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hooting held in connection ith attack on men NTINUED FROM PAGE 1A run down Laurens Street and ■n up Greene Street toward the npus at the time of the assault, e gray Volvo was also seen ading down Laurens Street onto ■eene. The police report said the nmen left empty-handed. Police said the four teens ove to the Wildewood subdivi >n in northeast Columbia after e shooting and robbed two fam es. Messer was a Special Assis nt U.S. Attorney who prosecut fraud cases involving the Social ■curity Administration. He had a ife and three children. In Chicago, the men's col agues were stunned, telling the aicago Tribune this was the first urder of a prosecutor in at least renty years. “Mike was dedicated to public trvice and had a distinguished ireer over the 17 years with the ocial Security Administration, e will be deeply missed by all of s,” said Thomas W. Crawley, hief Counsel of the Social Secu rity Administration in Chicago. “We’re always conscious when an incident of this type hap pens near campus,” university spokesman Russ McKinney said. He encourages students to “take note of it” and remain safe. The area between Five Points and campus has been the site of in cidents similar to the attempted robbery, though not as violent. In January, Laurie Ward, a ju nior in the Darla Moore School of Business, was walking back to campus with student Sallie Mc Cutchen when they were robbed at gunpoint. The robber fled with the stu dents’ purses, and police have yet to find him. At the time of the robbery, Mc Cutchen told The Gamecock she was concerned about the safety of the area. “They need to make more police patrol the area for the safety of students,” she said. Nine months later, Ward still won’t walk in the area at night. “Anytime we need to come back to campus from Five Points, we have somebody to call,” Ward said. ; Dining Changes to USC Dining Services CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A changes as well. Starbucks will now start serving sandwich , es so students can use their meal plans and still get a full meal. In addition, new lighting, a paint job and new signs were added to make the eatery more welcoming to students. Scott, a team leader at the GMP Healthy Choice deli line, said, “[The new management] made it better for the students. When students come in here, they look at how nice the place is.” Dining services is trying to improve line flow at the GMP by providing more grab-and-go items and combination meals so fewer students will have to wait in the hot line. “Even though most of the changes are subtle, hopefully the changes will making eating on campus just that more enjoy able,” Bohlke said. According to George Gover, GMP manager, one of the biggest changes that has come with the new management is employee training. Both old and new em ployees had an orientation day this summer during which they attended a full eight-hour day of classes on subjects such as safety, health standards and customer service. Employees will now have to go though training ses sions once a month Scott called her training ses sion “a very nice experience.... We got a lot of feedback from the manager.” She said employees were able to sit down with the manager and speak one-on-one about their concerns. Black said she didn’t know what to expect from Carolina Dining, but LaKeshia Williams, an employee at Taco Bell, hopes the new management will start paying employees more. “Maybe they could hold a better staff if, for one, the money was right,” she said. Williams said that in the past, even experienced em ployees only got a raise once a year. “You can go to McDonald’s and make more than this.” Carolina Dining Services is still looking for employees and students who would like to be part of the food committee. In terested students can contact din ing services at 777-6004. Jill Martin contributed to this story. News happens every day. So do we. www. dailygamecock. com Lawsuit Suit alleges racial discrimination CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A ployees were named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit. But of the many phone calls Bolt has re ceived this week, he believes some are from the eight employees who didn’t initially join the lawsuit. Bolt said Goings, the department head, was included as a defendant because he was primarily responsible for the alleged dis crimination. But Bolt said that didn’t necessarily mean Goings was a racist. “You don’t per sonally have to be a racist to perpetuate dis crimination,” he said. In addition to other discriminatory ac tions, the complaint claims that Goings con ducted interviews with all his employees at one point because of rumors about dis crimination. “The plaintiffs... believe that these interviews were conducted for the purpose of quelling the plaintiffs’ com plaints regarding their treatment and to chill their right to speak out about their treatment,” the complaint said. That incident, the plaintiffs claim, was in violation of their First Amendment rights to free speech and their Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process. But according to Bolt, his clients faced discrimination on a broader level. “If you go up higher than [Goings], the university hierarchy ratifies the conduct of the de partment head," Bolt said. The workers are also suing USC under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimina tion based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. 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