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J-Comm Week
kicks off today
BY JUSTIN CHAPPELL
THE (IAMKCOCK
The media are coming to town,
but this time it’s to talk about
ethics.
Fox News correspondent Rita
Cosby and Knight Ridder newspa
pers White House correspondent
Bill Douglas—both USC alumni—
are two of the speakers scheduled
to discuss mass media ethics for I
•tomm Week, sponsored by the
college of Mass Communications
and Information Studies.
“There are a lot of questions
floating around now about truth
ful media in general,” said Vance
Komegay, associate professor of
advertising and chairman of the
advertising and public relations
sequence.
Gerald Boyd, former managing
editor for The New York Times,
will speak Wednesday night during
the college’s honors and awards
ceremony. Boyd, who resigned
from the New York Times June 5,
was the focus of much criticism
during the Jayson Blair incident,
in which it was revealed that Blah
plagiarized stories and reported in
accuracies in some of his articles.
Jhe Blair event and USA Today’s
^cent discovery of faked portions
irom at least eight stories by re
porter Jack Kelley have contribut
ed to the college’s decision to hold
the ethics-themed week.
“I don’t think these issues are
new issues, but the recent scandals
have brought it into the public spot
light,” said Randy Covington, di
rector of college advancement in
the mass communications college.
“We think ethics is an extremely
important subject, and we see it as a
unifying theme that affects jour
nalism, public relations and other
disciplines as well.”
Representatives from major ad
vertising agencies — including
former CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi
^d Wax—will discuss ethics’ per
^Jience to advertising.
“Creative license and creativity
are wonderful to bring to advertis
ing; however, there are still bound
aries, and we want (students) to
know the boundaries,” Kornegay
said. “Ultimately, if you are going
to be persuasive, you have to be
credible and trustworthy. ”
Kornegay said part of Wax’s pre
sentation will focus on past case
studies on advertising truthftilness.
The mass communications col
lege hopes that by bringing speak
ers to discuss ethics from multi
ple angles, I-Comm Week will pre
vent ethical mistakes that could
occur in students’ future careers.
“If you are thinking about it
now, then when you are confront
ed with an ethical dilemma, you
will have grounding for judgments
to make,” said Charles Bierbauer,
dean of the college. “We are con
cerned about the ‘why’ in doing the
uungs we ao.
This is the first time the college
has held such an event, which is
open to the public. Covington and
Bierbauer said they hope it be
comes an annual program.
The week kicks off today at
10:10 a.m. with Bill Douglas’ jour
nalism ethics discussion in the
CEO Room of the Carolina
Coliseum. In addition to journal
ism and advertising presenta
tions, a lecture on library and in
formation ethics will be held
Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in
Swearingen Engineering
Building in Amoco Hall. Speakers
are scheduled throughout the
week until its conclusion Friday
at 2 p.m. in which a panel of deans
and professors — from business
to law to medicine — will discuss
ethics in broad terms and its ap
plication to society in Gambrell
Hall room 153.
Covington said he hopes the
week’s message will be clear.
“Here is the expectation: jour
nalists will tell the truth,” he said.
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LCOMM
Events
Today
LECTURE BY BILL DOUGLAS,
KNIGHT RIDDER
WASHINGTON
CORRESPONDENT: 10:10 a.m.,
CEO Room, Coliseum
SOUTH CAROLINA
BROADCASTERS
ASSOCIATION LECTURE BY
RITA COSBY, FOX NEWS: 2:30
p.m., CEO Room, Coliseum
Tuesday
THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF
SUPER BOWL ADVERTISING:
3:30 p.m., Belk Auditorium,
Business Administration
Budding
Wednesday
HONORS NIGHTAND
BUCCHEIT LECTURE BY
GERALD BOYD: 6 p.m., School
of La w Auditorium
Thursday
SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND
INFORMATION SCIENCE
DEAN’S LECTURE: 6:30p.m.,
Amoco Had, Swearingen
Engineering Building
ETHICS IN SOCIETY: WHO
CARES? DEBATE: 2p.m.,
GaMrell I lull 153
I
BY DAVID KRAVETS
the associated press
^SAN FRANCISCO - A historic le
„al battle over abortion begins in
courtrooms coast to coast today, as
three federal judges take up re
quests to derail the first substan
tial congressional limitation on
abortion since the Supreme Court’s
landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
The simultaneous litigation
centers on legislation President
Bush signed last year banning a
type of late-term abortion — what
lawmakers defined as “partial
birth” abortion and what doctors
call “intact dilation and extrac
tion,” or D&X.
The three trials will be filled
with impassioned arguments on
whether the law violates constitu
tional rights, as well as graphic,
highly technical and conflicting
testimony from medical experts.
^“This case is going to be made
“lost on the experts,” said U.S.
District Judge Phyllis Hamilton,
who is presiding over the San
r——i—:
Francisco litigation.
The National Abortion
Federation, Planned Parenthood
Federation of America and a hand
ful of doctors sued in San
Francisco, New York and Lincoln,
Neb., to overturn the law. They say
its language could criminalize more
common types of abortion and
could be a step toward abolishing
abortion in the United States.
Courts and doctors have con
strued the 1973 Roe v. Wade deci
sion to mean abortions can be legal
ly performed until the “point of vi
ability,” when a healthy fetus can
survive outside the womb. That
milestone is usually reached 24
weeks to 28 weeks after conception.
