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Top Miss America sn USC was overjoyed ir September when a Columbia resi dent we thought to be a USC sophomore was crowned Mis: America, ts.imDeriy Aiicen, 15 was a student at UNC-Charlottt this past year and supposedly enrolled in classes at USC this summer. During the pageant, Aiken wa< featured in a short feature video at the Thomas Coopei Library and on the Horseshoe. USC welcomed her ? few weeks later with open arms and anxiety for her tc begin her academic career at Carolina. "We're all proud of Kim Aiken, and we're prouci that she's a student at the University of South Carolina," USC President John Palms said in October. However, The Gamecock recently revealed Aiker never had any intention of attending USC and will instead attend classes at UNC-Chapel Hill in fall 1994. "Nothing is wrong with USC, but I wanted tc Cremins signs, 1 Steve Newton was sent where all bad coaches go when they resign or get fired: "reassignment" hell. Newton resigned Bobby Cremins came and weni like the wind and Eddie Foglei jJttMHi joined USC's basketball squad as coach in the spring. Newton resigned as basketball coach in January after an investigation uncovered a few NCAA "secondary violations " He was reassioned as an assistant athletics director for the remainder of his contract. Georgia Tech basketball coach and USC basketball alumni Cremins got S.C. residents excited in March when he decided to come and take over the position left vacant by Newton. On March 26, the lead story in The Gamecock had a headline that read "Cremins to rebuild program" in 85-point type. "I'm 45 years old and have been al Tech for 12 years," Cremins said. "I felt that it was Proposal would elin State Sen. John Drummond proposed in October to create a S.C. Board of Regents that would manage every college and university in the state. Each institution currently has its own system ol leadership. Drummond's proposal would abolish these individual boards. USC President John Palms believes the move to a unified Board of Regents might not be a good idea. Palms prefers the board of trustees system that USC uses. 1 "I don't see how a Board of Regents is going to necessarily provide the additional resources that we need," Palms said. "And I doubt if this state is ready to do away with the boards of trustees." Many Southern state systems, including Georgia and Florida, have a board of regents system. Gamecock soccc The soccer team tied the 4 record for the best finish by a USC team by making it to the final round of the NCAA Tournament in Davidson, N.C.. Sunday. Unfortunately, the Gamecocks dropped the match 20 on a wet field. The Gamecocks kicked ofl their season with impressive victories against Davidson and Santa Clara before a loss to Furman foi the third consecutive year. USC followed a loss to Mrtrth f^nrrvllnn Ktr rlnfootin rr Vifmnio P Ammr\niifDoltb n wi ui v^aiuuua uy utiwauug t u^uua ^uuunuiiwwaiuj in the Gamecocks first-ever Metro Conference game. .After the loss to UNC, the Gamecocks where nearly unstoppable, losing only two games the rest of the season. In Metro Conference play, the Gamecocks Woods gets boot In a move by USC Athletics Director Mike McGee that surprised few, football Coach Sparky Woods was fired in late M November. McGee announced luesaay that hiU unensive Coordinator Brad Scott would take over. "Coach Woods has taken our program as far as he can take it," McGee said. "A coaching change is necessary for our football program to move to the next level and to compete successfully in this state and the Southeastern Conference." Woods, who was hired in 1989 amid a steroids controversy and ridicule in the national and local media, defended his record at a press conference following McGee's announcement. "I knew to build a winning program with integrity and to achieve these goals was going to be a monu Ten Siob tubs Gamecocks 1 broaden my horizons," she said. "I was going to go to ; USC for summer school, but I won the state title ^ before classes started." Students had mixed reactions about the news Aiken 5 would not be attending USC next fall. "I kind of feel used because of this," criminal justice junior Lezlie Chappell said. "I'm happy that she is j Miss America, but I don't think she should have said r she was a USC student during the pageant." Aiken's Miss America tour of duty focuses on / homelessness, and she will tour the country this year I offering assistance to those in need. She founded the 1 Homeless Education and Resource Organization after winning Miss Columbia in 1992. I She is to receive a $35,000 scholarship and a red 1994 Camaro convertible. She is expected to earn 1 $200,000 from speaking engagements during her tour. Fogler takes job 5 time for a change, a new challenge." Three days later, the headline read "Cremins to remain Yellow Jacket." The decision for Cremins to come back and coach a program where he once played was great