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International Student Association
to hold meeting
The International Student Association
will hold a general meeting at
8:30 p.m. today in Byrnes Suite 704.
For more information, call 777-8353
Thursday from 2:30-5 p.m. and Friday
from 1:30-5 p.m.
Golden Key to have information ta^jbles
The Southeastern Regional Director
of Golden Key will be at an information
table from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. today
in the Russell House. Membership
deadline for Golden Key is Oct. 20.
Climb for a Cure to benefit
Leukemia Society
Stronghold Athletic Club,
SouthTrust Bank and Alec Wallace and
% Tammy Moir of Team-in-Training
ry 1 _ tr\nm !ii m* i_ r
v/yeie iuu ream win sponsor v^inno ior
a Cure from 2-6 p.m. Oct. 11 at the
Stronghold Athletic Club. The registration
fee is $10 for adults and $5 for
children. For more information, call
Tammy at 799-8000.
Boots Randolph to perform at
Roger Center
ft Boots Randolph, the "Yakety Sax"
^man, will perform at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 15
at the Roger Center. Tickets cost $14
for adults and $11 for students. They're
available at the Carolina Coliseum or
by calling 251-2222.
Leadership Council applications
fhifl Fridflv
Four vacant spots on the Leader^ship
Council are available. Applications
may be picked up in the Campus
Activities Center and are due
Friday. For more information, call 7776688.
Ohio Ballet performs The Jungle
Book* at USC
The Ohio Ballet and The Dhanan
jayan's Bharata Kalanjali Dance Company
will perform "The Jungle Book"
at 8 p.m., Friday at the Roger Center.
WTickets are $16 for students and $20
for general admission. For more ticket
information, contact Carolina Coliseum
box office, Capital Ticket outlets or
call 251-2222.
Wishstock *97
WishstocK "97, which benehts the
Make-A-Wish Foundation of South Carolina,
will be at 7 p.m., Oct. 18 at Characters
night club at 577 St. Andrews
%Road. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased
at Baptist Medical Center Crosswalk
Cafe. Volunteers wanted for
Guardians ad Litem
Crop walk to be held in Finlay Park
Come and join the crop walk at
2:30 p.m., Oct. 19 in Finlay Park. The
money is being raised for hunger education
and Church World Service. For
more information, call 777-8402.
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OPERA USC to stage Rossini's The
Marriage Contract"
OPERA USC will perform "The
Marriage Contract" at 7:30 p.m., Oct.
10 and 3 p.m. on Oct. 12. Tickets cost
$15 and $10 for the public and $5 for
students and senior citizens and can be
purchased at the Carolina Coliseum
box office or by calling 251-2222.
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I Diversity
; REGEVNA GREEN Senior Writer
| When Jeff Sartin enters any one
I of the cafeterias on the Michigan State
University campus, he sees his black
I friends on one side and his white friends
; on the other.
: Where he will sit is a relatively
easy question to answer. He will dine
with his white friends, of which he has
: more. But he wishes it wasn't that way.
"My black friends would be cool
auuut uic turning tu sit witii tiicni,
j Sartin said. "But my white friends
I Hornet
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: Story by Kriste
i Asst. Nev
: Photos by Su
i Photo
; (Above) Carolina Alive perform
while the results of the king ani
tion were being tallied. (Above ]
Reeves and Queen Caroline I
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vmvv* nig aiauidAvc; as uijvi s
(Right) Finalist await the anno
new king and queen. Most of th<
S entered the competition repi
; organizations. From left to right
! Ashley Jones, Elizabeth Mack,
Caroline Parler, Sara Pendar
! Reeves and Quenton Tompkins.
A new king and queen were cr
day at Homecoming Showcase 199
sell House ballroom.
Celebrating Carolina Style waf
: Homecoming this year as eight co
; Homecoming king and queen exprei
ents and poise for the judges.
Christopher Reeves and Carolir
: crowned Homecoming king and que
the judges said was a very difficult
"Tough competition to decide
" in^rra T oAnno l?Aiirln
CUIILCSLCIIILO, JUUgC JLA/X Ulliv; i UTtlV
were all so qualified."
j Provision*
j BRENT MORRIS Staff Writer
Student success and a high grad;
uation rate that stands up well against
other students has enabled the ProviJ
sional Year program at USC to per
manently increase enrollment by 100
j students to 350 in 1997.
