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For more information, please contact [email protected]. dailygamecock.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 VOL. 103, NO. 18 ● SINCE 1908 Eco-friendly Tuesday 88° 67° tax adds up Wednesday on consumers 90° 69° Initiative charges Thursday students on-the-go 86° 69° outside meal plan Amit Kumar THE DAILY GAMECOCK Among the many changes in USC Campus Dining this school year, students are upset that if they get a to-go lid and container for food, they are charged an extra 60 cents on top of the price of the meal. Campus Dining officials, however, say the charge is part of the University’s larger eco-friendly initiative and the large majority of students are not being forced to pay the Men’s golf tees off fee. Carolyn Rumsey / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Michael Scheffres, regional A USC nursing student takes the heart rate of a lifelike dummy. Students use the dummies to mimic realistic hospital conditions. George Bryan IV and the district manager for Campus Gamecocks opened the Dining , said the charge only 2009 season this past applies to meals not purchased weekend in Georgia. on the meal plan. High-tech tools help nurses In addition, because students purchasing a meal See page 7 outside the meal plan receive a Mannequin practice have a pulse, breathe and need 10 percent discount if they use prepares students medical care from IVs, catheters and china as opposed to Styrofoam heart rate monitors. or plastic containers, the 60- for medical careers Sara Banaisn, a fourth-year nursing cent charge is not really an student , said the lab has helped extra fee. Rather, it is a way to Carolyn Rumsey prepare her for clinicals in addition to ensure that the University is THE DAILY GAMECOCK fi lling in some of the gaps she missed not giving a student a discount while working in the hospital. he or she hasn’t earned. If patient Noelle or her infant child “You get to learn more like we were “If you pay without the Hal stop breathing, students in USC’s talking about with the anaphylactic meal plan, you get a 10 percent School of Nursing immediately rush shock and hip replacement,” Banaisn discount on your purchase,” to their sides to restore breathing and said. “There’s no way that you’re Scheffres said. “But if you save lives. going to see all that on the fl oor in turn around and say I want Jimmy’s Trailer Park But something’s different about 120 hours.” the discount for eating-in and these patients: they aren’t alive. Kimberly Glenn, a clinical associate also an empty to-go box, then Jimmy Gilmore looks USC’s School of Nursing has professor in the school, said the lab you have to pay 60 cents to forward to several high- Carolyn Rumsey / THE DAILY GAMECOCK rated upcoming fi lms, brought patient mannequins and new provides a valuable environment pay back the discount.” including “Up in the Air” technology into its clinical simulation where students can learn from their Lonnie Rosier, a lab technician, shows Michael Gwiazdowski, starring George Clooney. lab, hoping to provide students hands- mistakes and work as a group. Glenn off baby Hal to students in the program. operations director for on experience for future careers in noted that one of the most important Campus Dining on the first See page 5 medicine. The lab contains all the aspects of the lab is that the scenarios mistakes and learn from them. floor of the Russell House , same equipment and technology of a are taped and students are able to “One mistake was not stopping added that the purpose of real hospital and caters to simulation then go back, review their work and the medication I was giving a patient the discount is to help the of problems like those typically found critique themselves. in an allergic reaction,” she said. “I environment. in hospitals. Banaisn has been able to use this “We are trying to Just like real humans, the patients playback mechanism to correct her HELP ● 3 discourage taking Styrofoam and plastic containers, which Rudeness is prevalent, are difficult to recycle, and promoting recycling and spans political spectrum china use. It is an eco-friendly There have policy,” Gwiazdowski said. been many But some students say cases of they’ve been charged the fee disrespect while using a meal plan. against “If I get a salad and a drink leaders — in Russell House to-go, I have and from to pay with Bonus Bucks,” both parties. Richard first-year nursing student Wood Dustin Glendinning / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Jessie McLean said. “But if I Fourth-year West Quad is home to the Green Learning Community. The building, made of recycled materials, uses hydrogen fuel for energy. See page 4 get it for here, then it doesn’t history go over on the meal plan.” student Scheffres and Gwiazdowski both said a cashier shouldn’t ‘What it means to be green’ have charged McLean. Other students say that while they support the Community residents make environmental focuses on recycling their own vegetables,” University’s environmental buzzwords part of their and sustainability. The Jason Craig, assistant (803) 777-3914 efforts, they just don’t like the take environment daily lives. building itself was director of the Green (803) 777-7726 fee. “We are really a constructed of recycled Living Community, said. (803) 777-7182 outside of dorm “This is a good idea hands-on community. materials, and its learning “We thought this would Mix (803) 576-6172 because it’s eco-friendly,” said We explore new ways all center is powered by be a addition to the other Johnny Marshburn, a first- Hunter Hardinge the time of what it means hydrogen fuel cells. activities that students STAFF WRITER year business student. “But I to be green,” Juliette Recently added is a participate in.” don’t like how the University Lowery, a third-year community garden where Students in the From cleaning up local nickel-and-dimes you.” public relations student, students can grow their community also rivers to growing produce said. “ We focus here on own vegetables. participate in community in a community garden, green engagement.” “We just started the dinners, hear from special students in the Green Comments on this story? Started in 2004, the community garden to have Learning Community E-mail sagcknew@mailbox. 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Mark When: 6:30 p.m. Sanford says he has full confidence in his Cabinet Where: Russell House director. Room 203 Democratic Sen. Phil Leventis accuses Corrections Director Jon Ozmint of being an arrogant bully to What: Students for Life employees and state officials. In response, Ozmint Meeting on Monday accused the Sumter senator of trying to When: 6:30 p.m. retaliate against him for the 2007 misconduct fi rings of Where: Russell House two of Leventis’ friends. Room 302 The Legislative Audit Council is reviewing the agency. Ozmint says the review is based on false What: Mountaineering allegations. and Whitewater Club Sanford spokesman Ben Fox said the governor is Meetings certain Ozmint will address all issues from the report.