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Inside This Issue Today’s Weather C EtCetera looks at ‘90s pop culture The Week: Partly doudy, highs in the Page 6 90s, lows in the eos. n'o. 90 University of South Carolina www.gamecock.sc.edu BwilMiHIMilllMHHSwBroilMIlljlilW USC names dean of education USC News Department of Education Dr. Les Sternberg, dean of the Col lege of Education and Human Develop ment at Bowling Green State Universi ty, has been named dean of the USC’s College of Education. At Bowling Green, Sternberg is re sponsible for four schools within the col lege and more than 150 faculty and staff. USC President John M. Palms said Sternberg’s education, administrative and research background has prepared him well for his new post. “We know from the value of edu cation today how crucial teacher preparation is to the future of our state,” Palms said. “I am confident that our Col lege of Education, under Dr. Sternberg’s leadership, will provide our state with the very best classroom teachers and ad ministrators and make even greater con tributions as a leader in the field of edu cation.” Stembeig, who will become dean on Aug. 7, said he was attracted to USC by the opportunity to work with an out standing faculty and staff a university whose leadership understands the im portance and impact of a College of Education. “First and foremost I was attracted by the quality of people who comprise the College of Education,” Stembeig said. “I was also very impressed by the fact that the overall university community seems to be speaking in one voice re garding support for new initiatives that likely will be undertaken to enhance the excellence of the college.” Sternberg earned his bachelor’s de gree in psychology, his master’s in spe cial education and his doctorate in edu cational psychology from the University of Connecticut. He joined Bowling Green in 1994 af ter serving as associate dean at Iowa State University’s College of Education. He will succeed Dr. Fred Medway, who has served as interim dean of USC’s College of Education since 1998. USC’s College of Education enrolls approximately 4,500 students and grad uates more educators each year than any other education college in South Caroli na. Last year, the college graduated 633 future educators, including 59 with doc torates. The only college in South Carolina to offer a 5-year, undergraduate/gradu ate degree, USC’s College of Education is ranked 56th out of 188 colleges of ed ucation in U.S. News and World Report. For more information about USC’s College of Education, log onto http://www.ed.sc.edu. I-1 Flag decision debated by Pete Johnson Viewpoints Editor Last Wednesday's live telecast of Gov. Jim Hodges’ signing of the flag agree ment shined the national spotlight upon Columbia once again. USC students have expressed mixed reactions to the agreement, which calls for a smaller, square version of the flag to be placed atop a 30- foot- tall flagpole behind the Confederate Soldier Monu ment on the Statehouse grounds at Main and Gervais streets. Some students taking classes this summer expressed the desire for a more drastic solution. "The argument will be over only when the flag is removed from public view. It's history, it belongs in a muse um, not in our faces,” said Jonathan Gar rick, an English and film studies senior. “How can South Carolina move into the 21st century when the problems of the 19th century haven't been solved?” Others believe that the National As sociation for the Advancement of Col ored People is adding insult to injury with plans to increase sanctions against the state if the planned flag monument is erected. “I don't see why the NAACP and the anti-flag supporters are mad. We're do ing what they wanted,” said Rick John ston, a journalism senior. “1 don't see what the point is about taking the flag down. I can't see how a piece of cloth infringes upon someone's rights,” Johnston added. “I can see how it infringes upon one's interests, but not upon one's rights.” Hodges signed the flag proposal live on SCETV, South Carolina's statewide public television network. The ceremo ny was broadcast nationally as well. Some flag supporters felt insulted at the live broadcast of the bill’s signing. “I think signing the flag bill on television was a low-class move,” John ston said. Others watched and cheered, but some students believe there is more left to fight for. “I think it's great that the South Car olina state representatives decided to take it down,” said Sherard Duvall, a media arts senior, “but to put it on the state house grounds is like saying, 'Sike, you're mine.’” “This might be a step in the right di rection for South Carolina,” Garrick said, “but we're still far behind.” Gamecocks near the top Sean Rayford Photo Editor John McHenry turns a double play with shortstop Drew Meyer (7) in last Friday’s victory over the Liberty Flames in the first game of the NCAA Regional, held May 26-29 in Columbia USC defeated Wake Forest twice to win the regional and will face Louisiana Lafeyette at Sarge Frye Field in this weekend’s Super Regional. Cleanup not high priority for students by Arlene Levinson Associated Press Battered sofas and bicycles. Used shoes and faded fashions. Stereo speakers, TV sets. Collec tions of beer bottles. The oc casional street sign. And miles and miles of carpeting. It’s an annual rite of college life: The trash and treasure that students leave as they check out, whether for summer or for good. And across the nation this spring, college officials at some 1,700 schools with residence halls are rolling up their sleeves. “It’s beyond coinprehension how much stuff comes out of those rooms,” says Gaiy Schwarzmueller, executive director of the Associ ation of College and University Housing Officers International in Columbus, Ohio. What underclassmen don’t 3s tore for the summer and what grad uating seniors don’t take with them goes into trash bins — and some times to donation boxes, to staff and to scavengers. Until 1992, Schwarzmueller was housing director at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. During two decades of orientations, parents would ask: “What should I bring?” And he’d advise: “As little as pos sible!” Schwarzmueller often went unheeded “I used to get the biggest laugh out of seeing U-Hauls come in ” And go out—pickup trucks, SUVs, family cars chock-full at year’s end. Deborah Tyson, assistant di rector of housing operations at the University of Denver, has worked in student housing at five schools. She’s seen students abandon broken TVs, street signs, plus “a lot of collections of alcohol bot tles, with colored water that glows in the dark, and anything they’ve probably stolen along the way.” Garbage seepages