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Nightclub
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family shelters
Have A Nice
Day Cafe on 920 Lady
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wine, beer
and appetizers on
Thursday from 7-9
p.m. All proceeds will
go to benefit the
Children's program in
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United Way
Organization for
Homeless Families.
Donations to attend
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Call 255-0042 for
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muiniii association
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USC faculty
Aug. 18
Hie University
of South Carolina
Alumni Association
will host its second
annual "Carolina
Alumni Salute to
Faculty" Tuesday, Aug.
18, in the Riverbanks
Zoo Botanical Gardens
from 6-8 p.m. Call
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Civil War reenacttors
encamp
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Civil War soldiers
will be depicted
by the 20th S.C.
volunteer in tan try on
Saturday, July 25 at
the South Carolina
State Museum. The
encampment will be
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
on the grounds in
front of the museum.
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news editor JENNIFER STANLEY
What was once an empty department
store building was supposed to be the site
of the National Advocacy Center.
But instead, its a place that will both
educate and entertain, Columbia Museum
of Art Executive Director Sal Cilella
said Thursday.
Major donors of the $16 million art
museum celebrated the long-awaited
opening Thursday evening. The two-floor
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Professors are getting an unpleasant
crash course in the methods of American
business.
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complex, which is located on the corner
of Main and Hampton streets, opened to
the pubhc Saturday with a opening cer
emony and free tours through Sunday.
This project really makes sense. It
draws people," said Caiy Smith, the President
of the museum's board of trustees.
"It's an asset (to Columbia). The objective
should be to leave things better than
they found it"
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life, are invading campuses and rocking
one of academia's most sacrosanct
traditions: tenure.
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the new, career-oriented courses that
students demand, with schools hiring
presidents who have corporate backgrounds,
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seum's long awaited opening.
The project was funded by city, county
and private money.
"It's a partnership between the city
and county. Voting public monies for art
is not an easy vote," Mayor Bob Coble
said. "It's a wonderful step forward for
the visual arts."
Coble said the addition of the art museum
would revitalize the city center and
Main Street. He said the museum was a
Lues as educal
ministrators to keep costs down, tenure
?higher education's seemingly immutable
institution? is now a target.
In response, professors are rending
their academic robes over what they view
as the steady erosion of tenure. They say
it could ultimately compromise academ
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ticipate in activities to celebrate the
first step, and the city would continue to
make progress.
With 17 galleries, the museum has
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education.
Tenure provides us the protection to
engage in open debate and teach without
interference," said William Brown,
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