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INSIDE THE MIX: The Easter T^V»-j QTT March 29,2002 ♦ Vol. 95, No. 76 Bunny’s secrets revealed -L 1 IvlCA V University of South Carolina ♦ www.dailygamecock.com A dream DEFERRED GAMECOCKS LOSE TO MEMPHIS 72-62 IN TOURNAMENT FINAL BY J. KEITH ALLEN THE GAMECOCK In the end, the Memphis Tigers were just too much for the Gamecocks. The USC men’s basketball team fell short in its bid Thursday night to capture the first national tour nament in school history. Memphis won the NIT title game 72-62 at Madison Square Garden. Carolina entered the game with four straight wins, and it had won six of its last seven. The four-game run was the longest postseason winning streak in school history. The Gamecocks caught fire in the SEC Tournament earlier this month, as they notched wins over LSU and Kentucky. After losing to Alabama, USC continued to play its best basketball of the season, winning the NIT opener on the road at Virginia, 74-67. The Gamecocks returned to Columbia and defeated UNLV and Ball State in impressive fashion. The Ball State win closed out Frank McGuire Arena on a cele bratory note and earned USC the trip to New York City and a semi final matchup with Big East pow erhouse Syracuse. USC senior guard Jamel Bradley made history in the Syracuse game by breaking the SEC record for 3-pointers made in a season. Bradley’s four treys against Syracuse gave him 116 for the year, passing the existing mark of 113. Aaron Lucas led the Gamecocks with 20 points in the 66-59 win over the Orangemen, and he notched 11 points in the loss to Memphis. The senior tied a school record by play ing in his 123rd and final game in the garnet and black. Lucas dove for a loose ball late in the game and fell over some camera equipment near the USC basket; he was helped to the bench and did not re turn. Forward Rolando Howell led USC in scoring with 20 points against Memphis, and he, along with Lucas, was named to the All NIT team. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com PHOTO BY ROBERT GRUf N/THE GAMECOCK Dave Odom took his Gamecocks to the NIT final In his first year coaching at USC. Syracuse’s Preston Shumpert collides with USC’s Tony Kitchlngs in the second half of Tuesday's NIT semifinal game at Madison Square Garden. Sumwalt under investigation BY GINNY THORNTON TtlE IIAMECOCK - Two graduate students have filed a series of complaints about three health and safety concerns ► in Sum wait College. Since Monday, Katy Dunlap and Sam Walker, students in the Masters of Science in Public Health program, have reported a break-in, construction violations involving asbestos and broken fire alarms. Intrusion -■ JDunlap reported missing CDs from lab room 216 of Sumwalt College on Monday evening. She had asked Walker and other lab users about the missing CDs, but no one knew anything of their dis appearance. Dunlap said that shortly after she and Walker had filed the re port, a man appeared at the door to the lab with a key to her lab. After a brief discussion, the man handed over the key to Dunlap. “Later I heard a mainte nance worker lost the key and did n't repor^ it for several days,” Dunlap said. According to a USC Police Department report, James Pelosi reported Mar. 26 that he had lost a Sumwalt master key sometime between the dates of March 22 and March 25. Dunlap said the stolen CDs were valued somewhere around $1,200. Barricade Thursday morning, Dunlap and Walker walked into Sumwalt through its Greene Street en trance. On their way to the lab, they encountered a set of double doors blocked by plastic recycling bins and sealed with duct tape. “We were concerned because it was an entrance, so we called the fire marshal,” Dunlap said. Dunlap said USC Fire Marshal ♦ SUMWALT, SEE PAGE 3 Timeline 1. Katy Dunlap and Sam Walker report stolen CDs from Sumwalt College lab. Dunlap confronts an intruder in the lab. 2. Student meeting about safety in Sumwalt raises questions about covered smoke alarms. 3. Dunlap and Walker find a blocked entrance in Sumwalt intended to keep people out of an asbestos removal area. 4. Dunlap files reports with OSHA about dysfunctional smoke alarms and USC’s failure to inform students and staff about asbestos removal in Sumwalt. Board mulls SAT policy, scholarship funding USC could end SAT requirement for enrollment BY ADAM BEAM THE GAMECOCK For three hours Monday, the Board of Trustees Academic Affairs Committee discussed en rollment management ideas such as increasing scholarship funds and eliminating the SAT require ment and Transition Year pro gram. These provisions are part of the Strategic Directions and Initiatives report. “This is the first time that the entire board has had such in depth discussions about the as pects of our admissions require ments, our enrollment trends, the national scene. All of these com plicated aspects come in to mak ing the decision to what we ought to do,” USC President John Palms said. Palms is expected to give his fi nal report on the SDI Committee’s recommendations at the next gen eral board meeting on April 26. ♦ ENROLLMENT, SEE PAGE 2 Drawing the line at relationship violence PHOTO BY CANDI HAUGLUM/THE GAMECOCK Shirts representing the different types of relationship violence that students or their relatives have fallen victim to hung on Greene Street on Wednesday. International flavor Business School celebrates its diversity with flag reception BY KEVIN FELLNER THE GAMECOCK The patio outside the Close/Hipp Building was unusu ally crowded Thursday afternoon as the Moore School of Business celebrated International Week with a public reception. Faculty and students were welcomed to try foods from for eign countries and listen to the steel drum band Pantasia while enjoying the cool spring after noon. Many students paused for some food and entertainment between classes, while some stayed to enjoy the whole after noon. Moore School of Business Dean Joel Smith addressed the crowd at about 12:30 p.m. and thanked them for their support of international students who attend the business school. Smith said the celebration was a chance to formally introduce the national flags that now line the outside walls of the building. The flags, spaced intermittently from the Pendleton Street side to the side that faces Gambrell, repre sent the 69 countries where USC’s business students live. USC as a whole has students enrolled from 118 countries. Smith said the flags will be ad justed each year to reflect the school’s diversity. “The events of last year, start ing in September and continu ing through the present time, show our need for an interna tional community,” Smith said. Smith also said this year brings a re-branding for the business rnuiu dt wmvani/ i nt vaAMtuuisrv Flags represent the homes of USC’s business students. school. He said focusing on inter national business is one of the ♦ FUGS, SEE PAGE 2 TODAY’S WEATHER: Morning clouds, afternoon sun. High 79, Low 57. TOMORROW’S WEATHER: Afternoon thunderstorms. High 79, Low 60.