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Wit ©amtcock SAT from page 1 T.L. Hanna High School’s SAT scores reached a high of 1010 this year, and it was the only school in the state to be des ignated a National Blue Ribbon School. Principal Mike Sims credits in-school programs with helping students prepare for SATs. “Our teachers use various programs as far as in the classroom,” Sims said. “Wfe also have a computer program on our net work here at school that the kids take ad vantage of. We also have an SAT im provement, or we call it an SAT class, that kids take.” As beneficial as these programs are, however, Sims thinks the difficulty level of the classes taken is an important factor in SAT preparation. pr. “Those programs help a lot, but we've really stressed, over the last four or five years, for kids to take more courses and higher level courses, and I really think that lias as much to do with kids being able to improve their SAT score as anything,” Sims said. Dutch Fork High School in Lexing ton/Richland District 5 has also seen steady improvement due to students’ opportu nities to take SAT prep classes. “As part of our core curriculum, we do have SAT preparation classes that are a semester long, one for math and one for verbal,” said Frank Jovanelly, Dutch Fork assistant academic director. Dutch Fork also offers after-school programs for its students. “Wfe have workshops [where] we bring in outside groups, and they do one-day workshops throughout the year preparing our kids for either the PSAT or the SAT,” Jovanelly said. The school, which had its highest-ever SAT scores this year with an average of 1056, also participates in a night program run by the Princeton Review. Another Columbia-area school that followed the trend of SAT improvement was C. A. Johnson in Richland District 1. C. A. Johnson had an average increase of 65 points. According to. Principal Murray Smith, the school's success has mainly been due to practicing for the SAT’s content in class. “We emphasize strategies in terms of taking the test,” Smith said. “We do a lot of reading in class, a lot of writing in class, and anything that can help you pre pare for the test.” Smith also encourages students to seek help outside school and plans to bring SAT test-taking strategist Larry Mills to the school to help all of our students in a one day session, in terms of strategies for tak ing the test.” The city/state desk can be reached at gamecockc(tydesk@hotmailcom. -1 I -•• rr- ••• ■ .i-v** :•*»■•-'-v . ..v -•^...: ——.y -:,-..W-". ;• iiiV; '•' jUmnam* ■•-——"M-''■=' * ■■■ ....—-i—-—.——a* Amy Goulding The Gamecock Dutch Fork High School, above, has seen steady improvements in SAT scores over the years. The Irmo school has consistently ranked among top schools in the state for SAT scores. Friday, September 15 • Disorderly conduct, Bull Street Garage. University police received a call from the Columbia Police Department re questing a campus officer to come to Bull Street garage and write a student discipline report for Bishop Garnett, 20. When a USCPD officer arrived, reports say Garnett acted belligerent toward the officer. After arguing with the officer for a short time, Garnett was placed un der arrest. Thursday, September 14 • Larceny of money, Darla Moore School of Business, room 350. Lisa Moore, 33, told university police that someone removed her unsecured purse, which contained the following items: $32 cash, two Visa credit cards, two debit cards, a Social Security card, a South Carolina drivers license and a Midlands Techni cal College identification card. • Larceny of books, USC School of Med icine. Student Asif Chaudhry, 24, re ported to police that someone removed six medical books from a bookbag, worth approximately $300. • Larceny of CD player, USC Band Hall. Student Leah Shaklee, 18, told police that someone removed a black Sony CD player, worth about $100, from her un secured bookbag. Shaklee said noth ing else was taken from the bookbag. • Larceny of VCR, Humanities build ing, room 304. USC employee Craig Stevens reported that one Zenith VCR worth about $80 was missing. The re port didn’t say whether the missing VCR was related to the 20 or so other VCRs that have been stolen from USC class rooms since around the last week of Au gust. A police investigation into the long string of VCR larcenies continues. Sunday, September 17 • Drunkenness, 1700 Pinewood St. The complainant, the same as the respond ing officer, stated that the subject, Jared Gentry Wide, was highly intoxicated. He had a strong odor of alcoholic bev erage about his breath and person. His speech was slurred and he was unsteady on his feet. The subject