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See selected results from the 74th Annual Academy Awards in The Mix ♦ PAGE 5 k MHT1H ZWT March 25>2002 ♦ VoL 95-No-74 1V1W1 IvAClj University of South Carolina ♦ www.dailygamecock.com AMECOCK PHOTO COURTESY OF KRT CAMPUS Robert Redford received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Beautiful night for ‘Mind’ Washington, , Berry take home actors’trophies BY DAVID GERMAIN TilK ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - Bane Berry and Denzel Washington became just the second and third blacks to win Academy Awards on Sunday for lead roles, while “A Beautiful Mind” took top honors as best picture. “A Beautiful Mind,” which also won best director for Ron Howard, tied with “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” with four Oscars total. Berry was the first black ac tress to earn an Academy Award 1 in a lead role, for her portrayal of a death-row widow involved with her husband’s executioner in “Monster’s Ball.” Washington, playing a corrupt cop in “Training Day,” became the second black to win best actor. They joined Sidney Poitier, who received the best-actor Oscar for 1963’s “Lilies of the Field” and received a career-achievement award Sunday. Stand-by-your-spouse roles earned supporting-performance Oscars for Jim Broadbent of “Ms” and Jennifer Connelly of “A Beautiful Mind.” “A Beautiful Mind” also earned the adapted-screenplay award for Akiva Goldsman. Julian Fellowes took the origi nal-screenplay honor for “Gosford Park,” directed by Robert Altman. “Shrek,” the hip twist on car toon fairy tales that featured the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz, won the first-ever Oscar for animated feature film. Lady Gamecocks among the elite PHOTO BY ROBERT GRUEN/THE GAMECOCK Shaunzlnskl Gortman led the Lady Gamecocks In scoring and played a significant role In fending off a run by Drake late in the second half on Saturday. The women’s team beat Drake 79-65 to advance to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. The third-seeded Lady Gamecocks play top-seeded Duke on Monday In Raleigh, N.C., for a spot In the Final Four. The Gamecock Tournament Guide ♦WOMEN’S TEAM: NCAA Tournament East Regional Final vs. Duke. Monday, 7 p.m., Raleigh, N.C. TV: ESPN2. ♦MEN'S TEAM: National Invitational Tournament semifinals vs. Syracuse. Tuesday, 9:30 p.m., New York City. TV: ESPN. Emmert remains atLSU Search goes on, committee chairman says * JBY BRANDON LARRABEE THE (iAMECOCK Less than a day after media reports speculated that he might be USC’s next president, Louisiana State University Chancellor Mark Emmert an nounced Friday he will stay in Baton Rouge. Reports in The Reveille, LSU’s campus newspaper, and on Baton Rouge television station WAFB said Emmert had visited USC and was considering leav ing LSU for the presidency. The Reveille reported Friday that Emmert had been offered the job. During a Friday aiternoon news conference, Emmert con firmed he had had a “chat with the leadership” of USC, but said he had decided to stay where he was. He praised USC and said his conversations with the uni versity’s leadership had con vinced him it had a bright fu ture. “It was a real pleasure and a real honor to meet with them, to talk about their fine university,” Emmert said. “It’s a wonderful institution. It has great tradition, great history and enormous promise.” But he said state leaders in Louisiana had promised him bet ter support for LSU. “Louisiana badly needs the economic and cultural clout that can only come from a national ly prominent, competitive re search university,” Emmert said. Emmert didn’t specifically ad dress reports that USC had of fered him the job and said he didn’t want to comment on the progress of USC’s search. But he said the universi ty was still re viewing candi dates. “It’s a “It's 0ng0ing. wonderful They-re continu place with ■v , wonderful inS. t0 conduct leadership, th^ir search, he They’ll said, wind up Trustee with a William terrific Hubbard, chair president. man f usc,s I have no ., .. . doubt of Presidential that ” search commit Mark tee, said Friday Emmert that the commit said about tee wasn’t ready USC. to send a list of potential presi dents to the Board of Trustees. He said the university is still re viewing candidates. “We’ll be doing that until the very hour that we name some body,” he said. State and university leaders in Louisiana said they were re lieved by Emmert’s decision. Gov. Mike Foster, who led the push to keep Emmert at LSU, said