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Bush attends S.C. fund-raiser
BY JEFFREY COLLINS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GREENVILLE - Even as
President Bush prepared to raise
$1 million for for Rep. Lindsey
Graham, fhe Senate candidate
was going his own way.
After Graham, a one-time
backer of Arizona Sen. John
McCain in the 2000 presidential
race, arrived Wednesday with
Bush, he told reporters he
thought a U.S. attack on Iraq was
imminent.
Graham, who serves on the
House Armed Services Committee,
said his information comes from
intelligence'briefings, contact with
the Bush administration and
Graham’s atten
dance at a recent
international con
ference in
Germany.
But Bush had
nothing to say
Bush about Graham’s
statements.
"I can only tell you whaf the
president’s position is,” said
White House press secretary Ari
Fleischer. "The president has no
plans to attack Iraq. He’s made no
decisions. He’s made clear what
he thinks about the regime in
Iraq, but he has no plans; he’s
made no decisions.”
Bush came to Greenville on
Wednesday to raise money for
Graham, who is running for retir
ing Sen. Strom Thurmond’s seat,
and to bolster the reelection chances
of Rep. Jim DeMint, who faces a
challenge in the GOP primary.
Bush needs Graham because
he’s running for one of four open
Senate seats in this year’s election.
All the seats were previously held
by Republicans, and the GOP
needs to hold each one if the party
wants to win back control of the
Senate.
Graham’s Democratic oppo
nent is former judge, lawmaker and
college president Alex Sanders.
Graham initially said
Tuesday evening the attack on
Iraq would start in the later sum
mer or early fall. On Wednesday
morning, he backed off the
timetable, but not off U.S. action.
"I don’t know when but I
know this president is not going
to let Saddam Hussein stay in
power,” Graham said. "If you
leave him in powerit will just be
a matter of time before he gets a
hold of weapons of mass destruc
tion,” Graham said..
At the $l,000-a-plate fund-rais
er, Bush said Graham shared his
belief that faith can play an im
portant role in society and tax
cuts are the way to keep the econ
omy moving forward.
"I need to have an ally in the
U.S. Senate who understands how
I want the economy to look,”
Bush said.
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VCM and scholarships
The board discussed providing
more competitive scholarships
to sway top students to USC. With
tuition rising and the price of liv
ing not going down, many stu
dents are in debt. According to
Dennis Pruitt, vice president of
Student and'Alumni Services, 60
percent of a family’s income is
needed to pay for their student to
go to college.
“The biggest concern we have
is being able to identify enough
scholarship funds to target our re
cruitment in a competitive way
with other institutions that we
want to be like,” said Housing
Department Director Gene Luna,
who served on the SDI Committee.
One way of increasing scholar
ship funds is through the proposed
Value-Centered Management.
Under the new system,- VCM
would “centralize the pool dollars
to be used and is kind of like a cap
ital investment,” Pruitt said.
SAT: Crisis in California
When the University of
California announced it might drop
the SAT as an admission require
ment, many schools across the
country began watching anxious
ly to decide their own SAT policy.
“If California abandons the
SAT, I’m thinking the rest of the
country will as well,” Pruitt said.
“Something will take its place that
is more reflective of what students
have learned in high school and
creates a leveler playing field. ”
When USC students’ average
SAT score was 1102, the board set
a goal to raise the average to 1175
by 2005. The average now is 1120.
Last year, 2,439 USC students
scored 1200 or better on the SAT.
For USC to reach its goal, 25 per
cent of enrollment must be out
of-state students.
But SAT score drops are not un
common. California lowered its
SAT average by 40 points in 2001.
Pruitt attributes this to a nation
wide effort to “ensure that a diver
sified population goes to college.”
“Traditionally ... as the SAT
goes up, the minority and
African-American enrollment
goes down,” he said. “Our hope
is that we are able to come to a
managed agreement about that
minority enrollment.”
USC has a 24 percent minori
ty enrollment, and 18 percent of
the student body is black, the
highest of any flagship university
in the country.
Goodbye, Transition Year
Transition Year, a one-year
program that gives students with
low GPAs and high SAT scores a
second chance at college, has
been recommended for termina
tion by the SDI report.
While Pruitt said a number of
Tranisiton Year students came
and were successful, “we had an
awful lot who didn’t.” He said the
university can give these students
a better assessment of their sue
cess if they are up front with them
during the admission process.
