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Fulbright CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Pekanbaru, Indonesia. DeLancey’s teaching and re search concentrate predominate ly on the study of Africa. At the Riau, he teaches African politics. He says teaching the class has been hard sometimes because he teaches in English to students whose first language is Indonesian. He says the grant has given him the opportunity not only to teach in Indonesia, but also to travel. So far, he has also visited Laos, Thailand, Myanmar and Malaysia. DeLancey feels grateful to have received the prestigious award. “The main value to me is the opportunity to learn about Indonesia — its culture, politics, history — and to make new friends from that culture,” he said. - DeLancey emphasized the im portance of his work to the stu dents at Riau. “For my students, it is an op portunity to learn Africa. No one else on the entire faculty teaches about Africa. It is also an oppor tunity for them to learn about the United States. As Indonesia is a very large Islamic country, the last few months have been an im portant time for such discus sions.” DeLancey thinks the Fulbright Scholar Awards are beneficial to more people than just the recipi ents. “I think that mutual under standing across national bor ders is very important,” he said. “Sending scholars to work in new countries aids in promot ing international understand ing. It also benefits our American students directly be cause their professors are bet ter prepared to teach them about the world.” Avignone is a professor of physics and astronomy. He will travel to the University of Milan to research the design and con struction of a cryogenic under ground observatory. Bergen encourages students at USC to apply for the Fulbright Scholar Awards. “For the people that are slight ly interested, there are many op portunities,” Bergen said. For more information, stu dents can visit the Fulbright Web site at http://www.iie.org/cies/. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com STATE Homicides rise for protected children ROCK HILL (AP) - Twenty three children in South Carolina’s child protection sys tem became victims of homi cide in the last four years, more than twice the number killed in the previous four-year peri od, statistics show. Officials said they don’t know why so many more chil dren whose families had had contact with the state’s child protective services died from 1998 to 2001. “I wish we could give you a good answer to that question. I don’t know. I wish we did know,” said Jerry Adams, spokesman for the Department of Social Services. The agency will study the in crease, reported in statistics gathered buy the department and the State Law Enforcement Division. The homicide statistics could be positive because more serious cases are being report ed, investigated and entered into the system. Or it could mean the risk to some children is not being adequately as sessed, said Lynne Taylor, di rector of the Columbia-based nonprofit Prevent Child Abuse South Carolina. NATION Rumsfeld won’t call detainees POWs GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CUBA (AP) - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Sunday ruled out any possi bility of granting prisoner of war status to the suspected ter rorists held in a makeshift prison on this U.S. naval base. “They are not POWs. They will not be determined to be POWs,’’ Rumsfeld told reporters accompanying him on his first visit to the detention facility. The Bush administration considers the captured fighters to be “unlawful combatants” . and “detainees” because their method of terror violates inter nationally accepted laws and specifically targets civilians. Under the Geneva Convention, written after World War n, a POW has certain legal rights that would govern the U.S. military’s interrogations of the detainees and would require that they be released when the hostilities in Afghanistan are over. If there is any ambiguity about whether a captive should be considered a prisoner of war, the Geneva Convention says a special three-prison mil itary tribunal should be con vened to decide. --- WORLD Palestinian woman sets off bomb attack JERUSALEM (AP) - For the first time, a Palestinian woman launched a bomb attack Sunday, killing herself and an 81-year-old Israeli man and wounding at least a dozen people on a busy Jerusalem street. Israeli police said they were not sure if the woman intended to kill herself or if the bomb explod ed prematurely as she walked along Jaffa Street, the main com mercial strip in west Jerusalem. In Lebanon, the Al-Manar tele vision station run by the militant Hezbollah movement said the bomber was Shinaz Amuri, a fe male student at Al-Najah University in the West Bank town of Nablus. Israel accused Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat of “encour aging terrorism” and said it was prepared to respond to the bomb ing — the third major attack in an Israeli city in a week. More than 100 people were treated on the spot or taken to hos pitals, though most suffered only from shock. Three people were se riously hurt and nine had moder ate injuries, officials said. No group immediately claimed responsibility, but Israel said it held Arafat ultimately responsi ble. Parking CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 students will still have to pull a ticket and must be validat ed” from 7 p.m. until the time the guards leave. Katie Smyers, a third-year public relations student who parks in the pay lot often, doesn’t think this will end misuse of the garage. “I think the parking situa tion will never be fixed no matter what regulations USC tries to implement.... Bull Street Garage could have been extended instead of hav ing about 40 spots of student parking for hundreds of peo ple to try to park in,” Smyers said. Many problems have arisen from students’ trying to cheat their way into the garage, hav ing friends use their passes to open the garage gates, and just breaking the gates to get in. This costs the university time and money. Sometimes, students pho tocopy each other’s stickers; one student gives the other her electronic pass and just pays a small fee for a new one, according to Huggins. Bull Street Garage has been overcrowded because of these offenders, accord ing to Huggins. He said there should be 60 to 70 rpore spots than what are sold for the semester; where as now, students with se mester passes are struggling to find parking spots during the day. Huggins said Parking Services employees will closely monitor the numbers on parking stickers to make sure they belong to the cars they’re supposed to. Students found violating the system will be brought before the school’s judicial system. “Students have to some times take responsibility for their actions. If we catch them, they will be pulled up to judicial and could even be sus pended or expelled,” Huggins said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com use BRIEFLY SG to play host to news conference Student Government will play host to a news conference today highlighting the impor tance of higher education. The conference is open to students and will be in front of the Russell House. SG is playing host to this event to outline its plans to work with area legislators on reinforcing South Carolina’s pledge to education. SG also will announce plans to meet with legislators involved in the state’s budget process. “I hope to show legislators and South Carolina’s citizens that when they think of educa tion, they should think of K-16,” said Jeff Poulin, a senator in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. “When the state pledges to protect educa tion, they should include higher education in that effort.” Students may apply for SG scholarships Student Government an nounced three scholarships that will be given this year. Students can apply for the $500 scholarships at SG’s office in the Russell House. The Freshmen Council Marie Louise Ramsdale Scholarship is awarded annually to a freshman who has held and benefited from an SG position. The Student Body President’s Scholarship is awarded to a stu dent who has benefited USC stu dents through an SG leadership position. The Brian Comer Student Government Scholarship is awarded to a senior planning to attend graduate school who has made a significant contri bution to the USC students. The deadline for all applica tions is Feb. 15. Workshops will give advice on funding Treasurer’s Workshops for registered organizations seek ing funding for the 2002-2003 fiscal year will begin today. Those attending the Student Government-sponsored work shops, held semi-annually, will learn about applying for stu dent activity fee allocations. Political, religious, honor and Greek organizations don’t qualify for general funding, but may submit proposals for spe cific projects deemed to be ed ucational, content-neutral and beneficial to the university. 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