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Capitol City Chorale
to perform
The Office of Multicultural Student
Affairs and WFMV present
"Africa to America: The Gospel
Experience" at 3:30 p.m. Sunday
in the RH Ballroom. In addition
to tne bapitoi bity Lhorale, the
performance will showcase USC's
gospel choirs, A Touch of Faitlji,
and The Chosen Ensemble. The
event is free and open to all students.
For more information, call
Thomas Rivers at 777-7716.
Malcolm X speaker
to visit campus
Darryl Van Leer will perform at
6:30 p.m. Monday in the RH Theater.
Van Leer will re-enact. Mai
colm X's moving orations, and the
Malcolm X stamp will be unveiled.
For more information, call 7774330.
Civil War author
McPherson to speak
Civil War writer James McPherson
will speak Thursday at the
USC Thomas Cooper Society luncheon.
The 1 p.m. luncheon will be
at the Capital City Club in the
Affinity building. Tickets cost $25
and can be reserved by calling Re
Author Angela Davis will give the
keynote public lecture Thursday
at USC's annual Women's Studies
Conference. The free lecture will
be at 5 p.m. in the School of Law
auditorium. Davis will discuss discrimination
in the criminal justice
system. For more information, call
the Women's Studies department
at 777-4007.
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Barry McCaffrey, director for the
Office of National Drug Control Policy,
addressed students and officials
Wednesday at the National Advocacy
Center.
McCaffrey opened his speech by
naming drugs "the worst single identifiable
causal factor behind many of
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12 other Civil War historians will
participate in a roundtable discussion
to understand the Civil War.
The discussion is free and open to
the public. It begins at 7:30 p.m.
in the Capstone Conference Center.
For more details, call 7775243.
Angela Davis gives
lecture on race, sex
discrimination
He said 14,000 people a year are
killed as a result of the nation's drug
problem. In addition, McCaffrey said
that 13 million people use an illegal
drug every month and that $57 billion
a year is spent on illegal drugs.
In the 1999 National Drug Control
Strategy, McCaffrey has proposed solutions
to the drug problem. The strategy
calls for a 50 percent cut in drug
use and availability. In addition, it seeks
to educate the nation's youth about
drugs.
One solution, the establishment of
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Treasurer candidate Timothy
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unsure if hell stay involved in SG.
"All I have known is finance ... all
the B.A. [senate] seats are filled, so I
just don't know," Clardy said.
Clardy said he has no plans to apply
for the Cabinet or run again next
year.
"I'll be a senior next year, so I will
not be running," Clardy said.
Current Vice President Chris Dorsel
said he thinks Anderson will do a good
job with the office of vice president "as
long as he keeps the positive attitude
that he has had this whole election
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He assured the audience that socioeconomic
status isn't an issue when
considering dfug abuse.
"If you look at lifetime rates of drug
abuse, it is not related to socioeconomic
status," he said.
Social disapproval is necessary in
order to help contain the nation's drug
problem, according to McCaffrey.
"If the adolescent hears from the
educational system [and] the law enforcement
system... that drug abuse is
frowned upon in our community, then
drug abuse rates tend to stay low," he
said.
Although 1.8 million people are in
jail because of drug-related offenses,
McCaffrey said he thinks other alternatives
should be sought. It costs
$39,000 per year to keep a criminal in
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Dorsel doesn't have any specific advice
for Anderson, but he hopes Anderson
continues the programs instituted
by SG this year.
"There are a lot of things that senate
has started this year, and I just hope
that [Anderson] continues and improves
on those," Dorsel said.
Current Treasurer Susanne Newman
said because Fordham "has never
been on a finance committee before,
it may hurt her, but it depends on
how hard she works."
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in a rehabilitation program, however,
costs between $2,000 and $7,000 per
year.
The students who attended the lecture
said the lecture was a good opportunity
to get an insight into the problem
from a high-profile figure.
"I'm interested in what he has to
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For some audience members, the
lecture was an opportunity to gain a
perspective on the national problem.
"He brings a national perspective
that we can't get from local officials,"
criminal justice professor William Pelfrey
said.
"He is in time with the program on
a national level. It is beneficial to teaching
people what problems there are and
how to solve them."
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Timothy Clardy
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Newman said Fordaham "has a
lot of research to do" about USC's financial
system because it's a "unique"
system that's "something completely
different than anything she's ever seen."
"I hope [Fordham] continues the
treasurer workshops started this year,
and I also hope she continues with
the revision and refund procedures
[Clardy] and I started," Newman
said.
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Greek organizations raised more 1
than $12,000 for the Children's Mir- 1
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Derby Days fund-raiser. t
The weeklong fund-raiser began 1
Feb. 8 and featured a competition ?
among sororities to raise money and t
spirit.
Kappa Delta sorority won the fend- s
raising competition. Sigma Chi esti- f
mated that KD raised between $3,500 ,
and $4,000.
The week's other events included
chapter members of each sorority col- '
lecting pennies outside the Russell
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end of the week, and sororities put on
skits to comnete aeainst each other.
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Delta Delta Delta sorority won the
skit competition. Delta Zeta sorority
ivon the spirit and participation comDetitions.
"Sigma Chi is really appreciate
of all of the sororities' efforts,"DerDy
Days Chairman Lucas Marchant
said. "We wouldn't have been able
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The Derby Days fund-raiser is
sponsored nationally by Sigma Chi
raternities. It's the 51st Derby Days
und-raiser held at USC.
"Derby Days went really well," Signa
Chi Public Relations Chairman
Michael Berger said. "There was a lot
)f participation, and we raised 2,000
nore dollars than we did last year."