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“It [Dance Marathon] was close to
their hearts,” Cullen said.
Dance Marathon is a 28-hour event
to raise money for the Palmetto Richland
Children’s Hospital.
Dancers collect donations of at least
$150 to participate and theh meet with
children from the hospital.
“Most of the money goes toward the
neo-natal unit,” Cullen said.
She said the money raised by Dance
Marathon in the past had been used to buy
an ambulance and other pieces of equip
ment for the hospital.
This year’s dancers’ meetings will be
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held Oct. 24 at 7:15 p.m. in the Russell
House Ballroom and Oct. 25 at 8:30 p.m.
in Russell House room 323. The event it
self takes place on Feb. 23 and 24.
England said her past involvement in
Dance Marathon and driving the Kiss
mobile stemmed front an interest in help
ing children.
“Mainly, I’m just a very huge advo
cate for Children’s Miracle Network, and
Heishey’s [Kissmobile] is a very great way
to get people’s interest,” England said.
“I’m getting to see the country while
doing a really great thing for children,”
she said.
The Kissmobile traveled to Colum
bia from Chicago. It arrives in Florence
on Wfednesday and travels to Myrtle Beach
on Friday. Then it goes to New Orleans.
The Kissmobile driven by England
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and Lentel is one of two that will travel
50,000 miles this year.
Each chocolate ambassador serves for
two months.
As for being back at her alma mater,
England said she was enjoying her visit to
use.
“It’s wonderful,” she said. “It makes
me miss school.”
Not that it sounds like she’d give up
traveling the country in the Kissmobile.
“I love it,” England said.
The university desk can be reached at
gamecockudesk@hotmail.coin.
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bteps taKen to enrorce saiety rules
by Gina Caruso
The Gamecock
University officials have recently tak
en steps to enforce fire safety regulations
after learning of an increase in viola
tions around campus.
Some residents are ignoring housing
regulations against candles, heaters and
extension cords.
USC Police, Columbia Fire Depart
ment, USC Office of Health arid Safety
Programs, along with University Hous
ing, all work together to ensure resident
safety, according to Associate Director
for Residence Life Andrew Fink.
Fink encouraged students to become
familiar with University Housing regula
tions concerning fire protection, and re
ferring to a brochure put out by United
States Fire Administration, Fink outlined
some simple precautions to take so fires
can be prevented.
Students should clean up all trash in
their rooms, extinguish all smoking ma
terials thoroughly and be sure that any
halogen lamps are kept away from flam
mables and contain a safety ‘cage’ cover
properly attached. Sockets shouldn’t be
overloaded, so extension cords and mul
tiple socket plugs are prohibited in all res
idence halls and university housing facil
ities, Fink said.
While suige protectors are permit
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ted, u.*./erity policy states that only one
surgt protector may be plugged into a
socket, and at no time may one sutge pro
tector be plugged into another surge pro
tector.
Residents are never to tamper with
smoke detectors in their room. At the be
ginning of each semester, detectors and
alarms should be checked to make sure
they are in proper working condition.
Should a detector malfunction or ap
pear defective, residents are to immedi
ately notify housing maintenance at 7
FIXX, Fink said.
Other suggestions for protection of
fered by Fink include planning escape
routes and taking fire alarms seriously.
“Residents should know where all ex
its are in the building as well as the pre
determined route of escape,” he said.
Fink stressed that the misuse of fire
alarms and safety equipment is a viola
tion of university policy and state law. If
someone is caught disabling the equip
ment, they will face prosecution, likely
suspension from the university and im
mediate removal from university hous
ing.
Furthermore, according to universi
ty policy, no person is to start a fire or
create a fire hazard on university prop
erty without university authorization. This
regulation is also intended to prohibit the
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possession and/or use of materials such as
candles, torches and incense, as all de
vices might create a fire hazard.
Maliciously pulled alarms, tampered
equipment and other such activity is a sig
nificant inconvenience to other students
living in the building. Therefore, Fink
strongly encourages students to report
any suspicious activity.
