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AIDS victim to speak about family’s story . me inacKers iounaea bcepter Institute, a nonprofit organiza tion, to help curb HIV/AIDS in fection rates through education and to help the pain. Their story challenges all to react with com passion for people who have HIV/AIDS. “Here is a man who is a be liever and could very well ask, ‘Why God?’ and become bitter,” said Frank Johnson, campus pas tor for the Spurgeon Foundation Campus Ministries. “He choos es not to do that, yet to use his circumstances to show the world the love of Christ.” The Spurgeon Foundation Campus Ministries was founded at Clemson University in 1986 and the USG chapter was estab lished this year. Chapters also exist at East Tenn. State, University of Vermont and Saint Michael’s in Vermont, Johnson said. They want to establish chapters in the Charleston area Scholarship CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Stafford loan, PLUS, South Carolina Teacher or Palmetto Assistance Loan for the upcom ing school year are still eligible for the $1K Giveaway. and at Winthrop University, in Rock Hill. “By sponsoring this presenta tion, we hope to promote a greater awareness of HIV/AIDS preven tion. One of the ways is through abstinence of sexual activity until marriage,” Johnson said. The lecture will address is sues such as the symptoms of AIDS, ways of getting infected, ways of preventing infection, reasons why teens are at such a high risk of contracting the dis ease and what to do if someone thinks he or she is infected. “According to statistics, the majority of teens graduate from high school as nonvirgins,” Thacker said. “Our presentation encourages young people to wait (or sex until marriage and find someone else who has done the same thing as a means of avoid ing pain and suffering.” Statistics also show that though there has been a much publicized decline in ,AIDS deaths because of powerful new drugs, the rate of HIV infection is actually increasing. More than one million Americans are in fected, and 90 percent don’t even know it, according to the Scepter Institute’s Web site. Megan Kralt, a nrst-year stu dent, said she doesn’t see HIV as a threat to her personally, but “as a society it’ll be one of the foremost problems we’ll have to deal with in years to come, and I think it’s a major issue on the global scale.” “Students should come to this presentation to become aware of AIDS and its impact on our soci ety and what the proper response should be to this epidemic,” Johnson said. “They should come to hear about HIV/AIDS from a biblical perspective and how the love of Christ impacted one individual and his family enough to share that love with the world,” he said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com “The whole idea of getting money for school by just filling out a short registration form on the Internet sounds cool to me,” said first-year biology student Kathryn Pohl. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@Jiotmail.com Research CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 years or so, the university “gouges” the corporation with high rent to keep working in the university’s building with the university’s faculty and stu dents in what, in theory, would be highly successful research efforts. USC would own the building as a benefit of owning the land where it sits, without ever hav ing spent a penny on construc tion. Sorensen said USC has al ready found investors “un equivocally committed” to in vesting in such a scenario, but it’s just one of many possible op tions. He said the two public health buildings, which could be under construction by next spring, are largely reliant on ap proval from the General Assembly. As a result, he has pushed for regulatory relief from the Commission on Higher Education to have more liberty with his vision for the univer sity without always having to seek state approval. “I can’t wait that long,” he said. “We got to do this tomor row —this legislative session— not two years from now.” The board has given initial approval for this and the research cam pus initiatives, but will have to officially vote at a later meeting. Later phases of the plan have the potential for a new resi dence hall to be built on the same block at Main and Wheat streets. Sorensen said his vision of the residence would be a place where students and facul ty members could live together and have strong relationships through which they could open ly discuss “the score of the pre vious night’s basketball game or failed romances” instead of having a classic chaperone-stu dent hierarchy. Craig Davis Properties per formed the feasibility studies for the proposed expansion, as it also did with North Carolina State University’s Centennial Campus. Davis said existing infras tructure and location in down town Columbia give USC’s plan momentum toward being im plemented. The vision for the research campus originated with the uni versity’s 1994 Master Plan. The plan called for a 20-year roadmap to completion, while Sorensen said his vision is to have the campus built in ten years. Sorensen mentioned that his alma mater, Yale University, is planning to raise $1 billion in the next ten years for a research initiative and that USC’s pro posed five-million-square-foot campus would carry roughly the same price tag. “Wouldn’t that be exciting if we could do what Yale is doing in the same period of time?” he said. “As a Yale graduate, I am proud to say that I believe we can show them how it’s done in South Carolina.” Sorensen reiterated his vi sion that the university needs increased grant money for re search in biomedical and tech nological fields and private fund raising to accomplish the type of expansion he’s seeking. So far in Sorensen’s eight months as president, USC has secured its largest research grant in school history and had its second most successful fund raising month, which came at a time when no capital campaign was in progress. The next step, Sorensen said, is to create a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit corporation to coordinate the General Assembly, local gov ernments, private sector and university and to appoint mem bers from all entities to the cor poration’s oversight board. