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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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it is very difficult to move forward with
a prosecution."
Similarly, Tallahassee police
dropped battery charges against Luckey's
paddlers because the beating was
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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."
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