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And more and more students are turning to cell phones. Many cel lular operators offer hundreds of free long-distance minutes per 1 month, but they can charge for i incoming calls. “I prefer to use my cell phone to call home,” said Amaris < Espinoza, a third-year computer science student from New Mexico. “It is easier and more convenient than receiving a new ; set of codes and numbers to ] dial.” Under USC’s system, calls < within the United States are < charged at 9.9 cents from 7 a.m. < to 7 p.m. throughout the week. * Dff-peak hours and weekend iharges are 7.9 cents per minute. Among cellular operators, Sprint PCS has a plan that iharges as little as one cent per ninute. Using the all-time sys em, Sprint offers 500 anytime ninutes and 4,500 peak or night tnd weekend minutes on a year y contract. phe Associated Press ontributed to this story. Comments on this story?E-mail 'arnecockudesk@hotmail.com I Newsplex CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 what’s most convenient to them.” Northrup said journalists need to find a way to get the most infor mation to the consumer. “If they pick up a magazine and read a story and later see more in formation on TV or in a newspa per, it’s all the same story to them,” Northrup said. “Journalists break up the story. If you want to see a vi sual, you have to watch this; if you want more text information, you have to find it somewhere else.” Northrup said the prototype newsroom will attempt to work out the problems of a multimedia newsroom. “We need to catch up with the consumer,” Northrup said. “Newsplex will be able to produce journalists that are better pre pared to deal with the different ways to tell a story.” Bierbauer said journalism re search wil be conducted in the fa cility. “People don’t get their news in one place. They are exposed to in formation in a variety of ways,” Bierbauer said. “Newsplex is de signed to better understand how the different media interact.” Newsplex is going to be used to train journalism professionals from around the world, and will also be accessible to students. “It is a professional and aca demic partnership,” Bierbauer said. “Both journalism profes sionals and students of mass me dia will be using the facility.” Within the facility is a micro newsroom, according to Northrup. He said the newsroom is big enough only to fit a staff of 10, but will be a fully working newsroom. “You can think of it as a Boeing 747,” Northrup said. “Its purpose isn’t to carry passengers from country to country, but to train the pilots and the crew on how to run things better." Bierbauer said the university is working on a new curriculum to allow students to benefit more from the facility. Within the first week of Newsplex’s opening, the facility will host an academic conference and a professional conference, f “I can’t say all the students will get to use it,” Bierbauer said, “but we’re going to learn as we evolve Newsplex.” Northrup said Newsplex will be beneficial to the university’s teachers and students. “The university will use Newsplex to create a new genera tion of journalists versed in multi media newsrooms.” Northrup also says it will ben efit professionals, but overall it will be to the advantage of the community. “This ultimately benefits the public,” Northrup said. “This is what journalism is all about: try ing to relate a story that will be most effective.” ^ Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Grades CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 • as writing, use only letter grades, her classes are often evaluated with points. “I have always wanted to have minuses,” she said. “We as pro fessors feel very constrained at having a plus, but no minus.” Some students agreed with Disterheft. Candice Carter, a transfer stu dent from Spartanburg, said using pluses and minuses would come in handy when trying to explain her grades to her parents. A C-, ac cording to Carter, would look bet ter than a D. “I think it would be a good idea, but I anticipate problems,” the third-year biology student said. “It should be done on a trial basis.” Jennifer Mincey, a first-year history student from Swansea, said pluses and minuses more ac curately measure students’ achievements. “I think it would be a good idea (to include minuses) because it would be a better indicator of how you did,” she said. Others disagreed and said the problems outweighed the benefits. “I like our system now. I think it’s fair,” said Stanton Moss, a sec “I think it would be a good idea, but I anticipate problems.lt should be done on a trial basis.” CANDACE CARTER THIRD-YEAR BIOLOGY STUDENT ond-year computer science stu dent from Charleston. “I don’t like the idea of a C- because it would be taking away from our GPA in stead of helping.” Derrick Davis agreed. “I don’t think minuses would* be good because they would nega tively affect your GPA,” said the fourth-year advertising student from Anderson. Robin Emery, a first-year in ternational business graduate stu dent from Austin, Tex., said the minus grades could have a nega tive effect on students. “I think a system with just plus es is good because minuses have a bad psychological effect,” she said. The plus system has been used at USC since 1978. Under this sys tem, a grade of B is worth 3.0 points and a B+ is worth 3.5 points. The Associated Press ^ contributed to this story. 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