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Students hit hard by cuts
Another tuition
increase could
happen in 2002
BY ADAM BEAM
THE GAMECOCK
When Ashlee Linne graduated
from high school in Grosse Pointe,
Mich., she made a deal with her par
ents. She could go to an out-of-state
school if she paid the difference be
tween Michigan’s in-state tuition
and Carolina’s out-of-state rate.
The fact that USC was going
through a financial crisis never
entered her mind.
“I had no idea,” Linne said
about USC’s budget woes. “I found
out about all this stuff when The
Gamecock wrote an article about
it.”
Now, because of financial prob
lems within the state Legislature,
USC has raised tuition 1.8 percent,
or $98, for out-of-state students, all
of which will have to come out of
Linne’s pocket.
“My parents are going to help
me out as much as possible, but
having two kids in college and then
having another one coming in an
other year — I mean, I have to re
spect what they can pay for,” said
Linne, a first-year advertising ma
jor. “If it comes down to it, I would
probably move back to Michigan
... if I couldn’t pay for it.”
With that as a last.resort,
Linne says she plans to “try my
hardest to get the money.”
“It’s going to be a lot of work,”
she said. “I’m planning on work
ing for an advertising company
this summer and also working as
a swim coach; so, hopefully, that’s
going to help a lot.”
Terry Davis, undergraduate ad
missions director, says one reason
Linne didn’t know about USC’s tu
ition increase was because the tu
ition office didn’t know enough in
advance to notify students.
“My guess is that we won’t see a
significant impact on enrollment,”
Davis said. “When you look at the
total cost, the $100 is not a huge in
crease that students and their fam
ilies could come up with that ex
tra money,” she said. “I don’t
think it will be a significant deter
rent, and I expect other schools to
be doing the same thing.”
In-state students were hit as
well; they saw their tuition rise
4.8 percent, which is also $98.
Chris Barker, a third-year fi
nance student from Spartanburg,
said he’s worried about the in
crease.
“If the tuition goes up a lot
more, I’ll have to start getting stu
dent loans and taking care of it my
self,” he said. “That’s kind of tough
because it hurts a
lot of students who
are already here if
they got halfway
through the se
mester and they
have to charge
more.”
Pruitt With another
budget cut expect
ed in February, student and
alumni services director Dennis
Pruitt said another increase is pos
sible for Fall 2002. “We haven’t
forecasted that far yet, but those
discussions will be made in the
spring,” he said.
♦ TUITION, SEE PAGE 3
Henrie Monteith Treadwell walks out of the administration
building after registering for classes. Treadwell sued to
integrate USC in the 1960s. photo special to the gamecock
TAKING
THE PAST
WITH US
University Day
will celebrate
USC’s diversity,
look to future
BY GINNY THORNTON
THE GAMECOCK
The USC community will cele
brate its accomplishments in ed
ucation and focus on the future of
higher education in South
Carolina this Thursday.
“Higher Education in South
Carolina: The Next Ten Years” is
the University Day theme, a USC
Bicentennial program scheduled
for Thursday.
Henrie Monteith Treadwell will
be the keynote speaker at the open
ing convocation on the Horseshoe
at 1 p.m. Treadwell, program di
rector for the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation, was the first African
American student to sue to inte
grate the University of South
Carolina.
“On Nov. 15,2001, the University
of South Carolina community will
come together in a series of special
events to mark the day in 1963
when the admission of three coura
geous African-American students
allowed us to become a truly pub
lic university,” said H. Thorne
Compton, chair of the USC
Bicentennial Executive Committee.
Treadwell obtained a bachelor’s
degree in biology from USC, a
master’s degree in biology from
Boston University and a Ph.D. in
biochemistry and molecular biol
ogy from Atlanta University.
♦ TREADWELL, SEE PAGE 2
Administrators prepare for
consequences of budget cuts
BY KEVIN FELLNER
THE GAMECOCK
Most administrators will
have a hard task ahead when
they deal with up to 4 percent
less money for most colleges.
That’s the sentiment among
USC administrators after
Thursday’s budget cuts. The se
lective reductions show, how
ever, that some colleges and de
partments will have to work
harder than others.
The board of trustees recom
mended a selective reduction,
which required board members
to prioritize colleges instead of
instituting an across-the-board
adjustment. The board’s goal was
to allow more funding for pro
grams such as “Cathedrals of
Excellence” and the Honors
College, which are more respect
ed and have proved successful.
Provost Jerry Odom called
these mid-year reductions
“hard, painful decisions.” Board
chairman Mack Whittle said the
“colleges that provide the excel
lence within the university”
would always be a top priority
in the university’s budget.
The Honors College escaped
last week’s cuts, but the college’s
associate dean, Doug Williams,
said the college will still have fi
nancial difficulties. “Seeing as
how we are partners with all the
other colleges, these cuts will be
potentially damaging to the
Honors College,” Williams said.
