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Former dean convicted on two charges
by Clayton Kale
News Editor
Christiansburg, va. — l he
former dean of the College of
Engineering and Information
Technology was convicted
Thursday of two counts of ob
taining properly by false pre
tenses.
Craig Rogers could get up
to 10 years in prison for each
count wlien he is sentenced June
Rogers
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Rogers was also charged with four counts of mis
use of state funds while he was the director of the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute Center for Intelligent
Material Systems and Structures.
But Montgomery County Circuit Judge Ray
Grubbs dismissed the chaiges of misuse of state
funds, saying Vnginia Tech had no written policies
governing how professors must spend private do
nations to public universities. Grubbs also granted
a defense motion to take the chaiges against Rogers
under advisement until the sentencing hearing.
At that time, Grubbs could impose the sentences
or order Rogers to perform some service in lieu of
the convictions. Grubbs could also erase the con
victions after a year if Rogers meets certain condi
tions set by the court.
The chinges involve transactions between April
1993 and August 1996. Investigators haven’t dis
closed the amount of money involved, but accord
ing to indictments, the amount was well in the thou
sands.
However, the money involved in Rogers’ con
viction totaled only $586.
Grubbs found that Rogers used state money to
pay for a $377 plane ticket and $209 in expenses
incurred on a trip to Dallas to watch a Virginia Tech
basketball game. Rogers was attending a work-re
lated conference in Denver when he look the side
trip to Dallas.
Rogers stepped down as dean of the College
of Engineering after he was indicted last year.
Jimmy Turk, Rogers’ attorney, said in closing
arguments that Rogers couldn’t be held criminally
responsible if nobody told him what he was doing
was wrong.
David Rigler, an assistant Virginia attorney gen
eral, said it shouldn’t be necessary to tell people not
to steal from their employers.
The Virginia State Police Department began in
vestigating Rogers after receiving complaints from
other employees that he was taking funds for the
research center and putting them into Paradigm Inc.,
a private corporation that no longer exists.
USC spokesman Jason Snyder said: “Until there
is a clear disposition on the case, the university
has no comment.”
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sweeps
• Tigers
by Mark Piras
Senior Writer
Covered in shaving cream, grinning
from ear to ear and in front of a sold-out
crowd that refused to leave even after
the game was over, the Gamecocks (38
4) celebrated their new No. 1 ranking in
dramatic fashion, coming from behind
three separate limes to beat Clemson 9
8 in 12 innings for their 13th consecu
tive win.
Designated hitter Trey Dyson had
three hits, including a lowering two-run
home run in the bottom of the ninth with
one out that lied the game at 7. Dyson
also had a one-out double in the bottom
% of the lltli that tied the game at 8.
“This is definitely the best feeling
in my baseball career,” Dyson said. “With
our athletic programs not faring too well
against Clemson this year, we had marked
these two games on our schedule. We just
wanted to win these more than anything.
We just kept on fighting tonight, and
we got the job done.”
Up 7-5 going into the ninth inning,
Clemson brought in closer Nick Glaser
to finish off the game. Glaser struck out
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The Gamecock baseball team defeated Clemson Wednesday In extra Innings to sweep the series. Starting catcher Brandon Pack,
center, raises his arms In victory after the game.
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Student body President Jotaka Eaddy, left, and former student
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Woody Carothers with an award. He served SG for 35 years.
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McCain apologizes for silence
about Confederate flae issue
by Brandon Larrabee
Associate News Editor
Two months to the day after his de
feat in the South Carolina Republican
Primary, Ariz. Sen. John McCain apol
ogized to South Carolinians for not
previously stating his personal belief that
the Confederate flag shouldn’t fly on the
Statehouse dome.
McCain’s remarks, the first he has
made publicly regarding his personal feel
ings about the issue, came at a lun
cheon for the Council of Governors of
the South Carolina Policy Council, a non
partisan research foundation. Though he
was at the luncheon to speak on the con
servative reform agenda, McCain’s com
ments on the flag comprised the largest
part of his speech.
McCain said he tried to act on
principle throughout his primary cam
paign but failed when he was confront
ed with the issue of whether the flag
should remain on the dome.