In the outlawed procedure, gen
erally performed before that point
in the second trimester and occa
sionally in the third, a fetus is par
tially delivered before being killed,
usually by puncturing its skull.
The number of the procedures
performed annually in the United
States is estimated at 2,200 to 5,000,
out of 1.3 million total abortions.
The Partial-Birth Abortion Act
carries a maximum two-year
prison term for doctors convicted
of performing the procedure, but
it has been put on hold pending
the outcome of the litigation,
which appears likely to reach the
Supreme Court.
The high court struck down a
similar Nebraska law almost four
years ago, because it lacked an ex
ception for procedures done to pre
serve a woman’s health.
Anticipating this problem,
Congress declared that “a partial
birth abortion is never necessary
to preserve the health of a wom
an” and is “outside the standard
of medical care.”
The abortion groups disagree,
saying that doctors might find
themselves with no good alterna
tive to the banned procedure to
protect a woman’s life or health if
problems develop.
The American Medical
Association does not encourage
♦ ABORTION, SEE PAGE 3
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Kristina Starling, a second-year marine biology student, Alls out a suggestion card after
grabbing a bite to eat in the Grand Marketplace.
Dining Services responds
to students’ suggestions
BY WILLIAM FRIERSON
THE GAMECOCK
Carolina Dining Services is
considering changing the way it
serves students after several com
plaints and a meeting with a con
cerned student.
Dining officials are consider
ing displaying prices for each
item as well as prices for differ
ent food combinations, including
salads, to keep students from go
ing over their meal limits.
GMP supervisor Carol West
said minor adjustments have al
ready been made, including re
ducing prices for 32 oz drinks to
fit into a combo meal and adding
a serving section in the garden
salad area to shorten lines. She
said other improvements, such
as new water faucets and another
condiment table, won’t be avail
able until the fall.
The changes come after first
year liberal arts student Whit
Ashley sent scathing comment
cards to dining services. Ashley
scheduled an interview with the
GMP staff and interviewed sev
eral students to compile a list of
concerns, including rollover
meals and better drink selections.
When Ashley met with GMP
unit manager Woody
Duernberger, what Ashley
thought would be a brief exchange
became an hour-long discussion.
Ashley received an e-mail from
Carolina dining with responses to
each concern.
Students have complained
that designated meal times leave
them hungry or with unused
meals at the end of the week, re
sulting in a waste of money.
Carolina Dining officials said
meal plans are “designed to sat
isfy as many students’ needs as
possible,” and that they are
looking at “other options that
would allow more flexibility and
choices.” Officials also wanted
to remind students that the
block plan is available for up
perclassmen, which enables
them to have their meals when
ever they want.
Students have also criticized
the GMP for its high prices, but
Carolina Dining officials said stu
dents are paying less than the
credit they are receiving. For ex
ample, a 21-meal plan equals
$2.89/meal, officials said.
Some vegetarian and vegan
students have complained that
food choices don’t fully coincide
with each other, like bacon in
vegetarian food, and that food
should be accessible on weekends
and soy offerings should be avail
able. Carolina Dining said vege
tarian/vegan cooking is offered
in the classic line daily and will
continue on weekends. The staff
is open to suggestions for new
recipes.
West said students can help
by coming to the manager with
problems.
“ If your burger is burnt, we
will gladly make you another
one,” she said.
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Fraternity re-established at USC
BY LADONNA BEEKER
THE GAMECOCK
After 40 years, the Gamma
Triton Colony of Phi Sigma
Kappa has returned to USC.
USC’s colony was founded
April 20,1929, but disappeared
in 1963 for reasons still un
known, said Ben Havird, presi
dent of Gamma Triton Colony
and second-year accounting stu
dent.
“There are multiple stories
that try to explain why the fra
temity disappeared from USC,”
Havird said.
“We’ve been told that the
chapter at that time wasn’t pay
ing dues to the Grand Chapter:
therefore, they lost their char
ter.”
The chapter was informally
re-colonized Nov. 11,2001 and of
ficially returned to USC March
20 with a chartering banquet al
Saluda’s Capital City Grill in
Five Points with appearances by
members of the original chap
ter.
. "A colony is like an interest
group with a starting process,
where we are given information
and have to have a constitution,
members and a clear plan,”
Havird said.
Gamma Triton is similar to
most other campus organizations
with a president, vice president,
secretary, treasurer, officers,
committee chairpersons and so
cial committee.
Gamma Triton colony has
♦ FRATERNITY, SEE PAGE 3
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ftffe&ATE Mass. Legislature resolves to function as student voice. FOR comeback. FOR MORE SEE PAGE 6
^ ^«sidei8.jUarriage amendment. FOR MORE SEE PAGE 3 ♦ MAGNIFIQUE: ‘Girl from Paris" delivers
MORE SEE PKGE,4 ^A’’ ♦ CLICK IT Why South Carolina needs a laughs from abroad. FOR MORE SEE PAGE 6
i stronger seat-belt law. FOR MORE SEE PAGE 5 ♦ ARKANSAWED Baseball drops two, wins
RHA ♦AGED WELL Vintage clothing makes a one at Arkansas. FOR MORE SEE PAGE 9
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