news to 1 USC. Cremins said the reason he changed his mind was primarily because of his players at Georgia Tech and his family. Vanderbilt's Fogler relieved the administration in early April when he packed his bags and moved to Columbia to take over. Fogler was selected the 1993 1 Coach of the Year by such entities as the Associated i Press and Sports Illustrated. I Fogler has been off to a bumpy start at USC, but 1 strong recruiting and positive attitudes promise to help L the Gamecocks accomplish a great deal within the next few years. ninate USC trustees l The issue of who has the authority to make policy, i especially involving enrollment, new construction and 1 tenure, has been in the forefront since the Commission on Higher Education introduced an alternative appro1 priations proposal that would limit enrollment to fiscal year 1993-94 levels. "They are far removed from the institutions," Palms 1 said. "And the CHE staff have not run major campuses and have not had major responsibility." CHE voted Oct. 7 to change its appropriations pro; cedures to encourage institutions to control enrollment procedures and infrastructure expanding while guaranteeing funding at 1993-94 levels. Other proposed changes in higher education to be tackled by the Legislature during its next session include replacing tenure with "imminent status" and program duplication. Palms believes neither proposal is legitimate and is a distraction to the primary issue of funding. ;r finishes No. 2 ! went undefeated. This clinched the conference chami pionship and a bid to the NCAA Tournament. > Unlike the football team, the soccer squad put the ? Clemson Tigers in their place and defeated them twice , this season. The first match was a 2-1 overtime victo: ry at Clemson. In the playoffs, USC triumphed against Furman before topping Clemson 3-2. The following week, USC defeated Air Force 6-0 to earn a trip to the Final Four. At Davidson, a late goal by Jaime Poznanski beat ' Cal State-Fullerton and sent a USC team to the NCAA i final for the first time since the baseball team in 1977. Despite the loss, the players walked off the field ' with their heads high. ! "It was an honor just to be in a game like that," i senior captain Pete Duitsman said. , Scott takes over \ mental task considering the obstacles we faced," Woods said. In a year when most Midlands residents would have put their money on the Gamecocks to have a strong, winning season, the team went 4-7. Tough losses to Kentucky, Florida and Clemson kept USC from going to a bowl game, and quarterback Steve Taneyhill did not have any legitimate opportunities to sign his name on opponents' fields or hit imaginary homeruns. Many were upset to see Woods go because they enjoyed his friendliness and the fact that he ran a clean program. Clemson fired Coach Ken Hatfield but for different reasons than a poor record. Hatfield's squad went 8-3 this season and will play in the Peach Bowl in late December. Clemson gave Hatfield the boot because of personality differences between him and the alumni and administration. a See yc cock ilES IN Rl Robberies raise cai 6 The USC and Columbia police departments spent a good part of 1993 working to fight crime on campus. In September and October, a few serious robberies occurred. A student was shot during one of the robberies. Students David Harwell and Scott Segui told police they were hitchhiking back to campus from Five Points at about 3 a.m. Oct. 2. They said two men in a red Toyota Tercel offered them a rirtp After a few minutes of driving, the car turned north on Assembly. Then, the man in the passenger seat put a gun to Harwell's throat and demanded money. Harwell gave the man $2. The car turned onto Greene Street between the Koger Center and the Coliseum. Then, Segui was shot in the chest. The two men then fled from the car. Carl Stokes, USC vice president of Law Enforcement and Safety, said Sequi is the only USC Professors question i 7 As soon as the Board of Trustees approved an early retirement program for faculty in February, many educators and others were wary of the plan's possible academic consequences. The plan was created as a one-year voluntary retirement program with an incentive to attract those fully eligible to retire. The funds saved, an estimated $5.96 million, will return to each college for the dean to allocate, which will allow the deans to reprioritize the needs of each department. Now that 94 professors, 75 from the Columbia campus, have opted to take USC's offer to retire in juuc iyyn, many ueparuiiems nave some reservations about the retirement plan's effect. Davis Baird, chairman of the philosophy department, said several of the courses once offered have been cancelled or closed. Drunken driver kills 8 USC mourned the April death of Nancy Mobre Thurmond, a USC senior and daughter of Sen. Strom Thurmond. She was struck by a car in Five Points by a drunk driver. She was 22. She suffered massive