“Only once, 1 believe, did I act in an
’... I sincerely regret breaking my promise to
always tell you the truth.’
Sen. John McCain
R-Ariz.
unprincipled way,” McCain said. “But
once is enough, and I want to tell the
people of South Carolina and all Amer
icans that 1 sincerely regret breaking my
promise to always tell you the truth.”
McCain said he was dishonest by not
speaking about the flag issue earlier. Sev
eral limes during the campaign, McCain
was asked what he thought about the
flag’s position. McCain said he first an
swered that the flag was a state issue.
“When pressed on that, 1 answered,
repeatedly that while some view it as a
symbol of oppression, others cherish it
as a symbol of an honorable heritage,”
McCain told tire council. “That, loo, was
a factual response, but it was not an hon
est answer to the question.”
The senator referred to his own an
cestors’ service in the Confederacy dur
ing tire Civil War, adding that he was sure
many, if not all, of his ancestors fought
with courage.
“But I don’t believe their service,
however distinguished, needs to be com
memorated in a way that offends, that
deeply hurts people whose ancestors were
once denied their freedom by my an
cestors,” he said.
McCain said his ancestors “might
have fought to uphold a principle they
believed was just.”
“But they fought to sever the
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students
practice
activism
by Patrick Rathbun
Assistant News Editor
Although causes worthy of social ac
tivism might not be as salient now as in
the 1960s, some USC students are dis
covering ways to express their dissatis
faction with current politics.
Members of USC’s chapter of
Amnesty International on Sunday took
part in an effort to shut down the Wash
ington, D.C., meetings of the World Bank
and the International Monetary fund be
cause they think the organizations
aren’t providing their agendas fully and
accurately. Beneath the international fi
nancial organizations’ claim of aiding in
dustrializing nations lie oppressive finan
cial policies, according to some chapter
members.
“(The organizations’ policies] are poor
ly conceived and executed without the
true needs of the people in mind,” said
Angeline Echeverria, a Latin American
studies senior, chapter member and protest
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Echeverria said the protesters were
trying to send a message of disapproval to
the organizations because of the damage
the institutions do to the rest of the world.
Just because the United States benefits
from affordable goods, including clothes,
doesn’t mean the organizations’ means
are approved, she said.
And although the protesters didn’t ac
complish their goal of shutting down the
meetings, that doesn’t mean they didn’t
succeed, Echeverria said. She said the
demonstrators were successful in gaining
media attention and getting the word
out on the oiganizations—and, she hopes,
getting more people involved in activism.
“1 would definitely encourage young
people to be more active,” Echeverria
said. “If you at look at social movements,
it is when young people get involved that
true change happens.”
Political science junior Christine Cook,
president of USC’s Amnesty International
and protest attendee, said that education
is necessary in order to reform the oiga
nizations’ policies.
“TKa IK4C .. D .1 r> Is
trench poverty,” Cook said “There won’t
be reform unless the public sees the flaws
in the system.
“Globalization affects everyone. It is
detrimental to the economic system in
America and abroad. It’s an issue that
should at least be thought about.”
Another protest attendee, anthropol
ogy junior and USC’s Amnesty Interna
tional Vice President Autumn Perkins,
said the policies of IMF and the World
Bank have negative impacts on human
rights and the environment. She said the
policies perpetuate and exploit tire world’s
impoverished Perkins described the event
as a “cultural learning experience” where
in people from different ends of the cul
tural spectrum worked together.
Nirav Mehta, an economics and in
ternational studies sophomore and USC’s
Amnesty International Secretary, went to
the rally and said he was interested in “rais
ing consciousness” about the “injustice”
and exploitation of the organizations’ poli
cies. He said the organizations’ econom
ics don’t work and that their theories
are wrong. Mehta also said the organiza
tions “claim to be helping” industrializ
ing nations, but their real interest lies in
“corporate” and “private monetary ad
vantage” or gain.
Anthropology junior Ron Edwards
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Online Poll
Should the NAACP continue its
boycott if the flag is moved
from the Statehouse dome?
Yes: 23% No: 77%
Look for next week’s question in
Wednesday’s edition of The Gamecock.
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