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Food bank hosts golf tournament to benefit needy children by John Huiett The Gamecock Needy area children will be the focus of a ben efit golf tournament taking place today at Fort Jack son, as chefs from local restaurants and hotels com pete to raise money to battle childhood hunger. The Harvest Hope Food Bank, in partnership with the American Culinary Federation, will host the first annual Kids Cafe Culinary Golf Classic beginning at 9 a.m. at the Fort Jackson Golf Course. All proceeds of the tournament will benefit the Harvest Hope Kids Cafe, an after-school char itable-meals program designed to feed dinner time meals to children who would otherwise go hungry, and the ACF Chef and Child Foundation, a local chairty in which area chefs regularly donate funds and food to feed South Carolina children in need. Many children in the state are in desperate need of assistance to receive a decent meal, said Harvest Hope spokeswoman Dianne Hillyer. “We see the need,” Hillyer said. “Unfortu nately, business is booming at Harvest Hope Food Bank.” One in four children in the state goes hungry every day, Hillyer said. When adults are added in, the figure drops slightly to one in five. But Hilly er added that the main problem isn’t simply miss ing an occasional meal. “Our national affiliate office describes it as go ing without food for four days,” Hillyer said. The Kids Cafe was started after Harvest Hope workers began developing relationships with chil dren who participated in the program, learning that going without food was an ongoing burden. The problem had to be dealt with when workers would talk to the children, learning that when they do get home, they might not have a meal, Hillyer said. The program extends beyond simply provid ing food, Hiller added. Children who attend the Kids Cafe are also taught table manners and social etiquette. While the program has been successful, Hillyer said Harvest Hope is always in need of vol unteers and further financial assistance. “We appreciate the support of the communi ty to help us stamp out hunger, not only in the Mid lands, but throughout central South Carolina,” Hillyer said. For ACF President Michael Kaster, the mes sage is just as critical as the meals. “The whole importance right now is to bring the issue of childhood hunger to the forefront of our community,” Raster said. , Although ACF has had a relationship with Har vest Hope for more than 10 years, Raster said this is the first time they have attempted a major “joint effort as far as a golf tournament.” Raster said ACF is also looking forward to an other community awareniss effort scheduled for Oct. 16, National Childhood Awareness Day. The group is hosting a luncheon outside the State House for 150 area children, featuring U.S. De partment of Agriculture Undersecretary Shirley Watkins. Gov. Jim Hodges has accepted an invi tation to appear, also. The luncheon will focus on teaching children good nutritional habits as much as on feeding the children, Kaster said. Meanwhile, an awards party honoring the Kids Cafe golf tournament’s winners and sponsored by national food distributor PYA/Monarch and the Campbell Soup Company will take place imme diately following the tournament. Carey Allen of the Fox network’s Columbia affiliate WACH Fox 57 will serve as the event’s master of cere monies. For more information on joining Harvest Hope’s statewide efforts, volunteers and contrib utors should call (803) 254-4432. The city/state desk can be reached at gamecockcitydesk@hotmail. coni. Greek from page 1 cruitment are the ones they feel would fit in best. During recruitment week, soror ities and potential new members partici pate in a mutual selection process. “I think the sororities have more con trol than the girls. It’s maybe a 65-35 thing it’s certainly not 50-50. There are some of us who were lucky enough to get into the sororities we wanted to, but there were others who weren’t as lucky,” said freshman Maneshka Eliatamby, who joined Delta Gamma. “One girl was saying, ‘I know I didn’t get the sorority I want, so why bother opening the invitation?”’ Though this time is known as re cruitment “week,” there are only four rounds, the longest of which is an hour. Each sorority and potential new member spends fewer than three hours together the entire week. “If you can have one re al conversation those first couple of rounds you’re doing real well,” Flemming said. While the time sororities spend with each girl isn’t long, it can be intense. “I wouldn’t say it’s exhausting, but it is over whelming,” Flemming said. “But as long as you keep a positive attitude about it, it’s a good experience.” Recruitment began early and lasted . through the evening this past week, but for some, recruitment became a lifestyle on May 8. More than 30 girls were chosen as Rho Chis, or recruitment leaders, who guided potential new members through the recruitment process, and disaffiliated from their sorority for the entire summer. This means they couldn’t associate with anyone in a sorority-their own or anoth er- and couldn’t wear T-shirts or jewelry with Greek letters so as not to influence a potential new member. Executives in Sorority Council were also forced to disaffiliate. “[Disaffiliating] was probably the hard est thing I’ve ever done,” said Sorority