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USC student makes USA Today academic team
BY GINNY THORNTON
THE GAMECOCK
Fourth-year marine science
and mathematics student
Brandon Fornwalt has been
named to USA Today’s second
team in the annual All-USA
College Academic Team program.
Fornwalt, from Hilton Head, was
one of about 600 nominees from
four-year colleges in the United
States. The newspaper selected 20
students each for the first, second
and third teams. Information about
team members appeared in the Feb.
27 edition of USA
Today.
“I view this
award as a great ac
complishment for
the university and
for all my advisers
who provided me
with so much along
the way,” said
Fornwalt, the son of Jack and
Linda Fornwalt. “I owe every
thing to those who have helped me
get here.”
Fornwalt said the award isn’t
tied'to any future activities or
events. “I don’t know what it will
bring, but I imagine it will lead
to something along the way,” he
said.
A Carolina Scholar, Fomwalt is
a student in the Honors College and
was named a 2001 Goldwater
Scholar. Last year, he received the
American Meteorological Society’s
Ethan and Allen Murphy
Memorial Scholarship, one of only
nine awards given nationwide by
the society; USC’s Jeong S. Yang
Award for Excellence in
Undergraduate Mathematics; and
the USC mathematics department’s
Outstanding Undergraduate
Student award.
Fomwalt said he thinks it’s im
portant for USC students to apply
for honors such as the academic
team so that they can prove they
have what it takes to compete
against students from other colleges.
“I feel like this award is a cul
mination of everything my edu
cation has given me,” Fornwalt
said. “I hope that’s what it
means. It’s sort of what it means
to me.”
A member of the competitive
Putnam Mathematics Team,
Fornwalt received the EPSCoR
Summer Research Fellowship, was
named to the Howard Hughes
Undergraduate Research program,
and was a student fellow at the
Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic
Institution this past summer. He
also received a Marine Biological
Laboratory Summer Fellowship in
2000 at Woods Hole.
“The big picture, as far as that
research is concerned, was work
ing on underwater vehicles that
are being developed to collect
large amounts of oceanographic
data,” Fornwalt said.
A teaching assistant for
Discrete Mathematics I at USC,
Fornwalt has presented research
findings at meetings of the
American Geophysical Union and
the American Society of
Limnology and Oceanography
Aquatic Sciences.
Fornwalt plans to apply for the
Peace Corps, but doesn’t know
where he wants to be sent. “I’d
like to keep it open and see what
they offer me,” he said.
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Pick-number lottery games start Thursday
First game will
offer up to $500
to lucky players
BY AMY GEIER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBIA — The studio is be
ing built. The TV personalities
have been selected for the draw
ings. And despite technology prob
lems and threats of delays, the
South Carolina Education Lottery
plans to start its first number-pick
ing game Thursday.
“We think that will be a signa
ture date in the history of this
state,” Executive Director Ernie
Passailaigue says.
The numbers games will begin
gradually starting with the Pick 3.
About 2,600 retailers will sell
the tickets initially, said Tony
Cooper, the lottery’s chief operat
ing officer. By April, all of the
3,100 retailers should be online,
he said.
Lottery officials hope to add
four or five numbers games — and
possibly a multistate game such
as Powerball, pending legislative
approval — during the next two
years, Cooper said.
Lottery players can win up to
$500 with the Pick 3 game that
starts Thursday. No matter how
many players pick and win a cer
tain set of numbers in one draw,
u — ....
the lottery cannot pay out more
than $3.5 million because of a lia
bility limit, Cooper said.
The numbers will be drawn dai
ly at a studio on Main Street at 6:59
p.m. and broadcast on television
stations WLTX in Columbia,
WCBD in Charleston, WSPA in
Spartanburg and WPDE in Myrtle
Beach.
Security will be tight during the
drawings. Three different draw
ing machines and different sets of
balls will be randomly alternated
to ensure integrity, lottery secu
rity director Tom Marsh said. The
balls will be weighed every night
and stored in sealed cases.
When not in use, the balls and
machines will be stored in a secure
area with sealed doors and limit
ed access, Marsh said. Positive
identification through a finger
print system and key cards are the
only ways to enter the studio, he
-said.
Last week, lottery officials
chose eight people from around
the state to draw winning num
bers on live television.
The TV personalities, who will
work on rotating schedules,
range in age from 21 to 62. They
include black, white and
Hispanic men and women and
will be paid $100 plus mileage for
each event.
