University of South Carolina Libraries
Page 2 Filing for SG candidacy starts today Filing for Student Government candidacy starts today and lasts through Friday in RH 110. Anyone running for office must attend a mandatory meeting Feb. 1. The Sen i* '11 1. . 1. .1J - i _ __ are meeting win De neia at 4 p.m., and the Executive meeting will be at 5 p.m. in RH Ballroom A. Service sorority to hold spring rush Omega Phi Alpha National Service Sorority will hold its spring rush at 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday in The Golden Spur. The sorority volunteers with several organizations in the Columbia area, and all women at the university are encouraged to attend. For more information, call Kindsay at 544-4930. Women's Studies to host speaker Maria Mabrey, assistant professor in the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, will speak at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in Gambrell 250. Mabrey will discuss "Women in the Resistance: Politics and War in Republican Spain (1931-1939)." For more information, call 777-4007. nir i n Till ivioriar i*oara noias informational meeting Mortar Board and Omicron Delta Kappa will be having a joint informational meeting at 6:30 p.m. * Thursday in RH 315. Applications are being accepted for both organizations. For more information, call Tushar at 544-4545. Lehigh professor to discuss evolution Michael Behe, associate professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University, will speak on Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the RH Ballroom. The lecture will be followed by time for questions. ' XS wBi V A I | B Bj B B f Woman of the Year aoolications available tutoring tor lower-level math, science and engineering courses. The tutoring is located in the SC-AMP DropIn Center, located in Sumwalt 2091. For more information, call Dwayne White at 777-0621. Briefs for On Campus can be submitted to RH 333. Submissions should include a contact name and phone-number. We can't promise to print everything, but we can promise to try. M. A The Office of Women's Student Services and the Women's Student Association are taking applications for the ninth annual Outstanding Woman of the Year at USC award and scholarship. Applications are available at the RH Information Center, the Campus Activities Center and the Women's Studies Department. They're due Feb. 15. For more information, call 777-6688. Black History Month speaker to debut Dennis Kimbro will speak on the "Empowerment for the Next Millen nium" at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 2 in the RH Theater. For more information or for upcoming events, call the Office of Multicultural Affairs at 777-7716. Volunteers needed for ad Litem project The Volunteer Guardian ad Litem Project for Richland County is accepting applications. Volunteers act as official representatives of abused and neglected children in family court, and they must be 21 to apply. Training sessions are Saturday and Sunday. For more information, call CC Dennis, volunteer coordinator, at 748-5024. SC-AMP offers dropin tutoring The South Carolina Alliance, for Minority Participation is offering free CARPI (^^^A(CKS NSEP offers scholarships for study abroad International experience is crucial to a competitive resume. The National Student Exchange Program provides opportunities for Americans to study in regions critical to U.S. national interests (excluding Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand). Students can gel awards in amounts of up to $8,000 per semester, or $16,000 per academic year. Scholarships are available for study in summer 1999, fall of 1999 and/or spring 1999. For applications, call the NSEP campus representative at 777-6742. The application deadline is Feb. 8. American Chemical Societv deadline Feb. 15 The American Chemical Society is sponsoring several scholarship programs for qualified minority applicants who are incoming freshman. To apply, students must be majorinj in chemistry, biochemistry, chemica engineering or other chemically related fields. The scholarships are worth up to $2,500. The application Technicians availc NETWORK continued from page 1 service center," said Charlem Thompson of Computer Services. Computer Services advises any stu dent who experiences computer prob lems to notify them immediately. Thei service number is 777-1800. In addition, computer technician will be available in dorms to help stu dents with problems they might havi connecting their computers to the US( network. Technicians will be available fron 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m nfl bbbBL