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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22,2003 **■£££ Law dean will face "financial concerns BY ROB SEAL THE OAMECOCK Fund raising and the con struction of a new facility will be the key issues greeting the new dean of the USC Law School. The school announced four finalists in December after more than a year of searching. The candidates are USC pro fessor Nathan Crystal, who is also a 1969 graduate of the USC Law School: David Logan, a •aw professor at Wake Forest University; Robert Jerry Jr., a law professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia; and Robert Hillman, a law profes sor at the University of California-Davis. The new dean will replace John Montgomery, who has served as dean since 1987. Montgomery said he is not re tiring and that he will become a full-time Law School faculty member. “I think a priority for the new dean is going to be the completion of the fund raising for the new building to house the School of Law,” Montgomery said. “That’s not going to change in the next *^ear or two. Crystal, who * teaches Lawyers and Justice as well as Professional Responsibility, has been a faculty member since 1976 and was associate dean from 1987-1992. “I would like to see progress made toward the construction of the new building,” Crystal said. “To see that happen, we need to bring together a broad group of contributors from the state and alumni. Annual giv ing is the lifeblood of any law school. That supports many of our activities, such as guest lec tures and speakers.” Neil Batavia, a USC law stu (Oilent, says the possibility of a ^iew facility is a crucial issue. “We need somebody who will get the alumni more in volved in making the new fa cility happen,” Batavia said. “I think somebody that has been with the school would know what needs to be done at USC and could jump right in and get started. On the other hand, somebody from outside the school could bring a fresh per spective to the program.” Professor Robert Hillman, of the University of California Davis, agreed that facilities and fund raising are important fac tors at the USC Law School. “The resource issue is very pressing,” Hillman said. “USC ^ias a strong faculty, and in or der for the program to contin ue to grow, fund raising must be pursued. Support for the fac ulty can be summed up in one word: resources. With USC’s large and loyal alumni base, I think that goal can be at tained.” The Law School is in its sec ond year of searching for a new ♦ CANDIDATES, SEE PAGE 4 Patel accused of violation Senators say SG president undermined Student Senate BY ADAM BEAM THKOAMKCOCK Two Student Government sen ators have issued a subpoena to SG President Ankit Patel ordering him to appear before the Student Senate today to clarify “certain statements said in conduct toward the Board of Trustees and the Student Senate.” Liberal Arts Sens. Adam Hark shlPman and J.D. Shipman issued the subpoena. It deals with SG code 103.05, which forbids any members of SG to go before the Boai'd of Trustees without first consulting the Senate. Hark and Shipman said that Patel went be fore the full Board of Trustees on June 27 and then lied about it to the Student Senate. “I found the Board of Trustees’ minutes, and on June 27 he did, in fact, approach the entire Board of Trustees as a whole,” Hark said. “This was without consultation of the Senate, and indeed, he flat-out lied.” The subpoena orders Patel to appear before the Student Senate today at 5 p.m. in the Russell House Theater to answer ques tions, clarify his statements and in form the Senate of the situation. “We want all the student represen tatives to be aware of this and to make their own judge ments,” Hark said. Patel went before the Board of Trustees to ask for a $20-per-stu dent increase in the student-ac tivity fee. The Student Senate ap proved the proposal when it re __»_ convened in the fall. The Board of Trustees approved the increase Oct. 17. Shipman said the proposal was presented to the Senate as though the Board of Trustees had already made up its mind and that the Senate’s vote was merely a “formal stamp of approval.” “I personally feel that you have the student body, which elects peo ple based on the banter of stopping tuition increases, yet in the end passes the student-activity fee in ♦ PATEL, SEE PAGE 3 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. D'AY Volunteers spend day serving city BY ZA’KIYA DORCH THE GAMECOCK Hundreds of USC students, faulty and staff members gath ered on Davis Field Monday morning to kick off the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. After registering in the Russell House Ballroom, the vol unteers filed outside to the ral ly, which consisted of an open ing speech by chairwoman Stephanie Lareau, musical se lections by a-cappella group Higher Harmony and gospel mu sicians Chosen, and a keynote address by USC President Andrew Sorensen. Once the program ended, participants loaded up the bus es that lined Greene Street to go to their community-service