Conducted by the College of Ap|
plied Professional Sciences, the pro;
gram was created in 1984 to give a spe|
rial group of students who do not meet
I full admission requirements a chance
to be accepted into the University.
"With the additional students, we
: are hoping that we won't lose our high
personal level with the students," said
: Robert Lambdin, an assistant profes
sor in the Provisional Year program.
"We have added faculty and fund
ing to ensure that we have a chance to
j keep a low professor/student ratio,"
; said Lambdin, an English professor
who received the Teacher of the Year
| award for 1996-97.
Participation in the program is
I nanwed to high school graduates who
desirabl
would wonder what I was doi
there."
Colleges and universit
tionwide are increasingly int
in pursuing diversity, the coe:
of students from various raci
nic and cultural backgrounds,
of their mission in educating si
Walter Jackson, director
ticultural Student Affairs ?
agrees with the goals of uni\
that pursue diverse student
"College is a time of sel
ration " .Tnrlrenn anid "And t
lends intensity to that self-expl
:ominj
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King Chris
Parler greet the |^P ' JE
1997 monarchs.
uncement of the f i
; contestants who Ml
esented student I& v'*\
: Karen Burkett,
Jennifer Mims,
vis, Christopher | ^
owned Tues- Reeves, a
7 in the Rus- and a senior mi
his half of the f
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ntestants for
ssed their talresent
the stud
cerns they may
leParlerwere Reeves als
en after what ership Award,
decision. who shows grei
between the Parler, a n
s said. "They a chemical engi
half of the proc
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have shown promise for at
achievement but have a defic
their high school GPA or their ?
scores.
Once admitted into the p
students sign a 12-month c
agreeing to meet specific requi
Course requirements for
gram are two semesters of
States history, two semester!
lish, a semester of psychology i
lie communications, two sem
mathematics and University
The main requirement i
students to gain 30 academ
with an overall GPA of 2.0 o
"Most of our students i
matized with this method of 1<
Lambdin said. "You have to
hours, or you can't continue
college. It's a better way fc
men to learn because it is ir
yet it's in a small setting."
Even with the increase
ment, the program helps stut
just to higher standards throu
classt/and a concentratioi
e, now mor<
as part
tudents.
of Mul.4.
TTCSn
UOVj> ipmauM i
ersities
^XK^ies' The Supreme Court identified diIf-explo
versity as being the one positive realiversity
son for using race as a factor in adoration."
member of Sigma Chi fraternity "I am vi
aiorinp in bioloev. nlans to donate snrb Hishplip
>roceeds to the Children's Miracle pining next.
Jennifei
loss for words," he said. "I am glad 80rority, was
e students. As king, I want to rep- tion ^
ents and help them with any con- pendarvi
r have.
o received the Outstanding Lead- Other a
which is given to the contestant ' ren
at leadership ability. Mack.
lember of Chi Omega sorority and Tlie Hoi
neering major, plans to donate her by Student1
eeds to Habitat for. Humanity. tions.
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:ademic proving studying, analytical and com:iency
in munication skills.
SAT/ACT Advertising senior Carrie Elliott
said she loved the Provisional Year
irogram, program.
.ontract "The professors were wonderful,
remen ' and I had the opportunity to get a lot
the pro- 0f one-on-one instruction," she said.
0 p Lambdin said another advantage
1 ? of the program is that the majority of
. f the professors within the program have
1Q1 their Ph.D.
s for the This is good for the students in
ic hours Pr?gram compared to other
r better freshmen who take some courses under
the instruction of graduate stuire
dents,
jarning,
earn 30 Many of the professors have been
through recognized for their work within the
,r fresh- program and abroad,
itensive, Jim Burns, director of the Provisional
Year program, recently won the
d enroll- Outstanding Advocate award for 1997,
lents ad- which is awarded to instructors who
igh small show concern and^are willing to go the
a on im- extra step for the# students.
i difficult t(
! missions in its 1978 ruling of Re- g
gents of University of California vs. <
Bakke.
iThe atmosphere of'speculation,
experiment and creation,' so essential
I to the quality of higher education, is
I widely believed to be promoted by a diverse
student body," Justice Lewis Powell
wrote in the majority opinion.
