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Horseshoe CD to hit stores BY MEGHAN MCNAIR THE GAMECOCK A new CD-ROM featuring the cen ter of USC will be released in state bookstores next week. The Horseshoe: The Heart of the University, An Interactive Tour Through Time was started two years ago when President Palms asked for a school history to be creatively made as a celebration for the university’s 200th birthday. “We were looking for a way for peo ple to become aware of the history of USC; we are using contemporary tech nology to tell an old story,” said Thorne Compton, university bicen tennial executive committe chair. The CDs will be available Nov. 15 and will cost $15. The Russell House bookstore has already reported sever al students expressing interest. “This is a wonderful way for stu dents to look at this university and its long history. This is an easy exposure without making a trip to the archives. Anyone who loves South Carolina, par ticularly the University of South Carolina, will love seeing where they stand in 200 years of history,” said Harry Lesesne, USC’s associate direc tor of bicentennial committee and bi centennial historian. Lesesne helped with the CD-making process. “This is great cutting edge technology,” Lesesne said. Students and faculty helped re search and create the CD-ROM. “We wanted the development of the CD to be a learning process,” Compton said. The CD is interactive and there are a few hours worth of information com posed in several different sections. One section, “Voices of the Past,” has recordings of statements, including ac counts of the Carolina-Clemson rival ry, made by individuals who have lived on the Horseshoe. The CD also features a section where viewers can click on a dorm room and watch how it has changed through the years. It shows that students still were required to read certain materials and lived in conditions similar to ones that students live in today. Artifacts showcased on the CD are authentic; in fact, many of the indi viduals who actually occupied the Horseshoe dorm rooms allowed their items to be displayed on the CD. Fourth-year student Amanda Ingram said, “The Horseshoe is the most beautiful part of campus. Because I am from in state, I have always known about the Horseshoe and its beauty.” USC’s original campus, including ad ministrative and residence buildings, was located entirely on the Horseshoe. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. as the South Carolina Honors College and all scholarship funds, will be exempt from the reductions. “We are going to fund the ones that are excelling and need to excel in order to for us to reach [our] goals,” board of trustees Chairman Mack Whittle said. “It gives us an academic reputation,” Palms said of the Honors College, while adding that the Honors College typi cally produces students who receive post-graduate awards, such as Rhodes and ■Marshall scholarships. “They have a tremendous impact on the quality of incoming fresh man classes.” The law school received the maximum 4 percent re duction. However, Odom said the law school has its own au thority over any tuition ad justments, and he speculated the tuition will increase lat er this year. If the state budget contin ues to fall short of expecta tions, USC might sustain an other 1/2 percent to 1 percent budget reduction, Palms said. If needed, deeper departmen tal budget cuts would be con sidered at that time. Comments on this story? Email gameaxkudeskfa.hotmaU.com. 1 Programs More cuts could . come, Palms said CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 tion as well,” Palms said. He said some departments also have grants to aid funding af ter reductions. In a letter to the board of trustees, Palms said selective reductions were a proper step in making certain no de partment has a financial cri sis in the future. “Employing a variety of measures pre vents any one facet of the uni versity from sustaining an ir reparable blow or undue fis cal stress,” Palms wrote. Board of trustees members said they spent several days reviewing the budget and de termining where proper cuts could be made. Provost Jerry Odom said the ‘decision wasn’t easy to make. “We’re about establishing priorities within the universi ty right now, and this is the first step in terms of these selective cuts to various colleges and schools,” Odom said. “We had to come up with 4 percent some way , and we felt like this was the way that we needed to do it” Some departments, such at the meeting. While there were no tuition increases for law students, that move was likely to change af ter the school took a 4 percent hit in the budget cuts. “The law school has the abil ity to raise its tuition, and it will do that, as the med school has the ability to raise its own tuition,” Odom said. Student body President Corey Ford said he expected en rollment to remain fairly steady. “I don’t think that you’re go ing to see a big retreat or exodus,” Ford said. But he said he did think fewer students might come to USC the following semester be cause of the budget cuts. Ford said he wasn’t pleased with the board having to raise tuition because of a lack of sup port from state leaders. “I’m disappointed, though, that they did have to do a midyear tuition increase,” Ford said. He said the university, which is celebrating its bicentennial, received “more than adequate” funding from the legislature when it began in 1801. “F'unny how things have changed in those 200 years," he said. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com-. Tuition USCcan’t raise tuition further CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the students will help us do again this year that they did last year, and that is talk to the leg islature, and just make them aware of how important higher education is in this state for this state to develop,” Odom said. Addressing the concerns raised by some of the trustees, Dennis Pruitt, vice president of Student and Alumni Services, said he didn’t think the increase would cause an unusually large number of stu dents to leave the university. USC expects some students to leave because of December graduation. Freshman-to-sophomore re tention is “far above the na tional norm for institutions of our kind” and remains high, Pruitt said. The tuition increase means the university has raised tuition as much as it can for resident un dergraduates this fiscal year, but there are no limits on tuition in creases for other students. “We have no restrictions on professional schools, graduate schools, et cetera,” Palms said Black USC'hopes attire will intimidate UF CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 best fans in the country. We filled up our stadium when we were 1 21. It is an opportunity for us to say we are the University of South Carolina, and we are proud to be the Gamecocks.” Local businesses are also catch ing the black-magic bug. Kevin Schumacher, owner of Eat More Tees, first heard about blackout when he was recording a radio commercial for WNOK (104.7 FM). After waiting to see whether the movement would have enough support, Schumacher placed an or der for 300 T-shirts, all black, with the word “Cocks” emblazed across the front. Short-sleeved shirts sell for $10, long-sleeved for $13. “That was being safe, just to get started. If we sell 300 shirts, we can replace them within 24 hours,” Schumacher said. “I love the blackout idea. I think it will be very intimidating.” Gamecock radio announcer Charlie McAlexander said the blackout will have “a huge im pact” on the football game. “No one should really come in this sta dium feeling apprehensive at all. They should come in realizing that the crowd can contribute to the game in a very big way.” McAlexander, known to Gamecock faithful as “Charlie Mac,” has been covering SEC foot ball for 30 years. “Our players can play above their heads because of the atmosphere,” he said. “If some thing negative happens, this is a long game, and you’ve got to stay in it every play. Just because you will have a negative play, that’s not the way you approach a game like this. You are up to every play just like an athlete is. That’s just about as cool as it gets.rc” he said. While Gamecock black has worked its magic in the past, it has been known to backfire as well. On Dec. 28,1984, the Gamecocks trav eled to Jacksonville, Fla., to face the Oklahoma State Cowboys in one of the season’s highest-rated bowl games, the Gator Bowl. After a devastating Gamecocks loss to Navy during the regular season, 80,000 Gamecock fans made the trek to Jacksonville to try to catch one last glimpse of Black Magic. “We drove down there with no tickets, but we found some in the parking lot,” Bell said. With less than a minute to go, the Cowboys scored on a touchdown pass that put them in the lead for good. Black Magic had run out. “It was a real long ride home,” Bell said. “But we were real proud of the guys. It was a year I’ll never forget.” So, when “2001” is played in Williams-Brice Stadium on Saturday night, Gamecock fans are hoping there will be a little something extra in the atmos phere, a little “black magic.” “This is a very special place,” McAlexander said. “The students are going to be in it all the time. I would, just like everyone else, to never let up. We are coming back at you; we are relentless, and we are not going to stop.” In a staff editorial on Nov. 9, 1984, The Gamecock wrote: “Let’s be there when the band plays the alma mater, when the team bursts onto the field and when the bowl people take their seats. And let’s be back in black.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. H_ Some USC fans do whatever ft takes to show support for the Gamecocks, including plastering themselves with stickers, logos and other paraphernalia, photo by aaron hark This year we're out for blood! The Fraternity & Sorority Councils Present The 17th Annual CAROLINA/CLEMSON AMERICAN RED CROSS Blood Drive November 12-16, 2001 Russell House Ballroom 11am - 7pm