was arrested and transported to Richland County Deten tion Center. • Drunkenness, 724 Harden St. (Jungle Jim’s) The complainant, also the re sponding officer, was on foot patrol in the 700 block of Harden Street The sus pect, Jungle Jim’s employee Kyle Rut ledge Cox, was involved in some type of physical altercation. The suspect was warned several times to move away from an injured subject, but refused. The sus pect was intoxicated and arrested. • Shoplifting, 5425-A Forest Drive (Quick-C). The complainant, Tangie Benjamin, said the subject, Dennis William Vickers, entered the incident location and removed two 12-packs of Icehouse beer. When the subject took die beer to the counter, the complainant told him she could not sell it to him be cause it was after midnight, and, there fore, Sunday. The subject then placed a $10 bill on the counter and left the premises. Estimated value: $17. Saturday, September 16 • Simple assault, 1505 Gonzales Gar dens “V” building. Victim No. 1 reported that the subject began calling her and her cousin, Victim No. 2, names and be gan to hit them. Victim No. 1 had swelling around her right eye, and Vic tim No. 2 had a swollen lip, both as a re sult of the assault. Victim No. 1 knows the subject from Crayton Middle School, where he is in 8th grade. The names of the subject and victims were withheld because of their juvenile status. Com plainant: Jacqueline Broon. • Burglary, 2505 Pendleton St. The vie tint, Marion Joyner, reported that some one pulled the screen away from the window and pried open the window. The subject then went through the draw ers and closets, but the victim said noth ing appeared to be missing. The scene was processed for fingerprints and the neighborhood canvassed. Most residents appeared to be out at the time. Friday, September 15 • Burglary, 2505 Pendleton St. The vic tim, Marion A. Joyner, reported that someone shattered the drivers-side win dow of her vehicle with an unknown object. Once inside, the suspect opened the victim’s trunk and removed two purs es. One purse contained $6 in cash, a driver’s license and a BellSouth cell phone. The other purse contained one Minolta camera and a brown wallet. Es timated value and damages: $407. • Malicious injury to personal property more than $1,000, 1800 Germany St. The complainant, Deidra Sutton, said she had stopped her vehicle wliile dri ving inside T.S. Martin Park, when about 25 to 30 black male subjects began jump ing on top of the vehicle, hitting the ve hicle with their hands and scratcliing the vehicle. The subjects then left the scene. No descriptions of the subjects could be given. Estimated damage: $1,800. ^Service 101 from page 1 nior Capstone Experience.” “Service 101 ... would be the ideal elective for sophomores and juniors,” site said. She also said the course would require a paper so there would be a “concrete re quirement,” and so students wouldn’t tliink it would be easy to do well in the class. “We really want it to be something where students leave the class enlight ened,” Eaddy said. 0 Berube said Sinha’s draft proposal — -t six-page description of the course fol lowed by two inserts — was more than enough information for his committee. He said the university’s main concern with new courses right now was whether a course would put a demand on the uni versity’s resources. “If the answer to that is no, then it’s not so tough," he said. Berube said the proposal did lack two important elements: a department to spon sor it and an instructor of record. He sug gested SG look to the College of Social Work to sponsor the course. “Social Work, I think, really wants to make inroads into the undergraduate cur riculum,” Berube said. Berube said his committee had meet ings scheduled for Oct. 16 and Nov. 3, Plough time for the committee to send hie proposal to tire full senate by December if it g uns the committee’s approval. Eaddy said after the meeting that SG would attempt to get the final proposal to the committee by the October meeting Under the proposal, the course wouli be worth either one dr three hours of cred it, depending on how much work wa required of students. Students would havi to keep a journal of their visits to thei volunteer sites and initiate a semester-lop project in either format: a three-hour coins would also require a 10- to 12-page pa per, and students would be required t make a presentation to their class. Th number of meeting times per week woul also depend on the fomiat of the course The proposal lists nine sites that hav agreed to follow curriculum requirement under the program. Berube said those site would need to be credentialed by USC “It protects the students in