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roommate contracts still stand;
so, ultimately, the power of visi
tation really does get handed
down to the individual.”
USC now has four different
visitation policies in place. Plan
A, effective only in the basement
of Wade Hampton and the first
floor of Douglas, calls for ab
solutely no visitation.
Plan B allows visitation from
10 a.m. to 2 a.m., and is imple
mented in Patterson, McClintock,
Wade Hampton, Maxcy, the rest
of the Towers and Bates House.
Plan C includes unlimited vis
itation on weekends. This policy
is in place in Capstone, the Roost,
Sims and South Tower.
Plan D allows residents to de
cide their own visitation hours
and is effective in Bates West,
Columbia Hall, East Quad,
McBryde, Preston College,
Thornwell, Nada, South Quad,
Woodrow and other halls on the
Horseshoe. This policy of self-de
termination is similar to the one
RHA hopes to put into place.
Current visitation policies
were created in the early ’90s,
and only the president can
change them. Dawgert described
USC’s current policy as “one of
the strictest in the Southeast.”
Hark said he hopes to send
this message to prospective stu
dents: “At USC, housing is al
ways changing, and you can be a
part bf that.”
Though Maxcy is a coed dorm,
it still operates under Plan B,
which Hark called “kind of point
less in a place where you live
amongst people of the opposite
sex.
“It’s not a question of promis
cuity or morality; it’s just point
less. There’s really no reason to
have that rule in place. ”
Moore School of Senator Sen.
David Bomemann supported the
recommendation and helped
bring the issue before the Senate.
“I think it’s a really strong poli
cy; it’s great for the empowerment
of the students in general that live
on campus here,” he said.
Hark and Dawgert were not
required to present the recom
mendation to the Senate, but
Hark said they did it “out of re
spect. We wanted to share this
with Student Government.”
“This serves as definite proof
that the student body here is be
hind this resolution,” Hark said in
response to SG’s decision to pass
the bill.
“Recommendations to change
visitation policy will be made
within housing and registration.
Their recommendations will go
to the president, and the president
will make changes,” Dawgert
said.
Even if the recommendation
is accepted, students should not
expect to see a change in their
visitation policies during the
spring semester. “If we see
changes, they will be put in the
system over the summer,”
Dawgert said. Hark noted, how
ever, “The groundwork has been
laid for change, and that’s the
most important thing.”
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nents of a ‘comprehensive’ or
‘flagship’ university.”
“The bottom line is this
thing is driven by the budget
crunch, and that’s not the way
to do a report,” Rosati said.
The faculty were also wor
ried about the Value Centered
Management idea, in which
funds are allocated to different
units based on factors such as
enrollment and fund raising.
“Those not able to raise money
will see their programs cut,”
Rosati said. “Not only will the
faculty and community suffer,
but students will suffer.”
Because President John
Palms will retire this spring,
the Faculty Senate enate rec
ommended that no action be
taken until a new, permanent
president is hired.
“It’s a polite way of saying
not to tie the hands of the new
president,” Rosati said.
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BRIEFLY
Author to discuss
race in medicine
Well-known black history au
thor Darlene Clark Hine will de
liver the speech “A Black
Feminist Manifesto: Race and
Gender in the Early Medical
Profession 1890
1940” on Feb. 28
at 5:30 pan. dur
ing the USC
Women’s Studies
Conference.
Hine will fo
cus on the expe
riences of black Hine
women physi
cians. She will
compare Susan Steward’s work
experiences to those of Lucy
Brown and Matilda Evans.
Hine is a history professor at
Michigan State University. Her
new hook is “Black Professionals
and Race Consciousness: Origins
of the Civil Rights Movement,
1890-1995.”
The speech is free and open
to the public.
Researcher to speak
about biotechnology
World Future Society Vice
President Graham T.T. Molitor
will give a presentation about
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“Biotechnology and the Future”
today at 7 p.m. The discussion is
part of USC’s Townsend Series.
The Townsend Series shows
biology’s impact on society.
Other speakers include David
Rembert, Loren Knapp, Gene
Stephen and Edward Munn.
Molitor has done research for
the White House Conference on
the Industrial World Ahead. He
has had roles in three presidential
campaigns.
The evening will end in a ques
tion-and-answer session.
3 finalists chosen for
vice provost position
After a national search, three
finalists are being considered for^
the position of vice provost and^
dean for libraries and instruc
tional services.
Joanne D. Eustis is a university
library director at Case Western
Reserve University. John M.
Meador Jr. is a university li
braries dean at the University of
Mississippi. Paul A. Willis is uni
versity libraries director and a
law professor at the University of
Kentucky.
The new dean will succeed
George Terry, who died in
October.
SG invites students to
discuss race relations
Race relations will be among^|
the topics discussed in a Student^
Government forum in Russell
House Ballroom A on Tuesday at
7:30 p.m. All students are invited
to attend.
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