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Local talent to join USC
in black-history events
BY MELISSA CHANDLER
TIIEIIAMECOCK
USC’s Black History Month cel
ebration will feature more local
talent this year with the partici
pation of professors and commu
nity leaders.
“We wanted to get more USC
professors and local artists this
year,” said Michael Goodwin, co
ordinator of USC’s Multicultural
Student Affairs Office.
Carolina Productions and the
NAACP’s USC chapter have also
helped plan Black History Month
activities. :
Making community involve
ment a priority, Goodwin hopes
the local talent will attract stu
dents. Goodwin said planning lec
tures and concerts for this
February has been a great deal of
work, but that he is happy to or
ganize the activities.
“These events are things that
people from all cultures and back
grounds can enjoy,” he said. -
Several USC professors will of
fer free lectures on different as
pects of black history. Bobby
Donaldson, a professor of history
and African-American studies,
will lecture about African
American influences on USC. He
will speak in the Russell House
Ballroom on Feb. 13 at 7 p.m.
Willie Strong, director of
USC’s Center for Southern
African-American Music, will lec
ture on Feb. 18 at St. Peter’s
Catholic Church at 1529
Assembly St. His lecture, which
will begin at 6:30 p.m., will be fol
lowed by a concert of USC’s
University Chorus, as well as
choirs from Benedict College and
St. Peter’s church.
Performing with the Jazzology
Quartet in the Russell House
Ballroom on Feb. 27, local jazz
artist Skip Pearson will also pro
vide a lecture on the origins of jazz
music.
USC’s Black History Month cel
ebration will also bring lecturers
and entertainers from across the
nation.
Bryant K. Smith, the director
of multicultural affairs and inter
national student services at
Millikin University in Illinois,
will deliver a lecture titled “Black
Not Blind” in the Russell House
Ballroom on Feb. 6.
Comedian Dave Chappelle will
perform his stand-up act at the
Koger Center on Feb. 11. Known
for his roles in movies “You’ve
Got Mail” and “Blue Streak,”
Chappelle also stars in his origi
nal Comedy Central series,
“Chappelle’s Show.” His perfor
mance will start at 7 p.m. and is $7
for students.
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the older tanks is left, he said.
O’Keefe emphasized that the
space agency was being careful
not to lock onto any one theory too
soon. He vowed to “leave absoj
lutely no stone unturned.”
For a second day, searchers
scoured forests and rural areas
over 500 square miles of East
Texas and western Louisiana for
bits of metal, ceramic tiles, com
puter chips and insulation from
the shattered spacecraft. State and
federal officials, treating the in
vestigation like a multicounty
crime scene, were protecting the
debris until it can be catalogued,
carefully collected and then
trucked to Barksdale Air Force
Base in Louisiana.
The effort to reconstruct what
is left of Columbia into a rough
outline of the shuttle will be te
dious and painstaking.
When a shuttle piece was locat
ed this weekend, searchers left it
in place until a precise global po
sition satellite reading could be
taken. Each shuttle part is num
bered; NASA officials say experts
hope to trace the falling path of
each recovered piece and learn
when in the fiery re-entry it came
off of the spacecraft.
The goal is to establish a se
quence of how parts were ripped
off Columbia as it endured the in
tense heat and pressure of the
high-speed re-entry into the at
mosphere.
At least 20 engineers from
United Space Alliance, a key NASA
contractor for the shuttle program,
were dispatched to Barksdale for
what is expected to be an a round
the-clock investigation.
Other experts, including met
allurgists and forensic medicine
specialists, are expected to join the
investigation. Their focus will be
on a microscopic examination of
debris and remains that could elic
it clues such as how hot the met
al became, how it twisted and
which parts flew off first.
Evidence from the shuttle’s
takeoff, including whether any
protective heat tiles broke loose
during ascent, also might become
a focal point. In addition to
NASA’s investigation, O’Keefe
named an independent panel to be
headed by retired Navy admiral
Harold W. Gehman Jr., who pre
viously helped investigate the 2000
terrorist attack on the USS Cole.
Gehman’s panel will also sift
through the Columbia wreckage,
and come to its own conclusions
about what happened. Joining
Gehman on the commission are
four other military officers and
two federal aviation safety offi
cials.
