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Arena ‘Town and gown’ disputes normal CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Early in the arena’s conception, the university had reservations about including a hockey rink, McKinney said. Because the city stressed the importance of hockey, the arena’s design was modified to accommodate a hockey rink. Complicating the matter is a separate agreement under dis cussion between USC and Richland School District One that would allow the school district to use the arena for graduations and other ceremonies. The city will pay for the addi - tional use of university facilities, but USC must agree to those uses. Once the school district/USC agreement is signed, the city may defer tax money toward expenses on city projects such as the EdVenture children’s museum, under construction, the Three Rivers Greenway and the Columbia regional convention center. McKinney didn’t draw an ex act link between the city’s mon ey and the school district agree ment but said the school would like to see everyone walking in “lock-step” before the Richland agreement is signed. Conflict in university towns is normal but unfortunate, McKinny said. “They call it the ‘town/gown’conflict.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecnckcitydesk@hotmail.com. Apthrax Democrats propose bioterrorism bill CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 House Democrats on Thursday introduced a $7 billion bioterror ism bill, calling for millions to be spent on increased public health surveillance efforts and to boost a national stockpile of vaccines and antibiotics. The measure also would provide money to protect food and water supplies, improve mail technology and tighten law en forcement at the nation’s borders. Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., a sur geon, said Thursday that the na tion’s food supply may be the next target of terrorists. “What bothers me is these ter rorists are trying to take down our infrastructure one by one,” he said on NBC’s Today show. “First, it was the World Trade Center and airplanes where our transportation system was para lyzed for a while. Second, they’ve been using biological weapons to try to take down our postal sys tem. And if you look ahead, we know that food has been used suc cessfully in the past.” Frist noted only about 1 percent of food imports are inspected and that the roughly 1,000 federal food inspectors are responsible for 53,000 sites. There are 15 patients in the Washington area with symptoms suggestive of anthrax and all may be linked to a letter sent to Daschle and handled in mail fa cilities from Trenton, N.J., to Capitol Hill. However, investiga tors have not ruled out the possi bility there was other anthrax tainted mail that has not been found. Officials said late Wednesday that a female employee of an “electronic news organization” in Washington also was being treated for possible inhalation an thrax. The woman was outside Daschle’s office the day the letter arrived, said Mike Hall, spokesman for Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md., where she is being treated. If confirmed to be inhalation anthrax, she would be the first person to contract the disease in side the Capitol complex. Dr. John Eisold, the Capitol physician, said Thursday that testing on the woman has not been completed, but “I have good reason to believe that this person will turn out to be fine.” Capitol Police Lt. Dan Nichols on Thursday described anthrax found outside an elevator on the first floor of the Hart Senate building as “not a significant amount” and said investigators still were trying to determine how it got there. Scholarships Lottery funds could be used for LIFE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 awarded annually to 20 South Carolina residents who typically rank at the top of their class and have SAT scores above 1300. There is also an application and interview process involved. Greiner said. “There is a very rigorous bet ting process to win the Carolina Scholarships each yeaf.” He also said scholarship finalists receive smaller scholarships. The McNair Scholarship is the equivalent of the Carolina Scholarship for out-of-state stu dents. USC graduate Robert McNair established the endow ment for the scholarship with a $20 million donation in 1997. Greiner said the Carolina and McNair scholarships are “the two most prestigious undergraduate scholarships at USC.” Both schol arships offer full tuition to stu dents for four years. Two state-sponsored scholar ships are the Palmetto Fellows Scholarship and the Legislative Incentives for Future Excellence (LIFE) Scholarship. The Palmetto Fellows Scholarship is $5,000 per year and is given based on a stu dent’s class rank, extracurricu lar activities, leadership ability and school recommendations. The South Carolina General Assembly established the LIFE Scholarship during the 1998 leg islative year, and it provides $3,000 a year to South Carolina residents who meet the academic require ments. “The commission on high er education wrote the regulations for [the LIFE Scholarship],” Enrollment Management Director Char Davis said. “The LIFE was established to recognize the most academically talented high school students and to encourage them to attend a state-supported college or university in the state,” he said. There is no limit to the number of LIFE Scholarships awarded as long as the students meet and re tain the requirements—a 3.0 GPA and 1050 SAT score. In June, the state’s General Assembly enacted a bill that cre ated the South Carolina Education Lottery, that is scheduled to begin in January. The primary goal of the lottery is to use the profits from the busi ness for use in state education agencies. The General Assembly will appoint a lottery oversight committee to allocate the money earned by the lottery and tentative plans include increasing the amount of money awarded for the LIFE Scholarship. “It won’t be what most of us think of as a true lottery in terms of buying num bers,” Davis said. The lottery will consist of scratch-off tickets in stead. According to Greiner, the fu ture of scholarships at USC will be more competitive than ever. “The goal is to recruit academi cally talented students,” Greiner said. “Colleges go out and recruit students as if they were going to recruit a quarterback.” He added that scholarships are competitive devices in recruiting and college acceptance is getting more com petitive every year. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. 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