“Residents are urged to report the
names of any people tampering with
fire safety equipment to the university
police at 74215 or Residence life at 7
4129,” he said
But some USC students have a dif
ferent opinion about the housing regula
tions.
“I believe that many students break
the rules. I have extensions cords in my
room even though they arern't allowed.
What do they expect when the couple of
outlets provided are in inconvenient
places?” said a Columbia Hall resident
who wished to remain anonymous.
Another student felt the regulations
were a good thing and should be enforced
“The rules don’t bother me,” Jason
Flores, a Moore resident, said. “I have no
problems with them, but I’m sure others
do,” he said.
The university desk can be reached at
gamecockudesk@hotmail.com.
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Carolinian Creed celebrates
10th anniversary this week
by Bra'ndon Larrabee
The Gamecock
USC officials weren’t really sure what they were going to
get when they set out to write the Carolinian Creed a decade
ago.
“Going into it, we didn’t know where we were headed or
what we were going to get,” said, Dennis Pruitt, vice president
of student affairs who helped write the Creed.
The Creed’s 10th anniversary is being celebrated this year
as Creed Week continues. The weeklong event, meant to raise
awareness of the Creed, kicked off Monday.
The setting was the late 1980s, and colleges nationwide
were dealing with headlines about rape, hazing and hate crimes.
Some of the institutions enacted speech codes. And while those
working on the Creed didn’t necessarily know what they want
ed, they knew what they didn’t want.
“The speech code stuff really, really drove us,” Pruitt
said.
Pruitt said he felt that the speech codes at least bordered
on being illegal.
“If you’re going to protect freedom of speech, you have to
allow it,” Pruitt said.
Pruitt said the university had “volumes and volumes of
rules” -135 pages of them.
“Nowhere did we tell students what constitutes appropri
ate behavior or ideal behavior or behavior to aspire to,” he said.
That’s what the task force set out to do.
It was something of a daunting task. For one thing, there
were few, if any, precedents. According to Pruitt, the Creed
was one of the first of its kind nationwide.
“We had no model,” Pruitt said. “We started from scratch.”
In fact, one of the initial thoughts was that the process would
help USC, Pruitt said.
The commission that was to create the Creed had several
different subcommittees to deal with different issues, Pruitt
said. He said the group included Greeks, minorities, interna
tional students and gays.
The group’s official mission was to investigate the rela
tionships between university students, to define the universi
ty’s expectations and values and to communicate those values
to students.
The year after it began work in 1989, the group came up
with the concept of the Carolinian Creed. It crafted the docu
ment’s ten tenets and presented the documents to the govern
ing bodies of the university.
Among the bodies that endorsed the Creed were the board
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The Carolinian Creed
The community of scholars at the University c
South Carolina is dedicated to personal and acaderr
ic excellence. Choosing to join the communit
obligates each member to a code of civilized beha\
ior. As a Carolinian...
I will practice personal and academic integrity;
I will respect the dignity of all persons;
I will respect the rights and property of others;
I will discourage bigotry, while striving to lear
from differences in people, ideas, and opinions;
1 will demonstrate concern for others, their feeling
and their need for conditions which support thei
work and development.
Allegiance to these ideals requires each Carolinia
to refrain from and discourage behaviors whic
threaten the freedom and respect every individut
observes.
of trustees, the National Advisory Board, Faculty Senate, Sti
dent Senate and the Residence Hall Association.
Ten years later, Pruitt said the Creed is making an impac
He said research shows that most USC students have encour
tered the Creed, and it has had an impact on behavior on can
pus.
He also said many students admit to having broken th
Creed when they go into judicial hearings at the universit;
And the Creed mirrors the university’s mission state
ment, Pruitt said.
When the Creed was completed, a document analysis w;
run on both the Creed and the university’s mission statemen
“The values expressed in the Creed and the values expresse
in the mission statement were quite similar,” Pruitt said.
There is only one thing Pruitt said he would change: add
clause about “stewardship for society.”
