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A Gamecock reviewer takes a look H at the best ■ J I" ■ I CDs of the I I 1 A summer in I M the “Encore!” ■ 1 I ■ ■ a I m page 7B -1—' 1 • * Friday. August 13,1999 The Gamecock PageUT WELCOME FRESHMEN You're the last Gamecocks of the * millenium to enter USC. For the f next few days, your lives revolve around the only places on campus you really know: your dorms. Here's the skinny on housing at USC — and, because you might pine for new fare after a few weeks of your meal plans, check out our suggestions for off-campus grub. HClie (Bamccock guide to filling your pad If you and your roommate haven’t gotten the following items for your residence hall room yet, we recommend you get them soon! □ Alarm plock □ Answering machine □ Area rug (if your dorm isn’t carpeted) □ Bedspread/blanket/sheets □ Bicycle (if you don’t already have a car) □ Calendar/day planner □ Clothes for all possible occasions □ Clothes hangers □ Coffee maker □ Computer □ Cups, plates and cutlery □ Curtains (if in the Towers) □ Detergent □ First-Aid Kit □ Lamp □ Laundry basket □ Message board for door □ Munchies □ Personal grooming items □ Pillows □ Posters - a room can look awfully bland without them □ Quarters □ School supplies (pens, pencils, note books, etc.) □ Shower shoes □ Surge protector □ Telephone □ Television □ Thumb tacks □ Toiletries □ Towels □ Wastebasket (a large one) Freshman dorms see changes By Clayton Kale Hews Editor Some freshman dorms are under going changes during the 1999-2000 academic year that are designed to improve conditions for students in certain majors. Bates House and Moore Hall will have living/leaming communities with a specific academic focus in each. \oore Hall will be a learning com mur,^y for pre-med majors. Bates ■ Ho'Jie will have a similar learning L community for students enrolled in ^ktlwollege of Engineering. 'my dents in the Moore l^^Hleaming community will have acSB|k> additional academic advis ing and support services provided by the Office of Pre-Professional Advising. Students living in the Bates community will be in contact with engineering faculty members outside the classroom, and they’ll have additional tutoring opportuni ties. Housing Director Gene Luna said the living/leaming communities have been brought about by the successes of past specialty housing programs, such as the Maxcy freshman honors dorm and Preston College. Luna said the success of tutoring programs in the dorms, such as the ACT math lab in Bates House, also has contributed to the support of liv ing/leaming centers. “We look to housing to be a com fortable place to live, as well as a com fortable place to leam,” Luna said. According to Luna, the organiza tion of each living/leaming program works differently. The Office of Pre-Professional Advising has reserved two floors in Moore Hall. Luna said one floor will be for male pre-med students and the other for female pre-med students. The living/leaming community in Bates House takes a different approach. “[Engineering] Dean [Craig] Rogers said he didn’t want the engi neering students segregated from other students,” Luna said. “He said he wanted them to leam from stu dents in liberal arts or other majors.” Engineering students in Bates House will be assigned rooms as nor mal, but will be encouraged to partic ipate in a listserv, tutoring sessions and supplemental classes. “We try to take leads from faculty and students, as well as our own expertise, as to how these special pro grams will work,” Luna said. Luna said the dorms were chosen because of their geographical loca tion. “Bates is a lot closer to the engi neering building than the other resi dence halls,” he said. Luna said the Department of Housing is having an open dialogue with the College of Liberal Arts and other colleges to discuss other liv ing/leaming communities. Luna said incoming freshman must fill out a special application before they can live in the living/1 earning communities. Other changes that have taken place over the summer in residence halls on campus include the addition of a classroom in Columbia Hall and renovation of the Wade Hampton lobby. USA Network to be on Gamecock Cablevision No encore for Bravo, C-SPAN By Brad Walters Editor in Chief Wrestling fens, take heart - the USA Network has been added to the lineup of Gamecock Cablevision for the fall. Ron Segroves with University Housing said the channel was added after Housing and the Residence Hall Association looked jointly over the summer at what channels were popular and which should be dropped. “Students have wanted this channel for a long time,” Segroves said. The choice was nearly unani mous.” USA features WWF wrestling and other original programming. It will appear on Channel 30 effective today. According to the 1999-2000 chan nel lineup, BRAVO and C-SPAN will no longer be offered. Channel 8, WHRA, will continue to offer con temporary movies picked out by the RHA in lieu of premium movie chan nels such as HBO and Cinemax. All other channels will remain the same as they did this past year. A channel line-up follows: • 2: Preview Guide • 3: VTR Playback • 4: WCFG (Journalism news) • 5: The Weather Channel •6: CNN • 7: Headline News • 8: "WRHA (Housing/RHA) • 9: WLTX (CBS) • 11: W1S (NBC) • 12: WOLO (ABC) • 14: WACH (FOX) • 15: MTV • 17: BET • 18: ESPN • 19: WRLK(PBS) • 21: TBS • 22: WGN •23: TNT • 24: E! • 25: TNN • 26: Discovery • 27: Comedy Central • 28: ESPN2 • 29: SCI-FI • 30: USA • 31: AMC • 32: Family Channel • 33: Nickelodeon • 34: Cartoon Network • 35: International Channel # of residents Carpeting PH I Coed living ||/1 I Computer lab |i(J H cafeteria I Honors Ifving pH ■ |Q access I Kitchen H Microfridge CJhH Suite baths Year built Bates House Douglas 361 248 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 1969 1962 LaBorde_Maxcy 250 185 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 1962 1931 McClintock Moore 149 242 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 1955 1965 Patterson Preston 616 240 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 1967 1939 Snowden Wd Hampton 238 178 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 1965 1940 Best Pizza: Parthenon Harden St., Five Points Where to Eat The Restaurant Review I The Gamecock’s food critic spills the beans on what’s best close to campus. _ All photos by Ashton June Photo Editor Best Fine Dining: Hampton Street Vineyard Hampton St. Best Sandwich: R'sing High Harden St., Five Points Best Mexican: Monterrey Mexican Restaurant Knox Abbott and Blossom St. Best Burger: Stuffy’s Main St. and Devine Best Vegetarian: India Pavilion Devine St., Five Points Best Sushi: Camon Assembly St. --I---—