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Travis Lynn The Gamecock
Officer James Bulger, standing, supervises the W. A. Perry Middle
School KOBAN program, a venue for community Improvement
KOBAN program
to steer children
away from crime
* by Lindsey Marshall
The Gamecock
W. A. Perry Middle School opened
its first KOBAN, or police mini-sta
tion, in its school Sept. 15.
Learning from the Japanese, whose
country has one of the lowest crime
rates in the world, KOBAN was re
cently brought to Columbia to help
the community combat children’s in
volvement with crime. KOBAN is the
Japanese word for “mini-station.”
In Columbia, the KOBANs will
serve as a safe haven and miniature
police station where KOBAN staff,
police officers and volunteers can form
relationships, according to KOBAN
spokesman Rudolph Hall.
KOBAN “provides an alterna
tive for kids to things out in the street,”
Hall said.
The program has strong partner
ships with City Year and Columbia
Housing Authority, its main sponsor.
The Columbia Police Department,
Columbia Department of Parks and
Recreation, Milton S. Eisenhower
Foundation, Richland County School
District One and Palmetto Baptist
Health Alliance also support KOBAN,
Hall said.
There are five KOBAN locations
around the Columbia area. The first,
Gonzales Garden, opened in August
1995 and is in the Lyon Street com
munity.
in the late ivsus, the Milton
Eisenhower Foundation was interest
ed in the KORAN model and began
to conduct studies on how to apply
the original Japanese model to inner
cities in the United States.
“The foundation sponsored dele
gations of police chiefs and commu
nity leaders from inner-city youth de
velopment organizations to travel
abroad to study the Japanese system
of police mini-stations and to gener
ate ideas of how the system could be
adopted here,” according to KORAN’s
Web site.
After studying the Japanese
KORANs, representatives from the
study brought back information and
created the American version of the
Japanese program.
The first four KORANs opened in
Columbia were created in communi
ties.
One is in a residential communi
ty, but the other four are near schools
and other community-based buildings.
Hall said while the other attempts
were successful, the organization was
KOB AN SEE PAGE 3
'The greatest link to the
community is through the
school.’
Rudolph Hall
Koban spokesman
AAAS hosts discussion on sex, love
by Amanda Silva
The Gamecock
Tuesday night’s Association of
African-American Students meeting
featured a discussion on personal re
lationships, offering insight into the
male and female perspectives on love,
sex and commitment.
AAAS members, who have been
meeting since the beginning of the
school year, were split according to
gender—men on one side of the the
ater, women on the other.
This setting was appropriate to the
debate-style atmosphere fueled by
some of the questions offered by AAAS
members.
The discussion, headed by AAAS
President Aisha Taylor, opened with
general questions about relationships
and the reasons men and women have
for their actions and their thinking.
All questions were directed to the
members of AAAS, who were then
allowed to comment or debate possi
ble reasons, solutions and experiences.
“Learn to respect yourself, and re
member who you are. That is the on
ly way you can love somebody else;
you have to love yourself first,” said
Student Body President Jotaka Eaddy
in response to a question about what
it takes to be committed.
In addition to debating the issue of
commitment, members addressed per
sonal issues and questions, with the
men answering the women’s questions
and vice versa.
According to Taylor, the meeting
had increased attendance due to ad
ditional publicity, but all of the
meetings have had excellent atten
dance.
The first issue of “\bices of Col
or,” the club’s newsletter, was dis
tributed at the beginning of the
meeting.
According to Tina Brown, the
newsletter serves as a medium of com
munication not only for members of
AAAS, but also for the whole African- -
American community at USC.
“Its purpose is to give students here
at USC a voice to be heard through
poetry, song, stories or informational
articles,” Brown said.
Upcoming AAAS events include
a fashion show Oct. 30, Gospel Fest
Nov. 5 and Step-Off 2000 Nov. 10.
The university desk can be reached at
gamecockudesk@hotmalLcom.
Note takers needed
for disabled students
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Katie Davis The Gamecock
Holly Selgler, a volunteer with the Office of Disability Services, assists
fellow student Joey Thomas by putting notes In his bookbag.
by Maggie Stewart
The Gamecock
In the midst of a shortage of par
ticipants, the Office of Disability Ser
vices is recruiting note takers and read
ers to assist University of South
Carolina students who are disabled or
handicapped.
Students who sign up to help on a
semester basis are paid $5.15 an hour
to take notes in their classes and record
books on a tape, among other services.
