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Journalism Deanship
Candidate withdraws from search
by Brandon Larrabee
The Gamecock
Yet another candidate has withdrawn
his name in the search for a new dean
for the College of Journalism and Mass
g* Communications, but the first candidate
^7 who took his name out of the running
might put his name back on the list.
Ronald Loewen, president of Liberty
Insurance Group and former vice presi
dent of WIS, dropped out of the running
for the deanship.
Of the three finalists the university
named in October, Loewen is the sec
ond to remove his name from considera
tion. However, interim dean Ronald Far
rar said University of Nebraska Dean
William Norton, who withdrew his name
in early November, might again think about
coming to USC.
Loewen declined comment on the
matter, saying he preferred any comments
to come from the university.
“I like to be respectful of the process,”
Loewen said.
Farrar said Loewen would have made
a good dean for the university.
“He’s a very bright guy, and I think
he would have made a fine dean here,”
Farrar said.
Farrar said he didn’t know why
Loewen had withdrawn his name, but said
the reason might pertain to Loewen’s lead
ership of a successful company.
“It’s a big adjustment from corporate
life to academic life,” Farrar said. “It would
have been a difficult decision for him to
leave, I think.”
Farrar said the university might have
addressed some of Norton’s concerns about
the deanship.
“Some of the concerns that he had
may have been alleviated,” he said.
Farrar also said, as he did at the time
of Norton’s withdrawal, that the Nebras
ka dean would be a good choice for USC.
“He was always very high on the list,”
he said.
In a telephone interview with The
Gamecock, Norton said he would return
to USC to try to find out whether liis con
cerns had been addressed.
“I’m coming back to do some inter
viewing of some folks,” Norton said. “I’m
coming back to get some information.”
University spokesman Jason Snyder
couldn’t comment about Norton’s possi
ble return, saying it was a personnel mat
ter. Snyder said he could only comment
on whether Norton was officially in or out
of the running and “he’s still out.”
Farrar said the fact two finalists had
dropped out of the search had ndlhing to
do with the quality of USC’s journalism
program.
“This is no reflection on the faculty
or anything,” he said.
He also said the university asked both
Norton and Loewen to consider putting
their names into consideration.
“It’s not as if either one oftliem were
looking for a job,” he said.
The school is one of the top-tier jour
nalism colleges in the country, accord
ing to Farrar.
“It’s a good program,” he said. “It de
serves a good dean, and I’m sure it’s go
ing to get one.”
Snyder said USC would keep looking
for a new dean.
“The search continues,” Snyder
said.
Snyder said the university would con
tinue to “plug through” until the right per
son is found for the job.
The search committee has been
considering candidates other than the fi
nalists throughout the search, according
to Snyder.
One finalist remains in the search
for a dean — Edward Pease, the head of
Utah State University’s department of
communications.
USC announced the three finalists
ip September. The university hopes ti
have a new dean in place by July 1.
USC President John Palms will hav
the final say in who will get the positior
He said the university still expecte
to have a dean in place by the beginnin
of next academic year.
“We’ll be hopeful up until that poir
that we can name someone,” Snyder sai<
“This isn’t anything extraordinary.
Farrar is expected to retire when th
new dean is selected.
Charles Prashaw contributed
to this report.
T/ie university desk can be reached at
gamecockudesk@hotmall.com.
Bookstores
face online
^ competition
by Eugene Rodillo
The Gamecock
Online bookstores are now selling used
textbooks as well as new textbooks, cre
ating competition for campus bookstores
and offering a money-saving option for
students.
The founders of a three-month-old
Internet company, UsedBookBroker.com,
decided that because almost everything
else can be paidiased online, the same
should be true of used textbooks.
According to a press release from John
Nesbitt, the company’s vice president of
customer relations and director of mar
keting, UsedBookBroker is “the first-of
its-kind student-to-studeni online text
book brokerage.”
^ “The founders were a father-and
son team who saw that they could cut out
the cost of a middleman by having stu
dent-to-student transactions,” Nesbitt said.
He said though the company is still
relatively new, it has been successful so
far. However, Nesbitt doubts online book
sellers will lake over the market be
cause of the other merchandise, such as
clothes, offered in the campus bookstores.
“It’s unlikely that we will replace lo
cal bookstores since they sell all kinds of
things and not just books,” Nesbitt said.
“Even if we can catch just a small per
centage, we would be very successful.”
Textbook# see page 2
Hamilton in Disrepair
Travis Lynn The Gamecock
Hamilton College, home to USC’s Anthropology department and the Naval Armory, was completed in 1943 and served as a U.S.
