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Patch Adams to visit campus Doctor, founder of Gesundheit , Institute to speak Tuesday night BY KEVIN FELLNER THE GAMECOCK Patch Adams, physician and founder of the Gesundheit Institute, will speak Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Russell House Ballroom. Adams is famous in the health-care community for his ca reer-long effort to mix humor with medical care and treat pa tients instead of just their symp toms. Adams, originally from Arlington, Va., is known through out the world for offering free med ical care, carrying no malpractice insurance and inviting some of his patients to live with him. For 12 years, beginning in 1971, he ran a medical clinic out of his own house, treating an estimated 15,000 people for no charge. Adams says health is typically defined as the absence of disease, but that he defines it a different way, according to his Web site. “To me, health is a happy, vi brant, exuberant life every single day of your life. Anything less is a certain amount of disease.” Adams’ life story was told in a 1998 film starring Robin Williams, and the movie’s success helped promote his cause worldwide. Adams’ frus tration with tradi tional health care practices inspired him to begin a continuous mis sion in search of Adams free medical treat ment, and he formed the Gesundheit Institute, a clinic offering free medical care to the public. Plans have been made for constructing the insti tute on a 320-acre farm in Pocohantas County, W.V. Charitable donations will com pletely fund the institute. Adams spends most of his time lecturing at hospitals and medical schools around the country, where he teaches his beliefs about doctor-patient relationships. “When a person comes to me, unless the problem is an arterial bleed, which has to be addressed that second, the first goal is to have a friendship out of that rela tionship,” Adams told The Washington Post. He will speak as a part of the Search for Six, a campaign spon sored by the Department of Student and Alumni Services and the Bicentennial Student Events Committee. The campaign’s goal was to find six people who most embody the Carolinian Creed to speak on campus. USC students voted for the winning candidates last spring. Third-year chemisty student Shereef El-Ibiary served on the committee, which contacted Adams about speaking on cam pus. According to El-Ibiary, it was hard for Adams to schedule a time for the trip. El-Ibiary said what sealed the deal was a picture of some USC students wearing clown noses sent to Adams, a pro fessional clown irf his spare time. “I thought it would just be fun to do,” El-Ibiary said, “and we agreed to raise money for his in stitute from area physicians and USC student organizations.” El-Ibiary said he’s interested in Adams’ pursuit of a new form of health care. “I think he’s going ♦ ADAMS, SEE PAGE 2 Airstrikes pummel Kandahar BY KATHY GANNON ASSOCIATED DRESS WRITER KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — Relentless U.S. airstrikes pum meled the defenders of Kandahar on Sunday with anti-Taliban forces within 20 miles of the last militia stronghold. A U.S. Marine officer said his troops might join the assault. In the east, a provincial mili tary official said U.S. warplanes bombed an anti-Taliban head quarters Sunday, killing at least eight people. The claim came a day after the official reported sim ilar bombings killed scores of ""civilians nearby. At U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Fla., spokesman Lt. Col. Mark Compton said the command was looking into the reports but had no immediate information about the latest attacks. In Washington, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said U.S. forces would do “whatever is necessary” to root out the Taliban and al-Qaida terrorists from their cave hideouts near Kandahar and Jalalabad. Asked on NBC’s Meet the Press whether poison gas would be pumped into the caves, Rumsfeld noted that northern alliance forces used flooding to force the surrender Saturday of the last 82 Taliban holdouts in a prison fortress near Mazar-e-Sharif in the north. Hundreds of their com rades and a CIA operative died in an uprising last week. “I guess one will do whatever it is necessary to do,” Rumsfeld said. “If people will not surrender then they’ve made their choice.” “The remaining task is a par ticularly dirty and unpleasant one,” Rumsfeld said. “We expect that there will be casualties; we expect that there will be people captured.” At the forward U.S. Marine base in the desert 70 miles south west of Kandahar, an officer sug gested for the first time that American forces might join the fi nal assault on Kandahar. “You have a lot of forces at play • ••the opposition groups coming from the north down, the south east up and us potentially coming from where we are,” said Maj. James “Beau” Higgins, an intel ligence officer. A 1.5-mile-long column of U.S. military vehicles, including light ♦ AFGHANISTAN, SEE PAGE 2 MORE THAN JUST PAINTINGS USC’s McKissick Museum isn’t “just... a museum that puts up pretty paintings and pictures and pottery in a case.” The museum is facing possible elimination in the face of major budget cuts, photos by martha wright A MUSEUM OF PEOPLE BY ADAM BEAM THE GAMECOCK If you walk into McKissick Museum these days, you’re more than likely to find Mary Evans, sleeves rolled up, glass es perched on top of her head, busily rearranging the furni ture around a very large doll house so visitors can get a peek inside the windows. When she’s finished, Evans, who has been working with McKissick for six years, plugs the extension cord back into the wall to illuminate the lights inside the house. “So, what do you think?” she asks her visitors. A visitor’s quip says it all: “Well, I’ll be switched.” But now, because of budget cuts across South Carolina’s in stitutions of higher education, USC is looking to turn the lights out on McKissick Museum. Adrienne Outen, a first-year psychology student, has been working at McKissick since the start of the semester. “It’s a very laid-back kind of atmosphere,” she said. “It’s kind of nice.” Behind the scenes The floor of museum direc tor Lynn Robertson’s office tells another story. With an up coming exhibit chronicling 300 years of Jewish life in South Carolina, her office is anything but organized. “Nobody sits around here,” she says, as she hurries down the hall. “You won’t see anyone sitting around drinking coffee. We’re always busy.” Busy, she means, with trying to maintain the museum’s col lection of well more than 100,000 objects, 99 percent of which are donated. Over the years, the museum has garnered bits and pieces of USC’s past by staying in touch with alumni. “We’re very active in trying to find out objects that reflect the history of the university,” Robertson said. “Right now, we’re looking for a 1950s prom dress.” All of the uncertainty sur rounding McKissick for the past few weeks has only added to Robertson’s troubles; she said some people have called, concerned about the items they’ve donated. McKissick Museum is named for J. Rion McKissick, USC’s president from 1936-1944, who is buried on the Horseshoe. He often rode bicycle, a gift from students, as shown in this cutout in the museum’s lobby. The economic dilemma strategic Directives and As the administration still Initiatives Committee is scram reels from the 4-percent budget cut in early November, the ♦ MCKISSICK, SEE PAGE 2 use to remove further parking Green space to replace meters on Sumter Street starting Dec. 10 BY EMMA RITCH THE GAMECOCK Parking on USC’s already cramped campus will worsen Monday, Dec. 10, with the elimina tion of Sumter Street’s on-street park ing between Blossom and Greene streets. The removal of the metered and on-street spaces is the first phase of the Columbia Campus Streetscape Development project, which will “add green space for trees and bet ter crosswalks across Sumter,” ac cording to Ben Coonrod, the uni versity landscape architect. Coonrod said the construction, originally planned to start Dec. 3, will eliminate about 20 spaces be tween McBryde Quadrangle and the Towers. Some handicapped and USC ser vice vehicle parking will remain off Sumter in front of the LaBorde and T\/Tr»rvro rociHonno Viollc Coonrod said the plan is to com plete the first phase of construc tion by the 2002 fall semester. “We will bear the pain of some thing that students in the future will be the beneficiary of. There will be satellite parking, bicycles and buses. We will have safer, bet ter conditions for pedestrians and more green space,” Coonrod said. The renovated road will have pull-off areas for bus stops and cov ered bus shelters. Coonrod also said there will be better crossing between Longstreet Theatre and Longstreet Annex with the construction of a wheelchair ramp and direct steps. McBryde resident Dev Desai, a third-year finance student, dis agreed that this phase of develop ment would be beneficial to cam pus. “People in the Towers and McBryde already have to search for the scarce spots in the crowded Blossom garage. Removing the metered spaces on Sumter Street will only add to the problem. Maybe we can all compromise and just let students park in the idle green space,” he said. ♦ SUMTER, SEE PAGE 2 Road Construction The university will begin work on Sumter Street on Monday, Dec. 10. The project is expected to remove more than 20 parking spaces. USG’S PAST Dec. 4,1999 use Senior Caroline Parler won a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. WEATHER Today Tomorrow Partly cloudy, Sunny, 68/45 72/39 , INSIDE TODAY’S ISSUE A sloppy victory Men’s basketball team defeats Colorado State. ♦ PAGE 7 r < A joyful noise Harlem Boys Choir to perform f a tonight at the Roger Center. *1 ♦PAGE 4 ONLINE POLL Calling Volunteers How much does it hurt to root for Tennessee this weekend so we’ll get a good bowl? Vote at www.dailygamecock.com. Results are published on Fridays.