Only 6.3 percent of disabled stu
dents in the United States are attend
ing post-secondary institutions, ac
cording to 1997 statistics published by
the Digest of Education.
At USC, 26,852 students are en
rolled and 700 of those students are
physically or mentally handicapped,
according to a USC statistical sum
mary. Many of these students need
help in note-taking services, accord
ing to the Office of Disability Services.
Business graduate student Clay
Jeffcoat said because of his visual
impairment, he has come to rely on
note-taking assistance.
“Without the educational support
and assistance this office provides to
students like myself, it would be im
possible for me to achieve my acade
mic goals,” Jeffcoat said. “I have a vi
sual impairment that prevents me from
reading, and through the office’s ser
vices, I can have someone read and
record my textbooks onto a cassette.”
Students seepages
USC seeks
speakers
for 200th
anniversary
■ Students,
faculty embark
on 'Search for Six'
by Gina Caruso
The Gamecock
To mark the 10th anniversary of
the Carolinian Creed and celebrate
USC's bicentennial, Bicentennial Stu
dent Events Committee and the Di
vision of Student and Alumni Services
is sponsoring a “Search for Six.”
The program will identify and
work to bring to USC six people who
are most admired by students and
whom students believe best exempli
fy the Creed.
The individuals will be chosen
from the following categories: Art,
Entertainment, Pop Culture and
Sports; Business, Industry, Science,
Technology and Medicine; Education,
Literature and Media; Politics, Law,
World Figures and Government; Re
ligion and Alumni.
Academic departments and stu
dent organizations will form six teams
representing each of the six categories.
They will brainstorm a list of can
didates for each category who clear
ly demonstrate the ideals of the Car
olinian Creed in their professional or
personal lives.
Once the people have been
nominated, their names will be re
leased to the student body, which will
Six see page 4
APO, USC shuttle service search for equilibrium
by Charles Prashaw
The Gamecock
When USC Parking Services
brought back a long-ago abandoned
evening shuttle service to campus,
the fate of the Alpha Phi Omega es
cort service was in limbo.
^ So much in doubt was the stu
dent-run program that some Uni
versity 101 professors told their stu
dents APO wasn’t even operating
this year.
Additionally, inside the 40-mern
ber APO service organization, mem
bers started to hear rumors that Park
ing Service Director Derrick Hug
gins thought there wasn’t a need for
the group anymore, a rumor that ul
timately turned out to be false.
“There is still a place for the
escort service at USC,” APO Presi
dent Joanna Atkins said. “Wfe are go
ing to make a big push this semester
to let everyone know that we are still
running.”
The APO escort service, which
has been in operation for almost 10
years at USC, started soon after Park
ing Services abandoned the old
evening shuttle service. The coed
Greek service organization operates
a van that escorts students anywhere
on campus from 8 p.m. to midnight,
Sunday through Thursday.
While the USC evening shuttle
service runs Monday through Friday
7:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. and makes
stops at Capstone/B.A. area, Bates
area, Russell House, Carolina Coli
seum, Byrnes building, Swearingen
engineering building, Maxcy honors
college residence hall, the Towers
and Blatt P.E. Center, Huggins said
the system is in the pilot stage.
Parking Services will evaluate
later whether to extend services to
the weekend and to make more stops
for the system, he added.
The failure of the original evening
shuttle was the great number of core
parking spaces on campus, including
parking near the center of campus,
Huggins said. Recently, USC has de
veloped a plan to replace core park
ing with perimeter parking to make
campus more pedestrian-friendly, a
plan that Parking Services feels will
one day make the evening shuttle
more useful.
“Of course there is still a distinct
service APO can perform at USC,”
Huggins said. “They have the ad
vantage of going directly to where
someone is and picking them up.”
If someone is going from Cap
stone to Thomas Cooper Library, he
or she can use the evening shuttle.
However, if they’re going from Cap
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Amy Goulding The Gamecock
Sophomore Michael Forrest takes a
turn behind the wheel for APO.
Weather Inside Quote of the Day Datebook
Wednesday
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Thursday
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Spotlight
takes a look
at Harvest
Hope
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Sure there are dishonest men
in local government. But there
are dishonest men in national
government, too.
Richard Nixon
Wednesday
• Last Lecture Series, 7
p.m.
• Mitchell-Ruff Duo,
Koger Center
Thursday
• NAACP, 6 p.m., Rus
sell House 205
• Omicron Delta Kappa, 6
p.m., Russell House 315
• BASIC Theater, 6:30
• Mortar Board, 7
p.m., Russell House
315
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