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^ The University of South Carolina Monday, April 24, 2006 Vol. 99, No. 91 • Since 1908
VIP offers
students
ability to
buy books
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Internet link sends buyers
to University Bookstore’s
online ordering system
Jess Davis
STAFF WRITER
Students can now order
textbooks immediately after
registering for classes, thanks to a
new addition to VIP.
^ The “Bookstore” tab under the
™ Academics portion of the Web
site allows students to see the
books they will need for the next
semester with one click, by taking
them to the University Bookstore’s
online ordering system.
Student Government President
Tommy Preston said the
initiative is not aimed at creating
a monopoly for the University
Bookstore. Getting textbook lists
online allows students “go out and
plan ahead,” said Preston, a third
year political science student. He
said students could look online or
at other stores for books now that
they have the information available
right away.
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to turn in textbook request forms.
Only 46 percent of professors have
turned in textbook requests to the
University Bookstore for the fall,
Preston said.
He and bookstore manager
Andy Shaffer spoke to the Faculty
Senate to talk about how to make
textbooks more affordable for
students, and the first priority was
getting faculty to turn in book lists
earlier, Preston said.
Other methods Preston named
were making sure faculty wanted
unbundled versions of books as
well as bundled versions and not
using new editions as often.
The new system is the result of
a long-time SG initiative to lower
textbook prices. Textbook price
has been an issue for the executive
officers since Preston and Vice
President Ryan Holt took office
in 2005, with Preston then serving
as Treasurer.
“We realized that certain
textbook prices are a national
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Nick hares / THE GAMECOCK
USC officials say the Towers should be demolished some time this summer, making way for a new
Honors College residence hall that will house about 700 first-year students and upperclassmen.
Tower tumble
Students should return next semester to campus without ‘Honeycombs'
Joshua Rabon
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
When students return from
summer vacation they can expect
the Towers to either be shut
down or not in existence.
The towers — Douglas,
Snowden, Moore and LaBorde
— are in their last semester of
service, said Joe Fortune, assistant
director for undergraduate
assignments with University
Housing.
Fortune said he is unaware of
a specific date for demolition to
begin.
“We are still anticipating that
they will not be open in the fall,”
he said.
Briggs Ahearn, a first-year
biology student who lives in
Douglas, said while the quality
of the Towers is not so good,
he would rather live there than
other freshman dorms.
“I like it for its location, but
the quality is somewhat lacking,”
Ahearn said. “I would still live in
the Towers if I picked all over
again.”
Fortune said the site occupied
by the Towers would house a
new Honors College residence
hall.
“I think it is slated for
approximately 700 students,” he
said.
Fortune said the new dorm
would hold first-year students
and upperclassmen. The Towers
hold about 900 students.
“The migration of those
TOUJCRS • >1
TUESDAY
TOURNEY
TO OFFER
PLENTY OF
‘TEE TIME’
Proceeds to go to
scholarship fund
Oreui Broohs
THE GAMECOCK
The Tee-It-Up Golf Tournament
is being held at Northwoods Golf
Club in northeast Columbia on
Tuesday.
USC’s department of sport
and entertainment management
is organizing the “fun study
break before exams begin” as a
way to help fellow students, said
Trey Patty, a third-year sport
and entertainment management
student and one of three directors
of the tournament.
Once a bi-annual tournament, it
has not been held since fall 2003
because of lack of interest, Patty
said.
Entry costs $45 for USC
students, $55 for non-students
and includes entry into the
tournament, breakfast, lunch and
a bucket of golf balls.
Also, for those less-skilled
golfers, mulligans or “re-dos,” are
available for $5 each or three for
$10.
All proceeds from the event go
to a scholarship fund within the
department.
About 10 teams of four will
compete in this year’s tournament,
Patty said.
“We’re expecting good weather,
and it should be fun,” she said.
Aside from bragging rights, first
prize will be $50 for each member
of the winning team. Second
prize is a $20 gift certificate to
Golf Headquarters for each team
member, and third prize is a
case of golf balls for each team
member.
Also being awarded will be prizes
for longest drive and “closest to
the pin.” Those prizes are still
being determined.
The format will be 18 holes,
shotgun start with captain’s choice.
The latter means that the team’s
captain selects the spot from which
the team will play the next shot.
Registration and breakfast begin
at 9 a.m. with the shotgun start at
10 a.m. The awards ceremony is
tentatively scheduled for 3 p.m.
Also available at registration
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State House campout to show support for Ugandan children
Katie Boucher
THE GAMECOCK
Imagine having to walk
up to 5 miles every night
just to keep from being
abducted.
According to
Invisiblechildren.com, tens
of thousands of children
from northern Uganda
make this commute every
night to the center of
town. If they stay in their
village, they are susceptible
to being kidnapped and
brainwashed by the Lord’s
Resistance Army or the
Rebel Army. There have
been an estimated 20,000 to
50,000 children abducted to
fight as soldiers.
Three filmmakers
journeyed to Uganda and
discovered this story while
making a documentary
about their travels.
USC students and others
will be sleeping on the
steps of the State House on
Saturday to raise awareness
of the issue. People in 130
cities in the United States
and seven other countries
are gathering as well.
The Invisible Children
Web site says there are an
estimated 28,817 people
committed to this Global
Night Commute, and the
numbers are rising. Through
this demonstration, people
are asking the government
to help stop the war in
northern Uganda.
Rachel Renfrow, a student
at Columbia International
University and Columbia’s
Global Night Commute
planner, said she has traveled
to Uganda twice. She spent
last summer there tutoring
children in an orphanage.
“I was shocked that such
a horrible war was going on,
and I’d never heard about
it before I went,” Renfrow
said. “I tried to tell people
about it when I came home,
but it’s really something you
have to see and hear about
firsthand.”
One of the filmmakers
said “the rebels come
around 2 a.m. on a dark
rainy night with torches
ablaze and AK-47’s strapped
to their backs to take ... 30
children at one time. They
burn huts, loot villages and,
within an hour’s time, a
commander of the Rebels
will force the 29 kidnapped
to watch him as he orders
another 12-year-old soldier
to brutally cut open one of
the kidnapped children.”
One of the filmmakers
made a statement in a
journal on the Invisible
Children Web site about
two 12-year-old boys who
were abducted and forced
to watch their own brother
be killed. Afterwards, they
had to make the sign of the
cross on their foreheads
with their brother’s blood.
The boys escaped from
the Rebel army and returned
to their village only to find
that their mother and father
had been killed by the army.
The filmmakers helped the
two boys out of the city.
Renfrow said that
when she learned of the
documentary, she knew she
had to join in the fight.
“When I heard about
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Viewpoints
Aaron Brazier andtiz
White go toe to toe over
the value (or lack thereof)
of‘Sex and the Gfy’TecIa
MarkOSky tells us sweet
little lies.
The Mix
Heavy traffic
For one class, three
students make a
documentary about
the perils of human
trafficking.
Sports
Total recap
The Gamecock
Sports staff looks
back on the best
moments at USC
for 2005-2006.
Index
Comics & Crossword.... 10
Classifieds..13
Horoscopes.10
Opinion.7
Police Report..2
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