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YEAR IN REVIEW: 2001 brings celebrations, victories, pain
Happy 200th birthday
2001 was USC’s 200th birthday.
Students and the community
commemorated USC’s existence
by dedicating trees to influential
professors on the historic Horse
shoe, volunteering in 80 public
schools and burying a time cap
sule. USC played host to various
conferences and symposiums as
part of the yearlong celebration.
Speakers included Patch Adams
and Pat Conroy. The yearlong
celebration ended in a December
ceremony on the Horseshoe.
SG election controversy
After bitter and contentious cam
paigns, then-Student Government
Vice President Corey Ford and
then-Sen. Nithya Bala won the top
two spots in SG elections in Febru
ary.
Ford won a stunning outright vic
tory in a three-way presidential race
against Angela Wilson and Donald
Brock. Bala faced Nathan White in a
runoff to succeed Ford.
Hydrick Harden was unop
posed for treasurer.
The race also featured a con
troversy over The
Gamecock’s role in
student elections.
After the paper
endorsed Wilson
and White for the
top offices, nearly
1,000 issues of the
paper located near p0 r(j
the SG office were
trashed.
The endorsements—along with
printed accusations that Attorney
General Norm Jones was responsi
ble — led the Board of Student Pub
lications and Communications to
reprimand former Gamecock Editor
in Chief Brock Vergakis. A resolu
tion to censure The Gamecock failed
in the student senate.
Budget cutting
State legislators cut the budget 12
percent in March, only to see that
number decrease to 5 percent by
May. USC officials responded by
raising tuition 10.4 percent, only to
cut it back down to a 5.2 percent in
crease after Gov. Hodges vetoed a
one-cent sales tax on food items.
With another budget cut ex
pected later in the year, Presi
dent John Palms created a task
force for laying out strategic di
rectives and initiatives for re
structuring the university.
After seven months of delib
erations, the report was finally
released on Thursday, Jan. 10,
for Palms and the board of
trustees to review.
Palms for Senate?
President John Palms came un
der fire from members of the board
of trustees after it was revealed in
March that he was considering
running for the U.S. Senate seat be
ing vacated by Strom Thurmond.
Palms, who would have run as a
Democrat, was
criticized by some
board members.
Palms announced
in mid-May that he
wouldn’t run for
Senate but would
step down as presi
dent in June 2002. Palms
Our own Miss S.C.
USC student Jeanna Raney was
crowned Miss South Carolina in
July. Raney, a native of Inman, S.C.,
is spending what would have been
her junior year of college fulfilling
the duties her title brings. Raney
speaks to school groups about sui
cide prevention. She competed in
the Miss America pageant in Sep
tember and placed in the top 20.
Freshman overload
USC accepted 3,218 new freshmen
for the fall 2001 semester, according
to Director of Undergraduate Ad
missions Terry Davis.
Demand for student housing
surpassed on-campus availabili-.
ty; so USC housed freshmen gt the
Assembly Street Holiday Inn for
the fall semester.
“It was all right, just not what
I was expecting,-” freshman Matt
Owens said.
All USC students have since
moved out of the Holiday Inn. The
freshman enrollment goal for fall
2002 remains 3,000.
Sept. 11 at USC
Many students huddled around
televisions and watched in horror
as terrorists attacked the United
States.
Though many miles away, stu
dents helped victims. Students
passed around white ribbons and
lit candles to show respect for
those lost and raised money for
victims.
An Outback win again
For the first time in school his
tory, the Gamecock football team
posted back-to-back bowl victories
with a second
straight win in the
Outback Bowl, this
year with a game
winning kick by
Daniel Weaver. A 9
3 season set a new
Gamecock record
for wins (17) over a
two-year span. USC
also knocked off ri
val Clemson for the first time since
1996 by defeating them 20-15 in Co
lumbia.
Writers Adam Beam, Chris Foy,
Cristy Infinger, Eric Lapin and
Brandon Larrabee contributed to
this review.
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