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APyan Holt addresses the
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President Bush and
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Fashion
Natalie Netzel takes a
stroll down store-lined
Devine Street, where „
unique shops welcome
the fashion-sawy.
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USC defense
stops Bama
The Gamecock Sports
staff breaks down
Carolina’s 20-3 victory
over the Tide.
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Medical students lend hand to hospice care
By Z'ANNE COVELL
THE GAMECOCK
USC’s School of Medicine professors usually
teach their students how to save lives, but during
students’ third year, they also learn how to help
patients whose lives cannot be saved.
Professors Ellen Roberts and Joshua Thornhill of
the MUSC designed a program with Lutheran
Hospice, which gives third-year medical students the
opportunity to visit hospice patients and learn how
to deal with patients diagnosed with incurable
illnesses.
“Students usually focus on saving lives, which is
important, but they also need to know what to do
for patients who cannot be helped medically,"
Thornhill said.
According to Ginette Messer, director of
volunteer services at Lutheran Hospice, which serves
Richland, Lexington and Newberry counties,
hospice patients suffer from numerous illnesses and
all have been given six months or less to live.
Lutheran Hospice provides social, volunteer and
chaplain services for its patients, who can either be
living at home or in an
inpatient facility. riospice
patients have stopped
searching for a cure and accept
the consequences of their
terminal illnesses.
Each student is paired with
his own patient, and they are
required to visit their assigned
patients at least four times
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psychiatric rotation. Thornhill said he decided to
incorporate the hospice program into medical
student’s psychiatric rotation because students
observe and study the mentality of patients nearing
death.
“Students must try to understand someone at the
end of their life cycle,” Thornhill said. According to
Messer, the program attempts to help students
become more comfortable
with both the process of dying
and the actual death. Before
students begin visiting
patients, they take a survey
that assesses their comfort level
for death, and they take it
again after their eight-week
rotation to see if their comfort
level has changed.
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more comfortable, but others, who initially thought
they were OK with death, find that they are not,”
Messer said.
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the opportunity to see
people suffering from
a long-term illness
face their death.”
JAMAE CAMPBELL
FOURTH-YEAR MEDICAL STUDENT
Jamae Campbell, a fourth-year medical student,
said she found the program increased her comfort
level by exposing her to the death process for patients
who know death is approaching.
“I had never really had the opportunity to see
people suffering from a long-term illness face their
death as it slowly progresses,” Campbell said. “It’s
the opposite of hospitals, where people die
immediately and unexpectedly from emergency
traumas like car accidents.”
According to fourth-year medical student Alex
Getz, the program helped him understand that death
cannot always be avoided.
“It teaches us that no matter what we do we can’t
save everybody, and everyone’s time will come,”
Getz said.
Messer said the program also shows students how
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GRAND MARKETPLACE
t AFC franchise co-owner Sally Lou, left, watches first-year advertising student Elizabeth Finley, right, as
^ Finley browses the sushi display at the Grand Marketplace. Despite new barriers near cash registers,
■ shoplifters make off with about $350 worth of sushi every week, owners say.
>Ripped off
Shoplifters cause problems for cafeteria vendors
By MICHAEL LaFORGIA
THE GAMECOCK
Winston Lou thinks twice before
going to the bathroom.
He always hesitates before leaving his
place by the big sushi refrigerator in the
Grand Marketplace, he says, for fear
someone will grab a box and slip past the
cashier without paying.
“I can’t walk away for a minute,” said
Lou, who shares ownership of the
cafeteria’s AFC sushi franchise with his
mother, Sally.
On the first day of fall classes,
shoplifters stole 50 boxes of sushi, or
about $250, from Lou’s counter.
Since then, the cafeteria’s
management has stepped in, adding
retractable rolls of nylon tape to close off
walkways past empty registers.
But managers haven’t always been so
accommodating, Lou said.
“I told the management to do it last
semester, but they didn’t agree with me,”
he said of restricting access to the open
dining hall. He added that USC Dining
Services cited cosmetic reasons for not
setting up barriers sooner.
With the nylon tape in place, Lou
loses less, he said. But when he checks his
records against AFC Daily Revenue
Reports, he inevitably comes up short by
about 10 boxes a day, or $350 a week.
Some boxes of sushi cost as much as
$7.25.
“1 never get paid exacdy what I sell,”
said Lou. He added that the problem isn’t
confined to the sushi counter and that
thieves pilfer bags of chips and other
portable items from the Grand
Marketplace, too.
USC Dining Services General
Manager Mike Scheffres said Sodexho,
the campus food provider, typically
doesn’t worry about shoplifting
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Hydrogen fuel
has S. C. future,
researchers say
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$2 million grant to help USC study
merits of alternative energy source
By KEVIN FELLNER
THE GAMECOCK
USC landed a $2.2 million grant
from the U.S. Energy Department for
hydrogen fuel research last week as
administrators declared alternative
energy developments would continue
to be a research goal for USC and the
state.
