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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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sense of community, saying he wants
.to promote a sense of connection with
in the community.
“It’s important for people to feel
they can come by and talk,” Coble said.
Some Columbia residents are prais
ing the mayor’s efforts, agreeing with
him that the problem of community
alienation needs to be dealt with and ex
pressing concerns over city issues.
“There is a lot of alienation, and I
think that anything that might help to
foster our sense of community, like these
monthly meetings with the mayor, would
be good. 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.
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