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Teaching jobs offered in China Culture Center looking for USC graduates to teach English BY JACKIE FAYE BURTON THE (1AMECOCK The Chinese Culture Center is offering 800 teaching positions in China but have received only 300 applications. The Chinese Culture Center, a nonprofit organization in Columbia with a mission to intro duce Chinese culture to Americans, is offering a program for college students to teach English in China. The job comes with a salary and a rent-free apart ment as well as a foreign experts certificate to offer to prospective employers. Students of all majors are wel come to apply, but must be a na tive English speaker, have an as sociate degree by the time of de parture and be between the ages of 21 to 65. Barbara Derrick, chair woman of Chinese Culture Center PTO, said the program is a great chance for graduates to see China. “It is a unique opportunity as Asia is changing so fast and the graduates would be able to see this transformation first hand,” Derrick said. The center will sponsor a job seminar April 10 from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. in room 202 of the Humanities building. There will be guest speakers who have taught English in China and people to answer questions. Charles Alber, USC Chinese program director and professor, traveled to China when the pro gram was first established. “It is important that South Carolinians recognize the change China has gone through and con tinues to go through,” he said. “China is growing by leaps and bounds and is very much a civi lized country.” In 2003 the center was able to help the S.C. Department of Education sign an Educational Exchange Memorandum of Understanding with the Educational Department of the Chinese Embassy in the United States. The center also helped Richland School District One start the first Chinese Program in the state. But officials at the center want to accomplish more. Their goals for 2004 include recruiting more native English speakers to teach English in China, inviting Chinese business and educational groups to visit the United States and building a new Activity Center. To depart for China in June or August, the application deadline is April 15. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu *4% Surf Yourself^ -5**—r°1'Vll,ci ; r for more information or to fill out an application, visit uveHcmP^ ©* www.chlneseculturecenter.com Amber CONTINUED ROM PAGE 1 abductor and any other important m- information that will contribute to the child’s rescue. As a consultant for Amber Alert, Munn was asked to produce a series of national public service announcements that would be available for the use of radio and TV broadcasters. The announce ments will feature John Walsh of “America’s Most Wanted” and Ed Smart, father of Elizabeth Smart, who was abducted last year, as they thank the public. In the event of an alert, broad casters will repeat the announce ment every 15 minutes for three hours, and the information will go to North Carolina and Georgia to overlap coverage. “Within a few minutes the alert is out; it is out as fast as you can 1^. dial,” Munn said. The Amber Alert has been acti vated once in South Carolina at Georgia’s request on Jan. 8 when three children were abducted, ac cording to Kathryn Richardson, public relations officer for state vv uiuv/i vcuiv/tti «loiun. The alert was canceled after the children were found near Tennessee. Richland County was one of the first counties to have any type of alert system for child ab ductions. In 1993, while U.S» Sen. Lindsey Graham was a U.S. Representative, he proposed Operation Child Alert. This alert system was never of |. ficially activated, but came close to activation during the Susan Smith case, according to Richardson. Operation Child Alert was up dated to the Amber Alert stan dards last year after President Bush signed the proposal. In 1997, residents of Dallas re quested broadcast alerts when child abductions happened, sim ilar to the Amber Hagerman case. “The statewide Amber Alert program that the president signed into law is so important because it gives local authority a way to use an alert,” Munn said. The public is especially impor ^^tant in the Amber Alert because they serve as a large army of eyes and ears, Munn said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm. sc. edu ZTA CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Life and Greek Life departments. It wouldn’t go into affect, but act more as an RHA request. Byrd said the ZTA incident happened in part because people didn’t understand what was of fensive. “There is a problem when peo ple see a divisiveness in USC as a whole, and more indicatively Greek life,” Byrd said. “If Greek life can become more under standing of one another, then at that point the campus as a whole can become more understanding of one another.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu al-Qaida CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 mation leading to al-Zawahri’s capture. On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives dou bled the reward for bin Laden’s capture to $50 million. “We have been receiving in telligence and information from our agents who are working in the tribal areas that al-Zawahri could be among the people hid ing there,” a Pakistani military official said. “All of our efforts are to capture him.” The intelligence official said in formation was also coming from some of the 18 suspects captured during Thursday’s operation. Some said during interrogation that al Zawahri was wounded in the raid, the official said. Officials said heli copter gunships and artillery would continue attacking at dawn Friday. Musharraf told CNN that he’d spoken with the commander of Pakistani troops in the region. He said the commander report ed "fierce resistance” from a group of fighters entrenched in fortress-like buildings, and that there were indications a senior figure was surrounded. The 52-year-old former Egyptian surgeon is believed to be the brains behind the terror network, with bin Laden serving more as spiritual leader and fi nancial backer. Scott CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 cy fall 2003. Most major uni versities have such policies. “If you look at a lot of the up per-echelon schools, they all have sexual orientation in their nondiscrimination poli cy and they’re all very open minded and they understand that people are here to get an education,” Scott said. Brewer said he is sure Scott will continue to do good things for the university. “He’s been vice president for a year, and Zach works real hard. He’s been a great vice president; I'm sure he’ll be a great president.” Scott said he is already plan ning for next year. “We going to start working with the university adminis tration and the Board of Trustees and establishing a voting seat for the Student Governfnent president on the Board of Trustees, which is something we haven’t had, ever,” he said. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu Race On Into RRITTONS JP I For Your Perfect Carolina Cup Outfit Clothing for men & women of South Carolina With Successful Dressing Since 1946 Register to win 2 tickets for The Cup Drawing will be held March 25th No Purchase Necessary 2m ‘Devine Street Cofumina, SC 20205 _ (803)771-2700 www.mttmsoJivfumhia.cm 1 mi&jrom campus Terrorism CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 discuss Southern slavery. Michel said without proper cleanup efforts, the stretch of the Persian Gulf affected by the spill could remain damaged for “al most a century.” The team’s com plex chemical “fingerprinting” confirms that 90 percent of the oil affecting the coastline comes from the 1991 spill and that it alone has a drastically negative hold on the region’s environ ment: After the data presented by Michel’s team, the Saudi gov ernment petitioned the world community and received nearly $500 million. With these funds, Saudi officials hope to right the ecological disaster. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu ■ftM STERUNG^raiVERSITY 0*4* r" Shuttle to USC FREE Tanning J Pool & (Hot Tub Fitness Center H>ame£. x _ V, • Gamecock Editor in Chief, Summer 2004 • Gamecock Editor in Chief, Fall 2004 The Editor in Chief is responsible for the editorial aspect of the newspaper including content, recruitment, and supervision of editorial staff. • Garnet & Black Editor in Chief, 2004-2005 The Editor in Chief is responsible for the editorial aspect of the magazine including • content, recruitment, and supervision of G&B staff. The magazine will be published twice each semester of 2004-2005. • WUSC-FM Station Manager, 2004-2005 The Station Manager is responsible for every aspect of the radio station including broadcast content, publications, promotions, fundraising and the recruitment and supervision of WUSC-FM staff. Dead!irte: Wednesday, March 31 @ 4:00pm