The individuals are: Jeffery
Black of Manning, Julie Bokinac
of Myrtle Beach, Judy DuBose of
Hanahan, George Godfrey of
Columbia, Whitney Kigos of Isle
of Palms, William “Don” Munson
of Simpsonville, Deborah Rioz of
Lexington and Jeneen Totten of
Charleston.
Black, a former television an
chor and reporter, said he has two
children in public schools. “I just
feel like the South Carolina
Education Lottery is a wonderful
thing and is going to provide some
additional resources for our young
people,” he said.
Munson, who also has a broad
casting background, said he was
excited to have the opportunity to
participate in the state’s first lot
tery. “It’s a pleasure to represent
this state and to be a little piece of
history,” he said.
But despite these smiling faces,
the new games kick off under a
cloud of problems.
It began when telecommunica
tions giant AT&T said it couldn’t
meet the March deadline to build
the network needed to link ticket
retailers to the central lottery com
puter.
The network is unnecessary
for scratch-off tickets, which
went on sale Jan. 7 and had esti
mated ticket sales of $123.7 mil
lion as of Feb. 24. But numbers
games such as Pick 3 can’t start
without the communications
network.
Faced with a daily fine of up
to $250,000 for any delays beyond
Wednesday, the Alpharetta, Ga.
based Scientific Games con
tracted with BellSouth to use
Internet technology to connect
the main lottery computer with
about 2,000 of 3,100 retailers.
AT&T will connect the remain
ing retailers.
Then last month, the
Greenwich, R.I.-based GTECH
Corp. filed a petition with the
South Carolina Procurement
Review Panel, seeking an inves
tigation of how Scientific Games
was awarded the contract to set
up and run the number-picking
games. GTECH officials said
there were irregularities in the
procurement of the online con
tract.
GTECH asks that the state re
pay at least $500,000 it put into the
bid and its lawyer’s fees.
However, the petition “does not
appear to affect the launch of the
games,” Cooper said.
“We will move on. We have to,”
said Commissioner Paula Harper
Bethea. “That’s a contract issue.
Lottery players will not notice any
effect.”
And glitches are to be expected
with any new startup, Harper
Bethea said.
“I don’t think we’ve encoun
tered any more challenges than
other lotteries,” she said. “We
knew all along when we went to
online games that it would require
more due diligence.”
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ing wrong except for sending an
e-mail to a university listserv.
He said it was “an honest and in
nocent mistake.”
Vergakis, who voted against
most of the infractions the com
mission handed down, said it was
inconsistent to label the incidents
as infractions without saying they
gave Patel an unfair advantage.
“I think it’s just too close, out
of 26,000 students, to say that
these things didn’t have an im
pact on the election,” he said.
Musgrave disagreed, saying,
“Yes, the election might have
been tainted one way or anoth
er, but I guess that’s the purpose
of the campaign.... You’re sup
posed to influence voters.”
Bomemann’s campaign said
Patel’s staffers had gone from
door to door to solicit votes and
had watched students vote in an
effort to intimidate them.
Patel denied violating the pol
icy and said his campaign only
visited people they or their
friends knew. He also said no
one was intimidated, even if staff
members watched them vote.
“If that did happen, we didn’t
hold a gun to their heads. They
chose to vote right then, in front
of one of the staff members;
that’s their decision,” he said.
Stauffer countered that hold
ing a gun to students’ heads was
wasn’t necessary.
“It didn’t take a gun to #
a head to make these
people vote; it took a
knock. We’re talking
about students at
Carolina, y’all; we all
know what they’re like.”
CHRISSY STAUFFER
BORNEMANN CAMPAIGN MANAGER
“It didn’t take a gun to a head
to make these people vote; it took
a knock. We’re talking about stu
dents at Carolina, y’all; we all
know what they’re like,” she said.
Patel questioned the timing of
the infractions’ filing.
“If these people saw these
things happen on Thursday, I
just want to know why it wasn’t/
filed until Friday,” he said.
“That’s real convenient — that
we can wait for the elections re
sults, find out what those are,
and then file them the next
morning.”
The Bomemann campaign said
it wasn’t told about most of the in
fractions until after the election.
After the appeal was denied,
Patel appeared relieved. “I’m
just glad that we were able to re
solve the issue,” he said.
The next appeal will go to SG
Attorney General Brian Hunter.
Hunter said on Sunday that he
hadn’t received anything written
from Bomemann. He said he hopes
to rule on the matter by Tuesday.
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