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# = j(Nsmi< caroling WEATHER 9 TODAY -7/^ THURSDAY QO A Volume 90, Number 83 Income taxes due today Remember that income taxes must be filed by midnight. Forms may be picked up at the state museum. 'Lost in Space' lecture offered Assistant English Professor Martin Brueckner will present a lecture, "Lost in Space: The Geographies of Lewis, Clark, and the Native Americans" at 5 p.m. today in Gambrell Hall 429. * Expert IU icatii IUU aic techniques World karate champion Bill "Superfoot" Wallace will teach advanced stretching methods, advanced kicking drills, pad and bag drills and tips to improve fighting tech9 nique Thursday at the Spring Valley High School gym. Cost is $5 per adult spectator and $15 per participant. For more information, call Mike or Shelley Genova at 736-4777. Feminism lecture offered ^ Kathy Evans, assistant professor in the department of educational psychology, will give a lecture on UA Naturalistic Inquiry into the Attitudes of African-American Females: Racial, Gender, and Feminist Identities" at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at Gambrell Hall 250. Drug Abuse VV/UI1VU 11U11U1 9 volunteers The Lexington/Richland Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council will host an event to honor volunteers at noon Thursday at The Big Apple, 1000 ^ Hampton St. For more information call 733-1390. University of Miami brings presentation Susan Haack of the University of Miami will give the lecture "Confessions of An Old Fashioned Prig" at 4 p.m. Thursday in Gambrell Hall 250. / q q ! Seidokan Wednesday Aikido meeting, ^ / 5 t.n fi*30 n m Yl[ 4 B??ker T. j Washing ton ^ Body and Soul PALM meet^ ing, 5:30 p.m., PALM Center. Fellowship of Christian Athletes meeting, 9:13 p.m, Nursing Auditorium. ^ Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Association meeting, 8 p.m., Gambrell Hall 201. Skin and Scuba Club meeting, 6 p.m., Preston College Seminar room. USC Student Senate meeting, 5 p.m., RHUU Theatre ^ USC Fencing Club practice, ^ 7 to 9 p.m., Blatt 308. ill r 77 >The World THURSDAY TaeKwonDo . ? Club, 8:30 to 10 \ I p.m., Booker T. jWashington Gym. ^ Baptist Student Union meeting, 7 p.m. Fencing Club meeting, 7 to % 9 p.m., Blatt 308. SALA meeting, 7 p.m., every othjpr Thursday, RHUU 205. t TtrK VU1 School o staff REPORTS ar r S( D r. ^ Harry g< Pas tides, who Hi F8 will join USC'sfac- ^ ulty before the aca- ze demic year begins a, PASTIDES in August, is chair- sc man of the depart- sa ment of biostatistics vi Assigum asst. news editor CARRIE MCCUtLOUQH The Fall 1998 housing assignments are out, and the Department of Housing has received mixed results, but "overall it's been successful," according to Gretchen Koehler-Shepley, associate director of housing. "We have had record numbers [of students] requesting to live on campus," Koehler-Shepley said. Koehler-Shepley said there were issues that surfaced because of the new scan-tron system, but added that some of the issues were good things. One of these trnnd thin its wen that students did not have to stand in line or miss class to get a room assignment. Another advantage she cited was that applications were not processed in the order they were received. Assignments were processed according to hours. Assignment appointments were still a point of misunderstanding. Within each academic classification, the assignment was random. Koehler-Shepley said that with so 1 many students with the same amount of hours earned, that is the fairest way 1 to approach the situation. Applications that were received be- ' fore the deadline were not processed any earlier than applications received 1 on the deadline. * A big problem people had was with human nature. 1 "Computers can't fevor people; that's < what makes it more efficient. (But) peo- i pie want to be treated like human be- < bigs," Koehler-Shepley said. i Students' preferred roommate re- i quests were accommodated in room assignments, but some students with ore- i ferred roommates were placed on a waiting list. j Virtually all of the students placed t on the waiting list were rising juniors j or seniors with roommates that have a ( lower status or freshmen with less than 1 30 hours. c The waiting list consists of about j 400 students. Koehler-Shepley said students j should not be too worried about getting ? on-campus housing if they are currently on the waiting list. i Last year the waiting list was a sim- j ilar number, and all students that were { still interested in housing were provided rooms. j Tod Cribb, a freshman currently living in Moore, is one of the students on j the waiting list with his preferred room- ( mate, Kurt Johnson. g USCPD investig; senior uriter BRAD WALTERS sait ill pi of Law Enforce- \ca M* 1|| ment and Safety me] 1 Mt-vmu ? graduated March sta 1 v.,.. J|| 27 from the FBI National Academy fat : |Mjgg program in Quan- a pi Ik A 1H tico, Va., after comWMftliT pleting almost three months of ad- dire vanced investiga- this tive, management and fitness training. It was an honor for me to go up there had and represent the university," Wright jnvi Tits / i ^ A. U X*i I 1 * JL I " :i ? 