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Women's Studies
hosts lecture
The Women's Studies department
is hosting a lecture, "Women in
the Resistance: Politics and War
in Republican Spain (1931-1939),"
by Maria Mabrey at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday in Gambrell 250. For
more information, call 777-4007.
Workshop deals
with roommate
problems
The Counseling and Human Development
Center is offering
three workshops that focus on
communications skills, negotiation
for realistic expectations and t
conflict-resolution skills. The
workshops are Jan. 28, Feb. 11
and Feb. 25. For more information
or to register, call 777-5223.
Psi Chi to meet
The Psi Chi Psychology National
Honor Society will meet at 8
tonieht in the Walsh Conference
Room. For more information, call
Torrey Becote at 544-4354.
WUSC offers disc
jockey training
New DJ training for the spring
semester will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday in RH 303. Any USC
students or staff members interested
in becoming DJs should attend.
For more information, call
777-5468.
Gamecock on-campus briefs can
be submitted to RH333. Submissions
should include a contact
name and phone number. We
can't promise to print everything
submitted, but we can promise to
try.
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Staff Writer
USC's student senate proposed a
bill Wednesday that would allow senate
candidates to run for positions corresponding
to their minor fields of study.
Students can only run for senate
positions conforming to their major
fields of study. Because the senate of
ten has open seats, however, Judiciary
Committee Chairman Julie Atkinson
proposed a bill to help fill these
vacancies.
"[This bill] allows students who are
minoring in a subject to be eligible for
an open seat," Atkinson said. The senate
will vote next week on the bill.
Senate seats are available for eight
colleges, including science and math,
applied professions, social work, business
administration, education, engineering,
criminal justice, and nursing.
Applications can be picked up in the
Students have on-lim
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bers, a process that can take several
days.
McLauchlin said the bookstore
only knows to buy back a certain book
if the form is submitted by buy-back
week, which was Dec. 4 to 11.
"If we received a request after the
11th of December, we had no chance to
buy that book from the student,"
McLauchlin said.
Students can choose to visit web
sites, such as Big Words.com and BookSwap,
that claim to ofter books at discount
prices or allow students to sell
their books at their own prices.
On Nov. 11, The Gamecock report.
ed that students could reach BookSwap
through the SO web page at
http://www.sa.sc.edu/sga/sg.htm.
Ruth Nettles, director of student
services and the coordinator of BookSwap
for SG, said the web site allows
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If the bill is passed, the student body
president would assign four Cabinet
positions, including chief of staff, attorney
general, freshman council adviser
and institutional affairs director.
The president could appoint other
seats, but the total number of Cabinet
members could not exceed 25. Sen.
Patrick Gearman spoke in favor of the
bill. He claimed that having a large
numbej of Cabinet members would
be ineffective.
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students to avoid the high bookstore
prices.
"On BookSwap, I can get in touch
with you," Nettles said. That way, she
said, students can get books at a "reasonable"
price.
Another web site designed to sell
textbooks is BigWords.com.
"We created BigWords.com to be the
bookstore we wish we'd had in college,"
said Matt Johnson, company founder
and president.
"Massive mark ups and delivery
charges are not part of the equation,"
he said.
The company claims that students
can save up to 40 percent, though
average savings range from 15 percent
to 25 percent. Students also can rent
books from the store at 60 percent of
the purchase price.
Clowney said one of his friends
did her shopping at Amazon.com.
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have so many Cabinet members or
you're not going to be able to get anything
done," Gearman said. The senate
also will vote on this bill next week.
Before Wednesday's meeting, members
of both the faculty senate and student
senate came together for a reception
in the faculty house. Student
Body Vice President Chris Dorsel said
faculty and student senators discussed
parking issues, as well as getting class
syllabi and teacher evaluations online.
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Other students are cautious about
using the Internet to buy books.
"I am wary of buying books through
the web because I don't know the condition,"
Parker said. "I may end up buying
the wrong one."
McLauchlin said some students
might buy a book and then drop the
class. They would then have to find a
way to return the book. He also said
huge discounts might be contrived.
"Those sites are so new to us," he
said. "There are pros and there are cons."
One con, he said, might be that students
can't check to see if used copies
are available on a web site, while used
copies must be the primary sources for
campus bookstores.
"The only thing I can reiterate is
that the greatest supplier [for the bookstore]
has got to be the student,"
McLauchlin said.
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and wine as part of their studies. The:
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change last session.
"Students have to be able to tasfc
and evaluate alcoholic beverages,'
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culinary education director.
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management, one of three at th(
school that use alcohol.
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ways been hampered by students nol
being able to taste beer and wine,'
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wine in class to teach students how
to properly taste it, down to the sniff
ing and swirling, he said.
State Sen. Ernie Passailaigue, D
Charleston, tacked the amendmenl
allowing the special lower drinking
age onto a bill dealing with abusec
children that passed late in the Gen
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past June.
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ing signed by former Gov. David
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not signed or vetoed by the governor
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^ has relied on the change in the law
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3 the alcohol.
Johnson and Wales gets beer from
2 Charleston's Southend Brewery and
from national brands like Heineken.
3 "There's a shift in American society
now to look at beer and wine for
more than just consumption. They're
now paired more with foods," Guggenmos
said.
Students learn what wines and
> beers go with certain dishes, he said,
; noting, for instance, that mixing
red wine and seafood is no longer
; taboo.
i Five years ago, most students entered
the school when they were 22
or 23 years old, Guggenmos said. Now,
t many of them are right out of high
school.
He said about 35 percent to 40
'r percent of his students are younger
than 21.
Guggenmos said most of the
students handle the privilege mat
turely, but then again, it's hard to get
T, too excited about tasting alcohol when
I you have to spit it into the sink after
a few swirls around the mouth.
Even students over 21 are prohibited
by school policy from swallowing
the samples.
"I think they're more satisfied with
f just being able to taste something,"
he said.
There's just no other way to teach
I these things."