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Page 2 Conversation group holds meeting Sawakai, the Japanese conversation club, will meet at 6:30 p.m. today at the Camon Japanese Restaurant, 1332 Assembly St. Philosophy lecture to be held Kevin de Laplante from the deDartment of DhilosoDhv and reli gious studies at the University College of Cape Breton will give a lecture, "Must Environmental Philosophy Be the Handmaiden of Environmentalism?" The lecture will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday in Gambrell 258. Second philosophy lecture to be given Christopher Preston, a philosophy professor from the University of Montana, will give a lecture entitled, "Removing the Scare Quotes from 'Conversations' with Nature," at 4 p.m. Feb. 11 in Gambrell 258. Indian Ambassador PWAC iu apcan at iinv> Columbia World Affairs Council is hosting The Honorable Naresh Chandra, Ambassador of India to the United States to discuss "Why India Wants Into the Nuclear Club," at 12:30 p.m. Feb. 12 at the Capital City Club. The cost is $20 for CWAC members and $25 for non-members. For ticket information, call (803) 252- 2197. OM alumni asked to stay involved USC students who were Odyssey of the Mind members and are interested in judging OM competitions should contact Mark Shelley at (864) 476-9089, or Shelley-Horton@juno.com Development center offers support group The Counseling and Human Development Center is offering a group for USC students who might have grown up with a family member who was alcoholic and/or addicted to any chemical substance. The group meets every Friday from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Counseling Center at 900 Assembly St, second floor. For information or sign up, call 777-5223. Nominations begin for freshman award The Award for Outstanding Freshman Advocate can be awarded to anyone in the Carolina community who has had an impact on firstyear students. Nominations can be made by students, faculty or staff. For more information, call 7776029 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. 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. lugk^ i W ^F />. w Vt^Hi mill WHEN: F TI J WHERE UNDERGRADUATE SI Includes 25 personalized am 25 thank you notes No packaging MASTERS DEGREE C Includes 15 announceme add 5% sales tax to i f I c QtnHont RnHv ProciHont Kim HirUo Tuesday in her office. Dickerson's las Safe Ride, st highlight SC DICKERSON conntinued from page Dickerson said her biggest personal achievement as president was creating an able Cabinet. "Having a dedicated and effective Cabinet led to successful programs," she said. Dickerson said she didn't finish two items of business that were on her agenda: the "syllabi online" project and a computer services project. Professors anal of Clinton irnpe CLINTON continued from page 1 Campbell said he sees the impeachment as more of a politically motivated lynching than a trial focused on the issues of peijury and obstruction of justice. "This is about a president who has taken away all of the party initiative from the Republicans ... and has been successful," Campbell said. "[They] have found no other way to challenge him." Fried agreed. ?T i. ?:a?4. ?J i uu nut tiiiiijv tne piu&iuent wuuiu have been impeaehed if we had a Democratic majority," Fried said. Fried also said he thinks the trial will be decided along party lines, with little or no attention paid to the evidence. "Since senators seem to be cleaving to party affiliation, it is unlikely they will convict," he said. Are Senate jury members doing all that can be expected of them? Should they be the ones to decide whether the president is removed from office? Journalism professor Lynn Zoch i said she thinks Clinton should be held accountable to the American citi- i _ _.J _1__ J1 x 1* zens, ana sne usea ner sianaing as an elected representative of the USC fac- i nlty senate to make her point. " [The president's] jury should be the American people who elected him, and ' the [Senate] isn't listening to the people," Zoch said. "If facility senate has an issue, anything that will affect the we wantvour FEEDBACKS lj\May Gi I It'fi tirrai grad |H annoui iW a yf cap & eb. 15,16,17 (Mon., Tue ME: 10:00 AM - 5:00 V*, I: The Russell House Boc 'ECIAL $66.75 -- SAVE $5.