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Preston principal Ken Perkins eats dinner at the Preston Dining Hall with his wife, Margaret Perkins, and
Preston residents. The Perkins’ three-year term is over in May 2002. photo by josh skidmore
END OF AN ERA
Preston principal
will step down
at the end of
next semester
BY SEAN WALLER
Till-: (1AMKC00K
I Ken Perkins will step down
from his position as principal of
Preston College in May 2002.
Perkins has been the principal
of Preston for three years. To fill his
position, a search committee offive
Preston students and five faculty
associates has been formed to go
through the nominations and de
cide who will best replace Perkins.
The search committee, chaired
by professor emeritus Hal French,
will start reviewing nominations
Nov. 2 and will continue until they
have found a new principal.
The provost will appoint the
new principal and be responsible
for renewing his or her contract.
The position is expected to be
• filled in summer of2002 by a USC
" Columbia faculty member.
Perkins was originally given
a three-year contract, which was
completed this past semester, and
was invited to stay on an extra
A committee will begin efforts to find a new principal for Preston, a residence hall on
Greene Street, special to the gamecock.
year. “This gave us the chance to
follow one group [of students] all
the way through,” said Perkins,
whose wife, Margaret, lives with
him in Preston.
The couple plans to take a year
offbefore returning to teaching Ken
Perkins, who teaches history, wants
to put more time into his unfinished
book on the history of Tunisia.
Don Greiner, associate provost
and dean of undergraduate affairs,
said in a letter that Ken and Mar
garet Perkins have done a “splen
did job in creating an academic
residential environment” in Pre
ston. “All of us in the university
are in their debt,” he wrote.
Preston “won’t be the same
without them,” said Sean Bar
nette, a linguistics graduate stu
dent. This is Barnette’s sixth year
living at Preston, where he is a res
ident tutor and part of the search
committee. Barnette thinks the po
sition of principal needs to be
changed every so often to change
the environment in Preston a lit
tle.
Perkins expects some nominees
to be faculty associates. Preston fac
ulty associates are university pro
fessors that are involved with Pre
ston and attend one dinner a week
in the Preston dining hall. Faculty
associates already understand how
Preston works. There are now
about 40 faculty associates.
The search committee will con
sider certain qualities in applicants,
such as a professor’s tenure, a schol
arly record of distinction, a com
mitment to excellence in under
graduate education and adminis
trative or organizational skills.
The pr incipal’s duties include
acting as the chief academic ad
ministrator, living in special
♦ PRESTON, SEE PAGE 5
USC researcher
to study in Atlantic
Research experience
This research exploration in the
Atlantic won't be Bernhard’s first:
♦ Chief scientist on eight cruises.
♦ Co-chief scientist once each on
Research Vessel Trygve Braarud
and RV Polar Duke (Antarctic
Peninsula)._
♦ Participating scientist on 12
cruises off Central and Southern
California, North Carolina, Gulf of
Mexico, Baja California and
Venezuela.
♦ About 23 months field work in
the Antartic, mostly in McMurdo
Sound (1984-1993).
pears to contain enough methane
to provide 30 times the nation’s
annual gas consumption.
Most creatures can't live in the
♦ OCEAN, SEE PAGE 2
•fc
Theaters
to donate
proceeds
Columbia theaters
to take part in
national effort
for disaster relief
BY MARY HARTNEY
THE GAMECOCK
If you want to help disaster re
lief efforts after this past week’s
terrorist attacks, you can do some
thing as simple as going to see a
movie on Tuesday.
More than 270 movie theater
companies with more than 27,500
screens across the country, in
cluding in Columbia, will donate
all of Tuesday’s proceeds to aid
disaster relief efforts.
The National Association of
Theatre Owners announced that
movie theaters nationwide will
split every dollar of proceeds from
concessions and ticket sales be
tween the American Red Cross
and the United Way’s Sept. 11
Fund.
“We’ve had a strong number of
calls from theater operators
around the country asking, ‘How
can we do something to help?”’
said John Fithian, president of the
theater association, “Now we have
the vast majority of screens in the
country participating.”
Movie returns for a typical
Tuesday in September are esti
mated at $5 million.