JI B jnlf " -W, INA NEWS rloaHlino ic TToK 1 R TTnr mnro mfnr. UVUUX111U IU X K/. XV> X VI 11XV1 V liliVX mation, call the Fellowships Office at 777-0958. Rotary Internationa offers scholarship The Rotary Foundation sponsors Rotary Scholars each year for stud} abroad. Rotary Scholars award recipients are expected to strive to contribute to world understanding and peace both dining their studies abroad and thereafter. To qualify, students must have completed two years of college-level coursework or professional experience before beginning their scholarship studies. A workshop detailing information on the scholarship, application proce: dures and selection criteria will be held at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 23 in the Gressette Room on the third floor o i Harper College. For more information, call the Fellowships Office at 777-0958. Warwick Exchange Program competition open The 1999 competition is open for th USC department of history's Warwick England Exchange. This program, which is open to all history majors, minors ana cognates, will select four USC-system students to attend the University of Warwick ii y Coventry, England. Rising sopho1 mores, juniors and seniors are eligi ble. Applications are available at th history office and are due on or before March 5. ible to help student through Feb. 19 in the following loi tions: e 'Mondays in the third-floor stu hall in Preston Tuesdays in the first-floor co puter lab in Patterson r 'Wednesdays in the Towers Lob Information Resource Room s 'Thursdays in the first-floor co puter lab in Bates House g 'Fridays in the first-floor compi j er lab in Columbia Hall i L v/iH \ Applicants mi of 60 ere Areas of 9 1. ) 2. 3. 4. i 5. | Applicatioi } Campus 01 Application di Foi | The Offic Hazing victii j ritual as com HAZING continued from page 1 were supposed to be used to slurp Jell1 0. But the fun ended when 18-yearold Jeannette McKinney was singled out for not marching fast enough and quick-stepped blindfolded into a brick wall, resulting.in causing a chipped tooth and a bloody face. She was taken to the emergency room and released. And John Cushman, the veteran French horn player barking orders, was charged with culpable negligence. But the charges were dropped when McKinney told FSU police she didn't want to press charges. Instead, a faculty review board found that the incident violated the student code of conduct governing hazing and put the Marching Chiefs on probation for three years. "A reluctant victim causes us a real dilemma," FSU Police Maj. Jack Handley said. "When you have a victim who does not consider themselves a victim, g 7 it is very difficult to move forward with a prosecution." Similarly, Tallahassee police dropped battery charges against Luckey's paddlers because the beating was i Le i Got Fei 1" 3 p.m. eve ,' > ' mm w wb em Russell h Or 011 indp ist be an undergraduate dit hours and a minimui consideration for the award Academic Achievements and Campus/Community Activity Athletics (including intramural sports & Work Experience Character ns available at the follov Russell Hpuse Information G Activities Center (Lower Level fice of Student Life (115 Russel Office of Women's Studie eadline is Monday, Febi r additional information, please e of Women's Student Services Department of Student Life. i ^ Monday, January 25, 1999 7is defend mon practice not against his will - and he even returned for more blows. The worst hazing goes on behind closed doors, off campus. And those hazed often don't feel like victims. As 19-year-old Luckey told the Ocala Star Banner the day after his release from the hospital: "It goes on at every university. This was pretty much by choice. If you want to be in a fraternity or the cool part of the band, that's kind of what you do." Doug Richmond, a St. Louis lawyer who defends fraternities in hazing litigation, offered explanations of why hazing occurs: Miseruided tradition: "Somebodv has been hazed when they were a pledge or a freshman member of the band or a junior varsity wrestler. They persevered: Well, if I put up with it, you can put up with it.'" Alcohol abuse: "Alcohol makes reasonable people look the other way." Power trips: "In every group, whether it's in education or corporate America, there are people who like to lord authority over people. And that personality is encased in the bodies of 18- and 22-year-olds." MlrRVai lllllvdr ny Sunday louse 333. 177-7726 ress3. v - " with a minimum m ^ H HPA Ill >y?V VI in are as follows: Awards iS I fitness) ving locations: inter Russell House) 1 House) S ruray 15, 1999 contact at 777-6688 i 1?