injuries and internal bleeding. Thurmond would have graduated from USC this past May and had plans to attend law school. "Nancy truly represents the best qualities of American youth, the values and actions we would like to see in all our young people," criminal justice Professor Ralph Stephens said. "Though her life was privileged, she used every opportunity, maintained a Committee evaluates 9 USC President John Palms created a Future Committee in January that consisted of faculty and students. The committee's main goal was to evaluate each USC college and make recommendations to Palms about where that department should be headed. During the spring semester, the committee sought proposals and recommendations from officials in every USC department on how much money each I department could sacrifice and still remain efficient. In the summer, the committee made a final recommendation to Palms that suggested ways to deal with ' uie severe ouagei cuts ana losses iu mgiici euucauon < during the past few years. . Initial plans called for each department to suggest how it would deal with 12-percent cuts. The colleges ' were then asked which programs they would fund if < USC breaks ground WUSC broke ground on a new ( School of Music in j February after months of planning and petitoning the state for funds. i The administration decided to follow through with plans for a new building after faculty and students 1 said the existing facilities in McMaster College were ' no longer sufficient. The academic programs of the School of Music are j housed in five buildings. None of these buildings were constructed with music study and performance in mind. c iu in January! Thai - the Fall C iVIEW npus safety issues student to have been shot since Stokes came to USC in 1981. He said his department is concerned about the recent robberies but is not sure what can be done to stop them from occurring. "What we're doing is pretty much all we can do," Stokes said. "We have an ongoing crime awareness program in which we are constantly talking with various groups about crime on campus." In mid-September, two armed robberies occurred within five days of each other in the Towers area. Residents were called to an emergency meeting where Stokes talked to a crowd of 250. He warned the students to be extra careful and gave them advice about traveling in pairs and other nighttime safety measures. retirement package "Therefore, we have strong pressure to hire as many entry-level professors as possible," he said. Lorin Anderson, chairman of the educational leadership and policies department in the College of Education, shared similar concerns. He said in the year following a professor's retirement, it is not pos sioie to mi tne space because only nair ot the salary is still available. Anderson said educational consequences should te discussed in greater length before deciding what can be done to save money. Jane Jamison, vice president of the Division of Human Resources, said the purpose of the incentive program is to reduce the payroll because of severe budget cuts. senator's daughter high GPA and was tireless in her efforts in the community." Corrine Koenig was charged with felony drunken driving. She admitted she had been drinking soon before striking Thurmond, and a blood alcohol test revealed her BAC was .16. Strom Thurmond received calls from a myriad of national leaders, but only took calls from President Clinton and Vice President Gore. Gore attended the funeral in Columbia. Thurmond's death raised the question of safety in Five Points and methods to increase safety for USC students who frequent the area. ; college resources nrPCPTlfPrl with rptlirn fnnHirin nf A. MfCiint ?VIU11? lUUUlllg ui U pviwv/iu. Proposals from different colleges in March include: The College of Math and Science proposed $1.8 million in cuts and enhancements. The College of Humanities and Social Sciences proposed $1.9 in cuts and $5 million in enhancements. The College of Nursing proposed cuts of $324,025. The College of Education proposed $625,000 in cuts and $362,000 in enhancements. The Honors College proposed cuts of $58,000. The College of Business Administration proposed cuts of $1.27 million and $636,000 in enhancements. on music building "A first-class school of music, like excellence in [he study and practice of music itself, is a fundamental part of a comprehensive university," USC President John Palms said. The site of the new building is on Assembly Street lext to the Koger Center. It will be four levels and 100,000 square feet. The new building will feature an expanded music library, 40 new computer work stations, a 250-seat lecture hall and 60 sound-isolated nusic practice rooms. The building will serve 450 students enrolled in iie School of Music, as well as other faculty, staff ind students. The building will cost about $17.5 million to build, rnd it is expected to be completed by winter 1994. nks! iamecock staff