Council President Traci Bonds. “I think it was harder for the Rho Chis than it was for the Rush staff, though.” Bonds said she encouraged'the Rho Chi’s to hang out with each other as much as possible. “We kind of joked around how they had formed their own ‘Rho Chi’ sorority,” she said. Now, though, after nearly four months of being a sister in ‘Rho Chi’ sorority, each one ran down the Horseshoe with their new members, often ami in arm, tears run ning down their faces, to rejoin their sis ters-and introduce the new ones. The university desk can be reached at gantecockudesk@hotmail.com. Shuttle from page 1 provided by the city to these areas and students who want to could use city buses and trolleys,” Director of Parking Services Derrick Huggins said. By 2001, Parking Services plans to have the Rapid Transit Authority, formerly SCE&G Transit Service, stop at five major spots around campus to make the city’s bus system more accessible to USC students. The RTA plans to establish direct routes to the university from areas sur rounding campus. The plan is to chaige students a one-time fee to ride the RTA buses after the routes are established. As for the escort services already established, such as the one operated by j APO, Huggins said these escorts pro vide an important service for the uni versity. “We aren't trying to replace the es corts on campus,” he said. “We are just working in conjunction with them to pro vide students a means to get around cam pus at night.” The evening shuttle service was one of the goals of “Contract with Carolina,” which was part of Student Body President Jotaka Eaddy’s platform. “I’m very, very happy that we have the service now,” Eaddy said. “I hope stu dents will use the USC evening shut tle.” Huggins, one of principal adminis trators who got the project off the ground, said the evening shuttle service should improve the safety of the campus. Stu dents can wait inside a building, see the [lashing lights of the van and come out side, instead of waiting outside the whole lime for the shuttle, he said. According to Huggins, the shuttle ser vice should also be successful because the evening shuttle stops by each location ;very five to ten minutes. The shuttle’s goal is to provide trans rortation for at least 300 students a night >y the end of the year. The shuttle service will continue to un for the.rest of the year, except for ireaks and on days of extreme weather vhen classes are canceled. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail. com. «r*v " f r Throwing your money IUITTUW*K away on rent or dorm fees? csourccs Well Don’t Real Estate since 1983 Specializing in the sales of : Condos & Townhomes in the USC and Downtown Areas 799-0859 (Toll Free: 1-888-799-0859) 1516 Richland Street E-mail: landmark@logicsouth.com LiSldUimi JUU19CU by investing in your future. 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The previous database included the DNA of crim inals convicted of sexual offenses, but now will be ex panded to include those convicted of other violent, and some non-violent, offenses, SLED spokeswoman Kathryn Richardson said. “It will now include peeping Toms and stalkers, for example, because these could be a prelude to rape,” Richardson said. Persons convicted of armed robbery will also be in eluded in the expanded DNA database. The bill says after July 1, 2000, people required to provide DNA samples will be those convicted of vi olent crimes or other related offenses and any offend er who is ordered by the court to provide a sample. In addition to stalking, peeping and eavesdropping, some of the other offenses requiring DNA samples are violent crimes (excluding drug trafficking), arson in the first and second degree, third degree burglary, aggra vated stalking, committing or attempting a lewd act up on a child under 16, first degree sexual exploitation of a minor and sexual intercourse with a patient or trainee. Columbia resident Kathy Petersen, a high school English teacher and self-described feminist and ani mal activist, said the legislation could have a positive impact on the protection of women, but she had mixed feelings overall. “I think it's good for women that it covers stalkers and peeping Toms,” Peterson said “I was stalked once, and the police didn't take me seriously. I wouldn't like it, though, if it ever went so far as to include things like shoplifting or bad check writing. That would be like an invasion of privacy or freedom, I think, and would be going too far.” According to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Gene Almanac web site, DNA fingerprinting, sometimes called DNA typing or “Slot Blots,” was first developed in Britain in 1985 and has revolutionized forensic sci ence. It is a method of identification that compares DNA fragments. Extracting a sample from an individual’s body tis sue, blood, hair or saliva makes a DNA fingerprint. Us ing enzymes, the sample is then segmented and arranged by size via a process scientists call “electrophoresis.” After marking the segments, they are then exposed on X-ray film where they form a DNA fingerprint, ap pearing as black bars arranged in a characteristic pat tern. If a match is produced from two different sam ples, there is a high probability both samples came from the same individual. 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