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Page 2 SG candidacy filing continues today Filing for Student Government candidacy can be done today in RH 110. Anyone running for office must attend a mandatory meeting Feb. 1. The senate meeting will be at 4 p.m., and the executive meeting will be at 5 p.m. in RH ballroom A. Volunteers needed for Guardian 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 must be 21 to apply. Training sessions are tomorrow and Sunday. For more information, call CC Dennis, volunteer coordinator, at 748-5024. Black History Month speaker to debut Dennis Kimbro will speak on the "Empowerment for the Next Millennium" at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the RH theater. For more information or for upcoming events, contact the Office of Multicultural Affairs at 777-7716. SCSL accepting new members The South Carolina Student Legislature is accepting new members to participate in its spring session m * Myrtle Beach. There will be a brief informational meeting at 9 p.m. Tuesday in Gambrell 151. Philosophy lecture to be given Kevin de Laplante from the department of philosophy and religious studies at the University College of Cape Breton will give a lecture, "Must Environmental Philosophy Be the Handmaiden of Environmentalism?" The lecture will be at 4 p.m. Thursday in Gambrell 258. I H wL' 1 Nominations being accepted for freshman award The Award for Outstanding Freshman Advocate can be awarded to anyone in the Carolina community who had an impact on first-year students. Nominations can be made by students, faculty or staff. For more information, call 777-6029 or stop by the University 101 offices at 1629 Pendleton St. Nomination sheets can be picked up at the U101 office or RH Information Center. USC Woman of the Year applications available 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 and are due Feb. 15. For more information, call 777-6688. SC-AMP offers drop-in tutoring The South Carolina Alliance for Minority Participation is offering free tutoring for lower-level math, science and engineering courses. The tutoring is held in the SC-AMP Droo-In Center, in Sumwalt 2091. For more information, call Dwayne White at 777-0621. Men's rugby holds open practice The rugby team meets on the Carolina band field behind USCPD headquarters on Sumter and Assembly streets. Practices are held every Tuesday and Thursday from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. For more information, call Colby Nelson at 5287607. Briefs for On Campus can be sub//-i QQQ I lim f oat /-in a IILLLLCU, IU AL1? fJtJU. kj UU11 L LUII J should, include a contact name and phone number. We can't promise to print everything, but we can try. la 5 Jar 9Hv - CAROLINA Professor w by Rachel Helwig 1 Assistant News Editor US( al a ^ J?hji Carpen- Tow vT "'km Education. The award, wha ? * U from the Nar ' M * W tional Associa- olog CARPENTER tion of Geo" science teac ' - Teachers, is giv- of tl en for "exceptional contribution to the The stimulation of interest in the earth sci- Scie ences," Carpenter said. with Iced tea used [j as defense in murder case News Roundup Associated Press The iced tea made me do it. That s the detense ottered Dy lobbyist Gregory DeLozier, 35, who was charged with the attempted murder of his wife, Michelle. She was stabbed by a masked intruder Tuesday at a salon where she was having her hair done. During a videotaped statement he gave police after his arrest, DeLozier said sediment in a bottle of iced tea he drank produced weird side effects. That, coupled with the stress of an upcoming mortgage deal the couple was pursuing, made him snap, he said. Police said DeLozier, the legislative director of the New Jersey Association of Realtors, put on a ski mask, sunglasses, a coat and gloves Tuesday, and went to the salon. At the shop's back door, he held an 8-inch butcher knife to the throat of an employee and announced a robbery, police said. Once inside, the masked intruder took $40 from the shop owner, then turned toward Mrs. DeLozier and accused her of helping put him in jail | . I -1 illilai'liiiil uiict; ueiuie buiuuiiig ut;i uiiet; miieb ill | the back, police said. '*! ' m *?? 