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J/VSIDFy IBf Columnist visits, eval- ^ Dayroom pleases / Stock selected by f gamecock \ uates Clemson cul- X Columbia crowd /Cavs in NBA draft Q caroling WEATHER J J- gamecock INDEX Si Hit 0amccock ? i d vr-' Serving the Carolina Community since 1908 Volume 91, Number 1 University of South Carolina Wednesday, July 8, S98 USC sets LIFE Scholarship criteria The Admissions Of fice, the registrar and the Office of Financial Aid will determine who is eligible for the recently passed LIFE Scholarship. No application is necessary. Eligible students will be contacted via mail by the Office of Financial Aid. South Carolina residents who have ompleted 30 hours of credit in a year, graduated in May 1995 or after and have a 3 0 will Ho olicriHlo P.nn. wtv ?? *u wv vugiviVi vw*i victed felons and those with drug or alcohol convictions are not eligible despite grades and residency. School of Music to offer private voice lessons Registration is under way for private lessons at the USC School of Music. The classes, which are open to anyone in the community who is at least 14 years old, will begin the week of Sept. 7 at USC's School of Music on Assembly Street next to Koger Center. Students will third place at national ad competition The USC ad team placed third place among the nation's top advertis ing programs at the American Advertising Federation's National Student Advertising Competition. TTie USC team competed against 14 other colleges to created a total marketing communications plan for Hallmark, who sponsored the event. Visiting pi viewpoints editor KATHLEEN MCCORMICK This fall, USC will roll out the red carpet for two people who promise to bring their talent and expertise in their respective fields to the university. Author Robert Coover will be the Visiting Writer in Residence. Allen Miller will become the Director of the Comparative Literature Program. Miller, who will replace current director Celso de Oliveira, hails from Texas ZBTargu senior writer PATRICK WIETECHA Zeta Beta Tau and the Departmen Student Life are having a small c agreement. Zeta Beta Tau introduced themsel to the USC community in early Mar when they initiated five people into newest of USC's social fraternities. 0: a USC fraternitv. the stoud was bam from campus, according to Martin Strei the new group's chapter advisor. But with just over a month until s dents come back to campus looking groups join, Zeta Beta Tau, which now 1 19 members, still hasn't been officially i ognized as an organization or by 1 University's Inner Fraternity Council (IF "We're now struggling to exist and se ing the same recognition as others," s Tf C icaiijf UUil t UCdliC LU UC I every fraternity at USC." In fact, Streett and the members of ta Beta Tau don't desire to associ. with the IFC. They have received spet permission from their national office to ist independently from the IFC. "Our national office said it's alrij with them," said Reid Clark, a meml of the fraternity. "We really don't care wl anyone else thinks. We have a good f ternity, and we're just trying to stand < and not be like the others." However, because Zeta Beta Tau do n't want to be a member of the IFC, tl can not be recognized by the Depa ment of Student Life as a social frater ty because of the policies in Carolina Co munity, the USC student Handbook a Policy Guide. rofessor to: Tech. His challenges in improving the Comparative Literature program will include broadening the curriculum and bringing in high-achieving graduate stu'< dents. He will also be heading up a national conference at TJSC in the snrintr Robert Newman, chairman of the English Department, said he is "very optimistic" that the program will receive positive national attention under Miller. Though Comparative Literature is not under the English Department, many English professors teach in the program. wssm es about Gr According to the policies, for Zeta Beta Tau to become an of- J|p? t of ficial Greek fraternity, they JlP^l lis- must first become an official BmMf organization of Student Life JPMBh ves and then must be voted in the Director of Greek Life oce Gena Staggs said no com- JP-^ led munication has been ett, made to the office of Mi Greek Life by any 'tu- member of Zeta Beta JHS for Tau. The only thing m ias that has occurred is m ? ?& f t"eC a lnt nf anorv fppl- M & / ~ ite organization," Stagg^^^^ aal said. "The ball is just not rolling. I ex- would be glad to get together and talk witl them." jht Streett, however, feels it would be i] ^er the best interest of Zeta Beta Tau to re hat main independent of the IFC. ra- "We want to be recognized as a socia >ut fraternity, but we want to be left alone, Streett said. "For us to not be able to cal es- ourselves a social fraternity is a viola iey tion of our first amendment rights." rt- Jason Hamilton, Zeta Beta Tau presi "ni- dent, agrees. He feels not joining the IF( wind ZBT pagetw fill Dickey'! Robert Coover, who will be taking the position formerly held by James Dickey, F is a renowned author of numerous nov- ^ els, plays and short stories. 11 CooveFs better-known novels include "Public Burning" and "Gerald's Party." ^ Among his other accomplishments, he has won the William Faulkner Award, l ' I] has received two Guggenheim Fellow- w ships and a Rockefeller Foundation fel- C lowship, and his play The Kid" won three _ Obie awards. eek rules o $ position Coover brings extensive teaching ex- ' lerience to USC. He is a former Writer a Residence at Washington University a St. Louis, and has taught at Princeon, Virginia Military Institute and Branleis University. He is currently with Irown University. The author has a busy year ahead of im at USC. In the fall semester, he ^11 t l: c : r> j 'in ltc tcaLiiiiig a Ociimicii 111 .rruse <niu Composition. He will also be involved COOVER page two Provost appoints interim deans staff REPORTS Provost Jerome Odom has appointed three interim deans and promoted another administrator to the office of assistant provost. Patricia Moody has been named interim dean of the College of Applied Professions. Gordon Smith has been named dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and Frederic Medway was been named the dean of the College of Education. Harry Matthews, director of institutional planning and assessment, has been named assistant provost of institutional planning and assessment. "While deans' searches for theses colleges continue, the university is veiy fortunate to have able faculty who can fill these leadership roles," Odom said. "I am confident that they will do an excellent job in moving these colleges for wara in tne next year." Matthews, who jointed the university in 1993 after serving as coordinator of planning and assessment as the S.C. Commission on Higher Eduction, is resDonsible for compiling all faculty, student and general university statistics for USC's eight campuses. "Dr. Matthews and his office have done an outstanding job in compiling DEANS page two