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University of South Carolina FRIDAY APRII OQ OC\C\A ' ' Vol.97,No.91 www.dailygamecock.com • IML'MI, r\rr\ILZ.O, Z.VJVJH- Since 1908 Changing the world PHOTO BY JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK First-year public relations student Kim Ballard participates in an Earth Day celebration on Greene Street Thursday. The event was sponsored by SAGE, Students Advocating a Greener Earth. Board loses female trustee BY JACOB DAVIS flwiEtiAMECOCK The General Assembly unseat ed one of only two female mem bers of USC’s Board of Trustees in a meeting Wednesday. Helen Harvey had been a trustee at USC for 13 years. She was the only elected female mem ber of the board, as financier Darla Moore, the other female member, was a gubernatorial se lection. The ouster makes Moore the sole female member on the 18-per son board. Harvey lost the seat in a com bined House and Senate vote 94 68 to William Jones, a Beaufort attorney. She was defeated de spite strong support in the Senate because of the over whelming majority against her in the House. The Board of Trustees is in place to oversee USC activities. Specifically, its job is to assure that USC’s mission statement is fulfilled. With one female board member left, some are left ques tioning whether the university can effectively accomplish its mission statement. While women now make up less than 6 percent of USC’s board, 23 percent of the University of Florida’s board is made up of women; 30 percent of Duke University’s board is made up of women; and half of the board of trustees at the University of Kentucky are women. Laura Woliver, associate di rector of Women’s Studies at USC, saw Harvey’s dismissal as a setback. “I think that it is pitiful to see a state moving backwards the way this state seems to be,” she said. While she was not sure why Harvey was dismissed. Woliver said she knows what the dis missal means. “You now have vir tually no representation of the majority of the population, vot ers, and students of South ♦ TRUSTEES, SEE PAGE 3 USC might land IV show spinoff University is 1 of 4potential spots for collegiate bachelor dating show BY LADONNA BEEKER THEOAMECOCK USC is one of four universi ties competing to become the focus of a college-version of the popular reality show “The Bachelor.” Fraternity Council Vice President Tyler Jeffrey said he participated in a confer ence call Monday with Student Life Director Jerry Brewer, Greek Life Director Gena Runnion, Sorority Council President Kinsey Cooper and an executive pro ducer from a production stu dio in Los Angeles. The call served to provide student feedback on whether USC students would be inter ested in having a reality show filmed on-campus. ABC’s “The Bachelor” fea tures a group of 25 women try ing to win the heart of a single, wealthy man. New York Giant quarterback Jesse Palmer is the single man in the show’s fifth season. Cooper and Jeffrey put to gether a video of student opin ions on what they thought about the show coming to USC. “The students thought it was a grpat idea and were re ally excited, so it was pretty positive feedback,” Jeffrey said. The production, “Big Man on Campus,” will include one male and 25 females. The executive producer is looking for a college bachelor that is diverse, involved in ac tivities and knows a lot of peo ple, Jeffrey said. If USC is chosen, casting will begin as early as Monday and last through May 8. Jeffrey said he doesn’t know the other universities being re viewed. “The production committee chose USC because they said that they liked the diversity on campus,” Jeffrey said. “When I asked where the other schools were located, they said that they were not universities near us.” “Big Man on Campus” is scheduled to air this fall. The production studio will sell its film to either ABC, CBS or WB. USC should find out today if it was chosen as the final uni versity. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu PHOTO BY JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK Phi Beta Sigma members dance at the second annual free formal-semiformal held Thursday at the Top of Carolina. \ •Fraternity celebrates Carolina community Phi Beta Sigma’s Blue and White Week includes scholarships, special awards BY ALLYSON BIRD THE HAMECOCK Members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. watched the sun set over campus from the Top of Carolina Thursday night as they prepared for their second annual free formal-semiformal. The event is part of Blue and White Week, named for the frater nity’s colors and symbolizing its ^^commitment to the community. “Throughout the year we throw parties and we charge people to get in. During Blue and White Week E i I we give back,” said JaRodd Webb, Phi Beta Sigma president and a fourth-year management and mar keting student. The group sponsored free skat ing Tuesday at Skate Station USA, and held a date auction Wednesday at Bates West to sup port Oliver Gospel Mission. The fraternity will hold a pool party at today at 6 p.m. at the Strom Thurmond Wellness & Fitness Center. The fraternity will hold a cookout Saturday at 1 p.m. at the ♦ FRATERNITY, SEE PAGE 4 Pharmacy students seek facts at meeting Group packs Carolina Plaza to lobby USC board members BY GABRIELLE SINCLAIR THE GAMECOCK About 75 USC pharmacy stu dents wearing white lab coats stood in the second floor lobby of the Carolina Plaza Wednesday, hoping to speak to USC Board of Trustees members about the pos sible merger between the USC and MUSC pharmacy schools. Second-year professional stu dent Sarah Lynn Norwood said the Student Alliance to Protect Pharmacy in South Carolina is not against a merger, but rather the way this is being managed. “We’re pushing for a more effi cient merger,” Norwood said. “This one is based on bad data, and we want to reevaluate that.” USC President Andrew Sorensen said students at the Medical University of South Carolina aren’t protesting, and that this shows students are looking at the proposed merger as though there is a winner and a loser. “Because the dean is going to be (at MUSC) doesn’t necessarily mean that one school is better than the other,” Sorensen said. ♦ PHARMACY, SEE PAGE 3 PHOTO BY MORGAN FORD/THE GAMECOCK Towers such as this one off 1-26 can be seen more and more as cell phone companies try to keep up with service demands. Hidden towers let cell phone service grow with demand BY GREG WEBSTER THE GAMECOCK At first glance, the four lights on top of the Bank of America parking garage on Main Street ap pear to be a mistake in architec ture. Their positions on the build ing’s four comers man._ _ mase mem iook like towers to a metro castle. To add to the anomaly, the sev en-story building is the same com mon cement brown that pro vides the back ground to South four lights stand out in their bright, snow-white color. However, those walking on the seventh story of this parking garage may notice why these tow ers are different. On the southeast tower reads a sign, “MicroPole A Wireless Site Solution.” These towers are in fact not lights, but rather “stealth” cell phone towers designed to hide cell phone towers in their environ ment. With America’s unquench able thirst for cell phones and in creasing service aemanas, mese new structures are providing subscribers bet ter service in ur ban environ ments. Columbia zon ing administrator Marc Mylott rec ognizes the value vice to high-demand areas while fitting in with a city’s strict zon ing policies. “When you have a community ♦ TOWERS, SEE PAGE 4 - — vvnen yuu iidve a community that increases in density, you all of a sudden have a greater need to build more towers.” MARC MYLOTT COLUMBIA ZONING ADMINISTRATOR What's. Inside 6 ♦ RELAY FOR LIFE USC students walk to MORE SEE PAGE 5 raise mane for cancer research. FOR MORE ♦WASHINGTON WOMEN USC students SEEPAGES* head to D.C. for national women’s march. ♦STOPJHE PRESSES USA Today editor FOR MORE SEE PAGE 8 swps down amid fraud scandal. FOR ♦ GETTING ARTSY Art bar holds first 18 ■ y . mf! Index and-up music festival. FOR MORE SEE Comics and Crossword 10 ^eE 8 Classified 13 ♦ 800 Softball coach Joyce Cromer earns —-— 800th career win. for more SEE page Horoscopes_10 11 Letters to the Editor 7 ) l Hie Gamecock is printed on Online Poll 7 recycled paper. 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