Navy training station during World War IL Today, Hamilton Is in a state of disrepair that has made both students and professors
uncomfortable. Termite damage, mold and mildew growth, leaky second floor bathrooms and a high lead content In the water
has further damaged the building and Inconvenienced those who use the facility. We’ll take a look at the upkeep of Hamilton In
Friday’s issue of The Gamecock
University budget falls short of AAU institutions
by Charles Prashaw
The Gamecock
Analysis of USC’s budget could hold the key
for school officials wondering why the university
has yet to be invited into the Association of
American Universities.
When compared with the six largest public uni
versities in the AAU’s exclusive fraternity of uni
versities, University of Arizona, North Carolina
Chapel Hill, Micliigan State, University of Michigan,
Ohio State and University of Virginia, the USC bud
get falls short.
v In total expenses, USC spends about $500
' million a year, Arizona spends $750 million, Ohio
State $850 million, Michigan State $900 million,
University of Michigan $1.1 billion and Universi
ty of North Carolina $1.2 billion.
“There is not much new money this year, ei
ther,” USC’s Director of Budget Bob Bugbee said.
Though the school has added additional funds
to the Darla Moore School of Business, hired more
financial aid staff, spent more on general recruit
ment of professors and is spending more on tech
nology and research seed money, there seems to be
no plan in the future to revamp the budget, Bugbee
said.
Some USC professors are saying the school needs
to spend more on recruiting and salaries for quali
ty professors. The amount a school spends on teach
ing is called the instructional expense. In that cat
egory, USC doesn’t compare well with AAU
members.
UNC-Chapel Hill, for example, spends about
$400 million in instructional fees — USC spends
about $150 million. The University of Michigan
spent almost $300 million on instructional cost and
Michigan State spends $260 million.
In research, USC didn’t fare much better. Its
nearly $70 million spent last year was almost at the
bottom of the AAU colleges that were comparable
in size. For example, UNC spent $300 million in
research last year.
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USC will be getting any more money from its tra
ditional sources, including the stale government
of student fees, according to Director of Higher Ed
ucation Charlie FitzSimons.
FitzSimons said it doesn’t seem to him USC will
receive any more money from state allocations,
even in the face of new revenues generated by a
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“We wouldn’t see the universities getting more
money directly from the lottery, but scholarships
from the lottery would greatly increase,” FitzSi
mons said.
The university desk can be reached at
gamecockudeskOhotmalLcom.
Board
chooses
editor
by John Hui&tt
The Gamecock
Gamecock editor-in-chief Brock \fer
gakis has been named to the position for
the second consecutive semester, saying
he is prepared to lead the newspaper in its
most ambitious direction in spring 2001.
The Board of Stu
dent Publications
and Communica
tions declared Veigstkis
editor Tuesday after
noon, choosing him
over challenger and
former Sorority Coun
cil President Tracy
Bonds. VERGAK1S
Bonds is a senior
whose experience with the paper to date
has been writing what she called “a few”
articles for The Gamecock during her col
lege career.
“Competition is always good,” Ver
gakis said. “But if I’m going to be chal
lenged, I would prefer it be from some
one who actually has an active role on the
staff.”
Bonds said she decided to apply for
the position because of her friends’ sug
gestions, and bears no ill will toward the
board’s decision. She said she has no doubt
the right person was chosen.
“I think it turned out exactly how it
should have, Bonds said. He s definite
ly more qualified than I am.”
Losing to Bonds would have put a se
rious crimp in Veigakis’ plans for die news
paper, which include an increase to Mon
day through Friday publication by fall
2001. The Gamecock is published three
days a week. Veigakis sad he has changed
the basic daily operations of the newspa
per to more realistically resemble work
ing for a “real newspaper,” and he hopes
to take steps in the spring to reach his
ultimate goal.
“The biggest and most exciting thing
we’ll be doing next semester is that we’ll
be publishing and updating online every
day,” Veigakis said. “Over winter break,
we’ll be updating coverage on sporting
events as they occur and will be includ
ing coverage of the Gamecocks’ bowl
game in Tampa.” The Gamecock’s new
Web site will be launched on Friday.
Veigakis said he encourages aspiring
journalists to take advantage of the ex
VEROAKIS see page 2
Weather Inside Quote of the Day Datebook
Today
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jj Lou Holtz
is named SEC
coach of the
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“Life wouldn’t be worth living
if we didn’t have pretty
women. Any normal man likes
to be around pretty women.”
—Stroiji Thurmond
Wednesday
• French Club Social,
7 p.m., Adriana’s
• Students Allied for a
Greener Earth, 8 p.m., RH
302
• S.C. Student Legislature,
8:30 p.m„ Gambrell 152
Thursday
• Ian Hobson, “200 Years
of Piano,” Roger Center
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