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BRIEFLY International Festival showcases cultures USC International Week kicks off Friday at 11 a.m. on Greene Street with a celebration of different coun tries and cultures. Booths will be set up to allow students to sample cui sine and see displays and tradition al clothing of various countries. Per formances will highlight dance, mu sic and arts as well. The International Festival will continue through next week with a session Monday, called “Build ing a Global Community at USC,” which will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Byrnes building. - A session for undergraduate inter national students called'To Work or Not To Work: OPT Vs. Graduate School,” will be held at 4 p.m. in Rus sel} House room 302. USC-Lancaster interim dean made permanent John Catalano was named dean of USC'Lancaster this week. Catalano, interim dean since last August, has been a USCL faculty member since 1982 and will official ly take office on April 1. ‘Tam pleased that John Catalano has agreed to become the dean of USCL,” USC President John Palms said. “His experience at USCL, in cluding his tenure as a member of the faculty and as an able member of the administration, ensure that faculty, staff and students have a sol id leader who understands the needs of the campus and the direction in which it should go.” Catalano has won the institution’s Distinguished Teaching Award three times and the Governor’s Distin guished Professor Award twice. He served as chairman of the U§C Re gional Campuses Faculty Senate in 1994-95." Catalano replaces Joe Pappin, who returned to teaching last fall. I .. VCM CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Wednesday afternoon to dis cuss provisions and problems within the VCM recommen dation. Under the current sys tem, state-appropriated funds, tuition and fees go to the cen tral administration. Research accounts and contracts go to the units that generate them, with indirect costs split be tween units and the general fund. “The responsibility center is the college,” Odom told the committee. “Student tuition and fees go directly to the col lege that generates those tu ition and fees. State appropri ations go to the central ad ministration, and through conversations with schools ana aeans, we wouia appro priate that money where it is most needed.” Odom said'the new system would place a lot of account ability on the dean but would “allow him to plan because he has a good idea of what the revenue will be.” But VCM has raised some concerns. These include the duplication of courses, alien ation of colleges, and over allocation of tuition to schools with larger influ ence, like the College of Lib eral Arts. Odom announced that, if ac cepted, VCM would be imple mented “on paper” alongside the current management sys tem. This would allow the ad ministration to keep track of “each budget system and how that college would fare... what its budget would be under Value-Centered Management and see what kind of differ ences that we would have to - take into account.” Recent reports from the student and faculty senates op posed VCM and citied the un certainties surrounding its im plementation. “This (VCM) is a vehicle to get us where we want to be,” Board of Trustees Chairman Mack Whittle said. “Imple mentation of it and the plan of implementation will take some time.” Rob Wilcox, Faculty Senate president, was also at the meeting to voice the faculty’s concerns. “Everybody worries that they will be the change,” he said. “Because of that, we have unnecessary morale problems.” But Wilcox said: “The SDI report said there are some things we can do better, and Value-Centered Management is a tool we can use to get bet ter. What is going to be on that list?” Wilcox said that while the faculty isn’t as opposed to change as much as people think, they are concerned about “change simply for the concern of change, in part be cause there are some things that are not broken.” “We don’t want to throw out the good just to do something different,” he said. Trustee Herbert Adams said that every presidential candidate interviewed so far has been informed of the SDI recommendations. “Every candidate that we have talked to that has seen the SDI report has been very pos itive,” he said. “Most of them have done similar things. I think it is an attractive thing.” VCM is used at many major research universities, includ ing Indiana University, the University of Southern Cali fornia and the University of Michigan. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Watson CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 rushing in two of the past three seasons, piling up 2,078 yards and 17 touchdowns on 437 carries. In addition, he had 58 catches for 466 yards and two touchdowns. Wat son had hoped to return to the Gamecocks for one more season. In a statement released shortly after he was kicked off the team Jan. 14, Watson said he would not ask Holtz for reinstatement “un less these matters have been re solved to everyone’s satisfaction. That is fair to him, this great uni versity, and myself.” Watson was arrested after he and Galloway were found sit ting in the front seat of a 1975 four-door gold Chevrolet. Ac cording to Greenville police, WatsOn tried to hide an 8.5 gram bag of marijuana as de tectives approached the car. A third person in the car wasn’t charged in the incident. South Carolina State head football coach Buddy Pough was at the trial. Some have speculated that Watson might go to S.C. State next year. A representative at the law firm of Beattie Ashmore, Wat son’s attorney, said Thursday that Ashmore was in Charleston and unavailable for comment. 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