“This is an urgent area of research
for our state and national economy,
particularly in light of this week’s news
about rising fuel costs,” said Ralph
White, dean of the College of
Engineering and Information
Technology.
The 18-month grant awarded to
the engineering school will be used to
develop new ways of storing and
transporting hydrogen fuel, which
experts hope will soon be applicable in
substituting for earth’s finite supply of
fossil fuels without using materials
that would release environmentally
hazardous carbon dioxide gas.
Professor Michael Matthews, who
along with James Ritter, John
Weidner and John Van Zee will be
working with Energy Department
experts on continuing this type of fuel
cell research at USC, said a practical
goal for their research is to learn how
to best control hydrogen energy
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“You can think about stepping on
the gas pedal in your car. You’d want
the pedal to respond immediately and
accelerate quickly,” Matthews said,
referring to experts’ belief that
hydrogen energy, if controlled
properly, could be used to power cars
and other vehicles.
Matthews said he thinks with
aggressive research developments
automobile manufacturers could be'
marketing hydrogen-powered cars
within a decade.
With a cooperative race among
universities and private .entities to
develop efficient alternative energy
sources, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham,
R-S.C., anticipates South Carolina
could play an integral role in the
process with its research universities
leading the way.
“What /Detroit is to automobiles,
South Carolina could be to hydrogen
energy,” Graham’s communications
director Kevin Bishop said. “We have
a diversified economy and the cutting
edge technology.”
Bishop said Graham is co
chairman of the Senate’s Hydrogen
and Fuel Cell Caucus and looks
forward to the continuing interest
private corporations could have in
cooperative resevch being done at the
state’s universities.
“Sen. Graham certainly feels that
this is a worthwhile investment,” he
said.
The National Science Foundation
nas already runaea use s
Industry/University Cooperative
Research Center, which White said
would help the university focus even
more research attention to alternative
energy and make the university more
competitive for grants like last week’s
DOE funding.
Matthews, who has been working
with hydrogen research at USC for
seven years, said hydrogen energy
research still needs considerable
attention before practical uses are
possible. One challenge, he said, is
that hydrogen, unlike fossil fuels,
needs a source of energy to produce
the reactions that yield its energy
potential.
But he said he and his colleagues
are encouraged by breakthroughs that
have already been achieved.
“The researchers in this area
understand the needs and the
challenges, and they understand that
no solution will be easy,” Matthews
said.
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USC students build a float for the 2003 Homecoming parade.
HOMECOMING
Carnival kicks off festivities
by b I tVtN VAN HAKtN
THE GAMECOCK
A week of Homecoming activities
that will culminate in a USC-Ole Miss
showdown at Williams-Brice Stadium
begins today.
“Carolina Fever: Warming Up the
South” is the theme for Homecoming
2004.
“Our theme was a little bit more fun
to play with,” said Kai Wright,
Homecoming commissioner and fourth
year English student. “(The
commission) had a lot more ideas, and
they just incorporated the theme well.”
Homecoming Week kicks off with
Spurs and Struts tonight at 5 p.m. at
Davis Field. The carnival celebration
will feature booths, games and a dance
competition. The USC cheerleaders and
the Coquettes will perform. ^
Wright said Spurs and Struts is the
most popular Homecoming event,
besides the football game.
“We’ve gotten about 1,500 people”
in previous years, she said.
The USC Showcase begins Tuesday
at 8 p.m. at the Koger Center. The
formal competition ends with the
crowning of the Homecoming King
and Queen. Tickets are $5 in advance
and $6 at the door and can be
purchased at the Russell House
Information Center.
Wright and the Homecoming
Commission, a 10-student group, have
been planning the week’s festivities since
March, including the new,Carolina Jam,
a Hawaiian luau starting at 8 p.m.
Wednesday in the Russell House
Ballroom. The luau will feature live
music, a DJ and free food.
The Homecoming parade begift»>at 4
p.m. Friday at the USC Greek Village.
The parade will go up Assembly Street,
pass the State House on Gcrvais Street
and go down Sumter Street. Public
viewing stands will be set up in front of
the Horseshoe.
Also on Friday, Cockfest, the annual
pep rally, will begin at 8 p.m. at
Williams-Brice Stadium. The rally will
include a skit competition, live
entertainment and fireworks. Tickets are
$5 in advance, $7 at the gate, and $3 for
children 12 and under. Tickets can be
purchased at the Russell House
Information Center.
Wright, who has been commissioner
since January, said the commission’s
goal this year was to get all students
involved. The commission spent last
week promoting Homecoming events in
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