( nouncements, cap, gown, and tassel, and 25 foil envelope seals ; & handling charges. ANDIDATE SPECIAL $63.85 :nts, cap, gown, tassel, and hood >11 prices BEES accepted CARI Ann Marie Miani Assistant Photo Fd rson handles important buslne t day in office is March 24. :holarship, t agenda 1 "They are taking longer than ' anticipated," Dickerson said. She said those items will be d cussed more next term. Dickerson said everything th was accomplished this year in SG w because ol cooperation with stude senate. "It's not like I did everything," s said. "With total Student Governmt cooperation, we got a lot done." yze necessity '.achment trie faculty, I send e-mail to the other ulty members and ask, 'What do think we should do?'" Zoch said she sees the trial i bridge for potentially deeper pi lems for the president. "At this point, what may be h pening is they want to get enough formation out there for legal action < side of the Senate," Zoch said. If Republican opponents and mocratic supporters are motivate! partisan political concerns, what s point of the trial in the first place? merely a show or a going-through-1 motions? "The motions, in fact, constitute substance of an impeachment i ceeding," she said. "The doing of: important." While a Senate juror's pretrial ] tiality can be accepted as a fact of in political processes, the question mains as to whether a juror's opir should be based on anything other t the facts of the case. If there were compelling evide of the president's guilt, should it be o looked by Democratic jurors becaus Clinton's popularity, his political fectiveness or the nation's thriving e omy? "No," Fried said. "It bothers me 1 1& JUUgCU Uil 11D3UC3 3UU1 the economy because I think he wc be [judged] in a bad way if the ecc my were lousy." ill kkid I [t] I adnata ; to order nation icements nd i gown s., Wed.) 1 >kstore )0 Balfour 254-5330 609 Blossom St * PLINA NEWS I<CUSCPD> | I S /fT\CRfME I I February 1 ^ Disorderly conduct, trespassing ^ after notice, Thomas Cooper Library. or Officers responded to a complaint of dis- w, orderly conduct. On arrival, they not- st ed the subject had bloodshot eyes and |H smenea ot aiconoi rroni live teet away, j, M He was also reported as having troujy ble standing and speaking. The subject jjj was booked at the USCPD and trans- ja fi ported to Richland County Detention ^ Jt Center. w, f Accidental Injury, Currell Col- ^ lege. While walking between Currell itor and Davis colleges, the complainant re!ss ported she fell into an open drain and Z' x-v 4- /-v y-v i-'i-' /^V j s ^ClllCl U11CJ by Laura DeWitt st Staff Writer re h? Feeling stressed? Need to make peace with food? Want to learn self-hyp- re nosis? The Counseling and Human De- th we velopment Center offers workshops for th these and other needs. th is- The CHDC provides individual and group counseling along with brief sa tat psychiatric intervention. op 'as Workshops are held at the CHDC th :nt on 900 Assembly St. They include a ch support group for graduate students th he working on their dissertations, singles >nt support groups and stress management ar programs. or The center also provides workshops de to help students understand their per- mi sonalities, deal with roommates and 1 cope with loss. tr< / I According to Ruthann Fox-Hines, as workshop coordinator, the self-hypnosis class is the most popular. It helps sh fac yOU iy iiwm ... Faculty senal "obby Brandon Larrabee tap- Staff Writer sa i incut The faculty senate will meet for th the first time this semester at 3 ce De- p.m. Wednesday in the School of Law by 1 by auditorium. be rm. _ r... *1. a; etc liic ine agenaa lor me meeung m'he CommiTe and the Committed ? Curricula and Courses. to ^the "Those are the only things we'll gr 5 j" probably act on," said professor El- ^ don Wedlock Jr., senate chair. , , , , , th par. The senate is also scheduled to life hear from the Steering Committee, C( ire- Faculty Advisory Committee, Facul- mi lion ty Welfare Committee* Committee on ^ han Admissions and Committee on ^ Scholastic Standards and Petitions. ^ ince ilhe other committees are what ^ ver" we call our standing committees," es Jeof Wedlock said. He said any new business that fr< con" would require a change in the sen- W that ate s P0^ wouW fee referred to the as] proper committee. pi )dd moIi o 0CN ^eck J If I hurry, V I f maybe I can >. I make it to Nabi \ m ^7 before they J V close! yy J \ W \r^mwW\m I?"" | | ^ fl I 4 / Wedm it her shin. She said a university em- Ja oyee was present during the incident A id made neither an attempt to warn 12 >r an attempt to assist her after the an eident. She was treated at the Thorn- vei n Student Health Center. thi jec llegal phone use, Wade Hampton, we ctim complained of harassing phone lis of a sexual nature. She reported Ja iving received three calls from some- *S le with a male-sounding voice. She ing as given a 3 a.m. pamphlet and in- ws ructed on how to use it. am ey rnuary 31 as! Assisting other agency, The Roost, he SCPD was called to assist the Rich- Ca nd County Sheriffs Department in i attempt to serve a one-year-old bench A arrant. On arrival, they discovered Th at the