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vol, 95, No. 5 University of South Carolina www.dailygamecock.com
Today’s Weather
This Week: Mostly sunny,
chance of rain next week
Inside This Issue
Derek Watson cleared to
rejoin football team
SEE SPORTS
Page C1
Also in Sports:
■ Gamecock wins gold
medal in Deaflympics
■ Track & Field team
represents USC in
Edmonton, Canada
■ Women’s basketball
team invited to Europe
■ Previews of all fall
semester sports
Inside This Issue
Five Points: USC’s social
mecca by day and night
SEE SPOTLIGHT
Page B1
Also m Spotlight:
■ Riverbanks Zoo
premieres four gorillas
■ “Bum” exhibit heats
up Columbia museum
■ Glimpses at USC’s
adventurous sports clubs
Online Poll
Results
Are you satisfied with
YOUR HOUSING FOR THE
FAU. SEMESTER?
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with housing?
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great and very
convenient.
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living on-campus.
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move in.
Next Week’s
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Do you think Derek
Watson was given the
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Quote of the Day
“There is nothing like return
ing to a place that remains un
changed to find the ways in
which you yourself have al
tered.”
— Nelson Mandela
Omission
Au g . 1 Poll Results :
What should be the result of the
Condon-Hodges lawsuit?
It should be dropped: 21%
Condon is right — Hodges acted
illegally: 44%
Let Hodges win, already — he
spared colleges from drastic
tuition hikes: 15%
MTV should ask Condqn and
Hodges to appear on a special .
S.C * version of “Celebrity
Deathmatch": 21%
WHAT A RUSH: Greeks prepare for recruitment
Courtesy of Greek Life
In keeping with their fraternity’s tradition, members of Delta Upsilon toss a new member in the air when he accepted his bid.
Sororities, fraternities
looking for new faces
by Ginny Thornton
The Gamecock
Interested in joining a Greek or
ganization? Your chance is coming up
in a matter of days.
Fall fraternity and sorority re
cruitment starts Sunday with an ori
entation program in the Russell House
ballroom.
Students interested in the recruit
ment process are encouraged to attend
the orientations. Males will meet at
5:30 p.m. for fraternity recruitment
orientation, and females will meet for
sorority recruitment orientation at 7
p.m. There will be a registration table
at 5 p.m. for those who have not pre
registered.
The 24 Greek organizations that
operate under the National Panhel
lenic Council will be participating in
this recruitment process. The remain
ing seven sororities and fraternities
gain new members through a process
called “intake,” which starts Sep
tember 18 in the Russell House
Ballroom.
Recruitment, traditionally known
as “rush”, is regulated by the Office
of Greek Life. Candice Braddock, vice
president of recruitment for Sorority
Council, is responsible for overseeing
the sorority recruitment process.
“I make sure everyone’s follow
ing regulations and that they’re hap
py with the way things are going,”
Braddock said. “Sometimes we hear
horror stories from other schools, but
we’ve always been very lucky at USC.
If reflects well on our Greek system
that our chapters know how to rush
responsibly.”
Though both the fraternity and
sorority recruitment processes begin
with orientation and end with bid day,
there are many differences in between.
“The differences are distinct be
tween fraternity and sorority rush,”
said John Floyd, vice president of
recruitment for Fraternity Council.
“TheyTe distinctly male and female.”
These differences are evident even
in the 2001 Rush Guide. While the
suggested men’s attire is briefly de
scribed as “casual,” “dressy casual”
and “coat and tie” depending on the
day, an entire page is devoted to pic
tures of recommended women’s cloth
ing.
Rho Chis are Greeks who disaf
filiate from their organization to lead
potential members during recruitment.
Though males must visit all recruit
ing fraternities with a Rho Chi during
Open House, they are free to visit the
chapters of their choice until formal
invitations are given for the Closed
Round. Females are divided alpha
betically into Rho Chi groups of 20
30 for the entire week. They meet with
these groups each day to receive their
invitations to return to chapters.
Fraternity and sorority bid days
are different, too. Women who have
received bids gather excitedly on the
Russell House lawn and run with their
Rho Chis to meet their new sisters on
the Horseshoe. Men simply meet in
the Russell House ballroom to receive
their bids.
“It’s funny how you can see the
differences between men and women,”
said Alice Kimball, Sorority Council
president. “But the great thing is that
even though we have many differences,
Greeks focus on the same values: ser
vice, scholarship, leadership and friend
ship.”