1 I r^trn E0 Serving the Carolina University o f Public id epidemiology and a professor at the :hool of Public Health and Health :iences at the University of Massamsetts at Amherst. He joined the university's faculty in 180 and has been department chairan since 1993. "Because USC's School of Public ealth plays a crucial role in the health id well-being of South Carolina's citins, we believed it was essential to bring dynamic, energetic leader to guide the hool to even greater achievements," id Dr. Jerome Odom, USC provost and ce president for academic affairs. Lents lac "I was very mad. I found out before I got my letter....there was nothing on the internet. I went to housing, and they said I was on the waiting list. Online it said 'you are not registered for fell semester.'" Cribb said. Cribb said that the Department of Housing hasn't told him when he will get an assignment. He was told it could be before the end of the semester or it could be before the end of the summer. "If I don't get an assignment, I'll have no choice but to live off campus, but I hope that doesn't happen," Cribb said. Cribb also said that he reallv want ed to live with Johnson next year, but since they are on the waiting list, they may not be able to, because a whole room may not come open. Rising sophomores seemed to have the most difficulty with the new system. Ninety percent of rising seniors got their top choices and 70 percent of rising juniors got their top choices, but the rising sophomores did not fair as well. "Some freshman students had poor perceptions of how housing would be selected and they didn't put realistic hoices," Koehler-Shepley said. Many students did not fill out all of he residence hall choices on their sheets. When a sheet was processed, and ill of the marked and applicable resiience halls were full, the computer assumed that all of the other halls were equally desirable, and the assignment was made randomly from the remaining residence halls. This is when LaBorde came into the ipper class mix of housing choices. , LaBorde was not listed on the apilication for current students, but when he admissions office notified the Department of Housing that the number >f new freshmen next year would not ^ je as great as expected, housing de- j dded to add LaBorde as a possible choice or current students being assigned. "We really tried to go with what is iping to serve most of the students best," ;ne said. "We'll accept it (a LaBorde assignment) if we have to, but I won't be hapjy to live another year in a place like his," Cribb said. Cribb's first choice was Columbia Hall. According to Koehler-Shepley, the Department of Housing is working on i few things for future housing aslignments including expanding the itor graduates 1. "The knowledge I was able to obi from these experts will enhance the hi fessionalism with which I can do my in This 192nd Session of the National jn demy consisted of 268 law enforce- f0 at officers from across the United er tes and the world. vii The program offers training for seed officers having a proven record as ofessional within his or her agency. e< Wright was chosen by Carl Stokes en Ernie Ellis, director and assistant ^r( ictor of law enforcement, to apply for program in 1992. wi "After we submitted his name, he ta to go through the process of being ted by the FBI," Stokes said. ar ^here to go to X f|l| *et away from I ^ tall. Vy 4^| r mi i Community since 1908 if South Carolina Health n "Dr. Pastides' record shows that he is the 1 right person for the job." a A native of New York City, Pastides 1 is recognized for his research in the ar- t eas of cancer epidemiology and occupa- 1 tional health. He is a consultant to the i World Health Organization's Program in Enviromental Health and co-director ? of the Occupational Epidemiology Unit 1 at the University of Massachusetts at i Amherst. s A fellow of the American College of ? Epidemiology, Pastides is widely Dub- r lished and is the co-author of four books. He was a Fulbright Senior Research Fel- s I k studen fill ' v* inset ^L:""1 '!!!?.^J iJI* Ujll:Lb<*< 1 jSwSSwwww???^^^^^ .^^aaa^^w*** Many students fruitlessly requested Ba [lousing preference choice. number of preferred roommates allowed a and applying for housing on-line. ro An on-line application would give instant feedback if a portion was not 23 filled out correctly and would not allow applications to be turned in with blank as areas. foi "I really think people will understand better next year," Koehler-She- te: pley said. - ar Another old rule of housing sign-up bo still applied in the new system. Cur- in rent USC students could not indicate pe St from 192nd FI "We were notified last year that they wri id selected him to go." jna Stokes said the program consists of tensive class work and physical traing in all facets of the field of law en- me rcement, and that only the elite law g^( iforcement officers nationwide are inted to attend. ^er Wright said the process of being se- the :ted to take part in the National Acad- ] ay program usually takes anywhere )m five to 10 years. ne] The program, offered in conjunction th the University