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Vol. 94, No. 13 MoUClEy September 25, 2000_ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ in a Community since 1Q08 Bicentennial campaign reaches goal by Charles Prashaw The Gamecock President John Palms announced Friday that the university had reached its Bicentennial Campaign fundraising goal of $300 million and was ratchet ing the goal up to half a billion dollars. The university reached its goal 15 months ahead of schedule. And since the $300 million goal had been reached so early, Palms said, USC would try - to raise $500 million by the end of2001. The university lias already received $303.8 million worth of pledges and money during the livc-year capital cam paign, according to university officials. The campaign was launched in July 1995 to recognize the 200th an niversary of USC’s 1801 founding. The original goal of the campaign was set at $200 million, a number the univer sity surpassed in September of last year. Palms said that raising the goal from $300 to $500 million would help the university address the needs in specif ic academic areas, including support ing National Merit Scholars at USC, and endowing certain professorships and chairs to attract the finest faculty and enhancing certain programs. Palms also said that while the uni versity has benefited from generous support in many areas, the university still has needs in several areas that will influence USC's long-term academic strengths. "We are going to be working with our donors now to channel private resources toward those targeted areas where their support will have the biggest academic impact," Palms said. As of June 30, 2000, donors had given 42,135 gifts totaling $76.6 mil lion to the university during the pre vious fiscal year. That total included $56.1 million in cash and 15 gifts of at least $1 million. Gifts included $31.7 million from cor porations; $19.3 million from alum ni; $9.8 million from non-alumni, and $5.6 million from foundations. The $76.6 million is the second-laigest one year amount of private donations in the university's history. The fund-raising goal at USC has been raised twice before. In December Campaign see page 2 Brandon Larrabee Thc Gamecock Man of the hour Kixnrey and Kelly connect to keep USC undefeated After starting quarterback, Phil Petty, is knocked out of the game with an ankle injury, walk-on redshirt sophomore Erik Kimrey steps in \ and throws the game winning toss to Jermale Kelly. ^ : Significant Figures Rosking USC - 30 yards NSU - 94 yards Passing USC - 330 yards NSU-224 yards Erik Kimrey (1-1) 25 yards 1 touchdown — Phil Petty I (19-40) 305 yards 1 touchdown USC 23 MSU 19 See Sports page 10 for complete coverage of the game Sean Rayford The Gamecock Hodges addresses task force formation ■ Hearing will address funding, training, arrests by Lyndsey Marshali Tin: Gamkcock Gov. Jim Hodges is holding a pub shearing in Greenville Mondaj concerning his formation of a task force on domestic violence, the sec ond in a series of hearings that be gan last week. The meetings, as evidenced by last week's kickoff in Richland Coun ty, focus on additional funding and training needs to be met before the - task force can adequately begin the attempt to curb domestic violence in the stale. Major themes, however, concern the police practice of dual arrests, arresting both the victim and the per petrator in a domestic dispute, and alternative imprisonment methods for those convicted of domestic vi olence. "Officers are not using manda tory arrests," Darlington County task force member Barbara Bullard said at the Columbia meeting, vocalizing the need for further officer training in the area of domestic violence. Because this mandate is not uti lized, she said, the responsibility is placed on the victim, when in fact it should be on the offender, Bullard said. According to Bullard, officers are threatening both the victim and offender with a dual arrest. Further problems arise with the dual arrest solution, because if the individuals have children, they need to be placed in state care, she said. Bullard added that officers are al so not writing reports of incidents. If no record is made, there is no proof that the act occurred in the first place, she said. Tire officer needs to separate the victim and aggressor and allow them to talk about the situation by creat ing a counselor-type atmosphere, Bullard said. She also said family court judges want to see hard evidence of physi cal abuse, and if they can't see it, they won’t address the case. As far as imprisonment alterna tives go, one solution offered was that of the Victim Alert Project, a system that puts offenders on a satel lite monitoring tracking system. This system is similar to prison systems in which the prisoner is tracked, and the system knows where the person is at all times. It alerts the company when prob lems arise, and they address it ac cordingly, project spokeswoman Tanya Kinerly said. According to Kinerly, South Car olina is the only state using this equip ment this way. The program is being used in 10 counties, but Kinerly would like to see it expand statewide. The program tracks the aggres sor, and notifies police immediately as an alarm is set off. Cooperation with the police and the program operators has not been satisfactory. The results of three studies by the USC College of Nursing's Mary Boyd were also aired, ad dressing connections between sub stance abuse, domestic violence and mental health. Boyd said she found many of the people in the study who experienced violent abuse were mentally affect ed and fell "alienation from self and others." Boyd concluded that the state needs to become more involved in domestic violence overall. Many women seek help, only to not be helped in return, she said. "Professionals need to be cross trained so we can help," Boyd said. "AU professions need to work to gether to find a common goal." Hodges assembled the task force in August to identify and address do mestic violence related issues from a state and local perspective. A third hearing is tentatively scheduled some time in October in Charleston. The city/stale desk can he reached at gamecockdtydesk@hotmaJLcom. Amy Gouldin^Tin Gam . CM Tracy Clawson, program coordinator at the Criminal Justice Academy, speaks at a public hearing concerning the formation of the | task force on domestic violence SC plant, crop future discussed by Betsy Baugh The Gamecock A group of researchers from USC and Clemson came together Friday with the Sustainable Universities Initiative to dis cuss the possible benefits of plants its med icines and potential future of South Car olina crops. The goal of the conference, “Plants, Medicine and the Economic Future of South Carolina: A Working Conference,” is to give several researchers, students and fac ulty from USC, the Medical University of South Carolina and Clemson University the opportunity to discuss ways plants can be used for medicine, said Trish Jerman, a man ager at SUI. “We are hoping dial die conference will give some insight to die possible econom ic viability of medical herbs as aSoudi Car olina crop,” Jerman said. “Hopefully, it will help to create a network of researchers who can assist in finding new crops for the state.” South Carolina has herbal crops that are already proving to be successful in the agricultural business in the state. “We currently have one of the hugest Gingko Biloba plantations in the world in Crops see page 3 ImM Quote x>f the. 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