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INSIDE SPORTS: USC baseball ]\ /T rvV^ rl OTT April 29,2002 ♦ Vol. 95, No. 88 sweeps Kentucky in Lexington IVlvJllLlCl V University of South Carolina ♦ www.dailygamecock.com 2 left in presidential race BY ADAM BEAM Till-: 1IAMKC0CK The USC Board of Trustees an nounced Friday its three finalists in the race to succeed John Palms as USC president. The board made the announce ment after spending more than an hour and a half in executive ses sion. University of Alabama President Andrew Sorensen tops the list, followed by Richard Miksad, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. Despite having removed his name from consideration, Louisiana State University Chancellor Mark Emmert is also included in the list of finalists be cause of a South Carolina law that requires public notification of the top candidates for the job, Search Committee Chairman William Hubbard said. “Well, he was one of our final ists,” Board of Trustees Chairman Mack Whittle said about Emmert. “So we just put his name out as a finalist. One of the other finalists could drop out, and that would just leave one. I’m not saying they will, but there is a possibility that any of them could drop out." Hubbard said a decision could be made sometime this week. Trustee Arthur Bahnmuller told The State newspaper that ♦ PRESIDENT, SEE PAGE 3 Contenders to the throne USC’s Board of Trustees on Friday named three finalists to succeed current President John Palms. One of the contenders has already dropped out. A look at the possible heirs to USC’s highest office: Andrew Sorensen j President, University of j Alabama, 1996-present (RESUME: Provost and vice president for academic affairs, University of Florida; executive director of AIDS Institute, Johns Hopkins University; director of School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts-Amherst NOTE: LSU Chancellor Mark Emmert was selected, but removed his name in March Richard Miksad Engineering dean, University of Virginia, 1994-present RESUME: Chair, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Department and associate dean for research, University of Texas-Austin; faculty member, Imperial College of Science and Technology in London and the Rosenthal School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences in Florida GRAPHIC BV BRANDON LARRABEE/THE GAMECOCK Trustees approve restructuring plan BY ADAM BEAM TIIK CAMKCOCK Students can expect higher technology fees and more de manding classroom instruction, thanks to USC President John Palms’ Strategic Directions and Initiatives recommendations,ap proved unanimously Friday at the Board of Trustees meeting. While the SDI Committee rec ommended raising the student technology fee to $100 per student per semester, Palms outlined a gradual increase with the incep tion of an “appropriate technology fee to occur with consideration of other fee and tuition increases.” Palms said students will find a different classroom environment once these recommendations are implemented. “They’re going to have to work harder,” he said. “If the quality of undergraduate teaching goes up, then you’re going to have more de mands on students.” The president approved all but three of the committee’s recom mendations. He chose not to en dorse the 40-hour work week for faculty and staff, the creation of a college of fine and performing arts, and the Visitor Center’s move to McKissick Museum on the Horseshoe. About the proposed arts school, Provost Jerry Odom told the board, “We were trying to marry three people who did not want to be married.” The college PHOTO BY JON DANFORTH/THE GAMECOCK Board of Trustees Chairman Mack Whittle, center, speaks during the board’s executive committee meeting discussing USC President John Palms’ SDI recomendations. Palms, right, made the recomendatlons after six months of deliberation. would have combined the School of Music; the Art Department; and the Theatre, Speech and Dance Department. Palms didn’t consider McKissick Museum a good com bination with the Visitor Center. He said he wants to look at tying McKissick more into academic programs. Last December, the committee thought about recom mending to close the museum. Perhaps one of the biggest rec ommendations the board ap proved Friday was the move to a Value-Centered Management sys tem. Beginning in fiscal year 2003, USC will operate under its current budgeting system, but it will run the VCM system “on pa per.” A committee chaired by Chief Financial Officer Rick ♦ SDI, SEE PAGE 3 H RAgets axed for ordering drinks Student says he didn't know he was violating regulations BY GINNY THORNTON THK (lAMHcdcK When Tom Winslow ordered a drink at a Charleston restau