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^ .i!l Columnist Local music acts ^ \ USC's Davison ^ ( g&tnBCOCk^\ champions the compete at the ^ y C ~ ' ' "" ' " ' *"-"' ' 1 Mwyy.MAM.yVWV^^^yiw^MKSWMK^KiMKWWMIMWBMSMHWMHMfchalttllMMMMIMIllWJUIIUIMhllMMbal caroling WEATHER J J gamecock INDEX -zii TIThr (Ramprnrfe ^ "7S1 11 VJwlI lUUU -:::: Serving the Carolina Community since 1908 Volume 90, Number 76 University of South Carolina Friday, March 27,1998 Enlightenment lecture today Alasdair Maclntyre, an arts and sciences professor at Duke University, will give a lecture called "The Enlight enment Revisited" at 4 p.m. today in Gambrell Hall room 152. (P Conference to feature author Roger Shattuck, author of "Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography," will give the keynote address today at the USC 26th annual French Literature Conference. For more information, call Dr. Freeman G. Henry, USC French professor and coordinator of the conference, at 777-2845. Comedian coming to USC Comedian Pablo Francisco 11 f?? Q win penuim at o p.m. tumgiit at the Russell House Ball0? room. The show is free and is sponsored by Carolina Productions, SALA and Greek Life. 'Outreach' applications deadline today Today is the deadline to submit applications for the 199899 Community Outreach Leadership Team. Scholarships are available to qualifying applicants. For more information, contact the Office of Community Service Programs at 777-6688. Puppet Regime to perform this weekend The USC Puppet Regime will perform "Night Mother," a Pulitzer Prize-winning twoperson drama about the final hour in the life of a woman who has decided to end her .4^ life, at 8 p.m. March 27-29 in * Benson Theater. Tickets cost $3 for students and $5 for the public and will go on sale a half-hour before the show begins. Zeta Phi Beta Fashion Expo Tickets for the Zeta Phi Beta Fashion Expo ^8 are on sale now at the Russell House Information Desk. Fashion Expo '98 will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday at Booker T. Washington. Tickets cost $3 in advance or $6 at the door.Free Millwood Ruins tour offered. ~q [ "Healing the friday Wound: Recovering from v / / Loss", 9:30 a.m., J April 3, CounIL.v. W seling and Human Development Center, call 777-5223 to pre-register. Forgiveness workshop, 9:30 a.m., April 10, Counseling and Human Development Center, call 777-5223 to pre-register. ^ Adult Children of Alcoholics, 10:30 a.m., Counseling and Human Development Center. si q "q ! PALM Sunsunday day Worship, 5:30 p.m., v ? W PALM Center. T*/ J St. Thomas I' W More Chapel, Greene Street, Catholic mass in Spanish, 2 p.m., every third Sunday of each month. Alumna asst. news editor CARRIE MCC0I10UQH { At about 11 a.m. today, the Uni- \ versity of South Carolina College of Business Administration will be- ( come the Darla Moore School of Business. Darla Moore, a 1975 bachelor of j political science graduate, gave $25 million to the business school earlier j this month. < "To the best of my knowledge, this j will be the second {school of busi- , ness] named solely after a woman," said David Shrock, dean of the College ofBusiness. According to the USC Office of Me- j dia Relations, this will be the nation's , first m^jor university to name its busi- , ness school after a woman. A dedication service will be held , from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. outside of the H. William Close Building on the Col- ] lege Street side. i A reception will follow in the same j location. ( "There has been interaction be- . tween Darla Moore and the university for some years," Shrock said. "It's ( going to be the most historic day we've , had." xiugu. iYiivvuu, wiuui aioii ui nationsBank, and W.W. "Hootie* Johnson, chairman of the executive committee of NationsBank, were essential in the $25 million gift from Moore. They work closely with the college and called on Moore for a gift, according to Greg Evans, director of development for the College of Business Administration. "This is a terrific day for the University of South Carolina. Fm honored to be able to make this contribution to the business school, and Fm particularly pleased that the University of South Carolina is taking the lead in naming its business school for a woman," Moore said. President John Palms and Shrock will speak at the dedication along with William Hubbard, chairman of the i USC board of trustees and McCoil. j "She has heralded a new day for ] the University of South Carolina. And Ms. Moore's gift offers a singular trib- i ute to those who have helped build our great business school over the 1 years," Palms said. 1 The college of business is ranked No. 1 in the undergraduate interna- : tional business specialty and No. 2 in the graduate international business 1 specialty in U.S News and World Re- 1 port's