subject in question no longer tw sided there. ing poi am his rs free worl udents learn skills in self-control and laxation. She says all the workshops to ive been very popular, though. wil The workshops include discussions, adings, videos, exercises in sorting ful rough feelings, and exercises and ac- is i vities to help students work through ap; eir problems. CHDC Director Roger Bowersock six id he .thinks the workshops are "an sta portunity [for students] to learn someiing about themselves and make soi langes in their lives... personal or in up e classroom." chc The workshops are free to students id vary in length. Some last only two ion three sessions, while more in- ski pth workshops might last a ftdl se- ott ester or a year. The workshops are conducted by wo lined psychologists at the center, such Ct Bowersock and Fox-Hines. According to Fox-Hines, the workLops teach students "living skills." :e to meet ? "So there aren't any surprises," he ?, id. Wedlock said the report from e Grade Change Committee con- BE ms requests for grade changes made Q faculty members. A faculty mem r can make a request if a student ks for a grade change. prc If the faculty member agrees, the ga i tition is sent to the committee. Ac- ]3U. rding to the senate's website, 114 taj, ade-change requests will be pre- ar6 nted. The senate "routinely approves all si0 ose," Wedlock said. prt The Committee on Curricula and Sui jurses' report will contain recom- all< mdations concerning which cours- fk< should be added to or dropped from int e schedule, as well as any changes cui at should be made in the titles, deriptions and numbers given to cours- ing of i The senate will also hear a report US >m Secretary of the Senate Sarah ha] iop Tit] The meeting will be open to the cer tblic. wa ju _ 0^ wa ^2/ r 0QU an: cSJ- sai les ^ 1 jm'' : Nevi J^^can e i wow!) ^ $2 ^a? ? k and he H| g\ receive p k nabi JVJ 215 Assenr TTT esday, February 3, 1999 nuary 28 issault with a deadly weapon, 00 Devine St. Complainant said he d the subject were engaged in a rbal confrontation when the subject "eatened him with a knife. The subt later admitted to presenting the apon. No charges were filed. nuary 27 uspicious Activity, Capstone park1 lot. A female complainant said she is approached by a male subject i asked whether she needed any monor wanted to buy anything. After lung the subject to leave her alone, followed her until she entered the pstone House. .ssault and battery, South Quad, e victim stated he was assaulted by 0 subjects after an altercation dur1 a basketball game. The victim rerted being beaten on the face, head d back, but doesn't plan to prosecute ; assailants. cshops "The goal is that they are really here teach the students how to deal th problems," she said. The USC workshops are open to all 1-time students. The group therapy dways free, and the individual thery is free up to 12 sessions. Between spring and fall semesters, workshops are open for faculty and ff mnmKDro Lii o. The workshops that deal with perlal development are chosen based on student feedback and the psydogists. Fox-Hines said she hopes the varis workshops "help people improve lis in dealing with themselves and lers." For more information about the rkshops or registration, call the IDC at 777-5223. enate candidates iscuss ideas, plans i improve safety SATING continued from page 1 eet Garage bridge, hiring security all parking garages and holding hall (grams on campus safety." Senate candidate Adam Dawkins d he thinks the incident is isolated t that USC should be prepared to te further action to safeguard the sa around campus. "With the ongoing campus expann, I think this campus needs to be spared to take extra security mea es," Dawkins said. "I'd recommend seating funds to hire more police ofjrs for the USC community and to roduce more advanced campus seity features." Although the area where the beat ; took place is under the jurisdiction the Columbia police department, ICPD told Capstone area residence H personnel they've beefed up secuy in the Capstone area since the relt shootings. Still, Lentini said she's scared to lk alone on campus. "I always thought it was a good idea walk with someone, but I never rey did ... [now] you won't catch me Iking after dark by myself or with; a group of girls," Lentini said. Others aren't as concerned about npus safety. "[The beatingl was a horrible crime, i there's no excuse for it," Dawkins d. "But it doesn't make me feel any s safe on this campus." ?: 1 i donors! tarn up to 15 per lonthl out of your week I earn you $65! Idren, hemophiliacs ;art patients who roducts made from ma of our donors. N^3L The Quality Source I BioMedlcal Center ibly St., Columbia SC 29201 254-2280 I 4