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Hotel CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 have a hotel built on city prop erty, why can’t the university have a hotel built on universi ty property?” The university owns the land where the proposed hotel would be built. Sorensen said a tiff between the university and a state leg islator would be the kind of community interaction he wants to avoid now that USC is looking at elaborate expansion like that of the proposed re search campus. “I’m not interested in fight ing Sen. McConnell,” he said. “I want'to work with Sen. McConnell.” USC Board of Trustees Chairman Mack Whittle said a state ban on university-owned hotels wouldn’t demoralize USC. “It’s just one small piece of the puzzle — of a big puzzle,” he said. “Oftentimes, when you put the puzzle together, things don’t fit together in the normal sequence, and you have to adjust. So it’s a part, but not an integral part, of the plan.” Whittle agreed with Sorensen that just because the university wouldn’t be allowed to own the hotel doesn’t mean a successful hotel couldn’t be developed on the property across from the Advocacy Center. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com POLICE REPORT Each number on the map stands for a crime corresponding with numbered descriptions in the list below. DAY CRIMES (6a.m.-6 p.m.) □ Violent O Nonviolent NIGHT CRIMES (6 p.m.-6a.m.) ■ Violent • Nonviolent CRIMES AT M UNKNOWN ■ HOURS 0 Violent © Nonviolent These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department Compiled by Wendy Jeffcoat Wednesday, February 26 ® LARCENY OF CELL PHONE, BYRNES CENTER, 901 SUMTER ST. The victim said someone stole his Nokia cell phone while he was in the Byrnes Center Computer Lab. Estimated value: $200. Reporting officer: G. Kerwin. © LARCENY OF PLAYSTATION, RUSSELL HOUSE GAME ROOM, 1400 GREENEST. The complainant said someone removed a Playstation 2 from the above location. There were no signs of forced entry. Estimated value: $250. Reporting officer: J.D. Rosier. ® LARCENY OF BICYCLE, BYRNES CENTER, 901 SUMTER ST. The victim said someone took his bicycle from the bike fence where it was chained. He said the lock to his bike was broken before the incident. Estimated value: $300. Reporting officer: J.L. Meador. Thursday, February 27 O LARCENY OF WALLET, CAROLINA COLISEUM, 701 ASSEMBLY ST. The victim said someone took her leopard print wallet from her purse while it was on her desk. The area was not secure at the time. Estimated value: $50. Reporting officer: D.W. Friels. 4 Friday, February 28 G MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, MCBRYDE RESIDENCE HALL, 614 SUMTER ST. The complainant said someone broke out a hallway door window. Estimated damage: $50. Reporting officer: T. Means. Fidler CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 where to turn. The race began in front of the Blatt P.E. Center at 10 a.m. The course was 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) through the Shandon community, beginning and ending on Wheat Street in front of the P.E. Center. Roughly 16 minutes after the race began, the first runner, Jerome Myers, 47, of Columbia, crossed the finish line. Myers said he runs these sorts of races because his girlfriend, who was also at the race, had cancer, and he thinks it is a good way to “fight the ailments that people have.” “I think it was a success for such a dreary day,” said first-year ad vertising student and Delta Tau Delta brother Tyler Jeffrey, who registered runners for the event. The rain Saturday managed to hold off until just after the race was over. Some runners even enjoyed the overcast conditions. “It felt good as we were running and sweating. It could have been a little warmer, but it was good,” said • And the winners are... ♦ Jerome Myers won men’s first h place overall and first place in " the men’s 30-and-up age group. ♦ Branhan Lowther, a second year media-arts student won first for men ages 19 to 29 and top male runner on a team; he ran for the winning male team, Phi Sigma Kappa. ♦ Robert Garrett, a first-year chemistry student, was first for men ages 18 and under. ♦ Misty Davis, a fourth-year accounting student, won women’s first place overalland first for women ages 19-29. ♦ Kenzie Lang, a first-year math student, won first place for women 18 and younger and top female finisher on a team. She g was on the winning female 1 team, Chi Omega. ♦ Kristy Burgess won first place for women 30 and older. ♦ Kappa Delta, Chi Omega and a PEDU103 jogging class tied for most participation in the event nrst-year f rench stuaeni raiana Ribarsch, who ran on one of service sorority Epsilon Sigma Alpha’s two teams. Among the other USC organiza tions that put together teams for the run/walk were the Fencing Club; Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Delta, Delta Zeta and Chi Omega sorori ties; and Phi Sigma Kappa fraterni ty. “DTD did a really good job with their philanthropy this year. ^ Everything was well organized and planned out,” said second-year criminal-justice student and Delta Zeta sister Lori Mullins. Holtz said he worked closely with Delta Tau Delta brother and second year journalism student Sean McLeod, the fraternity’s philan thropist, in organizing Fidler 5K this year. They had been planning the event since September, Holtz said. “Greek Life does not get enough credit where credit is due. They do most of the service work around campus,” said Banks Fair, a second year hotel, restaurant and tourism management student and member of the top men’s team. Holtz wants to make Fidler 5K an event everyone can be involved in, he said. He wants it to be something that include people not only people A from USC and Columbia, but from * all of South Carolina, he said. Fidler was not able to attend the race this year. He is currently in Boston at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute where he is receiving a bone marrow transplant, Holtz said. Fidler left for Boston on Feb. 6, Holtz said Filder and his wife are very optimistic about the outcome of the operation. Commentsfn this story? E-mail, gamecockadesk@hotmail.com ' Lecture to deal with impact, risks of disease BY JESSICA FOSTER THE GAMECOCK The Spurgeon Foundation at USC will sponsor a lecture Monday night on the dangers of HIV and AIDS. “Everything You Wanted to Know About HIV/AIDS But Were Too Afraid to Ask,” a mul timedia presentation about the disease process, will be held on Mar. 3 at 7 p.m. in the Bates West social room. It will feature speak er Jerry Thacker, who travels the country to speak about his battle with the disease. Thacker and his wife, Sue, were infected with HIV as a re sult of a 1984 blood transfusion Sue received after the birth of the couple’s third child. The daugh ter born in that difficult preg nancy would later test positive for HIV as well. http://summer.cofc.edu now playing conformist I ■ ■ I ,----1