Greeks, who make up 17 per
cent of the USC student body, excel
Recruitment see page aio
Courtesy of Greek Life
Mary Bruorton, recruitment chair for Kappa Alpha Theta, and Sara Parrish,
recruitment chair for Zeta Tau Alpha, compare notes about the different phases
of sorority recruitment.
Local hotel
to house
freshmen
■ Dozens of students will start
semester at Holiday Inn because
of lack of housing availability
by Cristy Infinger
The Gamecock
The Holiday Inn on Assem- -
bly Sheet has become Universi
ty Housing’s newest freshman
center — at least for now.
Housing Director Gene Lu
na expects that 70-80 students
will live at the hotel, located across
from the Coliseum, for “part of,
if not the entire, first semester.”
A desk manager at Holiday
Inn said he does not expect any
trouble from the addition of
several dozen college students to
the hotel.
“We do not anticipate them
to be a problem. We have certain
floors designated to students, and
there will be RAs just like in a
normal dorm,” he said.
The manager also said he did
n’t think the students would
hurt business during the busy foot
ball season.
About 500 more freshmen ap
plied to live on campus this year
compared to last year, Luna said,
which resulted in more students
than Housing could handle in
its 26 undergraduate residence
halls.
“We want all of our students
to get as close to an on-campus
experience as possible,” Luna said.
Exacerbating an already
Ann Marie Miani/The Gamecock
The Holiday Inn on Assembly
Street will house about 70-80
freshmen during the fall semester.
Director of Housing Gene Luna is
doesn’t know how long the
students will stay in the hotel.
crowded housing situation, more
non-freshmen have requested to
live on campus since last year’s
housing sign-up deadline. Many
of those students have been placed
on a waiting list.
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Bradbury cancels
for reading event
by Greg Hambrick
The Gamecock
Seven hundred freshmen ex
pecting to meet science fiction
and fantasy author Ray Bradbury
on campus Monday will be sur
prised to see him on a movie
screen instead.
Though the organizers of
USC’s First-Year Reading Ex
perience expected to have the
writer attend the annual event
to speak about his book “Fahren
heit 451,” the author canceled in
early August because of health
complications.
Students participating in the
event weren’t told about the
change because of the lack of time
and the cost of postage, said Don
Greiner, associate provost and
dean of Undergraduate Affairs.
Looking for the next best
thing to the writer being there,
USC contracted a crew to tape
remarks from Bradbury directed
specifically to students at the sem
inar.
“This isn’t something you can
just pick up at Blockbuster,”
Greiner said.
Bradbury was to be the third
author to appear at the event to
discuss his own work.
He was selected to
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Board of trustees launches search for next president
President
John Palms,
who once
considered a
run for the
U.S. Senate,
will retire in
June 2002
The USC
board of
trustees has
hired a
Washington
based search
firm to help
select Palms'
replacement.
File Photo
by Shawn Miller
The Gamecock
The USC board of trustees might
employ the same Washington search
firm that helped select President John
Palms in 1990 in seeking his re
placement. Palms will retire June 1,
2002, to spend more time with his
family.
The USC presidential search
committee, chaired by trustee
William Hubbard, has given the USC
Educational Foundation, which is
funding the search, the go-ahead to
enter into contract negotiations with
Kom/Ferry International, an award
winning recruiting firm.
The board of trustees interviewed
four search firms, but “settled on
(Kom/Ferry) because of their ex
perience in placing presidents at ma
jor universities,” Hubbard said.
The firm has placed presidents
at such prominent universities as In
diana, Ohio State, Tulane, Virginia,
Vanderbilt, West Virginia and Texas.
The purpose of a search firm “is
to make phone calls and use their
network of contacts to create a deep
er and wider pool of candidates,”
Hubbard said. “We’re not limiting
our source of nominations. We’ll
take names and information from
anybody.”
The next president of USC is
expected to earn between $ 143,000
and $222,500. Kom/Ferry’s fee will
most likely be a third of the presi
dent’s starting salary plus expens
es.
Hubbard is hopeful that the next
president of USC will raise the uni
versity to national prominence.
The position has already been
advertised in The New York Times
and will also be advertised in The
Wall Street Journal and other na
tional, state and educational publi
cations.
Palms, 65, considered running
for the U.S. Senate earlier this
year and sent a letter to trustees in
March informing them that he would
make his decision by May 1. This
caused unease when Palms failed to
decide by his self-imposed deadline.
When he finally announced in mid
May that he’d forego a Senate run
and stay on as president for anoth
er year, the trustees were under
standably pleased as the university
was undergoing turbulent times be
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