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2 CROP Wi .tlAl IHfcW MYKKS Staff Writer /)DOE) (Wi[L^r For almost twc decades, Columbia's very owe annual CROF rtf\\)jA)T Walk has beer \ WOI"king to stifle hunger, both at The walk in its 19th year, will begin at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Finlay Park, rain or shine, USC says very little ACCIDENT continued from page 1 rected The Gamecock to USC's Media Relations for information. A Media Relations representative said Student Affairs would have the most information about the incident. Student Affairs officials could either not be reached or directed the newspaper to Media Relations for comment. Her parents said their daughter is being a great sport about her situ ation. "Megan said the people around her looked worse than she did when the accident occurred," her mother said. "She has been doing well," her father said. "She is really a trooper." U d.in L p.m. wursiuu ai uic PALM Center To submit datebook entries, please bring to Russell House room 333 I Thediplo] I can w* Save up to $200.00 on I October 21-25 at Russe so 0 1601 Longcre 1 * ilk makes g and cover 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) Da through Riverfront Park and back to thi i Finlay. A majority of the funds raised from ne^ \ the charity event will be given to In- S1"3 diana-based Church World Services ^ , for the fight against global hunger. ^ Twenty-five percent will be earmarked ^ [ for Harvest Hope and six other local me food pantries. , Certainly in the Midlands rai area, there's a need to assist people len ? who are hungry," event coordinator als< Alcohol Our nations college students spei ly on alcoholic beverages. College students who drink the e est grades. Students with D or F a erage of 11 drinks weekly which A; erage 3 drinks per week. The typical student will probably coholic beverages that for textbool The more than 12 million coileg States consume over 430 million i iy The annual beer consumption of I is just short of four billion cans. Sta( cans would reach tEe moon and gc \mmm\ 6 p.m. "Golden Key I [5 National Honor Society," meeting room RH 309, every first Monday of the Month 7 p.m. "Into the Streets" meeting room RH 302, every other Monday II ma you jar. T/\nmr>\ rn? JU& 1 tUMO REWARD YOUR ACHIEVEMENT JSC Official Class Rings!! ill House USC Bookstore 777-4160 ORE THE WINN The Park Ap 1 Bedroom fi 2 Bedroom fi $100 Off First M if you move in be :ek Dr. Columbia, * The Qamecock ;reat strides n Koon said. "Our motive for doing have relie s is to help people." fill missic T ~1 <bc OOH A ^ uaai jecu aiuiic, <pu,oa i wao iuii- UllG led into Midlands hunger relief pro- ton stree rns, thanks to the efforts of856 walk- g0Up ?ejj i. Kate Jewett, Harvest Hope's , - , ,.' , other area ector of marketing and resource de- , , opment, estimates the money raised t year bought approximately 22,610 "Oui als for local missions. predomin "Not only does it (the CROP Walk) an(* any se awareness of the hunger prob- greatly i 1 locally and internationally, but it's said Diar o something local hunger agencies Street's a 12M Facts promotion ( to be about id about $4.2 billion year- ter of a mil "Iwoul aost alcohol earn the low- ^cohohcii verages consumed an av- Gant said." students consumed an av- er college-n geted towa spend more money for al- j staden Gants e students in the United fraternities gallons of alcohol annual- ?f true. American college students a fraterniti iked end-to-end, this many said. "Not t 170,000 miles beyond. their own f "Frate cohol probl World Tae Kwon Do 8 p Club, 7:30 p.m., for Les more info call 359-2815 me< 8 p Stu met 6 p CIu sem 9:1 Au< of ( i n I l n /^\T T A TITIT Lrill Take care of all graduation needs? Enjoy the BEST PRICING of 1997 Announcements and Official US EVENT DATES OCTOBER: USC BOOKSTORE AT RUSS (803) 777-4160 IING POINT AT >artments rom $409 rom $494 on th's Lease, fore 10/31/97. SC 29210 (803) 7 v Friday, October 17,1997 > against sd on the past 18 years to fill- C >ns," Jewett said. a tota such mission, The Washing- which t United Methodist Church over $ ar, which cooperates with 17 F i chinches, is partly supported will tx tOP Walk each year. cies cl kitchen feeds close to 200 1021< antly homeless people daily, Oliver help towards this effort is 254-& appreciated and needed," la Westerkam, Washington mgt?r ssociate pastor. iUion