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_VOL. 94, No. 36 Monday November 27, 2000 _
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Florida certified for Bush
ELECTION
2000
^ Vote totals as of
9 6 p.m. Sunday:
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■ Bush: 2,912,790
■ Gore: 2,912,253
■ Difference: 537
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■ Gore: 50(156,783
■ Bush: 49,819,600
■ Others: 3,835,594
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■ Bush declares victory, but legal challenges
from Gore will extend contested election
by Walter Mears
Associated Press
Florida's secretary of state certified George W.
Bush the winner over A1 Gore Sunday night in the
state's near-deadlocked presidential vote—but court
contests left in doubt which man will be the ultimate
victor and 43rd president of the United States. Bush
said he had won the White House and asked Gore to
reconsider his challenges.
“Now that the votes are counted, it is time for the
votes to count,” Gov. Bush said from the state Capi
tol in Austin, Texas, after Secretary of State Kather
ine Harris, a campaign supporter, announced that he
Iiad captured Florida by an infinitesimal 537-vote mar
gin.
Bush announced that running mate Dick Cheney
will direct his transition operations in Washington,
and that former Secretary of Transportation An
drew Card will be his White House chief of staff.
So saying, Bush tried to preempt Gore with a cam
paign to persuade Americans that the election is over
with, and that the outcome announced in Florida
should be the last word.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice pres
idential nominee, already had declared that it won't
Certified see page 2
Tom Pennington College Press Exchange
George W. Bush greets well-wishers Tuesday
morning outside the Texas State Capitol In Austin.
GAMECOCKS HUSTLE THEIR WAY TO VICTORY
Sean Rayford The Gamecock
Gamecock center Tony Kltchlngs, bottom, calls a timeout during Saturday's game against S.C. State. USC won 72-58 to go to 2-1 this year. See Sports, page 7.
•Monkey Bar replaces McKenzie’s in Five Points
by Valerie Matchette
The Gamecock
Monkey bars are no longer just something
to be found on playgrounds.
A new bar in Five Points hopes to become
as popular a draw for local college students as
monkey bars are for schoolchildren.
The Monkey Bar at 711 Saluda Ave. is the
successor to McKenzie’s Pub. McKenzie’s own
er Chris Worley sold his establishment because
he was about to become a father.
Eric Geake, who had been a manner at com
^ peting Five Points bar Sharky’s for two and a
half years, jumped at the opportunity to own his
own business.
“He just wanted out because he was hav
ing a baby and starting a family, pretty much,”
Geake said. “We heard about it, and offered him
whatever he wanted for it.”
Renovations were made to the bar before its
grand opening last week.
The new owners spent about a month and a
half investigating wliat potential customers were
looking for in a bar and then used the informa
tion to give McKenzie’s a facelift.
“It’s a big difference when you walk in,”
Geake said.
The most common complaints people had
about most local bars were about poor service,
liigli prices and bad music selections. These were
the areas the Monkey Bar concentrated on to
give it a better atmosphere.
“We made a nice bar that still has college
prices,” Geake said.
Geake emphasized the cleanliness of the
Monkey Bar when compared to typical bars.
“We have a place where the girls can come
in and actually sit on toilets and use the bath
rooms and all that,” he said.
According to journalism senior Taylor Mar
shall-Green, who worked as a bartender at
McKenzie’s for three years, the best part about
the Monkey Bar is its drink prices.
“Its beer prices are very cheap, especially
at happy hour,” said Marshall-Green.
It has been rumored the Monkey Bar got its
name because a lot of students were born in
1980, the Year of the Monkey in the Chinese
calendar.
However, there is no such hidden meaning
in the simple pun of this bar’s name.
After about three weeks of brainstorming,
the Monkey Bar’s management found that they
only had to look back to their own childhoods
for inspiration.
“Monkey ban ... when you’re a little kid
it’s just something fun, you know, that’s pretty
much what it came from,” Geake said.
The city/state desk can be reached at
gamecockcttydesk@hotmail.com.
‘We have a place where the girls can come in and
actually sit on the toilets and use the bathrooms
Eric Geake
Manager of the Monkey Bar
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Donor gives
USC school
$10 million
■ The USC School of Public
Health has been renamed for
benefactor Norman J. Arnold
by Brandon Larrabee
The Gamecock
Norman Arnold wasn’t supposed to live long. He had
been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which is usually
fatal.
“In the summer of 1982, when I was 53 years old, I
was told I had six months to live,” Arnold said. “Eghteen
yean later, I am cancer-free.”
The lessons he learned from that experience led him
to donate $10 million to USC’s School of Public Health.
“There’s nothing that will focus your attention On the
important things in life quite like facing your own death,”
Arnold told a crowd behind USC President John Palms’
home.
The donation, announced Tuesday, was the third largest
in the univenity’s history and created the lint named in
stitution of its kind at an
the quality of life of all South Carolinians,” he said. “Be
cause of the research, teaching and learning that takes place
at USC, people across the state and nation will learn
how to live longer, happier and healthier lives.”
Dean Harris Pastides said Arnold’s donation would
help the school fight “the health epidemics of our time,”
such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes.
“With this endowment, we will be able to better fo
cus on these epidemics through research to find a way, and
then to teach our people about the ways, to make posi
tive lifestyle changes,” Pastides said.
After the gathering, Arnold said he was counting on
Pastides and Palms to boost the school’s reputation.
“I’m betting on people,” Arnold said. “Dean Pastides
and Dr. Palms — I think they’re the force that’s going to
make this a world-class institution.”
Pastides said because Arnold, a businessman, donated
to the university, it proved he saw potential in the school.
“He would not have made this investment if he thought
we were just a nice group of people,” Pastides said.
He also said the university hadn’t yet decided how
to spend the money.
Those decisions would be made after the endowment
started gathering interest.
“That’s when we’ll make those decisions about in any
particular year and time what’s most needed,” he said.
Palms said he treated large endowments like private
foundations when deciding how to distribute funds.
“People will have to make a case for how the yield
off of this endowment will be invested. Tliis will be used
to leverage the programs,” he said.
Trustee William Hubbard said the endowment would
benefit not only the university, but also the state.
“It’s an extremely important benefit for the universi
ty, but more importantly it’s a great day for South Car
olina and the health of South Carolinians,” Hubbard said.
“We have so many public health issues in this state, and
this gift will help us educate the people of South Caroli
na [so] that we can improve public health and improve as
a state because the health of our citizens is improved.”
The university desk can be reached at
gam ecockudesk@hotmaD.com.
American public univer
sity: the Norman J.
Arnold School of Pub
lic Health.
Arnold’s gift comes
in the form of an en
dowment, which means
the university won’t
spend llie original dona
tion, instead using inter
est earned from investing
the money.
Palms praised Arnold
for his decision to give to
the school.
“By doing so, Nor
man affirms the promise
of the School of Public
Health and the impact on
Brad Walters The Gamecock
Norman J. Arnold donat
ed $10 million to USC’s
School of Public Health.
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“Speak clearly if you speak
at all; carve every word
before you let it fall.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Monday
• Shalim Warriors, Koger
Center
• Carolina Productions, 3
p.m„ RH theater
• Fraternity Council, 4 p.m.,
RH 322/326
• Sorority Council, 5 p.m.,
RH 322/326
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Tuesday
• AAAS, 6 p.m., RH
theater
• RHA, 7 p.m., RH 303