The problem with diversity in 1997
is that not eveiyone is as convinced as
the 1978 Supreme Court that diversity,
when achieved by accepting stu- dents
based on racial or ethnic backq
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r Mims, president of Zeta Tau Alpha ?
i the first runner-up in the competi- u
standing Service Award went to Sara
member of Alpha Delta Pi.
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antestants included Quenton Tomp- g
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mecoming Showcase was sponsored
Government and Carolina Produc- c
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ie upswing I
Harriett Williams is the national e
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director lor me oantee vvateree g
Writing Project. This project is designed
by English professors to help fellow in- s
structors with their teaching of writing
techniques.
Lambdin also said that because
of the small number of students, professors
are able to monitor individual
student performances among each other
to assure that progress is achieved.
Student advisement is an area of
emphasis in the program. Students
first meet with their advisors at
summer orientation and again through
special workshops and individual sessions.
"It's really nice when you see the
students realize we want them to work
hard and study, unlike they did in high
school," Lambdin said. "We're here for i
their best interest*"
) achieve
grounds, is integral to the collegiate
:xperience.
Recent court decisions have
hanged the climate surrounding the
ssue of diversity. Cases such as Hopvood
vs. State of Texas, which held
hat colleges in the Louisiana, Missislippi
and Texas could not use race as
i factor in admissions after four white
students charged that they were re- ected
in favor of less qualified milority
applicants, have had an effect
>n the pursuit of diversity on the colege
campus.
DIVERSITY page 2
NADA:
a trip
overseas
)IPKA BHAMBHAM Staff Writer
NADA International Community
i as close to being overseas without aclally
having to hop on a plane as you
in get.
In fact, the on-campus apartments
llow international and American USC
indents to experience various cultures
nd ideals in an easy-to-handle envimment.
Sonoko Tatsukami, a Japanese extiange
student studying linguistics,
aid she was lucky to get a spacious
partment and make a lot of friends
om different backgrounds in a relaxed
avironment. Tatsukami had to stay in
lates House for one week before she
ras allowed to move into tnternation1
housing.
"NADA is like a small communip,"
she said. "When I was staying in
iates, I knew only my roommate. It's
npossible to get to know everybody beause
it's too huge."
The NADA apartments house 56
aternational and American underraduates.
Therefore, the competition
i stiff for the 27 Americans that have
d complete an application, write a few
bort essays about how they would benfit
themselves and their internation1
counterparts from their admission
ito the complex and be formally insrviewed.
Art Farlowe, Residence Life coorinator
with the Department of Housig,
said the thorough student evalution
is necessary because NADA is not
normal apartment complex.
"There are more expectations than
ving in a normal apartment," he said.
We expect students to be involved in
I ADA activities, to be real open, helpnl
cinrl fn Viovo on nnon minrl "
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Kristen Stein, an American mailing
in government and internation1
studies, said that it took a lot to get
a, but it was worth it.
"Never before was I aware that
here were so many internationals on
ampus," she said. "It was difficult to
;et in because living with internaionals
isn't as easy as living in a regilar
dorm."
Stein lives with one other Amerian
student, a Japanese student and a
French student. Normally, there are
wo Americans and two internationals
n each two-bedroom apartment with
i kitchen, dining room, den and living
oom.
Stein said that privacy and social
ssues are difficult to deal with because
hev vnrv from culture to culture. Oth
ir stumps include the language barrisr
and, in her apartment, the refrigerition
problem.
"I can't always get my phone mesiages
because of their difficulty in speakng
English," she said. "And, one mornng,
I woke up to find orange juice
eaking, but it was leaking from the
:upboard."
The complex is divided into three
louses: one blue, one yellow and one
jrick, which is the most expensive. NADA
also has single apartments. The cost
.ri: c i d>i nnn
II living ranges lruiii auuui <pi,uuvi wi
51,300, depending on the building.
In 1991, with the high influx of in;ernational
students, USC decided to
;urn NADA into an international community.
NADA residents take a ropes
:ourse at the beginning of the year so
students can get to know each other before
classes start. The community also
has weekly meetings to plan trips
for residents, especially those international
residents who may have no
where to go for holidays and breaks.