spent < i continued from page 1 love af )f alcohol. That averages out $5.5 million a day, or a quar- ... ,. ? i stitutic lion dollars every hour. d have to say the most amaz- , , r -i dentsr s the amount of money the dents ^ ldustry spends each year," , , Spring break, as well as oth- co 0 u dated events, are highly tar- f xaf1j' rd college students. t0Stud dream is to get all of the col- , f , ts to buy into their product." aid the typical stereotype of school i being the main contributor ?j us alcohol abuse is just not en0Ugj If they1 nmediately assume this is er said, / problem and it is not," he the tim H x !.! _ _ J >1.1 say tracerniues aon i nave rrmrmgi >roblems." someoi rnities do not have the al- their ir em. American society has a an edu MLMM | m. Bisexual, Gay and bian Association sting, Gambrell 124 .m. South Carolina dent Legislature sting, Gambrell 258 .m. Skin and Scuba ib, Preston College linar room 1 XT i__ j jj.in., i^ursuig iitorium, Fellowship Christian Athletes. 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"O 1 I CO 3 O * - - hunger so !ROP Walk officials hope to raise O" 1 of at least $50,000 this year, would bring the all-time total to SENAT 400,000. jegisuduuii maujiiiua IUI uie warn ; available at the following agen- "W osest to campus: Harvest Hope, thing u George Rogers Blvd., 765-9181; he Gospel Mission, 1100 Taylor St., s 170; and Washington Street Unit- 1?1 thodist Soup Cellar, 1401 Wash- amendo l St., 256-2417. througl Th 101.05. g g g ity of se m alcohol sSS ofthem fair with the bottle, and cam- Kathy1 nking is simply a reflection," an will pre al in the Atlanta Journal & Con- ing fille >n said. appeart le survey conducted on USC stu- Se evealed that 35 percent of all stu- this she lave cut class because of their al- ?rp] se, and 26 percent have missed gentg ^ turned papers in late or failed ? , * r cantmj y because of drinkmg. probabl phomore Michael Schrecker said the resj s college students should learn s a good time and also remember gure gg should be our first priority. ? r J ernmei think college students are old SBL(97 i to make their own decisions. code 301 want to drink, let them," Schreck- ing. , Tm not saying over-indulge all ^ io hi if in at hema q crnnA fimo anrl ^ WUWJUUV il?TV M. 5WWU V1AAAW U11U SCIltl V^l e your time wisely. It's stupid for g j z a^( le to come to college and waste LaTash loney drinking instead of getting cation." HI Fencing club meeting ! "Hi 7-9 p.m. in Blatt 308 Rec Dr. 9:1 Call lOj Col Mac Oct at P l^CONCERT&DANCECLUBtl 0. 577 St Andrews Road Columbk X p ^ 1JIIWI1IHU uv >1M www.charac t^lulflh X x '$&<& \ sijncoast ma calendar men kt halloween j fgl Show tiino at 8:30 p.m. s5.(k) (21+) / 87 .00 (18-20) fl^e (\(\O(^cv7^1=L COLUMI wifmm iiall? "BEST QlTE I 'u 9:00 p.m.-3:00 ;i. BENATAR B I.IVK INCONCERT Doors open nt 7:00 p.m. r>*Jj| Show time ;it 8:50 p.m. Aw 'iolvots: 812 adv. AS 15 door "HTjEp 18 or older admitted ? . ? revokes mp funds E continued from page 1 ^ re figure that if you set somep where people walk by, they lp but notice it," Sen. Bo Moran other business, SBL(97)018, an lent to the executive codes, went 1 a first reading. e bill amends Executive Codes The bill states that if a major- f) nate requests an executive apappear before the senate body, ointee must appear during one ext three senate meetings. Sen. /anNostrand believes the bill vent a position from never bed because an appointee never id before senate for questions. in. Zerell Hall doesn't believe >uld be a problem. lis [senatel right here repre- a r,000 people," Hall said. "If they ike 10 to 15 minutes, then they y don't have the time to fulfill xmsibility ol the position." 30, SBL(97)019, a bill to ennators receive a student govat operations manual, and )021, a bill repealing finance 5.30, went through a first reade following senators were ablincy Whittle-Science & Math; ? eth Fordham-Liberal Arts; ^ a Friday-Engineering. waling the Wound: overing from Loss" Ruthann Fox-Hines, A 5'11:45 am, Oct. 17 I 777-5223 p.m., Carolina iseum Midnight Iness . 18, USC ^ Arkansas S SPECIAL EVENTS ALENDAR i, SC 803-561-9977 ting our new web site at tersonline.com tUSTED * ROOT vvitli special guest JAUKA IX)VE >ors open at 7:00 p.m. low time at 8:30 p.m. Tickets: 815.00 # 6 or older admitted MAS LARGEST WEEN PARTY a "BEST KING'and SN" of HALIjOWEEN ME CONTEST in. 18 or older admitted aifiiin ????I V