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Posters CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 liberal arts, law, education, and engineering. Courses in business were offered, but a business school had not been established. USC archivist Elizabeth West described the World War I era at USC as a “liberal arts- focused school with developing profes sional schools.” With America’s participation in the war, the students and community clamored for the uni versity to start an ROTC pro M gram. One was started less than }w*; one month after America entered the war, and many students joined. “Three-fourths of the student body joined the ROTC, turning the campus into a virtual training camp,” according to information at the WWI symposium. Many of the university’s stu dents and even faculty were called to enlist in the war. Over 500 USC alumni and more than half of the faculty members served. The loss of so many teachers “caused a deal of hardship to the university,” West said. “The call could come in the middle of the semester.” While the war caused the uni versity to temporarily have less faculty members, it also increased |g0 the nuipber of female students. r _ PHOTO BY FORREST,CLONTS/THE GAMECOCK The Great War exhibit in McKissick Museum includes 36 full color posters and will be displayed through Dec. 7. The university offered economics courses as well as Red Cross courses to teach the women how to make bandages and care pack ages for overseas. Some female students even became active in lib erty bond fund raising. “World War I stretched the boundaries of what was gender appropriate,” West said. “The hard part was trying to get wom en accepted as students, period, since they had only been accepted since 1890.” The “Posters of the Great War” exhibit will only be available at the McKissick Museum for a lim ited time — the curators plan to “distribute the exhibit to branch campuses around the state in ad dition to traveling nationally,” Shaiman said. The exhibit will be shown from through Dec. 7. Museum hours are Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockude'kk@hotmail.com Strong quake, tsunami strike northern Japan BY ERIC TALMADGE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO -A strong quake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.8 rocked the northern Japan island of Hokkaido early Friday morn ing, knocking out power, derail ing a train and touching off an in dustrial fire. At least 12 people were reported injured. A powerful aftershock of mag nitude 6 followed an hour later, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The government warned local residents to avoid coastal areas due to the possibility of tsunami, or ocean waves caused by seis mic activity. Japan’s Meteorological agency said tsunami as high as 3 feet had hit the city of Kushiro. The quake, which struck at 4:50 a.m., was focused off Hokkaido’s eastern shore. The quake was strong enough to rock buildings on the island and shake books and other ob jects off shelves. Japan’s public broadcaster NHK reported that about 11 peo ple were injured, none seriously, by falling shelves and other top pled objects. One 70-year-old woman suffered a broken leg while trying to leave her house through a window, NHK said. A fire started at an industrial plant in the city of Tomakomai, but no workers were reported in jured, said Hokkaido prefectural police official Kuniyoshi Omori. NHK showed giant flames and black plumes of smoke pouring from the site, which police said belonged to Idemitsu Co. Streams of water were aimed at the flames. Omori said one person Was in jured when a local train carrying about 39 passengers derailed. Kushiro airport was closed tem porarily after part of a roof caved in, and landslides blocked sever al roads, NHK said. Television footage showed an office where books were knocked off shelves^ and desks and com puters swayed back and forth as -the quake hit. Tsunami were observed in some coastal cities, NHK report ed. “We are now trying to collect information on the extent of the damage,” local official Sadayuki Kano said. “There are no reports of other major damage.” The meteorological agency said the earthquake had a mag nitude of 7.8 and was focused 36 miles under the seabed. The U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., said the temblor had a preliminary magnitude of 8. An earthquake of that magni tude is capable of causing tremendous damage. In September 1923, a magni tude 8.3 quake hit Tokyo and Yokohama, killing at least 140,000 people. ■ In January 1995, a magnitude 7.2 temblor in Kobe killed more than 6,000 people. Thursday’s quake struck in the Pacific Ocean, about 65 miles south-southwest of Kushiro and 495 miles north-northeast of Tokyo, said John Minsch.'a USGS geophysicist. The quake was shallow. “That makes it more likely to be a tsunami, and there’s most likely to be a great amount of damage,” Minsch said. V Congress approves ‘do-not-call’ legislation, courts get final say BY DAVID HO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - With remark able speed and near unanimity, Congress on Thursday passed leg islation intended to ensure con sumers can block many unwant ed telemarketing calls. But whether the service millions of Americans signed up for takes ef fect next week was thrown into doubt when a second federal judge ruled the list violates free speech protections. k| ± U.S. District Judge Edward W. m 1 Nottingham in Denver blocked the list late Thursday, handing an other victory to telemarketers who argued the national registry ' is unconstitutional and will dev astate their industry. His decision came shortly after the House and Senate voted over whelmingly for a bill making clear that the Federal Trade Commission has the power to en force the “do-not-call” list. The leg islation was prompted by an ear lier ruling by a federal judge in Oklahoma City who said the FTC lacked the power to create and op erate the registry. The House voted 412-8 and the Senate 95-0 for the bill. President Bush said he looked forward to signing it. “Unwanted telemar keting calls are intrusive, annoy ing and all too common,” he said in a statement. The list that would block an es timated 80 percent of telemarket ing calls is supposed to be effective Wednesday, but it’s unclear whether legal issues will be settled by then. Even after Bush signs the legislation, the FTC must win in court for the list to move forward. Despite the uncertainty, the FTC is encouraging people to con tinue signing up for the list at the Web site www.donotcall.gov or by calling 1-888-382-1222. The FTC asked U.S. District Court Judge Lee R. West to block the order he issued Tuesday declar ing the agency lacked proper au thority to oversee the list. He de clined Thursday and the FTC im mediately appealed to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. The FTC had no immediate comment on Nottingham’s ruling, but it also probably will end up with the 10th Circuit. The suit in Nottingham’s court was filed in January by two tele marketing companies and the American Teleservices Association, which represents call centers. Nottingham said the do-not-call list was unconstitutional under the First Amendment because it does not apply equally to all kinds of speech, blocking commercial telemarketing calls but not calls from charities. “The FTC has cho sen to entangle itself too much in the consumer’s decision by ma nipulating consumer choice,” Nottingham wrote. Ken Johnson, spokesman for Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said the ruling “puts a little damper on the party, but we’re still confident of prevailing in the end.” He said Tauzin’s staff was reviewing the Denver decision. During brief debates, House and Senate members made it clear they want the list. “Clearly the court’s decision was misguided,” said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., referring to West. “The measure before us makes crystal clear the commission can and should proceed with the do not-calllist.” He said the Oklahoma City rul ing has “served as a rallying cry for the tens of millions of ' American households who signed up for the registry.” ' Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said no one likes “hopping up and down like jackrabbits to answer the phone and then hear some body on the phone try to sell you something. It drives you crazy.” The ruling caught lawmakers off guard but they responded with remarkable speed. Bills can take months or even years to pass, but the do-not-call legislation was drafted and approved in both chambers in little more than 24 hours. ^\i €lll'}r 4'luWtll-MtyyJ.A-ilfl(llMv 11‘JiOnhJ.IAh.!W)