annual survey. '98 Homecom staff writer RU1H NETTLES _ The members of the new Homecoming Commission were announced last week. The Homecoming Commissioner, Chappell Suber, along with 16 other members, are already planning for a bigger and better homecoming. They have already held one full-day planning and brainstorming session at which the commissioners got to know one another. This year's theme, "A Southern Tradition," and the new logo are going to be officially unveiled to the public at the USC Showcase April 4. The new logo is intended as the permanent USC Homecoming logo. All the standard activities will take place, including the parade, carnival and street jam. Callee Kaiser and Blakely Hallman will be working on making the parade as large as possible. "We are going to change the attitude from a small parade to a statewide event," Kaiser said. "We want bands, pageant winners, dignitaries, alumni and all the returning football players and cheerleaders. We want it bigger than ever." What will be different this year is a statewide barbecue cook-off being organized by Charlotte Mullins and Sarah Mrozk that will be held immediately after the parade. According to Suber, "the cook-off will be open to individuals as well as businesses and organizations that want to enter." Suber hopes to find donations from corporations to help in the growth of home i endows It has been named one of the top 50 business schools in the nation for he past two years in the same publication. Evans said a special addition to the iedication will be a speech given by J \llison Patrick. Patrick is a finance maior iunior K from Lake City, Moore's home town, jf "I think it's great that Ms. Moore gp . !oves her state.... it will definitely make 0 Wv. hings better for the school of business, for both students and faculty," Patrick ||% Moore now splits her time between jjWMjl Lake City and New York City, ^ The gift will he given in increments ;o the university over a five-year period and will be placed in endowments, according to Shrock. "We will have long-term money rather than short-term money," he said. "I hope that my contribution to the business school helps to enhance South Carolina's economy and demonstrates diat you can come from anywhere? aven Lake City, South Carolina?to achieve success " Moore said. "It's an exciting time for the school , af business because this donation will 1 provide the students and faculty with \ apportunities that would not be oth- \ arwise possible," Charlotte Mullins, a sophomore business major, said. \ The money will help finance schol- i arships and attract well-known senior \ faculty with endowed professorships, \ Shrock said. \ He said he hopes the scholar- \ ships will help keep more South Car- \ alina students in-state. , "As a student who takes business | curses on a regular basis, I think this : v 1 donation will make an immediate im- ' Kl '% \ pact on our future as far as the way * ^ smployers will see us," journalism iunior Ann-Lamar Tuten said. This is not Moore's first contribution to education in South Carolina, f She is a former member of the USC Educational Foundation Board. USC Aluu "From the beginning of her service Palms at m the Educational Foundation Board, Ballroom, it was obvious that we could count on to the US her to understand the issues quickly recanted < and to move forward effectively to find success ca solutions and reach consensus," James was a ma Rex, vice-president for university ad- Bank, whe vancement and executive director of session" (I the Educational Foundation said in a filing cha 1995 interview for "Carolina" maga- She ci fine concerning Moore. many com Moore is the president of Rainwa- including ter Inc., one of the largest private in- lines and' vestment firms in the United States. The Be A large amount of Moore's business dng commissio] coming programs. Kim Coxe and Natalie Guthrie are in charge of finding sponsors for < the events. j "You need a lot of money to make a big homecoming," Suber said. "And at a school of this size, homecoming should be a lot big J ;??i.. i? ur?> 1 gci aiiu mvuivc muie peupie. yveic ucuitated to making this year's homecoming bigger and better." < Another thing that will be different this ^ year is the points competition. There was no spot on the commission ' for it in the past, so it was not as big as it ( could have been. This year, however, Commissioner Tunis < Hunt will be in charge of the competition. ] Suber expects that having a committee or- , ganizing it will contribute to the competition's growth. The commission stresses that homecom- 1 ing is not just for Greeks, and plans are be- ( ing made to include more organizations. Jaime Devey will be in charge of the Showcase. I l licificu wini unuwiaoc iaot jcai un ^ the decorations," Devey said. "But this year I want it bigger." She emphasized, as did Suber, the dis- 1 appointment of the commission and much of ] the student body that in the past, homecom- < ing has been regarded as a Greek event. , "This year we want participation from a ^ lot of other organizations, not just Greeks. A lot of things have centered on Greek life, and 1 we want to get away from that," Devey ex- 1 plained. ] d^ts ill 11JJJJJLU11 ^Jpjr 2 J$ im ? [ JUL 'BBjBIIBl M ? 