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University Tuesday, Jan. 16 ■ Minor in possession of liquor, Sunday, Jan; 14 disorderly conduct, Carolina Coliseum. Officer E. L. Pereira saw Marie Zarandi walking around the Park Street lot. The officer approached the subject and found he was unsteady on his feet and had slurred speech. Zarandi gave con sent for a search, in which a 1/4-full bot tle of vodka was confiscated Zarandi was arrested on the scene. ■ Malicious injury to real property, McBryde Quad. Officer W. R. Bond responded to a complaint about a false fire alarm in Building G. When he arrived, he found the south end call sta tion to have been smashed in by unknown persons. ■ Disorderly conduct, trespass after notice, Roger Center. Subject Michael Munally was warned to stay off .» JSC property. After being warned, he jecame very loud. The subject was insteady on his feet and smelled of tlcohol. After refusing to move, the iubject was arrested. Responding officer: l.C. Osborne. ~riday, Jan. 12 ■ Larceny of compact discs, The toost. Clemia Anderson said unknown persons broke into her car and stole a CD player and 30 compact discs. Responding officer: C. D. Firebaugh. ■ Simple assault. Officer M. Craska saw the subject, Harry Davis, on the sidewalk with a bag of trash. Davis approached the officer and became verbally demanding and threatening. Subject was arrested. Responding officer: J. D. Rosier City Tuesday, Jan. 16 ■ Assault and battery Medical Park # 4, Officers Forte and Moore responded to a civil dispute where subject Debra Walters said she had I verbal altercation with Charles Sears. Walters said she hit Sears in the arm. Sears said the same. Greek from page 1 ' The vacated McBryde Quadrangle dorms — where fraternities are current ly housed — are expected to be offered to other student organizations that wish to live together in a community setting. “Basically, there is a waiting list, and when space becomes available, a group is offered that space,” Brewer said. “If the group meets the criteria, then they can move in, and if they don’t, the next group will be reviewed.” Brewer said he hopes non-Greek students will benefit from the existence of the Greek Village. “I see it as a great area for , everyone, especially with the integration of the (Strom Thurmond Wellness Center) recreational facilities and the living space,” Brewer said. “Even though the area will be exclusive to the Greek members that five there, I hope that oth ers will enjoy the space, also.” The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Injury from page 1 between East Quad and Capstone,” Gaetz said. “We learned the hard way that you can’t walk around this town after dark.” Chris Duke, Daniel’s brother, said he is concerned about the safety on this cam pus, but he said that follows his concern about his brother’s life. “My family’s number one focus is on Dan,” Chris Duke said. “Maybe when his * condition improves, the issue of safety at the University of South Carolina will come up.” Frank Duke, Daniel Duke’s father, is also concerned with the way in which the investigation is being handled and how seriously police are taking it. “The investigation was done in an insensitive and unprofessional manner,” Frank Duke said. “We are not satisfied with what has been done.” According to Chris Duke, police didn’t notify the family immediately after the accident. A Capstone resident adviser was the first to call the Dukes at 4 a.m. Chris Duke said he could only remember the RA.’s first name, Eric. The Duke family said Officer Derek Miller and Captain S. D!'Conley were the only police they really praised here in Columbia for acting as though they cared. Daniel Duke remains in a coma in a health facility near his home in Massachusetts. “The progress of my brother is like two steps forward and one step back every day,” Chris Duke said. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Hodges from page 1 state, including a Rural Task Force to promote economic development, a midnight curfew for teenage drivers and an initiative to toughen laws against perpetrators of domestic violence. While much of Hodges’ address dealt with plans for how the budget would be spent, he also promised to downsize the state’s government overall. Lt. Gov. Bob Peeler wondered how the budget would add up. “Part of leadership is to prioritize spending and cutting, and I thought... he did a good job of spelling out all his priorities for spending money,” Peeler said. “But he didn’t prioritize at all in where he was going to cut money. He talks about a 15 percent budget cut; that’s not the way to do it.” Peeler also said college education should be considered just as important as K-12. “K-12 certainly is the cornerstone of education in South Carolina, but education also includes higher education and technical education, and we can’t lose sight of that,” Peeler said. State Sen. Larry Martin, R-Pickens, agreed that Hodges’ proposed budget cut would be harmful to state universities. “I don’t favor across-the-board cuts on universities,” Martin said. “I’m hopeful and optimistic we’ll do a better job.” State Rep. Douglas Jennings, D-Chesterfield, said there’s no way around the budget