Officials used horses and four
wheel-drive vehicles to find and
recover the shuttle pieces. Divers
were being called in to search the
floor of Toledo Bend Reservoir, on
the Texas-Louisiana border, for a
car-sized piece seen slamming
into the water.
Some body parts from the sev
en-member astronaut cre\y have
been recovered and are being sent
to a military morgue in Dover, Del.
Columbia came apart 200,000
feet over Texas while it was
streaking at more than 12,000
miles an hour toward the
Kennedy Space Center.
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sity right now,” Woodward said.
“We had a lot of positive momen
tum going into these tough eco
nomic times, so we had a reputa
tion to build on. In addition, of
course, we’ve had the generosity
of people like Darla Moore and
others who have given to this
school and supported our pro
grams and our students.”
In addition to the financial sup
port, the school has moved
through a restructuring process
in the last year to develop a new
version of its International Master
of Business Administration. So
far, the results appear positive,
with the average GMAT score up
25 points from the previous year
and extensive corporate recruit
ment of the program’s students.
“This all leads to better job op
portunities for our graduates,”
said Joel Smith, the business
school’s dean. The new program
is a consolidation of several MBA
programs to focus more on the in
ternational side of business ad
ministration, which has been the
school’s strength in recent years
and usually garners national at
tention.
“Even though we had a strong
program going into the consoli
dation, we know we’ve got to
keep changing because the com
petition is very fierce, as you can
get a sense from the rankings,”
Woodward said.
Management professor Wil
liam Sandberg agrees and said
prospective students tend to pay
more attention to the rankings
when looking at graduate schools.
“I think most professors have a
fairly clear idea of the quality of
the school based on their teaching
and other experiences here,” he
said. “I also think that most of us
would rather be ranked higher
than lower in these rankings, and
professors do make use of these
rankings to promote their school.”
The business school has more
than 3,400 students in its under
graduate, master’s and doctoral
programs. It’s USC’s second
largest college, after Liberal Arts.
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chologist for CHD.
All students, both undergrad
uate and graduate, are eligible for
12 free sessions after a free as
sessment.
Stricklin-Parker has also wit
nessed a recent increase in mari
juana-related incidents.
“We have seen an increase in
the number of students who are
actually coming in for alcohol or
marijuana use. Whether it’s be
cause they’re actually drinking
more or using marijuana more or
they may just be getting caught
more. I don’t know,” she said.
From the standpoint of both
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assessment and counseling, each
student’s case is individual. But
“a marijuana allegation and an
alcohol allegation run very simi
larly,” Lewis said.
Stricklin-Parker said that
while alcohol is often the focus of
on-campus campaigns, drug use
is usually ignored.
“A lot of advertising has been
centered on alcohol abuse. We
need programs around marijua
na abuse as well. That seems to
be overlooked,” she said.
But according to Felicia Law,
coordinator for Alcohol and Drug
Programs, “comparing last year’s
numbers (of marijuana-related
incidents) with this year’s num
bers, there has been a slight in
crease. But it still doesn’t com
pare to alcohol.”
Alcohol and Drug Programs
brings prevention programs to
campus like Late Night Carolina
and the Great Gamecock Tailgate
parties, which provide substance
free activities for students.
Law said marijuana .use is not
necessarily on the rise, but in
stead is getting more attention.
“Sometimes when we see
things in the paper, we think the
problem is bigger than it really
is. Yeah, we have seen a slight in
crease. It is a problem, but it’s not
the big problem,” Law said.
Stricklin-Parker said that,
based on an annual campus-wide
survey each fall, the big problem
is alcohol. This spring the survey
will be repeated.
Lewis said USC is “in-line or
below average with colleges
across the country” when it
comes to drug- and alcohol-abuse
statistics. “We’re considered na
tionwide to be on the cutting
edge, We were one of the first uni
versities to do drug testing and
one of the first to tie GPA to com
munity service and probationary
status,” he said.
But with that in mind, those
who violate policy are in for a
rude awakening.
“The law is a separate system.
They judge you as a student in
South Carolina. We judge you as
a student of USC, a Gamecock.
The standards are high,” Lewis
said.
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