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Carolina News Flag from page 1 South Carolina.” Holtz marched for about a half-hour as the . group made its way up U.S. 176 through Orangeburg County. The other coaches marched for about an hour. Marchers are being shuttled back and forth so they can rest or participate for as long as they have avail able. They also continued to march past small gather ings of people waving Confederate flags and urged motorists to sign petitions to keep the banner where it is. Among the sporting events touched by the flag in South Carolina this year: • The Southern Conference held its basketball tournaments in Greenville’s Bi-Lo Center, but agreed to look elsewhere next year should the flag remain above the Statehouse. • The New York Knicks pulled out of a pre playoff training camp in Charleston. • USA Track & Field denounced the flag before the women’s Olympic marathon trials in February and several competitors wore ribbons of support. • The Atlantic Coast Conference asked its nine schools to stay in North Carolina hotels for the league’s baseball tournament, scheduled just over the South Carolina border in Fort Mill. Brad Walters The Gamecock Maymester ■>% . . from page 1 Criminal Justice 571M actually in volves a trip to Russia to learn about the new police tactics in the former So viet Union. ANTH 322M and ANTH 323M are two of the anthropology courses offered for Maymester. Students in ANTH 322M will go to Camden from 7 a.m. to 4 pin. every day to do outdoor excavation at archaeolog ical sites. Professor Gail Wbgner said the couise was hot and sweaty work, but one of the few chances students would get to do something like this. The class will excavate a late pre historic Indian site, which is believed to be an ancient Indian village. The class is open to all majors, but students must fill out an application before registering for the class. In ANTH 323M, students will com plete an ethnographic research project in collaboration with staff of the Piccoo Spoleto Festival in Charleston. Students in the class will actually have to live in Charleston for two weeks. Census from page 1 bia Community Relations Council. The bus will park outside the Rus sell House during the forum. An exhib it called the “Five Big Reasons to An swer the Census,” fact sheets, and oth er materials will be on board the bus. The road tour is intended to bring at tention to the census in various media markets. The buses started their trip Feb. 15 and will tour the country until April 15. USC Journalism graduate Karen Ford is among those riding the bus. According to Crowell, census forms will be given to residence hall directors for distribution to students. The census is used to allocate funds and draw congressional districts. The Constitution calls for such a count every 10 years. The target date for USC census forms to be returned is Friday. Alternative break gives students opportunity to serve community by Annie Choi College Press Exchange Boston - While droves of college stu dents headed out for a week of sunny surf, a group from the Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology embarked on a dif ferent kind of spring break. Make that Alternative Spring Break, a national, not-for-profit organi zation with student-run affiliates on cam puses across the country. The group co ordinates week-long trips that give students a chance‘to perform community ser vice. A real drag? No, many ASB partic ipants say—and they can point to growth in the program to back themselves up. MIT, for example, kicked off its pro gram in 1996 with 20 volunteers. This year, more than 160 students applied for 75 spots offering trips to nine different destinations nationwide. This year’s trips included teaching children in Pennsylva nia about the environment and volun teering at two New York City clinics hous ing AIDS patients who can’t afford adequate health care. Funding for ASB typically comes from a campus’ student government, fund-rais ers and generous donations from faculty and local businesses. The goal is for ASB to subsidize 60 to 75 percent of the cost of a trip, excluding meals. At MIT, stu dents staying in the United States paid a $40 fee, while those who went to teach in Puerto Rico paid $200. The money cov ered transportation and lodging, which usually amounted to a spot on a gym floor or a bed at the local YMCA. Some colleges and universities al low students to pick up class .credit for participating in ASB, an arrangement that typically requires students to write essays, read articles pertinent to what they’ll be doing and maintain a travel diary. Yi Xie, an MIT sophomore, was among this year’s ASBers. She traveled 18 hours in a 15-passenger van to build houses with Habitat for Humanity vol unteers in Charleston. Xie, along with students from other campuses, slept at the local YMCA and traveled to a public pool every morning to shower. “Wfe noticed a huge economic gap be tween classes in Charleston right away,” Xie said. ‘^During the day, we’d work on houses that were falling apart in an area that was very tough, and just 15 minutes away is a neighborhood of manicured lawns and expensive houses.” At one site, the group helped demolish a house instead of rebuilding it. _ When she wasn’t wielding a hammffi, Xie was in a classroom helping academi cally challenged junior high school stu dents, many of whom were on medica tion for attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders, depression — and an array of emotional problems. “After we got used to the setting, it was really incredible working with them,” Xie said. “They did listen to what you had to say, they followed directions and they produced something that you taught them.” While the day’s activities were of ten strenuous, Xie and her group spent the evenings relaxing and making new friends. Her group even had an ice cream party that was BYOT — Bring Your OiM Topping, smashing all the stereotypes of students spending their spring break in a drunken haze. “The neat thing is that we all went down there together and it was our spring break,” Xie said. “I think we got more out of it than we put in. Wfe worked hard every day at whatever task we were given, but we got so much more.” Gambling from page 1 games. In Nevada, $2.3 billion is wa gered legally each year on sporting events, one-third of it on college athletics. “By closing the Vegas loophole and banning college sports gambling completely, we will end a practice that has turned college athletes into objects to be bet upon, exposing them to un warranted pressure, bribery and cor ruption,” McCain said. • Graduate from page 1 A special awards ceremony will be held at 1 p.m. in Russell House Ballroom A recognizing the winners of the morn ing competitions, where about 70 de partmental and institutional graduate stu dent awards will be presented. Graduate students can also attend var ious career service workshops presented by USC’s Career Center, that are specially designed for graduate students and divid ed into three distinct categories. Students may attend two of thethree workshops which cover reumes, the Internet as a job search tool and successful interview strate gies. 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