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USC to suffer in state cuts BY GREG HAMBRICK THE GAMECOCK University administrators be gan reviewing contingency plans after the state cut $7.9 million dol lars from the $197.7 million previ ously budgeted for the school. “Clearly, this size cut is going to have a significant effect on the university,” USC spokesman Russ McKinney said. The Budget and Control Board was expected to cut agency budgets by as much as 4.5 percent but stopped at 4 percent, a move that should save the state about $210.2 million. The university expected the cut and has already come up with possible ways to handle the loss. The administration will review the plans and suggest appropri ate action to the board of trustees in the coming weeks. McKinney said possible action might include: ♦ Across the board cuts of 4 per cent for every college, ♦ Selective cuts where some colleges could get more of a cut than others, ♦ Spending freezes on travel, purchasing, hiring or all three, ♦ An adjustment to the price of tuition. If a suggested tuition increase goes to the board. McKinney said the change could come as early as the spring. Other cuts announced Tuesday include a cut to the Education Department’s $79.2 million bud get. The department had to take $18.6 million in cuts at the end of the 2000-01 budget year. “We can’t absorb this cut this time,” department spokesman Jim Foster said. “The local schools will feel the pain this time.” The Budget and Control Board said further reductions, if needed, could be made in February after the results of Christmas sales are known. Gov. Jim Hodges said there was little choice. “This is a difficult time. I think we all need to share in this,” he said. The board on Tuesday also de ♦ BUDGET CUTS, SEE PAGE 3 State budget cuts State agencies will see budget cuts of about 4 percent, the Budget and Control Board decided Tuesday. Here is a list of agencies facing the largest cuts. AGENCY. BUDGET AMOUNT CUT University of South Carolina $197.7 million $7.9 million Education _ $2 billion w $79.2 million Health and Human Services $521.7 million $20.9 niillion Corrections Department. $295.8 million,, $11.8 million Technical colleges * $190.6 million __ $7.6 million Mental Health $190.1 million $7.6 million' Disabilities and Special Needs $154.3 million $6.2 million Public Safety Department $154.3 million $4.8 million DHEC _$117.5 million $4.7 million Clemson Universi^P $114.7 million $4.6 million SOURCE: STATE BUDGET AND CONTROL BOARD. ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO BY TRAVIS LYNN Students wait for Florida and Clemson tickets Monday afternoon. The line reached the corner of Bull and Greene Streets, photos by Andrew Rogers HURRY UP AND WAIT BY PRESTON BAINES THE GAMECOCK The line extended from Bull Street through the Russell House on Monday morning. People missed class and lunch to stand in it. What was all this for? Football games.Student ticket distribution for one of the most important games in Gamecock football his tory began Monday and left many people disgruntled. In a game that could decide the SEC Eastern Division champi onship, Carolina (6-2, 5-2) will take on the fourth-ranked Florida Gators (6-1,4-1). The lottery for the Nov. 17 game with Clemson started Monday as well. Students waited in the line for an hour and sometimes more. Jessica Boltman, a third-year business student, was one of many infuriated students. Boltman wasn’t even halfway through the line and was upset with the length of the wait. “[The wait] is ridiculous. If they see [the line] like this, they should set up two lines,” Boltman said. “I don’t want to miss out on tickets. I’m afraid they will be sold out by the time we get there.” Boltman and her friends also agreed that each student should get a ticket because of the funds they put in. “Each student should get a ticket mailed to them,” Boltman added. David Junker, a third-year media arts student, had con cerns about the line when he got in it but felt the wait was worth it. “It’s important to get the tick ets,” he said. “I’m disgusted that the planning was this bad. Whoever organized the distrib ution is an idiot." ♦ TICKET, SEE PAGE 3 Britt Newman, Paula Randier, and Lindsay Trammell chat while in line on Monday. USC faculty to help in summer program Rumsfeld confirms presence of U.S. ground forces in Afghanistan BY KEVIN FELLNER THE GAMECOCK The U.S. Department of Education awarded USC a grant that will allow teachers to in crease their knowledge of American history and learn how to develop innovative teaching ap proaches in professional develop ment programs. The South Carolina Department of Archives and History and Richland School District Two were recipients of the $953,361 grant for the improvement of American his tory education in South Carolina’s schools. The establishment of several USC graduate research assistant ships will allow USC students to de velop content and teaching mate rials for public elementary, middle and high schools. USC students will locate documents and conduct re search that will identify local re sources therefore enhancing his tory lessons. K-12 teachers will learn history in summer develop ment programs organized by USC personnel. The grant’s development pro grams will benefit public schools in Richland School District Two as well as schools in Charleston, Greenville, Berkeley and Dorchester counties. Constance Schulz, a USC public history professor who will oversee ♦ GRANT, SEE PAGE 3 BY ROBERT BURNS ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Pentagon confirmed the presence of American troops in northern Afghanistan for the first time Tuesday and credited them with improving the effectiveness of U.S. bombing raids. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who previously had refused to disclose such details, told a Pentagon news confer ence a “very modest” number of U.S. troops are advising forces opposed to the Taliban, coordinating resupply and help ing direct U.S. airstrikes on Taliban targets. ■ Rumsfeld did not say which U.S. troops are in Afghanistan or how long they have been there, but from his de scription of Rumsfeld their missions it seemed likely they include Army Special Forces, commonly called Green Berets. He said fewer than 100 are in Afghanistan. A reporter at the press con ference quoted critics who have called the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan halfhearted and misguided in its reluctance to commit ground troops. “We do have a very modest number of ground troops in the country,” Rumsfeld said. “They are there for liaison purposes and have been doing an excel lent job of assisting with the co ordination for resupply of vari ous types, as well as targeting.” He said President Bush has not ruled out committing ground troops in numbers com parable to the 1991 Gulf War, when hundreds of thousands were deployed. On Oct. 20 Rumsfeld an nounced that more than 100 Army Airborne Rangers and oth er special operations forces had ♦ AFGHANISTAN, SEE PAGE 2 USC’S PAST November 1,1952 Scoring three touchdowns in one minute and 45 seconds, the Gamecock football team defeated the University of Virgina Cavaliers 21-14 in the “Oyster Bowl” in Norfolk. WEATHER Today Tomorrow Sunny, Sunny, 76/49 80/56 INSIDE TODAY'S ISSUE Holtz, Spurrier in < Let’s do the time rare agreement warp again and again Coaches speak out against Rocky Horror will appear at bad SEC officiating following Russell House theater and The Saturday’s games. ♦ PAGE 9 Elbow Room. ♦ PAGE 6 IMTI' IIIIIHHHI iMMUII——I—— Ridge warns of new attacks Cheney taken to secure location; Americans told to be alert in new terrorist age BY KAREN GULLO ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -The FBI issued its latest nationwide terrorist alert following “the convergence of information from credible sources,” Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said Tuesday, information deemed related to Osama bin Laden or his al-Qaida network. At a White House news con ference, Ridge said Americans should be on alert as they continue to go about their normal lives. “America has to continue to be Ridge America,” he said. Ridge spoke as officials announced that Vice President Dick Cheney had been taken to an undisclosed secure lo cation Monday night and re mained there Tuesday in order to safeguard the continuity of gov ernment in the event of an attack on President Bush. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday that the warning was issued following re ceipt of intelligence that terror ists might attack U.S. interests. Officials said members of bin Laden’s network could be plotting attacks in retaliation for the U.S. led bombing of Afghanistan. At his news conference, Ridge provided little by way of elaboration. The announcement was made because the “decibel level was lOUUV/1 lii 1 UUlUlt Ulk-ClilgCUVU UI formation, suggesting an attack. “It was just the convergence of credible sources that occasioned the alert, more than usual,” he said. Asked about the quality of the information, he replied, “Credibility we leave to the ex perts, but I think you can fairly assume that the experts view this tied in, this information somehow related to al-Qaida or bin Laden.” Like Ridge, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer sought to prepare the public for a new lifestyle in a terrorist age. “This ' is what has been called the new normalcy,” he said. “It’s fair to say that until the war on terror ism is brought to a successful con clusion, ... this is going to be the case in our country.” As on Oct. 11, when the FBI is sued a similar warning, Ashcroft tried to walk a fine line between giving the public prompt and nec essary warnings and not causing panic. The alert “gives people a basis for continuing to live their lives the way they would otherwise live them, with this elevated sense of alertness or vigilance,” Ashcroft told a news conference. FBI Director Robert Mueller said the Oct. 11 warning may have helped avert an attack. Ashcroft said the absence of an attack should not lull people “into a false ♦ WARNING, SEE PAGE 3 ONLINE POLL Questionable calls Do you think the officials at the Tennesse game were fair? Vote at www.dailygamecock.com. Results are published on Fridays.