He said professors from all
colleges teach classes in the hon
ors program. When colleges
change the availability of class
es and professors, the Honors
College is also affected.
The Law School received the
maximum 4 percent reduction,
but it will only be implemented
if the school doesn’t raise its tu
ition. According to Dean John
Montgomery, Law School ad
ministrators may recommend
separate tuition adjustments to
the board of trustees. He said a
tuition increase will likely hap
pen soon, and thought the net re
sult would range from 2 to 2.5
percent. The Law School is
working with Rick Kelly, USC’s
chief financial officer, to deter
mine what steps to take to bal
ance the Law School’s funds.
College of Engineering and
Information Technology Dean
Ralph White said tuition reduc
tions wouldn’t impede the engi
neering program’s goals. “I think
we were treated fairly relative to
the other colleges,” he said. The
administration considers the
“Cathedrals of Excellence,” com
posed of the engineering school
as well as the business, liberal
arts, and science and mathemat
ics colleges, the most respected
♦ BUDGET, SEE PAGE 4
DEVASTATED AGAIN
Rescuers continue to search for bodies as officials investigate the scene of the
crash of American Airlines Flight 587, Tuesday, photo by todd maisel/krt campus
Rattling heard before plane crash
BY DONNA DE LA CRUZ
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — The cockpit
voice recorder from American
Flight 587 indicates the pilots
struggled to control the plane af
ter a rattling was heard less
than two minutes into takeoff,
investigators reported Tuesday.
George Black Jr. of the
National Transportation Safety
Board said investigators don’t
yet know what caused the “air
frame rattling noise.”
Also, the pilots spoke of en
countering turbulence in the
wake of a Japan Airlines jumbo
jet that took off ahead of Flight
587, Black said. “Wake turbu
lence” is believed to have con
tributed to other deadly airline
crashes.
But Black said it was too ear
ly to say whether there was any
relationship between the noises
or the turbulence and the crash
of Flight 587.
From takeoff to the end of the
tape lasts less than 2 minutes, 24
seconds, Black said at a news
conference.
The first portion of the flight
to the Dominican Republic ap
peared normal, with the co-pilot
at the controls. But 107 seconds
after the plane had started its
♦ PLANE, SEE PAGE 5
Afghan
capital
falls to
alliance
Kandahar, center
of Taliban power,
said to be ‘chaotic’
BY KATHY GANNON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -
Afghans brought their radios out
of hiding and played music in the
streets, savoring the end of five
years of harsh Taliban rule as the
northern alliance marched tri
umphantly into Afghanistan’s
capital Tuesday. Diplomats
sought U.N. help in fashioning a
government for the shattered
country.
American jets still prowled the
skies in the south, seeking out
convoys of Taliban fighters re
treating toward Kandahar, the
Islamic militants’ last major
stronghold. Strikes also targeted
caves .where members of terror
suspect Osama bin Laden’s al
Qaida network were thought to
be hiding.
The dizzying cascade of events
in Afghanistan turned the oppo
sition into the country’s chief
power overnight — and brought
to the forefront the issue of en
suring that it shares power. The
United States and its allies want a
government that includes groups
the ethnic minorities that make
up the alliance and the Pashtuns,
the country’s largest ethnic
group.
The alliance leaders said they
had deployed 3,000 security' troops
across Kabul to bring order—not
to occupy it — and insisted they
were committed to a broad-based
goverment.
The alliance foreign minister,
Abdullah, invited all Afghan fac
tions — except the Taliban — to
come to Kabul to negotiate on the
country’s future. The top U.N. en
voy for Afghanistan outlined a
plan for a two-year transitional
government with a multination
al security force.
In the streets of Kabul, thou
sands of people celebrated,
honking car horns and ringing
bicycle bells. They flouted the
strict version of Islamic law im
posed by the Taliban that regu
lated almost every aspect of life,
down to banning shaving and
music.
There were signs of a break
down of Taliban control in
Kandahar—the birthplace of the
hardline Islamic movement.
A U.S. official, speaking on con
dition of anonymity, said an
armed force of Pashtuns were
moving against the Taliban near
Kandahar. The official would not
elaborate.
At least 200 Pashtun fighters
mutinied in Kandahar, and fight
ing broke out by the city’s airport,
said a Taliban official, Mullah
Najibullah, at the Pakistani bor
der at Chaman.
Abdullah said the situation in
Kandahar was “chaotic.” He said
“Taliban authorities are not seen.
... There is no responsible au
thority to respond to the needs of
the people.”
Another American official in
Washington said there were con
flicting reports about who holds
the Kandahar airport, as well as
unconfirmed reports tjiat the
♦ AFGHANISTAN, SEE PAGE 2
USC’S PAST
Nov. 21,1917
Carolina became the Palmetto
State’s first state-supported
institution to be admitted to
the Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools.
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