man ways,” he said. “It’s not just cheap labo They’re supposed to be teaching some thing to these kids.” The Ronald McDonald House, Oliv er Gospel Mission, Keep Americ Beautiful of the Midlands, S.C. Depari ment of Juvenile Justice, Habitat for Hi inanity, The Cooperative Ministry, Pa metto Senior Gare-Wliile Rock, Palmett Senior Care-Eau Claire and Manor Gu Nursing Home have all agreed to be site for a service-learning course, accordin to the proposal. Berube said there might be concen about liability issues at some of the chili cine sites. He also said SG needed to loc at the slate’s “Good Samaritan ’ laws, wliic are intended to protect volunteers. Eaddy said after the meeting that tl course could be offered by the spring, ea lier than she had expected. According to Eiddy, she mid Sinha h; both hoped to lay the groundwork th year for a course in fall 2001. ‘We really want it to be something where students leave the class enlightened.’ , Jotaka Eaddy SG president 5 Sinha agreed the course could be in 3 place by next semester. 1 “It seems like it’s possible,” she said. “Very possible.” The proposal was one of four com 5 ponents of Eaddy’s “Contract With Car s olina,” the platform she ran on during last year’s SG elections. I _ Other aspects of Eaddy’s “Contract for Carolina” are being worked on, in cluding a potential extension of the drop add date. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. : 1 MEGA TANNINGi SALONSj 0 • State of the Art Giant Mega Beds • High/Medium Pressure Beds • 0 • Super 10 Minute Beds • Giant 20 and 30 Minute Beds • • Ruva Beds and Stand Up VHR Booths • CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE TOP TEN SALONS IN THE COUNTRY s 275 Harbison Blvd. 2113 Greene St. 603 Columbia Ave. I. 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Instead of everyone locking themselves in their houses away from their neighbors and Complaining in pri vate,” Columbia resident Ryan Edwards said. “Everybody should get out and complain together.” Edwards said he plans to attend the second meeting Oct. 17 and com plain about the expense of the palmet to trees placed around Columbia over the summer. “I liked a couple of the pieces of pal metto tree art, but I think the money could have been better-spent on something else,” Edwards said. “I don’t think that was the big band-aid for our sense of community.” Some of the issues raised by a small gathering of residents at the first meet ing this past Thursday included crime, street lighting, hurricane preparedness, the need for better pet evacuation plans during hurricanes and public trans portation. Columbia resident A1 Nelson, a par ticipant at Thursday’s meeting, raised the issue of poor street lighting on Preston Street and Columbia’s bus and trolley system. Coble took notes and promised to look into it. Nelson was concerned about other issues, as well. “I asked the mayor what the situa tion was with the new public trans portation system,” Nelson said. “I knev the City was going to take over, but no how or when.” : The mayor told Nelson that Soutl Carolina Electric & Gas had been thi provider of public transportation here historically, since the tum of the cen tury when the first trolley cars ran. / Regional Transit Authority will taki over, along with the city, as SCE&C phases out. He stressed this would be a slow gradual process of a few years, howey er, giving people time to adjust. In regard to concerns about futun hurricanes and the Columbia’s pre paredness, Coble said it’s important fo people to know that there will be a phoni number for people to call if Soutl Carolina is threatened by a hurricam this season. The hurricane commani center will be at City Hall. After the first meeting, Nelson sail he found the Mayor to be polite and sur prisingly easy to talk to, and he got hi questions answered in a comfortable chatty manner. “People need to know that it’s eas; to talk to this Mayor, that he seems ti like to talk,” Nelson said. “I general! don’t like the idea of talking to politi dans, but this one is a.very approach able person.” The second of four scheduled meet ings will be held Oct. 17 at Martin Luthe King Jr. Park, the third on Nov. 9 at th Eau Claire Print Building and the fourtl on Dec. 14 at Woodlands Park. All meetings are scheduled from i to 7:30 p.m.O and are open to the pub lie. The city/state desk can be reached at gamecockcitydesk@hotmail.com. Want to know what the talk is about? -_, UjUSC Listen and find out. 90.5FHI SIEMENS Westinghouse s. You're illuminated with knowledge, energized by your own potential. You want to charge ahead and I change the world. 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