1M \ I SEAN RAYFORD Asst. Photo Editor una Darla Moore is greeted by President and Mrs. John a dinner in her honor Thursday in the Russell House Moore recently announced she will contribute $25 million C College of Business Administration. The school will be he Darla Moore School of Business. me in the 1980s when she official approval of the name change naging director of Chase today, according to Shrock. re she began "Debtor in Pos- Moore received her M.B.A. de)IP) financing for companies gree from George Washington Unipter 11 bankruptcy. versity. eated DIP loan deals for Moore's gift counts toward USC's panies in financial distress $300 million Bicentennial Campaign. Macjfs, Zale's, Eastern Air- Hie campaign will be publicly launched rexaco. April 30. ard of Regents will give their q. announced "We're changing the parade somewhat," 3uber said. "To help more non-Greek orga: x s ?If lizations who might not get money to be inwived, we will be changing it so that you don't lave to have a float. There will be other ways | " s- j| Qiilior and Tlovov VmtVi Viavo a+raccpH t.Viat. a i|sS$ jo have homecoming grow to the desired pro- ,x V1??* IP portions, it will reqviire many more students participating in planning than just the 17 ^ commissioners. "Fm sure there were students who wanted to be involved but didn't want the entire responsibility of a commissioner's job," Suber MiligfflpHH Any student who would like to help out ivith any part of Homecoming 1998 may rail Suber or Carolina Productions at 7777130. The 1998 Homecoming Commission is as follows: Chappell Suber: Homecoming Commissioner; Niki Snyder: Vice-Commis sioner; Kim Coxe and Natalie Guthrie: Sponsors; Brad Weeks: Public Relations; Callee Kaiser and Blakely Hallman: Parade; Susanne Newman and Leigh-Anne Travers: Cockfest; David Adedokun: Street Jam; Christi Boys: Carnival; Tracy Bongs: Halftime; Tu- ^entt^TjoL'sulg,' tiis Hunt: Points Competition; Jo Smith: Con- provided a break fi tests; Jaime Devey: Showcase; Charlotte life. Mullins and Sarah Mrozk: Barbecue. Credit plans J reduce debts features editor JENNIFER STANLEY Students rushing between classes are often greeted by credit card companies willing to sign students up for their first, or even their sixth, credit card. And while some students wind up in debt, Fran Mullaney of Credit Counseling of Columbia says, planning ahead is the best way for consumers to handle credit cards responsibly. Although these credit card solicitation booths are approved fund-raising activities for campus groups, Mullaney said, sometimes the credit cards work against the students instead of for them. Mullaney, director of Consumer Credit Counseling at the United Way Funded Agency, said she sees college students dailvr TirV*r\ fknii* nnnf-r?ont rli/ln'f iv w iiu uiu.il t icau uicii tuuuavt, uiuii t understand the payment process and just got in over their heads. She said every student should have a clean credit record when they come to college, unless somehow they were approved for a credit card before they turned 18, she said. But if a student gets that first credit card without a plan, they might be buried and not be able to meet the minimum payments. Just meeting those payments isn't enough, Mullaney said. Interest and late payment fees are what add up. She said charging a $50 pair of jeans, for example, could become as much as $106 immediately when interest is added in. "Stop to think if you want those jeans," she said. The credit bureau rating on a consumer ranges from one, for excellent credit, to nine, which is considered a charge off. "If [students] knew how important it is that they keep a clean record...it is a privilege we have and earn," Mullaney said. She said bad credit is a snowball effect, but if consumers prove their credit, they will continually get smaller interest rates. Mullaney also said working two jobs over the summer to reduce the amount of a student loan could make the difference between paying $227 or $114 a month for 10 years. "They should have a goal, just so they know what they're taking on. [Loans] are a wonderful tool, but make sure they work for you, not that you work for them," she said. Mmmm niHSH^K^M^iK^^S flp?||^ v -''^^^W)JBfWB IS ^ML ISP WmWm$ tt mP'^^KrBli IP ijg^M %??f?v . . v?- - . *: > SUSAN MEYERS Photo Editor ated Campus Fcst featured many as shown above. The two day event om the rigorous routine of college