“The other side of that is that we
can only admit 3,000,” he said. “So
are you going to admit 3,000 across
the spectrum or 3,000 of the best?”
he said. “We want to admit 3,000 of
the best.”
There are currently 150 stu
dents in Transition Year.
Making the decisions
With time winding down on
Palms’ tenure, he is spending his
last months reviewing the SDI re
port and making a final recom
mendation to the board.
According to Palms, some of
the recommendations, like VCM,
will not require board action.
“I could make that decision,
but I need to listen to them, and
I’ve done that,” he said. “If any
one else wants to send something
in, they better do it now or forev
er hold their peace, as they say.”
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POLICE REPORT 1
Each number on
the map stands
for a cnme
corresponding
with numbered
descnptions in
the list below.
DAY CRIMES
(6a.m.-6 p.m.)
□ Violent
O Nonviolent
NIGHT CRIMES
(6 p.m.-6a.m.)
■ Violent
• Nonviolent
CRIMES AT
UNKNOWN
HOURS
m Violent
© Nonviolent ’
Thursday, March 21
O ATM THEFT, 1405 WHALEY
ST. The victim said someone
took her check card number
and made multiple
transactions. Reporting
officers: Z.S. Voulgarelis and B.
Timbers.
Q ILLEGAL USE OF
TELEPHONE, 1400 WHEAT ST.
The victim said someone has
been calling her cell phone and
home phone since the
beginning of February. The
caller calls several times and
blocks their number. A log
sheet to record the calls was
issued. Reporting officer: Z.S.
Voulgarelis and B. Timbers.
Friday, March 22
® HARASSMENT, 1400 WHEAT
ST. The victim said she has
been receiving threatening
phone calls from Jonathan R.
Clark. The victim says Clark
has also been on campus
looking for her. Reporting
officer: N. DeHaai.
Saturday, March 23
® LARCENY OF SIGNS, 1316
HEYWARD ST. The complainant
said someone removed two
round signs from the baseball
field. An NCAA logo sign and
an SEC logo sign were reported
missing. Estimated value: $640.
Reporting officer: D. Pardue
and M.P. Craska.
® AUTO BREAK-IN, 1700
PENDLETON ST. The victim said
someone broke into his silver
1994 Honda Civic and took his
Kenwood CD player and a CD
compartment. Estimated value:
$250. Reporting officer: J.
Means.
o MALICIOUS INJURY TO
PERSONAL PROPERTY, 400
SUMTER ST. The victim said
someone scratched the left rear
quarter panel and the trunk
underneath the spoiler of her
red 2001 Oldsmobile Alero.
Estimated damage: $800.
Reporting officer: J.D.
Patterson.
© AUTO BREAK-IN, 1300
BLOSSOM ST. The victim said
someone broke into her green
1999 Jeep Cherokee and
removed her CD player and two
stereo boxes with amplifiers
and speakers. The victim said
the car was locked and
someone broke the passenger
side window. Estimated value:
$770. Reporting officer: D.
Pardue and M.P. Craska.
Monday, March 25
o INDECENT EXPOSURE,
SENATE STREET GARAGE The
victim said that while exiting
the garage, she saw an
unknown white male groping
himself and urinating.
Reporting officer: J.L. Taylor.
© LARCENY OF POWER DRILL,
600 MAIN ST. The victim said
someone took a DeWalt power |
drill and metal-cutting snips
from the Graduate Research
Center. Estimated value: $360.
Reporting officer: J.B. Coaxum.
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school’s goals this year.
The business school will start
an International Masters of
Business Administration pro
gram next fall. Smith said the ad
ministration has already accept
ed the finest group of students
ever to attend the business
school.
Fourth-year finance student
Rishi Dave attended the interna
tional reception and said it was ex
ceptional for the school to sponsor
such an event.
“There’s a lot to learn from
everybody around the world and
from cultures different than our
own,” Dave said. “This event re
ally threw me off guard. I just
came from inside the building and
couldn’t believe they would do
something like this.”
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Dave added that he felt the
deans and faculty of the business
school generally make the stu
dents feel very welcome with the
events and services they pCro
vide.
Smith said appreciating diver
sity within the learning commu
nity is an essential componenffor
the business school.
Dave said he would like to see
more community events in ihe ^
future. He said the reception
shows that the business school
administrators are working
hard to continue their positive
reputation for international
business.
U.S. News and World Report
ranked the business school second
in the nation for international
business studies last September.
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