sites. The buses took student vol unteers to 24 local agencies, in cluding the Congaree Swamp National Park and the Nurturing Center. An assignment to Bus J meant going to the Palmetto Senior Care Home, located in White Rock. Volunteers entered the build ing as residents were finishing their lunch. After receiving instructions from the head nurse, the volun teers began cleaning up tables and helping clear dishes. Some students took it a step further and helped feed a couple of the residents. While they worked, the vol unteers started conversations with some of the people they were helping. After getting to know every one, the volunteers made the residents’ highlight of the month even more special — with a game of bingo. First-year electronic-jour nalism student Shantel Brown said she enjoyed her experience at the Palmetto Senior Care Home. “At the end of the day, I feel ♦ MLK, SEE PAGE 2 PHOTO BY ADAM PATTERSON/THE GAMECOCK Michelle Jenkins, left, a fourth-year Spanish student, and Louise Harris, a resident at Palmetto Senior Care, assemble a puzzle as part of a service project. NAACP protesters rally against flag BY COREY GARRIOTT TiUKiAMECOCK Demanding the Confederate flag be removed from state grounds, the NAACP marched on the capitol for its fifth Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People met at Zion Baptist Church at 801 Washington St. to prepare for the march and hear the remarks of the Rev. A1 Sharpton, a 2004 presidential hopeful and veteran of the civil rights movement. Speaking at the church, he de scribed the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. “Down the Mississippi delta, where two Jews and a black man were killed for giving us the right to vote.” “Their court house is closed today,” he said. “Their judges are not coming to work,” Despite King’s work, Columbia’s NAACP President Lonnie Randolph Jr. said, “Living in America every day is a racial experience.” He said that the NAACP’s only goal is to create equal opportunity in each state. “In this state,” he said, “it still does not exist.” High on their list was a symbol: the continuing fight over the Confederate flag. In 1999, the NAACP began a boycott of South Carolina businesses in an effort to force it down from the capitol building. The legislature since transferred the flag from the top of the capitol to a nearby monument. For the NAACP, it was a false victory. Marching down Main Street, participants chanted: “Somewhere, somehow, right here, right now: the flag is coming down!” “This flag of racism, segrega tion, slavery and hatred shall not fly at the people’s house,” said Nelson B. Rivers, CEO of the NAACP, in his keynote speech. The sentiments resonated with Sheron Hayes, one of Monday’s marchers. “This flag belongs in a ♦ NAACP, SEE PAGE 3 PHOTO BY JOHNNY HAYES/THE GAMECOCK Thousands gather at the State House on Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally to support the NAACP. First-year experience sets example rv BY KEVIN FELLNER Till-) l.'AMKCOCK Sometimes even Mary Stuart Hunter and Dan Berman can’t be lieve they direct what their peers have rated the best programs of their kind in the nation. “We usually don’t go around thinking that we’re the best in the country,” Berman said. But within the last five months USC’s National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition has been labeled the best. The U.S. News and World Report ranked the Center’s hallmark University 101 program tops in the nation, and the Brevard College Policy Center for the First Year of College rec ognized the overall contributions center. Hunter, the national resource center’s director, said the University 101 course, which pre dates the center by about 13 years, spawned the innovation needed to build a self-supported center that would become a na tionally recognized authority studying college students’ first year experiences. “The assessment of the course from the very beginning indicat ed that there were significant dif ferences in students who took the course versus students who didn’t take the course as far as re tention and academic achieve ment,” she said. Once the center got its start in 1986, its primary objectives be came publishing academic writ ings on the research being done on the University 101 program and other factors of the first-year experience and organizing and participating in conferences on the same subject. Hunter re turned Sunday from a conference in Costa Mesa, Calif., where she provided other university ad ♦ FIRST YEAR, SEE PAGE 2 Index Comics and Crossword _11 Classifieds 14 Horoscopes 11 Letters to the Editor 8 Online Poll 8 Police Report 6 Weather TODAY TOMORROW -r o High 45 High 34 Low 26 Low 20 mmmmmmmhi Inside ♦ NEWS Two Americans shot in Kuwait in what U.S officials deem a terror attack. Page 2 ♦ VIEWPOINTS David Stagg learns that language barriers slow inspections progress. Page 8 ♦ THE MIX The Mix is turing Japanese, we think it’s turning Japanese, we really think so. Page 9 ♦ SPORTS The USC basketball teams lose weekend games to conference rivals. Page 12