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Carolina News Illinois professor seeks to regulate catnpus drinking BY WILLIAM LEE College Press Exchange Champaign, III - A professor who said he’s fed up with the large number of stu dent alcohol poisonings on campus is wag ing a one-man war against excessive drink ing that critics say borders on outright prohibition. Mark Roszkowski, a business ad ministration professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has pro posed ideas to city officials that even he concedes are tough. His ideas include the regulation of off campus house parties where alcohol is served, and a ban on the sale of beer kegs and pitchers at local bars. He also backs the police chief’s recommendation that the city raise the bar entry age from 19 to 21. I m not proposing pronioiuon, Roszkowski said. “Alcohol is available un der conditions which encourage abusive behavior. [We need] to set a few standards and make people drink slower because [drinking] has gotten out of hand.” He pointed out that 51 UI students have been hospitalized for alcohol poi soning during the current school year, in cluding 16 this semester. Roszkowski al so mentioned a recent incident on campus in which police raided a house party and found five kegs. Roszkowski said he believes popular culture encourages addictive behavior, and that society is fueling some students’ dri ve to drink. Taking away easy access to alcohol makes it more difficult for peo ple to abuse it, he said. Tunnel from page 1 shop for three weeks prepping the tunnel before SG began painting. The paint shop spent $3,000 scrapping and patching the tunnel and supplying the paint for SG. “I think it’s absolutely great,” Goings said. “If they get good publicity behind them, it may deter people from graffiting it.” Goings, however, doesn’t have an op timistic attitude about graffiti re-appear ing in the tunnel. “It’ll probably be a week before some body will try to make some marks. There’s nothing people like better than a freshly painted wall,” Goings said. Both Goings and Jeffcoat-said they don’t believe USC students are the ones doing the graffiti. “I wouldn’t point the finger at any body. It just happens. The tunnel’s open to everyone. >\fe’re a downtown campus,” Goings said. Clardy, on the other hand, remained positive. He pointed out that no one has graffitied the spurs SG painted on Greene Street. He also said he thinks the new designs will be well-received by students. “Anything that’s going to build stu dent pride and beautify the campus, I think students will love,” Clardy said. Reparations from page 1 that it was 200 years ago makes no dif ference.” Spokesman James Mahoney said Fleet Boston is reviewing Farmer-Paellman’s letter and its link to Provident Bank. Ira Berlin, a University of Maryland history professor who specializes in slav ery, said efforts like Farmer-Paellman’s are forcing businesses to consider their past. “This can be a very a troubling ques tion,” she said. It’s a question more businesses might have to answer, said Randall Robinson, au thor of “The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks” and president of TransAffica Forum, a think tank specializing in African, Caribbean and African-American issues. Robinson said he expects to see le gal action taken against companies in the future. Social activist plans a tour of campuses as speaker College Press Exchange Cincinnati - Once on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List for her radical poli tics, Angela Davis is now speaking out in the open on college campuses na tionwide. Davis, a history professor at the Uni versity of California at Santa Cruz, is widely considered one of the nation’s foremost social activists and is interna tionally known for her work to combat all forms of oppression around the world. Her upcoming stops on the campus lec ture circuit include appearances next week at Indiana University Northwest and Miami University of Ohio. Davis knows oppression—and im prisonment — firsthand. In 1969, she was fired from her teaching post at the University of California at Los Angeles because of her social activism and mem bership in the Communist Party, USA. An intense police search and false charges sent Davis into hiding before she was ul timately arrested, tried and convicted in one of the nation’s most publicized cas es. After a 16-month incarceration, Davis was acquitted in 1972. She re mains an advocate of penal reform and is a staunch opponent of racism and clas sism in the criminal justice system. Davis’ bold stance on a variety of is sues haven’t always won her fens—and for good reason in some cases. In a let ter dated Feb. 28,1978 that Davis sent to former President Jimmy Carter, she urged American lawmakers not to med dle in the affairs of the Rev. Jim Jones and members of his church, the Peoples. Temple, who were working on an “agri cultural project’’ in Guyana. “He [Jones] is a humanitarian in the broadest sense of the word who renders assistance often at great personal sacri fice, never concerned about what peo ple think of his actions, but only that he is following the right course,” she wrote. Anderson from page 1 student body. He said he’s been suc cessful at fulfilling that goal. “I think I did that,” he said. “I did it to the best of my ability. “I think I did what I was supposed to do.” Anderson also said he’s boon avail able to talk to students when they want ed to do so. “I think I’ve been 100 percent ac