cuts. “Those kind of cuts are really, really difficult for all of us to stomach, but in this difficult budget year they, or some type of budget cuts, are certainly necessary,” Jennings said. Sen. Herb Kirsh, D-York, said universities must take the budget cuts just like everyone else. “We don’t have the money. Take what you get. Don’t whine about it. Don’t cry. Do the best you can.” The city desk can be reached at gamecockcitydesk@hotmail.com Centerfold from page 1 fans roar when she leads the cheers at football games.” While she wishes to finish her degree in advertising/public relations, she says it will most likely be at a school in California. She wants to move to Los Angeles to further pursue the acting and modeling career that has put her in Baywatch, Heavyweights, Playboy and Venus Swimwear catalogs. The focus Playboy has put on Hill be ing a USC cheerleader has put a great deal of attention on the 21 -year-old Columbia native that r.he says isn’t warranted. “I didn’t do it to offend anyone, the university or the cheerleaders,” Hill said. “It has to do with me. Outside of South Carolina, people don’t associate me with that. It’s not a big deal. I didn’t realize it would blow up into a whole huge big deal here.” Copies of the February issue have been . flying off the shelves as local newspapers and radio stations announced she was Miss February. “[Readers] want to see [Play mates] outside of the magazine, and [cheerleading] was a part of my life,” Hill said. It wasn’t the attention that would be placed on her that she was most concerned about when deciding whether to do the photo shoot. “I asked [my family] before I even decided to do it. They knew and were very excited for me ... ” she said. “I just wanted to make sure my family isn’t going to be talked about because it doesn’t have anything to do with them.” Hill said her family has been very supportive of her and that one of her brothers even brought her copies of the magazine to sign for his friends. “They said this is your decision and whatever you decide we’ll support you.” Even her boyfriend, former USC basketball player Ryan Stack, encouraged her to do the shoot. “He was happy for me and said, ‘Yeah, you should do it!,” Hill said. The two have been dating since her freshman year and have stayed together even though Stack plays pro fessional basketball in Spain. While many would assume that someone who has been modeling from a very early age would always have men pursuing her romantically, Hill says that’s not always the case. “I was dating Ryan (in school), but it’s not like I had guys beating down my door when I was at USC,” she said. “The girls at Playboy are regular girls. They make you look beautiful. It has to do with lighting, camera angles and a lot of things.” Normally she prefers to walk around with out makeup and to just wear the same clothes that every other person on cam pus can be seen wearing, such as a T-shirt, jeans and a ponytail. “You look at those girls (in Playboy) and say, ‘I can never look like that.’ But they don’t all look like that.” ■1 • " The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com _ USC students robbed at gunpoint by Meredith Key The Gamecock Two USC students were robbed at gunpoint early Wednesday morning on Greene Street. Second-year students Sallie McCutchen and Laurie Ward were walking home from Five Points Wednesday at 1:30 a.m. when they were robbed at the comer of Greene and Barnwell streets, according to police reports. McCutchen said the incident occurred while the two were walking down Greene Street. McCutchen said she was talking on her cell phone when the man approached them. Matt Hewitt, who she was on the phone with at the time of the incident, immediately picked up on what was happening and drove to the location, she said. According to McCutchen, the man pointed a gun at her stomach and demanded both of their purses. He immediately ran back toward Five Points. “I have never been so scared. I hope nobody ever has to go through what we went through that night,” McCutchen said. Columbia police responded to the 911 call and arrived on the scene five to 10 minutes after the incident occurred. McCutchen said neither she nor Ward received a copy of the police report, and they haven’t been contacted since that night. “I am uncertain why the police are not more concerned with the welfare and safety of USC stu dents. It’s almost like they have forgotten this even happened,” McCutchen said. The man was a light-skinned black male with medium-length dreadlocks. He was Wearing a gray sweatshirt and jeans at the time of the incident, according to McCutchen. After McCutchen and Ward returned home, the police contacted them about 3:30 a.m. with a suspect to identify. However, the police had detained the wrong man. “The city of Columbia sliould take these recent incidents more seriously and maybe put up more streetlights and call boxes in that area,” McCutchei said. “They need to make more police patrol the area for the safety of students rather than station them in Five Points so as to bust underage drinkers.” Ward and Hewitt were unavailable as of press time. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Subcommittee holds budget hearings by Brandon Larrabee The Gamecock The S.C. Commission on Higher Education and the state’s technical schools went before a subcommittee of the state legislature to ask for more money — even as the threat of a $500 million budget shortfall has caused Gov. Jim Hodges to propose a 15 percent across-the board cut in higher education. “We know what you’re facing... but we want to be treated like the rest,” said Rayburn Barton, executive director of the CHE. Barton addressed the House Whys and Means subcommittee on Higher Education, stress ing the idea that Hodges has proposed to cut some of education while avoiding cuts in K-12 programs. “We would implore you to treat higher education in the same manner as you treat all of education,” Bar ton said. The commission asked for a $150 million funding increase. The extra money would go to increasing per formance funding for the state’s colleges and univer sities, helping some schools build a technology infra structure, and funding the state’s Research Investment Fund. Barton also responded to a subcommittee question about the Higher Education Price Index, which con trols how much tuition can rise in a given year. USC officials have said they would have to raise tuition as much as 32 percent if Hodges’ cuts go through. “I think you would need to... remove that,” Bar ton said. Mies Hudgins, executive director of the S.C. Tech nical College System, was more blunt in his presenta tion. “Alert!” said one slide in Hudgins’ presentation, the laige red letters taking up a quarter of the screen. “Mission Endangered.” The technical colleges are also stressing the dis parity of binding between the technical colleges and other higher education institutions. According to the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Educa tion, tne technical college system is funded at 64.3 per cent of the amount the commission’s performance bind ing formula says the colleges should get. Meanwhile, the average level for all S.C. public higher education is about 74.9 percent, the board says. “Therefore, we urge the legislature to resolve this critical parity issue before any other action is taken,” system Chair Cathy Novinger and Association of Tech nical College Commissioners Pres. Peter Sercer wrote in a Jan. 17 letter to Subcommittee Chair Thomas Kee gan, R-Horry County. Tom Ledbetter, manager of production and engi neering operations for Cisco Systems’s West Columbia plant, talked about the impact a cut for the technical colleges could have on the state’s ability to compete for information technology jobs. “At the end of the day, the states that have the em ployees are the states that will experience the growth,” Ledbetter said. Patricia Hawkinson, a single mother who attended technical college, talked about how the system gave her a “helping hand.” “What I’m asking you to do is not ci)t the hand off,” she said. “I may not be able to understand all the figures you’re putting on the wall, but I do understand what it does to the people,” Hawkinson said. Keegan told Barton he agreed with him about high er education. “... Education does not stop at K-12,” Keegan said. “Others sometimes lose sight of that.” “Having said all that, we have some difficult choic es and we have some difficult decisions to make,” Kee gansaid. After the meeting. Rep. Denny Neilson, D-Dar lington, said her top priority was education, including higher education. But she pointed out the lack of rev enue. “The challenge will be...to make the right decisions - about where our priorities would be,” Neilson said. - Keegan said Hodges’ across-the-board cuts were “the easy way out.” “I think it’s expedient,” he said. “I would have pre ferred that he was definitive in how he wanted the cuts to be made.” But officials at CHE and the state’s technical col lege system concede they are less concerned with getting new funding and more concerned with main taining last year’s level of funding. Charlie FitzSimons, the legislative liaison for the commission, was blunt about whether CHE expected the $ 150 million increase it had requested from the sub committee.“No, to be frank, we don’t,” he said. Hudgins also said he didn’t think any new funding was coming.“I think we are not anticipating any sig nificant new money,” he said. CHE officials say the budget was drawn up and sent to the governor’s office before the shortfall became public. Now, FitzSimons said, the commission is stil' • hoping to maintain the $57 million budget CHE re-' ceived last year. But he acknowledged that might be difficult since it would cause the rest of the state’s agencies would to be cut 20-25 percent. “We are very, very hopeful,” he said. “We are cautiously optimistic. But, practically speaking, we don’t think so.” The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.coni Quiz Bowl with questions from „' Pop Culture, Literature, Religion, Math, Music, etc. College Bowl Campus Tournament s^,JrrJty January 31 - February 1 RUSSELL at the Russell House _ HOUSE Teams of 4-5 students needed UNIVERSITY UNION university of south carohna Registration Deadline Friday, January 26 Applications available at the RHUU Information Center or call 777-8182for more information. - - -