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INSIDE Carolina Productions "|\/f AVI /I QTT January 28,2002 ♦ Vol. 95, No. 53 makes plans for the spring IVlUllvlCl V University of South Carolina ♦ www.dailygamecock.com An award that unlocks * the world PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK Professor Tim Bergen traveled to Cambodia after he received a Fulbright Scholar Award. One of three Fulbrlght Scholars chosen from USC to travel, teach and study, Bergen taught and did research at the Royal University of Phnom Penh. 3 USC professors get Fulbright Awards, teach in other countries BY JESSICA FOY THE GAMECOCK This year, three USC profes sors have received U.S. Fulbright Scholar Awards. Mark DeLancey, Timothy Bergen and Frank Avignone have used their awards to teach and study abroad. Bergen, an associate dean and associate professor in the College of Education, used his award to teach and do research at the Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia. He was in Cambodia from Aug. 31 until Dec. 19 last year. Bergen said the Cambodian university was devastated af ter the Vietnam War. A large number of its faculty died, and it took many years for the uni versity to start awarding de grees again. “Around 1993 is when things got moving again ... where they could start granting degrees,” he said. “They now have about 200 faculty members, 20 of whom have master’s degrees. Twelve have doctorates, and the rest only have bachelor’s de grees.” Bergen said the faculty’s inex perience surprised him. “They didn’t know how to teach or assess students. I didn’t think they were that low in preparation,” he said. The university asked Bergen to develop manuals the faculty could use to learn how to do re search and actually assess stu dent progress. Aside from doing the research and lecturing, Bergen also found time to volunteer. In the after noons, he would visit a Buddhist Wat, the Wat Than Pagoda. At the Pagoda, land mine victims could take basic classes in areas such as accounting, English, computer science, weaving and sewing. Bergen taught English to the Pagoda’s students. Though the purpose of his visit was to re= search and teach at the universi ty, he said his experiences at the Pagoda were the best part of the trip. DeLancey, a professor emeri tus from the Government and International Studies Department, is now in Korea. He has retired from the USC system, but is now the Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Universitas Riau in ♦ FULBRIGHT, SEE PAGE 2 T: : ^ULRFUGHJ Surf Yourself www.iie.org/cies/ PHOTO BY MICHELLE WILLIAMS Parking Services has said it will closely monitor parking stickers in Bull Street Garage to make sure they’re on the right cars. Some students photocopy their friends' stickers. USC to cut down abuse of parking Parking Services to set new gate times at Bull Street Garage BY CRISTY INFINGER THK GAMECOCK Parking Services is cracking down on abuse to the USC parking systems by enforcing new gate times at the Bull Street Garage and strictly monitoring garage stickers in all garages. Guards previously stayed at the Bull Street Garage pay lot from 7 a.m. until 7 p.ni. they will now stay from 7 a.m. until about 11 or 12 at night. The time at which the gates are lifted will vary because of dif ferent guard-duty hours each night. According to Parking Services Director Derrick Huggins, the new gate hours aren’t meant to punish students using the Bull Street pay lot, but to monitor students who are abusing the system. “There is a lot of misuse and abuse of the garage,” Huggins said. “Some students are trying to uti lize it as a monthly parking space, and that is not fair to the students who pay $160 a semester.” The new hours are an effort to keep students from avoiding parking fees by leaving their cars GRAPHIC BY BRANDON LARRABEE in the lot all day until the gates open. For example, if a student dri- - ves to campus for an afternoon class, arrives at 6:30 p.m. and leaves at 8 p.m., he will have to pay for garage use only from 6:30 to 7 p.m. Huggins said: “From 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., parking will still be free. But ♦ PARKING, SEE PAGE 2 Cheating the parking system Students are finding ways to get around USC’s parking rules, according to university officials. Some of their methods: _ PHOTOCOPYING a friend’s garage sticker and purchasing a new electronic pass for only $25 CLOSELY FOLLOWING another car into the garage before the gate closes USING s, Li other ~ *• students’ u garage passes_ BREAKING garage gates Paper says reporter abducted in Pakistan BY RICHARD PYLE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - A group claiming to have seized a Wall Street Journal reporter missing in Pakistan said he was being held in “inhuman conditions” compara ble to those of suspected terrorists in U.S. custody, the newspaper re ported Sunday. An e-mail from “The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty” accused reporter Daniel Pearl of being a CIA officer posing as a journalist, the Journal reported Sunday on its Web site. The newspaper said the e-mail was accompanied by four pho tographs of Pearl, with one show ing him with a gun to his head, and demanded better treatment for fighters being held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay ♦ REPORTER, SEE PAGE 3 Carolina Productions seeks president BY LOGAN BARLOW THE GAMECOCK Carolina Productions hopes to end its search for a new president sometime this week. CP, one of USC’s largest student organiza tions, has been without a presi dent since December. Katryna Bevis, 2001 CP vice president, was chosen to succeed then-president Krista Wingard when Wingard’s term concluded at the end of last semester. But Bevis resigned at the end of her term and chose not to become president. Wingard is overseeing some of her former presidential duties until the new president is elected. Bevis was unavailable for comment. CP holds elections for its offi cers and commissioners each December, and their terms run until the following December. Josh Terry, a second-year pub lic relations student and the 2002 CP concert commissioner, de scribed the position of president as a “motivator and spokesper son” for the organization. The president is offered a posi tion on the Russell House Advisory Board, a committee that oversees all activity at the Russell House. Vice President for Public Affairs Angela Sumter is now tak ing the presidential responsibili ty of overseeing the weekly meet ings of CP’s executive board. The executive board is made up of seven commissioners: Homecoming, cultural aware ness, ideas and issues, special programs, traditional events, con certs and cinematic arts. Each commissioner is responsible for programming activities within his field. Terry described the position of commissioner as “a lot of fun. It’s definitely something that takes up some of your time, but it’s worth it” Mike Duncan, student activi ties director, is CP’s adviser. He helps make sure the students fol low university guidelines and procedures in all of their pro gramming. Graduate advisers Lisa Bamicoat and Nina McCreevey assist Duncan. They act as a sup port system for the student com missioners and make sure they PHOTO BY MARTHA WRIGHT Carolina Productions, which shows movies in the Russell House Theater, hasn't had a president since December. CP not tight on cash Money budgeted to organizations per semester CAROLINA PRODUCTIONS: $5.11/USC undergraduate AVERAGE STUDENT ORGANIZATION: $2.15/USC undergraduate have the tools they need to carry out the planned programs. They also help advise the students and ensure that all plans have been thought through. Hydrick Harden, Student Government treasurer, said fund ing for CP is classified as priority funding among student activities. The amount of funding any stu dent organization receives is based on average undergraduate enrollment. CP gets $5.11 per undergradu ate student per semester. This funding is divided among the sev en commissioners and their com mittees. All other undergraduate stu dent organizations split an addi tional $2.15 of each undergradu ate’s student activity fees. The committee that will oversee the next presidential election is composed of Duncan, Barnicoat, McCreevey, associate journalism professor Bonnie Drewniany, Wingard and a representative from the CP executive board. Applications for the position were due Thursday, Jan. 24. The committee will interview appli cants today, and will elect the president soon after. It hasn’t yet been announced which commit tee members will vote. “It’s something we need to take care of, but nothing that’s hurt ing the progress of the organiza tion,” Terry said. Duncan agreed and said the programming the organization does for students has “never been in jeopardy at all.” CP is also accepting applica tions for the position of cultural awareness commissioner. This commissioner is responsible for planning programs targeted to ward minority issues and the cul tural arts. Anyone interested can pick up an application in suite 235 of the Russell House. • Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com TODAY’S WEATHER: Partly cloudy skies. Light WSW winds. High 69, Low 47. TOMORROW’S WEATHER: Partial sunshine. High 79, Low 51.