The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, September 25, 2000, Image 1
Vol. 94, No. 13 MoUClEy September 25, 2000_
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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
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Blessed is he who has reached
the point of no return and knows
it, for he shall enjoy living.
-W. C. Bennett
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p.m. RH 322
• Sorority Council 5:30
p.m. RH 322
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8:30 p.m. RH 302
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• AAAS 11 a.m. Mem
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Street
• AAAS 6 p.m. Russell
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• Omega Phi Alpha 9
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