However, Pruitt said the university didn’t just get the re
ward out of the process, as had been hoped origionally.
“We got that, and we got a lot more.”
The university desk can be reached at
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Professor admits to affair with
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by Billy O’Keefe
College Press Exchange
Oh, what Bill Clinton wouldn’t give
to be Sam Kashner.
According to the former College of
William and Mary creative writing pro
fessor, Kashner, like Clinton, had a glo
rious workplace affair with a young woman.
Also like Clinton, his affair has been made
public, in this case through a prose con
fession in the October issue of GQ Mag
azine.
Here’s the enviable part: No one be
lieves the guy cheated. Not even his wife.
And especially not the William and Mary
community, which is less than thrilled
with Kashner’s representation of the col
lege.
In “The Professor of Desire,” Kash
ner writes of his descent into “a moral
mosh pit” of beautiful, hungry young stu
dents hailing from carnivorous backgrounds
and in search of a man they could trust
and eventually conquer.
“It doesn’t take much for them to fall
in love with you,” Kashner writes. “As
a professor of creative writing, you tend
to get the dreamers, the romantics, the
weirdos. Spend 20 minutes talking about
young Keats, show that drawing of the
young poet on his deathbed in Rome
and it’s shooting fish in a barrel.
Kashner goes into explicit detail about
the behavior and mindset of his stu
dents, even offering supposedly verbatim
copies of written assignments that stu
dents used to detail their epic adventures
in, and eventual boredom with, sex.
Eventually, he writes, the stories of
his students’ sex lives consumed him. It
was all that mattered.
In true “American Beauty” style,
Kashner bought a NordicTrack, lost his
love handles and devised methods of hid
ing his bald spot from students.
What followed was a seven-month
affair with a college student that culmi
nated with sex in her dorm room, fol
lowed by the revelation that she was a
married woman.
The student’s husband, after finding
out about the affair, hanged himself in a
shower on campus, leaving a suicide note
that blamed Kashner for his death.
After that incident, Kashner writes,
he had become a “pariah” on campus. But
Terry Meyers, chairman of the English
department at William and Mary, contests
that Kashner never needed a trip to the
campus doghouse until, perhaps, now.
Meyers said when he spoke with him,
Kashner denied ever having sex with a
William and Mary student or with any
student.
Kashner then told the Chronicle of
Higher Education that Meyers misun
derstood their conversation, but Meyers
said Kashner’s denial was explicit and
clear and laigely unnecessary in the first
place.
“Tltis is a small town; it’s a small col
lege, and it’s a pretty gossipy town,” Mey
ers said. “And I think that if Sant was re
ally having an affair, I probably would’ve
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heard about it a lot sooner than now.”
That goes double, he said, for the hus
band’s suicide, reports of which never sur
faced on campus, as well as the reaction
of Kashner’s wife, fellow William and
Mary professor Nancy Schoenberger.
“People are asking, ‘How’s Nancy?
How’s she taking this?”’ Meyers said.
“And the response usually is, ‘She’s not
bothered, because she knows it’s not true. ’”
The William and Mary community
isn’t quite so forgiving. An editorial in the
Flat Hat, the school’s student newspaper,
blasted Kashner and said that he has
“dragged the college’s name through the
mud.”
“One would hope that Kashner would
have had the respect not to misrepre
sent the entire campus in a national
publication,” read the editorial. “It is an
unfortunate, yet irreparable, situation that
the college’s name is tainted by this dis
tortion. Anyone coming to the college
expecting Kashner’s world will be sore
ly disappointed.”
Meyers hoped a resolution will
soon come to pass and that Kashner, who
left the college this year to write lull time,
will admit to his sins, or, in this case, a
lack thereof.
“It’s hard to convey what kind of per
son Sam is,” Meyers said. “He’s delight
ful, witty, wry, subtle. He’s a fiction writer,
and a good one at that. He lives in a world
of fantasy.
“The long and short of it: Sam
Kashner has written a work of fiction.”
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