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Harvest Hope
Food bank
needs extra
holiday help
by Valerie Matchette
The Gamecock
| With the holiday season quickly ap
proaching, Harvest Hope Food Bank is see
ing a depletion of its supplies, accompa
nied by an upswing in demand.
“We’re really seeing an increase right
now,” said Veronica DelCastillo, Harvest
Hope’s Public Relations Coordinator, of
the holiday influx.
DelCastillo said the colder weather of
the winter months causes a greater need
for food distribution to the hungry.
According to Executive Director
Denise Holland, the holidays pose a par
ticular problem for the food bank.
“Right now, our needs are critical,”
Holland said. “The demand for food is
greater than our supply. We have orders
for holiday food baskets, and we must al
so continue to meet day-to-day needs for
the families we serve.”
Holland said the organization typical
ly serves 60-65 families each day, and
| she expects that figure to increase this win
ter. Extra help is inevitably needed during
the holidays, but Harvest Hope is always
looking for volunteers who wish to serve
llieir community. According to DelCastillo,
volunteers are encouraged to join the or
ganization, where they can do anything
from pasting labels to preparing food box
es and sending out food.
The food bank relies on food drives to
keep up its inventory. It is low on certain
holiday goods right now, and especially
needs donations of peanut butter, cran
berry sauce, stuffing mix, canned meats
and vegetables. Momentum, a night club
in the Vista, will be holding a concert ben
Harvest Hope see page 2
Clemson 16 — South Carolina 14
» % »
Victory slips away
■ Field goal with three seconds left gives Tigers win, bragging rights
Score by quarter
use 7 0 0 7 — 14
Clemson 7 3 0 6 —16
..—
The bowl picture
■ The Gamecocks are out of
the Citrus Bowl picture. Their
best-case scenario would be the
Outback Bowl, which would pit .
them against the No. 3 team
from the Big Ten.
■ Most probably, the team wilt
go to the Peach Bowl in Atlanta,
where they’d likely face Georgia
Tech. *
■ The worst-case scenario for
USC would be a Music City Bowl
appearance, which would pit the
Gamecocks against the No. 4
team from the Big East,
■ More coverage: Sports, page 7
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Carolina wide receiver Brian
Scott drops a pass in the end
zone during Saturday’s game
against Clemson in Death Valley.
The Tigers won the game 16-14
on a last-minute field goal by
Aaron Hunt, after a 50-yard
pass from Clemson quarterback
Woodrow Dantzler to wide
receiver Rod Gardner.
Sean Rayford The Gamecock
! GRADUATE
{(STUDENTS !
--ANDTHE
■ This series takes a look at
the role graduate students
play in USC's quest for AAU
* status. This week, a look at
what the university must do
to attract the best graduates.
by Brandon Larrabee
The Gamecock
It has become the talk of USC administrators, fac
ulty and stall. It is used to push agendas and advance
causes.
Everything, it sometimes seems, will help the
university achieve its goals of entering the AAU,
what university officials call the 62 best research in
stitutions.
I But membership in the AAU - the Association of
American Universities - lunges on the performance of
USC’s graduate and professional programs. While tliere
are few published guidelines for AAU membership,
some of the universities in the association list what is
necessary for an invitation.
One look at what would be required came in the
1996 University of California President’s Report, which
boasted about the admittance of the University of
Califomia-Irvine and the University of Califomia-Davis.
“Criteria for admission included the breadth, depth
and overall trajectories of the campuses’ research and
graduate education programs,” the report said.
The University of Florida is more blunt.
“Universities are admitted only if they are preem
inent in graduate and professional education and re
search,” according to Florida.
At an October question-and-answer session with
graduate students, USC President John Palms also not
ed the connection between the quality of graduate stu
dents and AAU status.
“They have the best faculty, the best libraries; they
do most of the research that's funded by federal mon
ey and they have the best graduate students,” Palms
said.
The university has set a high goal for its graduate
and professional programs: USC wants a dozen of them
ranked among the Top Ten in the South.
To do that, it will undoubtedly have to attract high
quality students from South Carolina and nationwide.
“That goal [the AAU goal] suggests that we must
raise standards, that we must improve the quality of our
programs overall,” said Dale Moore, director of grad
uate admissions. “And if we’re going to improve the
quality of those programs, I think it’s fair to say we have
to raise... admissions standards.”
To do that, the university might have to make im
portant - and costly - changes in the way it treats grad
uate students. At the question and answer session, USC
President John Palms and Provost Jerry Odom were
peppered with questions about the amount given to
graduate students in stipends, the amount of tuition the
university charges and the university’s health-care plan.
“It’s much easier for us to recruit a student” with
better financial options and health care, Moore said.
University officials say that they would like to pro
vide such benefits, but can’t due to lack of funds.
“These are things that we would like to provide...
but we can’t afford to,” Moore said.
The university desk can be reached at
gamecockudesk@hotmalLcom.
( File Photo
A graduate student does research at the Graduate Science Research Center.
Palms discusses
funding, goals
■ John Palms spoke with The Gamecock last
week about administrative changes and the
school's attempts to gain funding from the state
legislature. Excerpts from that interview follow.
The Gamecock: What are some of the
major changes your administration has
made?
President John Palms: Essentially, we said,
we want to be worthy eventually of be
ing invited into the
most elitfe group of
major research uni
versities, the AAU, the
Association of Amer
ican Universities. That
vision is what, I think,
helped us initiate the
[capital fund raising]
campaign; that was PALMS
over — what — al
most about $325 million now and we’ve
raised the goal to $500 million.... You
know, in all the surrounding states, the
states have picked one or two institutions
and raised them above everybody else’s:
Chapel Hill, University of Virginia, Uni
versity of Georgia, University of Florida.
... And we still have to make that decision
in this state — that this comprehensive
flagship institution needs to be ... raised
above everybody else’s. We’ve almost re
placed all the deans since I’ve been
here. You know, some are going to re
tire soon. We’ve had 500 new faculty, and
the majority of them come from AAU in
stitutions where you have this culture that
we’re trying to create, so... what you’re
doing here is changing the culture. Last
year, our faculty published 110 books. The
liberal arts faculty alone gave 800 pre
sentations at national meetings....
Gamecock: You mentioned how you’ve
been replacing all the deans. How often
do you think that’s necessary?
Palms: Deans serve a five-year term. Peo
ple do not go into teacliing in colleges to
be deans. I didn’t start as an assistant pro
fessor at Emory University to be a chair
man or a dean. I was a dean for five years,
and I resigned because 1 wanted to go back
to teaching and doing research. It’s not
unusual for people to serve one five-year
term. Usually, they serve two. Ten years
Palms see page 2
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College interns
don’t just work
over the summer
anymore.
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“He who does not think too
much of himself is much more
esteemed than he imagines.”
— Goethe
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Monday
• Carolina Productions, 3
p.m., RH theater
• Fraternity Council, 4 pjn„'
RH 322/326
• Sorority Council, 5 p.m.,
RH 322/326
• Amnesty International,
, 8:30 p.m.,RH 302
Tuesday
• AAAS, 6 p.m., RH the
ater
• RHA, 7 p.m., RH 303
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