of Virginia, can be -( ken for college credit. "We had comprehensive exams IIU id midterms which *. nsi sted of either tioi jjT~~ | Esaaai Columbia hosts Monday After the Masters. y rnrt luir tames n ow and visiting professor at the Uni /ersity of Athens Medical School in Greea rom 1987 to 1988 and is a member o he American Public Health Association 'nternational Epidemiology Associatioi md Society for Epidemiologic Research "I am honored to have been selectee is Dean of the School of Public Health,' 3astides said. "I am eager to begin work ng with the excellent faculty, staff anc students of the school to enhance its rob is a force for improving the health of the jeople of South Carolina and the region.' "At the same time, I will work t< strengthen the school's national anc J A SUSAN MEYERS Photo Editor tcs West, shown above, as their student not currently enrolled as a ommate. Room changes will be possible April > through 24. Students should check their room isignment letter and the proxy form r more information. Books with listings of students innested in same-building room changes e available in the area offices, and oks with students interested in buildg changes are available in the Deirtment of Housing office on Blossom reet. 31 academy iting papers or taking written examtions," Wright said. Wright, who worked in law enforcent at USC for more than 15 years, 1 he could relate well to the other stults in the program because each of ;m had extensive experience as LI, and he could share his own expeices with them. Now that he has graduated, Wright d he is planning on becoming active south Carolina's chapter of the Natal Academy. I p?J )V gamecock \ ^On-Une) www.gamecock.sc.edu gamecock INDEX Viewpoints 4 W Encore! 6 Comics 8 A Sports 9 V Classified 12 Wednesday, April 15, 1998 ew dean - international reputation for scholarship 2 in the diverse disciplines that constitute f our school. I am quickly learning about , the progressive qualities of the Univerl sity of South Carolina, and I look forward .* to working with USC President John 1 Palms and Provost Odom in reaching ' their stated goal of raising the university's stature and to gain greater recog1 nition as an outstanding national uni} versity." ; Pastides earned a bachelor's degree * in biology and chemistry from the > 1 DEAN page three Temple U. focuses on racial concerns college press EXCHANGE, He hadn't been at Temple University long when Edwin Beausoliel Jr.'s worst fears came into awful focus. He was surrounded by African Americans. The McDonald's near the university teemed with black people, and Beau soliei looked around nervously. Suppose someone attacked him? What if a riot broke out? Nothing happened. In fact, Beausoliel recalled recently, no one even looked his way. Beausoliel is an African, a native of Ghana with skin the color of chocolate. Still, he said, speaking with classmates and U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno last week in a conversation about race, the stereotypical images he had learned about black Americans from satellite TV prepared him for the worst. "There were 'so man/black people there," said Beausoliel, 23, the son of United Nations officials and president of Temple's student government. "I was scared." Fear, ignorance, intolerance: They are the roots of racism, 29 students told Reno in an unrestrained, hour-long session at Temple University Wednesday. Meeting in a paneled classroom, the students - some intimidated by the sight nf fhp nahnn'a fnn loumnr _ onnlro W* u lar* JV/1 " Opuac IICO" itantly at first. Then one young woman recalled an ethnic insult her childhood friends tossed at her. Another remembered confronting ugly stereotypes at any early age. And a third recounted her gapemouthed amazement at the racial slurs she heard from old high school friends while visiting home from college. In the end, said Reno, who came to Temple as part of President Clinton's national dialogue on race, people need to remember a simple lesson. "The ultimate issue is respect for each other. You, again, confirm my faith in students," said Reno, who later spoke to about 150 law students before returning to Washington. The gathering was one of hundreds to be held across the country this year. It involved 29 student leaders from the community College of Philadelphia, Temple and its law school, and was the third race dialogue held here since Clinton announced his national initiative last year. The findings from all the meetings, scheduled to conclude in September, will be compiled into a national report that the President will present to the nation, officials say. There's plenty for the nation to learn about its racial divisions, students told Reno. And they should know. They represented a rainbow ? black, white, Asian, Latino. They also brought a wealth of racial experiences and recollections with them. For Camille Farquharson, 25, leaving the relatively color-blind society of her native Jamaica to come to the United States has been an education in and out of class. "I'm having to deal with racism," said Farquharson, who is black. "I'm learning to live with it." RACE page three