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VOL. 113, NO. 20 • SINCE 1908
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
Overhaul of codes begins in senate Training for Walk Home Cocky taking place Oct. 6 Amanda Coyne
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The Carolina Coquettes and the Mighty Sound of the Southeast performed at the State of the University Wednesday.
Pastides calls for tuition freeze Asks state government for ‘fair’ funding Amanda Coyne
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Un iver sit y Pre sident Harris Pastides called for a three-year tuition freeze in exchange for increased, “fair” f unding from the state Wednesday morning at his annual State of the University address. Pa st ides a lso a sked lawmakers to pass a performance-based educat ion f u nding plan and to cover increasing employee pay, energy bills and health insurance costs. If the legislature does so, the university will not ask for any additional one-time allocations, like the $15 m illion it received t his year to renovate Hamilton College. Pastides did not specify w h at t y p e o f f u n d i n g increase would be “fair,”
and university spokesman Wes Hickman could not be reached Wed nesday afternoon. This proposal comes after two of the lowest tuition increases since 1999 and after state funding for the USC system plummeted during t he recession — nearly $100 million since 2008. W hen USC’s board of trustees approved a 3.15 percent average t uit ion increase for all but one of the system’s campuses, Pastides said he had hoped to have a “zero percent ” increase. The state’s budget, however, forced the increase, he said in June. But now, who is at fault is not the issue, Pastides said as state legislators looked on from the audience. “If we can, let’s agree to stop the finger-pointing a nd to stop t he bla me game for escalating tuition. Let’s agree to meet state Brian Almond / THE DAILY GAMECOCK
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Nancy Brown talks about treating pregnant teens, depressed adults as social worker
USC’s Div ision of Law Enforcement a nd Safet y is look i ng for a ma n who inappropriately grabbed a woman outside the Strom Thurmond Wellness and Fitness Center Tuesday n ight, accordi ng to a Wednesday morning crime alert. A man who appeared to be Hispanic and in his 30s asked the woman for directions near the Strom’s parking lot around 8:30 p.m., the alert said As she was walking away, he “grabbed her inappropriately.” The suspect is also described as having facial hair and wearing a white hat. The incident has been classified as a second degree assault. Students, faculty and staff are being encouraged by campus police to report any suspicious persons to the Division of Law Enforcement and Safety or to Crimestoppers at 1-888-CRIME-SC.
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— Amanda Coyne, News Editor
University President Harris Pastides addressed USC Wednesday.
St udent senate i nt roduced a streamlining of its legislative codes Wednesday night. The overhaul of the 200 section largely organizes the codes, codifies current procedures and moves certain codes to more appropriate sections. “This is much more logical than what was in the previous codes,” said Stuart Wilkerson , chairman of the Senate Judiciar y Committee. “It’s not a really huge change in practice.” This update will most likely be voted on next week and similar overhauls of Student Government’s financial, executive and judicial codes are all planned for this semester. Walk Home Cocky prepares for launch Volunteer t raining regist rat ion is open for Walk Home Cock y, a late-night campus safe walk program launching Oct. 21. A ll interested i n becom i ng a volu nteer for t he program must undergo a training course on Oct. 6; they can register for this training online and will receive free T-shirts once certified, executive director Missy Torgerson said. Volunteers would only be bound to serve twice a month, but if more than 70 people become volunteers, that could go down to just once a month, Torgerson said. “They’re not massive commitments of constant daily activity,” Student Body President Chase Mizzell said. Athletics efforts Senate At h let ic s Com m it tee Chair Brian Rodgers and Secretary of At hlet ics Aust in Solheim have met with athletics officials and are trying to address the ongoing issue of students leaving football games early. An athletics advisory council is also being formed by Mizzell and USC’s Athletics Department , consisting of st udents with the most loyalt y points and others who have asked to be on the council “because they’re s o p a s s io n at e ab o ut G a me c o c k athletics,” Mizzell said. Students will never be penalized for leav ing games early, Rodgers sa id, but t he Senate At h let ic s
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Associate professor Nancy Brown of the College of Social Work addressed an intimate audience in the Gressette Room of Harper College Wednesday night, discussing her paths to success as a counselor and therapist, as well as a friend and mother. Brown said she is prone to fantasy, imagining conversations to ameliorate all the world’s issues, from Kim Jong Un’s Napolean complex to Lindsay Lohan’s fall from childhood grace. She arrived at her clinical successes, she says, by being an active listener in other’s lives and by constructing her personal reality in a positive way. According to Brown, the key to helping people is by avoiding having expectations and by trying to understand the person’s reality. While everyone constructs their own personal reality in their heads, Brown said she believes that it is important to “construct a reality that you can work with.”
Growing up with parents who did not graduate college, she had her first “paradigm shift” when she was 22, feeling out of place at a part y for musicians from the Juilliard School. There, she had a conversation with a woman who told her she was lucky to have such a different experience, for she could compare those experiences and the ones she is soon to make. “That meant that it wasn’t my actual background that mattered, but how I interpreted it,” Brown said. From t here to a st int correct ing papers of doctoral students while getting her undergraduate deg ree, Brow n worked w it h ma ny d if ferent cases. She’s served as a counselor at a hospital, a psychotherapist for pregnant teenagers and addicts and as a family therapist. Brown said constructivism and post-modernism have been revelatory in her understanding of how humans construct their own realities and their own separate truths. “The brain, like the eye, has a blind spot,” Brown said. It is this blind spot that the brain automatically fills in, keeping one safe in their own thoughts and BROWN • 3
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