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use BRIEFS Housing replaces 3 television channels University Housing has added three new television channels to Gamecock Cablevision, the cable ' system for on-campus students. After the Residence Hall Association surveyed nearly 2,500 students this past year, Housing added The Learning Channel (channel 25), Lifetime Television (channel 29) and VH-1 (channel 31). “They’re paying for it,” Ron Segroves, an accountant for Housing, said of on-campus students. “We aim to please.” To make room for the new channels, Housing discontinued the Sci-Fi channel, TNN (The Nashville Network) and AMC (the American Movie Channel). 2 students win in McNair research competition Two of USC’s students finished in the top three at the seventh annual McNair Scholars Research Conference. Sharon White, of Eutawville, S.C., finished second, and Mellisa Pharoah, of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, finished third at the competition in Knoxville, Term. More than 400 research presentations were featured. White’s education study, “Sustaining the Nontraditional Student Population at USC,” won second place. She is a fourth-year student majoring in public relations. Pharoah, a third-year nursing student, presented her health research on “Nursing Scarcity: Health Care’s Unspoken Nightmare.” Professor named president of international society Dr. Michael Sutton, a USC mechanical engineering professor, has been named president of the international Society of Experimental Mechanics for 2001-2002. The Society for Experimental Mechanics is the largest technical organization focused on the advancement of experimental science. Sutton is also a Carolina Distinguished Professor and director of the S.C. State Center for Materials, Mechanics and Non-Destructive Evaluation. Education professors receive English grant Two education professors, Louise Jennings and Heidi Mills, have received a grant to study how English is taught. The Research Foundation of the National Council on Teachers of English sponsors the program, which is designed to help educators learn more about the teaching and learning of reading, writing and other facets of language arts. Art classes open to Columbia children This fall, graduate students in the art department will teach classes to Columbia children. Classes for the Young Artists Workshop will be on Friday afternoons in McMaster College from Sept. 28 to Nov. 16. The classes will be available for ages 6 to 17, and the students will study different art media. Classes cost $60 per child and $50 for children of USC faculty, staff and students. The deadline for sign-ups is Sept. 21. Call the art department at 777-4236 for more information. • - LADIES #518 SUPER-LOW • Levi's DENIM SKIRTS . Levi's KNIT TOPS ALSO - MEN'S SUM, REGULAR, RELAXED & LOOSE CUT JEANS USC Gamecock Caps _S5~_ Sorority president explains loss of charter BECKY WILSON PRESIDENT OF KAPPA ALPHA THETA Throughout the past week, my sorority chapter has endured a great deal, including being the feature of two articles as well as an editorial in Monday and Wednesday’s issues of The Gamecock. Though the USC stu dent body has already been ex posed to information about the status of the Zeta Kappa chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta, I as presi dent, felt it was necessary to share the collective thoughts and feelings of my sisters. Though it has been suggested that the sole reason for the sur rendering of our chapter is mon etary, this is simply not the case. It is true that sororities are a business. We pay dues to our na tional headquarters, who use that money to pay for chapter consul tants, scholarships and our na tional philanthropy. However, Zeta Kappa’s charter was not “forfeited” for lack of funds being . sent to our national headquarters because of low membership. Last summer, we lost several members who transferred to oth er universities, and 24 members of our senior class graduated in the spring, leaving only a little more than half of the chapter at USC. With so few members left, we realized it was going to be ex tremely difficult to compete with larger chapters during formal re cruitment for potential new mem bers, as well as to carry the in tense workload of running a sorority. We did not feel that we could provide for ourselves or for our new members the true Theta experience that every Theta should have, and thus we decid ed not to complete recruitment. After this decision, we knew we had to make a more difficult choice. The hardest thing I have ever had to do in my entire life was sit in front of my sisters and explain to them, in between sobs, that we needed to decide whether to sur render our charter. As I spoke, the tears welled up in their eyes, and I watched as their hearts broke. Though that evening was extremely painful for all of us, I have never felt more proud of my sisters as they took comfort and found strength in each other. They put away selfish desires and wishes to hold onto their time in Theta in exchange for the hope that Kappa Alpha Theta will be able to re-establish another stronger and thriving chapter here in the future. Though this entire ordeal has been excruciating for us, in an odd way, our sisterhood has only become even stronger because we know we can depend on each oth er during good and bad times. We do not need a piece of paper to, •V prove that we are sisters. V know that we genuinely ca about each other. Theta is for lifetime. Though our chapter closed and we are consider* Kappa Alpha Theta alumnae, v will be Thetas “until we kick it as we like to say. I love my Theta sisters and a so proud of the way in which th* have handled themselves throuj our most difficult time. They ha carried themselves with gra* and dignity and kept their siste in their hearts. . In honor of them, I am going close with a message very dear us: “Love beareth all things, b lieveth all things, hopeth a things, endureth all things. Lo\ never faileth.” Phone books Help requested for deliveries CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 is accessible to any Internet user. The online directory includes e mail addresses that have been reg istered with the university. Parsons said she wants to get the phone books to residence halls first for students to use, because most students don’t have older versions like the departments do. She hopes to get the books distrib uted by next Friday but needs stu dents to help deliver them. Parsons said phone book distrib ution is a paying position and in terested students can call her at 777-3915 or send e-mail to epar sons@gwm.sc.edu. Distributors must be able to work during office hours, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. “We can’t just drop them in front of a door because we don’t know what will happen to them,” Parsons said of why the directo ries can’t be delivered after busi ness hours. The campus phone books were also late last year also because of difficulties with sorting out num bers at the then-new East Quad residence hall. Off-campus students can pick up their USC phone books at the information center on the second floor of the Russell House. The Gamecock We’ve got you covered n You could score tickets to the Rose Bowl. Hit our Web site or call I 877 COLLEGE to sign up for one of AT&T’s College Plans. And register for a chance to win one of two Grand Prize trips for you and three friends to the 2002 Rose Bowl. 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