in a statement that USC had tried to recruit Emmert “for the past several weeks.” “The reason is very simple.... He is one of the best in the coun try, and we have achieved so much over the past few years,” Foster said. Foster said the possibility that Emmert would leave showed that the state needed to renew its commitment to higher educa tion. “Nothing illustrates better to me than this episode the dangers of not renewing our funding base and continuing and growing our ♦ EMMERT, SEE PAGE 3 Maintenance problems raise faculty worries BY GINNY THORNTON THE HAMMOCK Some May USC graduates will be excited to move on from campus life, but not for obvious reasons. One woman will be glad to leave the bathrooms behind. Faculty Senate Chairman Rob Wilcox told the Board of Trustees on Wednesday a story about a stu dent he knows of who said the most exciting thing about gradu ating is not having to use the 1 women’s bathroom in the Humanities Building anymore. Wilcox told the board this while it discussed the SDI Committee’s recommendation to reduce USC’s deferred maintenance deficit. The committee made the rec ommendation based on an esti ♦ MAINTENANCE, SEE PAGE 3 Faculty concerns The Strategic Directions and Initiatives Committee has recommended that U3C try to catch up on its deferred maintenance. A list of some of the top concerns faculty voiced on a 2001 survey: 94.6% said building conditions needed improvement. 61.6% disagreed that classrooms were clean and well kept. 75.9% wanted to control their office and classroom temperatures. 59.6% wanted more classroom space. 67% thought more needed to be done for the handicapped. Horseshoe sign-up not without hitches BY KEVIN FELLNER THE GAMECOCK After a policy change that led to discussions and protests, Honors College students signed up for roughly 85 percent of Horseshoe housing on Tuesday, according to Housing Administration Director Gretchen Koehler. But some Horseshoe residents are still un satisfied. Second-year psychology stu dent Casey White said the new process caused some problems. She said that considerably more women requested Horseshoe apartments than men did. Also, she said, apartments were already designated as men’s and women’s before the sign-up started, so some men’s apartments were giv en to rising sophomore men in stead of upperclassman women. White said she thinks the sys tem was unfair to her because se niority should let her choose an apartment before all rising sec ond-year students. She said more than 20 other upperclassmen women also didn’t have the chance to take extra men’s apart ments before they were given to PHOTO BY CHRIS TIULEY/THE GAMECOCK Some students, particularly women, are upset about this year’s sign-up process for Horseshoe housing. rising second-year students. White contacted Honors College Dean Peter Sederberg on Tuesday about her concerns. “She had a legitimate observa tion to make, and we will cer tainly take it into account in the future,” Sederberg said. “The problem is that they had a process set up, and you don’t set up a process in midstream.” White said she thinks the prob lem was unintentional and the re sult of negligence. “If they’re going to institute a new plan, they should do more planning and research first,” White said. She said Housing of ficials should have anticipated that more women than men would sign up. The proportion of honors stu dents on the Horseshoe will in crease 15 percent this year from the 70-percent limit that used to regu late the Horseshoe’s composition. Some winners of the Winning Wednesday competition, as well as handicapped students, have also gotten Horseshoe spaces. But about 10 percent of the apartments are still available for non-honors students, who sign up for housing this week. Housing officials said they wouldn’t be sure of the exact com position of Horseshoe residents until after all student sign-ups are complete. The sign-up results resembled Sederberg’s estimate of 85-percent occupancy for honors students on the Horseshoe. He said his esti mate was mostly based on the as sumption that Housing wouldn’t be overflowed with rising second year students’ requests for Horseshoe apartments. Sederberg said he hopes the Honors College and Housing will make more use of the preregis tration system to avoid similar problems in the future. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotma il.com TODAY'S WEATHER: Cloudy in the morning, sunny in the afternoon. High 80, Low 58. TOMORROW’S WEATHER: Thunderstorms in the afternoon. High 76, Low 51. ' - '