side of Linved
suspect lift the drivers
he light inside come on. The changed ft
cted a strong odor of alcohol arrest,
uspect was then placed unMalicioui
4. Suspecl
gate on th
, . ix j tion. Susp<
if beer by a minor, altered ^ .
nter streets. Reporting offi- that he jUJ
gering in the street during f()r the daj
melled of alcohol, he was unis
slurred. Subject has in his
can of Icehouse beer. He al- Sept. 12
d drivers license that was
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SUSAN MEYERS The Gaihecoek
ion (MIA) or prisoners of war
' being placed in bamboo cages
were required to stay in their
lbject of:
amining whether colleges are trying
to control their costs, whether the federal
government should take steps to
slow rising tuition and whether increases
in student aid have caused tuition
to climb.
One independent education consultant
in Washington believes that
federal student loans have helped to
increase college costs over the past few
years.
Arthur Hauptman, a student aid
expert who has watched college tuition
rise rapidly, claims that colleges, especially
private colleges, are able to increase
their tuition as a result of readily
available federal grants and loans,
according to The Chronicle of Higher
Education.
"It is conceivable that private colleges
could have stabilized their share
of college enrollments over the past
decade without a healthy growth in
students loans," Hauptman wrote in a
testimony he was to deliver before Congress
this summer.
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president for research and policy analysis
at the National Association of Independent
Colleges and Universities,
sees no correlation between aid and
tuition.
om 12-18-78 to 12-18-73. Suspect was pi
i injury to real property, Bull Street G
t was observed by reporting officer ripj
e 1400 block side of Devine Street of the
ect fled the scene in his car. He was pulled
)fficer. Suspect admitted to breaking the gi
>t wanted to have fun. He also said that h
nages. Estimated damaged value: $200.
Students helj
by taking cla:
BETH DAVIS Staff Writer
fits 1
The Office of Disability Sendees is
looking for students to pay for note-takincr
ar>rl roarlincr TJVvr fVioir aonnwio ofii. With
1110 m m x viniii ?^? x. wi uivu uvi ? uvu
dents are paid $5.15 per hour. ship
A note-taker is just what it sounds
like. Students sign up for a class they're jn
already taking, take notes during the ^
class period, then take the notes to the
disability office to copy.
Students can also take notes in es ^
a class they're not enrolled in. The Of- toft
fice of Disability Services has a list of self
all of the classes that need note-takers.
According to Robin Cluse, a ^elj
graduate assistant in the Office of Disability
Services, many disabled students
use the note-taking option when co
offered, but, "it depends on how it affects
their (student) personally," whether sua[
they need this service.
On the other hand, for students
interested in being a reader, the Office jear]
of Disability Services offers a tape
recorder and tapes, along with a copy 1SC
of the class textbook.
Students read the book onto tape 400
and deliver the tape to the Office of Dis- A pe
ability Services. They give it to the dis- one
abled student, who can listen to the men
book on tape.
r mor
This is a help to students with visual
impairments or students who may
not be able to turn pages due to mobility
disabilities. crin
Heather Rouse, a junior in busi- disa
ness administration, is taking notes for eral
three different classes this semester.
"A friend of mine told me about it a no
(taking notes)," Rouse said. "It was f
pretty easy to sign up for it." ^
much dis(
"Colleges and universities are look- era
ing at what their mission is and then cies
creating a budget around it," Balz said is a
in an article in The Chronicle of High- der
er Education. "They aren't looking at inc<
what money is out there and then de- am
vising a budget." for
The nation's public universities pla
aren't under as much fire in regard
to rising college costs as private insti- g^
tutions, but many public colleges and 0f c
universities received a boost from state ?he
legislatures this year, as about three jf
in five states passed budgets calling ^
for spending on higher education to increase
faster that the rate of inflation,
according to The Chronicle of Higher ^
Education. su?
rm ? . 1SS1
This may allow many public in- t-gs
stitutions to slow tuition increases as
well as increase their financial aid
owarrla UC8
ma
The South Carolina General As- . s
sembly chose to increase their student 1S s
aid spending primarily in the areas of
scholarships based on merit rather er 1
than need. sev
far 1
Several changes may be on the
horizon for federal distribution of financial
aid. The United States De- ^
partment of Education announced last rec<
month that they are considering sevLarceny
of a book bag, parti
brary. Victim said that an unk
attended book bag without p
found in the trash can on the n
were missing. Estimated value
Sept 11
Larceny of parking decal,'
stated that someone entered hii
took his parking decal. There \
timated value: $1.
Sept. 7
aced under Larceny of textbooks, BA lit
left her books unattended on a
on returning, she noticed that a
arage, level her bookbag. Total estimated \
ring off the
above loca1
over by the Sept6
ate and said
e would pay Removal of a window, McBri
said that an unknown person(
dow on the premises.
Compiled by 1
) disabled
ss notes
Rouse said there are added beneto
taking notes.
"The person I was in contact
i last semester, we've got a friendgoing
on now," she said. A1
"Buzzy" Nelson, a sophomore
beral arts, has been a note-taker
e the 1996 fall semester.
"They have so many different classi
choose from," he said. "I managed
nd a srhednle that, worked for mv
and the other person."
The Office of Disability Services
)s students with disabilities get
qual opportunity to succeed in their
ige career.
They work with students with vi,
hearing or mobility impairments,
hological or emotional impairments
other documented disabilities, like
oing disabilities or Attention Deficit
>rder.
The office currently handles around
students with various disabilities,
rson with a disability includes anywith
a physical or mental impairt
that substantially limits one or
e major life activities for them.
According to the American Disities
Act of 1990, it's illegal to dislinate
against any person with a
bility in any activity receiving fedfinancial
aid.
If you're interested in becoming
te-taker or a reader, Contact the Ofof
Disability Services iirRoom
of LeConte College.
mission
1 changes to their financial aid polis,
the most controversial of which
l system that will calculate a stuit's
needs based on a formula using
r>mp anrJ nt.hpr farf.nrs A mpHinn
ount of assets would be calculated
each income range, according to the
n.
This means that two families with
lilar incomes and the same number
hildren would be considered to have
same amount of money saved, even
le actual amounts differed for each
lily.
This proposal and several others
part of the Clinton administration's
[gestions to Congress as they debate
ues affecting colleges and universii.
The landmark 1965 Higher Edition
Act, which requires that lawkers
re-examine it every few years,
let to expire this month.
The reauthorization of the HighEducation
Act will probably contain
eral changes to how America pays
tiigher education. Among them, who
eives federal financial aid, what
d they receive and how much they
2ive.
al recovery, Thomas Cooper Linown
person(s) removed her un ermission.
The bag was later
tain floor. However, the contents
i: $85.
Rpost parking lot. Complainant
s vehicle by unknown means and
vere no signs of forced entry. Es>rary.
Complainant said that she
i table in the above location. Up11
of her books were removed from
ralue of books stolen: $120.
de Quad building F. Complainant
s) removed the ground floor winlosalind
Harvey