cessible,” Anderson said. But Anderson said he was disap pointed by the apathy of students. “It seems like nobody on this cam * pus cares,” he said. Dawkins also credits Anderson with being open to both senators and the stu dent body. “He’s made it very clear that he would like to hear from everybody,” Dawkins said. Anderson said his greatest accom plishment was fostering the relation ships he wanted to build when he came toSG. “In being in the position that I’m in, people came to me with their prob lems,” he said. “I did everything I could as objectively and supportively as I could” Anderson said he’s enjoyed the job. “I had a blast at doing it,” he said. “I’ve had so much fun.” KAPPA DELTA’S * You arc- cordially incited * to join the- festivities on Tuesday. Mareti 21 on (jdree-ne- Stre-etf Weil be tieetier tiotitrer'm^. ati 12:15" with other stiidenti organiz-ation? in front oj- the- f^s/SSell ttou^e-, So coiwe out and Support \iS Co me- join the- "l^un! www.kappadeltausc.org ;-- ~ ^ * 1 U.S. implements plan for tracking foreign students by William Lee College Press Exchange Chicago - The threat of terrorism has prompted the Immigration and Natural ization Service to implement a surveil lance plan aimed at tracking foreign stu dents in the United States. The plan, called the Coordinated In teragency Partnership Regulating Inter national Students program, ended its tri al status with INS on Feb. 22 and has since been extended nationwide. The program, tested at institutions such as Auburn and Duke universities, requires foreign stu dents and scholars in the U.S. on tempo rary visas to pay colleges and universities a $95 fee. Institutions forward that mon ey to INS to pay for a database tracking the foreign scholars as they move within the country. The database is expected to be fully functional in 2002. INS officials say CIPRIS will help modernize and streamline the current process of bringing foreign students and scholars into the U.S. It also will enable colleges and universities to share impor tant information about students — such as their fields of study and the means by which they’re paying for their education — with governmental agencies. But several professional associations, such as NAFSA: Association of Interna tional Educators based in New York, say the program unfairly targets foreign stu dents as potential threats to national safe ty and security. I. — “I am concerned about the message that we’ll be sending out to other nations,” Daphne Osayade-Dumas, associate dean of multicultural affairs at Sarah Lawrenc^ College told the Westchester County Weekly. “I think it sends the wrong mes sage.” So does Mary C. Martin, director of the University of Chicago’s office of in ternational affairs. She said the database overshadows the positive contributions foreign students make to their campuses and surrounding communities. “International students add billions to the economy,” she said. “They don’t just pay tuition. They pay for their apartments, they buy groceries, they take public trans portation, and you can really see the im pact in small [college] towns.” Aside from unfairly targeting for eign students, university officials also say * the INS tracking program also requires al ready beleaguered foreign-student advis ers to complete a mountain of paperwork — something Martin said they shouldn’t be required to do. “The program is making universities a bill collector for the federal government, and it’s not a comfortable thing for us,” she said. Osayade-Dumas agreed. “These documents take anywhere from 10 weeks to three months to process and now we’re going to add another burden on the international student ad visers?” she asked. “I think it can be handled another way.” ^ =3 Undergraduate Position Available Student wanted for part-time position in on-campus office. Must have excellent communication skills and strong experience in Microsoft Office ‘97 (Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint) and Adobe Pagemaker 6.5. Salary commensurate with experience. Contact a. Dawn Ward at (803) 777-0311 \ P for more information. EPSCoR The University of South Carolina is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Carolina Unity ‘Let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. John F. Kennedy June 10,1963 March 21 Giwayen Mata Dance Troupe 8:00 pm Russell House Theater Sponsored by Carolina Productions March 23 Clean Carolina 3:30 pm On Greene Street in front of the Russell House Sponsored by the Student Government Association Block Party Featuring Live Music 5:00 pm Russell House Patio Subs & Drinks Provided Sponsored by the Student Government Association March 25 National Service Day 8:30 am Carolina Plaza Light Breakfast provided Sponsored by the Alumni Association Scholar’s Day USC Horseshoe March 30 President’s Interfaith Prayer Breakfast 7:30 am Russell House Ballroom Sponsored by the Office of the President, the Carolina Chaplains Association, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Division of Student & Alumni Services April 1 Carolina Showcase 10:30 am - 2:00 pm USC Horseshoe Legacy Invasion 10:30 am-2:00 pm USC Horseshoe Sponsored by the Alumni m: Association "Places in the Heart" & "H°osie,Cf" shown throughout the week on WkHA CHECK YOUR LISTINGS Sponsored by the Residence Hall Association_ •• Sponsored by .he Carolina Student Judicial Council, the Office of Student Judicial Programs, P University Housing, and the Student Government Association _ -_—-■ I _______ ___