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1 BRIEFLY Mancke to speak on natural history Rudy Mancke will give a speech about South Carolina’s natural history Tuesday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Gambrell Hall Auditorium. Mancke, a nature and wildlife expert, will give the first Elizabeth Dozier Steedly ' Lecture in Southern Studies at use. Mancke’s speech, titled “South Carolina: A Natural History,” honors Elizabeth Dozier Steedly, a former em ployee in USC’s Institute for Southern Studies, which spon i sors the event. Mancke, best known as the host of SCETV’s nationally ac claimed NatureScene TV show for 23 years, joined USC’s faculty in 2001 as a distinguished lectur er in the School of the Environment. Cornell sociologist will speak at USC Edward J. Lawler, sociologist and dean of the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations, will present a new view on the “Network Exchange Theory” at 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 12, for USC’s annual Bruce H. Mayhew Jr. Memorial Lecture in room 112 of Sloan College. Lawler will present “Exchange Networks and Group Formation,” which centers on the phenomenon of how and why people make the transition from a position of self-interest to one of perceived collective interest in bargaining relationships. Lawler said that when people become engaged in a relation ship of exchange, such as an em ployer-employee relationship, they will become more trusting and generally less exploitative. Lawler’s speech is free and open to the public. Former S.C. Gov. Riley to give Mays Lecture Former U.S. Secretary of Education and S.C. Gov. Dick Riley will deliver the annual Benjamin Mays Lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, at Amoco Hall in the Swearingen Engineering Center. The annual lecture commem orates the life of Mays, who was born to South Carolina share croppers near Epworth in 1894 and eventually became president of Morehouse College. “To have Secretary Riley, a life long admirer of Dr. Mays, as this year’s lecturer is an honor,” said John McFadden, holder of the Benjamin Mays Professorship in USC’s educational psychology pro gram. “Throughout his career, he has been a strong, consistent sup porter of education and a champi on for equality and justice.” The speech is free and open to the public. A reception will fol low. Sumwalt CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 David Castine told them that the blocked entrance was indeed a fire code violation and asked the stu dents to find the person responsi ble for it. Dunlap said she and Walker asked Kim Hooper, the manager in charge of Sumwalt construc tion, to move the boxes. When Dunlap and Walker re turned 10 minutes later, they cleared the entrance themselves. Dunlap said Hooper became confrontational. “We were really insulted by the way he treated us,” she said. Dunlap said that while Hooper claimed the blockade was to pre vent people from entering into the area where his crew was removing asbestos, neither she nor Walker had seen any signs indicating the removal of asbestos in the building. “I took a class about hazardous materials last semester. It worries me to think we haven’t been in formed about asbestos in this building,” she said. Dunlap filed a report with Occupational Safety and Health Administration Thursday, citing “suspected unregulated/uncon tained asbestos removal.” False alarms Dunlap said that during a meet ing she and other lab users had to discuss the break-in, a fellow stu dent brought up the construction in Sumwalt and that many of the building’s smoke alarms had been covered with plastic since October. When Dunlap and Walker dis cussed the blockaded door with Castine, Walker thought to ask him about the smoke alarms that had been covered since October. Castine told Dunlap that the covered smoke alarms were in vi olation of fire codes and that the smoke alarms will be replaced Friday with temporary, battery operated ones. Dunlap filed a report with OSHA Thursday, reporting the ne glected smoke alarms. Looking for answers Walker has sent an e-mail to President Palms about the situa tion. Dunlap and Walker hope the administration will consider the situation and respond. “Clearly, any student who has had class or other reasons for be ing in Sumwalt for the past six months needs to be very, very con cerned about the cavalier attitude members of the administration took with their personal safety,” Dunlap said. Gerald Goings and Charlie Jeffcoat of Maintenance, Fire Marshall David Castine, and Kim Hooper couldn’t be reached. USC spokesman Russ McKinney said he had not seen any reports about Monday’s inci dent, and that he “would be shocked” to learn about the im proper removal of asbestos in Sumwalt. Adam Beam and Kevin Fellner contributed to this report. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Arab nations agree on peace plan BY SUSAN SEVAREID THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT, LEBANON - For the first time in the Middle East con flict, the Arab world has agreed on a peace plan that offers Israel normal relations in exchange for full withdrawal from war won lands and a Palestinian state. The overture adopted Thursday by the Arab League set demands long resisted by Israel, including making east Jerusalem the Palestinian capital and al lowing the return of Palestinian refugees. But it represented a ma jor change in the Arabs’ ap proach to Israel. The United States welcomed the Arab leaders’ unanimous en dorsement of the Saudi proposal. U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the peace plan, drawn up by'Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, “can help shape a more positive environment for peacemaking.” Israel called the proposal “a very interesting development,” but has reservations. Sharon has long ruled out a withdrawal to the country’s 1967 borders, though he has not speci fied what he would offer for peace. Yasser Arafat said Thursday he was ready to work for “an im mediate cease-fire” with Israel. But his comments appeared to be short of the direct call for a truce that the United States is pressur ing the Palestinian leader to make after a suicide bombing in Israel on Wednesday that killed 20 people. The Islamic militant group Hamas on Thursday rejected the Arab initiative. A Hamas official in Beirut said “the resistance and the intifada (uprising) will con tinue in all forms.” FDTC offers more than 100 courses via the Internet. More than 35 transfer to four-year, senior institutions. 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