Several Columbia theaters will
participate in Victim’s Benefit
Day at the Movies. Regal Cinemas
7 at Richland Mall is part of Regal
Cinemas’ national chain, which is
listed on the association’s Web site
as a participant. Kristi Brady, as
sistant manager at Regal 7, con
firmed that the Columbia theater
will donate its proceeds to the
funds.
A Consolidated Theatres
branch, Columbiana Place Stadi
um Cinemas on Bower Parkway
will donate Tuesday’s proceeds as
♦ FOR COLUMBIA MOVIE TIMES,
SEE PAGE 8.
well and has prepared itself for the .
benefit.
“We’re glad to be doing this,”
said James Cathcart. a
Columbiana manager. “We’ve
made some banners and jars for
donations. It’s important that
we’re all banding together at
this time,” he said of movie the
aters.
“While the show must go on for
all of us, our thoughts and prayers
are with the victims,” said Peter
Brown, chairman and CEO of
AMC Entertainment Inc., which
has pledged its returns from Tues
day’s shows at its 2,772 screens.
There are about 36,000 movie
screens nationwide, and the the
ater association estimates that
about 80 percent will participate.
If some larger studios are un
willing to donate their proceeds,
some theater owners plan to
cover the difference out of their
own pockets. Studio fees, which
are paid by the theaters to rent
the movies, are typically 50 per
cent to 70 percent of a ticket
nrice.
In Columbia, Carmike
Wynnsong 10 also confirmed its
participation in Tuesday's bene
fit. Carmike is listed as a partici
pant in the program. Other Co
lumbia theaters couldn’t be
reached for comment, but sever
al, including Dutch Square Cine
ma 14, a General Cinemas theater,
fall under national chains that are
listed as participants.
For a list of participating the
ater companies, visit the associa
tion’s Web site at www.natoon
line.org.
The Associated Press contributed
to this report.
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U.S. promises to prove bin Laden’s guilt
BY NANCY BENAC
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - A solemn
President Bush returned the
American flag to full staff Sun
day as the United States
promised to lay out evidence
making Osama bin Laden’s guilt
in the terrorist attacks “very ob
vious to the world.” The admin
istration scoffed at Taliban
claims he can’t be found.
Secretary of State Colin Pow
ell said the government would
“put before the world, the Amer
ican people, a persuasive case
that ... it is al-Qaida, led by
Osama bin Laden, who has been
responsible.”
Administration officials and
congressional leaders turned
their appearances on Sunday’s
TV talk shows into a two
pronged effort to show the gov
ernment’s resolve to choke off
the terrorists and to encourage
Americans to return to a more
normal routine — crucial to get
ting the recession-bent economy
moving again.
As the U.S. military got ready
to strike, Defense Secretary Don
ald H. Rumsfeld suggested that
brute force might not be the best
way to get at bin Laden.
“Is it likely that an aircraft
carrier or a cruise missile is go
ing to find a person?” Rumsfeld
asked reporters. “No, it’s not
likely; that isn’t how this is go
ing to happen.” ,
Rather, he said, “This is go
ing to happen over a sustained
period of time because of a
broadly based effort where bank
accounts are frozen, where
pieces of intelligence are pro
vided and where countries de
cide that they want to change
their politics.”
Nonetheless, U.S. forces
around the world were being
repositioned. A Defense Depart
ment team arrived in Pakistan
to discuss military cooperation
♦ ATTACKS, SEE PAGE 2
President George W. Bush boards Marine One en route to
Camp David, Friday afternoon, Sept. 21, 2001. photo by
CHUCK KENNEDY/KRT CAMPUS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLESTON - A USC re
searcher leaves this week on a
* journey that will go more than a
mile below the Atlantic Ocean,
where future generations might
find a source of power.
Joan Bernhard will board the
submersible Alvin vessel and
plunge 1.3 miles below the ocean
to study the Blake Ridge, which
runs offshore from North Caroli
na to Florida.
Blake Ridge, almost 200 miles
offshore from Charleston, has gas
hydrate deposits where methane
gas is trapped in ice fields.
Gas hydrates are expected to
provide a source of fuel in the fu
ture, though economical ways to
mine the gas haven’t been found,
said Bernhard, an environmental
^ health researcher at the universi
ty’s school of public health.
One small area of the ridge ap
users PAST
Sept. 27,1980
The Gamecock football team,
led by running back George
Rogers, defeated Michigan,
17-14 in Ann Arbor in a
performance that helped
Rogers win the Heisman.
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