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Annual lecture to bring scholar BY WILLIAM FRIERSON THE (iAMECOCK The seventh annual Robert Smalls Lecture will be held Tuesday, with Harvard University scholar Louis Gates Jr. topping the bill as keynote speaker. Each year a new speaker in fields ranging from education to African-American history ad dresses the community on dif ferent topics. “We try to bring in diverse speakers with different views and disciplines,” USC African American studies director Cleveland Sellers said. Gates is chairman of Harvard University’s department of African-American studies and di rector of the Harvard’s W.E.B. Dubois Institute for African American Research. His lecture is titled, “W.E.B. Dubois and the Encyclopedia Africana. ” The lecture’s purpose is to share with the public the latest research and scholarships in African-American studies. Sellers said the program “gives us a chance to focus in on a legendary person, such as W.E.B. Dubois.” “The Encyclopedia Africana is a major resource for finding important figures in African American history,” Sellers said. Gates was chosen as a promi nent scholar on Dubois, whose work, “The Souls of Black Folk,” is celebrating its 100th anniver sary of publication. Robert Smalls, the namesake of the program, was a South Carolina slave and Civil War hero. Smalls was an important fig ure in American history because of his economic, political and ed ucational contributions as a United States congressman dur ing the Reconstruction period. February 26 officially became Robert Smalls Day in South Carolina in 1976. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu Fallujah fighting hits cease-fire BY ABDUL-QADER SAADI AND LOURDES NAVARRO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FALLUJAH, IRAQ - A fragile cease-fire was held between Sunni insurgents and U.S. Marines on Sunday in the be sieged city of Fallujah, where Iraqis said more than 600 civil ians were killed in the past week. Near Baghdad, gunmen shot down a U.S. attack heli copter, killing two crew mem bers. Also, the military suggested it is open to a negotiated solution in its showdown with a radical Shiite cleric in the south. Most of the Iraqis killed in Fallujah in fighting that start ed last Monday were women, children and elderly, the direc tor of the city hospital, Rafie al Issawi, told The Associated Press. A U.S. Marine comman der disputed that, saying most of the dead were probably in surgents. Fallujah residents took ad vantage of the lull in fighting to bury their dead in two soccer fields. One of the fields had rows of freshly dug graves, some marked on headstones as chil dren or with the names of wom en. The Fallujah violence spilled over to the nearby western en trance of Baghdad, where gun men shot down an American AH 64 Apache helicopter. As a team moved in to secure the bodies of the two dead crew men, a large force of tanks and troops pushed down the highway outside the Iraqi capital, aiming to crush insurgents; Lottery CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 lottery has exceeded his expecta tions. “It’s going gangbusters. It is a bright spot,” Rainey said. “Right now, they’re knocking the lights out. The question is, how long will it last?” Lottery funds typically are not stable, and Rainey said he expects to see revenues drop once the games have been around for awhile. The BEA’s original forecast for lottery funds to be deposited in a special education account this fis cal year was $172 million. The lottery is some $20 million ahead of schedule, having trans ferred more than $190 million since the fiscal year began in July. The BEA then raised the esti mate for the year to $253 million. Passailaigue said he expects the lottery to exceed even that revised estimate by at least $20 million. “Lotteries usually do well in hard economic times, and they usually do very well when they first start and there is some nov elty,” Dave Schwartz, an assis tant professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and coordi nator of the school’s Gaming Studies Research Center, said in an e-mail. When players get accustomed to the games, the lottery will “bring out new ones and devise new marketing techniques,” Schwartz said. Passailaigue said the lottery works to keep the games fresh for players. The lottery rotates three or four instant tickets a month out SIFE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ever has the best presentation and made the most impact wins.” Gregory attributes USC's suc cess to the presentation team. “Everyone really works well to gether when presenting to the judges,” Gregory said. To prepare for national com petition, the team will continue to work on its presentation. “We're going to be doing some fine tuning, because all the teams that compete at nationals are win ners,” Yancey said. “We've got to step up.” Hoover said although she be lieves the team has the ability to do well at nationals, the competi tion involves other benefits be sides a first-place prize. “Besides being able to help so many people, the job opportuni ties are your rewards,” Hoover said. “One hundred and seventy six companies form the board of SIFE, and they each pay a fee to be at the competition to recruit students for positions. It's a pas sion of mine to see the students make out with great paying jobs and internships.” Hoover said he encourages students who are interested in becoming a member of SIFE to v-dil I I I iUI 1UU1 c 1111UI mo tion. “We still have lots to do,” Hoover said. “We need to grow, and we need more students.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu of the system, he said. On Tuesday, the lottery introduced a new ticket featuring paintings from artists around the state. Meanwhile, lawmakers’ re liance on lottery funds grows. The budget passed by the House last month uses lottery funds not just for scholarships but for K-12 pro grams, including libraries, South Carolina Educational Television and the Education Accountability Act. “We’ve got a high bar, but we’re going to do our best to achieve our goals,” Passailaigue said. Scott CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 tion that accepts HOPE and LIFE scholarships, including two-year and private schools, is eligible to join and will be invited, Scott said. Interested student govern ments must write a resolution in support of the association and as sign a student liaison. About 15 schools, including Columbia College, College of Charleston and Wofford College, attended the constitutional con vention at Clemson earlier this month, when the Association be came official. Former SG President Katie Dreiling said having a USC rep resentative shows how active the university has been. “We’re one of the larger schools and it makes sense to have a representative,” she said. There are 41 state associations in the country, but North Carolina is the only other state in the Southeast with such a lob bying association, “most likely because there isn't a lot of sup port for lobbying effort groups,” said first-year public relations student Megan Hughes, who is serving as USC's liaison. “We're exploring an area i - we're not really familiar with. We’re researching ideas from other schools,” she said. The North Carolina Statewide Student Association has a $300,000 budget, Scott said. All North Carolina public schools are under one Board of Regents, as opposed to South Carolina schools, which work with indi vidual boards. The rational state association conference will be held in July at Clemson. 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