8 . I II H 1 auiBSl HI S- I HHUHB 1|)^H pvft | m ? JHUH NEWS ins nation Carpenter has been a professor at it; Z for 33 years and has won sever- "w wards in the past, including the th us Award, given for support of sci- sc' 2 and math in education, as well m be state-selected Helms award for en rice in science and math in South sa olina. However, Carpenter doesn't eve timt pie&uge is uie ica&uii iui tit teaching. ca 'It's about the students. That's pi it we're here for," he said. In the fall, Carpenter teaches Ge- pc y 103, in addition to courses for el- tis sntary and middle school science hers. Carpenter is also the head pr le Center for Science Education, ad center, which is in the College of of nee and Math, was created in 1984 gr i the purpose of improving the qual''J***** jh IgMC Hut **?' ^ k^ -v.. ^ ' 9 gg^flpp he Student Organization Fair took f i.m. on the Russell House patio. Mi ip tables to give interested students I Part-Tim Postil Waae: $7. V-/ Hours: 1 Information, i L Tues I nrotiAH Ti Title: Duties: Application Procedure: al award j of science education. The center 1 1 j 1 * 1 *J1. T7 rorKS almost exclusively witn re rough 12 teachers of science, their hools and their districts to develop aterials and provide teachers with ihancement programs," Carpenter id. Carpenter thinks science educa>n is an integral part of a total edution for all students, whether they're irsuing a career in science or not. "Science is a life skill that is imirtant to non-scientists and scienits alike," he said. "Many teachers are woefully unepared, by no fault of their own, to lequately teach science. Because this, we have tried to set up proams to help them be better prepared." P~ Hull^ flfeS^ .., *^*>^ ' ^| HnDh WM" J$?: '~?a?d|fc ly^ ^g Ifl " /T**^Kyv G. Farley The Gamecock >lace Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 2 >re than 70 USC organizations se1 information about their clubs. BLU ic lectin / tions Avj 50-$8.00 per Mon-Fri 6:00pn \pplication & Pi Aptitude Screeni day, Febri BA Buildii a .in i unci litiu Team Assistant Key entry of insure Must be proficient on keyboard with ? and verbal skills. I 40wpm minimum. Sign up @ Career By Monday, Febru Friday, January 29, 1999 ~| Convention brings area universities together bv Clavton Kale ? ?# Assistant News Editor Gov. Jim Hodges will welcome South Carolina Student Association delegates to the SCSA conference, "The Day After: History in the Making." The. first general assembly will be held in the Russell House and will consist of a videotaped welcome from Hodges and introductions to the other featured speakers. SCSA Director Whitney Shively said the conference gives students a chance "| to "meet state leaders and other students." "I am excited that our Student Government has gotten the conference [to come to USC1," Director of Student Life Jerry Brewer said. The three-day conference will be filled to capacity and will include delegates from USC, Clemson University, College of Charleston, South Carolina State University and Winthrop University. The conference will "allow students to trade ideas about improving higher education with students from other schools," Shively said. "Improving higher education is not a USC issue, it's not a Clemson issue, it is an issue that is important to all of us," Brewer said. "[Improving higher education] has to happen through an initiative like the SCSA." Delegates will attend several different group discussions and talks by mincf cnnolrnro A ^loniioeinn lnmc. ^ucot o. a uiotuociun uii lation writing, led by student representatives from USC and Winthrop, will be held in the Russell House this evening. Breakfast will be provided Saturday morning in the Russell House and the second general assembly will follow. Student groups will gather at the School of Law to discuss popular topics and share ideas. The Holiday Inn on Assembly Street will host a lunch with the panel of administrators followed by a panel discussion. The speakers will include Brewer; Joelle Davis, diversity speaker from Winthrop; and author Darcie Shively. Brewer said he'll address ways students can better communicate with administrators. He also said he'll speak about improving higher education in South Carolina and how students can r>nntrihiitp SCSA Executive Director Rayburn Barton will give the keynote address. E SHIELD | \ssistant jilable Hour to start 1-9:30pm ^-Employment ng jary 2 rig, Km t>j4 pm ince claims, and accurate strong written Must type Center ary 1st