rant last weekend, he didn’t think it would change his fu ture. -• Winslow, a fourth-year inter national studies student and a resident adviser in Moore resi dence hall, was asked not to re turn as an RA for the upcoming summer or fall semesters. Winslow, 22, said he and his girlfriend ordered alcoholic bev erages while eating dinner dur ing a day trip to Charleston with fellow. Housing Department em pioyees ana resiuenus. Moore/Snowden Residence Life Coordinator Sean McGreevy asked Winslow on Monday night to complete his duties this se mester but not to return. “You ordered and consumed an alcoholic beverage despite my instructions not to do so,” McGreevy wrote to Winslow in a letter dated April 22. McGreevy cited the following from the Resident Advisor Job Description and Employment Agreement: “An RA... is to coop erate with the RLC/RHD to ful fill all duties listed and all other duties the RLC/RHD and/or the appropriate Assistant Director may assign.” Winslow said his under standing was that McGreevy was only suggesting he not or der a drink. “When everyone at the table didn’t seem to have a problem un+Vi if cinH Qoort HiHn’t cau onu. thing else, I went ahead and did it,” Winslow said. Winslow has appealed the de cision to Associate Director for Residence Life Andy Fink and expects to hear something within the next few days. “They told me I’d know before exams,” Winslow said. ♦ FIRING, SEE PAGE 2 Israeli military enters Hebron BY NASSER SHIYOUKHI TIIK ASSOCIATE) I’ltKSS HEBRON, WEST BANK - Dozens of Israeli tanks and ar mored vehicles entered the West Bank city of Hebron early Monday, witnesses said. The incursion came from the west and north, and was accom panied by attack helicopters, fir ing machine guns from the air. One Palestinian, a member of one of the security forces, was killed and at least 10 people were wound ed by Israeli gunfire, Palestinians said. Israeli military sources, speak ing on condition of anonymity, confirmed that a military opera tion was underway, but would give no further details. ♦ INVASION, SEE PAGE 4 South Campus is seeing green West Quad, set for 2004, will be friendlier to environment BY LOGAN BARLOW THE GAMECOCK University Housing has been recognized for its plan to make USC a more environmentally friendly campus. The plan includes the design for the West Quadrangle, the “green” residence hall, set to open fall 2004. The West Quad project will provide students with accommo dations that are “upscale and top of the line,” Housing Director Gene Luna said. West Quad’s two planned res idence buildings will house a to tal of 500 students. These buildings will be simi lar to South Quad and East Quad and feature mostly four-bedroom, apartment-style housing. There are also plans to build a coffee shop/convenience store as part of the project, which would be on Sumter and Wheat streets. This placement would allow South Quad and East Quad resi dents to use the store as well. Even the landscaping is planned to follow the environ mental theme; it will need less fertilizer and water to maintain. When West Quad is construct ed, it will be the first “green” res idence hall in the region, and pos sibly the first certified one in the country. The buildings’ materials, con struction processes and opera tions all will help conserve ener gy and resources. The project is also meant to create a high-level living and learning environment for stu dents. This includes what Luna calls a “shadow curriculum,” which would give an environmental fo cus to certain sections of some courses. For instance, writing as West Quad will include two residence halls with ^ apartments, 8 a learning center and a convenience f j store. It will '.J be on ^ Sumter and Wheat „ streets. " Building materials will conserve energy and resources. ILLUSTRATION SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK signments of seven sections of introducto ry English now are cen tered on eco logical issues. “They’re learning how to write, but doing it with an environ mental theme,” Luna — ; j “The objective for this project is to first provide great housing for students.” GENE LUNA HOUSING DIRECTOR Luna hopes to extend this cur riculum to every department. “We don’t think there’s any dis cipline on campus that couldn’t have (this) as a focus,” he said. West Quad will include a learning center, which will house classrooms, computer labs and a technology center. The building could also be the future Center for Environmental Studies. In designing the buildings, Housing consulted local ehgi neers and architects. The build ings will incorporate fuel-cell ♦ WEST QUAD, SEE PAGE 3 TODAY’S WEATHER: Mostly sunny. High 88, Low 59. TOMORROW'S WEATHER: Mostly sunny. High 88, Low 58.